The Sims 2: Castaway/Miscellaneous

This section includes plans for crafting tools and objects that fall under Special Plans. Some tools only need to be crafted once, and then they'd permanently stay in your Sims' Inventory. As you progress through the game, you'll unlock better tools to craft. If you have more than one of the same tool, your Sim will automatically use the better-quality tool. You need to craft higher-quality tools in order to gather certain resources, such as hardwood and sandalwood.

Tool Plans
Higher-quality tools require good Mechanical Skill.

Torch
''There are two important components to any torch: the stick and the open flame atop it. Be sure to remember this when assembling your own at home.''

You need to craft a torch and have it in your Sim's Inventory if you want to harvest honeycomb.

Chicken Trap
Ancient man trapped chickens by playing a primitive musical instrument and then hitting them with it.

You need at least one chicken trap in order to catch a chicken, but you can craft more than one and place it down wherever there are chicken feathers on the ground. You need to wait several hours (even a few days) after setting down for your trap to get a better chance of catching a chicken. Once you've caught a chicken, it'll appear in your Sim's Inventory. You can either cook it for food or set it on a chicken coop so it can produce eggs that you can eat.

Stone Hoe
Now you too can cultivate the earth just like our ancestors did a thousand years ago - with a stone hoe and percolating resentment.

You need a hoe in order to grow your own crops.

Fish Trap
''The first fish trap was a sharpened pole stuck in the water, although no one was sure how this was supposed to catch fish. Still, it was a start.''

Fish traps work similar to chicken traps. With the fish trap, you can catch fish you wouldn't be able to catch just by fishing with the pole or spear, including squid and eels. You can also catch small and medium fish, but not large fish such as sharks. To set a fish trap, have one in your Sim's Inventory, walk up to any school of fish in the water, and use the Place Trap interaction. Like with chicken traps, you need to leave the fish traps several hours and then return to check if you've caught anything. The longer you wait, the more likely you are to get something.

Metal Axe
''Ask not what this metal axe can do for you, ask what you can do with this metal axe. Or, skip that part and read this: you can only chop sandalwood with this.''

An upgrade to the stone and shell axe. This is the best axe available and the only one in which you can harvest sandalwood, which you need for higher-quality crafting projects, particularly shelters.

Shell Axe
Your Things to Cleave list will get shorter and shorter once you make a shell axe, so chop to it.

The most basic version of the axe available. It's a good idea to craft this tool as soon as it becomes available, because with it you can gather softwood from trees, which you'll need for crafting projects.

Stone Axe
''Overuse this stone hand-tool and you'll definitely have an axe to grind. At least this will allow you to harvest hardwood.''

An upgrade to the shell axe. With this, you can harvest hardwood as well as softwood.

Metal Chisel
''Michelangelo used little more than a metal chisel to carve his masterpiece, David. What great things will you accomplish with yours? May we suggest using it to accent your home construction or perhaps harvesting ore?''

The best type of chisel you can craft.

Stone Chisel
Use this tool to liven up your carving projects with that sexy chiseled look.

The most basic version of the chisel tool. You need a chisel for certain crafting projects. You'll also need a chisel for gathering certain resources, as well as getting access to the portal from Geyser Plains to Volcano Overlook on Volcano Island.

Bamboo Fishing Pole
The flexible durability of a bamboo fishing pole helps assure that "the big one" won't ever get away from you again.

The most basic version of the fishing pole. This is required in order to catch the bigger fish. To fish, approach any ocean, river, or pool and select the interaction to start fishing. As with the spear, fishing is all about timing and patience. You should see a red bobber in the water. Keep a close eye on it. Wait until the bobber sinks deeper into the water; you've got something. Press the button to reel the fish in. What you capture depends on where you fish.

Wood Fishing Pole
''Only the Pied Piper of Fish can catch his dinner with a happy tune. You however need a fishing pole.''

An upgrade to the bamboo fishing pole.

Metal Hammer
Be warned that once you make this tool, you may feel inclined to hammer in the morning, and in the evening as well...

An upgrade to the stone hammer.

Stone Hammer
''What's the difference between a stone hammer and an average rock that you pick up and smash against something? Very little.''

The most basic version of the hammer, and a necessity for crafting projects, including that of building shelters.

Shell Hoe
May your first island garden flourish under the gentle tilling that only a shell hoe can provide.

Machete
As the most hack and slash of all cutlery, the machete has obtained a certain level of flora-clearing notoriety.

An upgrade to the pocket knife and obsidian knife. The machete is great for chopping down resources such as rattan, bamboo, sugar cane, etc. It harvests these resources faster than the other knives.

Obsidian Knife
Although obsidian knives can be sharpened to a molecular-thin edge, they are not recommended for splitting hairs.

When you craft this tool, it'll replace the pocket knife you got at the very start of the game.

Umbrella
''Never open an umbrella inside your shelter. You may be stranded on an island, but the laws of superstition still apply.''

Umbrellas replace the banana leaves your Sims use to shelter from rain. Umbrellas reduce the chance of your Sims' clothes getting damaged from weather.

Sewing Kit
Veteran castaways know torn fabric is no laughing matter, unless you rip your pants and don't have a sewing kit handy.

The sewing kit is a very useful tool if you care about your Sim's appearance and don't want their new clothes getting ruined by the elements. With the sewing kit, you can cut your Sims' hair, as well as repair any damage to your Sims' top, bottoms and shoes.

Bamboo Spear
''Don't be bamboozled by this bamboo spear. Just aim, stab, repeat.''

