Hey everybody. Thursday October 20th we will be releasing the newest update "A Little Drama" along with a QOL update and Hallowed nights on Steam. PlayStation and Xbox hopefully about the same time as usual, but we might need a little more time since we have so many changes in there. We'll have a post on Switch Status soon as well.

• The Survivors can use the Stage to show off a little bit for whoever is watching
  
• The Survivors can don special costumes to help them tell other stories as well.
  
• Costumes can be found in the Briars set piece.
  
• Added the Mannequins to hold (and show off!) their equipment.
  
• The Stage and Briar set pieces will automatically be added into existing worlds.

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Added the new preset "Relaxed", similar to Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition’s No Sweat game mode.

• Survivors will be damaged but not killed by starving, freezing, overheating, or from the darkness.
  
• Survivors will take 35% less damage from all sources.
  
• Hound waves and Shadow Creatures from low sanity are set to Less.
  
• Ghosts can revive at the Florid Postern and the world will not reset when everyone is dead.
  
• Wildfires are disabled.

Game Modes, Presets, and Intention changes:

• Added a server Playstyle indicator which is determined by the world settings.
  
• Users will pick a Playstyle when creating a new server, which will apply the appropriate preset world settings.
  
• The Playstyle indicator will be displayed in the server browser where the server intention was previously displayed.
  
• Changing the world settings will update the Playstyle indicator to the best matching playstyle.
  
• The settings controlled by the Wilderness and Endless game modes can now be set in world settings.
  
• Wilderness and Endless Game modes have been converted to presets. Existing worlds will be retrofitted.
  
• The preset “No Giants Here” has been removed. Existing worlds will not be affected by this.
  
• Server intention has been removed (Social/Cooperative/Competitive/Madness).

New world settings:

• Temperature Damage: Default / Nonlethal (will damage but not kill survivors)
  
• Hunger Damage: Default / Nonlethal (will damage but not kill survivors)
  
• Darkness Damage: Default / Nonlethal (will damage but not kill survivors)
  
• Max Health Penalty: Enabled / Disabled
  
• Spawn Mode: If survivors should spawn at the Florid Postern or at a random location.
  
• Survivor Death: If you will turn into a ghost or be brought back to the survivor select menu.
  
• Ghost Sanity Drain: Controls if there will be a sanity drain on all players when anyone is a ghost.
  
• Death Reset Timer: Controls how long you have before the world regenerates when all survivors are dead.
  
• Basic Resources: If basic resources, such as saplings and berry bushes, should respawn over time.

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Recipe Cards can now be found throughout the world

• Reading a card will say the recipe for a Crock Pot dish.
  
• Recipe Cards can be found in Tumbleweeds, Graves, Sunken Chests, and some boons

Food and Crock Pot Changes

• Added a Tallbird Egg Crock Pot recipe.
  
• Added 2 Egg Crock Pot recipes.
  
• Added 2 Beefalo feed Crock Pot recipes.
  
• Adjusted the Stuffed Fish Heads and Veggie Burger cooking priority to prevent multiple results.
  
• Reduced the Banana Shake spoilage time and it can no longer be made with meat, fish, or monster meat.
  
• Reduced the Frozen Banana Daiquiri spoilage time and it can no longer be made with meat or fish. The priority was also adjusted to remove the random chance of getting a Banana Shake.
  
• Ice Cream is now classified as Goodies.
  
• Beefalo can now eat Roasted Birchnut.

If a Fire Pit or Campfire is fueled to the max stage, it will drop a charcoal when the fire goes out.
Added information, while a ghost, to help new players learn how to revive and indicate if reviving at the Florid Postern is enabled.
Added the Turf-Raiser Helm, a new helmet that you can get from the Antlion.
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• Added a loading protection which will protect survivors while the game is loading from things like transferring to the caves.
  
• The Cartographer's Desk can now erase Blueprints, Tackle Adverts, Sketch, Costume Patterns, and Recipe Cards, turning it into one Papyrus.
  
• Updated the Scarecrow skins selection UI.
  
• Added cooking, fishing, and farming themed boons to the world generation.
  
• Ancient Stonework turf blueprint can now be found via the Distilled Knowledge.
  
• Digging up the turf in the ruins will now give the turf object.
  
• Ruins Turf and Imitation Ruins Turf Blueprints can now be crafted at the Ancient Pseudoscience Station.
  
• Tallbirds without a nest will now make a new nest, but only on rocky or dirt turf.
  
• Added the Snazzy Pitchfork (golden pitchfork)
  
• Increased the number of uses for the Tent and Siesta Lean-to to better reflect their crafting cost.
  
• The Camper's Tent now restores health at the same rate as the Tent.
  
• The Straw Roll will now restore some health while sleeping.
  
• The Furry Roll will now affect your body temperature while sleeping.
  
• Trail Mix can now be made with raw Birchnuts.
  
• The Tin Fishin’ Bin now holds up to 20 fish.
  
• The Tin Fishin’ Bin can now be built on dock tiles.
  
• The Bookcase can now be used to open skins gifts.
  
• The Insulated Pack and Seed Pack-It are no longer burnable.
  
• Added a confirmation popup for the Reset Now button when all players are dead.
  
• Improved how the camera behaves when zooming all the way out.
  
• Using the Steeped Lunar Essence on a Wobster Mound will mutate it into a Moon Glass Mound.
  
• The Distortion Setting has been changed to control the intensity.
  
• The Lazy Forager can now be repaired with nightmare fuel.

