Night Terrors

**“**I feel like I'm being watched.**”**
–Wilson

**Night Terrors**, also known as **Random Night Events** (RNE) are a series of random events that may occur each nightfall. Night Terrors are extremely diverse, either becoming a blessing or a scourge of the night. Some Night Terrors are dependent on the time of year or the player's current circumstances. Other Night Terrors are exceedingly rare.

## Mechanics

At the start of each night, all players in server are applied a 20% chance for a Night Terror (spawn chance is configurable) individually. Multiple Night Terrors can appear at the same time. Players engaged with a boss will not be given Night Terrors.

## Surface Night Terrors

If specified, some of these occur in caves too.

### Adult Batilisk Swarm

About 3-4 Adult Batilisks will swoop down from the sky and begin to attack the player.

### Birch Nutter Swarm

About 3-4 Birch Nutters will unburrow themselves from the ground and attack the player.

## Gramaphone

### Code

`"charliephonograph"``"charliephonograph_20"
"charliephonograph_40"
"charliephonograph_60"
"charliephonograph_80"
"charliephonograph_100"`

A Shadow Gramaphone will spawn nearby and will begin to play an eerie rendition of Ragtime. Interacting with it will teleport the Gramophone a moderate distance away and speed up the music. This can be performed 5 times.

After interacting with the Gramophone for the final time, the following will spawn:

* Dark Sword or Night Armor
* 0-3 Crawling Nightmares or Nightmarebeaks.

Both the Phonograph and Shadow Creatures will despawn at morning.

### Cave plants

A cluster of Ferns and Light Flowers will spawn around the player before quickly disintegrating. These plants can be harvested.

### Fuel Stealers

A few **Fuel Stealers** will spawn and begin following the player. If they are close enough, they will begin rapidly exhausting light sources. Fuel Stealers target the following:

* Torch
* Miner Hat
* Campfire
* Fire Pit
* Endothermic Fire
* Endothermic Fire Pit

### Random Chimp Event

A group of Splumonkeys named "Chimps" will spawn near the player will begin picking up from the ground. When night ends, they will despawn and drop all items they collected.

### Living Stumps

If the player is around any stumps they will transform into Pinelings.

### Many Mr. Skitts

A big group of Mr. Skitts will spawn near to the player. The player can get close to make them disappear. It has no secondary effect.

### Shadow Eyes

A bunch of Shadow Eyes will spawn near the player. They will rapidly drain the player's sanity, and will start draining their health if the player's sanity hits 0.

## Skeleton

### Code

`"rneskeleton"`

**“**They are spooky AND scary!**”**
–Wilson

**“**Holy crap, a skeleton!!**”**
–Willow

**“**W-WOLFGANG WILL SMASH YOU! STAY BACK!**”**
–Wolfgang

**“**Has the reaper come to take me? What took you so long?**”**
–Wendy

**“**INFERIOR AND DEAD; DOUBLE INFERIOR**”**
–WX-78

**“**A living human skeleton.**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“**He's seen better days.**”**
–Woodie

**“**Back for revenge? I'll kill you again if I have to.**”**
–Maxwell

**“**Fallen warriörs!**”**
–Wigfrid

**“**Oh, hello there! Would you like something?**”**
–Webber

**“**Someone's back on the clock.**”**
–Winona

**“**No more stomach? Sorry ami, I can't help you!**”**
–Warly

**“**Your soul came back! That's not how it works!**”**
–Wortox

**“**Alive. Friend?**”**
–Wormwood

**“**It not dead!!**”**
–Wurt

**“**Wanna dance?**”**
–Walter

**“**You have overstayed your welcome.**”**
–Wanda

**“**How are you walking?**”**
–Winky

**“**Human remains, animate.**”**
–Wathom

A group of Skeletons with Football Helmets and Spears will spawn and slowly creep near the player. After getting close enough, they have a 50% chance to either dance or attack in group.

