Here we are again with our next character update! We have a bunch of to share, from Woodies’s character refresh, his new skin sets, new twitch drops, Salty Dog comes to beta and a big console update!

Here we go!

Every character has their story, and with each refresh, secrets will be revealed. See what new surprises Woodie has to share with you here.

With the effects of the moon stronger than ever, Woodie has finally embraced his wild side. Armed with two new were-forms and a (knick-)knack for controlling his strange curse, he's ready to face anything the Constant can throw at him.

• In addition to Werebeaver, Woodie now has two new transformations that specialize in different things, such as combat and locomotion.
  
• A random transformation can be triggered by repeatedly consuming Monster Meat (or prepared dishes like Monster Lasagna).
  
• A specific transformation can be triggered by consuming one of the three new craftable idols made with Monster Meat.
  
• The Log Meter has been replaced with a Were-Meter that appears only during Woodie’s were-forms.
  
• The Were-Meter drains constantly, and Woodie reverts to Human form once it runs out.
  
• Performing specific actions will extend Woodie’s time in each were-form.
  
• During fullmoon, Woodie is forced into a random transformation (once per fullmoon), and the Were-Meter drains at half the speed.
  
• Reduced Woodie’s sanity drain while in were-form.
  
• Woodie no longer gains sanity when planting trees.
  
• Woodie no longer needs to eat wood.
  
• Woodie has a 50% higher chance to spawn Treeguards and Poison Birchnut Trees.
  
• Werebeaver no longer spawns Treeguards and Poison Birchnut Trees
  
• Like the Werebeaver, all new were-forms gain night vision and some weather resistance.
  
• Woodie can now view the Map while transformed.

We have also added 2 new skin packs for purchase. The Woodie Deluxe Wardrobe contains 5 skins, Woodies Team Player, Guest of Honor, Roseate, Triumphant and Survivor skin sets for $14.49cad ($12.99usd). We have also added the Canadiana Chest which includes the Hockey Helmet, Hockey Stick and Rustic Cabin skins for $4.65cad ($3.99usd).

Join us on the beta branch and check out the next content update Return of Them: Salty Dog.

Only the bravest salty dogs will brave the brine shoals to collect the spice of life. Beware the Malbatross. Many a sailor has had their ship dashed on rocks for tangling with this bad bird.

• Salt Stacks
  
• Cookie Cutters
  
• New Warly Spice: Salt
  
• The Malbatross
  
• Fish Shoals

New resources: Salt Rocks, Feathery Canvas, Malbatross Bill. Cookie Cutter Shell.
New craftables: Salt Box, Winged Sail. Cookie Cutter Cap.
We are adding the Radiant Star Caller's Staff and Prismatic Moon Caller's Staff to the Crystaline collection. For more information on streaming drops and how to get them, check out our support topic here.

With the Woodie character refresh we are also updating console with Return of Them: Turn of Tides content! For more info about Turn of Tides please check out this post.

• Fixed crash when Woodie transforms while mounted.
  
• Fixed bug with Jellybean buff multiplying whenever Woodie transforms.
  
• Fixed bug with Garlic Spiced food buff calculations in Weremoose form.
  
• Fixed animation bugs with Rustic Cabin skin for Pig Houses.

• Weregoose can now walk on water. (Be warned that Woodie will drown immediately if he reverts to human form over water).
  
• Minor increase to Werebeaver’s digging and mining strength.
  
• Increased Weremoose’s damage reduction to 90%.
  
• All of Woodie’s were-forms can now last up to half a day.
  
• Increased the grace period between actions before Were-meter starts speeding up.
  
• Reduced food stat penalties for Woodie’s consumable Idols (now equivalent to eating a single Monster Meat).
  
• Further reduced sanity drain while in were-form.
  
• Fixed Woodie’s missing mullet when chopping.

• New global audio-mix changes. "everything turned down" to allow for more headroom for louder scenarios.
  
• HUD sounds like click turned down during the menus.
  
• Memory savings to animation data.
  
• Work music changed back to original Autumn.

