Weather Pain

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Weather Pain
Crafting
Recipe	×10 ×1 ×1
Tab
Tier
Combat attributes
Damage	7/sec
Properties
Durability	15 uses
Stacks up to	Does not stack
Code
"staff_tornado"

“I've never seen a weather vane
employed as a weapon.”

–Wickerbottom

 

The Weather Pain is a ranged Weapon from the Reign of Giants DLC. It requires 10 Down Feathers, 1 Volt Goat Horn, and 1 Gears to craft and an Alchemy Engine to prototype.

When used, it launches a whirlwind toward the target which will dance back and forth near the point of impact once it reaches the target, damaging enemies and destroying objects it comes in contact with.

Because the Weather Pain's projectile is not affected by the player, the Weather Pain is not affected by damage multipliers and will always do 7 damage/second when used by any character.

Tips

• Due to the somewhat unpredictable behavior of its projectile, the Weather Pain is best used against slow or immobile targets that spawn weaker mobs to defend them, e.g., Big Tentacles, Poison Birchnut Trees, or Spider Queens. This is especially effective against Poisonous Birchnut Trees, which will die in one hit, making the Weather Pain an ideal tool for acquiring Living Logs.
• Against particularly slow Mobs or even immobile ones, the Weather Pain can do more than 100 damage with a single use, surpassing even Blow Darts, making it potentially the best ranged weapon—depending on the target.
• The Weather Pain's projectile destroys trees, which can make it useful for gathering Logs, especially if the trees are planted close together. This will often happen inadvertently in a Poison Birch farm.

Trivia

• The name "Weather Pain" is a portmanteau of the words "Weather Vane" and "Pain".
• Weather pains in real life are joint pains induced by atmospheric pressure changes.

Bugs

• Using the Weather Pain against a Spilagmite will crash the game.
• If the Shadow Puppets summoned with Maxwell's Codex Umbra are hit by this weapon's projectile, they will become hostile.
• In the multiplayer version, Don't Starve Together, the whirlwind is a separate entity, so the Weather Pain can be used to damage other characters in a non-PvP server.

Gallery

The Weather Pain's whirlwind after destroying a Poisonous Birchnut Tree.

The Weather Pain being used against a Big Tentacle. The whirlwind will make quick work of the Baby Tentacles.

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