/r/PostCollapse

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A subreddit dedicated to collecting information is case of a Collapse of society, with the side goal of creating a downloadable wiki for use during one.

This Subreddit is for planning and preparing for what comes after a collapse of society.

The end goal is a focused on the following goals:

  • Teaching people to prepare for a catastrophic event

  • Teaching people what to do during a catastrophic event

  • How to fend for yourself and your family long term(self defense, finding food, building shelter, etc)

  • How to effectively lead survival groups

Planning the world after the apocalypse, as it were.


Overwhelmed and don't know where to start?


Rules:

Please try to keep the submissions on-topic.

  • No general Collapse stories, news or warnings That stuff is for r/collapse.

  • Discussion of Pre or Pending Collapse is allowed but please remember that you're in Post Collapse.

  • No spamming links to survival gear or specific products. Please also take the time to include a short review or say reasons why we should buy it.

  • Be respectful and tolerant of other peoples views and attitudes*. We're all here for different reasons, planning for different things. Some questions may just be academic in nature. Please be respectful and don't belittle them.

  • Zombie posts are allowed but frowned upon. If you're interested in that stuff try r/Zombies or r/ZombieSurvivalTactics.

These rules (except for the first) are not set in stone. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to let the mods know.


Related subreddits:

  • r/Collapse - The general Collapse subreddit.

  • r/Homestead - Tips, Tricks and How to create your own Self-Sufficient Homestead.

  • r/Reloading - Why waste brass? That's 65% of the bullet you can reuse.

  • r/AskScience - Have a question about Fallout, EMP's or Solar Flares? Ask actual experts.

  • r/Flashlight - Discussion of quality lights of all types including EDC, keychain, headlamps, lanterns, weapon, work, and many others.

  • r/Guns - Reddit's experts on shooting and firearms. (Hint: Get a Mosin and a Glock)

  • r/Bugout - When the SHTF, GTFO.

  • r/PhysicGarden - Growing and using Nature's medicines.

  • r/Permaculture - Self Sustaining agriculture based on nature's systems.

  • r/Survivalist - "Urban" Surviving.

  • r/Survival - Wilderness Survival.

  • r/SurvivalGuide - The Survival Guide Subreddit.

  • r/SelfSufficiency - Help and How to live self sufficiently.

  • /r/selfreliance - "Being able to depend on yourself to meet your basic needs (and those around you) is one of the greatest feelings in the world, and doing so ethically is even more essential"

  • r/Preppers - The Preppers Subreddit.

  • r/TrailMeals - Eating on the go. Now there's no excuse for skipping breakfast.

  • r/Knives - Stick 'em with the pointy end.

  • r/Blacksmith - A shower of sparks. A clang of metal.

  • /r/upcycling - Reduce, reuse, recycle.

  • /r/Myog - Making your own gear.

  • NEW /r/reculture - Incorporating solarpunk, metamodern spirituality, permaculture, humane technology, and decentralized governance into a holistic worldview to define a new culture which can sustain through collapse and thrive post-collapse.


Related Websites

Have a suggestion for a related subreddit? Please let us know!


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Frequently Asked Questions

  1. No Collapse news or warnings. Take that stuff to /r/Collapse. If you're posting links to products or gear, please include a small review or list of reasons why we should buy it in your post. The reasoning behind this can be found here.

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Water and Canned food Questions

Hi, I have a few questions about water: I've had bottled water that was bad 1 year later. It tasted quite strongly of chemicals. Are there any bottled waters that are safe to save for years, or would canned water be better? For canned foods: when I was a kid, there were no "best by" or expiration dates on canned food. If the the can wasn't puffy, it was considered still good. Would that still be the case or has something changed in the canning process? Thank you!

3 Comments
2024/11/08
00:34 UTC

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How to Make Your Home Look Looted in an SHTF Scenario

20 Comments
2024/08/12
17:41 UTC

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Gas mask canisters

In need of a bayonet style cbrn rated gas mask canister thats also high rated in particulate filtering. My thinking is a m61 for the m50 mask is good for cbrn but if building are being bombed then there will be asbestos and other bad stuff in the air. I have a pd- 101 mask from parcil safety but their bayonet canisters dont say if they are cbrn rated.

2 Comments
2024/07/22
00:58 UTC

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Could compost create electricity?

