Discover everything you need to know about walkthrough Part 1 in Angst: A Tale of Survival, including how to progress in it.
Angst: A Tale of Survival is a riveting survival game that has rogue-lite player progression mechanics. The game initiates with you awakening in an old cabin in the middle of a frozen taiga. You only remember the heavy snowstorm that preceded your blackout. Get ready to discover what happened to you and to the world. Learn how to progress in Angst: A Tale of Survival Part 1, including how to craft items.
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Table of contents
The game starts with you awakening in a wooden cabin. You gain information about what happens on the radio. The person who saves your life on the radio and tells you that this is The Hollow. This is the forgotten region in the far north.
Repair the Bed
Your goal here is to learn how to survive in The Hollow, as this region doesn’t forgive mistakes. Energy, Warmth, and Food are the basics for survival, so you start with Energy. Use the piece of wood lying in the corner of the cabin to fix the bed. Pick up the wood and approach the bed on your side.
Press the ‘E’ key to interact with it. This will open two menus on your screen. You can see the wood you collect is in your backpack. You can deliver the 1xWood to repair the broken bed. Drag the wood from your backpack and drop it on the wood icon on the left, and hold Spacebar to repair.
Repair the Wooden Chest
When your energy drops low and you’re tired, use the bed to rest and restore energy. The Old Radio tells you that you need to repair the wooden chest next to the radio. Click on ‘Where Do I Find the Materials,’ and you learn that you must leave the cabin. Craft an Axe and cut down a tree to acquire the required resources to repair the wooden chest.
Press the LMB on the icon in the top right corner of your screen. Hit the mouse button on the Chest at the center to learn the required materials to repair the Chest. This is the quest menu, and you can click on the Crafting tab to learn the materials required to craft an Axe. 1xStick and 2xRock are required for this.
How To Craft a Stone Axe
Approach the door of the cabin and press the ‘E’ key to unlock it. Once you’re outside of the cabin, you need to collect a stick and 2x rocks to craft an Axe. These items can easily be acquired right outside of the cabin.
Once you get the required materials, open your inventory and move into the Crafting section. The materials you collect are already allocated to the Stone Axe. Just hold the Spacebar to craft the Axe. You will now be holding an axe to cut down the tree.
Now, approach any tree from your surroundings while holding the axe and press the ‘E’ key to start cutting it. Only three hits are enough to cut down the tree. You have to actually interact with the object to do something for it.
Press the ‘E’ key to collect the Stick and Wood. Continue chopping the trees with your Axe till you obtain all the required materials. You have to keep hitting the tree till the gauge fills up. There’s a red barries tree just outside the cabin on the left. Interact with it to harvest the red barriers and add it to your inventory.
Find the Grass while exploring this area and hold the E key to harvest it. You now have everything to craft a rope. Collect all the Red barriers from this area to use them later. You can also acquire the mushrooms while roaming this area, which you can consume. You can locate these items in the Northern Island.
Make your way back to the cabin and interact with the Creepy Chest. Pick up the required materials from the backpack and drop them into the Broken Chest’s required menu. Hold the Spacebar to repair the chest.
Gather Food
Once you repair the chest, the Old Radio tells you to collect the food. Mushrooms and red berries are the easiest ones to find. Your objective here is to collect 4x mushrooms and 2x red berries. Once you acquire them, bring them to the chest. I collected them before when I was finding the required materials for crafting the axe. Place the mushrooms and red berries in the creepy chest from your backpack while interacting with the Creepy Chest.
Repair Crafting Board
The person on the Old radio tells you to learn much more about survival in this harsh environment. Locate the old Crafting Board on the left of the exit door and repair it. Approach the Upgrade Board and interact with it to learn the required materials to repair it.
The materials for repairing this board are 3x Wood, 2x Sticks, and 1x Rope. You may already have the sticks and woods in your backpack, so you need to only craft the Rope. The rope is crafted using the grass that I already have in my backpack. If you don’t have the grass, make your way out and collect the grass.
You need 2x Grass to craft the rope. Open your inventory and go into the crafting section. Click on the rope tab and hold the E key to craft the rope. If you have enough Grass, you can also craft the Fabric here.
Now, interact with the Upgrade Board and deliver the items to repair it. Hold the Spacebar to repair the Crafting Board.
