Don't Starve - Tips and Tricks! How to Survive Forever!

[@themudpit621]

You know, the more you play this game, the more you realise that everything you thought you knew about it was upside down.

[@Deeredman4]

NEVER EVER set up in a pig village...werepigs will kill you after the first full moon. However setting up *near* a pig village isn't a bad idea.

[@gerardgamer7115]

If you are close to the pigs they go into their homes and don't turn into werepigs, and seeing how you are right in the middle of a fucking village, you're fine

[@emloses4701]

Rise Of Giants was in 2014, I believe.

[@gerardgamer7115]

Rise. lol

[@magaseargaming5290]

I'm by a pig village, but glomers statue is there soooooo

[@emloses4701]

That's the next Marvel Movie, Rise Of Giants is.

[@MindFiend]

I've only just started playing Don't Starve, with no real prior knowledge of it, and so am finding it incredibly tough to stay alive. I get murdered by everything and have starved a couple of times. This video is quite the revelation and very informative, thank you for making it.

[@Ideeem]

I need to stop forgetting to turn the volume back down after videos like this. Focking hell.

[@AlisonAutumn]

Late reply but you saved my eardrums' lives

[@emloses4701]

This method was working until I accidentally hit a Pig...

[@nintendair5991]

EM Loses wow no reply

[@geoffreylarsen1033]

bad method. full moons also turn pigs to warepigs if they are outside at night. RIp. Also... this guy sounds like a highschool bully trying to force a way of playing upon you..

[@thorsten8790]

@@geoffreylarsen1033 lmfao you do realise you can Just survive outside your base during full moon? It's just one night.

[@craigy_uk]

@@geoffreylarsen1033 OR optional advice that many people find helpful. -.-

[@acequinox]

Press F to pay respects

[@chilluout]

Awesome video man. One thing to note is that since pigs turn into werepigs during full moons, it is wise to keep your camp at least a couple of screens from the pig villages. That being said, you probably did this video before the introduction of werepigs. Good video and keep up the good work!

[@VitaminEgo]

No, they were there, but you don't have to worry about them if you live in a pig village, as they won't turn if they're able to return to their houses in time. If you ever do come across them through, just make a torch and run until the sun comes up. It works well enough.

[@LordofFullmetal]

The wiki actually recommends NOT using a panic room (the idea of enclosing yourself and killing hounds with traps) because you end up relying on it too much and that impedes on your ability to do anything else as more and more hounds start to appear. You can easily end up being trapped in the panic room just because the hounds won't stop coming and you haven't left yourself another way of dealing with them.

[@xXDarkxIdealsXx]

That's why you build an escape route, what I like to do is put the long tooth trap filled hallway type thing like he does, but at the back where it opens into a circle of wall, you put one hay or wood piece at the very back, which is much easier to destroy, so you can just bash or burn that piece away and run if they get past the traps. And if you're scared of the small possibility that the hounds will slip around back and burn the hay/wood piece to get in you can put a defense mechanism in your "secret exit" as well, such as more tooth traps leading up to the back wall, or in my case I plant a lureplant not far from the back exit so that I can carefully slip past the eyeball enemies but a mindless hound will just end up stepping right into them. If you can access the ruins, putting a Houndius Shootius Turret near the front is immensely helpful as well. A good backdoor setup would be like this (T = tooth trap, S = stone # = wood/hay wall "exit") TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT SSSSSSSSS#SSSSSSSS S S S S S S S S S TTTT S S TTTS STS STS STS STS STS STS STS STS STS Turret Turret (Optional)

[@felixphoenix8152]

Know what ? The wormholes arent invented for no reason ... Just build a panic room next to wormhole; (W Wormhole - S Stone wall - C Campfire) SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (miles away) SSSS SSSSS W SSSS W SSSSS SSSS C SSSSS SSSS SSSSS SSSS SSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS and just put traps all over place..... and because of wormhole, its easier to get out [You enter through wormhole]

[@ovechkin100]

northing wrong with a panic room IMO. you will die more often trying to fight the hounds and getting used to fighting them, as oppose to chilling in a panic room and letting them die.

[@enclavesoldier7315]

Felix Phoenix You my man, just made my new Wilson not die by hounds.

[@aiball1752]

Felix Phoenix woah!!! i never thought of that! i feel stupid but u just made my day :D

[@jeffreydallas6047]

Total noob rn. Been playing for 3 days. This by far was the best video I've seen. It was organized it made sense, it never strayed from the point.

