Hello guys!

I feel like i need to share some thouths about game design of caves- but first i need you to Imagine something. Lets assume you play as Willow and you can go to caves- but you can't go to ruins. What part of caves would you explore? What items would you get from caves?

After you thnik about this a while you can notice that most cave content are actually linked one point of intrest- ruins. I tried to show this in some connection map and graphs, soo here u go (rules in spoiler)

Soo as u can see more than half caves content are locked behind ruins- in my opinion it's just bad that most players skip all the caves to just do ruin rush- i dont think endgame rushing is something wrong cause i did it myself, but it would be nice if caves would have something more to offer than being road to ruins, cause not every player (especially new one) want to do that.

Lack of cave identity

There is one more problem with caves- more in terms of art style, in recent updates almost all features added to caves are shadow related- I really dont like that especially after Charlie gate rebuild caves lost most of their identity- caves are no longer caves, they are just "shadow place"(Second graph is about those "vibes"). It's easer to notice if we compare caves to other endgame relited area.

As u can see- most of ocean faetures are actually well.. ocean realted, we have pirates, mangroove biome, salt, fishes. Ocean isn't just "Lunar place" it have their own identity even if lunar island is main point of intrest.

In terms of progress is also nice cause most of it features are not locked behind lunar island. Ocean is also more open to new players- you can notice messege in bottle, try to get and then u got new point of intrest on map- it's simple but design of the ocean encourages new players to explore it.

In my option caves deserve some love, like new cave plants, mobs, more unique biome features, or even new biomes to explore

But maybe i just delusional and nobody else think it's a problem. xP

I've always had pipe dreams of gorge cooking being implemented into the real game, sort of replacing crock pots and giving just a bit more depth to the cooking system as it exists now. Mods made by friends prove to me that I would totally enjoy this concept, but at the same time, I feel like It can never be, due to the fact that there are crock pot skins that already exist and therefore would have to be rewritten to be something else in the scenario where gorge cooking happens, which is something I don't know if klei would be willing to deal with. just my two cents

I saw some post about wes and i think they are missing the the whole point of the character, i think he is and always is gonna be the challenge character but thats not a reason to be a boring or not appealing character so i had a good idea for his skill tree that doesnt change his core as the challenge character.

My idea is simple, give wes some skills that unlocks specific task to do like "labours of heracles", for example one skill that adds the challenge to kill bee queen during summer or winter and after you are done with the task you get a reward in return, it can be like more loot from the boss or whatever klei thinks its fair for the task. Others skills could unlock easier tasks that can be done as much as you want like every time you kill 6 hounds under 3 minuts wes gets a little buff in speed for 20 seconds. Or even tasks like kill CC without using certain items and in return wes gets a perma buff of 10 extra points of health. And of course some rewards could help teamates.

I think this makes sense from a gameplay perspective because wes is the "challenge character", and it makes sense from lore perspective too, remember that wes was trying to be a hero or at least trying to help during his animation, so being the "hero" like heracles with his labours makes sense for Wes.

This idea of challanges to do list in my opinion could help Wes to be more appealing to play for intermediate and veteran people because lets be honest even for a veteran like me he is not fun to play, and its not for the challenge it is cause he is boring and tedious, but if klei gives Wes a to do list to challenge yourself with little rewards for the inconveniences even me that hates the character would think about playing with him.

Вчера я вышел из игры и после этого она начала выводить память. У меня 600 ГБ свободного места и 15 ГБ оперативной памяти.

удалил и скачал игру после чего она начала вылетать из-за модов, просят переустановить игру но я сделал это 2 раза и ничего не изменилось, кто-нибудь знает как это решить? 

Well, I've not played since 2021, and barely a week in 2024... Did anything related to biome generation change in any recent updates? I don't have any screenshots to show but I got some very horrible world generations with "overlapping" setpieces, pig king right on top of dragonfly, biome, biome branches being way too narrow and full of holes, winding roads generating on top of one an other, etc.

I do not change any world settings btw, I leave everything set to default, I'm afraid to mess with branching settings especially.

Hey everyone! I noticed that there's a buttload of new memes and no place to put them. Post them here for people to see (and so we can stop clogging up the puzzle thread). Enjoy!

Edit: Also, the memes don't have to be Maxwell themed. All characters are welcome. This is merely a sequel of a previous meme thread.

You can upgrade their graves using elixirs. These grant then a special permanent buff when they emerge.

For example, you can give them health regen, movement speed, sheild, or other benifits.

The nightime elixir gives then a larger light radius since they don't use night damage mechanics, and i am still annoyed Klei didnt add a light potion.

They used to starve to death, after which Birdcage could be mucked out for a morsel, now they just disappear into thin air.

Why was that changed?

Did they reconsider the game's name and learnt to break out in a crisis?

It should cost an Iridescent Gem instead of a Purple Gem.

After using the Celestial Portal, it will go on a 20 day cooldown for the person who used it.

The point of the Celestial Portal is to give an option to change a character for people who got bored of the character they were playing.

Implementing the cooldown and the cost would make it actually fulfill this purpose, instead of being a machine to use other characters’ perks for a moment and then switch back.

A way to close cave entrances or to prevent bat spawns

A storage that preserves alive creatures (birds,butterflies',etc..)

