History Characters / DontStarveMonstersAndHostileMobs

A band of pirate monkeys accidentaly summoned into the Constant by Wagstaff. They roam the seas around the Moon Quay island, looking for hapless survivors to pilage and plunder of their belongins.

* BanditMooks: Powder Monkey's can knock items out of your inventory and steal it for themselves, stashing them away in a hidden stash somewhere in the overworld. This is actually a trait inherent to their Cutlesses, as you can do the same if you aquire one.

-? '''Wilson''': ''"Don't you dare monkey around with my boat!"''

* ShoutOut: Whenever a Rockjaw is near, you can hear a music cue that sounds a lot like the Jaws theme.

* InvincibleMinorMinion: They never leave the archives, and that is the only place you will ever find them. They're also unkillable, as knocking them down to zero health simply causes them to collapse into a husk that can be revived later. They can be kept dead so long as their HP is kept below a certain treshold, but they'll eventually regenerate to a point where they can be re-activated.

* NiceHat: Mactusk wears a Tam o' Shanter, that can be used by the player. It restores 6.7 sanity per minute, the best of any hat.

* CuteMonster: They're certainly cute as even the more monstrous looking spider variants like the Cave Spiders and Spitters all have a cute cowering animation when exposed to light and purr when asleep. This is UpToEleven if a spider is pacified by Webber, who'll all have big happy smiles on their faces.

* InvincibleMinorMinion: They never leave the archives, and that is the only place you will ever find them. They're also unkillable, as knocking them down to zero health simply causes them to collapse into a husk that can be revived later. They can be kept dead so long as their HP is kept below a certain treshold, but they'll eventually regenerate to a point where they can be re-activated.

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Hostile creatures that live in spider dens. They stay inside during the day unless the player walks into their territory. They comes out at night. The den if not destroyed quickly, will evolve into a bigger version, inhabiting more dangerous spiders. They can be killed for their silks or healing glands. They are neutral to Webber and can even be befriended by him.

Strange vegetarian fish-like humanoid creatures that can be found in Marshes. They act hostile to anyone approaching their house or attacking them. Normally hostile, Wurt can not only befriend them, but can also convince them to help the other survivors.

Wolf-like creatures that frequently appears to attack the player, in packs that gets bigger each times. They can also be found in the desert, living in mounds of corpses. During Winter, a blue variant appears and it creates a blaze of freeze upon death. During summer, a red variant appears and will die creating a fire. They drop monster meats and sometimes, their teeth.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: When a Hound dies on the Lunar Island there is a chance for it to get resurrected as a Horror Hound.

* PlayingWithFire: When a Red Hound dies, it explodes into several fires.

Frogs that live near water ponds and marshes, they will attack the player with their tongue, slipping items out of their inventory. They can be killed for their legs and monster meat. Sometimes during spring, a rain of frog can occurs.

A huge meat bulb luring prey by hanging leafy meat. It is surrounded by eyeplants, which attack anyone approaching and then devores them. Once the bulb is killed, the eyeplants disappear and all the meats undigested is dropped.

* ActionBomb: They can explode once they're done slurping blood.

Large tentacles that can be found in marshes and underground. They are hidden in the ground and will comes out to attack anything approaching them. They will often engages in fights with spiders and merms, so the player can just pick up the loots left after a fight and not bother engaging themself. They can drop tentacles' spots and spikes, which can be used as a weapon.

* EldritchAbomination: Giant tentacles covered in spikes. They seems to reproduces between each others which implies that the full body is a giant mess of tentacles without a face.

Clockwork machines appearing only in Chess lands. There are three types: the knight, who simply attack by jumping, headbutting and kiting; the bishop, who shoots orbs, and the rook, who is large and ram into the player and destroy everything on his way. They are also protecting the Wooden Thing.

* ChessMotifs: They are based on the Rook, Bishop and Knight.

An automaton based on the "rook" pieces that is considerably stronger and tougher than the Knight

A monster that appears when the player has becomes too naughty of killing innocent creatures such as rabbits, Tallbirds or the Glommer. He steals items from the player and flies away with them in his bag. He used to be friends with Wortox, until they had a falling out that led to Wortox accidentally absorbing Krampus' soul.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: He appears to punish the player for naughty, suggesting that he's on the side of good. However, he also fights alongside Klaus, and in the ''Possessions'' short he stole from the survivors unprovoked and tried to kidnap a baby Beefalo.
* BanditMook: It will steal anything near your base, including chests and backpacks.

