suggestions for Don't Starve

[Ganjuto]

hi people and hi Klei,

I love this well balanced and creative game and I want to help make it better. so I will write down everything I believe could maybe make this game more enjoyable. It's okay if you don't like it. These are just some ideas and maybe I am the only one who like them. 

first of all I will write down some animals that could make the Don't Starve world a brighter one and maybe some loot they could drop.

 

English is not my mother tongue so please forgive me, if i should use any false words, that normally wouldn't be used or describe the thing I want to express.If you don't understand some things you can ask me, if you like to.

 

Yeti drops Yeti ToothNail or Yeti fur, could maybe add new terrain. snowy mountains or he just appears in the wintertime in some lonely corners of the map.

 

Slug or a snail. Slug could drop slug slime and slug meat maybe or a snail could drop a snail shell and snail meat.

 

maybe snakes ?! I would like seeing some snakes crouching around in Don't Starve hiding under stones.

They could appear naturally or after you gave 6 hits to a boulder with a pickaxe. under some stones snakes could appear and attack you for taking away their hiding place.

They could drop snake meat, snake skin and/or poison glands or a rattle. You could add the ability of gettin poisoned too , to the game and it could only be healed with a special antidote or healing potions, like the honey healing potion f. e.

 

A crab could drop crab meat and pincers and could be found near ponds or maybe in rivers that must first be created, maybe with a little bridge to cross the river, there could also grow reeds, like in the marsh.

 

A unicorn, could drop horse meat ;D, a unicorn and/or maybe horseshoeing or a unicorn mane.

Or a Pegasus could drop horse meat and Pegasus Wings.

 

A rooster, could drop chicken meat and a cockscomb or a buttercup.

 

A whitefox, could drop meat and foxears.

or a lynx could drop lynx fur, ears, and/or a lynxtail or lynx whiskers. the lynx could live in the forest.during the summer and the winter.

 

maybe a dragon hatchling that could drop some dragon meat, scales or claws or a fire sack filled with dangerous chemicals. and if you attack or kill the dragon baby at a special time of the day, maybe when the hand hits 6 o'clock until 7 o'clock maybe( or at a random period or point of time), the mother or the dragon father will return, reacting to the desperate cries of his baby to protect it from you.

 

a hydra would be a really hard and furious enemy too. If you cut off one of its 3 or 4 heads you have to hurry. If you don't there will grow two heads where once was one after a while and it will be much tougher to kill the beast now.

But if you'll make it, after all, you will be rewarded royally. The hydra will drop some meat, hydra tearsand/or hydra blood, which can be used to create a ressurection potion ( you have to drink it and if you'll die, you will rise again, exactly, at the point you have died before.

 

an imp could drop f.e. a dark four leaf clover sometimes, imp wings or an imp tail. he could live underground serving as a minion for a mighty sorcerer, demon*1 or sorceress, always acting hyperactively. If you have a special item with which you can hypnotize or soothe the imp and you can manage to feed him with another special food and don't let him ever wait for it( otherwise he will turn his back on you forever), he will be your minion or follower from now on.

 

*1: a demon, living undergound, dropping unholy meat and/or rasped demon horn or a demon wart or some demon earwax, a demon bogy or demon slough. there are a lot of things you could do with those ugly ingredients.

 

a koala bear, could drop koala bear meat and/or eucalyptus manure. He should be hard to hit and only be attackable with ranged weapons. He could fell of the tree after he got the final shot.

 

a toucan could drop morsel and/or a toucan beak.

 

a kangaroo would be interesting to fight against, above all things, when it comes to a melee attack.

Will you be able to avoid being hit from the strong legs of those bad ass kangaroos ?

It could be quite a challenge to hunt some of them down. They could drop a zip lock bag and/ or some wristlings. you could create a melee weapon out of those wristlings, adding ( venomous) claws or another stabbing gadget to them and a bag or a trap out of the zip lock bag.

 

a faerie you can catch with the bug net. you could get faerie dust out of her.

 

OK, these are the creatures I could think of. Now there are one or two ideas for  buildings, which could fit in

Don't Starve.

 

what about a caterpillar farm, creating silk. you could feed leaves or grass to them.Leaves could fall of some trees or of some berry bushes if you dig them out.

 

a windmill or a watermill with a millstone in it. you could collect some wheat ( f.e. 15 units, or yeast or millet, bring it to the mill and create batter or dough. Over a campfire you could make flatbread or a normal bread out of it.

maybe you will need some water too, if it's not a watermill.or even better, you could create an oven to make the bread in it, too.

