How to be more efficient?

[Rumpus]

When I go on pubs I see people with scaled furnaces, neatly organised chests, fridges full of food all before winter and i'm still scrounging for carrots because I didn't make enough crock pots. I also have a habit of spending too much time in a day picking up grass or walking.

I ask you, survivors, how do I be more efficient and get stuff done faster?

[Katitoff]

Don't stand AFK by firepit at night.

That's it.

[ButterStuffed]

Make a specific goal and go for it with no distractions. Rinse and repeat as often as necessary.

Also remember to clear out inventory of unnecessary items whenever at base.

[Dollmaker]

Another thing you can do (but it is quite time consuming) is doing an outline of the map, this will give you a rough idea of wheres everything, primarily the biomes, while doing so is good to be getting stuff like Fire pit and Alchemy engine done, if you have space also pick up Bushes another thing is to hammer up some pig houses which will give you some quick mats for stuff like crockpots and Chests and also the Football helmet, after doing the outline look for the best spot to set up the base (take in mind that doing this usually takes around 7 days, depending on how many stops you did) mostly prioritize what you cant relocate, for this reason most people prefer to base near deserts and swamp

(Forgot to mentioned, also uses all the wormholes you find so you know which one leads where, this can help you massively when looking for base placement)

Even with the amount taken to do this, you already know where most of the stuff are, which will save you time when looking for stuff, such has rocks

Something i personally do is when i find an area i like but its filled with trees, just burn them, its faster than chopping them and you get charcoal for the Crockpots (just make sure that you didnt over done it)

After setting up the base, your priority should be to get the farm going, but you need fertilizer, heres some way to get:

1.- From day one, craft a hammer and once you find the desert (During the outline) get some bones and also get Manure from the beefs

2.- Also for day 1, pick up flowers, i usually only pick 40, and wait for them to spoil (they usually spoil around the time you finish the outline) with this you can fertilize 20 Berry bushes and 20 Grass plants (You can do the same with Juicy berries to how fast they spoil, and even pick up 80 of them)

3.- This one is better done after you have set up the base, go to the caves and get has many lightbulbs has you can (also make a Lantern while you´re at it) get some monster meat (4) and feed it to a pig, then drop all the lightbulbs, the werepig will eat all of it and turn it into manure

Once you have the farm and the kitchen (Crockpots and fridge) going, you can expend some time hunting for meat, one way is to hunt spiders, you get Glands for healing and M.Meat which can be used for Meatballs but more importantly, Silk, which you´re gonna need for Winter Hats, and also make some Thermal stones, with this you should do fine in Winter

Now depending on the Character, you can prepare for the bosses, some heroes can deal with bosses quite easily, such has Wolfgang and Wigfrid while others need some strategy such has Maxwell and Wendy (something i do is to lure the first boss which is Deerclops to a forest biome and have him run over the trees, this can spawn Treeguards which will attack him and kill him for you, while doing this you also get tons of Wood)

Has for Dragonfly which you mentioned, theres a way to make the fight considerably easier, make Stone walls and wall off the Lava Pools this will leave his Larvas useless during the fight, take in mind that she often is near one of the Lava Pools so not getting aggro might be inevitable, but this becomes easier if you have someone to distract her while you set up the wall, when she gets angered (Fire form) you can use the Panflute to put her to sleep and turn her back to normal has for the actual fight, you can pretty much just face tank her but bring some armor with you (Careful if you´re playing Maxwell and Wes due to their low HP), and for weapon, a Hambat is probably your best option, during the Larvae face you can either heal or chase her and do more dmg.

Hope this helps

[Rumpus]

Thanks for all the tips guys, I’ve played lots of hours offline but I haven’t heard or used half of these strategies! I’ll try them out as soon as I can!

Originally posted by ButterStuffed:

Make a specific goal and go for it with no distractions. Rinse and repeat as often as necessary.

Also remember to clear out inventory of unnecessary items whenever at base.

this helps a lot, I always carry a bunch of stuff that I never end up using and whenever a new day comes I have a mind blank and end up wasting time.


One more question though, what are your tips for keeping your camp tidy? I have items laying around everywhere and all the placements are out of whack. Do you keep your alchemy engine close to fire, put racks together etc? I almost have no time to organise it because I’m busy with food management. (Playing Wigfrid mostly.)

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Rumpus:

Thanks for all the tips guys, I’ve played lots of hours offline but I haven’t heard or used half of these strategies! I’ll try them out as soon as I can!

Originally posted by ButterStuffed:

Make a specific goal and go for it with no distractions. Rinse and repeat as often as necessary.

Also remember to clear out inventory of unnecessary items whenever at base.

this helps a lot, I always carry a bunch of stuff that I never end up using and whenever a new day comes I have a mind blank and end up wasting time.


