The Character Update is now live! This update focuses on making our new Hamlet characters more interesting for you to play, particularly when playing outside of the Hamlet world.

Wilba has inherited one of her father's more colourful characteristics, namely, she now carries the same curse that inflicts all of her father's family with dreaded werepigism. Also, all of pigkind from Hamlet's town pigs to those of ROG will now recognize her as the king's daughter, and pay her tribute in the form of gifts.

We weren't very happy with how Warbucks was working out. While trying to find ways to make him work, we decided that he just wasn't as interesting as we would like, and so we've made the decision to start from scratch with a new character. You can still continue your Warbucks saves as his files will not be removed from the game, but he will no longer be in the official lineup of starting characters.

Instead, we would like to introduce to you our new character, Wormwood! Who knows where this creature of nature came from, but he'll likely grow on you.

Thank you for playing, and we look forward to hearing your feedback!

• Added options for disabling the decorative vines and the canopy shadow in Hamlet for lower-end hardware.
  
• Blooming Rainforest trees will drop burrs when chopped

• Webber's disguise will show up if put on the ground now.
  
• Fixed random startup crash with blueprints in Hamlet compatible worlds.
  
• Fixed assert when trying to launch the game with The Screecher mod enabled.
  
• Lazy Forager doesn’t collect items off shelves anymore. Affected saves should be fixed
  
• Bundling wrap now works with controller.
  
• Zoomed inventory management (with controller) should now behave properly with shelves.
  
• Fixed "Text not found" in recipe popups when not near needed prototyping machine.
  
• Fixed an assert on load of some Hamlet compatible ShipWrecked worlds.
  
• Burned crops just produce burnt seeds unless fully mature

• Stopped rare pig relics from moving around during a load
  
• Fixed broken interaction with items on shelves.
  
• Fixed graphical positioning of items when taken off shelves

• Fixed two "random" crashes ( scheduler.lua and shelf_slot.lua)

• Fix for being unable to bundle if the game had saved while bundling
  
• Wilba will now transform from her Werewilba form upon resurrecting
  
• Mini signs won’t fail to deploy if the mouse is on a object when the character goes to place it.
  
• Remapped controls should save properly again.
  
• Flytraps won’t crash the game for Wormwood now
  
• Flytraps won’t attack wormwood for carrying vegetables now.
  
• Werewilba can't equip a backpack now.

• Known seeds will now grant Wormwood sanity boost like random seeds
  
• Wormwood can only use Poop, Guano and Buckets-o-poop to heal. And the bucket gets more than one use. No more unintended Ash-strats.
  
• Fixed crash when trying to drop equipped item in zoomed interface with controller.
  
• Fix for potential crash when harvesting drying rack
  
• Wormwoods planted seeds won’t crash the game when hit by a ground pound
  
• Fix a rare assert when Wilba sometimes transformed back from wereform
  
• Fixed potential assert with rainbow jelly migration.
  
• Fixed the non random seed placer
  
• No more seeds will spawn at 0,0,0 when Wormwoods plants them
  
• Fixed a tuber tree crash
  
• Fixed tumbleweed disappearing at the world edge.

The pigs of Hamlet are feeling festive, but they need incentive to throw a party. Incentive like surviving an Aporkalypse.

So if you can survive several days of torment before you avert the cataclysm, the Pigs in towns all across Hamlet will throw a fiesta to celebrate life. Go join them in the fun.

• Pig towns will celebrate for a few days after an Aporkalypse

• Fixed mouse over detection on new Hamlet prepared foods
  
• Fixed mouse over detection on new Hamlet turf
  
• Fixed assert when traveling to Hamlet wearing the cowl
  
• Fixed assert on world load when Beefalo Mating Season was set to ‘Often’
  
• Fixed assert when unwrapping a bundle in a Vanilla world
  
• Fixed art problem with Woodie’s hair.
  
• Fixed a problem with the brush
  
• Fixed a typo in dungpile loot
  
• Fixed a tooltip on the Smelter
  
• Fixed crash when leaving interior with lazy explorer equipped
  
• Fixed smelter not working with controller/right mouse button
  
• Fixed infinite loop when destroying a beehive in a world with bees set to ‘None’

• Fixed a crash with prepared food
  
• Fixed a bug with the cookpot text
  
• Fixed a rare bug in the mainmenu
  
• Brambles won’t spawn in the lily pond biome now.
  
