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Lighthouse (Island 1)

Island 1 Lighthouse: How to Get Off the First Island

You wash up here with nothing: raise $57, trade the keeper a Beer for the can that summons the Spider Crab, and swap its shell for the boat keys.

Lighthouse (Island 1)
Route checked for How to Fish 1.1.3
Quest giverLighthouse keeper (sits on the bench by the lighthouse)
BossSpider Crab
Items neededBeer ($12, sold beside the keeper); Crab-Fishing Rod ($3)
How it unlocksStarting island (you wash up here).

How to finish the first island

The lighthouse keeper on the bench is the only quest giver here, and he wants the creature that stole his beer.

  1. Collect clams along the shore and throw them at the keeper with Q for $1 each.
  2. Buy the Crab-Fishing Rod ($3) and fish with its free Ham; kill each catch before you throw it to the keeper.
  3. Add a $1 Hot Dog to switch to Rock Crab and Lobster, the better-paying pool.
  4. At $57, buy the Knife ($45) and a Beer ($12).
  5. Give the keeper the Beer, fish with the Empty Beer Can he returns and kill the Spider Crab.
  6. Throw him the Spider Crab Shell for the boat keys, then buy the Radar ($10) beside him.

What to buy on the first island

The Lighthouse shop sells the Hot Dog ($1), the Crab-Fishing Rod ($3), the Radio ($10), the Beer ($12), Brass Knuckles ($24), the Knife ($45) and sharpening up to level 3; the Radar ($10) is sold beside the keeper.

Spend in this order: rod, Hot Dogs, Knife, Beer, Radar. Brass Knuckles only make sense if the Knife is out of reach.

First island boss: the Spider Crab

The Spider Crab is a melee fight: sidestep its charge and hit it while it is dazed, on dry rock away from the water. The full fight is on its strategy page.

Boat keys on Island 1

The keeper only hands over the boat keys for the Spider Crab Shell. Without the shell there is no other way to unlock the boat on the starting island.

If he ignores the item you throw, it is a meat chunk, not the shell.

Creatures on the first island

Only crab-rod catches live here: Brown Crab and Shrimp on free Ham, Rock Crab and Lobster on the Hot Dog, plus the Spider Crab boss.

BaitPrice
Brown CrabBrown CrabHam 55.6%$3
ShrimpShrimpHam 44.4%$5
Rock CrabRock CrabHot Dog 76.9%$7
LobsterLobsterHot Dog 23.1%$9
Spider CrabSpider Crab BossEmpty Beer Can 100% ( from the Lighthouse NPC )Not sold whole: the 1.1.3 Fishipedia shows no price (-) for this boss; the fight drops a quest item and meat chunks instead (game data lists a nominal $10000 that players never receive).

Where to go after the first island

Hold the Radar: a green dot near the top-right edge is Island 2, the Forest, to the northwest. Steer toward it and check the Radar again whenever you lose the heading.

Seeing no dot? Hand the shell to the keeper again and re-equip the Radar.