DST: A Wendy Guide

Hiya! I'm Jeikku and this is my guide on how to play Wendy, hope you can learn something out of this.

Introduction

Ah Wendy, my favourite character in the game. This gloomy little girl can be extremely useful when used properly despite what many people might say. So, anyway, let's get on with the guide that will hopefully give you insight on what it's like to play Wendy.

The Basics

Wendy [A.K.A The Bereaved] is the fourth character in Don't Starve Together and like I said in the intro can be extremely useful.

Stats

Wendy starts out with 150 Hunger, 150 Health and 200 Sanity, her Sanity bring higher due to her upcoming perk you'll see down below.

Pros

Her first Pro is that she has her Dead Sister, Abigail. Abigail will attack things for Wendy and gives players a more passive playstyle.

Her second Pro is her 25% less Sanity Drain, this means during the Night and near Monsters she will lose less sanity then all of the characters, especially Wolfgang. However this doesn't mean she loses less sanity to just those two things. She still loses normal amounts of sanity to things like Evil Flowers, Dark Swords, etc.

Cons

Her Con is that she deals 25% less damage to enemies, which makes her one of the weakest characters in the game if she doesn't have Abigail up, Wimpy Wolfgang being the weakest. It is advised to craft better weapons than a basic spear such as the Ham Bat and Dark Sword. This 0.75x damage multiplier applies to both Melee and Ranged Combat.

The Complex Bits

Abigail

Abigail is your dead Sister, she has 600 HP and will start off as a wilted flower, that will start blooming after about 2-3 days. You will need to put the flower on the ground, as long as something dies, she will spawn which will drain a total of 50 sanity. Abigail can be summoned even by killing animals in your inventory such as birds, bees, etc. Abigail does a total of 10 damage in the Day, 20 damage at Dusk, and a whopping total of 40 damage at Night, making Night her best time to attack, especially in Seasons like Spring and Winter where the Nights are longer. This trait is especially handy in the ruins as it's always considered Night so she will do a constant 40 damage, Splumonkeys won't be able to touch you. She can be a handy way of fighting the Giant Tentacle as she can do AoE on multiple tentacles and kill them instantly as they have 20 health. To do this you should target the big tentacle but don't hit it, move away as you're about to swing and you should do a fake swing, which Abigail will then go for the tentacle.


She is most notably used to farm Spiders and Bees, as she can stunlock multiple due to her AoE attack. It is recommended to farm spiders at night when the nest is tier 3 as she can kill the spiders and spider warriors much faster, just make sure there are no other nests around as there will be ALOT of spiders on you otherwise. Abigail will only attack mobs when she is attacked, when Wendy is attacked/being chased or if Wendy attacks. However she will also randomly attack some mobs such as Moleworms, Rabbits and Frogs. Abigail can also catch up with Rabbits and Butterflies if they've been targeted by Wendy, as well as being able to attack Moleworms that are underground. She will stop attacking a few seconds after Wendy stops attacking or if Wendy runs away. If she dies, she will retreat back into her flower which will start blooming again after a few days. If you happen to lose your flower or just want spares, you can craft as many flowers you want with 6 petals and 1 nightmare fuel under the magic tab, without the use of the machines.

Abigails flower has four stages that go as followed:

A wilted flower, Wendy will say: This was my Sister's Flower, she's gone far away.

A wilted flower, Wendy will say: I can feel Abigails presence growing stronger.

A blooming flower with a pinkish colouration, Wendy will say: Abigail is almost here!

A fully bloomed, red flower that levitates when on the ground, Wendy will say: Abigail is ready to play, but she needs some space.

Combat

Wendy is kind of bad in combat, her 0.75 damage multiplier makes it hard to kill most mobs such as hounds or depth worms, she's even worse when killing bosses such as Dragonfly and Bee Queen. It is recommended to use Ham Bats, Tentacle Spikes and Dark Swords when fighting harder mobs and bosses, she doesn't affect the fire staff however. It is highly recommend to fight when Abigail is up or when with teammates such as Wolfgang or Wigfrid as they will be the main damage dealers.

Abigail can be used as a punching bag aswell while you fight, if you're kiting enemies like spider warriors. This can be useful against Dragonfly as she will be hitting Abigail while you're dealing damage and staying nice and healthy. She is ESPECIALLY useful for Bee Queen when fighting the grumble bees, she stunlocks them which gives your damage dealers an easier time killing Bee Queen, I'd recommend carrying more than one flower incase she dies. (QUICK NOTE: You can kill Abigail by attacking her once, she will immediately return to her flower.)

Sanity Station

One of the best things about Wendy is her ability to craft Sanity Stations. A sanity station is a group of evil flowers in one area that is created by making a large area of Abigail flowers and waiting for them to change into normal flowers, these flowers can be then turned to evil flowers by having a ghost haunt them. Once you obtain the Bee Queen crown you can gain sanity VERY quickly because the bee queen crown turns insanity aura into a sanity aura. This is also a quick way of farming nightmare fuel.