• Fixed the number of minisigns given for SW compatible worlds.

• Fixed infinite loop when destroying a beehive in a world with bees set to ‘None’ for real this time

There's a spring in the step of our survivors this season as the world of Don't Starve says goodbye to the Year of the Varg, and hello to the Year of the Pig King! Bring in the new year by testing your mettle against the King's elite warriors in the most honourable wrestling ring, then collect festive prizes with your lucky winnings.

We have some special new skins available for everybody: the Year of the Pig King Collection. As always, you can either find them as drops in the game, weave them from spools, buy them directly ingame for yourself or head over to the steam store page to purchase them as gifts for friends!

The Year of the Pig King Collection can be purchased for $5.99USD per playable character and contains 2 unique item skins based on that character, or $12.99USD for the entire collection.

Players who log in before the end of the event will a special gift themed on this years event, so come check it out and get your Pig King Hat!

In case you missed it, check out our recent announcement about upcoming content for DST!:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/322330/announcements/detail/1693818009695488203

• Fixed animation bug with Wigfrid’s Ultimate Spear skin turning invisible when dropped on the ground.
  
• Fixed crash in Shop Screen for some users with Steam Overlay disabled.
  
• Fixed some string issues.

Originally posted on the official forums by Bigfoot:

Hello everyone!

It’s been a while since I’ve made a post here, I’d like to share with you our plans for 2019, which are extensive!

First, I’d like to recap what happened in 2017/2018:
In 2017 we launched the Forge, and followed it up in 2018 with the Gorge. The idea was that we could offer a new way of playing Don’t Starve Together, in a limited-time format. We were a bit burned out on creating DST core game content and this format allowed us to try something a bit different, so we made these crazy game modes and provided them to the community for free.

Every time we launched these events, tons of players came to play, and in every instance we hit our highest ever DST concurrency. We’re super thrilled that so many people came to play the our weird game events!

While we enjoyed the events and are happy with the result, there were some drawbacks:

• They took WAY longer to make than we expected, so we weren’t able to make as much content as we wanted, and it left little time to do things like bug fixes and Quality of Life updates for the base game.
  
• Because we run the servers for these events, we also incurred the cost of these servers. Those of you who have been here a while know that Don’t Starve was not architected to be a multiplayer game, so running them on our servers was extremely inefficient. In short, even though we loved that everyone came to play, the item sales were only barely covering the costs of the servers.
  
• We found that it was exceedingly difficult for us to run these events on console and as such underserved our console players.

It has been a valuable experience and we think the game is better for it, however we feel that it’s time that we turn our attention back to the core Don’t Starve Together experience: surviving together.

Here’s what we’re doing for 2019:

The team is now working on brand new content for Don’t Starve Together. Survivors will be able to travel to new lands with new biomes, creatures, and more.

The first drop of this new content will come in mid-April, and we will continually be adding to the content every couple months afterward. As we said before, we think it’s important that everyone can play together and we don’t segregate our audience, so all of this content will be available for free to everyone!



The team also felt it was high time we gave our core cast some love (yes, we heard you). Over the course of the next year, we will be bestowing every character with revamped abilities, and give a glimpse into their backstory. Our goals here are to make each character unique, interesting and valuable in their own right and we expect this to be game changing in many ways.



Starting in March with Winona, we will be releasing a character refresh once a month.

These character refreshes will again be free to all players, and we will be selling new skins for these characters on the month they are refreshed.

In addition, the Triumphant, Guest of Honor and Survivor skin packs will be available to purchase for the character on that date. All owners of these skins prior to that date will be upgraded to an “Heirloom” rarity, with a higher unraveling value.

A fresh batch of four characters have been unwittingly ensnared and brought into the world. These new survivors will be released into the wild starting in Mid-March, and a new one will be released every 2 months



We are still deciding the final price of these characters, but we currently think they will be $6.99 USD each, which includes a full character skin set. You will also be able to weave the characters with spool.

Since we do not want to charge players for the new world content, these new characters will be our main way to fund development of this new content.

