User blog comment:Skylinerichardd/Survival Tips/@comment-24108228-20150927111649

What I like to do is the method of the silly inventor. You make something remarkably useful and practical (say an airship or a teleporter to a mithril vein), and then when people come to you or offer you a place in their tribe, you can basically just live off that one invention you made, as people are more than happy to help you in exchange for a potential new useful invention, or in some cases just access to the old one.

Great guide though. I used to see a lot of people taking the regular approach, insisting it's your fault you spawned there, but nowadays it's less common. They must have been wiped out by experienced veterans that they angered or something.