Card Survival: Tropical Island – List of All Limited Resources

Non-Renewable

All the items below are limited and there is no way to obtain them again if they are destroyed, used, or lost.

• Weston: If Macaque stole Weston, it can be recovered from their den.
• Well

Almost all the card characters start from perks that are limited.
This includes any Glasses cards. There is no way to craft or get more of those.
The exception to this is the starting clothes from the hunter.

The shipwreck contains 6 pieces of scrap metal, 4 ropes, 1 jerrycan, and 1 plastic sheet.
Scrap metal, jerrycan, and plastic are finite.

• 1 Plastic Bottle in the Rocks Area
• 1 Piece of Copper Ore in the Eastern Highland
• 1 Piece of Copper Ore in the Volcano

• 1 Skeleton Card on the Highland Hole
• 7 Copper Vein, found in a few caverns.

• Copper: Even if the 2 pieces of copper are found and the veins were mined, they can be obtained by breaking geodes, so they are “infinite”
• Scrap Metal: Only available in the shipwreck and from some certain perks.

Renewable

These resources below have to do limit, but the player actions, or lack of actions, can make their number go up.

The island has a hidden counter of the population of animals.
The more creatures of the same time the survivor hunts, it will become harder and harder to find another and to the point, the creature may get exterminated.
Note that exterminating an animal on the island takes some serious dedication, so is not something to be worried about until a large number of traps or the survivor was actively hunting.

• Reproduction: All the animal numbers go up naturally as they slowly reproduce. A large number of animals on the island, the faster they reproduce. Large animals like boars and lizards take above 10 days to reproduce.
• Predator effect: The population numbers will change over time depending on much of a certain animal is being hunted. For example, killing many partridges will have an impact on Lizard Population.

• Fish: Fish are infinite.
• Bees: having a swarming skep back to normal will raise the bee population.
• Crabs, conches, urchins, and prawns: Can be temporarily driven extinct but new individuals will start to appear again after a while.
• Partridges: Releasing them raises the island population. So having a male and a female in an enclosure can help you recover their numbers.
• Goats: Releasing them raises the island population. So having a male and a female in an enclosure can help you recover their numbers.

Each zone has a hidden population of plants. Some are shared between a few areas.
If the survivor finds many plants and harvests them, it will become harder and harder to get another, until the point the plant is no longer present in the area.

• Always leave 1 plant in a zone if possible, until you know you have more of the same plant in another part of the island to be planted later.

• Large trees, Small Trees, and Small Palms are infinite, BUT only 1 maximum per area. If the survivors cut one of them, a new one will appear after exploring it a few times.
• Coconut Palms: These are finite AND only 1 maximum per area (With coconuts). If the survivor gets the coconuts and explores the area, eventually a new palm will be found until their population is 0. Their number is quite generous and they should not be exterminated that easily. In case the survivor is chopping those, keep a few coconuts (with the husk) to plant later.