The Forest Crafting Guide: What to Make First
Make rope first (7 Cloth), then the Crafted Axe (1 Stick, 1 Rock, 1 Rope), and only then bags, armour and upgrades. The files hold 29 crafting recipes and 113 upgrade recipes.
- Crafting recipes29make something new
- Upgrade recipes113improve an item you hold
- Rope7 clothone rope
- Upgrade cap30applications in the table
This is the order a new save uses the recipes in, not the order the database lists them. Each step links the recipe page.
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The 5 steps at a glance
Get rope. Cloth, or a pickup on the surface.
Make the first-hour tools. Axe, spear, club, molotov, bow, health, water.
Carry more. Five bags and a quiver.
Dress for the job. Armour, boots, warmsuit, repair tool.
Upgrade last. 113 recipes and how they stack.
Step 1: Get rope
Rope is the bottleneck. The recipe is 7 Cloth (a rope recipe page lists it). The atlas also places 27 rope pickups on the surface and more inside caves, against 5 cloth pickups on the surface and 41 in caves and the bunker. So on the surface you walk to ropes; cloth is scarce there and the rest of it lies in caves.
Pro tip
Open the map's materials layer and take the rope pins before you craft a rope from 7 cloth.
Step 2: Make the first-hour tools
Nine recipes cover the first days. Each name opens its recipe page.
| Recipe | Ingredients | The game's text |
|---|---|---|
 Rope | 7 Cloth | Crafting ingredient |
 Crafted Axe | 1 Stick, 1 Rock, 1 Rope | — |
 Weak Spear | 2 Stick | Use to catch fish |
 Crafted Club | 1 Skull, 1 Stick | — |
 Molotov | 1 Booze, 1 Cloth | — |
 Crafted Bow | 1 Stick, 1 Cloth, 1 Rope | — |
 Arrows | 1 Stick, 5 Feather | — |
 Health Mix | 1 Marigold, 1 Aloe Vera | Restores Health |
 Waterskin | 2 Deer Skin, 1 Rope | Holds water |
- Bow and arrows: the full recipe chain is in the bow guide.
- Health Mix: see how to heal.
- Waterskin: see how to get water.
Step 3: Carry more
Every bag is a rope sink: all five use rope, which is why step 1 comes first.
| Bag | Ingredients | The game's text |
|---|---|---|
 Stick Bag | 2 Rope, 3 Cloth, 1 Rabbit Fur | Holds extra sticks |
 Rock Bag | 3 Rope, 1 Cloth, 1 Boar Skin | Holds extra rocks |
| Small Rock Bag | 1 Rope, 1 Rabbit Fur | Holds extra small rocks |
| Spear Bag | 3 Rope, 2 Cloth, 2 Deer Skin, 2 Boar Skin | Holds extra spears |
 Quiver | 1 Rope, 3 Rabbit Fur | Holds extra arrows |
Step 4: Dress for the job
Armour and clothing recipes, with what the game says each does. Which armour is best is a separate question: best armor.
| Recipe | Ingredients | The game's text |
|---|---|---|
 Bone Armor | 6 Bone, 3 Cloth | Increases Armor |
 Stealth Armor | 1 Lizard Skin, 15 Leaf | Increases stealth |
 Rabbit Fur Boots | 3 Rabbit Fur, 2 Rope | Increases stealth |
 Snow Shoes | 5 Stick, 2 Rope | Walk faster in snow |
 Warmsuit | 2 Rope, 2 Cloth, 1 Rabbit Fur, 6 Deer Skin, 4 Boar Skin, 1 Raccoon Skin | Protects from cold |
 Repair Tool | 2 Stick, 1 Rock, 2 Cloth, 10 Tree Sap | Repairs structures |
Step 5: Upgrade last
The 113 upgrade recipes improve something you already hold; they are grouped by the item they use on the upgrades page. Three items change a weapon's damage and speed: Tooth (+0.1 damage, -0.05 speed), Feather (+0.1 speed, -0.05 damage) and Booze (+0.2 damage, -0.125 speed). 11 weapons take upgrades and 9 of them take all three.
The same item gives less each time: the k-th application adds the first one's amount times a curve that falls from 1 to 0.1 at 30 applications.
| n | Tooth: damage | Feather: speed | Booze: damage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | +0.1 | +0.1 | +0.2 |
| 5 | +0.49 | +0.49 | +0.98 |
| 10 | +0.93 | +0.93 | +1.86 |
| 20 | +1.5 | +1.5 | +3 |
| 30 | +1.7 | +1.7 | +3.39 |
Not decoded
Whether the game stops accepting an item after 30 applications was not decoded, and strength and difficulty scale the result on top. Treat the table as the shape of the curve.
Common mistakes
- Burning cloth on a rope you could pick up. The map has 27 rope pickups on the surface.
- Upgrading early. The first application is the best one and the curve only falls, so wait until you know which weapon you keep.
- Looking for a recipe that is not there. The files hold no crafting recipe for the plain Club (only the Crafted Club) or for Meds.
All 29 crafting recipes
Open all 29 recipes
| Recipe | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Crafted Axe | 1 Stick, 1 Rock, 1 Rope |
| Molotov | 1 Booze, 1 Cloth |
| Explosive | 1 Circuit Board, 1 Coins, 1 Booze, 1 Wristwatch, 1 Electrical Tape |
| Crafted Bow | 1 Stick, 1 Cloth, 1 Rope |
| Arrows | 1 Stick, 5 Feather |
| Health Mix | 1 Marigold, 1 Aloe Vera |
| Crafted Club | 1 Skull, 1 Stick |
| Energy Mix | 1 Coneflower, 1 Chicory |
| Head Bomb | 1 Head, 1 Explosive |
| Pouch | 2 Rabbit Fur |
| Stealth Armor | 1 Lizard Skin, 15 Leaf |
| Waterskin | 2 Deer Skin, 1 Rope |
| Rope | 7 Cloth |
| Upgraded Spear | 1 Weak Spear, 3 Bone, 2 Cloth |
| Snow Shoes | 5 Stick, 2 Rope |
| Quiver | 1 Rope, 3 Rabbit Fur |
| Rabbit Fur Boots | 3 Rabbit Fur, 2 Rope |
| Bone Armor | 6 Bone, 3 Cloth |
| Weak Spear | 2 Stick |
| Health Mix + | 1 Marigold, 1 Aloe Vera, 1 Coneflower |
| Energy Mix + | 1 Coneflower, 1 Chicory, 1 Aloe Vera |
| Stick Bag | 2 Rope, 3 Cloth, 1 Rabbit Fur |
| Rock Bag | 3 Rope, 1 Cloth, 1 Boar Skin |
| Flintlock Pistol | 1 Old Gun Part 1 of 8, 1 Old Gun Part 2 of 8, 1 Old Gun Part 3 of 8, 1 Old Gun Part 4 of 8, 1 Old Gun Part 5 of 8, 1 Old Gun Part 6 of 8, 1 Old Gun Part 7 of 8, 1 Old Gun Part 8 of 8 |
| Repair Tool | 2 Stick, 1 Rock, 2 Cloth, 10 Tree Sap |
| Slingshot | 1 Stick, 1 Cloth, 1 Electrical Tape |
| Small Rock Bag | 1 Rope, 1 Rabbit Fur |
| Spear Bag | 3 Rope, 2 Cloth, 2 Deer Skin, 2 Boar Skin |
| Warmsuit | 2 Rope, 2 Cloth, 1 Rabbit Fur, 6 Deer Skin, 4 Boar Skin, 1 Raccoon Skin |
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