Chapter 209 - Exploring Don’t Starve (1/2)

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

“What? Why is it walking on its hind legs!”

Jia Peng equipped his axe as he thought about hacking away at the pig to see if it drops meat.

But in the same moment, night approached.

Wilson muttered to himself, “It’s getting late. It will be dark soon.”

The pig also said, “HOME TIME!”

The pig then returned to its house and stayed inside.

All Jia Peng could do was watch this happen.

Jia Peng decided to forget about this pig who walked on its hind legs and continued wandering.

The night was approaching and his vision was reducing.

Jia Peng looked at the time indication on the top right nervously.

There were three zones in the dial for time. The largest yellow zone was for day, orange for dusk, and grey was signified night.

It was now dusk, light started to get scarce but there was still time before night.

Jia Peng continued picking away at boulders while contemplating what to do during the night.

“Normally I’d have to build a house or something right? But obviously I can’t build one now, but there has to be something I can do.

“I should eat a few berries to replenish my hunger first.”

Soon, night approached and the entire screen turned dark.

Although Jia Peng didn’t know if there was a side-effect to being in the dark without a fire, he still instinctively crafted a torch.

With a torch in hand, Wilson can continue on his merry way in darkness.

The torch produced a very limited radius of light and its health bar was decreasing rapidly.

“Hmm? I can light trees on fire too?”

Jia Peng hovered over nearby trees to realise he could right click them to light them on fire.

Jia Peng tried it out, and sure enough the whole tree caught on fire. It even spread to another nearby tree.

The fire even caught Wilson the firebug on fire, taking away some of his health.

This gave Jia Peng a shock, but he soon calmed down after realizing it wasn’t a big deal.

After a few moments, the tree stopped burning leaving behind two blackened trees.

Jia Peng enjoyed that process and proceeded to burn down all the trees he came across.

After setting a few more trees on fire, Jia Peng realised that his torch ran out. He then switched to his axe and started chopping away at the burnt trees.

“Hmm? It dropped two pieces of charcoal! That’s a thing?”

Jia Peng quickly picked up the charcoal. Although he didn’t know what use it had, based on the game so far, all resources have its uses. It might now have a use now, but it would surely come in the future.

And just like that, the first night ended, followed by the auto-saving of the game.

Jia Peng breathed out a sigh of relief as he managed to survive the first night.

Although the nights were tense, limited the players’ vision, and had a spooky background music, there wasn’t much to fear about the night. As it was his first time, it was normal for him to feel nervous.

Although his first day was a bit pitiful as he fueled himself on berries, he gathered a lot of resources, managing to fill up two thirds of his inventory.