A Don't Starve Thread?!? WTF, MMM?

[bigred]

If you use a wormhole, will the hounds still chase you?

[MadMojoMonkey]

Yes. It takes them a while to find you, and they may or may not make it to you without aggro-ing on something else.

If you worm-holed to an island, then the hounds can't follow you, but will ambush you the next time you're on a piece of land they can reach.

If you go into a cave, they will wait for you outside the cave.

They may spawn while you're in a cave anyway, so it's not a terrible idea to set up some spike traps around the cave entrance.

[bigred]

I haven't made it to a cave yet...

[bigred]

The hounds I do kill don't drop teeth...

[bigred]

I wish we had a vent channel for this. Game gets a little lonely.

[bikes]

lols

[bikes]

over 70% of my deaths this game are from fkn tall birds

[bigred]

What do I need to take on tentacles without getting my ass kicked?

[MadMojoMonkey]

over 70% of my deaths this game are from fkn tall birds

They're a pain in the ass and I can't think of any good reason not to avoid them.

Pro Tip: Stop fkn tall birds.

What do I need to take on tentacles without getting my ass kicked?

Lots of ways:
A) Tank it: Log Suit + Football Helmet + Weapon. Backups of each, as always.
B) It's expensive, but a bee mine will kill a tentacle, no problem. More practical if 3 of 'em are close together.
C) Feed Pigs meat. Take Pig followers with you. Attack in a group.
D) If you do it right, you can have chester stop moving right on top of one. Once it picks Chester as a target, you can melee it w/o taking any damage. I know that you can't do this w/ chester 2 times in a row. I'm not sure how long to wait between letting him tank like that.

Always actively escape any situation that will potentially cause more damage than you are capable of healing. Do this as soon as you realize the situation has turned against you. Whatever you're leaving behind you're capable of replacing, or retrieving in after a bit more prep.

[bikes]

tall birds must be conquered.

[bigred]

SERIOUSLY THIS GAME IS LIKE MY EX GIRLFRIEND. I HATE IT BUT I CAN'T STOP PLAYING IT

[bigred]

I keep dying in the most fucking stupid ways.

Day 46: chased down by hounds without much attack so I flee and jump into a wormhole...chomped to death mid jump into wormhole

Day 31: Decide to farm spiders near dusk...on return back to camp start freezing. Go to build camp fire but I'm so cold that I have this black circle on my screen and can't build campfires. WTF? Never seen this before. Turns to night...night monsters eat me because the campfire thing I couldn't plant used up my grass. fuck you game.

[surviva316]

Day 31: Decide to farm spiders near dusk...on return back to camp start freezing. Go to build camp fire but I'm so cold that I have this black circle on my screen and can't build campfires. WTF? Never seen this before. Turns to night...night monsters eat me because the campfire thing I couldn't plant used up my grass. fuck you game.

Winter + Impending night + Spiders accounted for a lot of my silliest deaths. Sosososo much can go wrong so quickly. Things going perfectly fine, and then suddenly I get into a weapon/torch/bookbag/armor/jacket/hat/helmet clusterfuck.

[bigred]

Winter + Impending night + Spiders accounted for a lot of my silliest deaths. Sosososo much can go wrong so quickly. Things going perfectly fine, and then suddenly I get into a weapon/torch/bookbag/armor/jacket/hat/helmet clusterfuck.

Yeah. There have been far too many occasions where I've almost died because my inventory was full and I was trying to juggle my stuff and make a torch.

[bigred]

I don't want to start again...only sadness will entail...but I will anyway

[Renton]

Don't fuck with tentacles. Just find a swamp area where there are tentacles near the mutated fish looking dudes, check that place periodically for free tentacle spikes. The fish and tentacles will constantly be skirmishing so this is a renewable source of one of the best weapons in the game.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Thulecite club has perks that make it much better and it's more durable, but the tentacle spike is easily the best weapon in the early and mid-game.
Thulecite gear is excellent, but you have to go to the ruins to get it. Good luck with that quest. You have to explore the caves enough to find an entrance to the ruins, basically a cave withing a cave.

