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Your first hour

Water, food, a weapon, and how to stay alive.

Low risk

Step by step

1. 
   1

   Choose where you start

   After death: the safe zone, around it, or your own sleeping bag.

2. 
   2

   Drink first

   Wells stand in the hubs; the map shows water. A bottle costs $25.

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   3

   Eat

   Canned food from $55 at the food trader. Fruit and mushrooms grow wild.

4. 
   4

   Stop the bleeding

   Bandage at once, or tear a shirt into rags. Bandages cost $45.

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   5

   Find a weapon

   Towns near the spawn hold basic guns. Melee works on infected.

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   Stay quiet around infected

   Noise draws them. Each kill pays $10 into your bank. Hordes show on the map.

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   Bandits: hands up

   Told to put your hands up? Do it: they rob you and let you go.

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   Police: lower your weapon

   Lower it, then hands up. They search you, take contraband, let you go.

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   Read the zones

   Safe hubs: no combat. Green PvE, red PvP. PvP zones are first person.

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    Lay out a sleeping bag

    Respawn at it every 30 min. A bag costs $250.

Good to know

• Trader sales go to your bank. Bankers pay out banknotes.
• Reach a safe zone and every bandit forgets you.
• Police never fire first. Running from an order makes you wanted.
• Logging out in combat leaves your body in the world for 30 s.

Related guides

Every way to make moneyEach path with its risk and rough money an hour, from today's prices.Zones: safe, PvE and PvPWhere players can hurt you, and where nothing can.Leaving PvPThe countdown after a PvP zone, and why logging out won't save you.

The same guide is in the game: press M and open the Guide tab.