Freezing | Winter Don't Starve Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Temperature drops considerably during winter, which gives rise to a new threat: freezing cold. To avoid freezing, you need to stay near some heat source at all times: e.g. a campfire. If you want to move away from fire, you need to get some warm clothes, which will allow you to survive longer in cold forest.

It is also a good idea to carry a Heat Stone around, which acts like portable fire. However, you need to put it next to the campfire before the intended use. The torch does not grant necessary heat but, you can still set on fire other object with it, and get warm this way.

The freezing process relies on two factors: your character's body temperature and the temperature of the surroundings. The former may oscillate between -20 and 40, and it always adjusts to the temperature of the surroundings by falling by 1 point per second. If it falls below 0, your character will start to freeze by receiving -1.25 damage per second. The cooling speed maz be described with the following formula: -30/(30+insulation). As you can see, thanks to insulation you can slow down the process of cooling, with insulation provided by all sorts of warm clothing. These have been presented in the below table.

Item name	Insulating value
Dapper Vest	60
Breezy Vest	60
Rabbit Earmuff	60
Tam o'Shanter	120
Winter Hat	120
Beefalo Hat	240
Puffy Vest	240
Wilsona's beard	0/15/45/135