Ex-girlfriend is right on. I started this thread after rage quitting daily for weeks. Gotta love a game that is challenging enough to do that over and over.

[bikes]

tree guardian just fucked up my 3 friendly pigs. RIP friendly pigs

[MadMojoMonkey]

Stupid pigs.

[bigred]

Tree guardians are hippy dickheads from portland. They get all pissed when you chop some trees but plant a few pine cones and they go back to their drugs.

[bigred]

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A CAVE IS LET ALONE THE RUINS. FUCK ALL OF YOU

[MadMojoMonkey]

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A CAVE IS LET ALONE THE RUINS. FUCK ALL OF YOU

You think you've seen all the things there are to see, done all the stuff there is to do?

Maxwell always has surprises in your future.

MORE THINGS

MORE STUFF

YESSSSSS!!!!

[Renton]

Tree guardians are good practice in basic kiting. They attack really slowly so you should be able to kill one without taking a single hit. Preferably try this on a small one so you don't degrade your weapon too much, they have dramatically different hit points based on size but all drop the same loot.

[spoonitnow]

okay i downloaded this shit after reading like the first 3 posts of this thread wtf have you people gotten me into

[MadMojoMonkey]

okay i downloaded this shit after reading like the first 3 posts of this thread wtf have you people gotten me into

Some page 1 gems:

Fuck my life

Oh no!

Brutal.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NO WAY AM I GONNA DIE

[bigred]

I'll hop on irc tonight just to discuss optimal frog/rabbit balance, switching up gears for winter, etc

[spoonitnow]

I'll hop on irc tonight just to discuss optimal frog/rabbit balance, switching up gears for winter, etc

ok use the link in my sig, there's an easy web app for the new server

also i should be on, but if i'm afk then slap me so my computer will make a noise

[bigred]

ok use the link in my sig, there's an easy web app for the new server

also i should be on, but if i'm afk then slap me so my computer will make a noise

This explains why I didn't see anyone on the thundercity channel the other day.

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TY PIGGYS SAVING ME FROM PERMA HOUND ATTACKS

[MadMojoMonkey]

Not starving in IRC.

Consider yourself invited.

[bikes]

work =(

u guys suck.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Here's a link to the Don't Starve Food Guide.

It's a reference tool for navigating all the food options in Don't Starve.

Anyone who's played enough to have made a few crock pot recipes on their own will be bookmarking this link.

If you look at the link, it's not a spoiler, but if you use the link, it is.

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fucking got gangraped by 20 frogs

[MadMojoMonkey]

fucking got gangraped by 20 frogs

Yeah. That can be tilting.

I gotta try that. I had frogs turned to "less" on my last world, because I got tilted when a group of them swarmed me and kept making me drop my combat equipment while I was trying to put it on. In retrospect, that was probably hilarious. Nonetheless, they killed me, and I started a new character straight away with less frogs and more touchstones.

[bigred]

fucking got gangraped by 20 frogs

Frogs are aggressive and mob on you if you attack one of them. They're very easy to trap though. If one starts chasing you, drop a trap, and you're pretty much guaranteed to get him.

Frogs are only out during the day so I typically check and reset traps in dusk/night to avoid aggression.

[spoonitnow]

Okay so I found some portal shit and went through it and immediately got my fucking ass kicked by a bunch of goddamn frogs like how is that even fucking possible

[MadMojoMonkey]

Okay so I found some portal shit and went through it and immediately got my fucking ass kicked by a bunch of goddamn frogs like how is that even fucking possible

I'm guessing you found Maxwell's Door.
Did the screen say "Chapter 1" when you went through?

Apparently you got the world where it rains frogs for Chapter 1.

[Renton]

Dawgs, getting punked by the kermit brigade is some shameful shit. They telegraph their aggro from a mile away, just run like 10 steps and you lose them.

BTW, frogs/ponds are a very easy way to accumulate massive amounts of food before the winter. You can catch like 9 or 10 fish per day and trap loads of frogs in the meanwhile.

[bigred]

Dawgs, getting punked by the kermit brigade is some shameful shit. They telegraph their aggro from a mile away, just run like 10 steps and you lose them.

