The Ancient Ruins pt.2 (Don't Starve Reign of Giants - Beginner's Guide Series)
Time to finish off the Caves and Ancient Ruins in my Don't Starve - Reign of Giants Beginner's Guide Series! In this tutorial I cover the Labyrinth biome, explain how to defeat the Ancient Guardian, and review all of the items that can be crafted at the Ancient Pseudoscience Station.
CONTENTS:
00:00 Introduction
00:25 The Labyrinth
02:09 The Ancient Guardian
02:34 Gunpowder Method
03:00 Rock Lobster Method & Campfire Cheese
03:29 Melee Method and DST Options
04:28 The Guardian's Loot
05:07 Fun and Profit with Ancient Pseudoscience
05:37 Thulecite, Thulecite Walls, and Thulecite Medallion
06:20 The Lazy Forager
06:39 Magiluminescence
07:10 Construction Amulet & Lazy Explorer
07:45 Star Caller's Staff
08:15 Deconstruction Staff
08:51 Non-Exploit Item Duplication!!
09:25 Pick/Axe
09:58 Thulecite Crown and Suit
10:52 Thulecite Club
11:25 The Houndius Shooties
12:28 Outro
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Game footage is from Don't Starve - Reign of Giants, and Don't Starve Together, the delightful action-adventure sandbox survival games by slightly less indie than they used to be developer Klei Entertainment. Interested in trying it out? Visit these links to learn more and/or purchase!
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Music is from the Don't Starve Soundtrack, and was arranged and composed by Vince de Vera, Jason Garner, and/or Emmett Hall. Tracks featured in this video are "Main", "Work for the Ruins", "Epic Ruins", and "D.R. Style". Game footage, graphical assets, soundtrack, and sound effects used consistent with Klei Entertainment's "Player Creation Guidelines" as stated on their website:
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Nothing in this video is sponsored by Klei Entertainment, and the commentary and information in this video do not represent the opinions or positions of any other entity whatsoever. Sorry Maxwell for killing you on the guardian, but you're just such a good example of being squishy!!
Hi Salendrak; first off, I just want to say that this series of yours is honestly phenomenal. The quality of it is absolutely outstanding, it's helped me more than ANYTHING else I've ever checked out for tips. Seriously, I can't say enough how amazing it is, the editing is great, the voice-over is spot on, it's just so awesome!!! It deserves to have so many more views than it does, and I sincerely hope more and more people share this around the Don't Starve community and will encourage newbies to check it out as their go-to guide. Now that said, on to the main reason I'm writing this comment. That being....could you _please_ (oh please oh please!) consider doing a second series for the Shipwrecked DLC? I've looked around for other guides to it here on KZhead, but to be frank none of them come anywhere CLOSE to the quality (or more importantly the in-depthness) that your series for Reign of Giants did. And it wouldn't necessarily need to be as long as the RoG guide, since you could skip a lot of the basics that you already covered there. It would be such an immeasurable help to me and I'm sure to many, *many* other newbies. So that said, I really _REALLY_ hope you'll consider starting a beginner's guide series for Shipwrecked sometime soon! I'm positive that my fellow viewers who have watched (and been immensely helped by) your RoG videos would be just as thrilled at the prospect. If you don't have the time to start another series nowadays, I completely understand, but if you _do_ have the time....well, please think about it! But even if you don't, I wanna say thanks again so so much for all the help you've already given though your spectacular Reign of Giants guide! 😊🥰
Funny you should ask, because YES - I will be doing Shipwrecked guides, hopefully starting sometime over the summer! I've only got one more Reign of Giants guide on the list for the beginner's guide series covering adventure mode, and after that, Shipwrecked! Also, thank you so much for the compliments! 😊
@@salendrak That's so awesome, I'm so happy to hear it! I've just started playing Shipwrecked (I'm playing on the Switch port, since my laptop died a while ago) and, yeah... I'm not doing so hot, compared to how well I've been doing with RoG after watching your videos to help me out. I'm really looking forward to it, and I'm also pleasantly surprised that there's another vid on the way for RoG, as I was under the impression it was already complete. I'm happy that it'll cover Adventure Mode, because I have NO idea what all it entails!
