Aug 4, 2022

Wickerbottom's Refresh Now Available On Steam!

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One For the Books

Like any good librarian, Ms. Wickerbottom believes in the preservation and distribution of knowledge. Well… most knowledge, that is. There are some things that must be kept hidden away from the eyes of the public. Who knows what could happen if certain secrets fell into the wrong hands?

The Wickerbottom Refresh is now available on Steam and will be available on Xbox and Playstation shortly. Nintendo Switch will be getting this refresh in an upcoming update as we work toward unifying game versions on console.

Changes

WickerBottom
- Wickerbottom can no longer be forced to fall asleep.
- Wickerbottom can now craft the following new books:
  - The Angler's Survival Guide
  - Pyrokinetics Explained
  - Overcoming Arachnophobia
  - Tempering Temperatures
  - Lux Aeterna
  - Practical Rain Rituals
  - Lunar Grimoire
  - Apicultural Notes
  - Horticulture, Expanded
  - The Everything Encyclopedia
  - Lux Aeterna Redux
  - Wickerbottom can also build a cabinet to help conserve her books.
- Tuned Wickerbottom’s stats when it comes to eating stale and spoiled food and her health.
- Shadow Creatures now Spawn when Wickerbottom attempts to read her books while insane
Added the Hostile Flare.
Added the Fencing Sword for riposting fences.

Additional Changes
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Maxwell now suffers 2.5 times the sanity costs as Wickerbottom when reading Wickerbottom’s books.
Wortox Changes
- Wortox will be able to Soul Hop to past explored locations through the Map.
- The cost of souls is proportional to the distance traveled.
- There are visual indicators to show cost increases.
- Wortox will now be able to Soul Hop a second time for free if done within a short time of the last.
  - Wortox will get slightly more hunger from eating souls.
  - Wortox will gain a small amount of sanity for being healed by a soul.
- Wortox Souls now only heal hurt players and have more diminishing returns when healing groups of hurt players.
- The Wortox who deals the killing strike is guaranteed at least one soul.
  - This is intended to help prevent fighting for nearby souls when souls are being created but prevent boss soul drops from being fully claimed.

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New Skins!

Wickerbottom Deluxe Wardrobe ($10.99 / 19 RMB).
This Deluxe Wardrobe contains Wickerbottom's complete set of Guest of Honor, Roseate, Survivor, Triumphant, and Nom de Plume skin items.

Library Chest ($3.99 / 8 RMB)
This Library Chest contains the following skin items: Mind's Eye Life Amulet, Walnut Bookstack, and Library Placard.

New Twitch Drops!

We're offering a new set of streaming drops over on Twitch.tv. Check out this post for details.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

We are experimenting with the viewing requirements for Twitch items.

View time on Twitch will now be accrued concurrently and no longer sequentially. This means that viewers will get credit for ALL time they spend watching stream and will no longer need to claim one item before earning time for the next item. However, viewers will still want to make sure they claim all items before the campaign ends.

Please be aware that this may change again in the future, but we want to see how this works out so we thought we would give it a try. Let us know what you think on the thread for the new drop here.

And that's all for now.
On to the next update! Unfortunately, I can't share anything about this one yet, there is still work to be done backstage. But - we'll make sure to share something well before showtime.

Last but not least. Have some points.

Thanks again everybody and have fun out there!

Jul 29, 2022

Wickerbottom's Character Refresh Coming Next Week!

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The Wickerbottom Character Refresh is coming next week, August 4th at 10am pacific time.

New Content

Wickerbottom
- Wickerbottom can no longer be forced to fall asleep.
- Wickerbottom can now craft the following new books:
  - The Angler's Survival Guide
  - Pyrokinetics Explained
  - Overcoming Arachnophobia
  - Tempering Temperatures
  - Lux Aeterna
  - Practical Rain Rituals
  - Lunar Grimoire
  - Apicultural Notes
  - Horticulture, Expanded
  - The Everything Encyclopedia
  - Lux Aeterna Redux
- Wickerbottom can also build a cabinet to help conserve her books.
- Tuned Wickerbottom’s stats when it comes to eating stale and spoiled food and her health.
- Shadow Creatures now Spawn when Wickerbottom attempts to read her books while insane
- Maxwell now suffers 2.5 times the sanity costs as Wickerbottom when reading Wickerbottom’s books.
Added the Hostile Flare
Added the Fencing Sword for riposting fences.

Changes

Wortox
- Wortox will be able to Soul Hop to past explored locations through the Map.
  - The cost of souls is proportional to the distance travelled.
  - There are visual indicators to show cost increases.
- Wortox will now be able to Soul Hop a second time for free if done within a short time of the last.
- Wortox will get slightly more hunger from eating souls.
- Wortox will gain a small amount of sanity for being healed by a soul.
- Wortox Souls now only heal hurt players and have more diminishing returns when healing groups of hurt players.
The Wortox who deals the killing strike is guaranteed at least one soul.
- This is intended to help prevent fighting for nearby souls when souls are being created but prevents boss soul drops from being fully claimed

Thanks to everybody for all the feedback and bug reports during the beta period. We're still watching so keep it coming!

