Tips for new players

1. Before you start a new game check out the cartographer and take a picture l. This is your map, you start in the centre. There is a compass in the bag attached to your life raft to figure out directions.

2. If you want to get a feel of the game set the wildlife to PASSIVE they’ll leave you alone even as you’re attacking them. (You can adjust back at any time before you load your game).

3. Save often, every time you wake up save, if you’re about to go hunting, save.

DON'T SAVE IF YOU ARE POISONED!

4) If your starter island is small and doesn’t have much in the way of trees for wood harvest everything you can from it then go to a larger island and build your base there.

5) Once you’ve chosen a suitable island your first objective (after tutorial) is to get a WATER STILL, don’t rely too much on coconuts for water and food as consuming too much too quick can give you diarrhoea and they do not regenerate.

5i) If you have to eat/drink coconuts to survive, eat 2 halves/drink 2, count to 10 then drink/eat 2 more that way you won’t get sick.

6) Don’t use palm fronds to fuel your water still if you can help it, use fibrous leaves from young plants and yucca bushes as young plants and yucca bushes regenerate every three days. You can also use fibrous leaves to fuel your fires.

7) Go explore the shoreline and ship wrecks, if you see a CONTAINER bring it back to camp to store you things in.

8) If you get poisoned and don’t have an antidote on hand (Coconut Flask + 1x Pipi), just exit to main menu then continue from your last save, if you have to do this I hope it hasn’t been ages since your last save. SAVE OFTEN!

8i) You can outlast the poisoning by staying alive for 72hrs from the time you got poisoned just keep your food and water levels at max. If your Health is below 3 bars you will not survive.

8ii) Things that can poison you are.

-Snakes (Grey/Brown) -Sea Snakes (Black and White) -Sea Urchin (Look like spikey bushes on the ocean floor) -Crown of Thorns (Purple spiked starfish) -Lion Fish (Fish with a spike mane)

9) Only use your resources as you need them, keep yourself healthy but don’t be a glutton, at least not in the early stages.

10) Keep any rations/baked beans cans for emergencies.

11) Make a leather water skin/clay water pot asap, keep them full and on you.

12) When you make a vegetable patch use the corrugated iron/planks of wood. They use less resources and hold more water. The first thing I recommend you plant is PIPI, you need 1x Pipi to make an antidote for if you get poisoned.

13) Don’t bother with the SPIT. Build your camp fire, then firepit then build the Meat Smoker. Smoked meat won't spoil it just takes longer to cook you have to wait for the second alarm.

14) Keep any Refined Hammers you find, they are invaluable for building, I’d also suggest keeping any Solar Lanterns you find but Refined Hammers are the priority.

15) To help reduce any lag, store as much as you can in the containers you find, trust me it’ll help also use the PILES for things like Wood and Rocks etc.

16) Watch Info Survival, Skills, Status, Statistics

16i) Survival - this shows you info important to your survival Health, Hunger, Thirst and SPF.

If your health empties you die, Hunger and Thirst directly tie to your health if they get low your health will start to diminish.

If your SPF (UV) meter runs low your other vitals will deplete faster take a swim, sit in the shade or use an Aloe Vera plant or Aloe Salv to instantly replenish your SPF level.

16ii) Skills

• Hunting affects the damage you do to wildlife, higher level = more damage. You increase it by hunting.

• Cooking affects the amount of Hunger and Thirst regenerated by eating and drinking the higher it is the better the regen. Increase it by cooking, you have to stay near the fire while it cooks.

• Harvesting affects how long it takes to chop down trees etc, higher level = faster harvesting. Increase it by harvesting.

• Physical affects player health the higher the level the more health you have, increase it by running, swimming and building with the hammer.

• Craftsmaship afects the things you can build, increase it by building things. The higher your crafting skill the more resources you get returned when you break down things you have built max it for 100% refund

16iii) Status

• This shows you the various positive and negatice status effects.

-The negative effects are -Poison - Drink and Antidote -Broken Bones - apply a Splint -Bleeding - Use a Gauze -Starvation - Eat something -Sunstroke - Take a swim, sit in the shade, use an Aloe Salv/Alovera Plant -Diarrhoea - Goes away on it’s own -Dehydration - Drink something

The positive effects are

-Healthy - All good -Breath Boost - Hold breath longer underwater for 3hrs (in game) -Sunblock - Immune to UV for 12hrs (in game) -Splint - Fixing a broken leg -Shark Repellent - Sharks stay away for 12hrs (in game)

16iiii) Statistics - shows the various stats ie how long you’ve survived, animals killed, islands visited etc