Don't Starve Together mobile beginner's guide - 7 tips for surviving in this Burton-esque world

In Don't Starve Together, your very first day is more important than you think. Assuming that you start in a new world, not an existing one where you can join at any time of the year, which is more difficult, you need to make every moment count.

Start by collecting the materials needed to make a Torch (not a campfire), and spend the entire night collecting rocks, logs, and gold because you'll need them to craft your science machine.

So, start by being productive on the first day, and you're good. As long as you're not wasting an entire night next to the campfire doing nothing, it counts as progress.

Next up, you should start settling down. Build a Fire Pit, and then a Science Machine. After that, you can slowly build up other features you'll need, including walls if that's something you want.

Not every player likes to have their base walled off, but if that makes you feel safer, by all means, go ahead and do it. Just leave enough space to add all the amenities within the walls.

In terms of placing the base, a good location is between the forest biome and the plains. It's good to have a water body next to it too, and possibly the savanna. All in all, as long as you don't set up your base in the swamp or the badlands, you're good.

A base doesn't have to be plain - you can always add floor tiles and other decorations, not just utilities. Make it feel like home, but keep the bosses away from it.

Winter is arguably the first hurdle that comes your way. You need to prepare ahead of time by collecting food and building a good supply of items. You need them to face up against Deerclops, but also against the hounds.

Summer is even more difficult than winter, because it can spontaneously set things on fire. You need to have an Endothermic Fire Pit, and you should also make the Ice Flingomatic. The Ice Box (fridge) is also nice to have by this time.

I recommend preparing for winter during the autumn season, and then preparing for the summer in spring.

Here are the items you need to prepare - there are also resources you can stock up on, but if your base doesn't have these, focus on getting them.

• Winter: Rabbit Earmuffs
• Winter and summer: Thermal Stones (have a few on hand)
• Summer: Endothermic Fire Pit
• Summer: Ice Flingomatic
• Summer: Ice Box

Many players are tempted to pick up every single piece of food they see when they start. The bad thing about this approach is that food spoils over time, so if you don't use it right away, it all goes to waste.

Leave some food unpicked, especially carrots, because you never know when you'll need them.

If you feel like there is a lack of food, all the more reason you need to build farms. There, you can plant seeds and continuously produce goods.

Even if you don't plan on doing this at the start, uncovering the entire map is something you need to do at some point. You want to know where each cave entrance is, where the biomes are located, and where you can find the resources you're looking for.

The same applies to the caves - you need to explore them completely to find the endgame locations.

There are some unspoken rules to playing DST on a public server. If you want to give it a try, I strongly recommend you learn some of the unspoken rules.

1. Don't take another player's Crock Pot food. If you want any food, cook your own. This doesn't apply if you are about to die, of course, but you can make it back to the player by cooking something for them.
2. Don't hoard every renewable resource.
3. If you don't plan on logging back anytime soon (say you quit that server), drop your resources on the floor for the other players to take.
4. Don't drive your team insane! The moment you die, you will transform into a ghost, which automatically drains the sanity of the remaining players. Don't do that.
5. Avoid playing Webber. Webber is really good if you play with friends and can come to an understanding, but if you play with complete strangers, Webber is a constant drain on resources who provides little to no benefit to the team, so it's best to skip him (also, many servers tend to insta-kick Webber players for this reason alone). Since the servers are global, the spiders spawned by Webber can also cause a lot of lag server-wide, which is another reason to skip him.
6. Don't AFK in base. Actually, don't go AFK at all (especially in base).

These might seem a bit much, but there are players who dedicate their DST time to playing only multiplayer, and if you want to do that too, these are the rules you need to follow.

There are a lot of tips a new DST player can learn, but I tried summarising some of the most important ones I haven't mentioned below:

• Never fight bosses next to your base, especially Bearger. This boss can absolutely obliterate it, so try luring it as far away as possible.
• In the same vein, don't set wild fires next to your base. You don't want them to spread.
• Constantly craft food that you plan on eating in the next day or so. You don't want to stock too much of it, because it can spoil.
• If you are wearing a backpack (which you should), I recommend you drop it before fighting, and equip proper armor instead. After the fight is done, pick the backpack back up.
• Tame a Beefalo!
• Don't chop off too many trees without planting any back - you might end up spawning the Treeguard, which is quite scary.
• Bear in mind that bosses/monsters can attack each other. You can lure one to the other, and watch the show unfold from a safe distance.
• Once you get to the later stages of the game, try setting sail for the Moon Quay - it can give you proper resources, but I strongly advise you to leave your belongings on the boat so the monkeys don't steal them from you.
• Another island that is worth exploring is the Lunar Island, where you want to be insane. On Lunar Island, insanity counts backwards, so if you are completely insane in the normal world, on Lunar Island you'll be considered sane. This is a bit tricky to master, but you can give it a try if you feel confident.

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