Jesus, how long did that take you? That's over 5 hours, isn't it? I read that each day is 8 minutes. I now know why my 20+ day runs felt so long for me playing. It's a long session of gaming. PEACE.
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Jesus, how long did that take you? That's over 5 hours, isn't it? I read that each day is 8 minutes. I now know why my 20+ day runs felt so long for me playing. It's a long session of gaming. PEACE.
pharmboy044
Member
Any idea how the save system works?
Wow soooo disappointing. I died on day 8, really promising map I spent a week doing nothing but exploring. I had a temp camp set up by the pig king, but I found a cave that had a near COMPLETE permanent base just sitting there. Tent, refrigerator, chest, bunch of tools, science lab, it was great... except for the dozens of spiders that ringed it.
Naturally I really wanted to loot the clothes left by the skeleton so I pushed my luck and got swarmed.
Naturally I really wanted to loot the clothes left by the skeleton so I pushed my luck and got swarmed.
I'm currently at Day 19 on my first play through as the pyromaniac girl. Something that's really helped me are two Rock Lobsters I found roaming around in the caves. I gave them a bunch of gold and rocks to eat and had them follow me to the surface. They pretty much act as godly bodyguards. They fucked up a pack of hounds and spiders like they were nothing. As long as I keep feeding them, they stick by my side and kill anything that is hostile towards me. Lucky for me, my base is right next to a massive field of boulders. I'm also setup next to the water, so i can only get attacked from one side.
FaintColt388301
Member
Can anybody put together a quick strategy. I saw that wiki but it's not an easy guide. It over complicated things imo. Maybe it didn't help that I was at work when reading it and just perused it instead of really dissecting it
So far what I do is start out collecting stuff to get an axe then move on to whatever it takes to make a fire. Then i look for carrots and berries and maybe make a trap to catch bunnies. When night his I just cook up what I have a wait till day. Then repeat as I wonder around looking for rocks and somewhere that has gold so I can make a science machine. I try and find things on the way until I can find some pigs or spiders (I finally found beefalo first the first time after like 10 tries). Then I'll set up an actual for pit and make my since science machine. My last play through I was able to feed the pigs monster meat and get them on my side, make a bunch of traps for bunnies and birds by my home base and I set up a farm with fertilizer and seeds. Then I died getting too aggressive with spiders. I know should just run away but I thought I could take them (lesson learned).
Any corrections to my initial strategy or advice on how to take the next step to get these establishments that y'all have?
So far what I do is start out collecting stuff to get an axe then move on to whatever it takes to make a fire. Then i look for carrots and berries and maybe make a trap to catch bunnies. When night his I just cook up what I have a wait till day. Then repeat as I wonder around looking for rocks and somewhere that has gold so I can make a science machine. I try and find things on the way until I can find some pigs or spiders (I finally found beefalo first the first time after like 10 tries). Then I'll set up an actual for pit and make my since science machine. My last play through I was able to feed the pigs monster meat and get them on my side, make a bunch of traps for bunnies and birds by my home base and I set up a farm with fertilizer and seeds. Then I died getting too aggressive with spiders. I know should just run away but I thought I could take them (lesson learned).
Any corrections to my initial strategy or advice on how to take the next step to get these establishments that y'all have?
ramuh
Member
The question I have is once you have a camp and a general idea of your area, you can farm for logs twigs, rabbits etc. They go away after you "farmed" them. Is it in my interest to keep exploring further out among the wilderness? I plan on doing that after I made a grass suit and some other things. Also I need a permanent resident. lol.
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Deleted member 1235
Unconfirmed Member
from memory you need
2 big meat
1 honey
some filler (I believe either straw or twigs can fill, something almost worthless anyway)
there is also the dragon fruit that can make dragon pie, that's 1 dragon fruit 2 sticks and one other thing for almost as much as honey ham.
also, get bees near your base people. build a bee box, then go catch some butterflies. plant the butterflies near the beebox to get flowers. flowers + bees = much honey. If you plant around 9 flowers, that's gonna be 1 big sticky bee box (in summer only)
forget grass suit totally. log suit you want.