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In addition, we will have some new Twitch Drops, Klei Rewards Link a login Bonus Item and toward the end of the month we'll have the Art and Costume submission event as well.

See you Thursday!

Changes

• Abigail will no longer trigger spider webbing.
  • Abigail will no longer try to move around the webbing and will now float right across it.
• Splumonkey Pod Monkeys will now drop their equipment when going back into their homes.

Bug Fixes

• Gameplay
  • Fixed Merms not eating food when they are sitting on a Royal Tapestry.
  • Fixed Frogs spawned from Tumbleweeds being angry at Merms.
  • Fixed Splumonkey Pod Monkeys not returning to their home on a warning of an earthquake.
  • Fixed Splumonkey Pod Monkeys not evacuating their home when the home is set on fire.
     

Changes

• Mind’s Eye Amulet has an updated more accurate description.
• Merm and Merm Guard AI changed to give more room to their leader and to not run away when a player tries giving the Merm something.
  • Lower loyal Merms will be less inclined to respect personal space.
• Frozen Lavae will now count as dead at the time they are frozen instead of after they thaw.
  • This stops an unfun timing window with the Dragonfly in the fight when the Dragonfly is put to sleep.
• Updating various Chinese translations.

Bug Fixes

• Gameplay
  • Fixed Wortox not getting souls when:
    • Killing a Wobster while it is on land.
    • Something alive perishes from spoiling while in the player’s inventory.
    • Cooking something alive.
  • Fixed Toadstool’s Sporecaps from managing to get on top of ponds.
  • Fixed boats not saving their velocity resulting in them to be at rest on load.
    • Boats saved before the patch will be at rest on load but will preserve velocity after saving.
  • Fixed all spiders and Naked Mole Bats ignoring earthquakes for real this time.
• Art
  • Fixed Dangling Depth Dweller’s cheeks and mouth colouring.
  • Fixed Celestial Crown disappearing on Wes during the custom inspection animations.
  • Adjusted colour tones for the Library Placard and the Walnut Bookstack to match up with the other existing walnut items.
• Crashes
  • Fixed cases with the Pirate Stash stashing disappearing entities.

Notes for Modders

• Fixed Berry Bush variant 2 going invisible if it is in the disease state.
• Added back diseased build for the Grass Gekko.
• Moved all diseased assets from ANIM to PKGREF so they are not loaded into memory at runtime for the base game.
   

 

Changes

• Renamed Wickerbottom’s “Mind's Eye Life Amulet” to “Mind's Eye Amulet”.
  
• Hound Mounds will now generate Ice Hounds in Winter similarly to how it generates Fire Hounds in Summer.

Bug Fixes

• Gameplay
  
  • Fixed Birds of the World from not spawning birds.
    
  • Fixed trying to store invalid recipes in the Cook Book.
    
  • Fixed spiced foods not unlocking the base food recipe in the Cook Book.
    
  • Fixed Grumble Bees from Apicultural Notes not following players through wormholes or long distances.
    
  • Fixed Grumble Bees from Apicultural Notes getting stuck in the world if their loyalty changed to the Bee Queen while being too far from their new leader.
    
  • Construction Amulets will no longer consume charges nor display active use in the crafting menu if the recipe is not discounted.
    
  • Toadstool’s Sporecaps will no longer spawn on top of ponds.
    
  • Fixed where some periodically spawned entities would sink even on boats.
    
  • Fixed a small typo in Walter’s speech file.
    
  • Fixed the Suspicious Peeper not hitting a player if they are standing still at maximum attack range.
    
  • Fixed a crash when harvesting spoilt food.
    
  • Fixed a case causing the edge of the world waterfall to not render properly for clients.
• Art
  
  • Fixed Insulated Pack and Chef Pouch not having water floating FX.
    
  • Fixed Victorian axe highlights.
    
  • Fixed missing cuff’s in Wes’ Fool’s Ensemble.
    
  • Fixed burnt Nautopilot not displaying properly.
    
  • Fixed missing fire FX on burning Rockjaws.
    
  • Fixed some missing Steam Inventory skins art.
    
  • Fixed missing hand FX for End Table skins when extinguishing.
    
  • Fixed an issue with mod characters disappearing from the Character Select screen.
    
  • Fixed the Mad Scientist Lab having a partially transparent wheel.
    
  • Cleaned up Winona’s Caroler’s Gloves art.
    
  • Fixed missing feet in Wilson’s Rumpled Outfit.
    
  • Fixed missing cuffs on Walter's Naval Uniform Shirt.

Notes for Modders
‘c_gonext()’ now snaps the camera on use.

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.

Changes

• Skins from the An Eye for an Eye collection have been changed from Inspired rarity to Woven.
  
• Added skintone variants to Pyrestarter's Dress.
  
• Adjusted Walter Hat skins.
  
• Decreased the loading time when joining a world.

Bugs

• Fixed crash in Spring when Lureplants attempt to spawn.
  
• Fixed audio bug where Wickerbottom book spell effects could sometimes be heard long after they were casted.
  
• Fixed animation bug with Wurt reading The End Is Nigh: Gilded Edition.
  
• Fixed art alignment for various objects and skins.
  
• Fixed missing arms on various clothing combinations.
  
• Fixed missing Webber feet when wearing Torn Costume.
  
• Fixed Winona’s Guest of Honor icon.

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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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&#39;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&#39;s Feast Tree (deciduous and twiggy).
   

 

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.

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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!

 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!