Complete guide for adventure mode: How to idle dungeons

The only guide u need to pickup the game, and be ready to idle the volcanic dungeon in 7-10 days.
This guide is made with adventure mode in mind and will save as much money as possible on buying skills.

Note:
This guide was written by me, Philly4eva originally on steam.
Feel free to repost the guide on reddit, discord or the melvor idle wiki, aslong as u give me credit.
I most likely misspelt some words here and there, feel free to correct them.

As of 20/6 2023 this guide has been updated to ingame version 1.1.2.

Level 1 to idling volcanic dungeon in 47 steps (Step 1-20)

Intro:
In Adventure mode your combat level will be the limit for the normal skills and the cost to unlock skills will be more expensive the more skills u unlock. This guide will get u from level 1 all the way to the point
where u can idle volcanic cave dungeon. It will do it with minimum amount of unlocks so u are free to spend money in whatever skill u please, instead of having them locked behind 100m costs.
It will also try doing it in minimum amount of time, mostly doing combat. If u are active u can have everything u need in just 7-10 days.
Lastly it will only kill monsters u need, hitting several goals at once.
With all that said let's go to step 1 of the 47 needed.
Special note: This guide will contain massive spoilers about the game, the monsters and the droptabels.
This guide is made for version 1.1.2 (?6068)

1.
Complete tutorial island if u want, this will reward about 6k gp. The skills u unlock with tutorial island will still be locked afterwards tho.
It's worth doing however as 6k will save some time unlocking the first skill. If u don't apply the compost on the farming part u can sell it afterwards to start with 7k gold instead.

2.
Equip the shrimps and the bronze sword, u can sell everything else in the bank.

3.
Kill chickens, sell all their feathers and raw chicken until u have 10k gp and level 5 attack, strength and defence. Unlock cooking as your first skill.
Save the bones.

4.
Kill cows until level 20 att/str/def.
Save the bones, the beef and the leather.
When u get low on food, cook the beef.
When u get 20 att/str/def, cook all the raw food u have.

5.
Kill steel knights until u have full steel armor, steel sword and/or steel scimmy. If u only find one weapon that is ok too.
If u can't find a steel platebody u can skip it.
If u somehow run out of food, go back to killing cows.

6.
At this point if u need to go offline, turn on the offline combat training in settings and go fight something easy, like chickens.

7.
Kill cows until u have 250x leathers. If u have 250 or more from step 4, u don't have to kill more cows for this step.
Take turns in buying green dragonhide and then selling them in the store. This will give 100gp profit for each leather u have.
Don't sell the leathers without first turning them into green dragonhides or u will lose out on money.
After 250 leathers u will have 25000gp, unlock slayer as your second skill.
Slayer gives u a new curency called slayer coins, which is rewarded everytime u kill a monster u are assigned too.
From now on save up until u have 25000 slayer coins and then buy desert hat.

8.
Next alter your slayer task, u can change it for free to be on cows. Extend them for 100 points when u can.
Kill more cows until u have 25 att/str/def.
Trade leathers for green dragonhide like u did before and then sell the green dragonhide.

9.
Keep changing that slayer task when they run out. You will do it like this for many monsters in the game.

10.
Kill even more cows until u have level 30 att/str/def and atleast 1000 leathers.
By now u should not need to manually heal.
Don't forget to get a new cow slayer task when they end.
If u get to 30 att/str/def before u have 1000 leathers, keep killing for the leathers until u do and put the extra xp in attack.
Trade leathers for green dragonhide like u did before and then sell the green dragonhide.
Cook beef until either u don't have any left, or reach the current xp limit.
Unlock bankslots until u have 30 of them, this will cost 13500gp.
With 50000gp unlock thieving as your 3rd skill.
If u trained offline u will likely have higher combat stats by the time u reach 1000 leathers, which will save time later.

11.
Switch your slayer task to tentacles if u want some variation or stick with cows. Cows can be trained offline at this point. Train your attack to 40 here.
Keep switching slayer task when they run out to always be on tentacles/cows. Don't forget to extend the tasks.

