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[Pockets]

so im newish to dont starve together, if i host a world.. what versions of the worlds are there? i heard one version makes it to where if other players dead you keep loosing sanity infinitly

[ButterStuffed]

These are the current gamemodes

Survival
• Dead players turn into ghosts
  
• Ghosts drain sanity of everyone else on the server
  
• Ghosts can be revived via touchstones, telltale hearts, e.t.c.

Wilderness
• Players spawn into a random location in the world.
  
• When a player dies they choose their character again and spawn back into the world in a random location as if they had just joined the server.

Endless
• Dead players turn into ghosts
  
• Ghosts do not drain sanity
  
• Ghosts can be revived via the spawn portal (Florid Postern), touchstones, telltale hearts, e.t.c.

There are also server playstyles but it doesn't actually change anything game wise. It just shows what the servers are going for.

Hope that helps.

[Pockets]

So what's the big difference between endless and wilderness? They both seem pretty endless

[ButterStuffed]

Originally posted by Lilbit:

So what's the big difference between endless and wilderness? They both seem pretty endless

Besides the slight difference in death mechanics not much. Judging from the server browser Wilderness is much less popular than Endless. Probably because dying also deletes the map.

[Pockets]

So if a single player dies it replaces entire map???

[ButterStuffed]

Originally posted by Lilbit:

So if a single player dies it replaces entire map???

Sorry, I guess I wasn't too clear on that. I meant the map that you use to look at the world you've explored so far. The world will continue going like normal regardless of peoples death.

[Pockets]

Now I'm more confused

[Joki the Disco Bandit]

Originally posted by Lilbit:

Now I'm more confused

In a Wilderness server, if you die, you get returned to the character select screen. You can choose a new character, the same character, whatever, but either way when you return to the game your map will need to be discovered all over again, as well as any recipes, etc. In Wilderness even if you choose the same character you had before it's still a "different" character as far as the game is concerned, so everything must be learned again.

[Pockets]

Ah so the map.. I mean world
Doesn't change but you has to relearn stuff. That sounds cool! In

[老云]

OK

[hairy peak]

Originally posted by Lilbit:

Ah so the map.. I mean world
Doesn't change but you has to relearn stuff. That sounds cool! In

you got it wrong. the map is randomly made everytime you make a new game. when you die and get yourself on the character screen, you will create a new world. so it does change

in COOP mode you lose a bit of sanity when another player is dead, but he can return to life with other players help

[Pockets]

so confused... feel like ima get endless mode sounds like the funnest!

[Joki the Disco Bandit]

Originally posted by Lilbit:

so confused... feel like ima get endless mode sounds like the funnest!

Go Wilderness if you want to be able to easily switch to a different character if you die, and don't mind having to rediscover the map and recipes when you come back in.

Go Endless if you prefer keeping all your map and recipe progress, and don't mind becoming a ghost if you die, and then having to find a way to revive.

Go Survival if you prefer keeping all your map and recipe progress, and don't mind becoming a ghost if you die, and having to find a way to revive, all while draining sanity from every living person on the server.

The other settings like "cooperative, social" etc., have nothing whatsoever to do with any of the above. Those are simply descriptors you can apply to your server, to let potential joiners know what kind of gameplay you expect.

[Pockets]

So you can't be revived in wilderness?

[cykochip]

in endless you can haunt the florid postern to revive, but its like the telltale heart where it removes a portion of health. and in wilderness, you die. you cant be revived but instead go back to the character select screen to choose a character and you spawn in a diffrent place. you dont have your previously learned recipes and your previously explored map.

[Pockets]

so wilson statues wont save me in wilderness? D: