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I agree. Shoveling stumps gets a very fast and painless 1 wood, though, so carry a shovel around and take out the stumps all at once.
And btw,
There's an unlockable character who can cut down trees quicker.
I watched a guy that was past day 100 yesterday on my PS4. He turned into a Beaver.. he could just gnaw the trees.. he got LOTS of wood that way..
Rocky_Balboa
Member
Damn, I was on day 31 and accidentally attacked a penguin. They killed me in seconds. At least I unlocked a bunch of characters.
Teletraan1
Banned
Do you have a lightning rod? You are 1 unlucky lightning strike away from losing all that shrubbery. I tend to either get a lightning rod or just plant the bushes spaced out enough that they all dont catch fire if one does. With a heat rock you can do a pretty large circuit before it cools down.
My wife and I are done with the game now after a 25 hour binge this weekend.
Could have played more if it wasn't for an unfortunate crash on the PS4.
After several trial runs, we finally managed to set up a solid camp
( Fire, tent, farms, 6 crockpots, 6 dry racks, 20 bunny traps, the whole works)
Dog attacks were no longer a problem, we would just kite them into the tentacle field and the penguins near our camp were under control as well.
Then, on day 34 on a frozen berry run, i set down a fire to heat my stone and i crash to the XMB. Last save was somehow day 4.
That's when we realized there is no reward to this game, which is really too bad, since the concept is fun.
Could have played more if it wasn't for an unfortunate crash on the PS4.
After several trial runs, we finally managed to set up a solid camp
( Fire, tent, farms, 6 crockpots, 6 dry racks, 20 bunny traps, the whole works)
Dog attacks were no longer a problem, we would just kite them into the tentacle field and the penguins near our camp were under control as well.
Then, on day 34 on a frozen berry run, i set down a fire to heat my stone and i crash to the XMB. Last save was somehow day 4.
That's when we realized there is no reward to this game, which is really too bad, since the concept is fun.
Seriously? OMFG...
BibiMaghoo
Member
Ideally, you will want to save and quit at various points in the game. If you do this, a crash / power cut / whatever will simply mean to start at the point you last saved and quit. If you do this once a week or so, then you can have no fear of a crash losing lots of progress. I think entering caves saves the game also.
From what I can tell, the 'reward' lies in adventure mode, rather than sandbox. That is the real single player, rather than the mode we start in. It's a strange way of doing it, but I can see why, as it is harder than sandbox mode.
I was kinda thrown off by the "auto save feature" that it mentions in the first screen.
Didn't think it was only at the cave.
I might give it another run in the adventure mode, but a loss like that really killed it.
I would have been fine by just dying, since i had 2 resurrection pads ready.
get used to that, some games are already doing the same and more will do it in the future
BibiMaghoo
Member
The 'auto save' exists to delete your save game. There is no auto save in the sense of checkpoints, because when you die, only a few outcomes are possible:
1) You have no backup, game over, and your save (auto or not) is deleted from the system
2) You have a backup touchstone or meat effigy, in which case you will die and spawn at them
3) You have an amulet to save you, and respawn where you died.
So in each case, an auto save is not used to restore you, which is why it really only exists to let you carry on after quitting a session. Quit your sessions and reload, and the save will only be deleted if you die as in 1).
Survived my second winter.
The 3 treeguards are making short work of any hounds. Seriously its not even funny. Have 4 tentacle spikes stockpiled now, as well as plenty of beefalo wool, 20+ honey, lots of meat, and a chest full of rabbits, with more traps everywhere.
Didn't see deerclops or krampus so that's a plus. Have 40 wood stockpiled in chestus. Will fill him up with 180 wood by next winter, so I can hang out with the treeguards and not have to chop any trees.
Took out my second lvl 3 spider hive and got them eggs. Can plant next to my first hive for easy silk and monster meat farming now. Also got a second meatlure bulb in case fire hounds set my first one of fire.
Will be able to survive next winter easy as long as shit doesn't hit the fan.
Also, for the love of god I've explored almost everything and I still cant find maxwell's door. Gotta experiment jumping into wormholes soon.
