Annnnd away we go! The Year of the Carrat has begun!

To celebrate the Year of the Carrat we have added a new activity in the game, a ton of new item drops, new streaming items, a new login item AND soon closer to Valentine's day a new telltale heart log-in item.

• Compete in the cut throat world of Carrat Racing to earn Lucky Gold Nuggets.
  
• Build Gyms to train prize Carrats.
  
• Construct longer and longer Carrat race courses to raise the stakes.
  
• Purchase old and new rewards from the Carrat Shrine, such as Red Firecrackers, Lucky Beast costumes, and the new Floating Lantern.

We've also added a ton of new items to the game.

As always, these items will be available as drops in game and are weaveable using spool. They can also be purchased in 3 different chests for various prices or together as a bundle for $15.99 usd. There's a lot of items here so for more info, head over to the official forums for all the item skins included in today's update!
The Glass Eyebrella joins the Crystaline collection. Check out the post on our forums for more details.

We also have a new bonus login item.

For a limited time players that login during the Year of the Carrat event will receive the Golden Carrat Torch when logging into the game for the first time during the event. This is a limited time item, don't miss out!

Finally - be sure to stick around because for Valentine's Day this year we will be giving all players that login the "Stolen Heart" Telltale Heart item skin.

So romantic! You can look forward to that toward the end of the event.

We'll be running this event till just after the middle of February. We'll have more details as we get closer to the end. 

That's all for now. On to the next thing! We'll have more information on what we're working on in the weeks following the Year of the Carrat event. Have fun out there!

Hey Everybody. We hope you have been enjoying the Winter's Feast-ivities! You still have a couple more days of merriment and then The Year of the Carrat begins!

Starting this Thursday (10am Pacific time) celebrate the Year of the Carrat.

• Compete in the cut throat world of Carrat Racing to earn Lucky Gold Nuggets.
  
• Build Gyms to train prize Carrats.
  
• Construct longer and longer Carrat race courses to raise the stakes.
  
• Purchase old and new rewards from the Carrat Shrine, such as Red Firecrackers, Lucky Beast costumes, and the new Floating Lantern.

We'll also be adding some new skin sets. This time around we will not have any character skins and are focusing on items.

And finally, we will be adding new streaming drops. The Glass Eyebrella will join the Crystaline collection.

More details will come Thursday. See you then!

A nice day of fishing sounded like just the thing to soothe the nerves of our weary Survivors, but it looks like fish aren’t the only things that are biting. Luckily there’s something to distract them from their soggy seafaring sorrows - the return of Winter’s Feast! And this year it seems that the Constant has provided its own assortment of holiday gifts… could it be that a certain someone is feeling particularly jolly this year?



For more details, check out the official post.



The table is set for Winter’s Feast, and this year something new is being cooked up for our Survivors. They're going to have to work for it, of course. Chase Gingerpigs and embark upon a Festive Hunt in search of Holiday Cheer. Use Holiday Cheer in new recipes then Feast with friends for some special Seasonal Feels.



New for this year we have the Merrymaker set. You get the entire bundle of skins for $12.99, check the spoiler below for details.

As always these items will also drop in the game. In addition to that we have temporarily removed common drops and added the new Winter's Feast Chest containing Winter's Feast related items!

Unfortunately due to certification issues, we weren't able to provide these to PS4 on their store, but the items will still drop in-game.

For more details, check out the official post.

We have added a new Loyal login bonus item for all players during Winter's Feast, Simply login and claim the Ice Fishing Rod.


We have a special Winter's Feast themed item set that you can get during Winter's Feast. You can find more information about these items over here.



To celebrate another great year of Don't Starve and Don't Starve Together, the entire Don't Starve Franchise is having a weekend sale! This is our best sale of the year, if you have been waiting to pick something up, now is the time.



We have been working on finishing the Year of the Carrat event that will be coming toward the end of January, so that's where we are going to be focusing our time. We will likely be announcing info about the next character update and next update for Return of Them.

Don't Starve Together in 2019 saw more players than ever before and we aren't planning on slowing down any time soon. So as always, let us know what you think and keep sending us all your thoughts and feedback. Our community has truly helped to shape Don't Starve Together and we couldn't have done it without you!