* HawaiianShirtedTourist: It wears a Hawaiian shirt in ''Shipwrecked''.

* HellIsThatNoise: Before it appears, it makes a creepy hissing noise every time you kill an innocent creature, getting steadily louder as the counter increments.

A bat-like hostile creature that dwells in the cave and produce guano. It will also comes in the surface through opened sinkholes. It drops its wings which can be used for crafting weapons.

A giant worm that periodically attacks in the underground, acting as the cave counterpart to hounds. They follow the player from below the ground and only comes out to attack, which is when they are vulnerable.

* LifeDrain: An interesting variation of it. When attached to a player, they'll drain their hunger stat instead until their satiated. Played straight when a player's hunger stat is zero, or if it attaches to another mob like Bunnymen where it will start draining their HP instead.

Hallucinations that slowly appear as sanity decreases, until they start attacking the player. They can also appear in The hostile ones include the Terrorbeak, the Crawling horror, and the sea-exclusive Swimming Horror. They can also be encountered in the ruin, during the nightmare cycle. They drop nightmare fuel upon death, which makes them a good farming method.

Hostile crocodiles that periodically attack the player as a pack in the world of ''Shipwrecked'', with more of them coming each attacks. They serve as a replacement to hounds. Unlike the sea hounds, they can actually attack on the ground, which is why they were deemed a better counterpart.

Small, weak creatures that slither in the jungle, emerging from viney bushes or chopped jungle trees. While they can be dispatched with a few swings of the basic machete, beware of the yellow Poison Snake!

Agressive swordfish that only spawns in certain areas of the ocean. A very impressive cutlass can be crafted from its body.

Strange creatures that are a mix between a dragon and a muscled beach-goer. They live by the volcano and are hostile to everything in their sight. When the volcano erupts during Dry Season, their eggs are launched by the volcano as well and any eggs that remain intact when landing promptly hatch into a Dragoon if left alone enough.

Aggressive bats that periodically attack the player in larger swarms every times. They replace the hounds in ''Hamlet'' and are way harder to deal with. They can also be found in cave clefts. They can drop wings and...pig skin?

* BatOutOfHell: Even though their name implies that they are just regular vampire bats, they are still too monstrous for that to be true.

Carnivorous plants that grow in the jungles of the world of ''Hamlet''. There are two kinds, the flytrap is a big stationary plant who spawns seedlings, weaker but mobile version of it.

* ManEatingPlant: They will automatically aggro any nearby mobs and players, barring Wormwood if he isn't carrying any meat. In addition they'll eat any meat items left on the ground, With Seedlings growing in stages for each meat item they eat until they grow into Flytraps.

Ant-like humanoids found in the world of ''Hamlet''. They live in the Mant Hills and are aggressive to all outsiders. Players disguised as Mants can befriend them to be followers. There are also Mant Warriors, who are more powerful and defend the queen. They speak their own language, which is incomprehensible without the Pherostone.

* EliteMook: The Mant Warriors, which are more powerful. They're also not fooled by the Mant disguises and will attack on sight. During the Aporkalypse, all Mants become Mant Warriors.

* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: They'll rotate their heads 360 degrees when they're stationary and eyeing the player.

* HelpfulMook: If playing as WX-78, the lightning strikes they do can be used to attain [[SuperMode System Overload]] easily and heal WX-78. [[NecessaryDrawback Of course it's not without its drawbacks]]; triggering System Overload also damages WX-78's sanity by 33 points and since they shoot 3 lightning bolts at once, they'll drain their sanity by 99 points, which is nearly all of their sanity when unupgraded. And if it's the Aporkalypse, Thunderbirds will do 10 lightning bolts in one strike which will instantly drain WX-78's sanity straight to zero even if fully upgraded.
* ShockAndAwe: A bird that somehow has the ability to do lightning strikes.

Hostile creatures that live in spider dens. They stays inside during the day unless the player walks into their territory. They comes out at night. The den if not destroyed quickly, will evolve into a bigger version, inhabiting more dangerous spiders. They can be killed for their silks or healing glands. They are neutrals to Webber and can even be befriended by him.

A monster that appears when the player has becomes too naughty of killing innocent creatures such as rabbits, Tallbirds or the Glommer. He steals items from the player and flies away with them in his bag.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The '''D'''angling '''D'''epth '''D'''wellers.