[@SourBitters]

Watch out guys because now with new updates Pigs will turn into werepigs on a full moon and beefalo will occasionally go into heat. I'd recommend having a side camp a safe distance away from your real camp on those days, other than that it's all still applicable! : )

[@HyperTraceur]

If you are in your camp inside of a pig village, the pigs will not turn into werepigs because the dusk will give them more than enough time to get to their house where they can't turn. BUT if you are away and are too late to get to your camp before a full moon, stay away. The pigs will not have went inside of their house because of them being off screen can make them not do anything and just stay outside which will inevitably lead to werepigs.

[@YaBoiMeatBallze]

i have never seen a ware-pig but i will still keep that in mind. thanks! :D

[@isemitelav7723]

+Oh no Yea Beefalos will go heat but easier protection

[@NoCommentaryLife]

HyperTraceur they go out at night so yeah

[@Drreviewman]

Rather then waste logs in fire, use a pitchfork to dig up dirt a ways away from camp and store it in chests. The ground burns quite nicely, how surprising.

[@enclavesoldier7315]

Alf Berger Husem DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH GROUND THERE IS IN THIS GAME !!!! Unless youre gonna survive for 1000 days that's not bad thing.

[@lequochungvn]

This is not a default world. Look at his day/night cycle. Long day and short night? Lol. I have survived to day 400 and keep going on without too many farms and without having pigs killed. My tip is simple. You need food? Build 10 pig houses or more around some ponds, any frog showing up will attack pig and will be immediately killed. Go collect frog legs and dry them for winter. Build some beeboxs and crock pot for better foods. You need protection? In day, let pigs kill hounds. In night, simply run around and wait till day or you cand buid a trap system as he does. You need silks (and monster meet)? Plant an spider den near pig houses and let them fight together. Those methods cost very litle resources and time.

[@ninjafreeloader6957]

r/iamverybadass

[@slybri]

This is the best DS starter video. No wasted time or goofy geek banter. Just the most essential tips to survive the game. Thanks dude.

[@zebdawson3687]

Firstly, I’ve watched a few beginner guides at this point and this one is easily one of the best. Other guides talk about really advanced stuff like some sort of thesaurus crown or some shit, I dunno. Way too advanced for people just starting the game. This guide focuses on early game strategies that we can actually wrap our head around and understand. But what I think really sells this guide is the deadpan, quiet, monotone voice-over that fits the style of the game so well. Overall, man: great guide. Definitely the best I’ve come across so far!

[@jonnwins]

Your voice and demeanor are so soothing and easy to follow. Even though this is way beyond my noob beginnings, I'll have some goals to head towards. Thanks!

[@Silyon487]

Can also feed excess berries to the pigs. Every vegtable they eat, including berries that you should have in excess, will cause them to produce one manure. As well, you can unplug a sinkhole into the caves. Each night that sinkhole will spawn bats, which in turn leave behind guano come morning. Guano is identical to manure except for being unable to be used in crafting farm plots.

[@JKRsebas]

probably the best DS guide I have seen, short and to the point!

[@thomasdandy2700]

trick: after you have built the next stage of crafting up [e.g. moving up to a alchemy engine] you can hammer down the previous one. saves space, gives back some of your resources and just is a mandatory for me bc i feel an OCD for it

[@wldnrkls]

*OCPD OCD is actually not what you think it is

[@TheWindowsUser92]

AmazingGaming Lim xD

[@margon9181]

Done.

[@BtXpGaming]

You dont feel an OCD. Its a disorder. Disorders arent feelings. Its compulsions. Hince the name. Obssesive compulsive disorder

[@Quanzy1000]

Now, the dragonfruit tip at the end, is one of the best tips that I know about. Also, this is worth knowing: If you hang meat to dry on a drying rack or cook something in the crockpot, if you then just leave the food there, it will actually NEVER spoil. So, having a ton of drying racks and crockpots are really worth it. Cook/dry something and don't take it before you need it. Hope these tips helped!

[@lukelathangue]

Here's a really handy tip I learned; When building structures, including science machines, you can build it, but not place it. This consumes the resources needed to create the structure, thus giving you more space to gather more resources. Best thing about this trick, is in adventure mode you can use this tip to create as many structures as you need, and carry them through to the next level, effectively having a pre-built base every level. Enjoy!

