Being another open-world Survival Crafting game in the live-service genre, Scum shares a lot of its gameplay aspects with other games, but it also has a ton of unique elements. After launching this game and selecting the server you prefer, you'll be thrown out of a parachute, and the first thing you'll have to do is land safely on the ground.

Things only get harder from there since you arrive in a massive unknown world with nothing but your clothes, which you have to get rid of soon after. Thankfully, there are quite a few things that can help you dominate the server, as long as you're efficient with your survival.

Manage Your Temperature Properly

Body temperature is one of the most important and, unfortunately, the most overlooked aspect of Scum by a new player. When you head over to your Metabolism tab, you can see your current body temperature at 36.6, which is the normal temperature. However, as your character feels colder or hotter, this temperature will fall and rise respectively.

You can easily tell when your temperature is changing by looking on the left side of your screen where it shows everything your character is feeling. If you're only feeling slightly cold or warm, your temperature change is very slow, and can largely be ignored. However, if the feeling worsens, here's how you can help your character reach the ideal body temperature:

• If you're feeling cold, you can either put on more clothes or make yourself a fire. If your cold comes from rain, you can also head into a shelter to keep yourself dry. Keep in mind that fires emit a lot of light, which can easily be seen by other players at night. It's recommended to create your fires far away from any roads to avoid being ambushed.
• On the other hand, if you're feeling too hot, you can either remove some of your clothes or take a dip in any water body. It's still recommended to remove your clothes before you swim since this will prevent them from getting wet. You can either keep these clothes in your inventory or drop them on the ground to pick them up later.

Prioritize The Right Items While Looting

As you progress in Scum, you'll go from barely having any loot to having too much to carry. This happens as you gradually move from forest to small groups of buildings, and eventually to bigger towns and remnants of civilization. However, your inventory space is very limited, especially if you get unlucky.

In these times, it's important to prioritize the right items to carry. For example, you'd always want to prioritize a smartphone over other things as this can help you finish various quests and earn money. As you play the game more, you'll also learn that some items are much rarer than others, making them a priority.

Learn Different Game Menus

Even if you've played a bunch of Survival Crafting games before, the biggest challenge with Scum is the sheer amount of menus that you have to handle. Other than the inventory management, you also have the Crafting, Health, and Metabolism menus. Here's what each of these tabs mean:

Crafting	As the name suggests, this tab has all the items you can craft. It has three further tabs, but you'll mostly be using the first one unless you're making your base or cooking.
Health	This tab is largely used to check what health problems your character has and how you can treat them.
Metabolism	This is arguably the most important tab in the game as it not only tells you when you need to go to the toilet, but also gives you information about the proteins, carbs, and vitamins in your body. You can see the exact effect of every food item here as well.

It's highly important to get yourself accustomed to these tabs as soon as possible as they'll massively increase your chances of survival.

Focus Mode Is Great For Directions

Focus mode is a special mechanic that you can trigger when you press right click in Scum. If it doesn't trigger by itself, you'll just have to move around a bit and then click the button again. This mode is mainly used to get a better aim when you're trying to shoot a puppet or other NPCs with your bow or gun.

However, once you get some levels in your Awareness and Survival skills, you'll be able to see a special compass on the top when you enter focus mode. This will help you run in the correct direction when you're going from one place to another, and you won't have to stare at the movement of your red dot on the map anymore.

Prepare Food In Advance

The food and water system in Scum is a lot more advanced than most of the survival games out there. In this game, you don't simply have to keep yourself filled up and hydrated. Instead, each food item and recipe has a specific amount of protein, carbs, fat, and other items that you can get. This makes it important to have a balanced diet.

You'd want your protein to be high at all times while your energy stays below 50 percent so that you can maximize your level gain in different attributes. To make sure this happens, it's highly recommended to keep some food items in your inventory so that you can eat them whenever possible.

Scout Areas Before Jumping In

Scum has different types of servers. Some of them offer less danger by having a low population while others can be even easier if they don't allow PvP whatsoever. However, there are also servers with hundreds of players, which leads to common encounters with people who want to defeat you.

Apart from that, there are also high-level NPCs and even mechs in certain areas. This makes it important to scout around for any activity before you charge into a group of buildings for loot. There are a few steps to this scouting:

• Firstly, use focus mode to look around the entrances of different buildings and see if you can locate any open doors. If you see one, it likely means a player visited the area recently.
• If you don't find any open doors, the next step is to look for some NPCs in the area. If you just see puppets, then it's just a low-level area, which is easy to explore. However, if you see some humans holding crossbows or weapons, you'll have to be a lot more careful.
• Finally, even if you've scouted the area and don't find any immediate danger, it's recommended to move slowly and take your time in high-population servers so the enemy doesn't hear you and wait for your arrival.

Increase Your Inventory Whenever Possible

As mentioned above, your inventory will be one of the main mechanics capping your exploration since you can only hold so many items. One way to deal with that is getting the required items for a base and making a bunch of chests in it. However, it takes a lot of time to do that. Instead, you can use other means to increase your inventory.

You should first focus on either getting a better backpack or making one yourself. After your first backpack that you create at the start, you should aim for the best one you can craft. Outside of that, you can also find various backpacks when you explore different areas, but they're quite rare and can take a lot of time.

Sandbox Is Great For Learning

Finally, there are a lot of little mechanics that you'll slowly learn as you play Scum. However, one way to learn these mechanics much faster is by playing in the sandbox. You can find this game mode on the main screen, and it essentially lets you have a single-player experience where you can also use a bunch of console commands.

You can also use Ctrl D in the main menu before entering the sandbox, which lets you enter in Drone Mode. This will allow you to move around at a much faster rate and get the idea of what you can expect from each area.

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