Idea for new character: Wobel

[Just-for-fun]

Name: Wobel, Delighted Pyrotechnician. 

Image: Wobel is short, sleek adult man with goggles at his forehead. He's dressed something like workers from Victorian Britain. He's stooped, with big nose, without beard or mustache. Have many pouches.

History: Wobel is Wagstaff's student, but not very good. He polished just sciences that can help him understand with explosions. Because those powerful bursts with thunderous roar always draw him to level of excitement that no more things can.

In his experiments (just like Wilson), Wobel contacted with Maxwell. Maxwell promise him that he can give knowledge about most powerful explosive in the world…

Features:

Wobel excels at gunpowder skill and fireworks. He have unique tab "Pyrotechnics", with some items and constructions to craft:

 

1) Rocket

It's a rocket at stick, something like Congreeve's rocket. Recipe: 2 gunpowder, 2 paper, 1 twig.

Rocket can be installed at ground. If player triggered it with torch or Willow's lighter (and just fire or lightning! Or explode of piece of gunpowder near it), rocket launched at 2 second and strike closest mob (except player, butterfly, ghosts), caused damage 120-180 (randomly). Many rockets can be builded and installed. Rocket's fly distance – 1,5 screen.

2) Heavy rocket (science machine)

4 gunpowder, 4 paper, 1 twig. Just like small rocket, but can deal 130-300 damage at one blow (it's unstable in flight and strike, because it's big). Heavy rocket have a 1,5 splash radius.

3) Boom Box

It's just wooden box for gunpowder! It can carry 2 stacks of gunpowder (80 pieces), and need one inventory slot. Boom Box can be used like wax paper for gunpowder, or just like chest for it (can be installed at ground).

Be installed, Boom Box may detonate because near fire (burning tree or camping fire) , torch or lighter, lightning strike and rocket hit. All of the gunpowder within it explode, dealing normal damage (1 piece bring 200 dmg, 5 pieces – 1000 etc).

4) Fireworks (science machine)

It's a rack, consisted of many tiny rockets. When ignite, they are launched at sky, where explode. Seeing the beautiful colors of fireworks, player restore some sanity immediately (maybe +30 sanity), and have boosted sanity regeneration for 15 second (0,5 san per second).

If launched at night, fireworks cast some light (15 sec), that can repel Night Monster. Day-time animals (pigs, biffalo, birds etc) that sleep at night, woke up. Pigs come to see show.

If launched in caves, fireworks triggered earthquake immediately and don't have any other effects.

Wobel also have average hunger scale. Sanity of him pretty decent, more than Wilson have.

Wobel start the game with 4 pieces of gunpowder

Drawbacks

"Oh, it's pollen. So sad that's not gunpowder"

Wobel is sick, he have allergy for flowers, because he spent many time with powder chemicalies at his lab. When he take some flowers from ground, he immediately lost 1(maybe 2) HP. When he have them (or garland) in the hands, he start lost HP constantly (0,5 per sec). Equipped garland take out 1 (maybe 1,5) HP per second.

"I prefer long combat, not the barbarian fights!"

Wobel is very weak physically, he is just like mad nerd, and can slightly overcome with damage starving Wolfgang only. His HP is not average, it's worse than many other's.