
The Beard can be shaved for Beard Hair, allowing the player to easily make a Meat Effigy and restoring 10.
Depending on length, the Beard provides up to 135 insulation against Freezing. Wilson's different stages of beard growth. Wilson's unlocked skills are reset on joining a new world/server, and can be reset ingame via using a Moon Rock Idol on the Celestial Portal in an existing world, allowing players to unlock different skills if they wish.Īllows you to throw a torch on the ground where it will continue to burn There are 25 total upgrades to select from, meaning the player must deliberate between which upgrades are to be unlocked. Insight persists between games/worlds, as it is linked to a player's account. Wilson earns Insight Points over time, up to 15 total. Each skill costs one Insight Point, and may have other prerequisites that must be met to unlock it. These abilities allow Wilson to increase the duration and brightness of Torches, to transform items into similar kinds (such as transforming Logs into Twigs, and vice versa), and to improve the insulation and growth speed of his beard. Wilson can gain Insight Points and use them to unlock unique skills and abilities. Magnificent Beard yields 6 Beard Hair, leaving 3 in the Long Beard). Shaving all stages will yield the same amount as in Don't Starve, but split across the various lengths (i.e. In Don't Starve Together, Wilson's beard can be shaved in stages, rather than shaving the entire beard at once, restoring 10 per stage. But at the voice's insistence, Wilson flipped the switch and activated his creation. a moment that might have saved him from his impending fate, had he been just a bit stronger of will. When at long last it was finally completed, the gentleman scientist had a moment of hesitation.
Casting aside his better judgement (after all, what harm could come from making a vague bargain with a mysterious disembodied voice?) Wilson threw himself into constructing the machine. In fact, the voice had a proposition for him: if Wilson would build a machine according to their specifications, then he would be rewarded with secret knowledge, the likes of which no one had ever seen. At first he feared he'd gone mad from too many late nights of experiments and accidentally-inhaled chemical fumes, but the voice assured him that it was no mere figment of the imagination. While toiling away in his home laboratory late one night, Wilson was startled to hear a voice on the radio speaking directly to him.
The events of this short were later officially summarized in DST's Compendium: Wilson was the first of the playable characters to receive a backstory through an animated short, called Forbidden Knowledge. –The radio's offer to Wilson in Forbidden Knowledge “ Say pal, looks like you're having some trouble! I have secret knowledge I can share with you, if you think you are ready for it.