Talk:Hunger/@comment-96.22.71.59-20130401144209/@comment-99.63.20.152-20150303050319

To survive winter without other food, make your base three screens away (or a little more ) from a spider nest. Make sure you are not close enough they will wander into your camp and attack you at night. Use the small animal traps, bird traps and a crock pot and a bird cage. Use a bird trap to capture a bird and build a bird cage. You need 2 paper, 6? gold and 2 seeds for a bird cage. Wickerbottom the librarian starts the game with 2 paper. You can get paper from reeds from a swamp. Farm the spiders for monster meat, feed three cooked monster meat to the bird to get 3 eggs. One monster meat  and three eggs makes meatballs in a crockpot and 1 meatballs a day or 3 over 2 days, will keep you alive all winter. You can use jerky or cooked meats (or cooked vegtables or cooked mushrooms) monster meat included,  in a crock pot  If you can catch birds, rabbits, pengulls or use fish or frogs legs from merman you can make eggs and bacon with 2 eggs, one monster meat, and one morsel or small normal jerky. Bacon and eggs has a much better hunger value than meatballs.

If you find a pig village or somewhere you make your camp without spiders find a three tier spider den and then use traps and bait the spiders with your self into the traps and then kill the den after the spiders are all gone. Usually there is one warrior spider still in the nest. He will emerge when you attack the nest. Then get the spider eggs and put that egg three screens away  from your camp. Planting spider eggs instantly makes a one tier spider nest and one spider will come out to drive you away.

Other tips:

I would build at least two drying racks for those times when you have a lot of monster meat, after hound attacks or after monster fights. Be careful of killing too many  innocent creatures a day, because of Krampus appearing.

If you catch a bird and need the meat, hold the live bird over the fire and it will cook it and you will get a cooked morsel instead of a feather.

If you need gold and have found the pig king he will trade one gold for an egg or a lot of different meats including one monster meat jerky.

If you have spoiled or stale seeds you can feed them to a bird and then the bird will drop a fresh seed.