The 3 treeguards are making short work of any hounds. Seriously its not even funny. Have 4 tentacle spikes stockpiled now, as well as plenty of beefalo wool, 20+ honey, lots of meat, and a chest full of rabbits, with more traps everywhere.
Didn't see deerclops or krampus so that's a plus. Have 40 wood stockpiled in chestus. Will fill him up with 180 wood by next winter, so I can hang out with the treeguards and not have to chop any trees.
Took out my second lvl 3 spider hive and got them eggs. Can plant next to my first hive for easy silk and monster meat farming now. Also got a second meatlure bulb in case fire hounds set my first one of fire.
Will be able to survive next winter easy as long as shit doesn't hit the fan.
Also, for the love of god I've explored almost everything and I still cant find maxwell's door. Gotta experiment jumping into wormholes soon.
Sorry to hear that. I read something about it only saving when you quit, so I have been sure to quit occasionally.
BTW, why six crockpots? everything I've ever cooked has been ready in a few seconds. Maybe the resulting food after cooking keeps infinitely before being harvested? Did I just answer my own question?
BRB, off to make more crockpots.
BibiMaghoo
Member
As you said.
We need a picture of you crockpot armada!
Never needed a second crockpot in base. I almost always cook and eat immediately before night time hits, with another dish cooked after that for morning, for full hunger.
Now crockpots with meat stew in them at touch stones. That's a good use of charcoal.
I also have fire pits along major roads quite a ways off my base, along with a crockpot and a chest full of wood, in case I explore too far and get stranded
Seriously what kind of food do you guys cook in the crockpot to need so many of them to heal hunger?
BibiMaghoo
Member
They are good to have, because you can throw crap in it and get a good meal out, for example you can use 1 monster meat and anything else, to get a good, healing meal from them. As they keep, you can just fill them up with damaging crap like mushrooms you wouldn't otherwise eat, with a bit of jerky or something in there, then use as needed. Crockpots and drying racks with a few traps can see you live indefinitely.
Placing firepits at different travel points is the way to go, and how I have played in my current game. When winter comes, it is priceless to have.
I am enjoying this, but I want to experiment more. I wish they would allow a save load mode where you just don't earn experience anymore upon death. Like a playground type mode as other games have.
You do know that before you cook, whatever you put in a crockpot still spoils right? Icebox is the way to go.
Seriously don't bother with making meatballs. They're only good for hunger. If you want to heal, honey nuggets (honey, 0.5 meat), honey ham (honey, 2 meat) or bacon and eggs (2 eggs, 1.5 meat) are the way to go if you don't have access to farms.
Day 72 here. I'm to the point where I've got a great camp setup going and could probably live for a real long time not venturing out and playing it safe, but that gets kind of boring after a while. I recently went on a four day trek in the dead of winter knowing I had a touchstone active. On day 3 in the dead of night got attacked by a group of six hounds, killed all but one before they put me down. It was all I could do to get back to my backpack before I froze. Little reckless but otherwise it was getting a little stale sitting around camp checking my traps and cooking all day.
i'm near day 140 now with Wilson (still my 2nd game), explored 1 cave a lot and what it seems like 80% of my worldmap, north, east, south east, west and south all are "end of world" with water, only way remaining is through a swamp.
but I discovered all I need: chester, all 4 things and the wooden thing to place them on, the adventure shrine, 3 cave entries, lots and lots of spiders and pigs, 3 alraunes, unlimited amount of Dragon Fruit for Health Recovery, thanks to a bird cage, etc.
from my lat trip to the cave i brought back 2 rabbits and a rocklobster (best. friend. ever! except the one time where he killed me ._.)
allready destroyed 1 respawn-point and 3 meet effgies.
thanks to the wormhole I don't have to go through an area with 30(!) Killerbee nests, but on the other hand this is an awesome area when the dogs arrive. I think currently I have to deal with ~12-15 dogs and they really spawn all 3 days -.-
here is a little video i made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcdzz-mCS_s
It's winter and the dogs attack in the night (worst combination ever...) the poor smallbird turned against me when we fought against a meat plant, I hope he can survive in the wild, I liked him q_q
Currently I'm spamming my accomplishrine, after I crafted my marble armor and dark sword I was able to kill all guardians near the wooden thing and they drop really good gears, which I needed for it. Planted 3 Meat Plants on their respawn, that should teach them, ha!
