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• Your first hour on the coast — Spawn, clothe, drink, eat, arm yourself — in that order, and without waking the town.
• Temperature and clothing — Cold drains energy, heat drains water, and wet clothing cancels insulation on either map.
• Bleeding and bandages — Stop the bleed before you loot the body. Torso wounds drain ten times faster than a hand.
• Food, cooking and spoilage — Raw meat is a trap, spoiled food is a slower trap, and frozen food is useless until it thaws.
• Medical and illness — The cold-to-pneumonia chain, blood types, and the one Sakhal illness you cannot boil away.
• Stamina, weight and inventory — Being overloaded is a death sentence in a fight and a slow one on the road.
• Finding your way — Three official maps, three different flows, and one habit that works on all of them.
• Infected, melee and early firearms — Noise is a beacon. The first gun you fire tells the town where you are.
• Surviving Sakhal — The Frostline map plays by its own rules: heavy metal poisoning, frozen food and boats instead of cars.
• Base building and stashes — Fences, tents and locks — and why a buried stash often beats a base you cannot defend.
• Vehicles, boats and bikes — Logistics wins the midgame, and every vehicle is also a very loud advertisement.
• Military loot tiers and gas zones — Regional loot economies, tiered risk, and why a gas mask without filters is just a hat.
• Fishing, hunting and traps — Food independence inland, and how to stop returning to towns you have already emptied.
• PvP medical and reviving — Winning the fight is half of it. Getting your squadmate back up is the other half.
• Weapons and ballistics after 1.28 — Sway, recoil and dispersion were all touched in mid-2025. Re-check your assumptions.
• Surviving Badlands — Heat, code locks, motorbikes and rebuilding on Nasdara.
• Official, community and modded servers — The same game runs under very different rules. Know which one you are reading advice about.