I have a funny story. I don’t really have a main but I like Walter the best, mostly for the easy krampus farm.. anyway I was going to try and play wx to try out his rework and on the first world it started raining day one. Would be a problem for me but it was one of those worlds with no naturally spawning flint in the starting area. Okay I was going to make a pretty parasol but I had twiggy trees so also no sticks in the first couple days. So my health is slowly draining and I have no way to make an umbrella or parasol, I died to the rain day two or three. Just nothing I could do lol. Hope you enjoyed
I definitely agree with most of these, and the only reason I would really use the dark sword as my main weapon is if I play Wormwood because of how easy it is to produce living logs, it would make sense to use them as often as you can
Yeah best way to do it as wormwood. Can do similar on wigfrid as you don't need football helmets so if you use a darksword it saves carrying around the pig skins and meat.
also worth mentioning that Wormwood can easily dip into insanity and back out thanks to his interactions with plants so nightmare fuel is never really an issue.
Kinda agree on the Panflute, outside certain bosses it's not something I would carry around. Dark Swords are good mid game when the resources needed come plenty and you don't need to babysit your Ham Bat spoilage and also stop the pigskin/meat usage every few days. Eyebrella just comes pretty much for free tho so I don't really see a reason not to use it unless playing with more people. I wear the Tam for the drip, there's nothing to wear when not dealing with the world casualties anyway so not having to go out of my way to up my sanity is neat. If I want to be insane I just use the Lazy Deserter (underrated imo, -15 sanity per use for free is just great).
Thanks for basically telling me your a bad player lol You can get infinite dark swords night fuel and night armour in like 30 minutes panflute is op for early and decent for mid and late game eyeballa is convient and we needs it and tam o is cheap keeps the thermal warmer for longer and gives sanity its decent
I don’t really use the panflute. I hate how the only way to renew mandrakes is fighting klaus and only having a 10% chance. Which makes the mandrake soup useless
@@tallkids-spencerhuyck179i would never let pen flute hit 0% ill always deconstruct it at 10%. I agree that pen flute is not vers usefull outside of only some bosses like DF and maybe Klaus.
Pan Flute helped me tremendously when I was clearing up the monkey island. there are a lot of those nasty apes, and they aggro very fast when you hit one, and I also used dark sword to kill them faster. perfect combo for me
The pan flute can also be used to get the terrarium (sleeping the guardians so they don´t disturb you) as well as analyzing some enemies as Wx-78 (Dragonfly, Bee Queen). Moreover, the Powder Monkeys can be slayed with ease by sending them to sleep temporarily and then perpetually one by one.
Ngl, as someone who spends 90% of their time on the cusp of insanity, especially early game to farm nightmare fuel, it gets really really annoying dealing with shadow creatures every day for a hundred or two hundred+ days. Eventually I end up with 2 chests completely full of nightmare fuel, and I just feel like wearing the tam bc I'm tired. Of course, it takes a while, a hundred days or more, for me to get sick of them, as they aren't that frequent or even difficult, but the peace of just doing what you're doing without having to stop for the shadows every so often just feels soothing after a long time of just embracing the insanity. Also, my friend is a woodie main, so between us constantly being insane for a while and having so much nightmare fuel, and him farming so many living logs, we just end up using dark swords because of how cheap and easy they are at that point, much much easier to make/mass produce than tentacle spikes and don't have to be babysat for spoilage like the ham bat, a d I just end up using the dark sword for everything from spiders to pigs, and the tam more than covers the sanity you lose if you really don't want to fight shadows anymore. Sorry for the long comment lol, I understand why you feel that way about the dark sword though, I have a friend who mains wendy and they usually just use a ham bat and keep it in an insulated pack, I don't think the dark sword is quite as strong for lower damage characters outside of bosses.
absolutely disagree with all of that. First off, eyebrella. It is the most useful item in rain protection since most players would normally need backpacks for the extra inventory and cane/tool/weapons for handslot, hence the raincoat/umbrella+helm combos are just cheaper alternative but had significant downsides whereas the eyebrella does not. Even for new players I would strongly recommend the eyebrella for working on base/resources and/or traveling. The only occasion that you would need during rain for fighting is a body armour which does not hurt for most players. second, the tam o shanter. Yes, the minimum sanity aura is not much and yes, you gain sanity from food and killing nms. But here's the thing, tam o shanter is not only a very good winter clothing, the very little bit of sanity aura does matter for casual players who do not want to get insane as quickly and does not get enough sanity from food (you would most likely be eating max 2meatballs per day as normal char which is 10 sanity that's all) Getting insane means fighting nms which you would not want to do when you're working on bases or you simply don't want to. Third, dark sword is almost the most powerful weapon in middle-late game with a relatively affordable cost. 68 dmg meaning the highest dps weapon with no dmg multiplier in dst, with the only downside of draining small amount of sanity per minute. For most bosses and just general fighting in the game, dark swords are not only efficient dmg weapon (6800 max dmg per sword) but also efficient in space, since you can simply carry living logs and nightmare fuel to craft one when you need it. That's my opinion for after playing 3800 hours of dst.
Dark swords are by far my favorite weapon for clearing the ruins (not ruins rushing). clockworks have enough health to make the extra damage actually useful, and the ingredients to make it take no extra inventory slots because you need to bring nf and living logs anyway. Another option is that you can just use a beefalo to fight enemies in the ruins, but I don't like doing that because I don't want my beefalo dying and also the bishops ranged attack always catches me off guard because I forget to wear armor on my beefalo.
Those items makes one elegant or rather by maxwell's quote "dapper". After looking bare during the earlier days of survival the addition of tamo, dark sword or eyebrella is a treat.
This is my pan flute strategy in most games: - Find it near Glommer and put it in one of the last slots of my backpack for emergencies - Play a couple hundred days - Notice I never once thought to actually use the Pan Flute for anything, even though I've died like four times already - Drop it at camp and leave it there forever I never thought too much about this process or how useless it is until you pointed it out, haha
@@Jturby I always thought it would be this great last-ditch -save-yourself item to keep on you, but I never think to use it when I need to. Also, a lot of the times I die I'm overconfident and think I'm gonna win whatever dumb thing it is I'm doing, haha, so it doesn't really help there. Do you find you use it for things other than Dragonfly? If you have suggestions for other cool ways you use it I'd love to hear them so it doesn't just end up sitting around in my camp.
@@ImSquiggs It’s helpful for toadstool, malbatross, bee queen, and hordes of enemies can be picked off one by one, so it’s pretty good for the ruins of monkeys catch you off guard
Just have to know how to use it it might be very useful. For example you can kill the twins with 3-4 panflutes if you just spam panflute and you can deconstruct and remake them i think its one of the good ways to use panflute.
I agree with all of these. I would prefer a houndious shootious over an eyebrella usually if i feel like going to the ruins. It is also a neat perk of Wurt. There are other ways to counter spring and summer, where you want to get wet instead, so you can make a shootious instead.
I mostly use the Tam on the caves because of the amount of sanity drain there is ridiculous and generally I don't have Bee Queen Crown with me, and I just use the Tam as a substitute for a Winter Hat cause it last longer that's it really. THe Eyebrella I just use to shield me from rain and I never use it on SUmmer cause i pass it in the caves. Never used the Pan Flite outside of the boss fights and I prefer Ham Bat to Dark Sowrd (infinite uses vs having to carry a lot of nightfuel and living logs)
I using dark sword only after blowing up 100+ shadow knights with gunpowder,crafting is dumb idea (if you non wormwood,for wormwood is good weapon because he can craft living logs) Also i never crafting pan flute,finding one near glommer statue and it's enough :/ But often using eyebrella and shanter,eyebrella give me free armor slot,and i using it for backpack.Shanter is winter hat for me,i too lazy to craft beefalo hat :l
tam o' shanter, what else are you going to have on your head outside combat/ outside spring/summer? "Waste of head slot" but what else is worth wearing ? Panflute "Few boss fights" -- most of boss fights
Thing is it's not the head slot I'm worried about it's an inventory slot in general. I'm a person that is always in combat so having a hat take up a slot so I can regen sanity is not worth for me Since I play Wendy being almost consistently surrounded by negative auras it's better to batch heal sanity through food or sleep. Than to have a slot taken by a slow sanity regen. Plus her whole sanity resist makes each sanity point worth more. Making her have an effective 266 sanity and each sanity point gained is worth 1.33.
