An actual night sky that allowed you to use stars as points to navigate by.
The fact that the ocean has no current really dispels the illusion that I'm actually on a boat at sea. Weather really needs to do more currently. Show dark clouds forming a few hours before the rain starts and have the rain grow in intensity. Add a "humidity" gauge on your watch perhaps. Knowing when it's going to rain would be incredible. If rescue is possible, it has to be hard, complex, and risky for example, add some clues that are difficult to find and piece together, then require some difficult fabrication/preparation, and then have to risk it all by venturing out on a journey of no return OK maybe a helper monkey.Ĭoop-multi might be an OK mode but the beauty of this game is the solo survival, so make it more creepy scary hardĪuto-paddle would be a minor quality of life improvement, although the purists wouldn't like itĬrude fishing nets hammocks rainwater collection Plant growth slow down potatoes and yuccasīut none of the crazy stuff people suggest, like pirates or Russian subs or sharks with lazers or dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they bark they shoot bees at you. Real night sky, some folks know about the constellations
Phases of the moon currently full moon every night Realistic storms that form and approach, causing stormy seas lightning, wind, typhoon maybe?
Others have mentioned larger islands and dangerous land animals, tougher GWSs, and I'd like to also see more natural realism: