Can You Beat The ULTIMATE Don't Starve Farming Challenge?

[@nikobates6897]

Farming is an amazing way to obtain food for novices and pros alike. It’s certainly not “meta”, since it can be a time sink, but it’s a rewarding game within a game.

[@bumblebirb123]

dont starve farming be like (pain)

[@tiqosc1809]

is actually much bettee than you think , once you get fruit fly and crop combo, you can stuff tons of fridge with pratically endless food to eat

[@RN-pt2xk]

Bro just explained g he entirety of agriculture

[@aart7736]

WHAT FUCKING TIME SINK WAHT DO YOU MEAN "IT'S NOT META" YOU SPEND LIKE 3 DAYS TO GET 90 DAYS WORTH OF FOOD

[@shibainu2528]

I never really practiced this, and my attempts didn't get very far, so take this with the whole salt shaker instead of a grain. Farming feels like a great idea on paper, especially in multiplayer since people can take turns taking care of the farm, staying close to base, while the rest of the team goes out for supplies.

[@frds628]

To answer your question on why some of your plants didn't grow giant, the plants on the end of a straight line will often miss the family bonus due to distance unless your tilling is near perfect (or you use a tilling mod).

[@Nez-ky7hn]

Yeah. To make this clear, it's because the edge plants are too far to see eachother. I was gonna comment but you were already here.

[@declanhanrahan1759]

Very skillful on the fly farm learning!! Honestly the only misplay didn’t even involve the farm, it really would have made sense to take more advantage of Glommer’s huge sanity aura in a challenge where sanity matters this much!

[@mattyv9678]

He could have just slept in a tent 😅 he had a bunch of food its like he forgot it existed

[@asarin1598]

@@mattyv9678 yeah i was coming to comments to see if someone asked why he didn't sleep in tent :D

[@mysteryguitarhaziq]

Dont tell him that theres a hat added in the game that is literally a mini wiki during the farming overhaul update

[@Razmatschannel]

He added a mod to let him see nutrient values but he didnt make the literal FAMRING HAT

[@nightsparkled]

I swear that spider AI does exactly what you said. Gives the exact opposite of what you come farming for...

[@gnomsnooping]

some of your carrots didn't grow giant because of how the family system works. A plant will check for 3 things when it comes to crops near it: 1) are there 3 or more of the same type in a 2 tile radius? 2) are there more than 9 plants and/or weeds in a 2 tile radius? 3) are there any weeds in a 2 tile radius? while with perfect tilling a plot can hold up to 16 plants, the intended plot is supposed to house 9 plants and thus each plant checks only on a 2 tile radius centered on itself The carrots on your corners will never grow big cause they are more than a 3x3 away from eachother. Example 1: X = potato O = empty Plot 1: O X X O X X O O O 3 or more plants of the same type in a 3x3? Yes, no stress point given more than 9 plants and/or weeds in a 3x3? No, no stress point given are there any weeds in a 3x3 ? No, no stress point given Each potato checks for these conditions individually whenever it grows, planted seeds do not check for family, weeds or overcrowding when they are planted. Example 2: X O O O X X O O X In this setup only the middle potato meets the family criteria because the corner potatoes are too far apart from one another. The one on the right middle side will also not be able to meet the family bonus because the left up potato is just outside of the radius. You carrot placement: X = potato C = carrot O = empty G = garlic O O O O O O O C C C C O X X G G X X X X G G X X O C C C C O O O O O O O as we see here the garlics and potatoes each are able to meet the family criteria due to correct placement. When it comes to your carrots, the ones on the far sides only have 2 other carrots in their radius and thus do not meet the family criteria. Optimized placement: O O C C O O O O C C O O X X G G X X X X G G X X O O C C O O O O C C O O With this setup all carrots can meet the family criteria. One more thing: Each garlic plant needs 4 arrows worth of compost,. Each fresh plot starts with a minimum of 2 arrows of each nutrient. Rot gives 1 arrows of compost to the plot. By placing the garlics on a fresh plot, one one each corner so that they meet the family criteria and by fertilizing each plot with 2 rot you will have covered all the family and nutrient needs of garlic which means that you can grow garlic whenever u want, not being restricted to the plants of the season that give compost to the soil.

