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and stick to it untill u map ur entire world
Farms should be more of a late game luxury, stick to meat and berries early on.
1. Explore, looking for gold and beefalo. Pick up twigs and grass and flint, chop trees, mine rocks
2. Once I find beefalo I build a base camp within running distance near the best rabbit hole cluster I can find
3. Build science machine and alchemy machine, get shovel, start replanting berries, build meat racks
4. Get lightning rod up, build crock pot and farms using beefalo manure. Trap rabbits. (my reason for farms is non-expiring food during winter. If you can't find gears for a fridge, you can't store food. Farm food won't expire, making good emergency food if you need it)
5. Scout while gathering resources for spiders, for silk. Put traps nearby and check periodically. Monster meat to bait traps or turn into rot for fertilizer
6. I build a pitchfork and dig up the terrain around my base. This goes into a chest for fuel during winter to supplement wood and manure fuel
Winter is pretty easy aswell get meat same thing rabbit or monster meat and in winter you can get ice. 1 meat and 3 ice is meatballs in the cookingpot
it's a 50/50 thing. you need food and materials. never go for 1 only.
if you go away from base always have food with you and materials for a fire.
walls around the base useless like others said.
autumn is easy but you need preparing for winter.
1. Locate beefalo asap. They usually spawn at 2 spots. One in big savana biome, and the other one in small savana biome usually next to forest biome. It would be better if you can get the one in the big savana biome. They give a lot of useful resources. Manure for fertilizer, wool for fuel. Yes, fuel. Try to minimize usage of wood for fuel. Both give same amount of fuel value but wool is easier to get, unless it's mating season. Beside, wood have a lot more usage. And the other thing is, beefalo offer protection from hound.
2. Relocate resource. Pretty much self explained. If you're setting base at savana biome, plant a lot of trees and twig tree or sapling, whichever you like. But do not to relocate them if you don't have enough manure to fertilize them.
3. Build pig house asap. You can get 2 pig skins by destroying pighead. The touchstone is usually spawn with 4 pigheads with them. And there's 2 touchstones per map. So you get total 16 pig skins to build 4 pig houses. Always use your pig to chop down tree. Evergreen tree is prefered, because they spawn treeguard. In case you didn't know, when a treeguard is spawned by pig, he will only target the pig. Once all the pigs dies, the treeguard become passive toward player. This can be usefull to fighting deerclops on winter 28 (default world setting). But keep that in mind, that pig will target treeguard when they respawn. So, build your forest not to close to your pig house.
4. Miner's hat an/or lantern. Craft them asap. So that you can still doing stuff at night.
5. Locate spider. Spider is one of your best meat source. For me, personally, never tear down spider nest unless it's level 3 one.
6. Never eat raw food. Use crooked pot.
7. Don't forget to get glommer at the first full moon at night 11 autumn, if you use default world setting
8. Walking cane is your friend. 25% movement speed will help you a lot. Give MacTusk a visit as often as possible.
9. Character selection. Try to avoid picking character that is hard to manage. Wes is pretty much hard to handle. Woodie is great at choping wood, but you will be most likely use pig for that task. Wolfgang use more food, but hey, he's strong as hell. But if you're struggling with food, better not choose him for the moment. Me myself, I always use wigfrid, since her health/sanity management is very easy. Wilson is also a very balance character. This is all my personal opinion. Feel free to debunk me.
I think this is all I can share. It's been quite a long time since I last played, and I just recently come back to this game. I don't know how much things have change. If any of my tips is misleading or out of date, feel free to correct me.
Not sure how useful some of those are for a complete beginner trying to get through their first winter, if i'm being honest xD
-Beefalo offer protection from Hounds, so i'm not sure why you'd kill them for wool, especially when wool could be used to craft winter clothing that'd help them survive winter instead of burning it when you can use terrain from pitchfork as free fuel, or wood/manure. Fighting one beefalo brings in all the beefalo, and a new player might quickly get in over their head and die trying to kill one for wool to use for fuel. Trees are a much more renewable resource than beefalo, which breed slowly.
-the walking stick requires a walrus tusk, which is a daunting task for a new player who might not know how to fight McTusk =P not sure that's a helpful tip for a newbie, they might end up dying to the walrus and losing all their hard work
- I've never really found pigs all that useful, myself. They tend to eat all the food around them, wander where i dont' want them, end up were-pigs at full moon. I just bash their houses down for pigskin to make umbrellas and armor. I've never used a treeguard for hounds since beefalo work just fine xD
Just pointing out so that OP can know that some of your tips are for more advanced play, not new beginners trying to live through their first winter =P
for characters, I find Wigfrid can be difficult for new players, because she cannot eat easy food like berries, carrots, grown farm food, or etc. The player has to focus on rabbits and birds, or killing bigger things, every day of the game
- Wilson is a good basic character, especially for first play since his beard gives him good bonuses during winter to help you survive
- Wendy is weak physically but Abigail her ghost sister can help you kill things while you run around letting them chase you.
