Handy tips you didn't figure out for a while?

[MrHrulgin]

Here's a couple to start this off:

If you drill into a coconut for the water, and then leave it to rot, it'll stay as a "Rotten Coconut" permanently. While it stinks, it's an entirely stable method of keeping rotten remains on hand for the things that benefit from it, like traps and some farm plots. Cracking a rotten coconut for the 2 shells and 2 rotten remains is a free action, too.

While shrimp are so small they're basically never worth cooking and eating, they're as good for making bird feed as rice is. Any time you need to feed your birds, spend some time at the Rocks or the Bird Rock scouring the tide pools.

[CobraTran]

Prawns take 0 time to eat and provide 7 satiation so they are pretty nice as a light snack. You can also easily get bugs from a dry puddle or wetland caves to make bird feed.

As for tips:
- It took me far too long to realise you can drag an axe on a forested area like the jungle to gather wood & sticks. Also, shovel on places like grassland for dirt.

- You can store clay jars containing liquids in the kiln, no monkes >:)

- Bugs are very reliable as bait for deadfall/snare

[MrHrulgin]

The thing I dislike about prawns is the cooking time, not so much the eating time. The fact that something that needs to be seared for all of a minute or two IRL takes half an hour to cook on a fire in game feels like a waste of time.

Another tip: When it comes to entertainment, each zone's sea is its own experience. If you're really bored, wander along the coast, swimming in each zone. If you do that and build a sandcastle on the beach at one end and the desolate beach at the other, you'll pretty much max out entertainment and get a lot of swimming practice. It'll burn a lot of daylight though.

[bulbatrs]

if you think shrimps are not worth cooking and eating you must have never played mermaid. Squeezing every bit of eatable food is part of the strategy.

[Firazh]

A handy tip to save time making clay: if you grind dry dirt with a stone, and then wet it with water, you get clay. This is shorter than making it from wet mud, also a good way to get to clay when your mud has dried out or you had to dig it from a dry puddle.

You can also use salt water to wet it, saving potentially drinkable water.
And if you put wet mud on a campfire, you can dry it.

[Classy_Pigeon]

Ngl, the rotten coconut trick isn’t as useful if you have goats/boars

[Phreddie]

For bird feed I always go to the Wetlands cave. 3 bugs every exploration. 3 bugs = 1 bird feed

[LightningGod]

Quick stone axe - add burning embers to wood. When it's finished, stick in a sharpened stone. 15m (+ the stone making, which you can do while the wood burns)

Seagull trick (on PC) for coastal locations - leave food/bait in middle row, in the load time between attacking the seagull and the results, right click to grab the bait.

[JarJarThinks]

You can Equip the Spear and Shield... It not only saves on the inventory space, but it also lowers the effective weight of it. God this would've been so nice to have known earlier.

[DungeonRyu]

During rain if you have at least 2 vessels (e.g. coconut shells), you can fill one of them to the brim without advancing time at all. Just keep pouring from one vessel to another and collect rain into the empty one.
Really handy if you are near death by dehydration.

[apple]

Originally posted by CobraTran:

As for tips:
- It took me far too long to realise you can drag an axe on a forested area like the jungle to gather wood & sticks. Also, shovel on places like grassland for dirt.

Damn...I‘ve played this game for 360+ hours and I don't know we can dig up dirt in grassland...

[SamuraiJones]

You can water crops with coconut water. Useful for raising crops in dry season

[MrHrulgin]

Originally posted by SamuraiJones:

You can water crops with coconut water. Useful for raising crops in dry season

That is a *great* tip.

Originally posted by JarJarThinks:

You can Equip the Spear and Shield... It not only saves on the inventory space, but it also lowers the effective weight of it. God this would've been so nice to have known earlier.

Thank you for this. I knew I could equip the shield, and never tried with the spear.

[Firazh]

You can really maximise your carrying capacity by using a travois and putting several baskets in it, combined with one on your back. The travois can also double as a cheap sort of temporary chest.

[Hyperfin]

You can get a lot of ash and sometimes charcoal if you repeatedly put lit tinder into an empty kiln and let it fade out.
I was wasting a lot of time hauling sand from the beach into the jungle to make mud bricks until i noticed that i can use ash. Then i found this trick with the kiln. I do it mostly in the evening when i cook and do other small things. I put dry leaves into the campfire to get lit tinder and then into the kiln. Do a small 15/30 minutes action to get 1 ash and repeat it. Sometimes you can get charcoal out of it

[eugenehub]

You can make carvings out of boar tusks.