Talk:Summer/@comment-50.135.117.178-20140511075504

If you spawn in spring and need to prepare quickly, your focus should be getting enough gears to make an ice box, so you'll have to explore for some clockwork enemies around the map.

Make a little camp some ways away from your main base that has regular and endothermic firepits and an ice box, and make sure you have two thermal stones to keep you cool (you should always keep one of them in the ice box). Only make trips to your main base if you absolutely have to (to prevent it from combusting). As long as you can keep finding enough food, you should be able to survive the summer easily.

I personally had to put a lot of effort into this strategy because I screwed up and was 2 ice short of being able to make an ice flingomatic for my base when summer started.

I've yet to use the ice hat because I have this sort of phobia of using up resources that I won't be able to replace immediately, so I end up storing all my ice in an ice box in case I ever make another ice flingomatic.