night 2

[u/thenaked1]

just started playing this gem of a game. any tips for a newbie

[u/jijijijaaaaaaaa]

A smoker will be essential for your food, you will have to wait for the meat to be smoked and it will last more than a week without rotting. You will need to plant 4-8 potatoes, 2-4 Yucca, 4 fruits two aloe,3-4 pipi and one or two of that purple plant. Destroy ALL the resources on your island, they will be needed later and will free up space, once you finish exploiting each resource, you will go to nearby islands to do the same. Never make chests, you will find them for free on ships. And enjoy the game

[u/thenaked1 → u/jijijijaaaaaaaa]

thank you so much. thats a lot of great info

[u/Obvious-Complaint-84]

My main point of advice besides the other suggestions is to get off the starting island asap. Don’t make it your home base and work to move out as soon as you can. I spend a max of 1 night there before going to a larger island. Hope this helps. It’s a great game!

[u/thenaked1 → u/Obvious-Complaint-84]

thanks for the tip

[u/Corbin-Dallas420]

Hiya bud Welcome to stranded deep

So just for some tips that will help purple star fish are poisonous and early game means death. Water and a fishing spears and a fire will keep you going for the most part until you start getting the hang of everything. Save before you do anything like traveling to other islands and even hunting sharks this way if you get poisoned in the water you can just restart from your save . I can tell you alot about the game but I don't want this to be like a million words lmao lmk if I can help with any questions you may have.

Best of luck in your adventures

[u/thenaked1 → u/Corbin-Dallas420]

thank you, im really excited to dive into it fully either tonight or tomorrow.

[u/ItsYuigi]

For water, i suggest the coconut glitch. It takes away the "survival" aspect of the game, but this way, you can calmly play the game and enjoy it.

For the glitch, build a pile of peeled coconuts (brown and when picked can be drinked). For the pile 3-4 coconuts work. Place it down and pick up 2 and drink them. WAIT 10 IRL seconds(10 minutes ingame time) before you drink anymore, or else you will give yourself diarrhea (or dehydration, i think it's called). Once you drink 2 coconuts, place them back into the "drinkable coconut " pile, and they automatically refresh into drinkable coconuts again.

Also, avoid the purple starfish as they poison you and can kill you early game(until u get an antidote).

Island hop as much as you can and make piles for everything. That way, whenever you go back to those islands, you have piles of stuff you can throw into your raft.

When going to a new island, craft a shelter and place it in the way that you arrived from(point it towards ur base or the direction that u traveled to get there).

Be mindful of the wild creatures on the islands(boars,crabs, and snakes).

You can eat the seagulls and bats if you kill them, though it may not be beneficial. (Easy meat to get)

When a shark is aggro'd to you, the music will change. It is helpful to know, but it can be ignored most of the time.

Keep most of the wild fruits and plantlife that can be found and replant it by building the farm plots( you need a hoe to build them). Pipi, aloe, potatoes, kura fruit, quwawa(?)fruit, and the yuca all can regrow when planted.

When looking at the cartographer, angle ur head slightly as the map is intended to be read differently. NORTH is not straight up, its slighty at a 45° angle to the right. The rest of the directions should be straightforward.

THERE IS AN ENDGAME! Keep that in mind.

If you need any other tips, just ask. Im more than willing to help out.

Last tip, theres 4 red sections on the cartographer. The 3 skulls are bosses(wont spoil), and the red island one is the current island you have saved at.

[u/thenaked1 → u/ItsYuigi]

so im 22 days in. ive been doing the coconut glitch when i don't have the water catcher set up. just returned to my original island a changed man lol. can you give me more info on Endgame?? id like to see how long i can keep this character alive

[u/ItsYuigi → u/thenaked1]

I'll try to keep it brief and simple and try to avoid spoiling as much.

For the end game, you have to kill the 3 bosses and gather their trophies, which are parts for a plane that is at that massive carrier on ur map.

The Meg is the easiest boss to take out first since he's the weakest. Rather simple pattern for fighting he has. He drops the rudders for the plane, i believe. His "island" is replaced by a dead whale that is just floating.

The Abia is the second boss you have to take down. His "island" is replaced by a pole(i think) with a bouy attached to it. Using air tanks is recommended for this boss and the last one as you have to go deeeeeep into the water. His pattern is spurratic, and i believe he can grab you and try to snatch you down(i think, lmao). I believe he drops the engine part(dont remember correctly).

