Broken Clockworks

Don't Starve

DST

“A pile of broken chess pieces.”

–Wilson

“Dead windup horsey.”

–Willow

“Metal junk.”

–Wolfgang

“Cold, dead artificial life.”

–Wendy

“EX-AUTOMATON”

–WX-78

“Clockwork junk.”

–Wickerbottom

“Dead metal.”

–Woodie

“There's a reason I never finished that.”

–Maxwell

“Outstanding! Look at that machinery!”

–Wagstaff

“It's önly a pile öf fallen warriörs.”

–Wigfrid

“A mess of chess.”

–Webber

“Lots of potential here!”

–Walani

“Broken chess pieces?”

–Warly

“Somebody's a sore loser.”

–Woodlegs

“'TIS BROKE'D”

–Wilba

“Machine stuff”

–Wormwood

“I said I wanted to see something new. That's definitely something new.”

–Wheeler

“A heap of spare parts.”

–Winona

“It looks quite broke, and that's no joke!”

–Wortox

“It all broken.”

–Wurt

“I don't think they're going to get up anytime soon.”

–Walter

“I have a suspicion these were held together with more magic than craftsmanship.”

–Wanda

Broken Clockworks are naturally spawning Structures that appear in the Ruins. The player can use 3 Gears to repair the Clockworks and spawn an allied chess piece, or destroy it with a Hammer.

In either case, a pile will drop the following loot:

• Frazzled Wires (1 + 55% chance of 2nd one)
• Gears (25% + 10% of 2nd if the pile was repaired)
• Melty Marbles (25%)
• Gems (5% for each of Red, Purple, Yellow, Orange and Green)
• Thulecite (1% + 5% of 2nd if repaired)

Repairing will cause two rolls of the loot table, doubling the loot gained overall in exchange for the gears spent.

Taking into account the gear drops, the cost to repair each clockwork pile is 2.65 gears.

When hammered, there also exists a 10% chance that Lightning will strike and spawn a hostile Damaged Knight, Damaged Rook, or Damaged Bishop.

There are three different types of Broken Clockworks which spawn different types of clockworks with different probabilities, as indicated by the table below.

Type
Type 1	50%	50%	0%
Type 2	70%	0%	30%
Type 3	0%	70%	30%

Trivia

• Repaired Clockwork Monsters will be allied, although they will turn hostile if struck with Lightning.
• Each type of Broken Clockworks is made up of jumbled-up parts of the chess pieces that type can spawn:
  • Type 1 contains bishop's robe and head, and knight's head and bottom half
  • Type 2 contains rook's lower jaw and horn, and knight's head.
  • Type 3 contains bishop's robe and head, and rook's horn and leg.
• In the singleplayer version, game code actually conditions the Thulecite loot on location - it's only dropped in Ruins.

Bugs

• Allied chess pieces spawned from Broken Clockworks are hostile towards Chester.
• In Don't Starve Together, the pieces are hostile towards Hutch and other players.

Gallery

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  Type 1
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  Type 2
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  Type 3
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  Type 2, Type 3, Type 1.
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  Broken Clockworks on the map.
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  Repaired Clockworks of each type.
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  A pile of Broken Clockworks, as seen in A Moderately Friendly Update trailer.

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