A monster that appears when the player has becomes too naughty of killing innocent creatures such as rabbits, tallbirds or the Glommer. He steals items from the player and fly away with them in his bag.

* ShoutOut: To ''Literature/MobyDick'', complete with a harpoon sticking out of it.

* PunnyName: A swordfish like the real-world animal, except that it ''literally'' has a sword for a face.

* AchillesHeel: When taking on a nest, it can be fairly dangerous with multiple spiders attacking you at once. However, they're small enough to be caught by traps, which can easily, cheeply and safely kill them.

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This character sheet is about the various hostile mobs found in VideoGame/DontStarve.

* {{Gonk}}: Definitely designed to be an ugly looking creature.

[[AC:Introduced in ''Hamlet'']]

[[folder:Vampire Bat]]
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->'''Wilson:''' ''"I'd prefer to keep all of my blood"''

Aggressive bats that periodically attack the player in larger swarms every times. They replace the hounds in ''Hamlet'' and are way harder to deal with. They can also be found in cave clefts. They can drop wings and...pig skin?

* BatOutOfHell: Even though their name implies that they are just regular vampire bats, they are still too monstrous for that to be true.
* NonindicativeName: Amusingly enough, the skin they dropped is called "Pigskin?" with several characters remarking how unusual it is for the skin to have come from a bat. In addition Pigskin? can be used in place of regular Pigskin when crafting items that call for it.

Strange vegetarian fish-like humanoid creatures that can be found in Marshes. They act hostile to anyone approaching their house or attacking them. Normally hostile, Wurt can not only befriend them, but can also convince them to be of help the other survivors.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: These spiders are around half the player size. And the Spider Queen takes it to next level, being insanley tall.

Strange fish-like humanoid creatures that can be found in Marshes. They act hostile to anyone approaching their house or attacking them. They are also vegetarian.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: After that Wurt befriends the survivors and improves their living conditions in ''Don't Starve Together''. Of course this applies in game only if someone is playing as Wurt to create and keep alive a Merm King, whose presence causes all the Merms to become neutral to the player characters]].

* ViralTransformation: [[spoiler:Merms are made by people being stricken by the plague of the Gnaw and being transformed into one.]]

* CuteMonster: They're certainly cute as even the more monstrous looking Cave Spiders and Spitters all have a cute cowering animation when exposed to light and purr when asleep. This is UpToEleven if a spider is pacified by Webber, who'll all have big happy smiles on their faces.

* MookMaker: The Spider Queen can create new Spiders and Spider Warriors.

* UndergroundMonkey: Cave Spiders, Dangling Dept Dwellers, and Spitters are variants of the normal spider that only live underground.
* ZergRush: They're barely a threat to a player individually as any attack will stunlock them to death. Their real strength however lies in their numbers. A whole den of angered spiders can release 6-9 spiders at once, which is not to be underestimated. Add additional spiders that are roaming outside helping out, along with the stronger spider variants in the mix and they can easily kill any player even if they're fully armored.

Strange monkeys that live underground in the Ruins. They're a considerable nuisance to players, as they'll stalk players, chuck manure at them, and steal items from their backpacks. During the nightmare phase of the Nightmare Cycle of the Ruins, they'll turn into Shadow Splumonkeys and become hostile to everything.

* MischiefMakingMonkey: Encountered them in the Ruins? Congratulations, now you're their target for getting your stuff stolen or having poop thrown at you.

->'''Maxwell:''' ''Simple creatures. They exist only to sleep and feed."''

-> '''Wigfrid:''' ''"A snake beast fröm the depths!"''

[[folder:Slurper]]
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-> '''Maxwell:''' ''Simple creatures. They exist only to sleep and feed."''

Creatures that live in the deep ruins below. They will try to jump onto the player's head, and then drain hunger. They can be captured and used to makes a Belt of Hunger.

* FaceHugger: They attack by latching on the head of the player. They can be removed by right-clicking to unequip them like a hat, although they'll just try to jump back onto your head after a short pause.
* HelpfulMook: They produce light, which can help keep the darkness at bay.

-> '''Maxwell:''' ''"I don't know what they want. They... they just watch."''

-> '''Wolfgang:''' ''"Is big and angry tree."''

-> '''Wigfrid:''' ''"Be that yöu, Fenrir?"''

-> '''Wendy:''' ''"Terror of the sea!"''