 

Cannabis is banned or not ? A cannabis plantation would be pretty funny, somehow. After smoking it, the character, could either boost its own perception skills( sanity) ,(maybe above the maximum, after some time it will constantly , so he could see living beings, he can normally not see and kill him or his perception skills(sanity) will fall down, but the view will be another for some time, just like when sanity is totally low( under 30 points or sth like this) but with different visions, effects and noises the character is able to perceive now.

 

or maybe a rice plantation.would need a lot of water.

 

 

 

now an idea for a weapon.

 

my number one idea for a cool weapon, definitely missing in Don't Starve is a slingshot ( made out of sticks, grass and silk f.e.) using rocks for ammo. (Maybe you could modify the rocks with poison from a snake, the demon's earwax or the chemicals out of the dragon hatchling's fire sack, to dreate exploding rocks or poisonous rocks or maybe not, dunno)

 

I have to go sleep now.

[Ganjuto]

hi again,

 

a turtle would be possible too. it will drop turtle meat and a tortoise shell. maybe you could craft some kind of armor out of 5 tortoise shells in combination with some other stuff.

 

wolves

 

an ostrich maybe ? he could drop ostrich meat ,designed just like the meat of a turkey.he should be fast and hard to catch.

 

i would like to see a beautiful peacock walking around in Don't Starve, he could drop peacock meat and some peacock feathers.

 

a lion would be awesome too, somehow. and very hard to defeat I guess.

 

an anthill maybe ? you could catch some ant drones and sometimes ,rarely an ant queen. If you do so, you could create an ant farm with some drones and a queen.After some time you could get some ant maggots out of the ant farm.

 

another idea is a garbage can for spoiled food and other biological things. After a while, if the garbage can is half full or totally filled with stuff, there will be flies cycling the trashcan. They will place down some fly maggots you can collect. If there are no maggots anymore and no flies cycling around the garbage can, you have to empty it and refill it, to earn some more maggots. It would also be a good opportunity to make something useful out of your spoiled food or rot.

 

a compost heap ?! that will, if you constantly fill it with biological stuff, create plant manure to fertilize your plantations.and once in a while you will also get some ant drones, some caterpillars or some butterflies out of it if you want to pick up the plant manure.

[Battal]

Welcome to the forums.  Good ideas, but the problem is that they are too mainstream to fit into the game.  If you've noticed, most of the creatures in Don't Starve are spinoffs of real creatures.  These are too normal to make the cut.

 

That, and the game isn't updating anymore.

[Ganjuto]

hey,

 

i have a lot of ideas but they are coming one by one, this is why I have to reply on my own posts. I hope this ain't a problem. Why there is no edit option here ? I could have used it pretty good. but it's not that bad at all.

 

Until now, there is no way in Don't Starve to drink something or to create or mix up some drinks out of vegetables or fruits. I would welcome such an idea of making your own drinks, like lemonade, or juice out of carrots, cave bananas,dragon fruit,durian, eggplant, a.s.o.

The game is called don't starve and it's about eating I know, but it would open a whole new variety of possibilities to the game and would fit into it quite well. I think it would be a lot of fun, to have the possibility to make your own drinks.

 

It also would be realistic, that you can plant seeds whereever you want. in comparrison to the plantation there could be a chance of the seed dies in the nature without taking care and without fertilization, but there also would be a chance that the seed is sprouting.

[Ganjuto]

@ Lord Battal.

 

hi .. I can't see these ideas are too mainstream. Than the bees are too mainstream too, the fishes, the turkey, the trees,the stones,some weapons, the hounds, the frogs, the bats,the butterflies,rabbits,buffalos, mosquito, pigs, birds, are all too mainstream, too ? Sorry, if Iam honest, but this is nonsense. Those ideas would fit into the game PERFECTLY for me. too mainstream ??? wrong answer somehow, I think. Too bad or too boring would be ok ..

 

There are some spinoffs of creatures, like the deerclops, the depth worms and some other underground creatures, but there are also normal creatures that belong to the game and fit in perfectly. So I Don't understand your point. nevertheless. What about the new update reign of the giants. Is it the last one ? Why it won't be upgraded anymore. It's a hell of a game. Is money the reason again ?

[Battal]

Bees are fist-sized.  Butterflies can be planted and turned into flowers.  Pigs walk around on two legs and can talk.  Rabbits have curly horns.  Hounds can explode in fiery blasts and drop gems.  Frogs steal your stuff and are the size of a dog.  Spiders are poofy circular creatures with a mouth full of teeth.  And trees turn into giant walking monstrosities.

 

I'm not saying that turtles and koalas and stuff can't be added - I'm saying the ideas need to be more creative.  Make the turtle a clockwork bipedal turtle.  Give the koala a wolf face and giant claws.  Go crazy.  Make the stuff unique.

