Casualties: Unknown: Beginner Crafting and Cooking Guide

Here's how to craft canteens, a bag and your first meals in Casualties: Unknown.

Crafting covers storage, liquids and food, and each early recipe feeds the next. In Casualties: Unknown, make your Canteens and Foliage bag first, then light a fire for cooking. Recipes for the Flimsy knife and Wood cube are in our Material pouch guide.

Protect Your Items While Crafting in Casualties: Unknown

Press F on any item you want to keep out of a recipe. A Bag carries items, but it can also be ripped into a Ripped bandage, so one item can serve several recipes. Check the crafting window to see which items a recipe will use.

Craft Two Canteens in Casualties: Unknown

Canteens hold the liquids for later recipes, so craft two early in Casualties: Unknown. Each one needs two Chunk of plastic and one Rope, plus at least 10 mL of Bio-chem fluid. At the start of a fresh run, you can collect four of them from the pod floor.

Cut nearby plants for Foliage and find a Glowplant, then craft two Foliage into one Rope. Turn a Glowplant fruit into Bio-chem fluid and craft the Canteen. Repeat once for the second one, so you carry less in your inventory.

Use the first Canteen for crafted liquids such as Bio-chem fluid and later Fat. Place the Temporary bottle into it, and later crafts of those liquids go straight in. Fill the second Canteen with groundwater when you find some.

Each Canteen holds 300 mL, and as of 1.0.1 you can no longer overfill a container by crafting fluids. Since 1.0, you can also boil Lumalgae down into Bio-chem fluid.

Make a Foliage Bag

Inventory space is tight in Casualties: Unknown, and a Foliage bag adds more of it. It takes one Rope and two Canvas, and the Rope uses two Foliage. Each Canvas reportedly uses three Foliage, so craft them as you go toward eight in total.

Jumping into a pool fills both Canteens with water unless they are inside a bag. Keep the Canteen with Bio-chem fluid in the Foliage bag, and keep the other one in hand for groundwater.

Get Scrap Metal From Traps

Traps such as Old machinery with a pressure plate are reportedly a faster Scrap metal source than scrap blocks. You can hit a trap directly, but poor body position can set it off. Digging underneath breaks it instantly, though very durable ground makes hitting it the better choice.

A Spike trap is one-use and can be disarmed. Hold and release T to throw an item you don't care about at it.

Craft a Fire Starter

A Fire starter reportedly takes one Rope and one Foliage, plus two Sticks. Keep at least three bits of wood, up to nine, because each fire reportedly costs three. Check the crafting window to confirm the recipe.

Since 1.0, a Torch has Firestarting quality, so you can try it where a recipe asks for that quality.

You can also turn the Flimsy knife into a Makeshift digging tool. It still cuts like the knife, so you can use it in the cooking recipes.

Cook Clean Water and Bread in Casualties: Unknown

Cooked food will not make you sick, feeds you better and keeps longer than raw fruit or animal bodies. In Casualties: Unknown, start a Campfire first because several recipes need one. Since 1.0, a Campfire also warms you up more.

To make clean water, stand near the Campfire with a Canteen holding at least 50 mL of groundwater and open the crafting window. Craft the water recipe, then place the Temporary bottle into the Canteen. Clean water will not upset your stomach and works in recipes like Bread.

Ceiling rye grows on cave ceilings, and one plant can drop one to three Rye bulbs. Pound each bulb into Rye flour with a hammering tool. A Stick works as a makeshift hammer but reportedly grinds only two bulbs, and a Machete no longer counts as one since 1.0.

Bread needs a heat source such as a Campfire and a flour item, plus 150 mL of water in total. It decays slowly, so it keeps well on long trips.

Cook Pemmican and Other Simple Meals

Foliage meal is cheap and filling but decays fast, so eat it right away. It gives no calories, and eating several in one sitting can make you sick. Make one only when you are hungry and have a fruit.

Make Fat with a cutting tool such as the Flimsy knife, and craft it into your first Canteen. You can drink it for a little food and thirst, but only when desperate because it may make you queasy.

Pemmican reportedly takes 75 mL of Fat, one produce item and one meat item, cooked at a lit Campfire. It reportedly has four uses and almost never decays. Eating too much adds weight, so save it for deeper biomes because food is scarce there.

Refined juice starts with Produce juice, and one craft reportedly yields up to 250 mL. Craft Refined juice near a Campfire to lower thirst and hunger a little. It reportedly takes three produce items, so make it when you have extras.

What to Do Next

Craft two Canteens, then a Foliage bag, and keep the crafting Canteen inside the bag. Collect Scrap metal and wood for the Flimsy knife and Fire starter. Start a Campfire and cook clean water first, then move on to Bread and Pemmican as you find ingredients. Press F on any item you want to keep before each craft in Casualties: Unknown.

Make both Canteens and the Foliage bag first, then light a Campfire for your first meals.

FAQ

Q. How do you make a Canteen in Casualties: Unknown?

A. Combine two Chunk of plastic, one Rope and at least 10 mL of Bio-chem fluid in the crafting window. Since 1.0 you can also get the fluid by boiling Lumalgae, and the plastic comes from the pod floor at the start of a fresh run.

Q. What does the F key do while crafting?

A. Pressing F on an item keeps it out of recipes. That protects things like a Bag that the game might otherwise rip into a bandage.

Q. Is cooked food worth making in Casualties: Unknown?

A. Yes when you have a fire and the ingredients. Cooked food keeps you from getting sick and lasts longer than raw items, and Bread and Pemmican decay slowly.

Q. How do you make clean water?

A. Stand near a lit Campfire with a Canteen holding at least 50 mL of groundwater and open the crafting window. Craft the water recipe, then place the Temporary bottle into the Canteen.

Also, check out our review of Casualties: Unknown and other guides below :

• Casualties: Unknown Review
• Casualties: Unknown: How to Craft the Material Pouch