[@bytebandit_0x01]

The most helpful guide on this game and its only 10 mins straight to the point 10/10

[@geezee769]

Ur on easy mode and no wearpigs

[@VitaminEgo]

It's not easy mode. I don't know if there's an "easy mode" now, but there wasn't when I played. I just shortened the night for this character because the game gets too boring with longer nights. The game is just as easy to survive whether the night is long or short. My other videos have everything on default, and with me hardly even concentrating on the game, in a crap world, I'm still able to survive well enough. I'd suggest turning the nights down if you plan on doing a long play, as it gives you more time to explore and have fun with the game. Longer nights don't make it more difficult to survive, they just make the game very boring after a short time, as you're left doing nothing for a larger portion of your time.

[@HyperTraceur]

***** I see your point but it kinda does make the game harder to survive in. Shorter night means a torch can last you 2 or 3 nights, so you don't even need a campfire to rely on. Longer night means more resources to burn off for 2 torches or a campfire. Also, longer night means you can be pretty screwed to a small enclosure if you are fighting something (hounds, treeguards, pigs, etc). So, it does make the game harder in terms of losing a bit of resources or bad fighting conditions. Only upside to it that i can think of is bunnymen are out longer (good, if you are exploiting them), or for catching fireflies since you can stay out longer to catch more of them. Also, if you seriously can't stand long nights, use a tent.

[@MStruebizz]

***** Shorter night makes sanity a joke to maintain, thus easy mode.

[@VitaminEgo]

MStruebizz Sanity isn't a problem either way. My other videos are played on default, and the game is still very easy for me. I haven't found anything that makes the game difficult, only boring. Shorter nights lessen the wait times, making the game a little less boring. You could alter things and take away practically all resources, long nights etc., but then there would be no point in playing. It wouldn't be difficult, just impossible. In my opinion, this is an easy game. How you play should be determined by how easily you become bored with games. I get bored fairly quickly, so if I want to do a long play on a game, I need to adjust things to keep me entertained.

[@kayleenjones5103]

***** you lost me when you said boring

[@thelonious1015]

i don't know why but this video is inspirational

[@xXPartypriceXx]

OR you can just set the only biome to forest, play as the Firestarter, and have fun at night

[@Pinkiepyro1]

Your tips helped me alot. I always make like 40 drying racks now and 15 crock pots. I died today to mactusk on day 348. Died of cold while going from my touchstone to camp. Quite a shame. But still, you helped alot! Thanks man.

[@malcolmcrouch7839]

Beautiful camp, thank you for the tips. Long nights or short nights don't change the fact you are quite experienced at don't starve.

[@blackbox-yk8zk]

Just a little tip: -explore by he border of the map the first 7 days,also make a back pack and a spear,you will be safer,and will be able to explore the rest of the map easier bc you.know where it ends ->localize pig village,spider den for future farming,a forest,a mine zone,a cementery,swamp,and the beefalos Mostly hard to found but try and find clockwork enemys,you will need the gears to make a refrigerator For you early base you will need A cience machine,or a alchemy one A crock pot A chest A firepit And a place to put you dry meat Also,if possible A farm,a bird cage whit a bird,a refrigerator,and a pararrayos When you have the second tier cience machine you can break the another one,since you will not use it If you only want to survive winter,you can relly on eating monster meat mixed whit sticks and carrots in the crockpot and having a lot of wood to burn (yet,deerclops will kick your ass) But if you wanna explore you will need something to protect you from the cold Anything like a winter hat,a beefalo hat,a koalefant trunk thingy,or even the wilson beard Also,a thermal stone

[@zantovya7121]

All of those who are saying that to not base near pigs, you are kind of wrong. THIS VIDEO was UPLOADED BEFORE werepigs were introduced. So for now, the best place to build near is the Desert, if you're in DST, or in a place biomes are close to each other. EDIT: I'm not mad.

[@zeliph]

I thought the whole point of Don't Stave is try to find the portal to the next world/chapter so you can beat the game. Building a macho camp seems like a waste of time. However, the only problem I'm facing right now is to keep my character's sanity up. That's difficult, because it naturally and slowly goes down for some reason.

[@emiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii23]

This might help you a little, in the world there are 3 kinds of mushrooms, each has a pro and con, for example: One could put your sanity up, but bring your health down It's not the best way to get your stats up, but it's still a way Not sure which mushroom does what so you'd have to look it up on the WiKi

[@MagusSartori]

Sanity goes down naturally at night. at the beginning of the game, pick 12 flowers and make a garland hat, which should get you through. after your initial base is setup, crock pot food will help with sanity so that you don't need the garland.

