How to survive in winter

[Kolya]

How to survive in winter except for clothes?

[PocketYoda]

I am struggling to survive after day 14.. Its not even winter yet and i only have 5 people.. Jotun blood is super hard to get.

[Lucifer]

Build campfires near work areas… like the farm fields, barracks, crafting pit, and out where you have workers chopping trees.

You can dismantle them when you need them relocated and get materials back.

[RIKI]

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

I am struggling to survive after day 14.. Its not even winter yet and i only have 5 people.. Jotun blood is super hard to get.

my first few days was like speed running, but my priorities are shelter for people, find well, gathering hut for food, then lumber + stone + workshop, hunter hut, tools and weapons for them, and assign them to night shift if they don't mind. And after that just working toward winter like clothing, barracks, tower, etc.

If bear come to visit, lure it away from village, it only got a few different attacks moves so it's predictable but watch your stamina and bring some garlic for emergency

[Lucifer]

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

I am struggling to survive after day 14.. Its not even winter yet and i only have 5 people.. Jotun blood is super hard to get.

More people early is bad. If you lack the ability to feed and protect them it’s going to get stressful and you’ll spend all your time trying to get food, struggling for materials to build and make tools, and fighting larger invasions solo.

I usually don’t recruit more than one or two before the first winter passes so I have time to establish the buildings needed to sustain more (cookery is a must to extend food for more people and farm, fishing hut, or hunter’s hut to provide the food - gathering will really only sustain a few). Until your villagers skills improve everything will be a struggle because of the pace at which they work and how quickly they break tools is affected by skill.

[s0laris]

Originally posted by Kolya:

How to survive in winter except for clothes?

Have food, maintain campfires everywhere you can. Make sure the fires in the cottages are lit and fed with firewood. Your gatherers are useless during winter, you can assign them to hunters hut instead, or any other survival related job. Beetroot grows during winter, could be a good food option on farms. Must have healers hut with a villager assigned, itll cure soar throat and keeps the villagers alive. Do not venture out if you ended up unprepared, just maintain the fire for the 7 days. I had to survive the first winter without any clothing and only 10 villagers total, so was cutting it short, still made it without any loss. Keep cutting trees nearby during the day to have more wood for the fires.

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

I am struggling to survive after day 14.. Its not even winter yet and i only have 5 people.. Jotun blood is super hard to get.

One good practice for farming Jotunn Blood is to just go along the shoreline and farm thatch. When inventory full, go home, deposit or build more beds immediately, the head back to the same location where you stopped and pick up more thatch. This is essentially sweeping a larger area as you accumulate more thatch for beds and theres no way in hell youll miss so many Jotunn Blood rocks that you cannot grow your village.

[Jebediah]

It is not that complex

- build you first shelters next to the campfire so the villagers can warm up while sleeping (if you dont have houses already)
- build several (at least 2) campfires at different places in your camp so you can travel to strategic points in your camp (supplies for example)
- gather a maximum of supply and keep producing food around the campfire (barbecue) while your settlers go harvest so no-one dies from hunger
- stay warm and be patient... it's only 7 days :D

[stoptryingjustbe]

What my friend and I have been doing is hunting and stocking up on enough red meat to just hibernate in winter. All villagers are on sleep and rest for the entire winter. You will need to get a good idea of how much meat is needed for all the villagers to make it without starving. We've found it is about 50 red meat at least for each villager for all winter.

[[ Col ] Chamberlain]

Fact is, we are from the Beginning under Timepressure and that destroy the Feeling, defently. Why the Hell Devs make this Game so hard and with so low Time like you are on Piecework

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by Col Chamberlain:

Fact is, we are from the Beginning under Timepressure and that destroy the Feeling, defently. Why the Hell Devs make this Game so hard and with so low Time like you are on Piecework

I agree i wanted a chill experience but this game might not be for me, sadly i cannot refund so hopefully in the future the difficulty settings might change.. I think i'll take a break uninstall and come back when its less brutal..

