I know this vid is old but for anyone still watching, there is a much better way to farm nightmare fuel. A much higher yield and without using a nightmare amulet! Firstly, you need to find out at what number your character goes insane. Secondly, you need to have sanity and insanity inducing items. I recommend kelp (raw or cooked) and dried kelp (drying rack) because it's easy to get once you've gone to lunar islands. You can use a boat to push as many as you want into a corner for easy harvesting. (I have 52 shoved into a corner near my base) What you need to do is to stay right on the verge of insanity. Not insane, but around 5-10 points above that. That's why you need to find out what the number is. Kelp is very useful for that, as the raw form only removes 10 sanity and the cooked form 5. Dried kelp restores 10 sanity and dries as fast as 1/4 of a day, so it's not very hard to make. See, the game has a mechanic where it will spawn a single crawling horror when you are about to go insane. Probably to warn players.This is very consistent, so by keeping your sanity right at the edge, then going insane when the crawler spawns, you basically exploit that and make them spawn very quickly! Additionally, you'll only be fighting 1 crawling horror at a time, making it very easy and more efficient since you don't waste time kiting. With this method, I pulled around 50 nightmare fuel in a single day! Definitely try it.

Protip: if you have good connection, you can hit crawling horror before he bites you, that mean you can deal with them 2 times faster

I used to REALLY hate insanity back in my noob days. Then I learned to handle nightmares so easily I enjoyed it. Now when I'm insane for too long my ears and eyes need a break.

What really bothers me with insanity is just that the view gets blurry and really unpleasant.

if you dont want to waste any resources just go through wormhole 5-6 times and your sanity is gone. Kill the creatures then go 1-2 times thought it and repeat until satisfied. No ruins needed, can be done on first day and its easy.

You can also farm the fuel with maxwell if you make 2 duelists and 1 miner/chopper/digger

I notice you're switching between the walking cane and dark sword. You may want to mention that to viewers.

Too bad you cannot refuel the amulet either, but I understand why, since you would get an infinite amount of nightmare fuel

Great video. Nice work you. BTW, Awesome work on getting to day:1756!

Note: Don’t do this as Wendy. Shadows are one of the few things Abby can’t help with and so it takes ages to kill them and it’s easy to get overwhelmed. *However* Wendy has a method of fuel farming unique to her that’s more efficient than this. She can farm shadow spelunky in the village biome for tones of fuel every nightmare phase due to Abby’s AoE damage. I recommend a healing potion if you intend to farm huge amounts of monkeys or do this over several nightmare phases as it will wear Abby down over time. Food and fuel if you make a camp down there is a non-issue as the monke drop beard hair, poop, binnanas and morsels in addition to fuel.

I can handle 5 at a time but I still find it annoying going insane

If your bad like me just use evil flowers it works!

Can you combo the amulet's extra nightmare spawn ability with you actually being insane? you know, to save durability and still get the bonus spawn rate.(pop medal on, get spawns, unequip kill creatures, repeat.) Or do the extra nightmares despawn when you put the medallion away?

yeah so I'm not afraid of the creatures that spawn but the sounds and colorchange just give me a headache, so I always get annoying when they don't spawn when I'm insane. If it takes too long I usually just plant some pine cones as woodie or eat some cooked green caps

It's not as efficient, but my way of farming nightmare fuel is to lose sanity and gather rabbits in traps, then I farm monster meat, nightmare fuel and bearded hair at the same time.

with the maxwell rework you can also farm fuel by looking for rabbits or other mobs to transform

Shadow creatures are actually easy even when there's three. I just hate the goddamn blurriness and sound effects when insane. Klei you so clever

Purple gems aint cheap...

Does it works on Don't Starve:Shipwrecked?

Imma pick uo evil flowers

If you are playing with other people on a server, you can have one person remain constantly insane, then another person kills all of the insane person’s shadow creatures. Since the already sane person is killing the shadow creatures, the insane player doesn’t get the sanity boost and remains insane. No nightmare amulets required.

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What is the purpose of constantly switching between pick axe and dark sword? And how do u do that? I didn't see u point over the item slot to switch it. Seems it switches automatically

Okey, can you now make a guide what to do with stockpiled nightmare fuel? I have lots of it and i don't know what to do with it.

yeah it looks easy but its not crawling horrors ez but what should i do with 5 terrorbreaks after me

How can i get fuel to make amulet 😲😲😲😲

I found a new way to get lots of Nightmare fuel (middle/ late game): You need to be in a cave and find some apes near a rhino. After some time the apes will turn into shadow apes and they want to kill you and they follow you a long time. Let follow you so many apes as possible and lure them near the rhino. Try to land a hit on the apes by running away from the Rhino. The target is: to let the Rhino hit the Apes. They will die instantly. The Apes will drop lots of hair, poop, bananas, meat and nightmare Fuel. Its a bit hard but if the equipment is well enough and experience to it should be manageable. Have a nice Loot!

Now u can just spam click the lazy deserter and you have free insanity forever with 0 cost or time needed.

How can u fast switch weapon like that without using cursor?

FEED THE DOG

I cant do more than 1 terrorbreak

How do you make that big assss backbag?

With wich weapons u can fight with them?

You could do a faster version in DST Get a lot of flower petals and have a ghost haunt them and they will turn to dark petals

It's still not useful due to the purple gems just being too high a cost sadly, I could gain the same effects by doing a quick run to the ruins.

Your pet vargling is barking that means you haven’t fed him :(

i cant even get past winter LMAO

I try to farm nightmare fuel when playing with friend, The fight is more harder then usual because of lag and delay, I regret my decision and farm beardling instead.

Or alternatively if you're playing maxxie Make 2 duelists and a harvester This makes you permanantly insane

too bad the ruins are such a pain in the ass to get to in dst

I would like to know how to go UN-insane

What is that dog mob???

Great tutorial. I was just wandering if I could remove the amulet and still fight the shadow creatures. Good to know. Sorry for going off topic, but I noticed you have a pet as well. Do you get tired of it? How often do you feed it, and what? I had a cat, that I fed with seeds (I constantly collect them to make ash or rot, so they were always abundant). But it kept getting on my nerves begging for food every day or even twice a day. Eventually I decided to abandon it. What about you?

Horrid idea to do early game if you purposely go insane by using other means, terror beaks are easy by themselves but if theres two- oh jesus christ ... My poor MAxWell..

You can use the tooth trap to kill the shadow monsters

1756 days WTH

Pretty damn inefficient

Btw i noticed that when you wear the nightmare amulet shadow creatures dont give you sanity when you kill them.

It’s

It's better do on a tamed battle-beefalo.

Honestly, i just stay insane when needed to and kill nightmares with my friend in dst they get kited very easily

I don't think anything beats gathering dark petals from a dark petal farm with a few bees (10 or so).

Just kill a fark bunny -__- this isnt so hard but this tip is not bad to

JUST. EAT. FOUR. RAW. GREEN. MUSHROOMS.

i jsut eat a few green caps and use a hambat costing 0 nightmare fuel but, you do you.

waste of dark sword they die by one hit by walkng cane (i suppose)