Game Journalism - Play Day - 1

Today, I nearly ran out of food.

So as I have explained, barrels (along with abandoned rafts, which I forgot to mention) can provide raw potatoes and beets. I had 5 potatoes and 3 beets.

These are useful for the early game, because they don't require and resources to scavenge, and you can eat them raw.

However, you cannot go through an entire night living on only beets and potatoes. I lasted the night with only a sliver of my hunger meter left.

So, desperately, I went out to scavenge for some leaves, or perhaps some rope. Why?

My first goal was to make a fishing rod. At the time of taking this screenshot, I had 7 rope and a single leaf, however I started with only a leaf and no rope in my inventory, so I had to look really hard.

I did eventually get myself a fishing rod, with enough hunger to survive until I would be able to catch and eat a fish.

So I went ahead and caught some fish, and went to go eat it, before realizing a fairly large flaw in my plan.

The fish are all raw.

I don't personally know the side effects of eating a raw fish, but I wasn't going to risk it. I needed to make a grill.

The ingredients for a simple grill are as such, and because I used all of my rope to make the fishing rod, I needed to look for some more.

I did eventually find the rope I needed, thanks to the sail with allowed me to go where I needed, and barrels, along with an abandoned raft, however the simple grill, which is all I can make right now, cannot cook catfish, which means I have 2 catfish just sitting in my inventory than I can't do anything with.

Luckily there are tons of small fish in the water, so I go ahead and cook those.

From that point, I went on a fairly minimalist play through for the rest of the day, just catching fish and occasionally purifying some water.

There wasn't a lot to learn about the game from this experience, just that I'm bad at survival games, but I have learned that despite requiring both food *and* water, this game is much more forgiving than most other survival games.

I'm low on planks, so I will likely be spending tomorrow looking for materials, and possibly expanding my raft a little more.

This is my raft. In order from left to right, there's a sail for navigation, a water purifier for changing saltwater into freshwater, and a simple grill for cooking the fish that I catch.