Till next time!

Hey Everybody,

Coming to Steam, Xbox One and Wegame next week on December 12th, we will be bringing Hook, Line and Inker to the live servers along with this year's Winter's Feast event.

The table is set for Winter’s Feast, and this year something new is being cooked up for our Survivors. They're going to have to work for it, of course. Chase Gingerpigs and embark upon a Festive Hunt in search of Holiday Cheer. Use Holiday Cheer in new recipes then Feast with friends for some special Seasonal Feels.

Of course, we have a bunch of new skins, item drop bonus, a new special login bonus item as well as new twitch items too!

More details about Winter's Feast and Hook Line and Inker will be available next week. See you then!

Can you believe it? Winter's Feast is almost here! After another great year for Don't Starve Together, let everybody know we're still going strong!

Please consider nominating Don't Starve Together for "Labor of Love" in the 2019 Steam Awards.

• Fixed Wurt being able to trade with the Pig King (she can still hand over the Golden Belts to start the Pig King Wrestling match.)
  
• The Clout Snout item is no longer burnable.
  
• Reduced the frequency of Golden Belts when Year of the Pig King is not active.
  
• The pigs Wade, Ignatius, Dmitri, and Sawyer, when summoned from the Clout Snout, will leave if the player who spawned them attacks them and should respond better if attacked by someone else. They also now have a hit reaction animation.

• The Pig King has reopened his wrestling match for contenders in the off-season. Turn in Golden Belts to compete in wrestling matches and earn Clout Snout coins.
  
• Added Contenders Promo Chest, Round 2.

Hey everyone! Today we are launching Wurt and Hallowed Nights!

This is kind of a lot of stuff. So hang in there with me.


The cold wind howls. Trees stand tall and bare, their skeletal branches silhouetted against a broken moon. Gather close children, for these are the Hallowed Nights when ghouls and monsters come out to play… and something has started watching our Survivors from the fog.



Being a young and impressionable merm, Wurt has grown quite fascinated by the Survivors and their strange ways. Bucking the usual merm tradition of simply stomping anything new and strange into the ground, she has decided to venture outside her cozy swamp to learn more about these odd scale-less beings. Perhaps this will be the start of a new chapter in Survivor-merm relations...

• Wurt can spot where danger is hiding in the swamp
  
• Wurt can craft the Royal Tapestry and make a home for the Merm King and his Guards:
  
  • The Royal Tapestry requires materials from all over The Constant
    
  • The Merm King provides all Merms extra strength to fight
    
  • Wurt must feed the Merm King to prevent him from starving
• Wurt can craft Merm Houses and Merm Flort-ifications
  
• She moves faster while on the swamp and can craft tiles to expand her turf
  
• Wurt is a vegetarian with a particular appreciation for Durians
  
• Wurt can craft a Clever Disguise to get other survivors to blend in with her swamp friends
  
• Likes to keep Pet Fish in her inventory
  
• Strongly dislikes Pigs
  
• Being wet does not affect her strong grip

• Wurt is available for purchase for $5.99, in the Wurt Chest. Wurt’s Guest of Honor skin set is included in this chest for free.
  
• The Wurt Deluxe Chest is $9.99 and includes the Guest of Honor, Triumphant and Abyssal skin sets.
  
• Wurt is part of the new "Starter Pack" that can now be purchased within a New Megapack Bundle for $6.99 before the Megapack discount. Current Megapack Bundle owners will be able to upgrade with that discount as well. The starter pack includes Wurt, 4 Classic Characters Skins for Wilson, Willow, Wendy and Wx-78, a new spear skin, a hound backpack and Green Pajamas and Bedroll.  
  
• You can weave Wurt for 2700 spool.

Players on can once again discover tricks and treats around The Constant. Fill your candy bag to the brim and satisfy your sweet tooth with all sorts of sugary seasonal treats! The event remains largely the same as last year although we did add a treat or two.

Free spooky costumes are also available for a limited time, so enjoy them before the event ends and they go back from whence they came!

That's not all. During Hallowed Nights, we have increased the drop chance of Hallowed Nights items, so be on the look-out for these rare items and snag them all while you can!

