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= Why not to use this guide?=

*This guide is intended for Standard and {{Icon|Hardcore|nolink=true}} [[Game Mode|Game Modes]]:

**If you are playing {{Icon|Adventure|nolink=true}} game-mode then please refer to the [[Adventure/Guide]].

**If you are playing {{AoD}} [[Ancient Relics]] game-mode then please refer to the [[Ancient Relics/Guide]].

*Offline progress is capped to 24-hours, and so once you start following these steps, you may feel it necessary to keep the game running continuously, or feel the need to check-in on progress regularly. If you do need a break, this is ok - the progress cap might feel like a limitation at first, but it also means that your township doesn't fall into disarray after a long break.  

**If you're unable or unwilling to log in within the 24 hour timespan, there's the option to download the "Unlimited Offline" [[Mods|Mod]]. Please be aware that the longer you stay offline with that mod, the longer it will take for the game to load in.

*** There is a very small chance that this mod breaks your savegame file. Be sure to manually download your save every once in a while.

*** You might lose the ability to access your gameplay file, if this is the case you will have to disable the mod and log in again, that should fix it 99 out of a 100 times.

==Skills That Boost Other Skills==

These skills are mostly centered around "if you invest in this skill, other skills will get stronger". Some of these skills also provide some direction about what order to work on other skills, because the bonuses to work on other skills come in a certain order. For the sake of simplicity, this section only discusses non-combat bonuses. See the full skill page for how they provide buffs for combat skills.

There is a far more comprehensive list of what Skills do exactly to be found at [[Beginners Guide]].

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|{{Skill|Astrology}}|| style="width: 50%" |This is the most straightforward Skill Boosting-skill. Study constellations to unlock permanent bonuses for the respective skills. Note that it takes a lot of investment in Astrology before Astrology buffs itself.||* {{Skill|Farming}} <br> * {{Skill|Woodcutting}} <br> * {{Skill|Smithing}} <br> * {{Skill|Firemaking}} <br> * {{Skill|Fishing}} <br> * {{Skill|Mining}} <br> * {{Skill|Cooking}} <br> * {{AoD}}{{Skill|Cartography}} <br> * {{Skill|Archaeology}} <br> * {{Skill|Fletching}} <br> * {{Skill|Runecrafting}} <br> * {{Skill|Agility}} <br> * {{Skill|Thieving}} <br> * {{Skill|Crafting}} <br> * {{Skill|Herblore}} <br> * {{Skill|Summoning}} <br> * {{TotH}} {{Skill|Astrology}}

|{{Skill|Summoning}}||Create Summoning tablets that provide a small bonus to the corresponding skill, using a combination of materials that use ingredients from the skill and materials you buy for GP. Unlock much stronger bonuses by using [[synergies]] after progressing in multiple different summons.||* {{Skill|Woodcutting}}  <br> * {{Skill|Mining}} <br> * {{Skill|Fishing}} <br> * {{Skill|Cooking}} <br> * {{Skill|Runecrafting}} <br> * {{Skill|Thieving}} <br> * {{Skill|Crafting}} <br> * {{Skill|Smithing}}  <br> * {{Skill|Herblore}} <br> * {{Skill|Firemaking}}  <br> * {{TotH}} {{Skill|Agility}} <br> * {{TotH}} {{Skill|Astrology}} <br> * {{TotH}} {{Skill|Fletching}}  <br> * {{TotH}} {{Skill|Summoning}}

|{{Skill|Firemaking}}||Firemaking provides flat percentage bonuses for all skills: skill XP in the form of {{ItemIcon|Firemaking Skillcape}}, and mastery XP from the pool checkpoint and achieving 99 item mastery. It's also required to unlock better [[Cooking|cooking fires]].||* {{Skill|Cooking}}

|{{Skill|Herblore}}||Most skills have at least one potion that provides a bonus. For non-combat skills, these potions are usually increased output of resources, but there are some important exceptions for speeding up progression.||* {{Skill|Firemaking}} - {{ItemIcon|Controlled Heat Potion}} <br> * {{Skill|Astrology}} - {{ItemIcon|Secret Stardust Potion}} <br> * {{Skill|Mining}} - {{ItemIcon|Perfect Swing Potion}} <br> * {{Skill|Agility}} - {{ItemIcon|Performance Enhancing Potion}} <br> * {{Skill|Runecrafting}} - {{ItemIcon|Elemental Potion}}

|{{Skill|Agility}}||Build obstacles that provide fixed bonuses to specific skills. The higher your skill level, the more obstacles you can build, at higher tiers. However, these obstacles also get progressively more difficult to build, both in terms of money and in terms of items, but they also have some of the strongest bonuses in the game. As you progress in Melvor, you will find yourself swapping between obstacles reasonable often.||Agility has too many bonuses with complicated ordering, so it's difficult to enumerate them like in the previous sections. Please see the {{Skill|Agility}} page for full information.