@@babyblue_22 heh - wait until you try out Hamlet. No matter how good you are at the other DLCs it will make you feel like a total noob again. Speaking from experience! 🤣
@@salendrak Haha, so I've heard!! On the Switch port, when you buy the base game, it already includes Reign of Giants and Shipwrecked, with only Hamlet being a separate purchase, DLC-wise. I (stupidly) bought it not that long after getting the base version, thinking it would be like Shipwrecked: different, with new mechanics to learn and maybe in some ways a _bit_ more difficult...but still do-able for a beginner (almost-intermediate) player. Boy did I learn! Lol I realized how wrong I was before the game even started, because the game itself literally tells you how friggin' difficult it is, even for experienced players! Haven't touched Hamlet once since then, just been sticking with Shipwrecked (hence my request😉). As of now I've just been using the guide videos from the Don't Starve KZheadr "Beard 777" to get by as far as Shipwrecked is concerned. And while they _have_ been helpful...yours are just *SO* much better. I really can't stress enough the quality your guides have. Seriously dude, it's really impressive, keep up the good work! Can't tell you how much it's appreciated for newbies 😊
“It can also be used to farm butterflies, birds and other creatures without increasing your naughtyness ” Elephant cactus: “laughs in OP spikes”
Oooooh I do love me some elephant cactus!
Previously the main thing I used the star caller's staff for was just to stand there the whole time and get a net of ~30 sanity per cast. You could do multiple at once so 3-5 would restore quite a lot. Still, it wasn't something I was going out of my way to get. But now they've buffed the duration to 3.5 days like in DST, making it super handy. Slap 3 down right next to each other and stand between them, and you can have a little pit stop where you gain 75 sanity/minute while you wait out the cycle or plan on what to do next. Technically the stars can cause overheating, but not in the caves/ruins where you have 240 insulation, you'll be moving on long before it becomes an issue.
Oh wow - I hadn't noticed that they increased the duration in single player. Very nice!!
That first bit with WX... AMAZING. I have no idea what draws me into repeating that first part!
Introduction SUCCESS!!!!
@@salendrak uhh sal..?
@@box1968 Bah - junk like that is popping up all over, but for some reason I don't always get the notification. Thanks for pointing it out!
@@salendrak Thanks Sal! But hey? Those can prove your popularity, hehe!
I'm still hooked on RoG and play pretty much every morning. Lately I've been churning through moving onto to new worlds which has me never needing to go into the caves. I didn't see this little mini series last year, but now I'm ready to go for an extended spelunk and experience all the stuff down under. Salendrak, your vids have been super helpful since day 1 and have always been excellent quality and content. I certainly play quite differently than you as I typically make a lot of blow darts and lean on a ranged attack for bosses.
Thanks! I honestly should use blow darts more often. They're quite strong, and the sound effect is very satisfying!
Thank you. I am now more confident to go in the ruins.
Go forth and conquer!!
Thank you Salendrak! These guides on the Caves and Ancient Ruins helped me a lot to survive underground for extended periods, kill the Ancient Guardian, and craft all the fun toys there! And it helped me craft a Houndious Shootious, so that I could take it with me while I world hop, something I try to do, eventually, in every play through I do
Nice! Sounds like you're well on your way to mastering the game!!
Thank you soooooo much for this series. This game is grotesquely obtuse for new players. I don’t mind that as much, but it makes games like this unplayable for my partner. This series helped a lot to smooth out the steep learning curve. By far the most informative and well-produced videos I’ve found about the game so far. The effort to always show relevant in-game footage and themed infographic overlays is exceptionally well done and enthusiastically appreciated ❤
You're most very welcome! Making videos like this takes a lot more time than the typical format I see on KZhead (content creator rambling with non-relevant footage in the background), but I think it's worth the effort!
