Don't Starve

Released: Apr 23, 2013
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Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 06:16 GMT

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28 Mar 2024VG247
One of the best roguelike survival games, Don't Starve, is getting its own tabletop adaptation
One of the best survival games out there is getting a board game courtesy of Glass Cannon Unplugged, and it’s Klei Entertainment’s roguelike classic Don’t Starve . Going the crowdfunding route through Kickstarter , Don't Starve: The Board Game takes 1-4 players into the randomly
28 Mar 2024VG247
Don't Starve, one of the best roguelike survival games, is getting its own tabletop adaptation
One of the best survival games out there is getting a board game courtesy of Glass Cannon Unplugged, and it’s Klei Entertainment’s roguelike classic Don’t Starve . Going the crowdfunding route through Kickstarter , Don't Starve: The Board Game takes 1-4 players into the randomly
27 Apr 2023Developer post
Major Quality of Life and Big Fix Update Now Live!
Hey everyone! The big Bug Fixes and Quality of Life update is now live! A big thank you to all the players who checked out the beta, reported bugs, and provided feedback and suggestions. The list of changes and bug fixes is gigantic! So here are some highlights. Highlights: Addit
Hey everyone!
The big Bug Fixes and Quality of Life update is now live!
A big thank you to all the players who checked out the beta, reported bugs, and provided feedback and suggestions.
The list of changes and bug fixes is gigantic! So here are some highlights.
Highlights:

Additions

New item: the Seed of Ruin. It can be obtained by defeating the Ancient Guardian (ALL).
The Water Beefalo will now have adorable offspring! (SW).
New craftable: the Nightmarish Bird Whistle (HAM).
New Crock Pot recipe: the Meated Nettles, an antihistamine food made with meat! (HAM).
Utility / Interface Changes (ALL)

A new integrated backpack layout can now be enabled in settings.
The maximum number of save slots has been increased to 10.
A "don't show this again" check box has been added to the "mods enabled" warning screen. Check it if you don't want the warning to appear anymore!.
Background images will now be shown on the loading screen.
Items within a container (chests, etc) can now be used when crafting.
Now It's possible to drop items directly from the inventory/container using the "Force Container (mod)" key, left shift by default, and the right click.
Some actions can now be repeated by holding down the mouse buttons.
Decreases the volume of the WX-78's overcharge sound.
World Changes

The caves world generation has been changed to have fewer bridges that lead nowhere (ALL).
World jumping will no longer regenerate sub-worlds of other maps (SW, HAM).

E.g.: Perform a world jump (using the Teleportato) on Shipwrecked will not regenerate the caves and ruins, only the volcano.
Tweaks

Cactus Spike, Doydoy Feather, Blueprints, Lotus Plant and Stinger are now burnable (ALL).
Caged birds now accept raw monster meat and refuse cooked eggs (ALL).
Batilisk Wing, Raw Birchnut, Leafy Meat and Rainbow Jellyfish are now crock pot ingredients (ALL).
Bundle Wraps can now be used while sailing (SW, HAM).
The action key now prioritizes entering doors if the player is holding an item or is very close to the door (HAM).
New Mechanics

The Lazy Forager can now be refilled with Nightmare Fuel (ALL).
Tree saplings and crops can now be dug up with a shovel (ALL).
Most burnt trees now have a chance to occasionally drop a charcoal, and all burnt trees now have a chance to drop an extra charcoal when chopped down (ALL).
The Sea Yard can now repair the boat without the player being in it (SW, HAM).
Stone Slabs will regenerate their loot over time (HAM).
Trawl Net will collect a different set of items when used in Lily Ponds (HAM)
Items made from iron can now be smelted in the Smelter (HAM).
Creatures Changes

