Before You Chase the Trolls: 8 Things to Do Before Leaving Camp

Among the Trolls gives you a cabin, a journal, and just enough supplies to make bad preparation feel optional. Handle these eight jobs before the forest gets serious.

Among the Trolls opens with a missing grandfather and a Finnish forest that looks calm enough to wander. That is exactly why the first hour can go sideways. Food needs cooking, arrows need replacing, tools wear down, and the darker routes do not care that you left your torch beside the cabin. The safest opening is built around one simple rule: return to camp before a small shortage becomes a long walk home. The official game description confirms that scarce resources, harsh weather, wildlife, crafting, Väki, and Lykky all shape survival. Creator playthroughs of the demo repeatedly hit the same problems with food, ammunition, navigation, darkness, and durability. This guide combines those repeated observations with current official material. It does not pretend Game Pelt has played the final launch build, and exact recipes or balance may change after release. The habits below are still useful because they solve the problems the game keeps putting between Anna and the next story objective. Open the journal before following the first interesting sound into the trees. It collects recipes, discoveries, quests, and other clues that explain what the game expects you to build or investigate next. In the longer creator playthroughs, checking it often solved confusion faster than another lap around the cabin.