Hey everybody,

Woodie's Character refresh is coming next week on Sept. 12th! You can find the details of his refresh below but please remember as always, some of this might change a bit between now and next Thursday.

• In addition to Werebeaver, Woodie now has two new transformations that specialize in different things, such as combat and locomotion.
  
• A random transformation can be triggered by repeatedly consuming Monster Meat (or prepared dishes like Monster Lasagna).
  
• A specific transformation can be triggered by consuming one of the three new craftable idols made with Monster Meat.
  
• The Log Meter has been replaced with a Were-Meter that appears only during Woodie’s were-forms.
  
• The Were-Meter drains constantly, and Woodie reverts to Human form once it runs out.
  
• Performing specific actions will extend Woodie’s time in each were-form.
  
• During fullmoon, Woodie is forced into a random transformation (once per fullmoon), and the Were-Meter drains at half the speed.
  
• Reduced Woodie’s sanity drain while in were-form.
  
• Woodie no longer gains sanity when planting trees.
  
• Woodie no longer needs to eat wood.
  
• Woodie has a 50% higher chance to spawn Treeguards.
  
• Like the Werebeaver, all new were-forms gain night vision and some weather resistance.

We had a lot of fun with this one and we hope that all you Woodie mains out there love him even more! Some of you out there might even find a new love for the Constant's coolest Canadian castaway.

We also have a couple other interesting things happening on September 12th.

In addition to Woodie's refresh coming into the main game, the next part of our Return of Them content update will be coming to the beta branch (with Woodie playable there as well) on September 12th. We will have more details about it next Thursday, but in this update you will see a new boss, new items, a new creature and a new crafting resource.

We have everything ready and we're preparing for console players to receive Woodie next week, but in addition you will also be getting Return of Them: Turn of Tides content as well! This has not gone all the way through certification yet, so it's possible it could be off a day or two, but at this time we don't expect any delays.

As always with Console, this isn't entirely up to us, so we may get a delay of a day or two while we work through certification, but as of right now we expect this to release next week as well.

That's all I have for now. We look forward to your thoughts and feedback. See you Thursday!

Something ancient stirs in the night sky, and the world below will never be the same. A strange new island teeming with life has appeared, and with it, a whole new slew of challenges for our Survivors to face.

Keep a wary eye out. They’re almost here.

• New Boat Mechanics: Don’t sink together! Build and deck out a boat large enough to carry you and your fellow Survivors across the sea.
  
• New Seafaring Crafting Menu: Craft everything you’ll need to hit the high seas.
  
• The Lunar Island: Explore a strange lunar landscape filled with bizarre creatures.
  
• New Lunar Island Biomes: Discover 3 new biomes loaded with valuable new resources, craftables, and fearsome enemies.
  
• Enlightenment: See the world from a new perspective as your Sanity is replaced by an all-new Enlightenment meter.

As noted in a previous post, we need extra time to get this update out to console. We expect this to take an additional 3-4 weeks (hopefully less), and we will update you with the expected date as soon as we submit to cert and have a better handle on what the date will be.

I don't think it's going to make it in for Turn of Tides but we also wanted to let console players know that we will soon be introducing something new just for you.

Currently console skin offerings are very limited because each time we put new skins on console we have to go through the entire certification process as well as the process for setting up DLC, which in the past has proven to be more time consuming than we'd hoped. However, if we instead put everything up as one package and allow them to be paid for with virtual currency, we're no longer so limited. This also brings us another step closer to providing better support for console. Consider it like being able to buy Spool to weave your items. This takes a lot of coordination with the platform and is not a main priority, so it's going to be a while. But we want console players to know a solution is coming; likely in an update following Turn of Tides.

Finally, we wanted to do something a bit special for all of you; just for fun. So for the next two weeks if you log into Don't Starve Together, all players on PC will receive the "Roseate Sail" so you can deck out your new boat with a little bit of style. We will offer the item for console when it goes live there as well.



We'll be updating the game with hotfixes for the issues that are most pressing, but with this update the team will now moving on to developing new content.

