THE SURVIVALISTS new player gameplay guide + helpful progression tips. Expand your storage / carrying capacity, teach monkeys, build traps, learn combat counters, leave the island, & more.
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00:00 Intro
00:27 The Start
00:52 Building Campfire & Chest
01:10 Finding Monkey
01:36 Expanding Storage / Inventory
02:06 Monkey Training
03:38 Exploration & Monkey Combat
04:53 Larger Storage & Mysterious Stranger Shop
05:39 Vaults
06:34 Combat Counters
06:53 More Monkey Training
07:52 Hunting
08:14 Building Traps
09:06 Working On a Raft
10:23 Animal Traps
10:37 Increase Stamina Cap
11:17 Using Training Dummies
11:37 Leaving The 1st Island
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*This is all PC gameplay but The Survivalists is also on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.* *Just started playing in co-op with my wife and it becomes pretty darn addicting. Let me know what YOU think!* _Boomstick Gaming is the haven for core gamers who value gameplay mechanics and systems, because that's what continues_ _to make anything from 8-bit to 8k, equally enjoyable. Consider sticking around on the channel if you fall into that category! -Alex_
@just a tree with internet correct
it’s on mobile too
For some reason when i tell my monkey to mimic me and hit a dummy he doesnt train with it
HOW TO FIND IRON HOW TO FIND IRON HOW TO FIND IRON HOW TO FIND IRON AND GOLD?
Good monkeys,it reminded me of Ancestors,give them stick,we conquering the world now!!
Boomstick i love yo videos and they were helpful i already knew the chest but the others were helpful 👍🏻
EXCELLENT! THANKS FOR CRASH COURSE!
This was a good tutorial. Had played this game about a few hours and was struggling to have my first monkey learn something.. also had some trouble figuring out the skilltree parts... now I have something to work with. thanks :)
1. after you sleep -> destroy your bed, you wont lose any material if it's only a base bed.. other type of bed will lose like nails or something, then you can carry the material to make bed blueprint anywhere.. no bed = no base, no base = no raid 2. if you want to you can build a fake base, just build a bed somewhere else, so that the raid will attack there.. protect the fake base with walls and then spike traps.. dont forget to drop by after the raid is ended to collect something (that the attacker dropped after they die by the spike traps) and repair the walls and spike traps 3. no need to build animal (rabbit) traps if you already unlocked the spike traps.. just build spike traps around the rabbit hole an visit it daily to collect the meat and fur, and also repairs it 4. unlike in real life deforestation is a good thing here 5. sell anything that piling up in your storage box to that idiot merchant.. he even buy mud that you dug in front of him
For the tip and trick
Thank you
hint on how to use comments on youtube: you can edit them.. add some more text and save it, then remove the other comment... and then you can remove my comment on this after.. no hard feelings :)
So Stranded Deep story idea, mincraft-esque crafting, and terraria animations... not quite sold on it...
Ive only found 1 monkey and it got stuck in the side of a cliff while gathering 😂😂
Get the monkeys to do the dirty work for you
THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO, i just got the game for christmas and did the basics, but then i didn’t know what to do, thanks so much for the info. could you do a part 2 by any chance? again, thanks!!
How do i get mud
"Monkey see, Monkey do."
Where did ya find the forest
Thanks so much for making this video. Both entertaining and very informative and helpful :P
thank you
🤔 So, why can't I find more than one monkey? Am I missing something here?
U need to explore there is one at the beginning of the game and the rest are in dungeons
Thanks
what about the mosquitoes?
I suck at this kind of game, thanks it helps a lot!
This game is so unique, it's soo good!
I've had my groups of monkeys auto- build my bases on 3 islands so far
probably one of the best games out!
how do you do a multiplayer?
,,you can teach them to attack" My mind: The Terrarians - Summoner Playthrough
... and so we started another episode of "Planet of the Apes"
Any advice on finding the mystery shop?
Thanks it helps a lot, but no videos is talking about food, that’s my real issue, i’m not good at this kind of game lol
Is there any way you can pick up items quickly rather than space?
Thank you so much!
How do I get shovel and sail
If you tell someone to watch this BEFORE PLAYING in your title Then you better tell them what you are doing. EVERY STEP. you jump in already opening menus and moving stuff around not even saying how you are doing it. It is really frustrating.
Reject tradition... embrace monke
We (Me and my friend) Are getting this game, on Switch, and we kind of needed a guide/tutorial. Thank you for this!
4:35 this also work for children
You can teach monkeys to add materials to your blueprints too.
very helpful , thanks for keeping it short.
Anyone who has played Monkey Island series smell some coincidences??
Only thing I dont like is I have to show them multiple times, I feel like when they're blue in a task it should be a hot key for it
Stardew with Monkeys, limited game play so far, but still fun. Certainly not Terraria, but lets see what the Devs keep adding.
Hiw do you get metal ingots?
I like the idea of the monkeys helping out but the process is so technical. I don't feel like I'm training my monkey but programming them, like a robot rather than a cute living friend.
How do you jump over gaps? There's one preventing me from finishing a vault @Boomstick Gaming
Thanks for the help man
this is a very good guide, now I fully understand how to play, I'm stuck at build base like where I will build and will I live in that forever
Does anyone have the bugs where the monkeys drop something and you can no longer pick it up .. Not even the monkeys can pick it up. It's buggy (it's always wood.. So many woodlogs around my base cant pick it up..)
I'm finding the game very fun, but sometimes I think that some creations take a lot of time and a lot of items.
