I'd recommend continuing this series for a full completion of year 1, the curveballs from spring and especially summer can be even more challenging to beginners than winter is
Summer has actually become pretty easy. Me and a friend decided to test cave basing in the lunar grotto. Stone fruit drops during cave ins, mole bats for monster meat, and plentiful mushrooms for filler in crockpots. Plus it being guaranteed connected to the blue mushroom forest meant we could keep away gestalts and heal, or let the gestalts boost your sanity with their aura when you want to leave. Easy sanity control, easy healing sources, and tons of food literally raining from the sky. Not to mention free living logs, thulecite, and close access to the ruins.
@@cookieelement3467 Not to mention that depthworms are like way too easy to deal with and therefore you don't even have to worry about the ever increasing waves of hounds.
Same. Only recently i've learned how to tank Deerclops and felt confident to try it. I always runned away from my base and waited for the night. But she would always got stuck doing something else, so i had to get her attention and run to the fire, but that could sometimes get me in trouble cuz my sanity would be empty by the time i killed her. I've died more than once to shadow creatures after the Deerclops fight. But then again, i'm not the best player there is.
You should really continue this guide. I've got 148 hours in DST and learn a bunch from you that I wouldn't have without a lot of dying because I don't have friends that play it.
I've spent SOOO much time being bad at this game (but absolutely having a blast) that only now, after over 300hrs+, i've learned that you can refine a purple gem.
Would love to see an intermediate guide as a followup to this covering more farms and other things to sustain a long term playthrough. That's the part of the game I get stuck on because I don't know what to do next, and a lot of your guides assume a high level of knowledge beyond this beginners guide that I don't have or start with the assumption that I'm much farther in my playthrough (and there's not a lot of guidance on how to get from here to there). I'm not sure how to get from this point to being able to confidently and sustainably tackle big bosses, the lunar island, etc.
Intermediate gameplay is a bit complicated because there are a variety of objectives and you'll have the resources and knowledge to carry out any of those plans. (ex. ruins rush, find lunar island, build a cave base, boats, magic items, base development, etc.).
Great video! An nsolicited advice from me. I noticed that you use various skins for buildings and items. I think the introductory videos will be clearer if you use the standard skins instead. The game is kinda hard to memorize even the standard ones.
Actually i never knew about the sign trick, this is actually extremity helpful as i usually spend half of day 31 trying to find deer clops. and that's why i still watch these guides after my 1000+ hours
Tips: If you dont have any winter insulating clothing and you're not Wilson, don't worry! A 100% thermal stone is enough for you to travel decent distances, and once it turns yellow you can just burn a tree to recharge it pretty quickly. Since I didn't find beefalo yet on my Warly world I just had to use a thermal stone, and I could travel across half the map while only needing to burn a tree twice. Another excellent source of food is a volt goat pen! Kill all the volt goats except one, then once its sleeping cage it up with stone walls and a gate. It'll spawn another volt goat every two days, which can be killed for two big meats and sometimes a volt goat horn. Also, if you're a Warly like me, don't pick cactus for sanity and don't make a shit ton of pierogi. You can't eat cactus and pierogi will have the repeat dish penalty. For healing, instead make a tent at your base for when you want to passively regain health, and only eat three pierogi or two trail mix in each sitting so it doesnt become worthless for the extra repeats.
I've started dealing with Mactusk in the most impractical but amusing way possible... During autumn I build a wall around his base camp and lure a Koalaphant into it. In my experience, one koala is more than a match for Mac, Mac Jr and the hounds they spawn with... though it's not guaranteed to work 100% of the time. Once the carnage is over, pop the fence open and reap the rewards!
during winter you should also farm a lot of ice, for pot filler and to make at least 1 Ice Flingomatic, summer can be a run breaker for newbies if you don't have a flingo
Probably a joke. He wouldn’t have brought up the hours if he was being genuine about how much it helped. And besides, very entertaining guides with nice tips make it enjoyable even for players with day thousand bases with every boss killed.
Thank you for these! Started playing as something my partner and I could play together but we keep struggling to survive much past day 15, now at least I know what we should've been doing :)
This series is amazing and I'd loved it if you continued. I've been following your tips and tricks for autumn/winter but could really do with a guide through for Spring/Summer as well as I find other youtube videos not as fun to watch as yours. Please keep making this series for beginner noobs like me :(
I'm actually not sure that it does, although I may have said that in a previous video. From what I can tell, the thermal stone has an innate insulation that is not affected by other clothing worn.
