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–Ghost Player

Ghost Players or Ghost Characters appear whenever a player dies in Don't Starve Together. They can fly around and haunt objects. Ghost Players may resurrect themselves via Touch Stones, Meat Effigies, or Life Giving Amulets. Other players are able to resurrect them using a telltale heart. Wanda can also use Second Chance Watch to revive herself and other characters. They also emit just enough light to ward off Charlie.

In Survival Mode, if any players have died and become ghosts, a ghost icon will appear by all other players' Sanity meter and their Sanity will decrease by 3.3/min (0.055/sec) for every ghost. This penalty encourages the resurrection of fallen players. When all players have died and become ghosts, a 120 second timer will begin that will end the game and generate a new world (the timer will be reset back to 120 seconds if the server is shut down and then reconnected). If a Ghost Player revives (via Touch Stone for example) before the countdown ends, the world will continue.

In Wilderness Mode, the player respawns at a random location on the map after being killed, so ghosts do not appear in this mode.

In Endless Mode, the game will go on even when every player has become a ghost. Ghost Players will be able to revive at the Florid Postern for a maximum Health penalty. In addition, Ghost Players will not drain Sanity in this mode, unlike Survival mode.

Haunting[]

Haunting is an action that can only be performed by Ghost Players. It has a variety of different effects, depending on the entity that is being haunted. Examples of haunting objects are moving items around, turning Trees into Treeguards, and turning Flowers into Evil Flowers. After being haunted, an entity cannot be haunted again for a few more seconds. Evil flowers can also be used to create Nightmare Fuel.

Most objects fall into a few categories of haunting effects, most of which are not particularly useful. A few entities have unusual haunt effects, which are often quite useful. Below are lists of known objects that can be haunted.

Inventory items that are not listed only have a chance to be launched a short distance away.

Beneficial Effects[]

Harmful Effects[]

  • Balloons will explode.
  • Ashes will disappear.
  • Dwarf Stars (produced by the Star Caller's Staff) will be extinguished.
  • Tooth Traps have a 50% chance of triggering on a very nearby creature.
  • Night Lights have a 50% chance of being extinguished.
  • Bee Mines have a 10% chance of going off.
  • Crock Pots, if cooking, will change their product to Wet Goop.
  • Large Meats (all forms) have a 25% chance of converting to a corresponding Monster Meat form. (e.g. Jerky into Monster Jerky)
  • Beefalo Horns and Pan Flutes have a 50% chance of losing one use (it will not actually activate the items).
  • Fire Staffs have a 10% chance of igniting all nearby combustibles.
  • Lureplants will hide their bait.
  • Spider Queens and Vargs have a 25% chance of producing minions (using their normal summoning mechanics).
  • Houndius Shootius (after being placed) has a 50% chance of being frozen.
  • Bees have a 50% chance of being turned into Killer Bees.

Neutral Effects[]

  • Abigail will be angered briefly.
  • Beefalo will attempt to spawn a baby after they are done panicking. However, this will most likely fail because Baby Beefalo can only spawn offscreen, and the player ghost is present.
  • Splumonkeys will also attempt to spawn a new Splumonkey. This will also fail for the same reason.
  • Ewecus will also attempt to spawn another Ewecus. This may be leftover from copying the Beefalo prefab.
  • Berry Bushes will get rustled (this does not produce Gobblers).
  • Pig Heads and Merm Heads will open their eyes like on a full moon.
  • The Pig King will reject player advances.
  • A grave spawns a ghost as a follower.
  • Vigor Mortis boosts Ghost Character's speed for 2 sec

Panic[]

These creatures will panic for a few seconds after being haunted. Panicking involves running around, pausing previous aggro. Some of the following mobs will run away from player ghosts, making them practically impossible to haunt.

Placeholder Trivia[]

  • WX-78 and Woodie's ghosts were made to resemble R2-D2 and Chewbacca, respectively, from the Star Wars films.
  • Wendy's ghost is an almost exact, horizontally flipped copy of Abigail. The only difference is the color of her flower, which is yellow.
  • Ghost Characters are slowed down by Sticky Webbing, despite their presumably ethereal forms.
  • As a Ghost, the player does not update the Map while exploring unknown areas.
  • Ghost Characters' quotes appear to be similar to Wilbur's, except with "o" and "h" as the only letters used.
  • Pigs will still tell ghost characters to "Back off" if they get too close.
  • Each character has a unique ghost transformation.
  • Unlike other characters, Woodie, Wortox, Wormwood, and Wurt have more than one ghost form.
  • The Werebeaver's and the Weregoose's ghosts are the only two to possess a mouth.

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