A large storage solution that only accepts equipment/weapons

Bone armor having the same cooldown icon that the back step watch has

Hammering a potter's wheel once to drop all the sketches it has or turn the station into a storage to freely add or remove skeches

Hunts having a chance of spawning a beefalo to prevent extinction/griefing

A toggle option for PC players to have the same equipping behavior that was introduced to console players
 `version 599666 -Equipping items (using DPAD) will swap your currently equipped item back into the same slot as the new item being equipped.`
 
Prevent the player from jumping into ice boats/ice platform while holding the attack button

Pause pirate raids while boss fights are happening to prevent issues with crabking near monkeys

Make so that a bonded beefalo does not get attacked if using forced attack requiring a mouse click to hit it (while holding forced attack)

A toggle for the lazy explorer teleport akin to this mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2994120042

Make wortox soul hop priorize hopping instead of examining objects/creatures

I just tried him solo with the best possible gear, with post-CC gear, but the combination of laughably stupid stuff in this fight destroyed me. I'm not asking for "tips" on a normal fight since I already know everything and have tried to fight him many times (only won legit with Wigfrid since the spear TP, area damage, and sanity and health gain remove most of the fight's frantic chores), he's just plain stupid, horribly designed and awful, I need CHEESE so I don't have to fight this monstrosity, so what is out there except gunpowder? Can he still be stuck in some way to use a hondius shootius or something?

For the rant, see below, no toxic git-gudders allowed, skip this section if you're gonna be toxic

Originally I started writing bulletpoints here with the idea of having a few branch concepts to give people helpful ideas to start brainstorming, but 20 minutes later I realize I now have enough points for a whole tree. Feel free to drop skill replacements in because well, I'm no authority on what webber should be. I wanted to get the start of a skilltree idea going to get other people spitballing on what they want, not a full tree.

Well so here is what I'm thinking. Webber could use skills that encourage him to do a few things: 

1. Control spider populations globally to prevent lag.
2. Inspire you to make interesting armies of fewer, stronger spiders to be less likely to lag out the server.
3. Mixes a coherent survival strategy with some greedy combat tools, giving webber more power to live more sustainably off of morsels and giving him a natural enemy/rival in the rabbit king. For gameplay purposes and character flavor.

Ideally this would come with an update that reworks spider queen to have more interesting spawn conditions so the lag isn't exponential with longer world times due to spider queen multiplication being forever.

I've also noticed that people have fatigue with purely post rifts affinities, so I've tried to design affinity skills so they have a weaker pre-rifts version with a rifts era-upgrade.

