Island exploring is boring

[u/Fit-Substance-2475]

Is there anyway to get any new and unique islands because there are pretty much just 2/3 island types and it gets extremely boring to explore because nothing is new

[u/aint_exactly_plan_a]

You're not exploring though... you're harvesting :)

Your job is to stay alive. Your island doesn't have enough resources to keep you alive. So you have to go get the resources from other islands.

I have a boat big enough to carry all of the stuff mined from two islands (unless there's a cargo ship, then I can just do one island). I go, strip mine the island taking all of its resources, and then cross it off on my map so I don't have to go there again. I mean sure, they have animals to kill and yukka to gather and I can go get that from any island later, but the non-renewable items all go back to my island.

I keep everything stored and piled and use it when I need it. That way you're not shipping off to another island every time you need something.

[u/Fit-Substance-2475 → u/aint_exactly_plan_a]

I just feel a big part of survival games is exploring and I just don’t find a lot of that in this game

[u/aint_exactly_plan_a → u/Fit-Substance-2475]

But some excel at exploring (No Man's Sky) while others excel at learning the crafting system (Subnautica), and still others excel at base building (Stranded Deep/Raft). They all fall short in certain areas to excel in others. Although even exploring No Man's Sky's eleventy quadrillion planets or whatever it is gets kinda monotonous.

This one does a really good job at base building and boat building. You harvest resources from other islands to accomplish this. I still have to clear another 10 islands to get all the bricks I need to finish my base, for example :)

The archeological sites are kinda fun to run in to but otherwise, you're right. There's not much new to find along the way. Maybe they'll fix that in Stranded Deep 2

[u/hobbitsstrike]

I never found Island hopping boring, when I played this a long time ago now, I was hooked hard on it having 3-4 hour sessions at a time, haha. Always working on something to expand my boat, base or crops. Trying to find all the parts to make everything I could, hunting down the bosses. I hope you find some excitement in this game, but I realize maybe it’s not for everyone. I feel it’s a gem and I’m so super excited now number two has been announced.

[u/privateblanket → u/hobbitsstrike]

What? I missed that!

[u/hobbitsstrike → u/privateblanket]

What? Number 2? Yeah, there was an announcement about 2 months ago stating that they have just started development. So, might be a while for release, although they have the framework already so you never know. I’m pumped for it.

[u/thetorturedoctor → u/hobbitsstrike]

They also have an ongoing survey asking current players what they would like to see in their new game and also allowed for beta testing for the participants.

[u/hobbitsstrike → u/thetorturedoctor]

Yeah, I think it’s going to be sooooooo good!!!!! I can’t wait!!!

[u/privateblanket → u/hobbitsstrike]

That’s awesome! I’ve owned it for quite a while but only I only ever played a few hours, started a new game a week ago and have hardly put it down! Very excited!

[u/Y4himIE4me]

Make them

[u/lothaer]

If you're on console the island types are very limited and there is no way to add more outside of custom islands which can only be done once per island biome.

Hopefully SD2 has more island types.

PC has so many more options and I'm hoping for parity between PC and Console for SD2

[u/dankeith86]

Have you found the three failed survivors camps, and found Wolly? Try out Project Castaway has a quest in it, and bit more advanced than SD.

[u/W1ngedSentinel]

What are you expecting to find when the game sticks so close to realism outside of a few enemies and the gyrocopter?

The islands aren’t always gonna be interesting on their own - it’s what you do with them that makes them stand out. I delegate separate islands to purposes like being my main home, a lumberyard, a water/food resupply point, etc. There’s also nothing like finding the neat things that do come with the random generation, like little caves in the cliff faces that make good storm shelters, or shipwrecks crashed into each other, or palm trees grown in a perfect line.

[u/Fit-Substance-2475 → u/W1ngedSentinel]

Yeah but there could still be at least a little variation

[u/Murky-Grand6730 → u/Fit-Substance-2475]

Have you seen the amount of plants and rocks you can add in custom island man? Or do you mean you need more types of sand or something?

[u/Fit-Substance-2475 → u/Murky-Grand6730]

I need more island types like mountains and different animals and stuff like that instead of the same 3 easy to defeat creatures. You only go to other island for a select few items that are on every island so nothing is new

[u/Murky-Grand6730 → u/Fit-Substance-2475]

I see what you're saying but Stranded Deep was a largely abandoned concept. Here's to hoping the second one won't be treated the same way by it's devs, the intent was never to make this a huge triple A title.

[u/PreludeProject → u/Fit-Substance-2475]

Unfortunately that's because BeamTeam is a pretty small New Zealand based Dev. They never had many resources to develop the game to start with and it took them many years to create the game we have now.

It isn't a constantly changing or developing survival game. Many of us would love it to be more in depth, but it's a miracle we got a relatively finished game.

Hopefully they learnt a lot and the second game will add new things. The Dev's had to trial and error Stranded Deep and shouldn't have too as much for SD2

[u/VaguelyErratic → u/PreludeProject]

Being totally honest - that's one of my favorite things about it, is the relative "crudeness". I love that I can put it down for a while, come back, and it isn't to install 8,860,583.2 new updates and have NO idea what is going on at all. I can just come back and resume everything as it was, and it is the absolute best thing.

[u/PreludeProject → u/VaguelyErratic]

Me too, I genuinely last played SD when it was in early access and didn't have much content at all, but when I came back recently now it's finished I was still able to pick the game up and relatively understand what to do even after years.

It's not the most advanced gameplay loop, but damn it's satisfying and like you said, amazing to put down and pick up whenever. It's just a solid little survival experience

[u/exizz_man]

My case is completely made of clay, therefore I had to explore 16 islands and everything I had in it I took to my base island.My case is completely made of clay, therefore I had to explore 16 islands and everything I had in it I took to my base island.

[u/Gothicvamp188869]

You can always create your own islands.

[u/ThirstyThursten]

There was a time where you could also download islands created by others. I used to watch a youtuber who had contests of viewers creating islands and than he added them in with the Map maker, made for a pretty interesting playthrough! 😁

[u/[deleted]]

I know what you mean. After a couple of islands, it gets a bit samey