Don't Starve Wiki
Register
Advertisement
Don't Starve Wiki

WX-78 Portrait
GUTS

WX-78

Gears are Items dropped by Clockwork Knights, Clockwork Bishops, and Clockwork Rooks. They can also be found by digging up Graves (chance of 3.07%).

Gears can be used to build an Ice Box and a Divining Rod, as well as boost the max stats of WX-78 by simply consuming them. In the Ruins, repairing Broken Clockworks with 3 Gears will spawn a friendly damaged chess monster (Damaged Bishop, Damaged Knight, or Damaged Rook).

Clockwork Knights, Clockwork Bishops, and Clockwork Rooks and their broken counterparts will not respawn, nor will graves after being dug. Therefore, Gears are a non-renewable resource in the base game.

Gift Icon Downloadable Content[]

In the Reign of Giants DLC, renewable Tumbleweeds have a chance to drop Gears, thus making gears renewable in this DLC. Also, there are significantly more Chess biomes on a map, including some with Gears lying on the ground, making Gears much easier to get.

In the Shipwrecked DLC, Floaty Boaty Knights drop Gears, thus making gears renewable in this DLC. These are currently the only reliable source of Gears in this DLC. Each Floaty Boaty Knight drops one to three Gears. There is also a small chance of obtaining Gears from digging Sandy Piles, using the Slot Machine, or digging up X Marks the Spot chests spawned by Message in a Bottle. Gears can be used to craft the Quacken Drill and to restore the durability of the Iron Wind by 25%.

In the Hamlet DLC, Gears drop from clockworks that guard Stone Thing. Gears can be bought in 'The Sty' Oddities Emporium for 20 Oincs. They are also dropped by killing Large Iron Hulk. The last two ways makes them also renewable in this DLC.

Don't Starve Together icon Don't Starve Together[]

Unlike the base game, in Don't Starve Together, Gears are a renewable resource. Additional ways to obtain gears exclusive to Don't Starve Together include:

As of the WX-78 Character Rework Update, WX-78 can no longer increase their maximum stats by consuming Gears. They can still consume them to restore 75 Hunger, 60 Health and 50 Sanity.

Icon Tools Usage[]

Gears
Nightmare Fuel
4×
Twigs
Alchemy Engine
Divining Rod
Gears
Gold Nugget
10×
Cut Stone
Alchemy Engine
Accomploshrine
Console versions of Don't Starve only
Gears
Gold Nugget
2×
Boards
Alchemy Engine
Ice Box
Don't Starve icon
Gears
Gold Nugget
2×
Cut Stone
Alchemy Engine
Ice Box
Reign of Giants icon
Gears
Electrical Doodad
Cut Stone
2×
Interface arrow right
Telipad
Wagstaff Portrait
Gears
Flint
6×
Hammer
2×
Interface arrow right
Thumper
Wagstaff Portrait
Gears
Ice
15×
Electrical Doodad
2×
Alchemy Engine
Ice Flingomatic
Reign of Giants icon
Gears
Thick Fur
Electrical Doodad
3×
Alchemy Engine
Insulated Pack
Reign of Giants icon
Gears
Thick Fur
Electrical Doodad
1×
Alchemy Engine
Insulated Pack
DST icon
Gears
Volt Goat Horn
Down Feather
10×
Alchemy Engine
Weather Pain
Reign of Giants icon
Gears
Electrical Doodad
2×
Quacken Beak
Alchemy Engine
Quacken Drill
Shipwrecked icon
Gears
Electrical Doodad
2×
Alloy
2×
Alchemy Engine
Oscillating Fan
Hamlet icon
Gears
Boards
2×
Tenpiece Oinc
Alchemy Engine
Blunderbuss
Hamlet icon
Gears
Boards
2×
Rope
1×
Think Tank
Rudder Kit
Don't Starve Together icon
Gears
Bio Data
6×
Acceleration Circuit
1×
Bio Scanalyzer
Super-Acceleration Circuit
DST icon
WX-78 Portrait

Blueprint Gallery[]

Advertisement