_-_ Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Ive been playing with my friend and every time we get to winter we survive until the hounds come and then they kill us. What resources should i gather before winter comes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeichMan Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 When I play with friends we usually spend the first few days looking for a general area that has both spiders and beefalo in it (beefalos for the manure and protection from hounds and spiders for silk, monster meat and some spider glands). Before settling down we also look for at least 8 reeds (for a bird cage), some gold (for science machine/alchemy engine/bird cage/lightning rods) and the other regular resources. After settling down we make sure to plant trees, a few berry bushes, saplings etc' around our base, and from this point on start stockpiling food and warm clothing. For warm clothing you can shave beefalos and collect silk to make winter hats, hunt koalefants for their trunks and make vests, and have thermal stones during the winter; for food we build 5-7 drying racks and dry lots of jerky, create a bird cage to turn monster meat into eggs, develop 4-8 advanced farms for some higher quality vegetables and try to get a dragonfruit. If we're lucky enough to get dragonfruit, we feed it to the bird to get dragonfruit seeds and start growing as many of them as we can so we can make dragonpies in winter. Some other nice things can be setting up bee hives (so we can use the honey for honey ham/taffy), getting some gears for fridges and collecting lots of silk for extra warm clothes, top hats for sanity and tents for sanity and health. The best crockpot recipes are probably meatballs if you need pure hunger (e.g after sleeping in a tent) and bacon&eggs, honey ham and dragonpie as your all-around needs. Regarding the hounds: if you have a fighting character and some weapons and armor (like Wigfrid with her battle helm/spear), you can actually fight off the first hound wave. If this is not a possibility your best option is to find a beefalo herd or pig village and run to them when the hounds come (pigs are mode difficult because they are in their houses at night and turn into werepigs on full moons), kiting around them and waiting for the hounds to attack them. It works with later waves too, until at some point you will want to build a field of tooth traps and take the hounds there instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumina Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Beefalo wool (shave it) and silk : winter hat, useful in winter. Log armor for fighting the hounds. Food, since there are less source of food in winter. Log or charcoal for the long nights. A tent could be useful for sanity but will make you hungrier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absimiliard Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Birdcage + crock-pot + spiders + seeds = survival. Let me explicate: Spiders give Monster Meat (MM) and silk. Cooked MM can be fed to a caged bird to get eggs. Silks can be made into bird-traps, with seeds you get birds. Live birds cooked on a fire = cooked morsel. 2 eggs + 1 MM + 1 cooked morsel = bacon & eggs. Bacon & eggs can keep you alive through the entire winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyromailmann Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 You will probably want a beefalo hat and if you play as Wilson, a full beard.I'd also recommend a thermal stone. And if you don't adventure out during winter, stay by the fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PandaWaffles Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Birdcage + crock-pot + spiders + seeds = survival. Can confirm, this is a great way to survive the winter. But usually, I end up running out of seeds before winter ends. Either hunt rabbits for morsels or create meatballs instead with the recipe: 3 eggs + 1 monster meat = Meatballs If you're good on food and only need to stay warm, I find that a winter hat (4 silk + 4 beefalo wool) plus thermal stone combination is cheap and usually sufficient. For your hound attacks, running into a pig village (during the day) will probably kill off the hounds. Crafting a spear + log suit before the hounds arrive should be enough to survive the attack though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
applebottom Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Ive been playing with my friend and every time we get to winter we survive until the hounds come and then they kill us. What resources should i gather before winter comes? Lots of helpful replies on supplies already. For the hounds, a logsuit and spear should be okay. If you're both on camp, stay together, as soon as the first hound spawns, you should both whack it with your weapons, even if it isn't going for you. The hound should go down fairly quickly before the next one even shows up. The trick is to gang up on them and kill them as soon as they spawn. This way, you won't have 2-3 hounds attacking each player all at once and stunlocking you. If you found some hound's tooth before winter though, turn them into traps and place them somewhere near camp where you can lead the hounds to whittle them further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rokin Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 - 1 spider den near your base + trap = infinite meat.- 1 meat + 3 ice in a crockpot = meatball. food problem solved For the winter, thermal stone (+ winter hat if you can)For the hounds : log suit + spear and spam "F" key. no kitting needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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