We are working hard on keeping the console versions of the game up to date. Specifically, we are investing in technology to allow us to more quickly update the game without going through lengthy certification on every small change, and we've also added more staff to work exclusively on updating the console versions.

We're happy to say that the next update for the Year of the Pig King event will launch within 2 days of the PC version.

We will also be continually updating the game with bug fixes, QoL updates, new skins for Twitch drops, and more things that we’re not quite ready to announce yet.

Speaking of which, the Year of the Pig King update is going live on Thursday! Long Live the (Pig) King!

And that’s it folks!

In short, we are significantly increasing our support of Don’t Starve Together in 2019 with new game content, character refreshes, new stories to be told, new characters, and new skins.

Thanks so much for playing this crazy game, once again. I’m still amazed at how it’s evolved over the years. Please give us your feedback and thoughts!

Fixes

• Fix Player house being locked again for some characters after obtaining deed
  
• Fixed crash when using crockpot in vanilla worlds

New Feature

• Fast Scrolling craft menu tabs as in DST

Bug Fixes

• Fixed potential assert with bearger in Hamlet compatible worlds.
  
• Fixed missing minimap icon for cave entrance/exit in ROG
  
• Fixed assert when picking up Hamlet city possessions in linked worlds
  
• Fixed missing old bell blueprint in Hamlet compatible ROG world
  
• Mount injured hud fx fixed
  
• Mount speeds fixed
  
• Missing Mount animations fixed (actions properly limited)
  
• Fixed the missing turf art in Hamlet compatible worlds.
  
• Fixed Hamlet food in Warly’s crock pot.
  
• Burnt Ant Comb Homes won’t produce any more Mants.
  
• Can’t bundle bundles now.
  
• Fixed Willow’s arms when rowing.
  
• Fixed autumn colourcube in ROG worlds

Welcome to 2019 everyone! We start the new year with an update that brings several nice and fun features from Don't Starve Together to regular Don't Starve. These additions were added to the base game and all DLCs.

• Beefalo taming and riding (Saddles, Brush, Saddlehorn)
  
• The Ewecus (for Steel Wool)
  
• Fences (Gates and Walls)
  
• Bundles (and Wax Paper and Bee's Wax)
  
• Mini signs (and the Feather Pen for writing)
  
• Action Key ability while holding an item on your cursor
  
• Trap pickup using the action key

Along with these additions, the artists took some time to do a visual color pass of Hamlet. Some changes are larger than others, like seasonal tints and the new background color, and others are smaller, like the claw palm leaf color.

As well, controller support was improved when interacting with interiors and interior decorating.


We would like to revisit Warbucks and Wilba. We think both characters could be improved so that they are more interesting to play outside of Hamlet. Watch for the new and improved Wilba and Warbucks as they try to stick to their new years resolutions to become better rounded on Feb 7th.


Bug Fixes

• Character stays suck by goo properly when hit while gooed (Bring friends or armor.)
  
• Fixed graphics glitch when examining
  
• Fixed sneeze graphics glitch
  
• Fixed Wilbur run when riding beefalo
  
• Fixed the weird Cave Banana Tree in Hamlet compatible worlds.
  
• Fix for assert when burning a minisign in Vanilla worlds
  
• Fix assert when placing a gate in Vanilla or ROG worlds
  
• Fixed assert when a babybeefalo grew up in Hamlet or Hamlet compatible world
  
• Dismount with controller fixed
  
• Fences should load properly
  
• Fixup for items that went missing from locked display cases.
  
• Beefalo mounts attack and take damage properly

Bug Fixes

• Fix for potential crash when closing craft-tabs in Hamlet
  
• Fixed the Flingomatic
  
• Fixed the brush crash
  
• Fixed Beefalo shaving
  
• Fix for missing items on shelves
  
• Fixed several animation bugs when riding
  
• Open close gate use anim fixed
  
• Fixed the ApplyBuildOverrides crash on baby beefalo
  
• Fixed disappearing items in shift-click

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the craft tab scrolling crash
  
• Fixed the Hamlet compatible ROG crash

Bug Fixes

• Fix for yesterday’s patch which caused a crash when trying to modify world settings with no DLC installed

Bug Fixes

• Miner hat doesn't magically emit light anymore after re-entering an interior where it was left on the ground
  
• Fixed the rare relic that spawns outside the bounds of the room
  
• Fix for custom options and ROG worlds that are SW or Hamlet compatible

Bug Fixes

• Different handling for aporkalypse clock save load
  
• Willow’s lighter should not lost light when moving between interior rooms
  
• Lanterns now properly remember whether they were on or off in interiors

Bug Fixes

• Hopefully fixed elusive ‘attempt to call nil value’ bug.
  