12.
With atleast 40 att 30 str and 30 def and atleast 200 beef it's time to get a new weapon.
Go to icy hills and fight ice monster until u get an ice sword, this has a 1/10 drop. The ice monster can hit high and often, be ready to use your food.
Inbetween fights if u are quick, u can healup.

13. Do not open chest of witwix until u finished reading this step!
Next make sure u have around 200 food again. Now u will kill leech for an amulet. Jump to wet forest and kill leech until u get a chest of witwix. Don't forget to equip your new sword.
This may take upto 150 kills. Restock for food if needed. Adjust your slayer task to leech. When u get the chest, don't open it.
First go to the menu and "change account name" Set your account name to "witwix". Open the chest. After this u can change your account name back if u want.
Try and get 40 att/str/def while killing the leech.
If u changed your name the amulet has 100% droprate.

14.
After u get the chest, equip yourself with steel gear, amulet of calculated promotion (from witwix chest) and ice sword.
Alter your slayer task to kill mummys, in the slayer area called Penumbra.
You want to find one gold topaz ring and one gold emerald ring. Save those two and the bones and sell everything else.
If u have good memory, equip the emerald ring everytime u do combat and swap to the topaz everytime u don't.
If u are lazy just equip the topaz ring and leave it there.
Work towards 40 att/str/def.
With the topaz ring equipped u have a very small chance to find two ring halves which in turn crafts a very powerful ring.
One comes from combat and the other from non-combat.

15.
When u have the topaz ring and the emerald ring, change the slayer task to cows or tentacels.
Before u can move on to step 16, u need 40 att/str/def.

16.
Cook all your raw food.

17.
Change your slayer task to cows, tentacels or statues.
Keep food, bones, silver and gold bars and sell everything else.
Stay until u have 44 att/str/def. Remember to get a new slayer task when they run out.
Keep saving towards 25k slayer coins.

18.
Alter your slayer task again to steel knights. Farm these for any steel armor piece u are missing.
When u have steel helm, shield, chest, legs and boots change your slayer task to mithril knights instead.
You do not need the mithril weapons.
The chest and legs are very rare, skip them if it takes to long. Work towards 50 att, 50 str, 50 def.

19.
Goals to have before u proceed. 50+ combat level with 44+ att, 44+ str, 44+ def and level 1 thieving. Full armor with either full mithril or a mix of mithril and steel. Ice sword, amulet of calculated promotion.
Atleast 200 food. Gold topaz and gold emerald ring. Cape, gloves and ammo slots still empty, but rest are filled.

20.
Now u have a choice, the goal is to reach 1.2m gp.
You can do this with master farmers to also get slayer xp and slayer coins aswell as combat xp. This takes about 10 hours of online combat with manual heals.
The master farmer way will get u the money slower, but it gives great xp in combat, slayer and slayer coins, this will save u many hours later.
If u choose this way u can jump to step 22 after.

Or

Save up 100k gp and buy thieving gloves. Cows are still decent money. You can also kill master farmers for more profit, but it requires u to manually heal, upto u.
The thieving way will get u the money faster, allowing u to idle crabs with autoeat later. The downside is u lose 300k gp from buying gloves, and u need much longer at crabs compared to the first choice.
Also thieving is not fun without autoeat.
If u choose this way, move on to step 21.

Level 1 to idling volcanic dungeon in 47 steps (Step 21-34)

21.
Equip thieving gloves and gold topaz ring.
Next u will train thieving, start by pickpocketing man until level 4, then change to woman. You will need 3-4 hours and about 200 beef until u will regen more hp then u take in damage.
When this happens, with only gloves u will make over 100k gp/h. At the time when u find coinpurse and necklace u will make 200k/h with 100% sucess rate, this happens around level 40.
Pickpocket until u have 1.2m gp and unlock autoeat - 1 when u do.
When your glove reaches 0 charges buy 2 more. After the 3rd one reaches 0 charges u should be fine without it.

22.
Switch your slayer task to giant crabs, your goal here is to farm slayer coins in order to buy desert hat and reach level 59 hitpoints. If u reach 25000 slayer coins but not yet the hp,
u can buy basic resupply for 5000 slayer coins. Keep the bones, the lobsters, the raw crabs and sell everything else.
Work towards level 50 slayer.
After u have the hat u can also use offline combat training.