Thanks, I was waiting for this. As always new tricks to learn even for experienced players.
I learn something new with every guide I make! This was the first time I ever used the campfire cheese on AG. I had heard of the method before, but never got around to trying it before!
Amazing job thanks to you i'm improving in the game day by day you're such a hero thank you so much and wish you all the joy and success in this channel and i'll contribute to make it grow i promise ❤️
Thanks!! I'm glad the guides have helped you enjoy and do well in the game! 😁
Wow - had the wrong title up for several hours and nobody called me out on it! LOL
Shipwrecked guide when? Hehe!
Does snake oil do anything?
@@stellaartois303 YES! I cures all wounds, restores all sanity, fills your hunger, makes you stronger, prevents all illnesses, and comes with a MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!! ... ... ... ... (no - it doesn't do anything LOL)
@@salendrak 😁 I love don't starve!!
There's nothing like start a week with a ds guide
I'm pretty proud of myself for getting these two out within days of each other!
Thanks to your guides I have stayed alive for 3 in-game years, have killed all the RoG bosses, and have successfully plundered the ruins and all their treasures. I hope you'll one day have guides for the DLCs as well, because I'd love to take my current character into them, but it'd be nice to have some starting knowledge.
That's the plan! Just don't know when I'll get around to it....
Another useful guide from Salendrak
Thank you thank you!!
Bro honestly thanks so much I would have been so lost and just quit don’t starve without you it’s a very hard but fun game
Steep learning curve, but once you get the hang of it the game is really quite rewarding to play!
7:45 one thing i wanna mention about the star caller staff is, do not cast it near flammable structures because half of my base burnt to a crisp
It's true!! I probably should have mentioned that, but hopefully it's a lesson people only have to learn once. And besides, learning to recover from total base destruction is also a good skill to have! (Been there - done that)
Rip
Thank you so much.
You're most very welcome!!
The thulecite medallion's ancient key finding ability in DST can be useful if you found the ruins branch that doesn't have ancient guardian. You always want to kill ancient guardian (especially after the changes to the fight) because of the great rewards.
Indeed!
When you called Magiluminescence decent item I could hear Hawk gasp. 😆
To be completely honest, in my first draft I called it a great item, but then I downgraded it to decent. At least for single player. Backpack is better, and other than Ancient Guardian you absolutely don't need it for anything!
It’s night and you’re sleepy when you see that Salendrak has published a new vid so you watch it and finally you can go to sleep happy!
I 100% agree with you 😊
And it wasn't too long of a video, so no real loss of sleep. WIN WIN!!
thanks for the guide, it has helped me a lot, do you plan to do any guide for shipwreck and hamlet? It would be great to find everything in the same youtube channel
Yup! Shipwrecked will happen sometime in the next couple of months, and Hamlet sometime after that. Not sure if I'll get to it this year or next though. All kind of depends on how busy I am with non-KZhead stuff, and how distracted I get with other games 😉
First played Don't Starve when I got it for free on the PS4 like 9 years ago. Played off and on since. And today was the first time I ever actually got to the ruins on day 93. The ancient guardian was practically right off screen from where I spawned, got hit once and I barely lived as I forgot to switch my armor on. I healed up a bit and ran to explore a little bit more. I saw a slurper and ran from it, but got stuck on a depth worm and it one hit me. Now trying to decide if I want to start a new world or load it back up and try to get my items.
Might as well try! And if it doesn't work - the game will force you to start a new world 😆
Yay new guide
Now go forth and plunder the ruins!!
Yaaay it's up
In record time too!!
@@salendrak that's what I said got the notification for the new vid thanks!
Me who has over 1000 hours in Dont Starve: interesting.
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In DST the thulecite club has a bug associated with it. Instead of the tentacles lasting for 9 seconds they will do 2 hits and then disappear, making its DPS worse than a dark sword. I would only make it in a ruins rush if I didn't get a lazy explorer from the ancient guardian because of the 10% speed boost.
