How do you survive the first 20 minutes as a fresh spawn ?

[Klaus Schwab]

Surviving after an hour is easy. You've got enough food and water and ways to catch food as you are in land

I find the first spawn the most frustrating. It's so hard to find water, find food, find a way to actually get food.

I only make it past this stage if I get lucky.. then surviving after that is relatively easy.

[baddoggs]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2571831808

Read this.

[Topher]

JOG along a track for 200m or so. if you do not find a small stone or two. Wait a minute then retraces your footsteps as stones spawn by a players vicinity. Make a knife If you only find 1 stone no problem find a boulder and turn the one stone into a knife there. If it is raining get undercover, Get dry and make a fire and you will lose energy at a much lower rate. better to wait out the storm with a fire as the risk outweighs the death. The fire may attract a player who will feed you and if they kill you you've lost nothing

WIth knife find a chicken or two and kill and cook. Wash hands and eat. When you find a well drink 25 sips minimum. If you get a bigger melee weapon like an axe walk up to a cow or other farm animal and hit them. DO NOT chase it it will run only a short amount. Walk up and melee again and maybe do so 3 or 4 times and you now have all the meat you need for hours. Hunting from the spawn uses less energy than running house to house in my view and you can easily be maxed out with food within 20 minutes of spawn and that means you can reach any place on the map by sprinting now to retrieve your body before it despawns.

The only variation is if you are next to a greenhouse and it has tomato seeds then plant them first of all as you can return 25 minutes later to a massive harvest if all else fails. COOK them do not eat them raw unless you are thirsty and have no idea where a well is, The calories almost triple if you bake them So maybe consider cook half eat half for the hydration as cooked have very little hydration

[Topher]

But definitely read baddoggs guide

[drat67]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2571831808

Read this.

but you need to learn other skills also other than killing , i get it this game has alot of shortcuts Redrum lol

[Klaus Schwab]

Originally posted by Topher:

JOG along a track for 200m or so. if you do not find a small stone or two. Wait a minute then retraces your footsteps as stones spawn by a players vicinity. Make a knife If you only find 1 stone no problem find a boulder and turn the one stone into a knife there. If it is raining get undercover, Get dry and make a fire and you will lose energy at a much lower rate. better to wait out the storm with a fire as the risk outweighs the death. The fire may attract a player who will feed you and if they kill you you've lost nothing

WIth knife find a chicken or two and kill and cook. Wash hands and eat. When you find a well drink 25 sips minimum. If you get a bigger melee weapon like an axe walk up to a cow or other farm animal and hit them. DO NOT chase it it will run only a short amount. Walk up and melee again and maybe do so 3 or 4 times and you now have all the meat you need for hours. Hunting from the spawn uses less energy than running house to house in my view and you can easily be maxed out with food within 20 minutes of spawn and that means you can reach any place on the map by sprinting now to retrieve your body before it despawns.

The only variation is if you are next to a greenhouse and it has tomato seeds then plant them first of all as you can return 25 minutes later to a massive harvest if all else fails. COOK them do not eat them raw unless you are thirsty and have no idea where a well is, The calories almost triple if you bake them So maybe consider cook half eat half for the hydration as cooked have very little hydration

I basically do this but finding a chicken, water bottle and fresh water is literally a gamble.

It's just 50/50 wether you can get access to those things otherwise you might as well kill yourself and try again.

Survival in this game gets easier the longer you're alive, the hardest part imo is the start.

[Topher]

Fresh water is available at wells and when you find one drink 25 sips. That takes you to almost full hydration right after spawn. You can survive on cooked food without a water bottle for a long time as the food also contains water provided it is not dried. BAKE your food if cooking,

Water containers are very common in low tier military areas and especially the bombed out houses and bunkers on Livonia.

Plastic water bottles are common at bus stops and in the small altars if you are not finding them in wooden houses,

If you struggle to find chickens they often spawn near houses with the chicken house behind them. Or use a 3rd party map that shows you where they are on the coast and you nearly always will find one.

