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#* Preferably, equipping and using Tablets in its appropriate action (e.g. equipping {{ItemIcon|Ent}} while {{Skill|Woodcutting}}) | #* Preferably, equipping and using Tablets in its appropriate action (e.g. equipping {{ItemIcon|Ent}} while {{Skill|Woodcutting}}) | ||
#* Alternatively, but slower and not recommended, creating additional Tablets (e.g. creating {{ItemIcon|Ent}} Tablets) | #* Alternatively, but slower and not recommended, creating additional Tablets (e.g. creating {{ItemIcon|Ent}} Tablets) | ||
#* Don't forget, after the first Mark is found, you must create at least 1 batch of Tablets of the associated Mark to be able to find any additional Marks of that type. | #* Don't forget, after the first Mark is found, you must create at least 1 batch of Tablets of the associated Mark to be able to find any additional Marks of that type. | ||
# Create at least 1 batch of {{ItemIcon|Octopus}} Tablets to enable finding additional {{Icon|Octopus|type=mark|Marks of the Octopus}} | # Create at least 1 batch of {{ItemIcon|Octopus}} Tablets to enable finding additional {{Icon|Octopus|type=mark|Marks of the Octopus}} | ||
#* Equipping both prepares you for the likely chance that you accumulate enough {{Icon|Octopus|type=mark|Marks of the Octopus}} to enable the Ent/Octopus synergy, enabling even faster Summoning XP gains | #* Equipping both prepares you for the likely chance that you accumulate enough {{Icon|Octopus|type=mark|Marks of the Octopus}} to enable the Ent/Octopus synergy, enabling even faster Summoning XP gains | ||
#* Synergies use both Tablets in the Synergy simultaneously, so expect the Tablet usage for both to go up when the Synergy is active. | #* Synergies use both Tablets in the Synergy simultaneously, so expect the Tablet usage for both to go up when the Synergy is active. | ||
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#* Again, remember to craft at least one batch of {{ItemIcon|Pig}} to be able to find more than one {{Icon|Pig|type=mark|Mark of the Pig}}. | #* Again, remember to craft at least one batch of {{ItemIcon|Pig}} to be able to find more than one {{Icon|Pig|type=mark|Mark of the Pig}}. | ||
#* The chance of mark discovery per action scales with the recipe's base cooking time for {{Skill|Cooking}}, therefore the recipe chosen has no impact on the mark drop rate. | #* The chance of mark discovery per action scales with the recipe's base cooking time for {{Skill|Cooking}}, therefore the recipe chosen has no impact on the mark drop rate. | ||
# Train {{Skill|Astrology}} further. study {{Icon|Deedree|type=constellation}} until level 80 {{Icon|Mastery}}. | |||
# Train {{Skill|Astrology}} further. | |||
#* Like suggested in the start of the guide, purchase modifiers as you see fit, but as earlier, upgrade costs double each time for each respective area upgraded. | #* Like suggested in the start of the guide, purchase modifiers as you see fit, but as earlier, upgrade costs double each time for each respective area upgraded. | ||
#* For {{ItemIcon|Stardust}} modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 5-6 | #* For {{ItemIcon|Stardust}} modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 5-6 |
Revision as of 22:42, 8 June 2024
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Melvor Idle is a cut down RPG game with many hidden depths. There is no right or wrong way to progress in the game, and you will rarely (if ever) be punished for experimenting. Melvor Idle is about the journey not the destination.
Enjoy!
Goal of this Guide
This guide gives one method for how to start your Melvor Idle journey. The goal is to give players a helping hand in the early stages of the game. It is in no way complete, or optimal for all play styles.
The guide was inspired by the following reddit post.
Why not to use this guide?
There are many reasons that this guide may not be useful:
- If following steps is not your thing then look elsewhere, these steps take a long time to complete and are very prescriptive.
- Do you have a preferred play-style? For example, combat is great! Why not give it a try? This guide is focussed on skilling and obtaining some important long-term benefits from some hard-to-get items and boosts.
- This guide is intended for Standard and Error creating thumbnail: File missingHardcore Game Modes:
- If you are playing Adventure game-mode then please refer to the Adventure/Guide.
