Poll of the Day > People who play Don't Starve what are some good tips to survive?

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Been playing and keep dying due to enemies. Rocks usually are long way away for materials, at the start I pick a generic direction and go, which leaves me occasionally unable to craft a Science Machine so I can't get armor. Anyone have any tips?

Doing vanilla ATM and have been enjoying Wilson and Wendy if you're wondering who I've been playing as. Generally I try to find food and materials while exploring and try to camp decently close to trees without having the fire close enough to make them burn.

Depends on what your meta-goal is. If you are just trying to 'beat the game' then your best bet is to find a dry grassland/plains so you can hunt all the beefalo and/or rabbits you want.

Some people like to go long tho and build like 100 tile farms... that's insanity, but if you want to try that it's best to find a pig village near them crawly spider thingies so you can string farm or whatever

...it's been a while

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The easy path to victory in Don't Starve.

Step 1: Don't Starve
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit

I'm not very good at the game, but I use the first few days to explore the island and get a location on important features (beefalo, pig king, etc.). Live off of the land for a bit and then pick a good spot that's central to important features. Obviously, pick up materials as you're walking around.

I like the moles as a food source. You can dig a bunch of them out and plant them near your base for easy meat farming. I'm no good at fighting, so I generally avoid that if I can unless I have armor and weapons.

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SpeedDemon20 posted...

I'm not very good at the game, but I use the first few days to explore the island and get a location on important features

This is probably the best advice. Use your first few days to run around and explore the map. Try to find the center and build your base nearby. Don't need to make anything but a few torches as the first couple nights are so short you won't even burn through an entire one.

Treat base-building a bit like a tower defense. Use walls to funnel enemies into a choke point. Make sure there's a good amount of space between your chests/food sources/structures so if one thing catches fire it doesn't destroy everything.

Don't pick carrots until you absolutely need to.

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Well TIL that Cooked Mandrakes put me to sleep, not sure if that's good or bad.

Also what does Wendy mean when she says "she needs space"? Tried summoning Abigail a couple times with her and didn't know what she meant.

Dying is pretty easy, I'm great at that.

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I usually spend the first 6+ days exploring the map. That might be overkill, but I like to know where every biome is as soon as possible, and there's a better chance of finding chester and chess monsters to kill for gears to craft an ice box. Look out for mountain and swamp biomes, chess biomes, beefalo, rabbits, spiders, and touch stones. Make a hammer and destroy pig heads around touch stones. You'll want the pig skin later.

I like to start in fall so I don't have to deal with the constant rain in spring, and I think it's easier to survive winter after the first month than summer. I like to build my base near rabbit holes and spider nests for the constant source of food and spider webs. You can drop traps on rabbit holes and near spider nests if you didn't know. When spider nests are tier 3 you have to destroy them and re-plant them, or else they become a spider queen.

If you build a fire pit it won't set nearby things on fire. Only the regular campfire does that. You should have at least one crock pot, ice box, and bee box in your camp. Try to get a bird cage and trap a bird. Feed it vegetables and meat to get seeds and eggs. Plant flowers around the bee box to increase production rate. Use eggs and honey to cook honey ham and ham & eggs in the crock pot.

If you find walrus camps while exploring wait until winter the walrus will come out and start pathing towards you on the map. If you kill him there's a chance he'll drop his hat, and it's a pretty good hat that gives sanity and warmth. Use a sewing kit to repair it, don't let it break, because you can't craft it. Another good, cheap hat to make is the top hat. It gives a lot of sanity regen and rain blockage.

Collect hound teeth and use them to make spike traps. Plant them very close to each other and eventually have a large field of them. Run hounds through them and that's an easy way to take care of them. When you find a treeguard you can easily kill it by kiting its attacks, or plant pine cones to make it stop aggro, preferably away from your tree farm. You can use them later to help fight hounds and bosses.

The thermal stone is key to survival in winter and summer. Put it near a fire to warm it, or near endothermic fire or in ice box to cool it. Then carry it around in your inventory. Build ice flingers around your base to stop fires. Build lightning rods to deflect lightning and prevent fires. During rain use a regular umbrella instead of the parasol.

There is a Don't Starve wiki that you should use often.

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Anyone know what the black rock icon is in the Crock Pot recipe? Can't figure it out nor where to find it.