The official Unturned Buak guide to help get you started! You can learn all the events on the Buak map in this guide. Before you waste your time, take a look at this beginner’s guide.
Unturned Buak Guide
The first thing to keep in mind is: the zombies aren’t your only threats. Various animals are also hostile when you get too close to them. Bears, wolves, moose, goats, and many others will try to attack you. Guns can be rare to come across, so I suggest crafting a Wooden Bow and some Arrows, or various makeshift melee weapons such as the Scrap Metal Hatchet, Scrap Metal Pickaxe, or the Road Sign Cleaver. You can also craft the Makeshift Vest for some quick armour!
Your food and water stats drain slower than in the vanilla game, and bleeding out also takes much more time. However, when you break your legs, they also take much longer to heal. Crafting a splint and carrying one or two around with you is probably ideal.
When it comes to carrying capacity, all shirts and pants have the same storage space, and all backpacks as well as all vests have the same capacity between each other, allowing you to wear whatever clothing you like! When it comes to shirts and pants however, you’re going to come across the worn out variants, which you will need to repair with Sewing Thread. You can salvage extra clothing, or break down Cloth you collect, to obtain the thread to repair these clothes – giving you a bunch of extra space.
When it comes to food and water, most of it is either moldy, or sealed in a can – requiring either a type of knife, or a Can Opener. Moldy food can be converted into seeds for growing fresh variants, while moldy water bottles can be cleaned with purification tablets.
Looting
When it comes to looting, regular item spawns aren’t the only thing you need to look out for. Breaking various objects around the map will drop loot or crafting supplies. The drops for some objects aren’t always 100% guaranteed however. Some of these lootable objects include cardboard boxes, office desks, books, file cabinets, and mailboxes. Vehicle wrecks can also be looted by interacting with them. The hoods of vehicles will give vehicle components for later use in vehicle crafting, while vehicle trunks can drop various items such as weapons, food, water, vehicle related tools, and much more. For more advanced loot, you can blow up the Big Man vaults inside various locations with explosives.
One last thing to mention, each town sign has a specific Brochure item you can collect. After collecting a Brochure, you can consume it; granting you the crafting recipe of that piece, along with the “open” variant of the brochure that works as a handheld map. Collecting all four pieces at all four towns will allow you to craft the Full Brochure – which works as a functional map item in the info tab. Crafting the brochure with a few items also allows you to gain access to satellite view, giving you more details and location markings.
Durability
The weapons and tools on Buak have much higher durability than their vanilla counterparts, though once they reach 0% they are destroyed. Repairing certain items requires Duct Tape, knives require the Knife Sharpener, and guns require a Gun Repair Kit which can be crafted out of Pristine Gun Parts. This means you’ll have to use other guns you find to maintain your favourite ones that you might want to keep in the long term.
Transport
The most simple mode of transportation on Buak presents itself in the form of bicycles; however you can also very rarely find various damaged automobiles that may require some repairs! If you are unlucky and can’t find one however, you can find and consume a “Vehicle Manual” to learn the crafting recipes of various craftable vehicles. The Vehicle Manual can be found most commonly at gas stations, or the mechanic shop in Pine Point. However they can also be found commonly in filing cabinets and other locations. Vehicles can be crafted with certain minerals you find in the mines, and various vehicle components you can obtain from the hoods of broken down vehicles. Craftable vehicles also have painted colour variants (in the same way you can paint guns), and even a (substantially more expensive) bulletproof variant!
The Mines
Eventually, you will need various minerals to craft or repair various items. Stone, copper and quartz can be easily found in common stone nodes around the map. You can break them apart with either a Scrap Metal Pickaxe, Sledgehammer, or Miner’s Pickaxe. When it comes to Iron, Coal, Sulfur, and Titanium, you’ll have to search in the depths of Buak’s mine system. You can find the entrances located at the mineshaft icons on the map. The surface-level mineshaft layout consists of a large, interconnected loop, which allows you to then enter the various caves. The first level contains Iron and Coal, the second level contains Sulfur, and the third level contains Titanium – which glows blue for easier spotting. Whenever you enter a new level the cave walls become darker, and past the first level an Oxygen Tank and Oxygen Mask is required. In an emergency, Bottled Air also helps to replenish your oxygen bar, allowing you to travel for much longer. Bottled Air can be crafted with empty plastic bottles and heat from a fire making it easy to obtain. Just make sure to watch your back, you never know what might be down there…
Explosives
Making explosives is fairly simple. Once you find Sulfur Ore down in the mines, you need to smelt it with coal and a fire. In addition, you need Charcoal, a byproduct of various crafting recipes involving the burning of wood. Mixing both Sulfur and Charcoal, you end up with Gunpowder. Mixing that with paper, you get Dynamite, which can be used as an explosive on its own. However, it’s better used to make an Explosive Charge. With enough Dynamite, Gunpowder, and other various common crafting materials, you can make these charges which have two different modes. You can use them with a Remote Detonator, or swap to throw mode to have the charges explode on a timer similarly to throwing a grenade. Alternatively for a rocket launcher-like option, you can craft the Spud Cannon. The ammo for the Spud Cannon is the “Hot Potato” which you can craft with a Potato and Dynamite. Explosive ammo and magazines are another alternative – explosive ammo can be found in deadzone locations, allowing any gun to work as a raiding weapon.