One more question though, what are your tips for keeping your camp tidy? I have items laying around everywhere and all the placements are out of whack. Do you keep your alchemy engine close to fire, put racks together etc? I almost have no time to organise it because I’m busy with food management. (Playing Wigfrid mostly.)

Um some people put those mini sigh on the chests to categorize them, you could do that, has for the other question, i always take in mind the Flingo when placing stuff so the Firepit mostly is always away from the Flingo range, but close to Chests, Machines and the Crockpots, i usually expend the night making Food when i dont have something else to do

In case you play with mods, theres one which i believe was called Tools are Fuel which allows you to burn Weapons, tools, hats and such, quite useful when you wanna get rid of trash

[ButterStuffed]

Originally posted by Rumpus:

Thanks for all the tips guys, I’ve played lots of hours offline but I haven’t heard or used half of these strategies! I’ll try them out as soon as I can!

Originally posted by ButterStuffed:

Make a specific goal and go for it with no distractions. Rinse and repeat as often as necessary.

Also remember to clear out inventory of unnecessary items whenever at base.

this helps a lot, I always carry a bunch of stuff that I never end up using and whenever a new day comes I have a mind blank and end up wasting time.


One more question though, what are your tips for keeping your camp tidy? I have items laying around everywhere and all the placements are out of whack. Do you keep your alchemy engine close to fire, put racks together etc? I almost have no time to organise it because I’m busy with food management. (Playing Wigfrid mostly.)

Try to place items and tools together in a way that makes sense to you as soon as you have excess junk so you don't just put off organizing everything because there's just junk everywhere. (applicable in real life as well) Tools and hats I keep out of chests/backpacks on the ground somewhere and any stackable items or edible resources I keep together in chests depending on what they are used for. For example I keep monster loot, magic stuff, rocks, gold, and logs in separate chests.

As for placement of buildings I try to place all the necessary things except for firepits in the range of a fling-o-matic so that I don't have to worry about maintaining more than one fling-o-matic during summer or potential accidents (fire hounds). Here's an example I made a while ago for how I sometimes set up my base. Mind you it's not the most efficient but it functions and is easy to modify to your own preferences.

https://i.imgur.com/0FCNauO.jpg

[Tornadodex]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rZx9RSFRhU
This is a pro player's guide on how to be as efficient as humanly possible.

I did not make this video. I have no possible idea how any human being can accomplish this.

[El_Tres]

First couple nights you make a torch, and burn one tree. This gives you enough light to work in the area until morning. 2nd night you cook all the food you gathered except your carrots, and eat up. Save your carrots for later. Look immediately for the mosaic or a rock biome to mine. If this isnt available, go in a cave and see if there is mining nearby. First thing you make when you get a science machine is a crockpot or sometimes two. Hopefully you have killed some butterflies along the way, and you can make some butter muffins.. 1 butterfly wing, 1 carrot, 2 sticks(or anything that isnt meat).

[Herr Morlock]

Build some firepits, near your grass-, twigs and log-farms, too.
In that way, you can work at night, harvesting them, instead of wasting daylight for that work.

[Chesmu]

Be a no lifer. That's how it's done.

There is no such thing as efficiency in DST. There is one thing: "Resistance to grind." That's right! less you become frustrated, and more you play, and faster you play, your base will look good and you will have a lot of things.

[Retrolicious]

That is a very hard question to answer, because obviously you join a server late. And you were simply not there. I doubt 1 person contantly builds those mega bases in those public servers.
So obviously, if 4+ dedicated persons work together they can create great base and efficient boss farms. But that has nothing to do with individual "efficiency" it is simply a matter of 8 random people vs 8 friends a dedicated groupers.

Shorter anwers: Read guides, watch twitch / YT videos. Everyday you can learn new stuff. Most important play every time differently and don't rely on old habits :3
Wikipedia also helps for vet or advanced people.

example guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1668701322

example boss raid video for vets or tryhards only:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK5V3OAwYpE&feature=youtu.be

Obviously the bee queen fight needs alot of preparation and those are never shown in videos. Because picking grass and grinding is boring af :p

wiki stuff:
https://dontstarve.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=mega+base

"efficiency"
https://dontstarve.fandom.com/wiki/Guides/Maximum_Efficiency_Day_13_Base_DST_Guide

TL;DR
Find friends and start your own steam group or friend servers. Best fun and mega basing is with people you actually like. There is no point in playing with 3 random paranoid people, who might build well organized bases, but like to trash talk got 0 social skills and are paranoid and enjoy kick griefing innocent randoms

PS: This game is alot about RNG and luck. Guys who make new world and generate dragonfly near portal got a much easier time to speedrun dragonfly than say a person, who finds her only on day 25 of bad mapping ( example of speedrun = scaled furnace ). Ofc u can also speedrun a mega base, but that also dependant on ressource spawn luck and "ideal" base location spawn luck.

DST in a nutshell: Luck > Skill