Perhaps we could build ritual circles? Demons, mythological rituals, pushing for events...

[Frosty_Mentos]

Some sort of magics we could acquire by doing ruins, bosses, gathering items or some secret knowledge to summon creatures or even bosses.

Would be interesting if we could arrange candles, end tables, flowers or even other ways like making chalk in preparation for some complicated rituals on rocky floorings flat enough to summon demons or devils to make deals with or get a challenge to do some things and tasks for them.

I think the magic aspect of the game is most interesting while technological side should stay consistent in upgrades and looking for complicated parts to build things, but we need more magic in the game to feel like we're doing something that's probably forbidden in original world but can be done freely with consequences on the Constant.

Would be fun if we could push some game events to summon Corvus, halloween stuff and etc as fun rituals we could make and prepare instead of needing to turn tamper with world settings, bringing temporary events to exist in the world till ritual is gone or the season it's done is over.

Perhaps with magic we could force rifts open in specific locations to keep them stable and stay in place? I'd say it could be a thing that both Wagstaff and Charlie would grant or archive knowledge would show something of it. Maybe neither of that and we just have the ability to deal with those rifts and force them stuck in specific locations by hexes and technology alone.

I dunno, there's a lot of fun potential of doing rituals, sacrifices, rifts, demons and so on to empower items, summon bosses and make pacts and deals. Maybe that would allow us to have something fun done with pet den too.

[Ridley]

Does this sound like something you want?

From: https://www.devolverdigital.com/blog/post/Cult-of-the-Lamb-Dont-Starve-Together-Crossover-but-make-it-an-interview

[NPCMaxwell]

Starts to become problematic to the player after a while =

[Echsrick]

play wortox

[gaymime]

from a coding standpoint the idea of making all the parts to get a ritual circle up and going is almost dizzying. even if it was like the thing system where the circle is a stationary structure in and of itself  it would be rough to work with(after years there are still loads of bugs with that)

[NPCMaxwell]

51 minutes ago, gaymime said:

from a coding standpoint the idea of making all the parts to get a ritual circle up and going is almost dizzying. even if it was like the thing system where the circle is a stationary structure in and of itself  it would be rough to work with(after years there are still loads of bugs with that)

Makes lot of sense, sadly. 

Maybe there could be more simplified versions to bring a small number of possible pick-your-poison curses into the gameplay instead that would be easier to activate (like season changing chest traps maybe or like the offering shrines for year-of-the-something creatures) that only bring ONE "curse"-type that will stay with the player as "choice" for a while. Or introduce other cursed trinkets like cursed-monkey-token that would add a specific curse but with a "token numbers is reduced automatically after a while" so they wouldn't need to make another trade-system like for wonkey.

 

(it would just be fun to have other unpleasant-in-longterm-but-with-own-advantages curses aside wonkey)

 

(And i don't mean curses similar to Woodies in order to not take away his unique gameplay)

[gaymime]

9 minutes ago, NPCMaxwell said:

Makes lot of sense, sadly. 

Maybe there could be more simplified versions to bring a small number of possible pick-your-poison curses into the gameplay instead that would be easier to activate (like season changing chest traps maybe or like the offering shrines for year-of-the-something creatures) that only bring ONE "curse"-type that will stay with the player as "choice" for a while. Or introduce other cursed trinkets like cursed-monkey-token that would add a specific curse but with a "token numbers is reduced automatically after a while" so they wouldn't need to make another trade-system like for wonkey.

 

(it would just be fun to have other unpleasant-in-longterm-but-with-own-advantages curses aside wonkey)

 

(And i don't mean curses similar to Woodies in order to not take away his unique gameplay)

maybe? i am not sure how to make it feel like it is cohesivly "magical" though

[NPCMaxwell]

8 minutes ago, gaymime said:

maybe? i am not sure how to make it feel like it is cohesivly "magical" though

The offerings shrine similarity could at least add a spritual aspect to it (maybe more leaning towards shadow / lunar creatures to emphasis the 'magic' aspect)

[Dr.Webber]

I think it’ll be a fun aspect of the game if you could sacrifice different things different deities in exchange Some power 

also Be able to get your allies(both player and non-player) to sacrifice stuff to you nor make you stronger I’m possibly work your way up to being a lesser deity

[DegenerateFurry]

I don't think adding a whole bunch of gods and demons to the game would be fitting for it at all. We have two major powers: Them and the Moon/Alter, and that's what the storyline revolves around. 

Wortox already feels really out-of-place, frankly.

[NPCMaxwell]

1 minute ago, DegenerateFurry said:

I don't think adding a whole bunch of gods and demons to the game would be fitting for it at all. We have two major powers: Them and the Moon/Alter, and that's what the storyline revolves around. 