23.
This whole step is optional, u don't need astrology to safely idle volcanic dungeon, but it provides some extra combat stats.
Unlock it if u want, or move on to step 24 without it.

Unlock astrology for 200000 gp.

Train astrology to level 40.
Start by training deedree to level 10, then change to Iridan at level 10.
Use Iridan to level 10-30. Make sure u have level 20 mastery in Iridan before moving on.
At level 30 switch to terra and train it 30-40. Make sure u have level 20 mastery in terra before moving on.

Train astrology to level 50+ with Vale. You also need level 60 mastery in Vale. This is recommended to do offline.
With the reworked astrology u will get about 1 stardust per minute and 1 golden stardust every 2.5 minutes.
Being offline for 12 hours should give u around 720 stardust and around 288 golden stardust.
Upgrade Iridan attack skill xp + global accuarcy to level 4 for 150 stardust.
Upgrade Terra strength skill xp + global accuracy to level 4 for 150 stardust.
Upgrade Vale hitpoints skill xp + global accuracy to level 4 for 150 stardust.
If u have any more stardust upgrade as many as u can to level 5.
Upgrade Iridan hidden attack level once for 50 golden stardust.
Upgrade terra hidden strength level + strength bonus twice for 150 golden stardust.
Upgrade Vale lifesteal twice for 150 golden stardust.

24.
This step requires level 45 slayer, if u don't have it yet, kill more crabs as they are the best xp.
For offline slayer xp u can kill goo monsters, even without a task they will give slayer xp.
Make sure u have 400+ food then jump to fighting thieves in runic ruins. You need to find gloves of silence which is 1 in 300 drop.
At level 59 hitpoints u can idle them. If u run out of food, go back to crabs or cows in order to buy more lobsters or cook more beef.

25.
Train some more thieving. Equip gloves of silence for increased chance and increased gp gains.
Stick to pickpocketing woman until u find 5.25m gp, this should take about 8 hours total if u went with the thieving route onstep 20, or 12 hours if u didn't.
These 8 or 12 hours can be done offline even without autoloot.
Buy auto eat - tier 2 when u have the 5m gp.
Unlock prayer for 200000 gp or 250000 gp (the cost will depend if u unlocked astrology or not) when u have enough.
Buy 5 more bankslots for 18k gp giving u 35 total.

General thief leveling guide, u can check back here:
1. Pickpocket man from level 1-4.
2. Make sure u have 100 food, pickpocket woman from level 4 until u unlock 10% mastery in the thieving skill.
3. Pickpocket marauder until u find thiever's cape
4. Pickpocket golbin chief until u find golbin mask
5. Check so u have fine coinpurse + jeweled necklace from woman, thiever's cape from marauder and golbin mask from golbin chief.
6. Look out for sneak-ers and chapeau noir too, all thieving monsters can drop them
7. If u found sneak-ers u can do chef from level 45 all the way to 88. You can also mix it with assistant cook if u want. Golbin mask will be better at chef until u have 90% pickpocket chance, at which point chapeau noir is better.
8. You can stay with chef all the way to 99, or change to knights at 88.
9. If u find all the gp increasing thieving gear, the two ring halves and the pet u will make more than 5m gp/h from chef.

26.
Cook all your raw food. If u don't have the cooking level for raw crab save them till later.
Bury all your bones, use prayer freely from now on to increase your combat level. It's best on monsters with a 90%+ chance to hit in order to get more xp.
Train slayer to level 50.
Train thieving on woman until 10% mastery, this will give more stealth, hopefully while doing this u find sneak-ers too.
With 10% mastery in thieving switch to thieving from a mix of marauder and assistant cook. You need the thiever's cape drop from marauder. While assistant cook should be a good food source from now on.
When u get low on food come back to thieving either assistant cook or chef.

27.
Equip the desert hat and jump to arid plains. Make sure u have 200 food. Kill turkul riders until u find rune boots, switch to turkul archers and kill them until u find rune gloves. If u find sand threaders aswell, keep them.
You can sell all the other drops.
Both the rune drops are common so it should go fast. The sand threaders are rarer and if u didn't find it we will come back later and get it.