As someone who likes playing wendy, I kinda gave up darkswords and only used them against bosses that I can't stand fighting on beefalo. (Nightmare werepig, who is shadow aligned so glass cutter) The eyebrella is always a must have for me because while you can just hold an umbrela and wear a grass hat, or a football helmet I ride a beefalo and often don't have the ability to carry that so the eyebrella is the quick solution The tam is well, up for debate, it usually sits around my base during the summer and some autumns, but eventually you have plenty of nightmare fuel so fighting terrorbeak after terrorbeak gets annoying and wendy excels at farming shadow splamonkeys for beard hair and nightmare fuel anyway I'd probably consider using panflutes more if klaus would keep giving me a mandrake supply, but it's really just used on dragonfly, Like I don't even use it for beequeen anymore, the only other boss is the twins or if I simply need to back out of the fight. (Unfortunately, panflutes are so useless to me that I often forget mine for dragon fly) Abigail shreds Klaus's krampi, so the panflute doesn't even see use there, and characters who aren't wendy still can just kite the krampi Basically, I only disagree with the clothing items because I hate going insane when I don't need to.
I used to agree with the dark sword being overrated, but I've somewhat changed my mind. I was all or nothing on the hambat and I still am for bosses, especially early game, but hambats degrade over time, so they aren't good for fighting normal enemies as you're exploring. Dark swords on the other hand don't lose damage over time, and are easier to get than tentacle spikes, especially past the early game. All of this is useless if you're riding a beefalo tho lol For the tam, it's pretty easy to get, provides enough sanity that you don't ever need to worry about passive drain, and has pretty good insulation. A beefalo hat is a good alternative, but you still have to think about your sanity, which can be annoying if you're doing something and get interrupted by nightmares. Also, getting a beef horn in the winter is an absolute pain. Beef don't follow you far enough to kill them one at a time and they randomly de-agro which messes up kiting timing. The sheer utility of almost not having to worry about winter is just very nice with the tam.
I just like the tam as a convenient side drop for when I want a tusk. By winter I usually have a star caller's staff and/or scaled furnace to easily manage multiple thermal stones for heat anyway so getting a tam as a drop saves me the resources and effort of making a beefalo hat. By spring I usually put it away unless I'm unable to go get cacti for some reason, like if I'm in the caves
I don't get the Eyebrella criticism. It is guaranteed on the first winter, is it "lower on a person's list" in the sense that it basically walks itself to you? It's also well regarded because it is the best between it's alternatives. The umbrella? Well, you said you prioritize the cane so probably it's not good to walk around slower. The rain coat? In another comment you mention the hard time on inventory management so why trade a backpack for it? So unless playing with other people, why NOT use the Eyebrella? Edit: remembered the hostile flare exists, so even on a team everyone can obtain it.
If I'm alone sure I'll make it but in a group I give it to someone else since I prefer using a beefalo Meaning i can give up both my hand and head slot to other items I feel that no one really uses the hostile flares despite how much people talk about them.
@@DVGMedia1 Really? For me it's not so uncommon in pubs to find at least one player bringing them up (sometimes there's not enough glommer goop tho), and with friends we always farm eyeballs to not waste pigskin on umbrellas.
@@ht4169 maybe I'm just old school since been playing for a long time I've learned to not rely on it on pub servers because at most could get 2 so having this option just goes over my head I did a poll and so far I see that half use it so I'm just in the lesser opinion lol
My three fav characters are winona, wurt and wormwood. Wormwood and wurt can basically ignore wetness, so eyebrellas aren't the most important for me, but keep in mind that not everyone spends their summer in the ruins and the other summer insulations all spoil (flower vest and ice cube). Winona can ignore the panflute because she can cheese bosses without one, making panflutes invalueable. The Tam on the other hand is priority for me. It's not just the sanity, it is the combination of insulation, durability and sanity. It negates the two main issues in winter. Yeah, eating can help, but it saves time farming beefalos and picking cactus. It also cannot spoil, wich helps in the ruins. As wormwood I like keeping a sapling in the ruins chest (with a grassy turf) because i can dig up and replant it for sanity, but aside of that, sanity is a big issue there and if you don't have bundling wraps, stale food won't give you any sanity. And at last, dark swords are essential for wormwood, but aside of her, yeah they are pretty bad compared to tentacle spikes, shield of terror and hambat.
I play Wigfried and the dark sword is very effective because of the 25% increase in damage, and this is a percentage, that is, the more damage the weapon has, the more Wigfrid does damage by percentage
panflute can also be usefull against bee queen. honestly i use darksword because of the cost. id rather lose some abundant nightmare fuel plus a living log than losing a pigskin and meat. the tentacle spike is a good alternative but i find to not have that many plus it takes up as much inventory spaces when you have spare ones. (assuming you have nightmare fuel by default from being insane often)
I tend to swap from hambat to beefalo. To me its Much more efficient for every day things. Because dont need space for healing wewpons or armo Which is why I like beefs more.
I have horrible luck with lightning, the eyebrella really helps with that come spring and if I already have it in summer then why not? But I can do without for summer as long as I have a thermal stone. Tam o shanter is a top choice because of a fashion sense for me, I have the carnival skin and it looks fabulous. Function qise outside of insulation (isnt as good as the beef hat but I main Wilson, heat is manageable) constant sanity regain/negation for underground and the event of another dead player. Tophat can negate spooky ghosts only during the day while Tam o shanter negates the spookiness at all day times and underground Dark sword if I have material and If I lack the alts. However of its dealing with sanity or more specifically lunacy. Regular gestalts can be scared off by dropping one on the ground. Greater gestalts on the other hand won't be scared and will seek you out if you're holding one (leaned the hard way) Pan flute... Pvp, dragonfly, or when dealing with multiple Kampi. Other than that I also find it useless However I would choose walking cane over all. Speed boost and indestructible yet very weak weapon for those dumb enough to use it like that, like yours truly. Mostly stuff like if I have my weapons break and somethings just on the brink of death, can be stun locked, or impaitent rabbit hunting (generally 2 hits work).
I always pick up the pan flute, but I neglect actually using it except on Dragonfly. It's also overpowered in PVP, as my friends and I did this thing where we get 15 days to gather resources and fight each other in 2 teams of 2. We had the same strategy of using sleep, my team used pan flute, the others used mandrake, and it was Wickerbottom who triggered it. The rest of the game, I did not use it at all, and come to think of it, Dragonfly and that ONE instance are my only uses of it.
I try to use dark swords as often as possible just so I can try to use up all my damn nightmare fuel. I usually have at least three stacks of the stuff lying on my floor, the only reason I even pick it up is so that I'm not littering every time I kill a shadow creature
For me it's the hambat. I find it so tedius to hunt for pig skin, which also has a lot of other Useful crafts like a helmet, and setting up a werepig farm also takes somee time, plus u cant have it on demand as you need to wait for full moon. The spoilage doesnt help either as I only fight like twice a day, some days even would be spent entirely farming and base building, so a hambat would usually spoil faster than i can break a dark sword. With the dark sword, its soo easy to craft, 1 tree guard already gives u 6 dark swords. Plus as a maxwell main, it helps out my puppets dmg.
Since I'm extremely incompetent I love the eye-brella for spring and I did t even know it worked in summer but I have never really used a dark sword or panflute
Back in the day when I still used the tamo, I viewed it not as a tool to gain sanity, but to keep it from lowering. I feel it helps save you resources compared to making sanity foods, so I'd recommend wearing it as a cheaper alternative.
The thing with the eyebrella, is that you don't really have a reason to not use it. It is dirty cheap, killing Deerclops is not a problem, and if protection is what you need, log/thulecite suits do the job for me. The tam o' shanter and panflute, I agree as the tam, while alright if you don't want to deal with nightmare creatures and a bit of insulation, if I really wanted sanity I would take a short trip to a desert and grab some cacti, and for insulation, beefalo hats are better in the long run, but I personally prefer setting a tree on fire and let my thermal stone heat up. Panflutes I only use for raid bosses, nothing else. Last but not least, dark swords... I pretty much never use them. I think they are a bit too expensive, they break very quickly, and their damage, while alright, I always just use a hambat for that infinite durability and dirty cheap cost, or a thulecite club for that extra movement speed. Hambats deal good enough damage for most anything, for me to miss dark sword damage. The only situation I would rather use dark swords instead of a hambat is for very high health mobs like Toadstool. I do like the sound they make when you swing them, though. Anyways, thanks for reading this long ass comment if you did.
I use the Tam as a winter hat because I'm too lazy to make a beefalo hat, if I don't drop one I just rely on thermal. Pan flute I carry to save my friends or beefalo when they fuck up badly but most of the time it's on the floor till we decide to do dfly. Dark swords end up being easier to get than ham bats once you do a shadow boat explosion so I end up using them as weapons and nothing else past the first year. Eyebrella I use since it exists, my world wouldn't change if it wasn't there but since it's a common progression item why not, better than having an useless eye in a chest till I go for a houndius for no reason.
