Basically I just want to share my recent expierence) Maybe you can share yours.
I've decided to play as Warly because he seems interesting and I don't really have long-term survival expierence with him. Also, I decided to spice my playthrough by making rifts opened from the start.
I wanted to rush the ruins but not for tulecite. My goal was hunger-belt. Aaaaand it was hilarios.
- first time I've just crafter armor, prepared lots of food and went for slurpers, when ickers jumped at my head and luckly they haven't killed me, but my backpack with food and ingridients was stolen. I've tried to fight for it but they regen. I run for bunnies help, brought 4 but... it wasn't enough and my weapons broke. I've starved literally there lol.
- second time I've decided to be more careful and walk on the edges but then the trio appeared and started chasing me. I had no armor. I was running for my life when icker just jumped on my head and killed me.
- third time... I've tamed a beefalo, but when I came to slurpers, the acid rain started and I had no any protection so I went outside.
Currently the winter came, I still don't have my hunger belt. I burned the deerclopse corpse to avoid it's turning into the lunar version. My garden is in constant risk of lunar inhabitants. But at least I'm alive lol. Also I've tried to summon rabbit king to trade with him so I could tame rabits in caves easier, but each time I summonned it it was rabis rabbit and it chased me almost killing (luckly I have a reeds trap so I lured him there both times).I think he was angry because I had meat food but anyway that was unexpected and funny.
That's it, I recommend to start the game with rifts open for more hazards)