Hiding and Tough are both immensely useful in combat. Botany is great for 'rush' builds where you want to get to Camp Grayling as soon as possible by avoiding all conflict, since you'll be able to beeline straight for Camp Grayling without worrying about food or water. With Botany, you never need be hungry or thirsty again since you'll scavenge plenty of edible berries and mushrooms from any forest hex. Hypothermia is a bitch.ī+ TIER - Botany and Hiding and Tough and Athletic

You're going to end up in combat at some point in this game, and while over the long term that means Ranged should take the cake, the fact that you can start off the initial Dogman encounter with access to its corpse for skinning into a Dogman furcoat with Strong or Melee put them both at A tier as well. You could try going a game without taking Trapping, but it will be much harder to be successful. Trapping gives you fire under almost any circumstance, gives you access to the Dogman fur coat which eliminates the possibility of hypothermia, and gives you the power 'Lure' combat move. So here's a basic tier list of the skills in NEO Scavenger. This guide is for the NEO Scavenger player who has played through the game multiple times and can survive reliably for around a week, but inevitably can't quite make it past the threshold where they become unto a God of the Wasteland, with enough resources to survive indefinitely.

I won't put any directions for the encounters because you can find those on the wiki and elsewhere online, and assume you'll either have played through the encounter and know what it gets you or will have just read the wiki so SPOILER ALERT. Hi, I've put in 80+ hours into this game so I'd like to share my knowledge.

Neo scavenger crafting recipes