How to Survive Your First 5 Years

Currently at this state in the game 8 days after the official launch I have over 30 hours into the game and would say that I am becoming rather experienced. This guide is not the end all be all as we are all still learning and developing the best way to do things as we go. For anyone that wants to come into the game, however this page would be a great starting point as this is going to cover all of the things you need to know to survive and to thrive your first year in Dawn of Man.

The First Glance
When you first load into your brand new save you will be greeted with something along the lines of the picture that I have to the right. As a new player this is most definitely going to be overwhelming as the game does not hold your hand at all during this part. How you set up your settlement early on will be the basis of how it functions in the future. So you want to immediately evaluate your surroundings and see what you have to work with in terms of resources such as animals, ores, and other things like that. Once you find your closest body of water you want to make a fishing Work Zone there so that you can get some fish rolling in and if you have berry bushes near by make sure that you have a work zone to harvest them as well. It seems self explanatory, but please make sure you set up flint, stone, and stick areas so that you can get those resources to.

Personally I am not a big fan of hunting zones; I know a lot of people are, but personally I enjoy looking for the animals to kill because I have noticed it is a little easier and you can control the ecosystems a little bit more than with a hunting zone. So now that you have your food and natural resources set up next you should build a rock storage zone and a skins dryer because you want to work on getting skins dried so that you can construct your first building which should be the storage tent. After that you want to just kick your feet up and focus on getting knowledge points by killing new animals and such because you want to unlock the Food Drying skill as soon as possible then build a Food Dryer.