Your Most Useless Craftable Items?

[Doctor H. Derp]

"Useless" is a bit of a strong word, but there are items that I tend to not bother with.

 

 

Pitchfork - Almost entirely cosmetic in function.

 

Razor - I could see a case for Wilson, but shaving beefalo is more effort than just flat out killing them IMO.

 

Pumpkin Lantern - To this day I've yet to craft it once.

 

Fur Roll/Tent - I could see using a straw roll to skip the night, but the rest I don't bother with.

 

Piggyback Pack - That speed decrease really drags down the pace of the game. Inventory space is important, totally, but not more important than going so much slower.

 

Basic Farm - Never been an instance I couldn't just skip right ahead to Improved.

 

Divining Rod - By the time I can craft it on my first world, I've already long since found all the teleportato pieces. Can't take it with you through the teleportato where it would more useful.

 

Gunpowder - Requires you to carry around nitre, which has no other use than as a recipe ingredient for this, and while the inclusion of pengulls did make getting the rotten eggs all the more easier... meh. It can be powerful, but meh.

 

Sleep Darts - Underwhelming compared to the other 2.

 

Ham Bat - Neat, but why over a spear? Can get all the materials for a spear without so much as a single instance of combat. Odds are you're not getting that meat or pig skin without entering combat, which is exactly why you'd make the ham bat, to be better able to deal with combat.

 

Marble Armor - Speed penalty is horrid. Makes it so you're far more likely to get hit, hence damaged. Few instances would make me consider this over a logsuit which is far more easily attained. Also marble isn't that common making this far more of a commodity armor than a go-to option.

 

Sign - But why?

 

Walls - useful for decor and kill corridors, but I never really touch them.

 

Rabbit Hutch - I guess you can use them for night adventures... though that begs the question why didn't you just go during the day? It's one thing to come across rabbits underground, but to actually craft the hutch above ground is nice... but... meh.

 

Turfs - They're neat for decor and for handling Lureplants, but otherwise... meh.

 

One-man Band - I actually really like this item and I hardly ever make one to use it. I just always forget.

 

Night Light - I never understood the purpose of this item. It's an overly expensive campfire that not only doesn't allow you to cook food over it, guzzles down valuable nightmare fuel like no one's business, but it also drains your sanity. It looks neat, and makes a neat sound, but those are it's only redeeming features unfortunately. I really really want to like this item, but I just really really don't.

 

Bat Bat - It's just one of those "too good to use" items for me. The materials are too good to spend on it, save the wings, and the actual item is too good to use unless I've lost a good chunk of health and want to trade some sanity for it... but then again by the time I can craft this, I have plenty of straight health regeneration items. I could just use the mats for a dark sword which will do a lot more damage and have a lot more uses for a very similar outcome.

Even for an extended fight, one could argue I'll save more health in the long run by ending it that much quicker using a dark sword than the mitigation offered by the bat bat.

 

Telelocator Focus - The whole thing just costs so much gems to use. To have all those extra purple gems lying around to justify the destruction of 3 per use is just far too great, I'd rather just walk. I mean, maybe I'm looking at this item in the wrong light, it's probably wonderful to use to get back to homebase when something deathly dangerous shows up, but still, really expensive to the point of not wanting to use it.

 

Straw Hat - I mean you need to make them for a miner hat. But... meh in of itself.

 

Top Hat - Only ever use it to make the prestihatitator these days.

 

Chilled Amulet - Means I have to drop my backpack, means I need to swap in a football helmet, and means I'm going to have to go back and pick up my stuff instead of just trying to make a clean break.

 

Bush Hat - This was useful once. I found it, made a grave error of judgment of going unarmored into a swamp and had to set up camp in a spider-infested forest. It was useful until WX-78 decided to announce the hounds were coming, and immediately got up to tell that to me, instantly agroing a spider, which caused me to have to do what I was trying to avoid: Deal with spiders during that particular night.

 

Dapper Vest - I can think of far better uses for those teeth.

 

Breezy Vest - I just never craft them. If I'm going to make one of the vests, it's going to be the puffy vest.

 

Puffy Vest - I just never really craft them. I'd never take off the backpack if it weren't for combat situations in which a logsuit is swapped in, so really, only dire circumstances make me drop that backpack, inventory space is that amazing awesome, it's a really hard sell to get me to part with it.

 

The Lazy Forager - I might see a case for the staff. The amulet is a really hard sell for me.

[Sotanaht]

You are severely underestimating rabbit hutches.  Sure rabbit followers are pretty much useless on the surface (GREAT in caves) but the hutches are especially good as spider grinders because they don't eat the monster meat and they control the spiders during the night so they don't wander off and bother you.  They can also be helpful against nighttime hounds and possibly deerclops if you don't want to spam traps.

 

Also, use a tent in place of a straw roll.  A good tip is to pre-craft a tent and not place it, that way you can just drop a tent wherever you want to use one later without having to carry anything, unlike a straw roll which requires you carry either grass or the roll and of course provides less health and sanity.  The main use either way is still skipping the night, the tent is just better for it.

[Doctor H. Derp]

You are severely underestimating rabbit hutches.  Sure rabbit followers are pretty much useless on the surface (GREAT in caves) but the hutches are especially good as spider grinders because they don't eat the monster meat and they control the spiders during the night so they don't wander off and bother you. 

 

This is a good plan and tactic no doubt.

 

Saves weapon durability.

 

They can also be helpful against nighttime hounds and possibly deerclops if you don't want to spam traps.

 

I can see the hounds, the deerclops maybe. I'd have to try it. Though nothing makes an easy deerclops kill easier than a pocket treeguard.

