The best thing about tallbirds is that even actual tallbirds that raise their own children die by the hands of their own children once they become adults. It is part of their life cycle.
My favorite thing about it too is that if you don’t load in the tall bird and it’s nest long enough there’ll be like 3-4 children and a dead tall bird or a few pieces of meat from its once was children
Imagine the first person to nurture the Tallbird through its entire life until it finally grows up, probably taking many tries and great community effort, just for it to *immediately* turn on you and attack you
@@ig100magnaguard I thought so too, but apparently, this is their actual life cycle. In the game, you can witness Tallbird offspring kill their parent once they become adults. So it just did what was natural for it.
@@fractal-dreamz “and here we see the wild spigg, about to perform what is known as an “sisyphian offer of courtship”, in which the spiff attempts to perform a long, and arguably arduous task, for the purposes of the satisfaction of both himself - and to prove worthiness to his partner.”
I was thinking that the tallbird would be a bad companion, or die quickly, or something like that. But literally forgetting everything you did and becoming hostile? Bruh.
Oh dude, you need to see the beefalo taming mechanics for this game, if you're not (unfortunately) already familiar with them. Don't get me wrong, I love Don't Starve/DST to death, but jesus everloving _christ_ did they make the beefalo taming mechanics more complicated and tedious than they needed to be. I have hundreds of hours in this game and will _never_ go after taming a beefalo bc while I don't have the best mental self-talk, I don't hate myself nearly that much. James Bucket has a fantastic video on it if you're curious. Buckle up and tumble down the 'oh god why' rabbit hole
@@lzrshark617 Yeah, fully taming beefaloo is still a pain, but they're actually really worth it while not fully tamed. You can travel wayyy faster than you can otherwise for early map exploration, and there's been a bunch of mechanics added that make taming easier (steamed twigs are a great example).
@@lzrshark617 i just went and watched the video, and i think you miiiight be over exaggerating just a bit. is it really that hard to either ride or feed a beefalo for a single season, to have an unbreakable dark sword that also acts as a shield with 1000 hp (or 2500 with the new saddle)?
@@dragonx23123 it is because you need to constant babysit them hoping they gonna turn out to be the class of beefalo you want to tame them into. Beefalo takes a long of time to make the game looks easier, when you can just learn kite and do the same that beefalo do
I have 1375 hours in DS and DST combined, and you have done a lot more in the game than I had the skill and/or patience to do. I heard your objective and IMMEDIATELY burst out laughing, specially considering the length of the video and how many tries it took. This is the best
Spiff has already learned the stress of parenting, the grief of losing a child, and the melancholy of watching them grow up. I think he's ready for the ant farm.
Fun fact: I actually DID raise a tallbird for its nest. In one of my worlds I have 5 tallbirds for eggs and meat. Also eating the eggs are really good in a crockpot. If you combine one tallbird egg, one carrot, and two twigs you get a dish that heals you for 60 hp and will feed you for 2 days.
@@otakinnoob8704 i do that too, but if i dont physically cover underneath the search with my hand or something, my eyes instinctively dart to the movement of the results, and I'm a very fast reader. Many times I tell myself I'll ignore the results, but find myself immediately spoiled because I thought I could overpower monkey brain "look at movement"
I remember one time, my friend was trying to do this, but I was playing Webber, so one of my spiders ate the egg. So, she set the camp on fire. Good times.
The use of tallbird eggs is in the Crockpot It has one of the highest value recipes in the game And I think using something for a completely useless task instead of it's best use also has comedic value
@@crowqueenamps That's incorrect. You could always use them as the egg requirement for bacon and egg or pierogi. If you go to the wiki and go to history, the oldest version of the article that mentions it can be placed in the crockpot is from 2013, which I imagine wasn't changed for DST. It was only more recently that they added Tall Scotch Eggs though.
the "varg" you were fighting is actually a varglet: a smaller type of varg with less health and only spawns one hound when it growls instead of five. btw i really enjoyed this video and i wish you played more DST
I hatched, and killed, a few of my own. First time i got one to fully grow up it caugt me off guard and... killed me. second one i tried to retame but didnt kill. Nested right in my base. so i guess free tallbirds? died to moose afterwards. the following ones were a bit more of a pastime of me. especially in multiplayer. its fun and i always love it.
*Technically* there is SOME reward for doing this. In DST there is a crockpot dish called Tall Scotch Eggs, which require a tallbird egg and 1.0 worth of veggies to cook. This dish restores 150 hunger, 60 health, and 5 sanity, making it an incredibly good dish. When a tallbird you raise grows up, it will attempt to create a nest, because adult tallbirds without nests will try to create one. So by suffering through the process of raising a tallbird, you can create new sources of tallbird eggs, giving you more access to Tall Scotch Eggs. It's not a completely pointless endeavor, its just a mostly pointless one. As someone who has done this with 2 tallbirds at once, don't do it. It's not worth it, and even in a super late game world with practically unlimited resources, it's just not fun having to limit yourself from doing anything fun to keep some dumb bird alive for multiple seasons.
