SILENT WINTER · FIELD GUIDE
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Everything you need to survive the winter.
The official guide to Silent Winter: how to stay warm, fed and alive, the animals and places you will meet, every item category and recipe type, the store, and tips from the snow.
SURVIVAL
Five gauges keep you alive.
Four gauges and a health bar sit at the top left. If hunger, thirst or warmth drops to zero you lose health; when health runs out, the game starts over.
Warmth
Your body heat drops in the cold. Stand by a fire or stove, go indoors and dress in layers.
Hunger
Drops over time. Eat canned food, biscuits, soup, jam or cooked meat and fish; raw meat can upset your stomach.
Thirst
Drops faster when you exert yourself. Drink clean water, tea, coffee or soup; boil melted snow first.
Energy
Running, chopping and crafting cost energy. Sleep or sit down to recover it faster.
Health
Hunger, thirst, cold, illness and wolf wounds cost health. Heal by sleeping fed, watered and warm; bandages and medicine treat wounds.
GETTING STARTED
Your first day in the snow
Start from PLAY in the main menu, pick your character and a difficulty. The game saves automatically; CONTINUE picks up from the day you left off.
- Walk with the joystick at the bottom left, or tap the ground to move. RUN is faster but costs energy.
- An action button appears next to items, cupboards, cars and trees: SEARCH, PICK UP, CHOP.
- The bag opens your inventory: items on the left, recipes you can make on the right.
- The clothing button opens your wardrobe; clothes give warmth and wind protection.
- The fire button lights a campfire.
- ENTER appears at doors; indoors there is no wind and it is warmer.
Important
Cooking, boiling water, melting snow, brewing tea or coffee and drying all need a burning fire (campfire or stove) nearby, or a camp stove in your bag. You cannot cook with matches or a lighter alone.
FIRE & FOOD
Fire keeps you alive.
To light a fire you need a fire starter (matches, lighter, flint or a flare), tinder (kindling, newspaper, a book, dry brush) and fuel (a firewood bundle, a log or coal). A log burns twice as long as a bundle. Fires burn down faster while you sleep, so add wood before bed. Wolves are afraid of fire.
Boiling water and making soup also needs a pot, a tin can or a metal canteen. Dry or stew your extra fish; dried fish does not spoil.
ANIMALS
Yours aren't the only tracks in the snow.
Wolf
The forest's biggest danger. It stalks, then attacks. Shelter in a house or car, light a fire, or fight back with a knife, axe, crowbar or spear; a flare keeps wolves away. Higher difficulties bring packs.
Rabbit
Caught with a wire snare or hunted with a bow or slingshot. Gives raw meat, hide, gut and bone.
Fox
Snared or shot with a bow. Wounded foxes run; follow the blood trail for meat, fox pelt, gut and bone.
Deer
Skittish and fast; hunted with a bow. Plenty of meat, deer hide and antlers for arrows.
Crows and fish
Shoot crows with a bow for arrow feathers. Fish through the ice hole on the frozen lake with a rod.
Husky
A loyal companion from the store: it growls when wolves come close and carries 10 kg more.
PLACES
A village buried under snow.
The map is small, but every corner hides something worth the walk.
The village
The heart of the map. Search cupboards, mailboxes and cars for food, clothes and tools.
Frozen lake and fishing hut
Fish through the ice hole; cattail roots by the shore are edible once roasted.
Lumberjack's cabin
Deep in the woods, with tools and the handcart.
Towers and stations
Lookout Tower, Radio Station, Water Tower, Military Tower and Weather Station hold locked safes; pry them open with a crowbar.
Ruined cabins
Shelters around the forest with firewood and crates.
Cozy Cabin
A special cabin with a down bed, weather radio and brass oil lamp, unlocked from the store.
Igloo and camp
Build an igloo in the open and organise your camp with crates and chests.
Map
Shows where you are and which way you face; a one-time store purchase.
WEATHER & DIFFICULTY
Choose how hard the winter hits.
The weather shifts between clear, cloudy, light snow, heavy snow, blizzard and fog. In a blizzard the temperature plunges, so wait indoors if you can. Afternoons are milder than nights, and the radio in the Cozy Cabin announces the next weather in advance.
The Black Winter and Wolf Pack difficulties unlock with Hard Modes in the store.
Level 1
No Wildlife
No wolves at all. Calm exploration; cold, hunger and fatigue are gentle.
Level 2
Easy
Few, timid wolves and plenty of loot. You get hungry slowly and feel the cold late.
Level 3
Medium
The balanced experience, the game's standard settings.
Level 4
Hard
More, sharper wolves, harsh cold, scarce items and slow healing.
Level 5
Extreme
Wolf packs, brutal cold and very scarce resources. Mistakes are not forgiven.
ITEMS & RECIPES
145 items. 114 recipes.
Everything you find, wear and build in Silent Winter. In your bag's RECIPES list the MAKE button lights up once you have the ingredients and the right tool.
Clothing
28
Tools and weapons
22
Materials
19
Food
17
Drinks
10
Fuel
10
Bags
9
Containers and shelter
9
Health
8
Light
5
Fire
4
Hunting
3
Sleep
1
Crafting
91 recipes
Tools, weapons, clothing, bags, crates and shelters.
Cooking and processing
19 recipes
Cooking, boiling water, melting snow, tea, coffee and drying.
Repair
4 recipes
Mend worn clothing with hides and thread.
STORE
Extras that stay with you.
Open the STORE tab in the main menu. Everything you buy stays with you in every new game, and the daily gift is free every day.
Daily Gift
A free gift every day: +1 biscuit, +1 water, +1 kindling.
Handcart
+40 kg carrying capacity, in every new game.
Map
Shows where you are and which way you face, plus the village, lake, towers and trails.
Husky
Growls to warn you when wolves come close and carries 10 kg more.
Cozy Cabin
Health refills 50% faster while you sleep; the radio forecasts the weather; lamp fuel lasts twice as long.
Hard Modes
Unlocks the Black Winter and Wolf Pack difficulties.
Hunter Set
Brown and olive hunting outfit with orange safety details.
Soldier Set
Khaki and black military look for all your clothes.
Polar Set
Red and black polar team outfit, visible from far away in the snow.
All in One
Every product in a single pack, your name on the supporters list, and the best price.
TIPS
Notes from the snow.
1.
A log feeds the fire twice as long as a bundle of firewood.
2.
Fires burn down faster while you sleep; add wood before bed.
3.
To heal while sleeping you must be fed, not thirsty and warm.
4.
In a blizzard the temperature plunges; wait indoors if you can.
5.
Too much weight slows you down; leave what you don't need.
6.
Search mailboxes and cars, not just houses.
7.
Pry locked safes open with a crowbar.
8.
Skinning animals gives meat, hide, gut and bone.
9.
Carve needles and arrowheads from bone, or boil it into broth.
10.
Rose hips make tea, and with honey a long-lasting jam.
11.
A planted sapling grows into a tree in two days.
12.
Stay cold too long and a cold turns into hypothermia.