Hounds (Don't Starve Reign of Giants - Beginner's Guide Series)

[@salendrak]

*_IMPORTANT UPDATE / CHANGES_* The March 2023 Quality of Life update made some big changes to the frequency of hound (and crockodog in SW) attacks in the single player version of the game (and DST too), making the chart I put at around 4:50 now obsolete. Based on information posted on the wiki, as the day count increases, the number of hounds does still increase, but the time between hound attacks also INCREASES rather than decreases. At day 101+ the time between attacks is a variable 11 to 16 days now, but still has between 7 to 10 hounds per attack. A VERY nice change in my opinion!

[@NotAurichu]

A moment of thanks for all the pigs and spiders that have come to my “rescue” and died “protecting me” from hounds attacks

[@salendrak]

They may be lost, but will NOT be forgotten! 😆

[@NotAurichu]

@@salendrak they are the real MVP 🥲

[@胡高平]

Me who didn't even survive winter: interesting...

[@salendrak]

You haven't survived winter yet?!?!

[@胡高平]

@@salendrak a varg and his hound gang killed me in the night when I was starving, freezing and without a light. Isn't it unfair?

[@salendrak]

@@胡高平 Actually, sounds pretty typical for Don't Starve 😆

[@jordanchen23]

Hang in there, you start making big improvements when you break through sticking points.

[@Lulurikku21]

The Sandor Clegane pic made me snort. So clever. I love that you used your spring sound track for this vid.

[@salendrak]

That way I won't ever get a copyright strike for music!! 😁

[@LuciusC]

4:50 Ugh, this chart is giving me war flashbacks. 3 frickin days are you kidding us Klei? Literally unplayable. But seriously, they basically inverted the situation since then, and I'm glad they did. Hounds are obnoxious as it is, but I can handle an occasional attack.

[@salendrak]

Ooooh - thanks for pointing this out. I forgot to add a sticked comment that the QoL update changed the frequency. But yes - late-game hounds used to be a severe annoyance more than anything, and the frequency of as short as 3 days between attacks was just needlessly punishing and categorically un-fun.

[@LuciusC]

Yeah-- now it starts at 5-8 days and goes up to 11-16 which is less common than it ever was originally. Plus, caving doesn't run the timer anymore. We used to need to have countermeasures within 30 seconds of every sinkhole we wanted to explore because there would always be an attack waiting for us.

[@KingPirateVideos]

Finaly a new video ! your the only youtuber i can find that covers rog and not toghether !

[@salendrak]

That's why I do it - I'm trying to corner the market MUAAHAHAHAH!!

[@KingPirateVideos]

@@salendrak STONKS

[@crazyfelinelady2659]

Hounds. the first time I've got the alarm sound it really scared me. :D and it's true for newbies who don't know the trick got really overwhelmed by hounds late spawns. They're such a bully. (I'm talking about my first play with any guides whatsoever. LOL) Really detailed guides, as always

[@salendrak]

Ohhhh I died many times in the early days to the doggos. Bases burned down, eaten to death. Good times!!

[@crazyfelinelady2659]

@@salendrak Good times indeed. XD So sorry I can't join you on stream, because of the time difference here. I want to join though but it's 5 in the morning here when the stream going. TT _ TT

[@winglim2507]

This man deserve more subscribers for his quality of work. Thank you for taking the time to make the video and make life easier for us

[@salendrak]

Thanks!! I'll take whatever subs I can get! 😁

[@Agent_Chieftain]

After 131 days, I grew overconfident playing Wolfgang. I maxed out on mightiness and equipped myself with a newly crafted ham bat and armor, thinking to just brute force my way through it like I had done for 130 days prior. The game decided to make all but one of the hounds fire hounds. Because there were so many, and I was killing them all in 1 hit, I found myself in the middle of half a dozen dead hound fires and my health melted away before I realized what was happening.

[@salendrak]

Lessons were learned!!