These skills provide items that usually aren't useful for themselves, but are very important for doing other skills. <br> {{Skill|Herblore}} and {{Skill|Agility}} aren't explicitly included because the materials for these skills come from everywhere.

If you wish to look at which Skills power which other Skills, please expand the table below. <!-- below? isn't the table above? -->

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|{{Skill|Woodcutting}}|| style="width: 30%" |Chop Trees. Get logs.||* {{Skill|Firemaking}} <br> * {{Skill|Fletching}} - Bows & Javelins <br> * {{Skill|Farming}} - {{ItemIcon|Bird Nest}} and {{TotH}}  {{ItemIcon|Raven Nest}} <br> * {{TotH}} {{Skill|Crafting}} - Hardwood Armor

|{{Skill|Mining}}|| Hit Rocks. Get Ores.||* {{Skill|Smithing}} <br> * {{Skill|Crafting}} - Gems <br> * {{Skill|Runecrafting}} - {{ItemIcon|Rune Essence}} and {{TotH}} {{ItemIcon|Pure Essence}}

|{{Skill|Fishing}}||Catch Fish.||* {{Skill|Cooking}}  <br> * {{Skill|Crafting}} - Gems

|{{Skill|Farming}}||Plant Crops. Harvest them after some time has passed. Farming is passive output, you don't activate Farming.||* {{Skill|Cooking}} <br> * {{Skill|Herblore}} - Herbs for all potions are made in Farming. <br /> ** Also makes logs for the same things as {{Skill|Woodcutting}}

 

|{{AoD}} {{Skill|Archaeology}}||Go to dig sites, and find cool stuff. Most of these items don't impact other non-combat skills, but there are some exceptions.||* {{ItemIcon|Crystalized Mithril Fragment}} <br> * {{ItemIcon|Crystalized Dragon Fragment}} <br> * {{Skill|Woodcutting}} <br> * {{Skill|Crafting}}  <br> * {{Skill|Summoning}}

==Finished Goods Artisan Skills ==

These skills provide finished items, usually used for combat.

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|{{Skill|Smithing}}|| style="width: 30%" |Make bars (ingots), then turn them into metal items.||[[Melee]] weapons and armor. <br /> {{Skill|Fletching}} - Javelins, Arrows and Crossbows

|{{Skill|Crafting}}||Make items that you wouldn't use a forge for.||{{Skill|Ranged}} armor <br /> Jewelry (a wide variety of uses) <br /> Consumables (also wide variety of uses)

|{{Skill|Fletching}}||Ranged weapons and ammunition.||{{Skill|Ranged}}

 

=Before Settling on Desired Game-play=

Before we get into the actual different way to play. It is generally advised you get a good feel of the game and how it works / interacts. This is generally achieved by leveling all the skills to around Level 30-40 and beat a Dungeon or 2.

Once everything is around level 35 you should better understand how the game works and if you like it. The Core Game Mechanics won't really change much, it gets slightly more complicated especially when it comes to Combat later on, there will be more and more Skill interactions once you get to higher levels. Faster Experience Gains and you'll receive loot quicker. But this is about it. This would be an excellent point to determine if this game is for you or you'd rather move on.

 

The entire process of leveling everything to around level 35 should take about 2-3 hours. If you don't have that time to spare in 1 sitting, do what you can and then switch to {{Skill|Astrology}} until the next time you log back in. There is never any harm to level {{Skill|Astrology}}, it will only give you more benefits. At later stages you might want to switch to different skills for other benefits, for now this is your best choice.

 

# It is advised you start by leveling {{Skill|Astrology}} for the minor gains you'll get from that at low levels.  

#* You can stop at {{SkillReq|Astrology|40}} for now.

#** Buy the the first 5 levels of the first 2 [[Astrology#Modifiers|Stars]] (the Blue ones) in each [[Astrology#Constellations|Constellations]] ({{ConstellationIcon|Deedree}}, {{ConstellationIcon|Iridan}}, {{ConstellationIcon|Ameria}}, {{ConstellationIcon|Terra}} and {{ConstellationIcon|Vale}}). If you have enough {{ItemIcon|Stardust}}.

#** This will give you 15% Global [[Accuracy]], 5% experience and {{Icon|Mastery}} gain in: {{Skill|Woodcutting}}, {{Skill|Farming}}, {{Skill|Smithing}}, {{Skill|Fishing}}, {{Skill|Firemaking}}, {{Skill|Mining}} and 5% Experience in {{Skill|Attack}} and {{Skill|Strength}}

# Your next skills should be {{Skill|Woodcutting}} and {{Skill|Summoning}}

#* Summoning is a very important skill for boosting all your other skills, and it is leveled by equipping summoning tablets. It levels very slowly while you do everything else, and it is nearly impossible to come back later and rush level it.

#* Start chopping {{ItemIcon|Normal Logs}} until you get your first {{ItemIcon|Ent}} mark.