For comparision you can make a net, capture 10 butterflies, and make a butterfly farm. Each butterfly wing gives 8 health and 10 hunger Unironically I truly believe butterfly wings should be nerfed
@@usernametaken017 youre better off removing all but 1 flowers from an area, since all flowers do is add areas for butterflies to spawn. afaik, the only way to increase butterfly spawnrates is to have multiple players nearby, since allegedly each player has their own butterfly spawns. by having only 1 flower, you compound all the butterfly spawns into that single flower, making farming them a lot easier.
The first time I saw my older brother playing Skyrim, he described it as "a game where everything wants to kill you." Playing both Dont Starve and Skyrim, DS fits the description much more. Edit: WOW this comment kinda blew up
Skyrim is "everything kills you" in the same way all open world RPG games are so that's amusing on multiple levels for me, no offense to him. "Everything wants to kill you" = "there's lots of exp to farm that will throw itself at you" and "everything wants to kill you, except the entire towns full of people and many citizens scattered throughout the land who don't." 😂
Screw it, I'm just gonna keep a list of people's complaints. Log suit - if you're wearing a log suit you're not wearing a backpack, Edgy Rick (hate him off principle, trust me) brainwashed everyone into thinking this is a problem complaint grading: unless you ignore all sensory input you can just put on your armor before you have a problem. Can't kite for shit - yes. Complaint grading: acceptable, no attempt was made Why not eat carrots: carrots do in fact respawn in dst unless it's night or winter, though there are more than enough carrots in the world to get a single player through their first autumn and winter, especially with a bird cage and garden Complaint grading: suitable, though spigg is used to playing DS where they, in fact, are a limited resource. EGG - egg Complaint grading: egg My complaints (separate) 17:51 Expensive ass meat ball [meat ball: 62.5 hunger, 3 health, 5 sanity] [total ingredients (cooked): 81.25 hunger, 9 health, 0 sanity] (it's fine he hasn't played in a while)
@@nonagonguy6121 There are so many food items in this game when you only really make a handful that are even remotely useful. I know for a fact I've survived hundreds of days only eating Meat Stews and Meatballs, slamming only a few potato/tomato for healing here and there. Hell, I don't think I've made even one of the fig recipes lmao.
@@Lsir DST is short for Don't Starve Together, the multiplayer version of the game remade from the groundup. Only the original Don't Starve and its DLC are purely singleplayer.
Not Fun Fact: Rising Tallbirds was one of the features to be added in the small-ish early updates of regular Don't Starve in its infancy as a full game, and the ability to raise a Tallbird has basically not changed in any meaningful way since the feature's release. To he honest, I kinda wish they did rework it, like any Tallbird you hatch and raise have a lower damage Stat but somewhat higher HP than normal Tallbirds, but only need to eat once every one or two days and don't attack you. Much better outcome for bothering to raise such a stupid bird.
aaaah my two fav things, spigg and dst :) I love how even the devs (klei) said that they added it because they thought i'd be funny if you grow your own tall bird but it just hates you as soon as it grows up, but nobody really used it so they never reworked it (like the older mechanics) so its still pretty bleh
@ferociousfeind8538 yeah there's a lot of stuff that only got reworked/updated because it was consistently used, tall birds/small birds weren't one of them they might still tho!
@@crowqueenamps that is true, it just sucks there's so many things that klei left behind to focus on other things, hopefully they go back and rework the older mechanics
Favorite tip for emergency light (especially during winter) is to carry a pitchfork around with you, so if you need more campfire fuel but can't reach any trees, you can dig up the turf around you and feed the fire with that. It's saved my hide multiple times
I haven't played much of the game, but when I found out you could hatch tallbird eggs I made it my life's goal to get one. I played with a friend of mine, we both died a few times trying to get an egg, but finally, we had our own little fluffball. We lovingly cared for him, fed him constantly, and spent half our time stopping him from getting into fights. So you can imagine our absolute heartbreak when he grew up and we discovered that they turn hostile. Our precious pet, our life's work, now trying to slaughter us. I was distraught.
Pro tip, since the tentacles have a negative sanity aura, you can tell if your near them when your sanity starts going down even when you cant see them
There's something about Spiff's videos that just tell such amazing stories as they go. Any other video would likely just talk about the main moments and struggles and keep it to like 15 minutes. But Spiff can get us all enthralled in the emotion he's going through, and it leaves a memory greater than any of us could have asked for. A truly beautiful epoch about a helpless survivor, and his little bird child, that none of us will forget any time soon.
Oh my god, this title just brought back memories of a server I play on a lot There was one time where I logged on to someone hatching like 20 tallbird eggs at once, it might have been more even. We all thought it was funny and helped them out with it, but eventually the player doing it said they had to "be right back" and left us with their hoard children for around half an hour I think we had them fight the Eye of Terror for us and not all of them died, somehow
That's me getting whiplash from the latest FNaF/challenge channels like TheBones5 or ChickenNinja42. I'm older than both of them, and I was there when FNaF first started.
