Don't Starve

I may be noobish at the game still but I don't consider farms optional; having them and traps and a crock pot makes the food supply a *lot* more stable

Trapping bunnies is always a necessity for me. That and properly fertilized berry bushes.

Anyway I haven't played the game in like 3 months. I heard caves were added....?

It's hard to be dedicated to a game when there's no sense of progress, I've found. Each death sets you back to square one.

Well, that's what gives the game its challenge. My first runthrough I actually cheated by clicking out of the window every time I died before it could save aha.

But yes it takes awhile before you learn all the game's little quirks. After that though you (usually) don't die immediately.

So a new expansion: Reign of Giants is coming soon. Trailer is rather nondescriptive but hopefully its a fun little add-on.

and it should add bears because everything is better with bears that can rip your face off ten ways to monday.

edited 18th Jan '14 7:40:15 PM by lordnyx

DLC, eh? That's pretty cool, but I wonder if the base game couldn't have used a little more tweaking as well. Like adding gates for your walls, or something.

I only recently got this game, by the way. Really good stuff. Had some terrible deaths, some rather frustrating, and a few simply hilarious. Like that time I tried to escape from a pack of hounds by running towards a herd of beefalo, only to find that mating season had just began.

My latest game got struck by a rather annoying problem, though. Like usual, I wandered around for a day or two until I found a suitable place for a base camp. After that, a few weeks of building and gathering followed, and once I felt confident I was able to not starve for a while, I started exploring.

Turns out the place where I set up shop was one of the far corners of the map, with nothing interesting in its direct vicinity. Not even a wormhole to quickly get me anywhere else, or a sinkhole to let me explore something else. I can survive indefinitely, thanks to the large number of rabbits nearby, at least until I can no longer fight off the increasing number of hounds. At least, I like to think that, but there are no rocks anywhere nearby, so my ability to build has been severely gimped. I'm even afraid to use my last spear because I have no way of making a new one without a two-day trip elsewhere.

So now, after surviving through the first winter, I'll have to relocate my fire pit, alchemy engine, prestihatitator, two pig houses, eight drying racks, four chests worth of stuff and a decently-sized grass and sapling farm. The worst part is that the only other suitable camping place happens to be invested with multiple level 3 spider dens, and I'm fully expecting at least one spider queen.

This is might take a while.

Still having fun, though. Really like using Willow for her easy sanity regeneration. I'm going to need that after kiting at least one spider queen towards the local beefalo herd.

I just got this game this morning, and I've been having fun with it.

My longest run so far is 5 days, and I'm still on it. It's tough going for me grabbing meat right now, and it looks like I lost a morsel when I was trying and failing to give it to a pig chasing me.

What does the bee keeper's helmet do? I found it on a dead bee keeper along with a bug net and some bee mines.

The Bee Keeper's Hat absorbs 95% damage from bee stings. It's a very handy item when you start up your own bee farms.

My longest run is now 10 days. I customized a world for more resources and had a nice little base going until I pissed off the treeguard. Ran home for the night and he snuck in and beat me to death. Not that it was difficult for him. The hounds had already worn off most of my hitpoints.

Next time end up on the wrong end of a Treeguard attack, try planting as many pinecones as you happen to have on you (which should be quite a few, since you've been logging). There's a good chance that this will pacify the Treeguard. Of course, it will still be there, so you better find yourself a new forest to chop up.

Or just try and fight it. Most bigger enemies can be fought quite easily with a log suit, a football helmet and a ham bat. It's all in the kiting; get close, dodge their attack, whack them a few times, and dodge their next attack. Repeat until meat.

They're adding multiplayer.

I bought it today and lasted five days on my first try. Not that bad for a first time, IMO.

Sabbo directed me here after failing to find this topic on a search and making a new one.

Made it to day 11 before a treant killed me. Mumble grumble mumble. My new playthrough is using Willow for the first time. Her lighter provides a tiny amount of light, not sure if it actually protects her at night, and I can burn things to ashes on a whim, just not certain what other uses it has. Trying not to hit the wiki so I can find most stuff out on my own.

Alas, Willow. Slain by a rain of vile penguins 20 days in.

Yeah, pengulls are the worst. Many a playthrough has ended to their savagery.

Are they normally hostile? I picked a fight because I found a fire wand. I killed the big bird with it, accidentally torching its nest, and I thought I could light the whole flock of penguins and stab them to death while they were preoccupied.

It didn't work as planned, they didn't light each other as I hoped, but otherwise they just fell on me one night and slowly wandered away.

Ug, winter suddenly arrived and destroyed me. I assume there's a machine that would have warned me or it's Trial-and-Error Gameplay at it's finest.

That would be the thermometer.

It always arrives at around the same time, but you get a day or two of warning before stuff really gets dire. (You said penguls were showing up; that's one of the warnings.) To really be prepared though, you have to have at least a secure food source (plants won't grow), a heat stone and ideally some form of warm clothing.

edited 27th May '15 11:17:33 PM by Elle

Interesting, free copies of Don't Starve Together for everyone who owned the base game before June 3rd.

edited 4th Jun '15 1:36:45 PM by Rotpar

But only for those who had already purchased a copy of Don't Starve Together

Not that it would matter. I fucking blow at this game so hard anyways.

edited 4th Jun '15 2:15:56 PM by Aszur

Uhh... No? It's for people who hadn't already bought DST. (Such as me. I never bought the DST beta, but now I have it due to this promotion.)

edited 4th Jun '15 6:11:46 PM by Sabbo

Downloading my copy now. It's for people who already owned the base Don't Stave.

Hmmm? But I have Don't Starve base, and I do not have Don't Starve Together.

In Steam, you'll have to go to your library and download it. It's listed as "Don't Starve Together Beta".

If you're not using Steam, I have no idea and you may have to research on the Klei forums.