Every Character Explained

Overview

All of the information about every character. Expect lots of wit and facts.(If it looks like an image is missing, it’s because it is. All of my steam screenshots were deleted, might fix later idk.)

Wilson

Wilson is the first character in the game, requiring 0 EXP to unlock, and he’s the first character you ever play unless you cheated.

Stats

• 150 Health
• 150 Hunger
• 200 Sanity

Perks

• Grows a magnificent beard

Pros
Ok, so he has a beard right? After 4 days, he will grow a gentleman stubble beard that provides 1 Beard hair shaved and about 15 insulation. After 8 days, it becomes a real beard with 45 insulation and 2 beard hair shaved. After 16 days, it will become the magnificent beard, providing 130 insulation, and 4 beard hair when shaved. Yes, he gets a free winter hat but like 1% better for the Winter. Sweet! Oh but it also makes you overheat quicker in Summer.

*Beard Stages*

Beard Facts

*Shaving gives 10 Sanity. You know, because why not I guess.
*Since Winter begins on day 21, you can shave your stubble beard on day 4 for a free beard hair.
*The beard hair is useful in the making of the Meat Effigy, a thing that looks exactly like Wilson and resurrects you on death, but also takes 20 max health.

Cons
Well… he doesn’t have any. Hurray.

Overall, Wilson is a well balanced character, not the best to pick but not the worst. You can also get the super satisfying opportunity of shaving your massive beard at the end of every Spring.

Willow

Willow is the second character, requiring 160 EXP to unlock. She actually has quite a bit of downsides despite being more of a newbie character, but the goods mostly play that off.

Stats

• 150 Health
• 150 Hunger
• 120 Sanity

Perks

• Immune to fire
• Has a sweet lighter
• Lights fires when insane

Pros
Okay, so she’s immune to fire huh? Well get this… she can burn things in her inventory and take no damage. Yes, that’s right. And since it is next to fire damage and not being lit on fire damage, the loot of whatever’s dumb enough to stand next to her won’t burn. Even better- most enemies will panic when next to fire, allowing Willow to end most fights in up to 10 seconds and take zero damage. Of course the fire will also unfreeze her if 2 Ice Hounds or Deerclops came by.

*rekt*

Next up… her lighter is just a torch with infinite durability but lower light radius. The light will still protect you from complete darkness insanity aura and Charlie though. She cannot craft this, it can be stolen from Krampus and sunken in the ocean if sitting for too long so watch out for that. Also since it’s fire, it gives 0.6 sanity per minute when held. You know, because that’s totally useful. Wow, half of a Garland. GG.

And lastly, she gains sanity near fire. The closer she is, the more gained. Max is 10 Sanity a minute. Thanks to this, you can just drop like 30 items near eachother, get a flingomatic and regen all that sanity. Or burn crap you don’t need.

Cons
Willow has lower max sanity and at 60 Sanity and below, she will periodically light a fire, leaving a message when doing so such as “I can’t help myself!”. If you’re in the middle of base when this happens, well too bad it’s all gone. Well, unless you have a Ice Flingo-matic, which you should.

Her 3rd con… oh boy. Oh boyyyy. Remember all that cool stuff about fighting with fire and all? Well, there’s just one thing that makes Willow so much less valuable. Everyone can light items in their inventory. Yes ik, they will burn if they do. But- if the player puts on a Scalemail / Obsidian Armor, the fire does no damage. Well, they won’t get sanity from it, but that doesn’t mean much.

Burning Facts

*Since other characters need to take their body slot when burning items in inventory, Willow can wear something else a bit more important instead, such as a puffy vest in Winter and burning things to keep warm as possible.
*Boards have the highest burn time, ever. It’s best to use them to burn. Keep in mind items do not deal more damage stacked, so just keep about 10 boards in one stack and split em when you need to.
*You’re the only character who can use a backpack to carry even more boards when burning things. Remember that!

Overall, Willow is the lost hope of what would’ve been a great character. Sigh. Well, she’s still good anyways.

Wolfgang

Wolfgang is mighty character, and need 360 EXP for unlock! He’s got some great advantages, and about a few disadvantages.

Stats

• 200 Health (300 Max when Mighty)
• 300 Hunger
• 200 Sanity

Perks

• Gets stronger with a full belly
• Is afraid of monsters and the dark

Pros
He really does get stronger with a full belly… at 221 hunger and more, he gets “Mighty”. While in this form, the more mighty he is, the bigger, stronger, and faster he is. At 300 Hunger, his strongest possible form, he gets x2 Damage, 25% Speed Boost, and grows 50% bigger. Thanks to all this combined, he can absolutely destroy most mobs, even ones 9 times his size!

Having this much damage and all can let him pretty easily kill stuff for more food to eat, but don’t go mighty 24/7, only when you need to. And why is that? I’ll explain in this Cons part.

Cons
Well, as a russian strongman, he gets hungry really damn fast at a 50% rate. Ooh… and in mighty form, the more mighty he is, the higher the count goes. At max 300 hunger, he will lose it 3x faster than normal. Like, okay then. The hunger price of 3 characters for the damage price of 2? Niiiice scams game…

Well… when his hunger drops to 100… he gets w i m p y. In this form, he loses hunger at the normal rate, but the wimpier he is, the slower and weaker he becomes. At 2 hunger and below for example (max wimpiness), he will move 10% slower and deal 50% less damage. Brutal… better get eatin!

And finally- afraid of monsters and the dark. He has an overall 10% quicker sanity drain. This isn’t really a downside since you can just go mighty and insane and 4 shot shadow creatures, but hey, depends on the food situation.

Muscular Facts

*Wolfgang does up to 119 damage with a 100% fresh Ham Bat, even more damage than blow darts. Thanks to this and the whole item burning thing, he can deal the most damage possible by a single player. Ever.
*They say that everytime a Wolfgang goes mighty, a child in Africa gets depression. It is unknown why, but this seems to be true, for no logical reason.

Overall, Wolfgang is the guy to pick when you just want to kill everything.

Wendy

Wendy is the character that’s probably in a constant state of menstruation but nobody talks about this since it’s a fam friendly game. She requires 640 EXP to unlock.

Stats

• 150 Health
• 150 Hunger
• 200 Sanity

Perks

• Haunted by her twin sister
• Feels comfortable in the dark
• Doesn’t hit very hard

Pros
Haunted by her twin sister, eh? That’s right! Introducing: Abigail!

