Wendy (Don't Starve Together)
See also: Abigail and Abigail's Flower
Wendy's main special power is her ability to summon her dead twin sister, Abigail. Wendy starts with Abigail's Flower in her inventory. She will be able to summon Abigail immediately and gain 15
.
Wendy can ask Abigail to stay close to her or roam more free via Abigail's flower. In the Sooth state Abigail follows Wendy and will attack Mobs that either attack Wendy or that Wendy herself attacks. In the Rile up state Abigail attacks every Mob near Wendy, enemy or neutral. Wendy can decide to retire Abigail by attacking her (using force attack) or clicking on her while dragging an Abigail's Flower, losing 15
in the process.
Abigail starts with a health pool of 150
. Her health changes to 300 health after 1 day and goes to 600 health after 1 additional day. The process is 4 times faster if there is a fully decorated Sisturn in the World. Abigail goes back to her initial health when she is destroyed by an enemy or when Wendy is revived after death. Abigail has a protective shield. When attacked, a protective shield surrounds her and absorbs all other damage within a small window of time after the first attack.
Wendy can assist Pipspooks to recover their lost toys and gain Mourning Glories as a reward. Wendy does not lose sanity due to Ghosts, Pipspooks and Ghost Characters. Ghosts are neutral towards Wendy, but will attack if provoked.
Wendy can craft 9 Ghostly Elixirs:
| Icon | Name | Recipe | To Abigail | To Player Character | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effect | Duration | Effect | Duration | |||
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Revenant Restorative | +2 |
1 day/8 minutes | +1 |
20 seconds | |
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Spectral Cure-All | +20 |
30 seconds | +5 |
20 seconds | |
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Unyielding Draught | Doubles the duration of Abigail's protective shield from 0.5 to 1 second (the shield absorbs all damage after the initial attack) |
1 day/8 minutes | Gain a 50 After being hit, it applies a 10-second cooldown. This effect stacks with armor protection. |
2 minutes | |
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Distilled Vengeance | Doubles the duration of Abigail's protective shield from 0.5 to 1 seconds In addition to absorbing damage, all Mobs attacking a shield take 20 damage. |
1 day/8 minutes | Gain a 50 After being hit, it applies a 10-second cooldown. This effect stacks with armor protection and deals 20 damage to surrounding mobs when hit. |
2 minutes | |
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Nightshade Nostrum | Makes Abigail's attacks deal nighttime damage (40) regardless of the time of the day | 1 day/8 minutes | Night vision. | 6 minutes | |
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Vigor Mortis | Increases Abigail's movement speed by 75% | 1 day/8 minutes | Offset up to 25% of slowdown from carrying heavy objects. Won't get slowed down by Sticky Webbing and Honey Trail. |
1 day/8 minutes | |
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Ghastly Experience | (need |
Upgrade Abigail to Level 3 immediately. | 2 minutes | +5 Remove 25% of Max Health Penalty immediately. |
0.3 seconds |
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Cursed Vexation | (need |
Super Elixir, can be used with regular Elixir at the same time. When Abigail inflicted the vex, Wendy's attacks deal +10 Planar Damage to foes. |
1 day/8 minutes | Can't Drink | |
|
Luminous Wrath | (need |
Super Elixir, can be used with regular Elixir at the same time. Abigail's attack deal extra 10 Planar Damage. 100 Planar Damage when she is Gestalt |
2 minutes | ||
Wendy can also exclusively craft the Sisturn through the Structures Filter. The Sisturn can be decorated with petals to generate a sanity aura of +25
/min.
Abigail's attacks beset her opponents with ghostly petals for a short period of time, increasing the damage they receive by 10% for 2 seconds. Wendy players will also deal an additional 40% damage. Combined with Wendy's 0.75x multiplier this results in a net 15.5% extra damage. Beefalo ridden by Wendy benefit from both vex damage multipliers but will not suffer from Wendy's 0.75x mult, resulting in a 54% boost to their damage.
