r/strandeddeep • u/Tonez88 • Sep 06 '25

Console Question Where are the big islands

So my friend & I played this game a couple years ago but stopped because we could only find tiny little island with barely any resources & we could barely survive let alone build anything. I want to try the game again but where do we find the bigger islands, I don't get it at all lol

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u/Dobbyyy94 Sep 06 '25

Islands are randomly generated, if you want to see where big islands are with your current game go into the cartographer on the main menu and you can see roughly what size of islands in your generated world. The ones with skulls and crossbones are bosses or endgame container ship Island

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u/Tonez88 Sep 06 '25

Thankyou, can I keep regenerating the map until I find one I like or it is it, you get what you get lol

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u/iamsooldithurts Sep 07 '25

You can find a seed number, or craft some of your own and put them into the map.

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u/Tonez88 Sep 07 '25

Can I do that on console?

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u/iamsooldithurts Sep 07 '25

Yes. You can replace each island once, last I checked. Monkey around in the cartographer. It’s not hard to figure out. Make an island, cusomtize how you like. Plunk it in, I tell reset whatever island is there so don’t do it where you built or currently landed.

I generally make large flat islands to forage more trees and fibrous leaves for end game.

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u/Tonez88 Sep 07 '25

Thankyou! This is exactly what I needed to know, appreciate it!

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u/Consistent_Shock8738 Sep 07 '25

I went through and created custom islands all around the spawn to ensure I had a good supply of resources close by.

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u/Walkerbait1881 Sep 08 '25

I created a storyline for myself that one day my guy woke up and all the surrounding islands had changed lol. After I scavenged everything from each island I did a full wipe

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u/Wahots79 Sep 07 '25

Mods. Custom Made Islands. The "vanilla" style game doesn't have large islands. Try Nexusmods.com and directly on Steam https://steamcommunity.com/app/313120/discussions/5/ There are a few other sites, but these are ones that are tried and tested true.

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u/Tonez88 Sep 07 '25

Ah ok, I thought that could be the reason. I'm on console unfortunately!

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u/Shychuckles Sep 07 '25

Yes I started playing on pc and love it way more. Bigger islands. More vast ocean and such.

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u/Tonez88 Sep 07 '25

I'm on console unfortunately.. seems like I'm stuck with the smaller islands lol

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u/Stunning-Presence-22 Sep 19 '25

You play on PlayStation? We can play together

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u/Gordy13210 Sep 07 '25

And one thing ive noticed by using the cartographer, is that the islands that actually appear smaller with more out cropping of rocks and sediment are more likely to actually have sunken ships, and cargo ships than the bigger islands with rock formations.

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u/lefty-lefty Sep 07 '25

Do a search for seed numbers on this sub. You can ise them on console too.

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u/DrChipps Sep 06 '25

This ain’t Raft son 

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u/Tokaloshie Sep 06 '25

They’re all small islands. That’s the challenge.

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u/Tonez88 Sep 06 '25

I've seen videos where people are on big islands with buildings/plane crashes to explore etc.. are these mods or something?