Need some pro tips

[sinkingsun690]

I've got several hard hours invested in the game. I feel like I'm missing what makes it easier to survive for long periods of time. I'm still taking eight steps and getting some rash that kills me later. Water is first always. What should I do right off the bat?

I know moving around a lot and learning all the buildables, but what will be best to do to get to a point where I'm thriving or does that ever happen in Green Hell? Does anyone ever get to the point of building a big functioning base or do you barely make it until something gets you and see how long you lasted?

[1bob]

Make an axe and a spear right away. I like to head straight to the cocaine farm to get started in a new survival, there is tribal arrows, lots of food and a metal pot to catch water in (50W 27S.)

Create lots of bandages and gather resources to heal cuts as well as poisonous bites. Or to avoid getting bit and attacked by big cats don't sprint in the jungle.

As far as bases go its fun to build a big one but a big base isn't needed. It is very annoying when you are invaded by tribesmen too, they'll destroy your base if you don't kill them in time. Hope this helps

[kaganpunchwood]

Trouble with the cocaine farm and the abandoned village is that you get cat spawns there. If wanting to avoid the cat spawns, the dock is free of cats (and snakes) and its a fairly stress-free place to build. If you build a place on the water (a large portion of the water is shallow so can do a 2 by 6 or 2 by 8 then build a second floor for plants on the top), the rare times you get tribal visits they can't get to any of your stuff to break it up and they are fairly easy to deal with from the base.

Living at the dock seems fairly easy (on green hell mode), its only when travelling that things can get harder, then its all about preparing to get bit by a snake while level 5 dirty and being able to get somewhere to clean up and repair (the micro-sleeping thing is essential to avoid passing out and getting worms over and over, which is a death spiral).

[>< V ><]

I would say what allows me to survive basically with no worries anymore is always having a solution at hand. Because that's what most likely will kill you is that something happens and then you scramble for a solution and then die trying to gather what you need.

I pretty much always hold up at the first abandoned village and just gather my "solutions", which basically means stocking up on the various bandages and getting leaf or bone armor, which greatly reduces the chance of a gash wound.

[Skarmo]

I think one important tip is this one: Don't run.
Always have your eyes and ears (!) open and just don't run.

[Grubgrub]

Personally I enjoy building in lots of different spots.. Holders usually make a good enough wall to keep pesky critters out. Also I like 2 mud water collectors and either of the normal ones, why so many? Dry season, I never worry about water. Trap on either side of the base and a fish trap, Keeping a box of banana's handy, Always on hand and the ones that rot go straight into the garden.
If you are doing story mode, I did not feel that the first one really gave time to settle in, Kind of forced you along but the second story gives more time since you have to build factions while exploring.
I also keep a set of all the different bandages in my bag. Never seem to need them until I don't have them.
Last but not least, make a set of bone armour. Building with mud early is a chore but for me worth it.

Originally posted by Skarmo:

I think one important tip is this one: Don't run.
Always have your eyes and ears (!) open and just don't run.

AND THIS..... Take your run key and throw it away. Unless you like Spider, Snake, Scorpion and Poison tree bites. Running kills more then tribal folk in this game.

[Data-7]

I played for days as nomad before quit out of boredom, the only things i carry:
Knife
Spear
Coconut waterbottle
Coconut or turtle shell
All the rest can be found very easly everywhere and all the building they are of no use except to pass the time.
Take a Look here https://greenhell.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Hell_Wiki and start to think to concrete things, for example some food never deplete and are very light, if you want carry a little reserve you have to carry the right food, leave the meat need to much time for be cooked and it's to heavy, much better are larva, water lily as shugar, Unknown Mushroom 1 is same as clean water same for Indigo Blue Leptonia.
To survive very few things are enough, the rest, as I said, is just to pass the time