Stranded Deep

Stranded Deep

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Fish Are Friends

Fish Are Friends

Go 10 days without eating a fish.

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How to unlock the Fish Are Friends achievement in Stranded Deep - Definitive Guide

This is possible to get in the first 10 days. You can stack this with the Gone Green achievement for not eating meat for 10 days as well as the achievements for surviving 10 days, crafting a loom, creating a farm plot, and island hopping. If my attempt is anything to go by this will be a challenge.

Complete the tutorial but do NOT eat the cooked meat. Now it's time to get started. The life raft storage has 3 days of rations.

During those 3 days you need to be collecting coconuts on your starter island. Throw them on the ground next to your shelter. Collect sticks, fibrous leaves and stones. Keep everything in the pile. You can skin and drink/eat coconuts as needed. Do NOT consume more than 3 in a day or you will get diarrhea and become dehydrated and slowly die. You can survive if you get it but it makes the first 10 days harder.

When you can craft a crude axe. Find the recipe and click RS to pin it. Look at your pile of items on the ground and when the pinned recipe is full craft the axe. Now when the trees are out of coconuts start cutting them down into sticks.

Craft a crude hoe. Open your crafting panel and use RB/LB to find the farming plot. Craft one. On the starter island should be a potatoe. Plant the potatoe. It will take a few days to grow and will be watered after rain storms. You can eat one if needed when it grows.

Craft a loom, this is how you make cloth. You don't interact with the loom it adds the cloth rexipe to your craft page.

Now hopefully you have your crafting high enough to craft a larger raft. Open your craft page and use RB/LB to find the vehicles page. Craft 2 raft bases at 14 sticks each. Use RT/LT to change page and craft 2 raft floors, then craft a sail and rudder.

Place the bases down on the ground, snap them together then snap the floors down ontop followed by the sail and rudder. You can make your raft bigger if you want for more stability but I was able to do this with a 2 base raft. Using the life raft is also an option but it takes longer to paddle to the other islands.

You may be running out of drinkable coconut by now so the next goal is to craft the water still. You will need to craft 2 coconut flasks. One will be used to craft the still and the other will be your drinking container.

Save at your shelter before you leave your island. If your raft flips over quit and reload before you are eaten by a shark.

Sail to another island and collect more rocks, sticks, aloe vera for your SPF, and coconuts. Eat/drink if you need. More importantly check all around the beaches for blue squares on the ground. These are tarps and you need one to craft the water still. Once you have everything you need return to your starter island and craft the water still. Place palm fronds under it to keep the water collection going and use your extra coconut flask to hold 1 sip of drinkable water. Now you only need to worry about food, which means only eating coconuts so you have a smaller chance of pooing yourself to death.

By the time I crafted my still I was on day 9, dying of thirst with 1 life pip left due to jumping from a tree. Health only regenerates when your food and water needs are met and living off only coconuts and potates they usually are not.

Both achievements should pop at day 10
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22 Apr 2020 14:16

7 Comments
Strangely, I got this at the 10 day mark, despite haven eaten sardines. I ate mostly crab and coconut, but had eaten at least three sardines. Yet this still popped on day 10.
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By risseless on 10 May 2020 18:56
Way too long of a guide for an achievement that can be explained in 1 or 2 sentences.
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By Lt Davo on 13 May 2020 12:59
I just got the cheevo by just eating fish for 10 days?
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By MmM GHOSTFACE on 01 Jul 2020 22:28
ObviousPayload Regardless of the other comments, thanks for the detail. Was able to get all 3 at once. Not eating fish, meat and surviving 10 days.
Cheers.
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By CITIZ3N F0UR on 02 Jan 2021 17:43
This is a great guide to knock out a handful of annoying achievements. Why folk are moaning about it being too much is beyond me.
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By Catatonic Nali on 17 Aug 2022 21:41
Well at the time I wrote it there wasn't a walk-through and it seemed fitting to knock it out at the same time as a few other achievements. If it helped others that's great, if they didn't like it that's fine too. There is a full walk-through now so that's awesome.
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By ObviousPayload on 18 Aug 2022 04:17
This is useless. just say what you can eat that is not fish. Coconut is one, rations are another, Builing a hoe and farming potato, ok. Now how about crabs, do they count as fish? Why build a raft for another island when you have your life boat? Problem with your SPF? go swim! and it has nothing to do with not eating fish just like the part about water. Next time, stick to the actual achievement.
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By GrumpyYogi1968 on 29 May 2020 15:14
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You can obtain this along with all the other 10 day achievements by just making a game on Creative difficulty (no hunger, thirst, etc. to worry about) with Passive wildlife (enemies are not aggressive, nor will they defend themselves).

Paddle to the starter island, then just stand there and leave the game running. If you want, you can create a shelter to sleep at. This will skip over most of the night, although it seems a bit random exactly how soon you wake up.

In game days are 40 minutes long. 20 minutes of day, then 20 minutes of night. 10 days will therefore take at most 400 minutes, which is 6 hours and 40 minutes of idling. Skipping some of the night by sleeping will cut down the time by a bit.

Obviously eating any fish will void the achievement and start the timer over.

The other 10 day achievements are:

Stranded Deep (Windows)Day 10The Day 10 achievement in Stranded Deep (Windows) worth 64 pointsSurvive for 10 days.

Stranded Deep (Windows)HermitThe Hermit achievement in Stranded Deep (Windows) worth 116 pointsSpend 10 days on 1 island.

Stranded Deep (Windows)VegetarianThe Vegetarian achievement in Stranded Deep (Windows) worth 112 pointsSpend 10 days without eating meat.
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05 Jan 2023 01:31

Also, if you island hop a bunch, you can easily go 10 days just eating the small / large crabs, or boar meats for the 10 days without much effort. Especially if you find a string of small islands, spend 2 days on each one, build a smoker on each so the meat will be preserved, find the sunken loot while stuff is cooking and then off to the next one.
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07 Sep 2021 00:00

You probably need to prepare for the 10 days achievements. This one requires you to avoid fishing altogether for 10 days. That means you will need to rely on the food sources on the land, such as Boar, Crab, Snake, Coconuts and fruits such as the kuwawa fruit. If you're starting a new game, you will have some emergency rations in your life raft satchel, which will hydrate you as well as satiate you about half your meter.
Note that certain foods, like Coconuts, will make you sick if you only eat it without any other food source, so make sure to get a little bit of everything.
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27 Jul 2020 00:00

For a trophy without meat and without fish, you can eat fruits and potatoes, which are best to start planting on the main island in advance. This will provide a supply of vegetarian food. You can also eat eggs cooked over a fire or Meat smoker. The eggs are found in nests on top of rocks.
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16 Jul 2021 22:59

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The main thing is don’t try to combine this trophy with the “Island Hermit” trophy, when you need to spend 10 days on one island.

The easiest way to get it is to simply not eat meat and fish, but ONLY COCONUTS, moving to another island as soon as they run out.

The option of growing potatoes and other fruits is very unreliable and complicated, because... very often due to drought they simply rot. And you can water the beds only with drinking water.
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By _Joker_ on 23 Sep 2021 22:16
During the training they offer to cook crab, reading the tips above, I thought that they would not give the achievement. But I ate only crab meat and coconuts, as well as canned food; when there were no crabs and coconuts, it was better to leave the canned food as is. For one I received an achievement for being on one island for 10 days. The above tips are misleading. The main thing is to build a water desalination plant to extract water from the foliage of young palm trees and yoka trees, then there is no need to cut down palm trees. Then you can easily last 10 days.
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08 Jan 2023 15:54