FAQ: Difference between revisions

:A: Unless the item is a special drop (see [[Easter Eggs]]), you're probably just unlucky. There are currently no known drop bugs, so keep at it!

Q: My [[Damage Reduction]] (DR) is lower than what I calculated, why?

:A: Check for Agility Obstacles which may lower DR. Also note that some enemies can lower your DR, especially many [[Throne of the Herald Expansion]] monsters. Don't forget the [[Combat Triangle]].

Q: How can I avoid taking so much damage from dragonbreath attacks?

:A: You can reduce dragonbreath damage with your DR, using the {{ItemIcon|Dragonfire Shield}}, and the {{ItemIcon|Cyclops}}/{{ItemIcon|Dragon}} summoning [[Synergy|synergy]]. However, your best bet is to just stock up on [[Food]] and kill the dragons more efficiently. You will generally be best off using {{Skill|Magic}} against dragons. Try to increase your damage and item doubling instead of focusing on defence.

Q: When can I farm for {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting}}?

:A: Full {{ItemIcon|Mithril Helmet|Mithril}} armour and {{ItemIcon|Mithril Scimitar|weapons}} are fine if you are in a hurry. Just make sure you have {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier I}} and lots of food. If you want to fight safely without manually eating, check the questions about death below.

:Some more difficult enemies have special attacks that apply status effects like stun that can let them deal more damage to you than their max hit.

 

 

 

:For most monsters, you can check by comparing your {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat}} threshold to the monster's max hit. To find your auto eat threshold, tap the {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat}} icon below your HP bar. To find the monster's max hit, start fighting the monster and look at their "Maximum Hit" in their Offensive Stats box. This number already accounts for the [[Combat Triangle]] and your [[Damage Reduction]]. If your {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat}} threshold is greater than or equal to the monster's max hit, you are safe to fight the monster afk as long as you don't rune out of [[Food]], ranged ammo or runes.

 

:While all the information can be found ingame, this check can be difficult for dungeons, slayer tasks, and some late game monsters that have special attacks. Players have created tools to help check if you are safe to idle, but please note that they are liable to become out of date and inaccurate.

Q: Does {{Skill|Defence}} also increase your {{Skill|Ranged}} Evasion?

:A: Yes, increasing {{Skill|Defence}} level will also improve your {{Skill|Ranged}} evasion.

:A: Curses debuff enemies, while auroras buff the player. Some of these are very powerful and are important in late game combat. In the early game, it may or may not be worth it depending on your runecrafting efficiency. You cannot use curses or more auroras with ancient magiks. Curses and auroras do not directly give magic xp, but they increase your damage output and therefor your xp rate.

:A: That is your [[Prayer|Prayer Points]]. Prayer Points are used to cast highly useful Prayers in Combat. You can train your Prayer skill only by casting prayers in the combat.

:A: Until someone writes a guide.. Start by earning prayer points. You earn some from monster drops, but you will want to earn more from Urns, Skeleton fish, Blessed Offering, or Slayer Resupply in the Shop. Then, activate prayers that give prayer xp and fight monsters! Your xp rate will depend on your damage per second, while your attack speed determines how quickly you will spend prayer points. You can optimize this by killing high hp, low evasion enemies with a slow attack speed weapon. You can also reduce prayer point usage as detailed on the prayer page https://wiki.melvoridle.com/w/Prayer#Reducing_Prayer_Point_Usage

Q: How do I get a new slayer task?

Q: What is slayer area effect and negation?

:A: [[Slayer Areas]] have a slayer area effect, which will debuff the player or buff the enemies found there. The first few areas have minor effects, but as you progress they become much more impactful.

:To overcome the effect, you need slayer area negation. This stat comes from many sources, including slayer armor. The negation % you have is a flat reduction. For example, say you are fighting in the [[Holy Isles]] which has the slayer area effect "+20% prayer point cost for prayers". If you are wearing basic slayer helmet and plate body which each give "5% slayer area negation", then the slayer area debuff will be 20% - 5% - 5% = +10% cost for prayers.

Q: Why do {{ItemIcon|Redwood Logs}} sell for so little money? Shouldn't they sell for more than {{ItemIcon|Magic Logs}}?

Q: How do I get the ancient ring of skills/mastery?

:A: You will want to catch fish with a short catch time and high special chance. {{ItemIcon|Raw Seahorse}} is currently the best special item chance for least catch time, although {{ItemIcon|Raw Skeleton Fish}} are almost as quick and are much more useful as they can be buried for [[Prayer|Prayer Points]].  

:A: {{Skill|Cooking}} has many buffs to increase the HP healed per hour you can produce. Try to decrease your interval, while increasing your preservation, doubling and perfect chance. Using passive cooking will create even more food. Pre-[[Throne of the Herald Expansion]], the most efficient cooking method for mid-endgame accounts is cooking chicken soup active, and whales and carrot cake passive, including gathering time.

:A: The only way to obtain Burnt Cave Fish is to kill the Tentacle enemy located in the Sandy Shores area of the regular Combat tab.

