Shadow Manipulator

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Shadow Manipulator
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“What have I created?”

–Wilson

“A dark and powerful energy radiates from it.”

–Willow

“What has Wolfgang done?”

–Wolfgang

“I have learnt unspeakable things.”

–Wendy

“PERHAPS IT IS TOO POWERFUL.”

–WX-78

“Perhaps I have gone too far.”

–Wickerbottom

“OK, I kind of get it now.”

–Woodie

“This is where I do my own personal research.”

–Maxwell

“For harnessing the dark forces lurking about.”

–Wagstaff

“A mystical thing.”

–Wigfrid

“We should be careful around that.”

–Webber

“Manipulating shadows sounds tough, glad I don't have to.”

–Walani

“It boggles the mind.”

–Warly

“Witchcraft wit' this 'un, no two ways about 'er.”

–Woodlegs

“WILBA HAVE'TH THE MAGICS”

–Wilba

“More magics”

–Wormwood

“Oooh. Dark and mysterious. I like it.”

–Wheeler

“Not sure how it works, but I'm gonna find out.”

–Winona

“There's magic fun to be had here.”

–Wortox

“Glurp... shouldn't play with that.”

–Wurt

“Is it really magic?”

–Walter

“Shadow magic's just a tool, like anything else.”

–Wanda

The Shadow Manipulator is the tier 2 Magic station which unlocks all of the Magic Tab recipes. It requires a Prestihatitator to prototype and costs 3 Living Logs, 1 Purple Gem, and 7 Nightmare Fuel to craft. Prototyping an item using the Shadow Manipulator will increase Sanity by 15, like any other station.

Crafting Recipes

See also: Crafting
Shadow Manipulator allows the prototyping of any following items and structures. Once prototyped, the craftables become unlocked on the Magic Tab, Refine Tab and will no longer require the player to be next to the Shadow Manipulator to craft. As the Second Tier Magic structure, all craftables offered by Prestihatitator can also be accessed and prototyped from a Shadow Manipulator. Some character exclusive items also need to be prototyped using a Prestihatitator or a Shadow Manipulator.

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  Meat Effigy
  

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  Shadow Manipulator
  

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  Pan Flute
  

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  One-man Band
  

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  Night Light
  

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  Life Giving Amulet
  

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  Chilled Amulet
  

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  Ice Staff
  

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  Nightmare Fuel
  

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  Purple Gem
  

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  Dark Sword

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  Night Armor

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  Bat Bat

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  Belt of Hunger

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  Nightmare Amulet

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  Fire Staff

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  Telelocator Staff

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  Telelocator Focus

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  Sleepytime Stories

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  The End is Nigh

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  Joy of Volcanology
  

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  Dripple Pipes
  

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  Seaworthy
  only on worlds linked to

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  Root Trunk
  

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  Pugalisk Wand
  

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  Skyworthy
  Only on worlds linked to

Downloadable Content

In the Shipwrecked DLC, the Shadow Manipulator can be flooded.

Tips

• Chopping down a Totally Normal Tree and digging up its stump yields enough Living Logs to craft a Shadow Manipulator without the need to kill a Treeguard. However, making other items such as Dark Swords would require Living Logs.

Bugs

• In Winter, snow on top of the device disappears with the rising and falling animations (when the player is near).

Trivia

• The Shadow Manipulator was added in A Little Rain Must Fall update.
• A Shadow Manipulator can be found in the Miner's Camp set piece.
• The Shadow Manipulator was the tier 3 Science research lab before Science and Magic research were separated into different categories.
• In Don't Starve Together, the Clean Sweeper also used to require a Shadow Manipulator to be prototyped until March 2022 Quality of Life update where it was moved to Science Tier 2 and its recipe was changed from 6 Dark Petals and 3 Living Logs to 4 Petals and 1 Twig.

Gallery

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  The Shadow Manipulator's animation when the player is nearby.

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  A Shadow Manipulator when not close to a player.

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  A burnt Shadow Manipulator from the Reign of Giants DLC.

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  Shadow Manipulator as seen in the poster for A Little Rain Must Fall update.

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  Dont Starve research machines gif by Kelly