Don't Starve

Don't Starve

A Starving Christmas
tacocat  [developer] 29 Dec, 2014 @ 11:54am
Balance ideas. "What should Santa do?"
Found Santa too hard? Too easy? Tell us here and we can change different aspects of his stages to make the fight more entertaining.

You can also tell us ideas for shot patterns or how he behaves during certain stages, for example, make him spawn spiders as he shoots 2 lethal lines of coal shots that divide the arena in two, and spin around slowly.
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PunkShark 29 Dec, 2014 @ 12:47pm 
he could maybe heal himself with a glass of magic milk?
and sometimes meteor cookies rain from the skies?
instead throwing coal
or what about spawning krampus?
Last edited by PunkShark; 29 Dec, 2014 @ 12:55pm
Zeus 30 Dec, 2014 @ 2:15am 
Originally posted by ((WHITE___SHARK)):
he could maybe heal himself with a glass of magic milk?
and sometimes meteor cookies rain from the skies?
instead throwing coal
or what about spawning krampus?

LOVE IT lol
tacocat  [developer] 30 Dec, 2014 @ 9:08am 
there's a little secret about 'santa', one of the items hints it.

btw the meteor cookies sound really good for his vulnerable stages. i'm gonna take a look at the meteor anims and see what i could do. Although it's not really christmas anymore.
PunkShark 30 Dec, 2014 @ 11:43am 
Originally posted by irontaco:
there's a little secret about 'santa', one of the items hints it.

btw the meteor cookies sound really good for his vulnerable stages. i'm gonna take a look at the meteor anims and see what i could do. Although it's not really christmas anymore.
does it really matter if it is not christmas anymore? it is a mod tho and a late christmas mod but just because of that. you can still work on it. i mean if you want to of course.
Just JD 30 Dec, 2014 @ 2:16pm 
Once you kill him you get access to the bottomlesss present every Hour (Human Time) you get a random item and if you are naughty say killing butterflies stuff like that basicaly defencless animals you have a chance for something bad to happen but if you are nice say slaying monsters you get a higher chance of something good happening.

Just My Idea
PunkShark 31 Dec, 2014 @ 2:29pm 
hmm what about.... little cookie minions from the cookie meteor's when the cookies fall from the sky there will be a big cookie on the ground that will crack to little minion cookies (looks like a birchnutter just looks like a little cookie with a mouth.) (to make it harder) or santa throwing snowballs? ooorrr when you killed santa you can crack the cookies to get (sometimes) minion cookies or cookies you can eat? to get some more loot?
Last edited by PunkShark; 31 Dec, 2014 @ 2:30pm
Beulen Pestarzt 31 Dec, 2014 @ 8:15pm 
1, You could make it possible to summon Santa as well with an item that you would get from a previous fight with Santa as a drop, or another way of finding it.
2. Santa could start spewing eggnog when his health gets low.
3. Maybe he could drop a "pet elf/christmas cookie" when he dies, that works similarly to chester, but also attacks, not sure if you would want to do all that scripting work though.
4. Similar to previous suggestions- large cookie meteor drops, works similarly to spider den, spawning different cookies.'
5. *If it were possible* Another mod that would make a different type of "spider den", spawning different type of monsters, with tiers as the spider den has.
6. Fight his reindeer. Either just Rudolph or all of them, whatever works better.
7. Animation showing what exactly is wrong with Santa, whether it may be that he has rabies (shown by frothing at mouth), or its not actually Santa (it could be Maxwell in disguise)

Thanks for taking the time to read and (hopefully) consider my ideas,
:dstools: Hj11l :dstools:
oh no 1 Jan, 2015 @ 3:32pm 
Originally posted by ((WHITE___SHARK)):
he could maybe heal himself with a glass of magic milk?
and sometimes meteor cookies rain from the skies?
instead throwing coal
or what about spawning krampus?
I agree but please NO KRAMPUS
tacocat  [developer] 1 Jan, 2015 @ 4:01pm 
Originally posted by hj11l:
3. Maybe he could drop a "pet elf/christmas cookie" when he dies, that works similarly to chester, but also attacks, not sure if you would want to do all that scripting work though.

we actually were gonna have an item with a similar mechanic that we ended up scrapping out. we could probs do this but later on.

Originally posted by hj11l:
7. Animation showing what exactly is wrong with Santa, whether it may be that he has rabies (shown by frothing at mouth), or its not actually Santa (it could be Maxwell in disguise)

you can see this by paying attention to various things hinted to in-game. santa comments on something being wrong just as his hat starts to smile...pherpaps something is under his hat? one of the rewards explains it all. or even the preview mod image.

the infested beard also has a examination line concerning who he may or not be.
Last edited by tacocat; 1 Jan, 2015 @ 4:01pm
orthrus03 1 Jan, 2015 @ 10:11pm 
maybe because in folklore krampus is the evil santa you could make it so they attack each other?
Mal  [developer] 2 Jan, 2015 @ 2:45am 
Actually Krampus is not affiliated with Santa. But he is the colleague of St. Nicolaus. While Nicolaus gives nice kids presents Krampus will throw naughty kids in a bag and hit them with a stick. He's not actually evil, it's just his part of the job. In another universe I guess Krampus gives out presents..
Holy Guacamoly 2 Jan, 2015 @ 6:38am 
he will gift things :v
Obito 2 Jan, 2015 @ 9:58am 
give gifts
Zone Cryptid 4 Jan, 2015 @ 10:40am 
No krampus i have difficult krampus mod installed he has 2400 health in that mod. Also maybe you could summon santa as a friend after defeating his hat. because the idea of killing santa pains my heart.
Zone Cryptid 4 Jan, 2015 @ 10:41am 
maybe he could drops presents from the sky like care packages or something
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