Don't Starve Tips, Tricks & Tidbits #1: dodge Dragonfly, tame Deerclops, harvest Bee Boxes safely

In the first episode of Don't Starve (Together) Tips, Tricks & Tidbits, there are 10 tidbits: a mix of obscure tricks for experienced players, and more widely known tips for beginners. How many do you know?
Don't Starve Together Dragonfly Speedrun:
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[@vancedudley469]

even in 2021, I'm coming back to this video to make a beefalo pen. your vids have made a huge impact in the community, so thank you

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

Hey! Surprise video. I meant to get this out yesterday, but I severely underestimated the amount of time and work these types of videos take to produce. I plan to do a lot more informational, guide type videos though, so I hope you all enjoy!

[@somenerdwad1289]

Nice videos to show noobs how to become pros :)

[@Flastyune]

Joeshmocoolstuff nice vidéo ! i think we all want more of these. btw how are you doing in full moons with those werepigs ? have you got few bases ? or you just repair the walls ?

[@Flastyune]

Joeshmocoolstuff nice vidéo ! i think we all want more of these. btw how are you doing in full moons with those werepigs ? have you got few bases ? or you just repair the walls ?

[@starseth]

Joeshmocoolstuff could you plz do more of these vids plzzzzz

[@evandroandrade4909]

find the guardian pigs, kill them, wall the torches with 2 stacks o walls. they will spawn inside the walls.the same works for tallbirds.

[@Beatamox]

Found your channel not too long after I started playing Don't Starve about 2 weeks ago and I've been really liking your videos. Keep it up! On another note, I would love to see a tour of that mega base you have. Day 1850?! That's insane!

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

Thanks! I appreciate it. :-)

[@Vorndervile]

i'm just start and watch many video of you too it's really help me thank you so much :-)

[@that1femboy643]

Do more mic videos! Can't wait till episode two!

[@tropichillinc4056]

Agree

[@eeeveeeve]

+Kopuz honestly fuck you dude i bet joeshmocoolstuff could kick your ass irl

[@Green13Gaming]

In your giant tentacle trick, I didn't notice the mini tentacles you can guess what happened to me when i tried it

[@azertgdssch4042]

u got pwned

[@Green13Gaming]

yep

[@HansT13]

Also, I've discovered that when wet, you only lose sanity when WEARING gear, so having an inventory full of wet items won't affect your sanity. Instead, if you are wearing a wet spear, wet umbrella, wet straw hat, etc. only then will you lose sanity (also wearing multiple wet gear makes you lose sanity faster). This applies with the two DLCs (Shipwrecked + RoG) though, but knowing this fact makes exploring in the rain without an umbrella much easier (especially helpful when dealing with wetness when you hit too much waves in shipwrecked)!

[@user-pn9cp4hd9r]

no

[@margauxratcliff8343]

I had always seen your megabase tour on the forums or reddit or wherever all the time, and I have been watching your videos for a bit, but I never knew that the same guy who does speedruns and endless bosses is also an amazing base builder! No need to crown 2 different kings for those things, you win for both! I'm extra impressed now.

[@tartarus216]

I immediately love that I can listen to this while doing chores. Other videos are loaded with tips but without a sound I cannot tell when to "pay attention." Thank you for the awesome videos

[@whoguru5]

Ok the krampus pens just blew my mind 10/10

[@ABcmaSter_]

U know what is cuter than the koalefants? Sleeping Vargs. Those are the cutest. Until they wake up.

[@Prui]

With this bee tip my life is complete. Thanks!

[@Puffchuffer69]

one time a dearclops walked right passed me at night and it was scary as fuck

[@FatYggdrasil]

Very nice video i knew a lot before, but the beefalo pen and smart bee harvesting are nice ideas! Although i get along with the catch a few bees kill the rest and grab the honeycomb tactic pretty well.

[@Curlybogus]

I can tell this series is going to be amazing :-) keep making them!!

[@d34dsYnt4x]

Straw Hat + Pretty Parasol + Tree = 100% water resistant. Combine with Campfire or Fire Pit to dry faster. I always rush Rain Coat as soon as I have set up my initial base.

[@jackg.6356]

NOTE: the big tentscles in dst now lead to an extremely challenging and not fully implemented ruins like area

[@polnapanties]

Pretty useful video! I'm definitely going to be bringing a Koalefant home during my next game.

