Tips for Desert scenario

[Paddy]

Any tips of the Desert map. What should I focus on first, in what order? What plants etc. I'm starving for some tips? Lol

[pepsi50]

How can I get more wood for stronger fences? Can I repair weapons?
Dessert is hard...

[Flin Fredstone]

Originally posted by Ralesk:

Just checked out WORRY-FEE... wow okay that's a right pain in the bum without juiceleaf :D Never thought I'd have to prioritise mushrooms ever, but here we go :D

There is juiceleaf but it's miles and miles away :-/

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2983654975

[Flin Fredstone]

Originally posted by pepsi50:

How can I get more wood for stronger fences? Can I repair weapons?
Dessert is hard...

Weapons you can't repair. But like with clothes, if you dismantle them when they are almost gone you get resources back.
To set them to dismantle right click them in the storage area. A small icon will appear on the picture and a survivor will go dismantle it and store the resources.
You can look for Palm trees and plant those after you observed them.
But perhaps you're better of mining stone and turning it into concrete later on ?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2971639470

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2971601697

[Agent]

Is lack of wood common in the desert map? I played my first game of Stranded on Sobrius/Hard and so I decided to do my second game as Desertum/VH. The start location on my seed is on the edge of some kind of sea and there is like a palm tree forest and a ton of other stuff. Only problem is I can't seem to see any grain anywhere. Guess I'll have to slowly pan over the whole map and play hunt the pixel.

The desert sea is pretty cool though.

[Flin Fredstone]

@Agent.

No not always. Seeds like Ralesk listed have large amount of palm trees. But you only actually need just one so that you can plant your own wood supply.

[Agent]

Ah thanks, I just didn't want my first desert experience to be a flukishly easy map.

[Ralesk]

Year 2 on WORRY-FEE, cheating a bit with Rita's Natural Curiosity — guess what plant she hasn't discovered yet: Juiceleaf :D

Everything (synthplant, mulchtube, oasis tree, ore deposit), you name it, barrel cactus came in at the 7th expedition or so? Not like I really need it as mushrooms are plenty, but come on :D

[Flin Fredstone]

Barrel cactus is needed if you want to tame the drommies for poopies.

[Ralesk]

Originally posted by Flin Fredstone:

Barrel cactus is needed if you want to tame the drommies for poopies.

Sure :) though I don't feel like taming in this playthrough now.

After discovering silicon deposits, nesting shriekers, nest formations and who knows what else, we finally got the juiceleaf at year 2 day 24... Man that took way too long, RNG wasn't on my side :D

Also no groves and such so far, I only have the hunting ground and the ore deposit specials on the expedition map.

[Flin Fredstone]

Yeah, the juiceleaf was far away on your seed. Personally i like to keep 2 tamed poopers tamed in the camp though minimum. Fuell, meat and happy residents.

Happy to hear you have a fun time in your playthrough despite the RNG.

[Ralesk]

Originally posted by Flin Fredstone:

Yeah, the juiceleaf was far away on your seed. Personally i like to keep 2 tamed poopers tamed in the camp though minimum. Fuell, meat and happy residents.

Happy to hear you have a fun time in your playthrough despite the RNG.

I took the OP's "weird" map as a challenge and it definitely gives a different flavour to the game. Without a survivor with Natural Curiosity one would depend even more on what little you have nearby.