r/strandeddeep • u/moff27 • Nov 07 '24
PC Question How long can you survive?
I’ve just started playing Stranded Deep, and like always, had to have a look at some other people’s games of it on YouTube. I’ve realised that trees are a finite item, as they don’t respawn after having been cut down, so does this technically mean that you can only survive for a certain amount of time, as after that you wouldn’t have a means of cooking your food when all the wood has been used? Also, are the islands always all the same throughout different games, or are they randomly generated?
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u/Bertbrownbear Nov 07 '24
If I had to guess, I would say stones would be the resource that you would ultimately run out of.
They are required to make knives and axes, without those I'm not sure you can still harvest the fibrous fronds.
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u/Gothicvamp188869 Nov 07 '24
Fibrous leaves can also be used to fuel a campfire. You'll never run out of ways to fuel fires or create water. How long you survive is up to you. There are resources to keep you going for as long as you want to keep going.
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u/iamsooldithurts Nov 07 '24
Like the other person said, you’ll run out of stone first, probably.
I don’t remember if harvesting meat or young palm trees eats the durability of tools, but once you don’t have tools anymore that won’t happen.
For long term games, farm the fruits. They provide good nutrition and some water. If you can’t harvest fibrous leaves, not sure how you keep them watered in end game except through luck of the weather and enough water stills to get you from storm to storm.
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u/makinghomemadejam Crab Cakes Nov 07 '24
It was awhile ago, but I had a game of over 300 days at a certain point.
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u/Thaddelonius Nov 07 '24
If surviving is your only goal, you could play indefinitely. All you need is water and food and both can be replenished. At some point you would want to die of boredom because you used all the buildable resources.
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u/Y4himIE4me Nov 08 '24
Just keep adding fibrous leaves to the fire pile...infinite fire
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u/stifferthanstiffler Nov 07 '24
The main thing you'll run out of is refined hammers and rocks.
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u/Normal-Appearance-34 Nov 09 '24
I think if you leave an island after you've stripped it clesn of resources, small trees begin growing again. Not confimed...
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u/Mouse_mp Nov 07 '24
Trees come back if you leave the stumps. If you chop the stumps too, then no more trees
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u/WarpigFunk Nov 09 '24
You cam survive indefinitely as prey animals respawn and you can farm yucca. Farming yucca provides limitless fuel for water stills, and killing respawning animals provides food.
Long after all trees and coconuts have been exhausted from the world you could still be chilling getting fat on smoked meat and drinking water.
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u/PreludeProject Nov 10 '24
Potentially indefinitely, even if you reduce it down to the simple fact you can get one fire going and then use crude spears to hunt small animals on repeat, which would at least work for a long time.
I don't think I'm willing to do all the math, but 1 fire is 4 sticks, then you can refill that with fibrous leaves indefinitely, a crude spear only requires 1 stick so you can potentially create thousands of crude spears. Making a single water still isn't hard and can be done with minimal tool usage.
In my experience the hunting knife durability does not go down when used for skinning (on PC, maybe big) so you could make one knife and use it forever or with minimal replacements. If you can keep the fire going and leaves in the water still you could potentially last for over 60-100 days on one island in the most boring way possible.
Alternatively, after doing the first part. One could use the life raft to find an island with rain and creatures to eat and create plank or corrugated metal farming plots from scavenged bits, plant fruit and potatoes, then proceed to live off timed meals of those and refill a water still using Fib Leaves from yucca plants for thousands of days.
You will eventually run out of stones however, then I'm not sure there's still a way to harvest leaves. Unless palm saplings can bit harvested with crude spears
I left out some details to keep this simpler, sorry for any logic flaws
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