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There are only a few basic needs for survival in the wilderness.:
Fire: You should have some thing to light a fire. A lighter or Firesteel will do the job well, but if the only things you can get are matches, USE THEM!
Water: You will probably want to make your camp near a water source such as a stream or spring. To make sure that you don't poison your water supply by taking a crap next to the spring, try to go downhill from the water source. Before you can drink the water, you MUST filter it. You can do this by boiling you water in a tin can, or by using a water filter.
Shelter: I would build a lean to by finding a large enough rock and getting enough sticks to build a small shelter.
Food: You all know how it goes! FOOD=CALORIES=ENERGY=SURVIVAL! You can get small game by using snares with acorns or other foods that animals like.
Navigation+Signalling: You can use an old CD as a signal mirror. To find your way around, any compass will do, as long as you trust it.
Tools: You should at the minimum have a pen knife or multitool with a knife on it. You can go all out and get a hunting knife (I prefer having both) with a 3-5 inch blade. I also like to have a kitchen knife for cleaning animals that I would kill to get food.
First Aid: It always pays off to have a small first aid kit to come in handy when you get a boo-boo out in the woods. You should keep a couple baby wipes in it to help when you take a dump in the woods because you are not going to want to wipe your Butt with a leaf! I can tell you that for a fact (Not that I've tried it :) )
Fire: You should have some thing to light a fire. A lighter or Firesteel will do the job well, but if the only things you can get are matches, USE THEM!
Water: You will probably want to make your camp near a water source such as a stream or spring. To make sure that you don't poison your water supply by taking a crap next to the spring, try to go downhill from the water source. Before you can drink the water, you MUST filter it. You can do this by boiling you water in a tin can, or by using a water filter.
Shelter: I would build a lean to by finding a large enough rock and getting enough sticks to build a small shelter.
Food: You all know how it goes! FOOD=CALORIES=ENERGY=SURVIVAL! You can get small game by using snares with acorns or other foods that animals like.
Navigation+Signalling: You can use an old CD as a signal mirror. To find your way around, any compass will do, as long as you trust it.
Tools: You should at the minimum have a pen knife or multitool with a knife on it. You can go all out and get a hunting knife (I prefer having both) with a 3-5 inch blade. I also like to have a kitchen knife for cleaning animals that I would kill to get food.
First Aid: It always pays off to have a small first aid kit to come in handy when you get a boo-boo out in the woods. You should keep a couple baby wipes in it to help when you take a dump in the woods because you are not going to want to wipe your Butt with a leaf! I can tell you that for a fact (Not that I've tried it :) )
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Your compasses show some disagreement
Whitch will you trust?
May be they are too close but that shows they are easy to fool by environment.
Take care if you plan to trust your life in those...
I bought a few compasses and many of them don't tell the same "true" north.
(Made in China? what's not Made in China anyway nowadays?)
I found that compasses with a rotating disk tend to be more error prone, I guess that they put the sticker over the disk with little care or something.
While with needle pointers errors are harder to make.
But again this is not a rule. It is always better to check them anyway...