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Starter Survival Guide
Survival: The Art of not dying
Note: This guide is purposely kept short, additional guides are in the Guides tab on the left and a comprehensive survival guide can be found on the wiki.
First tools
Find flint or hard stones. They can often be found loose on the ground. When you have 2 of them,shift + rightmouse -click to place one on the ground to begin knapping.
Expanding inventory
Your starting inventory has 10 slots, you can also carry up to 4 baskets or other containers. The most basic one, the hand basket, requires 10 cattails. Harvest cattails from reeds or papyrus, then hit 'E' to open your inventory to craft. The crafting recipe is on the hand basket page.
Finding food
An easy food source is berries from berry bushes. If you are feeling adventurous, attempt to hunt and kill an animal. Cooked cattail roots are a good emergency food. Keep an eye open for crops, they will be valuable food sources in the longer term. Once you found clay, be sure to get into meal cooking to greatly improve your nutrition intake.
Fire / Light
Knap a knife and use it to gather grass. Place the grass on the ground, add 4 pieces of fire wood and ignite it with a Firestarter. You can now use the firepit to cook roots and meat, or light torches that can be made from sticks and dry grass.
Combat
To hunt and kill in the stone age, craft yourself a spear or wooden club. Put together some improvised armor for some very basic protection.
Shelter
It is a good idea to build a small shelter before the night sets. Useful stone age building materials are cob, soil, packed dirt, cobble stone from ruins and logs.
Preparing for winter
On standard worlds, you have about 70 in-game days to prepare for the cold season, where you can no longer grow crops and wild animals yield less meat, and you can also suffer from the cold. It's recommended to stock up on food by preserving it and keeping animals.
For further progression, see Progression Guide.
Survival: The Art of not dying
Note: This guide is purposely kept short, additional guides are in the Guides tab on the left and a comprehensive survival guide can be found on the wiki.
First tools
Find flint or hard stones. They can often be found loose on the ground. When you have 2 of them,
Expanding inventory
Your starting inventory has 10 slots, you can also carry up to 4 baskets or other containers. The most basic one, the hand basket, requires 10 cattails. Harvest cattails from reeds or papyrus, then hit 'E' to open your inventory to craft. The crafting recipe is on the hand basket page.
Finding food
An easy food source is berries from berry bushes. If you are feeling adventurous, attempt to hunt and kill an animal. Cooked cattail roots are a good emergency food. Keep an eye open for crops, they will be valuable food sources in the longer term. Once you found clay, be sure to get into meal cooking to greatly improve your nutrition intake.
Fire / Light
Knap a knife and use it to gather grass. Place the grass on the ground, add 4 pieces of fire wood and ignite it with a Firestarter. You can now use the firepit to cook roots and meat, or light torches that can be made from sticks and dry grass.
Combat
To hunt and kill in the stone age, craft yourself a spear or wooden club. Put together some improvised armor for some very basic protection.
Shelter
It is a good idea to build a small shelter before the night sets. Useful stone age building materials are cob, soil, packed dirt, cobble stone from ruins and logs.
Preparing for winter
On standard worlds, you have about 70 in-game days to prepare for the cold season, where you can no longer grow crops and wild animals yield less meat, and you can also suffer from the cold. It's recommended to stock up on food by preserving it and keeping animals.
For further progression, see Progression Guide.