Board Thread:Guides/@comment-27519393-20160312110318

Using this method i ended up with steel, a bakery, a chicken coop, a forge, a dock and lots of food and decent things.

First, attempt to spawn on mainland. If you spawn anywhere else, keep resetting until you get to mainland. Now, find the chickens and forage the nests and eggs as well as killing some of the chickens for meat and feathers if you want. Collect some corn and kill cows if you can find some. Forage lots of leaves and stumps. After you have lots of that stuff, sail over to Bento. Kill some of the bento deer and bucks for the meat and hide. Collect some berries as well, and also collect some small stones to be used in walls and basic tools. After that, collect even more wood, crafting walls and basic buildings (Huts, for example). Start farming and planting the berries, getting your Farming level up. Create a well from anything you like (I reccommend Sandstone). Eventually you should have at least one hut, a mill, a small berry farm, a well and lots of resources. After that, pack up all your buildings and sail to various islands, picking up any resources you wish. I picked up apples, wheat, iron, gold, herbs flax and lots of other stuff. You could even go into Deathwater Cave if you know the location and you want to. (Not sharing the location of Deathwater Cave, it's against the rules.). When you have some good skill levels and lots of resources, sail over to the desert and place all your buildings back down and start farming your crops. Eventually, you should be able to plant wheat and other crops, hatch the chickens and build a chicken coop (Try and make sure the chickens don't run away). I'd strongly suggest creating a Dock and obtaining a Long Rod from it, and also craft a net. Fishing is a really useful source of food because it makes it possible for you to get food on any island, even the ones without food. If you wish you can occaisionally sail out for mining and collecting anything else. At some point you should probably have at least iron. If possible, craft steel or obtain mithril or even bluesteel if you know how. (Not sharing the location/recipes for mithril. chromite or bs). Now, you're on your own. Try and build a strong tribe in the harsh deserts! Good luck!

Tips:

1. Keep the following resources on you at all times and in abundant amounts, because they are extremely essential and useful: Wheat, wood, leaves, berries, stone, sandstone, food and any mineral, at least iron.

2. Try to craft a Dock or Harbour at one point if possible, to keep your boats organised and it will provide you with free Long Rods. Fishing is a very useful and important skill. Also, congrats if you catch a bugshark because i have never caught one.

3. If you please, form a tribe. The more people in the tribe, the more armor, tools, crops, wells and food will be needed. If you prefer to go solo, go solo.

4. If you decide to go into Deathwater (Not sharing the location, don't ask.), collect as many mushrooms and moss as you can. Even if you don't farm or use it, it will still be useful in trading as mushrooms are highly sought-after.

5. If any nomads, newbies or anyone else comes along, don't automatically go hostile and shred them to pieces. Also, don't be too peaceful. Stay neutral with your best weapons at your fingertips in case they are hostile. They might want to trade, join your tribe or forage something off the island. If they're an exploiter, report them. If they act hostile, steal or try to set fire to something and/or place bombs defend youself. If they're nice and would like to join your tribe, let them. Even if they're new.

Anyway, have fun. 