Don't Starve Together Guides and Walkthroughs

This page is going to give you general advice about farming with Winona's Catapults. If you're new to the game or you've never played Winona before then it's unlikely you've heard of her Catapults or know how powerful they can be. Winona's Catapults are insanely powerful and are arguably one of the best character perks in the entire game.

One of the best things about Winona's Catapults is that every character in the game can use them! You'll need to use Winona to construct the Catapults but once they're built any character can fuel and use them. So, all you really need Winona for is to build the Catapults and Generator where you want them. Once you're done you can switch back to the character of your choice and make use of the Catapults forever!

How these Catapults work is pretty straight forward. First, you'll need to build either a Generator or a G.E.M.erator at the location you want Catapults. Once you've constructed this structure you will need to build Catapults in the small area surrounding the generator. Catapults need to be within range of a generator to get power - without power they will not operate.

As you can see you have two choices of generator. A regular Generator uses Nitre to craft and to keep it fueled. The upside to using this generator is Nitre is common and not used for many other recipes; the downside is the Nitre doesn't give you a lot of power and runs out pretty quickly. On the other hand, the G.E.M.erator requires Gems to fuel it which are much more rare than Nitre and used for more recipes. The upside is that the GEMerator will have significantly more power than the Nitre one.

Which generator you want to use is entirely up to you. Normally I use Nitre generators early in the game because I don't like wasting gems. I also typically use Nitre generators for any Hound Traps that I make using Catapults. Hounds all die within 20 seconds so you don't need a lot of time on the generator to eliminate them. It's for this reason I prefer Nitre when doing hounds.

The best example of a GEMerator use that I can think of is when you setup Catapults around a boss like Dragonfly, Ancient Fuelweaver, Ancient Guardian or whatever it may be. When fighting a boss you're going to want your Catapults to be fully powered for a couple of minutes and that's exactly the benefit GEMerators provide.

- how much damage catapults do

- kiting enemies around in Catapults or tanking them