Survival Guide - Your first day

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Controls

Character

W A S D To move around
Space Jump
E Backpack Inventory (Access Crafting Grid)
C Character Inventory (Clothes and other Gear)
Shift Sneak (used to place active items on blocks)
Ctrl + W Run
G Sit down
Q Drop currently held item
F5 Cycle through camera modes (first person, third person, overhead)

User Interface

tab Show/Hide chat overlay
T Begin typing in the chat overlay
F4 Show/Hide user interfaces
F6 Show/Hide user minimap
B Show/Hide block info
H Survival Handbook (All items in the game)
M Show/Hide Worldmap
N Show/Hide block interaction help
V Show/Hide coordinates
F12 Take a screenshot
esc Exit/close any interface (Quit the game)

Your first day

Player Spawn

Players appear in the world at the "spawn location". If a player dies in the game, the player will reappear (respawn) at the initial spawn location until the player spawn point is reset. (A way to reset player's spawn location can be found later in the game.) It's a good idea to set a marker for this spawn point when a player first appears in the world. Either right mouse click on the world map or through the command /waypoint add [waypointcolor] [title]. This command adds a waypoint with given color (any .NET Color or a Hex Code) and text.

Stone tools

Scavenging time!
A knapping surface

Find flint or loose stones (basalt, granite, andesite, obsidian or peridotite). Sneak + Right click on solid ground to create a knapping surface. Choose the tool to create from the menu. We recommend an Axe and a Knife. Using a stone in the active hand, left click on the orange boxes to remove them from the stone and shape the finished blade or tool head. When the last orange box is removed, the completed tool head will transfer to the player's hotbar. Press E to open the inventory GUI and access the crafting grid. In the grid, combine the stone tool blade with a stick (handle) to create the finished tool. Sticks can be collected from the ground or by breaking leafy branches using left click.

Player Inventory

You have 3 types of slots

  • The off hand slot can hold passive items such as torches
  • 10 hand slots
  • 4 container slots that let you expand your inventory.

To begin expanding your inventory, crafting hand baskets is the first option. Harvest reeds, which can usually be found near lakes. Hit H and search for basket to find out how to craft it.

Food

Food scavenging time!

Here are some of your first day options for food:

  • Mushrooms can be harvested with a knife or your hands. Harvesting the tops with a knife will allow the mushrooms to regrow over time.
  • Ripe Berry Bushes can be harvested without tools, and then broken and replanted anywhere else. After a while they will start to bloom again.
  • Cattail roots can be harvested using a knife and cooked over a fire as a source of early game forage.
  • Most animals can be killed and harvested with a knife for nutritious meat and fat. Hold Sneak + Hold Right click with a knife in hand to harvest animals. Meat must be cooked in a fire pit.

Light / Cooking

Once the sun sets, a player might want to create a fire pit as a source of light and for cooking. Gather the following resources:

  • Dry grass: left click with a knife in hand to gather tall grass
  • Firewood: left click with an axe in hand to cut trees and harvest logs. Place the axe and logs in the crafting grid to create firewood.

Hold Sneak + Right click on solid ground with the dry grass in hand to place a fire pit. Next, Sneak + Right click with 4 firewood in hand to complete the fire pit. Then, with either a fire starter or torch, hold Right click with either item in hand to light the fire.

How to craft a firepit

Congratulations, meat can be cooked and new torches created by heating sticks!

Combat

To defend yourself and kill creatures craft stone weapons with knapping. Different weapons have different ranges. Spears are the strongest long range weapon in the stone age, but break quickly. Create a stone spearhead by knapping, and combine with a stick (shaft) in the crafting grid to craft the spear. Knives, axes, or just plain sticks can all be used as weapons, but these have shorter ranges than the spear. In an emergency, small stones can be thrown at mobs.

First Day Tutorial Video

Thanks to Ashantin for creating and sharing with the VS community.

Temporal Stability

Tempgear.gif By now you might be wondering what that teal colored gear is doing between your health and satiety bar. This is your temporal stability meter. If it reaches zero, your vision will change drastically bad things tend to happen. When your stability is draining the gear turns counter clockwise, when you are recovering it turns clock wise.

Ways to drain it:

  • Some areas on the surface are temporally unstable, and thus drain your stability
  • The deeper you go the more likely you are to be in a unstable area as well, an thus drain your stability
  • Temporal storms which happen at regular intervals

Ways to recover it:

  • Find the right spot on the world map at the surface or at higher elevations
  • Holding a temporal gear in your off hand then holding right mouse button with a knife in hands will transfer the gears temporal stability for a 30% boost
  • Killing drifters will release small amounts of temporal stability

Advancing further

Now that you got the basics you can continue on to more advanced tech: Survival Guide - Advanced tech


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