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First post so it looks ugly but whatever

I understand foremost that the intended mechanic was for Willow to only have 1 BERNIE! at a time, and as such the exploit allowing players to stack multiple large BERNIE!s was understandably patched out. However, I also am of the opinion that sometimes we learn more about the game through random chance, and to be quite frank the multiple BERNIE! exploit was actually really fun and made Willow interesting again, at least in my opinion. It's removal didn't make the game any more fun (which is what I look for in changes), it just made Willow worse. Which for a character who desperately needed this buff is quite the shame indeed. Some might say it's overpowered, which foremost is a difficult thing to nail down on exactly defining. However, I would argue that even a large BERNIE! army was less effective than a proper Wicker Tentacle trap. The screenshots of people (always conveniently in creative mode) with 50 BERNIE!s undercut the amount of resources it'd require to set up and maintain such an Army, in comparison to a tentacle trap that literally drops most of the materials (along with some nice weapons) required to craft it. Sure, Bernie isn't destroyed upon "death" but it will still take a substantial amount of time to gather any significant amount of BERNIE!s and then they have to be repaired when they fall in combat. It seemed like this update was designed to make Willow more summoner-like, which while I am not personally a fan of the idea I am willing to work with what I've been given. Perhaps a compromise would be best here, with either a server or Willow BERNIE! cap limit set so as to not flood servers. If they want to make her more summoner-like but limit her to a single summon this does seem to defeat the purpose of a "summoner" character, at least a stereotypical one. I'm interested to see what people's opinions are on this in the comments, primarily because I don't actually know if I share the majority opinion. Please keep things civil as always.

random facts that may or may not be useful: (will put more on this list when I find out more about him) you can only have 1 BERNIE at any time (without exploits and such) BERNIE cannot be frozen BERNIE will attack any mob that's hostile towards you most mobs will attack BERNIE instead of you when you attack them - including pigs he has the same swinging animation as deerclops 2 Bernies, a sewing kit and an insane willow is enough to kill deerclops BERNIE deals 50 damage You can have more than 1 BERNIE! at any time if a 2nd insane Willow spawns her BERNIE! and brings it to you (viktor234) Using a Fire Dart or Weather Pain on BERNIE! will cause him attacking you (viktor234) BERNIE! will start attacking Pigs, Bunnyman etc. if they spot a Webber or Wortox (viktor234) BERNIE! attacks Shadow Creatures even if you aren't insane (viktor234) Shadow Creatures killed by BERNIE! drop always only 1x Nightmare Fuel and don't restore any sanity at all (Viktor234) Shadow Creatures can't teleport during their attack animation. if it attacks BERNIE, you won't be stunned. that allows you to strike it more than only once and kill it way faster (Viktor234) Bernie has 1000 health, BERNIE! appears to have 2000 health (according to his durability after being attacked) (Viktor234) Bernie can be equipped for 5 days so every second he looses 1/1.2 = 0.833 health while being equipped (Viktor234) you can attack shadow monsters without being attacked yourself, if they is targeting BERNIE BERNIE will begin running after you if you go too far away BERNIE do not trigger tooth traps BERNIE cannot be hit by lightning BERNIE cannot be put to sleep you can heal BERNIE with healing salves telepoofing will cause BERNIE to shrink - even if he's still near you after teleporting BERNIE do not follow you through wormholes (SouthTom) BERNIE do not follow you when entering caves - you have to pick him up before going down into the caves (SouthTom)

Since you can always fix bernie when he reaches 0% durability, and you can only have one BERNIE! active at the time (without exploits), It whould be cool If you could start the game with the Bernie skin (if you have it, and it's active). Maybe do it for other characters and items suck as Wigfröid helmet and spear, willow's lighter and Max book/Wes ballons/Webber spider nest/Woodie Lucy/Wendy flower in case they get one skin in the future. Loved the Willow update. Keep up the good work Klei <3

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So, when I was out eating at a resturaunt with my family, I was looking at my phone and saw a post on the DS wiki comparing Bernie to another character, and I've honestly couldn't get the visual out of my head and it's been haunting me all day. I feel like I must share this forbidden knowledge with all of you. thank you have a good day