Tips: Get sleep often, put valuable items in storage, catching resources also has a chance of earning you research parts, turn off the lights when the red haze appears.
Thank you Matzel! The boost and drift to avoid is something I would not have thought to do. This will be a game changer for me because I drive the boat like I've been drinking LOL
Right now I'm trying to beat the game without sleeping... you can imagine what kind of creatures I have to deal with all day and night. Subscribe if you don't want to miss the video :)
best thing for research parts is doing the travelling merchants quest she asks you to find and catch rare fish types theres like 6 in total 2 or 3 of them are behind walls that require whaler explosives but the others aren't and each fish yields 2 research parts from the merchant.
"He shall know your ways as if he were born to them" Is how I feel after watching this following my first 40 days in game lol If you know the qoute, you're awesome!
At the traveling merchant or (the woman in each major island) you can buy metal and a research part in the last tab of the shipyard, it only shows up roughly once a week or so, but closing and reopening helps speed things up. Another way to speed things up is to just sleep through the nights and check each morning but it’s slightly slower