Anyone got tips on surviving the seasons?

[SammyTheDankEngine]

I've started playing with a friend on DST and all was going well until I hit summer. we just overheated and just  had too much trouble surviving so we just left it there for a while. Has anyone got any tips for each season?

[talmatityaho]

here are my tips! =)

autumn-  the easiest season, no need for preparing

winter- just make a thermal stone and some bunny ear muffs for every player and you'll be fine. you should collect twigs and grass cus the don't grow back and get a lot of food, meatballs are the best.

spring- get a rain hat and an umbrella, if your base is in a savanna make a ton of farms or go to frogs. I'd suggest to make some more lightning rods =).

summer- make some flingomatics and an ice cube for your head, good to make jurkeys in summer, they dry fast. might as well make a thermal fire pit near the regular.

and that's it! the wiki has a ton of information and I'd recommend you checking it. 

 

 

[XirmiX]

I was writing you a bunch of information about each season, but I lost my internet connection and so when I posted the text, it just went away, so what I'll do is write you about Summer, since that is the season that gave you trouble:

For summer you need things prepared already, things like straw hats, umbrellas, summer frests, all of whivh have protection from summer heat. Endothermic fires and endothermic firepits are quite crucial; they are cold fires that keep you cool during summer. You can also usr thermal stones by cooling them down either by putting them near the endothermic fires, putting the stones in ice boxes or in a snow chester if you evolved chester to that. I can also recommend using fassion melon, which does make your wetness go up, but it caps at 33, which means you won't soak unless it caps and then it starts raining. Now, remember that fassion melon does prevent you from overheating for a very long time, but not forever. It is also easy to make, but has short durability, so farm watermelons a bunch prior in Spring and keep farming them during Summer to be able to make the fassion melons again. Fassion melon also has a small insanity aura, but that can be evened out by wearing a summer frest and even better by wearing a floral shirt, which requires you to pick cactus during Summer for cactus flowers. Now, you can also eat ice and ice related foods to cool you down. Melon sickle requires 1 stick, 2 ice and 1 watermelon to make in a crock pot. But just make sure you don't over do it else you'll start freezing in summer! In terms of protecting your base, you'll need to either get waterballoons, which aren't actually that common to have unless you spend ages fighting mosquitos in swamps for mosquito sacks and mining ice a bunch. Though, mining ice a bunch would need to be done anyway before summer comes (as during summer ice is scarce or nonexistant), reason being that you can eat ice to cool off and you'll need ice to make ice flingomatics. Now, they also require a bunch of gears so stack up on those as well. Make the ice flingomatics cover your entire base so that nothing burns down due to wild fires of Summer. Just make sure that they cover everything except firepits because if yoy fuel firepits, ice flingomstics will extinguish them as well. If you accidentally do that however, then make sure that during dusk you switch off all the flingomstics that cover the firepits and switch them on back during the day as wild fires only appear during the day in DST (in DS it still happens during dusk and night though). Remember to fuel the ice flingomatics with wood or whatever you have abundance of. Also I should mention that Ice cube sucks for Summer protection as it just makes you totally soaking wet in seconds, so don't make that and don't use it.

[Auth]

Autumn: Don't sweat most anything, but prepare warm clothes for winter.

Winter: Nothing much, again. Make sure you have food and resources such as grass and twigs in surplus. Now is the best time to mine as much ice as you can, and ignore pengulls.

Spring: Hopefully, you killed the deerclops and have an eyebrella, and should have enough silk and hound teeth to maintain it the entire season. Mine boulders with nitre and prepare cooling clothing. Use the ice you have to make flingomatics for your base.

Summer: Like winter, but more annoying. Make sure you huddle by your endothermic fire and that your flingos tend to everything. Exploring is not recommended in this season. Prepare Armor and Weapons for Bearger next autumn as he tends to spawn quite early, and you don't want him going into hibernation.

