What to level first

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Introduction

This page presents one possible way to start your Melvor journey. Please note that the instructions below are for the Standard and

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Hardcore

Game Modes. For Adventure, please refer to Adventure/Guide.

This guide is not intended for casual players or players looking to find their own way through the game. The goal of this guide is to give players a helping hand in the early stages of the game by introducing them to more intermediate concepts of the game and some inter-skill synergies. Please keep in mind that this guide is NOT intended to be the most efficient way to do things. There is no right or wrong way to progress in the game. Therefore, new players are heavily encouraged to try a larger diversity of skills as soon as they feel more comfortable with the basics.

This page was originally inspired by the following reddit post.

Steps

  1. Level
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    Astrology     until the
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    Ameria     constellation is unlocked (
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     Level 20    )
    • Once
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       Level 10       is achieved, training on the
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      Iridan       constellation is the fastest path to Ameria. Generally speaking, the fastest method for training a skill is the one with the highest level requirement.
  2. Continue training
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    Astrology     on the
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    Ameria     constellation until
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    Mastery     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!
  3. Train
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    Woodcutting     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
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      Farming      , 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 the
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      Shop      ) 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.
  4. Train
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    Summoning     by creating
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    Ent     Tablets until about
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     Level 5    .
    • We will use these Tablets in
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      Woodcutting       to further level to around
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       Level 10       to unlock the Ent/Octopus Synergy for Fishing later on. You can see all possible
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      Synergies       here.
    • Summoning is a very GP 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.
  5. Train
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    Woodcutting     with your
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    Ent     Tablets equipped, until 5 more Marks of the Ent have been discovered, making your Mark of the Ent level 2, enabling one half of the
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    Ent    /
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    Octopus     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
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      Tablet       equipped that works in the skill you're training increases the amount of
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      Summoning       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
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      Ent       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.
  6. If not already
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     Level 15    , train
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    Summoning     until
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     Level 15    . You can train Summoning by either:
    • Preferably, equipping and using Tablets in its appropriate action (e.g. equipping
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      Ent       while
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      Woodcutting      )
    • Alternatively, but slower and not recommended, creating additional Tablets (e.g. creating
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      Ent       Tablets)
  7. Train
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    Fishing     until you receive one Mark of the Octopus.
    • 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.
  8. Create at least 1 batch of
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    Octopus     Tablets to enable finding additional Marks of the Octopus
  9. Train
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    Fishing     with both
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    Ent     and
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    Octopus     equipped until
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     Level 25
    • 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.
  10. Train
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    Cooking     until you find a total of six Mark of the Pig.
    • Again, remember to craft at least one batch of
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      Pig       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
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      Cooking      , therefore the recipe chosen has no impact on the mark drop rate.
  11. Train
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    Fishing     with
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    Octopus     and either
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    Ent     or
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    Pig     equipped until both the Ancient Ring of Skills and Ancient Ring of Mastery have been acquired.
    • Remember that these rings are incredibly rare and may take a very long time to obtain, feel free to do something else if you get bored. You can always come back later when you have more bonuses.
    • Use the raw fish you catch to create
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      Octopi       and the cooked fish you earn from the synergy to create
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      Pigs      . Some resources cannot be used to create Tablets.
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      Octopus       and
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      Ent       should be phased out as you progress and transition into
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      Octopus       and
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      Pig      . The synergy will require the
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      Octopus       to be Mark Level 3, and the
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      Pig       to be Mark Level 2.
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      Pig       allows you to make money while training Fishing and Summoning, instead of pouring all of your GP into familiar tablets.
    • Once you start making more raw and cooked fish than you need to create Tablets, sell the excess for spare
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      GP      .
    • Most summoning Tablets allow you to select the recipe, changing the type and quantity of resources consumed per action. For example,
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      Pig       needs 50 Shrimp available at
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       Level 1      , making good
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      Pig       Tablet uptime hard, but only needs 7 Swordfish which is available at
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       Level 50      .
    • It is likely that
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       Level 99       will have been reached by the time this happens due to the rarity of these rings.
    • Like with Woodcutting's Axe upgrades, Fishing Rods also provide a significant decrease to catch time and should be purchased as soon as they become available.
    • Open any Treasure Chests, equipping the
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      Amulet of Fishing       if it drops, as this greatly reduces the catch time for all fish.
    • Consume any Mastery Tokens acquired to increase your
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      Mastery Pool      , as long as you don't cap your pool.
    • Keep any Diamonds gained along the way as these are required for a number of highly desirable things later, notably Diamond Luck Potions and the Ice Jump
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      Agility       obstacle.
    • Once you've obtained a decent amount of of
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      GP      , you can begin saving any Emeralds, and Sapphires obtained from fishing, as these will be useful for creating
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      Devil       Tablets later, and for various other skills further down the line.
    • Sell everything that isn't a rare special drop acquired while Fishing, which should provide enough
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      GP       to fund fishing rod upgrades
    • Once the 2M
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      GP       for the Dragon Fishing Rod upgrade is acquired, all gems can reasonably be saved at this point.
    • Catching the following fish is suggested:
      • Below
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         Level 99        :
        • See Fishing Training. Your fish selection should always be the highest XP/h fish.
          • Keep leveling
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            Summoning             simultaneously by always having the
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            Octopus            /
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            Pig             Synergy equipped, and making sure your selected fish can actually cook. It is preferable to only pick fish that work with this synergy, even if it means losing a bit of
