Talk:Don't Starve Together/@comment-138.229.223.11-20160531213306

A couple scattered thoughts from DST gameplay with friends:

In world generation, setting clockworks and tallbirds to "more" spawned way more than seemed reasonable - they were in every biome and there wasn't really a way to not have at least one on the screen at a given time. The hope was maybe to double the amount that would be there in a default world, not multiply by 100+. We didn't try messing with other settings, and keep everything default now. Is the world generation still being worked out, or is this the expected behavior?

The divining rod is pointless in DST but not removed. We only found out about the absence of "Things" by scouring the whole world with a divining rod and never getting a peep. It should be removed.

The wiki is very unclear how the Ruins and Caves mesh for DST, and I am only now getting to a point where long cave expeditions are reasonable. I know there is a 10K hp Ancient Gaurdian but no Pseudoscience station, and so am not sure entirely the point of looking for the Ruins. If someone knowledgeable could update the wiki with DST-specific Ruins info that would be very helpful.

Allowing server rollback has made it possible to "undo" mistakes. This leads to save-scrubbing as an easy way to learn advanced gameplay safely, like fighting giants in realistic conditions. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I've definitely exploited it throughout the learning process but it seems like it would be nice to have a hardcore mode without it available (I know hardcore mode could just be "don't do it" but making it explicitly unavailable seems more effective)

Removing the Old Bell is definitely a smart choice for PvP and servers where griefing is an option, but it means that some tactics from Don't Starve are unavailable. If a host could specify whether Old Bell was available at the time of world generation (presumably based on whether the players were trustworthy cooperators) it would be nice. Or is there a separate reason it should be removed?

~bb