Getting Started (Don't Starve RoG Beginner's Guide Series)

A comprehensive Getting Started guide for Don't Starve beginners, covering your first 5-10 days in Reign of Giants! In this guide I explain survival principles, game mechanics, and go over everything you need to know and do to get started on the right food in a new world.
Contents:
0:21 Introduction / Overview of Video
1:17 Mods I Use
2:01 Game Settings
2:51 Character Selection Recommendations
4:00 Welcome to the Constant - Getting to Work
4:36 First Survival Principle - Be Prepared!
5:02 Second Survival Principle - Don't Panic!
5:37 Bad Idea Montage (Avoidable Deaths)
6:15 Third Survival Principle - Run Away!!
6:58 Critical Survival Materials - Get these ASAP!
8:41 Touchstones
9:08 Seasonal Survival Gear
9:41 Science Machine & Early Crafting
10:24 Pre-Building Structures
10:58 Weapons and Armor & First Hound Attack
12:16 Maintain Food Supply - Cook Before Eating
13:00 Manage Freshness of Food
13:54 Best Early-Game Food Options
14:16 Butterflies
14:55 Monster Meat, Mushrooms, and Sanity
15:42 Early Game Exploration - Objectives Overview
16:11 Locate Biomes & Map Contours
17:39 Gather Base Building Materials
18:34 Find Beefalo
19:50 Picking a Base Location - Principles
21:12 Conclusion & Wrap Up
This is my first ever attempt at making an edited video for RUclips! I've played Don't Starve off and on for several years, but recently got a couple of friends and family members to give it a try. To help them out I decided to make this video, and I had so much fun making it I've 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 is focused on the PC 2020 version of Don't Starve, but should generally be applicable to console versions (switch, playstation, xbox) as well as mobile (android and iphone).
So stick around, like and subscribe, and all that good stuff, and if there are other topics or even other games you might like me to cover, let me know in the comments.
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Game footage is from Don't Starve - Reign of Giants, with a few small clips from Don't Stave Together, a delightful action-adventure sandbox survival game by indie developer Klei Entertainment. Interested in trying it out? Visit these links to learn more and/or purchase!
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Music is from the Don't Starve Soundtrack, and was arranged and composed by Vince de Vera, Jason Garner, and/or Emmett Hall. Tracks featured in this video are "Don't Starve Theme", "Work To Be Done", and "Ragtime". Game footage, graphical assets, soundtrack, and sound effects used consistent with Klei Entertainment's "Player Creation Guidelines" as stated on their website:
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Nothing in this video is sponsored by Klei Entertainment, and the commentary and information in this video do not represent the opinions or positions of any other entity whatsoever. Survival methods presented here are for use in Don't Starve games only, and should not be used in the real world. Except perhaps for murdering bunnies...responsibly of course!