Survival is pretty bad

[ravioli]

It's incredibly unforgiving.
You lose water and food RAPIDLY and it's not obvious to any new player how to get water or food because you cant drink from a lake and only find food from crates or growing crops.

Due to the fact that nobody knows how to make the Saw yet it takes me 20 minutes to make 200 blocks of wood and by the time I get back to my fully grown seeds some robot pack has destroyed my entire crop leading me to death.

Not to be rude - but this ♥♥♥♥ is incredibly poorly optimized for fun game play.

And dont Subnautica me - I have a lot of time played in that game and this is VERY different in the way it works with hydration and food. It just doesnt work.

[Lenny]

there is a big red timer that tells you when they attack your farm...

[ravioli]

So I have to play around postponing the hour long wood farming to do some bs miniboss for the only source of food/water I get?

It's the fact that they forgot to make a manual for anything. Literally not a shred of information whatsoever. And the tools you get to craft are terrible outside of creative.

How do I make a saw? it takes like 5 minutes to grow crops but you start starving in 5 minutes. I dont have time to do ANYTHING aside from grow crops

[Mr. Fibble]

Planting large quantities increases the number of bots in a wave.

Until you're established I think its a better approach to gather corn and feed the cows for milk with a handful of plants that are more foody.

I've found the bars don't go down all that fast unless I've taken damage and my health regen is using up the hunger and thirst.

[Phishfood]

I didn't follow the proper procedure. I connected the wheels to the engine, then turned on the engine, and before I could connect the engine to the steering wheel the car just drove away by itself into oblivion

[Askey]

Spoilers!

I started yestoday and I have plenty of food, drink and also have the components to cut down trees and drill stone.

Farming; plant 9 crops, anything more and unauthorised farming will be detected. Regardless it gives you a timer letting you know when the bots will attack. Plus you are not required to keep farming, you can have a rest and simply not plant anything and they will not attack.
Also feed corn to cows to get milk; I think its x3 corn per x1 milk (I could be wrong). Carrots give extra food, tomatoes extra water and beets equally both.

To make it easier, try to find a facility with a large glowing wrench above it to get access to craft bots etc. Once you start to automate your resource farming everything becomes much easier.

[ravioli]

Feeding the cows with corn helps. I'm doing that just to survive long enough to see my crops grow. Thank you for that.

[Zucker_Schock]

I dont find it unforgiving or bad, its pretty easy to get what you need

[Xenomatter]

I don't know what world OP lives in, but a saw is fairly simple to make. I'm just guessing OP haven't been able to find the proper craftbot yet.

[Haya Hayabusa]

to clarify about the tutorial book, it's still the old one and it'll probably change in a week. you can email the devs or somethin', but until they fix it, it's up to the player to survive.

[ravioli]

Originally posted by Xenomatter:

I don't know what world OP lives in, but a saw is fairly simple to make. I'm just guessing OP haven't been able to find the proper craftbot yet.

I'm sorry you're right.

It's SO obvious that "craftbots" are how you learn things and SO obvious where they are or what to do to get stuff out of it.

It's very obvious how to make more than 1 battery. It's EXTREMELY obvious how to make a saw.

This is just all so easy and simple finding things without any instruction, long distances, no recognizable formula, etc.

[Haya Hayabusa]

btw, the alert for the raid happens at 4:30, if you pick your crops before then, you'll be ok. and if you don't pick your crops and the alert pops up, there is no stopping it, even if there are no crops.

[Simson447]

There should be official map. I get lost during searching workshop. I found place where blue shooting bots appeard and after death I needed to remove save, because it was too far from respawn and it was nonsense to return.

[Askey]

I think the developers expected players to follow the crash landing strip onto the road and find the Mechanic Facility. I only figured half the things I did by watching youtubers and in all fairness some of them did seem frustrated at times.

[Askey]

Originally posted by SzW447PL:

There should be official map. I get lost during searching workshop. I found place where blue shooting bots appeard and after death I needed to remove save, because it was too far from respawn and it was nonsense to return.

I wouldn't mind if we had a way to create our own map - simple "pencil and paper" would be just fine. I'm thinking about doing it in blocks and painting them to indicate areas of interest but then the map would be huge.

[SteelFire]

OP, I'm not saying you don't have some valid points, but this is basically how survival/building games work. They don't hold your hand and direct you on what to do; they wouldn't have much survival aspect if they did. I can see from your game list that this isn't the type of game you normally play though, so your frustration is understandable.

I've just started playing myself and I can tell you that the survival aspect of this game isn't really very punishing in comparison to many other games of the same type.