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MISERY: A Beginner's Survival Guide
Quick guide for beginners in MISERY, with essential tips to survive the first days, manage loot and find the bunker. Includes information on the expedition cycle, emissions, healing, backpacks, artifact hunting, air raids, stations, points of interest, electricity, smelting, crafting, gardening and teleport anomalies.
1. 🎮 Introduction and the importance of the tutorial
- ✅ This is a quick guide for beginners in Misery.
- ✅ The developer constantly updates and improves the game, so some details might change.
- ⚠️ **Important:** Doing the game tutorial is crucial. It contains essential basic information to get started. Many common problems are solved by completing the tutorial.
00:00 - 00:47
1. 🎮 Introduction and the importance of the tutorial
- ✅ This is a quick guide for beginners in Misery.
- ✅ The developer constantly updates and improves the game, so some details might change.
- ⚠️ **Important:** Doing the game tutorial is crucial. It contains essential basic information to get started. Many common problems are solved by completing the tutorial.
00:53 - 01:43
2. 🎒 Initial tips: Minigame, clothing and weapons
- ✅ Don't worry too much about the initial 60-second minigame.
- ✅ Go up the stairs and equip yourself with clothes to increase carrying capacity.
- ✅ Pick up a melee weapon from the table.
- ✅ Anti-radiation medicines are useful, but not essential at first.
- ✅ You can store items in the workbench or leave them safely on the bunker floor.
- ✅ Always pick up a flashlight from the shelf before leaving the bunker.
01:44 - 02:31
3. 🧭 How to find your bunker
- ✅ The bunker entrance is always on the east side of the map.
- ✅ Use the compass to orient yourself: align the needle with the north and run in the direction the character's arm is pointing.
- ✅ If you get lost, follow the wall until you find the entrance.
02:32 - 03:23
4. ☢️ Expedition cycle and emissions
- ✅ Days last around 20 minutes (from when you leave the bunker until the next emission).
- ✅ Around 15 minutes, you hear thunder as a warning of the next emission.
- ✅ At 18-19 minutes, the emission begins, giving almost two minutes to return to the bunker.
- ✅ Plan expeditions starting with the furthest locations and leaving the closest ones for the end of the day.
- ✅ In case of emergency, take refuge with the merchants during an emission.
03:24 - 03:53
5. 🩹 Healing, large backpacks and resource management
- ✅ Bonfires are useful for healing. Always carry a lighter.
- ✅ Large backpacks are rare but essential. Buy one from the merchants as soon as possible.
- ✅ Don't craft furniture, but steal it to save resources.
03:54 - 04:33
6. 💎 Artifact hunting and protection
- ✅ Start hunting artifacts early. The detector is easy to craft.
- ✅ Check each anomaly field. Follow the sound of the detector.
- ✅ Artifacts fall when you die, so avoid dangerous situations.
04:34 - 04:49
7. ✈️ Air raids
- ✅ Run perpendicular to the plane's path to avoid the bombs.
04:50 - 05:53
8. 📅 Game progression: Seasons and points of interest
- ✅ The game becomes progressively more difficult and unlocks new stations and locations.
- ✅ Around day 5-6, helicopters and the radar location appear. It is recommended to have a gas mask.
- ✅ Around day 10, radiation protection is mandatory to visit the city.
- ✅ Around day 20, underground bunkers may appear, requiring good radiation protection, weapons and ammunition.
- ✅ The goal of the game is to improve equipment to explore new locations.
05:54 - 07:20
9. 💡 Electricity: Generators, wind turbines and batteries
- ✅ At first, connect the generator directly to the devices.
- ✅ Wind turbines and batteries are a good alternative.
- ✅ Connect multiple batteries for constant charging.
- ✅ Wind turbines can be found in houses and sheds, and car batteries and cables everywhere.
- ✅ The dwarf generator is a way to use vodka bottles to get energy, but it's more of an initial trick.
07:21 - 07:36
10. 🔥 Smelting and crafting
- ✅ Melt scrap to obtain iron bars.
- ✅ Wood and garbage give ashes, useful for gardening and gunpowder manufacturing.
- ✅ Read the description of the objects to know their use.
07:37 - 08:02
11. 💧 Water and crafting
- ✅ Fill water bottles in the wells.
- ✅ Purify the water on the chemical table to hydrate or for crafting recipes.
- ✅ First manufacture the sewing machine to repair the gas mask.
- ✅ Then, manufacture the chemical table to purify water and for gardening.
08:03 - 08:35
12. 🌱 Gardening
- ✅ Find pots in random houses.
- ✅ Put seeds, feces or ashes as fuel.
- ✅ Convert vegetables into seeds on the chemical table to be self-sufficient in food.
- ✅ Sell the vegetables to the merchants to earn money.
- ✅ Check the trash containers for garbage and turn it into ashes for gardening.
08:36 - 08:56
13. 🌀 Teleport anomalies
- ✅ These anomalies are teleporters that take you to a random place.
- ✅ It is generally safe and you can find good loot.
- ✅ Do not use them if you are carrying a lot of valuable loot.