Now that we have this first big chunk of content out, a lot of work has been done to prepare for future updates, which should allow us a much shorter update schedule from this point forward. We expect the next content update will hit the beta branch 4 weeks from now, and after 2 weeks of testing will be live in a total of 6 weeks from today; give or take a few days (probably give). We'll have more details about the content and date in a couple weeks.

• Fixed the hounds freezing in mid jump when near the shore.
  
• Booster Shot can now be crafted in Wilderness mode
  
• Freshly planted Bull Kelp Stalks are no longer ready to be picked right away.
  
• Added a setting a Seafaring Camera Options menu to toggle the camera behavior while on a boat.
  
• Camera now centers on the player properly after hopping off a boat while using some mods.
  
• Fixed Werebeaver’s Plank / Abandon Ship action strings.
  
• Fixed waterfalls disappearing at certain camera angles.

• Fixed a performance issue that could occur after sailing for a little while.
  
• Fixed save/load for masts built on land
  
• Fixed a crash on load
  
• Fixed various clothing bugs with WX78’s cuffs.

• Players can no longer craft or perform other actions while hopping on and off boats
  
• Wortox’s soul explosion no longer interrupts hopping on and off boats
  
• Boats can no longer be placed overhanging the waterfalls
  
• Fixed a flicker when opening the minimap for the first time (and after using the Pitchfork)
  
• One more save/load fix for masts built on land
  
• The Suspicious Marble will no longer be trapped inside the Sculpture’s physics when mined. For worlds where this was a problem, the Suspicious Marble piece will be moved beside the Marble Sculpture.
  
• Added sounds for the Flare
  
• Added Anchor art for to represent how deep the Anchor was dropped.
  
• Fixed a rowing controller bug
  
• Notes for Modders:
  
  • Fixed Story:_FindStartingTask default return value
    
  • storygen.lua now returns the Story class
    
  • GetPlatformAtPoint now accepts the parameters (x, z) and (x, y, z)

Just dropping in for a quick (not-so-quick) update.

As I mentioned previously we ran into a bit of an issue that caused a delay in the live update "Turn of Tides". Long story short we had some performance issues that required a decent amount of work to correct. While it's ok on a beta branch, we did not feel comfortable putting things out to the live game in it's current state. So we thought it be good to let you all know what's been going on and where we stand.

Things worked on during the delay:

• Put in Retrofitting (Adding new content to old worlds)
  
• Improving the reaction of land creatures to the water environment. (fixing things like bosses just walking towards the player even though they are stuck on the shore)
  
• Improved creature pathfinding when dealing with the water. (So they may or may go around a body of water, fly or swim across it if they can, depending on the situation)
  
• Ocean related stability improvements. (lag)

In progress:

• Making sure controller is properly supported for boating
  
• Improving the visuals of the water. (Separating biomes, putting an edge to the world.)
  
• Redesigned the gameplay of boat, mast, anchor and steering wheel for more interesting Ocean navigation.

We have done a lot of work that will prepare for future content so we do not expect upcoming content to experience this type of delay. We expect all future content to come on a regular schedule from here on out. We will have more details on that next week.
Because of the complexity in the changes that were made to the game, we need extra time to get this update out to console. We expect this to take an additional 3-4 weeks (hopefully less), and we will update you with the expected date as soon as we submit to cert and have a better handle on what the date will be.

We are very sorry for this and we know this is going to be disappointing, but we believe that given the extent of the changes we are making to the game, we need the extra time to make sure everything is ready.

We have also been working on a few other things. These things are mostly outside of the content team and doesn't affect the current content plan, but we have something new for you today.

We have been working on a system that will allow you to collect "points" on your account by doing various things like subscribing to our Youtube or following us on Twitter and then use those points to get items. Currently we will be using this to distribute our out of cycle Twitch items rather than selling them as we had previously suggested. This allows players to get what they missed before or just get them without going through Twitch.

The first version of this can be found on our accounts page here: https://accounts.klei.com/account/rewards

In the future we will update the rewards program with new ways to earn more points and pick up cool rewards they may have missed, or even possibly entirely new stuff. Let us know what you think here.

That's all I have for now. Thanks everybody, have fun out there!

