Of caves and winter.

[Arstyanyaxz]

Are caves a viable option for surviving winter? It seems logical that it'd be warm enough down there to survive. The main thing you'd have to do is survive depth worms and nightmare monster (especially if mushrooms are what you choose to eat.)

 

I mean, you owuldn't stay in the caves ALL the time. You'd have to make surface runs to get a few supplies like meats, veggies, and slaves friends.

[23rd]

My biggest concern for Cave living would have to be Depth Worms, everything else is easy enough to fight/avoid. On the topic of food, I'd point out that you can still get Monster Meat from Depth Worms and Cave Spiders, might even be something else I'm missing. With drying racks you'll have plenty of Monster Jerky to sustain you, the minor downsides of consumption are easily circumvented with Cooked Green Mushrooms and Healing Salves.

[TeoSS69]

It's a lot easier to prepare for winter than it is for caves. Enough said.

[zazori]

Living in the caves is way more difficult than surviving winter,especially if we're talking about turtling the first winter in the caves.

[Arstyanyaxz]

Just started winter now...doesn't seem TOO scary. All I have to do is keep one point up from 0.

[Arstyanyaxz]

So much for that. Terrorbeak killed me in the caves.

[Battal]

There's a lesson to be learned from all this.  He who attempts to survive winter in the caves will...will be killed by a terrorbeak.

 

Yeah. 

[ARamblingSpider]

There's a lesson to be learned from all this.  He who attempts to survive winter in the caves will...will be killed by a terrorbeak.

 

Yeah. 

Step 1: make it into a book.

Step 2: ???

Step 3: profit.

[the truthseeker]

The survival tips from winter also work well in caves--Monster meat and mushrooms can be used with Birdcages and/or Crock Pots into safe food so Monster Jerky isn't always the required option. Anyway, if you wanted safe meat for jerky, you could hunt Wabbits Bunnymen. 

[Arstyanyaxz]

Eh I survived my first winter the other day. Not hard just a little more wood needed...so many treeguards.

 

I even ran into the Deerclops and he never attacked me or the herd of beefalo right next to him.

[oCrapaCreeper]

You can try camping out at areas where light always shines down, but that's probably the best you can do. Insanity and limited food are the two biggest problems with living down there. But farms do work if there's enough light.

 

I've only down it as Maxwell, because I'm cheap and don't want to deal with that constant sanity drain.

[the truthseeker]

Well at least i can talk to some of those Perfectly Normal Trees now while waiting