[@jadenwirhol3260]

Dude! I love this series so much! Please keep making it

[@salendrak]

Absolutely! Next episode in the series will be Summer, and I've got several ideas for future videos after that. Any requests?

[@carlkrikorian7210]

Love the quality videos ! Very helpful and fun ! Thank you so much for helping me survive my first year in game

[@salendrak]

You're very welcome!!

[@thelingeringartist]

Weirdly enough,Hound Attacks are one of the only few things when first starting out I handled on my own. Pigs and tentacles are your best friends! Thanks for this vid tho

[@salendrak]

Yeah, a pig village (or even just any random pig) works great against the first several hound attacks. But be careful once Winter or subsequent falls hits with fire hounds!

[@arty_mc_artist]

I've died so many times to hounds •́ ‿ ,•̀ I used to play with campfire respawn just because of them. Doing my first world without it now, so far so good

[@salendrak]

They're one of the biggest challenges to overcome, but once you get used to dealing with them, it almost becomes second nature! Says the guy who regularly starts losing health due to hunger....

[@alleredetagetafmig]

i used to just turn them off, but now they're just more annoying than dangerous

[@ozankaynar3193]

Hey it’s me again! Just wanted to mention how all I said in the spring vid of the beginner’s guide series is becoming true. You are growing exponentially! Good job :)

[@salendrak]

Numbers keep going up and up! Though I think I'll need to go viral to hit true exponential growth!

[@DaJokaX]

Im claiming first. I’ll edit what i think when done Aight. Good vid. Ima put these tips to use

[@DaJokaX]

Also claiming first like 😎

[@salendrak]

I think you win!!

[@timeforown2234]

Awesome love your guides!

[@salendrak]

Thanks!

[@Generalmacka]

“Let’s shift gears” (playing as WX-78) This guys a dad joke genius

[@salendrak]

OMG - I totally need to use that as a transition to talk about WX at some point!

[@spacewolfe1906]

I recently had a very tragic death where I was exploring the map at the beginning of a world, and I was in the desert when I found the hound mound kingdom set piece, right at the edge (yay), to top it off, it was dark, I forgot to remake a torch, I was being chased by 8 hounds, couldn't make a new choice, and got double killed by a hounds and charlie. (Officially labelled as darkness in the morgue but they both hit at the same time). What's worse is that it was a very Interesting world as it was mostly a straight line. Then immediately after I started a new world and I started ona. Small island with nothing on it and no connections to the outside world.

[@salendrak]

Yeah, I've had similar deaths to that before. Most recent one I can think of was waiting near a campfire at night near a spider forest. Too many spiders got too close, rain was putting the fire out, didn't have time to make torches. Died! That's pretty weird to have an isolated starter island like that though!

[@MakusinMeringue]

"Reign of Giant" You forgot the S, alendrak.

[@salendrak]

Ooops - thanks for catching that. Fixed!!

[@salendrak]

Just realized, that Salendrak is Drank Ales rearranged 😲😆🍻

[@Zawgafog]

ah yes my favorite dlc reign of giant

[@r3dp9]

You're making the game look easy. Maybe it will be easy, the next time I have a go at it.

[@salendrak]

Knowledge and experience! The initial learning curve is pretty steep in Don't Starve, but once you get things down, it's not too bad. Still keep me on my toes sometimes though!

[@peashootergaming3489]

I died from you using a straw hat at 0:38

[@salendrak]

Sorry 'bout that! 😆

[@dragonslayer9339]

I love your videos. Keep it up.

[@salendrak]

Thank you!!

[@sethhendrick1709]

Nice vid!

[@salendrak]

Thanks Seth!!

[@fruitfiction]

currently playing this on my psvita... thanks for the videos

[@salendrak]

No problem - how is it on the Vita?

[@fruitfiction]

@@salendrak so far so good ...surviving day 32...

[@salendrak]

Nice! What's your current record?