• Webcraft branch: A mix of storage options for spiders and a number of weapons to help webber hunt for morsels more efficiently. Its more structured than the other two branches but generally consists of single skills that fan out into a selection of useful skills.
  • Webby hivesack: Learn to craft a backpack from spider eggs, Has 6 slots alongside 8 special slots that are dedicated to caring for spiders. Spiders in these slots have improved freshness. The hivesack may be used to call spiders in the world into the hive sack and deploy spiders in the hivesack out, If you have both in and out of the sack, the spiders will trade places instead.
    • You can upgrade the hivesack with a spider queen helmet for extra capacity in standard slots and the ability to naturally heal stored spiders.
    • Dropped hivesacks will act as a rally point which spiders which are called off with a shoebox will guard.
  • Helpful Hivesacks: Can upgrade the hivesacks with shells, beefalo wool, or straw to gain small amounts of protection from the elements. (Rain, Cold, or Heat.) Upgrades give small amounts of armor (15-25%,) and can be shaved off to revert them to a standard hivesack (Which they will also do when broken.)
    • The protection of upgrades is increased with the spider queen hivesack.
  • Baby Brawlers: A trio of baby spiders can be summoned by feeding the hivesack when you have no other spiders. They last for two minutes before returning home, and deal minor damage to enemies which are aggroed on webber without being able to draw aggro themselves.
    • One regular spider is spawned with the baby brawlers with the queen hivesack.
  • Silky snare: Learn to craft silky snares that work for both land creatures and birds. You may repair these with silk at a great discount.
  • Boomerang master: Auto catch boomerangs and learn a cheaper recipie that uses 3 wood instead of a plank, and drops the coal requirement. (This is an allusion to how the boomerang with animation canceling is often used to control spiders and make them attack certain targets.) Possible midgame boomerang upgrade but IDK.
  • Woofer Whip: Learn to craft a whip from houndsteeth, glands, and webs. This whip does 33 damage but has a venom that makes enemies vulnerable to spider weapons damage (25%.)
    • Shadow Smasher: Learn to craft a slow swinging bat of nightmare infused webs (Like the cork bat.) This bat swings slowly and does bonus damage in an area if its swung after another weapon was used. This bat may be infused with pure horror to grant it planar damage after the rifts open. This is designed to fit more of a hybrid playstyle where you use multiple weapons.
    • Shard Slasher: Learn to craft a fang and moon shard dagger, it has a spool up mechanic where it swings faster and faster if swung uninterrupted. It can be upgraded with brightshade at the brightsmithy. This dagger may also be used to shave animals. This gives you better overall DPS for encouraging a high commitment melee style.
  • BRANCH  BONUS: Webcraft expert.
    • Den decorations will repair themselves after one day when they are broken by player hostility.
    • Den decorations don't break when spiders are struck by always hostile mobs.
• Spider Synergies branch: Incentives to bring interesting and smaller groups of spiders. Acts like a grab bag after the first skill, webby honorguard is taken. 
  • Webby Honorgaurd: Spiders gain increased attack interval when fewer then 8 loyal spiders are deployed. Spider warriors and basic spiders get the biggest boost while spitters gain the smallest.
  • Combat nurses: Nurses gain a spit attack so long as there are more spitters than nurses in the party. Spitting spiders try harder to avoid the front lines.
  • Shattered shield: The explosions from shattered spider crystals heal nearby cave spiders and cause cave spiders to block attacks aimed at nearby spiders briefly.
  • Dazzling Danglers: Dangling spiders will coat nearby spiders with web armor when not in combat, giving them 35% protection when hit for 150 durability.
  • Spinning Striders: Striders get enraged when nearby allied spiders are hit, allowing them to do a spin attack similar to the skittersquid.
  • BRANCH  BONUS: Behaved bodyguards: (2 skills taken) Loyal spiders will wait a few seconds staring eagerly for permission when meat is dropped, staring longingly at the items they wish to eat. Blowing the webby whistle while spiders are waiting gives you sanity and makes your spider friends feast away.
  • Locked skill: Back from the brink (5 skills taken): You and all spiders gain increased stats when there are few surviving nests in the world, gaining assertive looking eyebrows when your kind are nearing extinction (<5 regular nests left in the shard.) This gives you and all your spider friends increased HP,  you gain some sanity aura resistance while they gain even more attack interval.
  • Sharing Switcherdoodle: You may eat Switcherdoodles. While you have basic spiders in your party, you share them with your friends. You and up to two spider friends gain a temporary transformation where you may use that spiders ability. Temporarily transformed spiders get the large attack interval boost of smaller spiders. Gain sanity when sharing.
    • Temporary transformations act like an ability with a finite amount of charges on right click. These abilities include the cave spider block, shattered spider slam, spitting, heals, the warrior leap, and the like. Some transformations like cave spiders and striders use their respective skills ability instead of their default natural ability.
    • Monster crockpot foods heal charges of your current transformation.
• Secret spiders branch: Learn to craft spiders not naturally found in the constant. Combining a little combat, utility, and resource generation features in a unique way. Structured like a grab bag with few dependencies.
  • Wooferdoodle: Learn to craft a hound like spider. Spiderhounds are surprisingly non-aggressive but their good behavior has its benefits, fetching items which webber is already carrying, and occasionally shedding fangs. Will treat other spiders wounds with glands they pick up when they are hurt. They are aggressive only when beardlings, bunnymen, the rabbit king, or nightmare splumonkeys are near, but are strong fighters against these opponents.
    • Gain bonus damage and sanity from using the rabbit kings cudgel.
    • Gain wonky style movement and a decent unarmed bite when you eat a wooferdoodle with Sharing Switcherdoodle. Both the bite and the run slowly run down your transform. The bite is super effective against rabbits.
  • Geckodoodle: Learn to craft grass spiders which drop grass when hurt over time. Grassy spiders boast decent toughness and great natural self healing out of combat. When they shed they emit a pulse that stuns nearby enemies but does no damage.
    • Gain the power to shed for crowd control when you eat a geckodoodle. Gain a speed bonus after shedding.
  • Griffadoodle: Learn to craft peacock avian spiders which can do a three target plume based tail attack on cooldown, these spiders occasionally drop feathers of their color when killing enemies with the slap. 
  • Locked Skill: Princessdoodle: Learn to craft a spider princess switcherdoodle with a spider queen helm. The spider princess may be used as a moderately fast mount and will automatically tame up to 3 spiders when you have no other spiders aside from her (Including friendly spiders in your inventory or chests.) Like other mounts ranged weapons can still be used while mounted, as can the webby whip.
    • Healing her works similarly to how the eye of cthulu items are healed.
  • • Her royal authority weakens temporarily when you murder spiders in your inventory.
    • Attacks stronger, hits more targets, but swings slower when dismounted. Making her a mount which is sometimes better fighting when dismounted rather than mounted since your weapons + her cc is a better combo in some matchups, but not all of them.
    • Can be stored in a spider queen webpack but not the standard one.
    • Get embarassed and refuse to eat princessdoodles.
  • BRANCH  BONUS: Switcherdoodle expert: Learn to craft bonus switcherdoodles when switcherdoodles are made, minor spiders like striders get a larger number of switcherdoodles.
  • BRANCH  BONUS: Switcherdoodle master: Learn to infuse level 1 decorated nests with a switcherdoodle to allow 1-3 of a specialized spider types to reliably respawn. (Aside from the princess spider, whose throne you can take her too to heal her if she gets knocked unconcious, but she won't respawn passively.)
  • Something regarding shadow affinity spiders that can see nightmares and help you fight, upgrades in shadow rifts with pure horror. 
  • Something regarding strengthening shattered spiders with moon shard fangs for tougher, higher hp and damage spiders, and giving them the power to pacify gestalts temporarily when fed pure brilliance.

Klei could you make option to turn off the void masks (the curse) if you killed fuel weaver bcuz i am sick of them

Hello, this is my take on the Wes skill tree.

Wes is in a weird spot, where some people see him as a challenge character, while others don't really think it is as much of as challenge as it is an inconvenience. As I see it, an experienced player won't really be challenged that much from a 0.75 damage multiplier or a -25% work efficacy debuff, it will just make it take longer to kill things and collect resources. The 75 in all stats at least makes for a more interesting challenge, making so you have to think about which food to make, due to foods that grant 75+ hunger not being as efficient.

Regarding his upsides: Regular Balloons are too bothersome to use as anything but decor; Speedy Balloons do their job well, but due to their low durability, some might find them too laborious to use; Party Balloons can be nice for group sanity, but playing with experienced players they would rather kill the creatures than stand still, and inexperienced ones are better off with flowers and a tent; if you are prepared enough to have an Inflatable Vest when you need it, you should have prepared another boat instead; and Balloon Hat is at least usable, but very very niche. His 25% tool efficiency is very interesting for something that was a byproduct of his reduced work efficacy.

Of course, his upsides being basically nonexistent is by design. But should Wes really be the joke character? I personally would prefer to have another character to actually play as.

Taking into consideration both the players that see him as a challenge character, and the players that like Wes for being Wes, I envisioned this skill tree.