28.
In elerine battlegrounds u will find elerine warriors, kill them until u find elerine spear. Save a rune 2h sword aswell.
From now on use elerine spear for training attack and rune 2h for strength/defence.

29.
Do about 25 runs of chicken coop and 50 runs of undead graveyard dungeons for a chance to unlock both their pets. It's a small boost. Equip chapeau noir if u found it for a chance at 2x reward chests.
Work towards 70 att, 70 str, 70 def.
The pets are found as a popup when the dungeon finishes and are not found inside the chests.
Save Elite amulet of defence and Bone necklace if u find them, aswell as the addy chest and shield. You can sell everything else.
If u didn't find the pets u can come back later.

30. It's time to get full addy armor. This is easier to get then the previous armors. Jump to addy knights and kill them till u have helm, shield, chest and legs. If u killed turkul riders before u don't need the addy boots.
With some luck in graveyard dungeon u should have addy chest and shield already, which means u only need helm and legs.
There is a rare cape dropping from addy knights, but don't farm for it. If u get it while farming the armor tho u might aswell equip it. Work towards 70 att, 70 str, 70 def.

31.
Go back to Arid plains and farm turkul riders until u find sand threaders. If u found one before u can skip this step.

32.
You can do the spider dungeon to find amulet of looting now. This will allow u to autoloot. Make sure u have 200 food.
The dropchance is 1/22. Eqip chapeau noir if u found it to increase chance of getting 2x chests.
You can sell all the other drops u get here.

33.
Your goal now is to get 70 att, 70 str, 70 def. Put extra xp into attack and work towards 80 attack.
You can go back to dungeons to unlock their pets for some easy afk xp, or u can do slayer.
If u want a faster weapon for training strength u can jump to Arid plains and kill turkul giants until u find a dragon scimitar, this will be great for strength xp.
The turkul giant have some spiky damage at times, it's not recommended to idle them unless u have autoeat - 3.
You could use the scimitar for defence aswell or use the rune 2h.

Buy 15 more bankslots, giving u a total of 50 for 210k when u have the money.

34.
With 70 att/str/def:
Equip the golden topaz ring aswell as your normal gear and jump to Penumbra. You will be killing fierce devils until u find an amulet of torture. The ring half (b) seems to be a decently common drop from these too.
If u don't find the ring half by the time u found amulet of torture u can move on.
Work towards 80 att, str, def.

Level 1 to idling volcanic dungeon in 47 steps (Step 35-47)

35.
Jump to castle of kings and kill rune knights for rune chest, shield and legs. You should have boots already, but if u don't, kill for these too. Save the amulet of glories u find (all of them).
You can sell all duplicates and the rune weapons. You don't need the rune helm.
Work towards 80 att, str, def.

36.
Go to holy isles and start killing paladins. You need 1x paladin gloves before u leave.
Work towards 80 att, 80 str, 80 def.

37.
Farm undead graveyard dungeon until u find elite amulet of defence. If u found one before u can skip this step. Don't forget to equip chapeau noir if u have it.
Work towards 80 att, 80 str, 80 def.

38.
Train your combat to level 90, by doing dungeons or fierce devils. Save any extra amulet of tortures u find.

39.
Train your thieving to level 90, switch to knights when u get there. Next pickpocket knights till u find dragon helm. Buy autoeat tier - 3 when u have 20m.

40.
If u have 5000 food of any kind u can now do one volcanic cave dungeon to unlock fire cape. Autoeat should take care of the 6 first bosses. For bosses 7 and 8 it's recommended to spam click eat as they can easily kill u.
Equip yourself with the full rune, paladin gloves and elite amulet of defence. Use the prayer protect item on the last 2 bosses if u are uncertain.

41.
Equip desert hat and go to Arid plains. You will be killing sandbeast until u find 1x sandstorm ring.
The sandbeast is a real food drainer, make sure u have atleast 2000-4000.
Work towards 80 att, str, def.

42.
Make sure u have the following gear:
Dragon helm, rune chest, rune legs, rune shield and rune boots. Elite amulet of defence. Paladin gloves. Sandstrom ring. Fire cape. Amulet of torture. Rune gloves.
Gloves of silence. Amulet of looting. Sand threaders. Gold topaz and gold emerald ring. Desert hat. If u do move on, if u don't check back a few steps to find out which part u are missing.

