The nights are growing colder, and a distinctive holiday cheer has permeated the air. That can only mean one thing - Winter’s Feast is upon us! Take a break from enduring a hostile world to spread some holiday cheer. You could enjoy a tasty sugar cookie and decorate a tree or two… or three. Be wary though… something terrible lurks nearby, watching our survivors' every move with laser-like focus.

An Uncommon Holiday
Winter skins have appeared to get our survivors into the winter spirit, and for a limited time, the chances of receiving a rare gift have been substantially increased!

Everyone will also get a small set of skins to enjoy, including a festive Gingerbread Chest skin. These skins can be accessed in players’ item collections, but will only be around for the duration of the Winter’s Feast seasonal event - so enjoy them while you can!

We also have a special gift for all players that play online during the Winter's Feast event, so make sure you check that out.

Happy Winter’s Feast, everyone!



Full post on the official forum: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/100132-game-update-298000-happy-winters-feast/

Hey Everybody.

We have some things coming up in DST and I thought now would be a good time to give you all a quick update on what we have planned to finish out the year and where we are going in 2019. I am not going to get into a lot of detail here but there is definitely some cool stuff here, we'll post more info as we get closer to the release of these updates.


Winter's Feast is coming back this year however we haven't made any substantial changes this time around and we won't be offering new skins.

However, we do have a special gift for all players that play online during the Winter's Feast event, so make sure you check that out.

Winter's Feast begins this Thursday morning December 6th (Pacific time).

Winter's Feast on console is being submitted right now and will come out as soon as it is approved - We expect Thursday for PS4 and Xbox One should be shortly after that. Please note that this is subject to change depending on console approval processes.


We had a great time with The Forge and The Gorge, but we're ready to move on to new things for a while. Beginning with Lunar New Year we will return to concentrating on more new game content for Don't Starve Together.

This doesn't mean that The Gorge and The Forge will never return, it's just not where we are going to be focusing for a while.


Similar to the Year of the Gobbler and Year of the Varg, We have an update planned for Lunar New Year with a small set of new skins. This update will remain in the base game and will continue to be playable beyond the holiday. More details will be coming just before that update.

You can expect this late January or early February, just shortly after Winter's Feast ends.




Similar to "A New Reign" Don't Starve Together will once again receive new content updates primarily centered around a elements that progress the world of Don't Starve and the Survivors that find themselves within it. We aren't ready to discuss details at this time about the content in these updates, but we know many of you want to see new game content updates and with the end of The Forge we thought we should let you know that it's coming.

Hey Everybody,

Once again, The Forge has officially come to a close.

Thanks to everybody who played. We tried some new things that we think turned out pretty well, and some other things, maybe not quite so much. But we hope you had fun all the same.

We have decided to not bring down the The Forge Collections this time. So if you didn't have a chance to pick them up when the event was live, you still have a chance. We'll let you all know if we decide to bring them down again in the future.

We have plans for things coming up that we're not quite ready to talk about just yet. But look forward to more information about that coming up very soon. We think you're gonna be pretty happy about it.

With the Ancient Gateway activated our survivors find themselves trapped in a hostile world of fire and battle. They’ll need to team up to defeat the Battlemaster’s army and his champions if they have any hopes of returning home.

The Forge is a free limited time 6-player co-op challenge, where the goal is to try and defeat the Grand Forge Boarrior in an arena. The only way to survive will be to work together.

The Forge is played on official Klei servers that are available only during the event. There are no community hosted servers during this event.

• This year's Forge has had many balance, content and progression changes.
  
• Character skins, emotes, item skins and more. Including skins from last season with hundreds of items.
  
• Free on-demand dedicated event servers (Forge Only).
  
• Simple Matchmaking with friends / community groups.
  
• Event drop system (Forge only).
  
• And more!
  
• And new for Season 2 we have added community and personal goals replacing last years achievements. Complete matches to help the community unlock new bosses and items!

