Big thanks to the members of the Official Dinkum Discord for suggesting some of these! :) Please let me know what kind of guide video you would like to see next! Also, If you enjoy Dinkum, check out the game CORAL ISLAND I have a Livestream here for those Interested! > ua-cam.com/users/livetJglMIHC_Uo
The game is heavily inspired by Animal Crossing, which is usually played on a controller or handheld console, so yes that is a good observation. I prefer M & K for these games though. @@hoxton6394
Another good tip for beginners is to sell your tools just before they break. You'll get 50% back of their retail value. It doesn't seem like much, but when you're struggling to make good money early days, it is a huge help
You can store money in boxes by pressing the money icon when your in a box. Helps trade with other players via multiplayer. When a tool is about to break and your gunna be upgrading it, say from normal to copper. If it used in its crafting it will reset the durability. Cooked food is the best money maker by far for starters. So get your hunting up. Camp fire cooks food, bbq is better but can be costy.. There is no burning when with a BBQ.
Also if you have the dinks to spare, be sure to have at least 3x of every tool in storage for when you have inevitable breaks (or faint and all the durability takes a hit). You can only buy one of each tool per day, and you're gonna facepalm if your last pick breaks but you already bought your one for the day. It's also practical to have multiple shovels specifically, to make dirt moving faster... plus, you can do the _ImpulseSV Shovel Shuffle™_ if your shovels have different dirt types in them 🙃
it doesn't matter what durability a tool is at, even if it's at 1% upgrading it to copper or iron will fully restore the durability of a tool, it saves a lot of money if you save all your low durability tools till you can upgrade them as you wont need to depend on buying those tools from johns shop each day and wont waste money.
I 100% advise ppl to explore the map on day 1 before the timer starts but most importantly, pin the locations you pass as you explore! Pin danger spots, safer spaces with lots of resources, mine deposits and the teleporters. It takes a while but is so useful for long term game play since you now have a detailed map of what is on your island. Love the videos!
Exploring is the best advice! But resources like mob spawns and mining nodes change every day. You will discover where the highest concentrations of mining nodes are but you won't know exactly what is there from day to day.
@@TheRealWinser Not everyone wants their timers to start clicking down. Much like Stardew Valley, hardcore players don’t like to waste days. It’s about stat glory and quick leveling, so I appreciate her tip.
Big tip- Buy the bug book and fish book in the museum. If you open the book while scavenging you can see where everything is and how much it's worth. I love fishing now because I just grab all the high price fish !
you can farm pearls fairly easily because the shells that have them don't go away. so whenever you find them tag them on the map so you can visit them again another day and they will still have pearls in them.
My list of useful things: -Build near one of the 4 radio towers (North, East, West, South), these serve as fast travel points later in the game - Pick up literally every fruit you see, plant some and save them for fruit salad once you have a cooking station. -Sort your storage early by item color, it won't be long before your storage starts overflowing. -Buy a Repair Kit every chance you get and build a Repair Bench as soon as possible. Save up worn tools and put them in your inventory whenever you fix your tools at the bench (including weapons). -The rowboat is pretty useless so save up for a jetski instead -Catch and donate as many things to the museum as possible for lots of license points -You can keep predators and other willy animals in traps by lowering their health first -In the deep mines you can leave as many trapped animals and large objects as you want in the elevator room then bring them all up once you return to the surface -Bring tons of torches to put on the ground and mark your trail when you visit the deep mines, pick them back up on your way out -Kill as many jellyfish as you can, their jelly is precious and you're going to want tons of it later in the game
lol I’ve dropped many animals in the water because they would break out of the trap cuz I didn’t know to lower their health… now they’re just kinda chillin… :/
Can anyone give me solution for this..... My bbq, furnace, stone grinder suddenly missing from the place where i have placed ..... It happened after opening the game (i have slept and saved the game) Even though they are missing..... But all are at same position except those.....
Guys, forget about farming, forget about bugs and fishes or gathering anything. Just max the mining licence and put your mining entrance on ground. Make sure you have all the "old keys" with you, couple of spears and pickaxes.And dont forget about torches cuz its so damn dark. You can make torches from mangrove sticks that grows in rivers. I suggest to bring at least 200 per tour. You gonna need a sleeping bag and lots of food that replenish stamina and health. Its a super enjoyable experience in mines, but it can turn in to a nightmare in seconds literally. The hounds and crocodiles are nasty and hard to kill, but you can ignore them and run. Most annoying ones are bats, so consider to have a bat to take care of them. If you get used to it, every day you can farm up to 1m dinkum from mines. Cook the iron you dig and sell the iron bars to shop. And you will see car wrecks, you can tear them apart with your pickaxe to get materials like the ones from metal detecting. And the best part is tiny little castles, you gonna need 2 old keys to reach inside. There is a treasure chest inside with a lot of loot. Make sure you max out your inventory slots quickley to get out as much as you can
You can pause the game by selecting Journal > Options. On the right-hand side, there will be a Pause button, though it only appears after a few in-game days. Also, you can break beehives to get honey. But I don't know how much it costs...
To clarify, the pause button appears after you've played through at least the first day, saved the game, then _fully exit the game._ Upon reloading the save file, you'll have the pause button in the journal (singleplayer only, of course).
You can lure jellyfish to you by hopping in the deeper water; they will float towards you. Bring them close enough to the shore that you stand in the shallows and they are in the deeper water. You can then kill them easily and harvest the jelly. Re; Beehives: If you hit them with an axe you get honey and two bees.
Its preferable to do the bee hive thing in spring or summer in the morning, since it have a chance to spawn a bee queen, witch is used to build a bee house that you can harvest honey every few days
Everything you find from metal detecting will be used later in the game. Selling is relatively good money - but personally I kept it all and it helped significantly. Croc meat is great for being in deep mines and for the locked off areas its 2 keys per area. KEEP SHINY DISCS for Franklyn as he buys them at 8k a piece. Do errands for each islander daily (I personally don't do the fishing ones because I hate it🤣) and you will get their hearts up in no time.
When starting a new save - time is set at 10Am and doesn't change until you set up your tent and report back to Fletch. You can forage the entire island this way and set yourself up for dinks for the start of the game. I made 100K for one day of foraging!
I do this but time doesn’t start until you get the Journal. You can place base tent, your tent and the deed. After that collect everything you want. I did all shells on shorelines,picked fruits, logs,flowers.
In case anyone stumbles across this video in 2024 (like me, who just started playing Dinkum), the tip about needing the museum before NPCs will move to your island is not (or no longer?) correct. I haven't built the museum yet but Rayne (the Greenhouse) and Clover (the clothing shop) have already moved permanently to my island. My understanding is that the only requirements for getting NPCs to move to your island are (1) spending a certain Dink amount in their shop when they show up in the visitor center (cumulative total, across all their visits), and (2) passing a Heart threshold with them (by talking to them and doing favors). The numbers are different for each NPC but you can get them pretty quickly if you buy one or two things each time they visit and make sure to always talk to them and do whatever side quest they give you.
