What's a system in DST you like but is too weak to be worth your time?

[aidancode]

There are so many random systems in DST that are interesting and cool but I never bother because they're just so inefficient. What would you want to see buffed or reworked? Personally, I feel like berry bush farms and pig taming are notably weak systems with pretty much no incentive to engage with, even for new players, and the belt of hunger is a cool concept but due to how many hoops you have to go through to get one and how it takes up the backpack slot, I never really see a reason to use it.

Are these features useless? No, they all have a niche. But I personally would enjoy if their niche were expanded.

[Well-met]

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[Auth]

Lune trees and bath bomb moon glass.

The extra step of needing a bugnet to replant them is just too annoying really.

And bath bombs being used to make moon glass, well. I never have enough uses for glass for how much the game throws at me these days, never did in the early days either, so farming it in the first place is something I'd never really need to do, much less such a boring method.

[Maxil20]

The entirety of the food temperature mechanic. I'm pretty sure most people don't even know it exists as a mechanic outside of special ones like the winters feast foods/chili salad/azparagaspacho/fire nettles (and the tea from those + succulents). It's a really neat concept, but is dragged down heavily by most foods having very short buff timers (the "highest" among them is 15 seconds...), and foods that heat you up have a chill mechanic that can only be stopped if you immediately put them, specifically, in an insulated pack.

I personally wish they were doubled/tripled across the board, and foods that heat you up don't lose their effect. I think it's a really fun alternative to using thermals to get through winter/summer if you have insulation methods, but is heavily dragged down to the point it's pretty much only an endgame enabler.

[ShadowDuelist]

Building fully equipped boats.
Its a cool concept, still not worth investing into.

Most of the time you’ll do fine if you move around paddling in a very simple boat.

[hyoton123]

I think it's interesting how I keep getting lavae eggs.

[flamboyant wolf]

Sea fishing....

[Edible Coal]

farming actually, literally no one touch it , is not a bad system, but is competing with other much cheaper easier to manage food sources which isnt fair

[Andrewski]

Hatching/raising tallbird eggs. Cool, thematic, huge pain in the butt, nearly useless.

[Milordo]

8 hours ago, aidancode said:

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Berry bush farms and pig taming are not weak and not worth your time lmao

7 hours ago, Auth said:

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The bath bombs genuinely hurts me when they added grotto glacier's for how easy they introduced an unbalanced way in the game for no reason. I used them a lot during 2019, they were fun and I digged very much the complexity of it instead of the usual boring "mine it with a pickaxe".

7 hours ago, Maxil20 said:

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To add on this, and for information, the food temperature mechanic is also bugged for 10 years! Yup! 10 years and nobody cared!

5 hours ago, ShadowDuelist said:

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Hmnnn, it's true about paddling and the ocean itself but it's not THAT much of a weak system that it's not worth your time. You can do it, even if small. I can hypotesis you play alone, because in a full world of 6 people, it's cool and useful (albeit still, it's not that full of a equipped boat if the players are not blind. Only in a blind run you see that. I even have screenshoots if you want to see people's creativity and.... ingenuity of when they were blind and thought the ocean would be a good level....oof).

50 minutes ago, Edible Coal said:

farming actually, literally no one touch it , is not a bad system, but is competing with other much cheaper easier to manage food sources which isnt fair

Farming??? You mean the true farming?? The one with potatoes, tomatoes and everything else? If yes, you're tripping very hard and it's one of the most used and even very strong lol. Completely the opposite. 

 

 

 

 

For my system that I like but it's too weak to be worth your time is.... the science machine and the prestahitator. Now let me explain. How they would be weak? Afterall you need those two to progress mainly through the game. Yes, but that's the problem. After you crafted them, you can smash them and leave only the alchemy engine and the shadow manipulator. I don't like it. I really really don't like it. Therefore what is not worth my time, after the first base, in the other bases on the Caves, Lunar Island, maybe on the boat (or ship), or others small bases in the world, I always build others science machines and prestihatitors next to alchemy engines and shadow manipulators. I really don't get it why Klei didn't fix this, like ever, and it's not fair the other two machines can do everything. I would gladly rebalance that each main crafting station should be assigned a specific group of crafts.

[linabagel]

Sea Weed. I like the way they are irregularly distributed in the ocean, but I basically don't tend to actively approach them. In my long-world, in order to preserve their uniqueness. In the short-world, fighting with them and transplanting them didn't give me any other sense of interaction. 

[Edible Coal]

1 hour ago, Milordo said:

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ok um how about bunnymen

[Milordo]

3 minutes ago, Edible Coal said:

ok um how about bunnymen

Bunnymen "used to rulleee the worlldd" 🎶 before the modern Don't Starve arrived (2019-today). Now you utilize them often only in things like cheese farms. Dragonfly cheese, Bee Queen cheese, Spider nests cheese, ecc....

You can use them naturally to farm food, aka meat and carrot, but here it's really not worth the time, and also weak since for carrots you have farming and meat (beefaloes, pigmen farms, catcoons, ecc...).

Therefore, they're not that strong, but they're worth your time if you dislike bee queen for example (such as myself) and want to cheese her the hell out of it. 

[Jakepeng99]

4 hours ago, Edible Coal said:

farming actually, literally no one touch it , is not a bad system, but is competing with other much cheaper easier to manage food sources which isnt fair

This is the biggest lie ever. So much people farm and it’s very powerful.😭

Theres people who play the game just to farm.

[Nikki Darks]

Fishing 100%. Takes so long for the most mid results.

