EASY Starter Guide for Beginners | Don't Starve Together

Welcome to another Don't Starve Together guide! Today I will walk you through Day 1 of a new world and talk about how to survive in your first Autumn, how to fight basic mobs, what to gather, and how to tech up as you map out the world. Autumn is an important season for learning the location of resources and preparing for Winter in Don't Starve Together, and I hope you find the info useful!

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Music:
"QuangerineCream" - Noir Et Blanc Vie
"Opened Eyes Woke" - RAGE
"So Long Analog" - Noir Et Blanc Vie
"Lunar Levitation" - Aakash Gandhi
"Hanging Out" - Bruno E

The debris from the moon didn't just reach the forest. It's influence has penetrated down into the caves as well, not only mutating its already strange occupants, but opening areas that had been long forgotten. Forgotten Knowledge is the sixth major release of updates under the Return of Them theme and adds two new cave biomes: the Lunar Grotto and the Ancient Archives. It also adds several new mobs, three new crockpot recipes, and two crafting stations including another moon altar and a station for crafting natural turf.

Troubled Waters, the fifth Don't Starve Return of Them update, added new ocean mobs, foods, craftables, structures, and eight new crockpot recipes. It also added leafy meat as a crockpot ingredient and renewable volt goat herds.

She Sells Seashells went live in April 2020. An Island fragment of the moon has left a lonely creature stranded. Is it friendly? Time will tell. New features include messages in bottles, the moon fragment island, the Crabby Hermit, Crab King, new seasonal fish, the Wobster and Wobster Den the Winch Boat structure, sunken treasures, and singing shells.

Throughout 2019, Klei released a series of game updates available to all players, under the single thematic focus entitled “Return of Them."

"Hook, Line, & Inker" will be remembered as the big fishing update. We finally have the tools we need to go sailing and fish around literally anywhere in the ocean. This update added over a dozen new ocean mobs, three new crockpot recipes, and tons of new craftable items and structures. Most of these new additions are tailored toward the goal of dramatically expanding the fishing experience in DST.

Charlie’s machinations have come to a head as she turns her attention towards the skies - and the mysterious entity that awaits there. Our Survivors will be forced to contend with terrifying monstrosities beyond their comprehension, and yet, there may be a silver lining: their minds and horizons will be expanded under the sublime light of an ancient moon.

Here is an overview of what was added in the first update, "Turn of Tides:"

Added a new multiplayer-centric boat mechanic, where players can build and deck out a boat for multiple survivors to travel together on
Added a new Seafaring crafting menu
Added the Lunar Island
Added Enlightenment
Added 3 new Lunar Island biomes, along with new creatures, objects, and craftables

Turn of Tides focused primarily on building the fundamental tech and infrastructure for Return of Them. Since then a significant amount of content has added to both the islands and the sea.

Don't Starve Together is the standalone multiplayer expansion of the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve. Now including Reign of Giants; adding new characters, seasons, creatures, biomes, and Giant new challenges to Don’t Starve Together. Cooperate with your friends in a private game, or take your chances with strangers online. Work with other players to survive the harsh environment, or strike out on your own. Do whatever it takes, but most importantly, Don't Starve.

[traceyclaver]

Day 7 and man has got a hambat and a miner hat. Day 7 and I'm just starting to prototype stuff 😂

[flamboyant_wolf]

i've just crossed 1000 hours in DST, so, i guess, it's time to finaly learn how to not die.

[RoGain_]

When you said "I know I talk a lot" at the end but honestly all of that info was well said and very helpful no doubt. Big thanks man.

[auh]

"You might find the advantages of other characters more alluring."
Wes it is!

[eberferatu]

Everyone new to the game should watch this! Most new players seem to be completely lost

[mittokaa]

Here is a summary, and also what I have on my other monitor when I play, hope it helps



Day 1

After spawning
Twigs 20x
Grass 20x
Flint 2x

Optional: Butterfly wings (Restores 8hp)

Find Mosaic Biome (Random patches of barren ground, grey rocky turf | Spawns close to the Portal)
Search for gold boulders
Make Pickaxe
Mine Gold Boulders with 2 pickaxes (from full to breaking for optimal resources)

Make an axe after getting extra flint
Start chopping down wood

Create Science Machine (New recipes after prototyping)
Craft backpack (4x grass | 4x twig)
Craft Shovel (2x twig | 2x flint) [Can be used to dig up tree stumps]
Prototype Rope (3x grass)
[Not needed but recommended] Craft Spear (2x twig | 1x rope | 1x flint)
Create Log Suit (8x log | 2x rope)
Craft Hammer (3x twigs | 3x rock | 2x rope)
Destroy Science Machine with Hammer [Gives 1/2 of resources]

** How to Pre-Build **
Click Build on a structure in your inventory, then right-click to cancel placing
As many structures pre-built possible [Frees up tons of space]

** Always Have 2 twigs and 2 grass in inventory for torch **
Before night falls
Create Torch (2x grass | 2x twigs) [Ideally create 2]

