Questions that don't deserve their own thread.

[Keller Max]

Is it worth to cook ingredients before putting them into a crock pot? Will my food have more time before spoiling?

Also! Is it more efficient to cook raw meat into cooked right away or should I keep it raw and cook it at the last moment? I want to preserve it for as long as possible.

[Cheggf]

14 minutes ago, Keller Max said:

Is it worth to cook ingredients before putting them into a crock pot? Will my food have more time before spoiling?

Cooking food on a campfire will remove half of the spoilage. Putting food in a crock pot will remove half of the spoilage. If your food is really low, like about to turn into rot, the crock pot dish will be a bit more fresh when it comes out. But if it's got more than 60% time left then the difference is very negligible. 

14 minutes ago, Keller Max said:

Also! Is it more efficient to cook raw meat into cooked right away or should I keep it raw and cook it at the last moment? I want to preserve it for as long as possible.

Raw meat spoils in 6 days, and cooked meat spoils in 10 days. There's probably some way to mathematically find out exactly when is the ideal time to cook it to maximize the time you have it, but I just cook it if I want to preserve it. 

Edited April 20, 2025 by Cheggf

[Keller Max]

36 minutes ago, Cheggf said:

Cooking food on a campfire will remove half of the spoilage. Putting food in a crock pot will remove half of the spoilage. If your food is really low, like about to turn into rot, the crock pot dish will be a bit more fresh when it comes out. But if it's got more than 60% time left then the difference is very negligible. 

Raw meat spoils in 6 days, and cooked meat spoils in 10 days. There's probably some way to mathematically find out exactly when is the ideal time to cook it to maximize the time you have it, but I just cook it if I want to preserve it. 

Did couple of test and it seems like it's better to leave your meat raw for as long as possible, to maximize the spoilage time. One was cooked from the start and the second I waited for it to almost rot a way and only then cooked it. Second one was having an additional day of spoilage. Not much, but still...

[_mylilsunshine_]

7 hours ago, Keller Max said:

Is it worth to cook ingredients before putting them into a crock pot? Will my food have more time before spoiling?

Also! Is it more efficient to cook raw meat into cooked right away or should I keep it raw and cook it at the last moment? I want to preserve it for as long as possible.

6 hours ago, Keller Max said:

Did couple of test and it seems like it's better to leave your meat raw for as long as possible, to maximize the spoilage time. One was cooked from the start and the second I waited for it to almost rot a way and only then cooked it. Second one was having an additional day of spoilage. Not much, but still...

yes it is worth it to cook ingredients before putting them in the crock pot, the cooked dish will have better freshness, and

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Monster meat is the only meat in the game that lasts longer overall the earlier it is cooked (i.e. monster meat will last 15 days total if cooked at 100% freshness, but will last 14.25 days total (3 days raw + 11.25 days cooked) if cooked at 50% freshness)

if you're looking to eat ingredients (cooked meat, cooked vegetable/mushroom, etc), you should not let the raw ingredients reach 1-3% spoilage (red, almost rot) because even if you cook it, it won't reach a fresh status (green) or it will but you can't keep it for long

it'd like to do the math but the rule of thumb is 1. just cook the ingredients before chucking them into the crock pot, and 2. wait as long as you can to cook the raw ingredients for maximum time kept

[Keller Max]

37 minutes ago, _mylilsunshine_ said:

yes it is worth it to cook ingredients before putting them in the crock pot, the cooked dish will have better freshness, and

if you're looking to eat ingredients (cooked meat, cooked vegetable/mushroom, etc), you should not let the raw ingredients reach 1-3% spoilage (red, almost rot) because even if you cook it, it won't reach a fresh status (green) or it will but you can't keep it for long

it'd like to do the math but the rule of thumb is 1. just cook the ingredients before chucking them into the crock pot, and 2. wait as long as you can to cook the raw ingredients for maximum time kept

Yeah! Figured out that cooking restores 50% of spoilage. If you somehow cook a 0.00% freshness item, you will get a cooked 50% and it will go stale instantly. If you cook 50% freshness item, it will turn into cooked 75%, and so on... I honestly thought that crock pot would restore maximum possible spoilage, without needing to cook ingredients. Looks like I was wrong.

[Ugur01]

How can i save her? She stuck in ocean

Edited April 21, 2025 by Ugur01

[Beckendorf00]

Any way to make Nightmare Werepig skip his "stalking" phase faster? I feel like he just goes around looking at me, and when he attacks he doesn't get fatigued, even when i dodge him more than 3 times. 

[aidankocherhans]

Are the hound waves in don't starve and together the same, in how frequent they are and how many hounds appear?

[gamehun20]

5 hours ago, Beckendorf00 said:

Any way to make Nightmare Werepig skip his "stalking" phase faster? I feel like he just goes around looking at me, and when he attacks he doesn't get fatigued, even when i dodge him more than 3 times. 

Iirc ranged attacks make him attack you instead of just circling you while healing

[Ugur01]

5 hours ago, Beckendorf00 said:

Any way to make Nightmare Werepig skip his "stalking" phase faster? I feel like he just goes around looking at me, and when he attacks he doesn't get fatigued, even when i dodge him more than 3 times. 

