# What's your best player survival tip? Help us with the new website!

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**Created:** [May 20, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/whats-your-best-player-survival-tip-help-us-with-the-new-website/12512 "2015-05-20T20:34:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/whats-your-best-player-survival-tip-help-us-with-the-new-website/12512/9 "2015-05-20T23:05:59Z")

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As you probably know, there are some relevant things here:

> [@Suggest your Tip of the Day!](http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/suggest-your-tip-of-the-day/9258):
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> Hi guys. I’m on stream now adding a “tip of the day” feature. Basically this is a message that will pop up in the loading screen, for example: “Your settlers will get a better night sleep if you provide beds for them.”, If you have a suggested tip, please add it to this thread. I’ll compile all the tips into our big list o’ tips to add to the game. Thanks! note to @Tom… @jonzoid noticed [an error](http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/tip-of-the-day-never-displays-the-first-tip-from-array/9263) in the tipoftheday logic: I thought something looked fishy about this during the stream. Is ther…

_Also a lot of silliness. Hopefully this thread can stay a bit more serious._

If you start on a foothill, use the terrain to your advantage - fences are nice defenses for narrow ledges.  
Mountains are highly defensible, but hard to live in - for now, found your settlement farther down.  
In the plains, lakes are a nice substitute for moats or trenches, though those can help too.

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