Jazzy is correct, insulating clothing does NOT help Thermal Stones stay hot AT ALL. I dearly wish that they did, but they don't. And that's the reason I've stopped wearing insulating clothing along with Thermals; it keeps your body temperature up, sure, but since I hate losing Thermal Stone durability, I'm always reheating my Thermal when it's been yellow for too long anyways (or, if you use Combined Status, when body temperature drops below 30 while using a Thermal and zero insulating clothing -- that's a good benchmark for when to go reheat the Thermal)
I can’t get past the first autumn. I know I’m a noob lol. But time…. That’s the problem. I don’t have enough time to do everything in autumn that needs to be done. Gather resources, find suitable base area, start crops etc. plus I suck at killing things. End up getting seriously hurt or going insane. I spend a few days trying to fix problems and boom…ran out of time to prepare for winter.
9:19 I prefer planting the pinecones I got earlier and and making Dearclops destroy the trees. This way, the treeguardians will probably kill him. This method is safer, you won’t waste resources and you’ll get wood and living logs...
Please make spring and summer tutorial! You tutorials are A++ and have helped me a lot. But now I'm lost and have no idea what I should be working toward in Spring and Summer
Beware of preparing for the deerclops Fight soon enough, my last Death was being short on meat so i didn't have the time to make enough periogis so i died trying to tank deerclops
@@ToasT_ED yep it does. The next day is full moon so it doesn't matter so much that it takes a while. Plus this whole thing makes the swamp little bit less dangerous. Also there isn't so much of a danger as fighting the deerclop head on. This is the way i do it in the first winter. Of course you can do it in your own way. I don't want to seem like im gatekeeping my tactic.
Its such a shame when i see the amount of likes. You deserve far more! I just finished all videos and im looking forward to try it out! It is a real good tutorial and i hope you continue it, making a letsplay out od the world or something :-)
I would recommend to cook meaty stew whenever one can for hunger, since it basically doubles hunger value of meat used in the recipe and ice can be used as 4th ingredient, that way one won't need as much ice compared to meatballs and spend time to mine it, even for Wilson (despite bacon and eggs being favourite food, 150 is better than 90 hunger, just cook 2 for next 4 days and leave ingredients for next dishes in ice box) and Wigfrid (despite 120 maximum hunger, she is still profitting around 45 additional hunger, or +60% hunger value on average), and even if one lets meaty stew go stale it still gives 100 hunger, which is still better than fresh bacon and eggs/meatballs. As for sources of large meat - pigs, volt goats (one should leave 1 alive from each herd) and koalephants are providing more than enough large meat, and farming them gives useful additional products, such as pig skin, volt goat horns (and milk for ice cream once one horn has dropped and morning star was crafted), koalephant trunk (additional hunger + healing, winter one is good for winter insulation clothing). Also this guide assumes that one plays solo if I understand correctly, but players on public servers can't count on beefalo hat for everyone (usually attempts to farm beefalo horns lead to beefalo extinction), as well as on eyebrella for spring. Good alternative to that are puffy vest (same insulation as beefalo hat, + 2 sanity per minute, takes body slot, but has higher durability) for protection from freezing, and the best thing is koalephants can't go extinct completely, there will always be an option for hunt. For rain + lightning protection rain coat (body slot, protects as good as eyebrella, has higher durability) is good if there happen to be 2 tentacle spots in the swamp from all the fighting (and if not, I recommend to lead deerclops here - this way one can get rid of deerclops, not spend resources on armor and healing, make swamp less dangerous place, farm tentacle spots and tentacle spikes, weapon which doen't spoil, has decent damage and isn't locked behind shadow manipulator, doesn't drain sanity, damage doesn't depend on weather), rain hat (70% protection, but combined with standing under tree is good enough to start drying off) or umbrella + almost any helmet (although this combo doesn't protect from lightning). One shouldn't be afraid of giving up backpack slot, just plan next resource gathering trip ahead; also this opens an option for head light + cane/weapon/tool combo in harsh seasons, which is superior to lantern in vast majority of cases because one can use cane/weapon/tool and have light source on them moving with them, and light radius of miner hat doesn't become visually smaller the less fuel is left in it. If one manages to get moggles, they are good to use when one is close to be insane because of insanity filter. Also it shoud be noted that burning trees (2 in a row) or using magma pools allows to heat thermal stones to maximum temperature, and maximum level fire pit doesn't give as much heat (which means one has less time before thermals go cold and will need recharge), so to save resorces, it's better to drop thermal stone under the tree and lit it on fire, or base relatively close to dragonfly set piece and have multiple thermal stones heated up near magma pool. As for light, tip for beginners or not: have chest of lanterns/miner hats/moggles to reduce frequency of needing to go to the caves for fuel. Keep in mind that 1 full lantern/miner hat/moggles lasts 8 minutes (16 clock segments) and plan accordingly when to return to base/go to caves again. And one more thing people are often not aware off: its generally better to keep meats raw and cook over fire when they are spoiled, but monster meat is exception: it's better to cook it as soon as possible since raw mm spoils in 6 days, and cooked in 15 (has more than double durability of raw product). Unless one has enough drying racks for all the meat (btw, amazing structure), then it's better to keep meat raw as long as possible and then dry it to prolong it's lifetime. Edit: apparently I missed that it's guide for solo playthrough (sorry for that), but each of my points including body slot clothing still stands, since solo player can profit from head light just as well as team player (beefalo hat + lantern are good, don't get me wrong, but the more decent options mentioned, the better, no?). I also mentioned spring preparation because it's better to prepare to next season during the previous one, so spring strategy technically can be a part of winter guide.
none of these are bad tips; however some of them are beyond the reach of beginners; btw, Jazzy also advises learning Meaty Stew in his "top foods for beginners" video, which he briefly references in this video. very few beginners are even gutsy enough to begin exploring the Caves beyond the vicinity of the sinkhole/stairs, let alone dare to fight a Depths Worm, so Moggles are out of the question for 95+% of newbies.