Also, I don't settle until I've found the pigs with beefalos nearby. First 4-6 days I roam the edges of the map and map out the territory, live off berries/carrots and normal non stone campfires. keep mapping until you find all the vital stuff and know where the different biomes and wormholes are.
rabbits etc do come back. you want to be near a spot with many rabbit holes. I make about 4 traps and always put em with no bait directly above the holes in the ground. try and run back that way from my adventures on the way home at night, grab 4 rabbits (reset the trap after getting the rabbit).
Yesterday I watched this on Youtube for five hours. I was just supposed to check the gameplay quickly but I got stuck watching like a sloth. Maybe it was due to the game being super interesting plus the gameplay uploader (Sips) being also good at narrating while playing.
ramuh
Member
Cool. Thanks for tips!
I find big meat hard or risky to get. Build a bird cage and imprison a bird. Cooking 1 egg + 1 of any meat+ 1 veggie +1 anything except twigs gives you pierogi. Heals hp and hunger pretty well.
You can feed the bird stuff you won't eat, like cooked monster meat for eggs. Works best with a farm and a source of spiders nearby.
I find my main use of honey is for honey nuggets ( honey + morsel) and taffie. Taffies heal sanity but takes away some hp. Having taffies are good for healing up after insane trips to kill beardlings or for regular trips in wormholes.
ramuh
Member
I tried to make a Don't Starve style avatar of myself. I think it's pretty decent.
Now, back to surviving! lol
You look so gaunt and malnourished. LOL. Eat some bird seeds!
Lucent
Member
ramuh
Member
Then it's time to take your no streets smart goth kid out to the new frontier!
I'll post back about my adventures in a few days.
Lucent
Member
lol. Don't starve! =p
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
Maybe leave some supplies or crafted clothing neat a touchstone? Wouldn't that work?
Lucent
Member
On day 22. 2nd day of Winter. Thought I'd chill at my camp and try not to venture too far so. But there were a couple of hounds that came out of nowhere. I'm trying to shake them off but even when they leave my sight I have no idea where they're at. They don't seem to run far off because I went back towards my camp and there they were. =l I hope I don't die just because a couple of random hounds came at me. I need to somehow kill them or get rid of them while keeping myself from starving or being caught in the dark. =(
FaintColt388301
Member
I accidently ate a mushroom. My sanity dropped really low and then I started gettin chased by a tree. I kept running then night hit so I made camp but the tree just followed me and murdered me.
I wasn't sure if I was going to like this game, but it's really cool. I was able to only get to Day 7 in my few attempts. Watching other people play the game on Twitch, I realized that I may have been playing the game wrong. I started going insane from sitting next to fires and eating mushrooms. I feel like I have only scratched the surface.
Awesome start to the free PS+ games. Resogun and now Don't Starve.
Edit: I didn't even realize you could sleep in this game.
Awesome start to the free PS+ games. Resogun and now Don't Starve.
Edit: I didn't even realize you could sleep in this game.
Yes, but I'm never prepared when I cross one of those things, and I never go back to them. Yeah...self-imposed problems. LOL!
I get the pickaxe first. It'll get me more than enough flint to make more axes. I usually don't chop wood until dusk sets in anyway, even on the first day. Trees are the most common thing in the game, and it doesn't take long to gather enough wood for a fire. Focus on gathering materials for a science and alchemy building then a backpack. The extra carry capacity is huge IMO. It lets me carry a log suit, just in case I get in a scrap. Grab any seeds, carrots or berries along the way.
This game I'm playing is currently Day15 (I needed a break). I'm not even bothering with traps. Not until winter, assuming I figure out how to deal with exposure. I'm strictly farming. I setup 8 improved farms, and while that might seem like more than necessary, it really helps even out the food supply, for days when I don't find many seeds or want to do more exploring. Plus, I had a lot of manure to get rid off. Ha! PEACE.
Rei no Otaku
Member
Best way I found to get rid of hounds is to camp near beefalo and then lead the hounds into them. The beefalo will destroy the hounds.
Yeah I was watching streams of this game and I prob could have watched it all day. Interesting to see the different, or lack of, strategies of the different players. I think this would have been a good interactive game too where viewers could affect the game's world and change elements and drop supplies like the Hunger Games.
