Practical Tips

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There are many things in Card Survival, which might not be too evident from the get-go, and many other things that a player would definitely do differently only after getting experience, playing on another run of the game. It's definitely true that much of the excitement lies in exploring the island and its beauties, but sometimes it's important to get some helpful advice beforehand.

## Brief Description

**Card Survival: Tropical Island** is a card survival/crafting game and there are always many different ways to play it. Below, you can find some useful tips and tricks that a new player could follow.

## Terminology

A quick list of different terminology terms, that are known amongst any survival game. And depending on how good you are with them, this may or may not help you. It's up to you!

* **Early Game** is a loose term often used to refer to the time around when a player has just started in a world, it is also referred to as the 'Primitive Stage'.
* **Mid Game** is a loose term to refer to the time around when a player has established a safe place to stay overnight, in addition to a good supply of resources and sufficient weaponry.
* **Late Game** is a loose term to refer to the time around when a player is nearly fully self-sustained and can pretty much deal with any threat without much trouble.
* **End Game** refers to when a player has a well defended fortress and is completely self-sustained.

## Controls

The controls used to play Card Survival are only the mouse buttons, if you're playing on PC. You can also use your fingers, if you're playing on Mobile.

There's no options to re-assign any **Controls**, either in the **Options** tab or the main menu of the game, and currently you can't change the key bindings, adjust the mouse sensitivity and invert the mouse control if desired. Those things might get implemented later in the future.

## The First Steps

It is recommended to play one of the premade characters list for the beginners. Also, anything difficult are most likely to be too overwhelming as unique groups of perks that the premade characters has can facilitate around the player in the beginning, causing the player to firstly experience the game as whole, and then test out the distinct experiences, as the different characters' unique set of perks might tighten up the difficulty.

### The First Day

*For a full explanation, check out: The First Day*
After checking the Journal, your first objective is to explore the Beach, to reach **33%** of the exploration's milestone, which will unlock the first location: the Jungle Outskirts.

Immediately begin to explore the Beach, and pick up Stones, search for trees and bushes for Wood and food, and Husked Coconuts for Fibers. Once you have at least four small stones, and small amount of wood and sticks, and some fibers, you have everything to start a campfire. Click on the **Blueprint** to open the blueprint menu, search for the Home section, and you can build a campfire.

Find 2 more Stones to sharpen them and another piece of wood and you'll unlock a blueprint for a Stone Axe. Under the tools section, select Stone Axe then click the white **Craft** button under the Stone Axe icon to craft. With your new Stone Axe, you can begin harvesting Wood, Sticks and Long Sticks much more efficiently.

It's worth noting that cutting down trees will yield these resources while reducing the durability of the axe.

## Items & Storages

* Stacks of cards can be easily moved by quickly holding the upper / lower area of the card (using the left mouse button, if you're playing on PC, or using your fingers, if you're playing on Mobile).
* There are a wide variety of items in Card Survival, but also the game slowly adds more within each following update. It is best to craft a Chest.

If you're still confused, it's recommended to separate Chests into different categories (Wood, Tinder and Food, for example). Chests containing related materials are best kept near the specific local where they will be needed - one for Plants and Trees, next to a Crop Plot; one for metal materials like Copper, next to a Kiln, Forge or an Advanced Kiln, and one or two for miscellaneous crafting materials.

## Traveling

Traveling through locations are a useful way to discover new stuff, new plants, new species, everything. And depending on anything around being favorable to you, you can get some disadvantages.

* There are ways that naturally affect the time spent traveling through locations:
	+ Rain can be quite annoying if you're living in coastal areas, as they can bother you, making you sick and also on how you travel to another location, like traveling from the Beach to the Jungle Outskirts for example.

* + And storms are the most dangerous natural warning if you're living in coastal areas, as their can be more intense, making you hide from them and also on how you travel to another location, like traveling from the Beach to the Jungle Outskirts for example.

* There are also efficient ways to diminish the time spent traveling through locations:
	+ The Path, that allows the player to travel faster, reducing the time spent.

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