Tips from a guy who just ended the game

[Thunder McLane]

finished the game in 68days. here are some few tips to consider:
1) Always save your game after doing something important. the game still contains some bugs. Just example, after killing one of the bosses, game bugged and need to kill him again.
2) learn to use compass and the carthographer (this before game starts). it is very easy to be lost, as everything looks the same.
3) all the bosses required a lot of spears (wood spears around 20-30), refined around 20. so go with full healthy and prepared.
4) gyrocopter is useless. the three key parts are available only in the aircraft, whereas the others you find a lot on islands. however it consumes a lot of fuel. i've prefered to use my raft instead.
5) talking about raft: I've made a 4x3 wood raft. put wood floor on the edges, and leaving the middle only with the base. so you can store a lot of crates on the floor without running the risk they will go to the ocean during navigation. I've tried to create container shelf in the boat, it worked, but in my case at least the raft became uncontrollable at a point that I've destroyed my boat and created a new one. I see some people in the internet with boats with container shelfs working, but didn't happen for me.
5.1) Rudder, Anchor and Sail are not optional on boat. it is mandatory, otherwise either you will loose the raft or you can move to desired direction.
5.2) maybe a bug, but never leave our rudder before anchoring your raft and raising the sail. for two times i've left the rudder to check compass and the my guy stopped to move whereas the raft moved in front. So need to swim to get, which is very difficult, almost impossible if the sails are working.
6) I've created a base close to the aircraft. then I've cooked large meats and travelled to aircraft to fill the plane's inventory. did the same for water and fuel. Only after i moved to kill the enemies. Don't stock ration in the aircraft, keep for you as it boost your food and drink status. Cook some meat and store in the aircraft.
7) always carry with you a refined knife, axe, antidote (due lots of snakes), some lashes, a torch. i went to bosses fight with bandage and coconuts, but didn't used.
8) it is not that hard to kill bosses, but make sure you're 100% in healthy. the first enemy drained all my life, i ended up with one block only.
8) everything spoil: meat, coconut, potato, no matter was cooked. so pay attention to that.
9) although possible, navigate in storms is very slow and difficult.
10) change sail's direction doesn't change a lot the efficiency of navigation.
11) make a yuka farm. you will need thousands of lashes. first build a hoe (tool), after the farm base (don't remember the name) and plant: yuka, pipi and potato are the most usefull. Remember to check water on the farm, otherwise the plants will die.
12) if you plan to stay longer on an island, do not cut palm three. find wood sticks on palm sappling, or ficus. and take fibrous leaves in yuka plants or around the island (small plants)
13) watch out for snakes. if you hear the sound, move backward. you can kill them with a wood spear and eat the meat, but if you're poisoned you will need an antidote.

Hope it helps.

[kengulnar73]

8 ) Smoked meat does not spoil Smoker is the best food source by far.

[Thunder McLane]

Originally posted by kengulnar73:

8 ) Smoked meat does not spoil Smoker is the best food source by far.

are you sure? I'm pretty sure my smoked meat spoiled. it take more time, but spoiled for me at least, or I'm so tired to travel in the sea that I'm a little bit crazy. In addition, a few easy tip to have meat, is to construct a wood fish spear and eat sardines, it is very easy. got to the shallow water and spear the sardine. you can store 4 sardines, then go to the sand and skin the fish, so you have 4 small meats.

[kengulnar73]

when you place meat in the smoker it first becomes "cooked meat" then some time later "smoked meat" cooked meat will spoil, smoked will not.

[Topshootingdown]

hi...i loose every fight agains the big callamare or octopus, even i stay next to the boje or under and on my raft...i have no chance against him. on the raft i hear the whipping sound and jump around was a way i try,but i die after some minutes in the fight.
What can i do?

[Thunder McLane]

Originally posted by kengulnar73:

when you place meat in the smoker it first becomes "cooked meat" then some time later "smoked meat" cooked meat will spoil, smoked will not.

that's awesome, thank you. i usually took them out when cooked, never waited to "smoke". great comment, tks

[Thunder McLane]

Originally posted by Topshootingdown:

hi...i loose every fight agains the big callamare or octopus, even i stay next to the boje or under and on my raft...i have no chance against him. on the raft i hear the whipping sound and jump around was a way i try,but i die after some minutes in the fight.
What can i do?

I stayed in the raft all the time, just parked very close to the boje. Then, just after throwing the spear, i immediatelly jump to other direction. most part of the time i was able to not being hit.

[Agoork]

I killed the Giant Squid with just 1 refined spear and no hunting skill. I also killed the MEG with 1 crude spear and killed the Giant Eel with just a stone tool. See my Youtube Channel if you want to see how I did each one. Use the same general techniques, but with an arsenal of weapons and you should be able to kill each boss a lot easier. There is also a technique with the squid where you swim down the buoy chain and the squid just kind of glitches and swims in tight circles above you, making it easier to kill (take a breath boost an a lot of spears before you dive down along the buoy chain though).

I can also confirm what is being said about smoked meat. It should last forever if it is smoked.

[Giliador]

Originally posted by Agoork:

I killed the Giant Squid with just 1 refined spear and no hunting skill. I also killed the MEG with 1 crude spear and killed the Giant Eel with just a stone tool. See my Youtube Channel if you want to see how I did each one. Use the same general techniques, but with an arsenal of weapons and you should be able to kill each boss a lot easier. There is also a technique with the squid where you swim down the buoy chain and the squid just kind of glitches and swims in tight circles above you, making it easier to kill (take a breath boost an a lot of spears before you dive down along the buoy chain though).

I can also confirm what is being said about smoked meat. It should last forever if it is smoked.

I actually watched your series how to survive and it helped me a lot. Other tips I would recommend is to make bed roll, it helps to save game. Build base on island where you didn't have to kill a snake, it will never spawn there, and use Fibrous Leaves for water and fire, it will regrow where palm leaves and wood sticks don't