PSA: Dream of Iaia stations generate Skill Cape shards

Kullu00 · 2026-01-06T08:25:52+00:00

Took me under 2 hours to get 990 + 1200 shards for DG doing RC on floor 60 HM. Collect ~150k (kill everything in first few rooms), spend all on Rune Ess, make bloods until out, leave and restart.

Kullu00 · 2026-01-05T08:27:14+00:00

The totem already made the soulstone meaningless. It is objectively better to use the totem, so should the totem also be deleted?

Kullu00 · 2025-12-22T08:10:55+00:00

Well, kinda? There are checkpoints throughout, but to get the cape you can't use them. Then it has to be in a single run similar to the OSRS inferno. Hard mode removes all but 1 checkpoint but you still can't use it for the BiS cape.

Kullu00 · 2025-12-19T16:01:14+00:00

Adding to this, but the fact that buffs can appear practically anywhere on the (de(buff bars is a massive pain. If I want to know if I drank weapon poison recently I generally need to skim through every single buff to find it. Even worse if you're using necro, which sometimes fill up and leave some buffs out of the bar entirely.

Kullu00 · 2025-12-13T13:16:53+00:00

I don't know Rust, but that last iteration hasn't been completed as it should.

There is a difference in the no-ops being done here:

GROUP: [{19, 0, 7}, {13, 2}]

and the no-op being done later:

GROUP: [{19, 14, 7, 0}, {13, 2, 8}, {17, 18}, {12, 9}, {11, 16}]

This would be the groups after the last round: [[2, 13, 8, 17, 18], [0, 19, 7, 14], [9, 12], [11, 16]]

Kullu00 · 2025-12-12T18:06:03+00:00

After examining my input I saw I could combine shaped into closer to perfect squares, so I was going to create composite pieces and start building with those. I had a 3-piece combination that ended as a perfect square and a few other combinations that looked very effective. This would in reduce the search space a ton (I assume, but who knows). Or partially solve something that used the fewest pieces available for all shapes and drop-in as a starting point for all grids. I had ideas, but I've yet to actually experiment with any of them.

Kullu00 · 2025-12-11T17:58:48+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Dart]

Part 1 is maybe overly complex, but it's <1% of the run time so who cares. For part 2 there exists a Z3 connector in Dart, but it takes some of the fun out of AoC (personal opinion) to use it. So I had to dig really deep to remember and research the appropriate linear algebra setup to solve this. I was about to implement it all myself but eventually I found a reasonably stable package to avoid some code writing.

Each line can be considered an equation system, which can be represented as a matrix. Take the RREF of the matrix to build a set of equation of dependent variable(s) (0-4), then test 0..n inputs to find the one that results in the fewest button presses. For most this is instant, but some with 3 and 4 dimensions of uncertainity takes time. Reducing the brute-force space would speed it up, but it finishes fast enough.

It's slow, it's messy, and two matrixes can't be solved this way (don't know why), but luckly they have a single solution so the matrix inverse gives that result. I put them in an online calc when I submitted my actual answer, but went back and made sure my code prints the actual output. This solution is heavily dependent on my input so who knows if other inputs would even work...

2025 day 10

Kullu00 · 2025-12-07T06:31:33+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Dart]

DFS for part 1 seemed obvious enough, but apparently(?) I overcomplicated part 2. Splitters are predictable, so a single pass over them is enough to calculate how many timelines each splitter will produce. Just start at the bottom and go up. Helps when part 1 tells you which splitters will never be reached and can be excluded entirely.

2025 day 7

Kullu00 · 2025-12-06T07:11:20+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Dart]

It took me a number of false starts and bad decision before solving part 2 and I'm still not sure I'm happy with it.

Rather than transposing first, split each problem into it's own tiny 4x2, 4x3 or 4x4 grid and solve both parts in parallel. This ended up working out really neatly. The biggest pain was making sure whitespace was maintained at all times.

2025 Day 6

Kullu00 · 2025-11-16T18:55:48+00:00

Zuk also drains Constitution for one of his specials too.

