Wormwood General Questions

[Deadicate]

I have been getting the urge to play wormwood, but are his downsides easy to brush off? healing during fights, food, etc? Imy main is wilson (i know) and I want to branch out (pun intended)

[Magnate]

You don't get any negative NOR positive health effects from food, so only sanity drain from monster food as an example.

You can heal from things like Compost, Manure, etc and in Bloom with the photosynthesis perk you'll heal 1 every 10 seconds during day or near a dwarf star / Willow's fireball.
Or even glands and salves as normal survivors can.
Or of course using Tents and/or Siesta Lean for some heals

If you have an ally Wortox, he can easily heal you and mostly help brush aside not healing from food far easily. In boss battles it can be iffy but he can still heal you, except in Bee Queen where so long as those Bee guards are dying, you'll not have to worry about health since it's likely he's dropping souls constantly from overflow.

[sam]

His main downside would be active healing. Outside of fights it isnt too hard since you can make things like tents/sleeping rolls which are great to have, but while fighting it can be a bit more restrictive. You can get some rarer items like batbats, but most of the healing is probably going to be from healing salves or the compost wrap. Using manure or other fertlizers isnt usually worth it since it's just a couple of healing points. Wormwood is the best character for early game farming, as the carrats are amazing for collecting seeds and if you can find an early game growth formula fertlizer (growth formula starter, rotten fish, or glommers goop work) it makes farming quite easy (since it makes you bloom, making you faster and automatically tending to plants close to you)

His immunity to health damage from food can come in handy with red caps and other damaging food items though its still far from an upside. If you're planning on fighting a large amount of bosses then I'd suggest another character though getting enough healing salves stockpiled for most bosses shouldnt be much of an issue.

The photosynthesis perk is nice, though its a little underwhelming compared to just getting sleeping stuff set up.

Pretty good character though made much better with a Wortox friend like the other reply said; Infinite living logs not to mention not needing healing during fights.

[Nhika]

Spider glands into healing isn't too bad.
That and bandages are honey + reeds, both super renewable.