Fun fact: carrats have a 33% chance of dropping carrot seeds. Another point for lunar grotto, given that this allows you to start a farm underground.

Tree Guards definitely spawn underground. I used to chop down 100+ trees with a reanimated skeleton in the caves and use them to kill the skeleton.

Really surprised a lot of people never use straw rolls and tents to regen sanity and remove wetness. Sleeping is a very underrated mechanic. As for the silk: bunny hutches+ spider den= auto silk farm

Just so you know - You can remove the science machine after getting an alchemy engine (It works as both)

Some advice for future farming, you have to make farm plots under a beam of light from above for them to grow or use a star caller staff which is actually really effective at it since you can grow crops light up the base and keep warm all at once

Absolutely love the sequel,and you are WAY too underrated.

As a viewer, I'd like to say that your content is the type of content I love and wish I could see more often when I type in Don't Starve Together in youtube. The lack of challenge videos and in general lets play, so I am thankful your channel!

I can’t wait for more challenges! Maybe one where you can’t leave a boat?

A "boats only" challenge could be fun. The freedom to explore the majority of the map, yet still unable to set foot on the ground. There's a boss you could reasonably set as a goal (Malbatros isn't *that* hard). If you wanted, you could let yourself use the crabby island as a harbor (since a hermit-island-only run is definitely not possible). Around 5 days of prep time seems reasonable, as to even start you would need, well... a boat and a light source, to name a few. Either way, great video, can't wait for the next.

I was considering trying a world of monkey island only, but that could be an interesting place to survive for a video! It'd probably only be possible to initially start out there if you use commands to turn yourself into Wonkey immediately though, since otherwise you'd have to deal with a lot of powder monkeys while waiting for the portal to dispense anything of use. Other than that, it'd probably be a good idea to allow yourself to use boats, but not allow yourself to touch the mainland, since otherwise you'd probably go insane IRL again like you did in the Lunar Island video, with how little land you have to work with. ...and immediately after I finished writing this comment, I just noticed that someone else commented suggesting the same thing. Whoopsies! At least you know there's more than one commenter who thinks this could be a fun idea :D

As an avid player of don’t starve together (despite the name and profile) your videos are very refreshing especially combined with your diction and well paced commentary. Love your videos keep it up!

I refuse to believe that you only have around 300 subscribers, this is so well made!! I can’t wait to see more of these types of videos as well as your letsplays!

Here's a tip for when you have a wortox: if anyone dies and need to retrieve their items, stock up on souls, and capture 10-20 bugs with the net, with only a football helmet you can teleport there, take the stuff, and teleport back. If the place is too dangerous, bring a pan flute.

Man you're videos are so entertaining! i'm glad people are enjoying don't starve together and making fun challenges like this, keep at it!

If you're going to do this with prep time, bring a beefalo down into the caves with a beefalo bell. Also long as one is alive, it can make a herd. I learned this by bringing down a beefalo, which entered heat down there, and the baby just went on to make a full herd.

This and the lunar island video were some of the best dst videos I’ve watched. Awesome content and looking forward to more challenge videos like this

The first one was great too, love the narration. Well done! Would suggest to consider using tent, mushroom planters(manure can be farmed with lightbulbs and a werepig) and surf 'nd turf(2 eels and 2 monster meat) for sanity regeneration. If you find swamp in caves rain coat is an option too, keeps you fully dry.

Nice video. The format is really funny, voice is great. This challenge sure deserves a rematch, looking foward for it!

youtube keeps showing me great small youtube channels and i am living for it. less than 500 subs and this level of entertainment? we got a winner here.

you know since you thanked us so nice for liking your content, just got you another like and follower, also your voice is very calming so keep everything going the way you do!

another super fun challenge vid, thank you!! glad you seemed to have more fun with this one than the lunar island challenge. I wouldn't have blamed you for living in the lunar grotto, since that would almost definitely let you reach that plateau of stability.

