Third video in my beginner's guide series, this video covers a wide variety of tips, tricks, and things new players will do well to be aware of! Many of these are pretty basic, but should be extremely helpful if you aren't otherwise aware of them.
Reminder that his guide series is intended for players who are new to Don't Starve, struggling to survive, or coming back after a long hiatus. This video is up-to-date for the 2020 PC version of Don't Starve, but should be generally applicable to mobile and console versions, as well as the multi-player Don't Starve Together.
Contents:
0:00 Gobbler Hunting
0:46 Video Intro
1:33 BASIC CONTROLS AND HOTKEYS
1:48 Movement and Combat Controls
2:54 Spacebar Interaction
3:16 Number Hotkeys
4:04 Inventory Management Hotkeys
4:44 Camera Rotation
5:29 MOB MANIPULATION
5:33 Gobblers and Berries
6:24 Pigs and Bunny Men
7:34 Werepig Manure
8:00 Beefalo Luring
8:36 Tentacle Spikes
9:24 Treeguards
10:09 Bush Hat
10:37 FIRE AND ICE
10:40 Campfire Safety
11:04 Torches and Time
11:28 Fuel for the Fire
12:31 Ice is Nice!
13:04 Burning Beehives
13:39 MARKING YOUR MAP
13:41 Map Markers
14:01 Wormhole Labeling
14:50 Conclusion
I honestly can't remember where I learned the vast majority of these tips over the several years I've been playing Don't Starve. Much of it came from my own experience, reading the official wiki, and various other locations like Reddit and Steam.
The only tip I specifically remember learning from someone else was the idea of burning tentacles with logs, which I picked up from a James Bucket video. If you haven't seen his channel, he has a great style and loads of useful information: / @jamesbucket
Please leave comments below for any questions, comments, suggestions, or just to say hi!
And please hit that like button and consider subscribing to help the channel grow! / @salendrak
Game footage is from Don't Starve - Reign of Giants, the delightful action-adventure sandbox survival games by indie developer Klei Entertainment. Interested in trying it out? Visit these links to learn more and/or purchase!
www.klei.com/games
store.steampowered.com/app/21...
store.steampowered.com/app/32...
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 "Hoedown", "Don't Starve Theme", "Spring Cleaning (Reign of Giants)", and "Ragtime". Game footage, graphical assets, soundtrack, and sound effects used consistent with Klei Entertainment's "Player Creation Guidelines" as stated on their website:
support.klei.com/hc/en-us/art...
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. Also, nothing in this video represents actual events in the real world...except for gobblers jumping out of bushes. When I was a kid I was once peeing on a bush in the woods, and a turkey literally jumped out of the bush and flew off! I would say that it scared the piss out of me, but as I was already peeing that wouldn't be accurate...stupid gobblers....
really impressive that a KZheadr who just started a channel and has less than 50 subs can make content this well produced....you have a very good style of information delivery....keep up the good work.....keep making content and you will no doubt begin to grow more rapidly
You deserve mooore vieeeeews!! Thank you so much!!
Maybe even beat pewds
Now he has >6k!
Do you mean 7k
yes.................you're right.............................
I appreciate the time stamps in the description so much
Any good reference source needs to have a Table of Contents! Maybe someday I'll even come up with an index!! 😆
Wow, the burning logs trick to kill tentacles is genius! From me and all pocket edition don't starve player, we say thanks
Oh, yeah - fighting tentacles on mobile is a pain!!
Because my computer hates me I play on mobile I was RECKED MY FIRST TIME
This series is top notch. I recently started playing DS again (this time on Switch instead of PC) and this is the guide I was missing last time around. None of the others are as clear, concise, well-organized, or presented as well. Excellent work and I look forward to the next.
Switch gang
It's been 2 years but this is still so helpful. I never thought to use signs for the worm holes! I was unaware of like 80% of everything you mentioned. 😮
That's the beauty of making guides for a game that is not-so new - it's very unlikely that what I say will ever go obsolete due to an update! 😆
@@salendrak I know right?? I'm sure to review these over and over again. 😅 looking forward to your Story mode/Shipwrecked guides!
every time i watch this dude's don't starve guides i feel my brain getting better.
Soon you too will have a BIG BRAIN!!
I am SO GRATEFUL for this modern and excellent guide complete with timestamps and graphics of mouseclicks on screen. Love this channel thank you so much!!!
