Did anyone order a silly idea? Well, here you go anyway.
I've always been a fan of Electric Milk and the way it shows off the weirdness of the Constant (much like Butterflies dropping Butter). I am not, however, a fan of its effort to reward ratio. I mean, to get a single bottle of Electric Milk, you need to:
- Kill Volt Goats until one of them drops a Volt Goat Horn (and the odds of that are not exactly great).
- Craft a Morning Star and some sort of electrically insulated clothing (Rain Coat, Rain Hat, Eyebrella).
- Hit a Volt Goat with the Morning Star to charge them, then kill them.
It's a pretty complicated and time-consuming process, no? And volt goats rarely spawn in large numbers to begin with, so slaughtering them willy-nilly is probably not the best idea. And the Electric Milk is not great. It spoils in 6 days and it's best aspect is that it gives 10 sanity. Or you can make it into Ice Cream, which gives a whopping 50 Sanity, but spoils in 3 days (and becomes near worthless in 1.5 days, when it loses the sanity bonus). (Besides, won't anyone think of the Webbers?)
But what if there was an alternate, more renewable source of it? I'm talking about these little* guys:
Milkfish! Well, the real ones are called that cause they have more bones or something scientific like that, but Don't Starve has never shied away from taking names literally for the pun of it. Of course, the milk in Don't Starve is Electric Milk, so accordingly these would be Electric Milkfish.
They'd spawn in the Hazardous Ocean (an electrified fish sounds pretty hazardous, plus there's no other fish there except for Dandy Lionfish) and would shock you if you tried to reel them in without wearing electrically insulated clothing (which would make you lose the fish, the lure and the tackle + take damage). But if you manage to catch them, you can murder them for 1 Fish Meat and 1 Electric Milk.
That's all, folks!
* Milkfish are kinda huge from the looks of it, but whatever.