[@2011October14]

picking up flowers gives you sanity pretty quick

[@slateknight1]

people always give you the option to pick flowers, but long term that's a terrible idea for finding butterflies. make a couple drying racks, and hang up small jerkys from rabbits, and the jerky gives you 10 sanity per, also a very SIMPLE item to get is a top hat. 6 silk, you can get that by using about 2 traps to clean out just 2 spider nests. researching new items also gives you 15 sanity, so maybe wait to research items when you're a bit low on sanity.

[@jaco5five6six]

for the winter you might want to get a fuzzy hat which takes four beefallo hairs an two or four silks that helps with sanity like the garland and keeps you warm for a longer time before you freeze. I've had a difficult time finding that elephant type of animal in Don't Starve because i want to make a winter cote. where can i find it?

[@CommissarKozlov]

Guys, werepigs aren't that big of an issue. I've only ever had one problem with them and I still survived. Sanity was about 1/3 drained but that can easily be fixed if you eat cooked green mushrooms. You will find that pig villages are the ideal place to set up camp and the only down side is the full moon, which isn't all that common anyway.

[@ScoopDogg]

A problem with short nights and long days is that when summer comes, the heat can be a a major threat. It's sometimes usefull to cool down at night and go gathering, but with a short night you can't.

[@bladethorn]

I had no idea about holding space bar! That helps alot. The death trap helps too. Thank you!

[@Corthmic]

***** Not if it's built on a worm hole.

[@baconeezgood]

things i would change. 1)put your crops together so you can put a lightning rod in the middle 2) dont enclose your death pit as if they get through you are dead. make a large open trap with fire in the middle

[@orbostghoul8792]

I must say, this is absolutely, the BEST don't starve survival guide. Thank you so ver much for making this. My play has just been going leaps and bounds beyond my wildest dreams. Thank you so much.

[@lunavixen015]

Another good tip is to use small animal traps to more easily clear out higher level spider dens, the spiders follow in a straight line, so lay down one or two traps on the edge of the webbing and then step in to bring them out, after they get aggro, step past the traps and the spiders will walk straight into them, leaving you to stunlock kill the last spider per round, three rounds and the nest (for tier 3 at least) will be empty, leaving you to kill the nest with almost or no damage. Doing this also stops the spider warriors coming out (as they only come out if you hit the nest while there are still spiders inside).

[@Div9LeYuno]

Awesome. Just bought this game on steam and I have to say I'm kinda in love with it - didn't survive past the first few days of winter though, going to try your tips and see how far I get now!

[@LiamtheAspie]

Same happened to me i the robot (wx 78) and winter owned me

[@MrVurtan]

Nice tip with the Dragon fruit, will try it out today!

[@d4dr4g0n]

Animals like beefalo and koalefant have low dmg resistance, so you can hit them multiple times before they strike back again. So you can hit them 3-4 times before dodging their hits and repeating. This hit-and-run tactic is also called kiting.

[@Tutu0alex]

You may consider gathering enough food to last you for a few days, get a weapon, maybe a piece of armor, some torches, materials to make fire, anything else that you may find useful, and go exploring for a few days, searching all the corners of your world for chess biome patches (usually, these are found around the pieces you use to activate the portal, and the portal itself). I'm almost sure every piece of chess biomes has some clockwerk creatures.

[@Tatoru91]

I dont think its wise to build right by a pig village because when the turn into warepigs they will fuck your shit up lol

[@TheDropdeadZed]

Oh fuck, I've built 4 pig huts near my house... I guess I should prepare my anus because I am about to be fucked!

[@TheBurkinator4]

TheDropdeadZed I got a few pigs to help me fight some spiders, setup camp after I got a buttload of silk, how fortunate for me it happened to be a full moon. They turned into werpigs, killed Chester and fucked my shit up when I tried to defend him from them, we both died. I love this game it's beautiful and the atmosphere is great but holy crap it's unforgiving.

[@ethanwmonster9075]

Joshua Breaksup UPDATED BEST BASE LOCATION you want to live at least 7 biomes from the pig king your base needs to be in a area with lots of twigs grass and berries and one biome from the beefalo herds to provide manure to bulid farms and early protection from hounds.

[@ronbouj]

i'm a noob here ? what's a warpig and how do they become warpigs ?

[@ethanwmonster9075]

lol its warepig and they turn into ware pigs when its a full moon night Or if you feed one pig 4 monster foods(monster meat,monster lasina, cooked monster meat, monster jerky.)

