Help with trying to survive in the wilderness

[redxlaser15]

Okay, thanks for the advice. Once again, however, I need help with the whole ‘starting fires’ situation. Since raw meat tends to be a bad idea to eat. That said, one of the sticks I could probably turn into a digging stick for the (I think it’s called) dahlia to eat. It won’t be as good without being cooked, but if need be I can. At least in the case of food that’ll work. But I still need to boil water. Also, how do you make cured then tanning skin? I’ve done it once before, but it’s typically not something I need to do in the first place.

[Brony_RainBoom]

Make the fire drill, get some sticks, use a knife (or make one and) to cut yourself some splintered wood, then bunch some undergrads for withered plant and you have all needed for a fire drill, if it’s not avaliable use “weapons” and craft something from sticks unitil you gain skill (2 survival)

Hide can be cured whit salt water, then you need tanning that is: a pot, knife, salt water, cured hide(or belt, belt has fur and can be turned into hide anytime instantly) pine bought or tanning bark from oak trees, then you let it sit for ??hours

[Brony_RainBoom]

Also sealed stomach (6l waterproof resealable) requires 1survival,knife, fire, pine pought, sinew or plant treath(crafted from withered plant) and water

[Brony_RainBoom]

The shelter can be a fox hole if you use mods but if not the best bet is pine shelter from construction menu, and that’s really all for temporary shelters

[redxlaser15]

I think my punch dagger counts as a knife effectively. After all, it does have ‘dagger’ in the name.What do you mean by ‘undergrads’ though? Sticks are annoying to get, but certainly not undoable. I think I can make a stone pot if I gather enough too, but then again I might also need higher survival skills. Sheesh, wilderness survival is so much more confusing in involved, at least it seems to be anyway. I only need a very temporary shelter for the moment, not something super great. Just something to help with rain and cold mostly. Until get warmer clothing. My mouth and head feel like a popsicle, and some other parts less so.

[Brony_RainBoom]

Yeah, dagger is a knife, and undergrads are undergrass, the stuff you can scavange

[Brony_RainBoom]

I consider sticks easy, all you have to do is bash young trees, then craft for skill and abondon the crafted if it’s usutles, it’s not nearly as hard as getting calcium and farming

[redxlaser15]

Well, like I said, sticks are annoying to get. They aren’t super hard to get or anything, but they are a little bit of a pain. However, the fact that they can be kicked off small trees is news to me. So that should make things a bit easier. Thanks for all the good info you’ve given so far. I just need to implement it into my gameplay once I get back on. I believe to scavenge certain items from bushes you 'e’xamine them right? Not actually kicking them? Or maybe it’s a mixture, I dunno.

[Brony_RainBoom]

“e” can be used on bunch of things, from closed curtains windows to collecting the darn plums from trees,
e: underbush-scavange and maybe find trash(valuable in only wilderness) food or othera
s: smash stuff, smash underbush for withered plant,

Also how the heck did you get sticks whitout young trees? Only from windows whit curtains or…

[redxlaser15]

Sticks can just be found randomly near and around forests, and are more common in the denser parts of them. (at least as far as I can tell) The biggest danger of walking around the forest searching for them is that forests are dense and limit your eyesight, and thus it’s really easy to run into the occasion spider nest or a bunch of giant bees. Luckily, thus far I’ve managed to avoid such terrible events.

[Brony_RainBoom]

Also underbush recover from scavanging

[redxlaser15]

Do you know if cattails are edible in any way? Also, I need something to store water to make the sealed stomach itself.

[TheMurderUnicorn]

You can eat them raw, though it’s not satisfying. One of the two parts can be crafted into starch and flour to make breads.

[redxlaser15]

I managed to make a pine lean-to. It seems that it provides warmth in a 3X3 radius around it from short observation, can anyone verify that?
OOOO! Well hello there Mr. Crashed helicopter? Is that some nice, warm gear I see? Don’t mind if I do!
Question, what exactly will happen if I drink non-boiled water.

[darktoes]

Depending on the source you have a chance of getting sick or a parasite. Unless you have the gear and skills to make something to deal with parasites (certain teas or oils) then you should avoid it as much as possible.

Rainwater has the lowest chance of giving you something, I think other sources are pretty much equal, but I think swamp probably has lower.

[psyxypher]

Of course, being a Parasite and Disease Immune Super-Beast with acidic blood makes you pretty much immune to Parasites.

It’s hard to survive as a Chimera, but you’re pretty well equipped to do so, considering you can eat anything that’s not plant matter.

Clean Water is easy to get. You just need to boil it. Keep in mind that in PK’s Rebalance, both Clean and Unclean Water have a degree of radiation in them.

[darktoes]

I kinda doubt he has access to Chimera mutagens.

[Alkheemist]

If you can find a can from scavenging bushes, they have boiling 1. You will need something to store the output of the clean water recipe though, even if you intend to drink it immediately. Sealed stomach is probably the easiest to get if you didn’t find any plastic bottles from scavenging.

For fire, grind survival by scavenging and then use fire sticks. If you can save a match or two you can use an ember carrier to extend the lifetime of your firemaking supplies, although I normally just use firesticks and spend a bit of time.

[redxlaser15]

MUHAHAHA! My lean-to is situated right near some shallow water, which provides a seemingly infinite ability to get clean water and salt from my fire drill that was surprisingly easy to make! It had to kill several pushes and punch some trees to death (almost like minecraft) to do it, but it’s fine. I managed to small some beds from the starting place to get some rags too, so that makes things a little better for warmth. My stone pot gives me the ability to boil stuff, and a bone skewer to cook! Now all I need to do is get rid of that cougar nearby who keeps using guerrilla tactics on me when I’m crafting. Seriously, I punch him once or twice, then he runs away, then he returns and bites me a couple times before I punch him again. I can survive it, but it’ll be rather painful. Having a punch dagger from the start and training a bit of my melee on suicide raccoons is also very useful.

[DeWolf]

Bear in mind you can store water in any watertight container. The only issue for non resealable containers is that you cannot directly put them in your inventory, you would have to either have it on the ground or in your hands. So really in order to boil water all you really need from forest resources is a non saltwater pond, a heat source (in this case fire), a tool with at least boiling 1 (in this case most likely a can) and a watertight container to put your resulting clean water in (which can be another can that is either on the ground nearby or your hands).

EDIT: oh you already got that situated. Cougars and other creature that use hit and run tactics are always a pain especially at the start. Have you tried making a spear or something with range to try and get a couple of hits on it before it hits you (it should be noted that if the information I found is correct it has the fear trigger for sound which means that yelling at it might scare it off temporarily)