Overview
How to use your resources to their highest potential and how to make them as renewable as possible.
Intro
Alright so lets make this clear. This game is not Haiti simulator, you cannot go around and chopping down every one of your trees and killing off all of the beasts of the land. In order to survive you will need to conserve your resources, thereby letting you try and survive for longer periods of time.
Trees
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Animals
Depending on how much you kill off the animals in your area you can cause them to go away.
Lets start with crabs. Chances are that there will be a crab nest in your island. Crabs aren’t a very good source of food, however you will occasionally need them. If you wish to hunt them ensure that there is always a male and female crab to repopulate (Blue and Pinkish).
Now for fish. if you kill fish do it sparingly. Do not kill every fish you find around your island, hunt them sparingly or their ranges will recede. Killing them in small numbers will greatly reduce the rate that their ranges recede into the ocean.
Sharks also have ranged. But consider them open season. Killing them can make them recede further into the ocean and stop messing with you and your raft. Sharks also provide a great source of very filling meat. If you wish to engage in a round of fisticuffs with your local Tiger Shark ensure that you have a bandage and always save before.