After you get the logging 2 license you get the Keg build, and you can use it to make brews witch are this games equivalent of healing/energy potions, using yellow wattle flowers, bottle brush, or jelly. The yellow wattle flower and bottle brush bushes can be cut down for 0-2 seeds. The red brew heals ,the yellow is energy and gives you mining and foraging buff, and blue brew gives both healing and energy along with experience buff and fishing buff
On the fishing tip, Yes it works like that on the controller as well, RT. On the carrying things on your head you can sell, many thanks for that tip I was wondering what I did with those things, I have a yard full. Oh my goodness thank you also for explaining the whistle I lost one of my hens I will try and call her back next time in-game. Oh, and one tip from me is you can take the sleeping bag out in the wild and sleep all night no need to run back to camp to rest. Many thanks for all the tips :)
Just started playing the game myself, and the most lazy way to get money, especially early on, is to build a bunch of collection points and slap them around water where crocs like to spawn! Then just place a trap right next to the collection point, guide a croco with your juicy behind into the trap, and bam. Easy money. I've also pinned down where Bush Devils spawn and put collection points nearby, and you just lead them around as well. It's really easy to dodge their attacks, especially for 9k-12k a pop.
I used to use make basic traps around my base like 10 or something in a straight line, and everyday a few creatures got trapped. but crocs are better for sure.
The lvl 2 metal detector puts stars on the ground like in animal crossing when there's something buried. It doesn't do it for every item, but it is nice when doing something else and just knowing when to stop and dig real quick.
When expanding land specially on beaches, dig 6 blocks deep and youll get infinite amount of ground to fill what you want to fill. Its much easier than using a borrow. Just fill back up if the dig site is far from thw fill site then create another one.
If you accidently choose a spot for your tent where crocs spawn: you can lure them in the campfire and they will eventually die. Learned that the hard way🙃
Sadly i am one of the unlucky ones who banged to be next to 4 different crocodile spawns hence in the begging I didn't saw any spawning so is there a way to stop them from spawning?
@@MaiHiroe crocs spawn in the water, so you can fence off the water. You can prevent Wary Mu's from spawning by destroying their nest. Unfortunatly no such thing for crocs that I know of. I fenced off the neighboring pond and a big stretch of river
I’ve found that you can place all three tents and the time doesn’t begin until you talk to Fletch where she gives you the milestone journal. It’s really handy for using the suitcase storage in the base tent for more early collecting room.
The tip about time not working until you place your tent is 100% correct. I've done a lot of starts to check out the island generation and this is a way to scope out the land without worrying about time running out.
Here is a couple of things; Here is on I almost never see any one doing that does guides or let’s play, is make multiple camp fires and furnaces they all take the same amount of time to finish but you’ll save time because your processing many things at once. You can grab an extra sleeping bag from Fletch. If you plan to do a marathon ore collecting, harvesting, or hunting trips bring a sleeping bag, a campfire, and extra of the tool of choice. When hunting use camp fires to soften up the animal, especially if it is a really strong one like an Alpha version.
One thing I wish I new was holding down right mouse button picks up loose items, you don't have to click it each time. Seems starting on the beach picking up sea shells one at a time made me think this was the case everywhere.
Idk if it's been said but you only need to spam click or 'x' when the fish is making the rough water animation then when the fish starts turning towards you just hold the click or x to save your finger.
You can now pause the game, you have to go into the settings menu and then press the pause button there. Not the handiest thing, but definitely helpful
Also found a minor glitch with the pause button. You can fill up your stamina bar by filling your stomach with some fruit and pausing for about 2 irl minutes. You'll continue to gain stamina while paused with a full (or even partially, but not as fast) stomach.
There is now a pause option during singleplayer, you go to the right tab of the journal where you would normally exit to desktop, and the right page lets you pause.
Not sure if this was said already - if you flash the torch by pressing RT on the controller while the torch is equipped(not sure what it is on keyboard) on bats & hounds in the mines it will stun them for a few seconds, from what I saw this only works once on the mob. I have no idea if it works on the crocs in the mines, haven’t tried it on them.
I love your videos! I always send your video to my friends who wants to play dinkum for the 1st time. Now, I'm making my own videos to show my journey. 🧚🏻♀️
Right click your house on the map to highlight your house when you explore. You will always know your way home without having to re-open your map all the time 🥰 You can also highlight one marking you place on the map as well.
Tip for fishing I found that if you click and hold right before it starts breaking the line and repeat while fish is pulling away it helps more than the left click spam lol also cook fish before selling idk if that's said yet in the video but I was rolling in dinks after catching a bunch of baracudas 6 cooked saltwater fish per one and they sell for 2,800 dinks each
pause is available. I use it. push the Esc button, Go to Options and scroll down to PAUSE. It's that simple. Thanks for the tips and tricks. I'll be looking forward for more videos.
With the level 2 Metal Detecting license, you can see a small 'X' on the ground in places where there's buried treasure. You don't have to have the metal detector in hand to see this, so it's a quick way of finding places to dig. BUT you only get the 'X' for SOME buried treasure, not all of them. Using the metal detector as usual will point out places to dig that aren't marked with the 'X'. Either way, the only buried items you should sell are the shiny discs, and you should sell them to Franklyn, not John. Franklyn will pay WAY more for the discs than John does. Then keep the rest of the stuff because they'll be required to build certain things later and many (if not all) of Franklyn's inventions will require them as well. A TIP I WISH I KNEW EARLIER: Fishing in the rivers is a fine way to make some money, but you make a lot more money from the big fish in the ocean. Build a boat as soon as you're able (unlocked by buying the first level of the Vehicle license) and row out into the ocean. Stop where you see big fish below the surface and start fishing. Fill your inventory and go back to sell them all to John for big money. In my experience, it seems like the fish that fight harder are worth more. Also, there are different fish in the different oceans, so try fishing off the northern coast of your island, off the western coast, off the eastern coast, and off the southern coast to find different types of fish. For instance, I get a lot of Travalla and Marlin in the North Ocean, but I get Stingrays in the Western Ocean. BONUS TIP ABOUT FISHING: Rowing the boat doesn't use up stamina, so you can stay out fishing until well after "Late" as long as you either (a) don't do a lot of long casts (which do use stamina) or (b) have enough food to refill your stamina after a couple of long casts. Best way to do it is to row right up next to where you see the big fish and then do a small cast just over the side of the boat. This uses almost no stamina (if any). When that spot is fished out, row to the next cluster of big fish and repeat. This lets you take care of farming, construction, side quests, etc. during the day and then go out fishing at night with no time limit. A BASIC ONE (UNLESS YOU'RE A BEGINNER) THAT I WISH I KNEW EARLIER: If you're struggling for ore in the early game, the big, gray-ish boulders (the rocks that are bigger and lighter-colored than the regular rocks) will give you 3-ish ores when you break them. Sometimes you get copper, sometimes tin. You almost always get at least a rock or two as well, and sometimes you get a weird, shiny stone that you can throw into a rock crusher to get more ore. In my early game, I ran all over the island looking for copper ore rocks before I realized you could break those big, gray ones and get tons of copper. LAST ONE: Keep at least one spare of each tin tool in storage somewhere. Early on, I'd break a tool and have to stop whatever I was doing for the night because John closes at 6pm and on Sundays. Whether you're using the tin tools or need them because the copper upgrades require th.
