Message in a Bottle/DST

Don't Starve

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“I wonder if it's for me!”

–Wilson

“Hey! It's a bottle of emergency kindling!”

–Willow

“Has tiny note inside!”

–Wolfgang

“I wonder what poor forgotten soul sent that.”

–Wendy

“HOW ARCHAIC”

–WX-78

“Not the most effective postal service.”

–Wickerbottom

“Sure beats a paper airplane.”

–Woodie

“Someone sensibly bottled up their feelings and tossed them out to sea.”

–Maxwell

“What's this? Battle plans?”

–Wigfrid

“There's something inside!”

–Webber

“I do hope that's a recipe inside!”

–Warly

“Holding thing”

–Wormwood

“Wonder where this came from?”

–Winona

“I'm tempted to take a peek!”

–Wortox

“Wicker-lady!! Read what it say!”

–Wurt

“There's a note inside.”

–Walter

“Oh! There's a note inside!”

–Wanda

“Some messages are notes, some are maps to special locations.”

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The Message in a Bottle is is an item in Don't Starve Together, introduced in Return of Them. They are found naturally in the Coastal Ocean, and can also spawn every 1 to 2 days 10 Tiles from the players in the Ocean. The spawning bottle will need 1.25 tiles of clear space in the Ocean, and must be at least 8.75 tiles from any flotsam. The spawning attempt will happen even if the player is on land, but the attempt will fail and retry every 60 seconds.

Sunken Chest Marker.

All messages read by a player reveals the Crabby Hermit's location or will have text message, unless the player already met the Crabby Hermit.

After meeting Crabby Hermit, reading a message has a 60% chance to generate and reveal a new Sunken Chest and a 40% chance to reveal nothing. If 10 markers are active at a time, the position of an already existing Sunken Chest is revealed instead.

If the player has defeated Crab King and returned the Cracked Pearl, each bottle is guaranteed to reveal a new Sunken Chest if there's fewer than 10 markers on the map.

After reading, the Message in a Bottle turns into an Empty Bottle.

Quotes

If a Message in a Bottle does not reveal a position, it will contain a message instead:

• I know you're still out there, my dear. I won't ever give up.
• I'm waiting for you. At the spot where we first met. I've been waiting so long...
• Please come home. I miss you so much.
• I still have the last gift you gave me. "A pearl for Pearl"... remember?
• I'll keep sending messages, until one reaches you...
• Have you found your treasure yet? When you do, will you come home?

Trivia

• If the player tries to spawn the Message in a Bottle using the Console and reads it, the character will say "This message is faded, I can't read it".
• Messages in a Bottle were introduced to Don't Starve Together in the She Sells Sea Shells update.
• In DST, if the player writes in the command line "c_give("messagebottle_throwable",1)" then the game will give out a bottle with a message that can be equipped and thrown at objects or on the ground. If you throw this bottle with a message at an object in the sea, it will sink.
• The fact that the glass color of the bottle has a slightly turquoise tint may indicate that it is made from moon glass (Moon Shard). This may explain how Pearl makes these bottles.