Wendy suffers 25% less Sanity drain from Darkness and from being near insanity auras. The effect only extends to those two cases though, meaning that other things that drain Sanity (e.g. Rain, Dark Sword, Monster Meat etc.) will drain at the normal rate.
Disadvantage
Wendy's attacks are 25% weaker than most other Characters' in order to balance out the ability to summon Abigail and the lowered sanity drain.
Wendy loses 30
when Abigail is destroyed by an enemy and her power level is reset. Summoning Abigail will lock Wendy in place for 3 seconds.
Skill Tree
See also: Insight
Pipspook Quest
| Skill | Prerequisites | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() Pipspook Quest I |
Available from start | Pipspook lost toys aren't quite so far away. | The distance between Lost Toys is smaller. |
![]() Pipspook Quest II |
Unlock "Pipspook Quest I" | Pipspooks remember more lost toys to find. | Pipspook can locate 1-2 more lost toys. |
![]() Pipspook Quest III |
Unlock "Pipspook Quest II" | Pipspooks produce more Mourning Glories. | Pipspook rewards Wendy with 2 Mourning Glories (instead of 1) for each lost toy found and 6 Mourning Glories for the last one (instead of 4). |
Brews
| Skill | Prerequisites | Description | Notes | |||||||
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![]() Picnic Casket |
Available from start | Wendy can craft a Basket to carry all of Abigail's Elixirs and Mourning Glory. |
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![]() Ghastly Experience |
Unlock "Picnic Casket" | Wendy learns to brew a new Ghostly Elixir which helps Abigail quickly remember her potential. | ||||||||
![]() Strong Brew |
Unlock "Ghastly Experience" | Elixirs with one day duration will now last two. | All elixirs, except for Spectral Cure-All, will have doubled effect duration. | |||||||
![]() Extra Yield |
Unlock "Strong Brew" | Sometimes, Wendy is able to squeeze extra Elixirs out of the same ingredients. | Wendy has a 40% chance to craft double and 10% chance to craft triple of the same Elixirs from the same ingredients for free. |
Blessed Sisturn
| Skill | Prerequisites | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() Blessed Sisturn I |
Available from start | The chilling aura of death preserves the petals placed in the sisturn longer. | Petals put inside the Sisturn will stay fresh for 50% longer. |
![]() Blessed Sisturn II |
Unlock "Blessed Sisturn I" | Wendy's resistance to scary things is increased, and she grants some of that confidence to others nearby. | If there is a Sisturn filled with Petals in the world, Wendy will have +25% resistance to mobs' negative sanity aura, and being near the Sisturn will give Wendy +40 sanity per minute (instead of +25 sanity per minute). This effect also extends some to other nearby players. |
![]() Blessed Sisturn III |
Unlock "Blessed Sisturn II" | Lune Tree Blossoms draw Abigail's humanity closer to the Constant. She becomes more resistant to the Giants like the rest of the survivors, but her ghostly healing effects are slowed while she is summoned. |
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Mourning Glory
| Skill | Prerequisites | Description | Notes | ||||||||||
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![]() Mourning Glory I |
Available from start | Begin the journey of revival with Butterflies and Moths. |
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![]() Mourning Glory II |
Unlock "Mourning Glory I" | Surround yourself in ghostly nature and taste the power of the elixirs even if not fully. | While wearing a Wraith's Wreath, players can drink Ghostly Elixirs (except Super Elixirs) by hovering it on the Wreath and right clicking to gain a weaker or similar effect.
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![]() Mourning Glory III |
Unlock "Mourning Glory II" | You can bring back friends, but only if they've entered the Constant it seems. |
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Vengeful Ghost
Gravestones
| Skill | Prerequisites | Description | Notes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() Grave Beautification |
Available from start | Wendy can adorn graves with flowers to delight their resident spirits.
Evil Flowers no longer hold fear for Wendy. |
Wendy can now decorate Headstones with Petals. Giving 3 Petals will spawn a Bigspook from the ground up, regardless of the day/moon cycle. Wendy is limited to summoning 4 Bigspooks at a time.