Things I wish I knew sooner: When you eat you fill your stomach gauge. When it is full (starts at 3) you can't eat any more until it decreases. The gauge slowly goes down over time. While you are digesting (the gauge isn't empty) you will regen energy. You won't regen health from being full. The day only ends when you sleep or faint. When the clock goes to Late your energy bar will become tiny and if you do anything you'll slow down and the world will turn grey as you run out of energy. Eating still restores energy. You can take as long as you want to do activities that don't take energy. Like crafting, smelting and cooking. Fishing doesn't take much energy and is an excellent source of dinks. You can put Bugs and Fish on the ground. Bugs stack up to 2 high. Fish do not stack. Wattle and Bottle flowers are used to make buffing drinks. To get seeds for these plants, you need to cut them down. When you cut down either flower bush it produces 0-2 seeds. Bottle flowers are much rarer than Wattle flowers, and they don't respawn if cut down. Having a row of wattle and bottle bushes near your house means a consistent supply of buffs later. Do the same for fruit too. One of the NPC (Franklin) sells a repair bench and once he moves onto the island repair kits. You need to buy a repair kit (30k dinks) to use the repair station. When you use the kit it repairs every tool in your inventory and bar, except for things that need to be charged. Charging requires a charging station.
Metal detector farming is broken, I've made well over 100k in one day just farming metals along a beachside, paying off both initial debts in two days. I think farming should be made available to the players well before the metal detector.
Time only starts to flow only after getting the bug net. So you can put down both tents and visitor site! The time will also stop once again at midnight. You can use this time to cook any and all foraged stuff you got during the unlimited time you had to explore the map. I managed to get my foraging skill to lvl 20 by simply cleaning out the entire island, of anything forageable! It took about 2 hours.
I noticed time starts running only after you place the visitors camp, specifically as soon as you talk to Fletch and she gives you the Adventure Log (guide?). To double check I watched first day gameplays and it was all the same.
Don't know if this was in 6 months ago, but you can pause the game. ESC to your journal and under options tab or whatever it's called - the tab you go to to close the game. ;) Ahh, I forgot you can saw metal. I need those tin sheets!!!
I make my money currently by fishing ocean fish between like 6/7 and 11/midnight and then cook all of them. The other day I had 48 cooked pieces of meat and it sold for like 134k
Idk if that was a bug, but i was able to multiply the animals which were trapped in the cage. but when i would keep a raging animal in the cage about to break free, and i release it (I think thats how i did it) suddenly two of the animals came out instead of the one I captured :D
There is a way to pause your game until it's a game feature. EDIT: You can skip 1-3 and just type "resource monitor" in windows search and it should pop up, if you can't find it just do steps 1-3. 1. Open Task Manager 2. Click the Second Tab "Performance" 3. Bottom left should be a blue link "resource monitor" 4. Look for "dinkum-exe" should be on top, click the box left of "dinkum-exe" so the exe stays on top 5. right click on "dinkum-exe" and suspend it. 6. Take your break as long as you want, the longest I was afk, was over 30 minutes. 7. after you are done taking your break just right click on dinkum-exe again and unsuspend it The game will be frozen while it's suspended, don't fred it's normal, just minimize the game BEFORE suspending if it bothers you. if you have any questions just ask.
@@BoosterGames Yea, you can leave the resource monitor open so it will only take a few seconds. Still better than nothing, not sure how long we will have to wait for a real pause feature, I hope not long x)
Sadly I was not able to do that, I was waiting like 10 IRL hours before placing the museum. and only after I placed it I got someone new, Maybe just bad luck.
@@BoosterGames Got lucky with my visits and requests from Rayne, her heart went up to 1.25 rather quickly so she did mention she could move in. I had the museum deed waiting already but haven’t paid off the initial debt.
Question, how I open my pocket or backpack. What is the command controls for that. I want to see what I have in my inventory and have pop up on screen, but only way I find to do that, is if I go to the big tent, and I know that must be an easier way to do that. Thank you for the help.
5:40 I don't agree with this advice. The starting location is near a teleporter. This makes it "close" to the other 3 corners of the map. It's a fine location for your town.
level 2 metal detecting you can not see threw the ground it will leave a x randomly on the ground if you dig there then you will find some thing i just found that out today
Correct, When I made this one I had not tested this myself, but here is a video I made after explaining lvl 1 & 2 for metal detecting ua-cam.com/video/Xi0pdKZFOKY/v-deo.html
The reason you couldnt get the greenhouse, woodworking shed etc. before the museum is because their hearts are SO high for example melvin has 1 and a half before he decides to move
I like having a bunch of quarry's. Costly but to be getting either an ore rock or a drum with electronic parts every day will pay itself off in no time.
1) Allocating certain licenses in certain orders can make progress faster because of lower requirements and resources so be careful when leveling licenses that you don't need because you don't have to resources or you don't have to requirement to meet although you can buy it it's not the best idea. 2) Save the shiny disc as much as possible when a certain person require it then given he will give lot money if you really need it. 3) When exploring and find large rock(require T2 pick) always mine there chance get iron ore or spot gray shiny one this iron ore it's so rare.
The lvl 2 licence for the metal detector gives you a small cross the ground everytime there is something under the ground. That’s why you don’t need the metal detector anymore
I get easily flustered with timed games and this one in particular was irritating me because I couldn't even take a break during conversations with visitors/residents, looking through my storage, sorting my inventory, etc. I don't know if this really is good advice or not, but here goes: At 12am the game clock stops moving forward. You take a stamina hit and any effort makes you walk slow (and technically, you could still do things that drain your characters stamina, but you'll spend just as much time eating cooked bush limes/bananas/etc. that it probably isn't worth it), but if you just want to plan out your town, set up fences, run around the island marking stuff, etc. you'll have all the time you want. Just go to bed to begin the next day. You don't even take a stamina/health/time hit when you start the next day!
A dungeon? I have not found that, unless you mean the closed of 1 rooms with a chest? I just keep running passed all the mobs tbh. pretty easy to jump away from them. If health is a problem try getting your hands on a copper spear for range and cooked croc meat for extra health
another little tip, if a devil chases you just find a fungal croc the croc will ignore you for the devil so run like hell while they are fighting or let the fight get nasty and you kill the victor with a spear for range, altough i preffer to use the copper mace to bash the croc´s head in after the fight
omg, spent 1 day trying to fence-out or manually block/move an escaped chicken. in the next day or two it grew up and still couldn't catch back ... last try right in the morning a CROC killed my first pet :( in two bites! END of story, lol somewhy it didn't want to visit neither Bird Coop nor Feeder (placed in ~5 tiles). emotes/whistle should have been taught by Fletch at start!
You should be able to catch pretty much everything you see, except the shark, but its easier with the copper fishing rod. ua-cam.com/video/Mi0uke3_DAE/v-deo.html
If your FPS is low I guess its possible that its more diffecult. you can either try the ''correct'' way as shown in the link I shared earlier, or the spam left-click to catch it should work.
@@BoosterGames ohhh thank you so much for the feedback, i Will do, Also you are so kind and attentive to your community, it might not be much but you gained a new subscriber, thanks for your fun and engaging guides
On the "you can't pause the game" tip. You actually can, it's in the setting and you click "pause game" incase you need to go do something and don't want to lose out on the day.
Yes, this. I used a campfire and hunted crocodiles "late" as they will burn if they lunge or turn and head or tail crosses over the fire. 3 full time burns takes them to "almost dead" and then get then 2 bat swings will give you full xp for the kill (note you'll slow later after 1 swing, so waiting for them to get tired helps a lot). Eat a bit to get stamina back up (so you run at full speed again), pick up your campfire, and keep hunting. Croc tooth bat makes hunting other stuff a bit easier and is still cheap.