The Ancient Guardian fight has been redesigned (ALL).
Bees and Killer Bees now need to be closer to their targets to hit them (ALL).
Tallbirds without a nest will now make a new nest, but only on rocky, dirt or magma turf (ALL)
Deerclops's attack area more accurately reflects the FX (RoG, SW, HAM).
Flup can now respawn correctly (SW).
Fire Packim Baggims now no longer attacks monster mobs, and instead helps the player by attacking their target (SW).
Rabid Beetles, Vampire Bats and Royal Guards are now susceptible to the Deep Rainforest poisonous gas (HAM).
Bug Fixes

Fixed the game window icon not displaying correctly on Windows (ALL).
The mouse now tries to ignore mini signs. Solving the issue with mini signs and chests in the same place (ALL).
Fixed Sealnado not considering whether walls are broken or not, in his vacuum attack (SW).
Fixed Krissures visually erupting forever (SW).
Sunken items can properly be retrieved with Trawl Net (SW, HAM).
Land shadow creatures will no longer reappear over water (SW, HAM).
Spider Monkeys will no longer infest a new tree on every world loading (HAM).
Shopkeepers will not get stuck on shop pedestals anymore (HAM).
Plants and structures will no longer spawn too close to water in Hamlet's world generation (HAM).
Queen Womant's loot will no longer get stuck on her throne (HAM).
Fixed world generation being affected on other worlds if the save slot was Hamlet compatible (HAM).

E.g.: Forest worlds generating without rivers dividing biomes.

And here is basically everything that has changed! Good luck trying to read all of it!
Full Patch Notes:
Additions

New item: the Seed of Ruin. It can be obtained by defeating the Ancient Guardian (ALL).
Existing worlds where the Ancient Guardian is already dead will have a Seed of Ruin appearing somewhere in the ruins.
The Water Beefalo will now have adorable offspring! (SW).
New craftable: the Nightmarish Bird Whistle (HAM).
New Crock Pot recipe: the Meated Nettles, an antihistamine food made with meat! (HAM).
Pherostone, Farm House, Petrifying Bones, Water Reeds and Palace's Watch Tower now have new map icons (HAM).
Changes

Non-gameplay Changes (ALL)

The mouse wheel can now be used to browse the mods in the mods screen.
Chest and Bundle Wrap UI have better quality now.
A new integrated backpack layout can now be enabled in settings.
Scrolling through the world customization screen and mod configuration screen now no longer shows half of the items on the previous page.
The maximum number of save slots has been increased to 10.
A "don't show this again" check box has been added to the "mods enabled" warning screen. Check it if you don't want the warning to appear anymore!
Background images will now be shown on the loading screen.
Gameplay Changes

World

Setting resources to "More" or "Lots" in the world customization no longer spawn them outside the biome they should spawn (ALL).
Hound and Crocodog waves will occur less frequently as the days go by (ALL).
The caves world generation has been changed to have fewer bridges that lead nowhere (ALL).
World hopping will not update mob attack wave timers with the time spent outside the world anymore (RoG, SW, HAM).

That is, traveling between worlds won't force a wave of hounds/crocodogs/etc to spawn if you're outside the world for a while.
World jumping will no longer regenerate sub-worlds of other maps (SW, HAM).

E.g.: Perform a world jump (using the Teleportato) on Shipwrecked will not regenerate the caves and ruins, only the volcano.
Mushrooms can be found in Cave Clefts (HAM).

Utility / Interface

Items can be stacked on the active item (ALL).
Some actions can now be repeated by holding down the mouse buttons (ALL).
Items within a container (chests, etc) can now be used when crafting (ALL).
Now It's possible to drop items directly from the inventory/container using the "Force Container (mod)" key, left shift by default, and the right click (ALL).
The dusk ambient light is brighter now (ALL).
All trees now have minimap icons for their burned and stump versions (ALL).
Some minor changes to the mods screen text positions/colors (ALL).
Many popups now support the menu cancel key to close them ("ESC" by default) (ALL).
The map border ornament will now match the world you are on (SW, HAM).
Items can now be retrieved from water at greater distances with the action key (SW, HAM).
The Root Trunk UI is now in the screen's center, like other chests (HAM).
Fighting during Aporkalypse will now play an Aporkalypse song, instead of a generic one (HAM).
Tweaks