A new set of Survivors receive Hallowed Nights disguises and you can also get last year's Hallowed Collection for 50% off until November 7th.



The new Hallowed Nights Survivors Chest Pt. II is available for $9.99. The Complete Hallowed Nights Bundle is also now available and includes everything in the Hallowed Collection 1 and 2.

As always, they can also be crafted with Spool or found as drops in-game.


We will be added a Loyal login bonus item for all players during Hallowed Nights, Simply login and claim the Rusted Scythe.




We have a special Hallowed Nights themed item set that you can get during Hallowed Nights. You can find more information about these items over here.




The next Return of Them beta update "Hook, Line and Inker" should release early November. But as always, that is an estimate and things could change, expect more details about a week before release.

Till next time!


Bug Fixes

• Added a new retrofitting pass for worlds that have under 5 Cookie Cutter spawners or under 20 Salt Formations.
  
• Improved how boat collisions are resolved
  
• Fossil Fragments no longer sink in the ocean
  
• Music volume increased for most musical cues

Change for OSX dedicated servers

• As we prepare to support Apple’s notarization process, the executable now needs to be launched from the Contents/Resources directory.
  
• If you use a script to launch a dedicated server on OSX, the executable now needs to be launched from 'dontstarve_dedicated_server_nullrenderer.app/Contents/Resources' instead of 'Contents/MacOS'. The server launch script posted in step “3. Create the script that will run the servers.” at (https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/64687-dedicated-server-quick-setup-guide-mac-os-x/) has been updated with the latest changes.
  
• Also note that the legacy preconfigured launch scripts that used to be in 'Contents/MacOS/scripts' are now in 'Contents/Resources/scripts'.

• Fixed new Hallowed clothing not matching the survivor filter.
  
• Fixed a bug where Wurt had no voice
  
• Fixed various crashes with the Merm King.
  
• Fixed various crashes with the Royal Tapestry.
  
• Fixed various crashes with Merm Guards.
  
• Fixed some of Wurt’s grammar.
  
• Fixed ground symbol for the Rusted Scythe.
  
• Fixed stall in the Ravin' Wrapper Raiders minigame.
  
• Fixed Reset button spam crash in the Ravin' Wrapper Raiders minigame.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed missing symbols in Wurt’s idle animation.
  
• Fixed missing inspecting Wurt strings.
  
• Fixed controller focus issues in the Shop.
  
• Fixed Curio Collector’s voice from playing infinitely.
  
• Fixed cutoff issues with Wurt’s head when wearing hats.
  
• Fixed Merms not attacking players who invade their territory
  
• Merm king dialog should now show up on the client
  
• Fixed miscellaneous crashes when the Royal Carpet was destroyed
  
• Saladmander no longer ignites objects that require fuel to burn.

• Hallowed Nights Trinkets: Worlds with 15 or fewer Hallowed Nights Trinkets will get retrofitted with a new set of trinkets. This is to support worlds that took part in Hallowed Nights in 2018. As a side effect, all worlds will get the retrofitting if it meets the above criteria.
  
• The OSX build is now notarized.
  
• Spider Dens will now grow properly again.
  
• Boating music works on the client now.
  
• Wurt’s voice is better mixed. Her Pose, Hurt, Talk sounds are at a similar level.
  
• Fixed a rare crash while using an Anchor.
  
• Fixed a save/load bug with boat leaks (were controllers would be able to inspect previously repaired leaks)
  
• The following items no longer sink in the ocean: Ancient Key, Beach Toy, Candy Bag, Deer Antler, Fireflies, Golden Belt, Stag Antler, Torch, Wood Fence, and Wood Gate.
  
• Adjusted the Merm and Loyal Merm Guard attack frame to match their animation
  
• Fixed a crash with the Merm Guards if the King dies.
  
• Fixed a crash on load with the Merm King.
  
• Removed watersplash on anchor when placed on land.
  
• Potential merm kings will still show their hat now.
  
• Wurt no longer dislikes Catcoons.
  
• Merms no longer accept cooked fish
  
• Wurt no longer has her stats restored when creating a king or going in/out of the caves
  
• Using the deconstruction staff on the Royal Tapestry no longer crashes the game on load
  
• The one man band now recruits merms as well
  
• Steeped Lunar Essence will no longer cause some creatures to get stuck.
  
