wurt I've been curious about something concerning Wurt

[Mysterious box]

I've noticed that outside of my friend group most people seem to ignore what Wurt has to offer to a group beyond what she delievers herself so I was curious if there was a specific reason.

[gaymime]

most of my wurt interactions are in pubs. aside from occasionally giving other players stuff i've foraged or helping build up basic food stock at base i dont interact a lot with anyone in pubs anymore. when i play with friends it is mostly webber, winona, wes, wilson and wigfrid since that is what people i play with seem to gravitate to

[YouKnowWho142]

In fairness this question isn't really the most simple. I don't play a lot of public servers but seeing as she requires considerable setup and some mid to long term planning she probably isn't the most common survivor there. Even then, a lot of Wurt's ability to provide utility for the team rests almost fully on her, since she needs to provide the disguises for other players to reliably interact with merms to begin with. Other players also do not have much of an incentive to provide assistance to the merm king in any way, whether that be to supply the ingredients for the tapestry or feeding and maintaining him.

That is to say, the question should be directed less towards non Wurt survivors in the presence of a Wurt but rather the Wurt herself, in which case nah probably not very often at all.

[Mysterious box]

40 minutes ago, YouKnowWho142 said:

In fairness this question isn't really the most simple. I don't play a lot of public servers but seeing as she requires considerable setup and some mid to long term planning she probably isn't the most common survivor there. Even then, a lot of Wurt's ability to provide utility for the team rests almost fully on her, since she needs to provide the disguises for other players to reliably interact with merms to begin with. Other players also do not have much of an incentive to provide assistance to the merm king in any way, whether that be to supply the ingredients for the tapestry or feeding and maintaining him.

That is to say, the question should be directed less towards non Wurt survivors in the presence of a Wurt but rather the Wurt herself, in which case nah probably not very often at all.

It doesn't actually take much setup at all for her early game benefits within first few days she offers a clever disguise and merms able to chop, mine, till, and dig which can be massive for early game the only limiting factor is a science machine and how many merms spawned into the world naturally even if only one house spawned getting the logs, reeds, and fish takes very little time if she gets a minimum of 3 merms to help with the most time consuming aspect being locating the swamp itself if you are unlucky. This is also sped up by the tool sheds increasing her production speed massively.

The more time consuming aspects to her kit would be the merm king and merm guards but the guards are only really necessary for bossing and can't be recruited by non Wurts anyway while the king can provide the group with a passive incoming of gold, seeds, reeds, tentacles spots, and trinkets(including ones that can be slotted into a fishing rod. This is possible due to trawlers passively gathering fish and survivors being able to trade them with the clever disguise. 

Realistically the only limiting factor for the king's creation most of the time is kelp as excluding unfortunate world gen the swamp spawns with 8 pigskin worth of pig heads normally meaning she'd only need 2 more to make a king.

While this part is more niche it should also be noted that the clever disguise also makes survivors netrual to frogs, catcaoons, and bunnymen with that latter two applying to Wortox and Webber specifically.

The main reason I ask the question of the post is most pub survivors seem genuinely uninterested in using merms even in the presence of clever disguises.

[mima_]

as non wurt i love to place one or two worker merm to till my farm .
i hate tilling farm plot so i usually just hire them, they are quick and really neatly tilling 3 by 3 farm.

 

[Cheggf]

Wurt never even makes her stuff. She kind of just wanders around asking where the base is then disconnects. Two times I remember she made houses, but the merms just attacked everyone because they were just random houses in the middle of nowhere. I don't think I've ever seen a Wurt actually do all of the Wurt stuff. 

[RubLog6]

1 hour ago, Cheggf said:

Wurt never even makes her stuff. She kind of just wanders around asking where the base is then disconnects. Two times I remember she made houses, but the merms just attacked everyone because they were just random houses in the middle of nowhere. I don't think I've ever seen a Wurt actually do all of the Wurt stuff. 

Asks for someone to get kelp for them instead of sailing for it themself. Takes stuff from main base for their own swamp base. Takes the bull kelp stalks for their own base without asking if main base needs it. Dies to a tentacle in winter and leaves.

Yep sounds about right.

[glob]

I would gladly help a Wurt make a merm empire but I barely see anyone playing her and the ones that do play her aren't experienced enough to get food in the first place

[Riddla]

Players are very often busy with their own plans, so using other character's perks doesn't often come to mind.

It's best to communicate among eachother and offer help yourself if you want others to use your perks.

I for example absolutely love when Wurt players demolish a forest with merms, because i'd rather apply hair straightener to my tongue than chop the wood manually.

[Mysterious box]

2 hours ago, RubLog6 said:

Asks for someone to get kelp for them instead of sailing for it themself. Takes stuff from main base for their own swamp base. Takes the bull kelp stalks for their own base without asking if main base needs it. Dies to a tentacle in winter and leaves.

Yep sounds about right.

Taking stuff from base I can't get behind as getting her stuff is quite easy especially post skill tree, but I feel like letting Wurt have the bull kelp is a fairness thing Wurt has far more uses for it than other characters who would just use it as filler and her taking it aside to plant allows her to avoid the typical pub interaction where everyone immediately eats up all the non meat foods as filler then just lives off meat when that use that up. It's not every pub of course but it's very common. Although Wurt having a private base is kinda a meme at this point it didn't fully originate from selfishness on Wurt's end it came from groups basically going what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine causing Wurt players to struggle with food unless they actively went way out of their way to get a food source every time it got low.

Edited Tuesday at 01:18 PM by Mysterious box