Quick access to important recipes.
Cut any clothing into rags for bandages, rope, tinder and splints.
Split a long stick into short sticks — the base of most crafts.
A blade from stones when you have nothing at all.
Twelve rags become the rope that gates most mid-game crafting.
First real storage for a fresh spawn, made from a sack and rope.
Upgrade an empty courier bag into a proper backpack.
Keep your gear working instead of hunting for replacements.
Turn pond water into safe water and never catch cholera.
Warmth, light, cooking and dry clothes. The core survival skill.
Start a fire with no matches at all.
Portable light without a battery. Also a fire source.
Field fix for a broken leg when you have no morphine.
Make improvised bandages safe to actually use.
A hidden stash and a roof, built from what the forest gives you.
Walls and gates, built in stages from a kit.
Height, storage and a defensible position — built level by level.
Turn a carcass into meat, fat, guts, bones and a pelt.
Get the food state right — raw and burned will both hurt you.
Turn a raw pelt into material for clothing and shelters.
Unlimited food from any pond, lake or coastline.
A fish hook made from what is left of dinner.
Dig a worm, hook it, and the rod finally works.