Why do I keep dying?

^{I know this question may be too broad, but I really don't find a way to state my problem in a more concise way.}

I recently began playing Don't Starve Together with my girlfriend, but it has not been a very enjoyable experience for either of us so far. We just keep dying, over and over and over, and we can't really identify a reason for it.

I'll give some examples:

We just finished exploring the map (took ~6 days) and started to build a camp of sorts. Suddenly a band of around six or seven wolves came and killed us. We even had spears, but we had no chance.
After the wolf encounter, our sanity was pretty low. We had already picked the flowers from the surrounding area, so the only way we had to regain some sanity was to kill spiders to get silk to make a top hat. Again, the spiders killed us both.
So our sanity was near zero again, and the monsters continuously chased us around. We couldn't fight them, and they wouldn't disappear. We died again, and stopped playing.

After that, I tried to look at several guides on how to begin playing Don't Starve Together. At first I looked at this "beginner guide", which I did not find very beginner-friendly. He used a lot of terms that seem obvious to him, but which mean nothing to an actual beginner.

I also had a look at this guide from the Don't Starve Together Wiki, but it contradicted the previous guide in some points (e.g. "Don't make the Garland, it's useless" vs. "You should make a Gardland, it'll help you"). It mentioned the wolves (or hounds, rather) briefly, stating:

Hounds are monsters that attack in waves, approximately every 3–12 days. They are extremely dangerous without adequate preparation. Hounds cannot be outrun unless they are being distracted. If the player passes by other mobs, the hounds will usually turn to attack the other mobs.

Hounds might be a big problem sometimes, especially when spawned at night when the player has to run away from the campfire / fire pit.

For such cases, you should prepare a torch when you hear them coming,

Beefalos can kill Hounds quickly, although some of them will die if the wave is too large.

So if I understood this right, when the hounds spawn, I will die?

What am I doing wrong? Why do I keep dying? Or is death just an integral part of the game and I am expected to die over and over?

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Best Answer

Yes, you are essentially expected to die over and over (and over). That's just the sort of game this is.

In the original DS, death was mostly permanent. You could use a touchstone once if you found one, and you could build meat effigies eventually, but otherwise one death was it. Mechanically, that meant that those of us who learned on DS started over a lot, rather than attempted to recover from our early disasters. We took what we learned from the last "run" and applied it to getting further next time.

If you decide to keep trying to learn the game, I would recommend turning respawning off for a while, until you have a good grounding in the basics. If starting over again and again is a deal breaker, this might not be the game for you*. That said, there are probably mods that would let you mitigate or eliminate the resurrection penalty, but I am not familar enough with them to recommend any.

*_{I understand that statement could be interpreted as elitist; that is not my intention. There is absolutely nothing wrong with not liking this style of game, nor should someone subject themselves to something they find unpleasant to appease internet tough guys, and the sunk-cost fallacy is aptly named.}

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How do you keep yourself from dying?

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Walking at a pace 2 miles per hour or faster.

Participating in leisure activities that burned at least 845 calories a week.

Not smoking.

Modest alcohol intake of one drink or more a week (but not more than 1-2 drinks/day).

Avoiding obesity.

What are the signs you are dying?

What are the signs that someone is dying?

feeling weak and tired.
sleeping more or being drowsy.
feeling hot or cold.
cold hands or feet.
eating and drinking less.
bladder or bowel problems.
breathlessness (dyspnoea)
pain.

Can you feel when death is near?

But there is no certainty as to when or how it will happen. A conscious dying person can know if they are on the verge of dying. Some feel immense pain for hours before dying, while others die in seconds. This awareness of approaching death is most pronounced in people with terminal conditions such as cancer.

What is death anxiety?

Death anxiety is a conscious or unconscious psychological state resulting from a defense mechanism that can be triggered when people feel threatened by death [4]. The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association defines death anxiety as a feeling of unsafety, anxiety, or fear related to death or near-death [5].

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