A ship has dashed upon the shores of the island and our survivors have recovered a new member to add to their team; Warly! Armed with a variety of rare ingredients and fancy cookware, Warly can't wait to spice up the lives of his newfound taste testers... er, friends, with a full-course dinner of brand new meals and invigorating spices.

Here are his details:

• Warly can craft a Chef Pouch, which is a small backpack that also helps to preserve food items a little bit longer.
  
• Warly can craft a Portable Crock Pot, Portable Grinding Mill, and Portable Seasoning Station, usable only by him.
  
• The Portable Crock Pot cooks 25% faster and includes new exclusive dishes with unique bonuses and effects.
  
• The Portable Grinding Mill can be used to craft a variety of seasoning powders.
  
• The Portable Seasoning Station combines a prepared dish with seasoning powder to add bonus effects to the food.
  
• Warly has an increased max hunger of 250, but it decreases 20% faster than other characters.
  
• Warly can only eat prepared dishes from a Crock Pot.
  
• Warly remembers the dishes he ate for up to two days and will enjoy them less every time they are repeated.
  
• Added new vegetables, available to all characters: Toma Root, Potato, Asparagus, Pepper, Onion, and Garlic.
  
• Added several new Crock Pot recipes, available to all characters.

Warly is available for free for all DST players.
The Warly Deluxe Wardrobe is $7.99 and includes Warly's Roseate, Victorian and Trawler skin sets.




Next on the list of Character Refreshes is somebody we think many of you are going to be excited about. We are having a bunch of fun with this one and we hope you enjoy Woodie when his refresh comes to DST early September.

• New food recipes will now work with cooked ingredients.
  
• Added new Seeds to Catcoon’s random gifts.
  
• Improved resolution of most crops.
  
• Fixed animation bug with new crops being invisible when grown on Farms.
  
• Fixed crash when attempting to add seasoning to mod foods.
  
• Fixed crash caused by new Wardrobe Popup Screen.
  
• Fixed animation bug with Willow’s custom idle animation when using skins.
  
• Fixed animation bug with Victorian Warly’s beard.
  
• Fixed animation bug with WX-78’s Unfinished Robot Hands.

• Electric attacks from Volt Goat Chaud-Froid buff will now properly charge Volt Goats.
  
• Fixed animation bug with modded food being invisible in the Portable Spicer.
  
• Fixed some issues with the new Wardrobe Popup Screen.

A ship has dashed upon the shores of the island and our survivors have recovered a new member to add to their team; Warly! Armed with a variety of rare ingredients and fancy cookware, Warly can't wait to spice up the lives of his newfound taste testers... er, friends, with a full-course dinner of brand new meals and invigorating spices.

Here are his details:

Warly can craft a Portable Crock Pot, Portable Grinding Mill, and Portable Seasoning Station, usable only by him.
The Portable Crock Pot cooks 25% faster and includes new exclusive dishes with unique bonuses and effects.
The Portable Grinding Mill can be used to craft a variety of seasoning powders.
The Portable Seasoning Station combines a prepared dish with seasoning powder to add bonus effects to the food.
Warly has an increased max hunger of 250, but it decreases 20% faster than other characters.
Warly can only eat prepared dishes from a Crock Pot.
Warly remembers the dishes he ate for up to two days and will enjoy them less every time they are repeated.
Added new vegetables, available to all characters: Toma Root, Potato, Asparagus, Pepper, Onion, and Garlic.
Added several new Crock Pot recipes, available to all characters.
Warly is available for free for all DST players.
The Warly Deluxe Wardrobe is $7.99 and includes Warly's Roseate, Victorian and Trawler skin sets.

And, like always, Warly will have an animated short released on the same day. For now, here is some art from the making of that short.

NOTE: Steam has an issue right now and I can't post new images. So for some cool images we put together for this post head over here: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/109036-warly-makes-landfall-in-dst-next-week/

Hey Everybody,

Dropping in to let you know that Warly will be coming July 25th, I will have a post next week with details about his upcoming skins and info as usual.

In addition I hope to have more info on the upcoming content for Return of Them too.