Most of these I figured out myself lol, #3 isn't true though. I have a greenhouse but no museum. There are very little tutorials and onscreen information while you play., so I had no idea how to catch fish. The line kept breaking. Until I started rapidly clicking reel in. It works. You can hold Reel in when the fish isn't fighting. When I started out I made my own key/legend. When you press M and Left click you can use the scroll wheel to choose an icon. I marked each fruit tree with an apple, predator with a skull, Giant bird nest with the egg icon, and if there is a male I also put a skull. Apparently only male emus and jackaroos will actually fight back. Can someone please tell me what happens when you hit a dingo/dog. They're just so cute, don't have the heart. And can we tame them??
they are not tameable for what i have seen but yeah you can kill dingos, they dont drop much but for early game hunting they are worth the experience, they can give meat and bones 3 of each in a good fight 1 of each in a bad one so yeah they are huntable but i prefer to let them be cannon fodder for cassowaries and crocs. because most hostile creatures attack eachother if they are in the vicinity so you can also use this little tip for deep mine exploration, if a devil chases you just find a fungal croc and watch the massacre, depending on who wins you can then kill the other for both loots and not that much hassle
The dingos often don't fight back, but sometimes they howl to try and call the other dingos to fight. Ive never had a group of them attack me but wondering if it's because I would kill one and run off. It does work when a croc attacks them though. And yes I feel like the hugest a - hole testing that out
If you plant rolls of trees you get more bee hives while cutting them down..save bee hives n collect queen bees from them .your gonna need them to craft bee house. .. Don't sell springs n stuff you did up. You're gonna need them later for crafting later
Day 1 : Setup Fletches Tent, then do ur Tent. Then place Visitor Tent. *Then do not go talk to Fetch" run around and collect everything you want. Wood, Shells and Fruit ;) when u can sell the 2nd day. u can easily make 30K+
Tried it again. But this time. i went nuts. so.....Put down Fletch Tent. then put down my own. Then i spent the next 3 hours going to every island. picking everything up off the beaches. harvesting every fruit tree is saw. dodged all land predators, swam to a few islands and harvested pearls i saw on the way. sold everything day 2 for just short of $300. i have picks.
These tips are so handy, Booster. Thank you for doing this video! Also if anyone knows how to remove bridges? I placed a bridge but half of it went under water. Someone suggested I hit it with a pickaxe or axe but it does nothing.
Don’t sell a single beehives if you wanna make the Honey farm, you need a Queen Bee in order to craft the Bee House and only way to capture them is breaking open the Beehives and capturing the bees inside, is really hard to find one Queen Bee, don’t waste any chance, I have broken over a 100 Beehives and only got 2 Queen Bees, I guess the luck factor plays important role lol
I think its worth selling a few when you really need the money to slightly speed up the game. more money = more tools you can buy, more tools means more recourses you can gather in general, which means you can cut down more tree's to get more beehives. But it all comes down to personal preference
Will have to check but I would bet the normal bee you get from the hive + the honey would sell for more than the whole hive. John would buy both the captured bee and the honey.
I never buy the metal detector, i just get the second level license. then you can just did the little x on the ground and not waits your time with the tool.
You can swim towards your boat in the halfway area while its in water pushing W and it lets you run underwater and pillage sharks and jellyfish and mine aswell
@@BoosterGames park your ROW boat in water deep enough to swim- jump out to any side- find the very FRONT point of the MIDDLE seat- swim at THAT SPOT atthe side of the boat as if the boat was in your way- if you cant find it wiggle left to right till you do - watch your character react to the glitchy spot as your head starts to dip down youll eventually walk under water.. once you figure it out you can DIVE before it pushes you under it forces you to swim up into the sky its quite funny with a chicken suit head on, jumping makes you fall. Raising your head above the water makes you swim thats what ive found so far
anybody know why I can't get residents to move in permanently? I've done tasks for them to get them to a full 1.5 hearts but I still don't get the dialogue or any new deeds. I have no debt? please help. Do i need higher island happiness or something?
Which residents do you have? I suggest building the Museum if you have not done so already, and not only do missions for them but also buy stuff from their store & use the ''lets chat'' option a few times per NPC.
tooltip (while saving/next day) says than you need to buy some from them as well as do errands. can confirm this for Rayna's Greenhouse - in multiplayer she didn't want to move in until I (the host) bought watering can from her, even after others did that! so, on your island - your town/npc's works only if you *do that yourself*!
I think there is a component of spending dinks in their 'shops' not 100% how much but I find the ones I buy off set up shop and the one i haven't (Sally the hair stylist) has yet to.
Big thanks to the members of the Official Dinkum Discord for suggesting some of these! :) Please let me know what kind of guide video you would like to see next!
Also, If you enjoy Dinkum, check out the game CORAL ISLAND I have a Livestream here for those Interested! > ua-cam.com/users/livetJglMIHC_Uo
my guess to the options thing you showed first is that the game was disigned around a controller and not mouse and keyboard ^^
The game is heavily inspired by Animal Crossing, which is usually played on a controller or handheld console, so yes that is a good observation. I prefer M & K for these games though. @@hoxton6394
@@BoosterGames same
Another good tip for beginners is to sell your tools just before they break. You'll get 50% back of their retail value. It doesn't seem like much, but when you're struggling to make good money early days, it is a huge help
Helps out for sure, Thanks for sharing!
You can store money in boxes by pressing the money icon when your in a box. Helps trade with other players via multiplayer.
When a tool is about to break and your gunna be upgrading it, say from normal to copper. If it used in its crafting it will reset the durability.
Cooked food is the best money maker by far for starters. So get your hunting up. Camp fire cooks food, bbq is better but can be costy.. There is no burning when with a BBQ.
Also if you have the dinks to spare, be sure to have at least 3x of every tool in storage for when you have inevitable breaks (or faint and all the durability takes a hit). You can only buy one of each tool per day, and you're gonna facepalm if your last pick breaks but you already bought your one for the day. It's also practical to have multiple shovels specifically, to make dirt moving faster... plus, you can do the _ImpulseSV Shovel Shuffle™_ if your shovels have different dirt types in them 🙃
it doesn't matter what durability a tool is at, even if it's at 1% upgrading it to copper or iron will fully restore the durability of a tool, it saves a lot of money if you save all your low durability tools till you can upgrade them as you wont need to depend on buying those tools from johns shop each day and wont waste money.
I 100% advise ppl to explore the map on day 1 before the timer starts but most importantly, pin the locations you pass as you explore! Pin danger spots, safer spaces with lots of resources, mine deposits and the teleporters. It takes a while but is so useful for long term game play since you now have a detailed map of what is on your island. Love the videos!
Or you could just explore as you play.
Exploring is the best advice! But resources like mob spawns and mining nodes change every day. You will discover where the highest concentrations of mining nodes are but you won't know exactly what is there from day to day.
@@TheRealWinser no shit u can explore as u play. He's just giving (very good) advice
@@TheRealWinser Not everyone wants their timers to start clicking down. Much like Stardew Valley, hardcore players don’t like to waste days. It’s about stat glory and quick leveling, so I appreciate her tip.
Big tip- Buy the bug book and fish book in the museum. If you open the book while scavenging you can see where everything is and how much it's worth. I love fishing now because I just grab all the high price fish !
you can farm pearls fairly easily because the shells that have them don't go away. so whenever you find them tag them on the map so you can visit them again another day and they will still have pearls in them.
My list of useful things:
-Build near one of the 4 radio towers (North, East, West, South), these serve as fast travel points later in the game
- Pick up literally every fruit you see, plant some and save them for fruit salad once you have a cooking station.
