Don't Starve - Winter Strategy

[FlawlessHappiness]

Hello everyone!

Is there anyone out there playing Don't Starve?

With the new update "A winter's tale" the winter is arriving too in the magical Don't Starve-Land.

Now, what is your strategy against the winter?

My strategy is first to find that Koalefant, and get the Trunk and some Silk, to create a jacket. I also get the Winter Hat and a Heat stone.

For the food, I right now have a Crock Pot.
I cook lots of meat balls, since it's easy and fills good.
I had prepared several vegetables for this, with 6 Improved Farmplots.

I also have a lot of berry bushes around my base. To the left of my base is a lot of ponds, which of course are frozen in the wintertime, but i can prepare fishes and froglegs from there, when they've thawed.

I was lucky during the winter of day 63, i found a suspicious dirt pile, and tracked down that Snow Koalefant, so now i have a lot of meat for the rest of the winter. I really hope i'll survive this one.

I know i have a Touch Stone ready for if, against anything, i should die.

Hounds seem to be my only problem right now.

Got any good tactics about hounds? I have a lot of Tooth Traps near my base, just to be sure, but they don't kill them. Just hurt them.

I just found my tactic! There is a LOT of Beefalos near my camp. They're really good when it comes to killing Hounds. One Hound attacking a Beefalo makes all the Beefalos go crazy on it, killing it completely!

You may gladly post pictures of your base too!

Here is my base:

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And here it is on the map:

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