Scavland Beginner Checklist

This is the short Vulture list. If you want paragraphs, open Getting Started. If you want a gun ranking, open the starting loadout. If you want keys, open controls. Tick from the top. Stop when a box is empty.

Before you buy

• PC or handheld meets system requirements
• You know Early Access is 4 September 2026, Act I only
• You are fine with single-player PvE and a slow loop
• Steam page still agrees with this wiki on price and date

Scrapyard / first spawn

• Open the journal with J and read the page
• Check the backpack. Drop it and rummage if the build lets you
• Use a medkit. You spawn hurt
• Eat and drink. The tutorial will nag; listen
• Note E interact and F melee
• Do not leave until bleeding is gone

Town before the first job

• Sell cloth, rags, duplicate junk
• Buy food and water for a round trip
• Buy a cleaning kit if you do not have one
• Keep the AK-pattern rifle if you have it; clean it
• Vendor homemade pistols if slots are tight
• Talk to someone. Factions start as conversations
• Take a nearby job, not the farthest icon

Packing the bag

• Medkit
• Bandage
• Food + water
• Cleaning kit
• Ammo for one gun
• Empty weight (no trophy pile)
• Radiation treatment if water is on the route (survival)

On the road

• Look at hunger before you look at loot
• Peek corners. Humans take cover (combat)
• Do not wade glowing water for a shortcut
• Turn around at the first serious bleed or jam
• Mark the way home on the map (how to play)

After the job

• Bandage, then loot, then clean the gun, then eat
• Turn the job in before shopping so rank and coin land together
• Sell duplicates. Keep kits
• Check whether a shop grew a ranked row (reputation)
• Stop the session while you are ahead

Do not tick these on day one

• A southbound tourist walk into a Threshold
• A bunker hatch “just to look” (bunkers)
• A three-gun museum in a tiny backpack
• A faction war because a uniform looked lootable
• A five-round legend you cannot feed (weapon tier list)

Optional demo homework

• If the 2025 demo is still installed, play one honest hour
• Then forget its loot table (demo)

Print this mentally. The wasteland does not have a clipboard. When Early Access patches add a new vital, this list will gain a box. Until then, food, a cleaning kit, a nearby job, and a route home.