No booster shots?

[Count_Doggo]

This isnt like a criticism or angry post I was just curious why are there only booster shots in dst? Cause meat effigys would be much more useful in ds if there were booster shots, especially since it's permadeath, but not having booster shots also adds more difficulty which can be a good thing at times...

[kiwikenobi]

The meat effigies in single-player Don't Starve sort of hold your HP on loan in return for being an extra life, and give the health back when you use them. Booster shots are to restore the maximum HP that's lost upon reviving in DST through a variety of means. The black portion that appears in your HP meter is the same, but it's actually representing different things in the different games. So I think that's why the booster shot is DST only.

[Count_Doggo]

Oh okay yeah that makes sense, thanks. I still think its odd that you can have as many meat effigys as you want at once in dst but not in ds but whatever, maybe theres a mod that adds booster shots to ds

[kiwikenobi]

I think in DST, you need more meat effigies because with more players, you have to share them, and each one only works to bring back one person one time. In single-player, if you could endlessly make extra lives without any penalty for having so many, it would kind of break the game. There'd be no limit. Again, this is just what I think, maybe there's some other factor I didn't think of that's influencing it.