GasBandit
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Tagging @Dei @Celt Z @Terrik @Snuffleupagus @Cobra_Royality, but of course anybody interested is welcome to pile in.
I know there was a Don't Starve Together thread already, but it was less about learning to play.
First and foremost, Don't Starve is a gothic horror survival game where a number of random people (whose names all begin with W) are whisked away to an alternate dimension called "The Constant," where it is expected they will die. In order to survive, we must gather resources and construct tools and structures that help us advance our mastery of the strange rules of the Constant.
The basics:
Pick a character, they all have advantages and disadvantages.
Once you have picked a character and joined the game, note the upper right hand corner - there's a clock and a calendar. These are critical to your survival.
Also there are three meters - Hunger, Sanity, and Health. If hunger gets to zero, you will take constant starvation damage. If sanity gets low enough, nightmare creatures will start to manifest and attack you (along with other changes to the world). If your health reaches zero, you die.
Time of day is broken into 3 parts - day, dusk, and night. The most important thing about this is that at night, if you are caught in the pitch black, the darkness monster (who is known as Charlie) will attack you out of nowhere, and usually can kill you in 2 hits. So it is important to either have a source of light, or be asleep during the night, because for some reason being asleep makes it safe to be in darkness.
The game is broken into 4 seasons:
Fall is the season that the game typically starts in. Temperatures are mild, weather is usually calm, and food is plentiful. This is the "easy" season, when it is best to prepare for the future as well as you can, and do extra difficult tasks like find the lunar island or attack bosses. After the first fall, Bearger (Bear-Badger) will show up and look for food, and he's not afraid to break open things you store food in to get it.
Winter comes after fall. The days are shorter and the nights are longer, and if you don't have a source of heat, you will quickly freeze to death. This can be staved off with warm clothing and thermal stones heated at a fire, and the characters that can grow beards are kept warmer by them being long. Food is hard to find during this season, but you can use the plentiful ice found at glaciers as fillers in a crock pot, so as long as you have one meat morsel and 3 ice, you can make some meatballs. Deerclops typically shows up during winter to destroy your camp if he finds you in it. It's also a good idea to stock up on ice for summer.
Spring comes after winter. It rains a lot, and being wet will cause you to get cold as well as lose sanity. Crops and bushes regrow food faster in spring, but meat on a meat rack dries slower in the rain. Occasionally it will rain frogs, which can be a game ender if you aren't ready for it. Moose Goose will show up in Spring, and soon will be followed by her Moslings. They are pesky if near your camp but can usually otherwise be ignored.
Summer is the last season before Fall loops back around again. In the summer, it's very hot, which can cause you to overheat and die if you don't have a way to cool down, such as a thermal stone kept cold in a refrigerator, or building an Endothermic Fire. Additionally, plants that are not watered in some form (ice flingomatic, watering can, etc) will wither and not produce anything. Worst of all, anything can catch fire for no reason at any time, and an uncontrolled fire in your base can destroy everything. Ice Flingomatics are an absolute necessity for your camp - if you don't have them, it is as good as game over. Dragonfly spawns near the lava pits in Summer. Antlion also comes around, and if you do not bribe him with trinkets, he will cause earthquakes which cause sinkholes on the surface (which can kill you and destroy structures) and cause cave-ins underground.
The order of the day is the two golden rules: Contribute, and don't be shitty.
Special note - joining a server in Winter, or how to survive on your own in winter:
More to follow when I or somebody else feels like it.
I know there was a Don't Starve Together thread already, but it was less about learning to play.
First and foremost, Don't Starve is a gothic horror survival game where a number of random people (whose names all begin with W) are whisked away to an alternate dimension called "The Constant," where it is expected they will die. In order to survive, we must gather resources and construct tools and structures that help us advance our mastery of the strange rules of the Constant.
The basics:
Pick a character, they all have advantages and disadvantages.
Once you have picked a character and joined the game, note the upper right hand corner - there's a clock and a calendar. These are critical to your survival.
Also there are three meters - Hunger, Sanity, and Health. If hunger gets to zero, you will take constant starvation damage. If sanity gets low enough, nightmare creatures will start to manifest and attack you (along with other changes to the world). If your health reaches zero, you die.
Time of day is broken into 3 parts - day, dusk, and night. The most important thing about this is that at night, if you are caught in the pitch black, the darkness monster (who is known as Charlie) will attack you out of nowhere, and usually can kill you in 2 hits. So it is important to either have a source of light, or be asleep during the night, because for some reason being asleep makes it safe to be in darkness.
The game is broken into 4 seasons:
Fall is the season that the game typically starts in. Temperatures are mild, weather is usually calm, and food is plentiful. This is the "easy" season, when it is best to prepare for the future as well as you can, and do extra difficult tasks like find the lunar island or attack bosses. After the first fall, Bearger (Bear-Badger) will show up and look for food, and he's not afraid to break open things you store food in to get it.
Winter comes after fall. The days are shorter and the nights are longer, and if you don't have a source of heat, you will quickly freeze to death. This can be staved off with warm clothing and thermal stones heated at a fire, and the characters that can grow beards are kept warmer by them being long. Food is hard to find during this season, but you can use the plentiful ice found at glaciers as fillers in a crock pot, so as long as you have one meat morsel and 3 ice, you can make some meatballs. Deerclops typically shows up during winter to destroy your camp if he finds you in it. It's also a good idea to stock up on ice for summer.
Spring comes after winter. It rains a lot, and being wet will cause you to get cold as well as lose sanity. Crops and bushes regrow food faster in spring, but meat on a meat rack dries slower in the rain. Occasionally it will rain frogs, which can be a game ender if you aren't ready for it. Moose Goose will show up in Spring, and soon will be followed by her Moslings. They are pesky if near your camp but can usually otherwise be ignored.
Summer is the last season before Fall loops back around again. In the summer, it's very hot, which can cause you to overheat and die if you don't have a way to cool down, such as a thermal stone kept cold in a refrigerator, or building an Endothermic Fire. Additionally, plants that are not watered in some form (ice flingomatic, watering can, etc) will wither and not produce anything. Worst of all, anything can catch fire for no reason at any time, and an uncontrolled fire in your base can destroy everything. Ice Flingomatics are an absolute necessity for your camp - if you don't have them, it is as good as game over. Dragonfly spawns near the lava pits in Summer. Antlion also comes around, and if you do not bribe him with trinkets, he will cause earthquakes which cause sinkholes on the surface (which can kill you and destroy structures) and cause cave-ins underground.
The order of the day is the two golden rules: Contribute, and don't be shitty.
Special note - joining a server in Winter, or how to survive on your own in winter:
More to follow when I or somebody else feels like it.
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