Adventure/Guide
WIP Adventure Mode Preliminary Guide Written by /u/Steelsauce, with help from adventure-mode-chat on the discord, and the HCCO/Guide.
Preface
Adventure mode takes what you know about Melvor and turns it on its head! You start with only melee combat unlocked, and must pay an increasing GP cost to unlock each skill. This means that the skills you choose will greatly affect the route you take through the game. Your noncombat skills will be locked to your combat level, which means the skilling you can do is very limited at first.
This mode requires you to do combat in the beginning, which you cannot currently do offline. Once you unlock some skills, it can be more AFK friendly. It may be harder for newer players to get a grasp of how all the skills are interconnected without using them first, so I wouldn't recommend a brand new player starting out on Adventure mode.
There is a lot to learn and this mode was just released recently. I'll be sharing my strategy, but feel free to experiment!
Starting out
First you need to do some basic melee combat to get some combat levels and cash for a first skill. Equip your bronze weapon and shrimp and start whacking some plants. Remember to press the collect loot button to keep your potatoes! Change styles to keep your stats somewhat equal.
With a stack of potatoes, you can branch out to other monsters to earn new gear. Read the HCCO/Guide to learn which mobs drop gear, but note that some mobs require you to unlock slayer first.
Early money making
Your first money maker will be fighting Cow. Collect their Leather, and then go to the shop and purchase as many Green Dragonhide as you can, then sell the green hides. This gives an extra 50gp compared to just selling the plain leather.
Once you have some better gear and levels, killing Master Farmer and selling the seeds is more profitable than cows. You can earn more money with some mid game items, such as Gloves of Silence, Almighty Lute, Sand Treaders, Chapeau Noir, and if you are lucky Aorpheat's Signet Ring. Note that
If you don’t want to keep hitting the collect loot button, you can earn money slowly by mining, fishing, woodcutting, or agility to earn some gp while afk.
The best early game money making is mining ores using Gem Gloves. You will need to unlock mining as well as buy the glove for 500k. After that hurdle, you will earn 262k gp per glove by selling all the gems. If you are selling the ore, mine the highest tier ore you can.
Planning Ahead
Skill Unlock Costs
Skill level unlock costs increase drastically, so planning out a skill unlock order is extremely important. Here are unlock costs:
| Unlock | Cost | Cumulative Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,000 |
10,000
|
| 2 | 25,000 |
35,000
|
| 3 | 50,000 |
85,000
|
| 4 | 200,000 |
285,000
|
| 5 | 250,000 |
535,000
|
| 6 | 400,000 |
935,000
|
| 7 | 1,000,000 |
1,935,000
|
| 8 | 2,500,000 |
4,435,000
|
| 9 | 10,000,000 |
14,435,000
|
| 10 | 25,000,000 |
39,435,000
|
| 11 | 50,000,000 |
89,435,000
|
| 12 | 100,000,000 |
189,435,000
|
| 13 | 200,000,000 |
389,435,000
|
| 14 | 500,000,000 |
889,435,000
|
| 15 | 500,000,000 |
1,389,435,000
|
| 16 | 500,000,000 |
1,889,435,000
|
| 17 | 500,000,000 |
2,389,435,000
|
| 18 | 500,000,000 |
2,889,435,000
|
Combat Level
Wiki page on Combat Level Your non combat skills are gated behind your combat level. This greatly restricts what you can do. Getting to 99 combat level is a big goal. Combat level factors in HP, defence, prayer, plus your highest skill of magic, ranged, or attack/strength. This means that if you have a high level in one combat style, picking up another one won’t raise your combat level until you surpass your other combat style’s level.
Long Term goals
If you want the max cape, you need several billion GP. So you want to be able to make lots of money, clear high level content, get a lot of food and prayer points. Read the wiki guide on Money Making.
