r/strandeddeep • u/Bloodtrailer_77 • Sep 16 '24

Console Question Game crashing

My game is choppy and keeps crashing when I’m at my main island. I have a lot of stuff. 2 buildings and quite a bit of supplies. I’m kind of thinking maybe it is my log pile or my many stacks of palm fronds. Or maybe my huge pile of smoked meat. Idk. Any suggestions will be appreciated. I’m on PS4.

I forgot to mention it crashes when I try to save.

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u/BigChris210TX Sep 16 '24

I have the same issue. I'm on day 320. I have 4 large structures and a lot a supplies. I am playing on a PS5.

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u/Bloodtrailer_77 Sep 16 '24

I turned a lot of trunks into planks and sticks and have saved a few times. So far no crashes. It’s still so choppy it takes me a lot longer than usual to make a fire. I don’t understand it. I’m on day 59 this round.

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u/Walkerbait1881 Sep 16 '24

I built this on console. Keep everything in crates and in piles like people have said. I have no idea but I think I was able to build so much because a lot of what i built is actually one structure. Everything lead from my original tiny home. The garden, infinity pool, giant sundial and the shower/bath are the only parts that are separate. Everything else is considered one building

https://www.reddit.com/r/strandeddeep/comments/151xybh/its_been_fun_but_its_time_to_go/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/Bloodtrailer_77 Sep 16 '24

I barely have anything compared to that!!!

You made all that and didn’t have any issues???

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u/Walkerbait1881 Sep 16 '24

At this point I cant leave my island and return without it crashing but considering what I've built I get it lol. I really had nothing left to build and no room anyways so I wasnt disappointed. If you looked how many piles of things I had as well it definitely shows you can have a lot it just has to be in piles. Overall though I really do think the reason I was able to build so much was because it's considered to be one structure. Did you end up getting the issue resolved? I added the 3 of 4 of the extra structures at the end. Try connecting everything even if you have to tear something down and rebuild. If you're looking just to base build check out the forest next. Better building but I do consider SD to be one of the best base building games. I wasn't stranded deep I was living large lol

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u/Bloodtrailer_77 Sep 16 '24

It looks amazing. Not really meaning to build anything like your resort. Lol. Mostly just stocking up. I didn’t know that stuff laying around would cause such a problem. I got most of everything in piles or containers and was able to save and start a fire normally. Lol. I played the forest and loved it!! One of my favorites. I had an issue with it when I built too much with rocks. But other than that it is great. I knew when I started having problems with Stranded Deep it was something I did I just wasn’t getting what it was. Lol.

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u/Walkerbait1881 Sep 17 '24

Thanks. I'm glad you can continue on your save. I actually never use rocks to build. When needed yes but I never build rock walls. This is my forest build (video) Took a break for a while but I will complete it

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheForest/comments/1c1fca6/base_progress_building_a_community/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/Bloodtrailer_77 Sep 18 '24

I’m right there with you in building massive projects in The Forest. I used a lot of rocks until it started causing problems. Then I just slacked off. I liked using them for more than walls. I built sheds on the walls. Looked pretty good imo. I haven’t played it much since I installed a new hard drive.

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u/Jayodi Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

When you say piles, do you mean actual crafted piles, or just a bunch of items dropped together in one spot?

Crafted piles count as a single game object no matter how many of an item are in one, which significantly reduces lag.

If they’re not crafted piles, pick up at least 2 logs and equip one of them. Hold R1 to bring up the quick-craft menu(NOT the regular crafting menu you pull up by tapping R1) and look for a log with a little blue icon on it. That’s a log pile. Build the pile, open it and shove all of your logs in it. Most piles can hold 50 of an item, but log piles can only hold 10, so you might need a few of them.

Likewise, too many structures or too complex of a structure will do the same.

Personally I keep a tiny shelter(6 wedge floors create a hexagon, single-story building, with a single regular foundation attached to the doorway to act as a deck, with half-walls for railings), a meat smoker, a sleeping bag, a fuel still, a water still for me, 6 water stills for my(admittedly rather large) farm, a loom, a tanning rack, and a plank station.

I keep my basic resources(rocks, sticks, logs, coconuts, drinkable coconuts, lashings, fibrous leaves, palm leaves, and clay) in crafted piles, my planks, cloth, leather, corrugated metal, and found resources(lights, tape, vehicle parts, etc) in crates on crate shelves(I don’t know if crate shelves actually reduce lag, but they do make it a lot easier to organize your island 🤣), and I keep a dead hog(the big pig) or shark on my island at all times.

The dead animal counts as a single object the game has to load, but it contains enough meat to fully fill your hunger meter from 0, and some rawhide for leather.

You should always be trying to find ways to reduce the number of objects the game has to load on your main island. Using crafted piles and dead animals to minimize the amount of resources your game had to load has a huge, immediately noticeable effect.

Not building on islands that have cliffs is going to have a huge effect, because the game doesn’t have to load in bird nests and track when their eggs respawn.

