Survival

**Survival** is one of the 20 skills in *Damascus*. The Survival skill governs effectiveness at: cooking, debarking, firemaking, fishing, and woodcutting.

## Cooking

Cooking is used for turning raw meat or ingredients into cooked food that can be eaten to restore lost health. Cooking can be done at any of the cooking ranges located in the world or at a fire started via fire-making. Raw meats can be cooked on both the range and campfire but recipes can only be cooked at a range.

Cooking is accomplished by either using the raw ingredient on the cooking device(range/fire) or by clicking the device to open the cooking menu. The cooking menu is only available on the range and will not show at a fire.

Most meats have a chance to burn that is dependent on your survival level. Burned food cannot be eaten and generally has little to no value, but may be useful for sacrificing at a destruction altar for early levels or to collect blood of destruction.

One of the best cities to cook food in is Dominia since the range is very close to the bank and the city has an ingredients store should you run out of supplies. Split City is also good since the bank, range, and fishing spots are very close together.

Recipes require multiple ingredients to cook and must be prepared at a cooking range by clicking it to display the cooking menu. Recipes have zero chance to burn and will always succeed when cooked.

*See the reference chart below for a graphed trend of cooking xp/chance of raw fish.*

## Firemaking

A fire can be started at any location in the world by using logs and a matchbox on each other in the inventory. Fires will burn for a short time dependent on the type of log used(higher tier burns longer) before smoldering out and leaving behind one ash. Fires are used for cooking meat and fish by using the raw item on a burning fire.

## Debarking

Bark can be extracted from any type of logs by using a Debarking Tool on them in inventory. Debarking is level restricted and higher level logs will require a higher survival level to enable debarking. Bark is used in Chemistry as an ingredient for crafting potions.

## Fishing

Fishing is used to catch raw fish, crustaceans, etc. Raw fish that are caught can be cooked individually or used in multi-ingredient recipes to create food for restoring lost health. Fishing requires either a Fishing Rod or Fishing Net in order to fish at a fishing spot. When rod fishing, one bait is required for each fish caught, but using a net may be used alone with no other consumables required. Each type of fish have a specific Fishing Spot it can be caught at and can only be caught using the correct fishing tool.

## Woodcutting

Woodcutting allows harvesting of logs from trees located in the world. Different types of trees require a different minimum survival level to cut and there is a chance to fail each attempt at cutting based on the level of axe used and survival level. Cutting logs requires having an axe either equipped to the main hand or in inventory. Each axe has a minimum survival level requirement for it to be used or equipped.

## Orb

Upon reaching 99 **Survival** you will receive the Survival Orb.

## History

On 6/14/20 at approximately 6:36am EST, Tonufan (also known as KFBlue) became the first player to reach level 99 in **Survival**.