HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This guide is divided into seventeen equally interesting sections. While you are encouraged to read it from start to finish before referring to individual sections as required, you may still jump ahead to the areas that interest you the most. If you are curious about a particular technology, please refer to the technology tree in Appendix A to see what prerequisites are required, then prioritize those inventions in order to unlock that technology as soon as possible.

A word of warning: while it’s fair to say that it would be pretty ridiculous to strand you in the past without any knowledge of how to produce the technologies, inventions, and chemicals you might need, it’s also pretty ridiculous how many of those technologies, inventions, and in particular chemicals are extremely dangerous to produce, store, inhale, touch, or even just be around. So in a legally mandated compromise, we are hereby compelled to tell you that while what you will find in this book is all you need to rebuild civilization from scratch, you should not attempt to produce anything dangerous, especially the chemicals, unless you really need them, and you also hereby legally agree, affirm, and attest that you will definitely not blow yourself up trying to make them happen.