KeepUp Survival – Beginner’s Guide

Step-by-Step Goals

This is a list of goals in order, step-by-step, and the Explanation & Notes section below explains why these goals are here and in this order.

1. Make an axe from a stone and fiber
2. Cut a tree to get wood (logs)
3. Make a pickaxe from wood, stone and fiber
4. Smash large rocks to get stones
5. Build the small stone furnace (15 stones and 10 logs)
6. Make an iron bar, either by harvesting metal ore in the mines (indicated by the pickaxe symbols on the map) or by melting down a metal lantern (these are all over the place)
7. Build the crafting bench
8. Build the large stone furnace
9. Build the tools and weapons crafting bench
10. Upgrade your axe and pickaxe
11. Build the clothing crafting bench
12. Make yarn on the crafting bench
13. Make and equip the backpack (using the clothing crafting bench)
14. Gather sulfur ore (go to the gas mask symbol on the map) and metal ore (from the mines) – take a boat, or swim (faster) – and melt these in the large stone furnace to make lots of iron and sulfur bars
15. Make the grenade launcher and 40 mm cartridges for it on the tools and weapons crafting bench
16. Climb the stairs to the castle (close to the spring just east of the land bridge between the smaller island and the larger island)
17. Kill the mutant bear (about 20 direct hits with the grenade launcher)
18. Ditch everything you can spare and harvest all of the gold ore you can carry off of the mutant bear — it will be more weight than you can carry, even if you are naked and unarmed. (hint: split some of the untreated gold on the bear’s carcass into smaller batches before transferring it to your inventory).
19. Melt the gold ore in the large furnace to form gold bars
20. Store the resulting gold bars in whatever storage container you designate as your trophy case.

Gameplay Tips

• Stone, fiber, wood, rubbish, food, and lanterns (which can be melted down for metal) can be scavenged and are both plentiful and extremely useful especially early in the game.
• Avoid dangerous animals like wild hogs, wolves and bears until you have a gun.

Explanation & Notes

You’re going to need the grenade launcher and at least 2 cartridges for it to beat the mutant bear in the castle. Two assumes you never miss, so bring a few spares. 10 direct hits reduces the mutant bear’s health by approximately 50%.

The grenade launcher takes 40 iron bars and 6 rubbish. Each 40 mm cartridge for it takes 4 iron bars, 10 coal and 4 sulfur. (Coal you get anytime you burn wood.)

To fabricate these, you’ll need the Tools and Weapons crafting bench, which itself takes 6 iron bars and 10 rubbish. And that bench has to be crafted using the Crafting Bench, which takes 1 iron bar and 2 rubbish.

So at a minimum you’re going to be needing a minimum of 55 iron bars, which would be a lot to smelt using just the stone furnace. So you’re going to want to prioritize building the large stone furnace as early in the game as possible, which will take 12 logs and 40 stones.

40 stones would be a lot to pick up individually, so you’re going to want to make a pick axe early on. That pick axe is going to get a lot of use, so either make a bunch of them, or upgrade to the “wood” pickaxe as soon as you have iron bars. It’s also going to take a ton of wood to keep that large furnace lit, so same goes for your axe.

The iron and sulfur bars are heavy, and you are going to want a place to store them so you can get around and have room to carry further supplies (more ore, food, wood). Your best options are the wood large storage box (30 slots) which requires 56 logs and 18 nails, or the metal large storage box (50 slots) which requires 8 metal bars and 10 screws. You can craft screws, btw, as well as nails: 50 screws per iron bar, on the regular crafting bench.

You’re also going to be making at least a couple of trips gathering sulfur and iron ore, so you’re going to want some clothing with slots to help you carry food for the journey and the resources on the return trip. You can make the crafting bench for clothing (which one you build depends on the sex of your character) using one iron bar and 2 rubbish, and then use that to craft for example the backpack. The description of the backpack doesn’t mention inventory slots, but you can see when you equip it that you have many more rows of inventory. It takes 10 rubbish, 20 fiber and 2 yarn. (1 yarn is made using 10 fiber on the crafting bench).

Food is pretty generous in Keep Up Survival, and you can scavenge tons of food by visiting camps and abandoned buildings. You can of course also hunt, and while this could be done with the cheap-to-build crossbow and bolts, reloading takes time and you’ll find even a pistol is a great improvement both for hunting and defense (whether animal or zombie). Note that for most of the guns, you need to find or craft the weapon, the magazine and the ammo. Attach the magazine to the weapon, and then you can load it with ammo.

Water, on the other hand, can be a problem. Either build your base next to one of the springs (indicated by the water bottles on the map) and hydrate by literally standing in it, or build the water tank early in the game. This takes 50 rubbish, 10 screws and 6 iron bars. Screws can be found by luck while you scavenge for food.

Good luck!