Board Thread:Guides/@comment-24304663-20140124110550

Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding is a great skill because boats are the main way to travelling for gathering resources or battle. The only flaw is that the ship can be stolen,unlike swimming. I would reccomend you having a good axe or hatchet for it'll be useful for the last stages of maxing it out. I would highly reccomend going to the Mainland Forests.

First. You make 6 rafts. You can now make the fastest and boat in-game, The Catamaran. My tip in mass making these is to take 11 small tree stumps and turning 8 of them into 4 hulls. Then. You put one of them in a lumbermill and make 2 sails. Then make two catamarans (remember,the recipe is hull x2 + plank + small tree stump + sail) You should repeat this method again.

You'll need now need a good axe or hatchet. Mithril would be ideal, but Steel would do. You should take 12 small tree stumps and 12 large leaves Then you make the tree stumps into three large hulls. You then turn the large leaves into six sails. Then you chop down three large tree stumps and you can now make three large sailboats (large hull + large tree stump + sail x2) You can repeat this method again untill you have 9 shipbuilding.

Now. You can now make the most advanced and biggest ship in the game, The Merchant Frigate! (The recipe is large hull x2 + large tree stump x3 + sail x2) I would then reccomend making some harbors to safely store them.

Chemistry
Chemistry is one of the most fun skills to perform. I would reccoemnd that you bring a lantern, although not needed, a good pickaxe (or you could use 3 stone pickaxes or such) and a decent boat (such as a Sailboat)

First. You need to level up your chemistry to at least 3. I would go to a place with a lot of coal such as Magma. You should mine at least two complete veins of coals and turn them into Charcoal. If you wish, you can turn them into gunpowder, which is reccomended.

Then. You have to travel to Flax. You then make a lot of glass cups and start picking all the herbs and flax. You should now make a lot of herbal remedies (the recipe is glass cup + herb x2 + flax flower) You can either continue making more glass cups and keep the herbal remedies for trade, or just drink the herbal remedies and continue making them.

Now. You should be able to make poison. I am not allowed to tell you the recipe so find out by either going to Youtube or asking someone. After you make quite a bit of poison (or you could just continue making gunpowder) you should have 10 chemistry. You now can achieve all feats of chemistry (use the gunpowder to make bombs) such as Poison, Herbal Remedies, Detecting Poison.

Farming
Farming is one of the most important skills in the game, one of the things that allows you to live on any island. It can be tedious while trying to max it out but it is definitely worthwhile. I would reccomending living in Northern Mainland/Spring Island for trying to max it out.

There are two main methods I do. First. You have to get 9 small composts. Then. You make carrots into carrot seeds and farm nine plots. This will bring your farming to 3 meaning you can farm most things, including one of the most important, Wheat.

You can choose to abandon the carrot or carry it going, however, carrots are soon inefficent. Now. You have to obtain 6 large composts and start a wheat farm. You should keep the farm going and you can easily live off this massive food source. You will now be able to farm everything, with the exception of mushrooms.

Now. You should make a Hen House. The recipe for this is Wall x2 + Plank + Large Leaves + Thatching. You should now keep on hatch chickens and continue farming the wheat farm. You will quickly reach 10 farming, meaning you can farm anything.

My second method is rather simple. You will need a building with no floor, such as a hut you will also need a milking pail and a sword is reccomended. You firstly bring out a cow far away from it's home so that it will only try to escape, meaning it will only go in one direction. As soon as it stops you place the hut on it.

You simply then bring out your milking pail and start milking the cow. As your farming level advances, your will milk faster. You simply milk until you have around 5 or 6 farming, so you can make a henhouse. You can then hatch chickens and continue milking.

Cooking
Cooking is a skill that works extremely well if you can farm. Cooking is required to make foods such as Pies or Fried Chicken that restore a lot of hunger. It is also required to make a Stove and Bakery, Which any good tribe should have. I have many methods and I shall list them.

First Method

My first method is quite simple. I reccomend bring some oil. You will need it to make a stove and a bakery which are more important then any other buildings for cooking.

firstly travel to Spring/Teraphnx Island. If you do not have a container, then make a canteen and wet some clay to in order to make a Clay Container. Then, You make six clay bowls from one wet clay. You make 12 wheat seeds and make 6 seed mush from it. Cook them making sure that you do not burn them, then you can eat them and repeat making it (because you will get your clay bowl back) You simply repeat this until you have high cooking - If you choose to be at Spring, make a crude torch and two stone pickaxes so that you can mine coal to make charcoal. Then, You refine the oil that you brought and make a stove and a bakery.

Second Method

My second method is the most simplest of them all. You wil need a water container, a mill and ideally a shelter, such as a hut. These are for making bread and being protected from storms that will kill you slowly.

Then. You sail to Paradise or Teraphnx (If you choose Teraphnx, then farm berries) You start by making a ot of bread. I would reccomend making 7 loaves of bread which will keep you alive for long. You can now make Berry Pies. You can mass produce them until you have 5 cooking so then you can jump unto Apple Pies. I would reccomend mining coal (in the secret mine in the harbor of Paradise) so that you can make a stove.

Third Method

My third method is for people who are living on Mainland. You should start by having a light source, a pickaxe and some refined oil. I would reccomending making a vehicle with windows and large leaves

You simply go around all of Mainland picking all the corn supply. You then mass produce corn on a stick, until you have 2 cooking. Make a stove (by mining coal in Spring Island) and make Fried Chicken. This will be cheap to make yet highly valued.

You should go around 