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== Dungeon Walkthrough ==
== Dungeon Walkthrough ==


This section gives a walkthrough on how to defeat the early dungeons without too reliance on skill and/or luck. In your playthrough, you should use the Ancient Relics and skills that you unlock, it is possible that your route will deviate quickly from this path, however, this guide does not rely on any particular skills or relics being obtained and so should work for all playthroughs, but will not be the optimum.
This section gives a walkthrough on how to defeat the early dungeons without too reliance on skill and/or luck. In your playthrough, you should use the Ancient Relics and skills that you unlock, it is possible that your route will deviate quickly from this path. This guide does not rely on any particular skills or relics being obtained and so should work for most playthroughs, but will necessarily be optimum for your relics and skills.


For the walkthrough, it is assumed that you have levelled all of the combat stats to the maximum after every dungeon. And that all combat training is done using Slayer Tasks to give {{SC}}. You will need a supply of {{GP}}, and it is assumed that you are either mining ore to obtain jewels, or thieving and selling items. When equipped, the {{ItemIcon|Mining Lesser Relic}} will give a guaranteed jewel for every ore which is a good way to make early {{GP}}.
For the walkthrough, it is assumed that you have levelled all of the combat stats to the maximum after every dungeon. And that all combat training is done using Slayer Tasks to give {{SC}}. You will need a supply of {{GP}}, and it is assumed that you are either mining ore to obtain jewels, or thieving and selling items. When equipped, the {{ItemIcon|Mining Lesser Relic}} will give a guaranteed jewel for every ore which is a good way to make early {{GP}}.

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Dungeons

While dungeons are unchanged, the Ancient Relics gamemode requires players to complete dungeons to increase their skill levels, which are otherwise locked to a very low level.

While dungeons can be completed in any order, the following is a suggested order based on the max hit of the boss of each dungeon, including a link to the guide to that dungeon, as well as the combat level cap the player will have for that dungeon.

Lvl Dungeon Guide Max Hit
10
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Chicken Coop
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Chicken Coop/Guide
52
15
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Undead Graveyard
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Undead Graveyard/Guide
106
20
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Spider Forest
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Spider Forest/Guide
142
25
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Frozen Cove
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Frozen Cove/Guide
172
30
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Deep Sea Ship
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Deep Sea Ship/Guide
204
35
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Bandit Base
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Bandit Base/Guide
174
40
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Hall of Wizards
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Hall of Wizards/Guide
208
45
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Miolite Caves
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Miolite Caves/Guide
240
50
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Dragons Den
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Dragons Den/Guide
470
55
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Volcanic Cave
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Volcanic Cave/Guide
520

Note: The recommended order for dungeons does not match the order shown in the game.

Skills

Throughout the game the skills level are capped (initially to 10) which means that you will need to carefully manage resources and equipment early on. Completing a dungeon will raise your skill caps and so this is a good first goal. Fishing and cooking are locked out until much later making dungeons considerably harder, and you will need creative ways of getting those foods with higher HP.

Any skill XP earned over the ceiling cap will be deleted, but the mastery and global mastery XP work as normal.

There are many creating ways of obtaining stronger items that you will need:

  • Food can be purchased from the Shop with SC, stolen in
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    Thieving
    , or from discovery in
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    Cartography
  • Steel and higher value woods can be stolen in
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    Thieving
  • Gold/Silver can be obtained from
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    Cartography
    or from Statue
  • Mithril/Steel armour can be obtained from combat,
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    Thieving
    or township tasks.
  • Runes can be obtained from combat,
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    Cartography
    and even township tasks.

Ancient Relics

Performing any skill will give you a (low) chance of discovering an Ancient Relic. Whilst it is possible to get all of the Ancient Relics without completing dungeons, it is not recommended. It is worth noting, that many of the Ancient Relics will give you passive rewards that go beyond the kill and so should not be overlooked. There is however a guaranteed Ancient Relic when you reach skill level 20 which is likely to happen after completing your first dungeon, and you should try to get these relics as soon as they are available.

Lesser Relics

While skilling you will be rewarded with Lesser Relics which can be equipped to give boosts to that skill. One Lesser Relic will be used for every action. For example, in

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Mining

the Mining Lesser Relic will guarantee one jewel for every ore, which is a great way to earn GP early in the game. Similarly, the Thieving Lesser Relic provides an extra 30 stealth which will come in handy when you want to progress

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Thieving

.

