Make something that cuts, and something that can make another one.
Needs first: nothing — start with bare hands.
Every guide, build, reference sheet and book reached from the steps above.
The forest is the first material store, the first fuel supply and the first thing a group kills itself cutting down. Managed, it is also the only one of the three that grows back.
Level 2Iron is shaped by colour. Read the heat right and a bar of scrap becomes a chisel that holds an edge; read it wrong and it cracks, burns, or stays as soft as a nail.
Level 0A trapline works all night while you sleep. A hunt works only while you are awake, usually returns nothing, and burns the calories it was supposed to find.
Drawn overview sheets, each with its corrections printed under it. They orient; they are never the thing you identify from.