The background was inspired by the fence Wes is seen performing in front of, in his short, along with the Tragedy and Comedy masks that represent the performing arts. The tree offers a lot of freedom of choice right away, without having any perks that are requisites for another, with the exception of the Affinity ones. This was made on purpose to allow the player to customize their experience depending on how much of a challenge they want.

The left ones forming the frowning face are the "Tragedy" perks, the right ones forming the smiling face are the "Comedy" perks, and in the middle we have the "Affinity" perks. To level a Comedy perk you require an insight point and a coin. Wes starts with one coin (because he is Wes), and he can get more by leveling Tragedy perks.

Affinity perks don't cost coins, only insight; And — unlike other characters — you can level the Affinity perks right away, without having to spend points on the rest of the tree to unlock. The regular "choose a side" and "kill the boss" shenanigans still apply.

If you choose to spend an insight point and your starting coin to level a Comedy perk right away, this is what you would see:

You would have to level a Tragedy perk in order to get more coins to spend on the Comedy ones.

Tragedy
I tried making perks that provide a challenge to the solo player, while benefiting a multiplayer setting. To me it seems contradictory to play a challenge character while collaborating with other people, as doing so makes that content exponentially easier. This approach also expands on what we saw on his animated short, having a "misfortune that brings fortune to others" theme. Perks that redirect threats, and perks that alter luck-based outcomes require Wes to be alive to remain active.

Comedy
My objective in this branch was to strengthen Wes current upsides into things that you would actually want to use, and to give him more engaging gameplay aspects.

Affinity
Shadow

Moon

Secrets

Conclusion
I hope this concept would be able to allow the player to customize Wes into having their desired gameplay experience. He is a mime artist after all, being able to mime his way into the role you want him to be is only right.

Let me know your feedback, did you find something that would impede Wes from progressing in the game? Do you think something suggested would be too overpowered? You are welcome to express your opinions and concerns below.

If I forgor to/just didn't give credit to you, and you want said credits, please let me know (with proof preferably). I can also remove credits I gave you, if it bothers you in any way, no problem.

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快餐档是中国饥荒联机版游戏社区里一种较为流行的公共服务器类型，核心特点是以在15~30天的时间击败天体英雄为目标（大部分是这样，但并不是强制的），并且整个流程的团队分工非常清晰。大家一般会选择世界天数为秋1的服务器进入，等服务器满人后商量选角与分工，并且尽可能避免出现“抢跑”的情况（也就是服务器人还没满就提前进入世界），然后同时出发，推进整个游戏流程。
Fast Food servers are a popular type of public server in the Chinese Don't Starve Together community. The core feature of these servers is the goal of defeating the Celestial Champion within 15 to 30 days (Mostly it is like this, but it is not mandatory), with a very clear division of labor throughout the process. Players usually choose servers set to Day 1 of Autumn, wait for the server to fill up, discuss character selection and roles, and try to avoid "rushing in" (i.e., entering the world before the server is full). Once everyone is ready, they start simultaneously and progress through the game.

我大概玩了一年多的快餐档了，我根据我的观察来分享一下快餐档的具体玩法。快餐这个名字的核心特点是尽可能短的时间内体验到尽可能多的游戏内容，一局游戏时长在2~4小时左右，是一个可以接受的范围。并且快餐对团队合作、分工提出了很高的要求，非常符合饥荒联机版中“联机”的要素。不过，这只是一种玩法，每个玩法因人而异，不是每个人都需要非得像快餐这样“高强度”的游玩，适合自己的最好。我也没有用快餐的标准去要求角色平衡性调整，请不要给我扣帽子，谢谢。
I've been playing Fast Food servers for over a year now, and based on my observations, I'd like to share some insights into how they work. The core idea behind the name "Fast Food" is to experience as much of the game's content as possible in the shortest amount of time, with each session typically lasting around 2 to 4 hours, which is a reasonable duration. Additionally, Fast Food places a high demand on teamwork and role division, aligning perfectly with the "multiplayer" aspect of Don't Starve Together. However, this is just one way to play the game. Playstyles vary from person to person, and not everyone needs to play as "intensely" as in Fast Food servers—it's best to find what suits you. I also haven't used the Fast Food standard to argue for character balance adjustments, so please don't label me as such. Thank you.

整个团队通常分为三个小组：建家组、珍珠组、远古组。
The team is typically divided into three groups: the Base-Building Group, the Pearl Group, and the Ruins Group.

建家组 / The Base-Building Group

建家组通常包含薇克巴顿、麦斯威尔、沃姆伍德三人，负责提供基地的科技设施、烹饪设施、足够的基础资源与食物。

1.    薇克巴顿：建家组核心，主要任务包含草树枝的移植、基地选址、基地布局、相关重要书籍的制作。我本人一般主玩薇克巴顿，在这篇帖子的隐藏内容里我有谈具体游玩细节。
2.    麦斯威尔：前期利用负责收集资源提供建家的材料（木头、石头、金子），有了书后帮薇克巴顿承担所有读书任务，一方面能配合暗影秘典更快的刷取基础资源，另一方面可以获得噩梦燃料。
3.    沃姆伍德：开局为远古组与薇克巴顿提供必须的活木，之后负责种地为全队提供饱食度与血量回复。根据情况可能也会承担刷猴尾草或者粪便的职责。

有人可能觉得“快餐档”就是战斗爽，但通常一个档会不会“烂档”（也就是玩到一半人跑完了）大部分是看建家组的水平。如果清完远古上来看到基地连口锅都没有，远古组的人不跑就怪了。

The Base Builders group usually consists of Wickerbottom, Maxwell, and Wormwood. They are responsible for providing the base’s technological facilities, cooking facilities, sufficient basic resources, and food.