[@brettberger3731]

Solid video, some things I didn't know in there! Deerclops aggro has confused me at times. Bearger's aggro is even more confusing to me. I haven't made beefalo pens nor goat pens, but had assumed the wall spacing needed to be the other way around. Klei wat u doin. I think everything else I knew. DST big tentacles are a bit of a ripoff though. First time I encountered one I fought it with a handful of bunnymen and saw the big slimy pit, thought it would be where to go to collect the loot or something. Nope, no loot, just a more dangerous version of a wormhole. Since the aboveground cave entrances are randomly mapped to the stairwells in the caves, it is often easier to travel to a distant area of the caves by just going up, walking a couple screens and going back down. Disclaimer, I played probably 200 hours of DST before playing solo so I had no expectations from their solo version. Are there ways to trigger the skulls of other characters in-game? Or even spawn them in with prefab? Also for backpacks, what I really want to know is a way to stop having my closed and dropped backpacks in DST turn into disgusting rotted skins. I know the cost is just a few grass and twigs, but I also feel inclined to burn the rotten backpack and it's a real unnecessary hassle I'd like to learn how to avoid. I love the looks of your megabase. I presume since the pens all have mobs which spawn randomly on the screen, it was a matter of setting them up and getting lucky and not any luring? Also well done with the skelepens.. All good work, I enjoy your videos.

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

Nope, you can't spawn in the skulls sadly. Originally I was planning on making a mod to go along with the video that'd enable you to spawn 'em in, but I ran out of time so I just snapped a photo of them. I might still do it. Imagine player skulls and longpig flying out upon death in PvP. Even dropping skulls in single player would be pretty badass. Aw man, I feel ya. I hate that the backpacks rot. They'd make such great decorations. You've got me curious now. I wonder if there's a way to circumvent that. Thanks. The hounds and krampus I teleported in with a telelocator focus and staff. For the pigs, I killed them all, built up the walls leaving one space free near the torch, then waited for them to respawn. I'll go into more detail in the tour, but in the meantime, you can check out the imgur album I posted a while ago if you're interested: imgur.com/a/D6C0f

[@emmyzhou3528]

I almost thought your name is Bearger...

[@user-js8jh6qq4l]

Hey! That tip with the bee boxes. It's almost like the real life, Where people smoke out the bees to collect honey

[@eeeveeeve]

i love ur vids joe! ik this was made like 2 years ago but its great! keep up the good work :)

[@kodewhitworth2233]

Hey really interesting and awesome video! Would love to see more videos like this because it's very nice learning from a pro like you. :D

[@timpind.8237]

Wow. Wish I found this literally five minutes earlier, before my base got totally trampled by the dragonfly... well, at least I know for the future

[@skyrius5568]

WHAT THE BIG TENTACLES ARE WARPS. God damn I wish I knew that sooner. Also I totally want that megabase tour

[@spiritfired]

WTF THESE AREN'T TIDBITS!! These are LEGIT PRO ADVICE LOL!!! 90% I don't even freaking know!! Holy!!

[@rayedhamayun]

You know how if you build a pen and use a lake or something as a wall so when you want to enter you go to the edge of the pen water and squeeze through that small gap? Beefalo can do that to.

[@diversegaming5914]

Can't wait for that megabase vid :D

[@rayedhamayun]

A TIPS VIDEO BY YOU?!?! :OOOOO

[@ianfleming2759]

When will u do your world tour?

[@emmyzhou3528]

2K sub now~ Let's have that 2k sub special tour

[@niks9296]

This was so helpful thank you so much!

[@tropichillinc4056]

Well this was a great video

[@magebomba318]

2k sub special. Lol. Dammit joe upload moar!

[@zaidkhaldi550]

great videos my man, im still waiting for dat endless bosses episode :)

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

Endless Bosses episodes are out every Saturday at 3:30 PM GMT, so it's up soon!

[@HansT13]

When I extinguished the bee boxes, the bees left the bee boxes never came back even during the night. I don't know if these are considered homeless bees or not, but the bee boxes have yet to generate new bees. Edit: After re-logging the bee boxes are working once again but the bees that weren't inside are still roaming around, i still can't tell if they are homeless bees that produce new flowers (because it is spring) or just bees that are bugged.

[@dkchoi7131]

nice stuff. I should have been here earlier

[@axelsvensson7427]

Great Video!!

[@fractalgem]

Dat disclaimer at the end. HAHAHAH!