Have they still not fixed that?!
@@salendrak Surprisingly enough no, I was testing them against bright shades and they just hit once and de aggroed
Hi Salendrak! Will you still be making a guide on Krampus and naughtiness? You referred to such a video in part 7 but I can't seem to find it anywhere
Don't currently have any specific plans to cover that topic in the beginner's guide series, but might do a guide on it at some point in the future. It's such a huge RNG thing to get a Krampus Sack that honestly I never bother trying to farm it in my own games.
Idea: You should Make a character guide/tips n tricks
I kind of already did in my 2 episodes covering all the Reign of Giants Characters!
@@salendrak wait rlly? Imma go watch rn
The whole series really helped me. But I still dont know how to play shipwrecked, and similiar series or atleast video on this topic would definietly help
I'll hopefully start making shipwrecked guides in the next month or two!
@@salendrak ok, thanks for answering
Quick question: I suddenly dropped dead while walking around. Is there anything I can do to stop that from happening in the future?
Hmmmm - do you know what exactly caused you to die though? Hard to give a cure if I don't know what got you!
honestly in solo don't starve just tank the guardian, it will only take 1-2 football helmet and a decent weapon
With or without chest armor too? Either way - don't do that as Maxwell. Unless you enjoy tempting the Murphy!
@@salendrak wihout chest armor, could work as maxwell just heal once or twice and don't break youre helmet on him at 1% durability
@@felixcharbonneau9282 Yeah, I don't think I would recommend that. At least not in the context of a beginner's guide. Maxwell dies pretty fast with just football helmets on (before the first one breaks without healing, actually - just tested it!) and adding in having to heal during the fight just adds further complications that would get beginner's killed. Now, I'm not saying the boss can't just be tanked, but it ends up being more complicated / resource intensive. Whereas the methods I highlighted in the video are pretty straightforward.
I got lucky when I killed ancient guardian in DST and a bunch of depth worms came to help me aka I zoomed around AG so they'd decide to start attacking it instead of going for me 🤣
AG in DST is no joke - 10k health?!?! Nothing wrong with a little helping hand in there! I was honestly surprised at how well the 4 rock lobsters did when I made the video footage. Might have to use that the next time I do it again in DST!
can you regenerate the ruins in rog?
Sort of. The only way to do that in single player is to world-hop to a new world using the Teleportato, which will also generate new caves and ruins levels. But then you also re-set your entire surface world base as well, which can be fun!
So the ruins and all exist in solo don't starve? I always thought they are don't starve together exclusive
Nope - ruins are in both games! That said, there are many differences between the ruins in the two games, including how the layouts generate, and of course the fact that there's no atrium / fuelweaver in single player. But other than that they are pretty similar!
The thing I hate about the lazy explorer is that I always trigger the teleport ability by accident :L
Take it off when doing some right-clicking work, like planting or farming.
Me too!!
@@Roman-dn6iw i get that. But mistakes usually happen when my inventory gets full and i try right clicking to drop. It's really just over learned behavior
Two uploads in two days????? Impossible…
I must be going crazy or something!!
I died from lightning as wx in rog
Rough!!
are you going to do the DLC just asking
Yup - starting with Shipwrecked in the somewhat near future!
@@salendrak oh Thinks I can't wait for it
@@salendrak awesome really want to give Shipwrecked a shot after picking it up from the Steam Lunar New Year Sale
@@fightaman7 It really is a lot of fun - probably my favorite DLC in isolation!
I died to deerclops in hurricane season
I saw an image of a bearger walking on water in Shipwrecked once. Neat trick that!!
ZOOM
WX's special perk! He has the zoomies!!
I died, I rushed the ruins😐
It can definitely happen! I personally don't like to rush the ruins. I prefer the gradual build-up on the surface before heading underground.
Yeah
lol
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@@salendrak :)