[@gnomsnooping]

This is also the reason for why the onions on the far sides didn't grow giant

[@hihowareya2536]

This is actually really cool I have been playing don't start for 8 years now and when they added the new farming mechanics I hated them because I didn't understand them but just pretended like they sucked but you actually helped me understand it more than most because you just explained it like a normal person not in depth or anything crazy I'm definitely gonna try for some giants my next world

[@mayson696]

Don't start?

[@JohnnyPederson]

Dot start to greater

[@heatznn]

don't start together, start alone

[@TheLifeLaVita]

you could've just made the farming hat that scans plants and you would've never needed a youtube video about it to understand it

[@patheticlobsters7626]

inventory full of flower petals and the idea of a garland did not once cross his mind 😭

[@angrytrapperyoqbuqtiysqaro]

alternate title: can i play wormwood?

[@jaystar4968]

🎉

[@Plantera2electricboogaloo]

wormwood mains rise up

[@sebastiansundin5325]

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[@Hellopeopleofearth-oq4id]

true

[@juanchomartino6107]

Man, I love farming and cooking in this game, it feels very rewarding even though it takes time because there are recipes for every occasion and alternatives to those same recipes 👾

[@_justkarl]

Idk why but dont starve videos always comes up when it’s close to Christmas.

[@rebeccah4732]

the editing (visuals and music) are phenomenal on this video!! I really enjoyed it, especially the chart of what giants you had filling in as time went on - very effective.

[@IriamDwa-Strzay]

Bro I have a tip regarding a friendly fruit fly. In the video u say that you can leave base whenever u want but you actually can't. Friendly fruit fly works only when you are close enought to load the area, sooo when u leave ur base fruitfly does not work ;C. Yeeach it can mess up the harvest sometimes. And it is the reason why u want to have ur farms in the center or near the center of your base! Hope this tip will help u sometime!!!!!!

[@leahr2302]

a lot of people say farming is a waste of time especially when there’s things like bee boxes etc. i LOVE farming. its fun and you can fill up your cookbook and make cool stuff!

[@JohnnyPederson]

That video was pretty fun to watch, hopefully you continue doing fun challenges like this in the future

[@evfish84]

Your challenges are always so fun and creative. Bravo!

[@evfish84]

This being said, you didn't get giants when you did the 8x4 with watermelon/poms (or the same setup with toma and peppers or dragonfruits) because the two poms at the ends were too far from each other to avoid the "not enough family" stress point. This would accumulate 4 stress points per grow cycle in those end plants, making giants impossible. You would have to utilize a larger growing area to take advantage of that type of synergy.

[@gabrieleugeniomenegazzo9243]

blud forgot he can sleep 😭

[@jessicavazquez6082]

Fym he can sleep

[@gabrieleugeniomenegazzo9243]

@@jessicavazquez6082 "no way to regen sanity!!" Literally one sleep sack:

[@okegom_228]

It isn't allowed

[@gabrieleugeniomenegazzo9243]

@@okegom_228 Where does it say it isn't allowed that is literally not realted to farming...

[@patheticlobsters7626]

inventory full of flower petals and the idea of a garland did not once cross his mind 😭

[@muggymin]

Keep going! I love your videos. You said you don't know anything about sea fishing... Fishing challenge??? Kill crab king and malbatross in the challenge and fish all fish???

[@polarlotus]

ooo, THAT sounds very fun and I will keep it in mind! :D

[@Captainbombastic8524]

Loved the farming In this game very rewarding while keeping the challenge alive ❤

[@MrMagic-ve9uf]

If you play with randoms, at least one of them will try to beat this challenge. Even if you never see each other after first autumn and disconnection. Even if they don't know about this challenge. Even if they 15h. It allways be "the principled farmer".

[@Eli-ey8hh]

Your video is well paced and your voice isn’t annoying perfect FINNALY an almost hour long video that is enjoyable

[@ADarkRaccoon]

Let's hope the algorithm boosts this one! Seems quite a fun challenge (That I Have To Learn Myself Since I Main Wormwood...)

[@Cats_on_fire]

You will need to learn the standard arrays

[@xonnsArt]

can't wait to see this video again in a few months when it goes up to 100k+ views

[@tyler1673]

Sanity shouldn't be a problem while farming. If farming is your only goal, you can use sleep easily. You also obviously have the classic methods of non-food sanity like clothes and pig friends.

[@pamelahilton2266]

The only problem with that is that you have to give your full attention to your crops in order to be able to get giant crops, which 2 of his goals is to get 1 of all types of giant crops and to get 100 giant crops.