Character-exclusive items crafted by Wigfrid, Wickerbottom and Woodlegs will no longer disappear when switching characters (ALL).
Added inspection lines for bee box stages (ALL).
Decreases the volume of the WX-78's overcharge sound (ALL).
Worm Holes, Catcoons, Electric Isosceles, End Well, Pew-matic Horn and Navigadget now accept any item (ALL).
Many structure's breaking sounds have been adjusted to match their materials (ALL).
Cactus Spike, Doydoy Feather, Blueprints, Lotus Plant and Stinger are now burnable (ALL).
Caged birds now accept raw monster meat and refuse cooked eggs (ALL).
Turfs can be stacked up to 20 now (ALL).
Increased the number of uses for the Tent and Siesta Lean-to to better reflect their crafting cost (ALL).
The damage absorbed by armors is no longer limited to its current durability. 1% and 100% durability will absorb the same damage points (ALL).
Resurrecting using a Life Giving Amulet no longer spawns a skeleton (ALL).
Bundles can no longer be placed in the Teleportato container (ALL).
The Fryfocals fire rate has been lowered a bit, based on other weapons (ALL).
Lazy Explorer can no longer be spammed and has its own effects (ALL).
Splumonkey Pods will release all Splumonkeys when set on fire (ALL).
Companions (Chester, Packim Baggins, etc) will no longer be targeted by the force attack (ALL).
Houndius Shootius will no longer target others Houndius Shootius (ALL).
Traps will now stay where they are instead of being picked up when checked (ALL).
Players can now collect, pick up items, craft and load weapons while mounted on beefalos (ALL).
Lichen, Seaweed, Tubers and Blooming Tubers can be used to feed beefalos now (ALL).
Items can now be lit in inventory when riding a beefalo (ALL).
The Ancient Guardian's Pillars will be closer to the center of the arena now (ALL).
Trees can be chopped from a greater distance now, like in other DLCs (base/RoG).
Dragoon Egg now has a chance to drop obsidian (SW).
Mussel Beds now stack up to 10 (SW).
Decreased the collision radius of planted Mussel Sticks (SW).
Chest of the Depths, Steamer Trunk and Octopus Chest are no longer burnable (SW).
Rawling is no longer burnable and is now considered an unrecoverable item (SW).
The Slot Machine now only drains sanity on use (SW).
The Sea Worther now floats (SW, HAM).
Sea Chest has a new placement animation (SW, HAM).
Strong winds will no longer pick up flowers (SW, HAM).
Bundle Wraps can now be used while sailing (SW, HAM).
Deployables can now be placed from a tiny distance (SW, HAM).
Some staffs can now cast on land while the player is sailing (SW, HAM).
Eating Dried Jellyfish now restores sanity and more hunger (SW, HAM).
Dried Seaweed now restores sanity and dries faster (SW, HAM).
The effects given by consuming the Tropical Bouillabaisse now last longer (SW, HAM).
Periodic attacks on Fish Farms have been changed to an attack chance when fishes are collected (SW, HAM).
Added distance to the placement of wood fences and gates, like walls (SW, HAM).
The Brain of Thought will not be consumed if the player already knows the crafting recipe (SW, HAM).
Neon Quattro and Tropical Bouillabaisse will lower the player's temperature by more points than before (SW, HAM).
When a Worker Pigman dies before fixing the broken structure it was supposed to, a new Worker will spawn after a while and not instantly, as it was (HAM).
Topiaries and Hedges are now burnable and have a leafs effect when hammered (HAM).
Hippopotamoose Antlers can now be stacked (HAM).
Waves now collide with Lily Pads (HAM).
Claw Palm Sapling is now an item instead of a structure (HAM).
Vortex Cloak no longer prevents stunlocking when at 0% durability (HAM).
Mant Mask durability is now consumed by wearing it, like the Mant Suit (HAM).
Lamp Post will not turn off when placed in caves (HAM).
The Glommer's Flower can no longer be stored in the Root Trunk (HAM).
Sprinkler Pipes don't block placement anymore (HAM).
Unrecoverable items can no longer be stored in the Root Trunk (HAM).
Fountain of Youth's water generation time is now affected by long time passes (sleeping, coming back from another world) (HAM).
Leaving and entering the world no longer cancels Vampire Bats' attacks (HAM).
Beefalos gain more health by eating foods that restore health (HAM).
Cork Bowl Canoe now unequips its items when picked up (HAM).
Hamlet's Parrot now drops Azure Feather, to better match its color (HAM).
The Large Iron Hulk can no longer be teleported to interiors (HAM).
The action key now prioritizes entering doors if the player is holding an item or is very close to the door (HAM).
Cut Grass is now green in Hamlet (HAM).
My City Hall will no longer be locked during the night (HAM).
New Mechanics