I know that compost piles can get hot especially if they get beyond a certain size. I know they can get hot enough that self ignition is a problem. So could we crack an egg and kill two birds by using that heat to drive a generator? Think of the potential of running pipes through a pile. You could have water or super critical co2 as the working fluid. If the pile was getting out of control you could inject carbonated water into it to drive away oxygen from that area. I think this could be useful almost anywhere in the world. It is a source for energy that is almost inexhaustible. On top of that you could carefully manage the quality of the compost.

53 Comments
2024/04/11
19:55 UTC

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Moving to the country

So, about to leave a 5million big city for an 8,000 people country town. I have always been a joke zombie apocalypse person... But the issue I always had with most prep for it was how incredibly short term it is. So I am thinking more medium term SHTF, all infrastructure gone, and not really going to come back, all easily hoardable foods gone, petrol all expired etc.

The town I am moving to is in a good bowl, super fertile, essentially supplies food for 5 million people already. So growing and raising food won't be a huge issue. Most of the town has solar power (enough to completely power a modern home exclusively during the day for 75% of the year) Winter is never dangerous cold... Naked outside in the depth of winter would suck, but you aren't going to die. Heat is a bigger issue, but only breaks 40C/100F 1 month of the year Western Victoria, Australia Water isn't really an issue, multiple, different, safe water supplies Less concerned with political instability or crime/defence. We aren't as inherently divided, and culturally are quite trusting of each other. Violence here is already rare. So yes, while there will obviously be more danger in that way when SHTF, honestly I don't see it getting worse than the US is now very quick. We are even the state that spent 190 days in lockdown, minimal complaints, and reelected the government with a bigger majority after.

My concern is over essentials, that we no longer make ourselves, and how to keep them.

Obvious one is soap. Animal fat is easy to get... But where do I find lye? Or make/extract lye?

Gun powder I have covered (which would be for general explosive, for clearing land mostly). You can make nitrate with urine and soil Charcoal is easy And then you heat fools gold in a pot with a tube connecting it to another pot which collects the pure sulphur.

-fools gold can be collected about 2hours walk away

Obviously that nitrate will be used to cure meats as well. And I can extract sea salt in a 6 hour by horse journey away.

I can make alcohol, and can refine it to 98% for cleaning etc

I can make chloroform out of bleach and isopropyl (would be scary without access to ice though, as that reaction gets crazy hot)

But yeah... What sorts of things along those lines do you have?

32 Comments
2024/02/13
04:41 UTC

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[PDF] SHTF Survival Boot Camp

https://ardbark.com/shtf-survival-boot-camp/

PDF | 6 MB

SHTF Survival Boot Camp: A Course for Urban and Wilderness Survival during Violent, Off-Grid, & Worst Case Scenarios

5 Comments
2023/11/08
04:13 UTC

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How Japan rebuilt Hiroshima in just 6 years: Restoring civilization after Nuclear attack.

2 Comments
2023/09/19
15:02 UTC

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Kolaps - Czech & Slovak Discord Server!

Hello everyone, we would like to invite and introduce you to our new discord server called Kolaps.

A place to network with people from Czechia & Slovakia. We are searching for respectful folks looking to discuss and share skills, information, knowledge, and so on. Support one another and one day possibly materialize things of positive nature in real life. While speaking the language isn't required, our channels are language separated.

See you on the server!

Invite link: https://discord.gg/4u7eq8wSrp

0 Comments
2023/07/20
20:40 UTC

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Make Friends

The most dangerous person isn't the guy with the biggest gun. It's more often the guy who everyone trusts like family, the one who has people who will tell him what's happening, the one they ask for advice, the one who they will wake up early to help, the one who has lists, knows where everything and everyone can be found. This guy doesn't have 20 guns and exotic calibers, he has a couple that he's shot so much he replaced parts but not the gun because it feels weird to use any other.

Build a first world bubble in the collapse, because if it takes years you can't just keep your head down and when the 🎈 goes up, it's gonna be harder to build up trustworthy friendships.

GL

0 Comments
2023/05/10
22:49 UTC

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Writing a guide on yields for farming everything. And I mean everything. I would appreciate some input on this if you can.

Been writing a guide on the yields involved in farming everything. Trying to write it for small scale farms, like what people with a few acres or a decent backyard might be able to work with.

Please let me know if you have any inputs on what I should add. Leave a comment, will update this as I go.