[@zachchristidhis9591]

I knew all of these except for the bee box and the mating beefalo pen. Usually, I tend to just use the double-endo trick for Dragonfly because of how simple it is and how winding the roads are. Side Note: There's something slightly wrong with the last tip. You say that you lose sanity when you have items in you inventory. It's only when you have wet items equipped. I've tested this in RoG, DST and A New Reign. When I tested it, you have a set sanity loss when you are over ~51% wetness, with a full inventory or empty. The odd thing is that in the video, this didn't happen to you. Were you using regular DST or A New Reign?

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

The endo strat is great, I agree. I don't necessarily recommend people fight Dfly like that, I just thought it was an interesting tidbit. Good catch on the wetness bit. I guess since I equipped items first, I couldn't tell that there's no additional sanity drain from the inventory items. I haven't messed around with the new content yet. I might just wait until it's officially released.

[@Lunnick]

Nice video!

[@ABcmaSter_]

Yo nice video. I knew beefalo could fit through 1 tile but I had no idea that vault goats couldnt lel. That makes no sense.

[@tamaspakai2464]

Nice video I only knowed 5 of the tips :D

[@verbindung]

knew

[@tess2082]

Beefalo are just all fur. Underneath it all they're just frogs

[@hedition9346]

Oh another video on things everyone already knew 1. What???

[@G-Forces]

How do you keep the pigs from smashing the walls when they turn into werepigs on the full moon?

[@hyuyu9786]

OMG THANKS I EVERYTIME I CAN'T KITE DFLY THANKS SO MUCH

[@theanonymousboy4770]

Awesome.How did you trap those krampi,hounds and pigs in your megabase.

[@rayedhamayun]

The made the walls for the pigs around the torches and then waited for them to respawn and he telepoofed the krampusse and hounds with the staff ( I think you get it in the ruins )

[@rayedhamayun]

+Rayed Hamayun nvm, he telepoofed them with a telocator focus and staff

[@mrmaggot6699]

I realise this is a very old comment, but I think Krampuses is probably more correct than Krampi, because unlike for example oculus, Krampus isn't derived from latin.

[@rayedhamayun]

You should play the twitch plays together mod! Also if you do pls make a video telling when it's live and what your twitch channel is, or will be if you haven't made one.

[@newman4938]

He said some time ago that he's currently not planning to stream because of slow internet.

[@rayedhamayun]

+Numan Erdem Asarkaya :(

[@Raphaeldo3]

Where's part 2?

[@zadehiga3799]

nice video!

[@eenayeah]

Wow, I didn't know Joeshmocoolstuff had a voice! Only need a better mic.

[@mojo7583]

i love your videos ps. i only knew 1 and 10, and even 10 i only knew because someone told me

[@nicolasrededeo805]

Joe, A small question: I've been watching your ruins survival series, and you sometimes equip the first item in your toolbar instantly without moving the mouse to it. How do you do that?

[@kasuha]

Number keys equip/use the item in corresponding item slot.

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

By default, the inventory slots are bound to the number keys, so pressing "1" will swap to the first inventory slot, etc. p.s. If you're ever curious about stuff like that, you can see what keys I'm pressing in the bottom right of the video.

[@nicolasrededeo805]

Alright, Thanks!

[@themsouls1936]

Nice video! The only thing i disliked was your voice was kinda low. Try talking louder for the next video... but other than that, everything's alright!

[@emmyzhou3528]

A better microphone maybe~

[@budlikycz2445]

or lauder headphones

[@CJAFTER5]

cool stuff man :)

[@cheeseyboy2121]

how do you get beefalo to stay in your biome I brought some from the other side of the map and all but one walked back

[@Bertoleyus]

These were very informative! However, the sound was a bit quiet.

[@chiknnoodl8195]

Turn up your volume

[@akarti813]

hi is there any guides for this game you recommend new players could look into?

[@pikalop]

Well the dragon fly thing doesn't really work with the cane seeing as you got hut multiple times

[@HansT13]

How do you keep werepigs from full moons from destroying the walls? Do you just leave the area during a full moon?

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

Yes, we just ran away whenever there was a full moon. You could also place down a food item like a stack of rot, Deerclops' eyeball, or a powdercake; if there's food in the vicinity, chasing after the food takes priority over smashing walls.

[@Raphaeldo3]

Tips #2 pls

[@bigminigame]

hi, it's nice to ear yo more often. But i think yo could by a better mic, the sound is not that good.

