The Ancient Ruins pt.1(Don't Starve Reign of Giants - Beginner's Guide Series)

Welcome to Part 1 of my Beginner's Guide Series coverage of the Ancient Ruins in Don't Starve - Reign of Giants! In this video I go over the Nightmare Cycle, and the Wilds, Village, Military, and Sacred biomes, including the various monsters and resources you'll find in each biome.

CONTENTS:
00:00 Introduction
00:51 The Nightmare Cycle
01:35 Calm Phase
01:48 Warning Phase
02:21 Nightmare Phase
03:32 Dawn Phase
03:59 The Wilds Biome
04:47 Slurpers
05:47 Cave Ponds and Eels
06:41 Setting up a Ruins Base
07:18 The Village Biome
07:43 Thulecite Walls and Ancient Relics
08:04 Cave Bananas
08:29 Fun with Splumonkeys
09:20 Even MORE fun with Shadow Splumonkeys
10:18 Dangling Depth Dwellers
10:44 Military and Sacred Biomes - General Features
11:44 Broken Clockworks
12:24 Damaged Clockworks
12:45 Ancient Pseudoscience Stations
13:30 Ancient Statues and Rare Gems

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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!

Music is from the Don't Starve Soundtrack, and was arranged and composed by Vince de Vera, Jason Garner, and/or Emmett Hall. Tracks featured in this video are "Main", "Work for the Ruins", and my own version of Spring Cleaning that I arranged as "Waltz of the Fallen Sister". Game footage, graphical assets, soundtrack, and sound effects used consistent with Klei Entertainment's "Player Creation Guidelines" as stated on their website:

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. And yes, I changed the sub-title of the video for the Thumbnail. Sorry for any confusion.

[RussGussDoodles]

I would never would have been able to make it through my first year without your guides. Thank you for making such high quality videos!

[lyiusapangolin]

Having played DST alot it's so wild to see the singleplayer ruins, and also very nostalgic! I remember the first time I did a ruins rush as willlow in OG DST and wasted thulecite on walls not knowing it wasn't very renewable in DS.

[jordanchen]

On one hand I'm so grateful that these videos helped me take my first steps in the constant. On the other hand, I'm somewhat saddened that my own learning progress has already outpaced the guides themselves. But the videos are always super entertaining to watch :)

[whimsybees]

I'm seriously so glad this guide exists! I have never set foot on the ruins because I had no idea what to expect and didn't wanna die instantly but this helps so much!!

Especially appreciate the way you explained the nightmare cycle I never understood it until now

[Rolanas]

I learned so much by your videos, you definitely deaserve more attention...

[Krisorsomething.]

Finally I've been waiting for this for a while

[alkimia]

Very helpful Sal! Me and my bro have been struggling in the ruins, but this definitely cleared up a few things!

[Seductiveduckling]

Thank you SO MUCH for making these! I usually never even leave the surface because the caves scare me on their own 😂 but these tutorials are so helpful and im excited to take on the ruins now!! 💪

[therealm]

great great video!!! and beautiful as well as neat title page. keep up the good work!

[box]

Heya Sal! Great video, really explains a lot!

[iliyanvasilev]

Another day another useful guide thx Sal

[nathanburgett]

Do the ancient statues give a different loot table depending on the nightmare phase, or do they drop the same amount at all times? Thx

[heyho]

Uuh Nice! I died so many times when trying to explore the ruins xD R.I.P to many of my worlds and characters :'D

[bryngriffiths]

are the ruins and caves the same in no dlc don't starve, or at least incredibly similar?

[Agent_Chieftain]

If the ruins are considered to be perpetually in night time, does that mean the lamp posts from Hamlet can be built down there for infinite light?

[roquecandelariodanielalexa]

I know its been 2 years but

How are you able to see the current days on caves?

[dajekotlyar]

You should have say, that in DST shadow creatures do not drop fuel after end of nightmare cycle. And this creatures don't restore your sanity after being killed

[therealm]

Are there supposed to be ruins in ever cave in reign of giants? i got three caves but only 1 has ruins... any guidance would be appreciated

[darthmauve]

entering the actual ruins is harder than looting it and killing the ancient guardian, seriously shadow splemonkeys are so annoying, i can deal with clockworks and nightmares but shadow splemonkeys are actually so hard to avoid

[paradeoflaughter]

I remember the first time I went into the ruins in ROG I died so fast 😂 I still haven't actually explored ROG ruins as that trip scarred me LOL. But I've explored ruins in DST and killed ancient guardian. However, I'm still not super comfy exploring in that area. Those monkeys are so annoying. They followed me to the ancient science station one time and started grabbing my gems and stuff in the chest I had there and I had stuff on the ground and I was like this is a job for raul. I'm not dealing with this 🤣