Thank you for this amazing challenge idea. I'm having a blast with it - I tried it solo and with a friend. For solo attempts, my first one as Maxwell failed. First nearly destroyed by slpumonkeys and barely made it to the ruins only then to get chased by 7 terrorbeaks as I ran through the military biome like a headless chicken. When a bishop broke my shelmet I knew it was the end. Second attempt I tried as Wigfrid and I'm currently approaching summer, with AG and Nightmare Werepig killed, ruins rushed and a stable base in the muddy biome near the lichen field. I survive primarily on meatballs made of moles/spiders/monkeys/bunnymen and lichen as filler. I have a small pig farm with 3 houses I built from deconstructing a touchstone, but I used pig skins only for umbrellas so far. Large meats came in handy for jerky which I used for fighting Nightmare Werepig. My base has an alchemy, a shadow manipulator, a tent, a modest kitchen and a meat effigy which I haven't used once. Next goal: prepare and solo kill Toadstool! Duo with my friend is pretty much the same but he plays Maxwell, so we are drowning in wood lol. We live near a green mush forest bunny village and muddy, with bunnies killing spiders for us, and got lucky with a feather hat boon! Normally you can't get feathers downstairs but thanks to this hat I could afford to craft three songs! We found the hat at 37%, then hammered all the bones we found until we managed to find a single hound tooth, then used a construction amulet to make it into a sewing kit, and then fixed the feather hat and finally deconstructed it for 3 feathers!!! Yesterday we left off with Nightmare Werepig and Toadstool defeated, and summer is about to start. We are now discussing what should be done when we run out of things to do there. A plan I have in mind is to spawn the shadow pieces setpiece and defeat them to get shadow atrium, then approach Fuelweaver and try to reset the ruins. It's a shame we would have to resort to commands to do it but without it we already have proven we can survive pretty much forever. 😂

Heck yeah, KZfaq has actually been recommending small channels to me and it's great to see! Nice video!

amazing ideas and video bro. love it

You make entertaining videos! Thank you. Your voice over is perfect.

another good vid, hope you guys go higher! also, would love some in game talk along the current commentary (maybe more from Tig boi?)

Actually good video! made me sub instantly,also idea! DST but always in the dark? (if you haven't done that already)

Love the vids man, keep it up

As a caveman the answer is forever. Unironically safest place in the game The Archives is in the caves. Why The Archives the safest place? No Earthquake Infinite light (bulb bugs right outside, easy to farm) There are rocks ready to use for farming purposes bring a spider egg or two for meat farm Spiders give meat for hunger and silk for tent which you can use for hp and sanity. Anything you can do on the surface you can do there as well. Only thing that can bother you is worm attacks

the content is awesome, this channel is too underrated

I remember doing a wormwood caves run and I rarely ever popped my head out of the caves and everytime I did it was fun seeing what the randos that came through the server so I’d often walk across some mini bases

Great video man I can’t wait to see more

I actually am a Webber main, and i like his low sanity pool. since he gets easy silk, making a top hat is easier for him than anybody else - which, combined with a wider food pool via monster meat, makes survival quite easy once you get used to him. I was a Webber main pre buff as well, so now the game feels almost too easy for me.

I actually really enjoy this and the caves myself. Good challenge and super cool.

That's very good content guys, keep it up

HECK YEAH!! I was hoping this would be the next video!!! >:D

watched this because I never explored the caves really, makes me want to redownload don't starve and try it again

Definitely should have used raincoats, especially since maxwell can use the magician's hat for extra inventory space. Merm king can be used to gain seeds underground, so Wurt is an interesting prospect to enable farming. You could also have made better use of the bunnymen, you can easily sicc them on each other for large meat and carrots, and they respawn every night. Also would have been smart to try to get magiluminescence ASAP, although I understand ruins raiding can be intimidating.

another banger from me boy biddobams

Keep dropping bangers bro

You are such a underrated youtuber and you deserve you to have to title of dst goat with the beard and jakeyosaurus

I lived til spring . the hardest bit is grass and twigs once you get a foot hold on that it easy.... I always play webber cause I just like the spider boy edit: which reminds me if I were to play with a friend my friend was most willing to swap around characters. trying out maxwell for easy way to get flint, but eventually decided to be wigfrid due to how their supplies allow us to use helmets that didn't use our very limited source of pig skin... which there would only be 8 pigskin at most in a world like that if you want more you have to make pighouses in areas that go through a day and night cycle.... basically turning a bunny village into a pig village as a theory. but maybe memory is messing with me.

This was really cool! I hope next time you can get further and maybe fight that werepig boss!