- If you are playing Ancient Relics game-mode then please refer to the Ancient Relics/Guide.
Before you start
In general:
- This game is meant to be idled - this means that it is intended that you do not actively play this game, but instead do other things, such as go on a walk, or visit the zoo! And when you come back, hopefully you will start to see some progress, but do not expect to complete this game in a week.
- Items and equipment will give you small benefits that stack up over time, so do not expect to be a Melvor god after you have completed all of the steps outlined below - you will still have a lot of gameplay left, and the expansions are a great investment if you are yearning for more!
- You should expect this guide to take many days and weeks to complete, so feel free to deviate from the guide at any time.
- Players are encouraged to try out all of the skills as soon as they feel more comfortable with the basics.
- Off-line 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.
Steps
- Level Error creating thumbnail: File missingAstrology until theError creating thumbnail: File missingAmeria constellation is unlocked (Error creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 20)
- Once Error creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 10 is achieved, training on theError creating thumbnail: File missingIridan constellation is the fastest path to Ameria. Generally speaking, the fastest method for training a skill is the one with the highest level requirement.
- Once
- Continue training Error creating thumbnail: File missingAstrology on theError creating thumbnail: File missingAmeria constellation untilError creating thumbnail: File missingMastery level 80 is achieved in Ameria.
- Doing so will provide access to 3 basic modifiers and 2 unique modifiers from Ameria, which can then be activated and then upgraded by consuming Stardust and Golden Stardust. All of these bonuses are good, however, be aware that the cost doubles for each upgrade you purchase. For now, we recommend not purchasing past the following upgrade levels:
- For Stardust modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 5-6
- For Golden Stardust modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 3-4
- You can always come back for more bonuses later!
- Doing so will provide access to 3 basic modifiers and 2 unique modifiers from Ameria, which can then be activated and then upgraded by consuming Stardust and Golden Stardust. All of these bonuses are good, however, be aware that the cost doubles for each upgrade you purchase. For now, we recommend not purchasing past the following upgrade levels:
- Train Error creating thumbnail: File missingWoodcutting until you obtain one Mark of the Ent
- Axe upgrades should be purchased as soon as possible, as they significantly decrease the amount of time required to cut all trees.
- Open any Bird Nests, plant the seeds you're able to in Error creating thumbnail: File missingFarming, and sell any seeds you're not able to plant. If able, always use Weird Gloop (by combining 2 Compost with 10 Rune Essence in theError creating thumbnail: File missingShop) when planting seeds as this guarantees their growth.
- Farming works passively while you're doing something else, so harvesting crops/herb/trees and planting new ones as soon as they're available is the best strategy.
- Train Error creating thumbnail: File missingSummoning by creatingError creating thumbnail: File missingEnt Tablets until aboutError creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 5.
- We will use these Tablets in Error creating thumbnail: File missingWoodcutting to further level to aroundError creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 10 to unlock the Ent/Octopus Synergy for Fishing later on. You can see all possibleError creating thumbnail: File missingSynergies here.
- Summoning is a very expensive skill, especially in the early game. It may not be possible to complete this step immediately. You can start fishing (Step 7) for some money and come back to this step once enough money is attained for summoning.
- We will use these Tablets in
- Train Error creating thumbnail: File missingWoodcutting with yourError creating thumbnail: File missingEnt Tablets equipped, until 5 more Marks of the Ent have been discovered, making your Mark of the Ent level 2, enabling one half of theError creating thumbnail: File missingEnt/Error creating thumbnail: File missingOctopus synergy.
- No matter what you're doing, try to ensure you always have Tablets equipped, even if this means temporarily stopping whatever skill you are doing to create some more. Having a Error creating thumbnail: File missingTablet equipped that works in the skill you're training increases the amount ofError creating thumbnail: File missingSummoning XP you gain per action.
- Once at least 1 batch of Tablets of the appropriate Mark has been crafted, you have enabled finding additional Marks of that type even when the Tablets aren't equipped or present in your Bank. However, the drop chance for Marks is higher when respective Tablet(s) are equipped.