The Lazy Forager can now be refilled with Nightmare Fuel (ALL).
Tree saplings and crops can now be dug up with a shovel (ALL).
An animation used when setting things on fire with the torch and lighter has been added (ALL).
Non-Endothermic Campfires and Fire Pits will now drop a charcoal when the fire goes out, if it was fueled to the max stage (ALL).
Most burnt trees now have a chance to occasionally drop a charcoal, and all burnt trees now have a chance to drop an extra charcoal when chopped down (ALL).
Krissures can now be removed using coconades explosion (SW).
Yaarctopus accepts a new recipe and has new common loot (SW).
The Volcanic and Ancient crafting tabs will be both available when using the Brain of Thought hat on non-Hamlet compatible saves (SW).
The Tar Extractor will pile up the produced tars if the player is away (SW).
Map-exclusive recipes are now learned when crafted and thus available for crafting on other maps (SW, HAM).
The Sea Yard can now repair the boat without the player being in it (SW, HAM).
The Tar Lamp can now be refilled with tar (SW, HAM).
The action key can now be used to collect fish from Fish Farms (SW, HAM).
The Living Artifact is now able to break Obsidian Rocks and Dragoon's Dens with its special attack (HAM).
Cloth's Blueprint and Bamboo have been added to Smashing Pot loot (HAM).
Particulate Purifier now prevents the Hay Fever (HAM).
Stone Slabs will regenerate their loot over time (HAM).

Older worlds will have their Stone Slabs restocked.
Shears can now be used to efficiently hack bamboo and vines (HAM).

Trawl Net will collect a different set of items when used in Lily Ponds (HAM).

Items made from iron can now be smelted in the Smelter (HAM).

Dark Tatters can now be used to efficiently refuel the Vortex Cloak (HAM).

Oincs now drop in their higher value versions, when possible (HAM).

Wilba will now drown when transforming into Werewilba while on a boat (HAM).

The gas mask now applies a special voice effect (HAM).

The action key can now be used to collect alloy from smelters (HAM).

Gnat Mounds now have a chance to drop Nitre (HAM).

Ball Pein Hammer can now remove gems from Ancient Statues (HAM).

New Crock Pot Ingredients

Batilisk Wing, Raw Birchnut, Leafy Meat and Rainbow Jellyfish.
The following items have had their stats changed:

Pick/Axe: has more uses, does more damage (ALL).
Thulecite Club: has more uses (ALL).
Star Caller's Staff: the Dwarf Star stays longer (ALL).
Insulated Pack and Sea Sack: has more slots, are no longer burnable (RoG, SW, HAM).
Tar Suit: lasts longer, can be repaired with tar (SW).
Windbreaker: increased water resistance (SW).
Quackering Ram: more uses, less damage, added cooldown (SW, HAM).
Snakeskin Jacket: increased water resistance (SW, HAM).
Fancy Helmet and Tin Suit: increased defense, decreased movement penalty (HAM).
Weevole Mantle: increased defense, added water resistance (HAM).
Vortex Clock: has more slots, less sanity drain, cheaper repair (HAM).
Bramble Husk: increased defense, increased durability (HAM).
Thunderhat: lightning strikes consume less durability (HAM).
Crafting Recipes Changes

