Hello everyone!I'd like to ask some help and tips regarding Maxwell.Lately I haven't been doing well with Maxwell.I usually die too fast from hound attacks,or am unable to help allies fight off giants. I tried to learn how to improve from other Maxwell players (which are usually rare) but they are even worse than me,which is disheartening and also dissapointing.
So my strategy is as follows: When hounds come I try to kill them with spear puppets . Doesn't go well as they die in 3 hits and if there are more than 2 hounds the shadow dies immediately,so I use hambat/football helmet which is dangerous as Maxwell suffers from low health,allies are still required to defeat big waves of hounds. I then tried to use boomerangs to help allies (as I can cut an insane amount of wood with puppets I can also plant numerous trees and burn them for charcoal) but due to delay and/or lag I end up hurting myself more than I hurt the giant 
I tried to use log suit and/or helmet but Maxwell is too fragile to fight even with log suit.Spiders are literally nightmare fuel as they kill spear puppets too easily and I am too fragile to kill them,so I resort to traps which is a slow and painful process.
Toothtraps are of course always welcome but it takes teeth to make teeth (get it? ) .Before making 100 of those you are vulnerable to both hounds and giants.
So hw do you come with killing things in the game with maxwell and staying alive?Night armour is of course viable due to high sanity regen ,but I feel like it's too hard to find (and requires shadow manipulator which is usually happens after winter in the game and it's all thanks to spiders I can't gather silk and make nightmare fuel from evil flowers).
So in short:
-How do you kill stuff without dying (mostly spiders,hounds and giants).
-No seriously,how do you do it?
-What is your secret for playing an amazing Maxwell (you don't have to tell me but I'll send the others to do it for me 
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-How do you cope with his low health?Do you prefer to constantly wear armor instead of backpack ? If so,which one?
-How do you speed up your nightmare fuel production (bees come to mind).
-Which puppets do you prefer.