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Summary of another comment made in this comment section. CK has awful movesets. Each attack he uses has levels. 1. Near Harmless 2. Challenging 3. Difficult The gems socketed on CK have effects on these attacks. Socketing just one type of gem many times will lead to an insane fight due to one of his attack being "overlevelled." *Pearl's Pearl* increases every attack 1 level. *Red* Gems control the towers. If you socket Pearl's Pearl, you cannot socket a red gem if you want the towers to go to Level 2(in which they will be overly annoying.) *Purple* Gems increase sleep immunity of crab minions. Adding any purple gems leads to Pan Flute use doubling. *Orange* Gems increase CK Healing. 2 Orange Gems make CK un-solo-able. (1 advised). *Blue* Gems increase the strength of the ice. (This also leads to unavoidable healing.) *Yellow* increases the damage of the towers. *Green* increases the damage of the claws. Red and Purple Gems are the gems that easily make the fight spin out of control(don't use them). Ruins Gems can make the fight manageable or even fun. OP advises using grass boats and go with 2 stacks of Grass and 1 stack of Twigs Conclusion/Summary: Klei incentivizes the use of different gems to make the fight as balanced as possible. IMO, this is the right way to do things because it rewards players who have the abilitiy to obtain Ruins Gems (those who have great skill in boss-rushing, ruins-rushing, or just good at the game in general) while silently communicating to players with passive playstyles, "These Gems you got from the Hounds aren't worth sacrificing for this."

daywalker LITERALLY tells you why is atacking you... you are stealing "his" junk...

Why is the technician character inventing stuff when the inventor character doesn't?!

4:26 And to anyone who disagrees with this: what if you were reading a book but every few chapters you were required to go onto the writers website and watch some videos in order to understand what is going on.

crab king got better but he's still an ass slop resource drain to get to, unless you use "the right set of gems" on a boss About customizability, it's stupid

A rarity for me but I actually disagree with Freddo's take about Crab King. I think the new rework turned it into a really fun boss that heavily incentivizes moving about with your boat instead of sitting still and hitting a damage sponge. Plus, more application to bumpers is always good. Plus, now you have a few seconds of buffer time to deal with the bullcrap going around him before he starts healing. The crab guard phase can be cheesed with a flute, which kinda sucks, I'd like if they made them easier to deal with on a combat level but also made them immune to sleeping.

These towers are a pain to deal with? Just ignore them and when the waves hit, heal your boat. Minions attacking you? Just pan flute them Stoopid.

What gem combinations are working for you guys? Before I was using orange only but now they added the annoying healing interrupt resistance

4:48 hot

Quality video as always!

I have a theory Wagstaff is Father Elijah

hah what then fuck did i just witness?

why just why

just... use all green gems and completely ignore the claws... This new rework is so easy, you're literally the only person I've seen complaining about it.

Bro you are stupid and i now tell you plan to kill crabing dubo. 1 place in krabking 1 perl and 8 orange jems next you complytly ignore lauchers and crabs arms and demege boss next wen crab arms are gone crabking start meking weys dont be close to the crabing or geyzers destroy your bout next wen crabing is meking ice barrier you use pan flut to fall asllep minions and you do damage to crabking wen ice start broking you clikly jump on the bout and ewritchng agen crab arms ways and ice barrier to kill a boss and remeber to grab some wood planks to repere the bout and some fod to increse your he when they low. So you naw now chow to kill crabking idiot