[@lyre5250]

2:03 "world is so big and you're so slow" ;-;

[@chicken_turducken1294]

You can explore it all in 8 days

[@zimNvgcatsfan]

Thanks for the tips! I made the mistake of setting up in a savana near several beffalo heards. The hounds gave me a much harder time than what I was expecting. At least now I know not to worry about wearpigs.

[@Tutu0alex]

Pigs transform on full moon, but not if they are in houses, so keeping your pigs close to their home at night will make them go inside and not transform at all on full moon (I believe). The other way they could go into rage mode and try and eat your face off is if they eat 3 pieces of monster meat one after another. They can hardly be kept from eating the meat that falls on the ground when the hounds/spiders die, but they rarely transform from that and there usually is only 1 or 2 that do.

[@Scorpslay]

Thanks for the tips. My wife and I have been playing this game and we haven't made it past 20 days yet so this was great.

[@garrettterwilleger7800]

This is a great video. Very good advice. I now always just be patient now instead of setting up at the first decent place. After 7 days of searching I finally found a pig village.

[@TheKamalsalem]

I just survived 17 days with Woodie, but damn it's hard to live past turning back to human, he just comes back batshit crazy, but seeing some of you guys really is inspiring

[@PFTome]

For large fields of flowers, homeless bees will spread them for you. Go out and catch 10 butterflies and 10 bees. Plant the butterflies and release the bees on them and watch it grow. Bees from bee bombs work too. When you have a large field cut fire break lines in the flowers just in case. Also drop unused flowers near a pig house for poop.

[@unpopularopinion1165]

Tip. Build a "tree farm" plant a bunch of trees all together in one place and when a giant spawns lead them to the trees so they can knock them down.

[@hayhay8347]

I want to love this game so much but it's SO HARD to get far!!!!! I play as safe as I can but can't get past about day 14-15.....It's so frustrating! These videos help a lot.

[@coffeedraws5127]

This game is my favorite game. And what I love about it is that people are still playing this game. :)

[@Tutu0alex]

Not if they are in their houses. They go to sleep at dusk, so pigs normally avoid every full moon unless you take them somewhere far away from their village

[@beccastark2716]

This helped me as an amateur player of Don't Starve! Thank you for getting me started.

[@EleniRaine]

Also whenever you find a touchstone set up a small camp there with a fire and a chest filled with essentials.

[@peacekeeperz81]

In case you are trying to feed the bird dragon fruit and you only get one fruit seed try this. Feed him normal seeds and he will poop them out 1 for 1, and do that 2 to 3 times. Then give him the dragon fruit, he then will poop 2 to 3 dragon fruit seeds every time. Don't know if this will work for you guys.

[@sebastienl.3186]

Excellent tips ! I play the same way but your base is much better... And don't set your base in a pig village, just use your hammer to rebuild it near beefalos / frog ponds, then set your base by them

[@ThornySnailPictures]

Short night means more time to gather stuff so it is easy mode

[@AgentZero88]

Just downloaded this on PS4 and I was instantly hooked, I love RTS games.

[@TheBrokenMonkey]

***** that and reso are the best games on ps4 right now,hyper addictive,I didn't know starve was so deep,cant ait to getinto it again,class game

[@ProGizmoGaming]

***** I have Don't Starve on the PS4 resoguns great but nothing like Don't Starve

[@guyguyga1]

this game is not an rts

[@pyroland90]

***** IT WILL

[@joeyspouchproductions5790]

ImSooSwazy this is a survival game not a real time strategy (RTS) game

[@YYcomiendo]

Living in a pig village for the protection is one thing but if you want food (easy food btw) you want to settle in a savana patch with beefalo and bunnies, so you can set traps and get easy morsels and fill your pockets with manure to sustain crops, with a decent berrybush set you can make meatballs with every morsel you gather [0.5 meat + 3 fillers (no sticks) = meatballs]. and when the hounds come you can kite them to the beefalo long enough for them to start atacking the beefalo and the war begins. Every once in a while you can track down a koalephant and get real meat and trunks. That's what i do anyway and got me to day 269 before i was killed by a shadow when insane.

[@aryko1]

Very good vid with loads of useful tipps . Short and to the point ! Greetings from Germany .

[@RayramAureanBlue]

Ideally you'd want to set up base near Beefalo AND pigmen. Keep in mind to not tame pigmen during the night of a full moon, as pigs caught outside of their houses will turn to werepigs. Also, are you playing with shortened dusk/night for demonstration purposes?

[@CrashDunning]

In my current world, my base is on a peninsula that is impossible to get to without having to go through a Beefalo herd AND a tribal pig torch camp. I can just run to those if anything bad comes.

