How big should tooth trap fields be?

[pofil]

It repairs 100% so you can use it when at 13%. I still use the mod though, sewing stones is stupid.

[Cloverleaves]

The truth is

 

For wendy, none

For other weak characters, as many as you can

 

 

Peace

[Rellimarual]

Tooth traps drop monster meat and teeth. They can be used to kill moslings easily after you've killed the Goose. They are a godsend with monkeys, especially if you can reduce the population in the ruins to a few huts that can only be reached via a narrow passage or bridge. Line that with traps, lead a few monkeys over it whenever the nightmare cycle kicks in, and you have a nightmare fuel farm that supplies enough food for at least a couple of people down in the ruins indefinitely. They take a bit of time and resources to set up, but they save you so much time and running around in the long run that they are well worth it. I put them up there with drying racks in usefulness.

[mochilo]

3 hours ago, fimmatek said:

I just tried it on a 25% thermal stone, it repaired it bact to full! Which means you can save at least 5*75% = 375% of a thermal stone whith just one sewing kit. 

Wooow that's pretty cool! thanks!

[fimmatek]

22 minutes ago, Rellimarual said:

They are a godsend with monkeys

Sounds good, but won't they steal the traps?... I have some bad experiences with monkeys. They even stole Hutch once.

[RelaxedEnd]

Maybe you need 56 of them to make it work well or at least 132.

[Rellimarual]

Shadow monkeys won't steal the traps if they are aggroed on you. I never had the regular monkeys steal them either, tbh, but I know they sometimes do. The trap field is at least two screens from their hut area, and if you only go over there during the nightmare cycle and you should be fine.

[CaptainChaotica]

Two words why tooth traps are awesome, even if you prefer to fight hounds or giants a different way:

FROG.  RAIN.

That is all.

(also you can sew a stone but not a leather helmet wtf)

...Notorious

[Electroely]

21 hours ago, CaptainChaotica said:

(also you can sew a stone but not a leather helmet wtf)

I'm pretty sure Football Helmets aren't made of leather. I may be wrong, but I think the crafting recipe is a pun. After all, people do call footballs "pig skin" from time to time. Again, I may be wrong, but I don't think Football Helmets are made of leather (would be too weak for defense).

I don't use tooth trap fields. Seems to me like a bit too much work. I'd rather just fight the hounds. I am a Wigfridge main so yeah... I like fighting.

Frog rain...I just kite the frogs once the rain is over. Meantime, I go down to my 2nd base, located down in the caves, to wait out the frog rain.

c;

[CaptainChaotica]

Eh, I just make a few traps every now and then, until I have a big enough field.  Not all at once, so it doesn't seem like as much work.

And yeah, the pigskin thing...but the _real life_ old-timey football helmets they're modeled after

ARE leather, so you can see where I'd think that.  Also they look leathery in-game. Definitely not metal, anyway.

(This picture came from a website that makes and sells both modernly-made and actual vintage sports stuff. Going back to the 1900s even.  Dang.)

...Notorious

[Electroely]

4 minutes ago, CaptainChaotica said:

Eh, I just make a few traps every now and then, until I have a big enough field.  Not all at once, so it doesn't seem like as much work.

And yeah, the pigskin thing...but the _real life_ old-timey football helmets they're modeled after

 

Spoiler

 

ARE leather, so you can see where I'd think that.  Also they look leathery in-game. Definitely not metal, anyway.

(This picture came from a website that makes and sells both modernly-made and actual vintage sports stuff. Going back to the 1900s even.  Dang.)

...Notorious

Hm, maybe I'll  making a trap every now and then and see how it works out.

And I guess old football helmets were made of leather (I did say twice I may be wrong). Although I just can't imagine them giving much protection in DS, considering they give just as much protection as a golden helmet and a log suit. Just my opinion, anyways.

[CaptainChaotica]

Well, this IS most video games ever Don't Starve we're talking about, after all.  Logic has no place here!  : P

I mean hey, at least it's not like some JRPGS where wearing a _ribbon_ in your hair somehow counts as armour...

...Notorious

[HutGenerator]

9 hours ago, Electroely said:

I don't use tooth trap fields. Seems to me like a bit too much work. I'd rather just fight the hounds.

 

9 hours ago, CaptainChaotica said:

Eh, I just make a few traps every now and then, until I have a big enough field.  Not all at once, so it doesn't seem like as much work.

I agree with this. Even my big tooth trap field is not built at once. I started making it on my 3rd or 4th hound attacks. Then added few of them end of every hound waves.

And there you go, after sometimes it become so big

You still can fight hounds if you want to, tooth trap field is just an alternative for your DST life.

[EuedeAdodooedoe]

On ‎25‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 8:51 AM, Prakhar said:

How big should tooth trap fields be?

They should be as wide as an ocean, but have the depth of a puddle

[UnknowX]

Panic tunnels are the most cost efficient way to deal with mobs, specially red hounds who set their surroundings on fire when they die. 

The one I use is quite narrow (3x~15 tooth traps) with stone walls on the sides and wide entrance to funnel mobs easily, and is attached to my base for maximum eficiency. Don't build your panic tunnel over a road or with cobble stones under it, be cause mobs (mostly hounds) only get damage from. The traps. When they stop over them. 

For the giants I use a different aproach. I use a frog rain to kill the Goose/Goose (when it starts, go near the Goose/Goose and they will slay him. And the Mooselings quickly), for the dearclops and the bearger I use. A combination of tree guards and spiders (which also helps me to clear areas of spiders, get tons of wood and spider loot and some living logs)

[Prakhar]

Okay. Thanks for all the tips.

Also, @UnknowX I try to wait for a frog rain to kill the Goose, but always get too impatient and kill him/her myself.

[GuyNamedChris]

16 hours ago, EuedeAdodooedoe said:

They should be as wide as an ocean, but have the depth of a puddle

No Man's Trap? C:

[mochilo]

On 3/1/2017 at 2:35 AM, CaptainChaotica said:

Two words why tooth traps are awesome, even if you prefer to fight hounds or giants a different way:

FROG.  RAIN.

That is all.

This is better for frog rains and ez jewellry :3

[Rellimarual]

Did they kill it?

[mochilo]

Yes they did. Faster than I would spect. I discovered it by accident the first time. Now everytime I see frog rain I pay dragonfly a visit. Some frog rains are really long, I guess you only need to be there soon enough so there are plenty of frogs. Easy frog rain solution and dragonfly farm at the same time, feeeeeeeeels good

In the picture it seems like there are not that many frogs. But I can tell when dragonfly was running around spawning lavaes there was a massive frogs ball running behind, and the lavae try to kill me so many frogs stay alive after the fight

I think they put her to sleep once for the amount of damage