Wortox already feels really out-of-place, frankly.

honestly for me when returning to DST after my long break I was already super irritated about Them and the Moon being represented as opposing "god-like" powers already. Not so much with THEM since THEY were a part since adventure mode already but the moon/alter thing was already feeling so weird to me that I still kind of struggle with it. (though I like the moon-thingie game mechanics meanwhile)

Funny enough with Wortox I didn't have much of a problem because I simply thought he was a "baby Krampus" (that was BEFORE I saw his animated background story video)

But I see what you mean, it would probably make the whole story feel unessessary complicated. Though I wonder if there could be made something additional with the touch stone considering the "offering to the beast" quote for the pig-heads. (but then I suppose this was just a funny reference to lord of the flies or something)

[Dr.Webber]

25 minutes ago, DegenerateFurry said:

I don't think adding a whole bunch of gods and demons to the game would be fitting for it at all. We have two major powers: Them and the Moon/Alter, and that's what the storyline revolves around. 

Wortox already feels really out-of-place, frankly.

Is at least one god outside of altar and the darkness the gnaw probably more like a forge deity or some

If you look at little details, you start to notice it like a bigger picture outside of the main plot

21 minutes ago, NPCMaxwell said:

Them and the Moon

Remember how I mentioned I was doing some skin description reading That the shadow entity is referred to as the darkness like alter is referred to as the moon

[NPCMaxwell]

11 minutes ago, Dr.Webber said:

Is at least one god outside of altar and the darkness the gnaw probably more like a forge deity or some

If you look at little details, you start to notice it like a bigger picture outside of the main plot

Remember how I mentioned I was doing some skin description reading That the shadow entity is referred to as the darkness like alter is referred to as the moon

Right there is the gnaw and the whole forge culture that the forge leading guy (battlemaster guy) mentioned, it could be given some "revival" through this.

And I am so confused by now I thought the direct counterpart of alter was supposed to be this metheus from the last puzzle.

But as I said DST has moved in such a "different" direction to me that I am years behind those whole changes, I am just excited what other mechanics the Klei team and fans can come up with. Klei will certainly make sure that whatever suggestions the work with it will fit into the direction they want the story to go.

[Dr.Webber]

6 hours ago, NPCMaxwell said:

Right there is the gnaw and the whole forge culture that the forge leading guy (battlemaster guy) mentioned, it could be given some "revival" through this.

And I am so confused by now I thought the direct counterpart of alter was supposed to be this metheus from the last puzzle.

But as I said DST has moved in such a "different" direction to me that I am years behind those whole changes, I am just excited what other mechanics the Klei team and fans can come up with. Klei will certainly make sure that whatever suggestions the work with it will fit into the direction they want the story to go.

Some people thought that metheus is actually the king

[NPCMaxwell]

On 8/9/2024 at 2:10 AM, Dr.Webber said:

Some people thought that metheus is actually the king

(here is me for some reason thinking metheus was female, despite the name)

So there could come the day when Metheus will take back their (Just leaving the gender question open lol) throne.

I already see how I may have to get used to "Metheus will miss you" (rip. It's such tiny changes that make me scream lol)

Although it would actually be fun for me if one day the Don't Starve Together quitting text would be

"THEY will miss you".

[Dr.Webber]

8 hours ago, NPCMaxwell said:

(here is me for some reason thinking metheus was female, despite the name)

So there could come the day when Metheus will take back their (Just leaving the gender question open lol) throne.

I already see how I may have to get used to "Metheus will miss you" (rip. It's such tiny changes that make me scream lol)

Although it would actually be fun for me if one day the Don't Starve Together quitting text would be

"THEY will miss you".

When does the game say Metheus will miss you.

[NPCMaxwell]

17 minutes ago, Dr.Webber said:

When does the game say Metheus will miss you.

It currently doesn't, but if Metheus used to be the king, and with what to me seems like Charlie seems to do preparations to bring them back / strengthen them (I don't know! It just seemed to me this way, but then this is only from 'tiny fragments' of the lore since my nerves can't take the strain of 10 years worth of DST lore changing during my absence from the game lol) I just suddenly feared that one day the throne will go back to Metheus, and since so far there has only been "Wilson will miss you" (since he was the first character that mattered to the player back before playable Maxwell update), "Maxwell will miss you" (throne occupied by Maxwell), "Charlie will miss you" (throne occupied by Charlie) so once Charlie gets dethroned for some reason I can only assume if Metheus will take it again it will be "Metheus will miss you" or if the throne gets destroyed forever "They will miss you" / "We(?) will miss you".

[-Variant]

9 hours ago, NPCMaxwell said:

(here is me for some reason thinking metheus was female, despite the name)

According to Klei during a Rhymes with play stream sometime back closer to the ANR era, that would be correct.

[NPCMaxwell]

12 hours ago, -Variant said:

According to Klei during a Rhymes with play stream sometime back closer to the ANR era, that would be correct.

That's a funny coincidence because I can tell that I definitely never watched any of the rhymes with play streams ^^