Seedlings | How to get food Don't Starve Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Farm is an excellent food source, but you will be able to create your first one after some time has passed. Until then, you need to rely on different sources. At first, your staple should consist of berries. It is relatively easy to gather them but there are several downsides to them: they are rarely to be found, have low nutritional value, and also you need to cover vast areas to find them. Wouldn't it be easier if you could find them right next to your camp?

Here, you will need to use a Shovel. Craft it using up 2x Twigs and 2x Flint and always carry it around with you in your backpack.

Thanks to this, whenever you find a Berry Bush, you will be able to dig it up and put it right next to your base.

To plant it, you need to left click on it, and right click on the spot where you want to put it. Before the bush starts to bear fruit, it needs to be fertilized. For that, you need to use manure produced by pigs and beefaloes. As soon as you put the fertilizer onto the plant, it will change colors, and from now on you will be able to pick berries every 3-5 days. The frequency of harvests depends on the precipitation, and the bush is going to need fertilized after every 3-5 harvests (it changes colors again).

In the same way as the Berry Bush, you can plant Saplings and Grass. The former ones do not require additional fertilization.

Be careful though, as you play a gardener. All of the plants are flammable and, as soon as one bush catches on fire, also the other plants will be consumed. To protect yourself from that, put a Lightning Rod near the plant patches (3x Gold Nugget, 1x Cut Stone).

Lightning rods attract lightnings, which protects the plants from being struck. Another method of achieving this, is creating several smaller patches with some space in-between. This way, you will only lose some of the plants in case of fire.