-Sort your storage early by item color, it won't be long before your storage starts overflowing.
-Buy a Repair Kit every chance you get and build a Repair Bench as soon as possible. Save up worn tools and put them in your inventory whenever you fix your tools at the bench (including weapons).
-The rowboat is pretty useless so save up for a jetski instead
-Catch and donate as many things to the museum as possible for lots of license points
-You can keep predators and other willy animals in traps by lowering their health first
-In the deep mines you can leave as many trapped animals and large objects as you want in the elevator room then bring them all up once you return to the surface
-Bring tons of torches to put on the ground and mark your trail when you visit the deep mines, pick them back up on your way out
-Kill as many jellyfish as you can, their jelly is precious and you're going to want tons of it later in the game
I think it’s better to setup near the most biomes away from any of the towers tho since u can make a tp at the base
lol I’ve dropped many animals in the water because they would break out of the trap cuz I didn’t know to lower their health… now they’re just kinda chillin… :/
Can anyone give me solution for this.....
My bbq, furnace, stone grinder suddenly missing from the place where i have placed ..... It happened after opening the game (i have slept and saved the game)
Even though they are missing..... But all are at same position except those.....
You can get your own tele point from Franklyn later in the game, so the center of the map might not be the worst place to put your camp either
@@emiliablack4100 yes... Just got the deed .....
Guys, forget about farming, forget about bugs and fishes or gathering anything. Just max the mining licence and put your mining entrance on ground. Make sure you have all the "old keys" with you, couple of spears and pickaxes.And dont forget about torches cuz its so damn dark. You can make torches from mangrove sticks that grows in rivers. I suggest to bring at least 200 per tour. You gonna need a sleeping bag and lots of food that replenish stamina and health. Its a super enjoyable experience in mines, but it can turn in to a nightmare in seconds literally. The hounds and crocodiles are nasty and hard to kill, but you can ignore them and run. Most annoying ones are bats, so consider to have a bat to take care of them. If you get used to it, every day you can farm up to 1m dinkum from mines. Cook the iron you dig and sell the iron bars to shop. And you will see car wrecks, you can tear them apart with your pickaxe to get materials like the ones from metal detecting. And the best part is tiny little castles, you gonna need 2 old keys to reach inside. There is a treasure chest inside with a lot of loot. Make sure you max out your inventory slots quickley to get out as much as you can
You can pause the game by selecting Journal > Options. On the right-hand side, there will be a Pause button, though it only appears after a few in-game days.
Also, you can break beehives to get honey. But I don't know how much it costs...
To clarify, the pause button appears after you've played through at least the first day, saved the game, then _fully exit the game._ Upon reloading the save file, you'll have the pause button in the journal (singleplayer only, of course).
@@WackoMcGoose exiting fully does not seem to be needed anymore.
Option showed up after first sleep task.
You can lure jellyfish to you by hopping in the deeper water; they will float towards you. Bring them close enough to the shore that you stand in the shallows and they are in the deeper water. You can then kill them easily and harvest the jelly.
Re; Beehives: If you hit them with an axe you get honey and two bees.
Its preferable to do the bee hive thing in spring or summer in the morning, since it have a chance to spawn a bee queen, witch is used to build a bee house that you can harvest honey every few days
Everything you find from metal detecting will be used later in the game. Selling is relatively good money - but personally I kept it all and it helped significantly. Croc meat is great for being in deep mines and for the locked off areas its 2 keys per area. KEEP SHINY DISCS for Franklyn as he buys them at 8k a piece. Do errands for each islander daily (I personally don't do the fishing ones because I hate it🤣) and you will get their hearts up in no time.
they always ask me for fish, its annoying lmao
When starting a new save - time is set at 10Am and doesn't change until you set up your tent and report back to Fletch. You can forage the entire island this way and set yourself up for dinks for the start of the game. I made 100K for one day of foraging!
I do this but time doesn’t start until you get the Journal. You can place base tent, your tent and the deed. After that collect everything you want. I did all shells on shorelines,picked fruits, logs,flowers.
In case anyone stumbles across this video in 2024 (like me, who just started playing Dinkum), the tip about needing the museum before NPCs will move to your island is not (or no longer?) correct. I haven't built the museum yet but Rayne (the Greenhouse) and Clover (the clothing shop) have already moved permanently to my island. My understanding is that the only requirements for getting NPCs to move to your island are (1) spending a certain Dink amount in their shop when they show up in the visitor center (cumulative total, across all their visits), and (2) passing a Heart threshold with them (by talking to them and doing favors). The numbers are different for each NPC but you can get them pretty quickly if you buy one or two things each time they visit and make sure to always talk to them and do whatever side quest they give you.
After you get the logging 2 license you get the Keg build, and you can use it to make brews witch are this games equivalent of healing/energy potions, using yellow wattle flowers, bottle brush, or jelly. The yellow wattle flower and bottle brush bushes can be cut down for 0-2 seeds. The red brew heals ,the yellow is energy and gives you mining and foraging buff, and blue brew gives both healing and energy along with experience buff and fishing buff
On the fishing tip, Yes it works like that on the controller as well, RT. On the carrying things on your head you can sell, many thanks for that tip I was wondering what I did with those things, I have a yard full. Oh my goodness thank you also for explaining the whistle I lost one of my hens I will try and call her back next time in-game. Oh, and one tip from me is you can take the sleeping bag out in the wild and sleep all night no need to run back to camp to rest. Many thanks for all the tips :)
Thank you!
This is the only, "Things I wish I knew" video that was actually useful. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Just started playing the game myself, and the most lazy way to get money, especially early on, is to build a bunch of collection points and slap them around water where crocs like to spawn! Then just place a trap right next to the collection point, guide a croco with your juicy behind into the trap, and bam. Easy money. I've also pinned down where Bush Devils spawn and put collection points nearby, and you just lead them around as well. It's really easy to dodge their attacks, especially for 9k-12k a pop.
I used to use make basic traps around my base like 10 or something in a straight line, and everyday a few creatures got trapped. but crocs are better for sure.
The lvl 2 metal detector puts stars on the ground like in animal crossing when there's something buried. It doesn't do it for every item, but it is nice when doing something else and just knowing when to stop and dig real quick.
When expanding land specially on beaches, dig 6 blocks deep and youll get infinite amount of ground to fill what you want to fill. Its much easier than using a borrow. Just fill back up if the dig site is far from thw fill site then create another one.
If you accidently choose a spot for your tent where crocs spawn: you can lure them in the campfire and they will eventually die. Learned that the hard way🙃
Yep the fire damage it good!
Is there a way to stop crocodiles spawning in an area?
Sadly i am one of the unlucky ones who banged to be next to 4 different crocodile spawns hence in the begging I didn't saw any spawning so is there a way to stop them from spawning?
@@MaiHiroe crocs spawn in the water, so you can fence off the water. You can prevent Wary Mu's from spawning by destroying their nest. Unfortunatly no such thing for crocs that I know of. I fenced off the neighboring pond and a big stretch of river
i made my camp next to one and every morning i trap the crocs for money easy bit of money each day.
I’ve found that you can place all three tents and the time doesn’t begin until you talk to Fletch where she gives you the milestone journal. It’s really handy for using the suitcase storage in the base tent for more early collecting room.
wish I'd known about the suitcase storage before starting a new game (still a noob). That's a great tip. TY
The tip about time not working until you place your tent is 100% correct. I've done a lot of starts to check out the island generation and this is a way to scope out the land without worrying about time running out.
