General Survival Tips (Please Contribute)

I have noticed on the forum a lot of talk about doom but no some seems to wanna share knowledge about how to actually go about surviving and living through this as well as dealing with the aftermath. I thought maybe it would be wise to start a General Tip and Tricks post and maybe later if anyone is interested we can do this scenario based. Not like I believe in the end of the world but I do believe shit happens and its best to know a thing or two.

Here are my contributing Tips.
1.) Remember the 333 Rule. You can survive at least 3 hours without shelter (climate conditions apply aka extreme cold), 3 Days without water and 3 weeks without food. Keep in mind this all applies to climatic conditions. If your in the tropics and the world hasn't really frozen over Its not like your going to get hypothermia. If your in the arctic or its really cold and lakes have frozen over, a really good easy building material is ICE. Ice will act as a great insulator and trap heat keeping you warm. What you do is dig into the snow to create a ditch. Get as much branches as you can and lay it over the opening or preferably fashion it into a dome over the opening. use twigs etc and make its tight and strong as possible. Now cover it all up with snow. Not too much as to make it heavy. Into the wall you can dig out a bit of a chimney, Make sure the vent is straight up. you can lay a few stones there and have a small fire for light as well as heat. You will be surprised as to how well this works and how much heat you can get.

2.) Water is essential, not only for you but a lot of living things.. these include bacteria and viruses. So don't just go drinking water anywhere you find it. Filter it and boil it. A simple filter can be made of grass. A better one ban be made by layering grass, putting a few large pebble over it, then packing charcoal over the pebbles.. This will remove most of the contaminants and odor as well as gases. Now you should boil this.. Use a container if you dont have one,, hollow out a piece of wood and layer leaves in it. put the water in and heat a few stones in the fire. drop the stones in and the water will boil.. A really cool trick I learned was to dig some clay type dirt close to a river bed, clean it by removing pebbles grass etc,, Mix in some stick tree sap then fashion it into a pot. Cook this in a fire till hard. Now layer and paste the inside with more trees sap and heat again till hard, This will form a coating and make it water proof. Now you got a pot for boiling and cooking.

3.) Now Food. You can gather food, stock food, hunt etc, but what happens when your in a desperate situation and game isn't all that lucky for you. Your best bet is to look for monkeys or any kind of primates. What they eat you can eat too. Now learn about several traps. The most effective is a pit Type trap. Dig a hole, put some very fine twigs on top and cover it with leaves. The best place to make one is where you see animal tracks. They usually use the same path over and over. make it in between two tress that the path runs in the middle of. Just make sure the hole is big enough and deep enough,, you can place spears in it, but I dont think you should as another human can become a victim.


Now you have noticed the tips I gave are ones that require no stocking materials. everything you need can be found right around you. Only thing I did not specify is about how to get a fire going I am assuming most of you here can do that without having to resort to batteries or matches or a lighter or a magnesium fire starter rod. Its best not to rely on those things and practice making it with 2 pieces of wood and a vine.. You will not always have those things.

Last Edited by dark_lord_tnt on 05/11/2015 07:54 PM