Telltale Heart

Exclusive to: Don't Starve Together.

Telltale Heart
"Ghastly revival of a ghostly friend."
Crafting	×3 ×1 ×40
Tab
Tier	Always available
Durability	1 use
Perk	Snacks blood to revive a ghost.
Stacks up to	Does not stack
Code	"reviver"

“The beating of this hideous heart will bring a ghost back to life!”

–Wilson

“I expected it to be blacker.”

–Willow

“Blib blup! Blib blup! Blib blup!”

–Wolfgang

“Your choices matter.”

–Wendy

“IT UNDOES MEATLING DESTRUCTION”

–WX-78

“This provides a corporeal anchor for the ectoplasmic configuration.”

–Wickerbottom

“I need to share this with somebody!”

–Woodie

“I'm not sure I really want to give this up.”

–Maxwell

“Feel the passiön inside!”

–Wigfrid

“I think it loves me.”

–Webber

“I don't like that it's still beating.”

–Warly

“Ba-bum. Ba-bum”

–Wormwood

“I got heart to spare.”

–Winona

“So my friends might live to tell the tale!”

–Wortox

“Glurp! It still moving!”

–Wurt

“Did you ever hear the story about the beating heart hidden under the floorboards?”

–Walter

“A bit of insurance, in the unlikely event my own powers aren't enough.”

–Wanda

The Telltale Heart is a craftable Survival item available only in Don't Starve Together. It can be used to revive dead players by left-clicking on the ghost of the dead player.

It can be crafted without a Science Machine using 3 Cut Grass and 1 Spider Gland. Upon crafting the Telltale Heart, the player who crafted it will lose 40 Health. If a player does not have enough health, they will not be able to craft it. If they lose the health while crafting, crafting will reduce them to 1 health, after which they will most likely die to the other damage source, such as freezing or fire.

After a living player gives the heart to a ghost, the living player receives 80 Sanity, and the ghost is revived with an additional 25% (1/4) of their maximum health removed along with normal resurrection penalties. The health penalty received by a Ghost using this item can be removed through the use of a Booster Shot. Ghost Players cannot haunt the heart to revive, they must have it given to them by a living character.

Players who have recently revived someone will be identified by a different examination quote.

Usage

Tips

• It is advised to stockpile a few Telltale Hearts when the character has full or nearly full health.
  • This can be especially efficient to do before the character consumes food that restores health that otherwise would go to waste.
  • WX-78 can create multiple Telltale Hearts while being given "SYSTEM OVERLOAD" by Wickerbottom and her book The End is Nigh.
• If a player died and no Spider Gland is currently available, the recently deceased are able to haunt a Spider and let the alive players kill it to get a guaranteed Spider Gland.

Trivia

• The name of this item is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Tell-Tale Heart.
  • This is supported by Walter's examination quote of the Telltale heart.
  • Telltale Hearts stored in a Chest will produce an audible heartbeat, and multiple ones will sound like rain striking a tent. This enhances the reference to Poe's story, in which the main character has auditory hallucinations that leads him to believe that the heart of the victim he murdered still beats under the floor where he hid the corpse.
• Armor used to reduce the health cost of this item, but this was patched out.
• It used to cost 5 Cut Grass to make a Telltale Heart.
• Abigail cannot be revived and attempting to generates a unique character response. According to Wickerbottom's, this is because her soul is already bound to her flower.
  • Telltale Hearts can also be "given" to the angry Ghosts that emerge from desecrated Graves, but aside from a comment from the current character, this also won't accomplish anything.
• The name of the Telltale Heart is a portmonteau of the famous line to live to tell the tale, as stated by Wortox.

Gallery

Wilson being revived by WX-78 using a Telltale Heart.

Wendy holding a Telltale Heart, as seen in the Don't Starve Together launch trailer.