I use to carry a panflute everywhere as an emergency option until i realized "wait... I haven't used this thing once in my hundreds of days playing... Why do i even carry this?". Never held a panflute since and still haven't found a time where it would've been useful. Nowadays i only use it for bosses or for adding another Varg to the pen. I agree on the Dark Sword take too. My playstyle just doesn't need it. I just use a beefalo. The only time I'd actually use a darksword is when im playing Wolfgang. When im playing him a Darksword is always my go to. For anyone else though its just beef gaming. Since only 1 character should really use it constantly i deem it overrated. Disagree on the tam take. Its useful for caving when theres permanently a negative sanity aura and there's tons of sanity draining creatures. Its extremely convenient for that. The only character that wouldn't need a tam is Maxwell. On the day to day though yea i just eat food. Maybe carry a bundle wrap of banana shakes or smth. Disagree on the eyebrella take too. Not overrated at all. The only other alternative for most characters is the regular umbrella but that takes the hand slot away which means you cant work while having it equipped. The eyebrella lets you do both. Its also as you said, the best for both Summer and Spring. For half the game it'll be the most effective choice possible for a lot of players...... Not me though since im a Wurt main lol. I just carry a fish in my pocket
About the dark sword I think you're correct in it being bad for low health enemies since it has low durability. I like Tams for sanity maintenance. They aren't good for getting it. But they are good for keeping it. A thing about eyebrella is that it prevents lightning damage. I have died a lot of times to lightning when I have been on low health. Raincoat+Tam is better for sanity management and warmth but I'm unsure if it prevents lightning. An item I'd like to add to the list is the humble thermal stone specifically for summer. Though in DST there are more ways to utilize it, a luxury fan is still better in my opinion. And you won't have to go back to your base so often.
Summer is interesting because summer actually has some great items chilled amulet is good watermelon plus whirly fan is enough cooling even on deep summer weather. Plus can interact with watering can cooling for thermals where can just water the thermal and it cools it down for extended use
As a Wilba main tammies are amazing and really easy to get in Hamlet. You just need 50 oincs which is not alot. Plus getting rid of the sanity drain of dusk and night. Which is amazing because Wilba has 100 sanity and loses more sanity at night.
I agree on everything that you said. I have always had the 'Triple Mc Tusk biome enabler' mod and not a while ago I got rid of it. The only place that I use a Tam o' is on Wortox when I want him sane. Because by killing mobs you fulfill both hunger and life at the cost of sanity and food gives him half the value. So by having an item that takes cares of sanity makes Wortox like a battery. Thank you for this video. I wish more people get what you are trying to point here.
imo Tam is pretty lacklustre, usually by the second year I'll have a banana bush farm up and running, meaning I can chug banana shakes if ever I don't feel like farming nightmare fuel
The Pan Flute for Wickerbottom seems good, until you realise Wickerbottom also gets a book that does the same thing, just reducing your sanity and also having a longer casting time... But it can be recharged and not having to deconstruct it every 4 uses
For the eyebrella, I play Wurt so I can't give a solid opinion on this. For the tam, I really like the small sanity buff and minor insulation. It also just looks really nice. I completely agree with your take on the dark sword. On bosses I don't use it due to the sanity drain. Pan flute, I only use it on bosses, that's about it.
as a Maxwell main I like to use dark sword because its literally have zero downsides with him adn its a good dmg buff also it looks good on him he is a dapper fella he needs a sword not a spear
For me the tan o shanter is the only Overrated Item because I like to stay close to being insane to fight nightmare creatures Pan flute is basically close to essential for bosses like Bee Queen, Twins and Dragonfly and is a convenient tool for other bosses aswell. Dark Sword is for Pro players who can just forget about the sanity drain and when you can farm them from Shadow chess Piece farm for mass weapon production And Eye brella makes Spring just Automn 2.0 and Summer aswell with a luxury fan.
Well the eyebrella is spammable by the first winter since you can basically spawn deerclops at 60% chance with those glommer poop rockets so i don't see any reason not to use it.
Personally I think the Tam is worth it since in combination with foods and other things it's useful as heck and is insanely easy to get to the point there's no reason not to get it
I agree for sure about panflute, its fun but its a limited resource unless you want to dismantle it with a green staff so because of so I never want to use it unless I feel I have a reason, its also a waste of an inventory slot so I don't carry it on me for in case of emergency situations. its good for bosses and pvp yes but even still only sometimes in neiche ways. Dark swords are ok because they use spare living logs and nightmare fuel and they lower sanity, often going into mid game you have some of these to spare and no real use for them, this lets you take them and spend them in a way to get a lot of use out of them before you really have access to late game that makes them more useful, yes a tentacle spike is usually better, but I like having those on my person as my go to while traveling, so if I want high damage for a single set task I know I'm getting into like clearing spiders or meleeing some pigmen I feel comfortable wasting a dark sword or 2. the other point of lowering sanity you sorta mentioned with how its good for nightmare creatures, but its also good for lunar stuff for that reason too and potentially beard hair gathering. eyebrella I don't really care about tbh, it feels like something you end up getting just handed to you so you go ahead and use, even if you don't fight deerclops its easy enough to get tree guards, dragonfly, spider queens, or tentacles to kill them so I do it anyways and just sorta end up with it. the only other use for it is a houndius shootius that I'm not making anytime soon and the item can be eaten if something happens to the chest so its safer to turn it into an eyebrella; even if you did wanted it for the pew pew tower by that time you have access to green staffs so it really doesn't matter that you crafted it into a hat. really I think the thing to say here is that the eyeball should have more uses to give more options and variety like bearger and the options of hibernation vest or insulated pack. I am gonna fight you on the tam, especially when mulling around base or doing non-dangerous adventuring its a good way to passively combat sanity drain, and while I could carry food on me that's arguably more space wasted than the tam since it spoils and I'm not going to have a crockpot always on hand, even if I did plan ahead I have to go out of my way to gather the ingredients which in and of themselves take up space. Pigmen sanity gain is a good point I'm just dumb and don't use it cuz I rarely set up pigfarms, but even still thats requiring at least a inventory slot for the meat which is the same as a tam, and usually pigs are localized to one area where as a tam is good for on the go sanity such as sailing caves mining or pretty much anything else that would have you away from bases.
I prefer the glass cutter far more than the dark sword. It does the same base damage and is stronger against shadow creatures. Plus i think it looks cooler i tend to use tentacle spikes until i can get one, or when i'm playing webber I just drop spiders on the ground and let them handle it
These items are extremely op, expect shadow sword Its has only 100 uses ( but at least it has very simple craft) and sanity drowns very fast ( expect Maxwell and Wanda ) So its usible only for fuel farm BUT As Maxwell user i need to said that this item is too good And i cant understand why you don't use eyebrella
I never really got why people use dark swords so much. Yeah, it does more damage, but it's super expensive compared to my go-to weapon, the Ham Bat. Also, the sanity drain can completely ruin a boss fight unless you play close attention and prepare extra sanity food. Boss insanity auras are a bad mechanic, why would I introduce it into a fight that doesn't have it, or make it worse in a fight that does? That 9 damage isn't gonna make or break anything.
This video in a nutshell: "I don't really use this item, aside from [insert all of the situations the item was designed for and is commonly used in here]" Like really dude.
@@DVGMedia1 Basically, you never fight bosses. The eyebrella and tam aren't so highly praised just because of their usefulness, its because they have those helpful uses while you'll already be getting them anyway. Deerclops comes to you so you'll fight him one way or another, and like you said you'll already be hunting down mac tusk to the tam is a nice bonus. If you _already have it,_ why wouldn't you use it?
I fight bosses. I just use a beefalo. Much less upkeep and my partners can use the swords. If i play alone sure everything is up for grabs no need to intentionally gimp yourself. But gotta remember how the game is a group survival game. Im good enough at the game to not need these things. majority of the time they just take up inventory space. So if some one else can benefit from it why not give it to them. @mossdude9594
@@DVGMedia1 Well that's even less reason to call them overrated when you're ensuring others can make use of them who need their abilities more than yourself.
Hard disagree on eyebrella, i understand its not mandatory, and that compared to other winter stuff its not great, but keep in mind that u get by killing a boss that ALWAYS spawns and is super easy to kill, making it a drop u always get, so concidering the fact that u always get the eye (unless u dont kill clops i guess) its super good, so why not just use it? Also i agree on dark sword, not for the same reason, i agree cuz im a wanda main and all weapons except my own suck no questions asked
I have literally never, EVER used a dark sword. Not enough durability for me, and too expensive. I usually never bother with the regular shadow magic tab
Your eyebrella reasoning is fine, not that useful in multiplayer since it can be replaced by an ok alternative. However, you are entirely wrong about the pan flute... it's mandatory for at least 2 bossfights: bee queen, which without the panflute is much much harder solo, and dragonfly, which is borderline impossible to fight while it's enraged. Then, you have twins, which can be pretty hard to separate without the panflute. ALSO, the panflute can be used for a very very early toadstool kill (more time to chop trees). Another use of the panflute is for making an automatic volt-goat farm. So the panflute is definitely super useful You are also... kinda wrong about the dark sword. Nobody uses it to fight normal enemies, it's only valuable against bosses where you need high damage, FAST. For example, using a hambat insead of morning star + darkswords on bee queen will make you require significantly more food, armor and panflutes, which is a waste. Same thing for crab king, which requires a lot of resources, same thing for fuelweaver solo, and for celestial champion the -20 sanity is beneficial. The difference it makes in just the bq and crab king bossfights alone makes it a great weapon. The tam'o'shanter does give you a lot of sanity, which is passive. So, even without doing anything, you gain some, and it also gives insulation. It's just... worth it, i mean it's only 1 inventory slot, i don't think you need more considering you also have chester. And then, you also have wortox, who gains half the sanity from food, so for him the tam'o'shanter is really good.
