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[Ghostlight]

Tell me something useful for playing the game that I might not already know! I'll start it off...

 

Once you build your Alchemy Machine, you no longer need your Science Machine and you can destroy it for resources (and space in your base). Just make sure you have actually built an Alchemy Machine (without placing it) before you Hammer the Science Machine! Same deal with Prestihatitator and Shadow Manipulator.

[Riateche]

If you need to lower your sanity (to pass obelisks blockade in Adventure mode or to fight shadow creatures and beardlings) you don't need to spend any resources (such as mushrooms). The following methods seems convenient to me:

 

1. Standing near a dark flower (-25 sanity/min). Dark flowers can usually be found near Teleportato parts and Maxwell door. Though it can be easier to make -10 sanity per flower just by picking and eating it.

2. Standing in the darkness (-50 sanity/min). You can safely stand just outside your campfire's light circle without being attacked by Charlie. Just watch fire level, you'll need to come closer as fire degrades. You can also stand in the darkness and equip your torch every few seconds (and de-equip it immediately) to keep Charlie away.

 

I was once stuck in King of Winter chapter of Adventure mode near an obelisk blockade. I didn't have any items that can lower sanity, and night wasn't long enough to lose enough sanity. I was so desperate that I went to a spider nest and lured one spider outside. I then began to run around it as if I wanted to kite it. But I didn't hit it, just run as close as possible for a second and run away before it bites me. It was quite funny and awkward experience. Spiders have insanity aura of -25/min so I reached my goal.

[Soopakoopa]

Always buy shoes in the afternoon after your feet have shrunk

 

Pig villages can be used as compost bins; leave vegetables, berries

or flower petals laying around between an area with many houses, and

check back every in-game day for a sizeable load of manure which you

can use to build new farms plots, fuel fires and ice fling-o-matics, and

fertilize plants.

[Gudinito]

Only Reign of Giants

 

If you need an earthquake and you have no explosives, an old bell works to shake the world.

 

Another tip!

 

Get three monster meat. Give the meat to a pig and it will turn into a werepig. If you kill the werepig, it will drop two meat and one pig skin, instead of a pig who drops one meat or one pig silk. Is not useful?

[Xija]

Only Reign of Giants

 

If you need an earthquake and you have no explosives, an old bell works to shake the world.

 

Another tip!

 

Get three monster meat. Give the meat to a pig and it will turn into a werepig. If you kill the werepig, it will drop two meat and one pig skin, instead of a pig who drops one meat or one pig silk. Is not useful?

 

I'm pretty sure you need 4 monster meat for that.

 

 

Tip: Ice is a very important cheap food filler, try to gather as much ice as you can before summer. They do not spoil if left in the ice box too!

[Doctor H. Derp]

Need health in a pinch? Try eating a few butterfly wings.

 

Don't have a bug net? Not a problem! Just loosely follow a wandering butterfly at a distance until it lands on a flower and then whack it with an axe or even your fist as it's completely vulnerable while it's grounded. If you're having trouble selecting the butterfly to attack try ctrl-f to force attack.

 

You can also kill butterflies mid flight if you're observant. Every now and then a butterfly will just flutter in place doing loop-the-loops. If you pay attention, some times it'll do 2 loop-the-loops in quick succession. If you see it do one loop-the-loop, just as you see it start up the animation for the second, you might just have enough time to whack it there on the spot, as it wont be able to move until it finishes the animation.

[Zillvr]

Want to kill off a Koalefant while you don't want to risk getting damaged or hit?

 

You can do the following. Scare the Koalefant to one beehive. Then hit the beehive once to taunt killer bees and and lure them out as far as you can so when they head back to their beehive, they should come across the Koalefant that you wanted killed. Doing so will make the killer bees attack the Koalefant until it's dead.

 

One pack of killer bees from a hive should be enough to kill off one Koalefant. You can sneak in hits on the Koalefant too if you want, but be careful cause when the Koalefant dies and you are near the killer bees they'll target you next.

 

Good luck!

[Flare2V]

Need health in a pinch? Try eating a few butterfly wings.

 

Don't have a bug net? Not a problem! Just loosely follow a wandering butterfly at a distance until it lands on a flower and then whack it with an axe or even your fist as it's completely vulnerable while it's grounded. If you're having trouble selecting the butterfly to attack try ctrl-f to force attack.

 

You can also kill butterflies mid flight if you're observant. Every now and then a butterfly will just flutter in place doing loop-the-loops. If you pay attention, some times it'll do 2 loop-the-loops in quick succession. If you see it do one loop-the-loop, just as you see it start up the animation for the second, you might just have enough time to whack it there on the spot, as it wont be able to move until it finishes the animation.

You can straight up sucker-punch em if you get close enough to them while they're moving.

