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Clockwork Rook/DST
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- For the ruins version, see Damaged Rook.
“Storm the castle!”
“It's a castle!”
“This one jumps the queen!”
“A Rook? Or is it a Castle?”
“ROOK AUTOMATON”
“A clockwork castle.”
“Hmm... does the rook move in a straight line? I forget.”
“A castle for my home.”
“Chaaaarge!”
“Who made these things!?”
“What a rude contraption.”
“Rock machine”
“No way that was made in a factory.”
“A scary rook! I sure am shook!”
“Look mean...”
–Wurt
“I wonder how it works?”
“I'm not convinced that's proper clockwork.”
The Clockwork Rook is an aggressive Mob usually found in a Chess Set Piece. It can also be summoned during a Full Moon by mining the repaired Marble Bishop Sculpture or hammering a Rook Figure.
Behavior
Clockwork Rooks stare at players coming close to them. If too close, a Rook will raise its front horn and slam its hooves on the ground several times before charging and ramming at the player, dealing damage and destroying objects and structures that stands in between it and the player.
Clockwork Rooks can stop mid-charge when it gets too out of range of the player or mobs, and resume back to it target.
Clockwork Rooks are not only naturally aggressive towards players, but also towards any creatures except other Clockworks and Ancient Guardians that wander too close to them.
Like other Chess Pieces, the Rook is stunned for longer than other creatures when it takes shock effect. After being shocked, the Rook will slump over for a moment and the player can give it Gears, which will fully heal it and cause it to become the player's follower. The clockwork followers will turn hostile back if the player force hit them. When damaged and not in combat, they will regenerate +15
every 5 seconds. However, their ruins counterpart do not heal back.
Hunting
To fight the Rook, the player can follow next to it while it's charging, then hit it 2 times before it performs another charge. Repeat until the Rook is dead.
Below is the number of hits it takes with each weapon to kill a Clockwork Rook when playing with characters with a default damage modifier. The Weather Pain, Brightshade Staff, and Bee Mine are not included due to their random natures. This table does not take into account the damage bonus gained from characters with a lunar or shadow affinity. It also does not take into account the 40% damage bonus Wendy gets from attacking the same mob as Abigail, Wanda's damage bonus with Shadow weapons (except for the Alarming Clock, which does accurately reflect that bonus), or Wolfgang's damage multiplier when he isn't mighty.
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| Weapon | 
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 | 5 |
 | 5 |
 ( ) | 7 (Old) 10 (Middle age) 12 (Young) 34 (Out of fuel) |
 ( ) | 8 (6  ) |
 ( ) | 9 (7  ) |
 | 14 (12  ) |
 | 14 |
 | 9 |
 | 10 (6 ) |
 | 17 - 90 (15 - 59 ) |
  | 14 |
 ( ) | 14 - 67 |
 | 14 |
  | 15 |
 Note | 16 (11 ) |
  | 16 |
 ()Note | 16 |
 | 16 - 31 |
 () | 14 (12 ) |
 () | 12 |
      | 18 |
 | 18 (Melee on land) 12 (Melee on ocean) 11 (spell) |
 () | 18 (Direct hit) 27 (AoE) |
 | 18 |
 | 21 (13 ) |
 () | 22 (13 ) |
  | 22 |
   ( ) | 11 (When thrown) |
 | 23 |
| 27 |
 () | 27 |
 () | 14 (When thrown) |
    | 34 |
 () | 17 (When thrown) |
 () | 36 (Direct hit) 53 (AoE) |
  () | 53 |
  () | 27 (When thrown) |
It takes 2 blasts with an Ice Staff to freeze Clockwork Rook, and 3 Sleep Darts to put it to sleep.
Tips
- Using the Morning Star is ideal to constantly stun-locking the clockworks, making them unable to fight back. However, be caution at the Rook as it can still deal damage to the player when the stun cooldown is active.
- A simple (albeit time-consuming) method for the player to deal with Clockwork Rooks without engaging in combat is to let one chase them into a nearby forest and let it destroy some Trees. This will eventually spawn a Treeguard, who will attack the Rook and usually kill it. This method is also useful for chopping down large amounts of trees and farming Logs and Pine Cones.
- When the Rook hits a Tree, Boulder, or Beehive for example, it will quickly demolish it and leave the resources behind. This can be useful for helping to get Marble from Marble Trees without a Pickaxe.
Trivia
- The Clockwork Rook was implemented in the Hungry For Your Hunger update.
- The mob's design draws inspiration from the castle (or rook) in chess, which also can only charge ahead in straight lines.
- The Clockwork Rook was originally called a Clockwork Castle.
- The Clockwork Rook looks very similar to the Ancient Guardian, even possessing identical feet, possibly implying that it was made to imitate the guardian.
- Prior to its Year of the Clockwork Knight rework, a Rook can deal damage to other nearby clockworks, and deals 200 physical damage to non-player mobs.
- In Don't Starve, it's entirely possible Maxwell repaired the robots from the ruins and brought them to the surface. This may mean that all clockwork machines were built by the Ancient Civilization, and not Maxwell. Further proof to this is that the Clockwork Robots seem to instinctively obey whoever repairs/makes them, thus explaining why the machines are loyal to Maxwell.
Gallery
A Rook during its charging attack.
A Rook prior to its Year of the Clockwork Knight rework being manipulated into attacking one of its allies.
A Clockwork Rook sleeping.
A frozen Rook.
A dead Rook.
Original design of the Clockwork Rook, as seen in A Little Rain Must Fall trailer puzzle.
Ancient Guardian, which looks very similar to a Clockwork Rook.
Older versions of Broken Clockworks.
A Clockwork Rook as seen in a drawing from Art Stream # 33.
Clockwork Rook concept art.
Clockwork Rook concept art 2.
Clockwork Rook concept art 3.
Concept Art from Bonus Materials from CD Don't Starve.
Concept Art from Bonus Materials from CD Don't Starve.
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