When I'm done with accomplishrine I most likely will challenge the adventure mode, or go back in the Cave to get more RockLobsters, crafted 10 Miner Hats for that.
but I discovered all I need: chester, all 4 things and the wooden thing to place them on, the adventure shrine, 3 cave entries, lots and lots of spiders and pigs, 3 alraunes, unlimited amount of Dragon Fruit for Health Recovery, thanks to a bird cage, etc.
from my lat trip to the cave i brought back 2 rabbits and a rocklobster (best. friend. ever! except the one time where he killed me ._.)
allready destroyed 1 respawn-point and 3 meet effgies.
thanks to the wormhole I don't have to go through an area with 30(!) Killerbee nests, but on the other hand this is an awesome area when the dogs arrive. I think currently I have to deal with ~12-15 dogs and they really spawn all 3 days -.-
here is a little video i made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcdzz-mCS_s
It's winter and the dogs attack in the night (worst combination ever...) the poor smallbird turned against me when we fought against a meat plant, I hope he can survive in the wild, I liked him q_q
Currently I'm spamming my accomplishrine, after I crafted my marble armor and dark sword I was able to kill all guardians near the wooden thing and they drop really good gears, which I needed for it. Planted 3 Meat Plants on their respawn, that should teach them, ha!
When I'm done with accomplishrine I most likely will challenge the adventure mode, or go back in the Cave to get more RockLobsters, crafted 10 Miner Hats for that.
Made it to day 61 and was mercilessly slaughted by a group tentacles when I lost focus for a moment hunting for papyrus for bandages. Was so angry. 
I had a pretty good setup with a huge farm of twigs and a nice forced entry full of tooth traps. I also had a really decent honey operation going and was considering going underground and exploring. Had the whole map discovered and had just farmed out a chess biome to make a marble suit to go out slaughtering the weak and defenseless.
I'm really getting a lot of mileage out of this game as this was my second session going past 40 days. I feel like I will probably burn out on it pretty quick though since with my MMO history, I tend to min/max immediately and don't really focus on variation so much as finding the most efficient path and never straying from it.
I had a pretty good setup with a huge farm of twigs and a nice forced entry full of tooth traps. I also had a really decent honey operation going and was considering going underground and exploring. Had the whole map discovered and had just farmed out a chess biome to make a marble suit to go out slaughtering the weak and defenseless.
I'm really getting a lot of mileage out of this game as this was my second session going past 40 days. I feel like I will probably burn out on it pretty quick though since with my MMO history, I tend to min/max immediately and don't really focus on variation so much as finding the most efficient path and never straying from it.
BibiMaghoo
Member
Yeah, I know you need the four things to cook or it will spoil, but usually that's easy to find with gash shrooms, berrys and monster meat. I don't put anything in them unless I can fill it to cook.
Meatballs are worse than the honey ham etc, but far, far easier to make in a pinch. Honey is troublesome to attain, needing the bee keeper hat and a log suit to stand a chance at farming them. This also requires spider webs to make the hat, so it's a fairly complex route to take for me. Icebox again requires gears, which I have yet to encounter in any of my games. Never seen them.
don't you guys hate when you don't have any empty space in your bag, and you have to cook, but you are to lazy to drop something to make space, and you cook anyway, and the food falls into the campfire, and you die cuz you were too close to the campfire ( i didn't have too much health cuz of the fucking spiders)?.
yep, i'm so mad..... day 38.....
yep, i'm so mad..... day 38.....
I found my first 2 gears in graves, just dig them out. the other stuff you find you can trade in at the boss pig for gold nuggets, keep the gems for magic crafting or upgrading chester to a fridge-chester
Developers need to use the touchpad to pinch to zoom in and out on maps. Such an obvious thing.
BibiMaghoo
Member
always forget the graves. That's where I'll be going next.
