Melee

"Melee is your accuracy in close-quarter combat. Your damage output comes mostly from your weapon." - In-game tooltip

Melee is one of the three main combat styles. It is required to wield most melee weapons and determines the player's accuracy with them. Boosts to the "Melee Stat" increase accuracy further, boosts to "Melee Attack" increase damage and boosts to "Melee Defense" reduce damage taken from melee attacks. Boosts can be obtained through various means including potions, karma skills, and equipment.

Experience

By default, for every point of damage dealt, the player will receive 3 xp divided between Health, Defense, and the combat skill used to deal the damage (1 xp each). This can be configured by pressing the "Edit Combat Xp Allocation" button located at the top of the skills menu to customize how the xp is divided.

Weapons

Most Weapons can be obtained through the Smithing Skill, however a can only be obtained through drops (only unique weapons listed) and some (mainly tools) can be bought from shops. (Note: Unarmed attacks are considered melee and are affected by stat boosts. They have 1 base damage and a speed stat of 5.)

Smithing

Name	Level Req.	Stats
Tin Dagger	1	Damage: 1-2 Speed: 5 Melee Stat: 4 Melee Attack: 2
Tin Sword	1	Damage: 1-3 Speed: 6 Melee Stat: 4 Melee Attack: 3
Copper Dagger	5	Damage:1-3 Speed: 5 Melee Stat: 6 Melee Attack: 3
Copper Sword	5	Damage: 1-4 Speed: 6 Melee Stat: 7 Melee Attack: 6
Tin Sledge1	7	Damage: 1-3 Speed: 6 Melee Stat: 4 Melee Attack: 3
Bronze Dagger	10	Damage: 1-4 Speed: 5 Melee Stat: 8 Melee Attack: 4
Bronze Sword	10	Damage: 2-5 Speed: 6 Melee Stat: 10 Melee Attack: 9
Bronze Flail	10	Damage: 2-5 Speed: 8 Melee Stat: 11 Karma Stat: 3 Melee Attack: 10
Copper Sledge1	11	Damage: 1-5 Speed: 9 Melee Stat: 9 Melee Attack: 12
Bronze Sledge1	16	Damage: 2-6 Speed: 9 Melee Stat: 12 Melee Attack: 16
Gunmetal Dagger	20	Damage: 1-5 Speed: 4 Melee Stat: 12 Melee Attack: 6
Gunmetal Sword	20	Damage: 2-6 Speed: 6 Melee Stat: 15 Melee Attack: 14
Gunmetal Flail	20	Damage: 2-6 Speed: 8 Melee Stat: 16 Karma Stat: 5 Melee Attack: 15
Gunmetal Sledge1	26	Damage: 2-7 Speed: 9 Melee Stat: 18 Melee Attack: 24
Iron Dagger	30	Damage: 2-5 Speed: 4 Melee Stat: 16 Melee Attack: 8
Iron Sword	30	Damage: 3-7 Speed: 6 Melee Stat: 20 Melee Attack: 19
Iron Flail	30	Damage: 3-7 Speed: 8 Melee Stat: 21 Karma Stat: 7 Melee Attack: 20
Iron Sledge1	36	Damage: 3-8 Speed: 9 Melee Stat: 24 Melee Attack: 32
Steel Dagger	40	Damage: 2-6 Speed: 4 Melee Stat: 20 Melee Attack:10
Steel Sword	40	Damage: 3-8 Speed: 6 Melee Stat: 25 Melee Attack: 24
Steel Flail	40	Damage: 3-8 Speed: 8 Melee Stat: 26 Karma Stat: 9 Melee Attack: 25
Snake Fang Dagger	45	Element: Earth Damage: 2-7 Speed: 4 Melee Stat: 22 Melee Attack: 11 Earth Defense: 5
Steel Sledge1	49	Damage: 3-9 Speed: 9 Melee Stat: 30 Melee Attack: 40
Cobalt Dagger	60	Damage: 3-8 Speed: 4 Melee Stat: 28 Melee Attack: 14
Cobalt Sword	60	Damage: 4-10 Speed: 6 Melee Stat: 35 Melee Attack: 34
Cobalt Flail	60	Damage: 4-10 Speed: 8 Melee Stat: 36 Karma Stat: 13 Melee Attack: 35
Cobalt Sledge1	66	Damage: 4-11 Speed: 9 Melee Stat: 42 Melee Attack: 56

^{1. Sledges are 2-handed. The rest are 1-handed.}

Mob drops

Name	Level Req.	Stats	2-Handed	Dropped by
Brute Sabre	15	Damage: 2-6 Speed: 9 Melee Stat: 14 Melee Attack: 14	yes	Raider Brute
Boat Motor1	55	Damage: 4-9 Speed: 7 Melee Stat: 38 Melee Attack: 48	yes	Scrapclaw
Cleavers	65	Damage: 1-7 Speed: 5 Melee Stat: 28 Melee Attack: 21	yes	Chainface

Tools

Name	Level Req.	Stats	Bought from	Price
Tin Pickaxe	1 Mining	Damage: 1-2 Speed: 6 Melee Attack: 1	Wallace (New Willimsburg)	25
Copper Pickaxe	5 Mining	Damage: 2-4 Speed: 6 Melee Attack: 2	Goldie (Frontier)	150
Iron Pickaxe	20 Mining	Damage: 3-5 Speed: 6 Melee Attack: 3	Goldie (Frontier)	1500
Tin Axe	none	Damage: 1-4 Speed: 8 Melee Stat: 3 Melee Attack: 4	Wallace (New Williamsburg)	35
Copper Axe	5 Melee	Damage: 1-4 Speed: 8 Melee Stat: 6 Melee Attack: 7	Jack (Frontier)	80
Iron Axe	30 Melee	Damage: 2-7 Speed: 8 Melee Stat: 19 Melee Attack: 20	Jack (Frontier)	400
Knife	none	Damage: 1-2 Speed: 6 Melee Stat: Melee Attack:	Wallace (New Williamsburg)	25
Hammer	none	Damage: 1-2 Speed: 7	Wallace (New Williamsburg)	30
Fishing Trap1	none	Damage: 1-2 Speed: 8	Wallace (New Williamsburg)	50
Fishing Rod1	none	Damage: 1-2 Speed: 8	Wallace (New Williamsburg)	20

^{1 Indicates 2-handed weapon.}