Pretty sure while u leaving the server There is a few second of the server count you as standing still, you still able to be hit during this time It will be worse if you have high ping too
Im just curious how u counter wetness then, like if is with umbrella in slot hand while mounting a beefalo or what cuz when I see myself in a server with more players and I didnt took a beef I wear rain coat
I usually am an umbrella and hat type of player. I also understand how wetness works so I am able to reduce the effects of wetness without actually needing to dry off. I posted a short video about wetness too that discusses some portions of it.
I feel like people underestimate the power of the rainhat. Yes, it is a flat downgrade to the eyebrella, but it's a lot cheaper and does a very comparable job (as long as you're not a robot) since rain almost never lasts long enough to get you over 40 with it on. Though you are probably gonna miss... the..... okay nevermind, you aren't gonna miss the lightning protection. Apparently it has lightning protection, I retract my former statement, it's pretty much a cheaper eyebrella that robots can't use.
I think the reason the umbrella is overated is because players are not used to fight spring and summer without it. Even in beginners guides they all talk about this hat. As I grew with solo don't starve, I'm shocked to see most players tend to live in cave instead of fighting the heat. Despite having more tools to fight summer like water ballon and whirly fan.
An overrated item is the Eye of Cuthulu helmet, its great but there are better options than that armor, a Beefalo has the same function of repairing itself with food and protects 100% :////
dark sword is just universally good, and accessible all the time late game by just surviving. i basically always have the materials to craft one on hand, because i have the fuel for magi as well, so the extra slot for logs in order to always have access to a weapon is great. however in situations where i do A LOT of fighting in one day, and its not a boss, i will definitely go with a beefalo or a hambat. the extra damage isnt really as important as the fact that it doesnt spoil like the bat, so if you dont do much fighting for extended periods, you can just keep it in your inventory for the few times you do and its no worry or hassle. everything else though... mostly agree. eyebrella in spring is a must in the first year. after that, not as useful because raincoat exists and you can just swap it out for the magi when you need water resistance
I gotta say, that weird drawing popping all over the screen detracts from the quality. It's oddly creepy for some reason as well. As for the video content pretty questionable takes with very little in terms of viable alternative suggestions. You want people to just not wear winter clothing at all instead and just use a football helmet all the time? Hard to say what your thought process is but it doesn't seem to be very fleshed out.
If im playing alone I will make the eye. But if im playing with friends I usually give them the eye since i can use other things. so im not dependent on the eyebrella. and most of the times i kind of hate having it just because it takes up an inventory slot.
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Eyebrella is good because the boss drops lots of meat and is relatively easy. I’ve beat it with about half sanity before and considering that you should have a line of trees so you can get free logs, deerclops destroying the trees means that treeguards may kill the boss for you. It also helps in spring so that you can use it during the day to stay dry and during the night you can use a miner hat without getting too wet and going insane. Also good for summer when you don’t have cold Chester or easy way to get cold thermal stone since you can stay at minimum cool temp then go the entire day without overheating. Also can delay damage when going under a tree and get a couple more minutes. Plus it prevents lightning damage which is useful when fighting moose children. Also useful because the body slot is not used but provides 240 summer insulation.
With that in mind the tam is not as useful in spring and summer because of the eyebrella. It can be useful in caves to prevent sanity drain if riding a beefalo and using lantern of glowberry but is only really useful in the other seasons for winter insulation (less arson) and passive sanity gain. Overall not as useful and better to use cactus flesh, jelly salad or some other form of sanity regen like cooked green cap, veggie stinger, banana pop (using banana bush) salsa Fresca or creamy potato purée which are all easy to acquire and provide great sanity.
As for the dark sword, just use a hambat, tentacle spike or beefalo. They are all pretty easy to get, either waiting for a tentacle to die from merms or maybe spiders, having a pig farm to get meat and pig skin or having 1000 hit points and some damage (even a rider beefalo is useful despite lower than average dmg ((25 compared to 34)) and is basically required for long term exploration anyway) as well as having 4x health gain from food. Also panflute is basically useless because of how niche it is, even if it is a really powerful tool. I wouldn’t consider it overrated because normal people wouldn’t use it because of its limited quantity and is only really used in speedruns or specific boss fights (which can be ignored if klaus is killed for the blueprints, also the krampus can be kited easily if they are in sync without the panflute or can be strategically spawned at night so they are asleep anyway)
In my opinion, overrated items include glass axe, most ancient things and stone fruit. For the first, you shouldn’t be cutting trees when deerclops and bearger exist. Then ancient stuff is not only expensive but most people wouldn’t need it unless they were fighting a hard boss solo. Most of that stuff just makes things slightly easier like green gem items, yellow gem items and the lazy explorer. The forager is good though since it can help get items from tough spots or save time picking things up especially when gathering hundreds of items at a time, which can take whole days. Stone fruit is just a way to get stone quickly since the only alternative to renewable stone is petrified trees which take a while to spawn and can’t be destroyed by pigs. You could use bearger but only if the trees are in a farm already. The fruit expires too soon for use so it could be a good rot supply but if you need that much rot just feed a werepig the stuff that can rot for manure.
The pan flute can be used to get 40+ Lucky Gold Nuggets from the Pig King wrestling by stun locking the pigs, one of the most efficient sources of Lucky Gold which can them be used to make huge amounts of food at shrines
Dark Sword works for Wigfrid too if you just want big pp damage while semi-ignoring the passive sanity drain. Of course, there are boss sanity auras, but I think the more experienced players can handle that anyway.
I think you’re argument for the dark sword is valid but I would say most people realize that it’s not better for smaller fights, but the damage really does matter in boss fights, especially for a character like Wolfgang that boosts the damage of the weapon.
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As a wx main, the eyebrella is really important as a tiny bit of wetness is deadly if ignored in spring
For me it's is the opposite because I main wurt
@@SkepticalKookaboora as an main wurt i use the eyebrella cause of the cold 🍷
Sanity is for the mere peasants of the constant, unlike me, the third maxwell gaming.
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I have a funny story. I don’t really have a main but I like Walter the best, mostly for the easy krampus farm.. anyway I was going to try and play wx to try out his rework and on the first world it started raining day one. Would be a problem for me but it was one of those worlds with no naturally spawning flint in the starting area. Okay I was going to make a pretty parasol but I had twiggy trees so also no sticks in the first couple days. So my health is slowly draining and I have no way to make an umbrella or parasol, I died to the rain day two or three. Just nothing I could do lol. Hope you enjoyed
*walrus doesn't drop tamo*
"Ah its overrated anyway"
I definitely agree with most of these, and the only reason I would really use the dark sword as my main weapon is if I play Wormwood because of how easy it is to produce living logs, it would make sense to use them as often as you can
Yeah best way to do it as wormwood. Can do similar on wigfrid as you don't need football helmets so if you use a darksword it saves carrying around the pig skins and meat.
I am in the habit when just traveling that I use compost or eggs to heal while making living logs. Now I accidentally have a scaled chest full. :(
Also if You do The shadow pieces farm/cheese thing. Or if you’re playing Maxwell
also worth mentioning that Wormwood can easily dip into insanity and back out thanks to his interactions with plants so nightmare fuel is never really an issue.
yeah but living logs are already easy to get
Kinda agree on the Panflute, outside certain bosses it's not something I would carry around. Dark Swords are good mid game when the resources needed come plenty and you don't need to babysit your Ham Bat spoilage and also stop the pigskin/meat usage every few days. Eyebrella just comes pretty much for free tho so I don't really see a reason not to use it unless playing with more people.
I wear the Tam for the drip, there's nothing to wear when not dealing with the world casualties anyway so not having to go out of my way to up my sanity is neat. If I want to be insane I just use the Lazy Deserter (underrated imo, -15 sanity per use for free is just great).
Thanks for basically telling me your a bad player lol
You can get infinite dark swords night fuel and night armour in like 30 minutes panflute is op for early and decent for mid and late game eyeballa is convient and we needs it and tam o is cheap keeps the thermal warmer for longer and gives sanity its decent
@@andyw_-ik6br That's crazy man, what does that add to my comment since I pretty much said that all of them are good and have use?
