Wormwood Quick Guide?

[JPM岩]

With Wormwood coming to DST, i thought Id play single player again and learn how Wormwood plays. Any tips on how to use him in RoG, SW, and Hamlet? Never played as him.

[ButterStuffed]

Nitre, rot and poop are really important for him. Collect them whenever you see it. Seeds too but to a somewhat lesser degree.

Fire bad, lightning REALLY bad. Avoid as much as possible.

Red mushrooms are great. Go ahead and eat them they have no penalty on Wormwood.

Don’t bother trying for good healing recipes. Hunger and sanity filling recipes are much better.

Tents and siesta huts are very good for Wormwood.

That’s all I’ve got off the top of my head. Good luck!

[The_Technomancer]

It might be pointless to ask for tips about single player because he's getting a rework in DST and we don't know how he'll change.

[Violeta]

You can't be serious, bringing him to DST where wortox is?

They better change him a lot because thats broken. Like 100+ bramble traps by the end of a season bad. And server lag from potentially hundreds of crops planted and growing everywhere.

Theres no worse character choice I could imagine bringing to DST than wormwood.


Is this going to be the new willow for a few years? Changed and nerfed so badly they barely resemble their DS self?

[ButterStuffed]

Originally posted by The_Technomancer:

It might be pointless to ask for tips about single player because he's getting a rework in DST and we don't know how he'll change.

That might not be the case for Wormwood. They specifically said that Warly was getting a rework but neglected to mention Wormwood so either there's a bit of a misunderstanding or Wormwood's just getting ported to DST.

[Violeta]

The things to remember with wormwood are

During summer you can and probably will catch fire 1-3 times that season. Maintain high hp during summer or carry healing items or you'll probably die.

When wormwood goes into full bloom your hunger rate is insane. Remember you can eat monster meat/monster laz if you want.

His bramble armor is amazing vs swarms of bees and spiders. Good, if not better than having abigale once your rocking bramble + a football helmet.

Spiders are a wormwood's best friend, for healing sacs/tents

While lone bee's being attracted to you is annoying, killing them often gives you materials for bramble traps and junk. Which as wormwood you'll want a lot of to take care of hound attacks.

If you try to run away from bosses through forests/use them for logging, you may quickly go insane from loss of sanity from plant deaths.

Keep a stash of stuff you can plant for sanity recovery in a pinch. You don't want to have to chop trees during winter at night while being chased by two terrorbeaks for stuff to plant for sanity...

You may want to always plant crop seeds that birds drop as this is emergency food.

Do your best not to go insane IRL from seeing "Sorry friend" 800 times per year.

[JPM岩]

Originally posted by The_Technomancer:

It might be pointless to ask for tips about single player because he's getting a rework in DST and we don't know how he'll change.

It's so I can get used to how he functions, they won't be making him completely new in DST, he'll share a lot of things

[Retrolicious]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

Originally posted by The_Technomancer:

It might be pointless to ask for tips about single player because he's getting a rework in DST and we don't know how he'll change.

It's so I can get used to how he functions, they won't be making him completely new in DST, he'll share a lot of things

Forget wormwood he is a terrible character.

Better learn how to be master chef as warly.He got much better party syngeries.

Wormwood is neither funny, nor new, nor challenging. Just boring redundant design :c
Nobody will like to babysit terrible wormwood newcomers ... He is terrible by design, you can't learn to play him "better".

GL either way

[Violeta]

Wormwold is great and powerful in Rog.

Any time you have surplus hp from tent/spider glands you can convert that into killing power via Bramble trap field/dark swords. Other characters surplus hp is just wasted in regular DS. In DST you can turn the surplus into spare hearts.

[Violeta]

But I do want to say that in my opinion, wormwood's full bloom speed buff is a huge negative. I recall during it needing to eat like 3 meatballs a day not to starve. And just not having anything I needed to do when it happens.

So like yeah, you can plant seeds everywhere, but come full speed buff days....rip anything you really gained from doing that.

If you get a spring start that massive hunger right away can get you bad if your not a seasoned player.

[JPM岩]

Originally posted by 󰀀 Redhead 󰀈:

Originally posted by JPM岩:

It's so I can get used to how he functions, they won't be making him completely new in DST, he'll share a lot of things

Forget wormwood he is a terrible character.

