Expansion & Reward Buff Around Dragonfly

[goatt]

(Edit: The original motivation was to buff scalemail. I made up the rest of it just for fun. Shoot it down if anything is overpowered.)

Magma fishing rod:

- use: to fish in lava pool

- recipe: 1 scale + 1 living log + 1 blue gem (dark magic is used to cool the rod and help it survive in extremely high temperature)

- each use cost durability of 10%. won't disappear at 0%. Can be refueled using blue gem to 100%. (It would be in synergy with dragonfly desert biome, where you can get blue gem from hound dens then fish in lava pool while keep yourself warm.

 

Lava pool fishing possible reward:

- magma pufferfish, similar to Scorching Sunfish, which can be used as hot thermal stone. It can be kept alive in fishing bin

- molten rock, similar to Crumpled Package, flaming upon caught. It takes 1 min to cool down then cracks to reveal what's inside. Alternatively, it can be put out by ice-flingomatic immediately. Loot released by the molten rock can be:

1. scale fragment. (limited amount)

2. any kind of mineral.

3. fossil.

 

Magma pufferfish:

- can live in fishing bin

- fed on ash or charcoal

- turn into 13% thermal stone upon death

- releasing a magma pufferfish into a regular pond will keep the pond unfrozen for 5 days.

 

Scale fragment:

- It's similar to Fur Tufts in relationship to Thick Fur.

- recipe to make scale out of scale fragment:

- scale = 10 scale fragment + 1 sewing kit (might not need the sewing kit according to convention)

- scale fragment can also be used to refuel scalemail and increase its durability by 50%

- scale fragment isn't unlimited in each lava pool. Each spawn of dragonfly increase the number of potential scale fragments in each lava pool by 1. In the very beginning, the number of scale fragment in each pool is 1 because of the very first dragonfly.

 

Scalemail buff:

- it's refuel-able by scale fragment with good efficiency

- it's needed to prevent fire damage in order to fish in lava pool (except for willow)

- warning: fishing wearing scalemail while leaving backpack on the ground is a great fire hazard without precaution because of the flaming fishing rewards, besides the great great overheating hazard.

 

Scaled chest

- reduce the amount of scale needed to craft a scaled chest from 1 scale to 5 scale fragments. Or alternatively, allow both recipe to exist simultaneously because the pre-requisite to acquire scale fragment is very high. Or alternatively, allow 1 scale to be converted into 5 scale fragments (5 to 10 fragments depending on balancing). Or ignore this suggestion entirely.

 

Broodling:

- allow broodling to emit heat just as mothling emits light.

[Well-met]

Dragonfly is the one boss with the highest amount of loot and crafts, why does it need more again?

[goatt]

Just now, Well-met said:

Dragonfly is the one boss with the highest amount of loot and crafts, why does it need more again?

No, it doesn't need buff.

The original motivation was to buff scalemail. I made up the rest of it just for fun.

[ArubaroBeefalo]

i like the idea of fishing from lava ponds and more if klei ends up adding more of them in new biomes

[CaptainChaotica]

...if we can fish in freaking magma pools, maybe we can has ice-fishing in winter, by a special tool that lets you break a hole in a frozen pond...?  (Okay there's ocean fishing now.  I STILL want land-lubber ice fishing.)

But I mean, if any world would be likely to have magma-proof critters, it'd probably be Don't Starve, so hey!

...Notorious