I don't play games for challenge, i play for fun..

[LeJu]

First 20 days is a speedrun where you have to make at least farm, tons of flax and prepare to bear attack

[Lucifer]

Originally posted by LeJu:

First 20 days is a speedrun where you have to make at least farm, tons of flax and prepare to bear attack

Don’t have to speed run. I use the first year to chill and don’t start recruiting villagers until after first winter. Just slowly layout my village by myself and maybe recruit a person to help build or start training as a guard.

[Seven]

I dismissed my guards from watchtower duty and assigned them to barracks/archery range. then set up patrol markers on campfires scattered around my base.

gather as much garlic and beetroot as you can before winter. garlic for garlic soup. beetroot is one of the few crops that grow during winter. set campfire near the farm.

so yeah.. campfire spamming. you can also farm meat from wolf den. they won't stop spawning as long as you don't kill the spawners.

[Unspoiled Apple]

I started a new game and am currently on day 17. I have 9 villagers all of which are mostly fully clothed(a few are missing shoes, gloves, etc.) and I have 2 warehouses. 1 holding all my food, and one holding materials. The food warehouse has enough food currently to last me 2 winters.

I took my time with this and didn't rush like in my other games, but heres some tips cause i don't see how people are struggling this much tbh.

*build a long house( before winter hits you should have one built. put straw mats inside and house all your villagers inside of it. theyk wont freeze then.)
*stock up on food and build the cooking/soup building. Food is extremely easy to obtain tbh. between your gatherer, hunter, and fisher you should be overflowing with food
*Get a farm asap or when your able to build one. I just built one full plot and planted all flax. each yeild is around 220 fiber or so.
*Cloth your villagers. It'll make them freeze slower and with the flax income from your farm and gatherer and you collecting it while looking for jotun you shouldn't have an issue tbh before winter
*DO NOT MASS VILLAGERS. I've seen people posting that they just mass villagers as soon as they can and getting like 14-18 villagers before bear shows up to deal with it. This is a really dumb strategy and will make winter a living hell for you keeping them all fed and warm. The bear is easy to kill and you may lose 1 villager or building at most. Spawn the villager only when your ready for that villager(make sure your food production can keep up, Make sure they have a spot within the longhouse to sleep, make sure that you'll be able to have them clothed before winter)
*get rid of your shelters before winter. The longhouse has a fire inside of it. It will keep your people warm so their not constantly getting out of their shelter for warmth and now you don;t need to huddle shelters around your fire and it frees up alot of space.

Also, if you have a bow and 2 guards you should be able to deal with the bear. If he comes from a direction opposite of your guards patrolling use a bow to kite him into them and try to maintain aggro. This is all you need to kill him. 2 guards and a bow

edit: if someone needs help i would be more than happy to join their multiplayer game to give them a hand for their first winter or bear encounter

[~Ninja~Pallo]

Originally posted by Unspoiled Apple:

I started a new game and am currently on day 17. I have 9 villagers all of which are mostly fully clothed(a few are missing shoes, gloves, etc.) and I have 2 warehouses. 1 holding all my food, and one holding materials. The food warehouse has enough food currently to last me 2 winters.

I took my time with this and didn't rush like in my other games, but heres some tips cause i don't see how people are struggling this much tbh.

*build a long house( before winter hits you should have one built. put straw mats inside and house all your villagers inside of it. theyk wont freeze then.)
*stock up on food and build the cooking/soup building. Food is extremely easy to obtain tbh. between your gatherer, hunter, and fisher you should be overflowing with food
*Get a farm asap or when your able to build one. I just built one full plot and planted all flax. each yeild is around 220 fiber or so.
*Cloth your villagers. It'll make them freeze slower and with the flax income from your farm and gatherer and you collecting it while looking for jotun you shouldn't have an issue tbh before winter
*DO NOT MASS VILLAGERS. I've seen people posting that they just mass villagers as soon as they can and getting like 14-18 villagers before bear shows up to deal with it. This is a really dumb strategy and will make winter a living hell for you keeping them all fed and warm. The bear is easy to kill and you may lose 1 villager or building at most. Spawn the villager only when your ready for that villager(make sure your food production can keep up, Make sure they have a spot within the longhouse to sleep, make sure that you'll be able to have them clothed before winter)
*get rid of your shelters before winter. The longhouse has a fire inside of it. It will keep your people warm so their not constantly getting out of their shelter for warmth and now you don;t need to huddle shelters around your fire and it frees up alot of space.