When terraforming the dirt in your initial camp, use the dirt you dig to make a basic 3x high wall. This will help initially with animal escapes.
Here is a couple of things;
Here is on I almost never see any one doing that does guides or let’s play, is make multiple camp fires and furnaces they all take the same amount of time to finish but you’ll save time because your processing many things at once.
You can grab an extra sleeping bag from Fletch.
If you plan to do a marathon ore collecting, harvesting, or hunting trips bring a sleeping bag, a campfire, and extra of the tool of choice.
When hunting use camp fires to soften up the animal, especially if it is a really strong one like an Alpha version.
One thing I wish I new was holding down right mouse button picks up loose items, you don't have to click it each time. Seems starting on the beach picking up sea shells one at a time made me think this was the case everywhere.
Yea, I kinda wish it would work for shells and such too.
Idk if it's been said but you only need to spam click or 'x' when the fish is making the rough water animation then when the fish starts turning towards you just hold the click or x to save your finger.
You can now pause the game, you have to go into the settings menu and then press the pause button there. Not the handiest thing, but definitely helpful
Also found a minor glitch with the pause button. You can fill up your stamina bar by filling your stomach with some fruit and pausing for about 2 irl minutes. You'll continue to gain stamina while paused with a full (or even partially, but not as fast) stomach.
There is now a pause option during singleplayer, you go to the right tab of the journal where you would normally exit to desktop, and the right page lets you pause.
Not sure if this was said already - if you flash the torch by pressing RT on the controller while the torch is equipped(not sure what it is on keyboard) on bats & hounds in the mines it will stun them for a few seconds, from what I saw this only works once on the mob. I have no idea if it works on the crocs in the mines, haven’t tried it on them.
I love your videos! I always send your video to my friends who wants to play dinkum for the 1st time. Now, I'm making my own videos to show my journey. 🧚🏻♀️
Right click your house on the map to highlight your house when you explore. You will always know your way home without having to re-open your map all the time 🥰
You can also highlight one marking you place on the map as well.
Tip for fishing I found that if you click and hold right before it starts breaking the line and repeat while fish is pulling away it helps more than the left click spam lol also cook fish before selling idk if that's said yet in the video but I was rolling in dinks after catching a bunch of baracudas 6 cooked saltwater fish per one and they sell for 2,800 dinks each
Thank you for the information. I just started yesterday and this will help so much.
I would just like to clarify. I was able to get the deed for and place the greenhouse before I bought the deed for the museum
pause is available. I use it. push the Esc button, Go to Options and scroll down to PAUSE. It's that simple. Thanks for the tips and tricks. I'll be looking forward for more videos.
The Options tab is at the top right of the book.
Yep, was added some time after the upload luckily, good thing.
When you have a crab pot you have to put meat into it as bait else it wont do anything
With the level 2 Metal Detecting license, you can see a small 'X' on the ground in places where there's buried treasure. You don't have to have the metal detector in hand to see this, so it's a quick way of finding places to dig. BUT you only get the 'X' for SOME buried treasure, not all of them. Using the metal detector as usual will point out places to dig that aren't marked with the 'X'. Either way, the only buried items you should sell are the shiny discs, and you should sell them to Franklyn, not John. Franklyn will pay WAY more for the discs than John does. Then keep the rest of the stuff because they'll be required to build certain things later and many (if not all) of Franklyn's inventions will require them as well.
A TIP I WISH I KNEW EARLIER: Fishing in the rivers is a fine way to make some money, but you make a lot more money from the big fish in the ocean. Build a boat as soon as you're able (unlocked by buying the first level of the Vehicle license) and row out into the ocean. Stop where you see big fish below the surface and start fishing. Fill your inventory and go back to sell them all to John for big money. In my experience, it seems like the fish that fight harder are worth more. Also, there are different fish in the different oceans, so try fishing off the northern coast of your island, off the western coast, off the eastern coast, and off the southern coast to find different types of fish. For instance, I get a lot of Travalla and Marlin in the North Ocean, but I get Stingrays in the Western Ocean.
BONUS TIP ABOUT FISHING: Rowing the boat doesn't use up stamina, so you can stay out fishing until well after "Late" as long as you either (a) don't do a lot of long casts (which do use stamina) or (b) have enough food to refill your stamina after a couple of long casts. Best way to do it is to row right up next to where you see the big fish and then do a small cast just over the side of the boat. This uses almost no stamina (if any). When that spot is fished out, row to the next cluster of big fish and repeat. This lets you take care of farming, construction, side quests, etc. during the day and then go out fishing at night with no time limit.
A BASIC ONE (UNLESS YOU'RE A BEGINNER) THAT I WISH I KNEW EARLIER: If you're struggling for ore in the early game, the big, gray-ish boulders (the rocks that are bigger and lighter-colored than the regular rocks) will give you 3-ish ores when you break them. Sometimes you get copper, sometimes tin. You almost always get at least a rock or two as well, and sometimes you get a weird, shiny stone that you can throw into a rock crusher to get more ore. In my early game, I ran all over the island looking for copper ore rocks before I realized you could break those big, gray ones and get tons of copper.
LAST ONE: Keep at least one spare of each tin tool in storage somewhere. Early on, I'd break a tool and have to stop whatever I was doing for the night because John closes at 6pm and on Sundays. Whether you're using the tin tools or need them because the copper upgrades require th.
Things I wish I knew sooner: When you eat you fill your stomach gauge. When it is full (starts at 3) you can't eat any more until it decreases. The gauge slowly goes down over time. While you are digesting (the gauge isn't empty) you will regen energy. You won't regen health from being full.
The day only ends when you sleep or faint. When the clock goes to Late your energy bar will become tiny and if you do anything you'll slow down and the world will turn grey as you run out of energy. Eating still restores energy. You can take as long as you want to do activities that don't take energy. Like crafting, smelting and cooking. Fishing doesn't take much energy and is an excellent source of dinks.
You can put Bugs and Fish on the ground. Bugs stack up to 2 high. Fish do not stack.
Wattle and Bottle flowers are used to make buffing drinks. To get seeds for these plants, you need to cut them down. When you cut down either flower bush it produces 0-2 seeds. Bottle flowers are much rarer than Wattle flowers, and they don't respawn if cut down. Having a row of wattle and bottle bushes near your house means a consistent supply of buffs later. Do the same for fruit too.
One of the NPC (Franklin) sells a repair bench and once he moves onto the island repair kits. You need to buy a repair kit (30k dinks) to use the repair station. When you use the kit it repairs every tool in your inventory and bar, except for things that need to be charged. Charging requires a charging station.
Some good tips!
This comment section is so helpful thank u guys so much!!
A lot of great tips for sure!
Try to limit the the things that dont require stamina during the day, keep them for when its late. Cook, smelt, etc.
Metal detector farming is broken, I've made well over 100k in one day just farming metals along a beachside, paying off both initial debts in two days. I think farming should be made available to the players well before the metal detector.
Listened to this while playing my first day in Dinkum. Appreciate the tips!
Have fun!
New to dinkum here. about 2 hours in and just wanted to say great job on the video, very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Time only starts to flow only after getting the bug net. So you can put down both tents and visitor site! The time will also stop once again at midnight. You can use this time to cook any and all foraged stuff you got during the unlimited time you had to explore the map. I managed to get my foraging skill to lvl 20 by simply cleaning out the entire island, of anything forageable! It took about 2 hours.
