Mobbstars Winter Check-List

Overview

This is a quick guide to teach freezers how I manage not to freeze with simple measures! This guide is based on DS vanilla. You may need to prioritise other seasons over winter when playing RoG. In fact, you definitely will need to.

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In the following guide, you will find all the things that are essential, or at least useful, for surviving winter. Please note that this guide does not cover food, I made one for that already.

You don’t need to keep the order of tasks, or even all of that stuff, to stay warm.

RoG comes with more winter related items, such as the hibernation vest or ice. I won’t cover those!

Hot, hot fire!

First and foremost, what is warm enough to conter the cold of winter? Fire, bright and hot fire!
Plant ten or more evergreens within reach so you always have enough wood to stay warm and get through the night. You can also use alternatives at a fire pit:
If you have about three stacks of grass, twigs, pine cones or alike lying around, don’t hesitate to make small fires with them.
If you have been with the beefalo or in the caves a lot, or have a pet koalefant (as described later), you can use the manure to fuel your fire. It works pretty much like wood and you get it over time for free! I recommend to use this method when you are in a position to do so.

You can pre-build structures, so make sure you have a camp fire for when you get caught freezing far away from your base of operations. This is a real life saver!

Cuddly clothes

Of course you cannot possibly stick around your fire for fifteen days straight. If you go away without a vest or such, you cool out very quickly. You need clothing for when you head out:

• Breezy/Ragged Vest

  This item can be obtained when it’s not winter. You need to track down a koalefant and sew its trunk with some silk to make one. It offers decent insulation and slight sanity regeneration but takes up your chest-slot, so you can’t wear a backpack or armour with it!
  The Ragged Vest is crafted from hound teeth and turns out to act the same as the Breezy Vest, but regenerates more sanity.

• Puffy Vest

  This is Breezy Vests older brother, and a great insulator for staying warm. You need to track down a winter koalefant and sew its trunk with some silk and beefalo wool to make one.

• Bunny Earmuffs

  This item can be obtained when it’s not winter. These are made from two rabbits and some sticks. A cheap and simple headgear for winter walks, but it breaks quickly and doesn’t hold you warm for all day.

• Winter Hat

  This item can be obtained when it’s not winter. It requires four bits of silk and four hands full beefalo wool to create, but that is worth it. The winter hat helps your sanity while keeping you moderately warm.

• Beefalo Disguise

  This hat allows you to collect beefalo poo when they are in heat. It also turns out to be even better than the winter hat, so you should get one if you rely on manure as fuel and/or need a backpack with you.

Keep in mind that you do not need to wear anything near a fire, as it warms you anyways.

Heat Stone

The thermal stone can be charged with heat, so you can “take” some heat with you. It’s a high tier science item, and requires a good amount of stones to make.

It charges even when on the ground, so you can make two and leave one at base camp to heat it up. Then you can just swap the stones and head out again.

Furthermore, it is useful to tell when you should return home or make a fire: while it is red or yellow, you are fine, when it gets gray you should finish what you’re doing, and when it’s blue, go home. Should it get white and cover in ice, then drop it! Else it will freeze you even quicker. Give it to Chesterfield if he’s with you.

This will be a long night…

In winter, nights get longer and longer. This has consequences:

• Pigmen won’t be there to protect you most of the time. Look for big beefalo herds, calm tree guards, or the newly migrated pengulls (they look derpy, but don’t anger them).
• You lose more sanity. Wearing a top hat or such when you’re near fire should suffice to cancel that out.
• Rabbits are less active. You need to place your traps well and check them regulary, or hunt more effectively.
• Green mushrooms are easier to collect. This is useful for sanity regulation, since they drain sanity, but cooking them reverses the effect. (the arrows on the picture aren’t acurate)

Petting Zoo

The Pro-est of the Pros don’t kill the koalefants they find instantly, but chase them to their camp. There, the koalefant either goes into a pen or roams through the area, albeit they don’t wander much.
This has two main reasons: First, you can still butcher the koalefant if you are about to starve, and the meat is fresh. Second, you get manure from it as long as it sticks around.

Also, it’s fun to have a koalefant pet!