The player can kill one of them for 2 bone shards. They don't have a herd mentality, so if one is attacked, the others won't aggro on the attacker. They will despawn at morning.

### Shadow Arena

**“**Hey! Let go of that gem!**”**
–Wilson, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Ooh! Gimme!**”**
–Willow, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Test my might! I pry that gem out of tiny hand!**”**
–Wolfgang, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**You can't hold onto that thing forever.**”**
–Wendy, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**THAT GEM BELONGS TO ME NOW**”**
–WX-78, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**It seems interested in that gem, perhaps this warrants a closer look.**”**
–Wickerbottom, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Well I'll be darned.**”**
–Woodie, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Oh, please. I know a trick when I see one.**”**
–Maxwell, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Let us strike it döwn, and take it's treasure!**”**
–Wigfrid, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Are you giving me a present?**”**
–Webber, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Charlie, what is this?**”**
–Winona, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Call me superstitious, but something dangerous is at play here...**”**
–Warly, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**I think it's playing a trick, let's pretend to fall for it!**”**
–Wortox, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Friend gift?**”**
–Wormwood, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Treasure in its claws!**”**
–Wurt, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Hey! Let go of that gem!**”**
–Walter, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Oh, how you tempt me...**”**
–Wanda, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Maybe it won't notice me taking the gem.**”**
–Winky, examining the Grasping Shadow

**“**Invitation?**”**
–Wathom, examining the Grasping Shadow

A Grasping Shadow will spawn near the player, and if hit will teleport the player to a random point on the map with 3 Shadow Night Lights, with one of them saying: "Defeat this creature, and claim your prize", and spawning a Tier 2 Shadow Chess Piece Boss.

You can fight and kill the Shadow Piece, and doing so will have it drop a Shadow Crown. If you do not wish to fight, you can run away. If you wait till morning, everything will despawn, and you get nothing.

### Shadow Chesspiece

One of the shadow chess piece bosses will spawn, either tier one or two and will attempt to kill you, this is not the same as the Shadow arena as no crown will drop if it is killed. It will despawn at morning.

## Shadow Wilson

### Code

`"swilson"`

**“**What-?!**”**
–Wilson

**“**W-Wilson?**”**
–Willow

**“**Friend, no! Is Wolfgang!**”**
–Wolfgang

**“**An executioner steps out from the dark**”**
–Wendy

**“**I WILL USE THAT AXE TO KILL YOU**”**
–WX-78

**“**One of the shadows taking the form of Wilson. It's armed.**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“**An axe fight, eh?**”**
–Woodie

**“**I... I thought I killed you!**”**
–Maxwell

**“**A challenger!**”**
–Wigfrid

**“**No, stop! It's us, Wilson!**”**
–Webber

**“**Woah! That axe is real!**”**
–Winona

**“**He's looking to make chopped liver!**”**
–Warly

**“**You can't hit me if you can't catch me! Hyuyu!**”**
–Wortox

**“**Help.**”**
–Wormwood

**“**Glorp! Funny hair man betray?!**”**
–Wurt

**“**Woah! Wilson, what happened to you?!**”**
–Walter

**“**The shadows have taken hold of you!**”**
–Wanda

**“**Which one are you again?**”**
–Winky

**“**Manifestation, shadow. Temperament, particularly hostile.**”**
–Wathom

A hostile shadow version of Wilson wielding an axe as a weapon will spawn, and will slowly trudge towards the player, attempting to kill them, swinging their axe whenever they get close. Occasionally, he will gain a great speed boost and walk much faster than before. Their attacks are easy to dodge due to them standing still while attacking (even while they are speed boosting), however he has a very fast attack rate and is almost impossible to effectively kite. His relatively low health and damage makes tanking a viable option.

### Shadow Talker

A pair of eyes will hover in the darkness and talk, speaking the player's negative thoughts. It has a different response depending on the players character (Wilson's lines are generic and used for every character).

