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Consider winter will be over around day 32-36. Get ready for that.
First thing to solve is food. Berries and farms won't grow during winter, so you'll have to heavily rely on hunting, preserving meat and cooking efficiently---in that order.
Second thing: get winter gear. The more, the better. I'm not just talking about earmuffs or vests, but also about manure (for fuel), a thermal stone and chests for storing live animals (in vanilla they won't spoil or die). If Wilson, do not shave.
Food: drying racks are an absolute must for your first winter. Get lots of them. And I do mean it---build 10-15. Prioritize those above farms, because they can be used all year round. Establish your base near beefalos because you'll gonna need them a lot (protection, wool, fuel). They live in the savanna and you need that grass. You'll be crafting many bunny traps. Then you can build a crock pot and cook something better than roasted seeds and morsels. Meatballs are a good option for starters. Try to conserve as much food as possible. If you are really lucky, you'll be able to build a birdcage and get some eggs and seed recycling. Do not attack penguins if you can find easier prey---but you can steal their eggs when winter is almost over.
Winter gear: earmuffs are cheap, and so is a magnificent beard. If you managed to scavenge some winter clothes, don't wear them until it's snowy because they will lose durability. A fire pit is mandatory, and if you are close to beefalos you'll have a nearby inexhaustible fuel source. Don't underestimate the thermal stones and get one as soon as you can. Sleep close to the fire and recharge your stone every night. If darkness reaches you in the wild, always carry spare fuel and wood and light a campfire right on the spot. Last resort: portable torch. Use it when freezing starts. This can save your life.
If you hear the ground pounding and shaking, run for your life!!!!
Once your first winter is over, spam advanced farms and get some food-production stability. Manufacture more advanced weapons and make good use of the summer by exploring!
Protip: Build a lightning rod. Soon.
I hope this helps!
Your base is in a pretty good spot, near Beefalo and a Pig village. You'll want to get some farms up as soon as possible. You may also want to consider going back to the southern forest and farming spiders for silk (It'll come in handy for warm winter clothes, and you could also use those ponds for fishing).
In winter none of those food sources will last, so you'll probably want to trap rabbits, considering that there are a few close to your base.
I would definately do more exploring to see what else is available to the north of your camp, and don't be afraid to explore at night with the help of a couple of torches, if you can afford the twigs and grass.
I look forward to following your progress. good luck :)
so the summary(I'm a newbie too though on my 1st serious playthrough I'm on day 80+ easily so I guess I can give few tips):
Food: around 3 beehives and 6 farms is enough for any winter, get a crockpot or 2 or more
Exploration: Personally my 2nd winter I spent mostly in caves, you don't get cold and the only problem is light and sanity(and well, the possibility of getting killed but you can kite anything)
Warmth: if you don't plan on exploring the surface(well, I have base far away from rabbits or any hunting, plant spot) just make sure you got fuel for fire and heatstone since it's cheap. As Wilson get proper beard. During next summer you could try to hunt for lephant.
I think I will start hunting a lot of rabbits and building those things to dry the meat. Not too many days left before winter arrives!
You can put 1 monster meat in each crockpot meal without it sacrificing any of its potency. You can also put a piece of ice or two (even three) in each recipe to spread your actual food even further. Just save some for summertime so you can build a couple fling-o-matics and possibly the Ice Cube, and don't forget to store the ice in an ice box if you want it to last.
As other have said Rabbits + Drying Rack are great for winter. Small Jerky lasts a long time and has decent healing.
Get some bee hives for the next winter and a regular source of monster meat and you just need two veg/berries to make honey nuggets.
A warning. If you use more than one piece of Monster Meat in a Crockpot Recipe, you get Monster Lasagna, which is worse than just eating a cooked piece of monster meat as far as efficiency, health and sanity is concerned. Monster Meat can substitute for meat and is guaranteed to not affect the finished recipe as long as you only use one piece of monster meat. Normally poisonous red shrooms or surplus green/blue shrooms that you don't need for their stats (a cooked Green shroom provides 15 sanity, but if you have full sanity and 5 shrooms, it may be smart to use a few if your hunger is a more immediate danger) can be used as vegetable filler, adding as many as you want with no penalty.
