What embarrassing "noob" mistakes did you make starting out?

[Vexxvididu]

Thought this might be a fun topic and good set of cautionary tales for new players.  I'll start:

1) carrying way too much stuff EVERYWHERE so I never had inventory space.  I used to always have firewood, an ax, a few logs, and some grass on me at all time. ... in hindsight, no idea why I thought I had to carry that everywhere.

2) Following from the first point, I had all my tools with me when making my first ever trip to the resonance archives plus firewood and grass...

3) I wasn't paying enough attention to leather.  I prioritized linen sacks over a windmill.  This is despite getting very lucky with finding borax in a cave right near my base early on.

4) accidentally lit my bed on fire with a pit kiln spreading across grass in my base since the floor was just ordinary dirt.

5) All my rooms were too big to spawn proof easily. ...especially given I had no idea what I was doing with lighting.

6) my first ever death was trying to face tank a fox with no real armor and just a crappy copper or flint spear.

7) not bothering to mark some useful thing on the map early on.  ....thought I'd find it later, lol.  Never did rediscover that first ever blue clay slab I stumbled across.

8 -  Not moving berry bushes to my base right away back when this was easy to do! (it's less simple now in 1.22 of course).

Edited Friday at 03:33 PM by Vexxvididu
removing accidental emoji.

[coolAlias]

Starving to death for like a week straight before changing the hunger settings. I now know how to feed myself.

Gathering up all the nearby metal bits on the surface without realizing they indicate subsurface deposits that can be mined, so they weren't marked on the map...

[Zane Mordien]

1 hour ago, coolAlias said:

Gathering up all the nearby metal bits on the surface without realizing they indicate subsurface deposits that can be mined, so they weren't marked on the map...

This one is so annoying once you realize what you have done. I did that my first time as well. 

- When fireclay became craftable only I thought you had to have a mix of red and blue clay to make it. So I had to hunt around the map to find the rare blue clay spawn before I made fireclay for one playthrough. 

- My first playthrough I put 4 pieces of coal in the forge to heat up one ingot. (before the forge change in 1.22)

There are so many stupid things I'm forgetting. 

 

[Crabsoft]

I mean.. I had that peat pit kiln, but why would you bring that up? Are you just trying to hurt me?

[dakko]

- I chopped down a tree that had a beehive.

Come to think of it, I've not seen a hive inside of a trunk in ages. Are those no longer a thing?

[idiomcritter]

I don't remember.

repeating them over and over again.

when will recognition kick in(?)

[Maelstrom]

4 hours ago, Vexxvididu said:

7) not bothering to mark some useful thing on the map early on.  ....thought I'd find it later, lol.  Never did rediscover that first ever blue clay slab I stumbled across.

 

Not the Ethoslab!?!?!?!?

[Makeshift]

I didn't manage to figure out how to make a campfire before the first night. Or a torch. I found out that night is DARK.

[hstone32]

Let's see here...
 

• Not building or using a quern for 1.5 years, because I mistakenly thought it could only be used with mechanical power.
• Eating animal fat so that it wouldn't "go to waste."
• Tossing out rot to let it despawn
• Waiting until November to plant crops
• Refusing to buy an elk for two years because I wanted to try catching my own
• Choosing sheep to be my one and only renewable meat source
• Sleeping every night, as if phantoms from the other block game were in danger of spawning
• Keeping every single lore book I find
• Spending 2 bronze pickaxes attempting to dig a tunnel into the resonance archives (didn't realize there was an entrance)
• Building my smiting workshop open-air

[Dekoser]

4 hours ago, hstone32 said:

Keeping every single lore book I find

Heresy, every book has to be collected!

i used to never really hunt, because i feared animals dont respawn and thus starve myself out meat, fat, pelt, and leather

[Demoncyborg]

trying to use aged firewood as fuel for a cookpot >_>

[LadyWYT]

My biggest goof was probably the times I picked a nice ruin as a base, set down a reed chest and hay bed to make it somewhat cozy...and then built my pit kiln inside once I had the roof on so it wouldn't get rained on. Built and lit right next to the reed chest and hay bed...with me standing right there as well. A good handful of worlds got deleted in this fashion, because it's a mistake that definitely happened more than once.

There was also that time I thought I was fine just sleeping in an open shelter, since I had a grace period for monsters and there were no bears or wolves nearby. What I didn't count on was the local bighorns wandering in during the night and taking offense to a sleepy seraph.

[Rainbow Fresh]

Lemme see here what I remember from the last 80 hours of the game...

- Picking up shiny rocks and not marking it down until later reading the tooltip and going "...oh."? Yep, done that.
- Carrying too much shit everywhere and never have space? Well that's what mods are for, right?
- Overusing coal to forge? Still do that today, actually! I once wasted like 10 minutes waiting for my ore to smelt, thinking I could squeeze it through with the last possible rest of cooling down buffer just to see that bar plummet back to 0 before I could even react. Never under-fuled anything ever since.
- "Keeping every lore book"? Hey, those are decoration!
- "Having my smithing area open air"? I want things to cool, today, thank you very much!
- "Not planting crops until November"? Lemme go one further. Not planting crops, for the entire first year. "I can prepare a nice big field to use earliest opportunity next spring!". "Berries are too OP, don't need much right now." "Winter is only 3 months, ez pz, this stack of grain and those 5 crockpots of soup and stew will sustain me, maybe I need to hunt the last month a bit". They did, in fact, not sustain past the point where winter officially started.
- I guess building up on that - using some of my little winter rations to feed my chickens.
- Which, to build up on THAT, I settled too close to my house so for the first 2 generations I had to sneak around the furthest possible wall inside as to not disturb the brooding hen. Did I bother moving them? No! I just sucked it up cause "They'll lose startle range with each sucessful generation!"

But hey, atleast I can proudly say I never faced problems with burning anything down! Or being mauled by vicious wildlife.

[williams_482]

I tried to plant my first garden in low fert soil with no water nearby. It was July, and only a month or so later did I realize that a watering can might be needed. The crops (mostly grains) grew so slowly that most of them died to the winter cold, and my rye was stunted by both heat and cold. Those that did survive yielded way more grain than I had expected based on TOBG experience, and was just barely enough to get me through the winter.