1.    Wickerbottom: The core of the Base Builders group. Her main tasks include transplanting grass and twigs, selecting the base location, planning the base layout, and crafting important books. I usually main Wickerbottom and have discussed specific gameplay details in the hidden content of this post.
2.    Maxwell: In the early game, he is responsible for gathering resources to provide materials for base building (wood, stone, gold). After obtaining books, he assists Wickerbottom with all reading tasks. On one hand, he can use the Codex Umbra to gather basic resources more efficiently; on the other hand, he can collect nightmare fuel.
3.    Wormwood: At the start of the game, he provides essential living logs for the Ruins Group and Wickerbottom. Later, he focuses on farming to supply the team with hunger and health recovery. Depending on the situation, he may also take on duties such as collecting monkey tails or manure.

Some might think that "Fast Food" servers are all about combat, but whether a server "fails" (i.e., people leave halfway through) largely depends on the skill of the Base Builders group. If the Ruins Group returns from clearing the ruins only to find that the base doesn’t even have a crock pot, it’s no wonder they might leave.

珍珠组 / The Pearl Group

珍珠组一般由拥有快速传送能力的沃托克斯和能够快速探索海洋地形的伍迪承担。有时薇克巴顿（鱼书）也会辅助珍珠任务。没有技能树的沃托克斯就已经非常擅长速通珍珠任务，有了技能树后更是锦上添花。除了基础的修房子、种花、移植浆果、打捞垃圾、晾晒外，有几个任务需要特别注意：

1.    送伞。秋天一般会有一场雨，这场雨通常很短，很容易错过。补救方式包括用传送法杖求雨或者在寄居蟹那换鹅毛浮标然后拆解让薇克巴顿做实用求雨仪式。
2.    修椅子。比较熟练的沃托克斯玩家会自己带着绿蘑菇去远古获得椅子蓝图，不过也可以联系远古组的队友让他们带一个椅子蓝图。
3.    五条重鱼。最好多准备一个瓶子换重量级鱼饵，也可以看运气寄居蟹会不会送你一个。
4.    秋鱼。没有薇克巴顿的辅助这个基本靠运气。

这四个任务需要完成三个才能保证在秋天得到珍珠，并且有相当一部分的运气因素。珍珠是整个快餐流程中稳定性最低的任务，通常需要很多的练习或者良好的团队辅助才能确保珍珠及时做出来。同理，珍珠流程涉及的“战斗”内容也相对较少，快餐档并不全是“战斗爽”。珍珠的速通对游戏基本功与时间管理能力要求相当的高。

伍迪除了辅助沃托克斯探图外，一般还会承担月岛的移植工作。前往月岛的时候记得挖掉三个吸引人的结构。不需要把它们三个组合在一起，但一定要用镐子挖开。同时为了后期方便运送天体祭坛，还会击败大霜鲨获得靴子。根据建家组的需求有时还要完成猴岛的物资移植。

The Pearl Group is typically composed of Wortox, who has fast teleportation abilities, and Woodie, who can quickly explore ocean terrain. Occasionally, Wickerbottom (with her fish book) will also assist with Pearl tasks. Wortox is already highly skilled at speed-running Pearl tasks even without skill trees, and having skill trees only enhances his capabilities. In addition to basic tasks like repairing the house, planting flowers, transplanting berries, salvaging trash, and drying items, there are several tasks that require special attention:

1.    Delivering the Umbrella: Autumn usually brings a brief rainstorm, which can easily be missed. Remedies include using the Telelocator Staff to summon rain or exchanging a goose feather buoy with the Crab Hermit, deconstructing it, and having Wickerbottom perform the Practical Rain Ritual.
2.    Building the Chair: More experienced Wortox players will bring green mushrooms to the Ruins to obtain the chair blueprint, but they can also coordinate with the Ruins Group teammates to bring one.
3.    Five Heavy Fish: It’s best to prepare an extra bottle to exchange for heavy fish bait, or simply hope the Crab Hermit gifts one.
4.    Autumn Fish: Without Wickerbottom’s assistance, this task largely depends on luck.

Three out of these four tasks need to be completed to ensure obtaining the Pearl in autumn, and a fair amount of luck is involved. The Pearl task is the least stable part of the Fast Food process, often requiring extensive practice or strong team support to ensure it’s completed on time. Similarly, the "combat" aspects of the Pearl tasks are relatively minimal, demonstrating that Fast Food servers aren’t solely about "combat excitement." Speed-running the Pearl tasks demands a high level of fundamental gameplay skills and time management.

In addition to assisting Wortox with exploration, Woodie is typically responsible for transplanting resources from the Lunar Island. When heading to Lunar Island, remember to mine the three Inviting Formations. It's not necessary to assemble them, but you must use a pickaxe to mine them open. To facilitate transporting the Celestial Altar later in the game, he also defeats the Frostjaw to obtain the boat boots. Depending on the needs of the Base-Building group, he may also complete the task of transplanting resources from the Monkey Island.

远古组 / The Ruins Group

远古组主要包含两个部分，分别是清远古做装备（通常由沃尔夫冈、薇格弗德、薇洛承担）与档案馆分支（通常由威尔逊承担）。我个人认为远古组的任务难度是三个小组里最简单的。

1.    清远古：要确保携带足够的唤星者魔杖、铥矿皇冠、三色宝石与烂电线回到基地。清远古的流程很公式化，配合的好的话远古守护者可能活不过第三天。同时远古组也要给建家的麦斯威尔提供绝望石装备，视情况为珍珠组提供椅子蓝图。
2.    档案馆：主要由点了彩虹宝石合成技能的威尔逊完成。六色宝石在远古搜集即可。服务器里没有威尔逊也可以在11天升级唤月者魔杖。

The Ruins Group primarily consists of two parts: clearing the ruins and crafting equipment (usually handled by Wolfgang, Wigfrid, and Willow) and the Archives branch (typically handled by Wilson). Personally, I believe the tasks of the Ruins Group are the easiest among the three teams.

