Flint problems...

[TheKingofSquirrels]

So if you are on an island without flint and without a boat, you are dead, end of story...

 

Today, when I spawned, my starting island had only one flint, meaning that all I could make was an axe. The fact that I couldn´t make a machete, meant that I couldn´t make a boat, thus I was stuck.

 

So before someone comes along too say "Stop asking to make the game easier". This is clearly a broken mechanic and something has to be done.

 

Also, they should change it that if when touchstones break, they drop two flint instead of that coral stone, because yet again, if there is no flint on that island, then you are once again stuck and dead (this happened to me twice)

 

 

[SenhorLevi00]

You can make a wooden raft, I think its 6 logs and 6 grass  to make it... Its the first boat and I think this boat was made only for this, in case your island doesn't spawn les than one flint

[TheKingofSquirrels]

You can make a wooden raft, I think its 6 logs and 6 grass  to make it... Its the first boat and I think this boat was made only for this, in case your island doesn't spawn les than one flint

 

Oh I thought it was six logs and 6 Bamboo sticks, I might be wrong.

 

Anyway point is, there´s need to be a really crappy boat than can be made without flint. Like with twigs and grass.

[Silentdarkness1]

Sounds like a good idea. At least then you have a hair's width of a chance.

 

I'm all for the game being harder, but there's balance issues in this game.

[SenhorLevi00]

Guys It is the beta, obvious that will be unbalanced things...

And, you have to be very very very unlucky to spawn in an island without flint... I always spawn in a beach biome with many flints on the ground. And the raft I'm talking about need 6 logs and 4 grass

[Fledge]

It's a good point to be careful of - if your touchstone is on a barren islet, make a raft and set it down before you leave, so that at least when you respawn, you can leave the island!

[Fledge]

Oh I thought it was six logs and 6 Bamboo sticks, I might be wrong.

 

Anyway point is, there´s need to be a really crappy boat than can be made without flint. Like with twigs and grass.

There are definitely two rafts, the first one is built with logs and I'm not sure what else (could be grass) but not bamboo - that's the second, presumably sturdier, raft. One imagines they have made sure you at least spawn on an island with 1 flint and trees...

[Gotheran]

The basic raft (which I usually avoid) is 6 logs and like, 3-4 grass. The Bamboo Raft (the nice one) requires you have a machete and I ended up with a similar problem but with sticks instead of flint. I ended up on an island with only 2 saplings so I ended up wasting my only 2 sticks making a pickaxe in a move I thought was resource efficent as I was going to get more flint with the islands boulder supply, including the limpet rocks if it had to come to that, sadly the stick thing was the killing blow.

 

In general resource dispersal is the biggest issue for SW. Things are too spread out or nonexistent.