For more details about The Forge, check out our post on the official forums.

The Hallowed Nights are upon us once again!

Something special lies in wait for you. Everyone on can once again discover tricks and treats around the world of Don't Starve. Fill your candy bag to the brim and satisfy your sweet tooth with all sorts of sugary seasonal treats!

Spooky costumes are available for a limited time, so be sure to enjoy them before the event ends and they go back from whence they came!

New for 2018, Mix potions in the Mad Science Lab and find new Hallowed Nights Decorations to totally decorate Totally Normal Trees.

Also available are special disguises and new item skins for 2018 that will stick around, but they’ll only drop during the season of Hallowed Nights, so be on the look-out for these rare items and snag them all while you can!

Good luck, have fun, and brace yourself for a scare!

For more details see the offical forums at: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/97477-hallowed-nights-rises-again/

• Fixed crash when digging up Graves in the Caves.
  
• Fixed crash sometimes if crafting station is destroyed right before you finish prototyping a recipe.
  
• Fixed crash sometimes when giving Trinkets to the Pig King while using a modded character.
  
• Fixed crash during Meteor Showers for some modded worlds.
  
• Fixed a rare World Gen crash.
  
• Fixed Webber and Wes’ Hallowed Nights portrait backdrops.
  
• Fixed The Supernatural’s hair during certain emotes.

• Fixed bug where burning eyes on Totally Normal Trees sometimes do not appear while Hallowed Nights is active.
  
• Fixed typo in Haunted Forest Portrait.

Hey Everybody,

Things have been a bit quiet around here after The Gorge so that we can regroup, prioritize and start on upcoming content for Don't Starve Together. A big thanks to our community for your patience while we worked everything out. We saw posts for those wondering what we're up to next, suggestions and feedback as well as those of you who ensured others that we would update you all when we had more info.

Some games are calling their yearly content schedule "Seasons" - if we were doing so, we're officially kicking off "Season 3". We haven't put a cool marketing name on events yet because we're still building upon what that even means.

Just like last year, this next year will build upon existing content even more than the year before.

I have a lot of information for you today about a lot of different things - so let's get to it.


We have created a new page where players can view their Klei Account information. Right now the functionality is limited to a few things such as changing your email or server setup, but we'll be adding more functionality to allow you greater control over your Klei Account. This is available today, check it out.




Beginning today all players who have their Twitch Account linked to their Klei Account will be able to get drops when watching a DST stream on Twitch. These items are exclusive loyal items exclusive to Twitch.tv. These items will drop on any DST stream where the streamer has linked their Twitch account to their Klei Account. This is available today. Go check out more info here.

We wanted to get this going as soon as possible so we can make use of Twitch drops and Klei Accounts in future content plans.




Speaking of future content plans,With a few new Tricks and Treats, Hallowed nights returns in October. We'll post more info about the details and an exact date soon. Hallowed Nights is coming October 25th!

With that, we kick off the holiday season event schedule. Returning this year with all holiday events including Winter's Feast and Lunar New Year.




Coming later this year, The Forge Returns bigger and better than ever with new items, creatures and community driven goals. You can look forward to more information about the return of The Forge as we get closer to release, but we wanted to let you know that it's coming.





Today's update is entirely a Quality of Life update. We wanted to get in some changes and fixes for some issues we want corrected before we focus entirely on this coming round of event content.

We're adding in some server filtering options to allow players to hide bad server names, we now have special flagging for servers that are official Klei Servers. We've also made a big change to the main menu that now includes important news and announcements about DST.

We found that during recent events that not as many players were aware of announced content as we would to have liked. In an effort to make sure more people see this information we will be showing it in the main menu area. We'll make sure that all important news that players should be aware of is posted in there so you know what's coming up for the game. Check out the update notes here: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/game-updates/dst/




I am sure many of you have question about what's really next for DST. We're not ready to announce that juuust yet. But suffice it to say - things are happening.