Use the metal detector near the river and beach to get much more loot.
I can confirm the time tip. I explored a lot before putting down my tent and ended up with level 5 1/2 foraging the first night.
Thanks for giving the confirmation!
I noticed time starts running only after you place the visitors camp, specifically as soon as you talk to Fletch and she gives you the Adventure Log (guide?). To double check I watched first day gameplays and it was all the same.
You can pause the game by pressing esc, settings than the pause button shows on the right side in the settings menu
Level 2 will let you see little x's on the ground and you just dig on the x and you'll find stuff. It goes very fast when your level 2.
Don't know if this was in 6 months ago, but you can pause the game. ESC to your journal and under options tab or whatever it's called - the tab you go to to close the game. ;) Ahh, I forgot you can saw metal. I need those tin sheets!!!
I make my money currently by fishing ocean fish between like 6/7 and 11/midnight and then cook all of them. The other day I had 48 cooked pieces of meat and it sold for like 134k
The teleporters are on the far north, south, east and west sides, building near one gives you easy access to all of those areas!
Thank you for this video, very useful! A lot of things I had no idea about.
Thanks for the tip especially with sawing the Tin Bar to make Tin Sheets
I grind 1 whole day just to get enough sheets for my windmill. 🤦♂️
Glad it was helpful!
Idk if that was a bug, but i was able to multiply the animals which were trapped in the cage. but when i would keep a raging animal in the cage about to break free, and i release it (I think thats how i did it) suddenly two of the animals came out instead of the one I captured :D
Second metal decting you see X around on the ground to sign. Beehives can be broken to capture a bee and get honey.
There is a way to pause your game until it's a game feature.
EDIT: You can skip 1-3 and just type "resource monitor" in windows search and it should pop up, if you can't find it just do steps 1-3.
1. Open Task Manager
2. Click the Second Tab "Performance"
3. Bottom left should be a blue link "resource monitor"
4. Look for "dinkum-exe" should be on top, click the box left of "dinkum-exe" so the exe stays on top
5. right click on "dinkum-exe" and suspend it.
6. Take your break as long as you want, the longest I was afk, was over 30 minutes.
7. after you are done taking your break just right click on dinkum-exe again and unsuspend it
The game will be frozen while it's suspended, don't fred it's normal, just minimize the game BEFORE suspending if it bothers you.
if you have any questions just ask.
haha I will give it a try soon. EDIT* It is a long process but YES this works for me as well.
@@BoosterGames Yea, you can leave the resource monitor open so it will only take a few seconds.
Still better than nothing, not sure how long we will have to wait for a real pause feature, I hope not long x)
Yea for sure I agree
You can also skip 1-3 and just type "resource monitor" in your windows search and it should pop up.
You are the real MVP. I just kept rushing days to leave it at the level up summary.
#3 You CAN put the others before the Museum. I put the farmer and scientist before the Museum. Still an excellent tip video.
Sadly I was not able to do that, I was waiting like 10 IRL hours before placing the museum. and only after I placed it I got someone new, Maybe just bad luck.
@@BoosterGames Got lucky with my visits and requests from Rayne, her heart went up to 1.25 rather quickly so she did mention she could move in. I had the museum deed waiting already but haven’t paid off the initial debt.
useful video if i was just starting out the game. playing this for three days however was enough for me learn these things by myself
Glad to hear it! Yea its meant for beginners, If your playing for a few days you can know most or all of it.
11:37 , after Hot Fix - Version 0.4.6, 5 august, now we can pause the game
I was under the impression the spamming part while fisching was the proper way to do it and always played it that way.
single player: menu>settings>pause. You can pause at any time if you're playing single player.
They made it possible to pause in the middle of the day now!
Thunder egg spawned near Fletch's tent for me after my first thunderstorm.
I literally started dinkum a month ago and my first island was on sand with so much crocs so i had to redo it cuz i kept dying LMAO
Sun. Is my fishing day...i put all fish outside johns store, usually 2 full inventories. Then sell them to him on Mon.
Question, how I open my pocket or backpack. What is the command controls for that. I want to see what I have in my inventory and have pop up on screen, but only way I find to do that, is if I go to the big tent, and I know that must be an easier way to do that. Thank you for the help.
on keyboard its either [TAB] or "i" of i remember correctly
You can pause the game. It is in the journal. Gray tab. I use it often.
Correct, recently added.
Just started this game this week, only 1 tip: Barracudas!
5:40 I don't agree with this advice. The starting location is near a teleporter. This makes it "close" to the other 3 corners of the map. It's a fine location for your town.
Later in the game after you have repaired them yes.
level 2 metal detecting you can not see threw the ground it will leave a x randomly on the ground if you dig there then you will find some thing i just found that out today
Correct, When I made this one I had not tested this myself, but here is a video I made after explaining lvl 1 & 2 for metal detecting ua-cam.com/video/Xi0pdKZFOKY/v-deo.html
The reason you couldnt get the greenhouse, woodworking shed etc. before the museum is because their hearts are SO high for example melvin has 1 and a half before he decides to move
Also using machines and the camp fire uses no energy so save your plank making and smelting until your exhausted
I like having a bunch of quarry's. Costly but to be getting either an ore rock or a drum with electronic parts every day will pay itself off in no time.
I agree, can be helpful for sure.
1) Allocating certain licenses in certain orders can make progress faster because of lower requirements and resources so be careful when leveling licenses that you don't need because you don't have to resources or you don't have to requirement to meet although you can buy it it's not the best idea.
2) Save the shiny disc as much as possible when a certain person require it then given he will give lot money if you really need it.
3) When exploring and find large rock(require T2 pick) always mine there chance get iron ore or spot gray shiny one this iron ore it's so rare.
good tips, but an additional one, in the Deep Mines you can easily get Iron ore, so if you have that unlocked that would be good too.
@@BoosterGames you should forget how dangerous it is and it's really cost 25k per trip(mining pass) it's end game thing here
You can run past all the animals tbh and just mine in safer locations. but yea cost a lot, however if you find ruby's you have profit.
The lvl 2 licence for the metal detector gives you a small cross the ground everytime there is something under the ground. That’s why you don’t need the metal detector anymore
I get easily flustered with timed games and this one in particular was irritating me because I couldn't even take a break during conversations with visitors/residents, looking through my storage, sorting my inventory, etc.
I don't know if this really is good advice or not, but here goes: At 12am the game clock stops moving forward. You take a stamina hit and any effort makes you walk slow (and technically, you could still do things that drain your characters stamina, but you'll spend just as much time eating cooked bush limes/bananas/etc. that it probably isn't worth it), but if you just want to plan out your town, set up fences, run around the island marking stuff, etc. you'll have all the time you want. Just go to bed to begin the next day. You don't even take a stamina/health/time hit when you start the next day!
You can pause the game
i built the museum waayy after the greenhouse. it was made available first but i just didn't build it till later
Any tips for deep mining...I can't even find the dungeon because I keep dying in there. I hate those monsters.
A dungeon? I have not found that, unless you mean the closed of 1 rooms with a chest?