Craft a Campfire Kit
The person on the Old Radio tells you to find the blueprint for crafting a Campfire Kit. Make sure to unlock the Campfire Kit blueprint on the Crafting Board. Interact with it to find the different tiers for it. Click on the Campfire in Tier 1 to learn the required materials for crafting it.
The materials required to craft the Campfire Kit are 3xWood, 2xStick, and 1xGrass. Hold the LMB on the Campfire Icon to unlock it. The Old Radio tells you that the Campfire will be the crucial tool to survive in the wilderness. You can find the blueprint in your backpack that you can use to cook meals and to warm up in the freezing cold.
Cook Your First Meal
Your objective here is to cook the meal over the campfire using the mushrooms. Bring them to the chest after cooking the mushrooms. The items you put in the chest are not for you, so you can’t take them back. Open the inventory and move into the crafting section to enter the campfire tab.
Use the required materials to craft the campfire. Simply deliver the items and hold the Spacebar to craft it. I already have the required materials, so I don’t have to collect them. If you don’t have the materials, go outside the cabin and gather them. Once you craft them, press the ‘E’ key to place it in the cabin.
Move into the Axe tab and use the required materials to craft another Stone Axe, as your previous axe is out of durability. Make your way out of the cabin and place the campfire. Press the E key to interact with it. You can see a food recipe on your right and the required recipe on the left. The campfire also needs fuel.
If you already have the mushroom in your backpack, hold the Spacebar to cook it over the campfire. The fuel bar starts decreasing once you place them. You can use Wood to increase the fuel bar. You need to cook 2x Cooked Mushrooms and bring them to the Wooden Chest.
Your energy level is too low by now, so make sure to sleep on the bed in the cabin. Approach the bed and interact with it. You need to set the rest duration and press the LMB on the Sleep button. Sleeping gives you an energy boost per hour. However, the longer you sleep, the more energy you gain. But this will highly influence your Food level. The more you sleep, the more hungry you become.
Once you wake up, move out of the cabin and collect the grass. Make sure to collect the red berries from this area. Open your backpack and click on the red berries. Press the ‘E’ key to consume it directly to boost your food gauge.
Once you get your hands on the mushrooms, move back outside the cabin. You now need to craft the campfire again. Use the required materials to craft the campfire and place it on the ground. Interact with it and cook the mushrooms.
Go inside the cabin and interact with the Creepy Cabin and place 2xCooked Mushrooms in it. The person on the Old radio tells you to find the Rescue Station and locate Radio Parts. Open your map to find the location of the Radio Station.
Craft New Clothes
Interact with the Upgrade Board and unlock the blueprints of new items like Planks, a knife, Grass Jacket, Grass Gloves, and a bandage from Tier 2 using the required materials.
Open the Crafting section and click on the last tab with a shirt icon. You can find the blueprints of the Grass jacket and Grass Gloves. You need 1x Grass and 1x Fabric to craft the Grass Jacket. The same materials are also required to craft Grass Gloves.
If you don’t have the Fabrics, you need to craft them using the required materials. Click on the Rope Tab and select the Fabric. Use the 2xGrass to craft 1xFabric.
Once you craft 2xFabric: Use these items to craft the Grass Jacket and Grass Gloves. Crafting them allows you to automatically equip them. Make your way outside the cabin to complete the restore the signal quest. If it’s nighttime and you don’t have the torch, go back to the cabin and sleep until past the time.
Restoring the Signal
Make your way out of the cabin and open the quest menu. Your first objective is to fix the bridge located southeast of the cabin. Pass the Southeast bridge, get the Signal Amplifier, and use it to fix the Old Radio in the cabin. Keep moving on the southeast side of the cabin till you find the broken bridge.
You can also complete the Lost Items quest while making your way out to locate the Signal Amplifier. You need to find lost notes in the Hollow and locate lost photos.
Make your way out of the cabin and keep moving on the southeast side to find the broken bridge. Keep moving in a straight direction and get inside the abandoned structure to pick up the notes on your left. There’s a box on your right; interact with it to collect the materials. You can find the painkiller and 3xRope from it, so add them to your backpack.
After taking a few steps ahead, you will find the broken bridge. Interact with it to learn the required materials to repair it. You need 6xWood and 4xStick to repair the southeast bridge. I recommend collecting all the useful materials like wood, sticks, red berries, mushrooms, and grass before repairing the bridge.
