Sea stacks (or a man-made variant) should be craftable

[Baark0]

Recently I've been looking at some of the barnacle recipe dishes and they're honestly pretty good. Barnacle linguine just needs 2 barnacles and 2.0 veggie value, and it gives 75 hunger, 30 health, and 20 sanity, and barnacle nigiri is like perogies except its easier to make and gives 10 more sanity.  Alternatively, you can use 1 barnacle, 2 ice, 1 twig to make fishsticks, which is an incredibly cheap and potent healing option.

The issue with these dishes is that sea stacks very rarely spawn close to land, which makes it really inconvenient to go out and harvest a lot of barnacles, which is why I'd like to see a way to craft some sort of sea stack, or something sea weeds can grow on. They'd also just be nice decoration options for builds that want them, and that never hurts to have,

Edited June 21 by Baark0

[DegenerateFurry]

There is a mod called Marblestack Beans that lets you plant sea stacks made of marble to relocate sea weeds. I think that's honestly a good idea and Klei should steal it.

[Walrusst]

I remember I wanted to consolidate wormwoods berry skills and make them have a better symbiosis with seastacks in the place of the juicy berries skill.

Wormwood puts so much effort into copying many of the lowest value plants, being able to bring a "Actually who would use this" resource into the limelight would be cool.

[BB Marioni]

Only time I was able to make a barnacle dish is when we had some extra barnacles that we collected for pearl's relocated structures

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Please, please, please, please, please, please.
Grah! I want more Sea Weed content in general! Let me relocate them! Let me have the baby versions that were shown! Favorite mob design ever and hardly anyone interacts with them...

[DegenerateFurry]

1 hour ago, BB Marioni said:

Only time I was able to make a barnacle dish is when we had some extra barnacles that we collected for pearl's relocated structures

90% of my barnacle dishes come from Rockjaw corpses.

[Bumber64]

13 hours ago, Baark0 said:

Recently I've been looking at some of the barnacle recipe dishes and they're honestly pretty good. Barnacle linguine just needs 2 barnacles and 2.0 veggie value, and it gives 75 hunger, 30 health, and 20 sanity, and barnacle nagiri is like perogies except its easier to make and gives 10 more sanity. Alternatively, you can use 1 barnacle, 2 ice, 1 twig to make fishsticks, which is an incredibly cheap and potent healing option.

I don't get this at all. The 2.0 veggie requirement makes linguine worse than several alternatives, even if you had the barnacles just lying around. (Likely you'll be using stone fruit, but the result is not Wurt-approved.) It's a balanced stat dish, which puts you at risk of wasting one or more stats.

The only way nigiri or fishsticks are easier is that you can use twigs. Barnacles aren't more available than monster meat, and pierogis have double the spoil time. Even dragonpie lasts longer.

(I just noticed all the example pierogi recipes on the wiki all have 1.0 vegetable. Given the requirement is actually 0.5, you only need a single redcap or kelp, and can use ice or berries as the last ingredient.)

Edited June 21 by Bumber64

[Popian]

11 minutes ago, Bumber64 said:

I don't get this at all. The 2.0 veggie requirement makes linguine worse than several alternatives, even if you had the barnacles just lying around.

What alternatives? The next best accessible balanced dish is Figatoni.

Want healing make Pierogi or Fishsticks, shelf life bacon or skillet, sanity Jelly Salad or Banana Shake (not barnacle dishes, which is what makes linguini good and nigiri okay).

[Baark0]

6 hours ago, Bumber64 said:

I don't get this at all. The 2.0 veggie requirement makes linguine worse than several alternatives, even if you had the barnacles just lying around. (Likely you'll be using stone fruit, but the result is not Wurt-approved.) It's a balanced stat dish, which puts you at risk of wasting one or more stats.

The only way nigiri or fishsticks are easier is that you can use twigs. Barnacles aren't more available than monster meat, and pierogis have double the spoil time. Even dragonpie lasts longer.

(I just noticed all the example pierogi recipes on the wiki all have 1.0 vegetable. Given the requirement is actually 0.5, you only need a single redcap or kelp, and can use ice or berries as the last ingredient.)

2 cooked barnacles restores 25 hunger and 2 health in total. 2 cooked stone fruit restores 25 health and 6 health in total. By choosing to make these ingredients into barnacle linguine, you are gaining 25 hunger, 22 health, and 20 sanity. Sure you might waste stats with cooked potatoes, cooked toma roots are raw corn, eggplants, and pumpkins, but frankly thats on you for wasting stats when stone fruit is such an easy food source to farm.

Fishsticks and barnacle nigiri would be easier to make if barnacles could be relocated and farmed. They can't though, so you're correct in saying they're less convenient. The whole point of my post was for Klei to add a way to relocate barnacles to a location near your base that isn't dependent on good world gen rng.

