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What to pack and plan before you need the rest of this site

Survival kits, home checklists, and training — a curated title index. The preparation bucket in the corpus is a catch-all; this page only lists kit and plan articles.

§ 01

The direct answer

Preparation is the only topic you can finish on a quiet Tuesday. A kit you have never opened is a box of surprises. A plan nobody has walked is a PDF. The useful unit is: kit + plan + a drill you have actually run.

Three kit layers show up across the manuals. Level 1: on-body (water, light, blade, ferro, bandage, whistle, copies of IDs). Level 2: bag you can grab (72-hour water and food, radio, first-aid, spare clothes, copies of documents). Level 3: home or vehicle cache (water in litres not bottles-of-hope, sanitation, tools, a way to cook when the grid is down). Contents change by climate. The titles below are kit articles — not the 2,257-item dump that also holds minefields and dermatology.

A family plan is names, out-of-area contact, two meeting points, and who grabs which bag. Drill it once. Then put the phone down and pack the water. The full checklists and regional kit variants are in the app.

§ 02

Three kit layers — what each one is for

If you only build one, build Level 1 and a water plan. Fancy bags without water are costumes.

Level 1 — on body
Water, light, cutting tool, ferro rod, whistle, compact bandage, copies of ID.
Level 2 — grab bag
72 hours water + calories, radio, first-aid, clothes, documents, sanitation.
Level 3 — cache
Home or vehicle: stored water, cooking without gas, tools, extra meds.
Plan
Out-of-area contact, two rally points, who grabs which bag. Walk it once.
§ 03

In the offline library — titles only

10 titles · 2,257 articles in this cluster · full text in-app

  1. 01Building a Survival Kit: Level 1, 2, and 3 Essentials
  2. 02Building Your Own Survival Kit: Lessons from Military Kits
  3. 03What to Pack in Each Survival Kit Category: A Practical Breakdown
  4. 04First Aid Kit Checklist for Disaster Preparedness: What Every Home Needs
  5. 05Practice Makes Perfect: The Importance of Training with Your Survival Kit
  6. 06Hot Climate Survival Kit: Essential Gear for Extreme Heat
  7. 07What’s Inside the Army Cold Climate Survival Kit?
  8. 08Individual Survival Kit: General and Medical Packets Breakdown
  9. 09Miscellaneous Survival Kit Items: The Overlooked Essentials
  10. 10Plant Foraging Checklist: What to Avoid When Collecting Wild Foods

Titles only. Full text, regional variants, and tables are in the offline library — they are not published on this site.

§ 04

Related

Pricing →What works offline →Water →

All nine topics: survival index. Educational reference — disclaimer.

Then get it on the phone

You’re reading this with a signal. The situation it describes is one where you won’t have one.