Particularly at the start of the game, when wood is scarce, and you are short of raw food, you will be living hand-to-mouth. Literally. It is always great to come over to the water purifier and find some pure water ready to wash down the cooked shark steak you just ate. But that isn’t going to be the case unless you always replenish the cooking fire and water purifiers with fuel and food or water. In multiplayer it is even more important – otherwise who knows how out of order the arguments will become over who had the last glass of water…
8. Make Everything – Research is Key
You will quickly discover new resources, and you'll want to be building new items as soon as you can. To research new objects use the Research Bench. All you need to do is put every new item you find or...
6. Build Collection Nets
The sooner you get to the Collection Nets, the sooner you stop having to haul all every piece of flotsam aboard by hand. An efficient system of nets around your raft will yield as much material as you need, and...