Changed the position of the Bundle Wrap crafting recipe to be near the top (ALL).
Insulated Pack, Bat Bat, Marble Suit, Potted Ferns, Thunderhat and Cat Cap cost less resources now (ALL).
Rabbit earmuffs no longer need a Science Machine to prototype (ALL).
Tar Extractor and Sea Yard now require the Alchemy Engine to prototype (SW).
Boat Torch can be crafted in Hamlet (HAM).
The pig shop Swinesbury Mineral Exchange now has a more expensive crafting recipe (HAM).
These items/structures now drop items when hammered/deconstructed

Spiderhat, Palace's Watch Tower, Swinesbury Academy, Farm House, Quarry Lodgings, Mandrake Hill and Intricate Topiary.
Creatures Changes

The Ancient Guardian fight has been redesigned (ALL).
Batilisks now drop Batilisk Wings more frequently (ALL).
Bees and Killer Bees now need to be closer to their targets to hit them (ALL).
Tallbirds without a nest will now make a new nest, but only on rocky, dirt or magma turf (ALL).
Changed the time for Tallbirds to lay a new egg to be more inline with other food sources (ALL).
Mobs that accept food will no longer accept food they cannot eat (ALL).
Shadow Splumonkeys will no longer throw manure (ALL).
Homeless frogs will sleep at night now (ALL).
Shadow Hands (the campfire stealing hands) no longer trigger spider creep (ALL).
Krampus will no longer steal backpacks and will not try to follow the player in water (ALL).
Shadow Creatures will no longer be affected and activate spider webs (ALL).
Mounted Beefalos will no longer gain speed when on roads (ALL).
Deerclops's attack area more accurately reflects the FX (RoG, SW, HAM).
Dragoons now drop Dragoon Hearts more frequently (SW).
Dragoons now drop more Monster Meat (SW).
The Fire Packim Baggims will no longer attack monster characters, like Webber (SW).
Packim Baggims will not trigger spider webs and will not be slowed by them (SW).
Fire Packim Baggims now no longer attacks monster mobs, and instead helps the player by attacking their target (SW).
Snakes and Flup can now be trapped (SW, HAM).
Bees and mosquitos can now chase their target across water. Also, flying insects can be dropped over water without sinking (SW, HAM).
Adult and teen Doydoys will now float when dropped over water (SW, HAM).
Wind will no longer affect the speed of Shadow Creatures, Ghosts and the BFB (SW, HAM).
Nightmare creatures, Ghosts and companions no longer trigger traps in Hamlet ruins (HAM).
Rabid Beetles, Vampire Bats and Royal Guards are now susceptible to the Deep Rainforest poisonous gas (HAM).
City pigmans now walk home during the dusk, instead of running (HAM).
The Worker pigman will no longer spawn to repair player built structures (HAM).
Bees and butterflies are now affected by the Bug B'Gone's poison cloud (HAM).
Piko will now drop the item it has picked up, when caught in a trap (HAM).
Pigman Mayor now has his own unique name (HAM).
Peagawk will now run away from Poison Dartfrogs (HAM).
Now Floats (SW, HAM)

Wood Fence, Wood Gate, Mini Sign and Feather Pencil.
Ice, crops seeds, Jungle Tree Seed, Mant Suit and Tin Suit.
Tar Lamp and Regal Scepter.
Hamlet's Economy Changes (HAM)

Platapine Quills are now tradable with the Collector Pigman.
Hippopotamoose Antlers are now tradable with the Hunter Pigman.
The Trawl Net Blueprint can now be purchased in the Tinkerer's Tower.
Sewing Kits can now be purchased in the Sow's Ear Hat Shop.
Ice staff, Red staff, Chill amulet, Glow Berry and Down Feather had their price reduced in Hamlet shops. Gears and Halberd had their price increased.
The worker pigman now accepts more than one item per day.
Hamlet's Interior Changes (HAM)