[@fruitfiction]

@@salendrak lol 34~T_T~ died of starvation

[@chrisb5483]

if you look at my morgue it's all red hound, red hound, red hound, red hound. stupid hounds. 😄 They love to come while I'm insane fighting shadow creatures. Though this finally explained why by my 1st summer they come faster and faster and seemingly without warning. Now i have to just .. create traps or something to handle them. I assumed the traps lit on fire but your video shows they don't seem to. Sad cause this last run I had a cool base, and next to it a wormhole straight to my summer base in a rocky desert w cactus. so convenient!

[@salendrak]

Yeah, fire hounds, especially in your base, are no bueno!! Start stocking up on hounds teeth in winter and spring, as even a small handful of them will make fire hounds much easier to deal with. And by the time you start getting fire hounds (assuming a fall start) the hounds waves will have started getting pretty big - so gotta prepare well in advance!!

[@KaryoSentiko]

Finding these very helpful. Can you do one on Sanity? Seems to be the thing I struggle with most. Creeps up one me just when I think everything is going fine. And I am truly baffled by those who actually recommend spending time insane! Whatever you can do to illuminate...

[@salendrak]

Not sure if I'll do a full guide on it, but really all you need to do is go stock up on cactus from the desert, or find an area with lots of green mushrooms and go pick them all every now and then. Getting a Tam o' Shanter your first winter from the Walruses really makes maintaining sanity trivial, and jerky can also be used. In a pinch you can also just pick flowers, but I generally only do that in remote areas where I'm unlikely to care about removing the butterfly spawners.

[@chriswaudby1084]

Pick flowers that raises sanity

[@melonspecies1065]

Imagine playing Wes with your headset broken ... Guess I'll die

[@salendrak]

That'll definitely keep you on your toes!!

[@melonspecies1065]

I will share something On my first time playing don't Starve ,On my first year and my first hound attack I build a stone wall around my base to prevent hounds from entering And all of us now it didn't go well

[@salendrak]

New Player: "Oh hey, I can make walls to protect my base!" Narrator: "Little did the new player know, walls in this game don't keep the monsters out - they keep you IN with the monsters!"

[@natix_643]

Hi, is it worth it to build walls, either around your camp or another dedicated place and shoot the hounds with some ranged weapons?

[@salendrak]

Nope! Ranged weapons don't put out much damage for how expensive they are and how few uses you get out of them, and making enough walls to keep anything out would take a TON of resources, and get eaten through pretty fast, especially as the attacks get bigger. Walls are pretty much only for decoration, and some niche uses like keeping pigs or bunny men out of their houses 24/7, as well as some strategies against bosses in DST.

[@truthtea5143]

Literally just lead hounds into beefalos and they take care of them like bam 😌 I love it

[@salendrak]

Yup, that works too - usually! As you get further and further into the game, it is possible for hound waves (especially in fall and summer with fire hounds) to take down whole herds of beefalo. Also, some worlds won't have very many beefalo to begin with, and might have herds that are too small to handle very many hounds very fast or efficiently, if at all! I think the overall best approach though is to learn how to fight the earlier waves yourself, and then go with tooth traps as the waves get bigger and bigger. VERY fast and efficient, and not at all dependent on world generation quirks!

[@aMarvelousLute]

i didn't even know that hounds deserve their own video

[@salendrak]

You know all those skeletons scattered throughout the world? Pretty sure they are former players picked clean by - HOUNDS!! 😆

[@excavator_man]

I think that the fire hounds ate the red gem, and the ice hounds ate the blue gem. That’s why they drop their respective gem

[@salendrak]

Sounds good to me!!

[@guilhermerubim909]

Any tips for inventory/chest management?

[@salendrak]

Yup - covered that in my Early-Game Base Building guide. Here's a link to that section: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZSnmmOAicp9ack

[@胡高平]

Will you do a guide about characters and playstyles?

[@salendrak]

It's on the list! Maybe sometime after the summer guide...

