So yeah, I would say that Woodie isn't the best or worst, it just seems weird that they're just Wilson but maple flavoured. Though I will say that I use the Weremoose quite a bit, since it makes mass spider farming (and by extension mass battles) a breeze without needing any specific setup, and the night vision makes fighting at night a breeze without needing to mess around with lantern placement or eschew head armor for a miner's hat or moggles.īack on the subject of downsides, it would seem to me that if your character's only downside is not being another character, then they don't really have one. I only use Goose early on, exploring the ocean, and to get across small rivers in the world to save time if worldgen was unkind.

I agree with pretty much everything here. For something that takes all your hunger and a chunk of your sanity and health, it's just good enough to be worth it. The Werebeaver is arguably the best of the three in the late game, but even so it's basically a faster Lucy or, if you wanna use it for non-chopping work, a way to conserve durability on some pretty cheap tools.

There's only a couple of bosses it can handle as a result and farming mobs with it can be risky, since unlike Abigail, the Weremoose is susceptible to getting stunlocked to death.

It deals slightly less damage than a fresh Hambat (because its attacks are slower than human Woodie's) and, while it's incredibly tanky, it cannot heal itself in any way. Meanwhile, a Walking Cane is only 15% slower, but comes with none of the downsides. And it takes all your hunger, up to 27 sanity and 20 health to do that. Once you've uncovered a couple of important landmarks (or seamarks), the Weregoose's sole use is getting from point A to point B faster. It cannot attack anything or pick anything or use anything. It gives a 40% speed boost, but can do literally nothing but run. Woodie's downside is that he is more or less a Wilson clone without his wereforms and that his wereforms drop off pretty hard in usefulness past the early-mid game, because the inconvenience of being unable to do anything but what the particular form is intended for can often outweigh the benefits it provides. It feels like a QoL character, just taking a lot of time and effort out of tedious tasks. More treeguards are always welcome and lucy means I start the game with an albeit shitty weapon and much faster deforestation even without werebeaver. Beard makes winter just a little easier, and longer lasting pig friends doesn't mean much to me but hey it's nice. Moose for ez mass mob farming and combat in a pinch, Goose for early mapping (until walking cane or if I want to keep running at night) and oceanic exploration, and Beaver for mass forest murder (hell, I even use it for mining though I don't think that's ideal). But it baffles me why every other character has downsides to match their upsides to some degree, whereas Woodie has basically nothing. I'm not a huge stickler for character balance in this game, since I play it primarily as a singleplayer or coop experience, in which case a character being better than another doesn't bother me muchly since I'm either the only one playing or it benefits all of us. The only downside Woodie has is being forced to lose 3 sanity, 30 seconds of your time, whatever hunger you had, and a couple HP while you eat, and only every 16 days.

Wolf has hunger drain and more sanity loss from darkness, Maxwell has low HP, but as far as I can tell Woodie is just Wilson+ (I still play Wilson just because I like evading taxes but he's the base character for a reason). Woodie is nowhere near the best or most useful character in the game, but each of those good or great characters have an on-paper downside whereas Woodie has nothing. What I don't get is why he has all his advantages without an actual downside. Woodie is generally my go - to character for playing DST due to all of the advantages he has with no real downside (unless you count Lucy's constant voicelines).

Dont starve together woodie