Don't Starve Together Guides and Walkthroughs

Spiders are one of the first enemies that you need to really go out of your way and farm in DST. Pretty much every single item they drop you will need in large quantities. The best way to farm spiders during the early game is by setting up Traps around their nests. You can make Traps with Twigs and Cut Grass so they're easy to quickly produce in large numbers.

When a spider runs over one of these traps it will catch them inside and allow you to pick up the spider directly to your inventory. Once inside of your inventory all you need to do is right click the spider once to kill it! A spider can not damage you when inside your inventory and you can use this method to kill all types of spiders - including Spider Warriors and Nurse Spiders. Obviously Spider Queen is too big to be be trapped.

My only advice when using these traps is to space them out enough so that one spider doesn't trigger multiple traps. Each time a trap falls to the ground it loses durability so you want to make sure one spider only triggers one trap. Before we talk about the other two ways to farm spiders I would like to go over each of the items that they drop and what I normally use the materials for.

Monster Meat: I think the best use for Monster Meat is feeding it to a Bird inside of a Birdcage for Eggs. You can also use Monster Meat as a Meat substitute in the Crock pot - but only a single one. If you use 2 Monster Meat it'll make Monster Lasagna which comes with negative effects for most characters.

Silk: There are too many uses for Silk to mention here. You'll be using this for dozens of different recipes throughout the game - I find myself using it mostly for Tents, Sewing Kits, Beekeeper Hat and so much more. Depending on how long you play this game you'll be using hundreds, maybe even thousands of Silk.

Spider Gland: You can use Spider Glands to restore health (just right click them). They're also used for Telltale Hearts and Healing Salve. If you're playing with friends you'll probably use a bunch of Telltale Hearts (especially if you have someone who is careless). Otherwise, you'll probably use Spider Glands mostly for Healing Salve which will help out with healing for tough encounters.

Use invulnerable walls for a Spider/Bunnyman farm (learn from my mistake)

Now that you know about each of the different items that spiders can drop let's go over one of the better methods of farming them. If you've already read my Bee Queen Farming Guide then you'll know the power of Bunnymen. The collective power of Bunnymen can also be harnessed to farm spiders as well!

What you should do is section off an area and build Rabbit Hutches surrounding a central area (like in my screenshot above). A good rule of thumb is you'll want at least 7 Rabbit Hutches for a single Spider Egg; any less and the spiders will kill all of your Rabbits and it'll result in things getting out of control. Having more Rabbits than you need is a good idea - especially if you don't plan to cull Spider Queens yourself.

The idea behind this farm is rather simple, during dusk and night bunnies come out of their homes and step on the silk which triggers spiders to spawn. Bunnies then attack the spiders which triggers more spiders to spawn and agros all bunnies in the area. Then you basically get a bunny and spider war which will normally result in the bunnies winning.

All you have to do is check back periodically and collect all of the loot that has dropped from the spiders. There are two downsides to this method...

1. You have to kill the Spider Queens yourself or you have to make significantly more bunnies than spiders so they can kill the Spider Queens for you.
2. Never loot this location if Monster Meat is still on the ground. Bunnies will immediately agro you when you pick up Monster Meat and they will very likely obliterate you considering there are so many Rabbit Hutches in the area.

Despite the downsides I still personally prefer this method the most out of all the methods listed on this page. I have a Bunny/Spider farm setup next to my Tallbird Fortress - which also has a dozen Rabbit Hutches that farm the Tallbirds for me. Normally I do 2 or 3 Spider Eggs at a time and I let my bunnies kill the Spider Queens too.

- trapping spiders on a "dock" and taking out with Catapults

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YETip27aF5E

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