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Share your favourite (third-party) Nightingale video for $3

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The best video I've seen for Nightingale, I came across accidentally. I was looking for some inspiration on YouTube for my base, and wanted to find building videos as I often like to watch tutorials, community build videos, and showcases to get ideas for ways to build in this genre that I may not have thought of.

The game was still very new then, though, and there weren't a lot of videos of builds yet.

However, all was not lost, because instead I stumbled across this absolute gem by YouTuber The Dorkness, and I just couldn't stop giggling.

The creator decided to use a new minor card they hadn't tried yet while playing co-op with their partner and they played it without their partners' knowledge of even the description of the card.

It was, of course, the Trickster card...

That fact alone was probably enough to make the video hilarious, but the unadulterated glee that the creator expresses after playing the card - not even knowing what it did themselves either ("meat trees!?!?") - is just so pure and real that it's utterly contageous!

This video isn't just an average "50 tips you definitely don't know about Nightingale!" regurgitation of generic tips everyone kinda already knows, and the moment I saw this bounty listed, it was the only thing that came to mind!

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Tell us how to best utilise companions for $4

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While the companions can sometimes be a nuisance, there's no doubt that they do have many uses - especially for solo players!

Here are my tips for getting the most out of your companion (with the least headaches!)

1 - Never give them wood to carry unless you're harvesting it for fuel. If you did end up giving them high-tier or rare wood and it goes missing, check your fires. That's where it went.

2 - As soon as you have access to "charm of the leader," equip it. It raises your companion's health and damage, upping the chances they'll save you if you get KO'ed in a fight.

3 - Your companion levels up with you, so you don't need to create high-level gear to to equip them with. Since they've been known to disappear at times, you don't want to do that anyway. Leave them with their clothes and gear you got them with. The only exceptions are a level 320+ axepick and knife. Equip the axepick when resource gathering and they will gather things they find, too. Equip the knife in battles. It's easily the highest-damage melee weapon in the game.

4 - Never allow your companion to wield any tools or weapons while trying to peacefully complete the first hunt realms, or in any tier 3 swamp realm where there are likely to be grendels. They will attack, causing you to miss the peaceful completion option of those missions, or causing you to have to accidentally kill a grendel (noooooo!)

5 - While you don't want to give them your wood to carry, DO give them anything else that is heavy and also expendable, especially if you're encumbered! Stones, gems, and ores weigh a lot, they do not have a carry limit, so you can use them to take the heaviest parts of your haul to maximize resource-gathering within realms. Just make sure you hang on to that wood, and anything ultrarare/irreplacable!

6 - Tired of having too many tools and not enough slots? Give the tools you use in realms the least but still sometimes need (for me, these are the sickle and the spyglass!) to your companion. Swap them out when you need them, keeping your hotbar nice and neat without a lot of excess tools in your inventory.

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Chaotic companions! Share a tale of a companion being a nuisance for $4

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I put ALL of my wood into the saw table, and made a giant stack of lumber to build a new house.

Couldn't carry it of course, so I gave it to Aaron, my trusty sidekick NPC.

Except now he's apparently not so trusty (or being passive-aggressive for being made to carry that much lumber) because we used a portal, then returned home, and the lumber is just...gone.

The NPC I replaced with him with, however? Not gone.

Hilda straight up will NOT stop breaking into my house and staring at me and it's creepy.

...I think she watches me sleep, you guys.

I had to let her go, because she'd just take out her hammer and start breaking things (this why you got fired, Hilda!) then make prolonged eye contact and be all up in your way when I took away her hammer.

I mean for real, Hilda feels like a psycho ex... every time I turn around, she startles the crap out of me from approximately 3 inches away from my face, and she isn't even my companion any more!!

It's bad enough having one of them break all my stuff, but then I fire Hilda and recruit Aaron, who absconds with my lumber... while Hilda watches me with her "I miss you so much it hurts" eyes from beside my bed.

These NPC shenanigans are just ridiculous. Especially since I expressed to her I no longer desired her companionship.

Serious question - Does Hilda have my lumber? I might consider taking her back if she does. Just saying, it was A LOT of lumber.