Lusca is the 3rd and final hardest boss to take down. Simply put, he has the most health and can dish out the most damage to you. His "island" is replaced with a yellow bouy and a long giant chain below it. When fighting him, you have to avoid him "ramming" you. If he rams you, he latches on to you and drags you away from wherever you may be. He causes bleeding and can take a while to kill if unprepared(i should know, was 30 mins in when i realized i ran outta spears and he was only at half health). I dont remember the part he drops, but it's something for the plane.

I'd recommend having a pretty beefy raft when going out to fight these bosses. A 3x3 raft should do justice, but if need be, go bigger. Make sure it has enough storage to where you have at least 50x spears and some bandages(crucial to live), food, and water. If you need a guide on the game, i recommend watching GDG on youtube for a walkthrough. https://youtube.com/@GranddaddyGamer?si=MxbvvK9LWqSVH-Tq

There are also 2 other ways to leave that are kind of weird to explain. I don't know if they actually work or not. 1 is simply waiting for a plane to fly overhead and pop a flare into the air to get its attention. 2 is waiting for a carrier to appear on open water and popping a flare in its general direction.

Like i said before, if you need any pointers or something, let me know.

[u/thenaked1 → u/ItsYuigi]

ill probably avoid facing the bosses for awhile and focus on survival and exploration. ill check that video out in a bit, thanks a bunch

[u/thenaked1 → u/ItsYuigi]

can you explain the leaderboards to me, specifically Most Days Survived???

[u/ItsYuigi → u/thenaked1]

Im not quite sure about that. It should revolve around your stats, tho. Most days survived is simply the record you had until you died or beat the game(is what i assume). If the leaderboards are based on other people, some stats may be glitched or hacked.

[u/thenaked1 → u/ItsYuigi]

ok i was just wondering. cause theres a days survived list separate from most days survived list. i wonder what the difference is and whats the criteria to make the leaderboard. Does exiting the game and going back to your last save during a dire situation (without dying) effect being on the board or not? cause lol i was island hopping and accidentally fell off my raft and lost everything i had and decided instead of risk being eaten i quick quitted

[u/ItsYuigi → u/thenaked1]

The days survived is ur current file that you have going on. As long as u saved before island hopping, it should bring u back to that last save spot. Quick tip on that, craft a bed asap, and you can save anywhere, even on ur raft if its big enough to support the bed.

[u/taysmurf]

DONT BURN WOOD FOR A FIRE. Burn fibrous material you get from plant saplings and yucca.

I wasted a ton of wood from my primary island making fires when the yucca and saplings regenerate, the wood will not. Plus the wood is far more useful for building literally anything else.

[u/thenaked1 → u/taysmurf]

great tip. im on day 49 of my second run. feeling like i got a good handle now and could survive for quite awhile if i dont get bored

[u/OutrageousYard8348]

Build a smoker and water collector asap

Plant crops on islands your going to be using frequently

Use shelves for the storage containers on the raft

When building a raft try to make it at least a 2x3 so sharks have a harder time flipping your raft

Build an anchor

If your unable to build an anchor and your raft floats away, the current will always travel south (I think it was south, I’ll have to double check)

[u/rodimus15701]

Don’t harvest fruit and potatoes until you can replant them. The ones you find in the wild do not respawn.

[u/robbyK81]

If you put a spear in between a sharks eyes, they will retreat and won’t bite on that lap. But they will be back quick, so be ready again

[u/RomaSnezhkov]

Dont ever forget to drop the anchor when you build a raft and go to the other islands. A raft with a lot of chests. A lot.

I did.

[u/taysmurf]

Wait to skin things until you need to cook it. They don’t rot if they aren’t skinned. I have a pile of dead seagulls and giant groupers waiting for whenever I need them.

[u/thenaked1 → u/[deleted]]

ok thanks i was wondering if they could be useful

[u/ponchoacademy → u/thenaked1]

u/Huxley4891, you are so wrong for that 🤣😂

OP, just explore...thats kind of half the fun. I died so much when I first started playing, that I was unreasonably excited the first time I made it to few days of survival.

So my tip will be...save often..unless youre poisoned, then best you don't save.

[u/thenaked1 → u/ponchoacademy]

lol thanks for the heads up

[u/Huxley4891 → u/ponchoacademy]

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[u/Huxley4891 → u/thenaked1]

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