- Willow comes with her own lighter, basically a free torch, just be sure to keep your sanity up
- if you don't care about pigs, webber is a good way to never starve. Planting spider nests around you gives you defense, food, and silk without ever having to fight them. Only downside is that pigs hate him and will chase you, so be careful around them. But he is the only character that can safely eat monster meat without taking sanity loss, so you can live purely on spiders that you trap each night if you needed to
You can shave the beefalo for their wools without the need to kill them.
About the treeguard, I think you misread them as to fight hounds. It's for the deerclops. Well I know you can just go away from your base at winter 28. It's just some tips if you want to fight it at first winter. Although not much, but reducing deerclops HP with treeguard help a little.
MacTusk. . Yeah, it's kind of tricky. Well, the trick is chase MacTusk far from the igloo, and attack him when he walk back to home. I should include this before. My bad
But just as you said. After I read my post again, yes, it seems quite advanced, lol. I didn't realize it when i write. For OP, take any advise you find usefull, forget about the rest, or maybe, remember them just a little, in case you need them some day
First as newcomer you will learn to farm stuff manually clickety click click but then:
OP i know you are new, but best endgame or builder tip is this:
Try to look into automation. Did you play terraria and know about obsidian machine or moonlord machine? Like those things can also be created for DST albeit to a lesser extend. Best way is to not do the work yourself, but get allies and npcs to do the dirty stuff for you :D
I give you examples:
General farming: Play Maxwell his shadow puppets basically do all the stuff below. But beware Maxwell is very bad fighter.
Logs: Pigs or Bearger as lumberjack. You can give meat to pigs.
In classic solo DS you could use Old bell for quick work.
Note: Old bell sadly doesnt exist in DST
Fuel for firepit: Find beefaloo herd, craft razor, make firepit there for night, shave the full herd, which gives about 20+ wool per run. Stockpile fuel for cold winters
Heal or Saddle: Make Fence + Doors. Get Bug net and catch butterflies. Replant living butterflys in the fenced garden. Close the door. F+ attack on butterflies. This is endless healing or saddle for beefalo riding
Rocks: Bearger again to smash em or Werebeaver
Monster meat: Let pigs and spiders fight or bunny and spiders etc etc -> endless combos
Giant protection: Let bearger live, he can kill deerclops easy. Or use treeguards or tentacles to kill deerclops, this also works for hound attacks
Grass / Twigs: Find desert and farm lots of tumbleweeds
Those is just a tiny tiny selection about quicker and effective farming, but there are endless possibilities. If you love building and tinkering im sure with wits and time you will find your ideal setup.
you know, i honestly forgot you could shave the poor things xD
take first five days to explore the map
in this time you have to already find beefalo,ponds,spiders,swamp and rock biome
make base in green biome,you should have beefalos and ponds near
be sure to take glommer in day 11
don't dig mushrooms and don't waste time picking red caps
walking cane is a must
for winter its enogh to have thermal stone so mine lots of rocks in the rock biome
a winter hat will not be a problem to craft
its good to have spiders near but this is not a must
destroy only spiders dens tier-3
getting gears is a must for fridge
you will have to go to swamp and get 1-3 tentacle spikes
you will need reeds too for the bird cage
yes,bird cage is a must
don't pick up flowers-kill butterflies instead
always avoid nitre
farming-get twigs at first and then berries
caves are less dangerous then they seem and will give you the light bulbs
make miner hat or lighter
at winter always have the thermal stone and 1-2 torches with you
kill the treeguards and try to make mushroom planter
kite the deerclops away from the base
meatballs-monster meat+3 ice
now:characters
best characters:
wx78-you need gears and eat them only when all of the stats are low
make eyebrella when you kill the deerclops
team up with wickerbottom
wickerbottom-don't make science machine
team up with wolfgang
wolfgang:stay at normal form
eat food when fighting the deerclops
maxwell-you have 999999 wood now
read wickerbottoms books
don't go fight
good characters:
webber-make spider nests then feed 1 spider say to attack another one and you will get tons of silk+glands+monster meat,have sanity under control
team up with webber
wendy-be sure to have something for sanity when you release abigail
o.k characters
wilson-balanced character
winona is the same
wigfrid-be sure to have gold
go kill everyone then after winter ends you can just die
bad characters:
woodie-you will be forced to eat all the wood you chop
avoid transformation
team up with warriors to kill the treeguards
willow-if you will not be meeted like a troll then you will just have a torch and a useless pet
wes-now this is not hardcore now its useless
throw the ballons or put them deep in the chest