First 10 minutes
You arrive on the island empty-handed. No weapon, no backpack, no medical kit.
What you have
- Shirt, trousers, boots
- Binoculars
- A compass in your pocket
- 0 cash and 100,000 $ in the bank
- 0 reputation
You do not need a map item — the map opens with M at any time.
The first thing to do
Grab a quad bike. It is free: F2 menu → "Server info" → "Spawn quad bike". It appears right next to you.
On foot the island is enormous — with a quad it becomes crossable. The limits are simple: one per player, it disappears when you log out and does not survive a restart. That is fine — take a new one every time, it costs nothing.
Walk the houses. Loot is spread across the whole map at server start, and there is a lot of it — around six thousand items. It sits inside buildings on furniture: tables, shelves, cabinets. Never on the floor.
- Ordinary houses — clothing, medical supplies, building materials, and weapons too: pistols, rifles such as the AK74 and M16, and magazines for them. Finding your first gun in a residential block is entirely realistic.
- Military buildings — more weapons and ammunition, and a wider range. And only there do plastic explosive, grinders and crowbars drop, without which you cannot build C4 or open someone's safe.
Your first weapon is almost always easier to find than to buy.
Money can wait. Your starting 100,000 $ sits in the bank and is not going anywhere — you can withdraw it any time in the trade zone. There is no need to spend it all in the first hour: see what you get for free first.
What is sold where is covered in Traders.
The trade zone is safe
The safe zone has a 300 metre radius around the traders. Inside it damage does not apply at all: you cannot be killed, and you cannot kill anyone — including shooting from inside the zone outwards.
Weapons are holstered automatically inside the zone. The only thing you may hold is a map.
Where money comes from
- Loot in buildings. Placed once at server start and does not respawn until the next restart. It only sits on furniture inside buildings, never on the floor.
- Missions. AI-held points appear on the map; clearing one gives a crate holding 300–700 $ at tier 1 up to 6,000–10,000 $ at tier 4.
- Selling loot to traders. They pay 20 % of the buy price (25 % for vehicles).
- Town AI patrols. They carry no money, but they do give reputation.
What not to do
Do not log out during combat. After any shooting nearby you carry a combat flag for 30 seconds. Logging out with it kills your character, and the body with all your gear stays on the map for 30 minutes for anyone to search.
Do not carry everything as cash. On death all your cash drops into your corpse, while the bank is never lost. Earned it — bank it.
Where to go next
Once you have saved up for a base, read Territory & flag. A level 1 flag costs 100,000 $, so it is not your first goal.