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Don’t Starve Together – Character Guide Wendy

Introduction

Into the constant spawns Wendy and her twin sister!!!

Wendy is the most easiest and fun character to play with, there is a small challenge at the beginning requiring the player to kill a creature to make he summonable. Easiest mob to kill is the butterfly as it sits on a flower. The second easiest mob to kill is the Moleworm place a flint on the ground wait for it to pop out, then kill it. The spider is a little bit difficult as its first attack needs to be dodged after which you can put it down easily with a few hits from an axe or a pickaxe. Pressing Shift+F is an easy way to force an attack on a nearby creature rather than clicking on it with the mouse. Abigail’s mode can be toggled between aggressive and passive by right clicking on the flower. The color and shape of the flower changes to red and sightly bloomed when she is summonable. Abigail has lesser HP on the day she spawns and it doubles the following day. She deals more damage at night.

Wendy on the other hand is dark and depressed and relates things to death. Apart from that there aren’t too many down sides. She is a very good support character especially when it comes to dealing with hordes and procuring huge amounts of meat with ease.

Abigail’s Pros

  • Abigail can take on a horde of frogs and spiders as she has an AOE attack thus making her an ideal character to gather meat
  • Can easily dispatch the waves of hounds with ease
  • Light source at night
  • Can be further buffed with the Sisturn and items crafted using Mourning Glory related recipes

Cons

  • Abigail doesn’t do well against higher level mobs
  • Wendy’s attack speed is slow
  • Need to micro manage Abigail during boss fights, dispelling her before she dies

Pipspook

Pipspooks are non aggressive mobs that spawn at graveyards with gravestones. Wendy can assist them by right clicking on them which will make them follow you. If you stand still it will move in the direction you are supposed to go, once you are near the location Wendy will inform the player as well as a radiating halo will appear over the Pipspook. As Wendy nears the invisible item it will come into focus as long as the Pipsook is near you. The frequency of the halo increases depending on Wendy’s proximity to the item, although it might not show at first if the Pipspook is too far. Each item drops a single Mourning Glory and the final item drops four.

Character Crafting

  • Abigail’s Flower – Craft Abigail’s Flower
  • Revenant Restorative – Triples Abigail’s health regeneration for a day
  • Spectral Cure-All – Healing regeneration rate increases by 20 per second for 30 seconds
  • Unyielding Draught – Increases the duration for which Abigail is immune to damage
  • Distilled Vengeance – Increases the damage immunity time for Abigail and returns damage
  • Nightshade Nostrum – Allows Abigail to deal the same amount of damage she deals at night
  • Vigor Mortis – Increases Abigail’s movement speed
  • Sisturn – Place four petals in it to buff Abigail

Tips

Let Abigail take the mob aggro after which you can follow up with attacks with Wendy.

Keep Beefalos away from her when they are in heat

Force attacking Aigail unsummons her

Stardew Valley – Fresh Start Guide

New to Stardew Valley? Returning back to check out the new update? Well don’t worry, here is a list of things that can help you with starting out on your first day at the farm. These are the little things that we tend to forget when returning to Stardew valley for a fresh start that may cause you to restart all over again.

The Mood Killer: Energy Bar

One of the most crucial aspects of the game and the one that is mostly overlooked till you are finally exhausted. Always keep an eye out for the energy bar, each little action that you perform will drain your energy. Don’t try to clear the farm on the first day itself instead do the following instead:

Step 1: Parsnip Seed Parcel

Enter the house and you will find a parcel of parsnip seeds, collect them and keep them in your inventory for now.

Step 2: North Exit

Clear a path towards the North Exit from which you can leave your farm. Make sure to clear on the small rocks and fallen branches so that you do not waste your energy.

Step 3: South Exit

Clear a path towards the South Exit from which you can leave your farm.

Step 4: Foraging

Now that the exits are cleared start venturing out to forage for collectibles like Dandelions, Horseradish and Clams.

Step 5: Wiggly Worms

If you notice Wiggling worms or Tendrils sticking out of the ground make sure to use a hoe to dig up some cool loot.

Step 6: Farming

Clear the area that is in front of your house to make a small farm, apart from the parsnips you might be able to find other seeds as well from digging the Wiggling Worms. Plant the seeds and make sure to water them.

Step 7: Storage Chest

Start cutting wood till you get 50 pieces to make your first storage chest, in order to store away the Scythe, Watering Can, Axe and other stuff that you may have picked up. This needs to be done since your backpack has only 12 slots in the beginning, which can be upgraded at the store later on once you have enough cash. If you run out of energy just go to sleep and continue the next day.

Step 8: Delivery

Just before making your way to bed, make sure to sell off your foraged items for some cash.

The Ultimate Run Killer: Time Exhaustion

At 12:00 am in the night you will receive a notification saying that it’s getting late, from this point onwards you have 2 in game hours and in real time that is 86 seconds. You will have to rush to your bed immediately before 2:00 am. If you collapse on the road you will end up losing items and the energy bar will be at the level it was the previous day. If you collapse in your house you won’t lose items but your energy won’t recover. The next day you will have to consume Field snacks at the least to restore your energy or you will have to sleep it off.

