User:MemoryPenguin/Old Map Islands

In Survival 303 there are a number of islands ranging from small to big. Each island is useful, whether by mining or by foraging.

The Mainland
An ideal island to live on for farmers. Open expanses make city building possible and cliffs and defense easy for smaller tribes. Water and corn make it an easy place to live.

Resources
Chickens, Eggs, Nests, Corn, Stalks, Gold, Iron, Trees, Cows, Oil, Water, small stones, Bushes, moss, deathwater, mushrooms, mithril, Chromite, and Sand

Strategies
Trade: As the mainland is the location of two natural resources and two rare ores, you can monopolize these materials for other materials. To monopolize these items you will most likely need to build walls around spots with these items.

Farm: Bring whatever you plan to grow to the island. Choose the mesa you like best and climb it. This area will be the beginning of your civilization, so fortify it as you see fit. Use the open land around it to grow crops. You will need a well on both your mesa and farmland, so be sure to have supplies for them.

Raid: Raiding tribes are also very commonly found on the mainland. To create a raiding city, build a well and forge atop a cliff. Craft weapons and war technologies such as explosives and siege equipment. Raid farms for food. Plunder tribes for their wealth. Let tribes regain their power between attacks or you won't have anyone to live off of.

Fortress: Build a walled city surrounded by farmland. A good way to do this is surround the city with Medieval Walls And Towers and surround the Farmland with Palisade Walls and Towers; this provides cheap but decent protection to your farmland. Build everything inside its walls including inventions and a palace. Once your presence is known to the other survivors try to gather survivors to expand your tribe on the mainland.

Bento Island
Bento Island is located in the center of the ocean. It is a square island with a small hill in the center. It gets its name from a Japanese lunchbox because it has an assortment of resources (similar to a bento lunch which has lots of different food items). There are scattered trees, rocks, berry bushes, and water pools. It is the only island that Bento deer and Bento bucks live on.

Resources
Trees, Bushes, Small sticks, Small stones, Bento buck hides (used in armours), Bento Meat, Berries, Water.

Strategy
Bento is a spawn point, so defending it is near impossible. Use this island for resource harvesting, but once you can, move somewhere else.

This island is good for a temporary home, but creating a fortress on it is near-impossible. If a fortress is desired, craft the walls before moving to the island and building the fortress, and be prepared for people spawning inside.

Rockma Island
Rockma Island has all the basic minerals, sticks and stones, and a solitary tree stand. It's main cave is great to live in if you block the mineral spawns.

Resources
Iron, gold, coal, trees, water, small stones, rockma hide, and dead bushes.

Strategy
Live in the central cave, sealing the entrances. This island has everything except food, sulfur, mithril, and chromite, and farming is easy due to its proximity to Paradise and Bento, both of which have berries.

Paradise Island
Description

Paradise Island is named as such as it is the only island that has plentiful valley of assorted fruits and wheats. It holds Sulphur and coal inside its mine. This island is great for farming, due to its variety of plants. With the nearby waterfall and the variety of plants, you will have little chance to starve!

Resources

Apples, Berries, Onions, Wheat, Pumpkins, Coal, Sulfur, Trees, Bushes, and Water.

Strategies

If you decide to inhabit this island, you'll want to know that carpentry, architecture, farming, and engineering skills are very useful, however masonry will not be as needed.

Try to keep important buildings on the island's mountains, and less important buildings at the bottom levels of the terrace. Always fire-proof your buildings once you create your civilization. Keep a bucket at hand; it will save you a lot of time if you do not have a well and decide to live on the mountains. A good strategy is making a ladder and placing a medieval door at the arch, keeping people out. That way, people can't get up without you noticing. If you want to make your place extra safe, create bombs out of the island's sulphur and coal. One last thing: don't dive into the small pool. If you do, then drink all the water and use tree stumps to climb out

Flax
Mediocre (Spawn)

Description

Used to be known as the "Tri-Islands" due to it having three separate islands but now two of them are fused together. It is a good island for making Herbal Remedies due to all the required materials in close proximity.

Resources

Flax, Flax Flower, Trees, Bushes, Water, Herbs, Small Stones, Iron.

Strategies

Before you come here, attempt to reach architecture level 4 and masonry level 5, as these levels will allow you to be able build on the islands.