Skill Balancing

When levelling up your skills it is important to consider how each skill interacts with your other skills and abilities. For example, if you level

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Smithing

it will give you access to stronger weapons and armour, but to use this skill you will also not

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Mine

for the raw materials and a higher combat level to wear the items you have made. Similarly, if you level

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Firemaking

to soon then you will also need

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Woodcutting

(or

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Thieving

) to balance out this skill.

When to fully explore cartography

Early exploration of

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Cartography

is recommended as it unlocks many great rewards. However, it is strongly recommended that you do not attempt to fully explore

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Cartography

(or use Auto Survey) until you are able to reach

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Level 100

. Surveying has a finite amount of XP available, and any that you waste early on could limit how much of the map you ultimately reveal.

Map creation and upgrades have unlimited XP, but these are not a generous source of XP, and will consume a lot of Paper.

Levels 1 to 10: Starting tips

Starting tips:

  • Township Tasks: Check out the easier
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    Township
    tasks as often these will give useful rewards such as food, GP or SC which can be a big boost early on. Use a Bronze Dagger to kill 100 Plant. This will complete the township task and reward you with 2,000 Potatoes.
  • Cartography: Starting
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    Cartography
    will give you 50. Surveying the Farmer's Market at (13, 16) which is close to your starting position in 500.
  • Slayer Tasks: It is free to select a new slayer task, and so for every combat keep re-rolling until you get a low target monster. You will need to stick to Plant, Chicken and Cow. Use potatoes while training combat, and save high value food items such as Shrimp for the
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    Chicken Coop
    dungeon.
  • Runecrafting: Ancient Relics uses the hardcore Combat Triangle, and so magic is powerful against melee monsters.
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    Runecrafting
    will let you unlock more damaging spells. Mine plenty of Rune Essence to create runes and obtains staves such as the Staff of Earth and the highest magic gear you can obtain. You can train
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    Level 10
    on the Cow.
  • Mining: The Mining Lesser Relic provides a guaranteed gem, and so mining ore is a good source of GP early on. Sell jewels to obtain 1,000,000GP to unlock Auto Eat Tier 1 early as this will give a considerable advantage.
  • Melee: Train melee to 10 XP and unlock the Golbin Thief and use
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    Mining
    and
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    Smithing
    to create 50. Make at least one
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    Golbin Thief
    so that you can receive more marks.
  • Chicken Coop The
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    Chicken Coop
    can be defeated once you have maxed out your magic, hitpoints and prayer XP. You should wear your strongest magic gear possible, and a good supply of runes. Use Earth Strike magic, and Thick Skin as your prayer for a small advantage. Use Shrimp to maintain your health.

Once you have defeated the dungeon, you will unlock level 15 in combat, and the skills you have selected.

Levels 11 to 29: Skilling recommendations

After completing a dungeon, you will be offered a randomized selection of skills and level caps to select from. Whilst some choices might be straight-forward, it can be challenging weighing up the benefits and of each skill.

Here are some things to consider:

  • Thieving: Once you get to
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    Level 26
    you will unlock
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    Assistant Cook
    which will be a great source of food. Also, you can use
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    Thieving
    to get GP as well as some useful drops or ammo, as there are very few other ways to make money at this time.
  • Farming: This provides a passive source of food, herbs, and logs. For example, killing Junior Farmer until you have 3 Potato Seeds so that you can start
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    Farming
    for extra food. In time, the passive benefits of
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    Farming
    will give you a huge boost.
  • Astrology: Early on, there are some good passive boosts available in
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    Astrology
    . However, the cost of unlocking increases quickly, so early it's a good idea to focus on small boosts, rather than trying to max out .
  • Summoning: This gives a big boost and is needed for the higher strength mobs and dungeons. For example,
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    Golbin Thief
    is a good early summon that will help give the advantage in combat.
  • Slayer: The Slayer tasks will reward you with
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    Slayer Coins
    which can be used to purchase
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    Slayer
    re-supplies. These give you a good source of food, prayer and ammo. It is going to be a long time before you unlock
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    Fishing
    and
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    Cooking
    , so these re-supplied will be invaluable. Levelling
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    Slayer
    will also unlock new mobs and dungeons in time.

Levels 30+: Places of Interest

At this point you will have found some Ancient Relics which will give you passive benefits. but there is still a lot to discover.

Here are some suggestions on where to go next:

Continue defeating dungeons to increase your skill caps and along the way you will discover the Ancient Relics. Good luck!