To summon her, you must wait 2-4 days for the flower to begin floating. Examing the flower inbetween the days will give you a hint on how far until Abby is ready. Once the flower is floating, simply drop it and sacrifice (kill) something for it, be it a rabbit, a bee, or even yourself actually. Completing the ritual spawns Abigail and takes 50 Sanity. Abigail is a 600hp ghost with an AoE that doubles when it gets darker. 10 Day damage, 20 Dusk Damage, 40 Night and Caves damage. At around 200 Health Abigail will start to get sad, so use that as a sign. She also regens 1hp a second.

Thanks to AoE, Abigail can kill many small enemies at once, but um, big boy enemies such as giants and even tentacles will definitely end her life. Good thing she drops her flower back on death. And yes of course, Abigail can float over the sea and won’t interfere with waves.

Other than bees and spiders and stuff, Abigail is quite the tough cookie against fighting the Rabid Beetle hordes in Hamlet.

Since she’s dark as a person and feels comfortable in it, she loses a permanent 25% insanity drain affect. Yes, not loses it 25% slower, only loses 75% of a normal character. Thanks to this, a Top Hat will completely negate darkness sanity drain, and all other sanity drains are nullified. This ability isn’t as helpful as it sounds though.

Cons
She does 25% less damage. Yep, that’s it. You gotta get Abigail to fight with you, I guess.

Edgy Facts

*Wendy is a child. Look rule34 people, this isn’t funny. Wake up and get some help.
*As previously stated, a Top Hat will completely negate the darkness sanity drain.

Overall, Wendy is a sadist with a taste for monster meat and honey, and hatred for tentacles and bosses.

WX-78

He’s the robot with the annoying commentary requiring 960 XP to unlock.

Stats

• 100 Health (400 Max)
• 100 Hunger (200 Max)
• 100 Sanity (300 Max)

Perks

• Not a picky eater
• Charged by lightning, damaged by water
• Can upgrade with gears

Pros
WX can eat stale and spoiled food as if it were fresh. Yep. That’s all that means.

Yeah, the robot is a lightning rod and will become charged if struck, however the lightning rod structure is prioritized to be struck over him. On strike, WX gains 100 Health, loses 33 Sanity, and becomes charged. While charged, WX glows (torch radius), becomes immune to freezing, and moves 50% quicker. See, getting struck normally is very hard to do and 1/100 chance, so it’s better to just use either

1. Telelocate random crap and the strikes hit you, very expensive
2. Stand next to mosslings, kinda risky but cheap
3. Stand outside during monsoon and hurricane season storm, very effective and free
4. Thunderbirds. Insanely effective, but will draw Gnat Swarms to you.

Yep! You heard it right! Just stand outside in monsoon and hurricane season and get all those charges. Or just agitate some owls! Each strike lasts 1 day, keep that in mind.

And finally, he can upgrade with gears. WX gets 60 health, 75 hunger, and 50 sanity for every gear eaten as well as 20 Maximum Health, 6 Maximum Hunger and 13 Maximum sanity. WX can upgrade all the way to 400 Health, 300 Sanity and 200 Hunger after 15 gears. After that, gears are just good food. And yeh! Finally, something to do with all those floaty-boaty knights. Alternatively, Gears can be purchased at “The Sty Oddities Emporium” for just 10 Oincs. Oh yeah, then there is the entirety of Adventure Mode. Need I say more?

Cons
WX-78 starts with 100 base stats, but this is no longer a problem later on when you get gears.

He also takes damage in the rain, at about 1 per 3 seconds. To stop this you need 100% rain protection. Well, you see, getting charged gives 100 health so just take that Eyebrella off and enjoy the speed you’re probably gonna get.

Overall, WX-78 is a very easy character to play and has very little problem in surviving.

Wickerbottom

Ah, Ms. Wicker. The queen of, well, everything, at the cost of just 1280 XP.

Stats

• 150 Health
• 150 Hunger
• 250 Sanity

Perks

• Knows many things
• Self publishes books
• Can’t sleep, hates spoilage

Pros
As someone who’s been reading since for like, 60 years or something, she naturally has a science boost of 1, the same as a Science Machine. And thanks to that, by using a Science Machine, she unlocks all of the crafting recipes! Well, except for On Tentacles, so you’ll need to make an Engine Anyways. It’s a nice ability normally, but especially helpful for the crafting of Row Boats in SW and Backpack + Ball Pein Hammer for Temple Exploring in HAM.

First off we have the Applied Horticulture book, which grows all plants instantly. It has 5 uses and takes 33 sanity to read.

You can just put a lureplant in the middle of a whole bunch of stuff, and keep reading the book once the eyeplants harvest everything for a quick and large supply of, well, anything. Keep in mind this book can’t grow plants in winter or unfertilized. I think the best part of this book as that in Hamlet, it grows Nettles instantly the second they become wet.

And it’s all at the cost of a seeds and a manure. Well, 2 papyrus as well but every book needs that for crafting. It has 3 uses and takes 50 sanity to read.

The next book is Birds Of The World, it just calls down nearly 30 birds. After 2 uses, the sky starts to run out of birds, and after 3-4, the sky runs completely out. Main use of this book is just knocking the birds out with your sleepytime book and causing genocide to swim in Krampus and Feathers, or put a fire farm down and have the poor things fly onto it.

It needs 2 Eggs to craft. And… that’s all to this book. I guess you can also just use this book to drop sanity since it’s so cheap too.

Next is Sleepytime Stories, it takes 33 sanity, has 5 uses, and needs Prestihatitator or better to prototype.

It puts things to sleep, but unlike the Pan Flute which puts to sleep at the beginning of the animation, it’s at the end of the anim. Yeah… not much context needed here.

Yeah… here’s to the last of the ‘useful’ books. On Tentacles requires a Tentacle Spots to craft, takes 50 sanity to read, and needs a Alchemy Engine to prototype. It summons 3 Tentacles next to Wickerbottom, all of them forming a sort of circle. Well, the Tentacles are hostile to Wicker and the book seems kinda dumb and useless at first, but by builing any sort of wall around yourself and then reading it, the tentacles spawn further away from you, but don’t make the wall too big because then they will not spawn at all.

