🎒 Survival Gear
Bug Out Bag Checklist: Every Item, By Priority
A complete bug out bag checklist covering water, fire, shelter, first aid, light, food, tools and documents — with weights, quantities and what to leave out.
10 min read
OFF GRID SURVIVAL HACKS
Off Grid Hackz — practical off-grid, survival and bushcraft guides. Be Ready forEverything
Learn practical skills for fire, water, shelter, food, power and
survival gear.
What you'll find here
Step-by-step guides to the everyday off-grid problems: getting a fire going in the rain, making water safe to drink, staying warm when the power is out, keeping food without a fridge. Each one lists the materials, the steps, what usually goes wrong and when the technique is the wrong tool for the job. The guides are based on established outdoor and preparedness practice — read how we write them.
Browse our gears listExplore survival categories
Fire & Cooking
Get a flame going in any weather and cook real food without a grid connection.
Water
Filtering, purifying and harvesting water when the tap is not an option.
Shelter
Fast tarp rigs and emergency shelters that keep the weather off your back.
Bushcraft
Knots, carving and tool skills that make the woods workable.
Foraging
Edible plants and mushrooms you can identify with confidence.
Food Storage
Preserving and stockpiling food so it lasts through the season.
Solar & Power
Small solar setups, batteries and powerbanks that actually hold up.
Survival Gear
Kit tests and honest guides to what earns a place in your pack.
Vehicle & Camp Hacks
Smart camping and vehicle tricks that save time, space and money.
Off-Grid Living
Cabins, composting toilets, showers and everyday off-grid systems.
City Hacks
Blackout-proofing, water, heat and comms for people who live in apartments and cities.
Emergency
Plans, kits and skills for the first 72 hours of any emergency.
Featured hacks
🏡 Off-Grid Living
Build a Composting Toilet That Does Not Smell
How to build a composting toilet that does not smell: urine diversion, the right carbon cover material, ventilation and a safe composting cycle.
8 min read
🔥 Fire & Cooking
Build a Tin-Can Rocket Stove in 20 Minutes
Build a tin-can rocket stove in 20 minutes: a fuel-efficient DIY camp stove that boils a litre of water on a handful of twigs, with cutting and airflow details.
7 min readLatest
🚨 Emergency
Build Your Own Off-Grid Family Communication Network
How to stay in contact with family and friends when mobile networks and the internet go down — a simple, legal backup plan built on paper first and radios second.
11 min read🎒 Survival Gear
Bug Out Bag Checklist: Every Item, By Priority
A complete bug out bag checklist covering water, fire, shelter, first aid, light, food, tools and documents — with weights, quantities and what to leave out.
10 min read
🏙️ City Hacks
The Get-Home Bag for City Commuters
A small, unremarkable bag that gets you 15 to 20 km home on foot when transport stops — packed for pavement, not for the woods.
7 min read
🔥 Fire & Cooking
Five Fast Wild Food Recipes You Can Cook Anywhere
Five fast wild food recipes for camp: nettle soup, pan trout, dandelion salad, wild mushroom fry and bannock — each under 20 minutes with one pot and one knife.
8 min read
🏡 Off-Grid Living
Get a Genuinely Hot Shower From a 20L Solar Shower Bag
Get genuinely hot water from a 20L solar shower bag: fill temperature, sun timing, insulation tricks and how to stretch 20 litres into a proper wash.
7 min read
⚡ Solar & Power
Why a Solar Radio With a Flashlight Beats Your Phone in a Blackout
Why a solar hand-crank emergency radio beats your phone in a blackout: NOAA and longwave broadcasts, infinite power, built-in light and how to set one up.
7 min read
🚙 Vehicle & Camp
Ten Car-Camping Hacks That Pay for Themselves
Ten car-camping hacks that pay for themselves: sleep setup, power, water, organisation and the small vehicle changes that make camping faster and safer.
8 min read
🥫 Food Storage
Fat-Sealed Meat and Pemmican Basics
How to make pemmican and fat-sealed meat: drying meat properly, rendering tallow, the correct ratio, and the hygiene rules that keep it shelf-stable.
7 min read
🌿 Foraging
Foraging Mushrooms Without Guessing
A rules-based method for safe mushroom foraging: spore prints, habitat, the deadly families to rule out first, and why photo matching gets people poisoned.
7 min readContribute
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