43.
If u still need autoeat tier - 3 u need to farm 20m now.
If u been lucky so far and found thieving pet it increases gold gain for the skill by alot.
If u have been very lucky and found ring half (a) or ring half (b), or mby even both this complete ring doubles the gp gain in thieving.
Your best bet towards finding the ring half (a) is pickpocketing knights. And your best bet towards ring half (b) is fierce devils. Remember to have gold topaz ring equiped.
If u find spare amulet of tortures at the fierce devils, save them in bank. If u find any spare ring halves u can sell them for big profit.

44.
Buy autoeat tier 3 unless u did so already.
Train thieving until u find chapeau noir if u haven't found one already.

45.
Next u will idle deep sea ship. Equip chapeau noir.
Doing this u hope to aquire sunset rapier, but also to stockup on silver and gold bars.
When u find the rapier u can move on.

46.
Next u need to kill statues, this can easily be done offline tho. Equip chapeau noir, fire cape, sunset rapier, amulet of looting, all your rune gear and sand threaders.
Your goal here is to reach 2400 silver bars and 4500 gold bars.
With all the bars upgrade your dragon helm, rune chest, rune legs, rune shield and rune boots to (g).

47.
Equip yourself with dragon helm, rune chest, rune legs, rune boots and rune shield, all upgraded to (g). Equip firecape, sandstorm ring, elite amulet of defence, sunset rapier and paladin gloves.
The following setup will give u 26% + 2% + 0% + 2% + 0% + 4% = 34% Damage reduction, or 35% if u been lucky and found the defence pet, but this guide will assume u didn't.
Next u need 8600 hitpoints. It's recommended to do spider forest dungeon until u get the pet there. After that u can do whatever combat u feel like.

When u have 8600 hitpoints, autoeat tier 3 and the listed gear u can safely idle volcanic cave.
Doing this will give u around 55k gp per cleared dungeon, aswell as unlocking ancient armor needed to progress further in the game.

Money making in the guide:
Gear and level: Level 25 thieving with gloves of silence and jeweled necklace
Activity: Pickpocketing woman
Profit 500-600k gp per hour

Gear and level: 60 thieving with gloves of silence, jeweled necklace, chapeau noir and coin purse aswell as 10% mastery and a 90% chance to pickpocket assistant cook.
Profit: 700k gp/h aswell as 1k of random mixed food.

Gear and level: 70 thieving, with gloves of silence, jeweled necklace, chapeau noir, coin purse and sneak-ers, aswell as 25% mastery and a 90% chance to pickpocket chef.
Profit: 800k gp/h aswell as 1k of better random mixed food.

Gear and level: 75 thieving, with gloves of silence, jeweled necklace, chapeau noir, coin purse and sneak-ers, aswell as 50% mastery with a 95% chance to pickpocket chef.
Profit: 1.7m gp/h aswell as 1.1k of better random mixed food.

Disclaimer:
This guide does not use popular money making methods such as gem mining or fishing. It will make it's money from killing master farmers and thieving instead.
If u rather do stuff in a different way then feel free to do so, this is only a guide afterall.

Thanks for reading

[想不出好名字0]

step 29/30 , what the "addy" is ?

[Asefon]

i dont get it. how u guys achive 8600 hp? i got max 1000 hp

[Ukitsu]

277.6 hours and i'm working on 8600 HP. Great guide!@

[Zloelamo]

Got to 47. It was 622 hours into the game. :)

[lswinbourne]

I changed my name bit the neckalce doesnt drop

[Elvari]

can you make a guide on standard mode?

[Narukana]

You can get steel platebody with 20% chance from zombie, for people like me that cant get them from knights

[Raikazu]

Running this guide, should I only by slaying cows for the first 25,000 slayer coins (Steps 7/8)? Is it worth extending tasks even when trying to save 25k for the hat?

[Nina Rindt]

many thanks

[Philly4eva]

@Nina
You only really need the beef to get the thief levels going, after that u will thief enough food to not have to cook anything. You will never actually cook the crabs in the guide if u follow it step by step, but if u rather train fishing to cook something different and then cook the crabs, then feel free to do that.