Article: Gathering materials is easy since you already have the basic tool for hunting. Wood is one of the vital resources for your survival since it is used to make campfires, houses, storage containers, and many others.  Your main tool to gather wood is the Rock. To use the Rock, simply press 1 or the assigned shortcut slot for the item, which can be found at the bottom of your screen. To gather wood, simply approach the nearest tree with the Rock equipped, then start hitting the trunk by right-clicking. You will then receive message on the right side of the game window notifying the number of wood you have gained. Once the tree is depleted, another message will appear, stating that there's no more wood for you to gather. When this happens, simply move to another tree to gather more. This is the easiest way to gather wood but not recommended. Your calories burn with less wood since per hit, and you only get 1 wood each. Pile of wood is scattered around the world. This is the fastest way to get wood and also burns a small amount of calories. Pile of wood gives many more pieces of wood per hit than trees. This can obtained by breaking mineral rocks, which can be found around the world. You can use the Rock tool to mine until the resources is depleted.  These materials are required to create gunpowder and weapons. Stones are also used for building campfire, which is why it's advisable that you gather stones as you search for any pile of wood. If you're willing to kill and loot players, then you have the option to become a bandit. Anyone can be a bandit by their choice, killing new players and then taking all the loot they have. This path can be fun, but needs a lot of preparation, such as having the proper weapon and decent armor. To hunt for fresh meat, you need to find an animal and then kill it. Using the weapon you have, you can use the starter weapon, kill the animal with it. Once your target is dead, swing your weapon at the corpse to get all the loot.  Rust is a developing game and still in their alpha. With that said, keep in mind that all meat you receive, regardless what animal you have killed, drops chicken meat. You can gain cloth (which is useful for medicine kits, beds, and even creating a bow.), leather (from bears), blood (from wolf or bear), and many others. If you don't have a decent weapon, kill rabbits with the Rock. It only takes two hits to kill it. Chicken are easy targets as well. They run slower compared to rabbits. You can also sneak behind the animals to prevent them from running. Simply hold left+ Ctrl. You can scavenge for canned food or rations from crates. You can also search for items and weapons inside the building, but while doing this, be cautious about your surroundings for many bandits camp nearby to kill new players in order to loot their items. Most areas with buildings are irradiated. Proceed to your searching if you have enough anti-radiation pills.
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Gather lots of wood. Gather stone, sulfur, and metal fragments. Be a bandit. Hunt for meat. Scavenge for food, items, and weapon.