How do you use your giants?

[serpent]

I have never played don't starve vanilla, jumped straight down in ROG, i played a cracked version of the DLC sadly for a long extent, until i recently decided to just buy the game (fortunately i did, i just found out it could save me some money with DST)

 

So okay, i know giants are mostly a pain in the a**, (cant recall how many times i F4'th in annoyance just because of a annoying bearger smashing my whole base...) but hey they can be of use too, too bad i have none of the footage, but i just recently started a game in which i am well over day 100 now.

 

so far untill my autumn in the second year, i have encountered deerclops, dragonfly, the moosegoose and the bearger

 

How i used them in this game:

 

At first i came across the mighty deerclops, with a growl in the deep night and my basecamp made around a wormhole to the desert i had only one thing to do. So i grabbed some quick supplies, and i jumped in the wormhole. Than the deerclops came. 

 

Mighty as he was, though not smart, i decided to lure him in the numerous hound mounds, as he quickly got rid of most of the hounds, a few mounds and some skeletons (does he see them as structures? he soms too be drawn at them like bees at honey...). I decided to lure him at mactusk, where by a mere accident he ran into some trees, spawning 2 treeguards who quickly put him off. But hey, free meat and eyeball!

 

I do still have the biggest trouble fighting him hand on hand sadly...

 

Than spring came, which was fun, frog rain started, and so spawned the Goose/Moose. I got over a stack of froglegs with that event, than i waited until the egg spawned, and quickly put it off with a spear and some toothtraps.

 

On another world though she spawns nearly everytime between my bee boxes, i never have to kill it or the moslings, the bees do the hard work, giving me tons of feathers, meat, drumsticks and honey!

 

Last summer came the dragonfly, while running a hell of a way towards a tallfort with an angry dragonfly behind me burning the path, and since my map does not have a lot of boulders, i just ran in circles while the tallbirds and nests got burned to death (they do NOT stand well against the dragonfly)

 

As little damage as he got, i decided to fire my stack of blowdarts against him, than around 10 hits with a spear did the trick while tanking him (he seems unkitable?) Got a few tallbird eggs out of it, around 28 cooked meat, 14 normal meat, and ofcourse the scales which will make the second encounter alot more easier, tanking it with a dark sword and fire armor ^.^

 

And just recently i defeated the bearger, i mainly used him for chopping a looooot of wood which i put around my small hounds arena, and clearing out a few frogs, he does not really seems to put off some treeguards, however birchguards are like crazy about him (too bad he just runs them over in a few seconds...), with help of the arena and 2-hit kiting i killed him off in a few minutes

 

Rewards:

12 living logs, a lot of uprooted twigs and grass, bearger drops, and around 5-7 stacks of wood ^.^

 

 

 

So what are your uses for the giants? (besides crying over them that you have to fight them off course... ^^)

 

I'm thinking about starting a game with wickerbottom, creating my own tentacle trap (i also use them for clearing out swamps sometimes) but i thought a dozen or more tentacles will be fun to see the giants fall against them

[greenglacier]

*skips wall of text* I've no idea!

[brummbar7]

Ya, bearger is awesome for demolishing resources.  Absolutely best giant.    I know what Deerclops is NOT good for - going after killer bee hives.  He doesn't seem to aggro them, and they won't aggro him.  The M'Moose on the other hand WILL fight killer bees, and take out a hive or two.  Speaking as a Wigfrid player most recently, I'd probably be devastated if Firefly burned down my tallfort.  Great summer source of meat right there!

[serpent]

I can imagine wigfrid could manage a tallbird fort quite well indeed

 

In winter killer bee hives don't get aggro unless you attack them, so that might be why deerclops does not attack them or vice versa, since there are no 'active' mobs in the beehives

 

however it is kind of weird, since i would consider them structures

 

Have you tried luring the deerclops just over them? he should destroy them while running as he does with trees and structures i think.

 

I usually still play as wilson, i really like him a lot more than other characters, however playing as wigfrid sounds more appealing because the combat with wilson can be a bit of a drag sometimes.

 

however a giant Goose Moose against a few hives is in my opinion still the most funny way to deal with it, just thinking about the fact off a giant Goose with antlers being harrased by dozens of bees is really funny xd

[YouCleverBoy]

I use Bearger and Deerclops to mow down trees.

 

M/Moose is my annual piñata.

 

I only wish I could kill Dragonfly. One day...