Well, if you manage to get about 5 of these books and read them all, you can kill pretty much everything.

Only problem with this is that picking up the loot can be pretty deadly. Try being far away as to where the tentacles are slightly poking up, run up and grab one item then bounce.

Yeah, now we’re sorta at the worse books… meet The End is Nigh!. It summons 16 lightning strikes, once again, around Wicker in a circle area. Costs 33 sanity to read and 1 Red Gem to craft. Needs a Shadow Manipulator to be prototyped.

It’s fun to just shock the sh*t out of a large number of enemies, usually like a spider quarry, but if you have absolutely litter your base with lightning rods you can just read the book and the place be lit up for a few days… but it’s definitely cheaper to make about 6 rods in an area around something important. Keep in mind you can also charge Volt Goats with this book. That ice cream could come in handy when you lose sanity for doing anything with Wickerbottom.

And finally- The Joy of Volcanology. This book causes a mini volcano eruption, that sends 4 Dragoon eggs in a, once again, circle around you. It takes 0 sanity to read, and 2 obsidian to craft. It can only be crafted in Shipwrecked at a Piratihatitator.

The only real use this thing has is getting to just get a free fire to nearly overheat and cook on during Winter. You can also just read it on a big enemy, but make sure it won’t kill it because then the loot will burn. You can actually take the book from SW and read it in RoG, too.

Cons
Well, apparently she has a very chronic case of Insomnia, yet she couldn’t read a medical book on the matter. Sigh. Obviously this means she can’t sleep, but can still be knocked out by Mandrakes. She can also sleep at the beginning of the game in the Maxwell intro??

Wickerbottom gains less from stale and spoiled food than others. Here, let’s get a table.

Well… she can already get food very quickly with her horticulture book, and the food that goes stale that she can’t eat, she can let rot to fertilize plants, or let a Werepig have its final feast.

Book Facts

*During Winter, using the Birds and Sleepytime books, you can get many Azure Feathers. During any other time, Applied Horticulture can grow reeds and you can put Tentacles right outside a hound mound to eventually be dealing 100 damage at range with Blow Darts.
*With the science boost, you can make a shovel & backpack very early on and dig plants to use later on.
*Just because she’s pretty clearly OP, you can’t just choose her and expect to get the game in easy mode. It takes a lot to do a lot, m8.

Overall, Wickerbottom is a character that gets better with your skillcap, to a very drastic extent. You’re new? She’s bad. You’ve been playing since 2013, know every trick in the book, and look for mods just to challenge yourself? She’s by far the most broken character and nothing stands a damn chance.

Woodie

Woodie is the candian not-joke, that, unlike his Multiplayer counterpart, can get logs faster than Maxwell here! 1600 XP to go on the tree rampage.

Stats

• 150 Health
• 150 Hunger
• 200 Sanity
• 100 Log Meter (Werebeaver Only)

Perks

• Has a lovely axe
• And a terrible secret

Pros
His lovely axe is named Lucy. She tells you all ya need to know as a Lumberjack. When to start choppin’, when to stop choppin’, and when you want to end your life from how sassy she is everytime you do anything that she doesn’t like. Anyways, she has infinite durability and chops trees in half the chops than normal, big trees being 7 chops only for example. However, he can only chopping 5 big trees, Woodie turns…

Cons
Well, he actually does not have any, unless you’d consider turning at the wrong time one, but that can be avoided.

The Curse (Werebeaver)

After chopping too many trees in a short period of time, Woodie becomes the Werebeaver and Lucy gets %#$@ at you. Sorry for having to do that, Steam wants me to not swear so it can monetize itself.

As a Werebeaver, you lose everything on your HUD except for your day counter and your new Beaverness Meter, which is at 100 when you change. You also can’t open the map as Beaver, however you can still uncover land on it, and if you have the Minimap mod, you can see on that.

The Beaver’s Log Meter is the new Health. 80% of damage dealt to you will be absorbed and you the Beaver loses as much log meter as the remaining 20% is worth. For Example. being hit by the Guardian while beaver will take off 20 Beaverness. The Werebeaver is of course rain resistant and has Night Vision as a little bonus.

*here’s what it looks like when playing as Werebeaver*

The Werebeaver can do anything a tool can. Chop, Mine, Hammer, even Dig. Doing all these will give you 1 Beaverness back every 2 gnaws. You can also eat certain objects on the floor to gain a certain amount of Beaverness back.

Some Beaver Baddies

During Full Moon, no matter what, Woodie instantly becomes a Werebeaver. Thanks to this, he can’t get Glommer by himself. The only way is to set a Lureplant at the Statue, and kill the bulb when an eyeplant picks the flower off the statue.

He also cannot swim on the sea. You know, because a literal BEAVER apparently CAN’T SWIM. Good Job Klei. However when the Beaver drowns, Woodie wakes up on the closest island with the materials to make a log raft.

But to kinda make up for that, the Werebeaver is immune to poison.

Also, to transform back into Woodie you gotta die (By letting Beaverness hit 0). When you do, Woodie will wake up as himself in the same spot he died with a third of his full stats. This basically means if you died while next to enemies, well too bad you’ll wake up and probably die again. You also drop all your items when you transform, so no armor to be put on for you.

Beaver Facts

*Uh… he has a nice beard? Idk, already said everything about this guy.

Overall, Woodie is the closest you can get to Godmode, and generally a great character all-around but has a few very annoying problems.

Maxwell (William)

Maxwell, AKA William Carter is- you guessed it- the rude gentleman at the beginning of the game. Well, in the Adventure Mode that you get to by entering his door, you keep progressing through here and eventually you meet em face to face, kill him, and then you become the new king. At that point, Maxwell is unlocked! Do keep in mind that beating Adventure Mode is… quite difficult.

Stats

• 75 Health (ouch)
• 150 Hunger
• 200 Sanity

Perks

• Is dapper, but frail
• Can split his mind into pieces
• On a first name basis with the night

Pros

Well, in case you didn’t know- In the world of Don’t Starve, lookin’ good makes you gain sanity. The more dapper you are, the more sanity you regenerate. Well, according to Maxwell when you meet him at the throne in adventure mode, he’s apparently very dapper to avoid “Them” (Them is a nice word for Shadow Creatures). So yeah, the dude has a pretty sweet Tux and gains 20 Sanity per minute, about 2.9x more than the Tam o’ Shanter. Sanity is absolutely zero problem for Maxwell.