• Saplings transformed by the Steeped Lunar Essence will no longer revert to regular Saplings when the world is re-loaded.

• The game should run on OSX 10.10 again.
  
• Fixed a crash in Shop screen when the Steam overlay is disabled.
  
• Fixed a crash when Wurt’s stats are updating.
  
• Merm and Merm guards will react to epic screeching.
  
• Using the Deconstruction Staff on a non occupied carpet should no longer kill the Merm King
  
• Merms should no longer attack Chester if Wurt or a disguised character is carrying the Eyebone
  
• Fixed a health losing issue with Wurt returning from the caves
  
• Boating music is now working.
  
• Fixed a clothing issue with wimpy Wolfgang’s torso.
  
• Fixed an issue with Wickerbottom’s Bewitching Boots.

Note: "Merm and Merm guards will react to epic screeching." is being reviewed for fix in the next update. Sorry for any inconvenience.

• Merm King will talk more about being hungry.
  
• Merm King won’t spawn guards when fed.
  
• Fixed some Merm speech if they eat food off the ground
  
• Fixed a crash when entering the Shop screen from the Collection screen when the Steam overlay is disabled.
  
• Wurt’s stat syncing between caves and the surface is now percentage based rather than hard numbers
  
• Wurt now has the proper skin set when respawning from a ghost
  
• Merm Guards are immune to epic screeching (Not regular Merm, Guards have more grit)

• Fixed farm plots breaking when crop is mutated with Steeped Lunar Essence.
  
• Fixed controller support for OSX
  
• Fixed Steeped Lunar Essence forcing stategraph states of target.
  
• Fixed steam overlay and in-game store on OSX.

Hey everybody,

Hallowed Nights will return October 24th! For the most part, Hallowed Nights will remain the same as last year but we threw in a couple new tricks and treats for you. The team is really focused on Return of Them content right now, and will be taking a short break from RoT after the next release as we prepare for Winter's Feast!

Next Thursday will also see the introduction of a brand new character DLC. Wurt is a curious young Merm trying to expand her horizons… as long as those horizons don’t extend into Pig territory.

• Wurt can spot where danger is hiding in the swamp
  
• Wurt can craft the Royal Tapestry and make a home for the Merm King and his Guards:
  
  • The Royal Tapestry requires materials from all over The Constant
    
  • The Merm King provides all Merms extra strength to fight
    
  • Wurt must feed the Merm King to prevent him from starving
• Wurt can craft Merm Houses and Merm Flort-ifications
  
• She moves faster while on the swamp and can craft tiles to expand her turf
  
• Wurt is a vegetarian with a particular appreciation for Durians
  
• Wurt can craft a Clever Disguise to get other survivors to blend in with her swamp friends
  
• Likes to keep Pet Fish in her inventory
  
• Strongly dislikes Pigs
  
• Being wet does not affect her strong grip

Wurt will be unlocked in the following ways:

• Wurt will be available for purchase for $5.99, in the Wurt Chest. Wurt’s Guest of Honor skin set is included in this chest for free.
  
• The Wurt Deluxe Chest is $9.99 and includes the Guest of Honor, Triumphant and Abyssal skin sets.
  
• Wurt is part of the new "Starter Pack" that can now be purchased with a New Megapack Bundle. Current Megapack Bundle owners will be able to upgrade for $6.99. The starter pack includes Wurt, 4 Classic Characters Skins, a new spear skin, hound backpack and Green Pajamas and Bedroll.
  
• You can weave Wurt for 2700 spool.

We also have some new skins that have been added to the Hallowed Nights collection and we will also be increasing the drop rarity for skins during Hallowed Nights.

Finally, we will be adding a Loyal login bonus item for all players during the event as well as new Twitch drops! We expect this release to hit on the 24th for both PC and console.

The next Return of Them beta update "Hook, Line and Inker" should release early November. But as always, that is an estimate and things could change, expect more details about a week before release.

Of course, we will also have a new spooky edition animated short for you all, and I think the team really outdid themselves on this one. We can't wait for you all to check it out.

Till next time!