1.    Clearing the Ruins: Ensure that enough Star Caller's Staves, Thulecite Crowns, gems of all three colors, and frayed wires are brought back to the base. The process of clearing the ruins is very formulaic, and with good coordination, the Ancient Guardian might not survive past the third day. Additionally, the Ruins Group need to provide Maxwell in the Base Builders group with dreadstone equipment and, depending on the situation, supply the Pearl Group with a chair blueprint.
2.    The Archives: Mainly completed by Wilson, who has the skill to craft rainbow gem. The six-colored gems can be collected in the ruins. If there is no Wilson in the server, the Moon Caller's Staff can be upgraded on day 11 instead.

一些额外的细节 / Some Additional Details

1.    天体祭坛的搬运通常由沃尔夫冈承担。在本次技能树更新后，沃托克斯和沃尔特也可以承担这份任务。
2.    天体风暴的任务一般是多位玩家共同完成。同时注能月亮碎片由薇克巴顿的《末日将至》搜集。
3.    龙蝇、蜂后、蟾蜍、恐怖之眼这些boss并不是天体流程中的必须boss，是否击杀看情况。
4.    一般速通天体英雄而不是远古织影者主要是因为暗影线太短了。
5.    某些快餐服务器会觉得多人模式下天体英雄等boss太过简单，会安装相关的boss加强模组。

1.    Transporting the Celestial Altar is usually handled by Wolfgang. After the recent skill tree update, Wortox and Walter can also take on this task.
2.    The Celestial Storm tasks are typically completed collaboratively by multiple players. Meanwhile, the infused moonglass are collected using Wickerbottom’s The End is Nigh book.
3.    Bosses like Dragonfly, Bee Queen, Toadstool, and the Eye of Terror are not mandatory for the celestial process. Whether they are defeated depends on the situation.
4.    The primary reason for defeating the Celestial Champion instead of the Ancient Fuelweaver is that the shadow line is too short.
5.    Some Fast Food servers may find bosses like the Celestial Champion too easy in multiplayer mode and thus install boss-enhancing mods for added challenge.

我没有提到的角色 / The Characters I Haven’t Mentioned

1.    WX-78和旺达：这两个角色也可以参与远古组的工作，但清远古速度不及我之前提到的三位角色。此外WX-78的团队贡献较低，快餐环境下旺达的成型时间过长并且几乎不可能做出溯源表。
2.    韦伯和沃特：部分快餐档甚至禁用了这两个角色。主要原因是随从数目过多会导致服务器卡顿严重。
3.    薇诺娜/沃利/温蒂：如果三个小组的所有位置都有齐了可以考虑选这几位角色帮建家组打打杂。由于在快餐的环境下这几位角色的强度无法发挥出来（比如温蒂，很可能牛还没驯好天体英雄就已经打完了），选这几个角色一般默认你是划水摸鱼的混子。我之前有尝试开发过温蒂在快餐中的玩法，大概是这两方面：一是利用阿比盖尔卡蟾蜍的一个bug速杀毒菌蟾蜍，二是在远古刷足够多的香蕉然后去猴岛换蓝图搓纸给薇克巴顿用。
4.    沃尔特：没有技能树前没人会在快餐选他。我相信有技能树后他在快餐中的玩法会很丰富，这一部分还待开发。
5.    维斯：你不怕队友压力你你就选吧。

1.    WX-78 and Wanda: Both characters can participate in the Ruins Group, but their speed in clearing the ruins falls short compared to the three characters I previously mentioned. Additionally, WX-78 offers limited team contributions, and in a fast-paced environment, Wanda takes too long to become fully equipped and it’s almost impossible to craft the Backtrek Watch.
2.    Webber and Wurt: Some Fast Food servers even ban these two characters. The main reason is that an excessive number of minions can severely lag the server.
3.    Winona/Warly/Wendy: If all positions in the three groups are filled, these characters can be considered to assist the Base Builders group with miscellaneous tasks. However, in a fast-paced environment, their strengths often can’t be fully utilized (for example, Wendy might not even finish taming a Beefalo before the Celestial Champion is defeated). Choosing these characters typically implies you’re just there to slack off. I’ve previously attempted to develop Wendy’s playstyle in fast-paced settings, primarily focusing on two aspects: using Abigail to exploit a bug for quickly killing the Toadstool, and farming enough bananas in the ruins to trade for blueprints on Monkey Island to craft papyrus for Wickerbottom.
4.    Walter: Before his skill tree, no one would choose him in a fast food server. I believe his skill tree will lead to diverse and interesting playstyles in such environments, and this area is still under development.
5.    Wes: Feel free if you want to choose him.

建家组实际游戏过程分享 / Sharing of the Actual Gameplay Process of the Base-Building Group

远古组实际游戏过程分享 / Ruins Group Gameplay Experience Sharing

珍珠组实际游戏过程分享 / Pearl Group Gameplay Experience Sharing

So here is an idea for the wrathful rabbit king to make him more of a fair survival element for hapless newbies who may incur his fury.
Not a simplistic one, but one that is a fair punishment for a new player who gets thrown into an unexpected combat encounter like the tree guards.

• Currently there is no way to negotiate with the rabbit king like there is to the tree guards.
• A krampus style counter is somewhat punishing to new players who adopt simple winter survival tactics, but its baby mode easy for players who know how to fight.
• Rabbits dislike murderers, so why is their king one (Even if his murders are justifiable.)

I propose three adjustments that make him more interesting as a character, and a better warning for new players to vary their food sources.

