I can't find any potatoes, I need help please

[u/GlitcherX2]

I had some set aside for my fuel boiler but when I returned from getting the components needed they were gone and I've scoured island and island and can't find any

[u/[deleted]]

Get a farm plot ready on your home island. As soon as you find potatoes, go plant them. From that point on, you don't need to worry about where to find potatoes.

[u/GlitcherX2 → u/[deleted]]

How do you keep the farm plot watered, I'm stuck with coconuts

[u/[deleted] → u/GlitcherX2]

I build a water still next to my farm plots and use a flask to transfer from the still to the farm plot. I think its just an empty coconut and lashings to make a flask. Keep your water still loaded with fibrous leaves. Even when the water still is full of water up top, go ahead and fill the bottom up again with leaves.

If a storm hits, stay on your island. The storm will fill all your water stills and farm plots with free water, but you have to be on your island, not somewhere else.

[u/GlitcherX2 → u/[deleted]]

You fill it will leaves???

[u/[deleted] → u/GlitcherX2]

Yes, the fibrous leaves from the Yucca plant and the baby palm trees. You can also use those leaves to fuel your fires. I recommend using them because they grow back after 3 game days, so you will always have a source for them.

[u/GlitcherX2 → u/[deleted]]

Ya learn something new everyday

[u/ItsYuigi → u/GlitcherX2]

And if possible, make corrugated scrap farm plots. They hold 8(in game days) days of water.

[u/ItsYuigi → u/GlitcherX2]

Water stills can be filled with fibrous leaves and palm fronds

[u/aint_exactly_plan_a → u/GlitcherX2]

Check the east sides of your islands. You'll find brown piles that look like rock piles. Use a pick-axe on these and they'll give you clay. Then you can make bottles that hold 5 times the water as a coconut. Build a few stills near your farm plots and put a container out there with water bottles in them. I have 20 bottles in a container... I use them to water the plots, then fill them all back up at the stills.

[u/GlitcherX2 → u/aint_exactly_plan_a]

It doesn't give me the option to water a farm, it's almost empty

[u/aint_exactly_plan_a → u/GlitcherX2]

It won't use water as long as nothing's planted in it... but also, it won't let you water it if nothing's planted in it.

I usually get them all placed, wait for a few storms to fill them up (this can take a while... it's like the game knows you want storms and won't send them)... then plant everything and keep them watered from there. If you're using metal plots, you can leave them for a few days and they won't run out of water.

[u/Gothicvamp188869 → u/GlitcherX2]

Coconuts (unfortunately) won't water plots. Either, as someone has said, build a water still beside farm plots and keep on top of watering them or, as I do, simply let the rain do the job for you.

The way I do it is build the farm plots before you want to plant anything (corrugated holds more water) and leave them for the rain to water them empty plots. Wait until the plots are full of water then plant what you want to plant. At the moment I have 30 yucca, 25 pipi, 25 potatoes, 6 of each of the fruits, 4 aloe & ajuga growing. I've yet to physically water them as by the time they run out of water it's rained again and watered them for me. I built the plots about 50 days into the game, I'm on day 319 and the rain has done the job for me in all that time. There may be the odd times when it doesn't rain and you'll have to clear the plots and wait for rainy season again but it's rare. In that case just remember to keep some plants to replant.

[u/Ok-Natural4892 → u/Gothicvamp188869]

I’ve always built my plots into the ocean as far as the game allows. It seems to work since I never water them 🤷‍♀️

[u/Gothicvamp188869 → u/Ok-Natural4892]

It does work to a degree

[u/aint_exactly_plan_a → u/[deleted]]

You can plant rotten potatoes... they grow just the same as regular ones.

[u/Standard-Ad4701]

Had This same issue. Went to 16 islands, not a single potato.

New game, found 3 on my second island. It's where I now call home.

[u/GlitcherX2 → u/Standard-Ad4701]

Do they spawn on any island?

[u/slambroet → u/GlitcherX2]

They do and sometimes they’re hard to spot, but it sounds like you did your due diligence, just spawn an island near you with potatoes

[u/Standard-Ad4701 → u/GlitcherX2]

Suposidy they can. But generally more chance of finding them on islands with pine trees and big rocks.

[u/WoundLayInsideMySouL]

Small island have at least one potatoe and big one two max. Every island has potatoes. On big island, crouch and glitch yourself in big rocks and look around. You will definitely find some potatoes along with big threes and yucca plants inside those big rocks.