**“**"THERES NO ESCAPE" / "THEY ARE OUT THERE, WATCHING, ALWAYS" / "IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME" / "WHAT YEAR IS IT OUT THERE?" / "NOTHING BUT DARKNESS" / "IT'S A NEVER ENDING CYCLE" / "HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I DIED HERE?" / "WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS?" / "CAN I REALLY TRUST THEM?"**”**
–Wilson

**“**"FLAMES ARE MY ONLY COMFORT" / "I BURNED IT ALL DOWN" / "ASHES, ASHES..."**”**
–Willow

**“**"I AM WEAK." / "I AM AFRAID." / "NOT STRONG ENOUGH."**”**
–Wolfgang

**“**"SHES NEVER COMING BACK" / "I CAN'T HELP HER" / "IT WAS MY FAULT"**”**
–Wendy

**“**"I AM SURROUNDED BY WEAKNESS" / "THEY ARE ALL AGAINST ME" / "I AM SUPERIOR TO THE ORGANICS"**”**
–WX-78

**“**"SLEEP... SLEEP..." / "JUST REST..." / "I KNOW TOO MUCH".**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“**"THEY DON'T TRUST ME" / "THEY THINK IM CRAZY" / "SHES ALL I HAVE LEFT"**”**
–Woodie

**“**"IM SO SORRY CHARLIE" / "THEY WONT LET US GO" / "I CANNOT BE FORGIVEN"**”**
–Maxwell

**“**"SHE IS NO MORE" / "THIS IS WHERE I BELONG" / "I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK"**”**
–Wigfrid

**“**"I AM A MONSTER" / "I CAN NEVER GO HOME" / "I WANT TO GO HOME"**”**
–Webber

**“**"DOES SHE REMEMBER ME?" / "SHE'S GONE" / "I MISS HER"**”**
–Winona

**“**"SHE IS ALL ALONE" / "SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER ME" / "I'M NOT THERE FOR HER"**”**
–Warly

**“**"I CAN CHANGE. I HAVE CHANGED." / "I STILL FEEL THE HUNGER" / "JUST LAUGH IT OFF"**”**
–Wortox

**“**"ALONE" / "NOT LIKE THEM" / "SAD"**”**
–Wormwood

**“**"DO SCALELESS TRUST ME?" / "WHERE... FROM..." / "WHY... HORNS? AM... MERMFOLK?" "MOUTH IN SKY..." / "IS STORY... TRUE?" / "WHAT IF WEBBY BOY NOT FRIEND?" / "NOTHING FEEL RIGHT..." / "DO ANYONE EVEN LIKE MERMFOLK?" / "WILL SCALE-LESS STILL HELP ME?"**”**
–Wurt

**“**"I MUST PROTECT HER" / "I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT" / "I CAN'T GIVE UP" / "I AM AFRAID"**”**
–Walter

**“**"TICK, TOCK, TICK, TOCK" / "TIME IS WASTING..." / "I JUST NEEDED MORE TIME" / "THEY ARE ALL AROUND ME"**”**
–Wanda

**“**"YOU WILL NEVER GET REVENGE." / "YOU OWN NOTHING." / ""**”**
–Winky

**“**"ABYSS, BECKONING." / "MAKER SCHEMES. EVERYONE SCHEMES." / "ANCIENTS FORGOTTEN. TIME WASTED."**”**
–Wathom

**“**"MOM WORKS ALL DAY, SHE WHITTLES AWAY" / "DADS GONE AWAY, SO WE ALL PRAY" / "WIXIES ALL ALONE, SULKING IN HER HOME"**”**
–Wixie

If it gets illuminated, it will vanish, and go to a new location that has complete darkness and continue to talk.

Despite being able to reposition itself, it will not follow the player if they go too far.

### Angry Treeguard

A Treeguard will spawn near the player, already aggroed onto the chosen player and will begin to fight them.

### Moon Tear Meteor

During a Full Moon there is a 50% chance a Moon tear Meteor will fall close to the player, creating a Moon Tear after landing.