Bro keep up the good content it’s awesome

Here's a tip: lightbulbs can be dropped to provide light while you mine before you're able to get lanterns

I wholeheartedly believe the ruins wouldn’t be a challenge without splumonkeys. Easily the most annoying mob in the game

Really fun video

140 more subscribers from the lunar video, congrats :)

Now I feel tempted to program a quick mod just so the Bearger and Deerclops are allowed to naturally spawn down in the Caves.

great video! I wish I had someone to do these kinds of challenges with. By yourself is super lonely

Very entertaining!

keep up the dst content its very entertaining. remember me when you hit 10000 subs lol

Love your videos keep it up

This is a good example of why Spring is by far the season I like the least, the constant rain forces you to deal with it both on the surface and underground (so you have to miss out on one of your slots) which means you can't explore dangerous area or do bosses, you get a much harsher cold than in winter with the rain, especially in early Spring, and frog rains are just the game forcing you to not play the game anymore and just run in circles for 15 minutes away from your base. Honestly the more time I spend in Spring the more I want to main Wickerbottom just for her book that stops rain, it's amazing (and as a neat trick, it completely cancels Summer, as Antlion will despawn when it rains and no wildfires can happen during rain, even the sandstorm in the Oasis is disabled).

I am pretty sure if you get the dwarf star staff you can grow crops anywhere underground, other wise you have to grow them in light spots

You can walk past large spider clusters by walking on the edges of the map

9:40 you can totally spawn treeguards in caves, but if you feel especially dangerous you can even spawn them in the ruins ; ) now that i think about it it could be really valid strategy to clear out some of mechanicals

Poor poor you, if you spawned at the cave portal spawn you'd get quite the headstart, you'd need to remove the overworld in your cluster file then regenerating the same world and you'd spawn in caves directly

Another great video.

Love this, I want more, and now. I want it,, I want it in a 100 days version and I want giant arrows in the title screens POINTING TO VAGUELY COOL THINGS and I want MORE. aka your doing a good job :]

May I recommend Wendy for this task? * Abigail deals her full 40 Damage at all times in the Caves, regardless of the Day-Night Cycle. * At Tier 2 and Tier 3 (300 and 600 Max HP), she emits a small radius of light that can ward off Charlie. Useful in a pinch. * Her natural regeneration is very nice for long-term sustainability. * She can turn hordes of Splumonkeys from your worst nightmare into your best food source. Her AoE damage and shield can wipe them out in droves. Enjoy the free morsels, bananas, beard hair (for Meat Effigies) and manure. Make Banana Shakes to manage your sanity issues. * ^ ^ ^ This applies even outside of the nightmare phase. When players attack normal monkeys, they will run away, start flinging poop and being very annoying. When Abigail attacks them, they will attack as normal, same as their shadow form, heading straight to their death. * Mini-Tentacles spawned by Tentapillars are easy prey for Abi. Easy Tentacle Spikes. Keep in mind, It's not without its downsides: * Abigail cannot attack Shadow Creatures, so you're stuck dealing with them on your own with Wendy's -25% damage penalty. * There are no graves in the Caves, so you won't have access to Pipspooks; therefore, no potions. * The Sisturn is also useless. Unfortunately, there are no Flowers in the Caves either, so you can never power it up. * Mobs will deal their full damage value to Abigail, rather than their player damage value. Be very careful around Rooks etc. * If Abigail goes down at a bad moment, it could well be the death of you. Be careful, look after her, know your limits.

thx a lot for that eel tip! that's a rlly good alternative for getting some gold stacks in public servers

Huh. You could have farmed spiders. You could have had a silk hat. Made some werepigs. Made meaty stew. And slept a tent. I actually thought playing that way would be easier for new players since theres nothing to burn or break down the base. The lunar grotto was also super easy right?

I see you guys still have a lot to learn in dst, but I enjoyed the gameplay a lot! ❤️

Amazing video, I was going to suggest a boat only challenge but I seems like everyone else beat me to it! So I’ll just say… tumbleweeds only?

I did a full darkness run. The caves aren't always dark since mushroom biomes provide light and there were trees nearby. This was before lunar biome update. It's hard but survivable at least as wig forever as long as you stay away from ruins.

