Great Depths Worm Drops for New Gear and Teleportation

[MrMNWorm]

Dear Forums,

Had a couple ideas for the new DST Shai-Hulud aka Great Depths Worm. I fought it a couple times now, mainly from c-spawning one in and it's easy to see why people are saying it's the highlight of this beta. The fight is fun, the concept is cool, and it's a really good addition to the caves... everything about it WOULD be perfect IF it had a prized possession to be found in the post fight loot.

Here are a couple ideas that might help make the post fight finale a little more exciting.

- Great Depths Worm Helmet: a cross between the Eye Mask and Celestial Crown. Drops 1 per fight.
- Great Depths Worm Skin: or fur or pelt or whatever its epidermis is called. Drops 1 per fight.
- Great Depth Worms Guts: or intestines, innards, or esophagus or whatever you want to call it. Drops 1 per fight.
- Royal Glowberry: this would be used for making Gloomthorn Tree Seeds. Drops 1 per fight.

GREAT DEPTHS WORM HELMET

If you look at the four corners of the GDW's mouth, one corner of that mouth could be turned into a weird looking helmet... especially if the little glowberry ganglia thing hanging off the front of it were included. Here is some terrible concept art attempting to explain this...

What this helmet would do is provide light and protection. So long as it has durability, it will provide light. Its durability is lost from taking hits/damage, not by wearing. I feel like it would be fun if the light radius diminished as the durability goes down and you could feed it Glowberries or Nightberries to repair it. This would give you almost infinite light like a Celestial Crown and be repairable like an Eye Mask. Yes, the Eye Mask can be fed Glowberries for light but it doesn't last very long and is so expensive and inefficient as a light source that it's very impractical to actually be used. But I would gladly feed precious Glowberries and Nightberries to repair a helmet if the light source was tied to a damage-only-durability.

GREAT DEPTHS WORM SKIN and GUTS for TELEPORTATION

If you really want to knock players socks off with some loot... materials that will craft place-able Wormholes will get the job done. Players will never stop writing all uppercase posts of thanks and gratuity if you give them player place-able Wormholes. Maxil wrote a whole post about "late-game luxury teleporting" and it was pretty popular and well received... so why not? The Great Depths Worm has a lot of parallels to Wormholes... and I know that I would totally LOVE this and USE player place-able Wormholes if they were a thing.

What if the GDW dropped one GDW Skin and one GDW Intestine and combining them makes one half of a Wormhole. So you need TWO of each item before crafting one fully place-able Wormhole (2 Skins + 2 Guts/Intestines + 4 NMF or PH = 1 Player Place-able Wormhole) only available at the Shadow Plinth. That would make it a luxurious late-game item IF we perked up the drops on the DST Shai-Hulud. Just think about how happy players will be to repeatedly hunt down this boss for it's drops... over and over and over again... if it could grant them access to player place-able Wormholes. I expect they would do this VIGOROUSLY... until their fingers bled.

ROYAL GLOWBERRY for NIGHTBERRIES

I made another post about this topic and I just want to reiterate it because I feel it really would make for a more "whoooooa... cooooool" moment if implemented. And I am referring to the process of obtaining Gloomthorn Tree Seeds. Right now I find this process to be very tedious, boring, and disconnected/gimmicky.

But...

What if the Glowberry that the GDW dropped was labeled a Royal Glowberry or Great Glowberry (or whatever)? Whatever name it has should simply indicate that it is a better Glowberry than the normal one. When you feed this berry to a caged bird it will produce Gloomthorn Tree Seeds... and then imagine how much more fun it will be when a player figures that whole thing out. I am quite confident this will result in a much more interesting and enjoyable process for players to obtain Nightberries than is currently implemented within the sailing process.

And that's it... I think players will really enjoy one, some, or all of those as loot from the Great DST Shai-Hulud. A new repairable, light-providing helmet, the ability for player place-able wormholes (that everyone will love), and a more interesting and enjoyable way to get Gloomthorn Tree Seeds and Nightberries. Just needs a little bit of art, a little animating, a bunch of programming... and then it will be non-stop, all uppercase posts about how awesome the Great Depths Worm is.

[chirsg]

10 minutes ago, MrMNWorm said:

GREAT DEPTHS WORM SKIN and GUTS for TELEPORTATION

 

too many ideas in one post as if you're trying to strike a bargain. I only agree with this one. 

[MrMNWorm]

5 minutes ago, chirsg said:

too many ideas in one post as if you're trying to strike a bargain. I only agree with this one. 

Being able to make Wormholes is my first pick as well... and I just figured I would mention all three ideas and hope that one (maybe two) will spark some interest in the developers.

[Bumber64]

There should be a bush hat equivalent for mysterious plants. Player hides in the ground.

[Milordo]

Nah.

[Marmalade]

3 hours ago, MrMNWorm said:

 

GREAT DEPTHS WORM SKIN and GUTS for TELEPORTATION

 

I think I'm in love with this proposed concept the most, MOSTLY because the thought of Great Depth Worms being an ancestor of not only Depth Worms but also WORMHOLES just tickles my lore brain a bit. Lore aside the concept itself is genuinely cool