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With more frequency, in greater numbers, and with less time between when your character issues the warning and when they arrive.
You'll always have at least 30 seconds between warning and arrival though, if that makes you feel any better.
You can't take the eye bone, no. If you're in survival mode just take whatever along with you. You're headed to a fresh world gen.
If you're in adventure mode you only get to take 4 items. Prioritize light sources and warm clothing.
Like the hat?
Banned
On day 17. Might make it to my first winter! Then to try to make it through it...
admartian
Member
I'm at day 10 or so right now and managed to build a science machine. Still explored only maybe about 15-25% of the map. I'm not sure if I've decided on a camp yet - but if I do camp somewhere (set up base) what's the best way to move it?
I know I can't move a fire pit, but I understand I can move the Science Machine and chests?How would I do this?
Love this game. Haven't thought about a game like this in a while.
I know I can't move a fire pit, but I understand I can move the Science Machine and chests?How would I do this?
Love this game. Haven't thought about a game like this in a while.
Quick note: pre-built cobblestone paths ALWAYS link Pig Villages, so if you find one, you're guaranteed to find at least two villages of friendlies.
You'd have to deconstruct and rebuild, but you'll lose part of the resources used to make it. I fucked up hardcore by putting my science labs too far out of the fire range so I have to light a second fire to use them...
Btw turf is by far the best fuel source, though it's non-renwable, but there's enough turf around that doesn't really matter. I really wish I could get some kind of perma-light, or at least a really long lasting one. I might just go get some fireflies and dump 'em by my entrance points maybe or something... or maybe I'll try and colonise one of those pig totem areas.
You'd have to deconstruct and rebuild, but you'll lose part of the resources used to make it. I fucked up hardcore by putting my science labs too far out of the fire range so I have to light a second fire to use them...
Btw turf is by far the best fuel source, though it's non-renwable, but there's enough turf around that doesn't really matter. I really wish I could get some kind of perma-light, or at least a really long lasting one. I might just go get some fireflies and dump 'em by my entrance points maybe or something... or maybe I'll try and colonise one of those pig totem areas.
Andronicus
Banned
day 55, took the teleporter. started new world with the robot dude & 6 gears. i wont lie the winter was stressful lol
Teletraan1
Banned
I think people should just learn to play based on what you are given. I am not advocating one single way of playing anything. Just options which is what I like about the game. Some times these maps are fucked. Some maps ended up with no beefalos on days of just raw exploration. I have ended up with a field of rocks above where my best place to camp is so no beefalos and lots of rocks you make due with what you have. That is why there are so many tools given to the player. For me I have more fun adapting to what I have rather than just trying to follow the same strategy every time. I found it pretty rare to get a perfect roll of everything you would want really close to beefalos in the multiple games I played. Other games it was easy to exploit beefalo with a camp close by or luring hounds into pengu/killer bee hives/treeguard.
Learning your map is definitely one of the most interesting parts of DS. I just wish you could mark it somehow so I could be like "Beefalo herds here" or "Spider Forests, be wary" or whatever.
/edit lol I re-read my post and thought I was talking about Dark Souls for a moment. You Defeated...
/edit lol I re-read my post and thought I was talking about Dark Souls for a moment. You Defeated...
SymbiantXenos
Member
First 22 days are easy. Just need to prepare for Winter better.
Lanterns are really awesome. They aren't permanent but they last the longest and are refuelable.
Quick question: I have planted a Lure Plant on wooden flooring to prevent eyeplants from spawning near my base entrance to act as a "gatekeeper" of sorts or even a decoy to hounds and other hostile mobs, but do they consume the loot of fallen prey? Or only the eyeplants will consume the loot?
admartian
Member
Cool, thanks for that. So I don't need the Deconstruciton Staff or whatever it is? Just walk up to things and press the appropriate context button?
Do Signs show up on your map when placed?
BibiMaghoo
Member
To my knowledge you can't. I just make them into 'tunnels' for the dogs and traps.
A devious surprise in the village because it was full of werepigs.
Werepigs don't appear to set off hound traps?!?! Or I buggered up somehow.
Anyway, I died at day 41. Might break for a while then once more unto the breach. Might try and set up closer to a sinkhole or something next time around, looking for rocks was definitely the most irritating part.
Werepigs don't appear to set off hound traps?!?! Or I buggered up somehow.
Anyway, I died at day 41. Might break for a while then once more unto the breach. Might try and set up closer to a sinkhole or something next time around, looking for rocks was definitely the most irritating part.
Batilisks come out of sinkholes at dusk. Don't be too near them. Also pigs turn into werepigs if you feed them 4 monster meat, or at full moon. Keep in mind the lunar cycle.
It turns out I had been dropping my traps the whole time instead of placing them. Do'h!
I still think combat is the weakest link in this game. Half the time I end up attacking chester instead of the spider trying to mack on him, good thing the little bugger can take it. He's like a lil doggie that doesn't aggro on me!
