Don't Starve Together

Don't Starve Together

Reign of Runts
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Goat Slice  [developer] Jul 13, 2024 @ 8:45am
Skill Tree Spotlight: Moose/Goose
Introducing the third Skill Tree update. Gain Insight to unlock new unique skills.

* = Grants a damage boost of x1.5 (x2.5 when target is wet)

Middle
Waterfowl I
""Get your hands wet under the ocean to catch fish with your beak/snout." - Click on Ocean Fish, or Yourself, to attempt a swing/bite combo to catch a fish without killing it. Gain 15 Wetness per success.
Waterfowl II
"Increase your speed while walking on the ocean significantly. But increase the rate of your passive Wetness gain on the ocean." - Increase your speed on the ocean by 30%, but increase the rate that Wetness is gained by 10%.

Spin Side
Whirlstorm
"Increase the speed and damage of your Spin while it's raining by 20%."
Flight and Fight I
"Your Spin will do additional damage and work at the end of its duration." - Work means Chopping & Mining
Flight and Fight II
"Enemies attacking your Spin will have damage reflected back." - 50% Damage
Flight and Fight III
"Your Spin will do additional damage and work at the start of its duration."
Flight and Fight IV
"Triple the damage reflected back to enemies attacking your Spin." - 95% Damage

Shock Absorber - Learn 4 Spin skills or 4 Nesting skills to unlock.
"On getting struck by lightning, deal *Electrical Damage for a short period. Lightning will heal you for more." - Lightning health gain increases from 10-19 to 20-29

Nest Side
Smotherly Nestling
"Learn to "comfort" other survivors. Survivors affected by Motherly Nestings will get bigger "comfort" boosts." - 25 second cooldown. Use RMB to heal other players for 25 health and 10 sanity if effected by the Motherly Nesting. 1 health 1 sanity when not effected
Mother's Nesting I
"Restore some more sanity overtime from Motherly Nestings." - You gain 50% more sanity restored from the Motherly Nesting buff
Mother's Nesting II
"Your Motherly Nesting will double nearby follower's damage and extend follower's loyalty a fair amount."
Live, Laugh, Lightning I
"Your Motherly Nesting will function similar to a lightning rod, attracting lightning strikes."
Live, Laugh, Lightning II
"When your Motherly Nesting is charged by lightning it will buff nearby survivors with *Electrical Damage." - Charge doesn't last

Galvanic Goosery - Learn 4 Spin skills or 4 Nesting skills to unlock.
"Learn how to use your Down Feathers to craft a fanciful Migration Mantelet for a shocking boost." - Item will function as a Lightning Rod when equipped, if charged increase wearer speed by 30%. Charge costs durability, Charge lost on unequip and doesn't last. Lasts 5 days. Small Summer protection.
Migratory Moose-ment
"Learn to put your arm feathers to use and migrate over to the nearest occupied Motherly Nesting." - RMB on Yourself to "Migrate" to the nearest Motherly Nesting with a Tallbird Egg. If there is none, or it's too far away, you'll fall back down. Costs 50 hunger, adds grogginess. Migration Mantelet increases total range.

Bottom
Nester Investor I
"Learn to shake down trees to gain feathers, twigs, or grass." - 70% to drop loot (see below), 10 second cooldown on loot drop
Nester Investor II
"Learn to use a razor to preen a few of your down feathers every few days." - 3 days, extra feather in Summer
Loot
Chance
Twigs
50%
Cut Grass
40%
Crimson Feather/Jet Feather
30%
Azure Feather
20%

Birds of a Feather I
"Equip the Luxury Fan and upgrade it with Restrained Static. Upgrade it to summon lightning bolts from the sky." - 2 minute cooldown, strikes cost a use - (Moose/Goose has a natural 90% Lightning attraction, it'll almost always strike her unless higher attractors are around like WX-78 or a Lightning Rod)
Birds of a Feather II
"Give your Luxury Fan the luxury of a speed boost and a quicker lightning strike cooldown." - 20% speed boost, 30 second cooldown

Affinity
Shadow Moose
"The Queen will reward your loyalty by permitting you to incubate Pure Horror to best Lunar-aligned creatures."

( Take 10% less damage from Shadow Aligned creatures and deal 10% more damage to Lunar Aligned creatures. )

- Gain the ability to nest Pure Horror in a Motherly Nesting. Lunar-aligned creatures within its effect radius will take 50% more damage, on top of existing Motherly Nesting effects.

Lunar Goose
"The Cryptic Founder will reward your curiosity by allowing you to incubate Pure Brilliance to best Shadow-aligned creatures."