Well, Maxwell has this strange journal that allows him to turn pieces of his mind into a little clone of himself. Since they’re literal pieces of his mind, he loses 55 Maximum Sanity for every puppet out, meaning he can only have 3 at a time. You need 2 Nightmare Fuel for every shadow and reading the book takes 10 health. So, those shadows better get me a vacation in Paris for all my health, sanity and nightmare fuel which I have a hard time getting thanks to my sanity gain, eh? Well, no, but they do have some very useful abilities.

With shadows, you can-

Commit deforestation!

Mine all the rocks you can hold!

Shred bosses! But uh, shadows have only as much health as you, and enemies CAN see the shadows and attack them, so… most of the time you have to tank…

… which doesn’t matter since you start with a Purple Gem and can GET THAT EARLY SHADOW MANIPULATOR! Night armor is 95% protection and has the durability of nearly 1 and a half Log Suits. It takes 5 Nightmare Fuel and 3 Papyrus to craft. Well, Maxwell has a pretty cool trick to lose sanity. He starts with 4 fuel, enough to make 2/3 shadows, just get some caps till then. After the set is made, Maxwell will have 35 max sanity, and will go insane after losing just 5 more. Basically, you can just put on the Night Armor and Dark Sword you also start with, and kill some Shadows. Losing the dark sword’s precious durability won’t matter since they aren’t very expensive due to Living Logs being easier to get with Maxwell by having 3 dudes help you chop. You can also eat green caps some time later on.

Also, don’t be worried about your shadows drowning. They got themselves covered.

Cons
Yes, dapper but “frail” is damn well said. Maxwell only has 75 Max Health. Rip. If you’re unarmored, Charlie, All of the giants, Spider Queen, Gunpowder, and Depth Worms will all one shot you. Better keep that armor with you.

Well, as a dapper man, being insane is difficult, and insanity is pretty useful for that sweet nightmare fuel. It’s still possible to go insane thanks to his 35 Max sanity thing, though.

And finally- Maxwell can die from shadow manipulating poison. So when he reads the Codex Umbra, he loses 10 Health right? Well he won’t just get stuck at 1hp and be able to fragment all he wants. This can actually kill him, and in fact when you die, your shadows die too. You should always keep track of your hp, but make sure you do it better when summoning shadows.

*reading to death*

Dapper Facts

Maxwell is dapper yes

*Punch butterflies and eat their wings to get 80% of the health lost from spawning shadows. Eating 4 Butterfly wings will fully recover your health after spawning 3 Shadows.

Overall, Maxwell is like Wickerbottom in the sense of getting worse or better by your skill, but instead gets the other half of resources that Wickerbottom can’t.

Wagstaff

Robert Wagstaff is the second character in the game, requiring 0 EXP to unlock, and he’s either the first or second character you play unless you cheated.

Stats

• 150 Health
• 225 Hunger
• 150 Sanity

Perks

• A great inventor
• Nearsighted
• Has a delicate stomach

A great inventor
Nearsighted
Has a delicate stomach

So first off, we got 4 different types of goggles. Each of em’ require a Spectoggles and a certain item to craft. They’re available in the “tinkering” tab exclusive to Wagstaff.

Spectoggles- used for crafting the other ones. Reveals hidden enemies (Tentacle / Flup) as well as peculiar objects, which he can investigate for free.
1 Gold Nugget, 1 Pig Skin

Infroggles- shows infrared vision. Sees right through darkness and chases off night hands in an instant, and highlights mobs. Really nice actually. One of the better items in the game, especially for its price.
1 Electrical Doodad, 2 Torches

Visor- an 85% damage resistance helmet, that will of course negate nearsighting, but makes vision a little tighter. I guess it’s worth making… I dunno. Make sure you don’t spend too many rocks.
1 Cut Stone

Fryfocals- shoots static energy formed into a flaming projectile, which deals 50 damage and ignites enemies.
1 Red Gem

A pretty bad weapon honestly. Doesn’t offset the time spent making them. I wouldn’t ever recommend making these.

He can also craft some revolutionary gear based machinery.

Telebrella- teleports you to the Telepad. If you have multiple telepads, then it teleports you to the nearest one. You cannot teleport to a Telepad that you are currently standing on, so use this to prevent teleporting right next to you.
1 Electrical Doodad, 1 Pretty Parasol

Telepad- is the teleportation point for the Telebrella.
1 Electrical Doodad, 1 Gears, 2 Cut Stone

This teleporting gear is genuinely overpowered. I mean, damn, teleporting doesn’t even have a loading screen actually. In literally any bad situation ever? Just teleport away! Need to get to any essential location? Well, there you go. In addition, everyone can use the Telebrella, so by swapping characters through adventure mode, you can carry the op legacy.

Thumper- slams the ground to create seismic waves, which will destroy any nearby Trees / Natural Formations / Structures and deal 30 damage.
6 Flint, 2 Gears, 2 Hammers

Its crafting description claims that it’s a revolutionary harvester- which is purely correct. This thing is actually the fastest tree chopper. You can put up to 39 Pine Cones around it, and wallah.

While it does good on the most essential resource in the game- that’s about it. You can place it in Pengull Nests to mine all the glaciers instantly, but by the time that won’t be expensive, ice isn’t needed. It isn’t good for fighting either, since that 30 damage makes it take an actual 4 thumps just to kill spiders.

After the Ancient Hulk fight is over, it can be used to destroy the basalt pillars. The price of this speaks for itself, however.

Wagstaff is nearsighted, and only sees a small vicinity around him. While you the player may be able to distinguish the blurred out objects, Robert clearly can’t since these objects can be named after anything in the game.

This isn’t really a downside, but I guess it’s pretty annoying. And the game considers it one, I guess.

Delicate stomach, huh? Wagstaff loses 5 health for every non-cooked food. Seems pretty cancerous eh? Well, Butterfly Wings still provide 5hp actually, for some reason. But yeah. Crock Pot meals and cooked foods are totally okay.