• Search for a unique Moon Rock Boulder that falls during Meteor showers to discover new Celestial crafting.
  
• Twitch item drops will be available to streamers and viewers.
  
• Character clothing selection screens updated to use new collection UI.
  
• Profile icons now used in chat and player status screen.
  
• Sort functionality added to item collection screens.
  
• Improved server listing performance.
  
• Server names and descriptions can now be hidden locally.
  
• Klei dedicated servers now have their own icon in the Browse Games screen.
  
• Added folder_name to modinfo environment, to allow for easier modder debugging.
  
• Long running dedicated servers will now properly backup logs periodically.

• Celestial Portal in the Caves can no longer be activated.
  
• Celestial Orb will always show up on the Minimap, even if it is held or inside
• a container.
  Fixed animation bugs with Celestial Portal.
  
• Fixed animation bug with Werebeaver becoming invisible.
  
• Fixed bug where digging up an occupied Burrow did not release a Moleworm.
  
• Fixed bug where chat messages did not fade out.
  
• Fixed “Thingamabob” names in player inspect screen.
  
• Fixed crash sometimes when unravelling items.

• Despawning at the Celestial Portal will now save your crafting, map, and pet data, as well as your survived day count.
  
• Crafting description for On Tentacles now correctly indicates that it requires an Alchemy Engine.
  
• Fixed issue with some users being unable to start a server with Caves enabled.
  
• Fixed black box around the Marble Portrait.

• Sorting mode in Server Browser screen is now remembered.
  
• Fixed issue with some dedicated servers running on Windows failing SteamGameServer_Init if Steam client was not installed.

• Details will now load for all servers listed in the Server Browser.
  
• Lucy will no longer act like she was just equipped everytime you travel to and from Caves.
  
• Fixed bug where some recipes crafted as Wickerbottom are not remembered after changing characters at the Celestial Portal.
  
• Fixed crash sometimes when inspecting players with certain translations enabled.
  
• Fixed minor text sizing issue with Player Avatar Popup.
  
• Cornucopia portrait glow fixed.
  
• Music volume setting will now apply to Intro Cinematic.

Changes

• Recent Encounters screen has been redone.
  
• Player badges now indicate when a player is in a loading screen (i.e. connecting to the server, or migrating between Forest and Caves.)
  
• Updated Spiky Tree Portrait and Spider Nest Portrait.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rare crash caused by haunting a Crock Pot while it is cooking Jellybeans.
  
• Fixed bug on clients where broken Fences did not clear pathfinding.
  
• Fixed bug causing Baby Beefalo to sometimes split from their herd when fully grown.
  
• Fixed bug preventing herds from merging properly.
  
• Fixed bug where Bunnymen and Pig Men inside their houses can still acquire combat targets.

Hey everybody!

The Gorge and The Gorge Tournament have come to an end.

Thanks to all who participated in The Gorge Tournament! We had a great time working on the event, and we hope you all had fun playing it. We'll get those prizes distributed as soon as possible, and we'll let you know once that's done. The participation prizes will take the longest, but we expect to be done by the end of today or tomorrow.

We have some cool stats we thought you would be interested in.

Over 25k people played The Gorge Tournament! This was significantly more than we expected. Of those who participated in The Gorge, 18,237 completed their Recipe Books!

11,162,027 Meals were snackrificed
129,818,990 Logs were harvested
48,090,945 Seeds were planted
851,676 Meals were burnt
34,297,118 Items were purchased
5,805,526,485 Steps were taken

To put that into perspective, during The Forge, 2,899,027,196 steps were taken.

So what's next?

We're not quite sure yet. We're working on figuring that out, but right now we are considering our options and don't have a solid enough plan to commit to yet. When we run an event like The Forge/Gorge, we are pretty much working on the event live the whole time, so we haven't had much time to work ahead yet.