Skills Pros/Cons
This is just my opinion from a few days of observation. I’ll give a recommendation for when to unlock these skills. Early game: skill unlock 1-3. Mid game: 4-8. Late game: 9-12. End game: 13-17
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Pros: Unlocked at start. No ammo needed to train. Can get starter weapon/armor quickly. Will need to use it for a while at the start. Fishing lets your train strength
Cons: Hard to get more mid/late game weapons and armor. Very weak to magic enemies. Not as strong as magic late game. Only contributes to combat level if higher level than other combat styles. Need to train two skills instead of one.
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Pros: Unlocked at start. Can train with any type of combat. Always contributes to combat level. Reduces food usage.
Cons: Doesn’t help you kill faster, for more xp/hr.
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Pros: Fairly easy to get weapon/armor drops from enemies. Frozen arrows are strong and relatively quick to gather with melee. Great against magic enemies.
Cons: Need to farm ammo, which is much slower if you don’t have mining + smithing for knives, and additionally woodcutting + fletching for arrows. Less needed than other forms of combat. Not as strong as magic late game. Only contributes to combat level if higher level than other combat styles.
Recommended to unlock: Late game
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Pros: Very strong, especially in the end game. Great for killing hard enemies and dungeons. Many enemies are melee. Alt magic lets you gain prayer points easily, plus (low) offline xp. Can craft good weapons/armor with runecrafting.
Cons: Need mining + runecrafting before you can start. Takes some time to farm runes. You need woodcutting or thieving to make elemental staves, otherwise they are rare monster drops. Only contributes to combat level if higher level than other combat styles.
Recommended to unlock: Mid game
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Pros: Helps a ton in combat, especially in difficult combat or late game. You get bones from everything. Contributes to combat level.
Cons: Needs a supply of prayer points, bone drops aren’t enough. Best ways for that are skele fish from fishing, blessed offering from alt magic, or resupply from slayer
Recommended to unlock: Mid game
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Pros: Rerolling easy tasks is free, so you can always gain slayer coins and xp from what you want to fighting. Basically free XP. Coins can be spent on important upgrades and resupply which gives food, bones and ammo. Unlocks slayer area with important mobs, like mummy for gold emerald ring and gold topaz ring.
Cons: Requires you to manually reroll tasks, or at least switch to your current task, which is inconvenient for mostly idling/afk players. Takes a while to earn up coins to buy anything. Does not contribute to combat level!
Recommended to unlock: early game for active players, else mid/late
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Pros: Easy to train afk, can make decent gp/hr at higher levels. Get logs for magic staves, arrows. Birds nest are a decent source of seeds.
Cons: Everything you can get here you can get from thieving, and the gp/hr is worse than gem gloves.
Recommended to unlock: Late/end game
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Pros: With cooking, easy and afk food supply. Get AROS if you are lucky. Skele fish are great for prayer points. Train strength afk with barb fishing. Can make some money offline.
Cons: You can get food from thieving or farming or combat, and the gp/hr is worse than gem gloves. Prayer points can come from alt magic. Can’t get that sweet whale+fishing cape gp/hr for a very long time
Recommended to unlock: early or Late/end game
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Pros: The cape gives you xp bonus.. Eventually. Cooking xp bonus with fires
Cons: Need 99 combat level to get cape, at which point the grind will not be as worth it compared to normal modes. Need to get logs from woodcutting.
Recommended to unlock: Late/end game
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Pros: Easy and quick afk food with fishing
Cons: You can get food and lots of other items from thieving or farming or combat
Recommended to unlock: early or Late/end game
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Pros: Mining with gem gloves is the best money making strat early on, plus it's mostly afk. Need essence for magic and gloop for farming. With smithing, you can get bars for armor trimming, and ranged ammo
Cons: Need 500k for first pair of gem gloves
Recommended to unlock: early game
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Pros: Make silver/gold bars for trimming and gp before you can afford gem gloves. Make ranged ammo. Make melee weapons/armor that are way below your level
Cons: You can kill knights for melee weapons/armor far sooner than you unlock with smithing (except gloves). Armor trimming is nice, although you can get bars from mob drops eventually. Can get arrows from mob drops
Recommended to unlock: Late/end game
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Pros: Get decent (?) gp/hr while getting other materials like food and logs and seeds.
