I play multiplayer, but LAN only. My wife and son play with me. We have worlds for all 3 of us, combinations of 2, etc. That is how we avoid the major problem of food rot but also seasons changing. My wife really enjoys the build-up to winter aspect of the game and that's lost on servers. Don't play for a few days and all of the sudden it's spring again. We tried hosting a server ourselves and attempted to tinker the length of months and what not, but it kept bugging out - we'd log out in spring, then log in 5 minutes later and it was January 1 again, so we gave up.