Ideas for Spider Farmns

[Chaquinn]

I'm looking for ideas of a semi-automatic spider farm that requires little maintenance. At first I was thinking about just putting some pig farms inside a closed area with a spider den. That wouldn't work though, as the pigs would eat the meat and become werepigs. Then I was thinking of bunnies, as they don't eat meat.

 

I was just wondering if an idea like this would work.

[Lumina]

Bunnies will work as far as you take the meat during day, because you don't want to anger them.

Some traps could do but will require more maintenance.

[Arlesienne]

Merms will be even better, because they won't aggro on anyone carrying meat. Or just put traps around the dens.

[Sinister_Fang]

If you have a Wickerbottom, there's always her On Tentacles book. Just make sure to put up a sign warning people about them. Although that's never stopped people from wandering into the tentacle pit and dying anyway...

[DVGMedia]

or just be a wendy

 

[Footman Crouch]

Plant some birchnuts around the den also help, thou idk if poison birchnuts hurt the dens too.

[AnonymousKoala]

Bunny hutches. Only inconvenience is not picking up meat in the evening.

Also you can just be Webber, if we're going with characters with abilities to farm spiders amazingly.

[ItsPizzaTime]

50 minutes ago, AnonymousKoala said:

Bunny hutches. Only inconvenience is not picking up meat in the evening.

Also you can just be Webber, if we're going with characters with abilities to farm spiders amazingly.

This is the best answer, there is no better spider farmer than Webber, but if you want something that anyone else can use, Bunnys are the way to go.

[Sinister_Fang]

I personally never cared much for Webber. His biggest perk seems to be spider wars, but with a simple spiderhat the same thing can be done with any character. Just make sure you have a method of restoring sanity afterwards.

[AnonymousKoala]

5 hours ago, Sinister_Fang said:

I personally never cared much for Webber. His biggest perk seems to be spider wars, but with a simple spiderhat the same thing can be done with any character. Just make sure you have a method of restoring sanity afterwards.

Not quite. A spider hat is 10% of webber's potential. On top of the spider follower cap when you have the hat, you don't get any of his other capabilities.

[Ginosaji]

5 hours ago, AnonymousKoala said:

Not quite. A spider hat is 10% of webber's potential. On top of the spider follower cap when you have the hat, you don't get any of his other capabilities.

all the things you mention don't matter at all. all you need is 2 spiders so you can get the war going. your spiders can also attack a queen and whenever the queen attacks any spider that isn't hers more spiders from other dens around the area will join the fight against the queen. you can easily get this war going by using 10% of your spider hat if you're only interested in silk and glands and don't mind losing the monstermeat to the fighting spiders.

and that's the biggest benefit webber has. which all characters can abuse once they get their spider hat. what's left for webber is that spiders don't randomly aggro on him but for that benefit he gets punched in the face by mobs who really are useful as followers. while spiders are the weakest mobs ingame unless you have a great number of them but i still rather have a bunnyman army as followers than spiders.

being able to eat monstermeat is no perk either because every character can eat monstermeat and i do that whether or not i play wes or wolfgang. the 3 hp hit on cooked monstermeat and 10 sanity are a joke for people like me who live the insanity most of the time. fill your hunger up and eat a few butterfly wings after the monstermeat and you're good to go. kite away your insanity nightmares and gather that delicious nightmare fuel.

 

[Chaquinn]

15 hours ago, DarithD said:

Plant some birchnuts around the den also help, thou idk if poison birchnuts hurt the dens too.

Wait what?

 

Why would birchnuts help? Or am I just missing something...?

[Lumina]

1 hour ago, Chaquinn said:

Why would birchnuts help? Or am I just missing something...?

The idea is probably to get the birchnut in the poison state (the big purple monster tree, like treeguard but for birchnut) in hope it will attack spider.