HCCO/Guide

From Melvor Idle

What is HCCO?

HCCO stands for

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Hardcore
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Combat

Only. This implies that you cannot use any non-Combat skills at any time, and must play on

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Hardcore

. There is a secondary challenge, 12b, which means you may not buy any Bank slots, and are limited to the 12 provided to you by default. This is a popular additional challenge and most of the guide is directly applicable to 12b players (albeit with a lot more bank management).

To create a HCCO account, one can create a typical hardcore account and abstain from all non-combat skills. Alternatively, through the official mod manager one can use the Combat Only Account Mod to create an account with non-combat skills completely disabled and hidden. This mod offers the option for a mediumcore version, which is identical but doesn't have permadeath (you still lose one random item on death). This is different to a Standard account (aka Softcore), which has a different combat triangle that is less punishing and has health regen. Most of this guide will assume HC and therefore will sometimes be overly conservative for a softcore account.

There are currently no tangible differences between either of these options for playing HCCO mode, and one can convert between gamemodes through the use of mods. It is recommended to use the mod for MCCO or HCCO mode for the most immersive experience, as the community will add unique content specifically designed for CO in future, including a CO option in the collection log.

Preface

Food is vital to a HCCO account, and your first food source (and one that you will be relying on for quite a while) is Plants. Starting out, you should fight Plants for the Potatoes they drop and to increase your combat levels.

Note about

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Attack

vs

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Strength

vs

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Defence

: All three combat skills are very useful to level in their own ways.

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Attack

increases your chance to hit and unlocks new weapons to use,

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Strength

increases your maximum hit, and

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Defence

increases your chance to not get hit (which saves you food). In general, they should all be leveled equally.

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Defence

should be the first combat skill that you level, as it greatly reduces the amount of damage that you will take from Plants (roughly by half).

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Attack

should be second,

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Strength

should be last. Since you have a low chance to hit, it’s more important to level

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Attack

rather than

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Strength

.

Weapons in this game have different attack speeds depending on their type. Daggers attack quickly, with an attack speed of 2.2 seconds, and Battleaxes attack slowly, with an attack speed of 3.1 seconds, for instance. Weapons that attack more slowly also deal more damage per hit and weapons that hit quickly usually do less damage per hit.

There are different styles in the game, depending on the weapon you’re wielding. Melee weapons, which will be our main focus initially, have Stab, Slash and Block. Each style gets a bonus to the accuracy rating depending on the specific weapon. Swords usually have a better stabbing accuracy, while scimitars are better at slashing, for instance.

The style you choose will also give you experience towards the combat skill in question: Stabbing gives

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Attack

experience, Slashing gives

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Strength

experience, while Blocking is used to train

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Defence

. At the start, you’ll have to eat manually to ensure that you won’t die. Later on, you will unlock

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Auto Eat

, so eating will be less of a worry.

Chapters

Chapter I: Gearing Up

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To start, you should have: Nothing!
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At the end, you should have: 4 Steel Armour pieces

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Chapter II: Mithril Armour

To start, you should have: Full Steel Armour,
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20
/
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20
/
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20
, Steel Scimitar
At the end, you should have:
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Auto Eat - Tier I
, 4-5 pieces of Mithril Armour,
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40
/
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40
/
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40
, Ice Sword, Adamant Dagger

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Chapter III: Mithril to (G) Adamant

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To start, you should have:
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Auto Eat - Tier I
, Full Mithril Armour,
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40
/
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40
/
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40
, Ice Sword, Adamant Dagger
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At the end, you should have: Almost full (G) Adamant Armour, Amulet of Looting, Rune 2H Sword,
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70
/
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70
/
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70

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Chapter IV: (G) Adamant to Full (G) Rune

To start, you should have: Almost full (G) Adamant Armour, (G) Rune Boots, Desert Wrappings, Rune 2H Sword,
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70
/
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70
/
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70
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Auto Eat - Tier II

At the end, you should have: Full (G) Adamant Armour or Full (G) Rune Armour, Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Strength,
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80
/
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80
/
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80
, Sunset Rapier / Ancient Sword,
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Auto Eat - Tier III

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Chapter V: (G) Rune to (G) Ancient

To start, you should have: Full (G) Adamant Armour or Full (G) Rune Armour, Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Strength,
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80
/
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80
/
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80
, Sunset Rapier,
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Auto Eat - Tier III

At the end, you should have: Full (G) Ancient Armour, Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Defence,
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88
+, Dragonfire Shield, Sandstorm Ring

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Chapter VI: Non-Melee Training

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To start, you should have:
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1
and
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1

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At the end, you should have:
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85
with Full (U) Ancient D-hide,
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Ancient Crossbow
and Scaled Shield and
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85
with Mystic Air Staff and Ancient Wizard Robes or Black Wizard Robes

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Chapter VII: (G) Ancient to God Dungeons

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To start, you should have: Plenty of Ancient Arrows, Death Runes and Food.
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At the end, you should have: Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs and full Aeris, Glacia, Terran and Ragnar God Armour.

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Chapter VIII: Into the Mist

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To start, you should have:
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86
and
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Dungeon Equipment Swapping

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At the end, you should have: Passive Slot

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Chapter IX: T90 grind

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To start, you should have: IDK!
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At the end, you should have: IDK!

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Chapter X: Unhallowed Wasteland

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To start, you should have: IDK!
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At the end, you should have: IDK!

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Chaper XI: Impending Darkness Event

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To start, you should have: IDK!
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At the end, you should have: IDK!

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Chaper XII: Throne of the Herald

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To start, you should have: IDK!
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At the end, you should have: IDK!

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Chaper XIII: Manual Content

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To start, you should have: IDK!
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At the end, you should have: IDK!

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