We'll have some more specific information real soon!

The Gorge and The Gorge Tournament have come to an end.

Thanks to all who participated in The Gorge Tournament! We'll be posting some stats and results and distributing prizes by the end of tomorrow.

We got a lot of great feedback and hopefully we will be doing more events like this in the future.

• Fixed crash sometimes when shutting down a dedicated server on Linux.

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• Fixed bug with Bearger’s spawn timer.

The Gorge Tournament has begun!

Beginning at 11am PST, all Steam DST players who play the Gorge can start competing for the best scores. The top teams will receive the following:

Gold - (Top team of 1 - 3 players): Exclusive Gold Portrait, Exclusive Gold Icon, and Every item introduced with The Gorge, including the Survivors Chest and the Belongings Chest.

Silver - (Next 5 top teams of 1 - 3 unique players): Exclusive Silver Portrait, Exclusive Silver Icon, and The Gorge Belongings Chest.

Bronze - (Remaining Top 100 unique Players): Exclusive Bronze Icon and 25 Gorge Chests.

All participants will receive a special participation reward. Players appearing in multiple teams will only receive the reward for the highest tier they qualify for. Some restrictions apply, see below. 

This is going to be the first event of its kind, so we reserve the right to change things if we need to, or cancel due to unexpected complications.

We would love to do more things like this in the future, so make sure to give us your feedback!



In order to qualify for The Gorge Tournament, you must finish a match with these 4 badges:

 Victory

 No Tributes Failed

 No Repeat Meals

 No Duplicate Survivors

(NOTE: It is OK to have other badges as well.)
Then, if your account qualifies, your score will automatically be entered, and this badge will show up as well:

 Tournament Entry



Appeasement Points are calculated by adding up all the points from each snackrifice (see below), multiplying by 1000, and then dividing by the total number of seconds spent in the entire match.

Coin values are as follows:

 1 point per coin.

 1 coin is worth 28 points, 2 coins is worth 84 points.

 1 coin is worth 98 points, 2 coins is worth 294 points.

 1 coin is worth 343 points.


For example, when the craving is matched:

Tomato Soup is worth 1× + 8× = 28 + 8 = 36 points
Candied Fish is worth 2× + 4× = 84 + 4 = 88 points
And say you escaped in 185 seconds using one Tomato Soup and one Candied Fish, then your match score would be:

(36 + 88) × 1000 ÷ 185 = 670 Appeasement Points


What are the restrictions?

This tournament is Steam only, and only accounts that own Don't Starve Together can participate. Family Sharing "child" accounts will not qualify. Accounts must be in good standing.

Where can I see my rank?

The players qualifying for the gold, silver and bronze rewards are listed in the Tournament section of the leaderboards (https://forums.kleientertainment.com/gorge-recipe-book/).

What if I belong to multiple high scoring teams?

You will be rewarded based on the team with the highest score. If you qualify under multiple tiers, you will receive an award only for the highest qualifying tier.

When does the tournament end?

The tournament ends on July 17th at 11am Pacific time. Winners will be determined and prizes will be distributed shortly thereafter.

What about merch?

We wanted to give out merch as a prize, but the laws are scary, so we decided not to mess with that. If we get a lot of good feedback from this tournament, we'll look into how to go about physical prizes in the future.

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• Updated art for Mossy Gateway Portrait, Altar of Gnaw Portrait, and Pot Hanger Portrait.
  
• Fixed bug where some players received a Tournament Entry badge, but their score did not show up on the leaderboard. If you believe this is still happening on new matches, please let us know by submitting a bug report. (We are still investigating the possibility of restoring previously missed entries.)
  
• Fixed a rare crash when shutting down the game.

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• Fixed bug where overriding a World’s Event setting did not apply to Caves.
  
• Fix a bug where some players would get the "Unable to connect to leaderboard server" message on every match.
  
• Fixed Woodie’s Trader's Furs icon.