How to be better - 30 TIPS - For beginners and beyond!

[Calis]

So, I read alot of you players talking about the game being too hard or dieing all the time. I'm end game now and I have died like once in the process being trapped between three hunters, a bear and a wolf. Imagine my rage quit!

So I guess some off-the-top-of-my-head tips for the beginners.

Tip 1: When you hear a wolf or bear just simply walk the other way.
Tip 2: Do not walk in between two wolfs/bears even if the distance seems alright. (They might both move to close you in)
Tip 3: Do not go into any action without having at the very least one bandage, one health, one stamina pack and more bullets than you need. If you do not have those, do not bring your valuable stuff when looting.
Tip 4: Bears and Wolf cannot catch up to you, aslong as you have stamina and are running.
Tip 5: Do not go for all electrical buildings. Focus on 'completing' one or two. Else it quickly requires you to need too much water, fertilizer, food or worst of all Electricity.
Tip 6: The recycler is more useful than the Mass Fabricator at any point in the game. I have not made one yet and I am not planning on it. The mass is almost instant but requires items. What I found best to sacrifice is electrical components or weapon parts. Looted grenades also yield a impressive 50 mass.
Tip 7: It is not worth it to keep the fruits/veggies and protein up both at the cost of more food. Just make sure your actual hunger bar does not go to low.
Tip 8: You barely die of hunger, BUT stamina will not recharge and that is the most important ability to survive.
Tip 9: For the Weapon Bench, damage is ALWAYS more important than the clip size or reload speed. Nothing in the game requires more than a full default magazine to kill.
Tip 10: Chickens can be 'persistance hunted' if you keep up the chase long enough. You can simply grab the live chicken at some point. Though not the recommanded approach.
Tip 11: Build a shed with either half walls and doorways, or windows to kill hunters by luring them to it. Crouch to hide/reload, go up to shoot a couple times.
Tip 12: BIOFUEL EFFICIENCY AT START GAME: Only use Biofuel when the default cap is reached (500) to ensure maximum usage of biofuel when low on the supply.
Tip 13: If you hate grinding wood, For Starters do: Every crate looted is a tree chopped. While hunting do: Every 1 animal fat obtained is 1 tree chopped.
Tip 14: Go AFK on night time, next to a fire if not house building. You can also afk to have electricity/mass recharge while not playing.
Tip 15: DO NOT MAKE GRENADES. They are not worth the resources by any means.
Tip 16: The only gear you should craft is the heavy duty legs and boots. Get the hunters top from a hunters looting chest. Do not craft the in between ones, that would be a waste.
Tip 17: You will respawn with a light legs item. Right Click -> Turn to Rags to get 2 cloth.
Tip 18: Meat can be eaten raw and is more efficient than using a fridge when not rich in biofuel.
Tip 19: PICK YOUR BATTLES. KNOW YOUR DAMAGE. For example, a lv2 damage shotgun will probably 1-hit level 1 and 2 wolfs. For a bear it might require another shot. Try to stick to the animals that will not damage you, and don't require you to spam shoot as you might miss.
Tip 20: Keep shotgun ammo for Wolfs/Bears/Doors. Keep Rifle ammo for precise headshots on hunters, keep pistol ammo for small prey and charging hunters.
Tip 21: Ashes also count as fertilizer for plantbeds.
Tip 22: Blueberries give WATER AND FOOD. This includes the animal housing.
Tip 23: AI seems to able to skyrocket up big ♥♥♥ rocks, and jump down the cliffs while chasing you. Keep that in mind.
Tip 24: To avoid logs being stuck in the tree when chopping, step back a bit while chopping.
Tip 25: Do not use a hatchet to gather ores, even if you don't have a pickaxe. It will take ages and give you less resources.
Tip 26: When out of ammo, ALWAYS RUN, do not attack with a axe/pickaxe/hammer or other tool. You will die.
Tip 27: Higher level chickens in the Animal Housing will give eggs over time, and cloth, animal fat and feathers when slaughtered. Rabbits only give cloth and animal fat. Therefore, it is not worth to add rabbits in the Animal Housing.
Tip 28: To get higher than the default maximum electricity/mass (500/100), you need the storages, but also to get it above the default maximum, you will need the respective fabricators.
Tip 29: Remember the route you took from your base, and in the death screen, try to remember key points to where your death crate is. Key points: The mountains on the edge of the map, the sun placement, type of terrain, the big trees and rock formations.
Tip 30: It is a grindy, hard survival game. Do not over-do it and stress the hell out. It is a game so have fun. Take breaks!