I will say, I find it super funny RUclips recommended this to me, cuz I used to play don't starve SOLELY play as Wes, go find a tallbird, raise an egg (sometimes multiple), and survive through winter with my babies and raise them to adulthood, where I would try to make sure they survived and ran off to start their own nests without dying. And I would repeat the cycle over and over. It was just something calming and comforting. And since I tended to main as Wes. He earned the nickname Mama Wes
Hearing Spiff tell the story about the mixed up hold/hang up buttons was really funny to me, because I've actually worked for a company that had a very similar problem. Because of the way the phones were set up, pressing the "mute my mic" button on the headset would instantly hang up the call. Clicking the "mute my mic" button in the phone system would work perfectly fine however. Very awkward and confusing the first time I encountered it, but the client called back right away and we didn't have a busy phone line so no real harm was done.
SPIFF DON'T STARVE CONTENT!?! PEAK also 1:30 the tall bird egg can actually be a SUPER helpful food for crock pot recipes since you can make a tall scotch egg which practically is a full health in all stats. i understand what hes saying tho since i think hes playing base dont starve edit: he IS playing dst (thank you comments) so my point stands
honestly i forgot how much I wanted to play dst when I was younger, im watching this while redownloading it on steam since you reminded me of its existence.
Was not expecting the long dark mention but I agree with that chatter. It's such a cool bur hard game about surviving in the wilderness after crashing and the best part is that you can never really become overpowered
I did this all the time when I played this game back in the day. It's the only reason to ever build walls, to protect the little guys from hounds before they grow to be a smallish tall bird.
1:13:52 As someone who has been getting into The Long Dark again, I seriously second this! It also makes a lot of sense why TLD was suggested during this stream. It's a realistic survivalist game(until it comes to the wildlife(wolves attack you unprovoked)) and has several hard challenge modes that I think Spiff would enjoy Spiggington, if you do end up reading this comment, I do suggest looking into the game. It really does seem right up your alley with the challenge modes (as well as the misery difficult, but I don't think there's any real goal to accomplish aside from living as long as you can)
I remember when I first started playing DS i was determined to raise a smallbird, eventually I got one to hatch and hang out with me for a bit but at some point it got lost or something and I'd just assumed it died. Fast forward a few days and I was exploring near where it disappeared and, Apparently what actually happened was it went and Murdered an entire Tallbird nest biome. More than that, and I guarantee this was a glitch in the code (that I still have no answer for to this day) the then abandoned eggs in the Tallbird nests ALSO hatched and what I ultimately stumbled upon was hundreds of tame birds murdering every single hostile tallbird that spawned in. Eventually the hostile tallbirds killed them all off but it was literally the coolest thing ever while it lasted lol. Also a great accidental farm
I've raised like 5 smallbirds in a public server once in the middle of winter, one grew up and two others players decided to kill dfly and I went along, whoever had the panflute didn't use it and they all became cooked morsels.
30:23 the chicken cuddling up to Chester is freaking precious and i need it as a fan art thing. I played the shit out of this game when I was younger and Spiff calling himself old at 24 when he's only 2 years older than me made me laugh
1:32, if you consistently kill tall birds, then it's more than worth it for two good big meats and tall scotch eggs. It's just that tall birds are too out of the way with their spawn locations so your time would be better spent elsewhere, even if you have a beefalo.
The Long Dark is a great survival game with some super fun challenges, it seems really up your alley! And also yes, it's set in Canada. Great job once again :)
Tallbird eggs do have a sort of niche use as an emergency food supply, bc if they're not cooked and are just left in egg form, they never spoil. You can leave one in a chest for multiple seasons and have it remain just as edible. But considering the amount of risk involved in getting one (if you steal one from a tallbird instead of killing the parent, the parent will chase you for miles like a fucking terminator, to the point where you start wondering if this is just your life now), they're not really a consistent viable resource. They're absolutely worth grabbing if you can do so safely, but they're not usually worth routinely going for unless you're good at fighting
the way this made me genuinely emotional like i was watching a real nature documentary. i was so excited when you reunited with Soup, i can't imagine how relieved they must have been after watching their parent die. o7 Soup it was an honour to watch you grow up big and strong
Can confirm: The Long Dark is an incredible survival game. It actually felt like ‘surviving’. And I found the story quite neat. Then again I’m only just starting chapter 4 I think now. There’s also a survival mode which I’m very curious to try out. Fun game, with a lot of really good atmosphere :) I think the art style is super cool and the voice acting is really well-done, so I’d definitely recommend you try it for more reason than just… Canada
What a journey. Multitasking to watch/listen this video while playing DST. Pausing my game when an interesting part comes up. And feeling all the bittersweetness when Soup became an adult and moved out. Love this video!
Whoooa a don't starve video! I've been watching a lot of challenge videos recently, so I'm actually so excited that you're making a don't starve video, especially one of the og game!
Wow. New favorite spiff video, I think. I love the commentary with the framing, I love the editing, I love soup. Spiff is so funny and entertaining, he can make any tedious idea into a fantastic video
Raising these Tallbirds is about the same as pet birds. They get into all kinds of trouble and eats EVERYTHING they can get their beak on. (As long as they're not allowed to eat it, ofc.)
