Aug 30, 2022

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Changes

Minimap icons for Spiky Bushes have been added.
Stalagmite height variants have been added to cavern's worldgen rooms.
Added shoes to Wilson’s Mad Scientist outfit. People who have purchased any Chest containing Mad Science Wilson will receive the Mad Lab Shoes for free in the next few days.
Further decreased loading times when joining a world.

Bug Fixes

Gameplay
- Prototyping effects will now be triggered properly even if you have, but don’t need to use, The Everything Encyclopedia buff.
- Birds of the World and The End is Nigh! will now fail properly when unable to cast.
- Fixed a case where boats could get stuck in an indestructible state.
- Fixed the Stagehand breaking boat physics if it manages to get onto a boat.
- Added a safeguard check to boats to try to stop them from moving across land.
- Fixed a bug where Splumonkey Pods would not spread fire to nearby objects.
- Fixed all spiders and Naked Mole Bats ignoring earthquakes.
- Fixed players saying that their pockets are full when items get stacked into the cursor slot after the initial item is put there.
- Fixed Moonblind Crow and Misshapen Bird to now be slowed down by ground creep and trigger Spider spawns.
- Fixed Toadstool not creating Sporecaps properly when there were Soil piles and other things blocking spawn points.
- Fixed a bug that caused servers with lots of world settings to not have the world settings show up in the server browser.
- Fixed bug where Spider Queen can sometimes never spawn from a Spider Den.
Art
- Haunting items in the ocean will now update the floating fx.
- Fixed floating animation for several objects.
- Fixed bug where an equipped Gnarwail Horn can sometimes become invisible.
- Fixed animation bugs with Grass Gator
Crashes
- Fixed a crash when reloading a player who spawned Grumble Bees with the Apicultural Notes.
- Fixed a crash with Wolfgang during loading and initialization.
- Fixed a crash with Winter’s Feast trees going to the burnt stage when they were growing.

Aug 18, 2022

Hotfix 519448

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Changes

Offline skin support on Steam has been enabled as an experimental test.
- Players who fully login to the game after updating will have all of their unlocked characters, skins, cookbook recipes, and plant registry knowledge be able to be used in offline mode and offline worlds.
  - Unlocking things in the cookbook and plant registry will synchronize up all pending new things with your account on your next login.
  - Be advised that if you have multiple computers with each having pending things to synchronize, will in some circumstances result in only the last synchronized computer being saved. If you do not want some cookbook recipes or plant registry knowledge being lost please make sure to sync up with your account by logging in with the game before playing offline on a different computer.
- Currently this will be limited to the current platforms but we are looking into expanding it to the other platforms in the future, stay tuned!
Moleworms will no longer alert spiderwebs on the ground similar to Depths Worms.
Added skin tone variations to clothing skins where the underlying character’s skin is exposed.
Tempering Temperatures will now also thaw all nearby frozen creatures and players.

Bug Fixes

Gameplay
- Horticulture book spells will now work properly at night if the charge was consumed.
- Horticulture book spells in progress will be properly saved and loaded.
- Fixed an issue with the Fiery Pen not saving its uses correctly when at 100% durability.
- Added missing strings for burnt Bookcases.
- You can no longer plant Seeds in the Soil while the Garden Digamajig is plowing.
- Lureplants will no longer spawn at locations where they cannot also be manually planted.
- Wortox Souls will no longer pop out of the inventory when murdering creatures in a full inventory if the Soul would compete with creature drops.
- Fixed Polly Rogers not going away when the worn hat loses all durability.
- Fixed Polly Rogers trying to give items to things that are not players.
- Fixed Polly Rogers trying to flee from player controlled followers.
- Fixed bug with Woodie’s movement speed after transforming inside a Sandstorm.
- Fixed bug causing Cannonballs to appear unexpectedly at the center of the world.
- Fixed bug where planting a Birchnut Sapling failed to pacify a nearby Poison Birchnut Tree.
- Fixed an issue with crafting things to avoid drowning.
Art
- Fixed Wickerbottom books reading animations while mounted on a beefalo.
- Fixed various minor skins related bugs, including missing feet!
- Fixed Cave Hole textures being low quality.
- Fixes the facial expression for Webber's Guest of Honor skin icon.
- Fixed some art issues with Walter and hats.
- Fixed Ice Flingomatic range indicator art.
- Fixed missing minimap icon for Monkeytails.
- Fixed various minor animation bugs.
- Fixed art alignment for various objects and skins.
- Fixed wrong player foley sounds for the Ruins Brick turf.
Crashes
- Fixed a crash related to a typo in the inventory component.
- Fixed a crash related to the Pinchin’ Winch.
- Fixed a crash related to the Cookie Cutter.

