Start with a weapon and a food supply
Unlock combat by crafting a Stone Sword and cooking 10 Shrimp, then equip your weapon and usable food before testing an easy encounter. Prepare food, matching ammunition or the required runes before extending your fights.
This guide covers Demo 0.11.4, with skills capped at level 60. Treat each new enemy as a fresh loadout check, especially when moving from ordinary fights into dungeon waves.
Unlock your first fights
- Train Woodcutting to level 2. Woodcutting starts available, and this milestone opens both Fishing and Mining.
- Train Mining to level 2 to open Smithing, giving you the artisan skill needed for your starting weapon.
- Forge a Stone Sword at Smithing level 1 using 2 Stone. Crafting this weapon satisfies the weapon requirement for unlocking combat.
- Catch 20 Raw Shrimp to unlock Cooking. Keep additional raw fish available because cooking attempts can burn food.
- Cook 10 Shrimp to satisfy the food requirement. Together with the crafted Stone Sword, this opens the combat disciplines.
- Equip your Stone Sword through the inventory and combat controls so your starting weapon is ready for the encounter.
- Equip usable food through the relevant inventory and combat controls before testing an easy encounter.
Open the skills that replenish your loadout
| Option | Required action |
|---|---|
| Crafting | Reach Woodcutting level 5. |
| Firemaking | Gather 50 Normal Logs. |
| Hunting | Reach Crafting level 3 and craft 5 Basic Snares. |
| Fletching | Defeat a Golbin to open the skill. |
Pointy Preparation is a useful early target: it requires defeating 3 Archery Targets using Ranged and rewards 150 Stone Arrows, 50 Shrimp and 1,000 GP. Keep ammunition equipped for the target practice.
Choose your style, stance and element
Weapon choice affects accuracy, damage and how you tackle an enemy. Your stance also determines which skills receive experience from damage dealt, so check it whenever your training goal changes.
| Option | Stance choices and supplies |
|---|---|
| Melee | Stab trains Attack; Slash trains Attack and Strength; Crush trains Strength; Block trains Defence. These stances also award Hitpoints experience. |
| Ranged | Accurate trains Ranged; Powerful adds Strength training; Long-Range adds Defence training. These also train Hitpoints. Ammo-dependent weapons require their matching ammunition equipped. |
| Magic | Empowered trains Magic; Focused trains Magic and Defence. Both also train Hitpoints. Select a spell and maintain its required runes. |
The favorable style matchups are Melee against Ranged, Ranged against Magic, and Magic against Melee. Each grants increased maximum hit and resistance.
Elemental advantages increase maximum hit by 15%: Air against Earth, Water against Fire, Earth against Water, and Fire against Air. Reversing those matchups reduces maximum hit by 15%. Check the target before choosing your spell.
Keep food and consumables ahead of the fight
Base Auto Eat triggers at or below 25% of maximum HP and needs available usable food. A large hit can still kill you, and exhausted supplies remove that protection. Manual eating during combat restarts your attack turn.
Current Action Tracking shows hourly rates, including items used and gained. Compare consumption with your usable stock to estimate how long supplies might last. Recheck after changing enemies, equipment or spells.
Death stops combat and may remove an eligible equipped item or part of an equipped stack. Stop a struggling fight before supplies become critical; an estimate of supply duration is not a survival guarantee.
Progress toward the demo dungeons
- Test low-level enemies in Golbin Forest to assess your food use before attempting tougher opponents.
- Defeat 15 Hobgolbin to unlock Hobgolbin Camp. Entry is a progression milestone, so assess the dungeon's waves separately before committing supplies.
- Defeat 20 Jack O Lantern to unlock Harvest Farm, then review your loadout before attempting the dungeon.
- Complete 5 Slayer tasks to unlock Venom Pit. Replenish your food and attack supplies before testing it.
Keep Hobforge Gloves from Hobgolbin Chests in mind for Rocky Rumble: Sulfur Protection Gloves require a pair plus 4 Magic Cowhide at Crafting level 18. The recipe consumes the gloves, which also fit the Smithing Gloves Toolbelt slot.
Unlock and equip combat utility
| Toolbelt slot | Compatible items and access |
|---|---|
| Combat Potion | Fits combat potions. Herblore is unavailable in the demo. |
| Combat Utility 1 | Fits Combat Utility items, including Green Butterfly in a Jar, Skull Butterfly in a Jar and Slayer Challenge Contract. Requires Combat Toolbelt. |
| Combat Utility 2 | Fits Combat Utility items, but requires the demo-locked Extended Toolbelt. |
After clearing Hobgolbin Camp 10 times, purchase Combat Toolbelt for 250 Leather, 10,000 GP and 10,000 Slayer Coins. Hunt Green Butterfly at Hunting level 20 to obtain Green Butterfly in a Jar, then equip it in Combat Utility 1.
Tracking tools belong to Hunting equipment and traps. Ensnared can also come from the Slime Forest area effect; seeing that effect does not identify a combat utility item. Equipment must match its assigned slot.
Check these blockers before continuing
- Weapon not attacking: check that matching ammunition is equipped and that your selected spell has its required runes.
- Production stopped: check ingredients and currency. Artisan crafting requires the full recipe costs on hand for each step.
- New gear cannot be equipped: distinguish crafting requirements from wearing requirements. Copper weapons require Attack level 10; Copper plate armour requires Defence level 10.
- Storage is tight: consider the Woodcutting bank upgrade at level 20, which adds 20 Bank Slots for 5,000 GP.
- Utility will not equip: check its assigned slot and toolbelt unlock. Extended Toolbelt is demo-locked.