Survival: Fountain of Youth New Player Survival Tips

Starting Items Tier List

S Tier: Leather Backpack (Don't ask why, just pick this up as always)

A Tier: Gun (Kill some boar and jackals with it and get yourself some really nice set of hide armor early in the game)

B Tier: Iron Axe, Iron Spear (Very good weapon for you to defend yourself with if you don't want to take the gun)

C Tier: Navy Coat (You'll only be troubled by sun 50% of the time and it only take half a day to get equipped with the leaf armor immediately)

D Tier: Flint & Steel, Iron Dagger (Have neither the range of the spear nor the damage of the axe)

E Tier: Meds (Very inconsequential choice by the time you finished reading this guide)

F Tier: Food (Might as well go without any items at this point)

First Thing First

This game is very forgiving when it comes to the survival elements despite of the inherent complexity, and you should note that it is very important to keep your health as high as possible. Even the hardest dehydration or starvation would need at least a week to kill you if you start at a full health. Sleep, eat, and drink often to keep your health points as high as possible

The main way you can die unavoidably is due to lack of preparations. Do not try to explore too far, instead make mental notes of the resources you can easily reach within 100 meter radius around your base. The general starting area have enough food and water sources to keep you alive for the first two weeks

Just Completed The Tutorial, Now What?

Depending on the items you start with, get started by crafting what you don't have

Stone Axe

Stone Knife

Wooden Spear

Leaf Armor

Leaf Box Backpack

Shelter Tips

Broke: Go to De Leon's cave on the first day and camp in there (Do not make a permanent base there, the scorpions will respawn)

Woke: You can build a canopy using the stuff found not too far from where you start

Enlightened: If you place a bed and fire adjacent to a slightly leaning boulder, it will provide the same benefit as being inside a shelter

Early Survival

Before you continue reading, make sure the first perk you pick is the thirst perk which adds +5 hydration to most of the food items you eat.

>Food Need<

Coconuts (brown), Breadfruit

Meat, Eggs. Just as a mention, cooking takes time which could be better spent looking for more resources

>Thirst Need<

Coconuts (green)

Berries, by the edge of the jungle or the small orange tree grove just around the anvil shaped cliff

Mantra For The Comfy (WIP)

Now that you're done with all of the above, repeat this again for the next tier. Remember that upgrading the quality of life in your camp will mean that you'll have more spare time to actually explore without having to worry about the survival aspect.

Better Gear = Less time repairing and less time working

Bigger Base = More convenience in one place

More food stockpiled = More time to do necessary menial work

Step 1: Get Better Tools

A. The most basic stone tools can be crafted with just stones and a stick. Get the better stuff like liana ropes and

B. A daring proposition would be to skip right to obsidian tools. Tempting, I know. Just north where you start is an obsidian mine just below a naturally forming stone arc. Some of the obsidian can just be picked right off the ground while the rest have to be mined off with pickaxe

Step 2: Get Better Gear

You should start looking forward to the next gear tier which is the hide armor. You'll need a saw, a carpentry workbench, the tanning workshop, and the drying rack. You'll be needing a lot of wood logs so make sure that a log cart is the first thing you build.

Step 3:

Shopping List

Here is the nearest location of commonly needed item for your convenience.

Please note that this is basically a spoiler for the entire experience so I'd only recommend seeing these if you've been running in circle for these

Also, I hope you're already familiar with using the map and mapmaking mechanic in general cause i'm going straight to explaining things that are outside of the general starting area.

Bird SectorLeaf (Broad)

Birds of Paradise, the only near endless supply of this which are everywhere in the jungle

Banana Tree, grows in clump so you can get a large amount of this + some meal on the go. First one is found a little bit north of the spaniard campside, the second one is on the northeastern edge of the jungleVines

Big Tree with vines wrapped around it, you'll know when you see it. One is just north of the starting beach. You can rarely find these just laying around the stone pavements within the jungle

Hide

Boar, Jackal, Peccary. You''ll need two spear, one for the sneak attack and another for fightin'. Try getting a bow earlier cause all bows seems to deal additional damage over time

Sinew & Bones

Same source as the hides. Jackals seems to provide more sinew than the rest. Bones can rarely be found just laying around the ground.

Branch (Thick)

Found inside of the Jungle, there may be boars and snakes around preventing you from gathering any of these trees

Lots of thick branch can be found laying around the ground and underwaterStones

Found everywhere, try looking for grey outcrops which should have piles of stones. You can also dismantle the massive rock (via crafting). For starter, you should deconstruct de leon's campfire for the extra rock

Branch (Strong)

Is not found on Hope, go read the next part

Obsidian

Just north of where you start are 3 deposits for obsidian with few of those just laying around. Try to map around one of the obsidian mine to get the location of the rest.

There is also even more deposit far northeast of Hope should you need moreFlints

Found by the mountains paths, a couple is guaranteed to be found at the mountain cave.

Clay

Found near reservoir, there are 2 total which are marked on the map found in de leon's cave. One is in the mountain and another is in the savanna.

Cattail

Found within the vicinity of Reservoir. Can also be found in small ponds by the jungle

Bamboo

Easily found in the mountains. There should be a groove just close by the mountain reservoir

Eggs

Harpy Nests, lots can be found, these do not respawn so don't pick any up if you don't have any particular use for those.

Killing chicken and harpies sometimes drops an egg and they all do respawn

Fish Bones

Gain by cutting fish caught by fishing. Some fish can be killed with harpoon spear, these are green and huge and often found near coastal rocks.

Buffalo SectorCopper

This is straightfoward cause the story will railroad you here. Just look out for jaguars and your stamina while gathering these. Copperworking requires smelter, charcoal kiln, and a forge. All three requires tons of clay to build

Clay part 2

Since the clays at hope doesn't respawn, you might want to get to the second region sooner as there are termite mounds with replenishable source of clays. There is also a rare clay pit northeast of the copper island which contains tons of clays. Remember to bring a shovel

Strong Branch

Found on cannonball tree which would be one of the first few thing found on copper island. The tre have orange fruits growing on its branches. You'll be needing these to build most of the tools and machines for this part of the game

Seaweed Fabric

This is a multi step progress

The first part, the hydrillia is found anywhere around hope island where there is a rocky outcropping on the sea.

The second part is the horseweed which is NOT found on Hope, the description given is wrong. One reliable place i found is the giant rock just north of santa maria's shipwreck

Third part is the loom which are made using

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Leather

Once you had made the copper pot and collected some cannonball tree branch, you should have the improved leatherworking workshop. The material needed to tan a leather can be easily found on Hope island. Note that a lot of water is required to make leather so make sure you have a water storage and catcher already set up

Don't Do These Things (WIP)

The following are ways you can easily die

Death by Falling

You'll easily take fall damage from jumping off a tiny boulder. If you have to go down a steep hill, try to walk diagonally which should prevent you from veering down too quickly

Death by Wild Animal

They are not exactly dangerous. Again, as I said before too many time, you'll only die from them if you got caught off guard while your health is low. All the creature can be easily killed in damage exchange without the need for blocking or parrying

Death by Nature

Death by Diseases

Death by Drowning

Get Well Soon (WIP)

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New Player Survival Tips