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In Dave the Diver, there are a few tips you should keep in mind. With these tricks, you’ll make quick progress and be able to farm all the achievements.
Dave the Diver: Tips and Tricks for Diving
A successful sushi restaurant starts with successful diving expeditions. Here are some tips on how to get the most out of your dives in the Blue Hole:
- Focus on upgrades first: At the start of “Dave the Diver,” you might not know what to do with all the gold you earn. There are many ways to spend the gold as the game progresses, but at the beginning, you should invest your money in upgrades for Dave’s diving gear to make your dives more effective. There are four pieces of equipment you can upgrade: buoyancy, wetsuit, harpoon, and oxygen tank. Focus on buoyancy and the oxygen tank first so you can stay underwater longer and bring more fish back to the surface. If you exceed your weight limit, your movement will be restricted, making it harder to reach the surface.
- Explore the width first: The Blue Hole is much deeper than it is wide, but at the start of the game, you can’t dive very deep yet. Fortunately, there are plenty of fish to catch above 50 meters, so you can still get a lot out of your dives even without upgrades for your suit. However, the fish are widely scattered. You won’t find them all on the left side of the Blue Hole map, where you start your dives. It’s worth swimming to the opposite side of the map to discover new fish species you haven’t encountered yet.
- Collect everything: In addition to fish, there’s a lot of trash in the shallow areas of the Blue Hole: glass, rope, and scrap metal, among many other materials. Most of these items weigh less than half a kilogram, so you can carry them on every dive without them weighing you down. If you exceed your weight limit after catching some fish, you can easily drop these items again. These seemingly random items serve several purposes. First, you can sell them to Cobra once you’ve unlocked Cobra’s Premium Shop. This is a great way to earn extra gold before a shift at Bancho’s sushi restaurant to buy new furnishings and hire new staff. You can also use these items to craft new weapons and complete tasks in the Ecowatcher app. In addition to the items, you’ll find chests in the Blue Hole. Some of these chests contain items or ingredients, while others contain weapons that help you unlock new blueprints from Duff.
- Watch out for aggressive species: Fish with a small red diamond above their heads will attack you if they spot you. You can still catch these aggressive fish species by either killing them or using non-lethal methods like the net gun or tranquilizer dart. However, they will continue to chase you until you are either far enough away from them or you catch them. Aggressive species can provide some good meals, but you should avoid getting hit by them, especially early in the game.
Your oxygen tank serves as your health bar in “Dave the Diver.” If you get hit, your oxygen is depleted and your dive is cut short. - Keep the dishes in mind: It’s difficult to keep track of the ingredients for specific dishes in “Dave the Diver” because there are a large number of ingredients and recipes. However, you can steer your dive in a specific direction. For example, catching multiple specimens of the same fish species allows you to improve the quality of the evening’s dish. The most important thing is how you catch the fish. “Dave the Diver” includes a star rating for every fish you catch, which reflects how much meat you can extract from the fish. Here’s how it works: One star: You killed the fish. Two stars: You’ve injured the fish but caught it before it died. Three stars: You’ve caught the fish without injuring it. At the start, your standard speargun causes some damage to the fish, so you’ll initially get a lot of two-star catches. As you progress through the game, you can unlock non-lethal catching methods like the net gun and tranquilizer dart, which allow you to achieve a three-star rating. A higher star rating yields more meat, allowing you to enhance your dishes for more flavor.
Dave The Diver: Tips and Tricks for the Sushi Restaurant
In the evening, you open Bancho’s Sushi Bar to serve dishes and earn money. Here are some tips on how to get the most out of every evening:
- Focus on taste rather than price: There are two main characteristics of a dish: taste and price. It’s important to earn gold from your sushi restaurant, but in the beginning, you should focus on getting the best taste out of your food. Better taste leads to happier customers, but more importantly, it increases your rating in the Cooksta app. Increasing your rating in the Cooksta app unlocks new sushi recipes, more menu slots, and more space for staff. It’s the key to improving your sushi restaurant. So always keep the customer experience in mind to boost your Cooksta rating.
- Improve simple dishes: As your carrying capacity increases, you can bring back many simple fish from each dive. These aren’t worthless, even if you already have some sophisticated dishes on the menu. You can improve the taste of a dish by sacrificing some of your ingredients.
That’s why it’s important to focus on catching a large number of a specific fish species during your early dives. These upgraded dishes cost more, generate more revenue, and taste better, leading to higher customer satisfaction. Even if they aren’t the star of your menu, upgraded simple dishes can fill the gaps on your menu. Even better, upgrading a dish is permanent. Whenever possible, try to upgrade dishes on your menu, even if it means sacrificing some ingredients. Over time, you’ll be able to benefit from high-end dishes as you expand your fish farm and catch rarer fish in the depths. - Stock Your Menu: Before opening the sushi bar each evening, you must set the menu. It’s important to create a compelling menu from the start that considers both the price and taste of each dish, and to keep the menu stocked with dishes throughout the evening. At any time while the sushi bar is open, you can open the menu and swap out dishes for which you’ve run out of ingredients. This pauses the shift, so you don’t have to rush.
- Hire staff to help Early in the game, you’ll unlock the ability to hire staff for your sushi bar. Your first employee is a server, and shortly after they join the team, you’ll see many more customers. Post job ads for new staff as often as possible and try to have employees working in both the kitchen and the dining room. The distribution of your staff is key to running your sushi restaurant efficiently. If you have two employees in the dining room but none in the kitchen, a bottleneck will occur where customers don’t receive their meals on time.