- We want to prepare unlocking the Error creating thumbnail: File missingEnt half of the synergy now, so that it is immediately ready while we're training Fishing later. Having a synergy active further improves Summoning XP gained per action.
- No matter what you're doing, try to ensure you always have Tablets equipped, even if this means temporarily stopping whatever skill you are doing to create some more. Having a
- If not already Error creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 15, trainError creating thumbnail: File missingSummoning untilError creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 15. You can train Summoning by either:
- Preferably, equipping and using Tablets in its appropriate action (e.g. equipping Error creating thumbnail: File missingEnt whileError creating thumbnail: File missingWoodcutting)
- Alternatively, but slower and not recommended, creating additional Tablets (e.g. creating Error creating thumbnail: File missingEnt Tablets)
- Preferably, equipping and using Tablets in its appropriate action (e.g. equipping
- Don't forget, after the first Mark is found, you must create at least 1 batch of Tablets of the associated Mark to be able to find any additional Marks of that type.
- Create at least 1 batch of Error creating thumbnail: File missingOctopus Tablets to enable finding additional Marks of the Octopus
- Equipping both prepares you for the likely chance that you accumulate enough Marks of the Octopus to enable the Ent/Octopus synergy, enabling even faster Summoning XP gains
- Synergies use both Tablets in the Synergy simultaneously, so expect the Tablet usage for both to go up when the Synergy is active.
- Train Error creating thumbnail: File missingCooking until you find a total of six Mark of the Pig.
- Again, remember to craft at least one batch of Error creating thumbnail: File missingPig to be able to find more than one Mark of the Pig.
- The chance of mark discovery per action scales with the recipe's base cooking time for Error creating thumbnail: File missingCooking, therefore the recipe chosen has no impact on the mark drop rate.
- Again, remember to craft at least one batch of
- Train Error creating thumbnail: File missingAstrology further. studyError creating thumbnail: File missingDeedree until level 80Error creating thumbnail: File missingMastery.
- Like suggested in the start of the guide, purchase modifiers as you see fit, but as earlier, upgrade costs double each time for each respective area upgraded.
- For Stardust modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 5-6
- For Golden Stardust modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 3-4
- Alternate between training Error creating thumbnail: File missingWoodcutting andError creating thumbnail: File missingFiremaking untilError creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 15
- The ultimate goal here is Error creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 99 to unlock the Firemaking Skillcape.
- Equip the Ancient Ring of Skills before starting.
- Any Axe upgrades should be purchased as soon as possible, as they significantly decrease the amount of time required to cut trees
- Open any Bird Nests dropped for seeds, then plant those you can in Error creating thumbnail: File missingFarming. Don't forget to buy new Farming plots when available.
- Keep all Strawberry Seeds for Gentle Hands Potions used in Error creating thumbnail: File missingThieving, and keep 3000x Watermelons forError creating thumbnail: File missingAgility.
- High Mastery level in Farming gives a chance to return seeds (to the point where crops sustain themselves), so a surplus of Strawberry Seeds can be planted if its Mastery level is high enough.
- Keep all Strawberry Seeds for Gentle Hands Potions used in
- Manually lighting bonfires is not recommended
- The ultimate goal here is
- Train Error creating thumbnail: File missingAgility untilError creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 10 is reached. This will allow the Monkey Bars Agility obstacle to be created, providing a 4% decrease to the Firemaking interval
- Train to Error creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 35 andError creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 30
- If you haven't already trained Error creating thumbnail: File missingTownship a bit (Error creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 15), it is worth doing this now to unlock Warm Beanie for additionalError creating thumbnail: File missingFiremaking boosts. If you've followed the full guide up to this point, you should have plenty of Township ticks to easily reachError creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 80 or higher, so it is highly recommended to be mindful when spending ticks.
- If you haven't already trained
- Train Error creating thumbnail: File missingAgility once more, this time untilError creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 20 is reached for the purpose of creating the Stepping Stones obstacle. This obstacle provides both a 6% decrease to Woodcutting interval and a 3% increase to Firemaking skill XP.
- Continue training Error creating thumbnail: File missingWoodcutting andError creating thumbnail: File missingFiremaking untilError creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 99
- Having Error creating thumbnail: File missingEnt andError creating thumbnail: File missingOctopus equipped will increase the number of Bird Nests dropped and continue to grant you more summoning XP.