 

Want to kill off a Koalefant while you don't want to risk getting damaged or hit?

 

You can do the following. Scare the Koalefant to one beehive. Then hit the beehive once to taunt killer bees and and lure them out as far as you can so when they head back to their beehive, they should come across the Koalefant that you wanted killed. Doing so will make the killer bees attack the Koalefant until it's dead.

 

One pack of killer bees from a hive should be enough to kill off one Koalefant. You can sneak in hits on the Koalefant too if you want, but be careful cause when the Koalefant dies and you are near the killer bees they'll target you next.

 

Good luck!

You can scare your koalefant into chester who will scare the koalefant right back at you allowing for an easy first hit.

[Soopakoopa]

Need health in a pinch? Try eating a few butterfly wings.

 

Don't have a bug net? Not a problem! Just loosely follow a wandering butterfly at a distance until it lands on a flower and then whack it with an axe or even your fist as it's completely vulnerable while it's grounded. If you're having trouble selecting the butterfly to attack try ctrl-f to force attack.

 

You can also kill butterflies mid flight if you're observant. Every now and then a butterfly will just flutter in place doing loop-the-loops. If you pay attention, some times it'll do 2 loop-the-loops in quick succession. If you see it do one loop-the-loop, just as you see it start up the animation for the second, you might just have enough time to whack it there on the spot, as it wont be able to move until it finishes the animation.

 

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's possible to catch up to a flying butterfly if you have a walking cane.

If you can do that, hit ctrl+f when you're RIGHT next to it, and it shouldn't have time to fly off before

you hit it.

[Gudinito]

I'm pretty sure you need 4 monster meat for that.

 

 

Tip: Ice is a very important cheap food filler, try to gather as much ice as you can before summer. They do not spoil if left in the ice box too!

 Thanks! I dont know what i was i thinking, but is sure you need for monster meet for the werepig.

[Doctor H. Derp]

 Well you're both not wrong, but here lies the rub:

 

You can straight up sucker-punch em if you get close enough to them while they're moving.

 

A. Being close enough to the butterfly to punch them out of the sky as they fly away from you once airborne and not performing fluttering loop-the-loops.

 

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's possible to catch up to a flying butterfly if you have a walking cane.

If you can do that, hit ctrl+f when you're RIGHT next to it, and it shouldn't have time to fly off before

you hit it.

 

B. Having the walking cane in the first place to run the butterfly down.

Both of these methods work though!

 

However, if you're on day 1, you accidentally walked face first into a tentacle, and are having trouble with positioning a fleeing butterfly to just get into your punch radius... just loosely tail the butterfly, wait for it to land, and then ctrl f next to it for probably one of the easiest pair of butterfly wings you could otherwise get in that situation. It's so simple practically anyone of any skill level could immediately adopt to seriously improve their gameplay experience.

[Flare2V]

 Well you're both not wrong, but here lies the rub:

 

 

A. Being close enough to the butterfly to punch them out of the sky as they fly away from you once airborne and not performing fluttering loop-the-loops.

 

 

B. Having the walking cane in the first place to run the butterfly down.

Both of these methods work though!

 

However, if you're on day 1, you accidentally walked face first into a tentacle, and are having trouble with positioning a fleeing butterfly to just get into your punch radius... just loosely tail the butterfly, wait for it to land, and then ctrl f next to it for probably one of the easiest pair of butterfly wings you could otherwise get in that situation. It's so simple practically anyone of any skill level could immediately adopt to seriously improve their gameplay experience.

Yup yup, I was just saying you can, not that you have to.

[DragonDePlatino]

I'm not sure if this is common knowledge, but I figured it out on my own...

 

If you rapidly equip/unequip a dowsing rod while moving around, it'll send off pulses a lot more often. This makes it easier to pinpoint where the thingies are because you won't have to wait for the next pulse. I call this technique "rod pumping".

[Mobbstar]

You can survive the night from a single swarm of fireflies. Run into them, then instantly away again, wait for them to appear, repeat.

 

The next morning you'll die of hallunications though.

[MenaAthena]

Have tons of monster meat that you don't know what to do with? If you cook or dry them, a caged bird will eat them up and give you eggs in exchange. The bird won't except raw monster meat.

[THISTINYTHING]

In the dark and have no torches or light source? Just keep running until you find some fire flies. You can keep yourself alive until morning by running in and out of them.

 

 

[Abenlen]

You don't have to bait traps to catch rabbits.  Just put them close to the holes and they work just fine.

[Russian]

In no specific order:

 

Items that don't burn still can be fully destroyed by feeding them to a lureplant. ( Fixed a problem with a glommer flower once )

 

Anything that happens in the game happens only when a player is present in the vicinity. Therefore, an easy way to avoid a massive forest fire is to move away from the area as far and as fast as possible. Same tactics works to avoid the unwanted fights with the giants or between giants and other animals: say, you don't want a giant kill all your beefalos, then lead him to some place where he's attacked by another animal and immediately leave the area. After a few days the giant disappears, while the area damages are minimal if any.