Petals will stay for 6 days (48 mins) on the Headstones. Decorated Headstone will spawn Evil Flowers after 16-24 minutes, in which it can spawn 2-3 Evil Flowers before becoming normal Headstones again. Wendy will gain +5 | |||||||||
![]() Gravestones By Wendy |
Unlock "Grave Beautification" | Wendy can put to rest the spirits of skeletons with a gravestone.
She can also craft a Spirit Vessel to invite friendly phantoms to new homes. |
Wendy can build a Headstone on the Skeleton of fallen survivors.
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Team Spirit
| Skill | Prerequisites | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() Team Spirit I |
Available from start | Wendy can remind Abigail she's a ghost, able to be unseen by her enemies to escape bad situations. | Unlock a new ghost command for Abigail's Flower:
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![]() Team Spirit II |
Unlock "Team Spirit I" | Abigail can dash to anywhere Wendy needs reinforcement. | Unlock a new ghost command for Abigail's Flower:
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![]() Team Spirit III |
Unlock "Team Spirit II" | Abigail can use her powers as a spooky ghost to scare and haunt things. | Unlock two new ghost commands for Abigail's Flower:
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Affinity
| Skill | Prerequisites | Description | Notes | ||||||
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![]() Lunar Sisterhood I |
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Abigail attunes with lunar energies and earns some Planar Defense. | Abigail gains 15 Planar Defense, +10% damage against Shadow Aligned creatures and +10% damage protection against Lunar Aligned creatures.
Wendy also gains +10% damage against Shadow Aligned creatures and +10% damage protection against Lunar Aligned creatures. | ||||||
![]() Lunar Sisterhood II |
Unlock "Lunar Sisterhood I" | Wendy can craft a Super Elixir infused with lunar energy that gives Abigail a boost of Planar Damage for its duration. Super Elixirs work in parallel to regular Elixirs. |
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![]() Lunar Sisterhood III |
Unlock "Lunar Sisterhood II" | Wendy can use the Moon Dial during a waxing or full moon to fill Abigail with lunar energy, turning her into a Gestalt. The Moon Dial can restore her ghost status during a waning or new moon. | On a waxing or full moon, Wendy can mutate Abigail at the Moon Dial to transform her into Gestalt Abigail.
Gestalt Abigail will periodically deal a significant amount of damage to a single target, dealing 100 damage during the day, 150 damage at dusk, and 250 damage at night (applying Luminous Wrath onto Gestalt Abigail adds +100 Planar Damage). While her attack is on cooldown, she will maintain some distance between herself and her enemies until she is ready to attack. On a waning or new moon, Wendy can change Abigail back to her ghost form at the Moon Dial. | ||||||
![]() Shadow Sisterhood I |
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Abigail attunes with the shadows and earns some Planar Defense. | Abigail gains 15 Planar Defense, +10% damage against Lunar Aligned creatures and +10% damage protection against Shadow Aligned creatures.
Wendy also gains +10% damage against Lunar Aligned creatures and +10% damage protection against Shadow Aligned creatures. | ||||||
![]() Shadow Sisterhood II |
Unlock "Shadow Sisterhood I" | Wendy can craft a Super Elixir infused with shadow magic that increases Abigail's Vex damage. Super Elixirs work in parallel to regular Elixirs. |
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![]() Shadow Sisterhood III |
Unlock "Shadow Sisterhood II" | Dark Magic is released whenever Wendy uses the Murder action filling Abigail with more power for a short time. | Wendy can perform the Murder action on small creatures in her inventory to temporarily change Abigail into Shadow Abigail.
Shadow Abigail boosts her attacks with +25 Planar Damage when fighting enemies. The effect can be extended for an additional 8 seconds for each creature murdered. |
Tips
Main article: Guides/Character guides-Wendy
- Abigail won't keep fighting Mobs forever and sometimes needs to be ordered to do so mid-fight. Keep an eye on the battle so to keep her focused on the task.