2 small leaves, 10 sets of supplies for quarries and wheat and a well will serve you well to be fed and water'd properly.

First, You should collect a lot of flax, because only here and Lynx island can you naturally get flax, so it is very valuable and you use it for trading, due to it's rarity.

Second, people are likely to raid you, so never let them infiltrate with fire! Recruitment of friends will be useful for this.

Create a bakery or windmill, and use this to create bread for your tribe. Fishing can also be useful, so be sure to use the flax leaves to make string for fishing rods.

When making the walls, be sure to have an opening so you are not entirely isolated to the small space of the islands. If it is needed, have weapons for protection, as pyro's and raiders will try to take over your spaces.

Teraphyx (Also known as Harbor or Horseshoe)
Easy (Spawn)

Description

Teraphyx island is commonly called Harbor or Horseshoe island, due to its shape. Though it seems to only have trees, wheat, water, and carrots, it also holds clay and dirt. However, it also contains Teraphyxs: an aggressive, spiked animals, dropping meat when killed. Teraphyx meat restores more hunger than Bento Meat.

Resources Trees, Bushes, Clay, Dirt, Teraphyx, Wheat, Carrots, Water, Apples

Strategies

This place is a good place to live, though people just starting out may have a hard time surviving due to the lack of berries. Start off by collecting wood and creating a raft. (If your carpentry isn't high enough build some Large Handles! You can craft them into clubs at Carpentry level of 2.) After, you can travel to a different island. If you decide to stay, farm berries, make bread and pies, and hunt the Teraphyxs down with the use of ranged weapons, which since they are rare and aggressive, you will be able to trade their meat for ores. It should be a relatively easy place to live on by then. If you want to begin a civilization here, keep in mind that there is a lack of space and a bad positioning of the water.

Plateau
Hard

Description

Plateau, which is set as it looks like: a cliff that is very high. Plateau only has onions and pumpkins, so come prepared with wheat, carrots, and berries. The water in the island's cave is undrinkable, so farming and fishing are two simple ways to survive on this island.

Resources

Trees, Bushes, Iron, Coal, Small Stones, Onions, and Mushrooms.

Strategies

Bring supplies for a well and quarry, so you can gather supplies.

Be sure to have materials and level for a bakery so you can create bread so you can not become hungered.

Defensive advantage

The plateau is great for defense; very few raiders can get to the top without being noticed. What's more is the nearby oil. Use the two to create a clifftop fortress, allowing you live safely or conduct raids. Its cave is dark, requiring a light source for access.

Don't try to dive into the cave's pool, as it can be fatal to do so.

Spire
Very Hard

Description

Spire Island is located east of Teraphyx, and north of Plateau. It does not contain natural sources of food, and water sources are scarce. It is one of only four islands that contains Sulphur. It is the toughest island to live on due to the fact that it has no food, water, and that it has very little space to live on. You need to bring everything you have to survive, especially a fishing rod.

Although hard to survive on, it's one of the most advantageous islands in the game since it has all of the game's minerals. It is also very easy to defend, with only one natural entrance (You can climb it but its tiresome due to it's height).

The necessities to live here would be a well, farm, long rod, and some supplies or way to obtain wood and other necessities such as leaves.

Resources Snow, Mithril, Gold, Iron, Sulphur, Coal, Boulders, Small Stone.

Strategies

Come with at least 6 Quarries, a Well, a Mill, a large amount of Bush Stumps, 3 or 4 Large Composts, a Knife of some kind, a Bucket or other water holder, and a Mithril Pickaxe. Place the quarries and well at an easy to get to location. Craft the Boulders into stone walls to make Medieval Walls to protect the Sulphur from other players. Use the knife to carve the bush stumps and use them as stairs to get up to the Sulphur. Hire a few people to guard your camp. If they want payment, pay them with Sulphur. Mine the Sulphur with the Mithril Pickaxe and trade it for Wheat and Wheat Seeds. Plant these so you can make Bread. After that, if you wish you can trade Sulphur for Berries and Apples to create Pie and Juice.

Sulphur is good for one thing and one thing only: Gunpowder. This highly explosive brick is almost always created by large tribes. It can be traded for virtually anything, because everyone wants Gunpowder. Coal naturally is found on Spire Island, so you can make Gunpowder yourself.

