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Wilderness Survival experience is received through the following:

• From camping. The experience is provided when the camp disbands.


• Crafting camps and traps. You don't receive system messages for experience gained this way, but you do gain it.


• Fishing.

ditto,

yes, crafting will gain you xp...but it is an expensive process

Yep, you can craft grind it. There's two ways:



Notes:

• A camp will give all of the XP you can gain from it by 24 minutes. This is assuming you don't enter combat nor have any visitors being healed (this will reduce the time towards max).
  
• As Nraas said, you gain XP for creation of the camp. Though you'll receive no system message about this, the number goes up (and you can see it if you keep your Skills window open). The amount of XP per camp varies per camp. This link is one I posted awhile back. Still need to update the last two camps, but all are in Nraas' FAQ anyway.
  
• It takes X amount of time for a crafting kit to complete a camp. For example, it takes 25 seconds for a Field Base Camp to be completed. If you time it right, you can have five Kits going at the same time.
  
• You can automate the front-end schematic selection. You need to find out what schematic number your preferred camp is though. Trial and error, but eventually you can use this macro:
  
  
  
  /ui action toolbarSlot##; (opens a crafting kit)
  
  /selectDraftSchematic ##;
  
  
  
  
• Once you've assigned the resources to that screen, use this macro to speed through the next steps:
  
  
  
  /nextCraftStage;
  
  /nextCraftStage;
  
  /createPrototype practice no item;
  
  /createPrototype practice no item;
  
  
  
  
• You can combine the above two macros into one, using a /pause command in the middle to allow time for resource dragging. But I prefer to keep them separate because it's easier to account for lag, emergency tells, getting jumped, etc.

Active Grinding

1. Craft and erect the best camp you can make
   
2. Standing/sitting in the camp, start busting out camps
   
3. At 24 minutes, disband
   
4. Go to 1

Passive Grinding




Do the same as Active Grinding while waiting for a shuttle, watching the band, running long distances (doesn't work mounted) or waiting for that last member of the group to come back from a bio break



AFK Grinding




Camps automatically disband at 51 minutes. If you set up a toolbar pane full of camp kits, you could create a macro that just erected a new camp at your location in 51+ minutes. This, of course, assumes you don't get attacked, a house doesn't get placed near you and a Lair doesn't spawn near you. Just fill up all six pages of your toolbar slots with camps and walk away for 5 days (well, ok, you could do it overnight, since there's a fair likelihood that the server you're on won't stay up for 5 days straight).

A macro would be something like:

/ui action toolbarSlot00;

/pause 3100; (for a margin of error);

/ui action toolbarSlot01;

/pause 3100;

.

.

/ui action toolbarSlot10;

/pause 3100;

/ui action toolbarPane01; (six pages of toolbar slots)

/ui action toolbarSlot 00;

/pause 3100;

Hope this helps.