A Beginner's Guide To Stranded Isle

Hello, if you're on this page, you have probably already played Stranded Isle. You also might have died not knowing what to do. If so, then this guide will take you through the steps of beating the game!

#### **The Basics**

To play Stranded Isle, you need to know the controls. To move, you use the arrow keys. To punch, select an item, place a block or enter an interactive block, press "Z". To enter and exit your inventory or leave a crafting station of any kind, press "X".

You also have 2 bars: A stamina bar that goes down whenever you press "Z" in game (not a crafting station), and a health bar that goes down when you are hit by an enemy. You can regain health by eating apples, bread, or drinking potions. Be careful, because if you die, you have to make a new game.

When you break a block or kill a zombie, it drops varying amounts items, depending on what it is. Walk on them to pick them up. Be fast, though, because they despawn soon after they drop.

Now that you know the basics on how to play, let's start playing the game!

#### **The Early Game**

When you start the game (after the opening story), you spawn on the island. Your first goal is to find some trees and break them using "Z". A little number should appear after you pick an item up. This shows how many of that item you have in your inventory. Get the number up to at least 15, but I would advise you to get more. Once you have the desired amount of wood (and maybe some apples, those will help), enter your inventory. Select the "Workbench" and place it. Enter the Workbench and craft a Wood Pick. Don't craft anything else yet, as it will just waste your resources.

Once you have made a Wood Pick, it would be wise to pick up your Workbench. You do this by going into your inventory and selecting the "Pickup Tool". Simply use it on the Workbench to pick it up. The Pickup Tool works for all other interactive blocks, too. Go back to your inventory and select your Wood Pick again, and some stone and mine it. If there's a ladder where you're mining nearby, stay near that area, as the ladder will be useful soon! Once you have mined 15-20 stone, place your Workbench. Craft a "Stonebench", and leave the Workbench. Pick up your Workbench, switch to your Wood Pick, and go find the ladder! A good way to find it quickly is to look for large groups of stone. The ladder is sometimes inside of it.

When you find the ladder, mine into the stone surrounding it with your Wood Pick. Once the ladder is exposed, walk into it. It will teleport you to the cave.

#### **The Mid Game**

In the cave, you might be in an open area, with zombies walking around, or you might be surrounded by stone and gems. Whatever the case is, Place your Stonebench, switch to your Wood Pick, and mine some stone. If you are surrounded by ores, you should mine the grayest one(s). It'll take a little bit, since you have the worst Pick in the game, but it'll be worth it, trust me. If you're in an open area, you should go look for some stone. If there are too many zombies around, go back up the ladder. This will reset the cave's zombies. Walk out of the hole you mined to get to the ladder, and go back into the cave again. You should repeat this until you find the zombie spawns satisfactory. You should mine 20-30 stone, and return to the Stonebench. If you got more wood than you needed earlier, like I suggested, you will be able to craft a "Furnace".

Use wood, stone, and iron ore to make an anvil. Get enough iron ore to make an iron pick. You will need 15 iron ore, which you can turn into 5 iron bars in the furnace. In the anvil, get a iron pickaxe. Here, you have two options. You can use your iron to directly mine the pink/blue gems which will take a bit time. Or, you could mine gold and get 15 gold (the golden colored rocks) to make a gold pickaxe. In the second option, you can use your gold pick to mine the gems again. Get 15 gems in either option to make a gem pickaxe.

With the Gem pickaxe, you can mine more gems to get a gem sword. This sword is very powerful as it can almost always 1 shot a zombie. After this, you can mine more gems to get a gem axe so you can 1 shot a tree.

#### **The Late Game**

This part is all about preparing to either leave the island with a boat or fight the boss. If you are not preparing to fight the boss, all you have to do is make a boat in the factory. First make the factory in the woodbench. You will need to use your gem sword to kill a bunch of zombies for their fabric. After killing the zombies a few times, you can get sails for your boat. You will need some wood for the boat, and some iron bars, and some glass (which is made from sand, sand comes from using a shovel to mine the yellow stuff in the top zone, or the brownish stuff in the lower zone) Once you make the boat, place it down in the water, and you win the game. Congratulations. However, you did not get the best ending because the monster still lives.

Now, I will explain how to defeat the boss. A lot of boss preparation is getting as many healing items as you can, and there's 3 different ones: Apples, which only heal 20 health (or 2 zombie hits) and drop from trees (you probably already have a few), Bread, which heals twice as much as apples, and can be made from planting seeds, harvesting 5 wheat, and making one in a furnace, and Potions, which will always fully heal you, and *this* is the one we're gonna wanna get. Mine gems again to get 10 gems. Mine iron/gold/stone to get a shovel. Using the shovel, get some sand. Turn the sand into glass in the furnace. Make a chemistry lab with the gems and glass. Again, you have to defeat some zombies (MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH HEALING ITEMS, YOU SHOULD HAVE APPLES IN YOUR INVENTORY), but this time it is more focused on getting some ichor to make potions. Each potion only needs 1 glass and 1 ichor, so it's fairly easy to grind out as many potions as you want.

By this point, you will have enough fabric to make a map. With the map, in the top zone, find the black spots and you can use a shovel to mine those places. Your spot is the blinking red dot. At those places, after shoveling it, you can find chests with talisman pieces. These are very important to beat the boss. Find all 4 of them and make 2 glue in the chemistry lab, which need a ichor and glass. In the factory, use the talisman pieces and glue to make a talisman. This is very important in stunning the boss, and it can be used infinitely.

Now, the boss fight. If you made the talisman, all you gotta do is use it when you get to the bottom floor. The boss (a.k.a. The Great Eel) will always be south of you when you first go down, so you can head straight to him and swipe at him. After every 15 hits or so, make sure you use the Talisman again, that way it doesn't unfreeze. Repeat until it's dead, collect your rupees, and feel free to leave.

If you DIDN'T make the talisman, it's a bit tougher, but still manageable. Your goal is to be on land and not in the water as often as possible. If the boss is right on top of you, no need to panic. Just swing your sword until you see your health dip below half, then go into your menu, select the potion, and heal, then take your sword back out and repeat. If it's not on top of you yet, make small movements whenever possible so it's less likely you end up cornering yourself, and hit it a few times wherever you can. It's a much more grindy fight, and could take several minutes, but it's doable.

If you've accidentally gone down with nothing but a gem sword and a few apples, it's time to resort to cheesing the boss. Using the little square above you, you can get the boss stuck if you're lucky enough and kill it easily. How? When the boss stops electrocuting the water, head up the right side of the square about halfway. When you hear the boss coming for you, go around it in a circle. If you time it right, when you're at the south side of the square, the boss's head is still up there. Stay where you are until its body begins trying to go back to where the boss's spawn is, at which point you know you've successfully got the boss stuck. You can now swipe freely at it, and if you're lucky enough you only have to do it once. It is really hard to do, but you're not helpless if you don't have healing.

After killing the boss, feel free to refer to the first paragraph of this section to see how to make a boat, and then you'll get the good ending of the game.