#* Sell some of your logs and use the money to buy {{ItemIcon|Summoning Shard (Green)}} to make about 100 {{ItemIcon|Ent}} tablets.

#* Repeat (moving up to {{ItemIcon|Oak Logs}} and {{ItemIcon|Willow Logs}} as they become available) until you have {{SkillReq|Summoning|15}}

# Your next skills should be {{Skill|Fishing}} and {{Skill|Cooking}} (and more {{Skill|Summoning}})

#* To get enough Gold Pieces to upgrade the [[Shop]] upgrades for the first 2 Axes, Fishing Rods and Pickaxes, {{ItemIcon|Octopus}} and {{ItemIcon|Pig}} tablets.

#* Once you get to roughly {{SkillReq|Fishing|23}} you should get enough Gold Pieces to upgrade the Fishng Rod to the level 20 one.

#* At {{SkillReq|Fishing|30}} Sell all the [[Junk]] that you got apart from the [[Fish]], and about half of the fish.

#* When you unlock {{ItemIcon|Octopus}}, stop to make some tablets and equip them.

#* Next is {{Skill|Cooking}} the fish caught from {{Skill|Fishing}}, this will be used in [[Combat]].

#** Make sure {{SkillReq|Summoning|25}} before you switch to {{Skill|Cooking}}, so you can unlock {{ItemIcon|Pig}}.

#* This has some minor increases for {{Skill|Woodcutting}}, {{Skill|Cooking}}, {{Skill|Agility}}, {{Skill|Herblore}}, {{Skill|Firemaking}}, {{Skill|Mining}} and {{Skill|Archaeology}} at low levels.  

#* Switching {{Skill|Agility}} Obstacles can be quite pricy at these levels, especially before you have a good moneymaking Method. If you can focus on 1 Obstacle in each Tier and leave them for now, we can start switching later on.

#* At {{SkillReq|Agility|20}}, make sure to build {{AgilityIcon|Pit Jump}} as your Tier 3 obstacle with the {{ItemIcon|Raw Salmon|notext=true}} {{ItemIcon|Raw Herring|notext=true}} fish you saved from the previous step. See step #15 in the guide for further {{Skill|Agility}} choices.

# After this finish the rest of the Skills to Level 30, the order in which you do this is not very important, you may not be able to progress some Artisan Skills yet as you don't have the resources from the Gathering Skills yet, just come back later to those skills.

 

There are several ways to earn Gold Pieces in this Game. Below are some suggestions on how you can obtain them effectively.

|{{Skill|Thieving}}||54 / 57 / 77||At apropriate Levels thieving {{Icon|Fisherman|type=thieving}}, {{Icon|Cyclops|type=thieving}} and {{Icon|Knight|type=thieving}} provides some of the best GP/h, but<br> you will need to obtain {{ItemIcon|Chapeau Noir}}, {{ItemIcon|Golbin Mask}}, {{ItemIcon|Thiever's Cape}}, {{ItemIcon|Sneak-Ers}} from {{Skill|Thieving}}, and also <br>{{ItemIcon|Gloves of Silence}} from {{MonsterIcon|Thief}} in {{ZoneIcon|Runic Ruins}}, which requires {{SkillReq|Slayer|45}}||It takes quite a while to set up {{Skill|Thieving}} correctly, be sure you don't do this before {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat}} as you'll most likely die. Also don't forget to enable the "Continue on Stun" option if you have plenty of Food available

|{{Skill|Fishing}}|| ??||Fishing in general is quite bad for {{GP}}, but it is an easy AFK method to grind out the first {{GP|1000000}}

| Low Level {{Skill|Mining}}||0|| Low Level Mining with {{ItemIcon|Gem Gloves}} might sound like a good idea; it does give you some profit, but it yields very poor hourly gains.

|{{AoD}} {{Skill|Mining}}||85||Mining is a really good way to earn {{GP}}, but it doesn't really start generating a lot before Level 85. It also requires you to have {{AoD}}. {{ItemIcon|Pure Crystal}} sells for {{GP|750}} each, which racks up quite quickly and should average around {{GP|4000000}} per hour without any boosts. {{ItemIcon|Perfect Swing Potion}} will help immensely if you wish to farm {{GP}} with this Method

With this minor preparation of the Skills, we're now ready to start picking the desired [[#Choosing the Way to Play The Game|Way to Play]], be it Skilling or [[Combat]] you should be set for both!

===Laid Back===

# The next step is to make some Gold Pieces {{GP}}  

#*** You'll need to buy some [[Summoning Shards]] from the [[Shop]], which you should have enough Gold Pieces {{GP}} for from selling all the stuff you got from leveling everything to Level 30.

==== Alternative Money Maker with Atlas of Discovery ====

===Combat Focus for Max efficiency with Throne of the Herald / Age of Discover===

*as well as many more useful things.<!-- what do you mean by "& required Playtime"? -->

Doing this first has great benefits on the entirety of your account & required Playtime to reach 100% Completion.