GUIDE 01
Getting started
Make sure the next night does not catch you unprepared.
Your first day
Stay near trees, stones and berries. Move with WASD or the arrow keys. Use Enter to interact, Tab for inventory, C for recipes, M for the map and Esc to pause. Your long-term goal is to survive 100 days.
Playable platforms: PC, Mac and Chromebook with keyboard and mouse; iPhone and Android phones in portrait mode; iPad in landscape mode with touch controls. Other tablets are not supported yet.
Prepare for night
- Gather wood from trees and stone from rocks.
- Pick berries for food.
- Craft a campfire with 6 wood and 3 stone.
- Keep wood ready to fuel it.
A campfire cooks meat, mushrooms and fish, purifies water and becomes the natural center of your camp. Its panel can track three preparations at once. Hold food, a bottle or a bandage for three seconds to use it.
NEW HARVEST BAR
Watch the green bar
When you hit a tree, rock, copper deposit or iron deposit, a large green bar appears above it. It starts full and goes down with every hit. When it is empty, the resource breaks and the loot goes into your inventory.
A small icon and `+amount` rise from the target. It only shows the main reward: wood, stone, berries, copper, iron or meat from animals. Bonus fibre, seeds and hides are still collected.
No bar? Move closer, use an axe for a tree or a pickaxe for stone and ore, then hit again. The bar gently fades away if you stop for a few seconds.
New resources to recognize
Gather yarrow bare-handed in forests: 10 make one bandage. Keep fibre for tools and clothing. For a fishing rod, you will need string from a cave cobweb, broken with a spear. Fishing requires a visible school, so watch for bubbles and ripples.
Read the New item panels as resources are discovered. They explain uses, appear one at a time and remain recorded in your save.
Your first 0.7.0 adventure
Do not postpone survival while waiting for a bed or forge: both now require discovered blueprints. Gather supplies, build a fire, secure food and water, then prepare early tools and a weapon. The assembly table and stone-shaping post support stone progression without a forge blueprint.
Once the camp is stable, search abandoned camps, ruins and caves. Recover blueprints from their chest slots and check material requirements. Discovering a dryer before a forge is possible without making it immediately craftable. Understand recipe unlocks.