WPH Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Hello everyone! I'm interested to hear everyone's personal terms for the island in which Don't Starve and Don't Starve Together take place. Unless there is an official name I am unaware of, I've heard variations such as "The Shadow Island", "The Shadow World", "The Shadow Realm", and just Survival Island. Personally, I'm more attuned with "The Hell Island™". Thoughts? Perhaps even developer input or confirmation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousKoala Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 "Their world" Not creative, I know. But it's the world of "them", and that's the closest we have to a real name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesamon Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 "Do-not-starve-or-freeze-or-get-killed-by-tallbirds-or-deerclops-or-anything-that-looks-remotely-cute Land" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobbstar Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 I usually refer to it as the Penumbra, and the last world and epilogue of adventure mode as the Umbra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bebbit Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 "The Don't Starve place" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haroldman Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Albion. Fierce storms, Barron land, cold winters, scorching summers, vicious beasts and untamed wilds. sounds like home. A legend exists in various forms that giants were either the original inhabitants, or the founders of the land named Albion. Brutus! there lies beyond the Gallic bounds An island which the western sea surrounds, By giants once possessed, now few remain To bar thy entrance, or obstruct thy reign. To reach that happy shore thy sails employ There fate decrees to raise a second Troy And found an empire in thy royal line, Which time shall ne'er destroy, nor bounds confine. — Geoffrey of Monmouth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auth Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 I call it "hell" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeadatrix Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 For DS: "Say Pal, get ready to die a thousand times to get that Krampus Sack." For DST: "Say Pal, wanna help me die a thousand times to get a Krampus Sack?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schism_989 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Macabria. Based off of the word Macabre, which explains a Grim or Ghastly Atmosphere, which is present in Don't Starve in many cases. I got the idea from this post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonsterLasagna Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 My backyard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPH Posted June 20, 2016 Author Share Posted June 20, 2016 3 hours ago, Mobbstar said: I usually refer to it as the Penumbra, and the last world and epilogue of adventure mode as the Umbra. That's quite interesting! I do like it. Penumbra definitely has that official-yet-dark-and-old feel to it. Well of course with the latin and whatnot 3 hours ago, Haroldman said: Albion. Fierce storms, Barron land, cold winters, scorching summers, vicious beasts and untamed wilds. sounds like home. A legend exists in various forms that giants were either the original inhabitants, or the founders of the land named Albion. Brutus! there lies beyond the Gallic bounds An island which the western sea surrounds, By giants once possessed, now few remain To bar thy entrance, or obstruct thy reign. To reach that happy shore thy sails employ There fate decrees to raise a second Troy And found an empire in thy royal line, Which time shall ne'er destroy, nor bounds confine. — Geoffrey of Monmouth Oh gracious this is quite in depth. I hadn't known about this prior. Thank you for your input! It's very interesting! 1 hour ago, Schism_989 said: Macabria. Based off of the word Macabre, which explains a Grim or Ghastly Atmosphere, which is present in Don't Starve in many cases. I got the idea from this post. Oooooh haha! I had a feeling there were going to be other threads on the same topic, forgive me! It's quite a good idea too... I also agree "the island" just fits it. Being mysterious and whatnot, but hm... would be hard to use that in, say... a description with someone unfamiliar with the game. Or just make it more mysterious. More power to you, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oCrapaCreeper Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Realm of Them, Don't Starve World, Shadow Creature realm, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesamon Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 3 hours ago, Weirdobob said: I call it "hell" A hell you can't help but get back to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPH Posted June 20, 2016 Author Share Posted June 20, 2016 38 minutes ago, thesamon said: A hell you can't help but get back to That was deep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADinosaur Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Due to the nature of how you're constantly working to survive in a world where you can't really die in I think it's fitting to call it Purgatory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaquinn Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Since its so rough and cruel to survive, id call it school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bebbit Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 48 minutes ago, Chaquinn said: Since its so rough and cruel to survive, id call it school. And everything hates you in it. Even more fitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MenaAthena Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Australia I've always just called it "The Don't Starve World", or " The World of Don't Starve", sometimes just "The DS World" for when I'm lazy. Creative, I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minespatch Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 The wiki suggests that the game is based after the legend Ultima Thule. It's even more supported when some minerals on the island are called "thulecite". So... Somewhere in Greenland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer ImDaMisterL Posted June 21, 2016 Developer Share Posted June 21, 2016 The Cyclum. Just, the Cyclum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoobie101 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I always thought that it wasn't just 1 island, I thought it was 5,000,000 mini islands all near one another, and they had different seas and stuff. Like "Disappointment Island", "Hatred Island", and "Why Bother Island" all in "Depression Sea of Ugh Whatever". It just made sense every world was a new island since every world is different, rather than every world being the same island, but I guess in a slightly different timeline in which Maxwell made the island look slightly different? Anyway, let's call the island/s Bob cause WHY NOT in this mad world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Letter W Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 northern british columbia northern british columbia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minespatch Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 8 minutes ago, Scoobie101 said: Anyway, let's call the island/s Bob cause WHY NOT in this mad world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bebbit Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 You know, speaking of headcanons, I think a headcanon megathread would be neat to have. I think it would be necessary, but I'd rather not make one if nobody agrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainChaotica Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I think Wendy even _calls_ it "Purgatory" at one point... As for me, uh...I dunno. "The Don't Starve World". I haven't really come up with a good name yet. Possibly Realm of The Ancients? (who may or may not also be "Them"?) The only thing noticably different in my headcanon is that I don't call it an island. It's HUGE. It's clearly a continent. (Unless this world is, like, a super-Earth, and the ACTUAL continents are so much bigger, they make the landmass where the game takes place _look_ like an island.) The little things you can sail around to in Shipwrecked? THOSE are islands. And I still stand by my idea that they're all part of the same planet, and that if it wouldn't be such a memory-drain, you could totally just sail off some area of the Don't Starve/RoG mainland into the Shipwrecked islands smoothly without needing a loading screen. In other words, the reason we can't is not a _lore_ reason in which the islands are in another reality and require a gateway to get to, but that the GAME needs there to be a loading screen there. At least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Basically the Seaworthy is a fancy wormhole that bops you to another location in the same world; nothing more exotic than that. (Because, of course, living teleportation tunnels are SO normal.) (Adventure Mode is totally its own seperate realities, though. I'm not sure about the first four chapters being on the same world or not, but "Darkness" and the Epilogue are _definitely_ Somewhere Else...) For the name...I still have no idea. I kind of like it nameless. Fits the whole empty feeling. (shrug) ...Notorious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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