 

Easier way to summon a treeguard is to find a forest with a lot of dry trees: knocking a dry tree down  counts as a 'kill' while taking only 1 swipe. Also making some more spaces between the trees makes forest more 'fireproof'.

 

Oddly enough, I noticed only sort of late, that the wormholes can not only transport a player, but also do so with any item that a player drops into them ( no need to jump back and forth to move amounts of stuff; also a wormhole can be used that way as an 'item safe', see p. 2 - nothing happens when a player is not nearby)

 

Friendly mobs 'teleport' to your location after a short while if they are stuck in the walls somewhere and you move far enough. Can be used to, say, bring rock lobsters or chester behind the full-width barricade in the caves, or something like that. Not sure if it works with beefalos lured by horn, still would have been nice.

 

Placing a single firefly close to a firepit provides a good indication at night and helps to avoid a stupid 'I have no torch' death within a walking range of it   Even better to place 2: one more not far from it over a spare bunch of firewood, or over a chest with some burnables inside.

 

Combination of 2 or 3 lureplants and an ice flinger machine are effective way to deal with moderate amounts of firedogs during summer/autumn. Also, using the rock turf one can effectively shape the patterns of lureplants 'eyes' spread ( won't grow on rocky turf, so spread wider in possible directions )

 

 

[Kraglok]

I recently discovered that, under certain circumstances, the darkness might not be fatal.

 

I was playing Wigfrid and managed to foolishly step away from my camp without any ability to make light.  I looked for fireflies but none were in the area so I resigned myself to dying (still had a touchstone nearby but hated to lose it to such stupidity).

 

I took the first hit from Charlie and noticed that my health only went down a bit thanks to my helmet.  I had a Log Suit in my inventory so I put that on too and noted that my health loss  on the next hit was even lighter.  Between further hits I used a couple Healing Salves but I made it through the night losing less than half my health thanks to armor.  I was quite insane so that was my first order of business in the morning but I was quite pleased to learn that night without light was not the death sentence I had assumed it would be.

 

I haven't tried this method with other characters but it would be interesting to see whether it works.

[Kraglok]

One other thing that comes to mind is that you can guarantee meat from birds if you don't want the feathers.  Removing a bird from the bird trap and murdering it in your inventory gives a 50/50 chance of the bird dropping a morsel or feathers of the appropriate color.  If you instead take the bird and place it on the fire to "cook" then it will turn into a cooked morsel 100% of the time.  I find this useful if I already have plenty of the feathers in storage and I'm simply farming them for their meat (especially useful in Spring when the Rabbit Holes are plugged).

[essjayehm]

A 100% torch will not lose any % if you turn it on and off quickly (to reset Charlie's timer).  Useful in the early days when exploring the map and not having to make ~2 torches per night; 1 torch usually lasts me until I have to start a fire for charcoal.  You take a good hit to your sanity... but since you want to pick flowers early (for rot/poop) the downside is easily mitigated.

[knight]

Need health in a pinch? Try eating a few butterfly wings.

 

Don't have a bug net? Not a problem! Just loosely follow a wandering butterfly at a distance until it lands on a flower and then whack it with an axe or even your fist as it's completely vulnerable while it's grounded. If you're having trouble selecting the butterfly to attack try ctrl-f to force attack.

 

You can also kill butterflies mid flight if you're observant. Every now and then a butterfly will just flutter in place doing loop-the-loops. If you pay attention, some times it'll do 2 loop-the-loops in quick succession. If you see it do one loop-the-loop, just as you see it start up the animation for the second, you might just have enough time to whack it there on the spot, as it wont be able to move until it finishes the animation.

 

adding to his poast with the butter fly wings you can make them into a butter muffin with some veggies also if you catch a butterfly in a net you can place them as flowers for your bee hive but that's not all butterflys have to offer they also have a 2% chance when killed to drop butter when put in a crock pot with the right stuff can make  the most tasty and heal-y restoring  about 50 health that food is . . . WAFFALS!

anyway I hope that helped  the moral of this comment is that butterfly can be very use full

[insanechef]

you can also use mushrooms as a veg substitute. good use for red mushrooms ! butterfly wings + red mush + berries = good health early on

[Riateche]

butterfly wings + red mush + berries = good health early on

 

 

You mean butterfly wings + red mush + twigs, right?

[Patchieeeee]

Don't know if it's been mentioned but,

Accidentally making your character walk when spam-clicking a tree to chop it? Try clicking just below the peak. Coupled with good timing, you can be almost, if not as fast as Woodie with any character.