Awwww - thanks!! It's feels great to be appreciated 😊
This is honestly great.
yes
I have PC and switch. I honestly can’t help but find myself excited to get started while watching these videos. Something in your presentation really fires me up.
Knowledge is power - now go forth and conquer!!
I really hope you return to this series,your videos have genuinely made this game so much more fun because I could understand what I needed and why it was so important without having to learn each lesson the hard way and spend hours restarting over and over to learn each new tip through trial and error
Yup - will be continuing the series soon! Working on one more video in the terraria series then will be back to Don't Starve with a good guide! Hopefully someone in the next few weeks!
The bush hat idea against the hounds is brilliant!
It's pretty funny too!
Your video quality and presentation are top notch. You deserve more subs dude.
Thanks a ton for that comment - really means a lot to me! I just wish I had more time these days to keep making more videos, but with homeschool kids due to the pandemic, that's a bit of a challenge...Hopefully soon though I'll be able to get back into it!
Hey man, these are really well done you definitely deserve more views hopefully you get them
Thanks!
I’ve finally drafted my s/o into don’t starve *queue maniacal laughter* Thanks for this concise, well put series! Saved me a lot of explanations and I’m sure he feels better about jumping in
/sinistervoice Exxxxxcellent! 😈
I hope you continue these series! I think you are doing a great job and they are for sure more helpful than any of the other videos I've found on youtube. Thank you!
Such a great job on all of these tutorials keep going you gonna blow up!!
Just came across this series while looking for Don't Starve content and you've won a subscriber! Really well put together, excellent narration & humour and I love how you see in advance (in the editing stage) where your audience will call you out, and put annotations on the screen - like oops, missed a gold. I'm fairly good at the game, I can survive for a long time if I don't do anything too risky, but my weakness is fighting the boss mobs so I'm looking forward to some hints and tips there, especially for the weaker characters. Learned a couple of handy hints in this video too so that's awesome! I'm also tickled that we seem to plan our storage chests the same way :D
Great minds think alike! I was testing a new dedicated server with some people from my discord server the other day, and while I was off picking up kids from school, they took the time to organize the storage using my method. Made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! 😊
This is by far the best don't starve beginners guide.... Having a hard time finding a good and easy to follow guide. Well organized channel my dude!
Ooof - still need to make a better thumbnail for that one!! 😆
@@salendrak yeah bro that would be more eye catching if you do that! And also do for other games bro you'll go big I believe on it!
Hi! i just found your channel. Great work! i hope you continue this series :)
!!! this is the video series every new player should watch !!! Bro this series has been invaluable ! awesome video. I liked the 3rd before it started cuz the first two were so good man.
Hahah - thanks!! 😆
These are really great guides. They have helped me organize better, be more efficient in the early game, and overall help me survive longer.
Awesome - I'm glad they helped! 😊
Just started playing this game with friends and out of all the videos this series has been the most direct, informative, well organized and structured. Hope your channel grows man, keep it up!
Thanks!! At some point I'll do some DST specific guides, but for now the majority of the single player stuff is directly applicable to multiplayer. Have fun with your friends!!
@@salendrak Definitely, taking away core concepts and we can work out our specific issues :P cheers
Howesome ! I've been playing Don't Starve for long time but with your amazing tips & tricks, i rediscover this game. Thanks you
Welcome back to Don't Starve!!
Just started playing a month ago. And your guides have been helping me a lot❤
Glad I could help!!
I really liked the last few tips, will use! Thank you :)
Glad it was helpful!
Nicely done - hope you continue!
Started playing after not being very successful before. These videos are very well done. Great work!
Thanks! How far have you gotten this time around?
@@salendrak day 12, really learning how to kite the monsters was so helpful. Even what things did and what to work for.
my gf and i started playing dst a few days ago and we just barely made it halfway through our first winter. this series really is gonna change our survival rate! thank you for this really helpful and easy to understand guide!!
That's awesome, and pretty good for your first outing in DST!! Keep me posted on how you guys progress!!
@@salendrak We got to our first spring a couple days ago thanks to your help! Thanks so much!
Great work. Such a great quality video for a smaller channel.
Wtf only 10k subs?! This is so well made and professional, hope you get to a million subs dood👍🏾
Thanks! Fingers crossed it happens - someday!!
Can't wait to see more of your vidoes.
Uno de los pocos canales centrados en RoG. Tus videos son muy buenos y bien explicados.
¡Muchas gracias!
Bro your videos are amazing. I had NO IDEA there were so many mechanics
And honestly, this video barely scratches the surface!!
