This guide is intended to be used in addition to the AFK and Low Effort guides. It will provide some assumed unlocks, and setup decisions that are omitted from specific guides to increase readability.
⬥ These guides can often be used for extended sessions if you bring more supplies which is useful for places where you can extend the instance such as GWD2
DISCLAIMER: IF YOU CANNOT GET A METHOD TO WORK DO NOT MESSAGE THE CREATOR(S)
It is more than likely user error or cutting corners, use PvM help (external Discord), and check this guide if you cannot get it to work
Definitions
Within these guides there are two levels of AFK you will see mentioned:
AFK
⬥ These do not usually require any attention to the game
⬥ You may still need to interact infrequently, for example: clicking to prevent lobbying, drinking potions, using 
or 
, collecting loot, healing familiars with 
• Alt1 can usually be used to notify you of these
Low Effort
⬥ These usually do require you to pay attention to the game, and are instead used to heavily reduce inputs required to kill a boss
⬥ In addition to those listed above under AFK, example interactions include: queuing an ability before the fight, repositioning every kill, banking between kills, moving out of the way of mechanics, eating food at low health
Assumed Setup
Several parts of AFK methods are assumed as mandatory (i.e., unless stated otherwise these should always be used for the method to work):
Prayers:
Perks & Relics:
⬥ Basic perks on weapon and armour (see Perks)
Items:
Other:
⬥ Auto Retaliate 
active
⬥ Ring of vigour 
passive unlocked from the Extinction quest
⬥ Darkness 
should not be active
Common Items
You may also see the below items commonly used across AFK methods - these are not assumed by default:
⬥ Spring Cleaner 
to automatically alch / disassemble drops
⬥ Holy Wrench 
to boost prayer restoration
⬥ Potion Reservoir 
to automatically drink potions
⬥ Enhanced Excalibur to provide free healing every 5 minutes
⬥ Ancient Elven Ritual Shard to provide free prayer points every 5 minutes
Top tips: Using Alt1's AFK Warden
To set up alt1 AFK Warden you can include several useful warnings.
⬥ HP Alert
⬥ Prayer Alert
⬥ Loot Beam
⬥ Inventory Full
⬥ Animate Dead
⬥ Overload
⬥ Weapon Poison
⬥ Summoning Familiar HP Alert
⬥ Kerapac Kill
⬥ Lobby timer
Depending on the boss you are doing, you can activate different ones of these, and set the HP threshold to a suitable level for the risk of your setup. Doing this will allow you to eat / excal to stop a death.
You can add all of these by clicking the save icon on alt1, and then importing the following text:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pvme/pvme-guides/master/afk/PVME-Alt1-Setup.txt
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