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.

Torch
Crafting Bench	Driftwood
Tools	Pocket Knife
Resources	5 Softwood

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.

Chicken Trap
Crafting Bench	Bamboo
Tools	Pocket Knife
Skill(s)	Mechanical 5
Resources	10 Softwood

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.

Stone Hoe
Crafting Bench	Bamboo
Tools	Pocket Knife
Skill(s)	Mechanical 6
Resources	5 Stone, 5 Hardwood, 5 Rope

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.

Fish Trap
Crafting Bench	Bamboo
Tools	Pocket Knife
Skill(s)	Mechanical 5
Resources	10 Softwood

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.

Metal Axe
Crafting Bench	Forge
Tools	Hammer
Skill(s)	Mechanical 8
Resources	25 Metal Ore, 5 Hardwood

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.

Shell Axe
Crafting Bench	Driftwood
Tools	Pocket Knife
Resources	4 Large Clam Shell, 5 Bamboo, 5 Vine

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.

Stone Axe
Crafting Bench	Bamboo
Tools	Pocket Knife
Skill(s)	Mechanical 6
Resources	5 Stone, 5 Bamboo, 5 Vine

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.

Metal Chisel
Crafting Bench	Forge
Tools	Hammer
Skill(s)	Mechanical 8
Resources	15 Metal Ore, 5 Hardwood

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.

Stone Chisel
Crafting Bench	Bamboo
Tools	Pocket Knife
Skill(s)	Mechanical 4
Resources	1 Stone

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.

Bamboo Fishing Pole
Crafting Bench	Driftwood
Tools	Pocket Knife
Skill(s)	Mechanical 3
Resources	5 Bamboo, 5 Softwood, 5 Vine

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.

Wood Fishing Pole
Crafting Bench	Bamboo
Tools	Pocket Knife
Skill(s)	Mechanical 5
Resources	5 Softwood, 5 Hardwood, 5 Twine

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.

Metal Hammer
Crafting Bench	Forge
Tools	Hammer
Skill(s)	Mechanical 8
Resources	35 Metal Ore, 5 Hardwood

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.

Stone Hammer
Crafting Bench	Bamboo
Tools	Pocket Knife
Skill(s)	Mechanical 4
Resources	5 Softwood, 1 Stone

Shell Hoe

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

Shell Hoe
Crafting Bench	Driftwood
Skill(s)	Mechanical 2
Resources	3 Large Clam Shell, 5 Bamboo, 5 Rope

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.

Machete
Crafting Bench	Forge
Tools	Hammer
Skill(s)	Mechanical 8
Resources	35 Metal Ore, 5 Hardwood

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.

Obisidian Knife
Crafting Bench	Bamboo
Tools	Pocket Knife
Skill(s)	Mechanical 4
Resources	5 Obsidian, 5 Softwood

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.

Umbrella
Crafting Bench	Driftwood
Tools	Pocket Knife
Skill(s)	Mechanical 7
Resources	5 Bamboo, 5 Banana Leaf

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.

Sewing Kit
Crafting Bench	Driftwood
Tools	Pocket Knife
Resources	5 Twine, 5 Softwood

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.

Bamboo Spear
Crafting Bench	Driftwood
Tools	Pocket Knife
Resources	5 Bamboo

Obsidian Tipped Spear

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

The better-quality spear.

Obsidian Tipped Spear
Crafting Bench	Bamboo
Tools	Pocket Knife
Skill(s)	Mechanical 4
Resources	5 Obsidian, 5 Bamboo

Leisure Plans

Sand Buddy

Sand Buddy
Need Effects	Social 4
Resources	10 Grass, 5 Pokeberry, 1 Coconut

Chess Table

Chess Table
Need Effects	Fun 7
Tools	Chisel
Skill(s)	Mechanical 6, Creativity 4
Resources	10 Softwood, 10 Hardwood

Special Plans

Rope

Rope
Crafting Bench	Driftwood
Resources	5 Sisal

Twine

Twine
Crafting Bench	Driftwood
Resources	2 Sisal

Bamboo Crafting Bench

Bamboo Crafting Bench
Skill(s)	Mechanical 2
Resources	16 Bamboo, 14 Vine

Raft

Raft
Build at...	Ancient Pier (Pier Beach, Shipwreck Island)
Skill(s)	Mechanical 2, Body 2
Resources	50 Bamboo, 30 Vine, 10 Palm Frond

Death Daisy Potion

Death Daisy Potion
Crafting Bench	Bamboo
Skill(s)	Cooking 3
Resources	1 Death Daisy, 1 Blood Orange, 1 Manchineel Fruit, 1 Mandrake Root

Rope Bridge

Rope Bridge
Build at...	Chasm (West/East Plains, Airplane Island)
Skill(s)	Mechanical 4, Logic 4
Resources	10 Rope, 25 Bamboo, 10 Softwood

Canoe

Canoe
Build at...	Ancient Pier (East Beach, Airplane Island)
Tools	Axe
Skill(s)	Body 5
Resources	50 Softwood, 20 Bamboo, 10 Rope

Hardwood Crafting Bench

Hardwood Crafting Bench
Skill(s)	Mechanical 6
Resources	10 Hardwood, 10 Softwood

Glass (Fine Sand)

Glass (Fine Sand)
Crafting Bench	Forge
Tools	Hammer
Skill(s)	Mechanical 8
Resources	40 Fine Sand

Glass (Bottles)

Glass (Bottles)
Crafting Bench	Forge
Tools	Hammer
Skill(s)	Logic 8
Resources	2 Messages in a Bottle

Catamaran

Catamaran
Build at...	Ancient Pier (North Volcano Beach, Volcano Island)
Tools	Metal Axe
Skill(s)	Body 10
Resources	50 Softwood, 30 Hardwood, 30 Sandalwood, 50 Cotton, 15 Rope

Black Dye

Black Dye
Crafting Bench	Hardwood
Skill(s)	Creativity 7
Resources	10 Ash

Blue Dye

Blue Dye
Crafting Bench	Hardwood
Skill(s)	Creativity 7
Resources	10 Blue Orchid

Brown Dye

Brown Dye
Crafting Bench	Hardwood
Skill(s)	Creativity 7
Resources	10 Kukui Nut

Orange Dye

Orange Dye
Crafting Bench	Hardwood
Skill(s)	Creativity 7
Resources	10 Orange Hibiscus

Purple Dye

Purple Dye
Crafting Bench	Hardwood
Skill(s)	Creativity 7
Resources	5 Indigo Leaf, 5 Purple Orchid, 5 Pink Orchid

Red Dye

Red Dye
Crafting Bench	Hardwood
Skill(s)	Creativity 7
Resources	10 Strawberry

Yellow Dye

Yellow Dye
Crafting Bench	Hardwood
Skill(s)	Creativity 7
Resources	10 Yellow Hibiscus

Cultivatable Soil Patch

Cultivatable Soil Patch
Tools	Hoe
Skill(s)	Cooking 4
Resources	1 Ash

Chicken Coop

Chicken Coop
Skill(s)	Mechanical 4
Resources	10 Softwood, 10 Grass, 10 Vine