Tips dontletitdie

Goals

The goal of the game is to manage your health, fire wood, and resources, while investigating the fire.

Do not underestimate the tech tree, you need it to win as well as unlock features to help you survive.

Consider which players are coming up next

Consider the stamina, health and items of the players coming next in the turn order. What are you missing and what is a nice to have. Would it be better for you to risk pulling from the deck, and what are the chances you take damage.

Tech Tree

When possible you should roll the fire dice and spend your FKP. You do not have to take every path in the tech tree but optional paths can help your characters.

Firewood

In order to survive each day, you need more wood on the fire than the log pile will consume each night. Some night events consume extra wood so it's always good to try and have 2-3 more wood on the fire than the night requires.

Characters

Try to select characters with complimentary skills or stats, or based on your play style. Healing skills, stamina skills, item skills, or resource generation skills can all be helpful.

Incapacitation

Reviving a character is very difficult unless you are late in the game. You can revive an incapacitated character with 3 cooked meats. Some night cards can take away health, as can day events (mini expansion) and Danger! cards. Take a safer option or make sure to eat before taking risks. Try to end each day with more than 2 health if possible.

Deck Distributions

Card Type	Gather	Forage	Harvest	Hunt	Explore
Danger! Card	3	2	3	5	6
Nothing	1	1	1
Wood	2		3
Rock	2		2
Berry		3
Fiber		2
Meat				3
Hide				2
Bone				2
Hindrance Expansion
Hindrance	1	1	1		1
Gem					3
Dino Egg					2
Medical Herb					2