For example, palm trees are home to coconuts which can be used to drink, eat and craft items like water containers and antidotes.

While wood and sticks are essential to the players’ survival and crafting needs, by doing so there may be negative effects that are felt. The ability to craft essentials such as campfires and shelter are available immediately but with experience in crafting these and handheld tools, further objects become available for construction or crafting including the likes of a water still to collect water from fibrous leaves, building foundations, walls, roofs and even motorised rafts and helicopter-esque gyrocopters.īy using a crafted axe or a knife to cut down a tree, the player can then further cut the trunk down to sticks that can be used for campfires, building huts and additional tools.

By utilising the resources of the island itself such as rocks and sticks, the player is able to craft tools including mallet style hammers and axes to more efficiently and effectively harvest the plantations and rocks that decorate the island. Offering a brief tutorial on the basics of surviving on an island, Stranded Deep does little more to hold the players hand but what little it teaches builds the foundation for the remainder of the players experience. Leaving this option off, the player can return to their last save point which is manually made at a craftable shelter. Permadeath is an option that can be toggled on or off, for those unfamiliar with the term, this means when the player dies the game is over and needs to be restarted from scratch. Before the game begins, the player is able to choose whether their survivor is male or female, whether sharks and snakes act naturally and attack or are passive in which case they won’t attack or even disable them entirely.

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