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Aug 9, 2022

Hotfix 518018 & 518333

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Hotfix 518018 Changes

Added link to WIckerbottom’s animated short, One For the Books.
Added Topsy-Turvy Treehouse, Monstrous Horror, and Abandoned Ship to Klei Rewards page.

Bug Fixes

Fixed crash when hammering a burnt Bookcase.
Fixed Moon Gleams making extra noise when moving around inventories.
Fixed inconsistent book colours on the Walnut Bookstack.
Fixed creases in Maxwell noses.
Fixed Willow's Forlorn Doll skin eye texture issue.
Fixed an issue with Wickerbottom’s Nom de Plume hair.
Fixed woodie’s missing beard in his Merrymaker skin.
Fixed inconsistency in Wickerbottom’s Feather-Fringed Dress legs.
Fixed an issue causing Wickerbottom’s sssshhh idle animation from playing while wearing the Volt Goat Costume Top.
Fixed missing eyebrows in Wigfrid’s Straw-Stuffed skin.
Fixed missing bangs in Wickerbottom’s Bewitched skin.
Fixed missing texture when Wurt peruses The End is Nigh: Gilded Edition.
Fixed a seam in Cave Holes rendering.
Fixed an issue with webs from Overcoming Arachnophobia stopping movement with the mouse.
Fixed a map issue when using the Backtrek Watch while on a boat and traveling far.
Fixed the mouseover detection for the Walnut Bookshelf.
Fixed WIllow’s Forlorn Doll skin when mining.
Fixed skinned objects from going invisible in the Mighty Gym when loading the world.
Fixed the Void Bag skin not playing its unique opening sound effect on clients.
<s>Fixed a typo causing the ruins to reuse the barracks layout twice.</s>

Notes for Modders

Fixed missing c_* commands for word prediction with the console.

Hotfix 518333 Changes

Bookcases will now have more books added onto the shelves artwork depending on how full it is.
Wortox will now teleport to the center of a boat that has an Ocuvigil instead of the Ocuvigil’s location.
Adjusted the facial expression for Webber's Guest of Honor skin.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a typo causing the ruins to reuse the barracks layout twice.
Fixed Wilson’s Holly Beard highlighting.
Fixed various Wolfgang mustaches from being invisible from behind.
Fixed audio not playing properly with containers when they open and close while playing on a server.
Fixed various clothing layering issues with Wonkey.
Earthquake debris will no longer break items created by Cave Holes.
Fixed Wortox being able to teleport onto water if the Ocuvigil is somehow not on a boat.
Fixed Wortox Soul Hop being more permissive than the Lazy Explorer for teleporting near tile edges.
Fixed Bookcases having very loud audio for prototyping.
Added missing Bookcase minimap icon.
Fixed stalactites blocking buildings from being able to be placed under them.
Fixed Smallish Tallbird going invisible during some of its animations.
Fixed an issue with Ancient Guardian Shadow Tentacles repeatedly trying to attack hiding non-player entities.
Fixed bug where Farm Plants may become untargetable by Horticulture books.
Fixed Wickerbottom’s Nom de Plume glasses texture when talking.
Fixed Willow’s Coldfire profile view texture.
Added missing minimap icons for the Bookcase, Winter's Feast Tree (deciduous and twiggy).

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!

Don't Starve Together - Klei-JoeW

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!

Don't Starve Together - Klei-JoeW

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!