Cold Reception Tips

[Karnkate]

This time, yay, I did not land with King of Winter but I'm having trouble maintaining my hunger and sanity level.

Any advice on resource management in this chapter?

[Isosurface]

Beefalo is the best source of food imo, and warmth too.

 

I wear footballers helm all the time so sanity is quite a problem for me. I usually spend a good amount picking flowers and wrestling the shadow monsters.

[lynlynlora]

traps.  all the traps. just, so many traps. a cold reception will have frog rains, so trap them. frogs are jerks, so just get close enough that it attacks you and you can easily lead them into your traps.  one trap will get eight frogs before it breaks.  for sanity issues, build some drying racks and make the frog legs into jerky. because of the frog rains hunger shouldn't be a major issue.  If you get really lucky, try to run to beefalo when a frog rain starts, then when the beefalo go into mating season, it will start a frog and beefalo war, and there will be food EVERYWHERE.

 

[the truthseeker]

traps.  all the traps. just, so many traps. a cold reception will have frog rains, so trap them. frogs are jerks, so just get close enough that it attacks you and you can easily lead them into your traps.  one trap will get eight frogs before it breaks.  for sanity issues, build some drying racks and make the frog legs into jerky. because of the frog rains hunger shouldn't be a major issue.  If you get really lucky, try to run to beefalo when a frog rain starts, then when the beefalo go into mating season, it will start a frog and beefalo war, and there will be food EVERYWHERE.

Also, try building near guardian pigs. They will kill off any excess frogs you simply can't trap and kill yourself.

When ready, you can football helmet them and kill them off for their meat and hammer the torches to manageable respawn levels. Just don't try any of this during a full moon.

 

 

If you find enough spider nests, a tent really helps sanity also. Else, just always have armor and a weapon ready if you cannot help it when you go insane. (At least you can slowly but surely get nightmare fuel for the Shadow manipulator.)

 

And finally, make that base before day seven so you have a place to make your camp for summer/winter and dry all that meat you got into jerky. By the time fall/spring rolls around, repeat for meat. Planting trees by your (endothermic)fire pit really helps both spring and summer.  

[Karnkate]

So, unlike the Darkness chapter that I stumbled onto in Youtube, I should not 'race against time' in any other chapter, and 'survive' the game like what I do in the sandbox mode plus a little of resources preparation?

[Mobbstar]

So, unlike the Darkness chapter that I stumbled onto in Youtube, I should not 'race against time' in any other chapter, and 'survive' the game like what I do in the sandbox mode plus a little of resources preparation?

 

You should usually not rush it, but neither settle in too much, since it will be very difficult to survive that way.

I would give a more in-depth reply, but I have no clue what I'm talking about. I never lived past day 1-5.

[the truthseeker]

While you think the main problem of the world is its constant rain, the real problem of the world is it has one third the length of a total normal day, meaning a 7-day seasonal cycle. So (in the classic game,) you survive constant rains (doubly worse for WX-78) and BAM, winter hits you!  You somehow survive that and BAM it's raining (frogs) again in Summer!

 

 

Now, with RoG, it's a whole lot worse. You still start with Spring rains (and frogs,) but also have to deal with Wetness (and Cold/Insanity from it.) Plus now, you have to deal with Summer next! Then a 7 day Fall, and-of course-Winter.

 

The final icing on the horrible cake you must eat in "A Cold Reception," is (like many of the potential first three starting Adventure Worlds most often) there is always one resource you are short on, such as grass, twigs, flint, etc.

 

• Flint: Flint does not lie on the ground and most of rocks are replaced by the ones that don't drop flint.
• Wood: Evergreens are replaced by spiky trees or lumpy evergreens.
• Grass: Most of the grass is picked and needs fertilizing
• Twigs: Saplings are replaced with spiky bushes.

 

 

Your starting area will have a little more, but notice what's missing and don't stop until you find the part of the world that has more or find ways for you to resolve it. (For instance, if the starting item happens to be grass, grass is almost all un-growing like it was transplanted and still unfertilized, Look for the Beefalo and collect manure to refresh the grass near where you plan to stay.

In this situation, the grass was not transplanted, and should permanently regrow. burt normal transplanting rules apply if you dig it up before or after.)  

 

The only ray of sunshine in this is (assuming you learn to manage the seasons and build the right equipment,) Giant farming is much easier due to the short seasons. People who need to make prototypes of the specialty items dropped from Giants can easily farm them here, (or quickly wait until the next cycle if a Giant is a no-show or cannot defeat them then.) but this is highly not recommended for beginning players (and possibly for veteran players of this is the first world.) as you will be mitigating sanity (and possibly health between lightning strikes if WX) a lot while you establish your first base. 

 

 

Let me know if you have any further questions, keep sane, and don't freeze! 

[Karnkate]

I'm almost dead from starvation+insanity combo alreadyyyy ._.

[lynlynlora]

I'm almost dead from starvation+insanity combo alreadyyyy ._.

 

good luck man.  trap more frogs, and pick flowers if you need them for a quick sanity boost.  just make sure if you pick a lot of flowers to occasionally catch butterflies and plant new ones.  you can pick flowers to extinction, I believe. or at least, I've come close before with over picking.

[the truthseeker]

The trick is to run like you're in darkness, but your goal is to find gold first besides Things as in building a Science Machine ASAP. Like Wigfrid crockpot fast.but building that  and an umbrella. The prototyping new items even if you drop them there will help, but if you can build an Alchemy machine, you can build a tent (and we know there are always spiders in that world.) Now, if you settle down on day 6 or later, you shift into summer mode instead staying very near your endothermic camp and fling o matic. This is why it's important you trap frogs as they will be your food for the week, preferably meatballs once a day for seven days until it is Autumn where you can easily prepare for winter. Once you have that crock pot umbrella and tent, you can safely go for Things remembering it's a 7-day season. You also can hunt Giants eventually and get the Giant items for things like the Eyebrella and Insulated backpack for example. Dragonfly Scales are up to you; there is no shame in not being good enough to hunt it without a load of allies or not at all.