Cons: Hard to get started, will want to be naked before getting auto eat. You can get everything here from other places
Recommended to unlock: early/mid/late game
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Pros: Food with no ingame time spent. After a few days you make a ton of food, plus herbs and most logs. Amazing source of food.
Cons: Need to open the game every so often to get the most food. Need to buy compost or kill farmers for it. Seeds come from killing farmers, thieving or woodcutting
Recommended to unlock: early/mid game
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Pros: needed for arrows
Cons: Ranged is not the strongest, and you can get arrows from drops. Fletching djavs for money is not viable until combat level 99.
Recommended to unlock: Late/end game
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Pros: Makes ranged armor and jewelry.
Cons: Ranged armor and jewelry drop from combat. Not a great skill.
Recommended to unlock: End game
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Pros: Lets you use magic, the strongest end game combat style. Also required for alt magic for prayer points. Curses and auras make you stronger until you become OP with ancient magic.
Cons: Need mining first. Doesn’t do anything before unlocking magic.
Recommended to unlock: mid game
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Pros: Makes other skills more efficient, plus late game potions are amazing for combat
Cons: Needs farming for herbs, some secondary materials are hard to get. Need a high combat level to get the best combat potions
Recommended to unlock: Mid/Late game
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Pros: Buffs to other skills, increasing XP, mastery, item preservation, combat buffs, etc. It requires most other skills to unlock everything, but you can always choose an obstacle that only requires agility and GP. Easy afk way to make gold, with some startup costs
Cons: Needs lots of other skills and items to get some obstacles, very expensive to buy later obstacles
Recommended to unlock: mid/Late game
FAQ
(Q) Why Slayer? (A) Slayer is going to be your best friend for a while. Unless you plan on making money off feathers Slayer is pretty much the go to for first or second unlock. Think of it this way: you're already pretty much forced to start with combat. Why not make the best of it and unlock everything slayer has to offer from the get go?
(Q) What skill should I choose next? (A) There's no correct way to build your account. Think of what you have to work with, make a strategy and don't let anyone tell you how to build your Adventure
(Q) What happens when I reach my skilling cap? (A) The skill in question will cease to receive experience 1 action before what would otherwise be gaining +1 level. You will still gather or work and master xp will still be gained.
(Q) When do I buy the next skill? (A) Generally you want to have the money for it but it might also be a good idea to save up a little extra so you aren't left with nothing after unlocking your new skill.
(Q) Is prayer good? (A) Yes. It contributes to combat level and is needed for high level combat. Make sure you have a source of prayer points first- fishing skele fish, alt magic, or slayer resupply.
(Q) What should I be aiming for? (A) These are merely based on personal opinion but can be beneficial: You might want to prioritize combat. Getting your Auto Slayer and Auto Eats will define how long you are manually doing things. Slayer Farming are generally good first unlocks. You set your own goals and play your own way,
Potential Skill Order
We are still figuring this out, and it depends greatly on how often you are actively playing the game, and if you can let the combat run on your device while you are afk. The start of the game requires a lot of attention to progress efficiently, until you unlock auto eat and looting amulet.
This is by no means a final guide, just some theory crafting. Thieving is a good option early on, not sure where to place it though.
Active playing, magic main skill order:
Slayer > farming > mining > runecrafting > magic > prayer > ?
Active playing, melee main skill order
Slayer > farming > mining > smithing > prayer > fishing > ?
AFK playing, magic main skill order
Fishing > cooking > mining > slayer > runecrafting > magic > prayer > ?
AFK playing, melee main skill order
Fishing > cooking > mining > slayer > smithing > prayer > ?
