# SCUM settings guides

> Graphics, controls, and performance settings: what to change, and what it costs. Player-made SCUM guides on QnA.GG.

The page: https://qna.gg/games/scum/settings. Every guide as JSON: https://qna.gg/api/guides?q=settings&game=SCUM.

## Guides, most read first

- [SCUM: Survival Guide](https://qna.gg/g/scum-survival-guide-920435d1.md), by Qloud: A practical survival guide to SCUM in 2026: your first hour on the island, metabolism and the BCU, attributes and skills, fame points and traders, base building, puppets and mutants, and the new TEC1 Research Facilities.