This guide is deigned to teach you how to become king of the forest.
It will show you fighting techniques, how to survive and basic inventory management.

If I missed something or you have an issue just leave a comment, and ill try and respond to it

There are two types of hunting techniques, trap hunting and spear hunting.

Trap hunting uses poisoned meat to distract the wolf before throwing spears at it.
First, you need poisoned meat or poisoned rabbit meat. To get this, you need a rabbit trap crafted using 3 berries, which are found everywhere.


Keep in mind these traps only work at night and if you are 7 spaces away. When you hear a loud noise come from the trap that means you've caught a rabbit. And make sure to get to it before a wolf does. It can happen. When you have the rabbit’s body you can butcher it and poison it with a mushroom. They can be found everywhere too.
Now you need spears. Around the map you can find saplings. They look like small bushes that (usually) aren’t connected to any other trees/bushes.


Once you find them, harvest them and turn them into a spear. Spears also give you the option to sharpen them. This doubles the attack but can take from 0% to 14% off its durability. But I always recommend at least sharpening it once because 25 damage is nothing. I suggest getting at least 3 sharpened spears before trying to hunt with this tactic. Also, I usually keep sharpening until it’s below 8% but you do you.

Now just walk around the forest until you see a wolf (which can take a while). When you do see one, approach it and drop the poisoned meat which it will start eating from. While it eats, get a spear ready to throw (preferably your lowest durability spear), and the moment the wolf is poisoned, throw. While it’s fleeing, throw your second one and then chase it with your third to get the final blow.



Spear hunting is more of a late-game tactic. It involves gathering at least 5 spears, just rushing head first into a wolf while throwing spears at it, and again finishing it off with a melee hit. In this tactic you can use spear traps but it’s not necessary.

To sum it up, trap hunting has a long prep time, but an easy kill, and spear hunting has an even longer prep time, but you only really need to set it up once. .

To even start surviving, you need food, water and a way not to go mad.

Food is easy, you have many options in the woods, but some are less helpful than others.

If you want to be a vegan, then go with berries, you can find them in bushes, and there's a lot of them. Berries however will only keep you from starving, so you’ll be stuck being hungry, plus you would need a ton of them to survive

If you're a meat eater then you may prefer rabbit meat. You already know how to hunt a rabbit for its meat. But your also going to have to cook it for sanity’s sake, you can do this with a campfire made with firewood. When it's cooked, it'll only get you stable so you won’t heal from eating. Not to mention how long it takes to get a rabbit, it won’t be a steady supply of food.

So the last option is the flesh of the rival predator, wolf meat. Again it’s recommended you cook it so that your sanity stays intact. This meat gives you a chance to heal and wolves are found everywhere.
Along with getting wolf’s meat, wolves will drop their heart. This basically acts as elder flesh.

Water is a bit trickier as glass bottles aren’t standard, but if you have one, great. Whatever you do, try to always avoid drinking dirty water. Receiving any of the harmful effects from it can be game-ending.

Then there’s sanity. The main sanity losses in the game are dread from being outside and trauma from eating wolves’ hearts.
There are a few things you can do to avoid dread. First, you can set up a base in one of the buildings (here is the map for reference).


This can be a bad tactic, searching for wolves will be hard because you can stray too far from base and finding a constant supply of berries may be problematic if your rabbit hunting.

Or you could try building a campfire every night. However firewood will soon become hard to find, and you need a lot to keep it running for the entire night, so that’s a lot of wasted inventory space.

So my preferred tactic is house jumping.


You can get to the big house by following the train tracks. After that, you can keep travailing to these three houses. This way, you can find wolves the way you would, travelling randomly, and you have a place to stay so you don’t lose your sanity.
And if you ever get lost, just find the train tracks and your set.

With the wolves’ heart, you can keep eating them unless your current sanity is below 26. Gaining extra strength is always good.

No matter how good you are, there will come a time when you get hit.

So Firstly, how do we avoid it. The main threat to your health is wolves, and they can get you in many ways. They could track you down while you're unarmed, gang up on you outside, or you could mess up during a hunt.


Whatever it is, here are a few ways of getting out of these situations. Hiding in bushes can be get them off your trail, throwing stones to stun them for a short while, or even dropping rabbit meat as a distraction (be warned, this doesn’t work on the red wolf).

Lastly, how to deal with the damage. After the hit, you will start to bleed. There aren't many items to stop bleeding, so don’t bother carrying around anything, just eat.
Eating is the only way you can restore health and in this game, being caught with little health is a death sentence.

You have 12 inventory spaces (not including what you have equipped), and you need to use them wisely.

To start off, the basics. It would be best if you had a glass bottle for water, berry’s in case you have no meat, and you get peckish. Twigs for sanity and firewood for boiling water/cooking meat. That leaves 8 spaces left.

Next is the food. You should always have 1 space available for storing the meat you collect. that leaves 7

And what’s left you can fill with spears or items used to hunt, use your better judgement.