Items

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Tools

A number of the items listed below are also weapons.

Rocks

A patch of obsidian.

• Basalt
  • Basalt Chopper
• Granite Rock
  • Granite Grinder
• Obsidian
  • Obsidian Scraper

Wood

An abandoned dead branch.

• Dead Branch
  • Stick
    • Sharpened Stick

Plants

• Aloe Leaf
  • Aloe Sap
    • Aloe Sap Paste
• Horsetail Leaves
  • Horsetail Paste
• Kapok Fiber
• Natal Grass Cycad
  • Natal Grass Cycad's Stem
• Thornbush

Precious Stones

• Blue Agate
• Emerald
• Ruby
• Sphalerite
• Tourmaline

Other

• Hard Bone
• Meteorite
• Mud

Gathering Spots

Scavenging/Foraging

• Beehive
• Fishing Spot
• Hole To Poke
• Liftable Rock
• Termite Mound

Butchering

• Carcasses
  • African Buffalo Carcass
  • African Otter Carcass
  • African Rock Python Carcass
  • Bateleur Eagle Carcass
  • Black-Backed Jackal Carcass
  • Black Machairodus Carcass
  • Black Mamba Carcass
  • Crocodile Carcass
  • Dorcas Gazelle Carcass
  • Eastern Green Mamba Carcass
  • Giant Warthog Carcass
  • Golden Machairodus Carcass
  • Hippopotamus Carcass
  • Hyena Carcass
  • Megarian Banded Centipede Carcass
  • Miocene African Horse Carcass
  • Miocene Elephant Carcass
  • Miocene Pelican Carcass
  • White Machairodus Carcass
  • White Rhinoceros Carcass

Construction

Barricades

• Branch Barrier
• Thornbush Wall

Resting

• Sleep Spot

Food

Liquids

• Fresh Water Source
• Salt Water Source
• Stagnant Water Source

Berries

• Acokanthera Berry
• Carissa Berry
• Elderberry
• Iboga Berry
• Taami Berry

Fruit

• African Casturi Mango
• African Giant Mombin
• Cocos
  • Cracked Coco
  • Coconut
    • Pierced Coconut
    • Opened Coconut
• Date
• Desert Melon
  • Opened Desert Melon
• Fig
• Jujube
• Marula
• Miocene African Drupe
• Monkey Bread
  • Cracked Monkey Bread
• Sausage-Tree Fruit

Eggs

• Bateleur Eagle Egg
  • Cracked Eagle Egg
  • Pierced Eagle Egg
• Crocodile Egg
  • Cracked Crocodile Egg
• Heron Egg
• Kelp Gull Egg
• Miocene Pelican Egg
  • Cracked Pelican Egg
  • Pierced Pelican Egg
• Snake Egg
  • Cracked Snake Egg

Meat

• Giant African Snail
• Mammal Meat
• Oviparous Meat
• Scorpion

Fish and Seafood

• Bass
• Crayfish
• Mussel
  • Cracked Mussel

Edible Plants

• African Turmeric
  • Turmeric Paste
• Horsetail
• Kelp
• Khat
  • Grinded Khat
• Tumbo Seeds
• Yam

Mushrooms

A patch of African Agaric Fungus.

• African Agaric Fungus
• African Blue Roundhead Fungus
  • Blue Roundhead Fungus Paste
• African Entomopathogenic Fungus
  • Entomopathogenic Fungus Paste
• Banded Mottlegill Mushroom

Insects and Insect Based

• Harvester Termites
• Honey
• Trapped Insect

Wildlife

Crawling Threats

• African Rock Python
• Black Mamba
• Eastern Green Mamba
• Megarian Banded Centipede

Irascible Threats

• African Buffalo
• Miocene African Otter
• Giant Warthog
• Hippopotamus
• Miocene Elephant
• Miocene White Rhinoceros

Predators

• Bateleur Eagle
• Black-Backed Jackal
• Black Machairodus
• Golden Machairodus
• Hyena
• Miocene Pelican
• Thorbjarnarson's Crocodile
• White Machairodus

Wild Animals

• Dorcas Gazelle
• Miocene African Horse

Items of Interest

• Dead Hominid
• Hiding Spot
• Hominid
  • Adult Female
  • Adult Male
  • Baby
  • Elder Female
  • Elder Male
• Meteorite Site
• Settlement