New methods of barnacle gathering

[wormwood123]

With barnacles having new uses I suggest we have some new ways to obtain them. 

i think boats should have barnacles grow on the edges which you can shave with a razor to obtain 1-3 barnacles. 
 

Another idea is make it so we can make our own sea stacks to put sea weeds on and make sea weeds renewable 

 

[divinsphere]

I've never liked how barnacles are cultivated; in fact, in all my matches I completely ignore them. It would be interesting to have a better way to do this.

[wormwood123]

8 hours ago, divinsphere said:

I've never liked how barnacles are cultivated; in fact, in all my matches I completely ignore them. It would be interesting to have a better way to do this.

To make pearls new structures I’ve been buying fish food from her and deconstructing them for barnacles… it’s pretty grim.

[Pumking7]

I mean sea weed farming nowadays is honestly a great way of getting food, that's easy to maintain after setting up. All that is required is an area with many sea stacks, boats and sea weed planters. If you can collect a decent amount of wood you can easily set it up pretty quickly for sea weed biomes are the only generously spawning biome on the ocean it seems. For my world I have 19 barnacles set up with boats and above-average trees surrounding them and I'm able to harvest 57 barnacles which lasts me for a long time or is an easy way to get eggs. Its reasonably low effort, arguably better as an alternative to lureplants early/mid-game since you can avoid waiting and don't have to switch to Wormwood. I do agree it being out of the way kinda turns most players off from them, especially being associated with the mediocre fig farms and very bad fishing in DST.

I do agree though that the sea stack placement can be awful and letting players generate their own would be great for decoration and sea stack farming. I wouldn't mind if sea weed planters could be renewed, since renewability should be core to most things in DST at this point. Supposedly the ocean chests could get it as a chance to drop... frankly the ocean chest loot is terrible besides the surprising seeds and archaic boat.

Edited December 22, 2025 by Pumking7

[Edible Coal]

4 hours ago, Pumking7 said:

 Its about as low effort as possible, arguably better than lureplants since you don't have to switch to Wormwood. 

kinda funny how most player just place lure plant on boats. but barnacle can only be shave during the night unless ur wormwood

[-Variant]

God, I just want more ways to relocate Sea Weeds. I'd LOVE to be able to produce more, but I'll settle for ways to move or make our own sea stacks for them.

[Tranoze]

1 hour ago, -Variant said:

 make our own sea stacks for them.

i once suggested chopped knobbly tree's root as replacement for seastack. They are reasonably hard to get and would look good if seaweed grow on them.

[Edible Coal]

2 hours ago, Tranoze said:

i once suggested chopped knobbly tree's root as replacement for seastack. They are reasonably hard to get and would look good if seaweed grow on them.

thats too hard lol dst already have tons of insane food options , i donno why people gate keep barnacles so much...

[Tranoze]

7 hours ago, Edible Coal said:

thats too hard lol dst already have tons of insane food options , i donno why people gate keep barnacles so much...

They are not that hard. I mean only normal lv3 knobbly tree (which you only need to drop seed down, and read book after few days.), not fully grown knoblly tree. 
And you gain few barnancle per harvest, they can be used for combat defense/auto farm vs ocean stuffs
Here are the size of normal knobbly tree's rot

[Sephirona]

1 hour ago, Tranoze said:

They are not that hard. I mean only normal lv3 knobbly tree (which you only need to drop seed down, and read book after few days.), not fully grown knoblly tree. 
And you gain few barnancle per harvest, they can be used for combat defense/auto farm vs ocean stuffs
Here are the size of normal knobbly tree's rot

That's actually a really clever idea! Since pine trees petrify on land after a while, if knobbly trees also petrify after a while it would be a cool way to get new sea stacks. (Wouldn't want the tall ones to petrify, though.)

And if you don't want your knobbly to petrify maybe you could still spritz it or something.