[@Quanzy1000]

The best place to have a base is a desert (savana) biome. The reason is that there are TONS of rabbit holes and grass. There are also Beefalos spawning. Place tons of traps, capture rabbits and keep them alive until you need food. Collect tons of grass. Can never have too much of anything. And then, the beefalos. They give you manure and you can also shave/kill them for wool. Kill for meat. They are also one of the best form of protection against hounds and other enemies.

[@kennypowers3483]

On thing he didn't mention about crock pots are that they are actually pretty good if you know yer recipes. I would suggest taking all of your berries and cooking as many as possible in there to make fist full of jams which is a considerably great food item. It restores half of your hunger at most and stays fresh for a while. The recipe is: 4 regular berries. Then you put em in the crock pot and wait for it to be done.

[@Maxwell7407]

Im sorry to drop this on you, but eating 4 roasted berries yields 50 hunger, 5 health. While a fist full of jam only nets you 37,5 hunger and 5 health (+5 sanity but that comes with most dishes). Thats a net waste of 12,5 hunger points. Only do this if the berries are close to spoiled, or if you REALLY need that sanity boost (hint: you don't.) Hope this helps!

[@blazingscore004]

Mark Lauth Nørregaard Christensen Meatballs are my primary recipe. They give a decent amount of hunger, plus they are really easy and quick to make! (Any meat + 3 of any ingredients)

[@Maxwell7407]

blazingscore004 I agree, after getting a crock pot up and running i always use spare carrots and berries along with a single morsel (or monster meat) to make meatballs. The recipe is arguably one of the best and flexible in the game, yielding 62,5 hunger points, 5 health and 5 sanity.

[@blazingscore004]

im not sure tho, but monster meat might "contaminate" the recipe and turn it into monster lasagna.

[@Maxwell7407]

blazingscore004 Nope, as long as the recipe only contains 1 monster meat or durian (fruit equivalent), monster lasagna will NEVER be produced, only if you put in 2 or more. If you're having trouble figuring out the limits i would suggest going to the wiki and checking up on recipes and their restrictions.

[@killstreak789]

How long is a year in that game? 365?

[@MagusSartori]

About 40 days. By default winter comes on day 21, and there are only 2 seasons.

[@killstreak789]

MagusSartori Can it end?

[@MagusSartori]

killstreak789 I don't think there's ever a time based ending.

[@pessoafixe1]

MagusSartori its sandbox, so it will never end

[@VeryDisturbedGamer]

The Nice Narval You can, by collecting the parts, usually 4 until you get to the end where you have to chose between two different things, you have to beat the game to unlock the last character

[@SAVO888]

Thnak You, I've watch tons of Don't Starve "Let's Play"... And Finally got it durning the Steam Christmas sale ($2.50ish)... I've been playing and dying... I friggen found the Maxwell's door and skipped it, no knowing.... I'm sure I'll find it again, but thanks for the Video, I can't wait to et started on my next game.

[@formalsquid]

Lighning rods. put them near anything you don't want to get burned. tuft/stick/bush farms, chests, and drying racks, are important and lightning caused fires will ruin your day. also food will spoil in the crockpots and drying racks for the DLC version of the game.

[@melicahdavid]

just got this game last night, your video will make things fun, thank you.

[@Thieverpedia]

3 Honey and one Monster Meat (Or any meat for that matter) makes a cheap item that heals both Hunger and Health greatly. It helps to get a bee farm nearby!

[@Xpendos]

An extra tip is set your setting to default plus as you got some loot to start you off then make a back pack and then find a pig villege i survived 700 days doing that

[@Beef1188]

No, don't set up camp INSIDE a pig village, they turn into werepigs during full moon! :S

[@anoriolkoyt]

Is this for the RoG xpac? I am playing vanilla and I set up in a pig village and not once in 40 days did they change....

[@pineforest1732]

Tamal Paul they have to be forced out like by monsters or by you demolishing there house don't try it !

[@zantovya7121]

BigBadBeef, THIS VIDEO was uploaded BEFORE WEREPIGS were introduced.

[@HECKAKYH-ADEKBATEH]

Actually, this video is useless (sorry OP) because it ignores a lot of small things. The strategy to find beefalo is right, but you main enemy is incoming winter and with so small night, this becomes no problem. I recommend to watch a small series by RandomKitten, search words "don't starve survival". But tip with dragonfruit is very valuable.

[@PieInTheSky9]

Well this video is 3 years old..

