Escape from Tarkov Complete Guide for Beginners: Essential Techniques to Improve Your Efficiency, Increase Your Survival Rate, and Stabilize Your Funds

Escape from Tarkov (hereinafter referred to as Tarkov) is a game known as a realistic hardcore FPS. For beginners, money management, survival skills, and efficient play are key. In this game, one mistake can be fatal, so learning basic techniques is very important. In this article, we will thoroughly explain useful techniques to solve problems that Tarkov beginners often face. We've compiled everything from smart purchasing methods for medical supplies to optimizing hideouts, managing task efficiency, ensuring safety during battle, and professional-level techniques for hunting for items. By practicing these techniques, your game progress will be much smoother and you'll be able to approach expert level quickly.

If you are a beginner, we strongly recommend that you first solidify these basics before attempting a raid. Now, let's get straight to the point.

1. Buy your medical supplies wisely: Save money by using fences instead of therapists.

One of the most painful expenses early on in Tarkov is medical supplies. If you leave bleeding or broken bones when you are hit by a bullet, it will lead to instant death, so it is necessary to always have a stock. However, since the price is high when purchasing directly from a therapist who is a trader, beginners can easily find themselves in a situation where they can easily lose a lot of money. Therefore, we recommend purchasing from the fence.

Fences are like a black market in the game, and medical supplies are often less than half the price of therapists. For example, hemostatic (bleeding agent) costs about 4,200 rubles at a therapist, but at the fence you can get it for around 2,500 rubles. Similarly, the CMS kit (combat medical kit) costs about 5,000 rubles for a fence compared to 8,000 rubles for a therapist. This difference dramatically improves financial management for beginners.

Why are fences advantageous?

• Low price fluctuations: Although stock of fences is random, it is basically stable at a low price range. Fences are always cheap, while therapists increase in price based on loyalty.
• Obtainment timing: Available immediately after the game starts. To overcome early-game cash shortages, cash in your first raid reward at the fence and immediately replenish your medical supplies.
• Practical example: In the first raid on the Custom's map, after bringing back a few items from the dormitory, immediately buy 5 Hemostatics at the fence. This will increase your chances of surviving the next raid by 20%.

Please check back regularly as fence inventory changes in real time. This can save you a lot of money on medical costs.

2. Achieving an infinite supply of water resources: Utilize “1 bottle” with Hideout water collectors

The Hideout is an important base in Tarkov, and is essential for improving skills and creating items. In particular, water resources are necessary to maintain generators and air conditioning systems, but beginners often suffer from lack of water. A useful technique here is to fill the water bottle with 1 level left in the water bottle.

After installing the water collector, instead of using an empty water bottle, fill it with a bottle with a small amount of water left (1 unit remaining). This produces a full tank of water in about 20 minutes, allowing for an endless supply. This method can significantly reduce Hideout's operating costs, since the production efficiency of ordinary empty bottles decreases.

Detailed instructions and benefits

• procedure:
  1. Open the Hideout Water Container menu.
  2. Select a water bottle with 1 remaining capacity from your inventory.
  3. After loading, wait 20 minutes.
• Benefits: Water production costs are reduced to almost zero, freeing up generator fuel costs and freeing up funds for other upgrades. Beginners can now level up Hideout much faster.
• Expansion Tip: Upgrading the water collector to level 2 or above will reduce the generation rate to 15 minutes. Please take advantage of automatic generation during rainy weather.

Once you master Hideout's water management, your long-term game progress will be very stable.

3. Avoid task clutter: Pin to the top to prioritize tasks

Tarkov's tasks are rich in rewards, but when the number increases, it can be difficult to know what to prioritize. Beginners tend to lose sight of the purpose of the raid and become less efficient. The solution is the pinning feature in the task menu. This will pin the selected task to the top so you can always see it.

How to use pinning

• Instructions: Right-click on the task list and select Pin. Up to 3 can be fixed.
• Recommended priority tasks: In the early stages, it is easy to earn money with rewards by pinning easy tasks such as “Delivery”.
• Effect: You can immediately check the task progress on the HUD display during the raid, preventing you from getting lost. As a result, the clear rate increases by 30%.

If you make this a habit, you can double your initial funds with task rewards.

4. Complete understanding of hideout production items: Accelerate tasks by taking advantage of inraid handling

Items that can be crafted at the Hideout workbench are excellent as a way out of tasks. These are treated as “in raids”, so they are counted as items obtained outside of raids. Beginners don't know this and tend to repeat useless raids.

