Do spiders need a change?

[JJ0264]

I wonder when the next skilltree is it's almost been a year since walter, wendy and wortox.

As for spiders drops there okay but i would like more spider gland recipes, I usually burn them for healing salve so i would only really need 1 rock.

And for spider LAG, Webber could have a skill tree on 10 recruits for special effects (like 10 spiders that are 80% armor against shadow/lunar enemies, or ice-immunity with a 6% chance to ice staff, or a dying recruit can "explode" for 50 damage no damage to allies, recruits can harvest things like twigs/grass/berries)

[AliceShiki]

4 hours ago, JJ0264 said:

I wonder when the next skilltree

IIRC, devs said it was coming once they finished the current arc. It's just taking a bit longer than planned because they had to do a lot of background changes on the coding that aren't really visible to the end user.

[Dr.Webber]

On 12/21/2025 at 6:00 PM, JJ0264 said:

Webber could have a skill tree on 10 recruits for special effects (like 10 spiders that are 80% armor against shadow/lunar enemies, or ice-immunity with a 6% chance to ice staff, or a dying recruit can "explode" for 50 damage no damage to allies, recruits can harvest things like twigs/grass/berries)

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[JJ0264]

On 12/23/2025 at 5:58 PM, Dr.Webber said:

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I'm not sure if should be head/body/hand slot so maybe a special whistle forever till you get more then 10 spiders

 

+ Frosty Whistle - spiders have ice-immunity with a 8% chance to apply 1 shot ice staff

+ Zapper Whistle - spiders have electric-immunity with a 8% chance to have electrical damage 

+ Sugar-Rush Whistle - spiders run and attack 2x faster for 24 secs, 2 min cooldown

+ Screechy Whistle - spiders can screech at mobs stuns for 1 second, works like the nurse spider healing mode

+ Baby Boom Whistle - spiders explode on death then 3 baby spiders will attack once (so black spider causes 20 aoe damage + 20x3 aoe damage)

 

+ Singing Whistle - spiders can sing affects all types of mobs/plants minus spiders, you can attract most of the frogs out of the area unless they attack you or the spider

+ Creature Whistle - spiders can collected butterflies, bees, mole-worms, rabbits (only livable creatures in the inventory minus spiders)

+ Collector Whistle - spiders can harvest twigs/grass/berries, can also pick up drops

+ Handy Whistle - spiders can repair walls/clothing items and "hammer" (I don't think spiders can nibble through boulders so no infinite pickaxes)

+ Silky Whistle - spiders will occasionally spit out silk drops (it's not like the spitters)

 

+ Shadow/Lunar Whistle - spiders get 80% damage resistance + 8 extra damage

Edited December 25, 2025 by JJ0264

[Dr.Webber]

1 hour ago, JJ0264 said:

I'm not sure if should be head/body/hand slot so maybe a special whistle forever till you get more then 10 spiders

 

+ Frosty Whistle - spiders have ice-immunity with a 8% chance to apply 1 shot ice staff

+ Zapper Whistle - spiders have electric-immunity with a 8% chance to have electrical damage 

+ Sugar-Rush Whistle - spiders run and attack 2x faster for 24 secs, 2 min cooldown

+ Screechy Whistle - spiders can screech at mobs stuns for 1 second, works like the nurse spider healing mode

+ Baby Boom Whistle - spiders explode on death then 3 baby spiders will attack once (so black spider causes 20 aoe damage + 20x3 aoe damage)

 

+ Singing Whistle - spiders can sing affects all types of mobs/plants minus spiders, you can attract most of the frogs out of the area unless they attack you or the spider

+ Creature Whistle - spiders can collected butterflies, bees, mole-worms, rabbits (only livable creatures in the inventory minus spiders)

+ Collector Whistle - spiders can harvest twigs/grass/berries, can also pick up drops

+ Handy Whistle - spiders can repair walls/clothing items and "hammer" (I don't think spiders can nibble through boulders so no infinite pickaxes)

+ Silky Whistle - spiders will occasionally spit out silk drops (it's not like the spitters)

 

+ Shadow/Lunar Whistle - spiders get 80% damage resistance + 8 extra damage

I like your whistle ideas although I don’t know how the first three would work logistically within the world of don’t starve together. Also the baby boom one even though I love it because I love the idea for reusing the forge spiders but I think all the spider spawn from dens are males and either a female stays in the Den well it develops into a queen or it works with the dominant male, turning into a female, like what happens in clown fish