Caboodle of Know-Hows

For beginners who are starting to play the game, this forum page isn't your greatest bet to start the game but rather if you're experienced enough to survive the difficult learning curve and immediately start your indefinite survival, the Caboodle of Know-Hows is your forum place to learn and spice up your indefinite survival.

The forum will be on construction and improvements indefinitely and along ideas will be documented in a rather understandable way. 

A forum topic  had opened for a question of an efficient way of farming dragonfly scales. This pondered me about how inefficient the gunpowder tactic was. So I came up for a number of research with the help of the Don't Starve wiki, @Asparagus' bunnyman count and my knowledge of pathfinding behaviors.

Thanks to the Don't Starve community wiki and @Asparagus ' shenanigans and his low frame rate videos about fighting the Dragonfly. I came up for a way of an effective scale farm.

May I represent the Dragonfly Scale Farm

This contraption uses homeless bunnymen encased in an enclosure, a small pathway for you and the dragonfly to get in between, a melee weapon  of choice, armor of preference and an optional a resurrection item.

I'll explain the technicalities

The Dragonfly has a mechanic wherever if you deal more than 1250 damage, it will go into a forced knock-out. And if you could deal 2500 damage she will drop a scale. She will not drop anymore scales when she's stunned again but straying away and going back refreshes and repeats itself. Exploiting this kind of behavior, we would use a bunnyman because it doesn't have a kiting behavior, has an increased damage and has hostility towards monsters and giants. Using 12 bunnymen will give out in in every second, a damage out of 480. Multiplying it by 5 seconds will successfully give 2400, more than enough to knock it down. 

Another thing involve is its own attack priority. Dragonfly's #1 hit list will be the player, second will be the mobs itself. This makes up for safety of your homeless bunnymen as you're the meat shield. Unless in cases of situations, but it's ideal situation that you'll achieve. The walls are to limit the bunnymen's movement and to stop them from wandering and follow the dragonfly during his lavae spawn phase.

Thanks for reading!