>>977538There are 4 basic knots you need to know.
Square Knot
Bowline
Clove hitch
Half-hitch
Get those right first.
The specialty knots you need to know are:
How to do a loop in the middle of a line (bowline on a bight or an alpine butterfly loop if you're a fancy boy like me)
How to do a clove hitch when all you have is the bight and then add a constrictor hitch to the repertoire just because it's a clove hitch with a twist.
Then learn a rolling hitch. Youtube is a better resource for that (for some reason)
Truckers hitch is also a good one but you can use a bowline to do what will be essentially the same thing.
Once you learn those, that's all you'll likely ever need for regular use for just about any situation you can imagine. You can get interesting and learn how to do ticking and splicing, some exotic but still useful knots (timber hitch, etc...).
But before any of those, get the 4 basics down. If you can't tie them upside down blind folded behind your back underwater, you don't know them.