I just keep running passed all the mobs tbh. pretty easy to jump away from them. If health is a problem try getting your hands on a copper spear for range and cooked croc meat for extra health
another little tip, if a devil chases you just find a fungal croc the croc will ignore you for the devil so run like hell while they are fighting or let the fight get nasty and you kill the victor with a spear for range, altough i preffer to use the copper mace to bash the croc´s head in after the fight
Wish i knew about the whistle, i have had two chickens die loool, thanks so much for the tips
Yea very useful that one.
omg, spent 1 day trying to fence-out or manually block/move an escaped chicken. in the next day or two it grew up and still couldn't catch back ... last try right in the morning a CROC killed my first pet :( in two bites! END of story, lol
somewhy it didn't want to visit neither Bird Coop nor Feeder (placed in ~5 tiles). emotes/whistle should have been taught by Fletch at start!
eating health food puts the fire out as well
Another one!! Bring torches and lots of weapons down to the mine! You have no idea how wild it is down there
Hey, so i wanted to ask, with a level 1 fishing licence what fish can i catch? I can seem to only catch jungle perch and every other fish just escapes
You should be able to catch pretty much everything you see, except the shark, but its easier with the copper fishing rod. ua-cam.com/video/Mi0uke3_DAE/v-deo.html
@@BoosterGames maybe then is lag? In My PC it runs kinda bad so maybe when i get the audio the Fish has already lost interest?
If your FPS is low I guess its possible that its more diffecult. you can either try the ''correct'' way as shown in the link I shared earlier, or the spam left-click to catch it should work.
@@BoosterGames ohhh thank you so much for the feedback, i Will do, Also you are so kind and attentive to your community, it might not be much but you gained a new subscriber, thanks for your fun and engaging guides
Thank you! :)
On the "you can't pause the game" tip. You actually can, it's in the setting and you click "pause game" incase you need to go do something and don't want to lose out on the day.
yes, this was added after the video went public.
there is pausing in the game in the settings menu
i use the campfire to fight alpha monsters so they burn themselves
Smart!
Yes, this. I used a campfire and hunted crocodiles "late" as they will burn if they lunge or turn and head or tail crosses over the fire.
3 full time burns takes them to "almost dead" and then get then 2 bat swings will give you full xp for the kill (note you'll slow later after 1 swing, so waiting for them to get tired helps a lot).
Eat a bit to get stamina back up (so you run at full speed again), pick up your campfire, and keep hunting.
Croc tooth bat makes hunting other stuff a bit easier and is still cheap.
Most of these I figured out myself lol, #3 isn't true though. I have a greenhouse but no museum. There are very little tutorials and onscreen information while you play., so I had no idea how to catch fish. The line kept breaking. Until I started rapidly clicking reel in. It works. You can hold Reel in when the fish isn't fighting.
When I started out I made my own key/legend. When you press M and Left click you can use the scroll wheel to choose an icon. I marked each fruit tree with an apple, predator with a skull, Giant bird nest with the egg icon, and if there is a male I also put a skull.
Apparently only male emus and jackaroos will actually fight back.
Can someone please tell me what happens when you hit a dingo/dog. They're just so cute, don't have the heart. And can we tame them??
they are not tameable for what i have seen but yeah you can kill dingos, they dont drop much but for early game hunting they are worth the experience, they can give meat and bones 3 of each in a good fight 1 of each in a bad one so yeah they are huntable but i prefer to let them be cannon fodder for cassowaries and crocs.
because most hostile creatures attack eachother if they are in the vicinity so you can also use this little tip for deep mine exploration, if a devil chases you just find a fungal croc and watch the massacre, depending on who wins you can then kill the other for both loots and not that much hassle
The dingos often don't fight back, but sometimes they howl to try and call the other dingos to fight. Ive never had a group of them attack me but wondering if it's because I would kill one and run off. It does work when a croc attacks them though.
And yes I feel like the hugest a - hole testing that out
i am really interested in it, hope my friends like it as much as i do
It has been a lot of fun for me, I would recommend it.
Under the options section of the book thing is a pause option.
If you plant rolls of trees you get more bee hives while cutting them down..save bee hives n collect queen bees from them .your gonna need them to craft bee house. .. Don't sell springs n stuff you did up. You're gonna need them later for crafting later
Day 1 : Setup Fletches Tent, then do ur Tent. Then place Visitor Tent.
*Then do not go talk to Fetch"
run around and collect everything you want. Wood, Shells and Fruit ;)
when u can sell the 2nd day. u can easily make 30K+
Tried it again. But this time.
i went nuts.
so.....Put down Fletch Tent. then put down my own. Then i spent the next 3 hours going to every island. picking everything up off the beaches. harvesting every fruit tree is saw. dodged all land predators, swam to a few islands and harvested pearls i saw on the way. sold everything day 2 for just short of $300. i have picks.
These tips are so handy, Booster. Thank you for doing this video! Also if anyone knows how to remove bridges? I placed a bridge but half of it went under water. Someone suggested I hit it with a pickaxe or axe but it does nothing.
Hit it with an axe then it will “break” and you can pick it up and replace it
They just did a patch today or yesterday (July 26th) fixing that issue
Just started playing this, these tips will be helpful.
Glad to hear it!
Don’t sell a single beehives if you wanna make the Honey farm, you need a Queen Bee in order to craft the Bee House and only way to capture them is breaking open the Beehives and capturing the bees inside, is really hard to find one Queen Bee, don’t waste any chance, I have broken over a 100 Beehives and only got 2 Queen Bees, I guess the luck factor plays important role lol
I think its worth selling a few when you really need the money to slightly speed up the game. more money = more tools you can buy, more tools means more recourses you can gather in general, which means you can cut down more tree's to get more beehives. But it all comes down to personal preference
Will have to check but I would bet the normal bee you get from the hive + the honey would sell for more than the whole hive. John would buy both the captured bee and the honey.
I wish I knew not to sell all the buried treasure stuff. Franklin is so valuable!
I never buy the metal detector, i just get the second level license. then you can just did the little x on the ground and not waits your time with the tool.
Get the level two metal detector and run around on beaches. The Xs stand out like a sore thumb
You can swim towards your boat in the halfway area while its in water pushing W and it lets you run underwater and pillage sharks and jellyfish and mine aswell
What? I don't really understand what you mean.
@@BoosterGames park your ROW boat in water deep enough to swim- jump out to any side- find the very FRONT point of the MIDDLE seat- swim at THAT SPOT atthe side of the boat as if the boat was in your way- if you cant find it wiggle left to right till you do - watch your character react to the glitchy spot as your head starts to dip down youll eventually walk under water.. once you figure it out you can DIVE before it pushes you under it forces you to swim up into the sky its quite funny with a chicken suit head on, jumping makes you fall. Raising your head above the water makes you swim thats what ive found so far
anybody know why I can't get residents to move in permanently? I've done tasks for them to get them to a full 1.5 hearts but I still don't get the dialogue or any new deeds. I have no debt? please help. Do i need higher island happiness or something?
Which residents do you have?
I suggest building the Museum if you have not done so already, and not only do missions for them but also buy stuff from their store & use the ''lets chat'' option a few times per NPC.
tooltip (while saving/next day) says than you need to buy some from them as well as do errands. can confirm this for Rayna's Greenhouse - in multiplayer she didn't want to move in until I (the host) bought watering can from her, even after others did that!
so, on your island - your town/npc's works only if you *do that yourself*!
I think there is a component of spending dinks in their 'shops' not 100% how much but I find the ones I buy off set up shop and the one i haven't (Sally the hair stylist) has yet to.
Correction, there is pausing of the game. Go journal, go last tab (settings) the pause is there
looks like they added pausing the game in a recent update!