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Chests do not burn. Apparently storing grass in a wooden crate makes it fire retardant.

I was addressing your claim that a game can never have too many features.

It's 12 days in Adventure and 20 in default Sandbox.

He's still OP. Winter hasn't made him less OP at all. Winter is hard for every character (maybe less WX, I haven't played him all the way through to winter yet).

"Feature creep" is a very common and bad problem.

For a skilled enough player, there is no need. They certainly make things easier though!

This is probably the correct answer. Winter starts on day 12 in Adventure mode and I made it most of the way through it on my first try, without even consciously preparing for winter.

I've heard steam cloud backing up automagically can cause issues like save deletion with Don't Starve, but I know neither how it works nor how to fix it.

I don't agree. It just saves just a couple days at the beginning. It just means you don't need a science machine, which only costs one gold and a tiny bit of wood and stone. The hard part about crafting that stuff isn't getting the right machine, it's getting all the materials for the item itself.

It happens in new worlds. Some are normal, some are black.

Because we like a survival game requiring you to try hard to survive, there's something wrong with us? Okay.

The patch notes mentioned "island chains" which require wormholes to access.

The boomerang allows you to get a total of 10 morsels (possibly less if you attack birds, they don't always drop one). I'd rather use it for aggroing the Koalefant. Also have you played as Wes? I'm pretty sure it can't kill bunnies or birds as him, because he's weak. IMO if it gets nerfed at all it'll be pointless. It's easier to just spear bunnies anyway.

Meatballs. Meat + 3x filler. It used to work with monster meat and three sticks, but in the latest update that just throws out wet goop.

On your point about Wolfgang, I think he's secretly a bit of a scaredy-cat.