Somehow you have been abducted by an evil eccentric billionaire and placed on a tropical island. You have no weapons and you must hunt for food as well as defend yourself from roving bands of thieves and cannibals. What weapons do you make first and what is your strategy for surviving. The tropical island is pretty lush with vegetation and you can imagine whatever kind of critters you want inhabit this island.

Edit: I forgot to mention you are naked.

Pikaru has it right in my opinion. the club is the first thing to get, after that im thinking a natural fiber sling. and then its raiding time.

  I would first make sime kind of pant like structure out of large thick leaves.  I'd then cover the rest of my body with mud to help me blend in more. Then I'd construct a Yeti Suit. This can be done by folding a branch in half like a snowshoe and weaving vegatation through the suit. Then I'd some how bait them in just before dark and take out one of the guards (probably by crushing his trachea or skull with a club or rock or after tackling the guad take his wepon and kill him with it, or maybe double eye gouge then tearing out the neck with my teeth  depends on the guard and the circumstances I guess) my size and then take his clothes and weapon. From here the process is pretty simple and you just eliminate the rest of the threats, fully clothed.

I am pretty good with my hands, both for fighting and construction so I'd probably rely more on taking out the guards than Robinson Crusoe-ing it.


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  This sounds like one of my scenarios.  The very first weapon I'd make is a nice, thick bamboo staff.  Once I had that in my hands I'd find some rocks to bash together to make a quick knife and cut a sharp point on one end of my staff making it a combination thrusting spear/head bashing staff.  Next I'd throw together an emergency sling with some vines.  Clothes I wouldn't be that concerned with since this is a tropical island, but I'd probably spread mud over myself for camouflage and some protection from sun and biting insects.  
  I'd wait for nightfall and, like Dan,  try to sneak up on and take out one of the guards, as silently as possible.  I'd probably try to garrote one with a vine.  Hopefully he'd be near my size so his shoes and clothes could be useful to me.  Of course I'd also confiscate what ever weapons he had.  I'd do my best to stay as inactive as possible during the day and strike when possible at night.  One thing you learn in the army is how to become invisible, and that's for real.  
  Now here's one of those questions... some of the people after you are cannibals.  If you're unable to find any food and you're starving, if you do happen to take out one of them do you cut yourself off some cannibal meat or just leave the body there?  You're fighting for your life here so anything goes, but how far would you take it?

Don't forget to "Stomp the groin"!

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I'd have to be pretty damn hungry (like brink of death) to do that, but you probably would want to hide the body somehow...

Good replies though. I never would have thought about using mud for camo.

I wouldn't eat another person, not from taboo, but because I'd be worried about getting a form of spongiform encephalitis (mad cow disease) which is prevalent in cannibalistic societies.

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then don't eat the brain or the spinal cord. Everything else is just tasty meat
Cannibals eat the brains as a way of absorbing the victims powers. it's the brain and spinal cord that carries the virions that cause cjd.

No other part of the body causes any risk whatsoever
Thigh would be pretty good.
You can keep the prairie oysters though 

The first thing I would make is some footwear. bark and vines would furnish sandals and after that you can concentrate on weapons.
But being able to walk on all the insects and thorns and stones and spiny bits of twig without crippling yourself is definitely task No 1