This version of the spear is the most basic available. You need a spear to catch fish. To go fishing via the spear, go up to any school of fish in the water and select the interaction to start fishing. Your Sim will equip their spear. Fishing with the spear is all about patience and timing. Watch the fish in the water. As soon as you see a fish jump out of the water, that's your cue to strike. You can catch a variety of fish via the spear. Whilst fishing, the fish may scatter, automatically ending your session. If you mistime your strike, the fish may scatter.

Obsidian Tipped Spear
In the right hands, an obsidian-tipped spear can be a comical instrument of self-inflicted injury.

The better-quality spear.

Sand Buddy
''Sand buddies aren't just for castaways. People everywhere are discovering the special rewards of sand friendship.''

Sand buddies are a substitute for absent Sims or if there aren't any chimps around for company. The sand buddy provides the Social motive for your Sim when they interact with it.

Chess Table
Centuries ago, castaway chess sets used real prawns as pawns, but they kept scuttling around the board and changing the dynamic of the game.

If you need to build up on your Logic Skill, the chess table will help your Sims with that. They also provide your Sims with Fun. You need to have at least one dining chair in order to use the chess table. If you place two chairs by the chess table, two Sims can play against each other.

Rope
When you reach the end of your rope, tie it off and weave a new one.

Ropes are used in a lot of crafting projects, including furniture and shelters.

Twine
If you find the need to bind, just unwind a bit of twine.

Twine is used in crafting projects.

Bamboo Crafting Bench
This crafting bench is a modest improvement over simpler benches, allowing for more advanced lashing and planning.

An upgrade to the driftwood crafting bench. Unlike the driftwood bench, the bamboo bench can be placed anywhere. It's a good idea to place one of these as soon as you can, because you can craft items you couldn't make with the driftwood bench. You can place more than one crafting bench.

Raft
''This is a standard raft fitted with a manual propulsion engine and a flamingo. This boat is only suitable for calm, shallow water.''

You need to build the raft in order to travel to Airplane Island. It can only be built at the Ancient Pier on Pier Beach at Shipwreck Island, and it's only built once. Once you've built the raft, you can travel between Shipwreck Island and Airplane Island.

Death Daisy Potion
Before the advent of Death Daisy Potion, reanimating the dead was reserved for gods and mad scientists.

You can only craft this special potion after a Sim dies. It is used to resurrect a Sim that has died. The Death Daisy resource is harvested from the grave of the deceased Sim.

Rope Bridge
''The rope bridge is a safe, but harrowing way to cross various gullies, gulches, and gorges. Remember: Don't look down.''

Constructing the rope bridge isn't a requirement, but it is very handy if you don't want your Sims travelling between the plains on Airplane Island via climbing. It can only be built for the purpose of making travel easy between the plains.

Canoe
''Featuring bi-lateral stabilizers port and starboard, this canoe is fitted with a manual propulsion engine, but sadly, no flamingo. This canoe would do well crossing narrow but fast channels.''

The canoe can only be built at Airplane Island at East Beach in order to reach Volcano Island. Once it has been constructed, you can travel between the islands as many times as you like.

Hardwood Crafting Bench
The hardwood crafting bench is sturdy and dense enough to handle major crafting tasks, especially advanced woodworking.

The best crafting bench that can be constructed. Placing one of these is a good idea if you want to access more crafting plans.

Glass (Fine Sand)
Artisans learned to change the properties of glass by adding materials like metal oxides and chocolate chips.

One of two ways to craft glass. This method uses the fine sand resource.

Glass (Bottles)
Artisans learned to change the properties of glass by adding materials like metal oxides and chocolate chips.

The second method for crafting glass. This one uses the messages-in-a-bottle that wash up on beaches.

Catamaran
Fitted with a large Llama figurehead and a sturdy sail, this Catamaran may be just strong enough to take you wherever you want to go, no matter how far.

Your Sims' ticket to escaping back to civilisation. Can only be built at Volcano Island on North Volcano Beach. This is one of the most difficult items to craft, requiring the best axe, the highest Body Skill, and lots of different wood, cotton and rope.

Black Dye
Even under the unforgiving island sun, basic black still goes with everything.

Used to dye your Sims' clothes.

Blue Dye
''Looking to turn something blue? Then this is the dye for you.''

Used to dye your Sims' clothes. This dye is also used with crafting some of the highest-quality furniture.

Brown Dye
Brown dye is a constant delight, hiding stains and telling the fashion world that you no longer care.

Used to dye your Sims' clothes.

Orange Dye
Orange the fruit was named long before orange the color, leading some to believe that useless trivia like this is best left unsaid.

Used to dye your Sims' clothes.

Purple Dye
Deep, royal, and long overdue for a comeback, this could be purple's breakout moment.

Used to dye your Sims' clothes. Also used for some of the highest-quality furniture plans.

Red Dye
Red is the color of rage and war, or yummy strawberries, depending on your mood.

Used to dye your Sims' clothes.

Yellow Dye
Yellow is a bright and optimistic color, best suited for kitchens, solariums, and teeth.

Used to dye your Sims' clothes.

Cultivatable Soil Patch
Soil generally contains a balanced amount of minerals and organic material, providing an optimal environment for successful plant growth.

With each of these patches, you can grow one crop. To grow multiple crops, you need to place multiple soil patches.

Chicken Coop
Coops are like low-income housing for chickens, only roomier and with quieter neighbors.

With the chicken coop, you can place any chicken you've caught so it can produce eggs, which can then be cooked and eaten. To speed up the process, use the Serenade interaction on the chicken.