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Do you mean apocalyptic urban survival? If so, my first 3 are the same for both. A knife, something to purify water, and some way to start a fire. The other two would depend on the situation. I don’t own any guns, but I’d likely want one for this. Of course if I don’t have my wife and children you can keep all of the gear. I’m not interested in survival without them..

 

So I'll try and make my answer a bit more entertaining since I feel my top 5 for both scenarios are the same and the items are kinda boring. So Ill just assume that I have a knife, gun, fire starting, water purifying, and cover. Ill choose some stuff that I have in my urban and woods gear that might be different than some peoples.

Urban: Silcock key, Lock picks, portable power-bank, EOD bar, Add-a-lock.

This stuff is always in my EDC bag. I have a pretty extensive get home system in my truck. This is my "I gotta walk and things arent wonderful" stuff. Practice if you want to lock pick. Im pretty decent, but I dont want to take the time to single pin pick, so all of my picks in this kit are rakes, rockers, and lock bypass tools. EOD bar is from CountyComm, just a nice flat little pry bar. And add a lock is for if I break a lock and dont want anyone in behind me. All this assumes that I need to find shelter somewhere for the night in an office or warehouse and smashing a window isnt a good idea.

Woods: Tyvek ground cloth, Kevlar cord, DJI Spark Drone, Tenkara Fly Rod, Garmin Dog GPS

All this is pretty self explanatory. The spark is a cool little drone. Decent range and picture and very portable. Tenkara is a very packable fly fishing system. And the Garmin GPS is great to both track my dog (hunting) and for navigation for myself.

 

depends on how small you want the list broken down.
5 items in my pocket or in the pocket of my lunch bag every day:
swiss army huntsman (because life without a SAK is worse than life without good beer)
stuffable parachute nylon grocery bag (carry found items, foraging, etc... can also be used as a sling or tourniquet)
flashlight
multitool
first aid kit - includes important personal medications.

 

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ok I'll play

Urban (assuming USA)
1. -Cash, including some gold or silver US coins
2. -Handgun, loaded of course with spare ammo (Concealable size, in my case a .38 snub revolver
3. -Leatherman multi-tool
4.- Gas Mask (for the original intended purpose, plus to avoid facial recognition software)
5.- Water filter straw

Woods (assuming non-alpine)
1.- large coil of parachute cord
2.- Carbine & ammo (Ruger 10/22, 22lr or Rossi 94 .44 mag, depending)
3.- JK Herters Improved Bowie (with hump and sheath)
4. -Fire making ferro rod ( if I was sure it would be SHORT term then I would prefer a disposable lighter)
5.- full size axe

Not entertaining, I know!