@@m3gusta17 , regardless meaty stew I specifically mentioned it for Wilson and Wigfrid cases, which wasn't covered in "top foods for beginners"; "very few beginners are even gutsy enough to begin exploring the Caves beyond the vicinity of the sinkhole/stairs" - and that they should change about their approach, since caves have a lot of valuable resources, such as reliable living logs, bunnymen (not as food, but more as fighters), early gems, lightbulb fields (enough to refuel full chest of lanterns/miner hats), fossils (good for ovens and blocking mobs in general), glow berries/lesser glow berries, etc. And since debth worms come in periodic attacks, beginner needs to know how to deal with them and how to utilize resources they drop, just like being beginner do not justify lack of knowledge of dealing with hounds.
@@alinashirokaya3954 Thanks for the reply. There are so many good approaches to the early-game and making this series was one of the most challenging exercises in info consolidation I've ever undertaken. So I appreciate that there were plenty of good tips that I missed and that we can pick up some of the slack in these comments. As Megusta mentioned, I do cover the benefits of meaty stew in my guide to beginner CP recipes. Because I really had to pick and choose for this guide and keep it short enough I went with meatballs/pierogi, the simplest and IMO most important recipes. Winter is actually one of the few times where meatballs can be more efficient, since ice is very easy to acquire you can generate more hunger from three meatballs than you can from three pieces of meat. This is not the case with different filler. I would even argue that acquiring tons of ice is simpler and less dangerous for a beginner than large meat, but I do cover those other meat sources in early videos. If you watch the other videos in the series you might see a few of the other points addressed, but yeah it was going to become too long if I went into too many character-specific strategies or the multiplayer aspect. Regardless, you are correct that they are important points and I appreciate that you include them here. Thanks for the thoughts!
@@JazzysGames , thank you for the guide, it's a good one, and I understand that it's hard to maintain balance between too much and too little information, especially since surviving season includes a lot of aspects, not only food, but temperature measurement, light, fighting (weapons and armor, common enemies behaviour), preparation for the next challenges (e.i. getting winter-specific resources and other particular resources), etc, and in each aspect there are a lot of details. But there is a problem I saw once I started playing on the pubs: beginners often know some piece of information, do ok things in terms of usefulness to survivial, but they don't pay attention to circumstances, and when the only ok method they know about stops to work/works less efficient, they are lost and don't know what to do, often die. That's why I wrote that comment, for potential beginners to have plan B in mind in case beefalos didn't drop horn, or if one doesn't have enough filler but has meat/way to get that meat (it might be actually faster to hunt koala and cook 4 meaty stew than mine ice for 9-10 meatballs). Speaking of efficiency: not only raw dish stats should be compared, but time and resources spend to get ingredients, as well as time to cook/eat all of that. As for ice mining, there are other useful things that can be done with it, so I try to preserve it, but I agree that it would be silly to die from starvation with all ingredients for meatballs available, even if it's meat and ice. What I'd like to add to this guide is to never run over open fire with ice in inventory (for example while burning entity to heat up thermal stone), because it looses a lot of freshness even if world temperature is still below 0. Another thing is to prototype golden pickaxe for all ice mining, or use multiple regular pickaxes until 3% durability is left and then craft thermal stones with them. I have a suggestion for future guide: comparison of pros and cons of different insulation strategies, weapons, armors, light sources, their combinations - like a table with stats and examples when this item/combo can be better than others, and when it's better to look for other option. If you consider that too much work, it's totally understandable though. Edit: about meaty stew, maybe I was just traumatized after playing on public server, when Wigfrid yelled at me "cook me only turkey dinner, it's my favourite food", even though I had ingredients for meatballs and meaty stew (I was Warly), and we were right next to bee biome (so potentially I could cook honey nuggets/ham).
Jazzy I recommend you record guides on an offline world next time, because it automatically makes all skins default, skins may sometimes confuse beginners and they don't know which item it is
That does have its merits, but a powdercake will expire if left on the ground after some time and as rot it could dangerously merge with other rots lying elsewhere. If you hammered all the pig houses you should have way more than enough pigskin.
