Advanced: Creep Camps to Farm

The concept of stacking ancients and farming them with March of the Machines was not possible in Dota 1. EDIT: Tinker has now been nerfed in 6.82 to match Dota 1 and I have now removed the section about stacking ancients.

Stacking neutral camps near your lane to farm:

If you did things right, you'll get Boots of Travel, Bottle, and a Soul Ring anywhere between 9-12 minutes. Fastest I've gotten all these items is 8 minutes and 30 seconds.

There are some instances where staying in lane is too dangerous or there are situations where you have already lost the lane. This is when you should try to play catch up through stacking camps to farm with lvl 3-4 March of the Machines later on when you get Rearm and a Soul Ring.To do this, I would March the creeps that spawn at xx:00 (basically on the minute mark). These creeps will meet in your lane about xx:17 and these are the ones that you should march and clear and attack and get rid of ASAP. Then go stack. You might miss a few creeps of the next wave (1-2 creeps at most) but the pay out you get from stacking creeps is much higher. I would still focus on winning your lane if possible unless it's completely fine with giving your enemy solo mid free farm while you focus and play greedy with your stacking. This would be ok for heroes that can not snowball and ruin the early game for your team.1. Stack the 2 camps southeast of your position if you're on Radiant2. Stack the camps north of you if you're on Dire.