How Long Have You Lived For?

[JABAGGaming]

Hi there

 

I am Cazzzy (one half of Just a Boy and a Girl Gaming). Now I don't think myself great at Don't Starve, but I have to say that I am pretty proud of my of my +200 plus days (I can't remember the exact number, but I survived about 5/6 winters) when I played Wolfgang.

 

Now this got me wondering, how well other people have been doing and how long people have stayed sane So do you have a character that you are particularly proud of? Let me and everyone know! 

 

Have you got a particular character you are good on? A particular biome that you like to build your camp in? Do you have some hints and tips that have kept you alive in the past? I want to know all these things, so please please let me know!

 

Thanks a lot everyone

Cheerio for now

 

Cazzzy 

 

P.S. As a side note if you fancy a laugh then check out our 'A Noob Plays' Don't Starve series as I force IcyVenom (the other half of the duo) to play, it will certainly be interesting

 

You can watch it here: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Cynical Cynicist]

412+ days as Wilson (and counting).

325+ days as Wes (and counting).

[TeoSS69]

It will be exactly 22 years and 6 months tomorrow.

Day 696...on world 4.

[ARamblingSpider]

Maximum days 678 days with Wilson.

[DwerBomb]

160 Wx-78 (still going)

100 with Maxwell (still going)

[Soopakoopa]

The longest I ever survived was around 68 days.

 

And then deerclops came. I didn't actually die to him but he drove me literally insane and

I forgot to relight my firepit in the heat of battle.

[23rd]

Well now I can't make a corny joke about being 20 years old. Thanks a lot Teo!

 

My best would have to be 300+ days over the course of two worlds as WX-78. I'm sure I could do better as Wilson (maybe Wes) if I had the patience.

[hotflungwok]

200+ with Maxwell

300+ with WX-78

600+ with Wickerbottom

[JABAGGaming]

It will be exactly 22 years and 6 months tomorrow.

Day 696...on world 4.

Happy Half Birthday for Tomorrow! it was just a matter of time before someone used that joke and I commend you sir for being the first. Also really impressed by the records of days people have done/are doing. I am going to have to get back on and try to beat them all! haha. 

 

keep them coming and good luck!

[TeoSS69]

 it was just a matter of time before someone used that joke and I commend you sir for being the first. 

It is tomorrow so I couldn't resist

[Wilbur]

Something around 300 days. After that I get bored and go to a new world through the wooden thing.

[JABAGGaming]

Soopakoopa I feel your pain, I really hate deerclops! they always destroy all of my camp walls so I have no protection or anything! After that I am normally pretty stuffed. 

 

Teo my friend go right ahead, I would not be able to resist either! :L

[TeoSS69]

Something around 300 days. After that I get bored and go to a new world through the wooden thing.

Reminds me of my last moment with Oldgang 

[Craig_Perry]

228 days as Wendy, died to a series of buzzy events followed by a mis-click on my own rock lobster

[Battal]

666 days on Willow.  I don't play that world anymore; it's too perfect.

[Yoko99]

887 days here- World 1.
I wanted to teleportato on day 1000, but I died for some total foolishness.
Someone rang at the door, and I just didn't pause the game.

I always play as Wilson, and I'm on day 360-ish at the moment.

I usually like to setup anywhere near where Maxwell's door is, even if I never use it.
At the moment, I'm pretty proud of my map, I got 3 igloos, a pig village with king and beefalos right next to me.
You want those things close.

You wanna be prepared to do some farming on a big scale and dedicate entire days to harvesting and replanting, protect your crops from fire...build and use most of the structures. Learn the various crock pot recipes..., what's good to eat and what's not and why. Jerky your meat.
Learn about bees and bee boxes and flowers and butterflies and taffy and honey-flavored food and birdcages and dragonpies.

Have several options at your disposal for dealing with hounds and other threats. Always have backups of everything. Resurrection methods at the ready. Take calculated risks. Know when to run, learn the little moves that end up saving you a lot of time, and sometimes just saving you in desperate situations.