The monkeys just make it easier...it's faster than it should when the itens are easy to make
I run out of coconuts and starve.
Don't Starve
Great tips! We've been enjoying the game so far, for several hours, but some of these tips still don't feel intuitive. Thanks for helping 😊
Is this a point click game? Even on console?
It’s not
Don't forget to like the video
Is there a creative mode?
did he said mysterious stranger......hmmm patroling youtube makes me wish for a nuclear winter awhh thise days... so sad great memories :) peace be upon u
Thanks Alex.
I’m playin on iphone arcade and can not get my friends to join my game i send invites to my game as a host but when they click the link it just brings them to their own game what am i doin wrong?
How to get iron
Great guide thanks alot
Like 17 ads on a 13 min video? I pay for premium but wtf
Those are section dividers not ads
Where mango can be found???
@James Kane thanks a lot!
2nd Island pal, Big Mango trees
WARNING FOR CONSOLE USERS!!!! Do NOT quit your game while one of your monkeys are holding a chest. I did and when I reloaded he didn’t have the chest anymore and I lost SO MANY important items!
Thank you so much!
@Matthew Ponder Don't feel dumb it's a SEVERE bug and this affects PC and Consoles. Gonna try the "M" key as Ryan James Indangan suggested.
Thank you for the tip, I’m playing on console and didn’t know you could get a monkey to hold a chest until now so thanks for saving me from losing all of my items
@Ryan James Indangan that’s for computers
Thanks
Can someone help me? I'm trying to do a treasure map on a new island i've discovered and the place on the treasure map does not exist, it is telling me to go to the Silverbreaker region and when i go there, the place on the treasure map is not there
Dude, I don't wanna sound negative, but you practically spoiled the whole game at its current state! LMAO
The whole game? I showed 1 island! lol
How do i get metal ?
2nd Island
How do i destroy a blueprint i put down?
Select the same blueprint and then click con delete/destroy blueprint (not destroy mode).
Thanks for the video full of advice. It helped with the monkey using weapons. Not too many people give advice about the survivalists game.
The controls are super clunky on this game. Somehow I always select multiple monkeys even though I only want to select one. I will highlight only one and it will throw a banana to three around me. The depositing monkeys don't select the chest that already has a material in it and just put it in another chest which is kind of silly AI. Lots of tweaks that I would like to be seen done to this game.
best way on mouse and keyboard is to press and hold Q then press E on the specific monkey you want to learn :)
how do you throw the spear using mouse and keyboard? please and thank you!
hold down right click, aim and release
The monkey holding a chest..genius!! I paused the video after that and got organized thanks..I'll just keep coming here for tips!!
@Michael Miles you can have 3 destroy and 3 gather, moves quicker that way. Later on allows for multiple areas to be done
A handy tip too. Pit the chest on the ground and tear the forest apart and rocks. Then teach a monkey to fill it for you by simply picking up one thing and putting it in the chest. Then once the area is clear you can move on
Am I just blind, or does iron just absolutely not exist outside of chests in this game?
Yeah oh in my second island I got 112 from one cave and surrounding the cave
Not on first island ^^
Great tips! :)
Really wish the monkeys would maintain their task knowledge and you could set it through a command and not an action after they've been taught.
@Luiz Soares lmao you act like we have friends...
You should try the multiplayer,so you can slave your smart friends !
We thought the same thing! Frustrating that you always have to re-teach them.
OMG! i didnt know that u can cancel the task and let the monkey continue it for you! i always would just craft an easy stuff first and then once the monkey is on craft mode then i make it do the longer task. good tip!
I was doing that also haha sometimes I'd make something that the monkey timer would run out first haha
This helped me immensely. I ran past the locked up monkeys and chest because I didn't know how to open them lol
Hey can you please remake this video, the Mic quality is very bad and I cant understand anything you said.
Prolly you don't hear well, nor speak english, in first place. lol
it's not bad at all, what?
great vid
Is there a reliable way to get iron? I find them in a dungeon but I was hoping if there was a way to find them naturally
Plant in caves on other islands I just walked away with 112
on others islands, they look like stone rocks but with grey metal inside :)
Yoo! Thanks for nice video dude! Really helpful.
what about elixirs and fresh water???
Glass Bottle, collect sea water (dirty water) then you gotta get it clean I won't spoil that for you
Top Tippage, thanks Alex.
Welcome!
Wow didn’t realise it released Edit: Friday release for console I cannot wait me and my son been waiting for this since escapists gonna be some fun co-op
Anyone know how endgame is? Like is there much variety to building? Does the game evolve or stay the same as the first 30 minutes throughout?
Same. The game loop does not change really. Not a lot of depth at the moment but they're adding.
It does evolve exploring dungeons and improving your gear and the building is not that expansive but it is indeed a great amount of recipes
I got you. Working on the video as we speak
I’m high af but these vids lit had to sub
I like dinky lil games like this
Thanks for bringing this game to our attention. I'm downloading the demo now on the Nintendo switch. From your video it seems like a pretty chill game. And I need a little chill right now.
yeh its really chill too
This game seems very fun, is there any multiplayer support and is it made by the same producers of the escapist?
@Gibson Axe ok thx bro
@XxRGAMExX it has both offline and online play
@Boomstick Gaming this game it's just online or it's have and offline ?
Yes and yes
@Boomstick Gaming radical, thank you 😀👍
Great Guide! :)
Great Game :)
Nice games, i like escapist
Yeah