 

I see that the common thread is that you use the rabbit hutches as a quality of life thing and I can definitely see it.

 

Also, use a tent in place of a straw roll.  A good tip is to pre-craft a tent and not place it, that way you can just drop a tent wherever you want to use one later without having to carry anything,

 

If you simply look at the stat regeneration potential versus materials consumed to make that happen, of course, the tent has the straw roll beat in every regard. Anything the straw roll does, the tent simply does better, and even has 5 extra uses on top of it all to completely dominate the straw roll.

 

What the tent truly lacks though is convenience. You can, as you detailed, circumvent that inconvenience by crafting one and not placing it until needed. Problem is a tent off on the fringe of any given peninsula isn't going to be doing very much good for you way off and away beyond that singular use. You could place it in a more reasonable local, someplace you're more likely to come to later, but a tent is just better served being at homebase.

 

Out on the overworld? The straw roll is the king out of the 3 sleep options in terms of convenience. All you need to have is a reasonably sized stack of cut grass and you're done. No combat like with fur rolls.

 

Besides, if your goal is to simply pass the night, do you really want to spend any more than the 9 grass? Do you really want to add on top of that cost 2 bunny puffs? 6 silk and 4 twigs? No, if you just want to pass the night, save the tent charge for when you want to regen some stats, use a straw roll. That's my thoughts on it.

 

Besides, it's rare that I actually want to pass a night anyway. Perfect for doing other tasks I was too busy running around to complete.

[psyk90913]

"Useless" is a bit of a strong word,

Thanks.

I known my English is not good. I should use an easy word next time

[Sotanaht]

Honestly I've never killed a deerclops.  For some reason they only spawn for me on the last day of winter and then vanish before I can kill them.  I just figure a few bunnymen are better than nothing if it attacks at night, although losing those hutches would suck.

[ThatGuyNamedJon]

I think the Hambat is just wasteful of good meat

[the truthseeker]

I think the Hambat is just wasteful of good meat

 

 

Well, the first time you say, "I'm hitting them with my meat," it gets a giggle! But after that, it's useless

[zazori]

I think the Hambat is just wasteful of good meat

Stop necroing threads,please.

[Aves Dominari]

Just out of curiosity, what's considered a necro around here? It's been a bit less than two weeks since the thread died, and most other forums I frequent start calling posts necros at about a month.

[Guest]

Just out of curiosity, what's considered a necro around here? It's been a bit less than two weeks since the thread died, and most other forums I frequent start calling posts necros at about a month.

Usually after a week is considered a necro.

[Aves Dominari]

Good to know.

I suppose that I'll just mention that the Grass Suit is the most useless item I have ever accidentally made, seeing as I don't remember anyone else mentioning it.

[Blucher]

Stop necroing threads,please.

This isn't a necro. A thread has to be no longer relevant.

[Rosten]

The Grass Suit - Seriously, who uses this? its way to expensive for the materials needed, grass is a pretty damn important material

Nightmare Fuel - Who is going to sit there and just pick up evil flowers for nightmare fuel? hallucinations aren't THAT hard

Wool hat - by the time you have enough beefalo hair to craft it, then you should just make a beefalo hat anyways, fur isnt that hard to get

To Be Continued ;p

[KidneyBeanBoy]

Any weapon with a freezer effect. The only time you'll use it is to kill a gobbler. Othertimes, the fire weapons are better in most of the other battles.

[Cynical Cynicist]

Potted plant? Do they do anything special?

[dancness]

Any weapon with a freezer effect. The only time you'll use it is to kill a gobbler. Othertimes, the fire weapons are better in most of the other battles.

I use boomerangs to kill gobblers, the freezing staff I use for treeguards. Especially if multiple treeguards spawn at once

[ARamblingSpider]

The Piggyback and compass.

[mitboy]

Any weapon with a freezer effect. The only time you'll use it is to kill a gobbler. Othertimes, the fire weapons are better in most of the other battles.

Not true. It can be used to kill rabbits and birds (it's better than boomerangs) to kill walruses and bunnymens.

[zazori]

This isn't a necro. A thread has to be no longer relevant.

If this is revelant,why no one posted here in two weeks?

Revelant threads are always active.

[dancness]

If this is revelant,why no one posted here in two weeks?

Revelant threads are always active.

By that reasoning, would you say that any thread past the 1st page is ineligible for people to comment? That seems unreasonable especially since your word "relevant" is somewhat subjective.

To me a necro post is pretty obvious. When the topic is dead and hasn't had a comment in months. No need to call people out for contributing to a 2 week old discussion thread.

[zazori]

By that reasoning, would you say that any thread past the 1st page is ineligible for people to comment?

Nope,just threads where people don't comment for more than 2 weeks.In subforums like the art one it doesn't care because the creator of the thread may not create something in weeks,or just go out in vacation.

But this the general discussion thread,and this thread got necroed by an user who also did the same with a few threads more.

However,if people still wants to talk about this no one stops them.

[Hopperruss]

Well, others may seem fine but the thing below scares me.

 

Gunpowder - It may seem useful destroying stuff but you don't destroy stuff often, why do you just use a hammer and bash it all down? Plus, the ingredients to make gunpowder is basically hard to find. It's the most useless item in the whole game... IMO.

[Lynx of Arabia]

Pumpkin Lantern for sure....why would I waste a pumpkin and a firefly for something goes away after a while ! 

[Castaway on the Moon]

My brain said "Beekeeper Hat" before I even finished reading the title. Now that I've read the title and OP, I'm gonna go with that as my final answer.

[Kirasy]

Hmmm would it be frowned upon to go and quote everybody and refute 80% of the items they listed as useless?