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            Fishing             XP/h.
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         Level 99         with Fishing Skillcape unlocked (requiring
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         Level 99         and costing 1M GP):
        • Whales for GP and eventually so they can be cooked into valuable food and
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          Cooking           XP, or turned into
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          Summoning           Tablets (
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          Octopus          ,
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          Wolf          , and
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          Pig          ), as well as other uses, including as a resource for an
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          Agility           Obstacle.
        • Magic Fish are generally not recommended if using Summoning. If you're not using Summoning, they are technically worth approximately 1% more GP/h than Whales, which makes Magic Fish require the least amount of setup to be effective for GP. However Whales seriously outweigh Magic Fish in flexibility in other uses in the game, as well as severely outvaluing the GP/h when Whales are used with the
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          Octopus          /
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          Pig           synergy.
      • For maximum special drops, once Message in a Bottle is acquired: (Only suggested if stacked on cooked fish and GP):
        • By reading the Message in a Bottle, you unlock the Secret Fishing area which has a 5% special catch rate, the highest in the base game. With Level 50
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          Mastery           in the respective fish, the special catch rate is 8%.
        • Equipping the
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          Ent          /
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          Octopus           Synergy for an additional +6% chance to acquire special items will push the special chance to 11%, or 14% with Level 50
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          Mastery           in the respective fish.
          • The Level 20
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            Mastery             Unique star from the
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            Ameria             constellation in
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            Astrology             can further increase the special catch rate by another +1% per point invested.
        1. For the most special rolls per hour: Seahorses
          • Fastest catch speed in this area, which maximizes the chance of acquiring both rings
          • Contrary to the other fish in the Secret Area, Seahorses can be synergized with
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            Octopus            /
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            Pig             if
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            Ent             resources are hard to come by.
        2. For prayer points: Skeleton Fish
          • Can be redeemed for 3
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            Prayer             points each, but can not be cooked
        3. Magic Fish is not recommended for special drops, as their catch rate is the one of the slowest in the base game, with Skeleton Fish having an almost 100% increased rate of special catches per hour in comparison.
    • Any spare GP can be spent on bank slots. It is advised to leave a sizeable buffer of GP (at least 3M) remaining to be able to afford Shards for additional
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      Summoning       Tablets, as well as other upgrades.
    • When your
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      Fishing       Mastery pool exceeds 95%, you can start spending your Mastery pool to increase your
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      Mastery       level for individual fish. First, level all fish to at least level 20, then focus spending on whichever fish you're currently working on, if it is below 88 Mastery.
      • Level 88
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        Mastery         is an approximate point where spending Mastery pool becomes inefficient, while you can use the pool to level an item higher than 88, it is recommended at that point to simply train the item until it hits 99 and spend your pool on other, lower leveled items.
      • Higher total
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        Mastery         levels across all items and all skills increase the rate at which you obtain certain rare items, so your first goal when hitting above 95% Pool in any skill should be to level as many items as possible as high as possible.
  12. Train
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    Astrology     further. Equip the Ancient Ring of Mastery and study
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    Deedree     until level 80
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    Mastery    .
    • 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
  13. Alternate between training
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    Woodcutting     and
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    Firemaking     until
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     Level 15
    • The ultimate goal here is
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       Level 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
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      Farming      . Don't forget to buy new Farming plots when available.
      • Keep all Strawberry Seeds for Gentle Hands Potions used in
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        Thieving        , and keep 3000x Watermelons for
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        Agility        .
      • 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.
    • Manually lighting bonfires is not recommended
  14. Train
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    Agility     until
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     Level 10     is reached. This will allow the Monkey Bars Agility obstacle to be created, providing a 4% decrease to the Firemaking interval
  15. Train to
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     Level 35     and
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     Level 30
    • If you haven't already trained
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      Township       a bit (
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       Level 15      ), it is worth doing this now to unlock Warm Beanie for additional
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      Firemaking       boosts. If you've followed the full guide up to this point, you should have plenty of Township ticks to easily reach
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       Level 80       or higher, so it is highly recommended to be mindful when spending ticks.
  16. Train
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    Agility     once more, this time until
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     Level 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.
  17. Continue training
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    Woodcutting     and
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    Firemaking     until
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     Level 99
    • Having
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      Ent       and
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      Octopus       equipped will increase the number of Bird Nests dropped and continue to grant you more summoning XP.
    • If you have reached
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       Level 90      , as soon as you obtain one Mark of the Devil you can begin to craft
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      Devil       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
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      Woodcutting       section.
    • Skip cutting Magic Trees due to the long cut time
    • It is highly suggested to have the
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      Multi-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
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        Multi-Tree         to simultaneously cut Redwood and Yew logs.
    • Save any Redwood Logs gained as these should be turned into Dragon Javelins later, burning only up to and including Yew Logs to achieve
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       Level 99      .
    • Although lighting bonfires will increase the
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      Firemaking       Skill XP gained, this is very manual to maintain and uses significantly more logs per hour.
  18. Purchase and equip the Firemaking Skillcape
    • It might be worth checking your
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      Firemaking
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      Mastery       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.
  19. Train
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    Astrology     once more, this time until
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     Level 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.
  20. Go back to
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    Astrology     and ensure all your constellations are at least
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    Mastery     Level 40, and train those which are not.
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      Mastery       Level 40 unlocks the 2nd tier of normal modifiers, which contain Skill XP or Mastery XP (or both) bonuses.
    • Many
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      Mastery       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 the
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       Astrology page.

