Random Willow Refresh Idea

[Stonetribe]

After catching wind of the upcoming character dlc and refreshes, I've been getting pulled back into the wonderful world of Don't Starve. And while my experience with the game is still very noob level, thinking of possible character tweaks in games has always been one of my favorite things to do, so forgive me if this all sounds like a bunch of hogwash.

Basically I came up with the idea that any fires started by a Willow don't actually spread on their own. Instead, any objects within spreadable distance while the fire is still burning would give a "spread" prompt when you hover the cursor over them, causing that object to immediately combust as well and would follow the same burning rules. I was thinking that this way Willow can take advantage of all kinds of fire related shenanigans without the massive risk of collateral damage, like making the fire darts and fire staff safer to use. As for exactly how she's able to do this, well  the best explanation that I can come up with is that she has so much experience starting fires that she knows how to light them in such a way that she can predict how and where it spreads. That or pyrokinesis, that one's a popular theory right?

Like I said, no idea if this would be a good idea or not, I just wanted to share it and see what some other people might think. Have a good one!

[Lilith_Galanis]

I'll take this as a good place to put some random Willow refresh ideas, and this one I have is likely a bit crazy (and might not make much sense but I'll try and articulate it as best I can).

Changing Bernie's spawn conditions would be a big part of these ideas, like how about a meter like Woodies log one, but like fire oriented. And when the meter fills Bernie comes to life, and the meter will slowly deteriorate over time but can be maintained with setting things on fire? And in this situation Bernie would have greater use than distracting shadow creatures, which I get into more below. Idk I think it could be interesting.

What if Bernie had some form of inventory with slots similar to the body, hand and head slots on the player? Putting in items that correspond with the slot will change Bernie and how they function in some way, giving them things like passive damage reduction for things like the Football Helmet (with whatever visual changes when equipped) and like a sanity aura if they had something like a Tam on? And maybe even weapons will make Bernie be able to attack enemies. 

Or hell how about an even crazier way to take this, what if Bernie had slots as mentioned, but you can put things like gems in there and they'll do different things based on the gem, like an ability to light mobs on fire with the red and freeze for the blue, a movement speed radial buff for orange, a light radius and heat bonus for yellow and so on. 

This probably makes no sense and/or sounds insane but it's just a thought I had and I saw this post and thought it might be a good place to post Willow refresh concepts. I just feel like if they would keep Bernie they have to make them more useful in my mind.