Dungeon Walkthrough

This section gives a walkthrough on how to defeat the early dungeons without too reliance on skill and/or luck. In your playthrough, you should use the Ancient Relics and skills that you unlock, it is possible that your route will deviate quickly from this path. This guide does not rely on any particular skills or relics being obtained and so should work for most playthroughs, but will necessarily be optimum for your relics and skills.

For the walkthrough, it is assumed that you have levelled all of the combat stats to the maximum after every dungeon. And that all combat training is done using Slayer Tasks to give SC. You will need a supply of GP, and it is assumed that you are either mining ore to obtain jewels, or thieving and selling items. When equipped, the Mining Lesser Relic will give a guaranteed jewel for every ore which is a good way to make early GP.

In your playthrough, it is recommended that you level every skill to 20, as soon as it becomes available, as this will give a guaranteed Ancient Relic. Ancient Relics often give benefits outside of the skill itself, so so not overlook the benefits these and the Lesser Relics. Also, leveling township and farming as you go along is recommended as these passive skills will pay dividends in time.

Chicken Coop: Level 10

Start

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Mining

Rune Essence until you reach level 10. Equip the Mining Lesser Relic if it becomes available. In

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Runecrafting

make roughly equal numbers of Air Rune, Mind Rune, Earth Rune, and when available craft enough runes to craft the magic gear in this table:

Start

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Cartography

to unlock 50, but save this for the dungeon. Survey and discover Farmer's Market in (13, 16) to obtain 500 which will be your main combat training food supply. Next, survey and discover The Restless Sanctum at (13, 14) to get 1000 which can be buried for Prayer (skill).svg . Level up all of your combat skills to level 10 on Plant and Cow using low-level slayer tasks. When you obtain

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Golbin Thief

craft 50 to allow more marks to be discovered. For the dungeon battle, equip

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Earth Strike

and equip

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25

and

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Thick Skin

. Time your Shrimp eats carefully when battling Mumma Chicken so that you get the most hits in.

You should now unlock Level 15, and will be given a random selection of skill boosts.

Undead Graveyard: Level 15

Level up all of your combat skills to level 15. If you have any skills that are 20 (or higher) then level these up to give you more Ancient Relics.

Obtain the Silver Ruby Necklace from Mummy or

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Crafting

, if available. If needed, mine more Rune Essence and then craft the slightly stronger magic equipment as shown in the table below. If

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Runecrafting

was not upgraded by the first dungeon then consider a melee build instead:

In

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Cartography

, survey and discover Old Village to unlock

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Archaeology

. Navigate a path that follows lowest the lowest cost tiles (and avoids any other POIs) until you reach the The Friendly Fisherman at (6, 27) which gets 50. Next survey and discover Shrouded Horizon at (4, 26]) to give 50,000SC. Purchase 5 from the Shop to complete the township task that gives you 1000. Obtain the Occultist and then craft as many

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Occultist

as you can.

Using your remaining SC, purchase as many basic re-supplied as you can afford to give you Lobster. You should now have more than enough food to complete the dungeon.

For the dungeon battle, equip Manta Ray or Lobster,

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Fire Strike

,

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Soul Split I

and

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Blinding I

spells. Use

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Occultist

and

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Thick Skin

to increase your chances of success.

Spider Forest: Level 20

Level up all of the combat skills to unlock all of the Ancient Relics. Do the same for any new skills that you have obtained. For this dungeon, it is recommended to switch to a melee build unless your

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Runecrafting

has been upgraded. To get the mithril gear, grind Mithril Knight until you have a full set of gear. Submit this to the township task to give you the upgraded gear, and then continue grinding to complete the set, as shown below:

Using the Mining Lesser Relic mine Iron Ore (or your strongest ore available) to obtain jewels which you can sell. When you have 1,000,000GP available, then purchase

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Auto Eat - Tier I

to make combat slightly easier. In

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Crafting

make Iron Gloves (or Bronze Gloves if not upgraded). It is especially important that you spend the time to train your prayer and hitpoints. Use

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Burst of Strength

and

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Clarity of Thought

to increase your odds. Equip

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Occultist

summon. During the battle with Spider King you will need to time your eats carefully to avoid being killed and it may take more than one attempt.

Congratulations, you are well on the path of the Ancient Relics. You can check out all of the dungeon guides for more hints and tips, but the walkthrough is complete. Good Luck!