Yeah hounds can be a bitch, waves are getting bigger and bigger... had 8 hounds chasing me last time
I've made it to day 90 right now (after dieing countless times in earlier games...) and got a nice base, a good food-flow and lots of traps that surround me and help vs hound waves. The best thing to get rid of dogs I think is to have an eyeplant close to base (a big plant with multiple plants surrounding it) and run in circles around it, the eyes will attack the dogs and you're safe. That wont work during winter though as the plant will "sleep". Find some penguins, pigs or other stuff that can help you.
Talking about pigs - if you ever find a touchstone (the revive thingy) it is surrounded by pigheads on stakes. Make a hammer and deconstruct these stakes, it will give you pigskin. You can use that to build pighouses which spawn... pigs! You can lure hostile mobs to them and they will attack, you can even feed the pigs with meat and they will be friends with you and follow you.
If you obtain hound teeth keep them until you can build traps with them, they deal quite some damage and help you vs mobs.
Go look for an eyebone in the swamp area, if you pick it up a little pumpkin like creature will follow you which has some storage slots. Also good to tank for some time.
Build farms and keep planting seeds until you get dragonfruit. If you harvest your first dragonfruit dont eat it, feed it to your bird in the birdcage and you might get 2 seeds out of it and start multiplying your dragonfruit seeds.
Make a razorblade and shave beefalos in the night. Make a campfire near them and when they fall asleep you can shave them safely. It provides you with wool for a cuddly hat during winter. Never kill beefalos, they are your friends
Your baselocation should also bee near them so you can collect poop regularly.
I'll write more stuff later!!