I'm not a beginner player in this game. I have over 100 hours in this game, and at least 200 hours watching videos from you and other dst youtubers. But I still do have one major question that you would be able to answer better than most. How can I stay motivated in this game? Multiplayer is currently not an option for me; nobody I know is interested in the game. I just don't know how to motivate myself with a lot of parts of the game. So I was wondering: what kinds of things can I do to make the game more fun? I want to play as Warly or Wigfrid, but I've never practiced their strats, so I'm stuck starving after I run out of meat on Wigfrid, or when I forget how to make recipe #304 so I can no longer eat as Warly. I suppose trying that is a start, but what else can I do?
I'm not Jazzy, so I'll let him answer your character-specific questions (but feel free to let me know if you want my take as well) -- but as far as your statement about nobody you know being interested in the game... I would recommend joining Jazzy's discord! He hosts a dedicated Endless server that his community plays on, and the vast majority of the players there are extremely friendly and helpful. I'd encourage you to give the discord a shot if you'd like to play with others! :)
I've learned from experience that rot for bait can give you trouble. Rot stacks off screen with other rot, so it could combine with some outside of the pen and then your werepigs will go smash.
Hey Jazzy wanna try again Uncompromising Mode? Because it's came a new update called "Combat Update" it is changed and added new mobs, tools, attacks maybe you can check it out? Also if you are going do a stream or video about mode again, please do with Don he is adds so much fun to the streams :)
both items serve a different purpose, so they are not comparable Beefalo Hat helps you slow freezing, while the Football Helmet gives you damage reduction, during winter you carry both you put on the Beefalo Hat when you are walking around the map, and put on the Football Helmet when you are going to fight
Plant seeds, kill spiders, mine glaciers for ice, pick cactus, etc. I have a guide called "How to Avoid Starvation in Every Season" that might be helpful.
Ingredients in a crock pot that are not required of the recipe. For example, meaty stew needs 3 meat, but the fourth ingredient can be a filler such as egg, veggie, ice, etc.
Where is part 5????????????????????? I need ;_; I'll literally pay you $15 for a part 5 - I know that doesn't cover everything but ye. And I'm a stingy guy btw so this is impressive
I'd recommend continuing this series for a full completion of year 1, the curveballs from spring and especially summer can be even more challenging to beginners than winter is
Seconded.
Summer is annoying because you can’t go anywhere or else everything catches on fire
Summer has actually become pretty easy. Me and a friend decided to test cave basing in the lunar grotto. Stone fruit drops during cave ins, mole bats for monster meat, and plentiful mushrooms for filler in crockpots. Plus it being guaranteed connected to the blue mushroom forest meant we could keep away gestalts and heal, or let the gestalts boost your sanity with their aura when you want to leave. Easy sanity control, easy healing sources, and tons of food literally raining from the sky. Not to mention free living logs, thulecite, and close access to the ruins.
@@cookieelement3467 Not to mention that depthworms are like way too easy to deal with and therefore you don't even have to worry about the ever increasing waves of hounds.
I feel like spring is pretty hard itself. a full completion of year 1 would be great!
I just fought deerclops like a man by luring him to a swamp and letting tentacles do the job for me
lol
Huh. Never thought of luring Deerclops with a sign.
You learn something new everyday, I guess.
Same. Only recently i've learned how to tank Deerclops and felt confident to try it. I always runned away from my base and waited for the night. But she would always got stuck doing something else, so i had to get her attention and run to the fire, but that could sometimes get me in trouble cuz my sanity would be empty by the time i killed her. I've died more than once to shadow creatures after the Deerclops fight. But then again, i'm not the best player there is.
@@kelvinmartins For tanking deerclops I use a marble suit with a football helmet because I don't trust a football helmet only
You should really continue this guide. I've got 148 hours in DST and learn a bunch from you that I wouldn't have without a lot of dying because I don't have friends that play it.
I've spent SOOO much time being bad at this game (but absolutely having a blast) that only now, after over 300hrs+, i've learned that you can refine a purple gem.
Me: has 1000+ hours of DST gameplay
Sees Jazzy's beginner guide
watches it anyway
You kno 1000 hours is like 40-50 days play :/
90% of views
@@slicewdb 50 days is about 6 hours. or u mean real days?
Lol legit me high af right now.
POV:I’m 1500 hours I’m more
Would love to see an intermediate guide as a followup to this covering more farms and other things to sustain a long term playthrough. That's the part of the game I get stuck on because I don't know what to do next, and a lot of your guides assume a high level of knowledge beyond this beginners guide that I don't have or start with the assumption that I'm much farther in my playthrough (and there's not a lot of guidance on how to get from here to there). I'm not sure how to get from this point to being able to confidently and sustainably tackle big bosses, the lunar island, etc.
Intermediate gameplay is a bit complicated because there are a variety of objectives and you'll have the resources and knowledge to carry out any of those plans. (ex. ruins rush, find lunar island, build a cave base, boats, magic items, base development, etc.).
