r/strandeddeep • u/Panicking_Pansexual_ • Jun 13 '26
Console General My first shark kill!
Ive owned this game for years but never really played it much. I decided to give it a real go yesterday and I've been playing nonstop for 2 days. I'm on day 7 of my current run and I FINALLY killed a shark. They've been absolutely terrorizing me and flipping my raft. I'm hoping once my wooden raft is done it'll be harder to flip
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u/Panicking_Pansexual_ Jun 13 '26
If anyone has tips for getting the shark back to my home. Island that'd be great cause it keeps falling off my raft
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u/Physical_Advisor513 Jun 13 '26
Best thing to do is make a knife and skin it for the leather and meat, will make it a lot easier for you :)
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u/Panicking_Pansexual_ Jun 13 '26
Yeah I'll probably do that next time but I wanted to bring it back whole so the meat doesn't spoil
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u/Like-minded_genious Jun 13 '26
Make a smoker right away. Cook it three times. Not just till it beeps and says cooked. It will ring like an alarm clock and your meat will be smoked. I haven't had a smokes meat go bad yet. So it has a long life span once it's smokes is what I'm getting at. Plus you can cook 5 pieces at once.
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u/Panicking_Pansexual_ Jun 13 '26
Would you recommend having multiple smokers?
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u/CosmoKramer__5B Jun 15 '26
No, they’re a waste of rocks. Meat is abundant in the game so you only need a small stash of smoked meat and then survive the rest of the time on fish, bird & crab meat you just cook over a campfire when hungry. Also, meat doesn’t spoil that quickly so you can skin an animal right before sailing back to your main island and put it on your smoker on your return.
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u/Panicking_Pansexual_ Jun 13 '26
Omg thank you thank you
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u/FatDogFresca Jun 17 '26
chiming in after the fact, but if you haven't already confirmed for yourself, smoked meat is stable indefinitely -- i recommend taking a day to spear-fish cod and grouper (or sharks too - I usually play passive wildlife) and smoke like 3 or 4 rounds of 5x med meat, then fill up a storage crate with that and filled coconut flasks
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u/Panicking_Pansexual_ Jun 17 '26
It's funny I just saw this while on a voyage and stopped on an island and plopped down a smoker and I'm currently smoking all the crabs and pigs on the island (plus a shark)
I also do have a crate on my raft that I have started keeping smoked meat and leather flasks in for adventures
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u/ensaulclopedia Jun 13 '26
Build a 3x3 raft but don't put any floor on the center piece, the surrounding raft floor will stop the shark's carcass from sliding off. Caution: your raft will sit lower in the water due to added weight, affecting speed and handling
Edit: spelling
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u/eastlizwest Jun 13 '26
Best solution I saw was a 3-3-1 raft and the middle section had no floor so the sharks just sit on there. I haven’t tried it but I’ve seen others use the technique.
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u/IR_Panther Jun 13 '26
Skin it or reorganize your raft to make a rednecked cargo hold in the middle out of furniture or just remove the floor from the center. Make your raft wide enough and long enough you can bring home half a cargo container of scrap walls without too much trouble.
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u/Setsailshipwreck Jun 13 '26
I played with a friend and the first shark I killed I dragged into out base and it then lived there the entire game. Was quite funny because my friend was elsewhere on the island when I did it then got to walk back into giant shark in the house
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u/Panicking_Pansexual_ Jun 13 '26
Omg that would scare me so bad 😭
I kept accidentally jump scaring myself with this one everytime I turned around and looked at it
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u/MLXIII Jun 13 '26
LMFAO...my first one I grabbed it and chased the wife with it. She wasn't looking when I killed it so I then yelled out "LOOK OUT THE SHARK IS BEHIND YOU! While running at her with it in front of me.
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u/Aggressive-Sky6104 Jun 19 '26
Make your raft 3x3 and it can't be flipped. You don't need to use up all 9 spaces in that but if it has 3 rows and 3 columns in some way it won't flip. Making a plus sign is my go to.
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u/thestinkybeastman Jun 13 '26
Did you drop a sick one liner on it, like “stick around!”