@@satiz7800 the fact you didn't mention the most important part imo
I don’t really use the panflute. I hate how the only way to renew mandrakes is fighting klaus and only having a 10% chance. Which makes the mandrake soup useless
@@tallkids-spencerhuyck179i would never let pen flute hit 0% ill always deconstruct it at 10%. I agree that pen flute is not vers usefull outside of only some bosses like DF and maybe Klaus.
Pan Flute helped me tremendously when I was clearing up the monkey island. there are a lot of those nasty apes, and they aggro very fast when you hit one, and I also used dark sword to kill them faster. perfect combo for me
Oh yeah true Monkies are also another creature that the darksword is great for since they can 2 shot them
@@DVGMedia1 i think some ranged weapons could be good for that too, but I never use them
Make a pen and throw a banana inside
They will go after the banana and stop targeting you
The pan flute can also be used to get the terrarium (sleeping the guardians so they don´t disturb you) as well as analyzing some enemies as Wx-78 (Dragonfly, Bee Queen). Moreover, the Powder Monkeys can be slayed with ease by sending them to sleep temporarily and then perpetually one by one.
Ngl, as someone who spends 90% of their time on the cusp of insanity, especially early game to farm nightmare fuel, it gets really really annoying dealing with shadow creatures every day for a hundred or two hundred+ days. Eventually I end up with 2 chests completely full of nightmare fuel, and I just feel like wearing the tam bc I'm tired. Of course, it takes a while, a hundred days or more, for me to get sick of them, as they aren't that frequent or even difficult, but the peace of just doing what you're doing without having to stop for the shadows every so often just feels soothing after a long time of just embracing the insanity.
Also, my friend is a woodie main, so between us constantly being insane for a while and having so much nightmare fuel, and him farming so many living logs, we just end up using dark swords because of how cheap and easy they are at that point, much much easier to make/mass produce than tentacle spikes and don't have to be babysat for spoilage like the ham bat, a d I just end up using the dark sword for everything from spiders to pigs, and the tam more than covers the sanity you lose if you really don't want to fight shadows anymore.
Sorry for the long comment lol, I understand why you feel that way about the dark sword though, I have a friend who mains wendy and they usually just use a ham bat and keep it in an insulated pack, I don't think the dark sword is quite as strong for lower damage characters outside of bosses.
absolutely disagree with all of that.
First off, eyebrella. It is the most useful item in rain protection since most players would normally need backpacks for the extra inventory and cane/tool/weapons for handslot, hence the raincoat/umbrella+helm combos are just cheaper alternative but had significant downsides whereas the eyebrella does not. Even for new players I would strongly recommend the eyebrella for working on base/resources and/or traveling. The only occasion that you would need during rain for fighting is a body armour which does not hurt for most players.
second, the tam o shanter. Yes, the minimum sanity aura is not much and yes, you gain sanity from food and killing nms. But here's the thing, tam o shanter is not only a very good winter clothing, the very little bit of sanity aura does matter for casual players who do not want to get insane as quickly and does not get enough sanity from food (you would most likely be eating max 2meatballs per day as normal char which is 10 sanity that's all)
Getting insane means fighting nms which you would not want to do when you're working on bases or you simply don't want to.
Third, dark sword is almost the most powerful weapon in middle-late game with a relatively affordable cost. 68 dmg meaning the highest dps weapon with no dmg multiplier in dst, with the only downside of draining small amount of sanity per minute. For most bosses and just general fighting in the game, dark swords are not only efficient dmg weapon (6800 max dmg per sword) but also efficient in space, since you can simply carry living logs and nightmare fuel to craft one when you need it.
That's my opinion for after playing 3800 hours of dst.
Yeah thats all true. I give all those items to other players if they want them.
Because it would help them more than it would help me.
Dark swords are by far my favorite weapon for clearing the ruins (not ruins rushing). clockworks have enough health to make the extra damage actually useful, and the ingredients to make it take no extra inventory slots because you need to bring nf and living logs anyway. Another option is that you can just use a beefalo to fight enemies in the ruins, but I don't like doing that because I don't want my beefalo dying and also the bishops ranged attack always catches me off guard because I forget to wear armor on my beefalo.
Those items makes one elegant or rather by maxwell's quote "dapper". After looking bare during the earlier days of survival the addition of tamo, dark sword or eyebrella is a treat.
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this guy is tripping hard, Overrated is waaaay too strong of a word to use on these save for the sword maybe
This is my pan flute strategy in most games:
- Find it near Glommer and put it in one of the last slots of my backpack for emergencies
- Play a couple hundred days
- Notice I never once thought to actually use the Pan Flute for anything, even though I've died like four times already
- Drop it at camp and leave it there forever
I never thought too much about this process or how useless it is until you pointed it out, haha
It’s really useful, just not required other than dragonfly. It makes a lot of things a hell of a lot easier
@@Jturby I always thought it would be this great last-ditch -save-yourself item to keep on you, but I never think to use it when I need to. Also, a lot of the times I die I'm overconfident and think I'm gonna win whatever dumb thing it is I'm doing, haha, so it doesn't really help there.
Do you find you use it for things other than Dragonfly? If you have suggestions for other cool ways you use it I'd love to hear them so it doesn't just end up sitting around in my camp.
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It’s helpful for toadstool, malbatross, bee queen, and hordes of enemies can be picked off one by one, so it’s pretty good for the ruins of monkeys catch you off guard
Just have to know how to use it it might be very useful. For example you can kill the twins with 3-4 panflutes if you just spam panflute and you can deconstruct and remake them i think its one of the good ways to use panflute.
I agree with all of these. I would prefer a houndious shootious over an eyebrella usually if i feel like going to the ruins. It is also a neat perk of Wurt. There are other ways to counter spring and summer, where you want to get wet instead, so you can make a shootious instead.
I mostly use the Tam on the caves because of the amount of sanity drain there is ridiculous and generally I don't have Bee Queen Crown with me, and I just use the Tam as a substitute for a Winter Hat cause it last longer that's it really. THe Eyebrella I just use to shield me from rain and I never use it on SUmmer cause i pass it in the caves. Never used the Pan Flite outside of the boss fights and I prefer Ham Bat to Dark Sowrd (infinite uses vs having to carry a lot of nightfuel and living logs)
Someone: dark sword is overrated.
Also Wolfgang with double damage and Warly dishes 🗿
I using dark sword only after blowing up 100+ shadow knights with gunpowder,crafting is dumb idea (if you non wormwood,for wormwood is good weapon because he can craft living logs)
Also i never crafting pan flute,finding one near glommer statue and it's enough :/
But often using eyebrella and shanter,eyebrella give me free armor slot,and i using it for backpack.Shanter is winter hat for me,i too lazy to craft beefalo hat :l
tam o' shanter, what else are you going to have on your head outside combat/ outside spring/summer?
"Waste of head slot" but what else is worth wearing ?
Panflute "Few boss fights" -- most of boss fights
Thing is it's not the head slot I'm worried about it's an inventory slot in general. I'm a person that is always in combat so having a hat take up a slot so I can regen sanity is not worth for me
Since I play Wendy being almost consistently surrounded by negative auras it's better to batch heal sanity through food or sleep. Than to have a slot taken by a slow sanity regen.
Plus her whole sanity resist makes each sanity point worth more. Making her have an effective 266 sanity and each sanity point gained is worth 1.33.
Pan flute is also for bee queen and moving goats into auto volt goat farms, although I mostly use an ice staff for the second one anyway.
If you setup a shadow piece farm you get tons of dark swords costing you only rocks.
Then you do gotta think about crafting weapons for awhile.
As someone who likes playing wendy, I kinda gave up darkswords and only used them against bosses that I can't stand fighting on beefalo. (Nightmare werepig, who is shadow aligned so glass cutter)
The eyebrella is always a must have for me because while you can just hold an umbrela and wear a grass hat, or a football helmet I ride a beefalo and often don't have the ability to carry that so the eyebrella is the quick solution
The tam is well, up for debate, it usually sits around my base during the summer and some autumns, but eventually you have plenty of nightmare fuel so fighting terrorbeak after terrorbeak gets annoying and wendy excels at farming shadow splamonkeys for beard hair and nightmare fuel anyway
I'd probably consider using panflutes more if klaus would keep giving me a mandrake supply, but it's really just used on dragonfly, Like I don't even use it for beequeen anymore, the only other boss is the twins or if I simply need to back out of the fight. (Unfortunately, panflutes are so useless to me that I often forget mine for dragon fly)
Abigail shreds Klaus's krampi, so the panflute doesn't even see use there, and characters who aren't wendy still can just kite the krampi
Basically, I only disagree with the clothing items because I hate going insane when I don't need to.