Bikes was dressed scandalously and practically asked for frog rape...

[spoonitnow]

I started over and have like 20 berry bushes that I put cow shit on and they take goddamn forever to make more berries

I'm guessing those motherfuckers will be useless when this alleged winter comes through?

[bigred]

I started over and have like 20 berry bushes that I put cow shit on and they take goddamn forever to make more berries

I'm guessing those motherfuckers will be useless when this alleged winter comes through?

Yeah. I'd stick with rabbits, frogs, etc

[Renton]

I started over and have like 20 berry bushes that I put cow shit on and they take goddamn forever to make more berries

I'm guessing those motherfuckers will be useless when this alleged winter comes through?

In winter you have stored food, rabbits which are a constant (they should fix this imo, it'd make the game more interesting if rabbits didn't come out for winter), and big game hunting.

[spoonitnow]

So in my new game, I've started this trapping shit. Seems like it has more upfront results and more maintenance than berry bushes.

[bigred]

So the last two times I've died is because the hounds come at night in the winter and I have to choose my death between being eaten or freezing to death. Sigh.

[bigred]

Run into a group of beefalo (when they don't have the red spot on their butts which I think signals mating season and makes them aggressive). they all freeze and make a "dat ass" face. I laugh everytime. Would be funnier if my character was a female.

[spoonitnow]

GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF FUCKING JEW SHIT I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD ALL OF MY GODDAMN BUSHES JUST GOT FUCKED BECAUSE OF FUCKING LIGHTNING THAT I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW GODDAMN HAPPENS SHIT

[MadMojoMonkey]

GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF FUCKING JEW SHIT I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD ALL OF MY GODDAMN BUSHES JUST GOT FUCKED BECAUSE OF FUCKING LIGHTNING THAT I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW GODDAMN HAPPENS SHIT

Yeah. It's part of the learning process. Now you know why it's important to build a lightning rod.

Unfortunately, until you see it happen a couple of different ways, it'll all burn down.

Beware of Red Hounds.
Also with Willow, when her sanity is low or at night if there's no light, she auto-lights little fires.

[surviva316]

GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF FUCKING JEW SHIT I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD ALL OF MY GODDAMN BUSHES JUST GOT FUCKED BECAUSE OF FUCKING LIGHTNING THAT I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW GODDAMN HAPPENS SHIT

LMAO this thread is seriously so much more amusing reading when you're not the newbie. Not like I'm any kind of guru by any stretch of the imagination, but reliving the frustrations learning this game is great.

I want to convince one of my friends to buy this game, heat up some popcorn and just laugh as I watch them die over and over again.

[surviva316]

I want to convince one of my friends to buy this game, heat up some popcorn and just laugh as I watch them die over and over again.

*Friend starts building walls without a hammer in their inventory.*

*I stand by silently with a hopeful smirk on my face.*

[bigred]

Eating cooked meat also helps with sanity. Berry diet make homer go crazy.

[bikes]

i always setup camps next to pig colonies and just run in circles until dawn

[bigred]

i always setup camps next to pig colonies and just run in circles until dawn

Yeah, spoon suggested I could run around my camp fire and survive. I'll try that next time.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Run into a group of beefalo (when they don't have the red spot on their butts which I think signals mating season and makes them aggressive). they all freeze and make a "dat ass" face. I laugh everytime. Would be funnier if my character was a female.

... and they look so sad when you shave them. I love the graphic design of the beefalo.

So in my new game, I've started this trapping shit. Seems like it has more upfront results and more maintenance than berry bushes.

Still keep a berry farm for crock pot filler.

Eating cooked meat also helps with sanity. Berry diet make homer go crazy.

Small Jerky is even better.

So the last two times I've died is because the hounds come at night in the winter and I have to choose my death between being eaten or freezing to death. Sigh.

Have a panic area where you have chosen your field of battle. Fortify with traps/walls/weapons and armor lying on the ground, etc.
Build a fire pit in the middle of your panic area.

It also helps if you leave a trail of fireflies from the outskirts of your main base to the panic area fire pit. That way, you have a set of waypoint beacons that lead you to the panic area fire pit, and illuminate it enough to click it with a log (so long as you are a bit away so the firefly light doesn't go out.)