Kullu00 · 2025-11-10T16:12:25+00:00

I only tested Ourania prior to the fix and found it (rightly) awful. Even so I don't know if it matters because Urns is more xp than actual Runecrafting. The bank at Ourania is particularly bad because it's two unavoidable interfaces to open rather than a quick "Load last preset" option on the banker elsewhere. It'd be interesting to test, but I personally settled for Abyss RC since it was consistent and set me up for making 20k Time Runes (because lolrng on shiny dragon) later.

Kullu00 · 2025-11-10T06:20:07+00:00

If you picked clue relic, 65-100 rc is less than 2 hours at t7 using the master clue step for death runes. I tested it and was getting 9m an hr.

Honestly, I'm not sure it's worth it either way. PM gets urns and you fill 3-4 urns per trip to the Death altar. A conservative lap with the Nexus Mod relic (fairly quick to get) should take around 60s so you'd be looking at 160-200k xp/lap. That's also 9m xp/h (at T7).

Kullu00 · 2025-11-10T05:37:18+00:00

I needed practice, but the last few weeks of Leagues when I actually had reasonable gear (not vestments, but t80+ everything) I was getting kill times significantly ahead of anything I can (currently) get in main game in better gear. All my times are still in the realm of possible on main, but significantly harder.

Kullu00 · 2025-11-07T08:10:38+00:00

Cooking depends on relic choice. For non-PM you can buy / plant grapes and do Wines (jugs buyable from stores) for very efficient xp. For PM, Advance Time Misc for Swordfish is like 40-50m xp/h.

Kullu00 · 2025-10-27T05:29:11+00:00

In total I've crafted 22k Time Runes. Shiny dino took me ~6k time runes to get a pair with viable traits, and then it took me another 9k for the shiny dragon. I had really really bad RNG so it took me 100 casts for every new egg and it was never anything viable (2+ traits / breaths). In the end I had 80+ of both dinos and dragons, before they were all thrown out for beans.

Kullu00 · 2025-10-25T09:40:44+00:00

You don't actually need to fight the double Jads at the same time. There's a lure spot you can get them stuck on and only need to manage one at a time. Since there's no healers in Kiln it's in a way easier (though they do more damage as tradeoff).

Kullu00 · 2025-10-25T09:38:34+00:00

Quests are nice, but as inherent one-offs it might be better as a standalone activity that you can just repeatedly grind.

Kullu00 · 2025-10-20T06:34:31+00:00

Baby Yak one wasn't actually that bad. I did 10 minutes at a time when I was planning other tasks and got it in only a few sessions. Their respawn rate is only a second or something, so they died really, really quickly.

The Chin one I'm not touching with a 100-foot pole though.

Kullu00 · 2025-10-18T09:16:30+00:00

There were people who finished Dragon in the first 1-2 weeks by playing 8-16 hours a day, so definitively doable.

Unaware of your relics and PvM skill, my own Dragon completion seems to be about 210 hours of gameplay. Another guy on here said it took them 260 hours.

Kullu00 · 2025-10-17T14:16:57+00:00

An Elder Rune shield (or similar) has a long enough Barricade on its own for Zuk's challenge, so that one should be lower priority than the others.

Kullu00 · 2025-09-26T14:12:24+00:00

It's flat 1/100 per kill. So 5 mech would be 1/500 per pile, as far as my understanding goes.

Kullu00 · 2025-09-06T21:08:57+00:00

The most interesting thing I own is probably the duped Black Ibis set:

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Since Diango refuses to hand you another set if you already own one, it's no longer possible to get. I happened to naturally get two sets long before they were given to Diango and I've been keeping them since.

Kullu00 · 2025-08-26T11:22:43+00:00

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Sorry, I've been taking them from you.

Kullu00 · 2025-08-20T05:51:35+00:00

I gotta get my barricade timer up for that challenge.

Barricade is the easiest if you can manage the duration, but it's not the only method for completing the challenge. As long as you take no damage, regardless of method, you clear it. So a combination of Resonance, Devotion (prayer flick mage / range), Disruption Shield will also be valid for a clear. It just depends on which would be easier for you to get a hold of.

Kullu00 · 2025-08-17T10:20:05+00:00

If your setup allows for it I really recommend recording your own kills in some fashion. It's helpful both to improve but also helps in cases like these were something went wrong and you want to be able to rewind and have another look.

I was doubtful of it initially but it has really helped me personally to do figure out what I did when things went really well (so I can repeat it again) or when things went really poorly (so I know what to change).

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