r/Survival is a subreddit with 5.0M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses survival, looking for, lookingfor, looking, and gear, and they frequently recommend/review pocket knife, survival knife, and survival kit.
Wilderness Survival
Popular Themes in r/Survival
#1
Advice Requests
: "What’s the most useless item people still put in a survival kit?"
19 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Fire starter for idiots help please!"
7 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Improvised snowshoes from paracord and zip ties – worked surprisingly well"
3 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Sorry Not Sorry for the rage. All People who love clean water when Backpacking etc.., The time for action is now."
2 posts
#5
Opportunities
: "Im going to travel in van"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/Survival
#1
Survival
: "What’s the most useless item people still put in a Survival kit?"
83 posts
#2
Looking For
42 posts
#3
Lookingfor
41 posts
#4
Looking
39 posts
#5
Gear
: "Advice on what I’d need for a starter survival/bushcraft kit. I’m just a beginner so be kind please"
13 posts
#6
Worst
13 posts
#7
Fire
: "Keeping a Fire going long term - Discussion"
11 posts
#8
Knife
: "Knife kit"
11 posts
#9
Good
9 posts
#10
Tools
: "Looking for 5 Different DIY Survival Tools for Kids."
6 posts
Products Discussed in r/Survival
Pocket Knife
226 reviews
#1
Benchmade
4.9★ from 31 reviews
#2
Kershaw
4.6★ from 29 reviews
#3
Spyderco
4.8★ from 18 reviews
Survival Knife
95 reviews
#1
Mora
4.8★ from 21 reviews
#2
ESEE
4.8★ from 11 reviews
#3
Morakniv
4.6★ from 7 reviews
Survival Kit
91 reviews
#1
Leatherman
5.0★ from 22 reviews
#2
Victorinox
5.0★ from 7 reviews
#3
Bic
5.0★ from 4 reviews
Flair Used in r/Survival
#1
General Question
: "Bear Grylls wet clothes after jumping into lake"
20 posts
#2
Learning Survival
: "What survival skill took you the longest to actually master, and what finally made it click?"
11 posts
#3
Fire
: "How much heat do fires actually provide?"
5 posts
#4
Survival Kits
: "What would you bring in a “Fanny Pack Challenge”?"
4 posts
#5
Gear Recommendation Wanted
: "Electric “Arc” Lighter Opinions"
4 posts
#6
Modern Survival
: "You can add Vitamin C to stored emergency water to neutralize the taste of chlorine."
3 posts
#7
Location Specific Question
: "Urban foraging clubs? LA, Long Beach, OC?"
2 posts
#8
Question About Techniques
: "Living in the woods"
2 posts
#9
Wilderness Medicine
: "Tannic acid makes for a really great disinfectant, and it's extremely easy to make in the woods."
1 post
#10
Primitive Skills
: "Indigenous cultures developed environmental prediction systems that outperform modern methods. Andean Pleiades forecasting, San tracking at 98% accuracy, Aboriginal fire management. The knowledge is encoded in oral traditions -- and it's disappearing at 9 languages per year!"
1 post
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Yearly
-14207 members(-0.3%)
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Last updated: June 15, 2026