1. The rabbit king will prefer to beat you within an inch of your life (Less than 1 hit remaining) instead of killing you when not pushed to defend himself. If you don't inflict serious harm (20% or more of his health, and you haven't triggered him in the last 20 days,) before he gets you to the killing blow on you, he and his guards have a mercy effect. He will warn you to learn to live righteously and give you 4-6 carrot seeds to correct your ways on a first offense in his domain, with capital punishment being doled out for repeat offenses.
2. When the rabbit king stuns you, his guards will confiscate murderers belongings from you instead of pummeling/stunlocking you: Meat and the like. They will also hammer traps you have, as well as clothing made from rabbits.
3. The rabbit kings threshold for mauling you can be improved by dropping/freeing rabbits to appease them.
4. Cruelty for killing small rabbits is reduced at base. Cruelty for killing small rabbits while carrying more than 3-5-8 morsels is increased. Carrying rabbits while having many morsels has a temporary cruelty effect you can remove by freeing the rabbit when the rabbit king anger noise is played. Bunny tails count as 3 morsels for small rabbit cruelty.

My reasoning is simple.

• New players struggle to restore health so being greatly injured is a more interesting survival challenge than just needing a revive.
• As a warning the rabbit king is a radically different experience from the treeguards where there are many non-combat solutions, since he lacks a way of appeasing him, and the only way to run away is to switch shards. Being able to partially appease a rabbit king thats already attacking, or fully appease one who is upset with cruel treatment of rabbits in your inventory but hasn't spawned yet is good.
• This exposes new survival tactics, as carrots are a great crop to use to try and survive winter.
• The cruelty rework punishes new players who are barely making it less, but makes it so players who are greedy with morsels more readily encounter the rabbit king.

This makes the rabbit king a fair, but brutal mentor character to newbies as well as a survival challenge, rather than simply a combat encounter that a counter ticks off in the name of survival when really its just a farmable boss for veteran players. His inclusion as a character is more interesting and it reveals more about the game than it did previously.

skill tree:
 

(befriended nurse spider to unlock)
    •    Unbreakable friendship: Make decorated dens  not break when attacked and spiders in the  Bedazzled range only attack attackers and nurses spawn from tier 3 + decorated dens ground webs no longer reduce


(Befriend all spider types)
    •    Beneficial bite : teach spiders how to “chop/mine” with each having the efficiency of a pig by demonstrating it done normally so they make the connection between that and them breaking down stuff + they eat yucuse snot now when you’re stuck 
   


    •    Silk harvester: razors can be used to remove webbing from tiles dropping two

    •    Rapid Growth: Webber can upgrade dens with 4 silk instead of 5 silk
 
 


    •    Regeneration sensitization:increase stats from nurse spiders for Webber(15 hp)

    •    Nocturnally adept: partial night vision  (sense spiders walk around at night) only silhouettes  not enough to not be attacked by Charlie but enough to  see where your going, reduced sanity lose from dusk or night              60-80% during dawn and 40-60% during night.


    •    Deep den sleeper:Stats for sleeping in dens to 2 health and 3 health per second 

    •    No picky eater: Webber has the ability to eat pig skin, bunny puffs, or any non human edible meats that pigs and spiders eat for 50-60 hunger


    •    Den Relocation: Tier 1 dens can be picked up by Webber and relocated (affects Decorated Dens + can remove and relocate the stickers)(pulled from @JJ0264)

    •    Unnatural brood: You are now able to craft the itsy bitsy nest reusing the baby spiders from the forge and they fill up a Polar Bearger Bin like item called the itsy bitsy nest and they would act as distractions somewhat like the parasitic shading  but the victim wouldn’t be immune to damage they each could only be outside the itsy bitsy nest for a total of 8 minutes after that they return to the itsy bitsy nest and nap and they’ll need to charge back up before using them again so they hunger durability that can be refilled using meat, honey, or electric milk/monster milk similar to the eye mask, but you decide if,when,and how many you takeout at a time so you can have them out over the course of multiple days without needing to recharge them. If you’re smart about it, also depending on what beard skin you have on will determine what they look like  they would look like tiny versions of what spiders from a den that has a queen that looks like that beards respective Webber skin as well as the egg sack having the same color,you get 6 slots with 12-20 second cool down until you can spawn the next one and they would do 9 damage,have 7 hp, upon death one will respond every 90 seconds 
(You need this to craft other 3 crafts and after the first 4 uses you need to replace the den decorating set for five more uses each time you run out)
8 silk, 3 paper, and 1 spider egg, 1 den decorating set,24 health

Concept examples:








(like this except they smile like befriended spiders)











    •    Carecrafts :  (unnatural brood required)
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homemade den: You can make a homemade den if you place a cookie in the homemade den it will turn 2 spiders into that type, every time the den has a spider added it lose 1% durability, you can find out how much durability there is by inspecting, and you can repair it using silk but maybe by 2-5%. it has 12 spiders with the inventory of a scaled chest but for spiders only, it’ll take 90 seconds for each spider to respawn it (and how it will respawn a spider after the 90 seconds is the lightning conductor purple gem combination will cause lightning to strike around up in the respawned to spider crawl out of the ground like rapid king as a reference to how you unlock Webber in solo Don’t Starve)
it will spawn that Webbing Wickerbottom spawns with Overcoming Arachnophobia around it, craft the homemade den  with some number of bone shards and silk to make a sort of kit when you add a purple gem, a lightning conductor and one use of the den decorating set, you could also call the spiders out of the den by interacting with it
And it can be broken using a hammer


 