:A: Gems are used for {{Skill|Crafting}} jewelry and brewing some {{Skill|Herblore|potions}}, {{Skill|Fletching}} [[Fletching#Gem-Tipped Bolts|Gem Tipped Bolts]], and making {{ItemIcon|Devil|Devil tablets}} in {{Skill|Summoning}}. {{ItemIcon|Gem Gloves}} give players a reliable way to collect more gems, so it's acceptable to sell them early on for [[GP]].

Q: How do I get enough coal?

:A: You can gather coal in many ways besides mining it directly. Mining anything with the Mining Skillcape equipped will give an extra coal for each action. You can gain coal passively through the township trader. The quickest way to earn a lot of coal is to cook a low level food like shrimp using the Mole/Pig summoning synergy.

:A: Superheat is another viable way to make bars that may or may not be more beneficial for you. Superheat gives you magic XP, does not use coal and can make multiple bars at higher levels. However, you don't benefit from item preservation or doubling, you don't gain mastery levels, and there are fewer buffs and interval reduction effects compared to smithing.

:A: In the game's Settings, ensure Toggle Offline Combat is enabled. An additional Thieving-only toggle to enable is Continue Thieving on Stun. Also ensure Toggle Ignore Bank Full is enabled or that you have very sufficient Bank space; some enemies drop dozens of items.

:A: Yes. If you died when {{Skill|Thieving}}, you will be notified when you load the character. To avoid this, make sure the target's max hit is below your auto eat threshold.

Q: Do the protect item and DR prayers work with Thieving?

:A: As of v1.1.1, yes, although this may change in future updates. The prayers protect item, safeguard and that other one work in thieving but do not use up any prayer points.

:A: Mastery tokens have a chance to drop for each action, and farming has far fewer actions than other skills. Keep farming and you will get a few eventually. Wearing the clue chasers necklace will help your chances.

:A: Yes. Some [[monsters]] drop arrows when killed, so it's possible to level {{Skill|Ranged}} without {{Skill|Fletching}}. You can also get ranged ammo from {{Skill|Thieving}}.

:A: You can only get basic bags from thieving and the township task.

:A: For an Obstacle to give bonuses, every Obstacle prior has to be built. If you skip obstacle 7 then obstacle 8 will not give you any benefits.

For example, when woodcutting you will find an ent mark. Then go to summoning, tablets/familiars, ent. Tap the blue "select recipe" button to the highest level log you have, and tap the green circle to buy some green summoning shards. Then you can start crafting ent tablets. When you are woodcutting, equip your ent tables and you will start using them and earning summoning xp!

:A: Item costs for tablets are based on the item's sell cost. This is why it takes more Redwood logs than Magic logs to make ent tablets.

:A: Astrology was reworked in [[V1.1]] and no longer has random modifiers. Instead, now you spend stardust to permanently increase the magnitude of a star's modifiers.

Q: What is my Meteorite chance?

:A: Without the [[Throne of the Herald Expansion]], levels only have a mechanical impact up to 99, past that Virtual Levels must be turned on in [[Settings]] to keep track. Virtual Levels are a purely visual change allowing the player to see their experience level past 120. After [[v0.15]], Mastery levels are hard capped at 99.

:With the [[Throne of the Herald Expansion]], levels go to 120 with lots of new content.

:A: If you set the "Buy" multiplier higher than 1, it may display single-purchase items as if it were buying more than one of them. Try lowering your Buy multiplier.

Q: I sold an item, how do I clear it from my quick equip menu?

:A: As of v1.1.1 the only ingame way is to get the item again and turn in off in the cog menu in the bank. You can use a console script to clear your menus using the method [https://www.reddit.com/r/MelvorIdle/comments/z853u2/i%20made%20a%20script%20for%20cleaning%20quick%20equip%20menus/?utm%20source=share&utm%20medium=web2x&context=3 here].

:A: You will have to purchase hundreds of bank spaces in the shop as you progress in the game. But you can also save space by selling items you don't need and didn't take long to gather. If you have a few hundred tin ore but are already smithing iron, you can just sell them! There are a few items you shouldn't sell/use because you'll want them later, including strawberry seeds, dragon bones, antique vase.

:A: Currently, no native way exists. You can use this code to clear all Bank Tab icons:

:A: You can get as many as you'd like, but after purchasing 118 slots the price maxes out at {{GP|5000000}} per slot. Bank slots can also be gained by using {{ItemIcon|Bank Slot Token|Bank Slot Tokens}}. However, [[Hardcore|Hardcore Mode]] has a {{HardcoreBankMax}} bank slot limit from the Shop, but {{ItemIcon|Bank Slot Token|Bank Slot Tokens}} can still be used to increase the amount of bank slots past {{HardcoreBankMax}}.

:A: No. If you have unlocked a [[pets|pet]] then the effect will be forever active, whether you want it to or not.

:A: You cannot, thats why it is hardcore. You can revert back to a previous save, using a save link or exported save file. You can also load an old cloud save if you have "Back up to cloud automatically" turned off in the settings, otherwise the cloud save is automatically deleted.