Also, if you have a bow and 2 guards you should be able to deal with the bear. If he comes from a direction opposite of your guards patrolling use a bow to kite him into them and try to maintain aggro. This is all you need to kill him. 2 guards and a bow

I don't think I hit my 10th Viking until mid year 2, haha. I built 3 cottages and kept them at 3 beds, then built up a massive defensive position, and built my village inside that. Hibernated during first winter, survived off mussels alone. By second winter I had fish and meat. I just passed my third winter, and my soup table is full every night, I have built every structure, there is a moat around my base (no water in it). Spring of year 4 and I have spare cottages to build up a population that I will transplant to a new village I am building near a corrupt area.

I love the depth this game has.

[Unspoiled Apple]

Originally posted by ~Ninja~Pallo:

Originally posted by Unspoiled Apple:

I started a new game and am currently on day 17. I have 9 villagers all of which are mostly fully clothed(a few are missing shoes, gloves, etc.) and I have 2 warehouses. 1 holding all my food, and one holding materials. The food warehouse has enough food currently to last me 2 winters.

I took my time with this and didn't rush like in my other games, but heres some tips cause i don't see how people are struggling this much tbh.

*build a long house( before winter hits you should have one built. put straw mats inside and house all your villagers inside of it. theyk wont freeze then.)
*stock up on food and build the cooking/soup building. Food is extremely easy to obtain tbh. between your gatherer, hunter, and fisher you should be overflowing with food
*Get a farm asap or when your able to build one. I just built one full plot and planted all flax. each yeild is around 220 fiber or so.
*Cloth your villagers. It'll make them freeze slower and with the flax income from your farm and gatherer and you collecting it while looking for jotun you shouldn't have an issue tbh before winter
*DO NOT MASS VILLAGERS. I've seen people posting that they just mass villagers as soon as they can and getting like 14-18 villagers before bear shows up to deal with it. This is a really dumb strategy and will make winter a living hell for you keeping them all fed and warm. The bear is easy to kill and you may lose 1 villager or building at most. Spawn the villager only when your ready for that villager(make sure your food production can keep up, Make sure they have a spot within the longhouse to sleep, make sure that you'll be able to have them clothed before winter)
*get rid of your shelters before winter. The longhouse has a fire inside of it. It will keep your people warm so their not constantly getting out of their shelter for warmth and now you don;t need to huddle shelters around your fire and it frees up alot of space.

Also, if you have a bow and 2 guards you should be able to deal with the bear. If he comes from a direction opposite of your guards patrolling use a bow to kite him into them and try to maintain aggro. This is all you need to kill him. 2 guards and a bow

I don't think I hit my 10th Viking until mid year 2, haha. I built 3 cottages and kept them at 3 beds, then built up a massive defensive position, and built my village inside that. Hibernated during first winter, survived off mussels alone. By second winter I had fish and meat. I just passed my third winter, and my soup table is full every night, I have built every structure, there is a moat around my base (no water in it). Spring of year 4 and I have spare cottages to build up a population that I will transplant to a new village I am building near a corrupt area.

I love the depth this game has.

I'm looking forward to testing out the market and setting up micro settlements around the map. ex. hauling a cart full of food up to the outpost then on their way back bringing a cart full of the iron they mined( just gotta have a warehouse(and person) for the iron storage and food storage at the micro settlement)

This game is a massive diamond in a coal pit