Don't Starve Together

Don't Starve Together

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Zeng Xiao 18 Mar, 2018 @ 10:09pm
Pain pills recipe underpowered
As it stands, the pill Coach makes is very costly -- if you burn those petals for ashes and don't craft that cut stone, you'd have more than enough items to make two healing salve which restores more HP.

In a practical situation, players might as well think "eh, why bother?", because flowers spawn butterflies, which is a good source for healing in it self. Why pluck the flower when you can get the wings for free and make muffins?

Moreover, the only situations one might be okay with plucking the flowers is early game in a pinch, or much later when you have bees. The recipe seems not fit into either of those situations: it is not efficient for late games, and requires a lot of work for early on.

Based on the above reasons, I find the pain pills recipe too impractical. I suggest several ways might make it more useful: change petals to butterfly wings, decrease the number of petals/wings dramatically, increase the number of pills crafted per run, use niter (which everyone has but never use early on) instead of stone.
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Eranthis  [developer] 21 Mar, 2018 @ 11:09am 
Good points made. I'll consider reducing the petal count in that case. My changes before were more of a response to the pills being too overpowered when first implemented.
Eranthis  [developer] 21 Mar, 2018 @ 8:26pm 
Considering that two spider glands made into healing salve restores 40 hp, the pain pills now heal 40 hp as well to justify the spider gland requirement. Petal count has also been dropped to five. The materials are still rather easy to access which is why pills must be researched from the alchemy engine.

Unlike other healing items, pain pills are consumable and thus make them useful when needing to heal really quickly, preferably in battle situations which is why stacking size is limited to 10 per stack. Hope this helps balance things better.
Zeng Xiao 22 Mar, 2018 @ 4:17am 
well, you have the call here. I still wont bother with it over pierogies.
BeeVee 31 May, 2018 @ 11:29am 
well pain kills dont do that much '
also there starter

i dont see the problem
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