Ok so after about 3 hours of testing this dumb boss fight I've finally found a way to beat it consistently on a 1x dmg modifier character with no cheese, just straight hands. This boss fight was a headache but its very much possible with some strategy. Ill say what not to do and what to do because theres MANY ways to mess this fight up. *GEM COMBINATIONS* -Dont use any blue gems at all. Any blue gems massively decrease the amount of time you have on the ice sheet aka the phase where you can really damage him. It also increase the ice walls health making you have even less time. Sometimes you wont even have time to damage him and he just heals back up. -Dont use even a single purple gem. Even 1 gives them sleep resistance making them take 2 panflute uses to put to sleep. Higher amounts of purple gems makes them take 3. On top of this they become so tanky with higher numbers of gems its not even possible to take them out and damage CK at the same time. -Dont use red gems. Like purple gems, even a singular one will completely flip the fight and make it significantly harder. 1 red gem is all it takes to turn the tower shots from just damaging your boat to leaking your boat. Automatically makes the fight 20x harder. -dont use yellow gems. Your boat already takes too much damage as is. This'll make it much more likely that you'll sink since theres gonna be more towers. Thisll also ruin your shell bumpers meaning you'll likely need more. Its not as bad as the other gem types and wont automatically make you lose but it'll make the fight unnecessarily harder. -Use ONLY 1 orange gem. Its basically free. This only increases the healing from the boss but as long as you're hitting him he wont heal. If you use more than 1 he will heal DESPITE you hitting him. So using more than 1 orange gem effectively makes this boss have infinite health and makes him immortal. -Use 7 green gems. This makes the claws insanely strong, with 600 HP and 90 damage and will spawn more of them but with the strategy ill explain further it wont matter. -Obviously use the pearl. No pearl = no altar. *PREP* -Use any oar other than the regular wood one. The wood one is not strong enough to propel you forward after his waves. He will heal to full hp 100% of the time if you use it. Obviously the stronger the oar the better but driftwood oars work perfectly fine. -You can use a Hambat but a 68 dmg weapon like a darksword or glass cutter is ideal. -Some football helms for armor work. I used up 1 and a half but bring extra just incase something goes wrong. -Panflute -Boat patches incase a tower spawns on your boat. That's its only real use so you wont need many of these. -a stack of boards or two to heal your boat up from the tower damage. -Use 8 shell bumper kits. These are near mandatory because it allows you to ram your boat into the towers instead of having to attack them 1 by 1. This saves you an absolute ton of time. Do not use kelp bumpers, they break too easily. A single shell bumper can take down multiple towers and you should have a billion shells from completing pearls quest anyways. -Some healing food. Nothing crazy is necessary, just a couple pierogi's or for Wurt players, trail mix/Figatoni works. -Summon some stars with the star caller staff. Its highly likely this fight will take you into nighttime unless you're Wolfgang. If this happens in his ice sheet phase he will heal to full basically for free. *THE ACTUAL FIGHT* #1 After socketing the gems DPS crab king down until he starts his wave attacks. If you animation cancel with a 68 dmg weapon you should dps him just in time before the claws reach you. They might hit you once or twice but its fine. A Hambat will take longer here and might cause you to either take more hits or need to row back and start from step 3. These claws despawn as soon as he nears 10k hp. #2 immediately pull out your oar and row towards the crab king. This'll cancel out the wave knockback somewhat, placing you just infront of the ice sheet. #3 Jump on the ice sheet and immediately attack the ice wall. If multiple crab guard aggro's onto you, use the panflute and keep attacking the crab king. If only 1 aggro's onto you just oneshot him. With no purple gems they only have 60 hp. A 68 dmg weapon oneshots. Hambats do not which is why i recommend a 68 damage weapon. #4 When the ice sheet starts cracking run to the side thats not cracking and land a couple more hits. Once that cracks too run back to your boat and repair it to full hp. If a tower spawned on your boat, break the tower then use a boat patch over it. Again make sure your boat is full hp before moving to step 5. #5 If a tower spawned next to you, attack it till it goes down. After doing that or if they did not spawn next to you just row in a circle and keep ramming the towers until you see all the claws are grouped up. #6 Once the claws are grouped, row towards the crab king and make sure all the claws are to one side of your boat. Since the claws are to the right and the CK hitbox is so big you can hit Crab King but his claws cannot hit you. Then DPS the Crab King until he does his waves again. #7 Return back to step #2 and do step #2 - #6 until Crab King is dead. If done correctly it'll only take 3 ice sheet phase cycles. This bossfight was annoying at first and i thought it was impossible but after figuring out what to do and what works its actually a pretty well designed boss fight. 10/10 bossfight if you know what you're doing. Actual hell on earth if you dont.

I strongly disagree with your take on the wurt skill tree's thing about reading the wiki and crab king. Wurt's skills about gifting the king trinkets is pretty self explanetory, I figured them out instantly what is needed and what they do for your merms. crown worn by ancients? thulechite crown easily. I think they cooked with that one. Crab king is a very good build your boss boss now. What your problem is that the breaking points start at 5 gems, so it's the best if you use 2 max 3 different gems. towers will be hard to ram if you have 5 of that gem (or one iridescent and one gem), the ice will become unbreakable when you use 5 blue gems, towers cause leaks when you have 5 red gems etc. So you build your own boss based on your character and playstyle. Like for Willow you can go for 8 purple gems because lunar flames kill crabs and bernie holds them together. winona can go for 8 green gems because she can snipe the claws. If you use grass boats you can go full red gems and ram the towers. you can use panflutes if you don't use purple gems, then you can go for blue and orange gems and telepoof onto the platform. my main problem is the sinking. if your character would automatically hop onto any platform avaliable in case your boat sinks and you are at the edge at your boat, AND you would stay on the ice platforms once they break instead of sinking then I would say thatcrab king is my favourite boss

I think the new crab king can be a little to much with some gems combinations and the insta drown mechanic

I didnt watch the video yet, but I think the rework didn't make it a better boss, it made it a faster boss, but also much more boring as well, while adding frustration with the random drowns on the ice sheets.