Invention Facts

*The lower health Wagstaff has, the more distorted his physical appearance becomes. Weird…

*Wagstaff is most likely the creator of WX-78. He says “Is that… but, it couldn’t be!” about WX on the throne, and also says “My favorite portable Fibonacci sequence.” about the pinecone. WX’s pinecone quote: “A PORTABLE FIBONACCI SEQUENCER”
*The Thumper is likely inspired by the BFB.

*Wagstaff is likely inspired by Doc Brown, from Back to the Future trilogy.

Wes

Wes is the french mime who’s sole purpose is to make life hard. To unlock him, you have to find his rare setpiece spawn in Adventure Mode, which only spawns in the 1st-3rd chapters. It’s 2 Maxwell statues branched to one big area with Wes in the middle. Mining the statues will spawn either 4 Rooks or 4 Bishops, sometimes a Knight too. Mining them also takes 80 Sanity. After mining them both, go up to Wes and whatever you found from mining both statues will all spawn at once. Killing all of the clockworks gives you max sanity and makes Wes faint. His body then teleports away and you can play as him after that.

Stats

• 113 Health
• 113 Hunger
• 150 Sanity

Perks

• Can’t talk
• Has trouble staying alive
• Practices balloonomancy

Pros
Yeah, Wes can make balloons. He starts the game with a pile of them that never runs out and can inflate one at any time, however inflating a balloon costs 5 sanity. Balloons will distract Hounds, Deerclops, Catcoons and yourself if you did Ctrl + F to try to attack something else. Balloons have a small AoE and deal 5 damage when popped. Balloons also have 0 health, so damaging them in any way will pop them. Balloons will automatically pop by themselves after 2.5 days, so um, rip decoration.

Since the balloons take 5 sanity to inflate, Wes can go insane and stay insane as long as he wants.

Cons
Wes has lower maximum stats, 25% less damage, loses hunger 25% faster and cannot talk, making it visually impossible to know when hounds / a seasonal boss are coming.

All in all, Wes is a complete joke and only play this character for the challenge. Seriously.

Mime Facts

*Since Wes is a hard character to play and also the worst, Twitch Streamers think that they will get more fame by only playing Wes!

*Facts!*

Overall, Wes is the worst character ever and no one should ever play him unless trying to look cool to their viewers.

Wigfrid

Hello, welcome to Klei Walgrithr! Recently we have been thinking of a new fighting character for the Reign of Giants DLC. Have you thought of anything?

Okay, so people like the game being hard, right?

Go on.

What if we made it not that way?

Meet Wigfrid, the character that removes any challenge that may have been in the game. She is unlocked with 1920 XP.

Stats

• 200 Health
• 120 Hunger
• 120 Sanity

Perks

• Excels in battle
• Gains power from fallen foes
• Only eats meat

Pros
As a lesbian valkyrie warrior hero princess girl but also just a stage actress pretending to be a warrior, she has 25% increased damage and takes overall 25% less damage, be it from lightning, fire, and most importantly getting attacked.

Depending on how big the enemy is, Wigfrid will absorb its power, meaning Health and Sanity. For example, you kill a spider, ya get 2-3 health and sanity. Ya kill Deerclops, you get all your stats back.

*I killed the Ancient Guardian on day 36 with jerky in my bag and all I got was 8 thulecite.*

Wigfrid also starts with and can craft her special Battle Gear. The Battle Helmet is a football helmet but lasts twice as long, but it costs 2 rocks and 2 gold, so um… it’s paradise early on, but after a hundred days or so, you’ll probably worldhop out of frustration. Her spear on the other hand, costs 2 twigs, 2 flint and 2 gold and deals 42 damage, which is only way worse than a Ham Bat.

Cons
Wigfrid can only eat meat and has lower hunger and sanity. Well, most Crock Pot dishes that are good are meat anyway, especially Bacon and Eggs and Pierogi. The lower hunger and sanity isn’t a problem at all since she gets like 20 sanity of something like a Koalefant and she can get food so easily.

Oh, and… um, she can only eat meat right, because when examining carrots she pretty much proves that it’s for the protein, but insects are not only meat but also high in protein… yet she cannot eat them??

Basically she cannot eat Butterfly Wings and Butter. She also cannot drink Milk or eat Ice Cream.

But worst… worst of all… SHE CANNOT DRINK COFFEE. This is obviously a huge downside and you could say that even Wes is better for this, but well, you can already go incredibly fast without coffee. Besides, faster movement speed is something really overlooked in the game. Once you get a good base set up, everything’s localized, also you can’t really kite enemies any differently than with no movespeed buff at all. Like no matter how fast you are, you can only possibly hit a Clockwork Knight 4 times before you have to dodge, ect.

But even worse… SHE CANNOT EAT NETTLES OR NETTLE ROLL
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Valkyrie Facts

*Make sure you get those drying racks up. You’ll probably have more meat than you know what to do with, might as well make it last longer.
*Don’t make the battle spears, ever. Like come on. Get yourself a Ham Bat and a Dark Sword.

Overall, Wigfrid is… I… I don’t even know. She’s pretty boring being a carnivorous person and all, but maybe you will like having huge disadvantages despite still being able to still survive easily.

Webber

Webber is the traumatized little boy that… um, makes his only friends kill eachother. A spider attempted to eat him long ago, and there is a 5% chance that while you are killing spiders, you will find the one that tried to eat him, and it will drop his skull. Just put the skull in any dug grave and he will come back to life, and then smokebomb away and 6 spiders will spawn around you and instantly be aggroed.

Stats

• 175 Health
• 175 Hunger
• 100 Sanity

Perks

• Is a monster
• Can befriend spiders
• Grows a silky smooth beard

Pros
As a spider, Webber can give other spiders any sort of meat to befriend them. Giving one spider meat makes 3 spiders in the area follow him for up to a day. If you befriend a spider and attack another spider but cancel the attack, the spiders will all start fighting eachother. Just stand in the middle of the fight and hold space to keep the loot coming.

Webber also grows a beard like Wilson, however it’s much smaller and gives silk instead of beard hair when shaved.

The stubble is 10 insulation, beard is 30, and silky smooth beard is 100.

And finally, Webber can upgrade spider dens using silk. 4 Silk upgrades a tier 1 den and 6 Silk upgrades a tier 2 one.