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/185ce-NgnVqCBpva3R7j6XRnzknZE22mWGJIT6bNkJMg/edit?usp=sharing

14 Comments
2022/10/28
01:39 UTC

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Land Navigation for Preppers

I created a free course teaching how you can navigate using coordinates without a GPS. Here it is:

FREE COURSE: Land Navigation for Preppers

Order a custom MGRS map! Check me out here: hardballmaps.com

2 Comments
2022/10/06
19:17 UTC

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What areas should we be looking to move to to survive impending collapse / climate disasters? What areas of the world or states will be best for survival?

53 Comments
2022/09/09
03:24 UTC

77

Is there a library of knowledge to rebuild/information that is useful no matter the level of infrastructure?

Personally I don’t think collapse is inevitable but I do think it is in the realm of possibility and I think there are many levels of possibility in the mix.

That being said I feel like in any of those situations we could lose a lot of knowledge because we lose the infrastructure necessary to act on it. Things like open source designs that require precision machine tooling.

But things like iron smelting once you know about it it can always be useful. I often wish for some sort of hard drive that contains all the information of that sort that we have found since the age of fossil fuels.

I’m sure that there are countless discoveries that we’ve made that would be useful to any large well organized community no matter their level of infrastructure.

Does something like this exist?

21 Comments
2022/08/15
20:50 UTC

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What happened to this once-mighty sub?

I used to frequent this sub. It was vibrant, full of intellectually stimulating information...

Where did everyone go?

15 Comments
2022/06/09
13:15 UTC

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Can a solar flare stop nukes from launching? Can a solar flare prevent nuclear war?

10 Comments
2022/05/11
22:46 UTC

77

Is there any real plan for surviving the end of the world?

Just finished watching “Greenland”, and it makes me wonder- is there actually any real plan by our government for something like that? And what would it really look like? Contacting “pre-selected” families seems completely unrealistic in the modern age of the Internet. Bunkers able to withstand a nuke exist, but what about food and water, medicine, or even TOILETS? Makes me want to just go back to sleep.

74 Comments
2022/04/05
21:47 UTC

52

Just in case the SHTF fallout-wise.

Don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but it shows prevalent wind direction broken down by month and region.

Windrose

11 Comments
2022/03/24
23:32 UTC

3

Best gas mask in general

So is there a gas mask that has a filter that can block out viruses/radiation/fungus and bacteria?

2 Comments
2022/03/14
15:44 UTC

49

Water issues

People in the Donbas region of Ukraine are already deep into a SHTF environment. They aren't even allowed to leave, and go into the main body of Ukraine. The main municipal water in many areas is shut off. There are shallow wells, but many pumps are frozen.

There has been talk about some of the water there being "hot". If an individual on a farm garden property there has no meters to test with, how would you even test it?

What readily available stuff around most houses can be used to filter it from cysts?

I know that boiling will kill most living bacteria and germs, but how to purify other stuff out of it?

What would you do, to ensure clean drinking water?

27 Comments
2022/03/07
15:57 UTC

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DiY Bug Out Vehicle - Convert any Car for OffGrid Survival

Due to recent happenings here in europa and a lot of people forced to move.i made a simple,easy conversion for cars and other vehicles to be used as temporary/emergency OffGrid accommodations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4yVYViVSlQ

Itemlist:

  • 12V solar charger , solar panel, small inverter, car fuses, connection cables
  • 12V Cb radio + magnetic rooftop antennae
  • Usb Chargers for Phones/tables
  • 2nd Car Battery
  • 12v Gasoline pump
  • 12V water pump with 2-3m hose and water filters
  • Gas bottle + stove OR a simple Hobo Stove, 1 large pot
  • GPS, (in phone or as a navigation system)
  • Toolkit (car repairs), axe, knife, folding Shovel, zip ties, ductape, rope
  • Store able Food: noodles, Rice, Cans, Water
  • Sleeping Bag/blankets
  • Soap / personal hygiene stuff ,
  • 2 Sets of seasonal cloth
  • Medicaments for a month
  • Two Copies of all important documents
  • for hot areas -> a 12V cooling box
  • additional Fuel, 3-4 Canisters
  • Spare tire, tire plug kit and a good air compressor

- Ventilation is important , specially if it is more then one person in a vehicle. the humidity of 3-4 exhaling humans that sleep in a closed car can be enough to have condensation water run as little rivers inside on the windows. A simple vent fan can be the difference between a comfortable space and a sauna and/or humid freezer with temp shifts. Vent fans use power too- not much but some- so yet another reason to emphasize having more solar/battery capacity than you strictly need.

7 Comments
2022/03/07
08:24 UTC

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what are the top priorities to do in case of a nuclear strike?

63 Comments
2022/03/06
01:20 UTC

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