List of main production items

Item name	Production time	Required materials	Uses/benefits
60 rounds magazine (for AK-74N)	1 hour 20 minutes	plastic, spring, spring	Enhanced firepower. Available in the task “The Punisher”.
tool set	half an hour	screws, screwdriver	Alternative to repair tasks. Helps save money.
Shankha (Salewa)	45 minutes	medical materials	High-end medical products. Greatly increases survival rate.
Grenade	1 hour	gunpowder, metal	Can handle throwing tasks.

• Advantages: Tasks progress without the need for raids. For example, you can complete Prapor's task in one day by producing a 60-round magazine.
• Note: Please collect materials more efficiently by exchanging fences for cash.

Now you can turn your hideout into a second source of income.

5. Utilize hidden specifications for muscle training: Improve your skills with friends' hideouts even if you don't have a gym set up

Improving your physical skills (Strength) is directly linked to increasing your carrying capacity and extending your throwing distance, but setting up a gym costs a lot of money. A trick for beginners is to use the gym at your friend's hideout. Due to the specifications of the game, it is possible to train with other people's hideouts.

Usage and effects

• Instructions: Invite friends to use the gym with Hideout Share.
• Training menu: Bench press (5 EXP per rep), pull-ups (improves endurance)
• Benefits: Increase Strength to level 2 with zero initial investment and reduce stamina consumption by 15%.

With 3 sessions per week, you can achieve Strength 3.0 in 1 month.

6. Automatic stash organization technique: Cut access time in half by organizing and pinning

A cluttered stash wastes a lot of time searching for items. Combine auto-organize with pinning to get organized in an instant.

step by step

1. Run “Auto Tidy” in the Stash menu.
2. Right-click to pin important items (keys, etc.).

Now even grids with a capacity of 200 can be searched instantly and the error rate is zero.

7. Preparing for battle while fishing: Make it a habit to always load your bullets and develop readiness.

Fishing during raids is important, but there are many cases where you lose your life due to enemy surprise attacks. The solution is to get into the habit of loading the magazine while fishing.

Practical points

• How to do it: Perform a reload with the wheel while in the fishing pose.
• Benefit: Allows immediate fire upon encounter, increasing survival rate by 25%.

8. Tips for keeping an eye on your back: Eliminate blind spots by looking back when you start fishing

It's easy to get caught from behind while fishing. If you get into the habit of quickly looking back at the start, you can be sure to spot your enemies.

• Tips: Check sound and visibility at the same time. This will reduce surprise attack damage by 50%.

9. High-speed disposal key setting: Customize the disposal operation to make the route more efficient

If you are slow in disposing of unnecessary items, you will lose a lot of time. This can be solved by setting the key.

• Setting example: Assign “Drop” to the mouse side button.
• Benefit: Saves 5 minutes per raid.

10. Compression rig storage revolution: Compact magazine and medical management

You can save a lot of space by using a compression rig.

• Use: Store multiple items in a medical pouch.
• Advantage: 20% more carrying capacity.

11. Root experience value determination: Immediately determine the quality of the scab's contents with the lower right HUD

You can predict the success or failure of scab fishing using experience points.

• Criteria: 50-80 is low quality, 150 and above is high value.
• Advantage: Much more time efficient.

12. Safe fishing position: keep the scab down and avoid the head

You can greatly reduce your chances of being hit by fishing in the prone position.

• Method: Use the Prone pose.

13. Hide your head while recovering: Avoid headshots by facing your feet while being hit.

You can definitely avoid headshots by facing your feet and healing.

• Effect: Increases survival rate by 40%.

14. Container fishing head cover: Crouch and face down to conquer large boxes

You can avoid snipers by crouching and looking down.

15. Long press bolt action: Improve sniping accuracy by holding cocking

Hold down to maintain aim.

• Benefit: Increases accuracy by 30%.

16. Speed ​​up installation tasks: Continuous installation by switching tabs

Continuous installation is possible by resetting by opening and closing the tab.

• Time reduction: cut in half.

17. Immediately stop short of breath: Hold breath key when stamina returns to green

It will stop immediately if it makes a sound.

• Advantage: Stealth performance is greatly enhanced.

Additional techniques: Advanced strategies for fighting on different maps and earning money

Based on the above basics, we will introduce applications for each map. In Customs, focus on fishing for dorms, and in Woods, be careful of snipers.

If you earn money through a loop of selling fences and making hideouts, it is quite possible to earn 500,000 rubles a day.

Comprehensive advice to improve survival rate

Combine all these techniques and master them thoroughly in practice mode. Continuation is the key to improvement.

Conclusion: This opens the door to Tarkov

Practicing all the techniques in this guide will ensure your transition from beginner to intermediate. Enjoy the depth of Tarkov with continuous practice. I sincerely hope that your raids are always full of success.