[abundancebomb]

Fruit trees

[Ranceed]

Originally posted by abundancebomb:

Fruit trees

[JBrown247]

pretty much just loot loot loot on the way to the closest water pump. Hopefully find a little food and a blade (even a screw driver) by that point. Then goal is to find more food, preferably a chicken, and find a gun. Once you find a chicken, you can use the bones to make hooks, which solves your food issue for awhile. I am always looking for a cooking pot as well. It is OP survival tool as you can cook the best food with it quickly and store water. You barely need to drink the water out of it once you start killing and cooking meat because the boiled meat hydrates you as well. Just make sure to wash your hands unless you are wearing gloves.

[LastMedjai]

Originally posted by Klaus Schwab:

Surviving after an hour is easy. You've got enough food and water and ways to catch food as you are in land

I find the first spawn the most frustrating. It's so hard to find water, find food, find a way to actually get food.

I only make it past this stage if I get lucky.. then surviving after that is relatively easy.

coast - check every single boat crash, to find a fish hook and fishing pole (easy fish)
cities - check every single building searching for cans of food, and a knife.

When you find a knife (anything sharp that can cut chickens) you are pretty much good, if you are getting really unlucky with finding your first knife, thats when you are in the danger zone, nothing you can do but just respawn and try another city.

[-=kirito*48=-]

any1 have problem with the cooking pot , when i use it i put fat animal or water my meat burn up and i check them cook and end burning.?

[JBrown247]

Originally posted by Ltn.John1942:

any1 have problem with the cooking pot , when i use it i put fat animal or water my meat burn up and i check them cook and end burning.?

that has only happened to me with the pot empty

[Banelord]

its muscle memory by now. if i want to commit to the specific spawn point i already know the places for fod and water beforehand, and rarely if ever aggro zombies, and even if i do, i have a way to deal with them; leading them in a garage and closing the door after them is one of the ways

[Shadow23rd]

a Freshie, on the beach, cold, alone, hungry, the lore of Namalsk, is yet to be found, can I survive the harsh lands of Namalsk, or will i perish to the cold air that i breathe down my throat

[CrypticPassage (Is/Eum)]

Originally posted by Klaus Schwab:

Originally posted by Topher:

JOG along a track for 200m or so. if you do not find a small stone or two. Wait a minute then retraces your footsteps as stones spawn by a players vicinity. Make a knife If you only find 1 stone no problem find a boulder and turn the one stone into a knife there. If it is raining get undercover, Get dry and make a fire and you will lose energy at a much lower rate. better to wait out the storm with a fire as the risk outweighs the death. The fire may attract a player who will feed you and if they kill you you've lost nothing

WIth knife find a chicken or two and kill and cook. Wash hands and eat. When you find a well drink 25 sips minimum. If you get a bigger melee weapon like an axe walk up to a cow or other farm animal and hit them. DO NOT chase it it will run only a short amount. Walk up and melee again and maybe do so 3 or 4 times and you now have all the meat you need for hours. Hunting from the spawn uses less energy than running house to house in my view and you can easily be maxed out with food within 20 minutes of spawn and that means you can reach any place on the map by sprinting now to retrieve your body before it despawns.

The only variation is if you are next to a greenhouse and it has tomato seeds then plant them first of all as you can return 25 minutes later to a massive harvest if all else fails. COOK them do not eat them raw unless you are thirsty and have no idea where a well is, The calories almost triple if you bake them So maybe consider cook half eat half for the hydration as cooked have very little hydration

I basically do this but finding a chicken, water bottle and fresh water is literally a gamble.

It's just 50/50 wether you can get access to those things otherwise you might as well kill yourself and try again.

Survival in this game gets easier the longer you're alive, the hardest part imo is the start.

There's a water well/pump in pretty much almost every city, town, small village, and settlement. It's not a gamble at all. What is a gamble is relying only on randomized loot spawns like sodas etc.

You also don't need a water bottle, you can drink from water pumps with your hands in case you didn't know. (I also didn't know this when I first started playing)