[@gunelgasimova5952]

you can't go naked in ds but you can go armor naked same with dst and dlcs

[@thatoneguywiththeextremely8182]

Do not kite dfly with Wolfgang. You can do damage so quickly that it gets stun locked.

[@Theptic]

What happened to the world tour at 2000 subscribers? You are nearly at 10000 now with no such video

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

Sorry man, I'll have it up at some point. Here is an imgur album of the world in the meantime though imgur.com/a/D6C0f

[@fernny619]

your strategies are great and its real nice how informative it is but gee whiz dude its hard to understand you

[@TheGagabou]

Dst lavae attacked through the dst dragonfly when I attempted it today. Any luck still doing it solo? Can't seem to do it without exploits ofc.

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

Are you sure they went through Dfly and not around? Sometimes they can slip by if the angle isn't right. If the devs actively patched that strat out then that is astonishing.

[@TheGagabou]

It happened 2-3 times, when dfly attacks and the lavae attacks right after it went through... I didn't do extensive testing and don't really know how to spawn stuff/get in creative or something like that so I can't test it again. There are still 2 ways I know 2 do it solo, but they require a lot of preparation -.-

[@danielbostrom1831]

Is Tip #3 not just a waste of time? You barely take any damage if you wear the beekeepers mask, and if your fast enough you can harvest 4 bee hives close by unharmed. I reckon though this strategy is good for huge bee farms, but in the example shown it's simply a waste of time and resources

[@toadchavez1599]

omg awesome

[@broseph4364]

idk what character to use for survival.Help please

[@parkla4098]

Where is the audio?

[@gnolfo]

The audio is really low in this one. :c

[@volcano1125]

LOL DAT BEEFALO XD

[@crazymonkey1078]

Wait for the big tantacles why is it when I try to hop in it in it just attacks in I play in a device

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

You have to kill the tentacle first, and it only works in multiplayer.

[@animeissexismbuthentaiisok7377]

Can someone help me? : In the first winter i forgot about mac tusk, so i decided to find the walrus camp in the second winter. but i didnt found it. does the camp spawn randomly or not?

[@chiknnoodl8195]

They spawn in the same spot every year, look harder I guess :/

[@animeissexismbuthentaiisok7377]

ChiknNoodl i already found it, but thanks for your feedback. it is not random, my walrus camp spawned in a green biome that was surrounded by a forest biome.

[@Sesshomaru474]

it's just a rare find best to put more of in settings but more to them means like 4 spawns every 15 ft.

[@joegamergaming]

I've played this game for so long and I only knew 3 of these. :( What kind of gamer am i? D:

[@wesselgames3217]

What was the mouse program called?

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

hmm it's been a while, but it was a linux program. It shouldn't be too hard to find if you search for mouse recorder linux.

[@vinnyr111]

Can't even hear what he saying

[@yancieb]

yeah the vlume is extremely low, had to turn my volume all the way up and even then its still low as hell.

[@genkay]

omg is it the first time you show ur voice?

[@genkay]

and when are you gonna post a endless giants #3 ?

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

In about 7 hours. Every Saturday at 3:30 PM GMT.

[@genkay]

ook thx!

[@beefywhale4397]

Do you play with MrX on Dst

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

I'm not sure who you're talking about. If it's a mod, I don't really play with mods too often.

[@Gigi-zr6hp]

Thanks for the tips! May I suggest next time you speak more clearly and louder so that I would not turn on the captions just to understand what you're saying. :)

[@erk4573]

How do you get coffee in RoG worlds?

[@newman4938]

By using Seaworthy, you can travel between a RoG and SW world while carrying all your items.

[@hodles]

OH! u do talk

[@bruh7196]

sound is too low :/

[@DINO25K]

can you buy ya a new micro

[@nikolaradulovic7121]

hmmm.....Im realy like your mega base!TOUR?

[@matthewpugh2690]

My game lags when I have caves on in DST

[@allanbonayon5797]

Matthew Pugh first disable lag compensation and you must be in full screen it freezes when it saves just like any other day save

[@baska-]

Your voice is so low :(

[@hyuyu9786]

Why is there a pig at 2:39 ?

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

That little piggy is part of a special debug mode available to modders.

[@hyuyu9786]

Joeshmocoolstuff Oh okay thanks

[@starark]

cant hear a word your saying

[@Beardmosexual]

Your mic is a potato.

[@polarbear0471]

first

[@srdftw]

Good tips. Clickbait "tame deerclops".....thumbs down.

[@joeshmocoolstuff]

Sweet, thanks dude.