- If you have reached Error creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 90, as soon as you obtain one Mark of the Devil you can begin to craftError creating thumbnail: File missingDevil and use them for Firemaking to increase your summoning XP/action considerably as well as your Firemaking XP/h.
- Once again, keep planting seeds awarded from Bird Nests and keep the ones noted in the first Error creating thumbnail: File missingWoodcutting section.
- Skip cutting Magic Trees due to the long cut time
- It is highly suggested to have the Error creating thumbnail: File missingMulti-Tree upgrade by the time you reach Redwood Trees as this allows you to level Woodcutting with the best XP rates while keeping the primary Firemaking resource ( Yew Logs) intact
- This means using Error creating thumbnail: File missingMulti-Tree to simultaneously cut Redwood and Yew logs.
- This means using
- Save any Redwood Logs gained as these should be turned into Dragon Javelins later, burning only up to and including Yew Logs to achieve Error creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 99.
- Although lighting bonfires will increase the Error creating thumbnail: File missingFiremaking Skill XP gained, this is very manual to maintain and uses significantly more logs per hour.
- Lighting bonfires automatically by using Controlled Heat Potions is highly recommended if you are able to reach Error creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 20 by creating only Bird Nest Potions, requiring Garum Herbs fromError creating thumbnail: File missingFarming and Potato Seeds from Bird Nests to create.
- Lighting bonfires automatically by using Controlled Heat Potions is highly recommended if you are able to reach
- Having
- Purchase and equip the Firemaking Skillcape
- It might be worth checking your Error creating thumbnail: File missingFiremakingError creating thumbnail: File missingMastery pool and seeing whether the 95% checkpoint is active. This provides an additional +5% Global Mastery XP - if not, go back and finish this this up now. Continuing on your moderately mastered Yew Logs you should be getting a bit more than 1% pool per hour.
- Reaching maximum level in a skill increases the amount of pool provided per action from 25% to 50% of the Mastery XP.
- It might be worth checking your
- Train Error creating thumbnail: File missingAstrology once more, this time untilError creating thumbnail: File missingLevel 99 is reached in order to unlock many more bonuses, including the Astrology Skillcape, which - when equipped - further speeds up the rate at which you find both types of Dust.
- Go back to Error creating thumbnail: File missingAstrology and ensure all your constellations are at leastError creating thumbnail: File missingMastery Level 40, and train those which are not.
- Error creating thumbnail: File missingMastery Level 40 unlocks the 2nd tier of normal modifiers, which contain Skill XP or Mastery XP (or both) bonuses.
- Many Error creating thumbnail: File missingError creating thumbnail: File missingMastery Level 60, 80 and 99 unlocks provide modifiers that are rarely seen elsewhere in the game, with some of them only being useful in edge cases, so it is suggested to only further master the constellations that you know you will be benefiting from. You can see the list of constellation modifiers on theError creating thumbnail: File missingAstrology page.
Where next?
At this point, you have both Ancient rings (providing +8% Skill or +7% Mastery XP, depending on which is equipped), the Firemaking Skillcape (providing +5% Skill XP to all skills), and a variety of other bonuses from
and
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The choices on what path to take next start to open up, some suggestions are:
- Error creating thumbnail: File missingThieving for GP, and various Area unique & NPC unique items, a number of which provide various bonuses to other skills.
- Error creating thumbnail: File missingMining,Error creating thumbnail: File missingSmithing, andError creating thumbnail: File missingFletching for the Dragon Javelin money-making method, which is one of the best in the game. This is where any saved Redwood Logs from Woodcutting will be used.
- Error creating thumbnail: File missingAgility to unlock further obstacles, providing additional bonuses. Reaching any further than obstacle 5 or 6 may be difficult initially however, due to the significant cost of obstacles and various level requirements.
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Melvor Idle version v1.3.1 (Released: 30th October 2024) |
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Reference Tables: Items, Equipment, Experience Table, Upgrading Items, Combat Areas, Slayer Areas, Dungeons, Strongholds, The Abyss, Monsters |