Blueprints
Blueprints are something to keep an eye out for. They can be found by breaking books, filing cabinets, mailboxes, or scattered around the lumber yard location. You can learn the corresponding crafting recipes of the blueprints by consuming them, gaining its knowledge. If you are unsure what blueprints you have unlocked already, try searching for the relevant items in the crafting menu. If you see “You cannot craft this item” you haven’t learned it yet. You can scrap spare blueprints you don’t need into a Blueprint Fragment. Using the fragments you can craft a Blueprint Book, and then craft the books into a Blueprint Library. Blueprint Books when consumed give a random low tier blueprint, while Blueprint Libraries give a random high tier blueprint.
Another part of the blueprint system is the Research Kit. These kits are found in airdrops, Big Man Vaults, or rarely while fishing with a Pristine Fishing Rod. Research Kits can be used with any item that has “Researchable” in the description to obtain that item’s blueprint with ease, not having to rely on the randomness of the Blueprint Books or Blueprint Libraries. Research Kits are incredibly powerful, so be sure to use them wisely!
The Deadzone
The Deadzone is quite dangerous, so I recommend travelling there with decent gear. It’s located at the tunnel entrance on the east side of the map. Entering it requires a Gas Mask, and preferably a few Filters to survive the toxic air for prolonged periods of time. Various keycards are required to access different areas within the deadzone. The level 1 keycard can be found around certain locations, though most easily in the parking lot around the cars. The level 2 keycard is found somewhere on the first floor. To travel down to the second and third floors however, you will also need a full biohazard suit. These can be found hanging on the coat racks inside some of the offices. On the second floor, you can find the armoury rooms which have a green arrow pointing towards the doors of those rooms. There, you can break open the armoury cabinets with ease, and collect high tier weapons and loot. The level 3 keycard can be found on the second floor in certain rooms, and opens up some extra space and loot areas. Gas Masks and Filters can be found rarely pretty much anywhere, but are most commonly found in the fire station, or inside Big Man Vaults.
Painting and Dyeing
Clothing, weapons, and vehicles have the ability to be recoloured in many different colours. For clothing to be recoloured, you first need to Bleach a stitched up piece of clothing. You can then use your preferred colour of Dye to change it to that colour.
For weapons and vehicles, you use a singular Spray Paint item to colour them any colour you want. Removing the colour is not required in order to apply paint, but you can turn it back to its default colour by using Paint Thinner. Vehicles can only be painted in item form, so be sure to do so before you deploy one!
Hunting and Fishing
Hunting on Buak is a bit different compared to vanilla. Instead of the animal dropping food items upon death, the animal itself drops as a corpse item. You can then proceed to use a Bowie Knife or a Cleaver to either harvest or butcher the corpse. Both options provide meat and cloth, but harvesting with the Bowie Knife provides more cloth, while butchering with the Cleaver provides more meat. The Bowie Knife can also be used to convert corpses into rugs. If you have no knife at all, you can still harvest the corpse with your bare hands – but you will end up with both less meat and cloth than what you would get using knives. The rugs can be placed as decoration, or be converted into a Head Trophy which is placeable on walls. When it comes to fishing, you can either craft a Wooden Fishing Rod, or find a Pristine Fishing Rod. The pristine one allows you to catch more high end fish and rare items. A Carving Knife is required to gut the fish, yielding cookable fish meat as well as bones.
Safezone Location
The NPCs on the map are located at Ontoni Factory near the south side of the map. The first NPC you need to speak to is Kira; she has a sheriff’s hat. The NPCs can first be spotted at the front gate of the factory.