Tips

  • Don’t go to the beach on the first day instead forage the northern and eastern sides and the place at the Southern Exit from your farm. As you will have to go to the beach to collect the fishing rod the following day.
  • Make sure to keep the things you have in your backpack in your storage chest as it will hamper foraging.
  • Always carry the Hoe to dig up treasure and the pickaxe if you want to go to the mines
  • Collect seeds to make the field snack
  • Don’t waste your time trying to find all of the inhabitants of the village on the first day as you will meet most of them during the potluck ceremony and other events
  • Make sure to collect 300 wood to fix the bridge east of the beach

How to get a great start – Don’t Starve Together

Introduction:

Don’t Starve is an absolutely marvelous indie game if you like dark and gloomy themes and just want to relax on a weekend, who knows it might even brighten your day. A perfect setup for a multiplayer game where you have to frequently adapt to whatever the game throws at you just like normal life. Co-ordination and allocation of tasks is a key aspect when playing with a group of friends to make things. This guide will help you get a perfect start as it emphasizes on materials and tools required to make it feel seamless and also a brief introduction to what can be considered an ideal spot to build your camp at.

Phase I – Basic Requirements:

Tools:

The first few crucial items required are Torch, Axe, Pickaxe and an optional item would be Garland which helps keep your sanity in check well unless you are playing as Wurt. So to craft the above items we will require the following materials:

  • 3 Flint
  • 5 Twig
  • 12 flowers
  • 2 Cut Grass

The above are the minimum requirements and you will need to find more as your tools break down. Flint can be found lying around in the Grasslands and Rockyland biomes, Twigs can be found in Grasslands. Cut Grass can be found in the Grasslands and Savanna biome.

Food:

In the beginning just keep picking up berries and carrots that you will find along the way. Keep consuming them to restore your hunger whenever it gets low. Along the way you might find seeds that birds will desperately try to eat, pick them up and store them for now. To kill a moleworm drop a flint on the floor as he pops out and tries to take it, you can kill it to get a morsel.

Camp Location:

An ideal spot would be at a location where there are lots of spiders, spiders preferred since they drop silk and spider glands apart from monster meat. The camp has to be placed a little bit further from these spots. In case you are playing as Wendy then a frog camp would be ideal.

Tips:

Save tree cutting for logs at night. Just before night time approaches make sure to be in a forest biome or a spot with a few trees, the moment its night light a tree (right click on a tree with torch equipped) on fire and start cutting trees with your axe that are further way.

Make sure to collect the charcoal from the burnt trees. If its burning (slight steam rising from it) just collect it once to put off the fire then collect it asap again.

Don’t pick extra stuff like flowers(more than what is required to make a garland), nitre, mushrooms, annoying mandrakes and dark flowers. Focus on getting to the Science Machine and setting up camp.

If you were unable to craft a torch make sure to run towards the entrance, the Florid Postern.

Phase II – Building the camp

Now on to the next part where we need to setup our camp. First and foremost we need to build a Science Machine to prototype the Backpack, Shovel, Crock Pot, build a Fire Pit and an Alchemy Engine.

  • 22 Logs
  • 28 Rocks
  • 2 Twigs
  • 9 Gold
  • 6 Charcoal
  • 2 Flint

For this we need to find the Rockylands area. In this area there will be two types of Rocks one is a plain looking one and the other will be the one which has golden veins across its surface. We need to break down the one with the golden veins as they drop gold, rocks, flint and nitre. Don’t pick up nitre for now.

Once you have all the necessary items mentioned in the list above proceed to the location with spiders, if you haven’t found one yet just build a temporary Science Machine and just craft the Backpack for now, then farm the extra gold, logs and rocks for the one to build at your base.

In case you already have a good spot for your base, build the science machine and craft the Backpack and equip it. Next craft the Fire Pit, then the Crockpot, Shovel and finally the Alchemy Engine. It is much easier to craft now in Don’t Starve together as you can find the item you need and click on it and if the materials that are part of the recipe themselves need to be crafted they will show a “+”. You can hover over them to find out what materials are required.

Next we have to gather the berry bushes to plant them at the base. Here we use the Shovel to dig up the berry bushes (if you don’t have inventory slots make note of the locations and come back once you have the backpack). Make sure you don’t forget to prototype it at the base near the science machine. Use rotten food to fertilize the bushes

Food:

The easiest crockpot recipe for hunger is the one for Meatballs (1 meat + 3 veggies) and to restore health it’s Trail Mix (1 roasted birch nut + 2 berries + 1 twig). Spider Glands are also a good source of healing and can be used to make Healing Salves.

Tips:

Build the base a little bit away from the trees, water, frog ponds, spider nest, beefalo and pig houses.

Don’t venture into the swamp unless you are feeling brave or build a base in the swamp.

Conclusion:

Now that you are through with the initial phase, don’t waste time staying at the base for too long. Go out and explore. Plan ahead by checking for the next thing to do for which a few example would be crafting the Prestihatitator and the Shadow Manipulator. Also you can herd the Beefalo and adopt pets and don’t forget to find and fight the bosses. Apart from this you will have to prepare for Winter and Rains get proper equipment which will be discussed in further posts. Also don’t forget that there is an entire map of underground cave systems waiting for you to explore.