Your first days on the island

The store description is the premise: the aircraft goes down, you are stuck in the zone, and the way off is materials, skills, a shelter, and whatever is hunting you. I start a new reader there, not in a 2021 build guide. Those older Steam essays still help for the order of stone tools, and they are wrong about anything 1.0 replaced.

Make a stone axe and a stone hammer before you dream about a workbench. The 2023 workbench page says that pair is the key that unlocks Technology, and the bench then costs 20 wood, 20 nails and an iron hammer. Until that exists, you are on a campfire and whatever container you loot. Exercise and sleep are both real needs in the old guides: sleep restores you at a bed or bedroll, and exercise is how early strength moves. I do not have 1.0 numbers for either bar.

Drinkable water is the other first-day crisis. A well exists; the store mentions wells. A 2023 Chinese guide says a well ends the water shortage. That is one guide, so I will not promise the well solves thirst for the whole game. Boiling is the page next to this one.

1.0's launch notes add a tutorial and treat character saves as their own thing. Read the save-location page before you experiment, and do not follow a 2023 folder tip if it disagrees with the LocalLow path printed there.