Great video! An nsolicited advice from me.
I noticed that you use various skins for buildings and items. I think the introductory videos will be clearer if you use the standard skins instead. The game is kinda hard to memorize even the standard ones.
You should make guide on all seasonal bosses for new players (after all the season beginner guides are done)
Actually i never knew about the sign trick, this is actually extremity helpful as i usually spend half of day 31 trying to find deer clops.
and that's why i still watch these guides after my 1000+ hours
I hope you continue the series one day, the game is really hard, when you dont know what to prepare for, and this guide helps a lot :)
Tips:
If you dont have any winter insulating clothing and you're not Wilson, don't worry! A 100% thermal stone is enough for you to travel decent distances, and once it turns yellow you can just burn a tree to recharge it pretty quickly. Since I didn't find beefalo yet on my Warly world I just had to use a thermal stone, and I could travel across half the map while only needing to burn a tree twice.
Another excellent source of food is a volt goat pen! Kill all the volt goats except one, then once its sleeping cage it up with stone walls and a gate. It'll spawn another volt goat every two days, which can be killed for two big meats and sometimes a volt goat horn.
Also, if you're a Warly like me, don't pick cactus for sanity and don't make a shit ton of pierogi. You can't eat cactus and pierogi will have the repeat dish penalty. For healing, instead make a tent at your base for when you want to passively regain health, and only eat three pierogi or two trail mix in each sitting so it doesnt become worthless for the extra repeats.
I have 250 hours in the game and I still watch videos like this )
i have 99999999999999999999999999999999 hours on this game and i still have my mom wipe my ass
@@PentaromaLMA0 All gamers have bro)
@@xdxd-gi4tl lol yeah
I've started dealing with Mactusk in the most impractical but amusing way possible... During autumn I build a wall around his base camp and lure a Koalaphant into it. In my experience, one koala is more than a match for Mac, Mac Jr and the hounds they spawn with... though it's not guaranteed to work 100% of the time. Once the carnage is over, pop the fence open and reap the rewards!
That's hilarious! i gotta try that myself :'D
during winter you should also farm a lot of ice, for pot filler and to make at least 1 Ice Flingomatic, summer can be a run breaker for newbies if you don't have a flingo
thanks i really needed this since i only have 523 hours in the game
I don't know weather this is a joke or not but I've got over one hundred hours and I'm genuinely terrible and have only killed dearclopes twice☹️
Probably a joke. He wouldn’t have brought up the hours if he was being genuine about how much it helped. And besides, very entertaining guides with nice tips make it enjoyable even for players with day thousand bases with every boss killed.
İ wasnt joking about thr hours but its entertaining so i like it
Thank you for these! Started playing as something my partner and I could play together but we keep struggling to survive much past day 15, now at least I know what we should've been doing :)
thank you so much 😭😭 Your instructions are very easy to understand. I'm having trouble with winter
This series is amazing and I'd loved it if you continued. I've been following your tips and tricks for autumn/winter but could really do with a guide through for Spring/Summer as well as I find other youtube videos not as fun to watch as yours. Please keep making this series for beginner noobs like me :(
the combination of beefalo hat (or tam) and thermal stone is awesome because insulation clothes make the stone last longer.
I'm actually not sure that it does, although I may have said that in a previous video. From what I can tell, the thermal stone has an innate insulation that is not affected by other clothing worn.
Jazzy is correct, insulating clothing does NOT help Thermal Stones stay hot AT ALL.
I dearly wish that they did, but they don't. And that's the reason I've stopped wearing insulating clothing along with Thermals; it keeps your body temperature up, sure, but since I hate losing Thermal Stone durability, I'm always reheating my Thermal when it's been yellow for too long anyways (or, if you use Combined Status, when body temperature drops below 30 while using a Thermal and zero insulating clothing -- that's a good benchmark for when to go reheat the Thermal)
I can’t get past the first autumn. I know I’m a noob lol. But time…. That’s the problem. I don’t have enough time to do everything in autumn that needs to be done. Gather resources, find suitable base area, start crops etc. plus I suck at killing things. End up getting seriously hurt or going insane. I spend a few days trying to fix problems and boom…ran out of time to prepare for winter.
9:19 I prefer planting the pinecones I got earlier and and making Dearclops destroy the trees. This way, the treeguardians will probably kill him. This method is safer, you won’t waste resources and you’ll get wood and living logs...
Would love to see this continue!
You should do more playthroughs like with Hamlet!
Please make spring and summer tutorial! You tutorials are A++ and have helped me a lot. But now I'm lost and have no idea what I should be working toward in Spring and Summer
Would love to see you go through the rest of the seasons
That "Please don't eat the eyeball" really caught me by surprise.
Beware of preparing for the deerclops Fight soon enough, my last Death was being short on meat so i didn't have the time to make enough periogis so i died trying to tank deerclops
One thing i love to do with deerclops is to lure her to the swamp. It's little messy, but you get some free meat and tentacle spikes from it.