I still think combat is the weakest link in this game. Half the time I end up attacking chester instead of the spider trying to mack on him, good thing the little bugger can take it. He's like a lil doggie that doesn't aggro on me!
The controller support in the PC version had a bad habit of prioritizing the wrong thing at times, which could really hurt when you accidentally smacked an allied pig or something when you're trying to fight a group of enemies.
There's actually a really egregious example of the game mis-prioritizing targets when using a controller at the end of Adventure Mode in the PC version. You pretty much have to switch to a mouse at one point to interact with something correctly. I hope they fixed that for the PS4 version, 'cause that ain't exactly an option when you're playing the console version.
My advice... if you plan to fight against some monsters (like dogs for example), drop the EyeBone somewhere else, fight alone and then comeback for Chester.
That way, he won't die.
tell me about it. i'm still gearing up for a good spelunking session. Only ventured in far enough to grab some lightbulbs and run the fuck away from some MASSIVE TENTACLES.
I know! It gets even crazier the deeper you go...
WheelHoss1
Member
Thanks for the input. Only thing you forgot to mention was lightning rod! Just lost all my trees around my base.
Day 16. Six dry racks setup. Crockpot humming. 10 rabbit traps checked daily. 2 hound attacks survived (base right by beefalo). 10 small jerkies in chest.
What else do I need to survive the winter? Using Willow . . .
WheelHoss1
Member
So a lot of logs? I haven't thought at all about staying warm either . . .
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Deleted member 1235
Unconfirmed Member
don't forget chests next to the touchstones with warmth supplies so you don't die if you spawn there in winter! nothing sucks worse than that. Also some meat effigies at your base.
Wait for summer and go wandering with an empty pack. you'll find the reeds easy, live off berries/normal fires and just walk the entire circumference. the marsh is a scary place but you can get a lot of fish and a really good weapon there if you wait for the tentacles to attack those mermen.
I only ever use wilson, but a heatstone is critical. Heatstone plus the wolly hat should keep you alive while roaming around most of the day if wilson has a nice big beard. In winter I stop exploring and generally go on food runs only, get rabbits/make hams. your insanity will drop a lot more in winter as well, so it's handy to have both a lot of food and a tent, because you can sleep to grow your sanity back but you'll wake up totally starving and have to eat immediately or your health will start dropping. that's hwere the honey hams come in. 1 = almost full belly.
Unlike most things, trees still grow in winter, so planting pinecones and letting them grow can keep you supplied with wood for your fires. Beefalo don't stop pooping when it gets cold either, so collecting manure can provide you with fuel as well.
There are a few esoteric ones that work situationally, too: grass and log suits both burn for ages, so if you've got one you've been wearing for a while that's sitting at <10% durability or so just craft a fresh one and throw the old one on the fire. Its durability has nothing to do with its quality as fuel, so you can essentially extend the useful life of your old worn-out armor by turning it into fire.
I try to avoid using anything non-renewable as fuel, so I don't use turfs, grass tufts, or saplings unless I'm in dire straits. They all burn really well, though and are available in large numbers. I'm not a fan of using a resource I can't replenish when I can easily substitute renewable resources.
Stuff like grass and twigs work, but they're terribly inefficient and annoying to harvest in winter, though spiky bushes actually grow in winter, so if you're not averse to some logistical complications in harvesting them you can transplant a few to your base to have a renewable twig supply year round. Still not efficient, but there are worse options, I suppose.
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Deleted member 1235
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I'm so glad this game is getting loads of attention now thanks to ps4. I was loving it on PC, but the thread was pretty much dead. it's such an amazing/large and complete game with a really good support cycle. not sure if they're still updating it or it's now 'complete' for PC.
But then you need to see the patch of naked land that is the result of your rapacious need for fire every time you pass through the area. And then you feel bad, because you hurt nature and I thought that Ferngully raised you better than that.
You don't plant it in a farm, you just place it wherever. If you select it in your inventory there should be a direction you push on the D-pad to plant it.
I haven't played the PS4 version, but that's how it works when you play the PC version with a controller. I'm assuming it works the same.
I knew I remembered them saying something about an expansion of sorts, but I finally went to the trouble of finding it:
So the end of October was when the last major content update came, so presumably that's what they've been working on since then.
WheelHoss1
Member
Died on Day 24, during my first winter. Had a good run, and survived the first winter hound attack easily. My problem: sanity. Willow's low sanity killed me. Unlocked Wendy and the robot. Wondering who to use next.
My base as I prepared for winter:
Winter sets in (so gorgeous):
Bonus pic of Willow getting angry in the Pig King's forest:
My base as I prepared for winter:
Winter sets in (so gorgeous):
Bonus pic of Willow getting angry in the Pig King's forest:
So dig up roads and demonstrate the power of man taming the savage wilderness with his movement-speed increasing magic ways!