6.5. starting a fire
As you probably know, fires are going to be something your going to want! They can help you cook your fish, forge medal items, etc. The first thing you have to make sure you are doing is standing on something that sounds like a bunch of branches being moved around. In the tracking menu this will show up as wood. You will be automatically standing on it if you cut down a tree. Also, if you drop 25 or more branches on most areas aside from water and trees, you will also be on it. So once you are on it, your going to want to take out a match. Here's something quite a few people get confused about. The survival pack contains matches, and fire starters. They have a huge difference. If your standing on wood, you will want a match. Because you already have flammables and you just have to light it. Fire starters however are something quite different. With fire starters, you can just be standing on the grass, and your able to use one and have an instant fire. Please keep this in mind, only use fire starters if you have no wood to put on the ground! If your using matches though, you might have to open the pack. Just interact with an empty hand, as always. Then take a match and use it on your wood pile. Note! Don't waste a match while it's raining, or your fire will probably be gone with in seconds!
6.6. Fishing and eating
Ok, so now that you got your thirst dealed with, and hopefully you have a nice fire going, now, it may be time to worry about not dying of starvation. One of the most common foods is fishing, but first... You need to get a fishing pole, and some means of bate. Luckily, there is a way to do this.
Making a fishing pole
First, you will need a few branches. You can gather these by finding a tree near you. Once you do that, just use a hand to rip a few off the tree. Next, get that knife out and chop that tree down, because you need bigger pieces of wood for this to work. Once the tree is cut down, grab the wood from the tree, just like 5 pieces should do. Ok, so now you have the main materials you will need. First, take your knife and wood, in each hand, and interact these to carve that piece of wood. After you have done that repeat that process on another piece of wood. Then, take one piece of carved wood in one hand, and the knife in another hand, and carve it some more. Do this to your other carved piece of wood as well. Then, you should have 2 shafts, or long, thin pieces of wood. Combine these shafts together to get a long shaft, the pole, on the fishing pole. Once that is done, take a branch, and combine it with the long shaft you created. Once you have that complete, combine a piece of string to the broken fishing pole that serves as the line, and there you go! You now have a fishing pole!
Making a lure
Ok, so you have a fishing pole, that's the main thing. Now, you need something, to serve as bate. A common way to do this is to simply make a clay lure which you can bop around in the water and hopefully attract some pray. The creation is very simple. If you don't have clay, you will need to go and get some in order to succeed. Usually you will have to turn west to get to the clay but it really depends on ware you are. I'll leave that to you to figure out. Just remember to keep your main fire and/or camp sight's location in memory unless you want to start a new one somewhere else. So basically you want clay. You need 2 pieces to make a lure. So, combine one piece with your hand, creating an indent in the clay, or a dipped bowl. Create another one of these the same way using your other piece of clay. Then, combine the too dipped bowls, and you have a little lure!
Let's fish!
So, you have your fishing pole, and, you have your lure. Good. Now, what you need to do is find some source of water, stream, pond, lake, ocean, what ever you can find. Once your in water, take out your fishing pole. Keep the other hand empty. Press t to interact your hand with your fishing pole, therefor casting it. Now, get your lure out in your empty hand. And here's ware it get's tricky. You have to keep repeatedly pressing t to interact lure with fishing pole. Keep pressing t, at what ever rate you find comfortable. You will soon hear a splash noise. There's your fish. Now. Your listening for a sound that's like metal scraping, and There's a chance this could happen right when you hear the splashing. You have to be really careful. Anyway, if you hear the splash but not the metal bite sound, press t some more, until you do hear it. Now, as soon as you hear it, double tap the hand that you have the lure in, therefor putting it away. You wanna be careful to know what hand that is. And, as soon as you hear that metal scrapy fish bite sound, you need to put it away, and continue pressing t because if casted, pressing t and interacting an empty hand and fishing pole will real in. Once you know it's reeling in, the go slow, and keep going until you hear a click sound. This means it's locked and ready.