THE FIRE IS LIFE. Feed it wood or the dark takes everything. Its glow is your safe zone — you heal inside it, monsters fear it.
DAY (~90s): Chop trees 🪵, mine scrap rocks ⛏, pick berries 🫐, hunt Tuftlings for meat, loot chests. Haul it home before dusk.
NIGHT (~60s): Gloomlings swarm, Wickwolves circle the light, Bramblebrutes smash walls. Every 5th night: THE HOLLOW ONE drains your fire from the dark — sortie out and strike it.
CAMP: Stand by the fire and press C to craft — better tools, spear, bow, walls, spike traps, torches, bandages, fire upgrades, ember turrets. Cook meat and berries into meals there too.
RESCUES: 4 campers are caged in guarded groves (cyan pings on the minimap). Free them and they join your camp as working companions.
CONTROLS: WASD move · mouse aim · LMB use tool / attack · E interact / feed fire · 1–5 hotbar (tap 5 again to cycle buildables) · SPACE dodge-roll · C craft · P pause · M mute.
TOUCH: left joystick to move, ATK / USE / ROLL buttons, tap the hotbar. Aim is automatic.