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Ancient Relics

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
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

Skills

At the start, your skills level will be limited to 10, which means that you will only have access to low level equipment at the start. However, over time, you will start to build up relics which will increase your level. Fishing and cooking will be locked out altogether meaning that dungeons are considerably harder.

Any XP you earn that pushes you over the ceiling cap will be lost, resulting in wasted Skill XP. Your mastery, however will continue to increase beyond the skill level, which can help give bonuses you would otherwise not be able to achieve.

This cap of XP especially important to consider with skills such as  

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Cartography

because there is only a finite amount of XP available for surveying, and if you start exploring too early it may be considerably harder to progress this skill later on. You should therefore avoid auto-survey until you are at least able to reach skill level 100 (ideally higher). And if you do explore (which is recommended) that you take note of ceiling cap so that you do not waste too much precious XP. Paper making and map upgrades do have unlimited XP but are a much slower way to gain XP in this skill.

No relics

At the start, you will find yourself with just 30   Shrimp and 0 . With no weapons, or even a tutorial with useful gear, and a very low limit on what you can do in combat or skilling. The first dungeon is Template:Dungeon, but if you try to run the dungeon now you will die quickly and are likely to lose you   Shrimp when you inevitable die! It is therefore recommended that you start with some basic skilling, and target melee combat initially.

Start by

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Woodcutting

. Chop down   Normal Logs until you hit

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Level 10

, and when unlocked chop   Oak Logs. Open any   Bird Nests and keep going until you have at least 3 of any seed (doesn't matter which) and when you have them plant them in farming. Anything you grow, you can eat, and food is going to be an ongoing challenge until fishing and cooking are unlocked. Burn the   Normal Logs until you hit

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Level 10

, and then burn all of your   Oak Logs. You will you get some   Ash from that can be buried to give you prayer points. At

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Level 10

start burning   Oak Logs as these give slightly more ash. Do not light bonfires as the XP will go up in smoke. Mine   Tin Ore and   Copper Ore in equal quantities until you hit the

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Level 10

limit. Sell any jewels you unearth, as these will give you some early and much needed  . Next, smith   Bronze Bar. As they become unlocked, smith 1   Bronze Sword, 1   Bronze Helmet, 1   Bronze Boots and 1   Bronze Gloves. This will be your basic armour set until your first relic! Study

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Astrology

to unlock

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Iridan

and when you have enough   Stardust, increase the Attack Accuracy Rating to +3%. There is no limit to how much stardust you can get, but it is not a good trade-off to collect too much   Stardust as this stage, and the unlocks become disproportionately expensive.


While you are here, also want to max out

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Level 10

so that you can grow   potatoes as these will be your only food once your limited supply of   Shrimp run out!

With some plants growing, and a basic melee build, it's time to hit the Template:Dungeon.