Videos like this are so good for the community, I love Don’t Starve with all my heart and anytime there’s an opportunity for more eyes to get on it the better
The best thing about tallbirds is that even actual tallbirds that raise their own children die by the hands of their own children once they become adults. It is part of their life cycle.
BASED PFP
ngl most of the natural born smallbirds I see get killed in their teenage years instead of reaching tallbird adulthood and killing their parents.
My favorite thing about it too is that if you don’t load in the tall bird and it’s nest long enough there’ll be like 3-4 children and a dead tall bird or a few pieces of meat from its once was children
The tallvird parent will murder the child before it even grows to tallish stage, very common thing when you play in a world for a while
Cannibalism 101 lol
Imagine the first person to nurture the Tallbird through its entire life until it finally grows up, probably taking many tries and great community effort, just for it to *immediately* turn on you and attack you
to be fair, as a dont starve player, I wouldn't have it any other way
@siennide as a not dont starve player
Me want bird fwiend ;w;
@@siennide I dunno, this seems like an unfixed bug.
@@thatkid1277 I NEED the birb rework, and the ability to give them hats. flower crown for cute smallbird, football helmet for war machine big bird
@@ig100magnaguard I thought so too, but apparently, this is their actual life cycle. In the game, you can witness Tallbird offspring kill their parent once they become adults.
So it just did what was natural for it.
Spigg gets married and immediately starts practicing taking care of a real child by raising a bird child.
Fun fact, this was actually done last summer, a couple months before their wedding.
@ ah! So he was proving himself worthy of fatherhood to Paige! I see!
Crazy..
@@cairoraiser9338 was this a courtship ritual
@@fractal-dreamz “and here we see the wild spigg, about to perform what is known as an “sisyphian offer of courtship”, in which the spiff attempts to perform a long, and arguably arduous task, for the purposes of the satisfaction of both himself - and to prove worthiness to his partner.”
sometimes a family is a canadian werebeaver, some buffalo, a living pumpkin box, and a murderous bird with no self preservation skills
I was thinking that the tallbird would be a bad companion, or die quickly, or something like that. But literally forgetting everything you did and becoming hostile?
Bruh.
They do it to eachother in the wild too, apparently.
It's their lifecycle.
Oh dude, you need to see the beefalo taming mechanics for this game, if you're not (unfortunately) already familiar with them. Don't get me wrong, I love Don't Starve/DST to death, but jesus everloving _christ_ did they make the beefalo taming mechanics more complicated and tedious than they needed to be. I have hundreds of hours in this game and will _never_ go after taming a beefalo bc while I don't have the best mental self-talk, I don't hate myself nearly that much.
James Bucket has a fantastic video on it if you're curious. Buckle up and tumble down the 'oh god why' rabbit hole
@@lzrshark617 Yeah, fully taming beefaloo is still a pain, but they're actually really worth it while not fully tamed. You can travel wayyy faster than you can otherwise for early map exploration, and there's been a bunch of mechanics added that make taming easier (steamed twigs are a great example).
@@lzrshark617 i just went and watched the video, and i think you miiiight be over exaggerating just a bit.
is it really that hard to either ride or feed a beefalo for a single season, to have an unbreakable dark sword that also acts as a shield with 1000 hp (or 2500 with the new saddle)?
@@dragonx23123 it is because you need to constant babysit them hoping they gonna turn out to be the class of beefalo you want to tame them into.
Beefalo takes a long of time to make the game looks easier, when you can just learn kite and do the same that beefalo do
I have 1375 hours in DS and DST combined, and you have done a lot more in the game than I had the skill and/or patience to do. I heard your objective and IMMEDIATELY burst out laughing, specially considering the length of the video and how many tries it took. This is the best
I saw the video and audibly explaimed "2 HOURS???"
Seeing "DST" is weird since it means "STD" in other languages
@@Gustavo-po9bdstarving together don’t
@@ologoto3584 disease sexually transmitted is my favorite video game :)
@@Gustavo-po9bd Daylight Savings Time
Spiff has already learned the stress of parenting, the grief of losing a child, and the melancholy of watching them grow up. I think he's ready for the ant farm.
44:20 Spiff you can actually sleep through the night, the darkness won't attack you if you had just STAYED asleep and waited the night out.
Woh what? I had no idea- that's actually pretty useful in some rare scenarios!
NO WAY LMAOOOOO
Hey I've seen one of your vids!
This is why I main Wendy. Never need a torch if my dead sister creates a smidge of light.
@@crowqueenampsNot to mention she's such a dang tank. Never have to worry about food when I can clear out the local frog population
Fun fact: I actually DID raise a tallbird for its nest. In one of my worlds I have 5 tallbirds for eggs and meat. Also eating the eggs are really good in a crockpot. If you combine one tallbird egg, one carrot, and two twigs you get a dish that heals you for 60 hp and will feed you for 2 days.