Resurrectors inside interiors will now remove the maximum health penalty after the interior is destroyed.
Destroying a structure with an interior (Slanty Shanty, Pig Shops) now destroys all rooms and structures, dropping the resulting loot and the items that were inside them.
Destroying a room now only destroys extra rooms not connected to the main entrance, and will also destroy structures and drop the resulting loot and the items that were inside the extra rooms.
These changes will help the performance of long running worlds, but will not affect existing worlds.
This will also avoid losing non-recoverable items, but be aware that not all things will be retrieved (like some plantable structures), so prefer to remove everything manually.

Bug Fixes

Hamlet Interiors Fixes (HAM)

Fixed hurricane storms resetting after entering and exiting an interior.
Resurrect between interiors and exteriors now works correctly. For example: dying in Hamlet and resurrecting inside an interior in Shipwrecked.
Fixed Portable Crock Pot and Smelter's light always on when in an interior.
Fixed a crash related to burnt Crock Pots in interiors.
Fixed a crash related to building interior doors with the action key (space bar by default).
All interior crafts can now be correctly positioned with the action key.
Hedges, fences and sandbags will no longer be visually angled wrongly when leaving an interior.
It is no longer possible to place deployables inside interior walls.
Prevents loot from getting stuck inside interior walls.
Flowers can no longer be planted in water and interiors.
Spawners placed inside interiors will spawn their mobs correctly if the player is outside.
Fixed Royal Guards (called by the Shopkeeper or Wilba) not appearing if the player exits the interior quickly.
The Lazy Explorer can no longer be used to teleport outside of interior walls.
Fixed Pog getting his feral appearance after leaving interiors.
Fixed Poison FX disappearing on some mobs after exiting interiors.
Fixed a crash with Wood Gates built in interiors.
Fixed being able to get stuck inside an interior by using a Deconstruction Staff on the door or breaking it by placing something too close to it.
Fixed structures not saving their interior if they are burning when saved.
Fixed caves/ruins earthquake debris falling inside interiors.
Fixed Shipwecked's world edge fog disappearing when the player entered an interior.
Fixed Mant warriors and Magiluminescence emitting light when in interiors when they shouldn't.
Fixed Telelocator Focus being able to be placed too close to interior walls.
Fixed aquatic followers following the player into interiors.
Fixed Sandbags and walls blocking passage when broken and in interiors.
Fixed the player walking awkwardly when trying to enter a door in interiors.
Fixed hurricane storms resetting after entering and exiting an interior.
Iron Hulk Pieces Fixes (HAM)

They will no longer attempt to use the jump attack if their target is in water.
Fixed the light staying on sometimes when they deactivate.
They will now look in the direction they will fire their laser attack.
Fixed being able to teleport them to interiors.
Destroyed City Structures Fixes (HAM)

Will have their correct inspection lines.
They will not get an invalid name after reloading the world (or just exist in the case of Topiaries) and didn't become invisible after the second world reload.
Tamed Beefalo Fixes

Fixed many actions that made the character invisible and frozen (ALL).
Weather pain and Lazy Explorer cast animations will no longer use beefalo's attack animation (ALL).
Prevents the player from remounting right after being thrown away (ALL).
The player will perform the sneeze, poison and cold animations properly (ALL).
The height of the player's quotes is adjusted with its height (ALL).
Meele attacks no longer use the equipped weapon (durability and damage) (ALL).
Fixed armor effects activating even if the attack hits a mounted beefalo (ALL).
Fixed being able to use the bug net while riding them (ALL).
Fixed mounted beefalo being affected by character's damage modifiers (ALL).
Fixed not being able to feed beefalos with twigs (Base).
Fixed a crash with Wilba transforming into Werewilba when mounted on a beefalo (HAM).
Mini Sign Fixes