[MOM JAN]

Ok this is great advice.. BUT... most of it is workable only after you've established a base and basic tools inside it. As well as weapons/bullets/food etc. I am a survival game nut. I LOVE THEM. Look at my inventory and you will see that. This game is beautiful, has tons of potential and I am just amazed that this game is being devedoped by ONE GUY. Crazy but true. He's doing a great job. The only thing that is frustrating me is the amount of animals and that they are all so OP. It takes a full magazine at extremely close range to kill a wolf.... forget about a bear.. I have to do that from a base. I am having a very frustrating time getting established in the game. If the animals are going to be this OP... then there should be considerably LESS of them. If you are going to have this many animals then they shouldn't be SO HARD to kill. Every where I turn. I can see 2 bears and a wolf... a wolf and a bear.... etc. They are all over the place. And all over the crates! I don't mind hard games, in fact I enjoy them.. but the dev needs to make the balance of animals better. The map does not need to be crawling with them. I literally can't take but less than 20 steps and I can see another one. Also, finding your body is nearly impossible. At least for me. I've died tons and have only found it once when I died outside my little base. But other than the predators I do like the game. Can't wait to see what he does with it. Glad to have bought it early on so I can watch it develop and grow. I hope he reads this. I have a friend who has it as well and he's having similar issues with the animals. Just so hard to get enough gear to make a base and beacon when the bears/wolves are crawling all over every crate on the map. Doesn't mean I won't stop trying.. but I have stopped and exited several times due to high frustration.

[John Raeder]

Good tips, thank you.

[Azgarod]

i just came back after a long break and there doesnt appear to be power automatically generated anymore, how are you supposed to make anything anymore?

[Zuleica]

Good advice but for a few things if you're playing on hardcore mode. For hardcore;

1. Don't use the recycler! Everything you loot is valuable since crates/bags spawn far less and have far less in them. Save everything!

2. You'll need to learn how to run judiciously. Run most times but know where you're running to, walk intermitantly to recover stamina and always have good situational awareness and know your escape routes. I say run in hardcore more than walk because you have precious little time to cover more ground to try and get the same mats.

3. Protein in hardcore is difficult in the first few days. Raw protein does not provide as much nourishment, as soon as you find a match start a fire and NEVER let it go out. Matches are rare in normal mode, in hardcore mode they are much more rare.

4. Do not waste ammo on chickens and rabbits. Ammo in hardcore is very scarce and chickens and rabbits give little nourishment. Ignore rabbits unless they're stuck, chase chickens into fence lines and rocks. I also advise not wasting ammo on these animals in normal mode as well...just terribly inefficient.

A few general things:

1. Practice constant and vigilant situational awareness,
2. Learn to master time and risk management,
3. Learn good strategic planning,
4. Practice operational security (OPSEC for the military types)

[Zuleica]

Originally posted by Azgarod:

i just came back after a long break and there doesnt appear to be power automatically generated anymore, how are you supposed to make anything anymore?

Only the initial BCU provides power and mass, additional ones anywhere on the map do not. If none of yours are remove and replace it, I've heard that old installs have stopped working for some.

If you want a specific BCU to generate then remove ALL other BCUs, relog (though not sure this is necessary) then reinstall the other BCUs.