I used to agree with the dark sword being overrated, but I've somewhat changed my mind. I was all or nothing on the hambat and I still am for bosses, especially early game, but hambats degrade over time, so they aren't good for fighting normal enemies as you're exploring. Dark swords on the other hand don't lose damage over time, and are easier to get than tentacle spikes, especially past the early game. All of this is useless if you're riding a beefalo tho lol
For the tam, it's pretty easy to get, provides enough sanity that you don't ever need to worry about passive drain, and has pretty good insulation. A beefalo hat is a good alternative, but you still have to think about your sanity, which can be annoying if you're doing something and get interrupted by nightmares. Also, getting a beef horn in the winter is an absolute pain. Beef don't follow you far enough to kill them one at a time and they randomly de-agro which messes up kiting timing. The sheer utility of almost not having to worry about winter is just very nice with the tam.
Most people: Tam o Shanter
Me a Wormwood main: Plant a bunch of seeds
I just like the tam as a convenient side drop for when I want a tusk. By winter I usually have a star caller's staff and/or scaled furnace to easily manage multiple thermal stones for heat anyway so getting a tam as a drop saves me the resources and effort of making a beefalo hat. By spring I usually put it away unless I'm unable to go get cacti for some reason, like if I'm in the caves
I'm a Maxwell maniac so I just wear the darksword around, it's a flexing thing.
I never really used dark swords but ever since I got that saber skin…. Oh boy I NEED dark swords
"I don't use Panflute except whenever it's usefull"
I don't get the Eyebrella criticism.
It is guaranteed on the first winter, is it "lower on a person's list" in the sense that it basically walks itself to you?
It's also well regarded because it is the best between it's alternatives. The umbrella? Well, you said you prioritize the cane so probably it's not good to walk around slower. The rain coat? In another comment you mention the hard time on inventory management so why trade a backpack for it?
So unless playing with other people, why NOT use the Eyebrella?
Edit: remembered the hostile flare exists, so even on a team everyone can obtain it.
If I'm alone sure I'll make it but in a group I give it to someone else since I prefer using a beefalo
Meaning i can give up both my hand and head slot to other items
I feel that no one really uses the hostile flares despite how much people talk about them.
@@DVGMedia1 Really? For me it's not so uncommon in pubs to find at least one player bringing them up (sometimes there's not enough glommer goop tho), and with friends we always farm eyeballs to not waste pigskin on umbrellas.
@@ht4169 maybe I'm just old school since been playing for a long time I've learned to not rely on it on pub servers because at most could get 2 so having this option just goes over my head I did a poll and so far I see that half use it so I'm just in the lesser opinion lol
My three fav characters are winona, wurt and wormwood. Wormwood and wurt can basically ignore wetness, so eyebrellas aren't the most important for me, but keep in mind that not everyone spends their summer in the ruins and the other summer insulations all spoil (flower vest and ice cube).
Winona can ignore the panflute because she can cheese bosses without one, making panflutes invalueable.
The Tam on the other hand is priority for me. It's not just the sanity, it is the combination of insulation, durability and sanity. It negates the two main issues in winter. Yeah, eating can help, but it saves time farming beefalos and picking cactus. It also cannot spoil, wich helps in the ruins. As wormwood I like keeping a sapling in the ruins chest (with a grassy turf) because i can dig up and replant it for sanity, but aside of that, sanity is a big issue there and if you don't have bundling wraps, stale food won't give you any sanity.
And at last, dark swords are essential for wormwood, but aside of her, yeah they are pretty bad compared to tentacle spikes, shield of terror and hambat.
I play Wigfried and the dark sword is very effective because of the 25% increase in damage, and this is a percentage, that is, the more damage the weapon has, the more Wigfrid does damage by percentage
Pan flute saved my ass more times then i give it credit for.
panflute can also be usefull against bee queen.
honestly i use darksword because of the cost. id rather lose some abundant nightmare fuel plus a living log than losing a pigskin and meat. the tentacle spike is a good alternative but i find to not have that many plus it takes up as much inventory spaces when you have spare ones. (assuming you have nightmare fuel by default from being insane often)
I tend to swap from hambat to beefalo. To me its Much more efficient for every day things. Because dont need space for healing wewpons or armo Which is why I like beefs more.
I have horrible luck with lightning, the eyebrella really helps with that come spring and if I already have it in summer then why not? But I can do without for summer as long as I have a thermal stone.
Tam o shanter is a top choice because of a fashion sense for me, I have the carnival skin and it looks fabulous. Function qise outside of insulation (isnt as good as the beef hat but I main Wilson, heat is manageable) constant sanity regain/negation for underground and the event of another dead player. Tophat can negate spooky ghosts only during the day while Tam o shanter negates the spookiness at all day times and underground
Dark sword if I have material and If I lack the alts. However of its dealing with sanity or more specifically lunacy. Regular gestalts can be scared off by dropping one on the ground. Greater gestalts on the other hand won't be scared and will seek you out if you're holding one (leaned the hard way)
Pan flute...
Pvp, dragonfly, or when dealing with multiple Kampi. Other than that I also find it useless
However I would choose walking cane over all. Speed boost and indestructible yet very weak weapon for those dumb enough to use it like that, like yours truly. Mostly stuff like if I have my weapons break and somethings just on the brink of death, can be stun locked, or impaitent rabbit hunting (generally 2 hits work).
I always pick up the pan flute, but I neglect actually using it except on Dragonfly. It's also overpowered in PVP, as my friends and I did this thing where we get 15 days to gather resources and fight each other in 2 teams of 2. We had the same strategy of using sleep, my team used pan flute, the others used mandrake, and it was Wickerbottom who triggered it. The rest of the game, I did not use it at all, and come to think of it, Dragonfly and that ONE instance are my only uses of it.
I try to use dark swords as often as possible just so I can try to use up all my damn nightmare fuel. I usually have at least three stacks of the stuff lying on my floor, the only reason I even pick it up is so that I'm not littering every time I kill a shadow creature
For me it's the hambat. I find it so tedius to hunt for pig skin, which also has a lot of other Useful crafts like a helmet, and setting up a werepig farm also takes somee time, plus u cant have it on demand as you need to wait for full moon. The spoilage doesnt help either as I only fight like twice a day, some days even would be spent entirely farming and base building, so a hambat would usually spoil faster than i can break a dark sword. With the dark sword, its soo easy to craft, 1 tree guard already gives u 6 dark swords. Plus as a maxwell main, it helps out my puppets dmg.
Since I'm extremely incompetent I love the eye-brella for spring and I did t even know it worked in summer but I have never really used a dark sword or panflute
Back in the day when I still used the tamo, I viewed it not as a tool to gain sanity, but to keep it from lowering. I feel it helps save you resources compared to making sanity foods, so I'd recommend wearing it as a cheaper alternative.
The thing with the eyebrella, is that you don't really have a reason to not use it. It is dirty cheap, killing Deerclops is not a problem, and if protection is what you need, log/thulecite suits do the job for me.
The tam o' shanter and panflute, I agree as the tam, while alright if you don't want to deal with nightmare creatures and a bit of insulation, if I really wanted sanity I would take a short trip to a desert and grab some cacti, and for insulation, beefalo hats are better in the long run, but I personally prefer setting a tree on fire and let my thermal stone heat up.
Panflutes I only use for raid bosses, nothing else.
Last but not least, dark swords... I pretty much never use them. I think they are a bit too expensive, they break very quickly, and their damage, while alright, I always just use a hambat for that infinite durability and dirty cheap cost, or a thulecite club for that extra movement speed. Hambats deal good enough damage for most anything, for me to miss dark sword damage. The only situation I would rather use dark swords instead of a hambat is for very high health mobs like Toadstool. I do like the sound they make when you swing them, though.
Anyways, thanks for reading this long ass comment if you did.
Pan flutes can help do deal with monkey raids and they can cheese bee queen
I use the Tam as a winter hat because I'm too lazy to make a beefalo hat, if I don't drop one I just rely on thermal.
Pan flute I carry to save my friends or beefalo when they fuck up badly but most of the time it's on the floor till we decide to do dfly.
Dark swords end up being easier to get than ham bats once you do a shadow boat explosion so I end up using them as weapons and nothing else past the first year.
Eyebrella I use since it exists, my world wouldn't change if it wasn't there but since it's a common progression item why not, better than having an useless eye in a chest till I go for a houndius for no reason.
The dark sword is a go to for me playing maxwell as it boosts shadow puppet damage while not draining sanity.
I use to carry a panflute everywhere as an emergency option until i realized "wait... I haven't used this thing once in my hundreds of days playing... Why do i even carry this?". Never held a panflute since and still haven't found a time where it would've been useful. Nowadays i only use it for bosses or for adding another Varg to the pen.
I agree on the Dark Sword take too. My playstyle just doesn't need it. I just use a beefalo. The only time I'd actually use a darksword is when im playing Wolfgang. When im playing him a Darksword is always my go to. For anyone else though its just beef gaming. Since only 1 character should really use it constantly i deem it overrated.