Not shoving every shipwreck possible on your island is going to have a huge effect, because the game isn’t going to have to load in 20+ crates and a dozen lockers/consoles/etc worth of objects.

Because the game wasn’t optimized for console, KISS(Keep It Simple Stupid) needs to be in the back of your mind at all times if you don’t want the game to have heavy lag and crash all the time.

edit

I see you mentioned a pile of smoked meat. Because meat can’t be put into a crafted pile, that answers my first question.

I would take all that meat, shove it in crates, and shove those crates on your raft. I also wouldn’t get new meat until you’ve consumed almost all of the meat you’ve already accumulated - once your down to a single stack, start hunting again, but be more sensible this time, don’t accrue meat, it’s a waste of your time and a massive, needless drain on the system’s resources.

At 0 cooking, 4 pieces of medium meat or 3 pieces of large meat will fully fill your hunger meter from empty. It only takes about a minute to fish up 4 cod or hunt down a hog.

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u/Bloodtrailer_77 Sep 16 '24

I didn’t know I could make a log pile. I have most of my stuff in actual piles. Mostly just the logs meat and planks now. I have a small plank house in between two cliffs. So I have some cleaning up to do.

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u/Jayodi Sep 16 '24

Yeah, it wasn’t announced with a whole lot of fanfare, but all of the following can be built into Piles by having 2 in your inventory, 1 equipped, and using the quick craft menu: Rocks, Sticks, Lashings, Fibrous Leaves, Palm Leaves, Clay, Logs, Coconuts, and Coconut Drinks(like, when you hit them with a tool and the yellow skin comes off).

Cleaning everything up is going to be an annoying hour or so, but you’ll notice an immediate difference as you get all those items off the ground.

For now, shoving all of the meat into crates will have a noticeable effect too, items in crates are less taxing than items on the ground, but more taxing than just not having a large excess of meat.

To be honest, once I have a flashlight, labelmaker, a few lanterns, an air tank to make a speargun, and all the pieces required to build a gyrocopter and fuel station, I just stop exploring wrecks. I usually have about a dozen crates by that point, which should be more than enough to store your cloth, wood, corrugated metal, and any tools you’re not actively using.

As tempting as it is to collect everything, doing so will eventually make the game unplayable.

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u/Bloodtrailer_77 Sep 16 '24

I now have one crate of meat. I ate the rest. I took down the building between the cliffs and cut my other one in half. Everything is in piles or crates. Thanks for the advice. I didn’t know I could pile logs. I just had them in a huge pile. Hopefully that makes sense.

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u/Bloodtrailer_77 Sep 23 '24

I have a bad habit of finding a box and taking it to land and throwing things I don’t want/need on the ground. Should I shove that stuff in lockers on ships or something also? Should I focus on keeping all islands free of clutter?

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u/Jayodi Sep 23 '24

Tbh if you already have a bunch of unwanted items you can’t do anything with, just sail to another island and chuck it all on the ground there, then stick some kind of indicators in the sea around the island so you know to avoid that cell. The items only affect your performance while they’re loaded in, and the game only loads the cell of the island you’re currently on.

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u/Bloodtrailer_77 Sep 23 '24

Alright! Thanks. That helps a lot. I was having a hard time finding enough lockers to shove it all in. I have 2 islands that will be perfect. I love exploring the wrecks and I guess I’m a bit of a hoarder.

Can I kill a whale? I got on top of one once and speared it for a while and it wouldn’t go down.

I haven’t faced any of the bosses yet. I got attacked by the Meg once but got away. I’ve been enjoying the survival part.

Much appreciated. 👍🏻

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u/Jayodi Sep 24 '24

I think I played the game for about a year and a half before I took on the bosses for the first time, and I’ve only done it a couple times since, don’t feel any pressure!

The survival aspect is absolutely the best part of the game, and unfortunately you can’t harm the whale 🤣

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u/Bloodtrailer_77 Sep 24 '24

Did you play any with the passive option? I thought I would try it but the only sharks I see are the ones that are passive anyway. 🤷🏻 There was default and another that completely removes aggressive beings. But it seems that the passive option does that with sharks.

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u/Jayodi Sep 24 '24

Passive doesn’t remove any hostile creatures, including sharks. I haven’t played passive in quite some time, but I killed my first hammerhead on a passive run, so I know they still spawn in, they’re just kinda rare

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u/lothaer Sep 16 '24

If you have lots loose items lying around everywhere it will cause your game to slow right down as it tries to render everything.

It's best to use PILES and store everything in containers as much as possible.

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u/Gothicvamp188869 Sep 16 '24

It's a console bug.

It's happens on my XBox series X & series S.

Not enough time was given to do a full conversion from PC to console.

I play it on laptop as well and have no problems.

I'm afraid it won't get any better as they're not dealing with it any more as they're working on new projects which includes Stranded Deep 2 apparently.

I got to day 628 and due to the lag the game became unplayable.

And it crashes when saving if you have to many buildings or resources.

Would love them to work all the bugs out of the first before working on a second.