[@lumberjack8822]

The "short night" is still noobish

[@PieInTheSky9]

Lumber Jack Agreed

[@HECKAKYH-ADEKBATEH]

Echoherb I prefer long seasons (both) AND start at winter. Day 1 - freezing to death, Day 2 - dying from hunger, Day 3 - more freezing, Day 4 - running away from pengulls, Day 5 - where the hell are the beefalo or pigs, Day 6 - hello, tree guard!, Day 7 - hounds, Day 8 - deerclops. But its fun!

[@lumberjack8822]

Majou Nexian Play as Webber, monster meat wont hurt you + spider egg for a lot of friends or gland/meat/web farm! beard help vs cold Pengulls are neutral, so let the hounds play with them, two problem solved :) Deerclops? build a "dummybase" aka 1 firepit, 2 chests. and when he comes to play (and not have much strength to deal with, then give up the fort or) grab a spear and kill him Slowly, if you are good enough. If you have a spider queen close (and you are webber, go close) it will be fun

[@HyperionCSS]

Drying racks are great, but crockpots (you only need 1 or 2) should definitely be the priority. Crockpots allow you to turn garbage food (monster meat, mushrooms) and minor foods (berries, carrots, frog legs, fish, honey) into hearty meals which also benefit your sanity. If you only use drying racks, you are basically limiting your food source to hunting (koalefants, pigs, tallbirds, beefalo, and rabbits). And then you have to wait a day or 2 for it to dry. That is a very time consuming process to get your food. And eating jerky by itself is nice if you want to regain health, but you will get a lot more hunger value by running it through a crockpot first. For example, 2 meats is like 50 hunger by itself. But combine that in a crockpot with a useless monster meat and a single berry or carrot and you can have a stew that gives 150 hunger. Its no contest. With a crockpot, a caged bird, and a spider nest you can survive forever in any season just making meatballs from 3 eggs and monster meat.

[@LordofFullmetal]

Have you TRIED going through a winter without a crock pot? because with drying racks it's actually not that hard OR time consuming. The wiki recommends ten to twenty drying racks; I got through my first winter with five and STILL had so much free time that I managed to seriously build up my stocks of other things. It's all about HOW you get the food; a lot of people don't seem to realise that you don't HAVE to spend hours hunting and gathering to get by. I know a few hacks (NOT actual gaming hacks) that cut it down tons. Aside from that, a lot of people find it easier in the beginning to craft drying racks as opposed to a crock pot. I STILL don't have all the stuff for one. All you need for the drying rack is rope, wood and charcoal. In terms of your first winter, drying racks are definitely the easiest way to go.

[@enclavesoldier7315]

LordofFullmetal In my winter I had free time but no matter what I tried I had to keep coming back so I woudnt freeze to death, I had a beefalo hat and the armor thingy that makes you warmer but I still only had a while to gather before Wilson(With his accualy preety good beard) had to warm up. So YOU my friend, are a liar.

[@Marialla.]

***** Wilson, with a beard and bunny earmuffs and a thermal stone, can last all day in winter. A beefalo hat is even better. Why didn't you make a thermal stone? It extends the time you can be away from a fire. Don't call someone a liar when all you're doing is showing off what you don't know. And btw, I'm even talking about long-day winters. So stop your whining.

[@mrlamberto]

Next tip gather mandrakes because when it becomes night you can cook them and it will skip the night especially if you eat them but always cook them first. And I hope this was a good tip

[@goofyahhdoofy]

I don’t know why, tallbirds make me jump so fast every single time. I just got the game, and I was in a rocky area, and my hand was covering up a spot next to my character, and when I lifted my hand a full grown tall bird was standing next to my character lol

[@msean3221]

I'm not sure why folk have doen voted this. Seems like good advice to me. I've just bought it on android. On 3rd attempt, day 19. Didn't know about winter until an hour ago and i doubt I'll survive. The advice in this vid should give my next attempt a solid chance of surviving.

[@CorDharel]

Really cool video I just came to the part where I could dig up plants and move to your base.

[@DeadlyGame1ng]

Gears are very useful as WX-78. If you want to upgrade yourself, sure eat them, but they are also a good source of healing!

[@ovechkin100]

i go all in on crocks pots and improved farms. before 100 days i can normally have 20+ farms and nearly 20 crock pots and i NEVER run out of food throughout the winter. i have a meal in every crock pot, usually dragon pure meatballs or stuffed eggplant.