I understand that this has left console players out of the loop here a bit but we ran into an issue in testing where we found a pretty bad memory issue related to the new oceans. We were left with a situation where we would either have to release the next update without the new ocean and boats and rearrange the lunar islands or spend a bunch of time getting that fixed up so it was good to ship soon.

So, when I have more definitive info on the next live update I will let you all know. We also are working on something else... unannounced that I hope to share soon as well that I think you will all enjoy (especially console).

Once again, sorry for all the timing issues, we're getting it sorted out. Thanks for your patience.

• Player will wait until after landing on a boat to sneeze.
  
• Fixed a graphic bug with fence gates when exiting interiors.
  
• Insulated sac, sea sack and gold rock gets a minimap icon.
  
• Pathfinding should now work better in interiors.
  
• Fixed bug where minimap sometimes didn't properly uncover traversed areas.
  
• Can pick up items on the ground near un-sprung tooth traps now.
  
• Fixed a spelling error on the Batilisk Wing?.
  
• Thumper’s minimap icon fixed.
  
• Dense turf will grow tall grass.
  
• Fixed crash at the beginning of adventure mode prologue
  
• Life vest and amulet will save the player on water in Hamlet.
  
• Wheeler tracker won’t steal an item when a second is given to it anymore.
  
• Poison Frog Legs and Tubers won’t bother WX anymore.
  
• Fixed player boat crashing into shoreline when beardhair or dense jungleturf was placed on edge of lilypond.
  
• Bramble Armor will protect Wormwood from Cacti and Spiky Bushes.
  
• Bat Bat added to magic tab in Hamlet.
  
• Fixed very high awake entity counts, especially near waterfalls.
  
• Electric Isosceles won’t transport land based followers.
  
• Webber won’t attack neutral spiders with the attack key now.
  
• Pigs shouldn’t get stuck on city structures so much.
  
• Fixed a graphic problem with the pig totem torch.
  
• Roc won’t try and break non breakable structures.
  
• Roc won’t land when you are on the edge of the jungle and sky.
  
• Farmplot art will refresh properly on save/load
  
• City Pig houses minimap icon fixed
  
• Fixed some bugs with Ballphin Palace
  
• Fixed potential humongous memory spike on world load when worldhopping.
  
• The Doy Doy feather is actually tradeable now.

• Fixed a sound glitch in the Volcano

• Fixed the burnt farm plot crash

• Fix for crash in seasonmanager when under attack in a Hamlet compatible ROG world

• Fix for sound problem caused by rabid beetles

• Fix potential infinite loop on load

• Fix potential crash on load with burnt farmplot.
  
• Wormwood will not catch fire when hit by lightning while wearing insulating gear in non-Hamlet worlds as well.

• Added official Chinese language support

• Fix an issue with targeting a boat cannon while using a controller

• Fixed Catalina support
  
• Added support for Apple's new notarization procedure

We've added a new Performance setting in Settings called Dynamic Asset Loading. It saves memory by loading certain data as needed, and unloading it when it’s not used for a while. Like most optimizations there’s a trade-off - while the dynamic loading decreases memory usage significantly it also means the game has to load assets in the background - depending on your hardware this may be noticeable. The game needs a restart for any change to the asset loading to take effect.

• Added a “Dynamic Asset Loading” feature to reduce the memory usage on some machines*
  
• Improved performance of Tall Grass.
  
• Fixed graphic bug when punching with Bug B’Gone
  
• Pugalisk Gaze will now freeze birds, butterflies, bees, fish and some other things it didn’t before.
  
• Frozen flytraps won’t go to sleep now.
  
• Flower of life sparkles won’t block building placement
  
• Minimap icons for Wheeler’s Tracker, Pew-Matic, Bramble Core and Spiky Bush
  
• 2nd Aporkalypse ends properly now.
  
• Toucans won’t land in Mangrove biomes now.
  
• Roc Egg won’t world hop, like the gizzard stone.
  
• Fixed Silver Necklace floating anim and minimap icon.
  
• Krampus can’t steal some things he shouldn’t be able to now.
  
• Flower of Life just burns to ash now.
  
• Gnats can be frozen by flingomatic.
  