Disagree on the tam take. Its useful for caving when theres permanently a negative sanity aura and there's tons of sanity draining creatures. Its extremely convenient for that. The only character that wouldn't need a tam is Maxwell. On the day to day though yea i just eat food. Maybe carry a bundle wrap of banana shakes or smth.
Disagree on the eyebrella take too. Not overrated at all. The only other alternative for most characters is the regular umbrella but that takes the hand slot away which means you cant work while having it equipped. The eyebrella lets you do both. Its also as you said, the best for both Summer and Spring. For half the game it'll be the most effective choice possible for a lot of players...... Not me though since im a Wurt main lol. I just carry a fish in my pocket
the only thing i really use is the tam o shanter because cavern is always draining sanity but tam o shanter negate that
About the dark sword I think you're correct in it being bad for low health enemies since it has low durability.
I like Tams for sanity maintenance. They aren't good for getting it. But they are good for keeping it.
A thing about eyebrella is that it prevents lightning damage. I have died a lot of times to lightning when I have been on low health. Raincoat+Tam is better for sanity management and warmth but I'm unsure if it prevents lightning.
An item I'd like to add to the list is the humble thermal stone specifically for summer. Though in DST there are more ways to utilize it, a luxury fan is still better in my opinion. And you won't have to go back to your base so often.
Summer is interesting because summer actually has some great items chilled amulet is good watermelon plus whirly fan is enough cooling even on deep summer weather. Plus can interact with watering can cooling for thermals where can just water the thermal and it cools it down for extended use
As a Wilba main tammies are amazing and really easy to get in Hamlet. You just need 50 oincs which is not alot. Plus getting rid of the sanity drain of dusk and night. Which is amazing because Wilba has 100 sanity and loses more sanity at night.
I actually prefer a ham bat over dark sword I just can’t handle fighting both nightmares and whatever I’m fighting at the the same time
Its funny how the panflute has his own leaves on its sprite
I'm so much titled by this video. Dude really picked up some of the most useful items im game and called em straight up trash
I agree on everything that you said. I have always had the 'Triple Mc Tusk biome enabler' mod and not a while ago I got rid of it. The only place that I use a Tam o' is on Wortox when I want him sane. Because by killing mobs you fulfill both hunger and life at the cost of sanity and food gives him half the value. So by having an item that takes cares of sanity makes Wortox like a battery. Thank you for this video. I wish more people get what you are trying to point here.
imo Tam is pretty lacklustre, usually by the second year I'll have a banana bush farm up and running, meaning I can chug banana shakes if ever I don't feel like farming nightmare fuel
If 🤓 was a person:
The Pan Flute for Wickerbottom seems good, until you realise Wickerbottom also gets a book that does the same thing, just reducing your sanity and also having a longer casting time... But it can be recharged and not having to deconstruct it every 4 uses
The Tam O’Shanter is great because it looks cute
For the eyebrella, I play Wurt so I can't give a solid opinion on this.
For the tam, I really like the small sanity buff and minor insulation. It also just looks really nice.
I completely agree with your take on the dark sword. On bosses I don't use it due to the sanity drain.
Pan flute, I only use it on bosses, that's about it.
as a Maxwell main I like to use dark sword because its literally have zero downsides with him adn its a good dmg buff also it looks good on him he is a dapper fella he needs a sword not a spear
I like dark swords because they're cheap, and Wigfrid doesn't give a heck about sanity
I literally use the winter hat more than the tam becasue the winter hat looks nicer. Puffy vest best though! :D
For me the tan o shanter is the only Overrated Item because I like to stay close to being insane to fight nightmare creatures
Pan flute is basically close to essential for bosses like Bee Queen, Twins and Dragonfly and is a convenient tool for other bosses aswell.
Dark Sword is for Pro players who can just forget about the sanity drain and when you can farm them from Shadow chess Piece farm for mass weapon production
And Eye brella makes Spring just Automn 2.0 and Summer aswell with a luxury fan.
as a maxwell main the darksword is good for getting that extra buff for your shadow minions
Well the eyebrella is spammable by the first winter since you can basically spawn deerclops at 60% chance with those glommer poop rockets so i don't see any reason not to use it.
I use tam beacause 1: I play Webber and 100 sanity is laughably low and 2: It looks cool. Other than that I totally agree with you
I agree with most except dark sword because of how easy you can obtain it compared to the tentacle spike or other weapons
Personally I think the Tam is worth it since in combination with foods and other things it's useful as heck and is insanely easy to get to the point there's no reason not to get it
Underrated channel with such a high quality, subscribe bro.
I use dark swords because living logs are easier to get than pig skin for me. I play wormwood and woodie
what mod are you using for the bosses life?? it looks so cool
Epic health bar
@@DVGMedia1 Awesome, thanks
I like the dark sword cuz i main wormwood and i rather be using it than making hambats or looking for tenticles
I agree for sure about panflute, its fun but its a limited resource unless you want to dismantle it with a green staff so because of so I never want to use it unless I feel I have a reason, its also a waste of an inventory slot so I don't carry it on me for in case of emergency situations. its good for bosses and pvp yes but even still only sometimes in neiche ways.
Dark swords are ok because they use spare living logs and nightmare fuel and they lower sanity, often going into mid game you have some of these to spare and no real use for them, this lets you take them and spend them in a way to get a lot of use out of them before you really have access to late game that makes them more useful, yes a tentacle spike is usually better, but I like having those on my person as my go to while traveling, so if I want high damage for a single set task I know I'm getting into like clearing spiders or meleeing some pigmen I feel comfortable wasting a dark sword or 2. the other point of lowering sanity you sorta mentioned with how its good for nightmare creatures, but its also good for lunar stuff for that reason too and potentially beard hair gathering.
eyebrella I don't really care about tbh, it feels like something you end up getting just handed to you so you go ahead and use, even if you don't fight deerclops its easy enough to get tree guards, dragonfly, spider queens, or tentacles to kill them so I do it anyways and just sorta end up with it. the only other use for it is a houndius shootius that I'm not making anytime soon and the item can be eaten if something happens to the chest so its safer to turn it into an eyebrella; even if you did wanted it for the pew pew tower by that time you have access to green staffs so it really doesn't matter that you crafted it into a hat. really I think the thing to say here is that the eyeball should have more uses to give more options and variety like bearger and the options of hibernation vest or insulated pack.
I am gonna fight you on the tam, especially when mulling around base or doing non-dangerous adventuring its a good way to passively combat sanity drain, and while I could carry food on me that's arguably more space wasted than the tam since it spoils and I'm not going to have a crockpot always on hand, even if I did plan ahead I have to go out of my way to gather the ingredients which in and of themselves take up space. Pigmen sanity gain is a good point I'm just dumb and don't use it cuz I rarely set up pigfarms, but even still thats requiring at least a inventory slot for the meat which is the same as a tam, and usually pigs are localized to one area where as a tam is good for on the go sanity such as sailing caves mining or pretty much anything else that would have you away from bases.
I prefer the glass cutter far more than the dark sword. It does the same base damage and is stronger against shadow creatures. Plus i think it looks cooler
i tend to use tentacle spikes until i can get one, or when i'm playing webber I just drop spiders on the ground and let them handle it
These items are extremely op, expect shadow sword
Its has only 100 uses ( but at least it has very simple craft) and sanity drowns very fast ( expect Maxwell and Wanda )
So its usible only for fuel farm
BUT
As Maxwell user i need to said that this item is too good
And i cant understand why you don't use eyebrella
I use it if im alone but if im with a group i usually give it to others
I never really got why people use dark swords so much. Yeah, it does more damage, but it's super expensive compared to my go-to weapon, the Ham Bat. Also, the sanity drain can completely ruin a boss fight unless you play close attention and prepare extra sanity food. Boss insanity auras are a bad mechanic, why would I introduce it into a fight that doesn't have it, or make it worse in a fight that does? That 9 damage isn't gonna make or break anything.
This video in a nutshell:
"I don't really use this item, aside from [insert all of the situations the item was designed for and is commonly used in here]"
Like really dude.
yep exactly I just never really need them
@@DVGMedia1 Basically, you never fight bosses. The eyebrella and tam aren't so highly praised just because of their usefulness, its because they have those helpful uses while you'll already be getting them anyway. Deerclops comes to you so you'll fight him one way or another, and like you said you'll already be hunting down mac tusk to the tam is a nice bonus. If you _already have it,_ why wouldn't you use it?
I fight bosses. I just use a beefalo. Much less upkeep and my partners can use the swords.
If i play alone sure everything is up for grabs no need to intentionally gimp yourself.
But gotta remember how the game is a group survival game. Im good enough at the game to not need these things. majority of the time they just take up inventory space. So if some one else can benefit from it why not give it to them.
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@@DVGMedia1 Well that's even less reason to call them overrated when you're ensuring others can make use of them who need their abilities more than yourself.
