Wilson is the main character you play as in don't starve when you begin, and also part of don't starve together. Being really easy to use as only having 1 trait: Growing a long beard. Although this trait may sound useless, it actually saves you a ton in winter, with other characters it really is hard to survive winter, including Webber who is also another character who can grow a beard, Wilson will barely need winter clothing to survive, but remember to cut the beard when it hits out of winter, because you can overheat.

Wilson is very much a choose your own style, you could play Multiplayer, or you could solo in the original Don't Starve. It doesn't matter what you choose, trying to play as this character is definitely a good choice for old and new players. Recommended for the new players to settle into the game and how it works though.

While toiling away in his home laboratory late one night, Wilson was startled to hear a voice on the radio speaking directly to him. At first he feared he'd gone mad from too many late nights of experiments and accidentally-inhaled chemical fumes, but the voice assured him that it was no mere figment of the imagination. In fact, the voice had a proposition for him: if Wilson would build a machine according to their specifications, then he would be rewarded with secret knowledge, the likes of which no one had ever seen. Casting aside his better judgement [sic] (after all, what harm could come from making a vague bargain with a mysterious disembodied voice?) Wilson threw himself into constructing the machine. When at long last it was finally completed, the gentleman scientist had a moment of hesitation... a moment that might have saved him from his impending fate, had he been just a bit stronger of will. But at the voice's insistence, Wilson flipped the switch and activated his creation... and was never seen again. Well, at least not in this world.