[@electromat-6150]

the carrot that didn't grow into giant one at 32 min was because the 4 carrot in a single line was too streched for the family bonus. They need to be close enought so a 3x3 radius. The forth carrot was too far...

[@soupfiend289]

i jumped up and down in excitement when i saw this

[@damienminich9482]

really fun video man , nice job . Im also a dummy when it comes to farming so i felt ya

[@rsolo9294]

Within a year is actually super impressive

[@Z0nnestraal]

Ive alwaysed been able to grow giant crops, albeit with wormwood being able to examine, but i never realised that certain crops work better with eachother because of what they provide

[@BLACKnBLUEgold]

i really loved pebbles . it’s sad he had to leave and maybe is depressed because he got evicted by a person he saw as a friend. he just wanted to be helpful he didn’t deserve to be treated that way. #justiceforpebbles

[@5eunhye]

I really sat through 45 min of watching giant crops grow 10/10

[@Devit42]

you can easily get a year worth of sanity by just researching new recipes

[@stoneface-qq1ir]

Why not just stand near Glommer and befriended pigmen for sanity while wearing a top hat? Or just create a tent? Picking flowers sounds like a lot of work

[@themossyslime]

I think the reason why you only got some onion and carrots to be giant is because they dont check all the way out it seems they only check 2 out from them in a square so they dont see the crops that are 3 spaces away

[@rafaelurdanetarafaelsculpt1445]

Yep when you make a line of 4 plants, the first won't count the last and vice-versa. It's simply too far away

[@Daehpo]

So if one wants to more reliably get giant crops, the crops need to form a sort of 2x2 square for that family group bonus. Perhaps a fairly simple & easy to achieve layout would be to pick 4 crops that could work together nutrients wise & put them in a 3x3 arrangement in a plot. One kind with 4 in the plot(🟩), two kinds with 2 in the plot(🟥& 🟨), & one kind with only 1 in the plot(🟦). Lay them out like so*: 🟥🟥🟦 🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟨 Then add more plots so you can form a 2x2 plot square. Rotate around the single crop per plot(🟦) & repeat the pattern from the first plot to get*: 🟩🟩🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟥🟥🟦🟦🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟦🟦🟥🟥 🟩🟩🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟨🟩🟩 (*Not sure if this will display right on mobile)

[@junova7503]

They CAN reach but only if tilled near perfectly. Any mod that can align tilling (including geometric placement) can alleviate this issue.

[@haunt111]

21:26 among us

[@redstoneraymond5248]

Technically speaking you can farm mushrooms with mushroom planters thus easy access to both blue caps and green caps for easy health and sanity

[@2_Elaias_4]

Great video🫡

[@sokax6079]

hey i love your videos, and since the watermelon challenge ive had an idea, you have to speedrun getting a dragon fruit in all games, but you also have a dragonfruit pie in real life (or apple and make it look like dragon) and every like 5 minutes or 10 or so you stop fully what you're doing, no pause, and eat a spoonful of the pie, and you have to finish before you finish the pie.

[@polarlotus]

This sounds very interesting! I have to redo the dragonpie for the cookbook series anyway :D

[@JustaGrub]

Great vid! Keep it up!!

[@danielgoertz8962]

21:25 Among Us has infected the internet so thoroughly that the automatic subtitles capitalized it. Even KZbin can only think about the funny astronaut game.

[@medicgaming9117]

Wormwood actually mitigates a lot of the issues you came across in this playthrough (sanity, talking etc)

[@gianfrancoortizvera6161]

A challenge to be called challenge means that it has to be beatable, I wouldn’t say easy but beatable

[@X-ONsAdventures]

11:02 hey hey don’t take the corn title away from Iowa bro it’s the only thing we have

[@erikmasa9342]

Pro tip, use roll bed or a tent. Until next time ;)

[@ethribin4188]

"Sanity is going to be a challange" He sais, playing Wilson,who can shave for sanity.

[@charlikuchenkrumel3947]

For sanity u can tame pigs. If u stand near a tamed pig u can use theri sanity aura.

