Shadow Puppet/DST

Don't Starve

DST

The Shadow Puppets are shadow versions of Maxwell that do his bidding. In Don't Starve Together, shadow puppets are divided into two types - the Shadow Servant and the Shadow Duelist. They are summoned by Codex Umbra and takes 15% of Maxwell's maximum sanity per summon. Shadow puppets can be called at a specific location and do not leave the area within a four-turf cell radius of the summoning location. They automatically begin activities appropriate to their functions. You can have a maximum of 6 puppets summoned at the same time, although it is best to summon only 5 to prevent shadow creatures from spawning, unless you intend to farm nightmare fuel or have the bone helm.

The look of Shadow Puppets will be the same as their Summoner, Maxwell, with the same Skins. When Maxwell use Emotes like dancing, the Shadow Puppets will stop their work and go back to Maxwell to do the Emotes.

Shadow Servant

The Shadow Servant is a worker capable of chopping, mining, digging, harvesting, and picking up items. For 4 minutes after being spawned, the servant will collect for resources within four turfs radius of the spawn point. Shadow servants have one inventory slot, and will pick up items up to its max stack size within the range before returning them to the summoner. The items that Shadow Servant can pick and cannot pick are the same as The Lazy Forager. For example, Shadow Servant will not pick up weapons or Blueprints.

While working, the Servants only use the worst efficiency tools, meaning they needs 15 hits of Axe to chop down a fully grown tree. When cutting down trees, the servant will also dig up the remaining stump. The Shadow Servants will not collect from Scared plants that caused by Embalming Spritz and Ancient Trees.

When Shadow Servant is summoned on the Boat, it will set the boat as its spawn point and stay on the Boat, even when Boat is moving. The Servants are able to walk on the Ocean and pick up items on the Ocean.

The Shadow Servant can be summoned to pick up items that Maxwell cannot reach, like the items in Cave Hole. They can also pick Cactus or Spiky Bush without taking any damage.

However, they will run away from the hostile mobs and bosses and cannot pick up items around threats. Once attacked, the Servants will disappear in one hit. Maxwell can also force attack them to dismiss the Servants.

Shadow Duelist

The Shadow Duelist will attack any creature that approaches their summon range, as well as anything that the summoner attacks, or anything that attacks the summoner; however, the shadow duelists are not able to attack Shadow Creatures, like the crawling horror. The duelist has 75 health, and 20 base damage which various modifiers can increase. The duelists will disappear after 2 minutes, but if they are not actively engaging in combat, they will die in 10 seconds.

The duelist has two types of attacks: normal strike and dash. The dash has a cooldown of 8 seconds and deals 1.5 times the damage of the normal strike. If the summoner is not within the summon range of the duelist, the dash cooldown is increased to 16 seconds.

Even though the duelist has only 75 health, it is still durable in combat due to its damage reduction. From the time of summoning, the damage that another creature can inflict on them is limited to a value of 15 HP, which increases by 5 HP every 2.5 seconds if the duelists don't take damage. This means that damage taken will be equal to the duelist's total health in 30 seconds.

When taking hit, duelists disappear and appear nearby, similar to crawling horrors.

Damage Modifiers

The duelist's initial damage is 20 but can be increased with Maxwell's equipped items. The item level is multiplied by four and added to the initial damage. The damage increase only works when the distance between Maxwell and his minions or between Maxwell and his target is smaller than four turfs radius.

Tier	Damage Boost	Items	Notes
1	+4		Includes all amulets and staves except .
2	+8		Only the Magician's Top Hat counts. The regular Top Hat has no effect.
3	+12
4	+16		Only works when fueled.

Thus, the duelist's maximum damage is 60 units when equipped with a shadow thurible, and any head gear and body gear from tier 3.

Tips

• Maxwell should be careful of where to summon the Shadow Servants, as they can accidentally chop down trees that the player wants to keep or pick up decorative items.
• In DST, although you can get a maximum of 60 damage with the shadow thurible and tier 3 equipment, it is actually better to use the Shadow Reaper, or the Dark Sword instead, as your DPS will be bigger if you are actively hitting the enemy. As such, the best DPS can be achieved by using the Bone Helm, Bone Armor and Shadow Reaper, while having 6 duelists summoned. Using the Void Cowl instead of bone helm will decrease your DPS output, as shadow creatures will keep attacking you if you have 6 puppets summoned.
• Maxwell can equip Bone Helm, Bone Armor and fueled Shadow Thurible, and ride on a Ornery Beefalo to fight. In this way, Maxwell can summon 6 Shadow Duelists with max damage boost.

Trivia

• The footsteps of the puppets make a faint warping sound.
• Despite being Shadow Creatures, passive animals will avoid puppets and neutral mobs will fight back against them. Puppets are also unable to help the player against Shadow Creatures.
• In Don't Starve Together, if Maxwell executes an emote, his puppets will stop whatever they are doing and will run over to Maxwell before proceeding to do the same emote.
  • They will do the dance emote with both /dance and /step emote.
• The description "Diggy diggy hole" is a reference to the song "Diggy Diggy hole" by the Youtube channel Yogscast.

Gallery

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  A puppet spawning (Look closer and you'll find Mr. Skitts).
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  Maxwell's maximum Sanity after summoning a Puppet.
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  Puppets cutting a tree.
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  Mining a rock with the help of the puppets.
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  Maxwell with a Shadow Puppet, as seen in the All's Well That Maxwell trailer.
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  Maxwell and a Shadow Duelist dancing together (DST).
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  Shadow Puppet appear concept from Rhymes with Play "Maxwell's Character Refresh"

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