Better learn how to be master chef as warly.He got much better party syngeries.

Wormwood is neither funny, nor new, nor challenging. Just boring redundant design :c
Nobody will like to babysit terrible wormwood newcomers ... He is terrible by design, you can't learn to play him "better".

GL either way

Most of Dont Starves characters are "boring redundant designs". And if people can learn to play well with Wes, you can learn to play better with Wormwood. If someone has to "learn" how to play Warly, they obviously arent meant to play Dont Starve as a braindead infant could learn how to play Warly

[Luna]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

Originally posted by 󰀀 Redhead 󰀈:

Forget wormwood he is a terrible character.

Better learn how to be master chef as warly.He got much better party syngeries.

Wormwood is neither funny, nor new, nor challenging. Just boring redundant design :c
Nobody will like to babysit terrible wormwood newcomers ... He is terrible by design, you can't learn to play him "better".

GL either way

Most of Dont Starves characters are "boring redundant designs". And if people can learn to play well with Wes, you can learn to play better with Wormwood. If someone has to "learn" how to play Warly, they obviously arent meant to play Dont Starve as a braindead infant could learn how to play Warly

redhead has a sertan distaste for wormwood bequese he replaced warbucks
dont use logic it pointless
altough im curios to see the warly rework he sertanly was the most fun shipwrecked character and the best choice to port to dst

[Retrolicious]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

Originally posted by 󰀀 Redhead 󰀈:

Forget wormwood he is a terrible character.

Better learn how to be master chef as warly.He got much better party syngeries.

Wormwood is neither funny, nor new, nor challenging. Just boring redundant design :c
Nobody will like to babysit terrible wormwood newcomers ... He is terrible by design, you can't learn to play him "better".

GL either way

Most of Dont Starves characters are "boring redundant designs". And if people can learn to play well with Wes, you can learn to play better with Wormwood. If someone has to "learn" how to play Warly, they obviously arent meant to play Dont Starve as a braindead infant could learn how to play Warly

This comment alone justified why u need to learn warly. Actually warly gameplay is one of the most complex in the entire DS universe, because u need to memorize like 60+ cook recipes, if well done. So beeing the perfect chef for any newcomer or random party is like the best synergie you can get.

And don't listen to P_Duyd wormwood is really a crappy character. This has nothing to do with warbucks, warbucks was the easy to learn character like willow for DS. But wormwoods is neither fun for challenge, nor powerful, nor useful in anyway.

And nope wormwood is not powerful in RoG, because #1 RoG is very easy to play no matter what character and #2 Farming living logs is much faster with a maxwell or woodie anyway.

Wormwood is redundant full stop. Alone his craft gear is gimmicky and redundant. The bramble armor is a worse version of scale mail or obsidian armor, the bramble trap are awkward versions of tooth traps, the healing salve is completelly useless, because each time u use it it actually stunlocks you and makes you very weak towards giant attacks.
etc etc

Before spreading misinformation first play ALL DS SW or hamlet DLC characters and make an informed choice.

@op you should listen to veterans who played and tested all those chars, hence why you asked this "how do i learn wormwood" thread. There is nothing to learn he is a very bad char and bad for any party synergie. Full stop.

Even learning wortox in DST beta and how to properly sail the big boat would be more benificial at this point anyway.

TL;DR
Why choose the worst "new" character to learn when there are much better reworks / new characters to get. Trust me OP would will be very dissapointed to waste 7+ $$ or like 2700 spools on a crappy character like wormwoods. I WARNED YOU, don't come back when he releases and whine of buyers remorse and "cry cry he was too expensive for weak perks".

Do as you will, any customer is free to make bad purchases and waste their money however they like. I'm just devils advocate and know game testing gitz :3
Trust me even the new maxwell rework will be way way more powerful than terrible weak wormwoods. Maxwell got army of shadows AND can easily farm living logs / dark swords.
Bramble armor + traps are gimmick useless tools compared to perk powers of any other chars :p

[JPM岩]

Originally posted by 󰀀 Redhead 󰀈:

Originally posted by JPM岩:

Most of Dont Starves characters are "boring redundant designs". And if people can learn to play well with Wes, you can learn to play better with Wormwood. If someone has to "learn" how to play Warly, they obviously arent meant to play Dont Starve as a braindead infant could learn how to play Warly

This comment alone justified why u need to learn warly. Actually warly gameplay is one of the most complex in the entire DS universe, because u need to memorize like 60+ cook recipes, if well done. So beeing the perfect chef for any newcomer or random party is like the best synergie you can get.