[serpent]

The dragonfly is quite easy with a good setup

 

the most sustainable environmental kills in my opinion (other than dozens of pigs with helmets or something like that)

 

dragonfly + a few tentacles

Dragonfly + a few treeguards (not birchguards)

 

then ofcourse the sleep + gunpowder trick or old bell (he will wake up because of the foot steps)

28 blowdarts will kill him

 

or just melee it with a cold fire, some armor gear, and maybe a few healing stuff just in case and you can 4-hit-kite it, this would evade the stamping, but you will still be taking its swipes

 

after all, it is just a big bad-ass firemob, but not unbeatable with some think-through and the proper gear

[porps]

i too use the bearger for knocking down resources, that guy is so useful and can mean you dont have to chop any wood ever again (though it might take you an in game week to gather everything after you (or treegaurds usually) finally put him out of his misery. Deerclops is ok for knocking stuff down too, though i usually just kill him. Goose Moose is just free meat, i really dont need any more feathers atm so i try to get take her down before she lays an egg when possible. Otherwise kill her, smash the egg and take the moslings to my tooth traps or to the beefalo to be dealt with.

 

As for the dragonfly, i have an area away from base set up for him, with 2 endothermic firepits set up some distance from each other, and a fireproof chest containing everything i might need to kill him should i one day be unprepared when i arrive there- some tentacle spikes, 2 heat stones, log armour, pig helmet, stack of healing salves and plenty of fuel for the firepits.

When he comes i kite him to the area, light the firepits and place one heatstone on the ground next to a fire pit. I kite him around the firepits being cooled each time i pass one, until he sleeps then i hit him twice, run out of the aoe and kite him around firepits until he sleeps again- rinse and repeat, takes about a day and a half of game time to kill him this way but he doesnt burn half my map down and it feels quite satisfying when he finally dies... then i make another fireproof chest

[serpent]

With a logsuit, a football helmet, spare ones and a spear you can take him down by 4-hit kiting the dragonfly , you will take the swipes for damage, but that is OK in my opinion, a lot faster dan 2 hit and a lot of running xD

 

i actually never used the feathers, so the moslings are really annoying.

 

Honestly i am agreeing totally with you on the bearger, for me he is the ultimate wood chopper.

 

Just taking him on a forest trip gives you a wood supply for the rest of your playthrough (or you are a mass user xd)

 

he takes the tree stumps out with his AOE attack, unlike deerclops

 

its just really fun messing with the giants while they are supposed to ruin your day!

[MrNaxeros]

I just use them to get their items. For some reason though, I can't kill Deerclops. It always appears in the worst time (either I'm far away and low on food or it's night and I'm in my base). I can however own dragonfly pretty easily. Just get some Ice Staff, which I have tons of, and old bells. Chester is my anti-giants armory. xD

 

M/Moose is like every other standard mob to me, with exception that it's bigger and can make me drop my weapon. Bearger is sort of mystery to me, despite the fact that I owned it once (and once got rekt by it). It just behaves quite strange. Once he follows me around calmly, then charges, then punches some trees... This thing is weird. Has nice fur though.

 

So yeah. I use giants only for farming their items.

[UncommonUsername]

* Create Tree Guardians.

 

* Reset Tier 3 Hives. I had an invasion near my base on my second/third season. Only with the help of Bearger, I stopped it. More than 20 Spider Tier 3 Hives/Queens destroyed... A few Spider Queens were trying to make a nest near my Crockpot... 

 

* Mine the whole Rockylands Biome. You save time and many pickaxes.

 

* Mine Marble Statues/Pillars/Trees.

 

* Collect Honey Combs.

 

* Follower. Kills Hounds easily.

 

* Drying Racks. Food for days.

 

* Wood Cutter.

 

* Charcoal. Giants have high health. You can burn forests after securing all the *twigs*/*grass*/*berry bushes*.

 

* Living torch to escape Charlie (?). Not tested yet.

 

* Kill birds/moles/rabbits. Kill Koalefant/Warg. Warg is hard to kill because of the hounds he sends.

 

* Kill Beefalo/Pigmen/Bunnymen.

 

* Farm Hounds in Desert.

 

* Kill Tallbirds in Tallfort.

 

* Clean Reed Trap.

 

* Clean Marsh from Tentacles if you are bored.

 

* Recycling structures (?). I can rebuild my walls instantly after they were destroyed. I think a Giant returns 100 % of resources.

 

* Free teleports with Meat Effigy if you don't want to use Mushrooms.

[serpent]

i really the spider clearing idea, i shall try that sometime ^^

 

bearger pulls out bunny holes with his stamping sadly.

 

I do not know if giants give back 100% resources, i'll try this maybe later ^^.

 

You are creative though, nice job

[saltychipmunk]

but but but i like the spiders, my army of valkyrie pigmen  gloriously fight them for my entertainment mauahahah

 

the mining thing and the deforesting thing is fun though i prefer cutting down trees with my pigmen just cause