Wickerbottom/Don't Starve

Wickerbottom's special power is a Crafting tab called Books. This gives her the ability to craft 5 different magical books with Papyrus and other different ingredients. She can read these for beneficial effects, but at the cost of a lot of Sanity.
The Books that she can craft are:
* Birds of the World- When read, this Book will summon 20-30 Birds in a circle around Wickerbottom.
*Applied Horticulture- When read, most Plants and Farms around Wickerbottom will advance to the next stage of their growth.
* Sleepytime Stories - When read, this Book acts the same as a Pan Flute, putting all nearby Mobs to sleep.
*On Tentacles - When read, this Book will summon 3 Tentacles at random locations near Wickerbottom.
* The End is Nigh- When read, this Book will summon 16 Lightning strikes at random locations near Wickerbottom.
The Books can be read a maximum of 5 times each and drain 33 or 50 with each reading session. This is somewhat offset by Wickerbottom's higher maximum Sanity, but eventually some Sanity restoring means will be required for continued usage of the Books.
Wickerbottom can make all Science Machine recipes without having to build the Science Machine, but does not gain the 15 per prototype for those since she already knows them at the start of the game. The rest of the recipes can be prototyped with a Science Machine even though they would normally require an Alchemy Engine. Therefore, only a Science Machine is needed to unlock all Science recipes for prototyping. The one exception is the book "On Tentacles" - she needs an Alchemy Engine to prototype it. This free tier of knowledge does not apply to Magic research machines.
Wickerbottom is suited for both early and late game playthroughs, providing an easy start with her knowledge and interesting strategies with her Books in the later days.
== Disadvantage ==
Wickerbottom lacks the ability to sleep in a Tent, Bed Roll, or Fur Roll due to her being an insomniac. This means that crafting those Items and Structures would be a waste of resources and the player will need other means to restore Sanity.
She also hates spoiled Food, causing her Sanity to suffer greatly. Eating stale food costs her no Sanity, but neither does it restore any. Stale Food also restores less Hunger and less Health than fresh Food of the same type. Raw Food has no penalties outside of its normal ones (e.g. Green Caps) if it is fresh.
Stage 	Effect
Green (Fresh) 	Restores the full amount of , and for a given Food
Yellow (Stale)	Restores 1/3 (normally 2/3) of , 1/4 (normally 1/3) of for a given food and doesn't restore any
Red (Spoiled) 	
Restores 1/6 (normally 1/2) of for a given food, doesn't restore any and decreases by 10
== Downloadable Content ==
In the Reign of Giants (RoG), Don't Starve Together and Shipwrecked (SW) DLCs, Wickerbottom will be unable to sleep in the Siesta Lean-to.
In Shipwrecked, due to the lack of Tentacles in the world, the "On Tentacles" Book has been replaced with Joy of Volcanology. When read, this Book will summon 4 Dragoon Eggs to fall at her location, dealing massive Fire damage. Players can still craft and use "On Tentacles" but only if they use the Seaworthy and travel to a non-Shipwrecked world.
== Tips ==
*During the early days, it is advised to craft a Backpack and Shovel as soon as possible to start storing dug Grass Tufts, Saplings and Berry Bushes for the player's future base, saving them the time to go back and acquire these items.
*Having early access to variety of books is valuable, therefore setting the base in reasonable proximity to Swamps is a good strategy, and visiting Swamps frequently is a requirement to use Books reliably.
*Eating Cooked Green Caps is highly recommended during the early days, as well as going after the Tam o' Shanter in Winter and creating Bee Boxes for Taffy in later days, in order to get good use out of the Books.
** Eating cooked Cactus Flesh is also a good way to quickly restore Sanity, however Jelly Salad is the go-to end game Sanity restoring food considering its easy and cheap recipe and 50 sanity gain.
** Different Crock Pot recipes that provide big amounts of Sanity like Banana Pop and Surf 'n' Turf.
*"Birds of the World" book allows the player to produce mass amounts of Feathers if it is coupled with "Sleepytime Stories", Bird Traps, Lureplants or Mobs that will hunt the birds, such as MacTusk or Merm.
*The Lightning from "The End is Nigh" has no tactical use besides charging allied WX-78 in Don't Starve Together, as it deals next to no damage and can stunlock Wickerbottom herself in the middle of combat, while posing the risk of burning valuable items.
*"Sleepytime stories" allows picking easy fights with swarms of mobs such as Clockwork Monsters or Spiders.
*"Applied Horticulture" allows Wickerbottom to mass-produce crops such as Dragon Fruit.
*"On Tentacles" is generally only useful as tentacle pit spawner which allows the player to easily fight many enemies such as Hounds, Bee Queen, Walrus, Spiders. The downside of this strategy is that it's dangerous and the player probably needs a Lazy Forager to pick up the loot risk-free.
* "Joy of Volcanology" can be used to easily farm Obsidian by extinguishing the Lava Pools that form with Ice.
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