Followers follow between shard is an important QoL aspect to Webber and Wurt players

[HeatAndRun]

For Webber and Wurt players, their followers like spiders and merms are kinda burdensome to carry around, and they don't feel truly "tied" to their owners. (I don't mention about all the other followers like rock lobsters, pigs, bunnyman and clockworks here)

The main reason is they don't follow you between shards and outside the server. For Webber you need to pick them up in your inventory and take them between shards, and for Wurt you literally needs to build a whole new merm town in other shards if you wanna use them there too. The characters like Wendy, Wormwood and Willow can move between shards with their followers with no problem, then why Wurt and Webber can't, despite they are the one who relies much more on their followers?

I suppose the main reason why they don't follow you between shards are because they are tied to their home in the shard they came from. I suggest two possible alternatives to solve this problem :

1. Introducing new character-specific tools that makes the followers (Merms, Spiders) follow you indefinitely, between shards, and even server disconnection. If you abandon those permenant followers like killing a fish as Wurt or using shoo box as Webber, the followers despawn after a few in-game days.

2. If the followers leave the shard they originated from, they lose their home, and if you abandon them in that status or the follower timer decays, they just despawn after in-game days.

In upcoming update the merm king shares between shards, which is good, but I think the followers should follow you whenever you go including server disconnection. I remember the moment when devs fixed the problem that followers like merms don't come back their home if they were too far from their home. That was quite a quality improvements, and if the followers can follow you between shards, it would be another banger to Webber and Wurt!

[Mysterious box]

I really like both ideas proposed here but incase they don't go with either of those another idea I came up with is a follower flare that calls groups of those followers to your location from the shard your on.

For example a merm flare would call 6 of them at a time to you who will be recruited for 2 minutes unless you feed them. It wouldn't be the best because it still means you'd need to rebuild your group between shards but at least it'd be less inconvenient.