The crab towers only pop holes in your boat if you plug red gems in CK.

Come to think of it, Freddo looks a lot like that Wandering drone🤔

Hey Freddo, just wanted to say that despite not playing DST for a couple years now, I love watching your content. You clearly put a lot of time and passion into them and it's a massive shame that you (and all DST youtube really) don't have larger followings. I think the first and last time my friends and I tried to fight Crab King was back when the farms got completely reworked. There weren't any skill trees for characters but man does the Wurt one look cool (Used to main Wigfrid or Wurt, meat or veg only lol). I think the new fight has promise, especially if the different gem types come into play a lot more. But there 100% needs to be something in game that directs a player to suggesting they fiddle around with that. If they remove the self healing and make Crab King a juggernaut to take down like Toadstool then I can see the new fight having some promise to it. (wait hold on, the wiki says Crab King can have 20,000 - 95,000hp while regular Toadstool has only 52,500. That's just ridiculous. Imagine fighting it with max health on your first attempt not knowing any wiser and the adds just make it so he heals every time...) I'm also really glad to see that they've stuck with updating the oceans more. They seemed so barren despite the fishing etc added, like it only really existed for the lunar island to be a thing and everything else was an afterthought. I've wanted to jump back into it for a while now, it's just hard to find the time and to find anyone else that's interested. They have in every respect made the game easier or more accessible so I imagine the learning curve isn't so brutal anymore, but I'm sure endgame content is just as hard to get to and that's where the real game begins.

Respectfully, I have to disagree on the Crab King fight. I think that a big part of this fight that isn't being considered in this video is that DST bosses are most likely made with multiplayer in mind. Someone applying patches while the other steers or does damage is a lot of fun, and as someone who plays singleplayer mostly myself, I get how easy it is to forget. But the fights are all balanced around multiple people participating - like how three brightshades clumped up is annoying on singleplayer, and a fun, confusing mess on multiplayer - and why so many bosses have AoE attacks or a lot of minions. I do agree on Winona though, I wish more of her other structures got updates and fun things to play with.

Tf happened? In beta, the cannons only dealt boat damage, didn't pop holes iirc. This seems counter-intuitive, worst part of original CK for me was the constant leaks

"what am i supposed to do there" *when swarmed by crabs* pan flute ? Weather pain ? Preparation is key in this game so its kinda on you if you fail to prepare... Also the towers only penetrate your boat if you slot in too many red gems so avoid doing that your meant to mix and match the rework is solid overall in my opinion Also you said the combat in dst isnt great as you dont have a lot of options and ways to go in and outbof combat, but that's the point the limited nature of the combat makes it far more interesting than having a dodge button

When webber skill tree ? Imagine if his skill tree was to transform into other types of spiders or something like that

Most of the problems were askill issue on your end. ALL HAIL CRAB KING!

Bro u are using wrong set of gems and u so bad this fidght is balanced and easy......... imagine doing dst content not knowing how 2 play the game.

Bruh I just watched your old crab king video thinking “I wonder how Freddo feels about the rework…” time to find out I guess! PS don’t worry about the schedule stuff, life gets in the way. That’s how it is sometimes, we get it. Keep going man

While I agree with you on most of the gameplay issues you brought up (except for the Merm King upgrades, you really don't need the wiki for those.) I disagree with your comments on Winona being less interesting than Wagstaff and Wurt having a boring personality. While Wagstaff's backstory can be seen as more interesting than Winona's (although I find both to be pretty much on the same level) I don't think that means we should just write off Winona as "less interesting". This is a woman who's spent years of her life dedicated to the goal of finding her sister, and on top of that she's an accomplished engineer. Her quotes are also just very fun to read, conveying a personality that I personally enjoy. I also think Winona's backstory has room to be expanded upon. Mostly wishful thinking on my part, but in her short we do see Genevieve, who for some reason was the only one of Winona's coworker's in the short to actually be detailed more than just a stickfigure in the storyboard and does more than just stand around, so I really REALLY think she could be brought up in relation to Winona again at some point. As for what you said about Wurt, violent swamp creature child is just a fun character to be honest.

Yall complaining about the sponsor even though you can just skip it and continue on with the video?!

