Tutorials

Welcome to the First Aid Course. We will go over your body, some injuries and how to treat them.

Wrong action: Wrong spot. Use it on your CHEST.

Open the health panel. You can bark at me to skip through this part.

Wrong action: Chest. Your thorax. You used it in the wrong spot... Use it on your CHEST. You want to defibrillate your heart... Which is located in your chest. How did you even get to this point?

It's time to start paying attention to the big panel to the left. It might be overwhelming for a while, but we'll touch on the more important things.

This is your brain integrity. When your brain dies, you die. Today you'll learn how to keep IT alive.

This is your consciousness, or how aware of your surroundings you are.

This is your total pain. It usually goes down by itself over time.

This is your blood volume. It will go down as you bleed it out, eventually leading to death. Consider 2.5L to be around the lethal limit.

This is your rate of bleeding. Fortunately, you're not bleeding right now, so there's nothing displayed.

This is your immunity, a metric of how capable your immune system is at defending your body from infection.

This is your stamina. Physical exertion will lower it.

This is your respiratory rate. Your oxygen will lower if you don't breathe enough.

This is your absorbed radiation. Don't ask what that is, just know that more than zero means trouble.

This is your heartrate. You'll want to keep this above 0.

This is your blood pressure. Don't let it get too high or too low.

This is your blood oxygen, also referred to as SpO2.

This is an ECG. It visualizes your heart rhythm. Get used to it, as you'll stare at it often.

Lastly, this is the limb-specific health panel. Most of it is pretty self explanatory, so we won't cover it for now.

...It's a lot, but you can just check your moodles at any time to learn most of these. Don't worry about it too much.

We will now get to some common injuries.

Bleeding is likely the most common thing you will encounter. It risks infection, and more importantly, lowers your total blood volume.

Your brain needs oxygen to live. To get oxygen, it needs a sufficient amount of flowing, oxygenated blood.

Here's some dressing. You know how to use it, fix your bleeding.

Take a look at your blood pressure. Normally it should stay around 120/80.

Blood pressure is directly affected by your heart rate, blood volume and blood vessel constriction/dilation.

In crisis scenarios, survival boils down to making sure your blood pressure stays at a safe level and that your heart keeps beating.

I am now removing your blood. Keep an eye on your blood pressure.

Your blood pressure is now really low, forcing your heart to compensate by speeding up.

This only goes so far, though. With really high heart rates or really low pressures, something called FIBRILLATION will start.

Fibrillation is the process of your heart rhythm getting more erratic until it stops. It kills in about two minutes.

You might notice an arrhythmia moodle in the bottom left. This is a sign of said fibrillation.

This is an Automated External Defibrillator. It resets your fibrillation to zero, stabilizing you for a while.

Use it on your chest and follow the steps it gives you. Good luck.

Congrats! You lived.

Now, I want you to notice something. Look at your ECG.

We will sweep your heart through all stages of fibrillation. I want you to look at how the rhythm changes with it.

Do you see how it becomes distinctly wavey at high fibrillation?

This is a manual defibrillator. It's similar to the AED, but can fail if used wrong. Use it on your chest.

To use it correctly, you must match the power level to how far fibrillation has progressed.

This means that if arrhythmia just started, you set the power level low. If your heart is seconds from stopping, you set it high.

You can determine this using the ECG and power estimation visible here. The better you align the power level, the higher chance of it working.

Try doing that. Set power, charge then shock until your arrhythmia goes away. You'll get it eventually. Try using the ECG and power estimation.

Lets say something goes horribly wrong. Wear this, then open the health panel.

Your heart is no longer beating. The only thing keeping you conscious is the autopump you just put on. This is the worst case scenario.

Defibrillators can fix this, but it'll take a while. There's a better way.

Epinephrine is a special drug that can restart your heart, found in combat pens. Inject it.

Good as new.

Theres something notable that isn't shown in the health panel, that being blood viscosity.

Blood viscosity is simply how thick or diluted your blood is. Both extremes can cause issues, but extremely thick blood is more dangerous.

Extremely thick blood can cause a Pulmonary Embolism, which will damage your thorax. Severe damage to the thorax will impair and eventually stop your breathing.

To break the clot down, use streptokinase.

Nicely done, but lets see what happens if your thorax did fail.

You must increase your thorax muscle health to breathe again. This bruise kit does just that - use it on your thorax.

Back in working order. Low respiration will lower your SpO2, which will eventually cause unconsciousness, fibrillation and death.