The mouse now tries to ignore mini signs. Solving the issue with mini signs and chests in the same place (ALL).
Can now be only drawn with nearby items, as intended (ALL).
Can no longer be placed on water (SW, HAM).
Will no longer draw the utility "shelf_slot" entity (HAM).
Lazy Forager Fixes

Has its own visual effects (ALL).
Items taken from a stack will visually come from the stack and not from a random position on screen (ALL).
Can no longer pick up sunken relics and stuck them in the player's inventory (HAM).
Bundle Wrap Fixes

Improved animation timing, added sounds and effects (ALL).
Does not allow irreplaceable items to be packaged (ALL).
Fixed the position in which the items come/go from the container on the screen (ALL).
Items will no longer fly away from the bundle when you open it (ALL).
It now has its own wrapping animation (ALL).
Can now be unwrapped when on ground (SW, HAM).
Floating bundles and wax paper on non-Hamlet saves will no longer be invisible (SW).
Fryfocals Fixes

The projectile will come out of the glasses when using it mounted on a beefalo (ALL).
Shock damage caused by using it while wet will no longer be doubled (ALL).
Will use the correct attack animation while sailing (SW, HAM).
Wood Fences/Gates Fixes

Improved positioning preview accuracy (ALL).
Added the missing texts for opening, closing and placing (ALL).
Will not have their drops doubled after being broken by charged obsidian tools (SW).
Can no longer be placed in water in non-Hamlet worlds (SW).
Telebrella Fixes

On the last use, it will only disappear after the teleportation animation ends (ALL).
Fixed player bloom and shadow in teleport animation (ALL).
The boat will not visually disappear on teleport anymore while on a boat (SW, HAM).
Trees Fixes

Tree seeds, after being set on fire and extinguished will no longer be automatically planted (ALL).
Fixed Birchnut Trees dropping an extra acorn on the wrong side (RoG, SW, HAM).
Birchnut and tea tree stumps will no longer become non-flammable when the player moves away from them (RoG, HAM).
Vipers will drop from Cocooned trees, instead of normal snakes, when the tree is set on fire (HAM).
When cutting down or burning down Piko's tree, he will now try to find another home (HAM).
Fixed the medium Rainforest Tree not showing a piece of the trunk when chopped (HAM).
Adventure Mode Fixes

Fixed waves appearing in the "Epilogue: Checkmate" chapter, instead of void (ALL).
Fixed Palm Trees spawning in the "King of Winter" chapter (SW, HAM).
Fixed excessive amounts of Clockworks in the "Darkness" chapter (SW, HAM).
Fixed the world generation animation not being the forest (SW, HAM).
Tuber Tree fixes (HAM)

The bloom will remain after save-load if any tubes have already been collected.
The amount of tubes will be visually applied after the save-load.
Fixed some crashes with stumps and burnt trees trying to bloom.
Can now be collected after save-load if any tubes have already been collected.
Now swings normally after being hit.
Fixed the bloom not ending at the end of the lush season in some cases.
Localization and Typo Fixes

Minor corrections to the Chinese translation (ALL).
Fixed Maxwell's name, when sitting on the Throne, not using translations (ALL).
Fixed a bunch of typos in quotes and recipe descriptions (ALL).
Fixed the cave Rope using quotes for the closed BFB cave Rope (ALL).
Fixed some missing world customization texts (ALL).
Fish shoals now use their own inspection lines (SW).
Fixed some missing inspection lines in SW compatible worlds (SW).
Fixed Elephant cactus planting verb appearing as "ACTION" (SW).
Portable Crock Pot now uses the "Place" deploy verb, instead of "Plant" (SW, HAM).
Each Lawn Decoration now uses its own name (HAM).
Fixed Wilba not using female pronouns in dialogs (HAM).
Fixed Wormwood missing quote for Swinesbury Academy (HAM).
Fixed the Living Artifact's "Charge" action text not being translated (HAM).
Fixed Webber's inspection lines for Vortex Cloak and Dark Tatters inverted. (HAM).
Fixed a wrong compatibility text on the mods screen (HAM).
Oh, we reached the limit
Original post
14 Mar 2023Developer post
[Beta Update - PT II] Quality of Life Beta Available Now!
Quality of Life Update The acronym in parentheses at the end of each change/bug fix refers to which DLCs this change/bug fix is applied to: Base: the vanilla game, no DLCs. RoG: Reign of Giants. SW: Shipwrecked. HAM: Hamlet. ALL: all of the above. Additions: New item: the Seed of
Quality of Life Update
The acronym in parentheses at the end of each change/bug fix refers to which DLCs this change/bug fix is applied to:

