This War of Mine Final Cut | Beginner's Guide - More Tips and Tricks 

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Pro tip: When out scavenging, do not loot the first container you encounter, but instead use this container to gather all other loot in until you run out of night.

1. Build a metal workbench and crowbar on Day 1. Build a Shovel on day 2. Then leave it - everything else can wait. 2. Be ready to clean Franko out of components and wood on day 3 and around every 3 days thereafter. Wood and components have a low value, don't stack well, but are extremely important. Later on, clear him out of fuel, filters, and fresh water as well (1 fuel is worth 1 wood, which is heavy). 3. Feed people on odd days only to maximize your food supply. 4. Your first priority should be to build traps and a single vegetable garden. They are extremely efficient. 2 traps and a veggie garden can more-or-less cover food for everyone. 5. DO NOT upgrade your metal workbench until later on - your components are best spent elsewhere. Most T2 and T3 stuff can be bought at the Garage using medical equipment.\ 6. Kill military and thugs for guns and armor. Guns/armor trade for a lot and are not very useful for survival (mostly you want to be using a hatchet and stealth).

Unorthodox Tip 1: If you're about to die for a reason you feel is too stupid to just accept, you can kinda combat log. Press the exit button just before you die, restart the game, and you'll start the whole day over. Unorthodox Tip 2: If you know what you're doing, you can enter the military base with a crowbar and leave with literally everything they have in 2-3 nights with little to no consequence. Killing soldiers often doesn't make your survivors sad, and even when it does, you came back with like 10 guns. Unorthodox Tip 3: Loot corpses first. If you leave them unattended to come back for them, they'll be picked clean before you return.

I recently came back to "This war of mine" and honestly, glad to see content being made about it relatively recently (considering that the game is not that popular, I will take 10 months ago to be more or less recent).

Tip 1. When you take all resources from a loot pile the pile disappears, however you can add loot to a pile from your inventory. Scavenge everything in an area and put all of the loot in one pile near the entrance making return trips easier. This also makes it easier to keep an eye on exactly what loot remains in a location and can make transporting the loot back to the shelter more efficient as you won't be splitting stacks.

Here's a side tip for using tools for raid defense: the crowbar, shovel and hatchet (to some extent) all will reduce your raid defence power so some items will still get stolen since they are tools and tools have reduced effectiveness in raid defense unless you have a fully upgraded defense and have at least one gun then your good.

Radio also keeps the mood up if you keep it in Classical music.

Tip: The rain collector is super useful, for making moonshine and trading with that. A good idea is to make the rain collector and moonshine maker asap basically after the basics (stove and bed) so you can start making moonshine and trading more efficiently, you’ll get a lot early game by doing that then after a few days and upgrades the medicine workshop is also super useful for the same thing… just got back into the game and I remember making the most out of making good valuables and trading them I had a full production going on daily and it was extremely useful to me

I got this game like years ago from PS Plus for free but just started playing now and im addicted. Im going for platinum trophy for it its so good

I love your voice and your english! Soo perfect😭 Thank you for the tips!

if you have a good team consider what resource management to skip. I scavenge food and water, so I dont build those items. that means more resources for defense, heater, etc. or maybe you dont build moonshine or herbs 1 playthrough and that will also save you materials.

Annoying and distracting soundtrack, good tips tho :)

This guide is great, i haven't played the game for a couple of years (i got it free on psplus) and i just bought the complete edition for 10€ 🤙

The improved heater also keeps your shelter at at higher temp than the basic one, so it saves wood and also provides a big advantage during winter

My favorite thing to do in this game is slaughter all of the bandits and military I find, in my most recent playthrough, I've "found" at least 20 guns, 8 vests, 5 helmets, and about 200 bullets. Downside is most dangerous regions barely have any wood or components, but that's not too bad cause I buy out franko with my armory every time he comes. Also cheater tip that I don't use anymore for skill reasons: If your scavenger dies, immediately quitting the game while the text saying "[Character] is dead" is up restarts the day cause the game only autosaves when it says the date. Again, I don't use it because it's scummy and I don't have to anyways, but it does really help you learn how to fight efficiently

good job man

the crash twinsanity music...

Cute voice :) Thanks for the tips, It helps a lot

Excellent video. One question, what is the song? a version of Flight of the Bulmblebee? acapella and a little rock?

first time i visit your channel and this game and ur guide is really helpful and i like everything about specially the cute red blob :D ... EXCEPT the music !!! beside its really irritating especially this one ...well thats a taste thing i know ... but its too loud for the ur voice level and i noticed the same problem in more of ur videos ...when editing try keeping the music at -18db or -15db max and ur voice level at -6b for best performance ... I hope that helps :)

I am currently watching your divinity original sin enhanced edition content, but it's hard to find all your videos about that game can you make a play list of that by the way awesome content.

Ya I learned a LOT from this, killing every npc I came across apparently isn't a good idea

Thanks for these great tips. I personally found the background music in this video to be too loud and distracting, though

Also twice i accidentally chopped up their bed for wood, i mean that´s twice feeling like a dork doing the stupid choice by mistake, the icons are too close together so a not well aimed sloppy click results in a bad night of sleep for "someone". Same goes for the door trader, i sent him away instead of making a trade.

Btw can you please play nuclear days? Just a suggestion ☺️

Combat could be done better, more dependent on the character used capabilities and as well it´s just too darn easy to blow it all just because of the target moving around and clicking on the cross hair, or knife/fists icon in the case of having a knife or fists only at your disposal. Just click away and hope for the best and that it´s my guy that´s dealing the next attack but alas they tend to die really fast like the rookies they are, not trained in combat right, well that´s where when the battle hardened characters in the game should be able to deliver a more potent attack. Too often it´s the classical "first time encountering that certain situation, better luck next time" play, so play and learn but otherwise it´s fun, it just needs small adjustments here and there. Excuse my sloppy way of typing a comment, English is as well not my native language but (i guess it´s at least OK now, readable after a little editing).

what is moonshine?

This game is frustrating and depressing. I'm going to give it one more try but I'm pissed. If only it was a little more reasonable. I made a still to try to make alcohol to use to make medical stuff but it won't, you need pure alcohol and moonshine don't work for that. You go to a place that's supposed to have lots of food, can't find any. It's BS. Update: I played it again and got all the way to the end but I didn't get to do a lot of stuff I wanted to. So I played it again and decided to make 2 animal traps so I could use the extra meat to barter with and my people had so much going on it should have been great. They had 2 heaters, 2 animal traps 8 meat and 2 veggies, upgraded workbench, saw blade, 2 beds, all holes in house boarded up, guitar, water condenser.. and they still got too depressed to eat when the food was right in front of their faces. How do you get more depressed when things are getting better for you? WTF? I even had them giving each other talks all the time to alleviate the depression. Had them eat a bit more and get rest, took meds when they were sick and play guitar. How the hell do you stop the depression? There was no reason for it and it ruined what would have been a great game.

here's a tip: turn down that dumb music...

why does it sound like someone is talking in the background? I keep hearing a woman talking in the background of this video. its freaking me out

The background track for this video is really obnoxious and it’s too loud

too much talking lil bro just tell us the tips

Cringed bad and learned nothing damn