One more thing to note about circulation is high blood pressure, or hypertension. It's usually more manageable, but can still be very dangerous.

The main danger is the risk of stroke if hypertension becomes too severe. Try not to let your blood pressure go above 180/120.

You'll feel a lot of this out with experience. You will now be given some supplies. Bark at me with [B] when you're ready to move on.

We will now take a look at some more miscellaneous injuries.

Dislocations are a common injury, usually acquired from bad falls. Dislocated limbs cause a lot of pain when used.

You can fix dislocations by hand. Try it.

You need to hit the joint back into place. Gain some speed with your hand, then [LEFT CLICK] over the joint to hit it hard.

Fractures are similar to dislocations, but are more severe and need either time or special tools to fix.

A splint is a very simple, yet effective way to treat a fracture. Put this splint on your broken hand.

Neat. Splints speed up the healing of a fractured limb significantly. Putting dressing on the limb would also help slightly.

Your limbs stop functioning when their muscle health nears zero, making it so you, for example, can't hold things with the respective limb.

You can switch which hand you use as your main in the bottom right of the health panel. Try it. Note that you're not ambidextrous.

Severe pain is one of the most debilitating ailments you can get.

It immobilizes you, quickly worsens mood and can make you pass out from shock.

Luckily for you, there's a pretty simple way to treat it.

Opiates quickly reduce pain across your entire body when used. Inject the entire thing and see.

BOO!

That went away quickly, right?

Be careful with opiates - you can overdose on them easily, or go into withdrawals after. Naloxone and naltrexone can help with opiate abuse.

This concludes the First Aid Course. We could cover more, but we believe you can safely figure out other afflictions. You may return to your assigned room.

Welcome to the Crafting Course. Today, we will cover the details of procuring items and show certain common workflows.

Almost everything you see is real matter and not trash.

You can harvest metal from scrap piles and traps, wood from wood structures, foliage from plants, etc.

Your objective will be to create a specified item using the resources given to you.

We will assume you know the bare basics of crafting. Create a foliage bag using the following materials. Use the reset button if you make a mistake.

First steps. Nicely done. Getting a container should always be your first goal.

An important thing to note is that you can use items near you on the ground for crafting. Bark at me with [B] once you've fully absorbed this information.

Lets try again with the same resources. Make a full dressing this time. You can drag any item onto the crafting button to see what recipes it can be used in.

Nicely done. Dressings are very cheap to make and are crucial for your survival. They should be your priority right after getting a container.

Important note - you can pin a recipe to have it permanently highlighted in the corner, using the button in the bottom right of the crafting menu. Pin the recipe for a flimsy knife.

Lets add some scrap and wood to the mix. Create a flimsy knife using these resources. You can merge items in the inventory.

Nicely done. Something to note is that you can favourite items to prevent them from being used in crafting recipes. You'd do this for stuff like bags, to not rip them up by accident.

Press [F] on the flimsy knife you just made to favourite it.

Now, try making a sterilized dressing using these items. Remember you can rip certain bags and clothing items via crafting.

Nice. You might've noticed we made your INT level go up for this test.

Crafting ability is tied to your intelligence level. You might've noticed that every recipe has its own INT requirement.

You gain INT whenever you use a blueprint or make a recipe for the first time.

You can make recipes that are up to 3 INT higher than your current INT, with progressively worse results.

1 INT higher has a 50% chance of damaging the resulting item. 2 INT, 50% chance of fully wasting material, and at 3 INT, you also damage yourself slightly.

You have enough INT to make a machete now. Do that.

Clever little fella, aren't you. You can further upgrade your tools with, for example, titanium alloys. Making digging tools is useful too.

Lets move onto food-related crafts. Most of them require a campfire.

Boil the groundwater into clean water. You'll need to make a canteen to collect it, and a campfire to boil it.

Nicely done.

Make some pemmican.

Well done. We will move on to your final crafting challenge now.

Make a mini laser drill and a battery to put inside of it. This is your final objective for today.

Well done!

This concludes the Crafting Course. Hopefully you can put into practice the knowledge you have attained. You may return to your assigned room.

Welcome to the final revisional training course.

Wrong action: You... Used the entire thing. In the wrong spot...

We will go over all the basics you will need to know for the next experiment you will participate in.

Wrong action: Lets just... Imagine you did it correctly.

Please walk towards the Training Armature Device. [A]

Again. [D]

You can walk. Impressive!