This guy definitely has deserved more subscribers!
This is BRILLIANT. Thankyou!
Happy to be of service!!
in my current game a treeguard spawned while i was near beefalo so i thought 'hey i'll try that trick where you circle the herd and get them to fight for you' and the treeguard ended up killing so many beefalo it was crazy, i ended up with 20 meat 15 hair and a horn. and the guard wasn't even interested in me anymore after he was done. he just wandered like he'd lost his purpose in life. even when i went back to cutting trees he'd wandered too far away to notice. poor guy
I would call that some pro-level treeguard manipulation! And yeah, they are surprisingly strong!
Hi there, i realy got the taste for Dont Starve again. Thanks !
Such quality content. I see 1mill subs in your future
That would be neat! Though it might make it harder to respond to all the comments...😆
Sooo helpful! Thanks👍
😁
Helpful! Informative! Very entertaining!!!!
Thanks!!
Here's a tip for nighttime: fireflies can be used as a light source so if you want a stupider version of 'chicken with Charlie' and don't have torches, just run in between two fireflies or walk away for the one and only most stressful experience in the entirety of don't starve!
Heh - have you seen the Wagstaff episode where I was in the ruins and my lights went out during the nightmare phase? That was a pretty stressful moment!
I learned so much thanks man
No problem!
Just getting back into dont starve. Thanks for the content.
Enjoy the journey!
Can’t wait for the next one
thx man i learnt a lot from ur video.
Awesome - happy to be of service!!
Best guide there is for sure! ty ty.
Thanks! And be sure to check out my Food guide that just posted yesterday!!
Hey man, first of all great series. Thank you for all the work you put into your videos. I just have a question. Why would you mark down the mushroom circles? What’s special about them?
Easy way to get lots of mushroom without running all over looking for them! Green mushrooms are great for going crazy to farm nightmare fuel or restore sanity, blue are very versatile, and red make good crockpot filler!
These are the greatest videos...
Wow - thanks!!!
This content is gonna be soooo useful
I still get a little sadistic pleasure when I murder a baited gobbler :P
I love watching your videos at 1.25 speed. You sound like a 50's wrestling commentator, especially with the ending music :P
HAH - love it!! I've had a few people over the years tell me that I could pull off a pretty good announcer voice. Maybe that will be my future gig!
I pretty much use my switch as a Steam console(with normal Nintendo games as well). I pick up random games on sale with minor research and they sit dormant until I get around to them. Dont Starve is one of them I cant even remember what I got it for but it was worth retail. Your guides have been very helpful. Still haven't made it past winter. But am improving quickly. Made it to day 24 before getting hungry and reckless.
Nice!! Keep at it, and soon enough you'll be breezing through all the seasons!
This could have been 15:46 of Wilson chasing that Berry-gobbling deviant and I still would have liked.
Heheh - noted for future content ideas 🤣
Great works
Thanks!!
this dude needs more subs
Yes please!!
damn best video men very helpful
Thanks - glad it helped!!
Really excellent
Thanks!!
I know everything about don't starve, but these videos are avesome! Poor beard777 can hide behind you.
Hahaha - thanks!!
Underrated channel
😁
Best guide ever
Wow - thanks!!
Great video's, very helpfull. I hope you could maybe do a SW playthrough?
Thanks! And yes - shipwrecked content will be starting up showtime during the summer most likely!
I'm here again, I managed to survive until day 59 but the hounds killed me, I'm having a hard time with those, I usually use the buffalo to protect me but this time I went far away from my base to collect materials and they got me, a lot of them. Your videos are great, but it's to much information to process xD, the thing that I need to learn is how to fight properly, I managed to survive because I mostly avoid fighting because I suck. Ps: Sorry for the bad English.
Your English was perfectly fine, actually! But yeah, this game has a LOT of info to juggle in your brain as you're learning the ropes. I generally recommend a cycle of play the game, watch some guides, try to apply what you learned and play the game again, then re-watch some guides, try to apply what you learned and play the game again, then re-watch...you get the idea!
A perfect tutorial! How about spawn rates of animals and vegetables?
thank you much
Very welcome!
I guess you could say he went on a wild gobbler hunt.
Gotta watch out for those gobblers!
The first video i see without dislike
So far so good!! Though I wonder how long it will last - trolls be everywhere!!
I remember watching these videos 8-9 months ago when your subscriber base was tiny... NOW look!!
I grew up a couple of levels!! Second video is a year old yesterday!