As always, this update will also bring a new animated short, as well as many bug fixes and balance changes, a new streaming item "The Nouveau Crown" and more.

See you then!

Jun 30, 2022

The Curse of Moon Quay is Now Available!

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Batten down the hatches survivors, we got another swell update for you! In one of our largest updates to date, we've got all kinds of good stuff for you today.

The Curse of Moon Quay

Someone has been meddling... or should we say, monkeying around with the forces of the Constant, leaving an unstable rift between worlds in their wake. With new sea-faring foes, creatures and resources now free to pour into the Survivors' world, the ocean is more dangerous than ever before... but is this just the start of what's to come?

Once again, thanks to everybody that helped us with bugs and feedback during the beta!

For New Features see the spoiler below:
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New Moon Quay Island and inhabitants.
Ocean Privateers.
New upgrades for boating:
- Grass Boat
- Kelp Bumper
- Shell Bumper
- Cannon and Cannonballs
- Rudder
- Trawler
- Polly Roger's Hat
Docks
Nautopilot and Nautopilot Beacon
New perspectives on life.

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Additional Changes:

Map controls will now be more intuitive.
- Zooming will now focus on the cursor.
  - An option in the advanced settings can be used to disable this feature.
- Zooming in and out will now be smooth.
  - An option in the advanced settings controls how fast zooming is.
- Rotating the map will be around the current location and not the player.
- Controllers will see a smooth directional panning experience.
- Panning the map will try to keep a portion of the map visible on the center of the screen.
- Some mods that interact with the map or create new map instances may need to be updated for some of these features to work.
Favorite food bonus now takes into account Warly’s spices.
- Mods that require a spiced food will still function as expected. Having an affinity for a spiced variant and a regular food item will use whichever gives the most benefit.
Cactus and Oasis Cactus have been added to world regrowth.
Reeds and Cactus now have settings for world regrowth.
Big Woby will now eat the food given to her instead of staring at it.

New Twitch Drops

New Skins!

The Swashbuckler Survivors Chest can now be purchased for $11.99usd.

The Inventor's Excursion Chest is available for $5.99usd

As always, these items are also available free as drops in-game and are weaveable using spool.

For a limited time get the Moon Quay chest with four new swashbucklin' hat skins just for logging into the game.

Klei Rewards!

And if that wasn't enough, you can use those Klei Reward points you have been saving up for some cool new stuff on the Klei Rewards page .

With this update, we're adding all the previous skins from the Nautical Collection to the Klei Rewards page as well!

Rhymes With Play

That's all for now!

And here's the part where I say some stuff about what we have next. We're not that far away from the next character refresh. Unfortunately, there isn't a single frame from the next short that won't be some sort of spoiler. We only have a few survivors left. So we're just gonna have to remain tight-lipped this time. Don't lose sleep over it though, we'll have plenty for you to checkout soon.

See ya soon!

Jun 2, 2022

It's Klei Fest! - Updates and Announcements For All Things Klei!

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Hey Everybody!

It’s time for our big annual publisher sale on Steam!

During Klei Fest, we’ll have a big burst of content, items, events, sales and interesting stuff happening for all things Klei! And this year’s fest is bigger than ever.

Don't Starve Together:

The enigmatic Corvus Goodfeather returns with a bunch of new prizes and three new games during the Midsummer Cawnival!

New to this year’s Cawnival Event

Added 3 new carnival games: Nest Defender, Cuckoo Spinwheel, and Birdhouse Ball Drop.
More prizes are now available at the Prize Booth, including: Light Catchers, the Mini Tower Drop egg ride, and 3 new Midsummer Night Light designs.
The Golden Mystery Box is now available at the Prize Booth with 12 unique statuettes to collect.
Crow Kids now enjoy festive treats and sit by the campfire.

For more details on the Don't Starve Together Update check out the official patch notes!

New Skins!

The Midsummer Cawnival Chest is available for ($6.99 USD)

New Twitch Drop Campaign

The new twitch Drop Campaign for the Rusty Anchor starting June 2nd at 10am Pacific time. Streamers that will have drops available can be found in the spoiler below.

Hot Lava: Say hello to two new characters:

T. Rex and Venomess - two rocking reptilian members of Mutant Mayhem! A brand new Klei Created map, Rocco’s Arcade is a hotbed of hopping set in a retro-arcade pizza place. Of course with a new map and characters we have two new courses, and plenty of new collectables and accessories!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/382560/Hot_Lava/

For more details on the Hot Lava update check out the patch notes!

