Raising animals | How to get food Don't Starve Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Butterfly farm

In Don't Starve, apart from hunting, you can raise animals, which come as a plentiful material resource. It is best to start off as a rancher is to start a butterfly farm. To do that, you are going to need a Bug Net and some patience while catching butterflies. To craft the net, you are going to need 4x Twigs, 2x Silk and 1x Rope.

Once the net is ready you need to find an area with flowers in it, and start hunting. Catch 5-10 insects and use them to plant flowers in the same way you planted berry bushes earlier.

Vegetation planted this way does not require fertilization, and they will keep supplying you with further butterflies. They will also come in handy while setting up a bee box.

Bee box

To start a mass production of honey, you are going to need a Bee Box first of all. The materials necessary for building it are 2x Boards, 1x Honeycomb and 4x Bee.

Honeycomb can be acquired by destroying a Bee Hive, that is, unfortunately, protected by a swarm of infuriated bees. How do you avoid bee stings? Right after the bees start attacking, run away a bit from the approaching bees, go around them and go back towards the bee hive.

After you come back to the spot, destroy the hive before the blood thirsty insects catch up with you. Collect the materials left on the ground and set out to search for some more placid insects.

If you come armed with a Bug Net, Bees are an easy target. .To build a bee box, you need as few as four bees.

The bee box is best set up somewhere near the butterfly farm. This way you will ensure bees with an easy access to pollen, which will speed-up the honey-production process.

There are four phases to money-making process. At first, the bee box is empty. Then it ills up with 2,4, and then 6 units of Honey. If you want to empty the bee box, it is best to wait until the bees fly away and then collect everything you want from the bee box. The insects will then turn hostile for a short period of time.

To avoid being bee-stung, you should equip yourself with a Beekeeper Hat. This will bring down the amount of damage dealt by the bees by 80%. To create the hat, you are going to need 8x Silk and 1x Rope.

Raising birds

You can also raise birds. To catch them, you need to use a Bird Trap, which you can create with 3x Twigs and 4x Silk.

To catch one, you need to set the trap where you have noticed the bird and spill some Seeds on it. When you come back after some time, the animal will already be trapped.

You can now take the bird to your camp and put it into the Bird Cage. To create one you are going to need 2x Paprus, 6x Gold Nugget and 2x Seeds.

A birds caught in this way can be feed with seeds, vegetables and any kind of meat (save raw Monster Meat). A bird fed with vegetables will give you 1-2 seeds of the plant you feed to it. , and has a 25 chance of leaving regular Seeds. If you feed the bird with meat, what you will get in exchange is an Egg. The interesting thing is that you can not only eat the egg, but also take it to the Pig King and exchange it for Gold Nuggets.