[@intisol4128]

What about wearpigs? Also I think it's better to make your camp near beefalos since you dont waste anything on manure so you can use the monster meat for recipes on the crockpot. The beefalos are also an awesome source of meat in winter and just like pigs they attack any hostile mob that comes near them. to get the pigs to help you you only need to go tho the pig village once and make them follow you back to camp

[@DharMahn_]

wearpigs? lol

[@martinnaidenov8122]

+Zoltán Felnagy yes thats a problem becous if thear are monsters near too much monster meet will thransform themi can hapen at fool moon (or if a ghoust haunts them in multiplayer

[@DharMahn_]

Martin Naidenov i dont know if this was sarcasm or u just cant write.... are they WEARing anything, cuz u called them WEARpigs... and fool moon... why is the moon so foolish?

[@lukasdohnal1229]

+Zoltán Felnagy Of course it was sarcasm. .. I mean.. "Monster meet", "fool moon".. Come on, that can't be serious. :D

[@DharMahn_]

Lukáš Dohnal maybe :D who knows, ppl can be so stupid

[@gavinmccree6330]

Wow finding out about the hounds on your own is quite terrifying I had no idea wat to do

[@spote571]

7:20 yes it will increase but depending on what you use (4 of anything will lower it)

[@tomhammer802]

Good tips for beginners, some good tips there for someone that has played 30 hours as well.

[@Murasame13]

There is one food you have missed, The "Mandrake Soup" It is 1 mandrake, 3 sticks in a crock-pot and it will full hunger Wilson [150 hunger] It also gives full health for Wilson [100 hp] and gives 5 sanity; taking 6 days to rot.

[@allah-a2353]

yes but mandrake is very rare there are only 2-4 in the world

Did you record your thoughts? Or maybe forgot your microphone at work?

[@woodystp2366]

i bougth the game yesterday and i couldnt survive the first winter.. thanks for all those tipps, they were very helpful !

[@SmileySnipes123]

"You never really want to put spoiled food in the crockpot, but put your spoiled food in the crockpot." -_-

[@Laffey16]

Dude You dont know how much this helped it helped me to survive to day 635 died from being a bit stupid and went into the caves i died from loss of a torch and loss of sanity got any tips for caves!?

[@DJJsquared]

Thank you for this. Coulda been louder though, but still it helped.

[@JboPwnz]

Nice. I hate the hounds.mi have just started playing this and I am trying to push for 100 days alive. I hope I can make it now with these tips. Thanks!

[@FrostGalaxyGamer]

3:31 Would Using less renewable resources be worse depending on the circumstances?

[@Wolfflow500]

Crock pots in the psvita version do allow food to spoil. An ice box is a much more temparary apt solution. Crock pots are good for the oh so fufilling meatballs

[@jagovalkparkietje]

what do you think about meatballs as food source? its basically my primary food supply cause i just throw in one monster meat/cookedmonstermeat/monsterjerky or even just a morsel and some berry's/carrots/mushrooms and youve gotten yourself a healthy amount of hunger back without using anything too fancy

[@dkolatschko]

can the pigs in the pig village die from protecting you? If so, do they respawn, or will you have an empty pig village then?

[@EarthBender4Life]

they respawn within 4 days

[@MrMuggles]

The houses in the pig villages spawn new pigmen slowly if they're not occupied

[@kikata7604]

And yes both crockpot and drying racks are good but the crockpot is probably better.

[@miniwolfearts]

My jaw dropped when you befriended the pigs. I think you saved my life. Lmao, thanks man. Great channel. :)

[@rodolfodestroyer05]

For me,survive is easy,my problem is that I'm on day 76 and I have nothing to do, could you make a video about it?

[@ghostlightx9005]

I'm guessing this was filmed before Were-Pigs were added to the game? In the current version building your base in or very near a Pig village is an extremely bad idea...

[@ProGizmoGaming]

How long do the piggies follow you for?

[@fifteenthapostle]

These are some good tips overall. I really need to find some more crock pot recipes. I never knew about Dragon Pie. Is it really better than Meaty Stew, though? And thanks for the tip on bird cages. I never knew what they were for.

[@Quanzy1000]

Hungerwise, the Meaty Stew is better. The Dragonfruit pie heals 75 hunger, the Meaty Stew heals 150 hunger. Healthwise, the Dragonfruit pie is better. The Dragonfruit pie heals 40 health, while the Meaty Stew heals 20. Have a nice day, sir,

[@KipeG59]

only in normal dont starve, the full moon means night as well... in every DLC, full moon is something like longer dusk...

[@drewevans9025]

Great vid. I will delineately employ these techniques