Ancient Relics

Ancient Relics mode is a Game Mode in which players start with a maximum Skill Level cap of Level 10 and must defeat Dungeons to increase it. Any experience earned beyond the skill cap -1 experience from the next level will be deleted. It includes the following changes:

Ancient relics can be located in all Skills to gain unique permanent modifiers. There are 5 Relics that can be found for each skill. Upon locating all 5 Relics, you will immediately be awarded with the Master Relic. A random guaranteed relic is awarded when the respective skill reaches level 20 and level 99, given there are still relics to locate for that skill.
Lesser Relics can be acquired while doing most Non-Combat skills at a rate of 1/1,000 (0.1%) per action and will always drop 300 at a time.
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Fishing and
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Cooking are locked until
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Impending Darkness Event has been completed.
Defeating a dungeon for the first time awards you with 5 level cap increases. This allows you to choose between 2 random Non-Combat skills (including
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Prayer and
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Slayer). Each choice increases the respective skill's level cap by 15 (20 for
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Cartography and
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Archaeology).
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Combat level caps automatically increase by 5 when defeating a dungeon for the first time.
Before completing the
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Impending Darkness Event, skills can reach a maximum of Level 99, except for Cartography and Archaeology which can reach level 120. When Impending Darkness is completed, every skill will have their level caps set to 100. Archaeology and Cartography will have their caps set to 120.
After Impending Darkness, each completed Dungeon will increase all Combat skill caps by 3 (including Slayer). The amount of Random skill increases is bumped up to 6 and award 8 levels each. When
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Throne of the Herald is completed, every skill will have their caps set to 120.
- Finishing a base game dungeon after Impending Darkness will not allow you to increase skills beyond level 99. Due to a bug, it is highly recommended you do EVERY base game dungeon before completing IDE.
Dungeons also provide Food Crates upon completion as a reward.
All standard preservation and doubling is disabled. There are certain relics that can bypass this limitation for Ammo, Runes. The Fletching Master Relic gives 10% Global Preservation which works for all Non-Combat skills as well as Digsite map charges.
Ancient Relics uses the
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Hardcore Combat Triangle.
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Throne of the Herald has been defeated, all skills will be capped at 115.126.837 experience (level 121 -1 experience).
A number of requirement changes have been made:
- Barrier dungeons no longer require anything from Archaeology or Cartography. Combat Areas and Slayer Areas are unaffected.
- Golem Territory requires 1 completion of
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  Frozen Cove.
- Into the Mist no longer requires Slayer.
- Impending Darkness requires 1 clear of Underwater City.
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  Cooking Upgrade 1 can be purchased for 5,000,000 after 1 clear of
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  Bandit Base.

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Acquiring Ancient Relics

The drop rate of relics depends on the type of Skill and how many relics the player already has. This is because when rolling for a relic, every relic that has not been found (for that skill) will get a roll.

When reaching Level 20 and Level 99 in a skill, one Melvor Realm relic is awarded for that skill if there is still a relic to be located. When reaching Abyssal Level 10 and Abyssal Level 60, one Abyssal Realm relic is awarded for that skill if there is still a relic to be located.

Ancient Relics are rolled for with each action so decreasing action time will increase your chances over time. Melvor Realm combat relics can only be obtained while fighting in Combat Areas, Slayer Areas, Dungeons and Strongholds. Abyssal Realm combat relics can only be obtained in Abyssal Combat Areas, Abyssal Slayer Areas, The Abyss and Abyssal Strongholds.