I can't explain why but your profile picture just makes sense for this comment.
it can be any vegetable btw. (no, berries are not vegetables. they're fruits)
Getting attached to the baby bird and then seeing the RUclips Chapter being called "Spird 1" was disheartening
The equivalent of searching your favourite person and seeing “_______’s death”
@@kevinkarpovs3362 yeah like wanting to see fanart of a character for a show you havent finished but the first search result is their death scene
@@blakewhite3131 Thats why i Just ignore the sugestions while searching a cglharacter
Happened to me too 😢
@@otakinnoob8704 i do that too, but if i dont physically cover underneath the search with my hand or something, my eyes instinctively dart to the movement of the results, and I'm a very fast reader.
Many times I tell myself I'll ignore the results, but find myself immediately spoiled because I thought I could overpower monkey brain "look at movement"
No way. Spiff dont starve. Absolutely legendary
Don't Spiff
Spigg died da next day😅
Absolutely real. I’m so happy.
I'm not sure why we're applauding a grown man for fueling his body regularly smh
@ :/
The answer to "can you hatch your own tallbird" is "yes, but you shouldn't"
I remember one time, my friend was trying to do this, but I was playing Webber, so one of my spiders ate the egg. So, she set the camp on fire. Good times.
sounds reasonable
Not the infighting lol
Reasonable crash out
I like the editing style, especially the pseudo-documentary style. It's nice to see that you continue to experiment with presentation.
"Spiff becoming a parent in Don't Starve" was not the next video I was expecting. And honestly, I'm all for it!
One of these days during livestream we will hear "NO LOAF!!!" then stream ends
Unfortunately loaf has hit the power button on previous occasions. I don't know the exact video but I'm sure somebody else can help you out.
@cookiecreeperplayz did loaf end the stream
This has already happened
@@AstralSpiff The Power button incident? (O_o)
@@Des_Playz1 Yep
The use of tallbird eggs is in the Crockpot
It has one of the highest value recipes in the game
And I think using something for a completely useless task instead of it's best use also has comedic value
Back in my day (like 2019 lol), you couldn't use them in crockpots. I remember the celebration of the QoL update that allowed them in.
@ oooh
Interesting
@@crowqueenamps That's incorrect. You could always use them as the egg requirement for bacon and egg or pierogi. If you go to the wiki and go to history, the oldest version of the article that mentions it can be placed in the crockpot is from 2013, which I imagine wasn't changed for DST. It was only more recently that they added Tall Scotch Eggs though.
the "varg" you were fighting is actually a varglet: a smaller type of varg with less health and only spawns one hound when it growls instead of five. btw i really enjoyed this video and i wish you played more DST
I hatched, and killed, a few of my own. First time i got one to fully grow up it caugt me off guard and... killed me.
second one i tried to retame but didnt kill. Nested right in my base. so i guess free tallbirds? died to moose afterwards.
the following ones were a bit more of a pastime of me. especially in multiplayer. its fun and i always love it.
I loved the vid
Magpie pfp.........
44:49 implying that you can safely sleep in the nether in singleplayer is absolute gold
*Technically* there is SOME reward for doing this. In DST there is a crockpot dish called Tall Scotch Eggs, which require a tallbird egg and 1.0 worth of veggies to cook. This dish restores 150 hunger, 60 health, and 5 sanity, making it an incredibly good dish.
When a tallbird you raise grows up, it will attempt to create a nest, because adult tallbirds without nests will try to create one. So by suffering through the process of raising a tallbird, you can create new sources of tallbird eggs, giving you more access to Tall Scotch Eggs.
It's not a completely pointless endeavor, its just a mostly pointless one. As someone who has done this with 2 tallbirds at once, don't do it. It's not worth it, and even in a super late game world with practically unlimited resources, it's just not fun having to limit yourself from doing anything fun to keep some dumb bird alive for multiple seasons.
yeah there is a lot better farms but the fact that they restore 60 health makes them pretty good if you have absolute MOUNDS of patience
@@jelicamarkus6329 They're not really food to be farmed, but just a really good reward for walking/riding past a tallbird.
@@lordofbanshees yeah i know just wanted to think of one good thing about it
For comparision you can make a net, capture 10 butterflies, and make a butterfly farm. Each butterfly wing gives 8 health and 10 hunger
Unironically I truly believe butterfly wings should be nerfed
@@usernametaken017 youre better off removing all but 1 flowers from an area, since all flowers do is add areas for butterflies to spawn. afaik, the only way to increase butterfly spawnrates is to have multiple players nearby, since allegedly each player has their own butterfly spawns. by having only 1 flower, you compound all the butterfly spawns into that single flower, making farming them a lot easier.
The first time I saw my older brother playing Skyrim, he described it as "a game where everything wants to kill you." Playing both Dont Starve and Skyrim, DS fits the description much more.
Edit: WOW this comment kinda blew up
sounds most like rain world
Skyrim is "everything kills you" in the same way all open world RPG games are so that's amusing on multiple levels for me, no offense to him. "Everything wants to kill you" = "there's lots of exp to farm that will throw itself at you" and "everything wants to kill you, except the entire towns full of people and many citizens scattered throughout the land who don't." 😂
@@lumonetic1124not everything wants to kill you in rain world!!!
lantern mice :)
Fear and Hunger: “Hello, Hello~”
Consider: rain world
Screw it, I'm just gonna keep a list of people's complaints.
