The answer is that you have to do it at the very beginning of the game. If you've already built the camp fire, you can't do it.

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I'd like to know about the colonizer boat.

Seasons are survived when they change while you are actually playing. For me it is around 6pm every other day. I had to narrow down the time by playing every six hours or so at first, and then found out they changed in the afternoon. Then I just had to sit on the hour marks for a few days until I did find it.

Another comment here had a good idea, manually change the time on your phone and see what happens. Worth a shot. Still searching for how to complete Fire Starter. No luck so far.

I had to test over many weeks as to when the season seemed to change. I always seemed to find it doing it in the evening every other day or so. Finally kept my computer on and it changed. Then I had a nice two hour window to watch it change, and I found it.

As for campfire "firestarter" I still haven't figured this one out either. I bought the small fire but it didn't do anything. So I'm still working on leveling and seeing what opens up.

Survive seasons by being online when the season changes. According to my findings, this is 6pm CST. (maybe 7 now...)