Yeah, spoon suggested I could run around my camp fire and survive. I'll try that next time.

Sometimes it comes to that.

[bigred]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[16:42] <spoonitnow> oh thanks now i'm dead by fucking tree

[Savy]

Portal he's talking about is definitely a wormhole.

[spoonitnow]

Portal he's talking about is definitely a wormhole.

No it said portal and looked like a door, took me to a different world starting basically over in terms of my inventory that was apparently harder. The guy said that there were five such worlds, and at the end you find some fucking body I can't remember their name

[MadMojoMonkey]

No it said portal and looked like a door, took me to a different world starting basically over in terms of my inventory that was apparently harder. The guy said that there were five such worlds, and at the end you find some fucking body I can't remember their name

It was Maxwell's Door. You entered "Adventure Mode" by walking through the door.
There are 2 characters that can only be unlocked in Adventure Mode. One of them is Maxwell, the guy who talks to you at the start of the game. The other is Wes, a mime. You have to find and solve a puzzle to unlock Wes.

When you go in to the Door, your inventory becomes empty, except that you get to keep any unique item (e.g. Willow's Lighter) and you get a Divining Rod.

I have yet to beat a single Chapter, much less 5 of them.

[bikes]

WTH GIANT HAND AND MUSIC BOX JUST STOLE MY FIRE

MY SANITY IS ABOVE 150 WTH

[MadMojoMonkey]

WTH GIANT HAND AND MUSIC BOX JUST STOLE MY FIRE

MY SANITY IS ABOVE 150 WTH

Chase the hand into the darkness untill you hear a noise. It's a bit like a "powering down" noise. This "kills" that hand.

Multiple hands can come out at once, so you want to fend all of them away from your fire, then push the last one till it dies.

Rinse and repeat.

[bigred]

I really wish you could start from a checkpoint. My last base was perfect. Besides the whole I died thing.

[MadMojoMonkey]

I really wish you could start from a checkpoint. My last base was perfect. Besides the whole I died thing.

I'm pretty sure I heard about a mod/hack for that if you really want it.

To me, it would break the game.

[bigred]

I'm pretty sure I heard about a mod/hack for that if you really want it.

To me, it would break the game.

I wouldn't actually install it. It's what makes the game special.

[bigred]

You're a jerk!

[bikes]

fuck off krampus ill kill as many rabbits as i damn well please

[Renton]

There's a mod that pauses the action whenever you are in a crafting menu. I'm not sure where that falls on the cheating scale for you folks but there it is. I personally am incredibly tilted by how much time I waste cycling through menus.

[bigred]

Me after every tier 3 spider colony I cull and then replant egg...

[bikes]

memo to self. cooked monster meat np. monster jerky = 3 fucking werepigs chasing you all fucking full moon

[MadMojoMonkey]

memo to self. cooked monster meat np. monster jerky = 3 fucking werepigs chasing you all fucking full moon

Too much monster meat is bad for pigs. I don't think it matters whether it's cooked or jerky.

It was a full moon.... pigs turn into werepigs on the full moon.

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Too much monster meat is bad for pigs. I don't think it matters whether it's cooked or jerky.

It was a full moon.... pigs turn into werepigs on the full moon.

freshly spawned pigs =( i think 4 pieces of monster meat is the turning point for werepigs but wth jerky i gave them 1 piece

[MadMojoMonkey]

freshly spawned pigs =( i think 4 pieces of monster meat is the turning point for werepigs but wth jerky i gave them 1 piece

I'm saying that whether or not you feed them, they turn to were pigs during full moon.

[jyms]

I've been following this thread since inception and I know goddamn well I am going to get sucked into this shit. I don't do well with tilt inducing games

[bigred]

Do it, jums. Do it now.

[spoonitnow]

I'm going to be in IRC/chat room for most of this evening playing etc so get in there with bigred and the rest of us (see the link in my signature)

[bikes]

canadian can turn into a woodchuck and its bad. TIL

[MadMojoMonkey]

Bad because it's amazing... or bad because you hate it?