Get some silk
Make a Bug Net
Run around at dusk, looking for fireflies.
When you see them, go and stand where you saw them, and, with the Bug Net equipped, and press space.
Now you have fireflies.
(This is also an opportune time to gather Green Mushrooms.)
Go back to your base and wait till night.
Get a nice fire going.
Run around the edge of the light and drop the fireflies.
AWESOME!
!! MAJOR SPOILER !! This is how I farm silk:
Spoiler:
1) Have 2 Log Suits, 2 Football Helmets, and a Spear (2 if it's low)
2) Have 3 empty inventory slots OUTSIDE of my backpack
3) Bring a snack and materials to build a fire (and a torch, obv.)
4) Go to a spider nest
5) A good distance away from the nest, (build a fire if necessary) drop the backpack, put on the armor and helmet.
6) Go to the spider nest and step on the web and activate the patrol spiders
7) Slowly edge away from the spiders, leading them about a screen to the left or right away from the nest
The idea here is that when I attack them, I don't want to attract other spiders into the fight. Yellow jumpy spiders suck, and using this method they will not spawn.
8) Kill the spiders
9) Repeat steps 6 - 8 until no spiders come out of the nest when I step on the web.
10) If there are 1 or 2 egg sacks on the nest, I leave it.
If there are 3 egg sacks on the nest (like an evil spider snowman), then I kill it for the silk and the egg sack
If you leave one of these, it will turn into a Spider Queen in a few days... that fight will take twice the equipment and wreck your sanity.
11) Plant the egg sack about a 1/2 day hike by road from base camp.
If I did this right, I took almost no damage (it all gets absorbed by the armor and helmet), so healing is not an issue, and I have 8 - 12 silk.
EDIT: Crap! This whole post is spoilers then.... I don't want to ruin it.... so it'll take a lot of self control to not offer you tips.
Last edited by MadMojoMonkey; 07-06-2013 at 10:07 PM.
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