The wonderfully whimsical misadventures of Willow and Wilson.

[2Flow2]

I stepped out of the portal into the newly-generated wold. I was determined this would be the world where we would survive through Winter and get the end-game items. I immedietly spied some saplings to the right and ran over to trip it of its twigs. My first priority was to find a savannah and a herd of Beefalo, so since I was already headed to the east I continued in that direction while looting every berry bush, sapling and tuft of grass I saw.

 

After a few moments, my companion Wilson joined the server. I was playing as Willow, and my friend and I had already done a couple LAN servers before this one, but had died since I was a tad bit out of practice from the game and those had been my friend's first time playing. But now he had two worlds of expierience under his belt, and I had brushed up on my Don't Starve strats, so we were ready to win.

 

"Which direction did you go?", Wilson asked.

"I'm heading kinda north-east" I replied, picking some more berries. We were in a biome of bright green grass, flowers, bees, and berries. The perfect place to be when starting a new game. I continued to forge ahead, with Wilson following a ways behind, both of us having our eyes peeled for a savannah. However, finding one wasn't as easy as we thoguht.

 

We walked all day and collected a heck of a lot of basic resources, but we had yet to see a savannah. "I'll set up a campfire over here" I told Wilson, just come meet me here. We stood out the night next to our campfire, gorging ourselves on the over-abundant amount of berries we had picked (some number over 20). When the next day arrived, we continued our search for a savannah.

 

"Hey look! A savannah!" said Wilson about halfway through the day. "...and it's the world's smallest one." I walked over where he was a saw just a few squares of savannah grass, hardly enough to spawn even a single beefalo. Later in the day we found a slightly larger savannah, but unfortunatly it had no beefalo in it. We camped for the night and repeated the process of cooking and eating the berries we had picked. We were a bit discouraged that we had not found any beefalo to set up a base near yet.

 

We spent the next day hunting around in unexplored area yet again. At some point, we found a worm hole which we decided to jump through since we had explored almost everywhere on this side of the map. Soon after, we found few pig houses and a huge Pig King.

"This might be a good place to have our base if we don't find beefalo soon", I said.

"Yeah, but lets keep looking a little bit first" said Wilson. We kept filling in the dark areas of our map until night once again fell and we still hadn't found any beefalo. This was getting ridiculous. We were too far away from the Pig King to go back, it would be more logical just to keep exploring forward. Odds were that with the huge amount of the map that we had filled in so far, we had to be close to finding a savannah.

 

It was day four and we still hadn't set up a permanent camp. This was not going as well as I had imagined it would. We spent the day looking for beefalo, but instead I found the greatest discovery ever.

"Eyebone!" I called out. I sprinted over to the eybone and picked up, elated at what it would bring. It wasn't long until I heard the sound of bouncing, and my favorite mob Chester bounded up next to me. I had had Chester on nearly all of my single-player worlds, and I LOVED having him.

"No fair" Wilson grumbled, you always find everything.

Chester and I continued searching for beefalo until the end of the evening, where we rendezvoused with Wilson and waited out the night. Besides finding Chester, things were going awfully. We still had plenty of berries but day 5 was approaching and we still hadn't found a sinlge beefalo.

 

There was hardly any map left to explore. As the morning came, Wilson and I both headed toward the one area that was still dark on the map. After another half-day of exploring, I found the most exciting thing on this server next to Chester.

"Savannah!" I yelled, "This is the one with beefalo, I can feel it!" Wislon rushed over to where I was and we both headed into the savannah to find beefalo. This biome was huge. It was bigger than any other biome we had encountered so far. The odds of us not finding beefalo here were very slim.

 

There must have been something wrong with my feelers. We scoured the entire savannah but found not a single beefalo. Not even a measly piece of dung. Night came, and we could feel that this was the end. I looked at my extensive map, and could find no place unexplored. We had gone from coast to coast to coast. The entire map done with and not a single beefalo.

 

"I'm getting pretty bored," said my friend.

"How about this" I said in desperation, "I make a new world, and if we don't find beefalo within the first ten minutes we'll quit." I really had been looking forward to making it to end-game on a server, and I didn't want to give up now.

"Fine. I'll give it 2 days," said Wilson. "This time, set the beefalo spawn to 'lots' on the server."

"Okay. The only reason I didn't give up on this server sooner was because I found Chester," I admitted. "I've never seen a world so devoid of beefalo." As the morning of day six arrived, I opened up the pause menu and chose to turn off the server. It looks like my dreams of end-game adventures might never happen.

 

Coming soon, Part 2! We find beefalo (sorta) but Don't Starve proves it can mess with us as much as it wants first!

[Michi01]

You shouldn't start a new world just because you can't find
beefalos. Just feed pigs with flower petals/carrots/berries
and they'll poop.

[BeastNips]

I agree, Beefalo are very useful but not essential. Generally I don't use poop for anything since I use the spider/birdcage/trap method for food, but Beefalo are an awesome defence! Much better than pigs in my experience.

It sounds like a slightly bugged spawn to be honest, if there are actually NO Beefalo. If you're positive this is the case, I'd consider spawning know a mating pair. This might feel a bit cheaty, but if your map really doesn't contain ANY Beefalo (be sure about this first) then I don't see using a console command to fix a glitch as a major gamebreaking cheat.

Up to you mate! Cheers for reading.

[T4T3RGR3NAD3R]

You shouldn't start a new world just because you can't find

beefalos. Just feed pigs with flower petals/carrots/berries

and they'll poop.

 

The wool is important if you want to go beyond earmuffs and a breezy vest.

[MenaAthena]

I completely understand. I always make my bace a few screens away from beefalo and next to a bunch of rabbit holes. A road too if I'm lucky. That poop is just too darn useful.

[Michi01]

The wool is important if you want to go beyond earmuffs and a breezy vest.

Thats true, but you can still survive winter without them.
I'm a bit bewildered tough, how can you explore a whole map
(maps are even bigger in DST) before winter starts?
I also never had a world without beefalos.

[BeastNips]

 

I also never had a world without beefalos.

 

Don't quote me on this as I only remember the topic vaguely:

 

Apparently single player maps could spawn in a funny way that left parts of the map inaccessible, which could be solved by setting Loop:Never and Branch:Most. Apparently this happened in certain players' worlds and it left certain resources like Beefalo and the Pig King out of reach.

 

This could have been a mistake or a hoax, or even me remembering the topic wrong, so I suggest researching it yourself.

[Passive]

Don't quote me on this as I only remember the topic vaguely:

 

Apparently single player maps could spawn in a funny way that left parts of the map inaccessible, which could be solved by setting Loop:Never and Branch:Most. Apparently this happened in certain players' worlds and it left certain resources like Beefalo and the Pig King out of reach.

 

This could have been a mistake or a hoax, or even me remembering the topic wrong, so I suggest researching it yourself.

I have played where important things have been on n island only accessible through wormholes, so wouldn't be surprised if some were completely inaccessible.