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Bushcraft
Bushcraft
The further from centre, the more strongly this hobby leans that way. Your quiz answers are scored against exactly these fifteen.
Practising shelter building, fire lighting, water sourcing and cordage, so you can be comfortable outdoors with little kit.
One free dayTime to first win
A whole dayA session
Mostly outdoorsWhere
Step 1: Find woodland where fires and carving are allowed.
Is it you?
What you need
4 thingsThe honest floor, taking the cheapest option in each$86
How we make money: if you buy through one of these we take a small cut, and the price is the same either way. The cheapest option that works is always listed first.
The path
14 questsASetting up2 things to sort, in any order$25
BThen the quests
- Light a fire with a firesteel
- Carve a spoon without cutting yourself
- Make a hot drink over a fire you built
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Guides
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Best Bushcraft Knife (2026): Full Tang, Carbon Steel and What Actually MattersA bushcraft knife gets asked to do things a kitchen knife never does: split wood, scrape a fire steel, carve a notch, prepare food, and survive being left damp in a sheath. Almost every argument about them comes down to two decisions, and a twenty-pound knife gets both right often enough that spending more is a choice rather than a requirement.Best Ferro Rod (2026): It Works Wet, and That Is the Whole PointA lighter fails when it is wet, cold, empty or above about ten thousand feet. A ferrocerium rod does none of those things: it throws three-thousand-degree sparks after being dropped in a river, works in the cold, and has no fuel to run out. What it will not do is light a fire without tinder, which is where almost everyone actually fails.
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