Choose the guide that matches your blocker
Choose Skill Unlocks for a closed menu, Combat for a difficult fight, Money Making for a purchase, Slayer Masters for task gates, and Crafting or Hunting for missing ingredients. If you are starting fresh, begin with Woodcutting and follow the unlock steps below.
These starting routes cover Demo 0.11.4. The playable Steam Demo includes Act 1 and caps skills at level 60; Astrology, Herblore and Agility are unavailable in the Demo. Pick an available recipe or quest requirement as your next training goal.
Open the early skills in order
- Train Woodcutting to level 2 to open Fishing and Mining. These give you the gathering branches needed for food and your early Smithing route.
- Train Mining to level 2 to unlock Smithing. You can then begin making stone equipment, including the weapon required to open Combat.
- Raise Woodcutting to level 5 to unlock Crafting and access the Flax Bush. This opens the route toward String and the Basic Snares used for Hunting.
- Catch 20 Raw Shrimp to unlock Cooking. This supplies the ingredient for the cooked food required by the Combat unlock.
- Forge a Stone Sword from 2 Stone at Smithing level 1. Making it fulfils the weapon requirement for unlocking Combat.
- Cook 10 Shrimp to unlock Combat once you have crafted the Stone Sword. You can then move into the fighting branch of your progression.
Cooking attempts can burn, so gather extra Raw Shrimp if you finish short of the requirement. After opening Combat, consider Golbin Forest for your next unlocks. Defeating a Golbin opens Fletching, which also contributes to the route toward Quests.
Find the walkthrough for your next obstacle
Give your money a specific job
If storage is the immediate problem, the Woodcutting +20 Bank Slots upgrade requires Woodcutting level 20 and costs 5,000 GP. Keep materials needed for your next recipe before selling surplus items. Choose between a tool and storage by asking which purchase will remove the obstacle you are facing now.
Follow the missing ingredient back to its source
For String, gather Flax from the Flax Bush and process it through Crafting at level 3. A Basic Snare uses 2 Sticks, 3 String and 1 Stone. Crafting 5 Basic Snares at Crafting level 3 opens Hunting, so this small material chain also unlocks another gathering skill.
For Beastcrafting, reach Hunting level 15 and successfully trap a Bushland Rabbit. The level alone does not complete the unlock. If the skill remains closed, make the rabbit your next Hunting target.
For Steel Bars, combine 1 Iron Ore and 1 Coal at Smithing level 25. For Hobforge Gloves, follow the dungeon route: defeat 15 Hobgolbins to open Hobgolbin Camp, then complete it for a Hobgolbin Chest that can contain the gloves. These are different kinds of blockers, so use the recipe route for bars and the chest route for the gloves.
Check your action before leaving it running
Before leaving a craft running, check its ingredients and stop condition. Offline progression replays up to 24 hours before any offline-time bonuses, and actions still stop when materials run out. On your return, read the Welcome Back summary for the skills, experience and items gained, including any inactive time caused by depleted supplies.
Keep Demo goals separate from Early Access
Early Access is scheduled for November 17, 2026, at approximately 10:00 UTC. Its announced additions include a level cap of 99, Act 2, Astrology, Herblore and Agility. Plan your current Demo progress around the available skills and story rather than relying on those launch additions.
Demo characters carry into Early Access, with automatic transfer through Melvor Cloud and local transfer when you stay on the same device. For a local backup, open the gear menu on character selection and choose “Copy save string to clipboard.” Paste the string into a text file and save it on your computer.