Remember you can set on fire monkey house without them getting angry at you

I think you guys needed to craft miner hat instead of relying on lantern all the time. You can equip umbrella + miner hat and that's enough for 100% wetness resistance.

in fact, you can survive forever in a cave, there is food here, you can restore your sanity by sleeping in a tent or sleeping bag, and if you quickly clean up the ruins, you can rest a good armor, the only serious problem for me is worms, since it will be more and more difficult with them because there are too many of them, but they can be taken to other creatures by the way, can I use the idea and survive in caves to make a video about it on the channel? I'm wondering how good I am at dst and I need to make a video on the channel

short answer: Yes. Cave-living is very possible. Wortox isn't a bad choice, but personally, I'd have gone for either webber, wendy or like your buddy, Maxwell.

It was so enjoyable thanks

You should do some character playthroughs! With parts ofcourse, i think wx-78 would be a fun one

im doing this same challenge rn. im on day 90 as wx78 which was a really good pick. i got the optoelectronic circuit and speed 2 circuit, so i basically have free moggles and walking cane as long as i dont get wet, and since i live in the blue mushrrom biome, i have easy access to living logs, and my main weapon is dark swords

Wendy would have been an easy mode character for this because Abigail can put monkey's into a blender even if they go shadow mode, that would give infinite meat and banana's for food, nightmare fuel for whatever you wanted, and even beard hair for making effigies if you wanted.

Challenge idea: You can only eat each food item and crock pot dish once and your goal is too kill the ancient fuel weaver

If you go with a character who can eat veggies, bananna shakes. 33 sanity a pop. two banannas and two sticks. good incentive to clear out the monkey houses with some lobster help.

i think its kinda interesting how the cave challenge and lunar island challenge are the reverse of eachother. the caves never have that plataeu of stability, meanwhile the lunar island is only that plataeu of stability

Nice vid

it's not as bad as the endless blue on the screen, but I'm already starting to get a headache from low sanity. in any case, the video is nice

I love your videos

Aye boys, Fun run gg

I love doing cave only worlds, they're empty but a cool thing when you start off and just living off torches till the first earthquake, once you do ruins though you're basically living above ground with lights out mode on lol Also there's a way to generate a world with only caves if you want to know I can explain the process

Keep it up

I may be very biased but I'd stay Walter. His tent is great for the rain and other can use it as well. Also it's movable so thats great. His sanity is really good for caves. And finding monster meat means fast movement with Woby. Also extra storage never hurts. But I'm a Walter main and I base in caves when I'm playing him.

Nice content 😁

Next Video: Survive in the Moonquay Island or Pearl Island

I hope you hit 500 subs soon bro

You can dry up faster by standing close to a fire. Thermal stone also acts like a fire (even if it's cold)

Nice❤

Thank you for this new video I love all your videos also try hamlet or shipwreck

There used to be a glitch in world gen where you could get a cave only world, if I recall right even the portal would spawn down there. It is a shame that was fixed by accident.

Wendy and wilson would be a super powerful combo in a ruins base, wendy (Abigail) mass murder monkeys for morsels, fuel, hair, poop, and most importantly bananas. 2 bananas and 2 sticks (that wilson can get from trees) makes a stupidly good food. That gives 25 hunger, 33 sanity and 8 healing. Tried a solo base with just wilson and careful peeling of nightmare monkeys, made a very solid ruins base, only reason i ever left was for grass.

9:40 tree guards do spawn under the caves

Good job! :D

haha im def one to also make my area look nice, regardless of how much trouble im having XD

I'm personally would've picked Wendy, because she can easily farm the spiders for food. This on top of the fact that the sistern provides solid sanity. Easy pick. (Not to mention that Abby always has her max damage in caves.)

Make similar vids to this man its so fun!!! Challenging videos like this you do so well and I thought if he does challenge video I'll subscribe and you did so subbed

FYI the football helmet gives 20% wetness reduction, so while you would need more pigskin, you would also not need to constantly use straw hats. (When combined with an umbrella)

I am watching your DST play though, I would like to watch to see you guys to play DST hamlet

In summer I always enter the caves to live in, bc I hate overheating, wildfires and ant things For that I just create 3 beehives, they solve all the problems with food, especially if you are located in mushroom biom, green or blue With that base you can bit by bit conquer whole caves, and 5+ worms are not much of a problem (even without rock lobster gang's™ helping claw)