If you get lost at sea, go to nearest island & craft a shelter Then go to cartographer & you will see your home island highlighted. Whilst on your home island save & exit the game (I spent 25 years in the navy navigating). Dont forget you can still use the sides of the 8 sided rubber dinghy - each side represents 45 degrees. Next island clockwise is north, next island clockwise is northeast, next island clockwise is east, etc around the island. If you look back where the raft originated from then this is northwest. The dinghy spawn point is always northwest of the center spawn island so row straight for the center of the spawn island observing roughly where the origin of the raft was. Throw a spear into sand to point to previous island or wherever & also to indicate that you haveįor your information & to get your bearings as soon as you arrive on center island 13: I have noticed this after playing several games. (unnatural but that is the game).Īlso I think you find a compass on one of the 7 islands surrounding the center spawn island. Use sunrise to set southeast, sunset to set northwest. The yellow rubber dinghy has 8 sides so 2 sides away from a point of reference is 90 degrees.Ĥ sides away is 180 degrees.

If you have not found a compass yet then use the following method.

If you use a different map seed then just replace the sheet with a blank sheet & start recording each islands details again. The A4 sheet to the right shows island details for that particular map seed. Map shows the compass bearing to steer to get to other islands. Islands are numbered 1 to 25 with north at the top. I made up a standard map to use in Stranded Deep.

Stranded deep ps4 map