Don't Starve Together is the standalone multiplayer expansion of the uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. You and your friends will face starvation, hostile creatures, and the unrelenting elements of this random and procedural world. But some of that challenge is going to have to lead to character death. Not to worry, fellow survivor, Don't Starve Together has several ways to cheat death and get you back into the fight. This guide shall look into the many revival mechanics that you have at your disposal, in making you and your companions ever-ready to go head-to-head in the direst of situations.
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Powers of an Apparition
When your character dies, they turn into a sort of clear ghost. For the most part, you can't interact with the physical world, but you retain a few important abilities:
- Haunting Objects: Allow ghosts to haunt particular objects, causing beneficial effects. When in the ghost state, these include reviving yourself or your allies at specified structures and crafting items to help assist your return to the living world.
- Scouting and Light Source: You can move around the map pretty freely to scout for resources and provide some sort of a light source for your surviving teammates. This might be instrumental in helping you go around through the treacherous environment at night.
- Item Collection: Most of the dropped items cannot be picked up by the ghosts, but they are capable of picking up the dropped soul spheres and wisps, as they are crafting items that can be used to make revival items.
Bringing Back from the Spectral Realm
Don't Starve Together allows you to possess many possibilities for revival, both for yourself and for your fallen friends. So, here's a more detailed dissertation on those methods:
- Touch Stones: Scattered over the face of the world are monuments to the ancients, where permanent revival points have been created. Simply haunt a Touch Stone as a ghost by waving over it and you'll resurrect at that location. They can only be used once per player per game.
- Meat Effigies: Personal resurrection totems, crafted. If you attune to a Meat Effigy before you die you will haunt it and respawn on it when you die instead of a Touch Stone. Can only be used once per craft and requires a resource to create.
- Life-Giving Amulet: A craftable personal revival item to be worn, it brings revival with you on the go. This now haunts the Life-Giving Amulet at the place where you fell, reviving upon death. But there is a catch, as materials for its creation are rare.
- Telltale Heart: This craft item gives instant revival to your downed friend. You can bring him back up on his feet with the Telltale Heart on a ghost player. It involves teamwork and resourcefulness because making the Telltale Heart involves certain items.
Selection of the Revival Strategy
The optimal revival method depends on your situation and resources. Here's a quick breakdown to aid your decision:
Touch Stones are but the poor man's very low-tech, single-purpose, run-of-the-mill, utilitarian devices. Still fine to use when at the early game or looking around strange terrain.
Meat Effigies: Self regen points, very useful if one wants to wander far from established camps.
Life-Giving Amulet: Provides an easy self-revive option. This will be useful for a lot of soloing or other dangerous builds.
Telltale Heart: Group-oriented reviving technique, promotes working together and strategic utilization of resources.
No, in Don't Starve Together, there are no built-in commands for reviving the characters; all reviving is done through the game mechanics noted above.
In case of a death, all inventory drops at the point of your death. All the items that were dropped lie on the ground for some minutes, after which they despawn completely. What is dropped cannot be picked up by the ghosts, but it can only be picked up by the teammates who are still surviving.
This perforce means that it is impossible to avoid death in Don't Starve Together. However, with proper planning, resource management, keeping healthy and well-fed, and cooperation as a team, the chance of perishing in general will be brought down.
Absolutely! Reviving them keeps your full group count alive so that the odds of your own survival are maximized. Beyond that, the experience and understanding of crafting would still be in the revived player, so the catch-up in terms of contributing toward the group is quite easy.
Conclusion
Inevitable death might visit you in the wilds of Don't Starve Together, yet it need not be the end of your fun. You can understand the mechanics of revival and proper applications in order for you and your partners to free themselves from the grip of death and keep up the lively adventures. Just never forget that team play and resourcefulness are the keys to survival in such a cruel world.