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

[Renton]

Which of the following Day 1-3 strategies are better?

1) Organically picking up tons and tons of basic resources right away while lurching slowly into new territory until you have good stockpile, then jettisoning stacks onto a marked location along the road, then following the roads until you find 20 gold, chester, and a good camp location.

2) Picking up like half a stack of twigs, logs, flint, i.e. the bare essentials for travel, then beelining down roads until you've found gold, chester, and the camp, then going out to properly gather all the basics AFTER the camp is planted.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Which of the following Day 1-3 strategies are better?

1) Organically picking up tons and tons of basic resources right away while lurching slowly into new territory until you have good stockpile, then jettisoning stacks onto a marked location along the road, then following the roads until you find 20 gold, chester, and a good camp location.

2) Picking up like half a stack of twigs, logs, flint, i.e. the bare essentials for travel, then beelining down roads until you've found gold, chester, and the camp, then going out to properly gather all the basics AFTER the camp is planted.

I prefer #2, but I grab a stack of grass and twigs early on. I wont leave flint or berries un-gathered, but carrots I leave unless I need them right then. Since carrots don't re-spawn (except in a farm, obv.), and can be used later during road-trip emergencies I find them useful to bypass during the first few days.

I really think that spending the first 5 days beelining down the roads is extremely worth it. I like to know where all the biomes are and what the general layout of the world is before I drop base camp. It's nice to find Chester right off, but I don't start looking for Chester unless I still haven't come across him by day 11 or so. I think it's far more helpful to find touchstones and maybe some nice boons. Finding a Walking Stick by a skeleton is great.

[surviva316]

The mushroom thing has really been fucking up my early game strategy. Like, I've been hoarding red mushrooms until I take damage, so that I could cook them and restore health. Well, too bad they only restore 1 fucking health when cooked, and I can just eat them raw to stave my hunger in early game (best time to do it because I'm so conservative) when I'm swimming in HPs. I was right about what green caps did. Blue caps just confused the fuck out of me. I kinda thought all mushrooms were like raw = bad, cooked = good, so I really didn't understand why the rarest mushrooms seemed to have no benefit, and all they seemed to do was drain my health, haha.