Use your starting tools to harvest small stones and sticks. Craft a Stone Axe , Stone Pickaxe , and Stone Spear immediately.
Efficient crafting is key to progressing past the "sticks and stones" phase. The Infected
Hover over items in your inventory to see their coin value; these can be sold to the Trader in the east for essential supplies. The Infected Beginner's Guide 2025 - Day 4 - Large Backpack Use your starting tools to harvest small stones and sticks
Locate the broken ATV in the south of the map. Repairing it requires four tires, two iron ingots, and gas cans, but it drastically improves your ability to loot distant towns. Hover over items in your inventory to see
Craft Stone Forges as soon as possible to begin smelting small stones into iron fragments and then into Iron Ingots .
Prioritize finding the tech blueprint for the Loom . You will need four croc skins (found in the swamp) to craft the Large Backpack , which increases your carry capacity from 50 to 75.
Your immediate goal is to establish a safe zone and stable water supply.