- Since she can outrun Rabbits, Abigail is a source of easy Morsels.
- Abigail is extremely effective against Spiders, making it a good idea to farm them for Monster Meat, Spider Glands, and Silk. When combined with a Birdcage, which allows converting Monster Meat into Eggs, spiders can serve as a reliable primary food source. Be careful, however, since Spider Dens can overgrow into a Spider Queen, which is much harder to defeat.
- Abigail is also very effective against Splumonkeys, making them another excellent source of food in the Caves, as they drop Morsels and Bananas.
- Although it is always dark in Caves, there's a day-night system in place, meaning Abigail will not always do 40 damage per hit. In the Ruins though it's always considered Night.
- Abigail can tank and damage Pengulls rather easily, and can take the full camp with Wendy's help at Dusk without too much risk. This means Wendy has a fairly reliable source of Food in the Winter.
- Wendy can order Abigail to attack and kill monsters and innocent creatures that increase Naughtiness without causing Krampus to spawn.
- While Abigail is great against groups of weaker foes, fighting stronger Mobs or Giants will result in her death unless she's helped by Wendy. Great support weapons are the Ice Staff and Fire Staff. The Ice Staff can be used to stun enemies before they land a hit on Abigail, preventing her from taking damage. The Fire Staff can stun Mobs for longer while also damaging them but comes at the cost of possibly burning the dropped loot upon the enemy's death.
- Despite the Sanity icon not displaying an arrow, the Top Hat will not completely keep Sanity from draining in the dark.
- Weapons that deal indirect damage (Fire Dart, Gunpowder, etc.) are not affected by Wendy's damage multiplier making them excellent choices for her.
- A good Melee Weapon for Wendy is the Ham Bat, since it has unlimited uses while fresh, effectively erasing one of the drawbacks of the reduced damage.
- Alternatively, taming an Ornery Beefalo can be very advantageous for Wendy as it not only provides speed, it also negates her 25% damage reduction and giving her a reliable method of combat when Abigail is unavailable. Whilst attacking with Abigail on a beefalo, Wendy has an effective damage multiplier of x1.54.
- With a Garland and a Pretty Parasol (or the Wraith's Wreath from the Mourning Glory II skill) equipped, Wendy suffers almost no sanity drain at night, meaning gathering 18 Petals (or 6 Mourning Glories for the Wreath) can keep her sanity up during both night and day during the early days when other sanity-restoring alternatives are unavailable.
- Care should be taken when fighting alongside Abigail, as a single hit from Wendy dismisses her. This is particularly important on the console versions of the game, as the automatic targeting can accidentally attack her instead of an enemy.
- Mourning Glory I and Shadow Sisterhood III skills synergize well with eachother for maintaining Shadow Abigail damage.
Bugs
- While wearing some of the hats, Wendy's flower and the top of her hair will disappear when the player moves towards the top of the screen, and will appear again when she stops moving.
- Attacking Abigail (by holding the Ctrl key) at the same time as selecting the Escape command (from Team Spirit 1 skill) will make Abigail turn "invincible". This makes her unable to receive damage while still fighting alongside Wendy, able to receive elixirs effects, and able to apply vex effect to the enemy. However, she cannot receive buffs/actions from other Team Spirit skills or Lunar Sisterhood III skill. For the Shadow Sisterhood III, although Wendy cannot provide Dark Magic to Abigail when she's not summoned, the player can perform the Murder action on a huge quantity of creatures in their inventory beforehand until the effect wears off.
| Characters | |
| Don't Starve | |
| Reign of Giants | |
| Shipwrecked | |
| Hamlet | |
| Don't Starve Together | |
| Removed | |
| Unimplemented | |
| Other | Minor Characters |






















