Now, pass through the bridge, and you will encounter a deadly wolf. Equip yourself with a weapon like a knife or an axe. Each weapon has unique power and attack speed, as well as durability tied to how well it withstands enemy attacks when used for blocking. Press the LMB to attack with the weapon and the RMB to block the attacks.
Attack the wolf with the knife till it dies. Once you kill the wolf, you can obtain the Raw Wolf Meat. Go to the right side of the cabin and collect the notes from the bench. Get inside the Rescue Station and interact with the Fuse Box.
Your objective here is to repair the Fuse Box using the Fuse. Move outside of the Rescue Station and interact with the yellow car from the front. You can collect the Fuse and Metal Parts from it. Interact with the car’s trunk and collect the Fabrics.
Make your way back to the Rescue Station and interact with the Fuse Box. Deliver the Fuse to repair the Fuse Box. Doing so allows you to light up the station. Once you get inside the next room in front of you, an unknown entity will attack you. Get out of the room immediately.
Open the quest menu to find the new mission (Repair the Bridges). This mission requires you to repair the northwest, southwest, and south bridges. These four bridges connect the lands of the Hollow. Repairing them might be vital to my survival, allowing you to quickly reach crucial areas.
However, you need to find the Radio Part to complete the Restoring the Signal mission. Move back to the second room and collect the Snow Gloves and shoes from the safe storage. The shoes increase your stamina by +50% and the Snow Gloves allow the torch to burn longer by +50%. Open your backpack and drop the Shoes and Gloves into your inventory to equip them.
Repair Everything in Cabin
Interact with the Comm Panel and listen to the unknown voices. You need to find the graveyard now. Make your way out of the Rescue Station and use the 1xStick and 3xGrass to craft the Torch.
Use the torch to make your way back to the bridge and get inside the cabin. Interact with the Old Radio, and you will be asked to reach the town in the north. Cross the Northwest bridge and pass the frozen lake. Once there, locate the old hardware shop and find a way to get in.
You can find the entrance to the basement in the hardware shop. Find the Orb of Sorrow from the basement. Make sure to find Remote Cabins that can serve as your shelters. Also, repair the Survival Utilities in these cabins to make use of them. Cook meals and warm up inside the cabin.
Craft the Broken Stove
Make your way out of the cabin and use the axes to start cutting down the trees to acquire the wood and sticks. Consume some food as well to replenish your food bar. Craft the Campfire and place it on the ground to get warmth.
Make sure to cook the Raw Wolf Meat and consume it. Collect the mushrooms, woods, sticks, and other useful items. Get inside the cabin after acquiring all the required materials to repair the structures, like the Broken Stove and table.
Repairing the Broken Stove requires 4xWood, 4xPlanks, 2xCharcoal, and 2xRope. Deliver all the required materials in the Broken Stove menu to repair it.
Plank is crafted using 2xWood. Open your menu and go into the rope tab. Click on the plank in the crafting menu and use the material to craft it. However, you can only craft it at the crafting table in the cabin. Interact with the crafting table on the right side of the Broken Stove.
Repair the Crafting Table
The crafting table itself is broken, so you need to repair it using the 6xwood, 3xrope, 3xstick, and 1xmetal parts. The metal part is obtained from the yellow car near the Rescue Station. Rope is crafted from the crafting menu using the Grass. Once you have all the required materials, interact with the table to repair it.
Now, use the required materials to craft the Planks at the crafting table. 2xwood is used to craft 1xWooden Plank.
Now, interact with the Broken Stove and deliver the Plank to complete the required materials and hold the Spacebar to repair it. Interact again with the Stove and cook the mushroom.
Repair the Broken Storage
Approach the Broken Storage and interact with it to find out the required materials to repair it. The materials required to repair it are 2xWood, 4xPlank, and 2xRope. Use the crafting table to craft the Plank. Craft the rope using the Grass in the crafting menu.
Now, interact with the Broken Storage and use the materials to repair it. Interact again and place the items from your backpack into the storage to free up space for other items.
Make sure to cook multiple mushrooms on the Stove and consume them to get a full belly. The fuel will be used while using the stove, so you need wood to boost the fuel level. Interact with the Upgrade Board and find the tier 2 blueprints. This includes the Nails, Sewing Kit, Iron Ingot, Sleeping Tent, Animal Trap, Stone Pickaxe, Fishing Rod, and an Iron Knife.
You can unlock the blueprints if you have the required materials for them. You can sleep on the bed to gain Energy. That’s where Episode 1 of Angst: A Tale of Survival concludes.
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