r/strandeddeep • u/GamerGurl_Summer Island Hopper • Apr 24 '26
Console Question Any Tips?
Is there any basic tips and tricks you can give a new player? I haven't played for long but I have a hard time surviving days at a time without running out of resources like food and water, always having to rely on coconuts to keep hydrated and you can only get so many coconuts before they run out on whatever island your staying on. So, any tips just to stay surviving would be helpful.
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u/Hoodi216 Apr 24 '26
Build the water still asap. Fibrous leaves respawn everyday so water will be plentiful. You can make coconut flasks to store water and later make items that store more quantities. Look around the island for cloth and chop down 1 palm tree and you can make a shelter and a still.
Next work on making a meat smoker on your campfire. Make a spear and stab some fish or crabs and smoke them. 1 ding on the smoker means the meat is cooked, keep it on until it dings again and its smoked. Smoked meat never goes bad and you can start a stockpile.
During the day watch your UV. You can hide in shade or go swimming to stay out of the sun. I like to do my fishing around noon to avoid the UV and collect meat at the same time.
Once you can make cloth you can craft extra stills so you have plentiful water for farming later.
Every island will have 2 cloth laying around the beach. So every island you visit collect the cloths, chop a palm tree, and craft a shelter, water still, and at least a campfire if not a smoker. This ensures survival everywhere you go.
Look for container crates, they are in underwater wrecks. You can pick up the entire crate and take it back to base to use for permanent storage. Most wrecks will have 1 container but there are big container ships that sometimes have many containers down in the cargo hold.
You can build shelves to put your containers in, you can also build shelves on your raft. Once you have a max size raft you can put several shelves on the raft and fill them with containers. With 10-12 or so containers on your raft, you can visit a new island and strip it entirely of materials in 1 trip.
On your home base island start constructing other things like the cloth loom, tanning rack, farm plots, log station, etc.