[2D_]

that would be great, we can make an improvised sea garden next to the base.
I support this petition

[ShadowbirdRH]

I'm all for a way for making new sea stacks. This is a topic that's come up before, and the suggestion I've pitched before was that, like the Antlion can create sinkholes on the surface and drop boulders in the caves during summer, perhaps it could raise sea stacks aimed at players in boats.

[Bumber64]

On 6/21/2026 at 10:41 AM, Popian said:

What alternatives? The next best accessible balanced dish is Figatoni.

Want healing make Pierogi or Fishsticks, shelf life bacon or skillet, sanity Jelly Salad or Banana Shake (not barnacle dishes, which is what makes linguini good and nigiri okay).

You can do easy Surf 'n' Turf with a trawler.

Don't forget Honey Ham (MM and leafy meat). Cooked cactus for sanity.

23 hours ago, Baark0 said:

2 cooked barnacles restores 25 hunger and 2 health in total. 2 cooked stone fruit restores 25 health and 6 health in total. By choosing to make these ingredients into barnacle linguine, you are gaining 25 hunger, 22 health, and 20 sanity.

Yeah, but you're ignoring all the alternatives that give the same boosts for less effort. Tall Scotch Eggs gives massive hunger and health gains versus any possible ingredients.

How do you weigh the negative stats of MM and red caps versus choosing to make pierogis or honey nuggets? Certainly Dragonpie gives you a +62.5 / +20 / +5 boost over cooked dragon fruit? It's just an argument for cook pot dishes.

23 hours ago, Baark0 said:

wasting stats when stone fruit is such an easy food source to farm.

Stone fruit needs to be mined. If not merms, then you need to use shadow workers, snurtle slime, etc.

Kelp is easier, but won't work for 2.0 veggie dishes. You can also dry it for sanity.

23 hours ago, Baark0 said:

Fishsticks and barnacle nigiri would be easier to make if barnacles could be relocated and farmed. They can't though, so you're correct in saying they're less convenient.

Yeah, they'd be worth farming if you could. Not to the point of being OP, given all the other food sources.

Edited June 22 by Bumber64

[Baark0]

36 minutes ago, Bumber64 said:

Yeah, but you're ignoring all the alternatives that give the same boosts for less effort. Tall Scotch Eggs gives massive hunger and health gains versus any possible ingredients.

How do you weigh the negative stats of MM and red caps versus choosing to make pierogis or honey nuggets? Certainly Dragonpie gives you a +62.5 / +20 / +5 boost over cooked dragon fruit? It's just an argument for cook pot dishes.

Stone fruit needs to be mined. If not merms, then you need to use shadow workers, snurtle slime, etc.

Kelp is easier, but won't work for 2.0 veggie dishes. You can also dry it for sanity.

Yeah, they'd be worth farming if you could. Not to the point of being OP, given all the other food sources.

Half of the things you're talking about are completely irrelevant to the argument I made. Why are you bringing up tall scotch eggs and dragonpie in response to me talking about barnacle linguine? Yes barnacle linguine takes a lot of effort to get, which is the entire point of this post. I want the ability to make my own sea stacks so I can farm barnacles conveniently, which would make the aforementioned crock pot dishes a lot more viable for players who want to use them.

Would they be the best dish in the game? Likely not, but it'd be a fun and harmless alternative that could add a nice amount of variety for players to play with. I really don't understand what you're trying to say here.

Edited June 23 by Baark0

[Bumber64]

3 minutes ago, Baark0 said:

Half of the things you're talking about are completely irrelevant to the argument I made. Why are you bringing up tall scotch eggs and dragonpie in response to me talking about barnacle linguine?

Okay, but what is the relevance in comparing linguini versus cooked barnacles? Nobody's eating cooked barnacles.

Edited June 23 by Bumber64

[Baark0]

3 minutes ago, Bumber64 said:

Okay, but what is the relevance in comparing linguini versus cooked barnacles? Nobody's eating cooked barnacles.

Cooked barnacles are the form of barnacles that restore the most overall stats. Its important to factor in the stats of the food you're cooking with as to not waste stats, which you said is something that should be avoided. Its like if you were to cook meatballs using a cooked koalafant trunk: you'd lose out on 12.5 hunger and 37 health, from the trunk alone, plus whatever other ingredients you used as filler. All you gain by doing this is the 5 sanity meatballs give. Obviously, this sucks, which is why nobody uses koala trunks when cooking.

I'm not comparing linguine to cooked barnacles, I'm comparing linguine to the sum of the easiest recipe that can be used to cook it.

[Popian]

18 minutes ago, Baark0 said:

Its important to factor in the stats of the food you're cooking with as to not waste stats, which you said is something that should be avoided.

