Several Tips for Noobs (Especially for Wigfrid)

[Wiigfrid]

 

1. It is better to look over whole the map before you settle down

 

2. Try to settle down on closer to the middle of the map

 

3. Make sure there are at least two worm wholes near your base camp, since it saves your time to explore

(In RoG, it is hard to explore during summer and winter for long time, unless you are heavily prepared)

 

4. Desert is quite a fine place to settle down because you can easily catch rabbits for meat.

 

5. Ponds or swamp need to be not so far away from your base camp, because when rabbit wholes are collapsed after heavy rains, it will be one of your insurance to be alive.

(You can go on fishing)

 

6. It is not essential but if the pig king is near by, it will ease your trouble gathering golds.

[JustA4ever]

 

4. Desert is quite a fine place to settle down because you can easily catch rabbits for meat.

 

desert is one of the deadliest places to settle down: there are a lot of hounds!

I bet you meant savana

[Battal]

1: I wouldn't say the whole map; any safe spot near a resource like beefalos would do fine.

 

2: Why close to the middle of the map?  How does that benefit at all?

 

3: It's not really very important, but it helps I suppose, so long as you have sanity gear.

 

4: ...Not exactly. 

 

5: Having a swamp nearby is a benefit, but it's also dangerous considering all the merms and spiders and mosquitos.  A wormhole to one near your base is far safer and efficient.

 

6: Yes.

[greggbert]

2: Why close to the middle of the map?  How does that benefit at all?

 

 

Less time to travel to the places you need to go.  Later in the game you will have to make trips to the different biomes for different ingredients or goals.  Having your base on one edge of the map is extremely annoying.

[Smithy17]

I find the middle of the map extremely annoying! Especially when two things you need are in opposite directions. I like to settle down in the grass biome with quick access to the desert and a wormhole nearby to the pig king and caves is desirable but not necessary.

Setting up near a swamp isn't that ideal in my opinion. Only thing of use there is reeds and you can spend 1 day and travel to the swamp and collect 30-40 reeds and with my style 40 reeds will last 100 days lol.

Ponds are useful. Honestly though who fishes? Haha. Jokes I do.. Only in the ruins though. Fish sticks in the ruins are my lifesaver.

I also like a wormhole to the walrus camp but this never happens for me

[Decelexevi]

Set up by the pig king. Always a nearby sinkhole, pig houses and a glommer statue. Can't preach that strongly enough. Just hope that your world isn't poorly distributed and that the swamps aren't too far away. 

[XirmiX]

 

 

1. It is better to look over whole the map before you settle down

 

2. Try to settle down on closer to the middle of the map

 

3. Make sure there are at least two worm wholes near your base camp, since it saves your time to explore

(In RoG, it is hard to explore during summer and winter for long time, unless you are heavily prepared)

 

4. Desert is quite a fine place to settle down because you can easily catch rabbits for meat.

 

5. Ponds or swamp need to be not so far away from your base camp, because when rabbit wholes are collapsed after heavy rains, it will be one of your insurance to be alive.

(You can go on fishing)

 

6. It is not essential but if the pig king is near by, it will ease your trouble gathering golds.

 

1) Not really. It's best to settle down near the point where you spawned, cause that'll probably be the middle of your map.

2) Exactly.

3) May be. World gen is quite random with that.

4) Not desert, Savanna! It sounds like you don't even have RoG

5) Beefalos are actually better than Rabbits or anything else as source of food, because with their manure you can make farms to grow veg and fruits and you can kill them for meat and making Winter clothing stuff with their wool!

6) You might not have Pig king in your world anyway. But it's best not to have him too far away, same with Glommer statue.

[the truthseeker]

Oh for the love of Pete of you have Reign of Giants do NOT settle down in the Desert!

Savannah Savannah Savannah!

 

Actually it's best to settle down (for newbies) near the "grasslands," the green starting zone type biome you are in that has grasses, trees, saplings, berry bushes, etc. Once you become more adept with transplanting, you can settle down near (but not too near due to in Heat) Beefalo which live in yep, Savannah! And when rabbit holes are flooded over, that's why you have a ton of natural or transplanted berry bushes and other farmed items, if not close to beefalo to hunt and eat. Ponds and swamp are moderate to advanced players due to swarming enemies in both. And ponds don't provide food in winter even if there are no frogs.  

 

Wormholes are not important as much for (new players to) settle near a touchstone. However, it's still recommended to make a meat effigy ASAP. if worried about hounds when starting out, settle near Beefalo or pigs (if not Webber.) 

 

Finally, the Pig King may not show up in certain seasons or has a 25% chance of not spawning at all. better to find gold quarries first, caves second, and the Pig King third...possibly a teleportato if you REALLy need one, but you can't build roots if you plan on starting over just to get "easy gold" that way and got the bad 25% chance. 

 

but if playing reign of giants, many of these things CAN be sometimes found in Tumbleweeds which DO respawn. 

