Telltale Heart

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Telltale Heart
Crafting
Recipe	×3 ×1 ×40
Tab
Tier	Always available
Properties
Durability	1 use
Stacks up to	Does not stack
Perk
Snacks your blood to revive a ghost.
Code
"reviver"

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

–Wilson

The Telltale Heart is a craftable Survival item only available 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 to craft the heart 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.

Trivia

• The name of this item is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Tell-Tale Heart.
• Armor used to reduce the health cost of this item, but it was patched. Wearing armor no longer lowers the health lost.
• Telltale hearts stored in a chest will make an audible heart beat sound, and multiple ones will sound like rain striking a tent.
• After a player revives a ghost with a heart, when other characters examine the player, they will say he/she is a "friend of ghosts".
• It used to cost 5 grass to make a Telltale Heart, but was changed.

Gallery

Wilson Telltale Heart.JPG

Wilson reviving using a Telltale Heart.

• DS
• RoG
• SW
• Ham
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