Salendrak I wish I was able to get that many subs on my main channel - maybe I need more exposure... or work on my content 😂😂
I always change the "force attack(mod)" to shift in the controls. Shift is way easier to press in tandem with other keys IMO, so it made punching butterflies a bit simpler. Speaking of which, is punching actually easier for butterflies? It *feels* like the punch hitbox comes a bit sooner in the animation, giving it less time to move out of your range, but that might just be me.
Ooooh interesting - I might have to try using Shift for that too! As for butterflies, they really do just take some practice.
I just started playing Don't Starve on my switch last night and you're videos are very helpful ☺️ thank you for making them
Awesome - glad you like them, and have fun Starving!! (or not) 😆
Bruh some of these tips are brilliant iq feel your brain getting smarter every second. I've subscribed when I watched the 1st episode and liked all the others.
Awesome - glad they've helped! Be sure to check out the Wagstaff series too so you can see it all in action!
You should have 100k+ subs.
Someday I hope!!
btw, when you transplant berry bushes and grass you'll need to activate them by adding manure. otherwise they sit there doing nothign and looking a grayed out color than the normal ones you haven't transplanted.
Very true!!
omg thanks so much
You're most very welcome!! 😁
Who doesn't love a good dense forest walk with bearger or deerclops. Or the satisfaction of the pigman logging company and treeguard 'catering'. Chopping down trees is good and all for a while, but who doesn't love an easy way to stock up for the winter or more storage chests.
Old bell anyone? 😆
@@salendrak Hey if the bosses are going to terrorize me I'm going to put them to work first. And yes, Bigfoot is awesome :) Great vid. For some reason though, I haven't been able to find Glommer in the switch version so I'm back to basics.
Notice how his first ever video is this video and is also his most popular
I'm pretty sure that's not the norm for most channels! And I'll be really curious to see what video eventually takes the lead!
Kiting doesn't work on 4 werepigs at once, as I recently found out! 😀Also I can't even count how many times I've lit my crockpot on fire. I have to just unequip a torch before doing anything in my base. I'm on the switch and sadly I can't figure out how to do the crockpot and icebox open at the same time though i've seen it in many videos.
My wife has been banned from ever holding a torch while in base for that very same reason. Those things are dangerous!! As for crock-pot and icebox, on PC it only works if they're close enough together, which generally requires placing the crockpots before placing the ice boxes due to the way their respective footprints work. Not sure about switch though, but I imagine it should work the same way.
Great
Thanks!!
Hey were you ever gonna do a lets play on dont starve and terraria
Yup - that's the plan! Currently working on a Don't Starve guide (hopefully done next week) and after that I think I'll start a play-through in Don't Starve as well as a Terraria one in Master Mode "For the Worthy".
@@salendrak thx also if u are interested there is a game thats on the same base as dont starve called crashlands you should try it out
@@TheRustyChads I've played Crashlands off and on over the years on my phone, but for some reason tend to get bored with it pretty fast. But that seems to be the case for just about every phone game for me /shrug
@@salendrak oh ok i play dont starve terraria and crashlands on my phone and have a very good time doing so but thats just me i like cradhlands cause its like dont starve meets pokemon😂
In an unintentional guide video, I saw another great way to kill tentacles. Use chester as a bait, then whack the tentacle with your mighty weapon.
I dunno - Chester can pretty easily get ganked by the tentacle. And don't they still hit you as long as you are close enough?
@@salendrak not if chester is tanking. Also, chester has 450 hp, not the highest level but still high and regenerates 22.5 hp every 3 seconds. It's enough even with a spear. You need 7.5 seconds with spear, in that time the tentacle deals a bit less than chester's life plus his regeneration. With better weapons you can kill tentacle ezly.
just passed 85 hours on Don't Starve so y'all know what that means. time to look up a beginner guide and actually make it a year
Sounds like a good plan to me! A lot of stuff in guides tends to not make a whole lot of sense if you haven't played the game much, but with the time you've invested so far, I'm pretty confident you'll have more than a few "a hah!" moments watching the guides!
I made it to 30 days! But then Wilson said "That sounded huge!" so I assumed it was Deerclops spawninh, I then prepared with a hambat, football helmet, and log suit. After being out my base so I could have an open area to fight it in, I didn't see the Deerclops so I assumed it despawned, while I was right about it despawning, I came back to my base and saw that it wrecked everything. I then froze to death. :(
And also after I saw my base destroyed, I ran to Maxwell's Door and entered it, I then died on chapter 1, came back to my normal world, THEN I froze to death.