[@ihavethelongestnameinthehi3737]

Story for anybody to read: I once was on day 70 and with Wolfgang and got the hound warning after that there were 4 ice hounds and 3 normal ones I had 230 hunger and 4 meatballs with darksword, I think you can imagine what happened after. If not, then I kited the hounds and killed the ice hounds 1 by 1

[@salendrak]

Yeah, if you're careful with your tactics, it is possible to string them out and take them down one at a time. Just tricky!!

[@ckkrzuwwhotchi1465]

I don't care what other people may think but with me, Hounds are legitly cute ❤️❤️🐺🐺

[@salendrak]

My wife thinks Vargs are adorable 😆

[@What-ug2uh]

i was at day 97 and there was a hound attack, i forgot i had a beefalo hat on and died

[@salendrak]

Been there. Done that!

[@itscormy]

And here I am trying to take and befriend the doggos

[@salendrak]

There really should be a taming mechanic. Wouldn't it be great to have a pet?!

[@hatzjhon362]

@@salendrak there are pets, but sadly not for solo don't starve

[@salendrak]

@@hatzjhon362 It's true!! Imagine though if there was a way to tame a hound, train it to fight, pick grass, haul logs - that would be epic!!

[@胡高平]

@@salendrak well, for something that Maxwell made to make you struggle that's a bit too much...

[@bartoszpienkosz7827]

It would be cool if you make a shipwreckted guide series

[@salendrak]

I'll get to it eventually, but want to finish up with RoG before moving on. Maybe in a couple of months? Still need to do Summer, Caves / Ruins, and Adventure Mode.

[@caliban_one]

Can i ask, why you dont use Geometric Placement mod? You seems to like organized base but building without that feels like real pain

[@salendrak]

Honestly, I've just gotten used to making my bases without it that having it wouldn't really add anything more! And I've watched others using the mod, and while yet it allows you to make perfectly straight rows and get really tight placements, I've never liked the gridline overlay, and even with the mod, that level of precision seems really time consuming. But that's just my personal preference!

[@derrickhageman1969]

Btw they fixed that exploit in d.s.t where you go to the caves to cancel the invasion

[@salendrak]

Yeah, that was in the March 2022 QoL update, which also changed the spawn numbers and added that new varglet.

[@derrickhageman1969]

@@salendrak oh yes they appear in the very late years varglets do and just like the adults they can turn a simple hound invasion to a hound mob and strangely enough if a varg was to spawn underground it will summon depth worms instead of hounds

[@themagicalbeast6188]

Wes is best with Bush Hat. That's his only positive

[@salendrak]

I really need to spend more time playing as Wes LOL

[@Toastcat890]

I just take them to bees, tree guards , tall birds or spiders.

[@salendrak]

Also very effective!

[@justinsuen4560]

So... how is it possible that I've seen 6 hounds on day 7?

[@salendrak]

From a periodic hound attack?! Or did you just get too close to some hound mounds? Periodic attacks should have that many, unless maybe you turned up one of the world settings?

[@Johannn0411]

I play Shipwreck pocket edition crocodogs replaces hounds and instead of two hit and dodge I use three hit and dodge it's a little hard though thanks I also use this in Shipwreck

[@salendrak]

Yup - crockodogs are pretty much identical to hounds. Really the only difference is the loot (regular drop more teeth than vanilla hounds) and there are no red ones, instead there are yellow that poison you.

[@Johannn0411]

@@salendrak yup and the blue one that spawn puddles are annoying especially in my base

[@pineappleguy676]

Will you make dst guided oncr you are done with everything you have to cover in rog?

[@salendrak]

Probably, though my current plan is to move on to Shipwrecked and then Hamlet first. Though once my youngest is no longer in half-day kindergarten in the fall I'm hoping to increase my production schedule, so I might start doing DST along with everything else. We'll see!

[@pineappleguy676]

@@salendrak i feel like dst first then the dlc's whould be better as there are much more dst players then any of the dlc's and it wont take too many guides becouse most of the basics are already in rog

[@salendrak]

@@pineappleguy676 Yeah, that's a fair point. Maybe once I'm satisfied with RoG I'll bounce around a bit more on the Don't Starve side of things.