Like for example, I think it's very important to use a good combination of keyboard and mouse. Know how to use action and attack buttons, you can rebind those... I have attack on my mouse's middle button personally.
Know how to move your characters with both WASD and the mouse, so that whatever other thing you need to be doing in your inventory while your character's running, you'll be able to do it regardless.
Use the numbered keys to switch tools and weapons in your inventory so you can keep your cursor on other important stuff at the same time. I mostly use 1 to 5 myself. I think you may rebind those as well anyway.
Similarly, moving around with WASD is priceless to organize other items in your inventory and backpack during all the action.

Some people travel light, some people like to have lots of stuff with them, like food, tools and basic resources. That's my case, so I always have a backpack around and I switch to armor in combat situations, but I always pick it back up and move on. Same thing, for warm clothing, I mostly use headgear and the heat stone, it's enough.

For the beginning though, first 5 to 10 days, I really wanna emphasize the exploring part.
Just pick up what you need and move on, just uncover the map, and find your right spot to make a base, considering all aspects.
Make a torch at night and don't stop moving. Just make a fire to cook the food you've gathered when you're about to starve, but keep moving, and uncover the map.
Use the roads and the dirt paths. Finding Chester ideally.

The priorities at this point beside the basic basics (wood, flint, grass, twigs) are gold and rocks. A stack of each is a minimum.
Get about 15-20 charcoal by burning a few trees while you're moving at night. If you find the clockwork guys, kill at least a knight and get a gear or two. And of course learn about the spider nests that you encounter. Draw the spiders out and try to take them out while taking very little risk and avoid getting overrun, as you'll probably be armor-less. You'll learn about this basic enemy and start harvesting some very much needed silk (and eventually spider glands for your first decent healing option). That's where you learn to kite (You can look it up, it just means you work with the enemies' attack timing to dodge their hits consistently).

By day 10, it's best if you've found a spot, and you're already making both science machine and alchemy engine, and prototyping all the more important stuff. My first is always backpack, shovel, and lightning rod. Then...
By this time, you've survived a hound attack already. Now you need gear, weapons and armor.
As a rule, you should never get into combat without armor. Period. Not until you're very good at it, at least

Now I usually also make hammer and bug catching net, and before winter comes at day 21, I have a second phase of exploration where, thanks to the shovel, I try to gather lots of saplings and grass tufts, and maybe berry bushes to plant near my base, close to the lightning rod (important). I usually also plant my own personal forest near there.

During that phase, I look for reeds, more gold, more gears, more silk... I get butterflies, bees, honeycomb, manure, beefalo wool, beefalo horn, some pig skins of course... The list goes on.

Well there are so many things to consider if you wanna survive past your first winter, let alone past 150 days. You really need to learn how to plan ahead for everything, and keep your cool too.
I have a feeling everyone stopped reading this long ago, so I'll just stop trying to cover it all.

Basically, if you like the game, you're really gonna wanna find out about all the different items and what they do, and you'll check out the wiki, which is very helpful.
We all died horribly in various totally unexpected ways a number of times. That's the whole point of the game.
When they added lureplants they screwed me over cos they were new and I didn't know how to deal with them. When they added worms, same thing. You just never know with this game. Can't wait to see what the DLC will be about!

[fritoz]

im just coming up on day 500 with my world 1 wilson!

 

im getting nervous up to day 500, what if i die on day 499!??!!?!?

 

 

yesterday i came up out of the ruins/caves after being in there for over 20 days and when i came out there was Deerclops just about to crush me, so i teleported his butt away!

 

close call!!!!

 

I also like to spend the first days of a new world exploring the whole map, scouting and setting up where i want a base..

 

i like to set up near rabbit holes so i can have a winter source of food when my crops stop growing... preferably close to a cave if at all possible

 

then its all about making crops and beeboxes and crock pots

 

[JABAGGaming]

666 days on Willow.  I don't play that world anymore; it's too perfect.

 Please don't, that game should be recorded in history!

 

Also thank you Yoko for you amazing set of instructions/hints and tips. I read them all the way to the end and learned a fair few things that I hadn't thought about before. If you don't mind I might mention them in our next Don't Starve video and credit you for them of course Just thought it might be a good way to help my noob of a partner in crime

 

Fritoz if you die on 499 days I will be very upset for you. You had better make it to 500!

