Foraging

Foraging for tool making materials, foods, and other resources is important in the early stages of the game. Most gathering does not require any specialized tools, or can be accomplished using stone tools.

Tool Making

Loose Stones

Loose stones are used to knap stone tools. For instructions on creating stone and flint tools, see the knapping page. Look around on the ground for loose stones of a type that can be used when knapping. To collect, break using the left mouse button.

• Types of stones that are useful for tool making include: Andesite, Basalt, Flint, Granite, Obsidian and Peridotite.

Sticks

Sticks are used to create torches and tools by adding handles to stone tool heads. Players can find sticks on the ground (left mouse button to break). If there are no sticks on the ground, look around for "leaves". There are two type of leaves in the game, regular and branchy. Regular leaves have an extremely low chance of dropping sticks and saplings. Branchy leaves can be broken without tools and are guaranteed to yield sticks.

Essential Crafting Materials

Wood

To collect logs, fell a tree using an axe and chop the base log. Logs can be converted to firewood and used for other early crafting needs including a pan panning and the primitive weapon club. A few sticks might be dropped, but not many. Firewood is an important resource to make a firepit for cooking foraged foods, and creating torches.

Grass

With a flint knife, harvest grass using left mouse button. Dry grass is used with firewood to make the firepit but also to make the Hay bed.

Reeds/Cattails

With a flint knife, harvest cattail tops from Cooper's Reeds using left mouse button. Reeds are used to make the simplest portable containers and expand the player's inventory.

Tutorial Video: How to make basic tools and fell trees

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