I think the game needs a spring update

[Arde]

 I feel like spring is the least impactful of the seasons in the game.it doesnt have special hounds,beating the seasonal boss is not required,the best option to combat it can only be used by one person,there is no character that is specialy good for the season(winter has wilson and summer has willow,you could count wurt but a tutorial character should not be locked behind dlc and she has a different and more interesting gameplay style anyways) and its generally not intresting.here are some of my suggestions to make it more fun:

1:make a spring specific hound called electric hound.electic hounds will do electric damage.this mechanic would also make you want to stay as dry as possible

2:make a moosegoose spawn around a player and follows them looking for material for her nest. If she sees a stucture she will destroy it and take the material.she makes her nest on day 5 or 6 of spring so if you dont want to waste that much time you have to fight her

3:make deerclops drop eyebrella blueprints and make the eyebrella not need an eye to craft. This would also help you keep the eye for houndiuses

4:make wurt not be so good in spring. I dont care how but it has to be done. My suggestion is to make wurt be cold blooded so she gets colder and colder the more wet she is she also gets cold a little faster in winter to make it make sense lore wise

5:there isnt realy a character in dst that matches the spring type so i recommend adding walani to the game.you could give her some new perks related to spring maybe shes lucky so lightning doesnt strike her or make her gain sanity when wet you could also add some ocean spring mechanics and make her be able to combat it.

these are some other fun mechanics i thought of:

Electric spider: if lightning strickes a spider it turns into an electric spider. Electric spiders can jump like warriors and do electric damage.if a nest gets struck by lightning all of the spiders inside turn into electric spiders

Treegaurd: if lightning strickes a tree it turns into a tree gaurdian insted of burning so it doesnt burn down the whole forest

Waves: in spring the ocean would get wavy and the waves would make you wet or damage your boat.maybe walani could use her board to make more waves and the waves would cancel each other out

Electric storm: electric storms would randomly occur in spring.before a storm starts your character would give you a warning so you could take cover.you can use trees as cover or get a lightning resistant item or closing item if you still want to travel

Salt: make it so you could eat salt.it would make you dry in cost of some sanity.i also recommend adding a recipe involving salt. The dish would lower your wetness even more and it would increase sanity.maybe this could be walani's favorite

[Valase]

19 hours ago, Arde said:

5:there isnt realy a character in dst that matches the spring type so i recommend adding walani to the game.you could give her some new perks related to spring maybe shes lucky so lightning doesnt strike her or make her gain sanity when wet you could also add some ocean spring mechanics and make her be able to combat it.

Sad Wormwood noises. the guy used to bloom only in spring before his second(?) rework.

[Arde]

28 minutes ago, Valase said:

Sad Wormwood noises. the guy used to bloom only in spring before his second(?) rework.

I guess wormwood would work too but hes more of a farmer than a tutorial character and hes also dlc

[chaosmonkey]

On 9/1/2023 at 11:29 PM, Arde said:

the best option to combat it can only be used by one person

The Hostile Flare made deerclops eyeballs farmable, just need to grab glommer on day 11.

[Jakepeng99]

I like the idea of lightning hounds. There could be more special gem hounds. Yellow will be lightning, Green will deconstruct structures near it's corpse with the same efficency as the staff, Orange could ocasionally teleport next to you and purple could summon shadow tentacles that harm anything near them except purple hounds.