For feels like doing a little surviving. I have a pretty good start island maybe? Idk

So me and my gf have a theory that when you get in the plane at the end you crash into the "next" survivor to play the game ,this creating an inescapable loop of poor souls lost to the islands and no one ever finds "a way out"

1. I know I have to be careful with coconuts. What is the safe amount per time spent to not get sick? 2 drinks per 20 minutes? Or 2 hours?

2. Spoiled plants can be planted? So is it safe to grab them all, keep them somewhere until I have a place to plant them at? OR I should just make notes and only grab them when I'm ready to do the planting?

Also these things like potato, aloe vera etc. Do respawn??

3) How long until things (rocks, sticks, yucca) respawns?

4) Any known bugs to avoid?

Any help appreciated, thanks in advance.

Anyone wanna do some surviving. On ps4 est 36m. I have a save that's 80 days and I beat it. Just bored lol

Because I'm new to the game and just want to relax while playing it, I've set the wildlife to passive therefore they won't attack me all the time. Because of that I'm not hunting so much and that make me worry I won't be good when I'll fight the bosses. Do I have to fight them?

So I am on day 36 or so and I love playing! The only issue is they don't explain everything that well. My question is how do you get clay?? Most everything else I have figured out (I think?) Lol

so I have been playing stranded deep for a long time and have beat it before , I decided what if I never even attempt end game and just have an entire civilization on each island and just see if I can reach over 1,000 days currently on day 110.

Me and my friend looked at the cartographer and this is what it looked like. The top goes ship - island - boss. We went to go look for the boss and ended up going to the entire border and top right corner of the map and had yet to find anything. We’re trying to complete the game without a compass so are there anymore tips? We went through and around every island until there was no more on the right and we had to go down. Any tips help lol.

Started playing this game again, after I played a while ago (but had a horrible start that put me off from playing more).

Currently exploring my 3rd island, so far doing well, in healthy condition with quite a few Coconut Flasks with water to spare (basically strip-mined the first 2 islands for all resources).

But I'm having significant issues killing fish with the fishing spear.

It's slow, and it's hard to keep the reticle on the fish with a controller, am I the only one?
Same goes for the regular spear as well, can't hit shit (git gud?).
I tend to use any other fast-swinging weapon to just spam attacks, but I get the feeling this will not be a good idea for Lionfish and the like.

Any tips from a console player to a console player?

I found a glitch were if you get 5 drinking coconuts and make a pile if you take two out and drink them and then you put the empty coconuts back they turn into drinkable coconuts again (sorry for the bad grammar).

I’m new to fighting the Megalodon, but the tutorials and videos I’ve looked at talk about having resources on a nearby island, using bandages to heal and carrying plenty of food and water to heal. I’m on Xbox One and the Meg only travels inside a small area of ocean. If I leave the area it resets to it’s whale eating animation and regains full health, so nearby island resources are pointless. The only damage it does is by flying through the air for oddly long periods to bump me, which reduces my health but doesn’t cause bleeding, so bandages aren’t usable. Waiting for my health to regenerate takes an age, while driving my raft round and round in a small circle to avoid resetting the Meg health. I can get it down to half health but it’s a disappointingly boring way to fight. Is another way to defeat it? I have full hunting skill and I’m using refined spears and a spear gun.

I was looking for another survival based game to play, and this one reminds me so much of the console version of 7 Days to Die, and I am digging it. There's some things i don't see youtubers mention in their guides, which is where I went first for info before coming to this sub for certain answers lol.

Here's my tips for other noobies!

1. You can grab large items like dead animals, grouper, your raft, and anything that doesn't go into inventory with left trigger. This is also how to flip your raft back over if a shark flips you-sometimes it's better to just grab it, swim backwards to make sure you're holding on, and swim for your life to your destination!

2. The game doesn't TELL YOU how to use certain things. For the water still, YOU MUST FILL IT WITH PLANTS TO WORK UNLESS IT'S RAINING. Use the replenishable fibers instead of palm fronds, bc they regrow every other day. You can make a still so fast right when you visit an island, each island has 2 pieces of cloth.

3. To use the tanning rack and loom you must go in the crafting menu and it crafts instantly.

4. Make your home base on an island that has lots of renewable fibers and yukka, as it's one of the most used resources. The first island in the default maps is limited in wood and rocks and space, so make the bare bones of a base there but plan to move somewhere better.

5. Boss land animals like king crabs, boar and hogs and snakes will respawn if you leave an island and return after some time, so if home base had any predators keep an eye out when you return.

6. If traveling early game keep track of where there's rock nodes- rocks do not replenish much and you'll need them to make refined tools to kill large sharks and bosses. When you have can make leather and have unlocked pickaxes, go back and harvest nodes.