Mister Negative
Member
What happens if you have two touchstones active at the same time? I came across two almost directly next to each other and activated both.
you'll get two respawns but take the health hit for both
re: your hound problem, the game actively spawns hounds to hunt you down every few days. You'll know cos your char will say something like "Did you hear that?" or "What was that sound" That's your cue to go find some pigs or to hide amongst the beehives or something.
If there was a 'daily seed' world, they should implement dark souls style messages and ghosts
Lucent
Member
Good idea. Actually started a new run and this map there is a HUGE grass area in this one where it stretches forever and there is a ton of beefalo.
I just ran into my first chess area after like 5 plays. Those guys do not mess around. I don't even know how you would fight those. =l
I also found the Eye Bone and have Chester following me around carrying items. It's not quite as convenient as the backpack (since you can pause to look through things and can't with Chester) but it almost is the same thing and lets me wear armor.
I love how the game randomly places things. I found a fire dart along the way next to a skeleton. That Eye Bone was just there. Feels almost like a different game every time.
I think I may have to figure out how to play more efficiently though. There are so many different things you can create and I was only able to make a small amount of them because I'm so worried about eating and gathering stuff.
NavyPharaoh
Member
This is like the new age oregon trail. Had a good ass map but picked the robot & the rain killed me. Now I'm using the librarian. She makea things a little easier with the books
Nope. Go nuts.
EGOMON
Member
cheers
You respawn at the nearest one.
Pestilence11
Member
Currently on Day 50 of survival. I've had quite a few close calls but managed to survive so far.
Lucent
Member
Nice. 22 days is the most I've done so far. Dumb hounds. =l
GotchaForce
Member
Started getting into this today, but questions-
how do you replenish brain power/sanity?
is there a trick to traps? I've laid them down near 5 rabbits nests and nothing happened, not even the next day. Do you have to chase them into it?
how do you replenish brain power/sanity?
is there a trick to traps? I've laid them down near 5 rabbits nests and nothing happened, not even the next day. Do you have to chase them into it?
EGOMON
Member
You replenish sanity by eating cooked food, picking flowers, wearing flower-hat, try to avoid darkness and stay as close as possible to the fire also don't eat monster meat or mushrooms as they reduce your sanity.
To catch a rabbit either you bait the trap with a carrot (stand next to the trap highlight the carrot and press left in the d-pad) or put the trap right next to the rabbit hole without a bait this way they get trapped when they try to go back or leave the hole.
Making a flower hat early on is a good way
Place them right next to the holes. You can't place them directly ontop but you can place them right outside the hole's boundary. The rabbits will get trapped pretty much as soon as they come out.
Robert J. Sullivan
Member
about sanity, basically what other people said, i also think hanging around monsters/dead woods biome too much reduces sanity (it was like that in the pc ver, maybe they changed it since)
for traps, you can either put it right on top of a hole (works most of the time) or put a carrot under it
Lucent
Member
Well, if you have a PS4 and PS+, why not give it a try? Watching someone else play this sort of game could be pretty boring unless the person knows what they're doing and/or has that flare that makes him/her fun to watch.
I just put myself in the "I need to do this or I'm gonna die" mood. And it's not easy to kill things, so you genuinely are afraid of running into monsters. I got chased by a bunch of spiders and I was running for my life. lol
Ha, yeah it was easily 4 hours+. So easy to get sucked in though! I told myself I'd stop before Winter but then I couldn't pull myself away, I feared when I came back later I might mess it up so it was best to just power through Winter at the time? Reading other people's replies it seems like I fluked out by building a Heat Stone, Drying Racks and Stone Walls just before Winter hit! I do wish there was some kind of gate you could build though.
Lucent
Member
Yeah that'd be very helpful. Seems kind of pointless to build walls if monsters can just go through the opening. It's almost like you gotta have a wall ready to place while running and place it after you get in. And then gotta be able to destroy it. =l
My solution ended up being always carrying a small stack of hay walls to seal the gap on me as well as a hammer to break the hay down into grass again when morning came. Not the most elegant solution but it helped me feel safe!