The original point refers to stat waste as a result of health and sanity going over cap, which is easy to do with foods with uneven ratios. 75:30:20 Barnacle Linguine to Surf 'n' Turf's "75":120:66 for example. This matters if you are putting in more ingredients or effort into getting those stats.

Ultimately, it is about feeling that you are productive with your food processing. There are far too many factors that can make one way better/worse than another (excessive diversity, limiting ingredient, cooking mods, etc.) and sometimes you want to take a break with something easy and predictable so it doesn't matter if it's less efficient.

Edited June 23 by Popian

[Baark0]

1 hour ago, Popian said:

The original point refers to stat waste as a result of health and sanity going over cap, which is easy to do with foods with uneven ratios. 75:30:20 Barnacle Linguine to Surf 'n' Turf's "75":120:66 for example. This matters if you are putting in more ingredients or effort into getting those stats.

Ultimately, it is about feeling that you are productive with your food processing. There are far too many factors that can make one way better/worse than another (excessive diversity, limiting ingredient, cooking mods, etc.) and sometimes you want to take a break with something easy and predictable so it doesn't matter if it's less efficient.

Valid point I didn't consider, though I've never really been too concerned with getting max value out of every stat point of a food, and I appreciate foods that keep all your stats topped off. There are a bunch of dishes which are better at restoring a given stat, and I find it easier to eat those if I need a specific stat filled, while barnacle linguine is really nice as a generic day to day food.

[Cassielu]

I think it's quite interesting to search for and use naturally concentrated sea stacks, it would become rather boring if we just craft them.

[Jussatoon]

1 minute ago, Cassielu said:

I think it's quite interesting to search for and use naturally concentrated sea stacks, it would become rather boring if we just craft them.

A boat near the largest sea weed field I have is one of the locations I'm considering when it comes Portation Orb Fragment networking, especially since Telelocator Focuses have been recently allowed to be placed on boats again. 

[Walrusst]

37 minutes ago, Cassielu said:

I think it's quite interesting to search for and use naturally concentrated sea stacks, it would become rather boring if we just craft them.

This is why I want a solution that depends on a specific party combination and an under-utilized skill branch for it to work.

Sure super long worlds with owners who are willing to swap as many characters as they need to make their dream base will probably not be deterred by this, but having it as a rare and expensive option for people with really strange tastes in skills is fine.

Even the no insight needed larger than average trees are kinda uncommon for you to see given how specific and tight tending to them tends to be and nobody really bothers with those. It counters two of the most painful seasons of the game and gives absurdly overpowered skills but the effort needed simply outscales most peoples imaginations of "Worthy" given the average duration of the world.

I only know one other person whose played with 

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sproutrocks or gloomthorns

just because the game is so rich in content that requires obscure side activities and high costs to even be considered worth investing the time to discovering and trying.

I can see the point of why not everything being something we can use our god complex on has merit. But I feel this sort of limitations something more worthy on resources people actually like and use rather than things people have almost forgotten exist.

[2D_]

12 hours ago, Walrusst said:

This is why I want a solution that depends on a specific party combination and an under-utilized skill branch for it to work.

Sure super long worlds with owners who are willing to swap as many characters as they need to make their dream base will probably not be deterred by this, but having it as a rare and expensive option for people with really strange tastes in skills is fine.

Even the no insight needed larger than average trees are kinda uncommon for you to see given how specific and tight tending to them tends to be and nobody really bothers with those. It counters two of the most painful seasons of the game and gives absurdly overpowered skills but the effort needed simply outscales most peoples imaginations of "Worthy" given the average duration of the world.

I only know one other person whose played with 

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sproutrocks or gloomthorns

just because the game is so rich in content that requires obscure side activities and high costs to even be considered worth investing the time to discovering and trying.

I can see the point of why not everything being something we can use our god complex on has merit. But I feel this sort of limitations something more worthy on resources people actually like and use rather than things people have almost forgotten exist.

Personally, this game has sunk into my soul so much, because as I move further and further along the gameplay, I never stop learning something new, and there is always something to do. I really like that when I encounter a problem, in most cases it can be solved somehow, and in different ways.

[Jakepeng99]

I see why they dont want it since it would remove the gameplay of harvesting barnacles and just make it kelp 2 once set up.

Its more of a problem that stone fruit, kelp and bananas make it redundant.

[Walrusst]

There are other food methods that provide fish/meat as well at a super hard to render non redundant rate, as its really easy to just dam a ocean "river" with a boat that you stick in place with some fish traps since your trawler swarm can prevent other players from making the mistake of moving your harvesting platforms, the boats even its own cheap super refrigerator with tin fishing bins. Pretty much standard for me if I'm playing woodie, walter, warly, or any character with an early wood cutting speed or silk harvesting bonuses.

Edited June 23 by Walrusst