Day 2+
Start Exploring [First Autumn - Map out as much of the world as possible]
*Learn location of resources* [Walking around edge of the map]

If you find Touchstone
Break the surrounding pig heads with Hammer
Gives pig skin and twigs

If you find a gigantic beehive
Hammer it until there is no more honey dripping out

If you find a desert
Open some tumbleweeds [Contains valuable resources]

If you find sinkholes [Rocks that look like they are covering a hole]
Open them up by mining the rock
Take a look around for a little while
Get as many lightbulbs as possible [For lantern]

Bats spawn out of sinkholes
Hit twice with spear and grab the wings
Cooked wings give 8hp

If you find suspicious tracks
Check them out

If you find Koalefant
Wait for it to fall asleep
Attack with spear
Dodge attack
Hit six times
Repeat until it dies

Save 2 raw meat otherwise cook at a campfire right away

If you find spider dens
Try to take them down

If one spider:
Attack continuously

If multiple:
Dodge and get 2 hits in at the horde


** Optional: Start getting nightmare fuel **
Eat green mushrooms
Attack once and dodge
After Killing, keep swinging in case creature spawns next to you
Try to get 9x nightmare fuel [Before Day 11 Full moon]


Create science machine
Prototype
Cut stone
Doodads
Boards

Create alchemy engine
Create Football helmet (1x pig skin | 1x rope)
Create Hambat (1x pig skin | 2x twigs | 2x meat)
Weapon has unlimited durability but slowly loses power over time

(If you took lightbulbs)
Craft Lantern (3x twigs | 2x rope | 2x lightbulb)
Can be refueled with lightbulbs

Optional: Creating a Miner hat
Create Bug net (4x twigs | 2x silk | 1x rope)
Catch fireflies

Create Straw hat (12x grass)
Miner hat (1x straw hat | 1x gold nugget | 1x firefly)

Hammer alchemy engine
Pre-build alchemy engine
Get moving


If you find pigs
Hit once
Dodge punch
Hit 4x
Repeat until dead

Hammer pig houses


Create Top hat (6x silk) [Sanity boost + Will be needed later]

** Prototype as much as you can in the early days - Instant sanity gain **


If you find Oasis desert
Look for volt goat herds [Great source of meat]
Wait for night
Strike 5x before they wake up
2x before dodging

Kill and leave one for repopulation
Drops 2x large meat and occasional horn
can be used for a morning star [Great weapon in spring]

[lukasz]

I learned more in just the first 5 minutes of this video than through stumbling around the game world for 11 hours. Nicely done, thanks a lot.

[DIGITALDYSTPIA]

great guide, jazzy. very well made. my personal advice to new players is learn how to fight shadow creatures ASAP. i see a lot of beginners dying to shadow creatures. they're super easy to kite and you can farm nightmare fuel which is a really valuable resource. another advice is to always be doing something. a lot of new players just sit at base. don't be that person lol.

[bobc]

Me knowing everything:
After all why not, why shouldn't I watch this?

[yoshgregory]

Thank you!!! I got this for the Terraria Crossover and my son and I are running around on a full moon stressing over where we put the science machine trying to grow berries...

[dano]

beginners guide :
me with 69420 hours : interesting

[claudetteate]

Lmao some guy joined and broke all my pig houses then said i should uninstall because I told him he can’t do that 😂

[sato]

Jazzy this is a ton of info really fast for new people. I find a lot of new players struggle with food and setting up decent farms at the start. About 80% of the new player worlds i join relay on rabbit traps and beefalo for protection as well as for some reason replanted berry bushes. I am glad you mention all the hambat stuff and stuff just endure you tell them to turn caves on as they use to be off by default. Othen then that pretty good video.

[ElizabethAmanna]

Thank you so much! Every beginners guide I've seen is just a 1, 000+ hour player fanning over the game in one big advertisement... They didn't mention 3/4th of what you already have!

[GrimNoir]

Awesome! I just started this game about a day and a half ago, and can't get past maybe day two or three, I watched this and I think I finally have enough knowledge to actually go a week without dying! Thanks!

[meeoow]

thank u soo much for creating beginner guides! one of my best friends introduced me to this game very recently & im quite overwhelmed w the game. your beginner guides help so much!

[unrulyemu]

A very well done beginner guide, one of the better ones I've watched! I'm at about 400 hours, all solo, and well past the "trying to survive autumn" stage now -- though I was there not too long ago. Still learned some new things from this video! I'll also note you included some useful stuff (like the pre-crafting) that I I already knew, but learned the hard way, and wish someone had told me when I was first starting! Looking forward to your next video in this series.

[Cinnimix]

Right off the bat, even though it's from last year, love the fact that you don't try to force anything, you say it's your decision

[EnoEso]

Thank you for making this, I’m an absolute noob currently and needed a bit of guidance on how to survive and not die stupidly

[khunwang]

I'm new for this game and this guide is so helpful