Yeah this is really bad the towers sink if you hit crab king so your you need to spend 4minutes to break the krab cannons is just wrong

Fight is 100x better than before and very worthwhile for the loot. I do it every 20 days for the loot and could not imagine doing that with pre-reworked ck..

I don't like the new crab king boss fight that much either, but you've treated it a bit harshly. (I'm going to say the conclusion here because you wouldn't read it otherwise): The problem with the new crab king fight isn't the attacks, but the gem power scaling. The rest of the problems are just a core problem of the game (and boat mechanics). You were focused on the wrong problem. (Did you start making this video during the beta phase? Because it feels like it.) 1:35 They at least changed the self-healing, so hitting crab king at least once is enough to stop it from healing. If you have a problem with self-healing in general, turn your attention to ancient fuel weaver. 1:42 There was a warning on the ground. 1:49 If you use less than 5 red gems (or 2 red gems + pearl's pearl) they won't cause a leak and can be easily ignored. 2:35 Have you considered using an anchor? Also, crab king will taunt you for 10 seconds before healing. 2:44 If you use less than 5 purple gems (or 2 purple gems + pearl's pearl) you can put them to sleep with a pan flute. (Or you can just use some kind of splash damage). If you have a problem with pan flute being a requirement for fight, turn your attention to dragon fly. 2:58 Again, use a pan flute or use splash damage 3:40 yeah, I agree, the boats suck. 3:52 they nerfed the shit out of it. 4:07 the entire history of crab king in a nutshell 4:15 yeah, we just have to accept that sadly Klei can't do it properly. 4:26 that's the entire fucking game. Don't blame it on crab king. The only game that wasn't a wiki reading hell was the base game single-player Don't Starve without DLCs. Everything after that was just read some wiki then play the game. 4:35 yeah, that's a problem, but at least there isn't only a single best strategy. There are currently 6 or 12 plausible gem combination that can change depending on the available gear and the character selections. (There was a problem that spamming orange gems was the best combination, but apparently they've patched it a few days ago. 4:48 show me how a player can defeat ancient fuel weaver without opening the wiki even once. 4:55 ancient fuel weaver 4:56 Klei shot themselves in the foot when they decided that there should be 8008 possible combinations. I think they should've decreased the number gem sockets from 9 to 5 to at least have a chance at play testing.

I love the reworked fight. He’s actually cool now and he’s reasonable to kill with relatively low prep especially compared to how he used to be.

Okay am here and The title is not a good sign, alright lets watch video.

I think this _really_ highlights the fact this game is called "don't starve _together,"_ and not "don't starve with occasional multiplayer." A lot of the gripes with many of these hard elements of the game are almost entirely surpassed by having 3 more people around. Can't hit Crab King and his minions simultaneously? Your 3 friends can keep pests off your back no problem Wolfgang; focus on that boss! Those towers take ages to break and sink a single boat in moments? They can't sink 4 boats as fast as 1 (and they'll be gone 4 times as fast, too!)

Mean while Ameslarii solo’s it with Wes a pan flute a hambat helmet and three grass rafts

As someone who never fought crab king(so you know its 100% accurate and totally true) it looks even harder than before from the trailer💀

skill issue

why no one talks about the changes made to the crock pot dishes?

I love what you did with Wandering Drone's skill tree. It looks awesome, style wise (I dont yet know the skills).Perhaps one day you could explain your design decisions in a video? I'd be very interested for sure.

I won't agree with Crab King being hard or bad cause it's fair and exciting fight if you particularly use grass boats. Yea, you can still sink and die, but the losses will be smaller with just that. I've practiced fighting pearl crab king multiple times and you can do various things like panfluting the crabs or making the stuck around the barrier cause pathing lol. Weather pain is another way to go. For towers? I break two or three just enough to give me space to kill crab and kite claws to hide behind the boat. I still yet to do a proper fight with a wood boat, but it sure will cost wood if I do plenty of it. Ancient boats seems like a way to go without losing chests.

there's an item called "grass raft". Bring a couple and gg.

Skill tree for your character? Let’s goo!

your thoughts are serious, and I will take them.

Im a bit new to don't starve but so far your updates to the game serve as awesome tips to take into gameplay. Quick question though. Whats that cool looking furnace at 11:20 ? Is that a skin? Ive seen crockpots, fire pits, alchemy stations and all of the sorts but ive never seen that furnace and it looks super cool! Is there anyway to obtain it??

6:14 just making sure we remember crab king sucks I see

When I fought him, for some reason, the minions just never attacked me. I just wailed on him during the ice phase and they stood there like chumps. Made my encounter wacko easy.