And don't listen to P_Duyd wormwood is really a crappy character. This has nothing to do with warbucks, warbucks was the easy to learn character like willow for DS. But wormwoods is neither fun for challenge, nor powerful, nor useful in anyway.

And nope wormwood is not powerful in RoG, because #1 RoG is very easy to play no matter what character and #2 Farming living logs is much faster with a maxwell or woodie anyway.

Wormwood is redundant full stop. Alone his craft gear is gimmicky and redundant. The bramble armor is a worse version of scale mail or obsidian armor, the bramble trap are awkward versions of tooth traps, the healing salve is completelly useless, because each time u use it it actually stunlocks you and makes you very weak towards giant attacks.
etc etc

Before spreading misinformation first play ALL DS SW or hamlet DLC characters and make an informed choice.

@op you should listen to veterans who played and tested all those chars, hence why you asked this "how do i learn wormwood" thread. There is nothing to learn he is a very bad char and bad for any party synergie. Full stop. :dshound:

Even learning wortox in DST beta and how to properly sail the big boat would be more benificial at this point anyway.

TL;DR
Why choose the worst "new" character to learn when there are much better reworks / new characters to get. Trust me OP would will be very dissapointed to waste 7+ $$ or like 2700 spools on a crappy character like wormwoods. I WARNED YOU, don't come back when he releases and whine of buyers remorse and "cry cry he was too expensive for weak perks".

Do as you will, any customer is free to make bad purchases and waste their money however they like. I'm just devils advocate and know game testing gitz :3
Trust me even the new maxwell rework will be way way more powerful than terrible weak wormwoods. Maxwell got army of shadows AND can easily farm living logs / dark swords.
Bramble armor + traps are gimmick useless tools compared to perk powers of any other chars :p

Warly's gameplay is literally make three different recipies for yourself a day, and then cycle every day, you just have a sticky not with recipies on your computer, and you've learned Warly
Anyone who calls themselves a "veteran of a video game" usually doesnt know a lot of the end game meta stuff, it's why in any game, people who call themselves vets, usually just have extremely leaned towards biased to using only like, 3 things, and anyone who does anything else is garbage
Plus, you get Wormwood and Warly for free if you own Hamlet and Shipwrecked (so I've heard), so I'm not really crying over spools or money
From playing Wormwood, he does great for players (like myself) who can't fight for ♥♥♥♥; he also seems like a really healthy synergy character for DST with Wickerbottom due to not needing farms

[SonicDen220]

Originally posted by 󰀀 Redhead 󰀈:

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Please stop this. This thread is about tips, not opinions. You don't have to respond to every single Wormwood thread with negative comments. If you really despise absolutely every single thing about the character, just ignore those threads and unravel him when you get him as a gift in DST for owning Hamlet, ban any Wormwoods that join your games, do whatever. Stop discouraging other people from playing a character they may find enjoyable just because YOU hate him.
I personally liked the character a lot. You disagree, but no need to throw a hissy fit about it.

[JPM岩]

Originally posted by SonicDen220:

Originally posted by 󰀀 Redhead 󰀈:

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Please stop this. This thread is about tips, not opinions. You don't have to respond to every single Wormwood thread with negative comments. If you really despise absolutely every single thing about the character, just ignore those threads and unravel him when you get him as a gift in DST for owning Hamlet, ban any Wormwoods that join your games, do whatever. Stop discouraging other people from playing a character they may find enjoyable just because YOU hate him. :rbrb3:
I personally liked the character a lot. You disagree, but no need to throw a hissy fit about it. :rbrb1:

Ironic, coming from someone who tells me to not play Wormwood, and then proceeds to throw a hissy fit over me telling you that Warly's gameplay is as 2D as his assets for the game