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Guides for the beginner, intermediate, as well as advanced level player
 #460  by Weyland
 
With some issues of loot availability in 0.50, some of you might find survival isn't as easy as it used to be.

First of all, ya'll have had it easy, too easy. A survival simulatar that takes places several years post-infection is suppossed to be hard. If you use your surroundings with a sprig of creativity, surviving isn't as hard as you might think.

Every fresh spawn can live w/o food or water for over 40 minutes. Running a 1000 meters takes 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Considering the map is approx 13km wide, that means you can make it from one side to another in 30 minutes. There are ways to move over mountains w/o killing a ton of time so lets not go there. Meaning, any fresh spawn can get to the complete polar opposite of the map w/o food or water safely.

BERRY BUSHES

They're everywhere. Sure, they don't fill you up and are a bit of a waste of time and the least efficient way to survive, but they are everywhere and might just be what keeps you alive.

APPLE TREE'S

A much better way to survive. Sure, its going to take a while to get an amount of apples you need to get healthy. Its not as instantly gratifying as a bag of rice and you will probably spend 10 minutes, but you will live.

FISHING

Isn't just done with a pole now. Find a water bottle, knife, hoe or shovel for worms and craft a fish trap for sardines. Drag the knife over the water bottle to craft the trap. Place trap in salt water (ocean) and add worms. Time consumption is finding the items needed to craft the trap as sardine trapping is rather quick.

HUNTING

Is no longer limited to needing a weapon. Rabbit snares are made up of wire and wooden sticks. Combine the two to catch a rabbit.

FARMING

Get a seedpack of tomato's, a hoe or a shovel and your off and running. Garden lime will expediate the process. Find a greenhouse, dig the plots, add the lime (or not) and pant the seeds. 10 minutes is the grow time with garden lime and a bit longer without.

The biggest tip for any fresh spawn to survive is do NOT waste time looting coastal regions. You are not the first freshy of the day and chances are many freshies came and looted before you. Spawn in Cherno, don't loot Cherno…get on the road to Zeleno. Spawn in Berezino? Get out of town to Svelto and if Svelto is empty make the trip to Novo. Spawn in Electro…or Kamy, make the trip north into Pusta, Staroye or Msta.

When looting towns, don't loot every single house. The clock is ticking so you need to keep it moving because death is on the way.

If you are desperate, jump on the FaceBook group timeline or the send a message in our TS channel to another survivor and ask them to help you. Interaction is an excellent way to survive.

Stay tuned for updates to this guide!