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Under CanopiesAn independent field guide

Crafting

Choose the station problem first. Craft a Workbench, then follow the complete Wood Cutter blueprint-to-planks chain. At a selected Workbench project, the ingredient shortcut can save menu changes; nearby storage is a separate available-material check. Rope and ordinary Log have dedicated pages in Resources, while animal-earned recipe unlocks are in Animals.

Under Canopies: unlock the Wood Cutter and make planks Craft a Workbench in Under Canopies Craft basic ingredients at the Under Canopies Workbench All crafting guides

Building

Open a structure: repair the Old Farm entrance before looking for its blueprint table. At camp, refuel an existing standing torch or use your placed tent's map marker to find your way back. Each route starts from the object it needs: the boarded farm door, a placed torch or a placed tent.

Repair the Old Farm door in Under Canopies Refuel a standing torch in Under Canopies Find your camping tent on the Under Canopies map All building guides

Controls

Inventory tasks come first: Pickup Filter changes automatic collection, while Empty Hands changes the held item. To preserve progress, use the pause-menu Save Game action and check its confirmation. For screen visibility, P hides or restores the HUD. Each page states its PC and patch scope.

Set the automatic pickup filter in Under Canopies Put your held item away in Under Canopies Hide and restore the Under Canopies HUD with P All controls guides

Animals

Choose the next animal task. Prepare housing by crafting and placing the Chicken Coop after learning its blueprint. For a missing chicken pet prompt, check the current stage and close targeting; for deer, drinking comes before stew. Rabbit friendship unlocks the Iron Pan, while the new 0.6.25 gift-bag page covers an earned reward that cannot fit in inventory. Each guide labels its actual source version.

Under Canopies: craft and place a Chicken Coop Under Canopies: pet a chicken when the prompt is missing Under Canopies: check the deer’s drinking step before stew All animals guides

Resources

Match the missing material before gathering. Ordinary Log comes from the axe-and-dead-tree task; Rope is crafted from Fiber Plant in Inventory. Check the station recipe’s exact name and amount, then return to the Workbench or Wood Cutter chain. These pages cover the available early materials, not a complete resource map.

Under Canopies: get ordinary Log with an axe Craft Rope in Under Canopies All resources guides

Farming

Start with the blocker: seeds cannot go into wild soil, so check the Farming Bed prerequisite first. If your supply is gone, the Old Farm page gives a confirmed player destination for replacement corn. If corn is already growing, use the watering-can E interaction and check its plaque. These are different tasks; no exact respawn or harvest timer is promised.

Under Canopies: seeds need a Farming Bed, not wild soil Under Canopies: check the old farmhouse for more corn Under Canopies: water planted corn and check its status All farming guides

Controls

Save your Under Canopies game from the pause menu

Steam PC (Windows) · Pause-menu save action · Checked 2026-11-02

The short answer

Open the pause menu and choose Save Game. Watch the saving indicator and wait for confirmation before treating that save as complete.

The button was added in 0.6.22. The official notes say you can retry if saving fails; this is a save operation guide, not a guaranteed repair for every save error.

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Before you start

A game session you can pause.
An EA version with the Save Game button added in 0.6.22.

Save and check the result

Open the pause menu using your configured pause control.
Choose Save Game.
Watch the saving indicator and wait for the game's confirmation.
If the game reports a saving failure, retry the save action.

Original explanatory schematic based on the cited 0.6.22 source. This is not a game screenshot or the actual interface layout.Open full image ↗

Use confirmation as the completion check

The indicator and confirmation are the feedback introduced with this button. Simply selecting Save Game is not the same as seeing that it succeeded. If the game continues reporting a failure, this page does not establish a universal repair or a reason to delete your save.

If it does not work

The game reports that saving failed.: Retry as the official update advises, and check for confirmation. A continuing error is unresolved by this operation alone.
You cannot find Save Game in the pause menu.: Confirm that the installed version includes the 0.6.22 addition. Do not confuse the pause menu with the main menu.
You are considering starting over to repair the error.: This guide provides no evidence that a reset or save deletion is required. Keep the error and save-operation question separate.

How to know you are done

The game has shown a successful saving confirmation.

Sources & version

Applies to Introduced in EA 0.6.22; latest official patch checked: 0.6.25. The cited older source is not a v0.6.25 gameplay replay. on Steam PC (Windows). Sources observed 2026-11-02. Updated 2026-11-02.

Official update 0.6.22: Animal Fixes, Better Building & Manual Saves — 0.6.22; observed 2026-11-02T14:45:13.417Z. Published patch notes, not a hands-on replay of Steam public build 26335062.