Log suit - if you're wearing a log suit you're not wearing a backpack, Edgy Rick (hate him off principle, trust me) brainwashed everyone into thinking this is a problem
complaint grading: unless you ignore all sensory input you can just put on your armor before you have a problem.
Can't kite for shit - yes.
Complaint grading: acceptable, no attempt was made
Why not eat carrots: carrots do in fact respawn in dst unless it's night or winter, though there are more than enough carrots in the world to get a single player through their first autumn and winter, especially with a bird cage and garden
Complaint grading: suitable, though spigg is used to playing DS where they, in fact, are a limited resource.
EGG - egg
Complaint grading: egg
My complaints (separate)
17:51
Expensive ass meat ball [meat ball: 62.5 hunger, 3 health, 5 sanity] [total ingredients (cooked): 81.25 hunger, 9 health, 0 sanity] (it's fine he hasn't played in a while)
I haven't played in a while too. I think Pierogi was the best food item but I wouldn't quote me on that either.
@@bartudundar3193 Great healing item and good ingredient to hunger efficiency
Saying that there's one "best" food item lakes nuance
@@nonagonguy6121 There are so many food items in this game when you only really make a handful that are even remotely useful. I know for a fact I've survived hundreds of days only eating Meat Stews and Meatballs, slamming only a few potato/tomato for healing here and there. Hell, I don't think I've made even one of the fig recipes lmao.
Never played DST, but i see community is a bit iffy for a single player game.
@@Lsir DST is short for Don't Starve Together, the multiplayer version of the game remade from the groundup.
Only the original Don't Starve and its DLC are purely singleplayer.
Not Fun Fact: Rising Tallbirds was one of the features to be added in the small-ish early updates of regular Don't Starve in its infancy as a full game, and the ability to raise a Tallbird has basically not changed in any meaningful way since the feature's release.
To he honest, I kinda wish they did rework it, like any Tallbird you hatch and raise have a lower damage Stat but somewhat higher HP than normal Tallbirds, but only need to eat once every one or two days and don't attack you. Much better outcome for bothering to raise such a stupid bird.
this idea makes it more realistic but it's also much eqasier to farm them and keep them as an egg farm
aaaah my two fav things, spigg and dst :)
I love how even the devs (klei) said that they added it because they thought i'd be funny if you grow your own tall bird but it just hates you as soon as it grows up, but nobody really used it so they never reworked it (like the older mechanics) so its still pretty bleh
W-what? _because_ nobody used it, they didn't rework it? But it'd be useful if at least the tallbird didn't hate you when it grew up!!
@ferociousfeind8538 yeah there's a lot of stuff that only got reworked/updated because it was consistently used, tall birds/small birds weren't one of them
they might still tho!
In all honesty, I am kinda glad Klei focused more on QoL and character reworks for DST first. At least there are mods to fix the issue.
@@crowqueenamps that is true, it just sucks there's so many things that klei left behind to focus on other things, hopefully they go back and rework the older mechanics
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With Klei, I believe it will happen. Especially in DST.
Favorite tip for emergency light (especially during winter) is to carry a pitchfork around with you, so if you need more campfire fuel but can't reach any trees, you can dig up the turf around you and feed the fire with that. It's saved my hide multiple times
I haven't played much of the game, but when I found out you could hatch tallbird eggs I made it my life's goal to get one. I played with a friend of mine, we both died a few times trying to get an egg, but finally, we had our own little fluffball. We lovingly cared for him, fed him constantly, and spent half our time stopping him from getting into fights.
So you can imagine our absolute heartbreak when he grew up and we discovered that they turn hostile. Our precious pet, our life's work, now trying to slaughter us. I was distraught.
Pro tip, since the tentacles have a negative sanity aura, you can tell if your near them when your sanity starts going down even when you cant see them
There's something about Spiff's videos that just tell such amazing stories as they go. Any other video would likely just talk about the main moments and struggles and keep it to like 15 minutes. But Spiff can get us all enthralled in the emotion he's going through, and it leaves a memory greater than any of us could have asked for. A truly beautiful epoch about a helpless survivor, and his little bird child, that none of us will forget any time soon.
Oh my god, this title just brought back memories of a server I play on a lot
There was one time where I logged on to someone hatching like 20 tallbird eggs at once, it might have been more even. We all thought it was funny and helped them out with it, but eventually the player doing it said they had to "be right back" and left us with their hoard children for around half an hour
I think we had them fight the Eye of Terror for us and not all of them died, somehow
This challenge truly makes you feel like an actual parent trying to babysit a child
spiff better not be dissing my favorite food tall scotch egg is the Goat. 1 carrot 2 twigs and some minor robbery gets you a literal superfood
minor thing, but the tree overlay durring the voice over parts is very nice
5:02 God, I'm older than the youtube let's player now. Where did the years go?
huh
I had the same reaction when he said that... 1 year older is still older...
That's me getting whiplash from the latest FNaF/challenge channels like TheBones5 or ChickenNinja42. I'm older than both of them, and I was there when FNaF first started.
I’m almost 25 hows that
@@AstralSpiff Same. I get the feeling you actually have a surprisingly high number of viewers at your age and just older given your style of content.
