Best way to make your character happy from the start:

Buy a toilet paper pack from O-Mart and open it. Carry a toilet paper roll with you all the time. Buy a water canister from the store. That is the best water in the game. Only drink at least clean water at all times. Nothing depresses you faster than drinking poo or being stinky. You can also fill a 20 l empty canister (or any bottle) with faucets with a clean water at the Kolhola hostel or the basement laundry for free. (You can steal pure water from the tanks at the Ericsson claim or Kauha claim in the mines later. )

Shower often, at least once a day. You can use a shower at Kolhola hostel next to pods when renting a pod there. Otherwise the door is locked.

Buy at least a decent bed from Möbelmann at Deekula C. You character gets depressed when not sleeping in high quality beds in safe places like your apartment. Sell useless items from your tenement when cleaning it to have more money. First renovation should be makeshift walls for your apartment. You can sleep then ”safeishly” which means something can occasionally happen. Store your items at a box somewhere when going to sleep to not lose any. Still you can get mugged if unlucky so better to save your game before going to sleep if not enjoying patching yourself. One option is to stay at the Kolhola hostel until your apartment has at least T2 Shabby walls.

The second renovation should be a makeshift bathroom. You now have your own shower! Buy janitor services from the market stall during the day. Filling your tanks costs 400 OC. You can now shower or have a poo in your own apartment too. You must empty the bucket occasionally which makes you stinky but you can burn your own poo in any fireplace or dump them in the garbage cans found everywhere.

Eat high happiness foods, which will change from time to time, when your character gets bored. Eat tasty food from looting places at first to save money. Kolhola building has unlocked abandoned apartment, there is some leftover food at the cabinets there. Carrots are the all time favorite happiness food so you could carry them with you. You can farm them at the greenhouse or buy them at the O Mart. Antidepressants work only when used seldom, check the efficacy level from the item description first. If nothing else helps, get a booze with high quality. Sip only a couple of drinks then go to sleep in high quality bed after showering and not being too hungry.

So remember always to sleep at least once a day in high quality bed and only occasionally use coffee to stay awake. Use only high quality coffee like El Presidente (preferably stolen) made by the coffee maker in your apartment. You can occasionally find some high quality coffee drinks laying around when looting places.


ADDICTIONS: do not worry about addictions. If they are not too high you will survive. Use low doses only when necessary, when it affects the happiness. Happiness is a key curing addictions. Sauna could work too, but it has a chance of overheating. Your happiness gets eventually higher when sleeping in your own bed regularly.

NOTE: If you get really unhappy, you begin to damage yourself. You need bandages for that. You could easily die from untreated depression.