New player: basic starter help?

[Wabbit Gone Bad]

I like the game but find a few things super frustrating. Why not start every map with a wall 2 high around buildible area? Everybody will do this to start (wont they?) and it just saves about 30+ minutes of boredom. FOOD!!!! i get it, we cant just let you build non stop to start, you need to build up (that is the fun) but unless i am missing something it sure seems to be the resource that will take up all your time. I feel like i am building one (berry) farm for every 2-3 people. I know wheat seems to produce better and i build 3 farms (one day/night cycle apart) so i am always harvesting.. but still spending to much time on food IMHO. I cant research and build other stuff and soon run out of stuff needed besides food. Is there some advice for FOOD? i start with 3-4 berry farms, get 3 slingers, get a copper miner, and a workshop, then research.. by that time i need t-3 more berry farms so i can get a wheat farm goind ( which needs grindstone, and baker).. and wheat is only evey 3 cycles.. should i just spam a crapload of berry farms5-10 +? then worry about building up other stuff?

[TresChicago]

just take your time

[SK]

Originally posted by Wabbit Gone Bad:

I like the game but find a few things super frustrating. Why not start every map with a wall 2 high around buildible area? Everybody will do this to start (wont they?) and it just saves about 30+ minutes of boredom. FOOD!!!! i get it, we cant just let you build non stop to start, you need to build up (that is the fun) but unless i am missing something it sure seems to be the resource that will take up all your time. I feel like i am building one (berry) farm for every 2-3 people. I know wheat seems to produce better and i build 3 farms (one day/night cycle apart) so i am always harvesting.. but still spending to much time on food IMHO. I cant research and build other stuff and soon run out of stuff needed besides food. Is there some advice for FOOD? i start with 3-4 berry farms, get 3 slingers, get a copper miner, and a workshop, then research.. by that time i need t-3 more berry farms so i can get a wheat farm goind ( which needs grindstone, and baker).. and wheat is only evey 3 cycles.. should i just spam a crapload of berry farms5-10 +? then worry about building up other stuff?

Yo how about using the google instead of typing something long nobody is gonna read -_-

[StyxAnnihilator]

One "charm" with Colony Survival are to learn how things work, the different ratios of production.

I started with a trench on my first world, same effect as wall. Was to become first part of a maze. Zeds can not "jump" or crouch/crawl, only go 1 block up or down or flat. No diagonal movements either. Also can build stuff and prepare before planting the flag and get colonists.

Berry farms is nice as a start. The trick is to make it as small as possible, since the berry bushes is always able to be harvested. I found out (not seen on YouTube), that 3x7 (2x4 bushes) is the best and smallest farm, because you then can place another one beside it (2-4 bushes will then look grouped together). Another berry trick is to take away bushes and place down crates instead, having only a few (or 1) bush. You can also "harvest" yourself, picking and placing, not only berries.

Beds have no collision (not solid - yet), so can be placed between berry rows or any paths or stairs. Can also be placed on a crate (head end on it), and 2 blocks above the crate (so can climb up). The foot end can have a solid block above it. Can place working beds below/above others, in a staircase pattern. Can not place blocks on "workbenches" (crafting stations of different types).

Wheat can be eaten, but wasting the bonus of making flour and then bread. So get that up running and keep adding. The ratio you find out fast enough.

You need only 1-2 guards at the start, if have a good setup.

[TresChicago]

i agree

[Quickhand69er]

I know this is kinda old but, when I first start I flatten my land. Build a 2 high wall 20 blocks away from center. Place flag, make berry fields, then start digging to your first resources underground wile waiting for food. Can also go ahead and plant your wheat seads by hand and then make the zone for farming later.
The next step is getting some slingers, wheat, mill, and cook going for really good food, and 1 miner mining...stone. Why stone? Because your slinger guards use stone for ammo. Unless you want to get it yourself. Now when you have more wheat seads make more fields.

Now that you have food you can do what you want.

[TresChicago]

i agree

[Zilentis]

build tenches instead of walls. it can be dangerious if you havnt built it properly however it takes less time and resources to dig instead of building.

[Kelldath]

Originally posted by Silenced:

build tenches instead of walls. it can be dangerious if you havnt built it properly however it takes less time and resources to dig instead of building.

Agreed, my first wall was made entirely of leaves. The whole wall disapeared when I cut a tree which was connected to it later and gave me a good fright...

As for OP, the reason you don't start with the flag and a wall is so that you can choose where you'll go.
For food, you are right about berries, you need one every 3 colonists. If I remember correctly I moved to wheat at 50+ colonists. before was all 5*7 berry farms. And I still had to keep the berries for a while, maybe 10 days, to avoid running out of food during the transition.

[Quickhand69er]

What Kelldath said. Leave walls are very fast and easy to make but If 1 tree touchs it and you take the tree down it all goes with it.

Also to save resources at the start, your 2 block high wall needs nothing under it exept in 1 spot to hold it all up. As in only 1 block needs to touch the ground and it will suspend anything in the air.