Cons
Webber isn’t actually a monster, but he sure does look like one, so Pigs, Bunnymen, Catcoons and I think Tallbirds as well all attack him on sight. Pigs will say the quotes of fighting a spider and Bunnymen say the quotes of fighting a monster, just for added detail. However, wearing a one man band makes the pigs and bunnies friendly. Well, most of the time…

Oh yeah, but in Hamlet, you have a Shamlet Mask. It makes civilized pigs friendly, but… only civilized pigs. For some reason, it does not fool Wild Bores or Pigs. I guess the powerful stache’ gives it away? This is also a double bad thing since usually the head slot is used for better things… like I don’t know, keeping the fog out in Humid with a Pith Hat? Regenerating Sanity with Tam’ o?

Webber also has very low max sanity, but you can just make a top hat with all the silk you’ll be drowning in and later Tam o’ Shanter.

Webber Facts

*Spiders are not good at killing seasonal bosses. At all.
*And if they do manage to kill one, they’ll eat the meats dropped, as well as the deerclops eyeball too.
*To get spider eggs easily, befriend the spiders one spawns at dusk, and make them attack the den. Once all the spiders in the den come out, give it a good smackin’ and it will break pretty easily.

Overall, Webber is a pretty great character that requires a lot of daily routines. Don’t let those dens become queens by the way.

Walani

Walani is unlocked with 2240 XP. She’s just the character that sUP3r REltablE omG u wuldnt last 5 minuts wit her!

Stats

• 120 Health
• 200 Hunger
• 200 Sanity

Perks

• Loves surfing
• Dries off quickly
• Is a pretty chill gal

Pros

Walani starts with and can craft her Surfboard for 1 boards and 2 sea shells. The board can go in her inventory and picked up at all times, moves relatively quickly, does not accept attachments but items can be held in the hands while riding it. It only has 100 health, however it can ride the big waves spawned by Quacken, Explosions and Tides and gets 1 sanity for riding any type of wave.

*Hand slot, big waves, and the hurricane season? Sounds gud.*

However, just a row boat with a cloth sail lasts much longer and has just 0.5 less speed.

It can’t get mega sanity and ride big waves but still.

On the other hand, the Surfboard does totally outdo any other boat in Hamlet, since it’s portable! And fast.

She also dries off 20% quicker, which is really only useful for when you accidentally hit a wave, or after a fog attack during Hamlet’s Humid season.

Speaking of waves, she gets a 5x speed boost for riding a wave and 7x boost for a big wave for a short time.

Cons
Walani’s health is a bit lower and her hunger drains just a tad bit quicker. Um… yeah, not so bad, can be threatening sometimes.

This isn’t really a good or bad thing, but Walani loses and gains sanity 10% slower. Just, use that however you want.

No one Facts idk

*Walani does not like Maxwell.

Overall, Walani is a decent character with very little ups and very little downs. She’s just sorta what happened when Klei hit random on the DS Character Generator.

Warly

Warly is the chef of the game. But uh… he cares about good eating wayyy too much. He is 2560 XP to unlock.

Stats

• 150 Health
• 250 Hunger
• 200 Sanity

Perks

• Has a refined palate
• Cooks in custom kitchenware
• Brings a stylish chef pouch

Pros

First up, Warly gets a 33% stat bonus on all crock pot meals.

Warly has an indestructable crock pot that he carries in his pocket and can be placed anywhere. This portable crock pot also has exclusive recipes.

*all of the special foods cooked*

Fresh Fruit Crepes is the best food in the game giving 80 Health, 200 Hunger and 20 Sanity. It requires 1 Butter, 1 Honey and 2 Fruits to cook. The ideal fruits are two halved coconuts since they’re fairly easy to get.

Mussel Bouillabaise is a decent meal. It gives 26 health, 49 hunger, and 20 Sanity. It requires 2 raw mussels and 2 vegetables.

Sweet Potato Souffle is an exact replica of Mussel Bouillabaise, giving the same stats. It requires 2 Sweet Potatoes and 2 Eggs.

Monster Tartare is a fine food by itself, but it’s truly just a waste. It gives 5 Health, 49 Hunger, and 13 Sanity. It requires 2 Monster Meat / Jellyfish, 1 Vegetable and 1 Egg. It’s a waste because you can just take one of those monster meats / jellyfish out, put literally any filler in, and get a Pierogi which is 53 Health, 49 Hunger and 6 Sanity.

Finally, Warly has a chef hat that he can put food in. It’s a backpack that slows food spoilage by 50%, but does not cool off Thermal Stones and make ice last forever. It requires a measly 1 rope and 1 cloth to craft, and he also starts the game with one. This is however useless with Bundling Wrap now in the game; an item that only carries 4 slots but prevents spoilage entirely.

Cons
Warly loses hunger 30% faster, and only gains 70% of the benefits from raw food, 80% of dried food, and 90% of cooked food. This means early in the game he can’t really eat butterflies and stuff, as well as Jerky won’t be as good for him. If the food has harmful affects, those affects are boosted as well.

He also remembers what food he eats, and if he eats the same food twice within 1.5 days, it loses about 10% of its stats. The value keeps getting worse and worse the more he eats the same food in this period, and eventually, he will say “Enough already!”. At that point, the food does basically nothing.

Culinary Facts

*After escaping Shipwrecked, Warly used the obsidian machete to chop food ever since.

*Warly is a lot worse than he sounds.

Overall, Warly is a bad character that has some powerful traits but as equally powerful disadvantages.

Wilbur

The prime ape king, not monkey king, game >:( Wilbur is unlocked by killing monkeys / making them kill eachother until they drop a “Tarnished Crown”. On sea, you will eventually find a “Soggy Monkey” just chilling on a log raft.

Give the monkey the crown, and he will wake up with the crown on, do the joy animation, and his log raft will break and he will drown. After that, he becomes unlocked.

Stats

• 125 Health
• 175 Hunger
• 150 Sanity

Perks

• Can’t talk
• Slow as biped, fast as quadruped
• Is a monkey

Pros
In case you didn’t know, biped means on two feet and quadruped means on 4. Wilbur is naturally slower, by 13% on both feet, but after walking for 3 seconds, he drops to his fours and moves 33% quicker, and whatever was in his hand is held in his tail.

As the king, Prime Apes will act as if permanently befriended to Wilbur, however they won’t attack whatever he attacks. They’ll pick twigs and grass, pickup items they find on the floor and throw them at you. However when they’re hungry they will still eat food off farms and berry bushes so they’re still annoying.

