Highlights
- Stockpile wood for basic structures and fuel early on, crucial resource for crafting and cooking in mid-game.
- Stone becomes essential for stronger building materials and defenses, farm early to have enough for cement.
- Collect eggs for food and healing, start stockpiling for recipes like bacon and eggs throughout the game.
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The survival aspect of 7 Days To Die follows the general ethos of farming raw materials, then using those materials to craft more advanced components or finished items. Some materials are also used for base building. Therefore, it is well worth farming certain materials from the very first few hours of gameplay, so that a stockpile is established for the later game.
8 Wood
Useful Basic Resource
Key info:
- Acquired by using an axe on trees and tree stumps
- Useful for building basic structures and burning as fuel
Wood is one of the most basic resources in 7 Days To Die, but an important one nonetheless. In the early game, the player will use wood to build basic structures for their first horde base, preparing for the first Blood Moon.
As the game progresses, wood becomes a very important source of fuel for cooking fires, forges, and all of the different crafting benches. In the mid-game, wood will be the player’s primary fuel, although they will likely switch over to burning coal by the late game.
7 Stone
Sturdier Building Material
Key info:
- Acquired by mining stone nodes with a pickaxe or an auger
- Useful for grinding down to create advanced building materials
New players to 7 Days To Die won’t have an awful lot of use for stone in their first few hours of gameplay. However, after this point, they will need vast quantities of stone, so it is worth farming right from the start. Stone is used to create more robust building materials than basic wood can build.
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Stone can be turned into cobblestone, which is a good upgrade over wood in the early game for building a defensive base. Later on, stone can be turned into the components for cement, and then put into a cement mixer to produce concrete, which is much tougher than wood. Put simply, start farming stone early. It will be needed in huge quantities later on.
6 Eggs
Good Early Game Food
Key info:
- Acquired by looting birds nests
- Useful as early game food source, used in more advanced food recipes later
New players to 7 Days To Die need a good source of food in the early game, not just to keep them full up, but also as a source of healing health points, as they will not have access to suitable healing items such as first aid bandages until later in the game.
Eggs are easy to find, and can be boiled on a campfire once the player has looted a glass beaker to boil them in. Some of the early-game advanced recipes, such as bacon and eggs, also need eggs to craft them. Put simply, the player will need eggs for the entire game, so the sooner they start stockpiling them the better.
5 Meat
Another Good Early Game Food
Key info:
- Acquired by killing uninfected creatures and butchering them with a knife or axe
- Useful for early game food and advanced recipes later on in the game
Meat is another great early-game food in 7 Days To Die. It can be cooked on a campfire once the player has looted a grill. Furthermore, there is an excellent early game recipe for boiled meat that gives not only fullness, but also hydration in the same package, making it something of an early game superfood.
Meat is also needed in many later game recipes, such as the aforementioned bacon and eggs, and all sorts of pies and stews. Only uninfected animals such as rabbits, chickens, bears, and wolves give meat. Infected creators give rotten meat, which is toxic to the player.
4 Clay
Needed To Keep Forges Running
Key info:
- Acquired by digging earth with a shovel or a pickaxe
- Useful for keeping forges running
Clay is one of the more annoying resources to farm in 7 Days To Die. Yes, it is very easy to get, all that is needed is a shovel. The problem is that it is slow to dig up, relying on player stamina for digging with a shovel. It can take quite some time to dig up a whole stack of clay.
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Unfortunately, clay is needed any time a forge is running to smelt ores or create alloys. This means that the player needs to keep going out to farm clay. In the early game, it is a good idea to run low-level Buried Treasure missions from the Trader, simply because they are a) easy, and b) leave the player with plenty of clay for the later game.
3 Coal
Needed To Make Gunpowder
Key info:
- Acquired by mining a coal node with a pickaxe or auger
- Useful for making gunpowder and as an advanced source of fuel
Coal is a raw material that all 7 Days To Die players will want to farm in large quantities, simply because, along with nitrate, it is one of the main materials needed to make gunpowder. Any player who wants to use ranged weapons is going to need to constantly be making gunpowder in a chemical station.
Coal is also a great source of fuel. It burns much slower than wood, and is therefore better to use for long-term fueling of crafting stations, especially if the player wants to leave the crafting station running for some hours.
2 Nitrate
Only Used For Gunpowder
- Acquired by mining a nitrate node with a pickaxe or auger
- Useful for making gunpowder
Every 7 Days To Die player will end up spending a long time mining nitrate, as it is needed to make gunpowder. The game has a pretty realistic crafting system when it comes to making advanced materials. By mid-game, it becomes hard to keep up with gunpowder consumption, so it is worth starting to stockpile nitrate at the very start of the game.
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The good thing about mining nitrate is that it is the easiest mineral to see while underground, as it is white and sparkly. Something like coal is black, and it is very easy to lose the seam. This is not so with nitrate, and it can be mined easily followed.
1 Honey
Needed To Cure Infection
Key info:
- Acquired by using an axe on a tree stump
- Useful for curing infection
When a player is bitten by a zombie, they have a chance of becoming infected. If the infection is not cured quickly enough, they will turn and die. The only source of medicine that can cure infection in the early game is honey.
There is around a 25% chance of looting honey when destroying tree stumps with an axe. However, tree stumps can be hard to find and are simply not available in some biomes such as the desert. Therefore, it pays off long-term to farm a stack of honey in the starting zone at the beginning of the game.