Toss a single piece of monster meat in with any three-slotted combinations of mushrooms, small meat, berries, honey or any filler that is easy to acquire and you're covered for almost an entire day in terms of food as Meatballs restores a ton of satiety. Yes, mushrooms don't regrow during winter, same for berries, but if left unpicked when winter starts, you can still save them for when you really need them.
Quick tip: If you have carrots near your base during the first summer and you don't need them in an emergency, it may be good to leave them for the winter when you're low on food, as they don't despawn at that time.
Not-so quick tip: You can chase butterflies and kill them with proper technique. The simplest one involves waiting until one lands on a flower and whacking them. The less simple but quicker techniques involves waiting until a butterfly stops in a single position mid-air and then clicking precisely on it, letting auto-attack do its thing. Making use of easy food sources early on may prevent you from having to dig into nearby carrots.
You can also swing at them once, chase them and press F when you're right on top of the butterfly, as being right on their position means they can't escape your range in time and you don't need to click on them when pressing F. The only problem is that you need to swing at them first to enable the whole pressing-F-to-attack option (likely because they're passive and not considered an "enemy", and it may erratically disable itself. Swing quick enough and you should be able to get tons of butterfly wings, which can be used as their own filler. This makes summer a bit easier to survive as you don't have to go around picking too many berries of carrots. If you need healing, a set of butterfly wings restores 8 health and can pretty much be acquired anywhere you can find a flower during the summer.
If you have a single set of butterfly wings and some mushrooms, you can also turn them into a Butter Muffin, which restores a fair deal of hunger and heals for 20. A butterfly wing and any vegetable will do the trick, though keep in mind that using three butterfly wings with one vegetable gives you less total health than just eating the ingredients by themsleves (20 vs 24), even if it restores more hunger. Not a problem if you're using red shrooms or don't need the extra health, though.
There's also a really small chance that you get butter when killing one (yes, really) and this can also restore your health and satiety pretty well. Combine with an egg, a berry and any filler and you get a pair of waffles for a whopping 60 health restored. Store in an icebox for emergencies if you have one, prioritizing it for satiety if it's somewhat close to being stale.
Another thing that killed me during my first winter as a newbie was the fact that I used grass and twigs like a dork without having much winter gear. Two bad combinations led to me to freezing, not having fire when I really, really needed it. I met a pitiful death trying to kill a Beefalo for last-ditch meat and fur when all the stress just got to me and I took enough of a hit to die.
I usually stock up on two stacks of grass and twigs and stuff them in a chest as an emergency supply and I also make sure to build many Campfire Pits, since it means I won't have to use too much grass to start them up again and the fact that they burn more efficiently. Creating many firepit outposts around the areas of importance to you is a great way to make survival easier to deal with, especially if you don't have much heat-based gear during the winter. I've read that you might not have a Rockyland biome nearby, which makes this difficult. I recommend focusing on winter gear for the time being as well as stocking up on grass/twigs.
Oh yeah, and make sure that you're not completely relying on one area too much. If Deerclops comes and trashes your base, you'll need to go elsewhere. By running away from your base to a far-off area when you hear the deep, growling noise (a wormhole works wonders) and letting him spawn (which has happened when the screen starts shaking), you can keep your base safe after going back. Otherwise a backup base might be necessary.
I don't really use jerky racks until I find myself with a surplus of meat (which is quite likely to occur once I get going with crockpot dishes and have an icebox), but they're definitely great to have, even if I find that basic meatballs is enough most of the time.
This game seems so simple and innocent, then something new always happens--like it starts snowing, and you freeze to death...
This game is not easy if you don't have the right strategy.
I think I won't survive the winter...but I have a lot of suggestions here that will hep me in my next try.
I am running out of food indeed. My source of food is basically only rabbits!
And I didn't die because of the cold just because I found a jacket and a winter hat in a chest!
Argh!
Anyway the beauty of this game is that you always find something new. Just discovered the mandrake! I killed it and cooked it. What does it happen if I eat it?