In Once Human, survival is not an easy thing, and many mechanics and items remain hidden at first. For this reason, we present you with nine tips in English that can make your survival easier.
What are these tips? These are nine spoiler-free tips designed to make life easier for you in the crazy world of Once Human.
Some of them focus on farming materials, while others revolve around mechanics that you might not know yet but should. We list each point in our overview. So if you only want to skim the list, feel free to use our directory:
Use mutations to farm materials offline
What are mutations? In Once Human, you can find various creatures in bubbles that float around during your travels. Interacting with these unlocks allies that you can place in your camp using the “Isolated Safety Cells.” When placed in your camp, they either farm materials on the side or protect it. Therefore, it is essential to have some mutations active in the camp.
Which mutations should I have? To start, you should focus on two mutations:
- Elemental Youth
- Location: You can find it with a low probability when mining ores – silver and tin will definitely drop it.
- Function: Automatically mines ores.
- Woodchopper Beaver
- Location: At Meyer’s Market on the pier.
- Function: Automatically chops wood.
What should I pay attention to with the mutations? The mutations have different needs, which you can find under “Safety Environment” when inspecting. By following these needs, your mutation will work better and more efficiently, gathering more resources for you. Needs include playing music, using lights, or consuming power.
Pay attention to your status values
Which stats are important? In Once Human, there are various status values that you can find on or above your health bar. These include:
- Hydration (thirst)
- Energy (hunger)
- Sleep (fatigue)
It is important to keep an eye on these values, as depending on how high they are, you will receive bonuses that can benefit you in combat or during survival.
For your hydration, you should boil water and drink it. For your energy, it is worthwhile to consume nutritious food to ensure bonuses like improved resource gathering.
For sleep, you should set up a bed in your camp. A gray bar will form in your health bar that reduces your health points. Sleeping will restore this bar.
The location of your base is important
Where should I place my camp? The location of your base is an important factor for ensuring your survival. The feeling of having a secluded camp in the wilderness is exciting, but in Once Human, you are only hindering yourself with that.
Fast travel is an essential function in this survival game. However, to do so, you need the energy resource, and it becomes more expensive the further you need to travel. Therefore, it is worth setting up your base near large cities so that looting is easier for you, and you can reduce your fast travel costs.
More about the best base locations can be found here in our guide:
Farming fuel is important
Where can I find fuel? Fuel is an important resource to power your vehicles. It is therefore important to have a large quantity on hand during your travels before you break down on the side of the road.
To find fuel, you can simply search old vehicles during your exploration. In the trunk of these cars, you usually find one to two units of your fuel that you can collect.
Strong weapons to use at the beginning
Which weapons should I use at the beginning? Ammunition is scarce at the beginning, but many enemies still need to be defeated, so what now? It is important to rely on two strong weapons that you can get at the beginning:
- A melee weapon like the torch or the machete.
- The crossbow.
While the melee weapon helps you kill enemies at close range without using ammunition, the crossbow is a strong choice for fighting in a resource-efficient manner. The crossbow fires deadly bolts that you can pick up from your enemies’ corpses. Additionally, you deal significant damage over long distances – many enemies die with just one shot.
So it is sufficient to have 20 bolts on you to take down enemies while exploring.
Avoid mistakes when crafting ammunition
What should I pay attention to? You can craft ammunition at your supply workbench, but you can also make some mistakes there.
It is important to ensure that you only produce regular ammunition and no rare AP ammunition until level 50. The reason for this lies in the rare stardust resource. Later in the endgame, stardust will play an important role in crafting and upgrading your items. But if you waste it all on your ammunition, especially at the beginning, you will lose a significant buffer.
Ammunition can also run out quickly if you shoot a lot. Therefore, it is important to ensure supplies again. You will find ammunition especially from human enemies patrolling the map. Eliminate them and loot your ammunition with a bit of luck.
Farm pelts for equipment and items
Where can I efficiently find pelts? Leather or furs are important for crafting armor and items, but you first need to harvest them from the large deer. Go to locations like “Deadville” on the main road or head up to “Meyer’s Market”. However, defeat the large deer, as the smaller ones do not provide any pelts.
Good food is more important than just satisfying hunger
What does this mean? At a cooking station, you can create delicious dishes using various materials, but in Once Human, you should not just satisfy your hunger. It is important to pay attention to what you eat. Depending on which dish you consume, you will receive strong bonuses that can assist you in looting. Therefore, pay attention to the descriptions of the individual dishes when cooking.
Identify locations of blueprints
Where can I find blueprints? Blueprints are essential for crafting weapons and armor. Depending on how much progress you have in collecting blueprints, you can craft more powerful items that can help you survive. To find blueprints, you have four different options:
- Completing monoliths.
- Opening mystical chests.
- Wish machine (gambling).
- Blueprint shop (expensive, but you get exactly what you need right away).
Small tips that you should know: Before you go, there are a few keys that you should know. They simplify your journey and provide you with advantages during use:
- Key “N” – Turn your flashlight on and off.
- Key “Q” – Your scanner. Can scan and mark loot from the environment.
- Key “T” – Allows you to set up a small camp to cook, sleep, and build things.
These were our tips and notes that you should know at the beginning of Once Human. What tips do you know that we haven’t listed? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. You can find out how the server reset works here: Once Human: Will you lose all progress? Here’s how the server reset works
