A comprehensive introductory guide for Don't Starve beginners, covering your first 5-10 days in Reign of Giants! In this guide, I'll explain survival principles, game mechanics, and go over everything you need to know and do to get started in a new world with the right food.

Contents:
0:21 Introduction / Overview of the video
1:17 Mods I used
2:01 Game settings
2:51 Recommendations for character selection
4:00 Welcome to Constant – Get to work
4:36 First survival principle – Be prepared!
5:02 Second survival principle – Don’t panic!
5:37 Montage of bad ideas (preventable deaths)
6:15 Third survival principle – Run away!!
6:58 Essential survival supplies – get them as soon as possible!
8:41 Touchstones
9:08 Seasonal Survival Gear
9:41 Science machine and early tinkering
10:24 Before building structures
10:58 Weapons and Armor & First Dog Attack
12:16 Maintain food supplies – Cook before eating
13:00 Ensuring food freshness
13:54 The best food options for early game time
14:16 Butterflies
14:55 Monster meat, mushrooms and mental health
15:42 Early Game Exploration – Overview of Objectives
16:11 Locating biomes and mapping contours
17:39 Collect building materials for the base
18:34 Find Beefalo
19:50 Choosing a base location – principles
21:12 Conclusion and conclusion

This is my very first attempt at making an edited video for YouTube! I've been playing Don't Starve on and off for several years, but recently I got a few friends and family to try it out. To help them out, I decided to make this video, and I enjoyed it so much that I decided to start a full guide series. Who knows where this will take me!

Future guides in the series will cover base building, preparing for and surviving the other seasons, exploring the caves and ancient ruins, Adventure Mode, and more! Not to mention the other expansions like Shipwrecked and Hamlet, and even Don't Starve Together. This video focuses on the 2020 PC version of Don't Starve, but should generally be applicable to console versions (Switch, Playstation, Xbox) as well as mobile (Android and iPhone).

So stay tuned, hit like, subscribe and all that good stuff. And if there are other topics or even other games you think I should cover, let me know in the comments.

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The gameplay footage is from Don't Starve – Reign of Giants, with a few short clips from Don't Stave Together, a wonderful action-adventure sandbox survival game from indie developer Klei Entertainment. Want to try it out? Click these links to learn more and/or buy it!

https://www.klei.com/games
https://store.steampowered.com/app/219740/Dont_Starve/

The music is from the Don't Starve soundtrack and was arranged and composed by Vince de Vera, Jason Garner and/or Emmett Hall. The tracks featured in this video are /"Don't Starve Theme/

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