I don't know about you but the Reed trap is very rare for my worlds
@@ToasT_ED you dont need one. You can just lead it to tentacles that naturally spawned in to the swamp and after a while deerclops will die
@@empa5059 your way takes a while
@@ToasT_ED yep it does. The next day is full moon so it doesn't matter so much that it takes a while. Plus this whole thing makes the swamp little bit less dangerous. Also there isn't so much of a danger as fighting the deerclop head on.
This is the way i do it in the first winter. Of course you can do it in your own way. I don't want to seem like im gatekeeping my tactic.
Theres usually an area with tons of spiders too. I loaded up on 100+ silks and other spider products by having clopsy take them all out.
You have the best educational dont starve content. Thanks for the walkthrough!
Please continue this series. 🙏
Hi! Please continue this series sometime, it’s very useful
Its such a shame when i see the amount of likes. You deserve far more! I just finished all videos and im looking forward to try it out! It is a real good tutorial and i hope you continue it, making a letsplay out od the world or something :-)
What are the mods that you have been using? These guides are so helpful, thank you for sharing your experience!
Miss these videos :(
Hi Jazzy can you make a video of which mods to use in 2022 for playing Dont starve together? thank you!
I would recommend to cook meaty stew whenever one can for hunger, since it basically doubles hunger value of meat used in the recipe and ice can be used as 4th ingredient, that way one won't need as much ice compared to meatballs and spend time to mine it, even for Wilson (despite bacon and eggs being favourite food, 150 is better than 90 hunger, just cook 2 for next 4 days and leave ingredients for next dishes in ice box) and Wigfrid (despite 120 maximum hunger, she is still profitting around 45 additional hunger, or +60% hunger value on average), and even if one lets meaty stew go stale it still gives 100 hunger, which is still better than fresh bacon and eggs/meatballs.
As for sources of large meat - pigs, volt goats (one should leave 1 alive from each herd) and koalephants are providing more than enough large meat, and farming them gives useful additional products, such as pig skin, volt goat horns (and milk for ice cream once one horn has dropped and morning star was crafted), koalephant trunk (additional hunger + healing, winter one is good for winter insulation clothing).
Also this guide assumes that one plays solo if I understand correctly, but players on public servers can't count on beefalo hat for everyone (usually attempts to farm beefalo horns lead to beefalo extinction), as well as on eyebrella for spring. Good alternative to that are puffy vest (same insulation as beefalo hat, + 2 sanity per minute, takes body slot, but has higher durability) for protection from freezing, and the best thing is koalephants can't go extinct completely, there will always be an option for hunt. For rain + lightning protection rain coat (body slot, protects as good as eyebrella, has higher durability) is good if there happen to be 2 tentacle spots in the swamp from all the fighting (and if not, I recommend to lead deerclops here - this way one can get rid of deerclops, not spend resources on armor and healing, make swamp less dangerous place, farm tentacle spots and tentacle spikes, weapon which doen't spoil, has decent damage and isn't locked behind shadow manipulator, doesn't drain sanity, damage doesn't depend on weather), rain hat (70% protection, but combined with standing under tree is good enough to start drying off) or umbrella + almost any helmet (although this combo doesn't protect from lightning). One shouldn't be afraid of giving up backpack slot, just plan next resource gathering trip ahead; also this opens an option for head light + cane/weapon/tool combo in harsh seasons, which is superior to lantern in vast majority of cases because one can use cane/weapon/tool and have light source on them moving with them, and light radius of miner hat doesn't become visually smaller the less fuel is left in it. If one manages to get moggles, they are good to use when one is close to be insane because of insanity filter.
Also it shoud be noted that burning trees (2 in a row) or using magma pools allows to heat thermal stones to maximum temperature, and maximum level fire pit doesn't give as much heat (which means one has less time before thermals go cold and will need recharge), so to save resorces, it's better to drop thermal stone under the tree and lit it on fire, or base relatively close to dragonfly set piece and have multiple thermal stones heated up near magma pool.
As for light, tip for beginners or not: have chest of lanterns/miner hats/moggles to reduce frequency of needing to go to the caves for fuel. Keep in mind that 1 full lantern/miner hat/moggles lasts 8 minutes (16 clock segments) and plan accordingly when to return to base/go to caves again.
And one more thing people are often not aware off: its generally better to keep meats raw and cook over fire when they are spoiled, but monster meat is exception: it's better to cook it as soon as possible since raw mm spoils in 6 days, and cooked in 15 (has more than double durability of raw product). Unless one has enough drying racks for all the meat (btw, amazing structure), then it's better to keep meat raw as long as possible and then dry it to prolong it's lifetime.