Did you plant a sign away from your base? When Deerclops spawns she will target whatever the nearest structure is to wherever she spawns, so if you base was the nearest place with structures, she probably beelined towards it before you realized she had gone that way. Best practice is to get SEVERAL screens away from your base as soon as you hear the warning sounds, plant a sign, and make a big campfire. Don't use a firepit though - it can get destroyed too!
@@salendrak Oh. That makes sense. Thank you
Me watching this after playing nearly 200 hours: "YOU CAN FEED BEEFALO?!"
Yup! It wasn't a thing originally, but was added to single player a few years back with a QoL update.
@@salendrak Oh, well that makes more sense. I got most of my hours in back in 2015.
Are you still going to do future episodes?
Yes! I will be getting back to the Don't Starve series after a few more installments on the Terraria one. Hopefully in the next month or two!
i dont know how i never thought about using berries as bait to kill the damn turkeys
It's not terribly intuitive, but it works remarkably well!!
How about miscellaneous items, i have no idea what the mushrooms in the circle mean
The mushroom circles are just a convenient place to go to stock up on whatever color mushroom are in that circle. Red mushrooms are good crock-pot filler, green are good for sanity manipulation, and blue are the most versatile of the three.
I personally prefer having f as action and space bar as attack, for a better use of the thumb. Then, making c the 1st slot swapper makes you way more reactive. But you're free to do what you want (is this sentence right? I'm not english).
I personally use a Razer mouse that has numbers 1-12 under my thumb, which makes swapping really easy. Good idea on the swapping F and Space though - combat / kiting with F can sometimes be tricky depending on what direction you need to move, but having attack on Space would negate that issue. I might try it!!
@@salendrak ok, but from another youtuber called "Don Giani", making this a habit is painful.
Don Giani has great stuff!!
@@salendrak you know him?
Not personally, just know of him.
I've been playing for 2 days and I have only survived a max of 4 days in game.
Keep at it - you'll get better bit by bit, and soon enough you'll be a long-term survivor!
Have we got a new pewdiepie on our hands? let's see in 7 years
Hahah - but probably no. I don't think I have the right sort of personality :P
I'm really struggling getting past winter or summer😭
Keep at it - as you get more knowledge and experience your in-game efficient use of time will really help you to prepare for the season changes. Try to be ready for winter's cold and summer's heat at least a few days before the seasons change, and you should be good to go!
When’s episode 4
Hopefully sometime in the next month or so. I've got a few more episodes in my Terraria series I want to get done, then I'll get back to my Don't Starve guides starting with a food guide :)
Whare is the next part
Just came out!
Ohh I didn't know that bee hive fire and ice trick. I just run around until the angry bees are far enough and go back to hit the bee house which is fun but dangerous🤣 Btw I made a mistake of destroying a bee hive near my base and now several homeless angry bees are running around my base hitting poor chester :(
Single player bees are some of the hardest mobs in the game to fight if there's more than one or two of them - they're like special ops snipers!!
It seems like I'm making a mistake play8ng this on console xD I don't have hotkeys
Nah - I know plenty of people that play on console, and they do just fine!
You can lure the turkey with three red shrooms it will eat them and die
Turkey poison at its finest!! 😆
I thought the trees just turned evil if I carried too many pine cones around with me So when I started to plant them and they turned back into trees I thought I solved the problem 😭😂
Well I think you did!! Just not quite in the way you thought LOL! That would be totally funny though if carrying around pine cones did cause them to rise up!
Heh, if what if you create a video about the mobile controllers? But it isn't so needed
I honestly don't even know how I would record footage from my phone LOL
@@salendrak Really. U hasn't so many memory
Make more videos !
Food guide just came out - sorry for the delay on Don't Starve content, but more is on the way!
"New players generally move about the world using their mouse" This line is kind of bugging me It feels like you're forgetting the console and mobile versions
Fair point. I've always only ever played on PC (little bit on mobile, but never on console) so my guides are all from that perspective I guess. On the plus side, if you're on console you don't have to worry about mouse movement anyways!! Problem solved! 😆
I am a complete noon at this, always dying in the first few days
Keep at it! As you learn more and get more experience, you'll start to do better and better!
This game is so overwhelming lol
It definitely has a pretty steep learning curve, but is oh so satisfying to play once you get a handle on things!
I died from eating 2 much
Fun with red caps?! 😆