• Shadow creatures spawned by aporkalypse now also despawn when aporkalypse ends
  
• Creatures spawned by aporkalypse now remember this fact after a save/load, so they should despawn when aporkalypse ends. Unfortunately ones that were spawned already can not be fixed up.
  
• Fixed potentially huge memory spike on load of world.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed fixup of world that were affected by the “disappearing suspicious crack” bug
  
• Fixed Aporkalypse clock not rotating
  
• Suspicious cracks were not meant to be axeable. They can’t be axed now.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed some worlds to not have the herald pig ruins.
  
• Fixed a save/load problem with the Aporkalypse Clock.
  
• Fixup of worlds that were affected by the “disappearing suspicious crack” bug
  
• Fixes for Linux sound
  
• Potential fix for getting stuck outside walls when having followers

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the water walking hippo’s and poison dart frogs.
  
• Fixed a bug with secret room doors leading to blackness.
  
• All doors are opened now when you leave a ruin, that way, if you end up on the other side of the world, your way back is not blocked.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash when saving during the aporkalypse

Originally posted on the official forums.

The Aporkalypse is here. The pre modern pigs saw it coming, did the math and put the date on a calendar. Oh look, it’s this year. What can be done!

There’s also a couple of other fun stuff added to the world. Pigs now have a place they can do some money exchange, and a new magic recipe that captures the energies of the Pugalisk has been discovered.

The new content will be best experienced with a new world as there are some world gen changes for them. So we recommend starting a fresh world to experience them.

What’s Next
In a recent update we noted that we wanted to continue the Early Access until we felt the bugs and performance were improved. There have been several improvements to the performance, but there are still some areas we are investigating to help that. We continue to work through the bug reports both on the forums and submitted through the game.

We have also decided there are a few more updates of things we’d like to put out before we’re done. So Early Access will be continuing until about April of 2019. The next is an improvement in the Quality of Life for DS players. We will focus on bringing a bunch of the improvements that have gone into DST over to single player. Watch for the QOL update on Dec 20th.


World Change

• The Aporkalypse added. (best with new world, but old worlds are modified slightly to support it)
  
• Pugalisk leaves behind something new.
  
• Lowered the Beard Rug minimap priority
  
• Reduced pay for nightmare fuel
  
• Pigs have a bank (New worlds only. Old worlds can craft one with the key to the city)
  
• Queen’s gallery has a new exhibit. (New worlds only)

Bug Fixes

• Fix for disappearing mandrake (or rare crash) when clicking mandrake in inventory
  
• Fixed the crash when bird whistle is consumed
  
• Fixed the crash when bird whistle is used in Survival or SW worlds.
  
• Fixed rare crash in meatrack
  
• Fixed crash with pugalisk switching targets
  
• Fixed city farm plots showing “MISSING NAME”
  
• Fixed city farm plots auto-replanting on load
  
• Key to City doesn't conflict with science machine et al anymore
  
• Fixed crash when a beehive was burning while the season changed
  
• Fixed invisible snakeskin in Hamlet compatible ShipWrecked world
  
• Fixed glowflies being deleted when in containers
  
• Fixed glowflies not giving off light when released from container
  
• Fixed glowflies not having a mouseover during daytime
  
• Can’t turn a sprinkler on anymore when it’s out of fuel
  
• Pig beautician now accepts thunderbird feathers
  
• Fixed yellow gem turning invisible when placed on shelf
  
• Mant suit now takes and displays proper damage
  
• Manure flies should not buzz anymore when there’s no poop.
  
• Fixed crash when spawning a sprinkler away from water
  
• Fixed torches not losing durability after being hit by sprinkler
  
• ROC doesn't get stuck on trying to destroy farm plots with a crop anymore
  
• Farm plots can't be placed in interiors anymore

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/