TwigsAndSticks Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Howdy! Let's discuss this. What do you do in the first second that you start a new game of Don't Starve? (Put it down below I want to know!) Let's take this step by step! This will be 2 parts each topic. Step 1. You want to gather as much flint, twigs, and grass as possible. "But Twig! I can do that later! I can chop lots of wood and mine tons of rocks now! I can pick a few twigs and grass along the way!" And that my friend, is where you are wrong. Twigs and grass are very important. Both resources are used regularly. "But!" No but's. It doesn't matter who you are. Picking up flint in the early game phase is also important. Flint is used for tools. Tools are what you use all the time. Always mine gold veins. (Gold Rocks) The gold will be used also. When you get a chance to make a tier 1 science machine, make it. "Twig you idiot! It's a waste of resources! I want to conserve my resources!" Again. Wrong. Tier 1 science machine can be made with 1 gold, 4 logs, and 4 rocks. How many rocks, gold, and wood do you have? "Uhm.... over 30 logs, 57 rocks, and 19 gold." (Raises eyebrows) Like I said. Step 2. Base placement Placing your base is the most important part of the game. You probably should wait until about day 8 or 11. Unless you are absolutely sure. I usually place mine near a pig village. (Or an OK distance) But most of the times I hammer down pig houses and place them at my camp. Most times I also place mine near or at a savanna. This way I have a infinite amount of bunnies and morsels. Heck, you could probably live off of bunnies. That was just my preferred placements. If you want to share about your bases put pictures or just describe it! Next part of this guide series: First Meat and Base Setup Thanks for reading! Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/69210-dont-starve-guide-first-few-days-by-twigsandsticks/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKingDedede Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Circle the edges of the map so you can get an outline of your world. This often helps me in the decision making process of where to place my base. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/69210-dont-starve-guide-first-few-days-by-twigsandsticks/#findComment-797900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwigsAndSticks Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 Thanks. I forgot about that part. Keep exploring. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/69210-dont-starve-guide-first-few-days-by-twigsandsticks/#findComment-797905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altehaus Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 A good rule of thumb that has worked for me when base building is making them only on Chess setpieces, because not only it gives me sense of purpose and determination when exploring, but also Lureplants can't grow on their flooring. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/69210-dont-starve-guide-first-few-days-by-twigsandsticks/#findComment-797909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunko64 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I usually try to set up somewhere that has resources or food sources I can't move to a different location (tallbird nests, hound mounds, pig king and pig torches all being high value in deciding where to put my base). Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/69210-dont-starve-guide-first-few-days-by-twigsandsticks/#findComment-798215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ispin69 Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 Yeah pretty standard that you're spawned it a biome that always has twigs, flint and grass so you can make tools. Most always do the axe first because it only needs one flint/one twig - you need some wood to make the simple fire. Second people do the pick axe so they can mine rocks, but I only do this if I find the rocky biome or see tons of rocks. Otherwise I go for the shovel. Why just pick grass/saplings/berry bushes when you can dig them up for later for your base? Might as well and it would only take 3 slots. Once I get 12 grass, I make the backpack so I have more slots immediately and be able to pick up way more things. Make a small fire for the night, cook carrots/berries. Keep exploring. Looking for gold to make a science machine (or alchemy if wickerbottom) and gears (icebox/flingomatic) so I can start a base. Then I plant the grass tufts/saplings/berry bushes. When choosing a base, I want to be outside of a pig village or one biome over. I want to be near a swamp to collect green caps, free items from spiders fighting tentacles (monster meat, spider glands, tentacle spikes) as well as merms fighting tentacles (fish/frog legs). I can also lead giant monsters there to get destroyed by tentacles. I was lucky enough in my recent play to be on the outskirts of a pig king village that is right next to the swamp and desert with beefalo. After settling down a bit, I would go for a second run on grass tufts/saplins/berry bushes. I would want a farm of at least a 80-100 of each and spead them into 3 mixed sections so if one burned down I wouldn't lose ALL of my farming. I'd make the lightning rod and flingomatics somewhat overlapping as well as one flingomatic for my chests/alchemy engine but just out of range of my fires/endothermic fire. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/69210-dont-starve-guide-first-few-days-by-twigsandsticks/#findComment-798715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwigsAndSticks Posted August 3, 2016 Author Share Posted August 3, 2016 On 7/30/2016 at 7:35 PM, Ispin69 said: Yeah pretty standard that you're spawned it a biome that always has twigs, flint and grass so you can make tools. Most always do the axe first because it only needs one flint/one twig - you need some wood to make the simple fire. Second people do the pick axe so they can mine rocks, but I only do this if I find the rocky biome or see tons of rocks. Otherwise I go for the shovel. Why just pick grass/saplings/berry bushes when you can dig them up for later for your base? Might as well and it would only take 3 slots. Once I get 12 grass, I make the backpack so I have more slots immediately and be able to pick up way more things. Make a small fire for the night, cook carrots/berries. Keep exploring. Looking for gold to make a science machine (or alchemy if wickerbottom) and gears (icebox/flingomatic) so I can start a base. Then I plant the grass tufts/saplings/berry bushes. When choosing a base, I want to be outside of a pig village or one biome over. I want to be near a swamp to collect green caps, free items from spiders fighting tentacles (monster meat, spider glands, tentacle spikes) as well as merms fighting tentacles (fish/frog legs). I can also lead giant monsters there to get destroyed by tentacles. I was lucky enough in my recent play to be on the outskirts of a pig king village that is right next to the swamp and desert with beefalo. After settling down a bit, I would go for a second run on grass tufts/saplins/berry bushes. I would want a farm of at least a 80-100 of each and spead them into 3 mixed sections so if one burned down I wouldn't lose ALL of my farming. I'd make the lightning rod and flingomatics somewhat overlapping as well as one flingomatic for my chests/alchemy engine but just out of range of my fires/endothermic fire. actually always make a pick first. that way you can get more flint from rocks. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/69210-dont-starve-guide-first-few-days-by-twigsandsticks/#findComment-800139 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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