[SPACE] to jump. Hold to jump higher. You can jump off of walls too.

Make your way to the Training Armature Device.

Agile little thing, aren't you.

Now, let's go over holding things.

Item interactions are done with [RIGHT CLICK]. Click on yourself to see your inventory, click away to close.

Here's something for you to play with. [RIGHT CLICK] and drag it onto yourself, then a slot to pick it up. You can hold [CONTROL] to see item labels, making it easier to locate them.

Neat. You can also use the item from the inventory. Drag it into the center to use it and continue.

Tastes amazing, doesn't it? You should eat the entire thing now.

You really WERE hungry...

Lets try something else. Here's another thing to play with.

You have six main slots to put things in. Two hands, one mouth, three slots on your back.

Put this in one of your hands.

Certain tools are usable from your "Main hand". Put the rake there and try swinging it with [LEFT CLICK].

You really are fighting the ghosts now... Well done!

You can also quickly swap whatever's in your hands by pressing [Q]. Try it!

Doing things at a range is also a very useful skill. Hold [T] to throw whatever's in your main hand. Aim for the target we just made!

Marvelous aim!

Lets get that rake back into your hands now.

You can dig through things by swinging at them. This will exhaust you fast, but is useful when done sparingly.

Dig over to the other side. Hold [S] to crouch down.

Some conditions like pain or exhaustion will take a while to go away. Speed up time [1-3] to make them go by faster.

All rested.

We will now go over the basics of first aid. Please hold still.

Ouch! Your arm's hurt and bleeding! Lets check it out. Open the health panel with [R] or the heart button.

Hover over the hurt limb to see more info.

Decently sized puncture wound. Good news - you're going to fix it!

Here's some dressing. Mouse over it while holding [SHIFT]. It says "Usable in health panel".

Pick it up, then open the health panel.

[RIGHT CLICK] drag the dressing over the damaged limb.

Time for some physical work. [LEFT CLICK] wrap the dressing around! For testing purposes, it's infinite.

You're saved! For now, at least. You should always have some dressings on you. They save lives.

Shucks. Looks like that wound got infected! (Normally you'd only find out a while later.)

Another important medicine! Some antiseptic, read what it does if you wish. Pick it up and open the health panel.

Same story as before. Apply the antiseptic to the infected site.

Neat! Do this every few minutes to make the infection disappear. The arrow on the icon shows if it's regressing or progressing.

You really don't want to ignore infections; They are lethal if left to progress. Being well fed and in good shape will slow them down.

More detailed health info is provided in the First Aid Course. You can do it later if you wish.

Take a look at this.

Trash bag! You should be very familiar with it. We've seen your kind sleeping in them sometimes.

It's a container, meaning it extends how many things you can have on you. Try dragging another item into it.

Wow, it's stored inside! Now [RIGHT CLICK] the bag and pull the item back out.

Well done. Containers are extremely useful to have, keep an eye out for any.

Here's something new. See if you can figure out how to put it on.

Nice! Wearables work outside of the normal inventory slots. This one can also have stuff put in it!

Try putting the empty trash bag into the backpack you're wearing. You can put empty containers inside others!

Procuring things on your own is a very useful skill.

Open the crafting menu by pressing [C] (or the button).

You'll make a foliage bag. To do that, you'll need to make two canvases and one rope. We have given you some foliage to do so.

Recipes you can make are at the top of the list highlighted in white. Click on the rope recipe, then on the rope icon in the top right.

Nice. Halfway there. Make the canvases now.

When you have both canvases and the rope on you, make the foliage bag.

Well done! You can also switch between recipe categories, or use the search bar. You'll get more info in the Crafting Course.

Lets take a quick look at the health panel again.

Look up in the top right. Those are your skills. In order, Strength, Resilience and Intelligence.

Strength is your amount of muscle mass. It mainly improves your attacks and carrying capacity.

Resilience is your physical endurance and mental fortitude. It makes you more resistant to pain and tiredness.

Intelligence defines your knowledge. It affects what you can craft, recognize, trader interactions and defibrillator usage.

You can hover over either of the skills to learn more.

Strength and Resilience can be additionally increased by working out. Try it, using the button in the lower right.

You might've also noticed the nap button right under exercise.

Sleep is important for recovering your energy. We made you a little bed to sleep on, try napping there!

The surface on which you sleep matters! Rubber is especially comfy, while rocks are particularly harsh. It's good to give your back a break sometimes.

This concludes your final revisional training. You may now return to your designated room.