[@pineappleguy676]

Herrs another extreme end game in dst: hounios shutios, about 4 should do the trick

[@salendrak]

Yeah, I love putting those in hound-fighting arenas. Though that's a bit more of an advanced thing, but I will probably show that once I've done my Ruins guide.

[@lamewalrusxd4781]

I just lost the first world I managed to defeat the deerclops to fucking hounds, I'm so sad

[@salendrak]

Consider it a right of passage! I've lost several worlds to hounds!!

[@sohrabrostami6079]

What kind of gamer you are you know we love you and this series but you dont make more

[@salendrak]

What?! Summer guide coming out this coming weekend!! Current schedule only lets me get about one guide or playthrough episode per week, and since I have basically 4 different series going, that means each individual series gets a new entry every 4 weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to increase my production schedule at some point!

[@charlottejones3552]

Sorry your forest gump impression was really bad but I appreciate the reference

[@salendrak]

But I even watched video clips from the movie and practiced it!!!! 🤣

[@sethhendrick1709]

@@salendrak lol

[@胡高平]

Forest what?

[@charlottejones3552]

I just watched the clip and I think you actually did a good job

[@charlottejones3552]

Forest gumpnis movie you should go watch it

[@derrickhageman1969]

but then depth worm invasions are worse for lots of reasons

[@salendrak]

I find depth worm attacks to be much easier to deal with if fighting them head on. But maybe that's just me!

[@derrickhageman1969]

@@salendrak at least depth worms are easy to spot when they lose aggro but they are quite tanky and they are somewhat easy to kite

[@Aang_L._Jackson]

This nigga is the best at don’t starve

[@salendrak]

Nah, I'm just decent at it LOL

[@Aang_L._Jackson]

@@salendrak Decent enough to teach us how to play ... thanks a lot homie

[@g0nerk1d88]

My dog is listening in

[@salendrak]

Hopefully not offended!!

[@Fledhyris]

"The biggest difference is that if you are playing with others, EACH player will get attacked by whatever number of hounds the game decides to throw at you." So... is that just extra for Wes or does he pull hounds from other players? Poor Wes, lol...

[@salendrak]

I don't think he gets extra, they're just more likely to beeline for Wes if he is in the area. Or something like that LOL

[@Zawgafog]

doggies are coming

[@salendrak]

Woof woof!!

[@willraya1791]

i have only goten to day 15

[@willraya1791]

i was killed by darkness

[@salendrak]

You gotta watch out for that darkness - it'll get you every time if you aren't careful!!

[@willraya1791]

@@salendrak ya i didnt have any torches

[@jetdanielobiena5271]

Or be webber and have spiders near your base

[@salendrak]

Watch out for fire hounds though!!

[@mockerchan]

you kill hounds so that you can kill hounds with traps

[@salendrak]

Huh? I don't get it....

[@mockerchan]

@@salendrak with their teeth lol

[@salendrak]

@@mockerchan Oh hahah - so kill the hounds so I don't have to kill the hounds because they kill themselves with their own teeth?

[@mockerchan]

@@salendrak yeah kinda lul

[@fighter0056]

I always go to the Beefalos because there to much Hounds. And its kinda annoying. So the Video helps me a lot but I should make a tooth trap are..... I have 100 tooths anyway 😂

[@salendrak]

Sounds like you're good to go! Just be aware for future worlds - it's possible to get a world with NO beefalo!!

[@fighter0056]

@@salendrak *pathetic* Hm i will remember that

[@miscerechannel]

Maybe salendrak is a secret klei developer and just pretending to be a youtuber so he can share the secrets of the game

[@salendrak]

Sounds like a fun gig, but sadly no - that's not the case!

[@dannifannie3469]

I was too slow!

[@salendrak]

Gotta be quick these days!! 😆

[@margaretheb7567]

:))))

[@salendrak]

😁