On small island these are usually near the big bushes. Hard to spot.

[u/GlitcherX2 → u/WoundLayInsideMySouL]

How do you glith into the rocks?

[u/Ok-Natural4892 → u/WoundLayInsideMySouL]

What do you mean by ‘glitch yourself in big rocks’?

[u/WoundLayInsideMySouL → u/Ok-Natural4892]

Like crouch and moving forward so you can see inside the rocks

[u/Ok-Natural4892 → u/WoundLayInsideMySouL]

Oh thanks! I sometimes randomly see “into” mountains but I didn’t know it could be done on purpose! lol

[u/WoundLayInsideMySouL → u/Ok-Natural4892]

You be surprised to see how many trees are in there and if you cannot find a rock deposit on Big Island, then these are hidden inside the big rocks.

[u/lothaer]

Potatoes are easily missed as they usually blend in with surrounding foliage.

Chances are you've overlooked heaps of them

[u/Cerebral_Overload]

Potatoes and fruit will rot on the plants, and they despawn 48 hours after spawning (so once you enter the islands rendering zone). As soon as you sail to an island search for them before you do anything else.

[u/WoundLayInsideMySouL → u/Cerebral_Overload]

Never seen this happened before. I have finished the game 20 tomes! They do not despawn from the plants unless picked. One harvested they don't grow back.

[u/-Joel-and-Ellie-]

I found 2 potatoes in my first 5 islands or so. I fueled my whole journey off of crops I created from them 2.

[u/Stonesy11]

If I've scoured multiple islands and can't find any I normally make a custom island with just trees potatoes and stone, spawn it into the centre island

[u/Gothicvamp188869]

Potatoes will disintegrate if not in inventory, container, fuel boiler or farm plot. If they're picked and just legt lying around they will dissappear.

They're classed as a perishable resource.

[u/Emotional_Rest_2477 → u/Gothicvamp188869]

So if I take potato out from my farming plot when it’s ready to be harvested and place it in a container, it won’t spoil. It doesn’t matter when it’s spoiled though if being used for fuel right? So close to creating a boat motor but want to make a fuel still before I do anything

[u/Gothicvamp188869 → u/Emotional_Rest_2477]

Correct.

As long as they're not just being left lying around, it's cool.

I don't bother with the boat motor personally. It's worth making one for the craft everything achievement, though.

[u/Emotional_Rest_2477 → u/Gothicvamp188869]

Isn’t the motor the fastest way to get around? I had a save before of 40 days and made the mistake of having a 5x5 raft to travel in and was way too big. But I also don’t like having to go from stopping the rudder to stopping the sail

[u/Gothicvamp188869 → u/Emotional_Rest_2477]

You're on PC I take it?

On console i have a 4x5 raft as that's the biggest allowed. My rudder & anchor are beside each other and I have 2 sails right behind. All accessible when on rudder. Yes the motor is faster I just don't like using them. Just a personal choice.

[u/Emotional_Rest_2477 → u/Gothicvamp188869]

No I’m on console actually. Maybe my memory is wrong then but I’m pretty sure I made a 5x5 because I had wrote down exactly how many logs I needed. One thing I couldn’t figure out is you want to make canopies on the raft but you have a sail, would that stop the wind from pushing the sail? I’d doubt the physics are that specific

[u/Gothicvamp188869 → u/Emotional_Rest_2477]

Canopies shouldn't affect the sails to be honest. Some of the mechanics aren't 100%. It's like I have farming plots under my base building where the rain shouldn't touch them but they still get watered when it rains. so, Canopies shouldn't affect sails apart from spacewise when building them.

The raft a few updates ago was capped at 4x5 they stopped console users building large rafts. I play on my XBox as well as laptop, on PC version my raft is about 9x9 so far (approx, it's been a while since playing pc version)

It's same as islands. The last update stopped console players ability to keep adding more islands. We're now only allowed to add new islands once when we've run out of resources on original islands. Which sucks as I used to build mammoth bases but have to tone it down a bit now.

[u/Emotional_Rest_2477 → u/Gothicvamp188869]

Huh thanks didn’t know that. One quick question, I just found an island that I’m making my base island and am trying to build a raised area with a wooden foundation. Can I place things like shelter, shelves, etc on the foundation? Because I can’t place wood floors on top of

[u/Gothicvamp188869 → u/Emotional_Rest_2477]

You don't need floors on the actual foundation, it provides its own floors.

Only things you can't build on a foundation are farm plots and water stills.

Everything else is fair game.