This happened me. You should hit him one time and fight will start. You should dodge him when he run towards you then do one hit

If I'm not mistaken you're talking about this

[Bumber64]

5 hours ago, aidankocherhans said:

Are the hound waves in don't starve and together the same, in how frequent they are and how many hounds appear?

DST merges several hounds into varglets. Presumably means there's less in DST, considering solo play.

[Keller Max]

Why can I zoom so much, even though I don't have any mods enabled + I deleted all the Klei folders with saves?

Also! Any Ideas why my screen changes brightness on Fullscreen DST? I've only noticed it now.

Edited April 22, 2025 by Keller Max

[BalkanCockroach]

29 minutes ago, Keller Max said:

Why can I zoom so much, even though I don't have any mods enabled + I deleted all the Klei folders with saves?

Also! Any Ideas why my screen changes brightness on Fullscreen DST? I've only noticed it now.

This is the correct way to play

[Bumber64]

45 minutes ago, Keller Max said:

Why can I zoom so much, even though I don't have any mods enabled + I deleted all the Klei folders with saves?

It's a client mod. Make sure you check those.

[Keller Max]

18 minutes ago, Bumber64 said:

It's a client mod. Make sure you check those.

All mods were turned off. I launched the game right after deleting klei folders with settings, so it was fresh-fresh. But! I uninstalled and installed the game and it fixed the camera.

[WilsonHiggs]

On 4/21/2025 at 8:36 PM, aidankocherhans said:

Are the hound waves in don't starve and together the same, in how frequent they are and how many hounds appear?

The waves occur less frequently and the hounds can be packed into a varglet

[themightyone]

On 4/20/2025 at 2:44 PM, Keller Max said:

Is it worth to cook ingredients before putting them into a crock pot? Will my food have more time before spoiling?

Also! Is it more efficient to cook raw meat into cooked right away or should I keep it raw and cook it at the last moment? I want to preserve it for as long as possible.

Most of your question has already been answered,  but I just wanted to add one thing. I will generally always cook raw ingredients if I want the food to last as long as it can , however, if I am going to immediately scarf it down as soon as it is ready then I don't bother cooking since there is no point. 

[WilsonHiggs]

53 minutes ago, themightyone said:

Most of your question has already been answered,  but I just wanted to add one thing. I will generally always cook raw ingredients if I want the food to last as long as it can , however, if I am going to immediately scarf it down as soon as it is ready then I don't bother cooking since there is no point. 

Except some ingredients last longer when they are raw like potatoes and carrots. The compendium is really helpful to see the different spoiling times 

[themightyone]

1 hour ago, WilsonHiggs said:

Except some ingredients last longer when they are raw like potatoes and carrots. The compendium is really helpful to see the different spoiling times 

I know that , what I meant was I generally always cook raw ingredients as I'm making my dishes . If I'm not crockpot cooking , then they just stay raw in the fridge or salt box unless about to spoil then they will be cooked to preserve life. 

My main point was don't bother to cook food if you know your immediately going to eat it when it's out of the crockpot. It's just a wasted step.

[aidankocherhans]

19 hours ago, WilsonHiggs said:

The waves occur less frequently and the hounds can be packed into a varglet

The big qol update for don't starve said that it included the reduced wave frequency over time, but that's different from what the wiki says, that's what I'm confused about 

[WilsonHiggs]

59 minutes ago, aidankocherhans said:

The big qol update for don't starve said that it included the reduced wave frequency over time, but that's different from what the wiki says, that's what I'm confused about 

Iirc the initial waves occur in mostly the same frequency but, as the world gets older, the waves starts to be less frequent 

[Johnny_Waffles]

On 4/22/2025 at 1:47 PM, Keller Max said:

All mods were turned off. I launched the game right after deleting klei folders with settings, so it was fresh-fresh. But! I uninstalled and installed the game and it fixed the camera.

Pretty sure theres buttons you can press to zoom in and out, at least theres some on console (they're unbound on consoles tho so you'll have to bind them to something) 

[Keller Max]

1 minute ago, Johnny_Waffles said:

Pretty sure theres buttons you can press to zoom in and out, at least theres some on console (they're unbound on consoles tho so you'll have to bind them to something) 

This thing will remain a mystery. My camera mod probably somehow imprinted it's settings into the game somehow. I literally deleted DST save folders, my game launched fresh with all mods disabled. Yet still I had a modded camera. Fully reinstalling the game helped though.

[Valase]

20 minutes ago, Keller Max said:

This thing will remain a mystery. My camera mod probably somehow imprinted it's settings into the game somehow. I literally deleted DST save folders, my game launched fresh with all mods disabled. Yet still I had a modded camera. Fully reinstalling the game helped though.

On one hand, cool. On the other, no mod should be doing that.

[Bumber64]

6 hours ago, Keller Max said:

This thing will remain a mystery. My camera mod probably somehow imprinted it's settings into the game somehow. I literally deleted DST save folders, my game launched fresh with all mods disabled. Yet still I had a modded camera. Fully reinstalling the game helped though.

There's two mod folders, and Steam likes to redownload stuff.