Permafrost: All Items List

This is my full item breakdown for Permafrost — every category I could pull together, from the food and drink you scarf down to survive the cold, all the melee tools and firearms, medication, clothing, portable structures, resources, keys, and quest items. If you’re the kind of player who likes knowing exactly what a stat block does before you commit inventory space to it, this list is for you.

I put this together because the in-game item properties aren’t always obvious at a glance, and half the value of this game is in the numbers — a dish that restores energy versus one that warms your body can mean the difference between making it back to shelter and not. So treat this as a reference table you can scan fast rather than read start to finish.

Food and Ingredients

These are the items that keep your Nutrition, Energy, Health, and Body warmth topped up. Almost everything in this category stacks in 20s and carries no durability, with a selling multiplier of 0.6 across the board. The prepared dishes are where the interesting trade-offs live — I always keep an eye on the warming dishes when I’m heading into a deep cold stretch, since a few of them push Body warmth up by 50 or 60 on top of solid nutrition.

Tools and Melee Weapons

Every melee tool follows the same base rules — a Durability cost per use of 0, a Heavy Attack multiplier of ×2.0 where noted, and a Stamina per attack of 15.0 on the weapon-type items. What changes is the material tier: stone and flint are your early-game kit, then copper, iron, scrap, and finally Moonrock and the refined versions at the top. I’d treat the material as the main signal for which tier you’re actually equipped for.

Medication and Traps

Medication is where I pay close attention to the negative stat lines, because they aren’t all upside. Surgical Spirit actually costs you 20 Health, and Painkillers and Panacea both chip away at Nutrition and Energy even while they push Health up by 75. The four medkit types all heal for Health +300 and differ by durability, so the kit you keep is mostly an inventory-space decision. I also list the traps here since they share the durability-not-used layout.

Drinks and Ingredients

Drinks are a mixed bag and worth reading the numbers on carefully. Methyl Alcohol is the obvious trap — it tanks Health by 150, Stamina by 20, Energy by 50, and Body warmth by 30, so it’s not a casual pick. On the useful side, the improvised brews stand out: Improvised Tea gives Body warmth +45 and Health +45, and Improvised Coffee matches the warmth while adding Energy +45, which made them my go-to when I wanted a single item doing two jobs.

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