I never fish for food, only in the Oasis for the crown and stuff.

[gaymime]

4 hours ago, Milordo said:

Bunnymen "used to rulleee the worlldd" 🎶 before the modern Don't Starve arrived (2019-today). Now you utilize them often only in things like cheese farms. Dragonfly cheese, Bee Queen cheese, Spider nests cheese, ecc....

You can use them naturally to farm food, aka meat and carrot, but here it's really not worth the time, and also weak since for carrots you have farming and meat (beefaloes, pigmen farms, catcoons, ecc...).

Therefore, they're not that strong, but they're worth your time if you dislike bee queen for example (such as myself) and want to cheese her the hell out of it. 

i am quite literally about to build my first bunny pantheon x''D

[Szepsegem]

Fishing. The lake fishing is kinda ok, but I do not feel worthy because of the food value. I prefer the meaty way
Ocean fishing is kinda frustrating, If it would give various loot -  fishscale, caviar (could be as rare as butter). Or they could last longer in fridge than meat. Or there could be better ways to fish. Fishing net or using fish for lure bigger fish 

I would gladly see some kind of foodchain what we can make. Fishfarm - seagulls which hunt for fishes - catcoon which hunt for birds ex. seagulls - hounds hunt for catcoon - and maybe some way for make hounds calm at waves. Not easy way but it would be relaxing and rewarding to achieve this goal

[wormwood123]

Magic.  There’s not much. There’s some magic items that are good (deconstruction staff, lazy explorer and new ice staff) but there’s some that aren’t great (telelocator just for being a bit too expensive and inconvenient. The fire staff is just too weak and dangerous imo)
 

I hope that the ice staff is setting a good standard for magic getting expanded and improved

[Dingle]

Surprising seeds.

Waiting until day 150, or you are arbitrarily going to find less, is the final nail in the coffin. And that's on top of everything else in the process. My second favorite part is the time spent disposing of garbage like broken shells and golden picks.

I like the idea of it, but it's just time wasting mechanics on top of time wasting mechanics. I imagine it's all intentional to pad out play time.

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[Milordo]

1 hour ago, gaymime said:

i am quite literally about to build my first bunny pantheon x''D

Niiiice.

[Nikki Darks]

43 minutes ago, wormwood123 said:

Magic.  There’s not much. There’s some magic items that are good (deconstruction staff, lazy explorer and new ice staff) but there’s some that aren’t great (telelocator just for being a bit too expensive and inconvenient. The fire staff is just too weak and dangerous imo)
 

I hope that the ice staff is setting a good standard for magic getting expanded and improved

Ngl, you are beyond right here... The more you look at each individual magic item, the more you realize only like a couple of items matter.

Only magic crafts I've ever utilized were purple gem (to make shadow manipulator, dark sword and life giving amulet. I can't actually remember any other ones I've used in vanilla.

 

[Maxil20]

9 hours ago, Andrewski said:

Hatching/raising tallbird eggs. Cool, thematic, huge pain in the butt, nearly useless.

I disagree a little here. I think raising them is nice for what you get, but the main gripe with tallbird raising comes from the large amount of jank in raising them from being a mechanic, that for all intents and purposes, has not changed since it's introduction in the beta of don't starve (As someone who raised 40 at once because I am so normal, Did you know that almost fully grown teenbirds will be attacked by fully grown tallbirds you were just raising and due to a minor desync in their growths? My 4 panflutes and 2-3 world reloads remember...). Well, that and wishing their unhatched eggs stacked to anything higher than 1.

I personally think you do get some pretty decent rewards. 2 meat + an egg per bird is nothing to scoff at, especially when said egg can make one of the best dishes in the game with relatively little investment in a kelp farm. It's one of the more rewarding experiences I've had building something, as it's a lot of investment for a neat reward that doesn't really diminish unless you let the dens burn in particular. I just wish raising them was less cumbersome....

[Andrewski]

1 minute ago, Maxil20 said:

2 meat + an egg per bird is nothing to scoff at

It is. I scoff at it. You can't hear me, but I'm scoffing like nobody's business. There are much easier ways to get meat, and you can just use the original egg if you want the egg.

[PonyOfApocalips]

16 hours ago, ShadowDuelist said:

Building fully equipped boats.
Its a cool concept, still not worth investing into.

Most of the time you’ll do fine if you move around paddling in a very simple boat.

I actually think it is usefull- ofcourse you can paddle but during sunk chest hunting you need speed of the light ;D

7 hours ago, Jakepeng99 said:

This is the biggest lie ever. So much people farm and it’s very powerful.😭

Theres people who play the game just to farm.

Yeah- dst have more fun and complcated forming system than mamy farm simulatores

[Auth]

1 hour ago, Maxil20 said:

I disagree a little here. I think raising them is nice for what you get, but the main gripe with tallbird raising comes from the large amount of jank in raising them from being a mechanic, that for all intents and purposes, has not changed since it's introduction in the beta of don't starve (As someone who raised 40 at once because I am so normal, Did you know that almost fully grown teenbirds will be attacked by fully grown tallbirds you were just raising and due to a minor desync in their growths? My 4 panflutes and 2-3 world reloads remember...). Well, that and wishing their unhatched eggs stacked to anything higher than 1.

Yeah, raising tallbirds is great! They're so cute! I love them so much and the fact they can make their own little nests now when fully grown so you can just have so many little cutie pies running around-

1 hour ago, Maxil20 said:

2 meat + an egg per bird

nNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!