*Gimme that stuff!*

Wilbur also poops every 3 days and gets 10 sanity for eating raw and cooked bananas. He can throw the poop to deal 5 damage in a tiny radius, pretty useful for aggroing stuff. If the poop hits a bird, its wings get stuck and Wilbur can just run up and pick the bird up.

Cons
As previously stated, Wilbur moves slower on his feet. Thanks to this, while sailing the massive sea of Shipwrecked, he is slower through that whole time but faster in RoG. Yet, in RoG, he has no monkeys and bananas are much rarer. He can however kinda make up for the prime apes because he can prebuild a Prime Ape Hut and carry it into RoG via Sea Worthy.

This is also pretty bad in Hamlet since he has to stop to mine Unimportant Pillars, and hack Vines, Chisel Tempting Idols, stuff like that. So yeah.

Oh, and speaking of his king ability, apparently Splumonkeys aren’t monkeys, and they will still harass him. He also loses hunger 13% quicker while on fours. However, this hunger drain and speed boost overall makes it so that he loses the same hunger than he would’ve not running throughout the distance, so yeah. His whole running thing just speeds up time really.

(In case you didn’t know, running a bit slower is bad because kiting is harder that way)

This seems like it is a downside, but uh, he actually can talk. But just always says the same thing. Basically, when hounds come, Wilbur will say “Ooh! Ah ah! Ooaaoh? Or something like that.

Kingly Facts

*Wilbur will say “Nana’s!” when examining Bananas and cooked Bananas, and “Nono’s!” when examining Banana Pop. So he CAN TAL-
*Wilbur is Volx’ favorite character to play. Why? Cus he sux.

Overall, Wilbur is one option or the other and doesn’t benefit much off either side.

Woodlegs

Here we are. The last character. He is unlocked by killing the Quacken for the Iron Key, getting lucky with Yaarctopus (sometimes a chest will have the Gold Key), and fishing up watery graves for a rare chance at a Bone Key. In the Volcano, Woodlegs is trapped in a cage. Give the cage the 3 keys and it will break, then he will do the joy animation and smoke bomb away. When the cage breaks, it drops some boards and logs.

Stats

• 150 Health
• 150 Hunger
• 120 Sanity

Perks

• Can sniff out treasures
• Captain of the “Sea Legs”
• Pirate

Pros
Woodlegs starts with and can craft for 4 Bone Shards, 3 Cloth and 10 Dubloons (Woah pricy) his Lucky Hat, which spawns a X Marks The Spot every 1.5 days next to him and in fact, Woodlegs starts with 3-6 of them already discovered. Woodlegs will say “Me pirate senses be tingling.” when a treasure spawns.

Woodlegs also has his own boat “The Sea Legs”. It’s got 500 Health, does not take attachments, has an infinite boat cannon, and is painfully slow… only 6 speed, about a row boat with a cloth sail. He also starts with the stuff to make it. Speaking of which, it costs 4 Boards, 10 Dubloons and a Boat Cannon to craft. Back in the day, there used to be a bug where if you hammered or deconstructed the boat, you got his sail and cannon…

Since Home Sea Home, this was patched though… anyways, back on track. Since Woodlegs has a infinite cannon, he can just get easy food by killing dogfish and jellyfish. He can also blow up the X Marks the Spot if it is close enough to the shore, which usually it is.

Cons
As a pirate, Woodlegs is used to the ocean only and loses 4.8 Sanity per minute on land. This is very annoying, especially paired with his lower max sanity, and about 80% of the time you’re playing, you’re probably insane.

His sea legs boat also only gets half the speed boost from riding a wave. And thanks to his pirate abilities and all, he has absolutely zero benefits in RoG and Hamlet. He does however make up for that by spawning infinite treasures and usually ending up with like a million thulecite stuff.

Pirate Facts

*Nerf Woodlegs

Overall, Woodlegs is a very powerful character and he will probably end up with a thulecite crown before football helmets.

Wilba

Wilba is the pig princess, and is treated as such by the pig civilians in Hamlet and the uncivilized ones in the Constant. She is unlocked by defeating the Queen Womant, and giving the crown she drops to Queen Malfalfa. You can also see her in action b*tching about losing the crown in the first place, in the palace’s back room. But that’s none of our business.

Stats

• 150 Health
• 200 Hunger
• 100 Sanity

Perks

• Is royal
• Carries her father’s legacy
• Is afraid of the dark

Pros
Pigs of all kinds will casually giveth Wilba thy common resources. Even if her inventory is full… if such situation, the item will just drop on the ground. The pigs also refer to her by her royal status, rather than “unpig”.

Wilba has the ability to turn into a werepig. This is triggered by full moons (obviously), and eating 2 Monster Meat, or 2 stone slab bugs (Gummy Slug, Bean Bugs). This can be prevented by wearing the Silver Neclace, an item she starts the game with. Oh yeah, she also cannot turn while on a boat.

Werewilba has 300 Health, and starves 4x quicker. Seems bad, but uh, she also has 50% speed boost, can chop trees and mine boulders and stuff pretty quickly, and even has night vision. Tl;dr, she is a much better Werebeaver… at the cost of food.

The only way to leave this form is by waiting approximately 1 day after you turned. However, DO NOT EAT MONSTER MEAT / BUGS WHILE IN WEREWILBA FORM, for the game will glitch out and you will be a Werepig forever. This glitch is bound to be patched soon, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

Cons
And as always has it… she loses sanity quicker from dusk / night. Wow, so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ morbid and difficult. Never seen that one before. Nope, never.

wolfgang…

Piggie facts

*Wilba has a similiar hairstyle to Wigfrid, and they both love meat, so it’s possible that she is bisexual.

*I say bisexual because unlike Wigfrid, she isn’t an idiot and will actually eat insects for their nutrients. Even if it costs returning the werepig curse.

Overall, Wilba is very good with resources, but Maxy and Wicker are still better… barely.

Wormwood

Wormwood is stinky.

Wormwood is an unidentified plant that began growing around a green gem. Yep. He is unlocked by opening the game after installing Hamlet.

Stats

• 150 Health
• 150 Hunger
• 200 Sanity

Perks

• Plants relate to him
• Has a green thumb
• Food fills his stomach, but not his heart

As long as Wormwood is not carrying any meat or bugs in his inventory, Creeping Vines and Snaptooths will not attack him. Very useful for protection against bat attacks, and even creating little panic rooms of Flytraps.

