How to Burn Down a Toad? | DST Strategy Guide

Misery Toadstool can be a ridiculous hurdle in any DST world to the point where it isn't cleared at all. In this video I will show you my own strategy for taking down this toad in a comfortable manner by disallowing him to spawn more than 3 sporecaps per spawn phase. If you want to attempt this strategy in your own world I highly recommend reading the rest of this description for the details and mechanics that I don't have time to mention in the video.

Let's first discuss the elephant in the room. This is my first ever video here on YouTube meaning that I don't have an established fanbase when making this video. The reason I decided to make the video in the first place is threefold. Firstly the video is a response to a question that fellow DST-creator ‪@DonGianiGuides‬ (I felt that my music choises would therefore be in his honor) asked in his most recent video    • A 100% Completion of the 'Giants' Scr...   around the 21:st minute mark. In his video he hits Toadstool with a fire pen by mistake and during Toadstool's next spawn phase Toadstool takes a lot of hits in a short amount of time from a bunch of bees. This causes Toadstool to only spawn 2 sporecaps which raises the question.
Secondly I have just reached 1000 hrs on DST and wanted to celebrate that by making content on the game and I thought the perfect opportunity to do so would be right after Klei releases a new update.
Lastly I discovered this strategy around half a year ago and I didn't find any videos of it. Since I love to share knowlege with other people in general I thought this would take that to a different level.
With that said, this is my first video meaning I'll happily take any criticism you would give me in the comment section be it about editing, my voice over, my chosen video topics or anything else. I also believe that YouTube's desicion to hide dislikes from the viewers was a stupid one so I will therefore keep a public dislike button in the comment section.
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Music Used: (I highly recommend checking them out and I will definitely be using similar music in future videos)

Twisty Tunnels MT 2:    • [♪♫] Twisty Tunnels - Main Theme 2 | ...   by Lorne Balfe
Strider:    • Spiritwish OST - Strider   from Spiritwish OST
Michikusa 2:    • 【無料フリーBGM】アップテンポな和風曲「Michikusa2」   by PeriTune

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Strategy Details and Mechanics: (if you want to try the strategy yourself)

Link to RAW fotage:    • How to Burn Down a Toad? - RAW Fotage!  

The point of this strategy is to;
1. Make the Misery Toadstool fight way more comfortable
2. Be doable before the first spring
3. Showcase underrated items
This strategy therefore doesn't use any weather pains or lureplants that would make the fight trivial but would require you to wait until spring and either spend a lot of Moosgoose loot or utilize extreme cheese. Instead we use morningstars and fire staves to defeat Misery Toadstool. The morningstar is in my opinion the most ideal weapon in this scenario since it firstly doesn't lose durability by hitting but rather by holding meaning it would deal a lifetime damage of way more than a dark sword for example (it dealt around 50k as opposed to 6.8k). Secondly it deals this absurd lifetime damage only to wet targets which isn't a big hurdle if you fight Toadstool in winter. You see, in winter any creature remains wet forever if it has rained once during the entire season so Toadstool will most likely be wet during this time.

The fire staves are ideal since they let you burn sporecaps from a distance but they are also essential for this strategy. Normally when people burn sporecaps they would put Toadstool to sleep using the pan flute to let the sporecaps burn to then maximize the time they can deal damage. The pan flute is though, imo a very cringe item that everyone uses so I found a strategy where we can deal damage to Toadstool when the sporecaps burn.
You see, if Toadstool has taken fire damage from a fire staff equivalent he becomes a little wonky. If this has happened and Toadstool takes too many hits during the same sporecap phase he is just able to spawn 3 of them (I think it's 2 for normie toad). I then put down some theories as to what may be the cause of this and found during testing that the most likely cause was due to cave lag. I discovered this when I realized that this strategy didn't work when the "Don't Starve Alone" mod was enabled since that removes cave lag. By connecting the threads I conclude that Toadstool gets overloaded by information when he gets hit to much and that breaks the spawn phases consistently. A final question you may have is why I don't just use the torch. The fire from the torch works a little differently to the fire staff so I believe they don't work as well but I haven't tried so I can't answer definitely. Don't patch this Klei please.