[the truthseeker]

My thanks also to Lord Battal and Yoko for their amazing tips and accomplishments. As for me having my longest time (in one world with the longest day count without going to another world) I hit 316 when I got distracted by something and lost my game....sorry Wilson. 

 

I might play a vanilla stay-in-one-world-to-see-how-long-I just-can for posterity, but I pretty much tired of several games after 200+ days and deleted them/backed up for the memories and stopped playing them. 

 

 

I won't recap any tips (they all were done very well here) and add:

 

It really helps when to know when to be nomadic and not tether down and when to not explore and focus and build your base structures.

 

When in doubt, make an engine you can go back to and pre-build structures and carried tools and weapons when needed until you find that ideal spot (often Beefalo-near Savannah or Grasslands, but also building near pig villages can work--but whatever works for you the player,) but if you don't find something by day 11, consider compromising before it gets too late to build to prepare for winter. 

[Yoko99]

If you don't mind I might mention them in our next Don't Starve video and credit you for them of course

Of course not, credit's cool. Always appreciated.

I like checking Don't Starve videos on YT, but there's a distinct lack of good LP'ers out there.

Of course, I follow @MrGmview, he's very good at it.

But otherwise not many people currently have good long-lasting series. Sips's was great, but the dummy gave up.

I may do some eventually, I'd like that.

I checked out yours, you guys are pretty fun, I must say. I like how you're all bossy and serious about it, and he's all carefree and stuff. Reminds me of a time I showed the game to a friend of mine.

Good luck on the series, I'll try and watch the rest and hopefully you go from noob to maybe less noob.

 

[JABAGGaming]

 I'll try and watch the rest and hopefully you go from noob to maybe less noob.

 

 

Thank you so much, let us know if you do start recording your own series! Thank you for watching as well, we hope you do enjoy them. I don't know how well we will do at becoming less noob, but we will try our best.

[jlewjlew]

i have said this before in post but i have lived all the way until it start snowing!

 

i died from being chilly

 

its funny and sad?

[Craig_Perry]

i have said this before in post but i have lived all the way until it start snowing!

 

i died from being chilly

 

its funny and sad?

its part of the learning curve, the first winter takes a while for newcomers to survive but when you can survive it the going gets easier, much easier

[the truthseeker]

its part of the learning curve, the first winter takes a while for newcomers to survive but when you can survive it the going gets easier, much easier

Just don't get cocky when you do and forget to prepare for the next winter...that kills the rest of the newer players....and killed me that first time too. 

[Ortorin]

I have only survived to day 134. You see... I have this bad habit of getting in over my head. Let me describe some of my resent deaths to you... I do not remember the day count on them, but it is normally around day 40ish or 70ish I die. (best I have on that, deal with it.)

 

Alright, fist death. Just before winter I was out to harvest the Tier 3 Spider Dens in the forest near my base. I had eight Bunnyman Hutches that were to be the Den's neighbors. I had 6 Dens to go harvest before it got cold.

I grabbed a Dark Sword and Night Armor and ventured into the woods. I approached each den to tease a few spiders out at a time. I would pull the groups of three spiders away from the nest, kill them all without them touching me, and run back in to grab more.

 

It was a spider massacre. I slashed my way through 2 Spider Dens before it started raining. The very first thing that goes through my mind whenever it starts raining is, "Is my surroundings flammable?" If the answer is "yes", then I get my butt out of there.

 

But I wasn't having that with the Spider Dens. I deiced to race the lightning that I knew was coming. I worked into the webbing of the third den and stood my ground. I put on my armor, whipped out my Dark Sword, held down "F" and yelled "KAAAAAAAAHHHHHHNN" Not really. but something like that.

 

I tanked my way through the third and healed up with the dropped Spider Glands. About that time, the lightning struck. I rushed my way up, away from the fire and to the fourth den. I was going to TAKE this one before the fire hit. What I forgot about the mixture of fire and Spider Dens is that once a Spider Den catches on fire, the spiders in that den all jump out. They then aggro onto you if you are hitting any other spiders nearby.

 

Which means that the other spiders from the dens on fire ran up on my flank and bit my ass.

 

This trip would have been on even more epic story if I survived.

 

There's a moral to this story too, don't **** with too many spiders at once, no mater how good you are. xD

 

I'll tell another story some other time.