It's also important to know that time passes while you're in the crafting menu. Tip # 2: Time passes while in crafting menus Does it matter whether I craft the raft out of buoys, tires, or wood? Will one go faster or be more stable or durable than the other? What about the floor? Does it matter if the floor is made of planks or scrap metal? Will the scrap metal be heavier and slower? Will it turn my raft into a heat box that will cook me out in the open sun? Or are the different components just there to add some false variety to the game and which to use is entirely up to what's available and the player's personal preferences? As far as I can tell, it's just personal preference. I also wondered if there is a functional difference between the components used to craft a raft. Does an axe, spear, or bow and arrow do any more damage than the other? Later in the game, I found myself wondering if there is a functional difference between hunting weapons. I passed right by the baby palms, expecting that they would provide the same useless fronds as the adult palms, and I didn't even see the yucca at first because there were only 2 on the island, and one was hidden up against a boulder. For the record, lashing is crafted from fibrous leaves, which come from yucca and the baby palms that sprout out of the ground. That didn't work, so I was left wandering around the starting island for several minutes before caving and looking at a wiki.
I thought it would come from palm tree leaves, so I tried cutting off the fronds of adult palm trees.
#Stranded deep how to#
I actually got stuck in the tutorial trying to figure out how to craft lashing. The lack of explanations also left me wondering how to obtain some basic crafting components. This container shelf didn't work how I expected, and was a waste of materials. It was a waste of perfectly good planks, and even after I had tried crafting a raft, I wasn't even able to pick up the shelf and move it onto the raft, and attempting to break it down did not return enough of the components to allow me to craft a more useful replacement on the raft. Everything I attempted to set on the shelf would just fall or roll off.
Nope, these shelves are only used to store the wooden crates that you'll find in shipwrecks. Otherwise, you might find yourself wasting valuable materials crafting things that you don't really need yet, and then not having those materials available for crafting things that you do need later.įor example, in my first attempt, I crafted a "container shelf", expecting that I could use it to store empty coconut flasks and other supplies for use later. Pause the game frequently and read what things do before you attempt to craft them. Because of this, I recommend keeping the wiki open on a phone, tablet, or laptop next to you while you're playing. The crafting menu does not explain what the item being crafted does or how it is intended to be used, nor does it give any indication as to where the requisite materials can be found or harvested from. That being said, here are 7 tips for surviving Stranded Deep: Tip #1: Have the wiki open!Īside from some load screen tips and the brief tutorial, there are no in-game explanations of how anything works or what anything does.
#Stranded deep Pc#
The tips that I offer here should also be relevant to PC players, but they are geared towards console players. I also want to point out that I'm playing the game on a PS4, and I understand that the PC version of the game is a little bit different. Hopefully, I can spare other players a lot of the trial-and-error and frustration that I had to endure, so that you can get to enjoying the game a lot quicker and more fully.
#Stranded deep free#
I imagine I'm not the only one checking out this game on consoles, especially since it was free for PSPlus users earlier this summer, so I thought I'd share 7 tips that I wish I'd known when I had started out. However, I did stick with it, and started to warm up to it after several restarts and some time spent on the wiki. I was very frustrated with how little the game bothers to explain itself, and how much trial-end-error I had to put up with just to learn the basics.
#Stranded deep Ps4#
I downloaded it for my PS4 when it was offered as the free monthly game, and had a lot of trouble getting into it. Stranded Deep released on consoles last year after having spend half a decade in early access on Steam.
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