This is for emergency purposes only though, since uh… if you pick up anything the bats drop…

Yeah.

Wormwood is immune to Hayfever.

Wormwood has a green thumb, and can craft a few neat items. He can also use the Seeds dropped by birds, including those that only grow a specific plant, to create a crop wherever he wants. Doing so gives 10 sanity.

Living Log
He chops a living log off himself for 20 Health.

Poison Balm
Cures poison for 1 Living Log and 1 Venom Gland.

Bramble Trap
It’s a tooth trap. That deals 40 damage. Takes 1 Living Log and 1 Stinger.
While it can’t target bats, you can just put it next to any mob and keep whittling their health away without aggroing them, even pigs. Be careful since this also includes you.

Bramble Husk
Only offers 60% protection, but it deals 40 damage to everything around you. Also makes you immune to damage from Brambles and your own Bramble Traps, at the cost of 2 Living Logs and 4 Bone Shards.

Compost Wrap
It regenerates 30 health, but has a long but neat looking healing animation. 5 Manure, 2 Rot and 1 Nitre to make it.

Wormwood will also bloom during Spring, Monsoon, and Lush.
He has 3 stages of blooming, each coming with a separate appearance before and after the stage sets in.

Food fills his stomach, but not his heart. Basically, every healing food is now useless. Pierogi? Now it’s Pierogay. Dragonpie? More like Dragondie. Steamed Ham Sandwich? Err, Seemed Damn Sandwich.

This isn’t that bad of a downside in Hamlet, due to the Curly Tail’s Mud Spa selling Honey Poultice and Healving Salve for 5-4 Oincs each, but uh… if you aren’t in Hamlet… raw Manure can be used to recover 2 Health each. Not much, but not much entirely if you drop 120 Light Bulbs in front of a Werepig.

Oh yeah. And using manure to heal has a healing animation. Oof. With all this being said, food also doesn’t drain his heart. He can eat monster foods for no penalty, but still loses sanity.

Hmmm… and uh. Yeah, he loses 5 Sanity for digging up Tree Stumps and Plants, but gains 10 for planting them. But he also loses 15 sanity for chopping trees in the first place. And loses 2 sanity for any plant that burns. Yikes.

Plant Facts

*Wormwood is powered by a Green Gem. In the DS Lore, green gems harness the power of construction.

This is a reference to how Wormwood’s green thumb tab has 5 Items to craft in it, while the Green Gem itself has 5 sides.

*ok but that’s it I guess

Overall, Wormwood has a handful of pretty bad tactical and herbal advantages, but at the cost of QoL foods.

Wheeler

Maybelle Dorothea Wheeler is the “intrepid explorer”. She is 3,200 XP to unlock.

Stats

• 100 Health
• 150 Hunger
• 200 Sanity

Perks

• Armed with an air horn
• Has a knick knack for finding things
• Travels lighter than most

She comes equipped with a “Pew-matic Air Horn”. You can put literally anything that isn’t character specific / alive inside of it. Some items are stronger, some items are weaker.

Items that deal high damage are-
Gears,
Gems,
Tenpiece Oincs,
Centapiece Oincs,
Nightmare Fuel,
Gunpowder,
Lost Relics

Items that deal low damage are-
Ash,
Beard Hair,
Beefalo Wool,
Butterfly Wings,
Clippings,
Cut Grass,
Reeds,
Feathers,
Foliage,
Palm Leaves,
Papyrus,
Petals and Evil Petals,
Pig Skin,
Silk,
Seaweed

Everything else does medium damage.
The Pew-matic holds one entire stack of items.

As for the damage…

HIGH = 60
MEDIUM = 45,
LOW = 10

To be fair, it is a pretty weak weapon, since it has a 2 second attack speed. It has lower DPS than a dang spear, and needs good items to shoot. It’s good for farming birds, at least. You can also just use it as a cheap kill against anything, if you are in a tight spot. Don’t feel like dealing with Bearger? Yeah, just shoot him with 50 Nightmare Fuel. Ez pz.

She’s also got a knick knack for finding things. It’s called a “Navigadget”, portmanteau of navigation and gadget of course.

You can put 1 item in it, to which a small compass will appear below you, directing you to the closest nearby item that you put in it. (Putting Flint brings you to flint on the ground, putting Thulecite brings you to a Thulecite Statue, etc)

Pretty useful honestly. Good for finding gold and flint early on. And I suppose Iron Ore… but most importantly detecting Thulecite. For some reason it also directs you to the Ancient Guardian if you put his horn in it… if you’ve world hopped then this may come in handy.

The final good use of the Navigadget, and probably the best use, is using it to track Message Bottles (Shipwrecked). Yes, this allows Wheeler to become nearly as powerful as Woodlegs… early game, at least, since every world has a finite amount of Message in a Bottles.

And finally, something pretty amazing… thanks to having minimal weight on her, she can right click to slide around every 1.5 seconds, at no cost! This grants invincibility frames during combat, and otherwise is a good speed boost.

Lastly… Wheeler has a passive 5% movement speed boost, and will gain a 1% movement speed boost for every empty slot in her inventory. The max boost is 10%. I guess that’s pretty good… for the first 50 seconds!

Wheeler has 3 less inventory slots.

and I guess the lower max health, if you’d consider that a disadvantage (I mean yeah it is, but like, dodging isn’t that hard)

Smug Facts

*The term intrepid explorer may be a reference to a bundle on Steam that includes DST and Subnautica.

*Imagine actually working at Klei and deciding that the new character should have an air horn as self defense
*Wheeler having a small inventory may be mocking how most women’s clothing has small / no pockets.

Conclusion

So, all in all, it’s a single player game. It doesn’t really matter who you pick, as long as you’re havin fun then keep havin fun.

Anyways, if you found this helpful then pls rate up thonx (◠﹏◠✿)

Don’t Starve Wikipedia – a few of the images to replace the ones I lost due to corruption

Klei Entertainment – For the game itself and screenshots from some of their videos

Kynoox – Wilba NPC Screenshot

u/lithpingly on Reddit – Wormwood panic room idea

hl3bekliyenadam on the Forums – Wigfrid is an idiot.