( Take 10% less damage from Lunar Aligned creatures and deal 10% more damage to Shadow Aligned creatures. )

- Gain the ability to nest Pure Brilliance in a Motherly Nesting. Shadow-aligned creatures within its effect radius will take 50% more damage, on top of existing Motherly Nesting effects.


Author's Note
It's been a few months since Dragonfly's Skill Tree as I had wanted to wait until Klei's next Trees, among other duties I had.
Thank you to those that have continued to provide any sort of feedback on these! Character Balance seems to be the hottest DST topic as of late as the game continually shifts. With the inclusion of Skill Trees I still maintain my goal of having these 4 share the sensibilities of DST's balance, but even in early 2020 on release they were a little lacking in that regard. So your input is valued, of course.
Only one more Runt Skill Tree left...eventually! Keep an eye out...
Last edited by Goat Slice; Sep 21, 2024 @ 4:51pm
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cheri Jul 13, 2024 @ 12:01pm 
LET'S HONKING GOOOO!!!!! :steamhappy:
Glyph Goat Jul 13, 2024 @ 9:26pm 
HYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!
Toroic Jul 13, 2024 @ 11:06pm 
This is my favorite of the runts, and I really enjoy the creativity in the skill tree!

That said, I think waterfowl 1 and waterfowl 2 have anti-synergy due to waterfowl 2 decreasing the time you can spend on the water which means you'll catch less fish. Love waterfowl 1, would always skip 2 in the current state.

30% speed for 50% time on the water is imo not a good trade, especially when you consider that you're spending a skill point. I'm not sure this perk needs a downside at all. If 30% speed is too much on water, I'd just reduce the magnitude.

Whirlstorm seems too situational to compete with even other spin perks.

Migratory Moose-ment is a really nice skill for your base nest, I can't see a scenario where I don't take it for the convenience factor.

I haven't fully explored the strats with triggering lightning with luxury fans vs just using telelocator. If you can shave feathers for the vest and get poor man's volt goat jelly and the speed boost it seems pretty good for damage.

Nester investor is really interesting to get azure feathers out of season and easy access to grass/twigs as you're exploring around, and getting down feathers early is really nice too.



I'll need to spend more time to really get a good feel for the balancing, but overall I see a fun character getting some really nice depth.
Goat Slice  [developer] Jul 14, 2024 @ 9:37am 
Originally posted by Toroic:
This is my favorite of the runts, and I really enjoy the creativity in the skill tree! ...
Thank you! I'll be taking a lot of this into consideration for the future!
Jack_Lodi Jul 18, 2024 @ 1:23pm 
Checked out this update and I must admit it's just golden, but I have 2 suggestions:

1. I think it would be great if Migratory Moose-ment and Galvanic Goosery - skills have synergy. Something like equipping Migratory Mantle increases range of "migration" so you can go back even if you far far away. Or remove range completely with mantle, but extra range consumes it's durability depends of the range

2. I wish at least one skill (maybe addition for Birds of a feather II or new one separate skill which would call "Mother woose" or "Flock favorite") which makes all kinds of birds neutral to her. It would be useful for not scare regular birds away, like Robin's, crows, turkeys and etc, safely wander around tallbirds (unless you grab egg) and not be attacked by lunar penguills on said island
Goat Slice  [developer] Jul 19, 2024 @ 4:36pm 
Originally posted by Jack_Lodi:
Checked out this update and I must admit it's just golden, but ...
Ty! I had actually concepted 2 as a skill early on (named Birds of a Feather, too) alongside the Motherly Nesting attracting birds! Ultimately scrapped them early on in favor of skills I felt were more befitting.
Last edited by Goat Slice; Jul 19, 2024 @ 4:37pm
camacarosebas22 Aug 7, 2024 @ 5:47pm 
Hello, I have a question, I don't know enough about this game and I don't know if it's a term from the mod or the ''restrained static'' is from the game and I don't know how to upgrade my fan, can you help me?
Goat Slice  [developer] Aug 7, 2024 @ 8:34pm 
Originally posted by camacarosebas22:
Hello, I have a question ...
Restrained Static is an item obtained by assisting Wagstaff in a Moonstorm event, a more late-game happening. Similar to Wigfrid's Elding Spear skill.
For spawning with console; c_spawn("moonstorm_static_item")
XDNick123 Aug 18, 2024 @ 9:48am 
Armor can suffer damage and break during the spin, when they break the spin is canceled which is generally quite lethal.
Goat Slice  [developer] Aug 18, 2024 @ 11:01am 
Originally posted by XDNick123:
Armor can suffer damage and break during the spin ...
This should be fixed in a future patch!
XDNick123 Aug 18, 2024 @ 4:27pm 
I believe the Goose's nest should have a visual indicator for both durability and migration range, perhaps if it had a boat-like HUD showing the durability of the closest nest available for migration.

I really liked this mod.
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