You will need to search for base items used in crafting. Some of these items are hard to locate for new users. Item names will highlight in white as you get close.


Natural Fibers:

​You can get natural fibers by gathering yucca leaves, palm leaves or banana plant leaves and then breaking them down inside your inventory.

Big Logs and Trunks:

Big tree logs are essential to build shelters or even houses, but are somewhat difficult to get. You need to chop big trees for get them, and to do that , you will need a good tool like a stone axe.

Sticks, Big Sticks, Long Sticks and Branches:

With the various sticks and branches you will able to build some basic shelters and craft tools. Also, these are very easy to acquire; you can chop any tree or you can search the ground of the islands.

Palm leaves:

To get some palm leaves you can cut down a palm tree, but this can be somewhat difficult if you don't have a good tool. The easiest way to get them is by searching the beach.

Broken rock:

To get them just smash the a normal rock against rocky terrain. One rock will break into four broken shards. You can then use these shards to knock down coconuts or in weapon and tool crafting.

​Dry Mud:

To get this you need to destroy mud rocks with a pickaxe. These mud rocks can be found near rivers or lakes.

Fruits:

​The easiest way to avoid starvation, is finding fruit on the island and the easiest fruit to get is the coconut; you can get coconuts from any palm tree.

If you don't like coconuts, you can search for other fruits on the islands like mangoes, strawberries, watermelons, etc.

The Desert island only has coconuts, you can't find other fruits in the desert.

Hunting Animals:

If you want eat some meat, you need to hunt animals. The easiest creature to catch are the fish; for that you need a harpoon. Unlike a spear, you can use a harpoon even if you are diving.

If you don't want to eat fish, you can also hunt any animal on the islands. You can use any weapon (like an axe, knife, spear, etc) to kill them but the most effective weapon is the bow.

To get meat from dead animals you'll need a knife, once you have the knife you just need to hit the dead animal with it. For instance, if you want to get fish steaks you need to hit the dead fish 3 to 5 times with a knife.

Bird eggs:

Rocky areas will sometimes have bird nests near the tops of the larger rocks. Those nests will have eggs that can be harvested and eaten.

WHEN YOU START THE GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE DEFAULT KEY TO OPEN THE CRAFT MENU IS THE TAB BUTTON. REMEMBER,IF YOU DON'T LIKE A KEY, YOU CAN CHANGE IT IN THE CONFIGURATION MENU .

Bow:

The bow is essential for hunting, it is also the easiest to craft, you just need 1 rope and a wooden stick.

Stone Axe:

The most useful tool for a survivor, this is the first tool that you need to craft if you want get resources quickly.

To craft it, you just need 1 stick, 1 broken rock and 2 ropes.

Rope:

The basic material to craft. You just need 1 natural fiber to get this.

​Lance:

A good weapon to catch fish or hunt animals, to craft this you just need big stick.

Harpoon/Wooden Spear

A very useful weapon to catch fish while you are diving, you just need 1 lance, 3 sticks and 2 ropes to craft this.
Editor note: This harpoon recipe is not in the crafting manual. The closest is a wooden spear which does the same job. You must first dive (S) to use the spear.
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Torch :

An essential tool for a survivor, you will need this soon to see at night, and is is very easy to craft; you just need a stick and some natural fibers.To turn it on, you need to put the torch in a campfire.

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Shelter :

This Is the first construction that you need to build, with this you will able to sleep and save the game.

​Bonfire :

Essential for survival, with this you will be able to cook.

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Process for cooking:

First you need to light the fire, you will need 2 broken rocks for this. A mini game starts, just click when the cursor is in the red area. You will need to do this several times.

Once you have the fire started, you need 2 big sticks and one stick to make a stake.

Once you have a wood stake you will able to cook, get closer to the bonfire and open the cook menu with the interact key(default E).

Water Container:

With this, you will able to collect rain water for drinking.

​Log Wall:

For protection from the animals, you will need 5 big logs to build this.

Raft:

Essential if you want to surf in the ocean, to surf you just need to look at the raft and press the interact key. Once you are controlling the raft, you need press left click to surf ,and to leave the raft you need to press the "A" key.

​Wood crate:

Very important to build this if you want store items. It requires 4 planks, which in return requires you to build a Trunk support.

Hunger and thirst:

​Hunger and thirst will increase with time, when your hunger or thirst marker reach empty, your health meter will begin to decrease.

​Fatigue:

Your fatigue will decrease, depending on how many actions the survivor does, if you are running or if you're chopping a tree, fatigue will decrease faster than if you're just sitting on the ground (R).

If your fatigue marker reaches 0, you will faint.

Nutrition:

Your nutrition will decrease while time passes, to recover it you need to eat meat. If your nutrition is high, you will have more stamina, but if it's low, your stamina will be lower. Burnt meat can actually lower your stamina, so watch your cook fires.

Poisoning:

​The only way to get poisoned currently is by snake bite. You know that you are poisoned by seeing a purple skull icon, when you are poisoned your health will decrease until you die.

Editor: I have never been able to cure a snake bite, I always die. Be sure to listen carefully because snakes are almost never seen before they strike.

HOTKEYS:

​DIVE: When you are swimming, you will able to dive by pressing the "S" key. You do not have to hold it, just press "S" then move up or down by looking in the appropriate direction as needed.

SHOW/HIDE STAT UI: Press P

Press 1/2/3 keys to drop any large items if you are carrying some.

Island Map

To unlock the map, you will need to find it. A skeleton will have it in their hands. The skeletons are in the camps. You also can find more items there.

Editor comments: I've never found a camp, but I've seen a few skeletons. I've mostly played the Redwood Forest map. At the time of the original document, I believe there was only one island and you couldn't travel between them.