[@RandomGuy-us9go]

I feel like farming for giants is overrated, but maybe thats because im a wormwood main and I plant seeds directly on the ground to get back 1 crop + 1 seed, and I can easily plant 20 of each crop that I want

[@thedarter]

Hey wait a sec, I've already done this challenge! Accidentally! I just really like farming

[@abracazabra8498]

11:50 you could say he has a shit load of compost

[@dravenboquet9498]

I liked the part where he said "it's cropping time" and cropped everywhere

[@Molly-The-Shiny-Mega-Gardevoir]

Wormwood is the best character for farming

[@favouredbarrel4133]

hey I noticed you have a backpack, yet you keep the pigskin in your hotbar. It is better to put the pigskin in the backpack because if you die the pigskin will drop and a mob will eat it, but if it's in your backpack it won't drop and get eaten.

[@gamingdudedonal3312]

I'm surprised you didn't use two of those lightbulbs for a lantern

[@esztergeczi3961]

great video friend, not sure if you know but gloomer has a slight sanity aura, may have that helped!

[@polarlotus]

Thank you! Yeah I realized that a bit late 😅 luckily sanity wasn’t too much of an issue once spring rolled around thanks to melons

[@imi___]

hmmmmmm... I don't really know Don't Starve and maybe there is much more to it, but from just watching, it seems the biggest "challenge" here was the boring "waiting game" and a bit of elementary school math (8-2*2-2*2=0) 😕

[@MustachioToaster]

Yeah this was less a challenge but rather a weird way of playing 🤷

[@sivellaxd5308]

Im suprised he said he didn't use any nightmare fuel.... he could have made a 1 man band and played it for like 0.1 seconds and he wouldnt have had to yap to the crops xDD.

[@jeso0135]

Wait, this is a challenge for most other people, this is just how I play the game regularly, then again I am a Wormwood main

[@FIreWolf3004]

Thanks for making interesting content, Hope to keep supporting

[@polarlotus]

wolfy out here keeping the channel alive 🔥

[@AZ-bc7wd]

Wolfy gonna go bankrupt💀

[@EmilyAmber1999]

Hello! You can make a top hat to increase your sanity during the day :) i think its just 6 silk

[@polarlotus]

@@EmilyAmber1999 thank you! I always forget about most of the clothing items lol

[@EmilyAmber1999]

@ flower crowns work too! They rot faster, but since you’re picking a ton of flowers anyway i think its nbd haha

[@gasmaskboi6904]

Amazing video

[@hozic9929]

i feel like cookpot would be reasonable for this challenge if you only used farm produce for cooking

[@Dodo-uv9bs]

New 0range dst man is rising

[@kayneshawn2]

32:30 they probably dont have enough plants around them to count as familly

[@daviddavidsson6243]

Was about to comment this, they should be planted so all the plants make a ”+” symbol

[@kevinkarpovs3362]

Now raise a tall bird.

[@P.rivate]

21:26 AMOGUS

[@John-hv7ct]

Hell yeah

[@memoo1259]

lil bro stuck in 2020

[@John-hv7ct]

@@memoo1259 not a lil bro lol. It's just that i enjoy a once popular but now dead meme

[@P.rivate]

@@memoo1259 i wasnt even going to say anything cause i wanted to disconsider you. But out of pity, here you go have your cookie 🍪. Mommy and daddy not giving you enough attention?

[@John-hv7ct]

@@P.rivate oh well idk it felt kinda passive aggresive maybe should spend less time on insta reels. have a nice day though. also i have very nice parents

[@ackkid5430]

Nice challenge

[@MOON349m]

Good video

[@Thexus]

