Meat Effigy/DST

Don't Starve

DST

“What a handsome devil!”

–Wilson

“That's my insurance policy.”

–Willow

“I'm not going to die.”

–Wolfgang

“I'm just putting off the inevitable.”

–Wendy

“MODELLED AFTER THE MEATBRAINED SCIENCE FLESHLING”

–WX-78

“How very pagan.”

–Wickerbottom

“I look good in wood.”

–Woodie

“I'm not above using this.”

–Maxwell

“A chance to learn from failure.”

–Wagstaff

“I dö nöt knöw why I made this.”

–Wigfrid

“It's a giant doll of our friend!!”

–Webber

“You better work.”

–Walani

“Part of my soul is within.”

–Warly

“Don't capture me likeness at all!”

–Woodlegs

“IT GIVE'TH LIFES”

–Wilba

“Regrowing friends”

–Wormwood

“Adventuring insurance.”

–Wheeler

“Looks just like that egghead! Ha!”

–Winona

“I can never die! Hyuyu!”

–Wortox

“Is Funny-hair man... okay?”

–Wurt

“I thought bringing back the dead involved more levers and electricity.”

–Walter

“I'm all for taking precautions, but does it have to look like that?”

–Wanda

The Meat Effigy is an effigy of Wilson which can resurrect the attuned player after Death. The Meat Effigy requires 4 Boards, 4 Beard Hairs, and 40 Health to craft and a Prestihatitator to prototype. Crafting a Meat Effigy does not lower maximum health.

Multiple Meat Effigies can be crafted, but only one can be attuned to a player at a time. Crafting or attuning a Meat Effigy will set it for the player's own use. Attuning a Meat Effigy also costs 40 Health. A Meat Effigy can not be crafted or attuned to if the player has less than the required Health. When there are multiple Meat Effigies, if the one that the player is attuned to is destroyed, it will not automatically move to another available Meat Effigy. They player has to craft or attune another Meat Effigy to be able to revive with it.

Meat Effigies will not resurrect Ghost Characters automatically. Ghost Characters can resurrect from a Meat Effigy by clicking the "Activate Meat Effigy" button in the top-right corner of the screen.

In worlds with Caves, attunement is specific to each server. If a player has a Meat Effigy in the Forest, then dies in the Caves, the Meat Effigy will not be usable until that player travels up to the surface, which can be done in ghost form. The player can also craft another Meat Effigy in Caves.

After resurrection:

• is set to 50
• is set to 2/3 of maximum
• is set to 1/2 of maximum

Skins

Main article: Belongings

• The Woven - Elegant Beast Effigy skin was awarded for playing Don't Starve Together during Hallowed Nights 2025.

Woven - Elegant

Barber's Collection

Neat Effigy

You wouldn't be caught dead with uncoiffed hair!

Woven - Elegant

Hallowed Nights Collection

Beast Effigy

Come ROARING back to life!

Tips

• The ability to build Meat Effigies easily is Wilson's greatest advantage over the other characters because he is a walking renewable source of Beard Hair, which is the Meat Effigy's rarest ingredient. However, note that Wilson will have no beard after resurrection.
• Beard Hair can also be obtained by catching rabbits and lowering sanity, turning them into Beardlings.
• If the player is concerned about the Meat Effigy being destroyed (e.g. by the Deerclops), it is recommended to place it somewhere seldom visited.
• When building a Meat Effigy, it is a good idea to leave some supplies near it to make the retrieval of items easier or to prevent freezing to death in winter. For example, having a Walking Cane and Log Suit nearby can help for covering long distances quickly, and can also help with retrieving items from dangerous places.
  • Additionally, a Lazy Forager can be placed next to a Meat Effigy, as the Lazy Forager can be incredibly useful for retrieving items near enemies, such as hounds.
• If the player plans to build several Meat Effigies, it is recommended to place them in different areas, not near each other. If several Effigies are placed near each other and there is a danger nearby when the player is revived, they may be killed several times over without being able to collect any equipment.

Trivia

• The Meat Effigy's appearance is the same for all the characters; always being modeled after Wilson rather than whoever created it. This is noted by WX-78, Webber, and Woodlegs, who are confused about why it does not resemble them. In Don't Starve Together, characters including WX-78, Webber, Winona, and Wurt recognize the effigy as resembling Wilson.
• An effigy is a representation of someone in sculpture or another three-dimensional art medium. Effigies are usually constructed for funerary, religious, or caricatural purposes.
• Despite the appearance of rope on the Meat Effigy, it's not required in the recipe.

Bugs

• Sometimes, when an above ground Meat Effigy is activated while in a cave, the game may bug and respawn on the surface at the entrance to the caves. Then the character plays their death animation and is temporarily unable to move.
• If a Meat Effigy is destroyed while in the process of resurrection, the game will crash.

Assets

Meat EffigyBeast Effigy

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  model
• hit

  hit
• place

  place
• attune on

  attune on
• attune off

  attune off
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  burnt

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  model
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  hit
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  place
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  attune on
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  attune off
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  burnt

Gallery

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  Wilson revives using a Meat Effigy.
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  Maxwell and a Burnt Meat Effigy in Don't Starve Together.
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  A Meat Effigy, as seen in the Six Feet Under trailer.
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  Unused Meat Effigy emoji from official Klei Discord server
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  Original HD icon from Bonus Materials from CD Don't Starve.

Craftable ItemsStructures

DSRoGSWHamDST

DSRoGSWHamDST