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The Regenerating Mutant, Heather -- DST

Adds the character 'Heather' to your game, who has a strange mutation that causes her cells to naturally replicate much faster than normal.

Don't Starve version here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=383165009

FEATURES
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-UNIQUE GAMEPLAY!: Heather's healing factor comes with both benefits and drawbacks. While simple in concept, her strengths and weaknesses play off of each other in a unique way that encourages a type of playstyle that no other characters that I've seen, mod or no, really do.

-CUSTOM ART OF HIGH-ISH QUALITY!: I'm not going to say it's the best art in the world or anything, but the art does look pretty good, if I may say so. Maybe around 70-80th percentile, on the scale of relative quality, as far as mods go.

-ALL NEW DIALOGUE!: So much dialogue, you guys. Every spoken word has been rewritten for her. That's over 1,000 lines of dialogue, yo.



SPECIFICS
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What all about Heather sets her apart? I'm glad you asked, hypothetical person!


-SPECIAL ABILITY: Healing Factor-
Heather naturally regenerates health over time, due to her mutation. The rapid cellular activity also increases her body temperature, insulating her from the cold, and increased amounts of muscle tissue increase the damage she deals. However, all that cellular material doesn't just come out of nowhere; it drains energy very quickly, increasing the rate that her hunger drains.

Here's the kicker: the LOWER Heather's Health gets, the MORE INTENSE those effects become.

So, for example, at full/high (75% and above) health, the effects of the healing factor are:
-Regerates 0.5hp per second,
-No insulation boost.
-1.1x damage multiplier.
-Drains hunger 1.5x faster than normal

But at minimum health (below 25%), the effects are much more drastic:
-Regenerates a crazy 5hp per second,
-Increases insulation by 100 (About as much as a Winter Hat)
-2x damage multiplier.
-Drains hunger a whopping 6x faster than normal.

So, do you let your health regenerate your wounds, at the expense of hunger? Or do you heal at every opputunity, to conserve the few scraps of food you have and stave off the absurd starvation rates that accompanies low health?

(Fun note: The intensity of Heather's regeneration is determined by the actual Health stat, not percentages. What does this mean? Well, should your max health be decreased (by, say, getting revived), Heather's regeneration rates will stay higher, but so will her starvation rate. So, try not to die.)


BUTWAITTHERESMORE

-1.5x Running Speed-
When normal people exercise, their muscles form tiny little tears in them (this is why muscles get sore after lots of physical activity, and those tears repairing is why muscles get stronger). Heather's healing factor repairs these tears faster than they are formed, significantly increasing her athletic abilities.
This allows her to combat her fast hunger drain by making resource collection faster, and also makes her health regeneration easier to exploit mid-combat.

-120 Max Health-
Heather is frail. Not as frail as some other characters, but frail enough so that you need to err on the side of caution in combat. Remember: when caught in the thick of things, that healing factor only does so much.

-200 Max Hunger-
May seem like a lot, but in reality she goes from a full belly to starving ever so slightly faster than other characters even with the boost. This just means that you can eat more foodstuffs to bring your belly up back to full when hungry.

And... yeah. That's about it. Have fun. Don't Starve.


Update To-Do List:
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-Fix character portrait so the name is written in the fancy DST font.
-Maybe minor tweaks to stats for the sake of balance, if I feel they're necessary.



Note: I know she looks like Annie from AoT. I've watched AoT. The two do have some similarities, but that wasn't done on purpose; the resemblance was completely unintentional. Remember, the Female Titan's design is basically just a female without any skin - the same thing Heather was designed to look like.