-> '''Wagstaff:''' ''"A barking reptile?! I must examine it closer!"''

-> '''Wigfrid:''' ''"Never trust thöse whö slither."''

-> '''Wheeler:''' ''"Swell. The most horrible parts of skunks and sting-rays put together."''

-> '''Wilba:''' ''"PUT UP THY SWORD."''

-> '''Woodlegs:''' ''"Now ye arr a devil fit ta claim ol' Woodlegs!"''

-> '''Wilson:''' ''"I'd prefer to keep all of my blood"''

-> '''Wortox:''' ''His horns are on the wrong way!"''

-> '''Wortox:''' ''"Heh heh. No hard feelings?"''

[[folder:Batilisk]]

-> '''Woodie:''' ''Who taught that rat to fly?"''

A bat-like hostile creature that dwells in the cave and produce guano. It will also comes in the surface through opened sinkholes. It drops its wings which can be used for crafting weapons.

* BatOutOfHell: A vicious, inherently aggressive beast resembling a monstrous bat with prominent fangs and glowing red eyes.
* FragileSpeedster: It's very fast, but has low hp.
* PunnyName: Bat + Basilisk.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The eyes of this vicious predator are a solid, pupil-less red.

[[folder:Depths Worm]]
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-> '''Wigfrid:''' ''"A snake beast fröm the depths!"''

A giant worm that periodically attacks in the underground, acting as the cave counterpart to hounds. They follow the player from below the ground and only comes out to attack, which is when they are vulnerable.

* AlluringAnglerfish: The basis of their hunting strategy. They usually lurk beneath the ground, with only their stalked, luminescent lure visible in the darkness of the caves. When someone comes along to investigate, the Depths Worm bursts from the ground and attacks.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: They are gigantic monstrous worms.
-> '''Webber:''' ''"Creepy crawly!"''
* BossInMooksClothing: One of the most difficult enemies to defeat, with 900 hp and 75 damage.
* FastTunnelling: Their digging works more like swimming than anything else. They burst from the ground and dive back in like fish jumping in and out of water, without leaving any tunnel -- or even just disturbed dirt -- behind them as they move through the soil.
* SandWorm: Huge, massive evil worms that burrow underground, breaching like sharks to devour prey walking on the surface.
* SchmuckBait: If you see a glowing blue berry sprouting from the ground in the Caves, don't try to pick it. It will give you a useful Glow Berry... after you defeat the massive, aggressive predator using it as a lure.

[[folder:Slurper]]
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-> '''Maxwell:''' ''Simple creatures. They exist only to sleep and feed."''

Creatures that live in the deep ruins below. They will try to jump onto the player's head, and then drain hunger. They can be captured and used to makes a Belt of Hunger.

* FaceHugger: They attack by latching on the head of the player. They can be removed by right-clicking to unequip them like a hat, although they'll just try to jump back onto your head after a short pause.
* HelpfulMook: They produce light, which can help keep the darkness at bay.

!!Spider

-> '''Wilson:''' ''"I hate spiders."''

[[folder:Hound]]
!!Hound
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-> '''Webber:''' ''"That's an angry puppy!"''

Wolf-like creatures that frequently appears to attack the player, in packs that gets bigger each times. They can also be found in the desert, living in mounds of corpses. During Winter, a blue variant appears and it creates a blaze of freeze upon death. During summer, a red variant appears and will die creating a fire. They drop monster meats and sometimes, their teeth.

* AnIcePerson: The Blue Hound will freeze anyone nearby when killed.
* FireKeepsItDead: On the Lunar Island, burning a Hound’s corpse will make sure it doesn’t get back up as a Horror Hound.
* HellHound: A monstrous, highly aggressive dog-like monster. Wickerbottom even notes they smell like sulfur.
* NoSell: The Red Hound is immune to any fire-based attacks, while the Blue Hound cannot be frozen by the Ice Staff. The Red Hound can technically be frozen but requires the player to land so many hits that it isn't usually worth trying.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: When a Hound dies on the Lunar Island there is a chance for it to get resurrected as a Horror Hound.
* PaletteSwap: Red hounds appear in the summer, and blue ones in the winter.
* PlayingWithFire: When a Red Hound dies, it explodes into several fires.

[[folder:Frog]]
!!Frog
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-> '''Walani:''' ''"Keep your tongue to yourself, bucko."''

