You can, and should, alter the terrain to make things easier.

You can dig a safe area under the altars of three of the bosses. (One of the three is less safe, but doable.) You can put a whole base, practically immune to raids, under the Elder's altar if you want to. Flatten the area to make running easier. Build columns to give you something to hide behind. Clear the area of mobs and plant campfires to prevent spawns, and maybe damage the boss. Put your combat engineering mind to work.

Bring a hoe to the swamp to level or raise ground to you don't have to swim all the time.

Bring a pick ax to the mountains to carve trails along steep cliffs.

Dig a steep sided trench around your base to keep out anything that walks, and cover the entire area inside with workbench zones to prevent spawning inside. Earth walls are also indestructible. Islands make good bases too.

Really why label so many intended and even very basic game mechanics as exploits

Originally posted by Xea:

Really why label so many intended and even very basic game mechanics as exploits

Exploit: make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).

This is a definition for coal miners or something, not for gamers or games

Originally posted by Xea:

This is a definition for coal miners or something, not for gamers or games

Find a definition that states what you mean that is in a dictionary and not a personal meaning. Otherwise I am using the word correctly.

Also why is every comment more about criticizing the post? It's a list to help people. smh

Apparently these guys are so hung up on the word "exploit" they can't read the rest. The "guide" you have here is very nice for a new player. Maybe just remove the word "exploit" and everyone will be happy lol.

I'd add to swamps that the hoe is a must have. The swamp is a pitfall compared to the blackforest and much more challenging. The hoe allows you to make paths so you don't get stuck in water. It is as important as everything else you have on you.,

Originally posted by Colonel McDoogle:

Find a definition that states what you mean that is in a dictionary and not a personal meaning.

(in a video game) the use of a bug or flaw in game design to a player’s advantage or to the disadvantage of other players.

Originally posted by Gregomoto:

Mh, i thought cheesing the queen was by hitting the big hammer in the entrance area^^

It might work for some. I kept getting swarmed in the entrance alcove. Even the Seeker Brood killed me a few times once the Queen starts spewing them out.

needs work.
light armors have a mix of positive and negative qualities, for example I am running the root chest to reduce pierce, which counters many mistland bug attacks, archers, spear throwers, and so on. Its more than mobility, the total defense with a resist to a key damage type is better than having yet another armor only piece.

being rested and making portals are not 'exploits'. This is using what the game offers. Exploits are things like dumping ore at the spawn of another world, portal back to your home, picking up the ore... unintended use of mechanics. Or stuff like shooting bonemass to death with wood arrows from behind a terrain raised wall.

my quick incomplete list:
atgeir weapons aoe stun
terrain raise/lower (moats and walls)
terrain combat exploits (unreachable archery)
dragging big enemy (getting them to bust rocks, trees, etc for you)
bypassing bosses (don't need wishbone nor bone pick, and mistlight is sort of optional)
world hopping (moving ore)
map exploit (generate your map and take a look online)
file exploit (eg if die, restore character backup and pop up in full gear again, recover body and your stuff is duplicated), or take stuff from chest on a world, restore world, chest is full again..
deconstruct exploit (break apart and make other, eg tear up a kiln to make a smelter)
damage build exploit (plant bulk fires, eitr balls, spike walls, and other crap to kill things slowly)
tame exploit (tame hundreds of things to fight for you)
cart exploit (break cart to get boxes to kick onto a karve etc), use disguised cart as chest inside walls, etc
corpse exploit (suicide to make a large, small sized chest)
boat exploit (breaking it to get materials back)
surtling exploit (bury spawner in water for free coal and cores)

the queen: I killed her in melee, was just a HP sponge. Poison resist, root chest. 2 health food & 1 eitr food, melee until out of stamina, zap until out of eitr, repeat. Retreat to kill seekers, ignore brood unless many of them. She never really hurt me or even did anything interesting. No cheese.

I appreciate the effort but I stopped reading at light armours. Fenris increases movement speed significantly and has an elemental resistance.

Cheese techniques is one thing, glossing over and generalising armours is another.

Originally posted by jonnin:

light armors have a mix of positive and negative qualities, for example I am running the root chest to reduce pierce, which counters many mistland bug attacks, archers, spear throwers, and so on. Its more than mobility, the total defense with a resist to a key damage type is better than having yet another armor only piece.

...dumping ore at the spawn of another world, portal back to your home, picking up the ore... unintended use of mechanics.

my quick incomplete list:
terrain combat exploits (unreachable archery)
world hopping (moving ore)
map exploit (generate your map and take a look online)
deconstruct exploit (break apart and make other, eg tear up a kiln to make a smelter)

Originally posted by jonnin:

...Or stuff like shooting bonemass to death with wood arrows from behind a terrain raised wall.

my quick incomplete list:
atgeir weapons aoe stun
terrain raise/lower (moats and walls)
dragging big enemy (getting them to bust rocks, trees, etc for you)
bypassing bosses (don't need wishbone nor bone pick, and mistlight is sort of optional)
file exploit (eg if die, restore character backup and pop up in full gear again, recover body and your stuff is duplicated), or take stuff from chest on a world, restore world, chest is full again..
damage build exploit (plant bulk fires, eitr balls, spike walls, and other crap to kill things slowly)
tame exploit (tame hundreds of things to fight for you)
cart exploit (break cart to get boxes to kick onto a karve etc), use disguised cart as chest inside walls, etc
corpse exploit (suicide to make a large, small sized chest)
boat exploit (breaking it to get materials back)
surtling exploit (bury spawner in water for free coal and cores)

I am curious how you did this though. If you depleted your stamina how did you run to deal with mobs etc etc...

the queen: I killed her in melee, was just a HP sponge. Poison resist, root chest. 2 health food & 1 eitr food, melee until out of stamina, zap until out of eitr, repeat. Retreat to kill seekers, ignore brood unless many of them. She never really hurt me or even did anything interesting. No cheese.

Abusing world saves is an exploit, building a terrain wall is not.

Originally posted by FissionChips:

I appreciate the effort but I stopped reading at light armours. Fenris increases movement speed significantly and has an elemental resistance.

Cheese techniques is one thing, glossing over and generalising armours is another.

I did not say all armours have elemental weaknesses. I am assuming the player can read and has knowledge of stats.

Originally posted by FissionChips:

Abusing world saves is an exploit, building a terrain wall is not.

Depends on what you consider an 'exploit'. Really I'm just trying to help ease frustrations with this game by what seems to be the majority. If building a land wall/moat works to help players enjoy this game it's a win.

Mh, i thought cheesing the queen was by using the big hammer in the entrance area^^