It was pretty painful to watch you plant crops without geometric placement and action queue. AFK-ing at base isn't really what the game is about. You can leave crops for 3-4 days at a time and go do something else while they grow. Not killing deerclops for the eyeball, or making a walking cane, or making a winter hat, or getting a better weapon than a spear, or not even making a lantern... I understand that you find ruins rushing too much, but you should really master the basics. Even for the farming challenge itself, you didn't make a one man band, didn't do self feeding farms without first saturating the soil with nutrients, and never tried to get a starcaller's staff from the ocean setpiece/didn't play as wickerbottom to cast lux aeterna (and horticulture abridged). You can also plant crops out of season to double/triple your seeds. And the challenge should be able to be completed by ~day 38 if you planted the spring crops on the last day of winter. As for general purpose farming, I tend to collect seeds while exploring until spring, then plant them all. This should net you around 60-80 crops, with at least a few of the important ones. Convert the important ones to seeds, then you can start filling up farm tiles with nutrients. 100 per type is the max amount, and the easiest one to amass is the rot/compost nutrient: so you just use 13 rot on a farm tile, then plant durian/garlic, or even asparagus/corn to convert it to the other 2 nutrients. You can also feed a werepig a bunch of lightbulbs to convert them into manure, use 13 per tile, and plant dragon fruit/pepper, or even eggplant/potato. With 9 plants converting 8 each cycle, and crops going through 4 cycles, that's potentially 288 total rot/manure points converted into 144 of the other two, so you need to fill the farm tile up again in the 'small' stage with another 13 rot/manure, then again at the end. So in total 39 (about a stack) of rot/manure to saturate a farm tile and ~3 in-game days. Then you can consult The Starver's Guide to Self-Feeding Farms forum post, All Giant Crop, Auto Nutrient Pairings (& Fertilizer Pairings) List By Lakhnish Monster doc, or the wiki to get self-feeding crop combinations. Every crops is in season in spring, except pepper and pumpkins, but you only need a single pumpkin for scarecrows (misery toadstool). As for peppers, you need a ton of them for warly seasonings, so you should mass produce them in autumn. As for useful combos, dragonfruit+garlic+onion/pomegranate in 1:1:1 and toma root+potato in 1:1 is probably all you gonna need in spring, and then in autumn, you can do garlic+pomegranate+pepper in 1:1:1, toma root+pepper in 2:1, or pumpkin+garlic+pepper in 2:1:1.

[@tobiaskoran6787]

9:44 ARE THOSE COOKED BLUECAPS FR?!?1111!?!??!?!1?!1?1!1?!!??!1!?11!?1?!1

[@manbagan]

good video

[@multitoolss636]

Ohohoho, so going to attemp the challenge

[@polarlotus]

Good luck!

[@francisinman8039]

Could have farmed forget me nots. Its a sanity booster

[@jelicamarkus6329]

the exttra carrots in the garlic farm porb didnt have any family

[@monoeve]

My favorite part is when he cropped all over the place

[@How2live0]

I thought you will try a challenge to grow as many crops before winter like Biddo 😞

[@mantis84]

I should always listen to audio carefully "I spend the whole day doing meth" .. wait a second...

[@mhan6601]

Wormwood would have made this challenge slightly easier :P

[@polarlotus]

I have the curse of wilson main (atleast when I play solo)

[@watsonjunior85]

shouldn't making crockpot recipes using only the harvested crops be allowed?

[@watsonjunior85]

U could get cream potato purée for sanity

[@polarlotus]

I thought of that, but I thought that would be too easy due to the VAST amount of very powerful crop-only dishes, especially for sanity

[@Tyxaar]

Any reason you didn't pick wormwood besides the added difficulty? :o

[@polarlotus]

@@Tyxaar wilson main :(

[@thatgamerdude8113]

We love manual labour

[@bottleofhoney1588]

berry interesting

[@ShakerGER]

He legit chadded out not using the objectively cutest and best character in the game. ME

[@ShariCupples]

Can we not starve a nation cause of chaos and hell stories of a halloween?

[@bartomolev6682]

hell nah! i would rather eat monster meat irl than farm without geometric placement mod

[@cafe9926]

orangelotus

[@olive4097]

i am the farmer ! i lovoe farming

[@Starsoidier-c6u]

FINALLY.

[@aircake36]

20:44 hella freaky "monster meat fest"

[@mobiletoaster5213]

29:13 wurt mains 😢

[@stinkysoup2884]

oh my goodness how do you not have geometric placement

[@GalaxyVR752]

you forgot about gloomr

[@risingforce9291]

Just use the proper hero for farming and it will be easier to do the challenge.

[@michalrada8922]

I'd love to see this chalange with the Heap of foods mod

[@NefashusLP]

Your videos are cool but the day counter bell is super annoying/loud

[@Numbers225]

corn is for iowans…

[@mr.killwolf6667]

nice

[@tacogodboomdogg]

Sanity should be easy, kill some spiders and hire some pigs to stand around.

[@Lego_sun_wukong]

Sanity is the least important stat in don't starve, unless you're fighting a boss

[@junova7503]

Sleeping works as well and is easier (given he's got more food than he needs). As stated though, sanity isn't really important here as he can just kill the occasional crawling horror.

[@Ninjaman-vi1fh]

why does it feel like this guys shouting for the whole video??

[@Potato_Tomato-od2lz]

Farm

[@Leauxf]

21:26 sus?