Good healing options for Wurt?

[Sterlander]

On day 100 now, my first ever "real" playthrough as her. Doing well, have gone to the ruins, have a solid base setup going, and have almost 20 merm guard huts built. But an issue I keep running into is healing.

I have plenty of mosquito sacks so I heal with those, along with spider glands. But like, other than that, it feels like the rest of my healing comes gradually off the vegetables and fruit I eat. I can't think of many healing dishes, aside from Trail Mix, which isn't too viable since my birchnut biome's kind of far away.

Could bring the merms over there and chop it all down I suppose, but still, what else could I do for healing? Healing salves maybe?

[ArcyPaweł]

I dont recomend to ever heal with spider glands. Always make salve from it, its pretty cheap. For other options i recomend getting some honeycombs and making beeboxes, as wurt you probably live on/near swamps, so you have plenty of papyrus and you could make bandages from it (i dont remember what exactly are they called). Another good idea is building bird cage, by giving bird in cage meat (even monster meat) you get eggs. From eggs, any meat, any vegetable and some filler you can make pierogi in crockpot

[Zuruas]

My go-to Wurt healing food is Trail Mix especially since they buffed the recipe, easy to get and the Birchnuts last a long time. Just plant some of them near your base, collect them in Autumn and then if you can, Bundling Wrap them. (A merm army absolutely decimates Bee Queen) The resulting Jellybeans from getting the Bundling Wrap is nice for some outside combat healing too.

I also like using Mushroom Planters as Wurt, since I always swim in living logs whenever I play as her. The extra Blue Mushrooms every now and then really feel good, but it is not my main heal source, since they take kinda long and do not work in winter on the surface. If you have a nice world with some good blue mushroom spawns these are a nice way of healing, and a nice way to keep you insane/sane.

Tomatoes and Potatoes are great too, if you're lazy you will get seed returns as long as you have your Friendly Fruit Fly, but I personally don't like Solo farming at all so I always go back to Trail Mixes (this would also need some preparations for the seeds).

In a long lasting world I ultimately switch to Banana recipes once I get Banana Bushes, Frozen Banana Daiquiris for the 30 health, or Banana Pops for 20 health when I really need the health 10 seconds faster. They grow back fast and even grow in winter, love them.

[Sterlander]

Originally posted by ArcyPaweł:

I dont recomend to ever heal with spider glands. Always make salve from it, its pretty cheap. For other options i recomend getting some honeycombs and making beeboxes, as wurt you probably live on/near swamps, so you have plenty of papyrus and you could make bandages from it (i dont remember what exactly are they called). Another good idea is building bird cage, by giving bird in cage meat (even monster meat) you get eggs. From eggs, any meat, any vegetable and some filler you can make pierogi in crockpot

She can't eat pierogi I'm pretty sure

[ArcyPaweł]

Originally posted by Sterlander:

Originally posted by ArcyPaweł:

I dont recomend to ever heal with spider glands. Always make salve from it, its pretty cheap. For other options i recomend getting some honeycombs and making beeboxes, as wurt you probably live on/near swamps, so you have plenty of papyrus and you could make bandages from it (i dont remember what exactly are they called). Another good idea is building bird cage, by giving bird in cage meat (even monster meat) you get eggs. From eggs, any meat, any vegetable and some filler you can make pierogi in crockpot

She can't eat pierogi I'm pretty sure

Oh, sorry i forgot that Wurt Cannot eat meat

[Jackpot]

Beefy greens restore 40, requires a leafy meat and 3 vegs.

There's also dragonpies that restore 40 and needs 1 dragon fruit and 3 twigs.

Flower salad, requires a cactus flower and at least 1.5 veg value. So a cactus flower and 3 mushrooms works.

Frozen Bananas heal 30 but requires 1 banana, 1 ice but no twigs. 1 Banana and 3 ice should do.

Though farming tomatoes and potatoes to then cook and eat is more ideal since they give 20 each when cooked and are easier to make.

[Retrolicious]

Jelly beans from the Bee Queen Fight. You make it from the royal jelly :3

https://dontstarve.fandom.com/wiki/Jellybeans

Wiki got many recipes just check the crockpot site.

[tools guy-kun]

I say a stone fruit farm is extremely worth setting up for Wurt any day, especially because of her veggie diet bonus.

you can even eat it raw with no drawbacks. however, by itself it is very weak in terms of healing, even when cooked since raw gives 1hp per fruit and cooked gives 3hp.

but why am I saying this? I'll explain right now.

by itself it's not fantastic to look at but nothing to scoff at either, since you get 12.5 hunger per fruit and more with Wurt's diet bonus, but the main attraction is the versatility that stone fruit has to offer. one of it's most useful purposes is serving as a filler in the crockpot recipes listed by everyone else above. and considering how you get 3 stone fruit per bush upon harvest... well, let's say that having 25-30 bushes will keep you set for a long time. you could also use them to keep your king fed, allowing you to maintain your bonuses much easier because of how abundant they are.

moving onto the healing stuff, everything that everyone else said are great choices in terms of crockpot healing recipes. whenever you can add a filler, you can use stone fruit in place of anything else you might want to consider keeping, such as your twigs since you'll probably need them for crafting. but if you can afford using twigs as filler, then go for it, of course.