Edit: apparently I missed that it's guide for solo playthrough (sorry for that), but each of my points including body slot clothing still stands, since solo player can profit from head light just as well as team player (beefalo hat + lantern are good, don't get me wrong, but the more decent options mentioned, the better, no?). I also mentioned spring preparation because it's better to prepare to next season during the previous one, so spring strategy technically can be a part of winter guide.
none of these are bad tips; however some of them are beyond the reach of beginners; btw, Jazzy also advises learning Meaty Stew in his "top foods for beginners" video, which he briefly references in this video.
very few beginners are even gutsy enough to begin exploring the Caves beyond the vicinity of the sinkhole/stairs, let alone dare to fight a Depths Worm, so Moggles are out of the question for 95+% of newbies.
@@m3gusta17 , regardless meaty stew I specifically mentioned it for Wilson and Wigfrid cases, which wasn't covered in "top foods for beginners";
"very few beginners are even gutsy enough to begin exploring the Caves beyond the vicinity of the sinkhole/stairs" - and that they should change about their approach, since caves have a lot of valuable resources, such as reliable living logs, bunnymen (not as food, but more as fighters), early gems, lightbulb fields (enough to refuel full chest of lanterns/miner hats), fossils (good for ovens and blocking mobs in general), glow berries/lesser glow berries, etc. And since debth worms come in periodic attacks, beginner needs to know how to deal with them and how to utilize resources they drop, just like being beginner do not justify lack of knowledge of dealing with hounds.
@@alinashirokaya3954 Thanks for the reply. There are so many good approaches to the early-game and making this series was one of the most challenging exercises in info consolidation I've ever undertaken. So I appreciate that there were plenty of good tips that I missed and that we can pick up some of the slack in these comments.
As Megusta mentioned, I do cover the benefits of meaty stew in my guide to beginner CP recipes. Because I really had to pick and choose for this guide and keep it short enough I went with meatballs/pierogi, the simplest and IMO most important recipes. Winter is actually one of the few times where meatballs can be more efficient, since ice is very easy to acquire you can generate more hunger from three meatballs than you can from three pieces of meat. This is not the case with different filler. I would even argue that acquiring tons of ice is simpler and less dangerous for a beginner than large meat, but I do cover those other meat sources in early videos.
If you watch the other videos in the series you might see a few of the other points addressed, but yeah it was going to become too long if I went into too many character-specific strategies or the multiplayer aspect. Regardless, you are correct that they are important points and I appreciate that you include them here. Thanks for the thoughts!
@@JazzysGames , thank you for the guide, it's a good one, and I understand that it's hard to maintain balance between too much and too little information, especially since surviving season includes a lot of aspects, not only food, but temperature measurement, light, fighting (weapons and armor, common enemies behaviour), preparation for the next challenges (e.i. getting winter-specific resources and other particular resources), etc, and in each aspect there are a lot of details. But there is a problem I saw once I started playing on the pubs: beginners often know some piece of information, do ok things in terms of usefulness to survivial, but they don't pay attention to circumstances, and when the only ok method they know about stops to work/works less efficient, they are lost and don't know what to do, often die. That's why I wrote that comment, for potential beginners to have plan B in mind in case beefalos didn't drop horn, or if one doesn't have enough filler but has meat/way to get that meat (it might be actually faster to hunt koala and cook 4 meaty stew than mine ice for 9-10 meatballs). Speaking of efficiency: not only raw dish stats should be compared, but time and resources spend to get ingredients, as well as time to cook/eat all of that.
As for ice mining, there are other useful things that can be done with it, so I try to preserve it, but I agree that it would be silly to die from starvation with all ingredients for meatballs available, even if it's meat and ice. What I'd like to add to this guide is to never run over open fire with ice in inventory (for example while burning entity to heat up thermal stone), because it looses a lot of freshness even if world temperature is still below 0. Another thing is to prototype golden pickaxe for all ice mining, or use multiple regular pickaxes until 3% durability is left and then craft thermal stones with them.
I have a suggestion for future guide: comparison of pros and cons of different insulation strategies, weapons, armors, light sources, their combinations - like a table with stats and examples when this item/combo can be better than others, and when it's better to look for other option. If you consider that too much work, it's totally understandable though.
Edit: about meaty stew, maybe I was just traumatized after playing on public server, when Wigfrid yelled at me "cook me only turkey dinner, it's my favourite food", even though I had ingredients for meatballs and meaty stew (I was Warly), and we were right next to bee biome (so potentially I could cook honey nuggets/ham).
I mean, I probably would have told Wigfrid to cook her own damn turkey dinner.
continue the guide please!
the boss came when i revided at a haunted stone bc a beefalow killed me instead of the hunts... i am loosing my mind rn lol
PLS CONTINUE SERIESSSSS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Jazzy I recommend you record guides on an offline world next time, because it automatically makes all skins default, skins may sometimes confuse beginners and they don't know which item it is
Don't know if anybody else asked this yet, but does the pig farm still work if your webber or wortox?
Yeah I'd just build it a little further away from your main area and only farm them on full moons.
