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Spend your first materials on the problem that actually blocks you: a usable pickaxe or collected food. Follow complete inventory ledgers, not just a list of stations.

Material budgetsCopperGardeningCooking

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Core Keeper reading path

Mining blocked? Follow the complete station-to-pickaxe material ledger. Hunger blocked? The Basic Workbench already supports a starter food kit; check its eight-bar budget, planting cycle and collected meals without confusing vegetables with replacement seeds.

Start from your situation

What is blocking you?

Have the bench but cannot craft a pickaxe?

Check the 21-Wood ledger and reserve two Copper Bars for the final tool.

Read the relevant guideFood runs out on longer trips?

Budget an eight-bar food kit, water four planted tiles and count meals separately from seeds.

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Core Keeper guides

2 articles
Core Keeper First Workbench Route: A 21-Wood Copper Pickaxe Budget

Follow a complete material ledger from Torches and a Basic Workbench to a Copper Pickaxe, then fix the exact missing dependency.

Updated October 28, 2026 · 6 min read
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Core Keeper First Garden: An 8-Bar Kit and Two-Meal Food Ledger

Budget a Wooden Hoe, Watering Can and Cooking Pot; set up four planted tiles and diagnose water, seed and ingredient shortages separately.

Updated October 2, 2026 · 7 min read
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