• Controller players can eat again with non-Wormwood characters in Hamlet compatible worlds.
  
• Using the Deconstruction Staff on pig city items will remove them completely, no reconstruction project left behind.
  
• Ancient Pickaxe won’t destroy a coral before it can be hammered now.
  
• Wormwood will gain sanity planting seeds in a farmplot now.
  
• Butterfly spawners don’t block placement.
  
• Fixed the ruins and jungle seasonal music.
  
• Queen Womant plays boss fight music now.
  
• Fixed a caps problem with Wilba’s speech/
  
• The Magic Water will cure poison.
  
• Fixed a “double hair” bug on the character anim
  
• Capped vampire bats that will collect in caves.
  
• Pig Beautician will accept Doy Doy Feathers.
  
• Fixed minimap texture for dense turf.
  
• Corkboat will float if the player sinks while holding one
  
• Fixed hover text on the Tar Lamp
  
• Fixed some Wheeler tracker bugs so it will track more items now.
  
• Changed Lily Pad collision so things won’t get stuck in the middle of them.
  
• Vampire Bats will drop bat wings occasionally now.
  
• Fixed a bug with hounds spawning where they shouldn’t.
  
• Fixed bug where Ro-bin could randomly disappear when the gizzard stone was left in an interior.
  
• Fixed a graphic problem with the size of the some of the growable products.
  
• Fixed a problem with hounds arriving too soon after jumping back to an ROG world.
  
• Fences can only be built on land now.
  
• Fences are now taken into consideration for pathfinding,
  
• Wheeler won’t always dodge towards things she’s attacking now.
  
• Wheeler’s dodge target moves faster for controllers now.

• Pig town is more consistent now. Shouldn’t have missing pig palaces
  
• Fixed issue where the “Travel” option would not show on teleportato in adventure mode when playing with controller.
  
• The Camera will zoom back out after Wilba’s transformations.
  
• Fixed controller hint showing “MISSING NAME” when near a bramble site.
  
• Fixed examine string for cave entrance on ROC island.
  
• Only Wormwood will see the Plant action with seeds when using a controller.
  
• Partially constructed Robot can be teleported.
  
• Reduced memory spike on save.
  
• Dryrack in interiors will still work when it’s raining outside.
  
• Controllers won’t detect depleted sparkling pools.
  
• Fixed another way rain could stop prematurely when leaving an interior
  
• Ancient Robots won’t push the telelocator Focus around now.
  
• Ancient Robots can’t leave the world bounds now.
  
• Ancient Hulk’s laser spin should cause less lag now.
  
• Walls can now be placed on sparkling puddles.
  
• Dung piles won’t land in the water or thin air now.
  
• Wilba’s silver necklace will stop draining sanity when Wilba is safe from Werepigism.
  
• Vortex Cloak float animation fixed
  
• Root Trunk minimap icon fixed
  
• Ro Bin won’t disappear when left alone in a room
  
• Bramble Sites can be built on now.
  
• Investigated mysteries will survive a save/load
  
• Navigadget can be dropped after an attempt to put it into the Pew-matic is made.
  
• Base Fan doesn’t work when off now.
  
• Gnats can be carried to other worlds when infesting a character who uses the Skyworthy or Seaworthy
  
• Minimap icon for player’s city hall fixed.
  
• Cooked Tubers are now actually cooked.
  
• Payment can come from a backpack when shopping.
  
• Pig Bandit will include contents of the players backpack now when deciding to mug them.
  
• Flower of Life’s health penalty as a resurrector fixed.
  
• Fixed a layering issue with doors and columns.
  
• Added Hedge item examine strings.
  
• Fixed the spawning of multiple Bramble Cores on save/load
  
• Pig won’t forget they paid tax on a save/load

• The Thumper still sometimes misses stuff, but now it’s not always the same things.
  
• Controller won’t allow character to dismount boatsinto clouds now.
  
• Peagawk Feather is not mole food.
  
• Weather Pain works on hackable things
  
• Ancient Robots will join together again.
  
• Boat Repair Kit added to Hamlet recipes.
  
• One man band and spider hat won’t befriend corpses.