[The Letter W]

Starting in Autumn, get your base down as soon as you can, as this will allow you to start stockpiling for Winter. Ideally, you'll have located Spiders and Beefalo, as both are pretty crucial to surviving Winter. Get your silk and your wool, as both are required for Winter clothing. If anyone is a Wilson player, don't shave off that beard, it counts as insulation! If you can, I'd also suggest popping up a few jerky racks, but those aren't absolutely necessary.

 

Winter will be your chance to start stockpiling Ice, as the Glaciers are biggest in this season. However, if you don't have a fridge, they'll simply melt (they last forever in a fridge.) Things will grow slower in Winter (ie. Twigs, Berry Bushes) so it's generally a good idea to have a fairly good stockpile of basic supplies before the season starts. If you see Mushrooms, pick 'em (note: DO NOT DIG) and fridge 'em. They make excellent crockpot filler as jack all else will be growing.

 

Spring is the season of rain, lots of rain. It's excellent for your crops, as the surplus of rain causes them to grow faster. Got a birdcage? You can tinker around and grow what you want. Dragonfruits, Pumpkins, and Watermelons are the most useful in my opinion. Spring also brings a second kind of rain, in which the precipitation is replaced by frogs. Your best bet is either lots of traps, or being able to beeline it to the nearest Beefalo herd. Providing you have collected Gears, you'll be able to build Fling-O-Matics which ensure your base won't burn down in Summer. Some useful gear you can make includes the Eyebrella (requires Deerclops eye), the Fashion Melon, or the Ice Cube. I also suggest getting a good supply of Nitre and in the very least, prototyping the campfire version as well as setting the pit in your base.

 

Still with me? Good. Everything burns in Summer. Trees burn, Pigs burn, Spiders burn, the world. However, things will only burn if a player is close to them. One thing you can do is make sure you have a stack of Nitre and a stack of grass on you at all times, as both are needed to make an Endothermic campfire. As the days are long, people tend to want to wander far, only get caught ablaze. You don't need to huddle in your camp to survive, as just like in Winter, you merely need to carry a way to control your temperature. Another tip I can give is if there's a path you often take, you can plant trees along it. Trees offer shade, which can save you in a pinch. Cactus Flowers are only available in this season and if you have the rest of the supplies, the Floral Shirt isn't a bad idea.

 

That's about all I got for year-round surviving.

[RalphKastro]

basicly, Don't Starve...


*runs from flying tomatoes*

[SammyTheDankEngine]

Thank you for all the replies!

[ButterStuffed]

Chilled Amulet

*Drops Mic*

Seriously though why is it nobody uses this, it can't be that bad not using a backpack

[TheKingofSquirrels]

Just put in some bullshit command like Syph and jsut cheat through everything.

[ButterStuffed]

Just put in some bullshit command like Syph and jsut cheat through everything.

Dude.

Don't...

[Syph]

Chilled Amulet

*Drops Mic*

Seriously though why is it nobody uses this, it can't be that bad not using a backpack

 

Because thermal stone is super useful there is no need to use anything else. Pop that sucker in the fridge next to your endo pit and cook some food. Then bam! you are off on your next adventure

[absimiliard]

Chilled Amulet

*Drops Mic*

Seriously though why is it nobody uses this, it can't be that bad not using a backpack

 

Actually, I think it's a combination of "OMG no backpack?!?!??" and that many people in DST don't do very much with magic at all.  It's pretty rare for me to see even a Prestihatitator on my servers, mostly it's science machines and a few (or maybe just one if it's a single-base kind of world) alchemy engines.

 

So I suspect most DST players don't know how to make a chilled amulet, and even if they found one probably wouldn't wear it since it uses the backpack slot.

 

(much less are they likely to know to swap it on/off rapidly)

[Auth]

Chilled Amulet

*Drops Mic*

Seriously though why is it nobody uses this, it can't be that bad not using a backpack

 

The chilled amulet breaks quite easily. In fact, it's main purpose is to freeze whatever hits you (Which I love). It just turned out to be really good for summer, so that was a nice side effect.