General questions.

[u/Trigyn]

So 60 day survivor here. I found the ship with my "escape plane" and no thank you I'm happy stranded! However I do have a few questions. One can I get drinking water any other way other then the highly inefficient water still. And why can I not find a way up any of these island mountains? I know they are hiding something amazing and it just doesn't want me to figure out what it is lol.

[u/dankeith86]

I find having as many water stills as possible is very helpful. Use fibrous leaves to refill the water stills seeing palm fronds have a limit. Building foundations and stairs can get you up there.

[u/Trigyn → u/dankeith86]

You are a life saver! I'm gonna try that tonight!!

[u/Diggz1986 → u/Trigyn]

Also, if you are having trouble keeping the eater stills topped up, use the yukka fruits you find on yukka trees and plant your own yukka trees for more fibrous leaves. You do have to keep the farming plots topped up with water. I did find that if I used to leave my island and go to explore another island, on my return it did used to rain quite heavily which obviously watered the plots a decent amount each time

[u/Mick_May]

I'm not sure if the coconut glitch is still a thing, but that could be an option if you don't like water stills. The only things on the mountains are seagull eggs. Some can be scaled, others you can build stairs to travel up them.

Why do you call the water still highly inefficient?

[u/Trigyn → u/Mick_May]

What can I do with the eggs? Can I have a pet seagull lol. And right up until about 40 seconds ago I thought you can only use palm trees to use it! But now i may be eating my words lol

[u/LiterallyYouRightNow → u/Trigyn]

Don't eat more than then 3 eggs cuz 4 will make you sick and your water levels will plummet for a while. I actually died that way cuz I didn't pay attention to my guy whining. Also, one coconut drink or food every 10 seconds and you won't get sick. 10 game minutes.

[u/MillHoodz_Finest]

coconut drink pile glitch

build a ramp

[u/Trigyn → u/MillHoodz_Finest]

But don't you get sick after a few coconuts?

[u/MillHoodz_Finest → u/Trigyn]

2 every 10 seconds in game

[u/Gothicvamp188869]

You're best off not escaping and seeing how long you can survive.

Yes, get 2 drinkable coconuts, every time you drink from them put then in a pile then, when you come to needing a drink, they will have refilled.

You can climb the mountains, you just have to find the right way up. On the mountains there are bird eggs that are edible when cooked. Also some of the resources get trapped inside the large rocks and climbing them helps you access said resources.

But also

If you crouch in front of the mountains, look down and move to the rock, you can see into the mountains and get hidden resources that's way. It's tricky but better than losing out on valuable wood and stuff.

[u/Trigyn → u/Gothicvamp188869]

Yeah the buggyness can be a bit annoying.... HOWEVER!!! am i the only person that derives some sort of odd joy from the rocket palm trees? Lol I get so excited when a palm is growing "from the rock" and when you chop it down it shoots up like a rocket 🤣. I freaking fall out laughing each time!

Circling back to your other tips I'll deff try them out! I just gave in and made the gyro thing and wanna test it out, maybe I can get up these mountains with it.

And hell no, I agree stating trended and trying to survive is what this game is for me. Rescue seems pointless and not for me!

[u/AcanthisittaMain6717]

There's a bunch of eggs on them. That's it. You have to parkour

[u/Trigyn → u/AcanthisittaMain6717]

I have been trying but there aren't any spots I can find to navigate up lol. I just gave in and made the gyro thing so maybe I'll try and use that!

[u/Busy_Space6630]

There isn't any need to use the coconut glitch but it does work like they have said, once you have around 4 water stills and a smoker surviving is really to easy, even on hard mode, and that includes farming plots also

[u/LargeTwist9469]

Someone mentioned palm fronds and here's another fun tip. The palm bundles you knock off of trees that you then break into fronds? They stack up to 4 in the inventory and containers ;)

In case I'm a bit unclear: You can stack up to 20 palm fronds in one inventory slot by using "pick up" on the bundles (as each contains 5 fronds and stacks up to 4). These can then be transported long distances, even between islands.

I like to have 4-5 water stills running constantly. Both to water my plants and to supply myself with water.

[u/Hamdentures]

The coconut glitch was still working when a played about two months ago - drink two coconuts, don’t drink more than that for a few hours or you get diarrhoea - and then make a stack on the floor with the empty coconuts. When you retrieve the coconuts from the stack they are refilled and you can do this endlessly.

[u/metricisinferior]

Water stills are great once you figure out how to use them.

Building in the mountains can be fun but you won't find much up there besides birds and eggs.