Longvinter Starter Guide: Crafting, Food, Fishing, Hunting, PvP, and Rules

Longvinter mixes survival crafting freedom with a bright island style, landing somewhere between Rust's survival pressure and Animal Crossing's softer look. The result is an open-world sandbox where players can explore, gather, build, fish, fight, and occasionally wonder what they were supposed to do next.

Getting Started in Longvinter

Longvinter is built more around freeform survival than a strict storyline. There is no heavy quest chain guiding every step, and new players are mostly expected to learn by experimenting.

The game does provide small information snippets after certain milestones. These notes are worth reading because they explain useful systems such as crafting and building. Beyond that, progression is largely up to the player.

Crafting Basics

Most crafting in Longvinter happens at the Workbench. You can buy one at Sgt. Lakes Outpost or find one inside containers across the map. Once placed or accessed, the Workbench can create items such as furniture, seeds, weapons, and power sources.

Many craftable items require recipes before they can be made. To view available recipes, buy the Crafting Book from Kyrre's Equipment, the orange vending machine at Sgt. Lakes Outpost, for 60 Mk.

Stronger recipe unlocks usually come from research documents. These are commonly hidden inside locked vaults in underground bunkers. To enter those locked areas, defeat NPC soldiers and collect the access cards they drop.

Energy, Damage, and Cooking

Energy works as your health in Longvinter. It drops when you take damage, but it also decreases through normal activity such as walking, chopping trees, catching fish, or dealing with environmental hazards like heat and cold.

You can restore energy with consumables found around the map. Standing near a heat source, such as a campfire, also slowly recovers energy. If all energy bolts are lost, your character dies and drops inventory items, including ammo and equipped gear.

Death does not erase character data. Instead, you respawn at a dock or at a house you recently accessed, just without your items.

Cooking is another reliable way to recover energy. Food can be cooked with a campfire or furnace, and beginners can start early by buying a fishing rod, catching fish, and cooking the result.

Fishing

Fishing requires a fishing rod, which vendors sell for 59 Mk. You can only fish at fishing spots, shown as circles of fish near coastlines.

Equip the rod, cast toward the fishing spot, then rapidly press the key shown on screen to reel in the catch. When successful, the fish and its description appear.

There are currently 19 fish types in Longvinter:

• Arctic Char
• Axolotl
• Black Grouper
• Catfish
• Cave Crab
• Cod
• Haddock
• Misty Grouper
• Perch
• Pike
• Rainbow Trout
• Redfish
• Salmon
• Salmon Shark
• Stingray
• Swordfish
• Trout
• Tuna
• Whitefish

Hunting Wildlife

Fishing is not the only way to secure food. Players can hunt by killing birds with tools or weapons such as the Chainsaw, Hatchet, or guns. Cooked bird meat is useful because it generally restores 30 energy when eaten.

At the time of writing, Longvinter includes these huntable animals:

• Wolves
• Lynxes
• Reindeers
• Bears
• Goats
• Birds
• Foxes

PvP Settings

Server administrators can toggle PvP before creating a world seed or through the Settings menu. When PvP is enabled, players can build fortified bases, craft guns and turrets, and fight other players in combat that is only friendly if everyone agrees it is.

Longvinter Rules

Longvinter gives players a lot of freedom, but developer Uuvana Studios still maintains strict rules to protect balance and server integrity. Key rules include:

• Players must not insult, harass, threaten, or use offensive language.
• Discrimination and hate speech based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, or similar traits are not allowed.
• Inappropriate in-game names or gamer tags are prohibited.
• Impersonating individuals, businesses, or entities for malicious purposes is not allowed.
• Unjust play methods, including frequent camping, may be investigated and penalized.
• Longvinter cannot be used for services or commercial gain, especially for profit.

Cheats and exploits are also banned when they damage the experience for other players. Exploits that imbalance PvP can lead to a 1 to 14 day ban. Third-party apps that modify core game features or systems can result in a permanent ban.