This works better than planting flowers as Abigail flowers can be put closer together. Abigail flowers have to be put 0.75 units, or 0.1875 turfs away from each other, otherwise they will turn into petals. Putting them on a turf where flowers can't grow such as wood turf will turn them into petals too. In order to turn them into petals, a link must be broken between you and the flowers which can be done by either leaving the game or entering the caves. It will take a few days for them to turn into flowers so be patient. I recommend using the Sanity Station Builder client mod which you can find right here: Sanity Station Mod

Synergy's with other characters

Wendy and WickerBottom: I really like this one, due to WickerBottom's books draining her sanity, she can farm nightmare fuel easily for Wendy so that she can craft more Abigail flowers, and once you have a sanity station set up, WickerBottom's sanity problems are over.

Wendy and Wolfgang: These two can synergise pretty well together. While Wolfgang is off killing other things, Wendy can farm monster meat and honey from spiders and bees for an easy source of food and healing items. Due to Wolfgangs higher sanity drain and strength he can easily farm nightmare fuel for Wendy to make a sanity station and dark swords, and the sanity station can help Wolfgang with sanity issues if he needs it. These two pair well for fighting Bee Queen as Wolfgang deals damage while Wendy and Abigail distract the grumble bees.

Wendy and Wigfrid: These two combo well due to one thing. MEAT. Wendy can farm Monster Meat from spiders to easily feed Wigfrid and Wigfrid can craft Battle Spears and Helmets for Wendy to use, as Battle Spears do more damage than a regular spear. However nightmare fuel may be hard to come by due to Wendy's sanity drain and Wigfrid's sanity gain during combat.

Wendy, Wolfgang and Wickerbottom

These three combo pretty well together to be honest. Wolfgang kills the harder enemies, Wendy and Wickerbottom can hunt for food to feed Wolfgang, Wicker and Wolfgang farm easy nightmare fuel for both Wolfgang and Wendy to use, Wendy can craft the Sanity Station to help them deal with their sanity or to drain their sanity quicker too. Wolfgang and Wendy can easily ruins rush together, Wolfgang and Abigail can deal the damage, Wendy can protect Wolfgang from Shadow Splumonkeys, Depth Worms and Shadow Creatures due to the less sanity drain and Abigail.

Summary

So in a summary, while not being best suited to combat, she can be a great asset to the team by being able to farm supplies from mobs and give support to her team in combat with the use of Abigail. She can be really good if used right, and I hope that this guide helps. Anything I miss? Leave a comment down below! Feedback would be much appreciated, thank you for reading.

[Jeikku]

Because this was posted in 2018, and I haven't been bothered to update it, atleast not yet

[JuneHarper1498]

The Abigail summoning procedure is the one for Don't Starve, but the guide talks about how she can work with other characters in DST... any reason for this?

[Moonbright]

Can you make one for Willow!

[sdXVeas R]

I dont know if its a bug but when i eat veggies, butterflys and flowers my sanity go down, someone knows qhy?

[Jeikku]

And yeah I actually forgot to put those tips in there. My mistake

[Jeikku]

Splumonkeys however are very easy to kill with her as she can stunlock large groups, and has saved my ass many times when I was trying to escape from a large group of monkeys

[Jeikku]

I suppose I could have worded that better. From an experience I've had no trouble with Depth Worms as Abigail provides a temporary distraction and if it is night/ruins she can do a bit of damage before she dies. It gives you a bit of room to fight if there are a lot of worms. In short that was basically a terrible example from me lol.

[myxal]

Oh, and some more tips:
- Abigail makes killing tentapillars a lot easier. I takes some practice to stay within her AoE so that Wendy doesn't get hit (as often), but it's easy enough that cave-dwelling Wendy can use tentacle spikes as a daily-driver weapon.
- Abigail will hit moleworms and rabbits that end up in her AoE without provocation, and but also without pursuing them. Something to keep in mind when procuring rabbits for prestihatitator, or moles for Moggles.

[myxal]

Hi Jeikku, I just started playing Wendy to get a hands-on before the announced balance-pocalypse drops
[quote]Splumonkeys and Depths Worms won't be able to touch you.[/quote]You sure about this? I actually came here to find some tips for dealing with worms, either from periodic waves or from worldgen. According to wiki numbers:
Abigail DPS = 40/1.1 = ~36
Worm DPS - Abigail healing = (75/4) -1 = 17.75
A single worm will deal (17.75 * (900/36) = 443) damage to Abi before being killed). 157 health is just a couple of splumonkey hits away from dying, and if 2 are targeting her, she's toast. From the time I've spent in caves so far, worms are a bigger threat than tentacles. Am I missing something, or did you mean Slurpers?

[Fau]

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