[Marly]

Why don't you try to get some bees? If your base is in the swamp area, you must have plenty of reels around. Use it to make papyrus, combine it with honey to make honey bandage.

[Sterlander]

Ended up chopping some Birchnuts to get a nice stack of Trailmix. Killed Bee Queen, bundling wrapped all the Trailmix, and now I heal off of that and Jellybeans.

Will say that Beefy Greens can't be eaten by Wurt, and that Flower Salad being seasonal combined with spoiling super fast doesn't really help its case, although I guess now that I have bundling wraps their spoilage rate isn't as much of an issue.

So yeah, I think I have healing figured out now, it just took a while. It's funny, Klei's added lots of new healing dishes that Wurt specifically can't eat.

Really hoping they add in at least a couple more in the upcoming updates that Wurt can take advantage of. I'm a Don't Starve vet with over 1000 hours and the fact that I had to rack my head and even ask around this much when it came to finding a solution for hre healing is kinda ridiculous tbh

[tools guy-kun]

Originally posted by Sterlander:

Ended up chopping some Birchnuts to get a nice stack of Trailmix. Killed Bee Queen, bundling wrapped all the Trailmix, and now I heal off of that and Jellybeans.

Will say that Beefy Greens can't be eaten by Wurt, and that Flower Salad being seasonal combined with spoiling super fast doesn't really help its case, although I guess now that I have bundling wraps their spoilage rate isn't as much of an issue.

So yeah, I think I have healing figured out now, it just took a while. It's funny, Klei's added lots of new healing dishes that Wurt specifically can't eat.

Really hoping they add in at least a couple more in the upcoming updates that Wurt can take advantage of. I'm a Don't Starve vet with over 1000 hours and the fact that I had to rack my head and even ask around this much when it came to finding a solution for hre healing is kinda ridiculous tbh

Doesn’t matter if you’re a seasoned vet or a newbie player. We’re all learning each and every step of the way, and that’s what the community is for: helping each other out. Don’t kick rocks over something that ya shouldn’t in the first place.

[Sterlander]

Originally posted by tools guy-kun:

Originally posted by Sterlander:

Ended up chopping some Birchnuts to get a nice stack of Trailmix. Killed Bee Queen, bundling wrapped all the Trailmix, and now I heal off of that and Jellybeans.

Will say that Beefy Greens can't be eaten by Wurt, and that Flower Salad being seasonal combined with spoiling super fast doesn't really help its case, although I guess now that I have bundling wraps their spoilage rate isn't as much of an issue.

So yeah, I think I have healing figured out now, it just took a while. It's funny, Klei's added lots of new healing dishes that Wurt specifically can't eat.

Really hoping they add in at least a couple more in the upcoming updates that Wurt can take advantage of. I'm a Don't Starve vet with over 1000 hours and the fact that I had to rack my head and even ask around this much when it came to finding a solution for hre healing is kinda ridiculous tbh

Doesn’t matter if you’re a seasoned vet or a newbie player. We’re all learning each and every step of the way, and that’s what the community is for: helping each other out. Don’t kick rocks over something that ya shouldn’t in the first place.

Well said, thanks bro

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by Jackpot:

Beefy greens restore 40, requires a leafy meat and 3 vegs.

Wurt can't eat any dishes containing Leafy Meat

[happygiggi]

Trail mix early game, dragon pies after.

Try to grow lots of giant dragon fruits through spring and summer and bundle wrap them. Never had to plant them again as I feed of kelps. I got +120 dragon fruits bundled up in 2 seasons.

Don't forget the sleeping, lot of players tend to forget it's an option for healing.

[Sterlander]

Originally posted by happygiggi:

Trail mix early game, dragon pies after.

Try to grow lots of giant dragon fruits through spring and summer and bundle wrap them. Never had to plant them again as I feed of kelps. I got +120 dragon fruits bundled up in 2 seasons.

Don't forget the sleeping, lot of players tend to forget it's an option for healing.

Oh right, they buffed sleeping recently right?

[happygiggi]

Originally posted by Sterlander:

Oh right, they buffed sleeping recently right?

Yes, tents have lot of uses now. And I think basic straw rolls do heal you too.