Caves & Ruins pt.2 (Don't Starve Reign of Giants - Beginner's Guide Series)
Welcome to Part 2 of my Beginner's Guide Series coverage of the Caves and Ancient Ruins. In this episode we'll be focusing on the biomes, residents, and resources found in the Single Player Don't Starve cave level, though I will mention many of the differences from Don't Starve Together. I'll also go over underground base building so you can live below the surface as long as you like, with tips on food and resources.
CONTENTS:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Sunken Forest
01:33 Slurtles & Snurtles
04:34 Cave Swamp
05:08 Lightflower Swamp & Tentapillars
06:00 Mushtree Forests
07:07 Bunnymen & Beard Lords
09:09 Rocky Plains & Rock Lobsters
10:15 Stalagmite Biome, Cave Spiders & Spitters
12:12 Tall Stalagmite Biome & Batilisks
12:55 Keep Moving & Stay Safe
13:29 Underground Base for Extended Expeditions
15:53 Food and the Art of Staying Well Fed (Underground Edition!)
17:02 Where to Set Up Camp
The next episode will focus on the Ruins level, it's biomes, inhabitants, and special challenges, and depending on how long it runs, maybe even all the fun things you can craft down there at the Ancient Pseudoscience Station.
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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!
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 "Main" and "Cave Work". 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. Please use a touchstone or craft a meat effigy before venturing into the ruins. Anyone up for some escargot?
You've done really well on this, Sal. I bet your kids dig the crap out of what you are doing. We need more fathers like you... Keep it up, friend.
Yeah, they think it's pretty cool, but admitted that they never watch the videos on KZhead themselves LOL
This will be super helpful!! Thank you! I definitely learned quite a few things that I didn't already know from this video.
I learned a few things too while making it!
Can't wait for the next one, this was infinitely helpful. So organized and well thought out! Survived all the way to summer for the first time ever thanks to this series, thank you so much
Awesome - and good job on your progress!! Next episode covering the ruins will be out later this month!
I noticed cave ponds also don't freeze over during the winter, great for off season fishing or refilling your watering cans in DST
It's true!! In single player they don't free either. Or, at least, I'm pretty sure they don't...
Great Cave Guide :) Like always plenty to learn and to put in use :) Looking forward to the third part!
Ruins!! Still not sure if there will be a fourth one after that though. We'll see!
@@salendrak Well I need as much information as I can possibly get :D I tried a Ruins Rush today and died miserably on day 14 xD but maybe high risk high reward is just not my cup of tea ^^
@@sera-chan8194 single player or DST?
@@salendrak DST. I just enjoy playing Wendy so much since her rework! It's just a joy to kill everything that comes in your way and work in the dark with your beloved sister giving you light and a hand in murder :3
THANK YOU. I probably wouldn't survive without all these tips. Keep making these videos please, your a good KZheadr!
Will do!! And thanks!!!
Before I saw this I didn't even know that r&g even had the ruins thanks for the good information 😁
Even vanilla does!
Thank you for these guides! Great stuff
Happy to be of service!!
bunnymen: hey klei look under there! keli: under where? bunnymen: haha i made u say underwear! klei: 8:02
lol
Wonderful video as always! keep up the great work
Thank - will do!!
Oh wow, I'm playing the mobile version and started at spring. Looking forward to going to caves during summer. I'm very excited for your ruins guide :D
I'll try to get the last one out in the next couple of week! Good luck!!
Great series!
Thanks!!
Very nice caves guide, Sal! As per usual. Just remember to not tempt the Murphy! 👀
NEVER tempt the Murphy!! Unless you're doing it to try to reverse psychology the Murphy, which surprising works pretty often!
I've read somewhere that you can maintain bee boxes down in the caves so long as the boxes and flowers get natural light. I'm trying to do it so I can make taffy and healing items during summer.
Natural light is actually not even needed in the caves! Not sure if it works differently in DST, but in single player you can plant flowers on any appropriate turf in the caves regardless of light. It can even be pitch black where you have the boxes and flowers, and the bees will still go out and pollinate! Doesn't work in the Ruins level though, as the bees think it's night all the time down there and stay in the box. They'll still generate 1 honey per day though if they are unloaded, but this is pretty slow and probably not worth the effort.
@@salendrak Thanks for the tip. I made the mistake of opening my bundling wrap with 20 bees in the caves not realizing doing so releases the live bees individually instead of as a pickable stack. You live and you learn...
i always leave these videos thinking im gonna be an expert and then i panic during the first hound attack.. i dont die during them anymore though!!!
Progress! I totally know what you mean though. Knowing what you're supposed to do is not always the same as being able to do it!
Thanks now i now how to find the runs. Cant wait tell the next video !
I'll probably be working on it next week!
@@salendrak ok thanks for responding and i hope you're channel gets more popular. I will tell everyone i can about you. ☻
@@gae7910 Awesome - thanks! 😁
YAYYY new video! on the day after my birthday!
Well happy birthday!!
@@salendrak Thanks! It was pretty mundane though I just ate pizza and doughnuts :/
@@Waltuh_put_your_d_away Pizza and doughnuts sounds like a good birthday to me!!
I’ve been having trouble wit ruins rushing and caves this helps
It's definitely a tricky thing to do!! I've never personally been that much of a fan of it in single player, as I prefer the gradual build up on the surface before moving down into the caves and ruins. Getting all the top tier stuff right at the beginning just makes everything else so trivial!!
I’m just setting up now and have stopped ruining rushing I’m taking it slow and haven’t gone down under yet but killed all seasonal bosses my first years as well as bee queen so pretty good first year but I think this next summer should be my time to set up a base down there and find the ruins and get to clearing!
Also wondering could i use rock lobsters for clearing the ruins if I feed enough rocks over time and kill ancient guardian the ruins are just annoying and I have no joy in the solo fight so could I cheese in a way here?
@@samsplaythroughs3567 I'm pretty sure the lobsters would do fine against the clockworks in the ruins, but the DST Ancient Guardian has WAY too much health and will eat the lobsters alive. The most common cheese method is to simply get yourself into a spot next to a pillar where you can hit the guardian but he can't hit you. I've never personally used this method though and don't really know the details of how it works. Beating bosses like that just isn't my style!
Y'know i played this game a lot and survived a full season above ground, but i stopped playing because i always die in the caves mostly bc of the worms, and especially in the ruins because I don't know what to do there And your guide videos inspired me to play this game again, so thank you. ❤️
Awesome! Makes me really happy when my videos inspire someone to come back and explore new areas! 😁
I decided to retreat after seeing those worms guarding lightbulb plants 😂
Discretion is the better part of valor!!
Resuming my notebook! ^-^
Pop quiz in the morning!!
At 15:15 I noticed... Did your bird have a pirate hat?! Great guide as always!
As far as i know thats always the case in Solo-DS. Imprisoned Birds always wear them hats!
They're stylish!! I think it's because I have Shipwrecked installed into the game or something. Not entirely sure though!
@@salendrak well i dont own shipwrecked and my solo-ds birds got the hat too, so i guess its not a shipwrecked thing.
@@MegaMacX Interesting!!
quality content! +1
Thanks!!
Guides are great as always! Sadly no news to report in dst as I have been busy grinding Terraria.
Haha - no worries there!
love the begginers guild series
Woot!!
love your vids. its weird, but i often lose my focus in the dont starve games. i explore the world, set up a camp... and most of the time die then. Mostly because of winter and the rarity of food during winter, at least for me, i cant figure out or remember recipes, or run into some type of enemy i cant handle with my experience of the game.
Keep at it! This really is a game where dying a lot early on is part of the learning curve. Since just about everything you aren't familiar with or don't know about will probably try to kill you, there are LOTS of opportunities to die while learning the ropes! But once you get past that curve, surviving is pretty easy, and a LOT of fun!!
Yay new vid, little bit late as always
Yeah, I'm definitely not able to keep up with the rate of progression of most gamers LOL
Great content has usual ! i just have 1 problem, it takes to long to come out ;( your videos are so good i just want more !
I would imagine these videos take quiet a bit of time to edit
Welcome to the conundrum of KZhead and content creation! I would love to pump out videos faster, but due to real-life obligations (kids, life, etc) unless I start making WAAAAYYYYY more revenue from the channel, I can't make more videos. But I can't make a ton more revenue unless I start making more videos, which I can't due until I start making more revenue, which....you get the picture LOL But yeah, this type of content really does take a LOT of time to put together, even spending several hours per day when my kids are in school, and sometimes in the evenings too!
@@salendrak Try patreon and sponsors !
@@KingPirateVideos Yeah, I'm working on getting Memberships set up (it's been an ongoing and slow process) but really should get a Patreon as well. I'm a bit on the fence with sponsors though as I always HATE having videos I'm watching basically interrupt the content to the sponsorship segment.
@@salendrak yeah i feel you but whatever way you choose ill be here to support you !
This series was fantastic, I made it past Bearger at last 😤 Would you ever make a guide to shipwrecked? The strategy seems completely different to vanilla DS + reign of giants
I've been meaning to do a Shipwrecked guide for a while now, but just haven't quite gotten around to it yet. Someday though - hopefully before too much longer!
@@salendrak yesssss im excited!
Ah, the caves. The only place where I'm building walls to protect my bases from snurtles and monkeys.
Ooooh I didn't think of mentioning that! I usually just stay far away from monkeys in single player, and snurtles I just destroy the mound if it's in a bad location.
i know the ruins are in the next ep, but is there any idea on where the ruins sinkhole spawns? like does it spawn in any biome or just random
In a stalagmite biome next to a blue mush-turf biome. Where that combination will be though is totally random.
@@salendrak thanks man. also i respect you replying to nearly every comment
@@wraithofradiation2977 Someday I hope to be a big enough channel that I can't do that hahah - but until then, I've got a precedent to uphold!
@@salendrak good luck dude!
Hey can you or someone else help i Play single player and the dragonfly doesnt come. Its my third summer and she didnt spawn. Is it Bad luck or my fault. Great content i am a big fan. Sorry for my Bad english. Greetings from austria ❤️
Bad luck! On default settings the single player seasonal giants have about a 66% chance to spawn each season. So although you'll usually get them, it's not uncommon to go several years in a row without seeing a particular giant at all. Case in point - in my Wagstaff world I've never seen MooseGoose after three springs!
are there ruins in rog pocket edition?????
and also when are u gonna make part 3
There are ruins, but from what I've heard it's pretty buggy and will sometimes brick your world. Pocket Edition unfortunately has LOTS of bugs, so enter the ruins at your own risk! :(
Went down there, forgot to bring more than a couple of torches. Big mistake.
Oooooh yeah - torches don't last nearly long enough or bright enough to function as a primary light source down in the caves. Definitely get a miner hat or lantern - or both. Bonus points for getting Moggles ASAP, as they really are amazing!!
Are ruins RoG exclusive or can you find them without RoG?
All the ruins stuff was actually in Vanilla! So you can do them without Reign of Giants!
@@salendrak good to know, thanks
These guides are by far the best. But I hate them. Xause they take so long to make. I'm waiting for part 3 and 4 and shipwrecked and hamlet
Yeah - sorry about that! I wish I could pump them out faster too, but various other responsibilities take priority!
@@salendrak I appreciate the response. And its definitely understandable. It will be worth the wait as it always is. Also it makes me feel even better supporting you because you want to make good videos instead of just pushing out content for contents sake. Thank you so much
I have never seen a red bird wearing a pirate hat lol hows that possible though?
I think that's a Shipwreck thing
Yeah, as long as you have Shipwrecked installed I think it does that, even if the world isn't linked to Shipwrecked. I think...
Yes first
You got it!!
I just killed 2 gaient tentacles becouse I thought it would lead me to the ruins now I'm insane and whit broken armor and there a bunny vilage between me(Weber) and the sink hole
Oooof - I hope those were actually tentacles! 😆 But yeah, in single player, no underground wormholes!! Hope you made it back out alive!!
@@salendrak holy I know I miss type some words but dear god that was awful i gotta be more careful
@@breadguy2224 Hahah - no worries. I got a good chuckle out of it! 🤣
I died from eating monster meat as wurt
Now that's a neat trick!
2nd
Indeed!!
Third!
LOL
@@salendrak I knew I shouldn’t have slept in haha can’t wait to watch this
Just never ever setup your base in the caves or ruins if you know you will world hop for resources. This will destroy your base.
Ummmm isn't that true though if your base is on the surface? World hop destroys everything from that expansion!
@@salendrak let s say for example, you have 3 bases, in hamlet, rog and caves from rog and you want to world hop in shipwrecked for more coffee. When you world hop even if you don t world hop in rog, caves and ruins from rog will be reseted aswell without the surface. Caves, ruins and vulcano are separetated from the surface world or something and every time when you wold hop in any dlc, they will be reset. I hope you understand what i want to say. And yes world hop destroy every thing from that dlc. But if you have a base in hamlet, and you world hop in rog for resources, your base from hamlet will be fine.
@@hatzjhon362 Wow! I honestly rarely world hop and have either never noticed that or just never heard of it before. I might have to test it out! What version do you play on? I wonder if it's a bug?
@@salendrak i play on steam. The latest version. Idk if this is a bug or a game feature.
69 nice
tee hee!