Don't Starve Together Guides and Walkthroughs

Tumbleweeds are one of the more difficult things to create a farm for in DST since you have to first locate where they spawn from. Locating a Tumbleweed spawn is more or less entirely guess work; there are some clues that can help you locate them but you are going to have to do a lot of random construction to narrow down the exact location. If you take a look at my screenshot above you'll see exactly what I mean.

You'll see 3 different boxes in the picture above, the one on the left has Tumbleweeds in it but the other two are empty. The reason for this is I knew Tumbleweeds were spawning somewhere in this general area but I did not know where. How did I know Tumblweeds were spawning in this area? Each time I ran around the desert there would always be 3 or 4 Tumbleweeds rolling against the "wall" where the ocean is in my screenshot above.

When you enter an area and you see multiple Tumbleweeds it's very likely that a spawn is nearby. Once you somewhat narrow down one of these spawn locations the next thing you need to do is start creating boxes like you see in my screenshot above. Your goal is to box in the Tumbleweed spawn so that you can figure out its exact location. If you create a box and later on you come back and find Tumbleweeds inside - you'll know that you've found a spawn location. Once you've located a Tumbleweed spawn you can destroy all other boxes you made except the one with the Tumbleweeds. Then you can focus on making a door in and out of the box you have.

There are numerous Tumbleweed spawns throughout the Dragonfly Desert biome and some are going to be much easier to find than others. Any spawn that's near water will typically be easy to find because most of the Tumbleweeds will run into the 'ocean wall' which makes the spawn easier to find (like above).

For the Tumbleweed spawns that are in the middle of the desert - I have a trick to help you out. In the screenshot above you'll notice that I have made a few L shaped stone walls. These are designed to help me narrow down the possible spawn locations. If I run past these walls and see numerous Tumbleweeds stuck along the wall or in the corner then I know that there is an above average likelihood that a spawn location is nearby.

How Tumbleweeds work is when you are one or two screens away from their spawn location - they will appear in game. If the spawn location is anywhere around this area they will very likely get stuck on nearby walls which allows me to narrow down their spawn location and build more walls. Basically, this is 100% guess work early on. You just have to build walls in random places and pay attention to how the Tumbleweeds accumulate along those walls.