Frogs that live near water ponds and marshes, they will attack the player with their tongue, slipping items out of their inventory. They can be killed for their legs and monster meat. Sometimes during spring, a rain of frog can occurs.

* BanditMook: They can knock items out of a player's inventory.
* DiurnalNocturnalAnimal: Even though they go outside at night in real life, they are only seen in the day in ''Don't Starve''.
* MultipurposeTongue: Their very long tongues are also their main weapons, and they wield them like whips when attacking enemies.
* RainOfSomethingUnusual: There is a possibility of a Frog Rain, when frogs will drop from the sky during heavy rainfalls.

[[folder:Lureplant]]
!!Lureplant
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-> '''Woodie:''' ''"Is that meat?"''

A huge meat bulb luring prey by hanging leafy meat. It is surrounded by eyeplants, which attack anyone approaching and then devores them. Once the bulb is killed, the eyeplants disappear and all the meats undigested is dropped.

* ExtremeOmnivore: It will eat any item and digest it, with the exception of items that only spawn once such as the Eye Bone or Lucy the Axe.
* FacelessEye: The Eyeplants. They're giant, disembodied eyeballs sprouting from the ground, with nothing around them save for a few leaves at their base. They don't ''appear'' to have mouths, but when something comes near them the eye splits down the middle into two sets of jagged protrusions in order to bite it.
* ManEatingPlant: It generates a shank of "leafy meat" as a lure to draw creatures close to it. When something gets close enough, the eyeplants that it generates will attack it and attempt to consume and digest whatever their prey is carrying.
* MookMaker: It makes small eyeplants around itself as long as its lure is intact.
* StationaryBoss: A lureplant cannot move nor attack on its own, relying on its summoned eyeplants to attack for it.

[[folder:Mosquito]]
!!Mosquito

-> '''Wheeler:''' ''"You don't deserve to fly."''

Flying creatures that suck blood. Found near ponds.

* ActionBomb: They can explode once they're done slurping blood.
* EliteMook: The poisonous mosquitoes in ''Shipwrecked''.

[[folder:Merm]]
!!Merm
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-> '''Woodie:''' ''"What foul sea did that crawl out of?"''

Strange fish-like humanoid creatures that can be found in Marshes. They act hostile to anyone approaching their house or attacking them. They are also vegetarian.

* ArchEnemy: You can find Merm heads near Pig houses, and Pig heads near Merm houses, implying that they hate each other.
* DecapitationPresentation: Merm villages are usually decorated with Pig heads impaled on sticks. Likewise, Pigs will display Merm heads on sticks around their own villages.
* EvilCounterpart: They are this to the Pigs. Acting similar minus the friendliness to the player and are also enemies with the formers.
* FishPeople: They resemble hulking, upright, vaguely humanoid fish. They even drop fish when killed.
* GoodCounterpart: ''Shipwrecked'' introduced the Fishermerm, which does not attack the player and instead runs from them. They also catch Tropical Fish from Tidal Pools, which the player can collect, meaning that they help you save on fishing rod durability.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: After that Wurt befriends the survivors and improves their living conditions in ''Don't Starve Together''. Of course this applies in game only if someone is playing as Wurt to create and keep alive a Merm King, whose presence causes all the Merms to become neutral to the player characters]].
* ShoutOut: Appear to be this to Creator/HPLovecraft's Deep Ones, as they are found in run-down houses just like them.
* ViralTransformation: [[spoiler:Merms are made by people being stricken by the plague of the Gnaw and being transformed into one.]]
* XenophobicHerbivore: Downplayed. Merms are vegetarians just like the Bunnymen, but they don't hate meat-eaters because of their eating habits like the Bunnymen do. They just hate the Pigmen, and they attack all the other creatures just because they are extremely protective of their territory.

!!Tentacle

!!Clockwork Monsters

-> '''Woodie:''' ''"Maxwell's own mounted police."''

-> '''Wendy:''' ''"A rook? Or is it a castle?"''

-> '''Maxwell:''' ''"I'm especially proud of that piece."''

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!!Krampus

!!Batilisk

!!Depths Worm

!!Slurper

!!Shadow Creature

!!Poison Birchnut Tree

!!Varg
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!!Sea Hound

!!Crocodog

!!Snake

* TheGoomba: Generally the weakest enemy found in the ''Shipwrecked'' DLC.

!!Stink Ray

!!Swordfish

!!White Whale
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!!Vampire Bat

!!Snaptooth