Hard disagree on eyebrella, i understand its not mandatory, and that compared to other winter stuff its not great, but keep in mind that u get by killing a boss that ALWAYS spawns and is super easy to kill, making it a drop u always get, so concidering the fact that u always get the eye (unless u dont kill clops i guess) its super good, so why not just use it? Also i agree on dark sword, not for the same reason, i agree cuz im a wanda main and all weapons except my own suck no questions asked
Yeah as solo there is no reason to not make it
But like with multiple people I prefer to give I to someone else
does anybody know what song is used in the background of the video? it slaps and sounds extremely familiar, but I can't put my finger on it!
His friends call him spuder -bugfables
Seems like you are using the Panflute at the normal rate. More than that and you would need a deconstruction staff.
I have literally never, EVER used a dark sword. Not enough durability for me, and too expensive. I usually never bother with the regular shadow magic tab
Your eyebrella reasoning is fine, not that useful in multiplayer since it can be replaced by an ok alternative.
However, you are entirely wrong about the pan flute... it's mandatory for at least 2 bossfights: bee queen, which without the panflute is much much harder solo, and dragonfly, which is borderline impossible to fight while it's enraged. Then, you have twins, which can be pretty hard to separate without the panflute. ALSO, the panflute can be used for a very very early toadstool kill (more time to chop trees). Another use of the panflute is for making an automatic volt-goat farm. So the panflute is definitely super useful
You are also... kinda wrong about the dark sword. Nobody uses it to fight normal enemies, it's only valuable against bosses where you need high damage, FAST. For example, using a hambat insead of morning star + darkswords on bee queen will make you require significantly more food, armor and panflutes, which is a waste. Same thing for crab king, which requires a lot of resources, same thing for fuelweaver solo, and for celestial champion the -20 sanity is beneficial. The difference it makes in just the bq and crab king bossfights alone makes it a great weapon.
The tam'o'shanter does give you a lot of sanity, which is passive. So, even without doing anything, you gain some, and it also gives insulation. It's just... worth it, i mean it's only 1 inventory slot, i don't think you need more considering you also have chester. And then, you also have wortox, who gains half the sanity from food, so for him the tam'o'shanter is really good.
pan flute +bee queen
dvgmedia biting the curb
as a Wanda main Dark Sword is invaluable in the early game
Pretty sure while u leaving the server
There is a few second of the server count you as standing still, you still able to be hit during this time
It will be worse if you have high ping too
yeah thats why shenannigans deaths happens lol
you would come back dead when you log back in
Im just curious how u counter wetness then, like if is with umbrella in slot hand while mounting a beefalo or what cuz when I see myself in a server with more players and I didnt took a beef I wear rain coat
I usually am an umbrella and hat type of player. I also understand how wetness works so I am able to reduce the effects of wetness without actually needing to dry off. I posted a short video about wetness too that discusses some portions of it.
I feel like people underestimate the power of the rainhat. Yes, it is a flat downgrade to the eyebrella, but it's a lot cheaper and does a very comparable job (as long as you're not a robot) since rain almost never lasts long enough to get you over 40 with it on. Though you are probably gonna miss... the..... okay nevermind, you aren't gonna miss the lightning protection. Apparently it has lightning protection, I retract my former statement, it's pretty much a cheaper eyebrella that robots can't use.
Panflutes r fun to solo bee queen as wolfgang
I think the reason the umbrella is overated is because players are not used to fight spring and summer without it. Even in beginners guides they all talk about this hat.
As I grew with solo don't starve, I'm shocked to see most players tend to live in cave instead of fighting the heat. Despite having more tools to fight summer like water ballon and whirly fan.
Playing solo its basically guaranteed if you kill deerclops so maybe that's also why it attributes so much to it.
An overrated item is the Eye of Cuthulu helmet, its great but there are better options than that armor, a Beefalo has the same function of repairing itself with food and protects 100% :////
Alternate title: 4 items I always have in my inventory
Still, good video 👍
dark sword is just universally good, and accessible all the time late game by just surviving. i basically always have the materials to craft one on hand, because i have the fuel for magi as well, so the extra slot for logs in order to always have access to a weapon is great. however in situations where i do A LOT of fighting in one day, and its not a boss, i will definitely go with a beefalo or a hambat. the extra damage isnt really as important as the fact that it doesnt spoil like the bat, so if you dont do much fighting for extended periods, you can just keep it in your inventory for the few times you do and its no worry or hassle. everything else though... mostly agree. eyebrella in spring is a must in the first year. after that, not as useful because raincoat exists and you can just swap it out for the magi when you need water resistance
I gotta say, that weird drawing popping all over the screen detracts from the quality. It's oddly creepy for some reason as well. As for the video content pretty questionable takes with very little in terms of viable alternative suggestions. You want people to just not wear winter clothing at all instead and just use a football helmet all the time? Hard to say what your thought process is but it doesn't seem to be very fleshed out.
Its not a guide or anything Its just me saying i don't use these items.
Tammoshanter lol I hate trying to get it, Bee Hat is bettah
How do you play this game without eyebrella ?
If im playing alone I will make the eye. But if im playing with friends I usually give them the eye since i can use other things.
so im not dependent on the eyebrella. and most of the times i kind of hate having it just because it takes up an inventory slot.
Erhm according to my calculations I’ve determined you play don’t starve together in an non-optimal manner therefore your channel is dooty booty… nah jk your channels great :)
Eyebrella is good because the boss drops lots of meat and is relatively easy. I’ve beat it with about half sanity before and considering that you should have a line of trees so you can get free logs, deerclops destroying the trees means that treeguards may kill the boss for you. It also helps in spring so that you can use it during the day to stay dry and during the night you can use a miner hat without getting too wet and going insane. Also good for summer when you don’t have cold Chester or easy way to get cold thermal stone since you can stay at minimum cool temp then go the entire day without overheating. Also can delay damage when going under a tree and get a couple more minutes. Plus it prevents lightning damage which is useful when fighting moose children. Also useful because the body slot is not used but provides 240 summer insulation.
With that in mind the tam is not as useful in spring and summer because of the eyebrella. It can be useful in caves to prevent sanity drain if riding a beefalo and using lantern of glowberry but is only really useful in the other seasons for winter insulation (less arson) and passive sanity gain. Overall not as useful and better to use cactus flesh, jelly salad or some other form of sanity regen like cooked green cap, veggie stinger, banana pop (using banana bush) salsa Fresca or creamy potato purée which are all easy to acquire and provide great sanity.
As for the dark sword, just use a hambat, tentacle spike or beefalo. They are all pretty easy to get, either waiting for a tentacle to die from merms or maybe spiders, having a pig farm to get meat and pig skin or having 1000 hit points and some damage (even a rider beefalo is useful despite lower than average dmg ((25 compared to 34)) and is basically required for long term exploration anyway) as well as having 4x health gain from food. Also panflute is basically useless because of how niche it is, even if it is a really powerful tool. I wouldn’t consider it overrated because normal people wouldn’t use it because of its limited quantity and is only really used in speedruns or specific boss fights (which can be ignored if klaus is killed for the blueprints, also the krampus can be kited easily if they are in sync without the panflute or can be strategically spawned at night so they are asleep anyway)
In my opinion, overrated items include glass axe, most ancient things and stone fruit. For the first, you shouldn’t be cutting trees when deerclops and bearger exist. Then ancient stuff is not only expensive but most people wouldn’t need it unless they were fighting a hard boss solo. Most of that stuff just makes things slightly easier like green gem items, yellow gem items and the lazy explorer. The forager is good though since it can help get items from tough spots or save time picking things up especially when gathering hundreds of items at a time, which can take whole days. Stone fruit is just a way to get stone quickly since the only alternative to renewable stone is petrified trees which take a while to spawn and can’t be destroyed by pigs. You could use bearger but only if the trees are in a farm already. The fruit expires too soon for use so it could be a good rot supply but if you need that much rot just feed a werepig the stuff that can rot for manure.
Cool bug fables music
Hey, u improve with the draws? Look better 2 me
Dark sword is a cheap weapon if you are a marble sculptor. If you know what I mean.
music?
His friends call him spuder it's from the game bug fables
The pan flute can be used to get 40+ Lucky Gold Nuggets from the Pig King wrestling by stun locking the pigs, one of the most efficient sources of Lucky Gold which can them be used to make huge amounts of food at shrines
But can just Bait the pigs
Just make 13-16 fences 4 doors and use 4 golds
Dark Sword works for Wigfrid too if you just want big pp damage while semi-ignoring the passive sanity drain.
Of course, there are boss sanity auras, but I think the more experienced players can handle that anyway.
I think you’re argument for the dark sword is valid but I would say most people realize that it’s not better for smaller fights, but the damage really does matter in boss fights, especially for a character like Wolfgang that boosts the damage of the weapon.
names all the uses for a pan flute
says beyond everything i use it for, i dont use it
L take