If you could add one structure to the game, what would its purpose be?

[lenship2]

4 hours ago, yourAnty said:

If this counts then I'd love a teleportato type of thing in the game

teleportato machine technically is in dst but doesnt work at all (yet?)

[gamehun20]

5 minutes ago, lenship2 said:

teleportato machine technically is in dst but doesnt work at all (yet?)

It's left over

[flamboyant wolf]

Winona's building: station with drones, that could pick up and store meterials in the area around it. 

Some automation could be nice, and Winona seems like a perfect fit for such stuff, at least to me (plus she really needs more machines to build). 

These drones could work in a way, similar to Polly Rodger and shadow servants, picking up items in the surrounding area, except instead of bringing them to a player, they would put it in their "station"(it could have 1-4 slots), to which they'd also return from time to time to recharge(if the building is provided with power that is). Alternatively, instead of having to recharge at the station, they'd be active as long as the station is powered, which would be more in line with how her other machines work currently(wouldn't make too much sense, but does it really have to?). Maybe some way to make it only pick up certain items could be nice too(perhaps by leaving 1 unit of the wanted item in the station's slots?), but even without it, it'd be a really helpful building. 

[D_Good_Fellow]

I tend to think the best additions to the game come from stuff that naturally expands on existing play while promoting new activity, but tbh more than anything related to that I just want a house.

Something about playing a survival game where you can't really make usable shelter feels off to me. I do admit that it makes some sense; part of Don't Starve's appeal was the persistent nature of the threats and having a house you could escape into like Minecraft didn't really fit into the risk/reward balance inherent to the game. Obviously Hamlet changed this, but that housing was balanced around that specific DLC where the world offered so many exploration incentives that having a place to hide from bat attacks didn't really nerf survivability. I know the Slanty Shanty can also be built in RoG/SW worlds, but I doubt the feature would have been added in isolation. It was designed with Hamlet features in mind, so I can see why they can't just add one into DST.

Although I think there could definitely be ways to balance it out. Maybe hounds can burrow under the walls and come inside like dogs digging under a fence, so the location wouldn't be safe from hound attacks. Maybe it could provide limited insulated from cold/heat, but having a fire pit inside would be necessary to keep it indefinitely. Maybe vole infestations happen if players store too much food there. Maybe rain causes leaks that need to be repaired. Maybe it's a priority target for Deerclops. There are plenty ways to have an indoor base without it breaking the survival intensity of the game. 

I couldn't really justify Klei adding this instead of stuff they've actually planned out, but building and hanging out inside a house is probably at the top of my "stuff I want to do in DST but can't" list. Terror Below's teaser of the chair/toilet being the first of "something more" (which I believe Vito said would more than cosmetic) has me hopeful. It would certainly provide a lot of opportunities for fun new skins people would want to buy, so I'm sure it's on Klei's radar.