I will say, I find it super funny RUclips recommended this to me, cuz I used to play don't starve SOLELY play as Wes, go find a tallbird, raise an egg (sometimes multiple), and survive through winter with my babies and raise them to adulthood, where I would try to make sure they survived and ran off to start their own nests without dying.
And I would repeat the cycle over and over. It was just something calming and comforting. And since I tended to main as Wes. He earned the nickname Mama Wes
Hearing Spiff tell the story about the mixed up hold/hang up buttons was really funny to me, because I've actually worked for a company that had a very similar problem. Because of the way the phones were set up, pressing the "mute my mic" button on the headset would instantly hang up the call. Clicking the "mute my mic" button in the phone system would work perfectly fine however. Very awkward and confusing the first time I encountered it, but the client called back right away and we didn't have a busy phone line so no real harm was done.
1:53:33 "STOP MESSING WITH MY F***ING GAME SHOW" energy
Unlikely as it is, I really hope Spiff does more Don't Stare (Together) content. This was a blast, I want more
Dst fans when dont stare enters the room: 😰
i agree
SPIFF DON'T STARVE CONTENT!?! PEAK
also 1:30 the tall bird egg can actually be a SUPER helpful food for crock pot recipes since you can make a tall scotch egg which practically is a full health in all stats. i understand what hes saying tho since i think hes playing base dont starve
edit: he IS playing dst (thank you comments) so my point stands
He's playing DST.
It’s DST because of the scrapbook and crafting UI
@@_Rinastar_ so my point stands, yay :D
Yeah I just don’t know lol
@AstralSpiff very fair this game has so much random shit, i didnt evem know raising tallbirds was a thing
honestly i forgot how much I wanted to play dst when I was younger, im watching this while redownloading it on steam since you reminded me of its existence.
I'm glad to finally see Spiff play Don't Starve.
Scotch eggs are so underrated.
Respect for actually taming this. The only real benefit this provides is to replicate nests.
1:58:53 Here in the Don't Starve Civilization, no one goes for the pig ass
Was not expecting the long dark mention but I agree with that chatter. It's such a cool bur hard game about surviving in the wilderness after crashing and the best part is that you can never really become overpowered
2 whole hours of Gegg dying repeatedly?? Hell yeah
Edit: Love the documentary-like commentary between scenes lmao
Literally one of my favorite games of all times. Like I’ve got 9k hours across all games since 2013 and now my favorite guy is covering it (Pog)
I did this all the time when I played this game back in the day. It's the only reason to ever build walls, to protect the little guys from hounds before they grow to be a smallish tall bird.
1:13:52 As someone who has been getting into The Long Dark again, I seriously second this! It also makes a lot of sense why TLD was suggested during this stream. It's a realistic survivalist game(until it comes to the wildlife(wolves attack you unprovoked)) and has several hard challenge modes that I think Spiff would enjoy
Spiggington, if you do end up reading this comment, I do suggest looking into the game. It really does seem right up your alley with the challenge modes (as well as the misery difficult, but I don't think there's any real goal to accomplish aside from living as long as you can)
I remember when I first started playing DS i was determined to raise a smallbird, eventually I got one to hatch and hang out with me for a bit but at some point it got lost or something and I'd just assumed it died. Fast forward a few days and I was exploring near where it disappeared and, Apparently what actually happened was it went and Murdered an entire Tallbird nest biome. More than that, and I guarantee this was a glitch in the code (that I still have no answer for to this day) the then abandoned eggs in the Tallbird nests ALSO hatched and what I ultimately stumbled upon was hundreds of tame birds murdering every single hostile tallbird that spawned in. Eventually the hostile tallbirds killed them all off but it was literally the coolest thing ever while it lasted lol. Also a great accidental farm
I've raised like 5 smallbirds in a public server once in the middle of winter, one grew up and two others players decided to kill dfly and I went along, whoever had the panflute didn't use it and they all became cooked morsels.
The real mistake of sleeping through the night was getting back out of the sleeping bag
@@gaming_bigfoot maybe he pressed a key accidentally? Cause otherwise sleeping counters the darkness
@@tonynguyen4603 Nah it was no accident, he paniced when it didn't skip day like in single player and assumed he was in danger
Soup will forever be remembered in the pages of Spiff's Memorable Characters book. Right up there with Hotdog Plink and Toilet Bonnie.
30:23 the chicken cuddling up to Chester is freaking precious and i need it as a fan art thing. I played the shit out of this game when I was younger and Spiff calling himself old at 24 when he's only 2 years older than me made me laugh
1:32, if you consistently kill tall birds, then it's more than worth it for two good big meats and tall scotch eggs.
It's just that tall birds are too out of the way with their spawn locations so your time would be better spent elsewhere, even if you have a beefalo.
entered the challenge not even extremely confident in the game lmaoo, classic spiff 👍 nice nature doc
ITS 2 HOURS? 😭 I JUST LOOKED (im 16 min in , i should sleep)
@@jazcat103 go to sleeep
Right away the episode opens with Spiff just straight shrinking, implying that Spiff did not age, he simply grew. The lore runs deep.