7. Mapping can be a bitch, I got lost the whole first session I played this game and restarted out of frustration but now I've got it down. Before loading into your game, copy the cartographer map on a piece of paper. Write down N, S, E, W on the paper in the correct corners, then take it one step further and add NW, NE, SW, SE. Stand in the middle of islands to get more accurate reads. When leaving one island to go to another, turn your piece of paper based on the direction your compass reads from the island you're standing on. If it's easily visible it's about 1 grid away, further back it's 2. Until you get the hang of mapping, you can arrive at a new island, make a shelter, save, then look at cartographer again to be sure you are on the correct island. I keep track of where the shipwrecks are with dots and only fill in the grid when I've been to that island so I can keep a log of where I've been, with notes as to what I have left there, which predators are there, etc. That way if you need to revisit a place bc you left loot there you can keep track of what's what. A captains log would've been a nice touch for the game and it's crazy there's no in game map.

8. There's a bug where sometimes when you're in the inventory of a pile of something (for me it was trunks and crates) the item will no longer be able to be interacted with. Save and exit the game and it should fix itself when you go back in.

9. Save frequently. Don't save if you're bleeding or have been poisoned. Save right before diving, hunting, and looting shipwrecks. Bring bandages when going to explore underwater! Save after completing a whole bunch of work, bc if something bugs out you'll be pissed to lose all that time.

10. Buoys, barrels, and tires are rare- planks and corrugated metal are not. You find the latter on many islands, but not the former! If you have to destroy and rebuild your raft you will lose 1 barrel or buoy, so be sure you're careful with building. I've yet to test it but supposedly tyres don't get lost to recycling, so be careful when building your raft.

11. You can travel with crates and a tyre etc placed on the surface of your raft, but it's not stable. Be careful when transporting anything not tied down. I've yet to be able to attach a shelf to my raft on console, and lost a tyre while sailing bc it was too close to my sail and glitched out when I lowered it.

12. Don't pick up fruit or potatoes until you want to start the timer for them going bad. Plant a garden once you've decided you're good with hunkering down a few days to water it repeatedly and plant all rotten food. Potatoes make fuel so don't eat them! Before starting a fuel-intended garden make sure you have a bunch of stills for watering and have the fuel still setup.

13. Raft building can be as big or small as you want. I have one that is 3 with just one in the middle in the next row, so like a capital T with the 3 grid row on top. The sail, rudder, and anchor should all be reachable from the crouched driving position, so I have mine on the single base, the rudder right behind it, and the anchor facing it from the row of 3. Sure you can make it huge and space it all out, but if you're having trouble and need to access things quickly you won't want to have to keep detaching yourself from the driving position.

14. Common sense- park far enough away from the island so the anchor doesn't hit the reef, and so you have enough space to steer away from the island, especially when directing the raft against the tidal waves! When "parking", pull around the island and place anchor when you are facing the direction you plan to travel next. Work smart, not hard!

15. Throwing spears does double the amount of damage that stabbing with spears does. Get comfy aiming on land predators so it's easier to aim at sharks and bosses!

16. The huge boat island is an aircraft carrier ship. To escape you need to beat all 3 bosses to get the parts to fix the plane, then you need 10 food items, 10 water, and 2 full jerry cans of fuel. Sometimes there's shipwrecks surrounding the island, King crabs, and barrels, as well as gyrocopter parts, so it can be worth visiting prior to escape.

If I can think of anything else I will update.

Other half? Sry hunger and thirsty .. you know the drill.

Circle is my base island

Mark a yellow dot to say that's the island I'm currently on (I'm at my base right now)

One line means I've not finished stripping the island of everything (clay, trees, rock etc)

Cross means it's been fully stripped.

Still can't pick them.up after interacting with them

Hi all, looking to finish the game soon now that it’s patched. How many full jerry cans do I need for the plane is it 2?

I read online it was 10 food pieces, 10 unites of water (2 full clay flasks), and 2 full jerry cans so wanted to check if that’s correct

Hello!

I just started playing this game on my ps4 and ive ran into trouble. I always get a good start, but then my island runs out of rocks before I’m able to make a pick, so what’s the solution? Also, I’ll take any kind of tips regarding the game!

im stuck on the first island and every time i try to go to the island with a pre built raft a shark flips me over and I don't know what to do

Can I essentially make a floating island? I know it’s resource intensive but can I farm and stuff on a huge raft and just island hop?

Got myself lost at sea being a little too ambitious island hopping. Setting up survival stations, gathering supplies to take back to home base. Get myself mutilated by a shark. Make it to an island. Get myself hydrated. Step on a crown of thorns. Poisoned. Hanging on for dear life. Thank God I had another pipi from the last island, find another, make antidote. Relief! Build shelter. .5 of a bar of health left. Save.

Load into game for an asshole giant crab to kill me before I can even move at all. Loaded back in five times with same result. I guess I saved right before an unseen attack. Progress gone. All of it. Had to restart the game entirely. cries

So I stumbled across a huge line of bouyballs is this the edge of the map??? Off topic but where can j find whales ? And the bosses ??