ACIV does this.
Nah. If you can make meatballs, you can make pierogi or bacon and eggs, with a farm or a bird cage. Also, just make bee boxes and collect their honey. Just harvest and run. They give up very fast.
Gears are pretty easy to get. Just farm up a bunch of hunger items, go dig up graves, then run back, sleep, and heal up hunger. Alternatively, find the chess biome, poke the clockwork rook and get it to destroy all the other clockworks.
Spiders are also really easy to kill and monster meat and spider glands are also useful. You just need to explore more before the first winter.
This is not necessarily true. Meatballs require 0.5 meat (eg a morsel) while bacon and eggs requires 2 eggs and 1.5 meat (3 morsels, or 1 large meat + 1 morsel). So if you have 4 morsels and 2 (normal) eggs, you can make meatballs, but not bacon and eggs
watwatwat? you can do that? amazing.
thanks for info, will try that today. Was already worrying about inevitable Krampus visits if I need to murder rabbits for every summon.
I use meatballs for hunger issues and dragonpie for health, It regenerates 40 Health and 70 Hunger
for infinite dragon fruits build a bird cage, place a bird in it and feed it with a dragon fruit. It will then "drop" 1 or 2 dragon fruit seeds. so in the worst case you get +-0 dragonfruits. rinse repeat for affordable HP Regen Food.
Meatballs are very easy to get, just burn down a forest with a lot of spider nests (preferrable tier 3 spider nests) and collect monster meat, add 3 random vegetables (no honey!), preferrable berries and enjoy your meal.
you can force pigs to change early by feeding them 4 monster meats. werepigs always give 1 pigskin and 2 meat
i wonder if you can kill off those pigs and take over that little spot of land? permanent torches would be kick ass but i'm guessing they respawn. worth a try though.
watwatwat? you can do that? amazing.
fill up chesters inventory with 9 blue gems on a full moon night to transform him into snow chester.
there is also shadow chester, where you have to fill him up with nightmare fuel. tbh I don't now if it is implemented yet, these are stretch goals from the chester plush kickstarter
BibiMaghoo
Member
I got a single bee box, but it was some work. Thing about the game is so much changes dependent on the map generated, and your starting position. My last game I simply could not find any spiders lol, even though they must be around.
As said above, I need to check graves as I keep forgetting, I have never seen a chess biome.
How do you get your bird to lay eggs? I'm sure I read this could be done.
D
Deleted member 1235
Unconfirmed Member
yes, get the wood armor and a spear (or better a tentacle spike thing). Find one on its own,hit it. run, it will chase you and take a swing that should miss. then turn around and hit it again. then run again. continue until dead.
At that point you might as well just put in 1 morsel, 1 egg, 1 veg/shroom, 1 anything except sticks and make pierogi. You should be flexible with your ingredients.
Feed it, cooked, uncooked or dried, morsel, meat, turkey leg, fish, frog legs, eel etc to get 1 egg. You can also feed it cooked / dried monster meat or cooked eggs to get raw eggs back.
About spiders: you need to be patient. Pick one nest and never farm any spiders from it. Wait til it reaches level 3, then destroy the hive to get 1 set of spider eggs. You can then plant the eggs wherever you wish for a level 1 nest. Its what i'm doing now in my playthrough.
Meat or fried egg + Bird (in Birdcage) = Egg
Vegetables + Bird (in Birdcage) = 1-2 specific vegetable seed (e.g. Dragonfruit seed) + 0-1 normal seeds
Honey + Bird (in Birdcage) = I don't know ~
Glorious Ownage
Member
Yep I crashed and lost a ton of time too. I've learned the game hardly ever auto saves unless you die or something. I save and quit every now and then and go back in just to make sure it's saving
fuzzyreactor
Banned
This game basically has zero accessibility. Is the only way to learn how to play is through trail and error?
Makes Dark Souls look like childs play
Makes Dark Souls look like childs play
It's kind of the fun of the game. If I didn't learn everything through trial and error then it wouldn't be nearly as fun for me. Though the wiki is very well developed and useful.