A Don't Starve Thread?!? WTF, MMM?

[Renton]

Here's how my early game tends to go. Through all of my perfectionist restarting, I've gotten pretty used to doing this:

1) Hoard a couple of stacks of grass/twig/log while exploring the map as efficiently as possible. Hopefully I find the following within 2 days:
-beefalo for poop
-16 stone / 1 gold for firepit/science
-a spot at least 4 or 5 rabbit holes close together OR at least 3 ponds close together for camp. This spot must be reasonably close to the beefalo field and preferably not at an extreme of the map.

2) set up camp at the chosen spot, plop a chest, get the backpack and shovel

3) venture back out on an extended excursion prioritizing more stone, burning down a forest for charcoal, and getting digging up berry bushes to transplant. I grab a couple of stacks of saplings and grass tufts along the way also if there is space.

4) get a couple of crock pots and drying racks going and steadily add saplings, grass tufts, and planted trees to my base camp.


After this I get kind of bogged down and I just try my best to keep my resource levels balanced.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Here's how my early game tends to go. Through all of my perfectionist restarting, I've gotten pretty used to doing this:

This sounds solid. I try to spend 4 - 5 days exploring before I set up base camp. Time spent dashing along the roads in the early game to locate different biomes is not wasted. The primary constraining factor is that I don't want to be caught by a hound attack without a weapon and armor.

I've never done a camp that relied on fish and frogs for food. Although... you can make Fish Sticks right away if you do this. This would provide a nice healing source. Really, it would provide one of the best sources of healing in the game right off the bat... I gotta try this... is it much harder than bunnies? What do you do when winter comes and the frogs and fishies are gone?

[Renton]

This sounds solid. I try to spend 4 - 5 days exploring before I set up base camp. Time spent dashing along the roads in the early game to locate different biomes is not wasted. The primary constraining factor is that I don't want to be caught by a hound attack without a weapon and armor.

I've never done a camp that relied on fish and frogs for food. Although... you can make Fish Sticks right away if you do this. This would provide a nice healing source. Really, it would provide one of the best sources of healing in the game right off the bat... I gotta try this... is it much harder than bunnies? What do you do when winter comes and the frogs and fishies are gone?

Fuck I just realized that the frogs won't be around during winter... I guess its not a fool proof plan. For summer its def better than bunnies. The ponds yield a lot more than bunny holes do, and frog legs are way more useful as they can make all of the morsel recipes in addition to a healing recipe specific to frogs.

It's probably not the greatest camp for handling the first winter, but the yield is so high that if you get a few drying racks going you can hoard enough jerky to last through the second. Like literally you can plop like 10 traps around 3 ponds and most of them will be full at dusk.


Unrelated: do you bother with transplanting grass? Or is it better to just do a massive savannah run every now and then? I suppose you need to run for poo anyway.

[spoonitnow]

Fuck I just realized that the frogs won't be around during winter... I guess its not a fool proof plan. For summer its def better than bunnies. The ponds yield a lot more than bunny holes do, and frog legs are way more useful as they can make all of the morsel recipes in addition to a healing recipe specific to frogs.

It's probably not the greatest camp for handling the first winter, but the yield is so high that if you get a few drying racks going you can hoard enough jerky to last through the second. Like literally you can plop like 10 traps around 3 ponds and most of them will be full at dusk.


Unrelated: do you bother with transplanting grass? Or is it better to just do a massive savannah run every now and then? I suppose you need to run for poo anyway.

Sounds like my fucking life

[spoonitnow]

ikr finally finished updated and am now playing