Tips for a beginner?

[Kelfezond]

Hey just started playing this with my girlfriend, wondered if we could get advice on finding food? We seem to just walk aimlessly until we starve to death at the moment.

[pH]

As a carnivore, the AI tends to spawn when you're most hungry and sitting in one spot with more players in the vicinity. As an herbivore, plants tend to spawn close to water features (ponds, lakes, rivers, streams).

Study your maps as well. Thenyaw is smaller and easier to learn than V3 and I'd recommend it for starting out. You shouldn't have much of a food shortage on a smaller map like Thenyaw. Pull up a picture of the map online while playing. Compare the coordinates on the map to your character screen. Orientate yourself from map features if you can as well as your compass. You'll both learn fairly quickly.

[Diktatorpanda]

As Herbivore, hold Q to smell and go towards the green glowing bushes. As Carnivore alot of hunting is done with sounds, as juvies your primary prey will be AI and all the AI's (Taco, Oreo, Ava and Velo) have distinct sounds they make. Taco kinda sounds like a crow with alot of echo, Oreo sounds like a generic bird/turkey/chicken, Ava kinda honks like a goose and Velo has a high pitch screech. I highly recomend that you play this game with headphones to have a eaiser time to locate where sound is coming from.

It takes a while to learn and I spent several hours being frustrated until I learned the AI sounds, I would also recomend that you start with some of the less time consuming dinos. For Carnivores that would be Utha raptor, Ceratosaur or Carnotaurus, for Herbivores I would recomend the Maiasaurus or Dryosaurus. There is also a very handy wikipage (https://the-isle-dinosaur-game.fandom.com/wiki/Fauna) where you can read up on the diffrent dinos, it's not allways up to date but it will give you mostly the right info ^^. I would also recomend to get to know the maps, Thenyaw (https://i.redd.it/v0ikc69krbz11.jpg) and Isle v3 (http://vulnona.com/game/the_isle/map_en.html#) I would recomend to play on Thenyaw, the map is alot smaller and easier to get to know, don't worry if you feel overwelmed at the start, theres alot to learn but you'll get to it with some practice.

[LankyGiraffe]

If you just want to piss around and explore the maps for you're first few hours in the game, pick Dryosaurus. It's a herbivore that reaches adult in about 30mins, is fast and can also create burrows by holding right click. Once you've seen a few areas try looking at some of the bigger dinosaurs that have more challenge to them.

[Sable]

If you're a smaller carnivore, try following larger predators around and take the gores they leave behind. Or when they're on the hunt and come upon a herd, stalk around and see if you can spot a Dryo or something in the mix.

Sure, AI can feed you, but the bigger you get, the less it'll fill you up.

I don't play herbivores much, so, not sure what to tell you for that.

[Kelfezond]

When it comes to moving over large distances will going slower stop me from dying of hunger sooner? Does sprinting use up more thirst?

[Diktatorpanda]

Originally posted by Kelfezond:

When it comes to moving over large distances will going slower stop me from dying of hunger sooner? Does sprinting use up more thirst?

I don't think sprinting uses more hunger/thirst, but it makes more sound making it easier for other players to detect you, it makes it easier for you to miss AI spawning and it can leave you vunerable if you sprint somewhere, discover a threat and then you don't have the stam to run away.

[Sable]

As far as I know, hunger isn't affected by travelling. Thirst runs out faster the more you use your dinosaur's calls. If it's raining, your thirst will not deplete at all, but your hunger will.
Depending on the dinosaur, some are better suited for staying at one location that has food and water. Most Survival dinosaurs are pretty good at travelling quickly with enough hunger and thirst to last them until they can make it to the next location.

I assume you are talking about travelling while playing the Survival game mode, right?

[Sable]

If you're truly a beginner, I'd suggest going into sandbox mode first to explore the maps. Herrerasaurus is probably the best choice since it travels incredibly fast and has decent stamina, hunger, and thirst.

Use it to explore the maps and learn where the lakes and rivers are, then hop into Survival and start out with something that isn't too hard to survive as (Dryosaurus, Utahraptor, Dilophosaurus)

Your scent ability also enables a compass that you can use to memorize directions and locations.

[Darth Absentis]

as someone who only knows the v3 map:
as juvenile:

-stay out of sight as much as possible

-especially avoid the sound of first of all dilophosaurus and second of all utah raptors

-second, avoid the sound of anything else

-as juvenile, unless you got 2 adults watching your back and still some bushes to hide, i would
actually not recommend teaming up with an adult of the same species, since if the adult needs to run or needs to fend of multiple hostile dinosaurs, you are likely gonna die of you are spotted

-as herbivore, food is not much a problem, water is more of a problem

-as carnivore, dont walk too fast, ai always spawn somewhere near you but the spawn is delayed and not directly at you as such that you might actually miss prey if you are often going faster then 25 a 30km/hour

-get the most recent map on reddit of v3 you can find and use it and find some of the most secluded areas on the map. avoid the swamps and pretty much any pond or lake, way to many open spaces in the later, probably someone guarding the ponds, and the swamp is swarming with life all the time. though most western swamp has a load of hideouts and it aint per se impossible to survive there, it is really risky.

-if possible, only go drink at rivers that dont show up as giant spots when sniffing the air

[wizard master結城晶子リ]

Originally posted by Kelfezond:

Hey just started playing this with my girlfriend, wondered if we could get advice on finding food? We seem to just walk aimlessly until we starve to death at the moment.

if u want i could walk you both trhu what u need to do to not starve i all ways play pred so i know how to never die or starve from food or water