Oxygen Not Included:

Our new content pack called "Fast Friends" includes some big performance boosts in both the base game and Spaced Out! DLC. We also have four new Duplicants, four new critter morphs and a dozen brand new Duplicant outfits craftable at the Clothing Refashionator building.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/457140/Oxygen_Not_Included/

For more details on the Oxygen Not Included update check out the patch notes!

Introducing Klei Publishing!

We have teamed up will a couple of great game studios to publish two new games coming in 2023!

Check them out and don't forget to wishlist them on Steam and show them some love!

Lab Rat

Chump Squad, the developer of Kine brings us Lab Rat. In this satirical adventure a metrics-obsessed AI will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles..

Lab Rat even has a demo available now! More details on this game will come in future announcements.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1304610/Lab_Rat/

Mind Over Magic

Our friends at Sparkypants bring us Mind Over Magic. Design, build and manage your magic school to explore what lies below. Study lost arcana, grow exotic plants, brew potions, and raise undead servants -- only you can prepare your fragile students to harness their Mind Over Magic.

More details on this game will come in future announcements.

And announcing a new game from Klei coming soon!

You will be able to check out the official teaser trailer for Rotwood during the PC Gaming Show on June 12th!

Woah, that's a lot of stuff.

I know a bunch of you out there are really excited for some more DST content. We're going to be starting beta for the next big content update very soon. For now, here is a little teaser. Oh, and for all you Klei Rewards members out there, here's a little Klei Fest Gift!
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Apr 28, 2022

WX-78 Refresh Now Available On Steam!

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The WX-78 Character Refresh is available now on Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam. Nintendo Switch will be getting this content in an upcoming update.

We're working on a large update to catch Nintendo Switch up with all platforms now that it's released with the goal of keeping it updated in line with them. Stay tuned for more details specific to Nintendo Switch.

Disconnected

After the wiring to their long-unused empathy module is repaired, WX-78 finds themselves suddenly reconnecting with memories they’d hoped to keep buried.

WX-78 Changes

WX-78 can create circuits that can be installed to unlock special abilities.
WX-78 can unplug their circuits by utilizing a Circuit Extractor. Unfortunately, this means losing any charge that the circuits were taking up!
WX-78 learns how to construct circuits by scanning organics with their Bio Scanalyzer.
The Bio Scanalyzer also produces Bio Data, which is used to create circuits, alongside material from the scanned organic.
WX-78's circuits are powered by their electrical charge meter. The meter restores itself over time, and can also be restored by other means.
If WX-78 gets too wet, they begin losing electricity. If they run out of electricity, they begin to lose health.
WX-78 also loses electricity when they are starving, as they no longer have the energy to maintain their charge level.
WX-78 can eat gears to regain health, sanity, and hunger. If WX-78 dies, they will drop some of the gears that they have eaten.
Clockworks are less aggressive towards WX-78.

For more info check out the main post on the official forums.

We have decided to revert the mouse targeting changes from the March 2022 Quality of Life update regarding attacking enemies and repeating actions while the mouse button is held down. These will now behave as they were before that update. We will be working to bring them back when they can spend some more time being tested internally.

Actions like harvesting grass with the mouse have returned to require clicking each one instead of holding down the mouse button.
Repeating actions where you use the same item, such as cooking on a fire or feeding Beefalo are still functional.
Combat targeting with the mouse button has returned to the state where you must completely stop attacking before the target can be changed. Fixing this is a high priority task.
This should also resolve issues around holding F to attack, delays between attacks, and some crashes.

New Skins!

WX-78 Deluxe Wardrobe ($10.99usd)
This Deluxe Wardrobe contains WX-78's complete set of Guest of Honor, Roseate, Survivor, Triumphant, and Experimental skin items.

Experimental Chest ($3.99usd)
This Experimental Chest contains the following belongings skin items: Electrified Lantern, Experimental Energy Siphon, and Experimentation Apparatus.

New Twitch Drops!

We're offering a new set of streaming drops over on Twitch.tv. Check out this post for details.

Shared Unlocks Now Available

We have made shared unlocks now available for Xbox, Steam and Nintendo Switch, and WeGame.

For more information see our support post here.

Note to Nintendo Switch Players

We have an update coming out for you soon that will address some performance issues. We're also working on additional updates that will catch Nintendo Switch up a bit closer with the other platforms.
We will have more information for you as soon as it's available.

Have some points!

Hey look, points. We like points. Here, have some. On me.

And that's all for now.

I don't have information about the next update quite yet, but we do have something exciting to announce. We are currently in the process of making skins and unlocks available to players while playing offline on Nintendo Switch. We're investigating this for additional platforms as well. More details on how that will work will come at a later time.

Thanks again everybody and have fun out there!