He's preparing for fatherhood irl the only way he knows how.
love the videos with lots of VOs, feel like it adds so much when you explain whats going on and it feels really fleshed out. Great video!
I loved when astralstarve played dont spiff
*This video once again alternates between property destruction and Spigg treating the enemies like pets*
Dude i love seeing you brach out into new games. And im happy u have a comunity that lets u do that
"My original plan was to let Soup kill me, as a sign of ultimate love as a parent" Spiff thinks he's Freya from God of War 2018
The Long Dark is a great survival game with some super fun challenges, it seems really up your alley! And also yes, it's set in Canada.
Great job once again :)
If you're interested in doing fun challenge runs in this game you should totally check out the community tournament that's being hosted right now!
Was NOT anticipating DST content, but thanks for introducing more people to the game! Idk if you can tell by my Wilson icon but I'm a big fan haha
"I'm old now at 24" Never has Spiff sounded more relatable before xD
"have you ever heard of the bog monster?" - W
Tallbird eggs do have a sort of niche use as an emergency food supply, bc if they're not cooked and are just left in egg form, they never spoil. You can leave one in a chest for multiple seasons and have it remain just as edible. But considering the amount of risk involved in getting one (if you steal one from a tallbird instead of killing the parent, the parent will chase you for miles like a fucking terminator, to the point where you start wondering if this is just your life now), they're not really a consistent viable resource. They're absolutely worth grabbing if you can do so safely, but they're not usually worth routinely going for unless you're good at fighting
been getting back into dont starve lately and this video went to my feed, you timing couldnt get any better spiff thank you!!!
This game was a big part of my childhood. SO HYPED to see Spigg is also a Veteran Starver.
Also I did not expect to be only 2 years younger than you.
1:22:10 Loaf: Inspect
the bird forgetting you and immediately attacking you on sight sounds like such a meme but the ending of the video felt genuinely bittersweet
I used to play this game all the time with my friends after school. I'm glad you're giving it the coverage it deserves .
the way this made me genuinely emotional like i was watching a real nature documentary. i was so excited when you reunited with Soup, i can't imagine how relieved they must have been after watching their parent die. o7 Soup it was an honour to watch you grow up big and strong
36:15 Paused the video here and saw “Spird 1” 😂
Nah I did too 😭
This is probably the most emotional spiff video made me. what a beautiful journey
Dam, that ending was actually something else. I hope you’re doing well out there, Soup. Another generation will flourish. Genuinely a beautiful montage, never been so proud of some pixels and code in my life.
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It is so touching, and sad, and still bright, like an old man's sweet sad nostalgia
I'm gonna go for a thinking walk
The tall bird forgetting who you are makes me really sad. :(
Can confirm: The Long Dark is an incredible survival game. It actually felt like ‘surviving’. And I found the story quite neat. Then again I’m only just starting chapter 4 I think now.
There’s also a survival mode which I’m very curious to try out.
Fun game, with a lot of really good atmosphere :)
I think the art style is super cool and the voice acting is really well-done, so I’d definitely recommend you try it
for more reason than just… Canada
Spiff's finally playing Don't Plink
What a journey. Multitasking to watch/listen this video while playing DST. Pausing my game when an interesting part comes up. And feeling all the bittersweetness when Soup became an adult and moved out. Love this video!
YOOO dont starve is such a fun game love that u made a vid on it
Astralspiff making a don’t starve video was a surprise to be sure. But certainly a welcome one!
Whoooa a don't starve video! I've been watching a lot of challenge videos recently, so I'm actually so excited that you're making a don't starve video, especially one of the og game!
Wow. New favorite spiff video, I think. I love the commentary with the framing, I love the editing, I love soup. Spiff is so funny and entertaining, he can make any tedious idea into a fantastic video
we are getting closer and closer to the spiff terraria gaming
Raising these Tallbirds is about the same as pet birds. They get into all kinds of trouble and eats EVERYTHING they can get their beak on. (As long as they're not allowed to eat it, ofc.)
Don't starve together?
Just eat alone!
Webber mains:
Story of Soup got me tearing up legitimately
i just started playing dont starve about a week ago and see this. legendary
man why did that ending actually lowkey make me emotional
Everything kills you within the game while slowly killing you irl by wasting your life
Yeah it’s awesome
I have waited years for such a collaboration
Spiff and don't starve
I can die happy now
I NEVER NEW SPIFF PLAYED DS / DST, HES ACTULLY THE GOAT
He got the flower crown joke in Minecraft with ton of horror mods video
@@konstralit2105 Yeah, i guess. But still
The documentary style was absolutely perfect for the tragedies and celebrations that occurred whilst learning. Enough to make a grown man cry.
55:00 Sploff hit his desk so hard that my phone physicly fell out of my hands
I've watched this like 4 times now... Am I a serial spiffer?
HECK YEAH!!! this is one of my hyperfixations so im really happy to see more content of it- PLUS ITS SPIFF >:)
Videos like this are so good for the community, I love Don’t Starve with all my heart and anytime there’s an opportunity for more eyes to get on it the better