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

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Astrology

and

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Agility

.

The choices on what path to take next start to open up, some suggestions are:

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    Thieving     for GP, and various Area unique & NPC unique items, a number of which provide various bonuses to other skills.
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    Mining    ,
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    Smithing    , and
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    Fletching     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.
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    Agility     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.


Melvor Idle Skill Guides
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Combat •
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Prayer •
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Farming •
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Township •
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Woodcutting •
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Fishing •
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Firemaking •
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Cooking •
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Mining •
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Smithing •
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Thieving •
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Fletching •
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Crafting •
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Runecrafting •
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Herblore •
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Agility •
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Summoning •
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Astrology •
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Alternative Magic •
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Cartography •
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Archaeology •
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Harvesting
Melvor Idle version v1.3.1 (Released: 30th October 2024)
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Combat:
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Attack •
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Strength •
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Defence •
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Hitpoints •
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Ranged •
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Magic •
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Prayer •
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Slayer •
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Corruption
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Farming •
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Township •
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Woodcutting •
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Fishing •
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Firemaking •
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Cooking •
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Mining •
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Smithing •
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Thieving •
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Fletching •
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Crafting •
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Runecrafting •
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Herblore •
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Agility •
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Summoning •
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Astrology •
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Alternative Magic •
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Cartography •
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Archaeology •
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Harvesting
Other:
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Beginners Guide • Guides •
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Bank •
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Combat •
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Mastery •
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Money Making •
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Shop • Easter Eggs • Pets •
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Golbin Raid •
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Full Version • Throne of the Herald • Atlas of Discovery •
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Into the Abyss
Reference Tables: Items, Equipment, Experience Table, Upgrading Items, Combat Areas, Slayer Areas, Dungeons, Strongholds, The Abyss, Monsters
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