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- A reliable way to make clean water is your most important resource, followed close behind by 'ways to carry clean water'. Drinking unpurified water will get you Giardia and death by dehydration quickly. Find a metal sauce pan as soon as you can, but a soup can will work too. You can boil water in glass bottles as well, but it will destroy the bottle in the process.
- A reliable way to make clean water is your most important resource, followed close behind by 'ways to carry clean water'. Drinking unpurified water will get you Giardia and death by dehydration quickly. Find a metal sauce pan as soon as you can, but a soup can will work too. You can boil water in glass bottles as well, but it will destroy the bottle in the process.


- Never eat unidentified mushrooms or berries if you don't want to die. (You'll need Botany to identify them.) Blue berries are always safe though. As for the others, red berries and mushrooms have a 50% chance to be poisonous, white berries are always poisonous.
- Never eat unidentified mushrooms or berries if you don't want to die. (You'll need Botany to identify them.) Blue berries are always safe though. As for the others, <div class="spoiler">red berries and mushrooms have a 50% chance to be poisonous, white berries are always poisonous.</div>


- Conversely, stuffing your face full of safe berries even when you're full is a decent way to keep your thirst bar from depleting too quickly.
- Conversely, stuffing your face full of safe berries even when you're full is a decent way to keep your thirst bar from depleting too quickly.
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==SPOILERS BELOW==
==SPOILERS BELOW==


'''CIA Document Mode begins now. You can play just fine without any of these tips, and in fact, probably should. Discovering this stuff can be half the fun.'''
- For a much easier start, <div class="spoiler">go seven hexes north of the Cryo center, to Zom Zom's, and give your bracelet to the guy at the end of the event, without asking about the deal</div>. You'll lose out on some things that make the endgame easier, in exchange for a pretty big haul of early-game stuff. Just watch out for the <div class="spoiler">Bad Muthas</div> who wander around the area. They'll probably make mincemeat out of you if you don't have a combat build and a very good weapon.


- Don't eat human meat unless you're starving to death. Yeah, it's a LOT of food, but doing it enough times will give you the <div class="spoiler">Windigo curse</div>, which <div class="spoiler">increases the rate your hunger bar depletes by an absurd rate, basically forcing you to keep eating humans to survive</div>.


- For a much easier start, go seven hexes north of the Cryo center, to Zom Zom's, and give your bracelet to the guy at the end of the event, without asking about the deal. You'll lose out on some things that make the endgame easier, in exchange for a pretty big haul of early-game stuff. Just watch out for the Bad Muthas who wander around the area. They'll probably make mincemeat out of you if you don't have a combat build and a very good weapon.
- Your necklace <div class="spoiler">keeps the single toughest enemy in the game at bay</div>, so only take it off if <div class="spoiler">you're ready for the single hardest fight in the game</div> or <div class="spoiler">you're reasonably confident you can lure it into a fight with some DMC guards</div>.


- Don't eat human meat unless you're starving to death. Yeah, it's a LOT of food, but doing it enough times will give you the Windigo curse, which increases the rate your hunger bar depletes by an absurd rate, basically forcing you to keep eating humans to survive.
- If you want <div class="spoiler">your bank account in DMC</div>, you'll need either <div class="spoiler">Hiding + Mechanics</div>, <div class="spoiler">Electrician and a way to zoom your view</div>, or <div class="spoiler">Hacking and Lockpicking</div>. To follow up, you'll need another skill, but basically any of them can be used at this point, with some preparation. Your reward for all this hard work? <div class="spoiler">A bit of backstory, and a visit from the police... who will probably exile you from DMC</div>.


- Your necklace keeps the single toughest enemy in the game at bay, so only take it off if you're ready for the single hardest fight in the game or you're reasonably confident you can lure it into a fight with some DMC guards.
- The two secret abilities are Elusive, and Unstoppable. To get Unstoppable, <div class="spoiler">take both Strong and Melee, beat up the dogman, and take the footage to the Hatter</div> or <div class="spoiler">defeat the robot at Zom Zom's with Melee, then use Strong or Melee to escape the horde at the fairgrounds</div>. To get Elusive, <div class="spoiler">defeat the robot at Zom Zom's almost any other way, and then get the info from the bank without getting caught</div>. For most builds, these two abilities are probably mutually exclusive. However, you can also unlock both by <div class="spoiler">killing the wraith that stalks you when you take off your necklace</div>.
 
- If you want your bank account in DMC, you'll need either Hiding + Mechanics, Electrician and a way to zoom your view, or Hacking and Lockpicking. To follow up, you'll need another skill, but basically any of them can be used at this point, with some preparation. Your reward for all this hard work? A bit of backstory, and a visit from the police... who will probably exile you from DMC.
 
- The two secret abilities are Elusive, and Unstoppable. To get Unstoppable, take both Strong and Melee, beat up the dogman, and take the footage to the Hatter or defeat the robot at Zom Zom's with Melee, then use Strong or Melee to escape the horde at the fairgrounds. To get Elusive, defeat the robot at Zom Zom's almost any other way, and then get the info from the bank without getting caught. For most builds, these two abilities are probably mutually exclusive. However, you can also unlock both by killing the wraith that stalks you when you take off your necklace.


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