[Celicni]

 

 

1. It is better to look over whole the map before you settle down

 

2. Try to settle down on closer to the middle of the map

 

3. Make sure there are at least two worm wholes near your base camp, since it saves your time to explore

(In RoG, it is hard to explore during summer and winter for long time, unless you are heavily prepared)

 

4. Desert is quite a fine place to settle down because you can easily catch rabbits for meat.

 

5. Ponds or swamp need to be not so far away from your base camp, because when rabbit wholes are collapsed after heavy rains, it will be one of your insurance to be alive.

(You can go on fishing)

 

6. It is not essential but if the pig king is near by, it will ease your trouble gathering golds.

 

1. Nope. If you search the whole map you'll run out of storage space soon. And also you can just do a

GetWorld().minimap.MiniMap:ShowArea(0,0,0,10000)

to know where the stuff is. Just get 1 gold and settle near beefalo is what seems the most optimal to me.

2. I see no reason to do this.

3. Never use those, winter is easy to explore through with puffy vest/beefalo hat/thermal stone (all easily obtainable if you followed step 1 and went near beefalo) and in summer...well I go out of the camp in summer anyway cause I don't want it all burning down.

4. Nope.

5. I never kill the poor little bunnies. Farms are enough. Though I guess you do have a point for wigfrid. And I never fish, but then again, wigfrid.

6. Rock biome is also easy to get gold in, just destroy the golden rocks. 

[Barbarian]

6. Rock biome is also easy to get gold in, just destroy the golden rocks. 

 

The point for Wigfrid though, is that she uses gold to craft her helmet and spear, so it's easy to run low as time goes on - it's happened to me.

[the truthseeker]

The point for Wigfrid though, is that she uses gold to craft her helmet and spear, so it's easy to run low as time goes on - it's happened to me.

I can't believe with Wigfrid I missed the reference until right now...2:14

Is she hunting jackalopes wabbits?

[NikMik]

desert is one of the deadliest places to settle down: there are a lot of hounds!

I bet you meant savana

I agree with deserts being a good place to settle down. Rocks, hounds aren't too difficult with just a log suit and spear, renewable gems and hounds teeth, cacti are amazing, if there's a savanna nearby, plenty of rabbits not too far away. I always make my base in deserts - usually in the border between desert and savanna.

[Barbarian]

I can't believe with Wigfrid I missed the reference until right now...2:14

Is she hunting jackalopes wabbits?

Thanks for that link, I love that cartoon.

[Ringmaster]

If you're new you should be playing in the default game, not with the DLC.

[the truthseeker]

If you're new you should be playing in the default game, not with the DLC.

Some new players bought the entire bundle so it's all new to them. I expect when DST comes out the same thing will happen. But if newbies are in the middle of their learning curve with just the vanilla game, I'd recommend they master the basic game first before RoG as seasons/crock pot and drying rack food and animal death and decay are more difficult if you don't have basic fundamentals mastered first.

 

 If they learn it all at once, it is likely they would learn it all in the same pacing. (It's just learning one thing and immediately starting RoG then throwing out 25% of what you learned due to  updated rules would be counter-productive.)  

[Celicni]

 If they learn it all at once, it is likely they would learn it all in the same pacing. (It's just learning one thing and immediately starting RoG then throwing out 25% of what you learned due to  updated rules would be counter-productive.)  

I'd recommend to play vanilla first instead of rog, because if they're dying like crazy they can't even learn the 25% that's new. 

[the truthseeker]

I'd recommend to play vanilla first instead of rog, because if they're dying like crazy they can't even learn the 25% that's new. 

Funny, when I started with (now) vanilla, I was dying like crazy. Can they die...crazier? 

[StayUpThere]

I agree with some points made but I play as Wigfrid and I have to disagree with alot of what was said. I barely ever use rabbits or go fishing to obtain food (pretty much never). I usually use monster meat and other stuff like berries to make meatballs. It is rather easy if you just farm spider nests. That would be my main source of food. Another way I gather food is killing merms they drop fish and frogs legs which can be dried and made into jerky if you need sanity or other food ingredients. I believe Wigfrid is more about killing to obtain food because she gains sanity and hp from doing so. 

[the truthseeker]

I agree with some points made but I play as Wigfrid and I have to disagree with alot of what was said. I barely ever use rabbits or go fishing to obtain food (pretty much never). I usually use monster meat and other stuff like berries to make meatballs. It is rather easy if you just farm spider nests. That would be my main source of food. Another way I gather food is killing merms they drop fish and frogs legs which can be dried and made into jerky if you need sanity or other food ingredients. I believe Wigfrid is more about killing to obtain food because she gains sanity and hp from doing so. 

Yep. Was using the meaball theory myself...and since sanity is not an issue with killing the method of constantly gaining, other items are not as needed to stockpile. That said, the small jerky (rabbits, fish frog's legs, etc) becomes an acceptable method of partial sanity regen without sleeping when needing a combat break (of course-until late game-all of this meat and sanity from combat is offset by the weapon durability costs and replacing unless you use a ham bat which now has diminishing returns the further along it decays.)