    •    Silkcrafts:
Silk shooter: 
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Silk spindle:@blacknight7890 came up with an idea I re named it and changed its look but other then that it’s all there’s Learn to craft a 'Silk spindle', [like a giant spindle with spider hair and  a finial on it (with white string when silk is on it)] a structure that can be placed near decorated spider dens. Spiders will spin webs onto it over time, can be harvested for silk." [passive silk farming]

finial looks like this:



    •    Garden spider :farm like Webber does in the gorge and learn more from the gardeneer hat


(Icon borrowed from @BiddoBams’ Warly skill tree)
    •    Spider Goatherder: learn to milk volt goats that won’t be disturbed by Webber anymore and calm charged volt goats by feeding them any number of Wobsters, bananas,meat,Burch nuts, pomegranates,eggs, Asparagus, pumpkin seeds (doing this while not charged will make them follow you for a short period time to allow for easier relocation)

    •    Silk stitch: You can now repair things with silk like Winona’s trusty tape

    •    acidophilic arachnid: when in acid rain Webber gets: 

Attack Damage    Physical DamageTaken    Move Speed
+5%    -2.5%    +1.5%

    •    Queen decorator: you can now decorate spider queen that will give her all the same effects of a decorated den(if you have unbreakable friendship, decorations won’t fall off when hit and will only attack attackers), when fighting nearby, spider queen will send over befriended nurse spiders to your aid

    •    Animalistic arachnid: Webber has the same all fours running ability as Wilbur and wonkey, when you fight bare handed you use your claws doing double the normal amount of damage

    •     In the spirit of friendship: When dying with Webber will drop 2 spider glands, Webber can give players the shoebox and they could only use it for its calling off aggressive spider function

    •    Garden spiders:
Flame touched spiders:  has built in scale mail as well as can cook
Switcherdoodle: 2 monster meat, 2 silk, 2 fire nettle fronds

Concept art by @chenxx



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shadow spider care:
 
The Queen will reward your loyalty with  the recipe to help your spider friends evade dangers

 2 monster meat, 3 silk, and 4 dark pedals
The shadow spider is a spider that will teleport like shadow creatures after attacking. They also have faster walking and attack speed then normal spiders, have 450 health, and deal 30 damage.

 
You can power spiders by using a new item called _____
After biting a mob That mob will receive 25 planar and normal damage for the next four minutes with mobs of the opposing alignment receiving an extra 10 planar damage per minute and the spider will lose they’re power until next time you power the spiders


Lunar spider care: 
 

The cryptic founder will reward your curiosity, with  the recipe to help your spider friends blitz dangers

 2 monster meat, 3 silk, and 4 lune tree blossoms 
The lunar spider is a spider that will move like greater gestalts when attacking (Wigfrid’s elding spear ability, but with a larger range). They also have faster walking and attack speed then normal spiders, have 450 health, and deal 30 damage.

You can power spiders by using a new item called _____
After biting a mob That mob will receive 25 planar and normal damage for the next four minutes with mobs of the opposing alignment receiving an extra 10 planar damage per minute and the spider will lose they’re power until next time you power the spiders

I have been playing Wormwood recently, and I just noticed/ realized one thing that I enjoy about him is that he has a character specific combat gear that incentivizes you to have a long term goal. I'm talking about the bramble shade and the brightshade sword perk.

When I was playing Woodie, I found his skills fu, but got bored easily coz I feel like I already have everything easily as he does not need any combat gear for his moose form, while he only needs to farm monster meat and you are basically good to go. I had zero reasons to make a bright smithy or shadow craft. This is also why I find some other characters more fun such as Wurt having certain gears that you can equip merm king to make him stronger, Maxwell needing tier 3 shadow gears to maximize shadow power, Wigfrid needing celestial champ to craft the full power spear, etc.

Another thing I liked about the Bramble shade is that it gives an older armor (the bramble husk) a purpose. And I find this a good idea since there are a lot of gears that we tend to ignore nowadays because there are better options already. For example, I almost never use night armor anymore since it is easy to get the repairable shadow armors or dreadstone armors. I believe it would actually be good for more characters to have a craft similar to wormwood's bramble shade. For example mixing a lighter + brightshade sword to make willow set enemies on fire while swinging the sword. Or wigfrid's shield + the eye of terror shield so the shield can be repaired with meat and maybe have a small aoe dmg. Or something like dark sword + alarm clock for wanda. Or night armor+ shadow cloak for maxwell to give 90% def on the shadow cloak, etc.

This is an idea for a third sub alignment for Wurt's skill tree that could replace either the sensible swamp fighter or swamp pathfinder skills and would not be mutually exclusive with one of the other alignments. The Gnaw alignment would allow Wurt to summon Merms from across the land, like Merm King, at the cost of hunger.

This is how I imagined the skill would work:

• You must have 5 skills unlocked, including at least 2 of the Merm king's quests skills.
• Choosing this skill will give Wurt a higher hunger drain.
• You will have a small cap of Merms to summon, and these Merms would be summoned all at once not one at a time.
• The skill will cost you lots of hunger to summon and if you don't have enough, summoning will not be possible.
• These Merms cannot interact with the shoddy toolshed/ armermry but they can wear regular helmets and benefit from king's blessings.
• These Merms would also be permanently loyal to you until they de-spawn and can only be summoned once per day.
• Pre Merm King, you would have access to 4 regular merms only, this would cost an enormous amount of hunger and would only last for maybe a few minutes.
• Post Merm King, you can now summon only Merm Guards but the number of Merms summoned will be reduced to 3. However this would cost less hunger and would last for longer, say half a day maybe.

And that's it. I didn't want to make it too powerful or unreasonable, just something to use in a pinch, mainly for early game. Perhaps this skill is unnecessary but at the very least it would allow for The Gorge to be referenced again in Don't Starve Together.

P.S. pls buff the wetness skills,