1. Your knife is almost certainly the most important item, should be fixed, strong etc.
2. Knife and tool mantainance kit, eg Sharpening stone, oil etc. (very important, without it your knife can rust, or simply become unusable, make sure to carry items for other tools as well.
3. Firestarting kit, matches, firesteel, good lighter, at least one of these and perhaps some firelighters.
4. Sleeping bag - Always important, the weather can turn and although a shelter is good, in some parts it simply cannot be warm enough, so take a warm one, (about -12 is a good temperature to have)
5. Cooking equipment - A good billy or some messtins is very important as it makes for effective water purification and cooking. Billy cans are good as they can be hung over your fire.
These are the basics, anything over this will be an added bonus, usually I do not take anything else apart from the above but the following are only just out of the top five.
6. An axe - very good tool for shelter making, althouh a knife can split and cut down large trees if used correctly, it will never keep up with an axe. (A folding saw can go in this place, as well as a good gollock or parang (which are very good in temperate climate) but the axe is by far the best,
7. Basha - I have a standard DPM basha and it works great, easily put up and totally waterproof, can be used in conjunction with a natural shelter for great warmth and can be postitioned in a number of ways, also great for water storage.
8. Large water containers (in them keep some water purification stuff (chlorine for example).)
9. Paracord - lots of it as it is very useful.
10. Here take any personal preference, I cannot think of anything else that would not be deemed as cheating, if clothing is counted in the list a good waterproof might be useful. Also consider a sleeping mat, although these can easily be substituted in the wild.
I carry this in my Lowe Alpine Walkabout 35, which is perfectly big enough for bushcraft, any other comments would be good, cheers!!
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