Any tips for a noob?

A few thing I like to do (just posted this in another thread);

  • If freezing is the issue, the best winter tip I can give you is start in Autumn (but keep every other setting the same for the best experience) and all you need to do is make sure you have a Beefalo hat and 8 Silk by the time Winter hits. To get the Beefalo hat if you don't randomly find one, just build a log suit/football helmet and learn to kite (the armour is actually not necessary when you get the hang of it), isolate one hit it 3-4 times, let it try to hit you but run back to dodge it, repeat. Once you get a horn shave as much fur as you can when the Beefalos sleep at night for a backup hat and fuel (make sure to pick up the manure for fuel/farms also). Then, once winter hit's follow the "suspicious dirt piles" and use the kiting technique on the animal you find, you'll have to chase it, wait till it goes to sleep or just hit it with a ranged weapon first. All of these might sound a little convoluted, but you can then make a Beefalo hat and a Puffy Vest (lasts all of winter) which will give you a LONG time away from your fire in winter, and just make sure to always carry a torch to light a random tree or twig in your inventory on fire and stand by it if you start to freeze. Plus you get tonnes of meat from the Beefalo/Elephant.

  • Also another good tip in general is to "pre-build" structures. For example always have a campfire built but not placed, it doesn't waste any resources and that way you always have a backup fire in a jam.

  • Set up in a pig village, or just a random location but build your own pig huts. They're easyish meat and you can feed them monster meat and chop trees for a sanity boost and quick log supply. Make sure you them hammer any wild pig huts for easy boards, cut stones, pig skins (AKA armour) and either use the resources for various things or to build your own pig hut. Destroying 2 pig huts can let you build your own by your base.

  • Dig up a grave yard if you find it and give the things to the pig king for easy gold, just make sure you have a sanity booster.

  • Make drying racks for jerky which takes a long time to spoil and can either be eaten straight for health + sanity or used as a replacement for meat in crock pots.

  • (Handy crop pot recopies);

  • Meatballs: 1 MonsterMeat/Meat/Morsel, 3 fillers (berries, caps)

  • Bacon and Eggs: 2 Eggs, 1 MM/Meat, 1 Morsel (or another meat). Take very long to spoil.

  • Meaty Stew: 1 Meat, 1 MM, 2 morsels. Completely fills hunger.

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