[The Letter W]

Think outside the box. 

A koala would say, latch onto a Treeguard and command it like a puppet if you manage to get both to spawn in the same area. Otherwise they just run away like Gobblers.

...

Actually that sounds pretty dumb.

[Ganjuto]

ok. to set one thing straight. These are ideas. an idea is not a finished elaborated concept of something. ok ?!

In the Forum is not explained that you shall only write down completely perfected and elaborated concepts of things.

These are suggestions that came to my mind in a few moments. My intention was to throw some ideas into the room,

someone could work with, ok ?!  

See I didn't say the lion f. e. mustn't jump on a PogoStick while performing a blackflip and throwing pies at you.

My intention was to just point at some creatures you can work with. How tall or tiny they are or what they are doing,

wasn't that important for me at this moment. I wanted to leave the super creative work to the real geniuses or masters, you know.

Then you are just talking about the things you don't like. what do you think about the mill, the oven, the garbage can, or the other ideas.f. e.

well I guess it's too mainstream, right ? lol

[Ganjuto]

you should remove the campfire and the blow dart from the game. they are too mainstream.

ponds, reeds and fishes too. the turkey, bats, birds, the bee box, the plantage, amulets, bug net, rabbit trap, floral wreath,magical staffs a.s.o. too.and if I think about it, pigs are still looking like pigs and dropping real meat, that's way too mainstream.

Birds can fly, and fishes swim, too mainstream.the trees are green. ****, too mainstream.and the night is dark.

2 mainstream.

I hope now you are recognizing something. but from now on, if I will EVER make some suggestions

( I first have to think about this), I will only come up with superdetailed and freaking elaborated ideas to satisfy the high standards of this forum, my lord.

 

you didn't answer my update question. is this the last update Reign of Giants ?

[AceofSpades88]

Take it easy mate. To quote yourself:

hi people and hi Klei,

I love this well balanced and creative game and I want to help make it better. so I will write down everything I believe could maybe make this game more enjoyable. It's okay if you don't like it. These are just some ideas and maybe I am the only one who like them.

 

Given that statement, you seem to be getting pretty upset with the reception of your ideas.

 

I like some of your suggestions, while others not as much. There are already quite a few animals and creatures in Don't Starve, and I wouldn't mind seeing additions in the future. I am sure we will see some in the future with new DLC. I think your suggestion I liked the most was snakes. I like snakes, and after you mentioned I realized I was surprised there isn't a snake-like creature in DS. Snakes could be hostile or neutral (running when you near) really. I also like the idea of it spawning from breaking rocks. Good idea.

[Battal]

I never meant to insult you.  I'm just saying how the ideas can be improved.

[_-_-_]

I never meant to insult you.  I'm just saying how the ideas can be improved.

 I found emocons

 

On topic: a koala is already taken. (KOALEFANTS FOR THE WIN)

[Ganjuto]

hey..

 

 

Given that statement, you seem to be getting pretty upset with the reception of your ideas.

 

I like some of your suggestions, while others not as much. There are already quite a few animals and creatures in Don't Starve, and I wouldn't mind seeing additions in the future. I am sure we will see some in the future with new DLC. I think your suggestion I liked the most was snakes. I like snakes, and after you mentioned I realized I was surprised there isn't a snake-like creature in DS. Snakes could be hostile or neutral (running when you near) really. I also like the idea of it spawning from breaking rocks. Good idea.

ty .. sorry if I overreacted a bit. At this moment I just didn't like the argument. My mood is not that good today. sorry

[ARamblingSpider]

Think outside the box. 

A koala would say, latch onto a Treeguard and command it like a puppet if you manage to get both to spawn in the same area. Otherwise they just run away like Gobblers.

...

Actually that sounds pretty dumb.

It's not that dumb, I like it actually.

 

In fact I request you to do a picture of that.

[jbeetle]

PS. You can't edit your posts because you don't have enough posts yet. It's an anti-spam feature. You'll eventually be able to edit if you keep posting.

[Gangstamonkey214]

The only thing that REALLY annoyed me in this post is the fact you called Koalas Koala bears, as an Australian this really annoys me. But besides that nitpicking some of your ideas are really good. And for you question Rein of the Giants isn't an update but a DLC (from the sounds of it more of an expansion pack but anyway)  and will probably be the last time anything is added to Don't Starve due to Klei not wanting to stay on the same project for years and wanting to move onto other projects (like Mojang they get plenty of money off of Minecraft but even they went on to a new project and made a new game) but JoeW has hinted at there being a last free update for Don't Starve (probably the same patch when we get shadow/snow chester)