Spire Island is on the far side of the map from Mainland. It is hidden behind Horseshoe Island, and about an equal distance from both it and The Plateau. You will know if you see it, because it lives up to it's name; a group of 3 massive stone spires sticking into the sky. The entrance to the top is on the inward side of the spire furthest from Horseshoe, the shortest one. The only way to the Sulphur, at the tops of the other two spires, is to make stairs up, like the ones I described before.



Magma
Hard

Description

Magma Island, AKA Miners Paradise! Torches are not required to enter the island's cave, which, hence the name, contains every single mineral except for Mithril, Chromite and Gold.



Resources

Sulphur, Iron, Coal, Snow, Cave Lynx, Trees, Berries, and Bushes

Strategies

Before entering the island, make sure to have a well and a way to produce food, such as farming. A rod, preferably the long rod, is great to have at hand, for this island produces little food. The MAIN entrance to the cave is the perfect spot to fish if you decide to live within the cave. Magma Island also has a secret back entry, which can easily be blocked with one or two fireproofed structure walls.

The best idea for a carrier is to trade weapons and/or chemistry objects, such as gunpowder and bombs. Always keep a Mithril sword at hand.

Spring
Easy

Description A medium sized island with only wheat and carrots as food. The water on the top has to have some ladders to get up to to. Readily available stone and wood, and some minerals in the cave. You need a torch to get in.

Resources Water, Wheat, Carrots, Trees, Bushes, Dirt, Clay, Coal, Gold, Small Stones

Strategies

A good place to settle do to it being less disturbed with nobody spawning here. Though it is only a short swim from mainland, you can easily wall off the island due to its small size and you can make quarries on the nearby rock source to speed things along. As it is most difficult part of island to get to, I often have farms on the edges of the lake. Other then that, no one usually comes because it is rather unremarkable. Excellent if you are a lone survivor.



Desert
Hard

Description A basic desert next to a towering above mountain of sandstone. A simple desert with cactus nothing much left to be said. The cactus has fruit called Prickly Pear. Prickly Pear is only found on this island, which is



useful because you can make Cacti Walls with each plant. It is also known for the island that naturally have sandstone. There is a Mithril mine here. But you can find it yourself.

Resources  Sandstone, Sand, Prickly Pear, Prickly Pear Leaf, Mithril and Gold.

Strategies

Before you come, make sure you have a lot of small stones. You can leave your settlement to go and get them but it is risky. Just because hardly anyone settles here doesn't mean that a newbie or a raider will come and burn down your camp.

You will also need at least one of each compost, a mill and a lumbermill already built, a water holder, and possibly a well. A mud well is the easiest as it requires no skill to make, but it stands out in the desert.

You should also come with a farming skill of at least two (can be boosted by planting 6 flax flowers, berries, carrots, or onions; and milking cows) so that you don't have to plant berries. As we know, berries are very messy if you forge their leaves while they are still on the bush. Doing this could attract people to your camp.

Goldrock
Hard Description

Smallest island not in a group. It has 2 rare resources: Field lynx, which can also be found on Mainland, and flax, which can also be found on Flax Island. There is nothing else remarkable about the island.

Resources Field Lynx(mainly gives only lynx fur), Trees, Flax, Flax Flowers, Bushes, Small Tree,Iron Candy Canes (holiday only), and Gold.

Strategies If you want to live here permanently you need to fish or grow plants to eat. It is also recommended that you bring a pickaxe to get small stones to make stone buildings. You can also live by building a harbor and live in the shop. Since there is little building space, it is not recommended to build a huge building such as a bakery.But you can expand it(like making artificial islands) :)

Canyon (Also known as Ore)
Mediocre (Spawn)

Description A relatively hard place to live due to the very small amount of berries and lack of space makes this place hard to live in for beginners.

Resources Coal, Sulphur, Small Stone, Small Sticks, Trees, Berries, Water.

Strategies

If you insist on living here try to make compost and grow some more plants. 2-3 people are needed to make this strategy more effective. Making walls on this island are your best chance on living on this island. You don't need a well because of the water source in a particular area. Building walls around this place is your best bet on surviving. The Sulphur and iron should make your life relatively easy afterwards. Trading your Sulphur is a good way to get extra materials without going on a journey. Making a quarry is a great way to increase your plethora of metals too.