@@JazzysGames Thanks!
Great video!
These are good tips, but definitely not a beginner's guide. Most people won't be able to do a lot of this on their first winter.
I still prefer the old powdercake as bait, I'd much rather have another pigskin in my chest than another corn in my fridge
That does have its merits, but a powdercake will expire if left on the ground after some time and as rot it could dangerously merge with other rots lying elsewhere. If you hammered all the pig houses you should have way more than enough pigskin.
@@ey8648 You do know how long powdercake lasts right? Even with rain and being on the ground it spoiling is still a complete non issue
@@FIamestalker Powdercake gang reporting in
absolutely loved it
For the algorithm. Good video!
I'm not a beginner player in this game. I have over 100 hours in this game, and at least 200 hours watching videos from you and other dst youtubers. But I still do have one major question that you would be able to answer better than most. How can I stay motivated in this game? Multiplayer is currently not an option for me; nobody I know is interested in the game. I just don't know how to motivate myself with a lot of parts of the game. So I was wondering: what kinds of things can I do to make the game more fun? I want to play as Warly or Wigfrid, but I've never practiced their strats, so I'm stuck starving after I run out of meat on Wigfrid, or when I forget how to make recipe #304 so I can no longer eat as Warly. I suppose trying that is a start, but what else can I do?
I'm not Jazzy, so I'll let him answer your character-specific questions (but feel free to let me know if you want my take as well) -- but as far as your statement about nobody you know being interested in the game... I would recommend joining Jazzy's discord! He hosts a dedicated Endless server that his community plays on, and the vast majority of the players there are extremely friendly and helpful.
I'd encourage you to give the discord a shot if you'd like to play with others! :)
@@m3gusta17 thank you, kind sir.
the fact that jazzy has imo one of the greatest communities on youtube really helps
I was wating endless house for that video...
Pigs will eat anything edible so you could just put a berry down and even if it spoils the pigs will go “hahaha food go brrrrrrr”
I've learned from experience that rot for bait can give you trouble. Rot stacks off screen with other rot, so it could combine with some outside of the pen and then your werepigs will go smash.
@@JazzysGames true I prefer to use powder cakes since gobblers pigs and other animals love it even though it’s just a Twinkie that kills you
I jus survived my first winter with WX and killed deer clops
Hey Jazzy wanna try again Uncompromising Mode? Because it's came a new update called "Combat Update" it is changed and added new mobs, tools, attacks maybe you can check it out? Also if you are going do a stream or video about mode again, please do with Don he is adds so much fun to the streams :)
Love your videos jazzy! Have over 200 hours and still like picking up new little tricks from this series.
Why do you sound like Senku? It’s awesome!
Is the beefalo hat better than the football helmet?
both items serve a different purpose, so they are not comparable
Beefalo Hat helps you slow freezing, while the Football Helmet gives you damage reduction, during winter you carry both
you put on the Beefalo Hat when you are walking around the map, and put on the Football Helmet when you are going to fight
@@DragoSmash Thanks 😁🤩
The Crockpot UI is a mod or vanilla feature?
hay, do you have advice for dont stave players who want to get into DST but dont know what to prioritize?
Every pole using pierogi: 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Hi, I've always been stuck with running low on food and healings in winter, is there any suggestions on how I can get or make more food?
Plant seeds, kill spiders, mine glaciers for ice, pick cactus, etc. I have a guide called "How to Avoid Starvation in Every Season" that might be helpful.
@@JazzysGames Thanks man! Well appreciated!
Just bought this game lol
how to get the backpack like that??
Noice guide
Hi, what mods do you use to see the dishes menu?
are you using a texture pack? if so what is the name?
i have 1000 hours in dst but im still watching. WHY???
oi where is part 5?
Wow I painfully found an easy way to guarantee dodging clops after 3 attacks, to think thats not even meta, just tanking and spamming is
Oh you can totally kite Clops, I just don’t generally recommend it because you go crazy super fast and then you need to deal with nightmare creatures.
either go full noob friendly or dont. now i gotta look up what counts as filler
Lol you could have just asked.
@@JazzysGames what is filler
Ingredients in a crock pot that are not required of the recipe. For example, meaty stew needs 3 meat, but the fourth ingredient can be a filler such as egg, veggie, ice, etc.
At 11:19, are those roads on his base? How'd I make them?
Pitchforks. Probably.
Winter is easy but summer and antlion
Goooooooooood !!!
Please don't eat the eye ball.
Randoms: TOO LATE >:)
Where is part 5????????????????????? I need ;_;
I'll literally pay you $15 for a part 5 - I know that doesn't cover everything but ye. And I'm a stingy guy btw so this is impressive
Mactusk, 2 and a half days I think? Just being a dick. Thanks jazzy! Wes world!
I hate summer in ds
Is this beginner? Hell no.
First
PLEASE DONT WRAP UP THIS SERIES