Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

For further tips:

You can do a lot to alter the landscape. Doing so will give you a definite tactical advantage. It has a limit as to how high or how low it will go. Dig or build in line with the compass for straight lines. No caves except under existing structures.

Poison resist only works if you take it before you get poisoned. Also the swamp absolutely hates your boat. Most new people who say the game is unfair tried to land their boat at the edge of the swamp. The other people who come on the forums and complain thought that pretty open area with the brown grass would be nice to them.

I already thought the game was unfair when "the forest started to move" in my ten day building project causing me 3 deaths and making me run away from the area crying, I did not come to steam to cry though, I did it privately and just got on with it.
It strangely though made me glad I hadnt been hitting the wiki as I was NOT prepared for that .... I love being new in a good game, you can only be new once.
Off topic, but some games, I wish I could forget all knowledge of and start again as a noob, thats why this game, I am not going to be looking at letsplays, going to the wiki etc, and I will not be complaining when the game destroys me, unless its bug related or like some games just bad balancing etc

I will make note of boats and swamps, but then IRL they arent always a good mix either