### Giant Vortex

A shaking giant vortex will spawn near the player, starting out small, then growing larger and larger, while sucking any players inward with increasing strength. It will continuously keep growing and shaking, until it eventually starts shrinking and fizzles away.

### Woven Shadows Horde

Large amounts of Woven Shadows will continually spawn and creep towards the player, constantly draining sanity.

### Krampus Ambush

At the start of the night, the player will hear Krampus's hiss, then 1-3 Krampi will spawn. The most effective counter is to draw their aggro, to prevent them from stealing your stuff.

### Hand Horde

Large amounts of armless shadow hands will spawn around the player and very swiftly dash towards them, like a bullet. The player will have to constantly dodge the shadow hands, as getting caught by one will drain the player's sanity by -15 and teleport them to a nearby random location, and will also make the player drop anything they were holding. The item the player drops will simply appear at the player's feet, however when in darkness this may not be so obvious.

### Tick's Heart

A Shadow Atrium, completely blacked out and slightly transparent like a shadow monster, will spawn near the player. It will summon hostile "Nervous Ticks" which will chase the player if they get close. Upon reaching the player, they will "latch on" by going into the player's inventory. They will constantly drain the player's health while in their inventory, however they can be "murdered", similar to a rabbit or bird.

### Gnomes

A bunch of gnome trinkets will spawn near the player in a group. Being near the group of gnomes will drain the player's sanity, and attempting to take a gnome or get close to the group has a chance to remove all the gnomes and spawn Crawling Nightmares/Nightmarebeaks. The gnomes and nightmare creatures will disappear at morning. Occasionally, one completely normal gnome trinket might spawn.

## Caves and Surface Night Terrors

Caves and Surface Night Terrors can happen either on the Surface or in the Caves:

## Cave Night Terrors

Cave Night Terrors can only happen while you're in the caves:

### Spider Ambush

Spider Ambush Is a Caves only NT where three Dangling Depth Dwellers descend from the ceiling to attack you.

## Ocean Night Terrors

Ocean Night Terrors can only happen while sailing:

## Removed

A list of the removed NTs that can no longer occur in game:

### Eyeplants

About three or four Eyeplants will spawn near the player. This was Replaced by the Shadow Eyes NT.

### Full moon werepigs

During a Full Moon, there is a 50% chance two Werepigs will spawn near the Player, ready to attack you. They have a ghostly glow simarly to being haunted.

### Vacation Mactusk

This RNE could only happen in summer. A Mactusk with a summer clothes and a Red Hound would spawn near the Player. He worked just like a Normal MacTusk, except with a 25% chance to drop the Sunglasses. They despawn at morning.

### Winter Mactusk

One Mactusk and one Blue Hounds will spawn, he acts exactly the same as regular MacTusk and will hunt the player as usual. They have a ghostly glow similarly to being haunted, and disappear when the night is over. Wee MacTusk will not appear when this happens.

## Tips

* Before nightfall always make sure you're aware that an NT might happen and always be prepared to fight.
* Plenty of NTs will despawn during day, so waiting until morning is always a viable strategy.

## Trivia

* Night Terrors were previously named as "Random Night Events". This name change happened because of a Hallowed Nights mod contest made by Klei in 2021. Some of Uncomp's Developers created a few mods for the contest, one of them being Night Terrors, which got 7th place in the rankings and was later incorporated into Uncompromising Mode itself.
* Night Terrors were inspired by Darkwood.
* The spawn code for the Shadow Gramaphone is based on the original spawncode in DS: ("maxwellphonograph"), it references how Charlie is the one in charge of the throne in DST, not Maxwell.
* Shadow Wilson is a possible reference to the old update banner for Don't starve, featuring Wilson with a devious smile and an axe.
* The Random Chimp Event NT, is a clear reference to the Meme of the same name.

## Gallery

RNE Lightbulbs.pngCave plants growing around the player.RNE Fog.pngThick fog.