Don't Starve should not be a game in which you fight bosses with high operational difficulty.

[Mysterious box]

7 hours ago, Jakepeng99 said:

No because seeds and kelp are embarrisingly dirt cheap compared to gems, nitre and riff materials

What about the nightmare fuel generator 

Also she generates horror fuel passively

[Arepantera]

16 hours ago, Mysterious box said:

Disagree getting the materials for the king by day 9 is not easy for most people to accomplish to make the diy royalty kit it takes 5 ropes and 5 boards then you need 20 kelp, 15 beefalo wool, and 10 pig skin and that's before even building any merm houses.

Even if we low ball it and say you need 20 merm flortifications, 10 craftsmerm houses, and related merm buildings that's

• Merm guards 100 boards, 20 tentacle spots, and 40 spears
  • Or 200 boards, 40 tentacle spots, and 80 spears if you plan to use a second set for the caves as well
•  Merms 50 boards,30 reeds, and 20 fish for the normal merms
  • Who are the only ones able to use tools by the way
• Armermry 4 boards, 1 tentacle spot, 5 logs, 5 grass as well as additional logs and grass equal to the amount of merm guards you want to equip with armor and to make up for when that  armor breaks
• Shoddy tool shed 4 boards, 1 tentacle spot, 5 rocks and 5 twigs as well additonal rocks and twigs similar to the reason stated above
  • these might need built in various locations if you don't plan to go back home every time their armor/tool breaks

I don't know about you but I've never heard a single person call Wurt's crafts cheap.

Feeding the king isn't hard but it's a task that's always kept in the back of your mind it's easy to forget about and as for your merms keeping them fed can be annoying as well as it's easy to miss their hunger signs technically speaking you can bypass the need to manage your horde's hunger by converting them into their aligned states but in the case of shadow it's not the easiest thing to do in mass since they need to die first and that  means their hp is half of it's max potential and in the case of lunar it's resource intensive before you unlock the staff to do it for free. Also this doesn't take into account any interruption to your connection be it leaving the shard intentionally or not or even just a rollback will immediately kill all shadow merms and get rid of the loyalty and transformations of your lunar merms.

Yes in terms of raw power Wurt is the strongest character but the reasons are above not a single person would spare her a glance if she wasn't powerful with all this in mind she's got various mechanics going on in the background that require her attention for the best experience. 

How to get wool:
Craft a shaving tool and get close to a herd of beefalos
How to get pig skin: hammer 5 of the abundant pig torches or houses.
The only "difficult" step is getting kelp, which is why I say day 9 and not day 5

You don't craft merm fortifications unless you're playing with the specific intention to gimp yourself.
You use walls to box the king in, you attack the king, he spawns 4 guards, you kill it, the guards lose aggro and are trapped in the box, this way you transform 1 regular merm into 4 guards, or 1 merm into 5 fishes if you want to mass produce houses.
so just 5 merm houses equal 20 guards, you dont have to build their specific houses
Then you do the same thing in the caves and there you go.

20 merm guards at the cost of a couple of boards, reeds and some fishes.
The armermry and the toold sheds are insanely easy to craft too. I already explained earlier that all of the resources she needs are insanely easy to get, she's just that busted, to pretend that any of her stuff is actually hard to do is to be extremely dishonest.

Feeding the king not only isn't hard, but its something that isn't even in the back of your mind. Like I said earlier, his hunger stat has been buffed so many times that you can legit just forget about him. It never stresses the player, the player never gets worried, because the player knows that the king is very, veeery low maintenance, and if the player forgets how much the king has left then you just feed him a couple of stone fruits and there you go, now you can go out there and kill  bosses for 8 days straight without thinking about he king. Getting shadow merms is literally the easiest thing to do, just let them die. It's insanely easy, just make them fight each other and then run so they lose their aggro on each other, make them fight bosses. If they don't die that's just because of how overpowered they are. Lunar merms are just worse than the shadow ones so I don't really care about them. You getting disconnected is literally just a you problem, find a server with a better host, get a better internet connection or play by yourselfes, if we used bad connection as a factor to balance characters, then one could make a lot of crazy arguements in favor of buffing many characters. Except for wurt, because she only gets minor inconveniences when she drops connection, after all her merms are easily replaceable so losing them via disconnects, rollbacks, or going through shards is not a big deal when you actually play her and you see how easy it is to deal with this problem.

Wurt is not only the best character in terms of raw power, she's just kinda immune to any kind of danger the game throws at most players. She never goes insane, Wetness is not a problem for her, neither is hunger, neither is heat. Wurt's biggest weakness is the first winter, and not because of the cold, because that can be easily dealt with just by using generic winter items like the thermal stone or the beefalo hat, but because it stops merm houses from spawning them, so if you're playing extra slow and haven't finished your empire and you sent them to kill a boss one day earlier, then that might catch you off-guard, but that's it. 

She is THE strongest, easiest and most boring character for a reason.