Base: the vanilla game, no DLCs.
RoG: Reign of Giants.
SW: Shipwrecked.
HAM: Hamlet.
ALL: all of the above.
Additions:

New item: the Seed of Ruin. It can be obtained by defeating the Ancient Guardian (ALL).

Existing worlds where the Ancient Guardian is already dead will have a Seed of Ruin appearing somewhere in the ruins.
The Water Beefalo will now have adorable offspring! (SW).

New craftable: the Nightmarish Bird Whistle (HAM).

New Crock Pot recipe: the Meated Nettles, an antihistamine food made with meat! (HAM).
Changes:

Non-gameplay changes (ALL):

The mouse wheel can now be used to browse the mods in the mods screen.
Chest and Bundle Wrap UI have better quality now.
A new integrated backpack layout can now be enabled in settings.
Scrolling through the world customization screen and mod configuration screen now no longer shows half of the items on the previous page.
The maximum number of save slots has been increased to 10.
A "don't show this again" check box has been added to the “mods enabled” warning screen. Check it if you don't want the warning to appear anymore!
Background images will now be shown on the loading screen.
Gameplay changes:

World (ALL):

Setting resources to “More” or “Lots” in the world customization no longer spawn them outside the biome they should spawn.
Hound and Crocodog waves will occur less frequently as the days go by.
World hopping will not update mob attack wave timers with the time spent outside the world anymore.

That is, traveling between worlds won't force a wave of hounds/crocodogs/etc to spawn if you're outside the world for a while.
The caves world generation has been changed to have fewer bridges that lead nowhere.

Utility / Interface (ALL):

Items can be stacked on the active item.
Items within a container (chests, etc) can now be used when crafting.
Now It’s possible to drop items directly from the inventory/container using the "Force Container (mod)" key, left shift by default, and the right click.
The dusk ambient light is brighter now.
All trees now have minimap icons for their burned and stump versions.
Tweaks:

Character-exclusive items crafted by Wigfrid, Wickerbottom and Woodlegs will no longer disappear when switching characters (ALL).
Decreases the volume of the WX-78's overcharge sound (ALL).
Worm Holes, Catcoons, Electric Isosceles, End Well, Pew-matic Horn and Navigadget now accept any item (ALL).
Many structure’s breaking sounds have been adjusted to match their materials (ALL).
Cactus Spike, Doydoy Feather, Blueprints, Lotus Plant and Stinger are now burnable (ALL).
Caged birds now accept raw monster meat and refuse cooked eggs (ALL).
Turfs can be stacked up to 20 now (ALL).
Increased the number of uses for the Tent and Siesta Lean-to to better reflect their crafting cost (ALL).
The damage absorbed by armors is no longer limited to its current durability. 1% and 100% durability will absorb the same damage points (ALL).
Dragoon Egg now has a chance to drop obsidian (SW).
Rawling is no longer burnable and is now considered an unrecoverable item (SW).
The Slot Machine now only drains sanity on use (SW).
The Sea Worther now floats (SW, HAM).
Sea Chest has a new placement animation (SW, HAM).
Strong winds will no longer pick up flowers (SW, HAM).
The Brain of Thought will not be consumed if the player already knows the crafting recipe (SW, HAM).
When a Worker Pigman dies before fixing the broken structure it was supposed to, a new Worker will spawn after a while and not instantly, as it was (HAM).
Topiaries and Hedges are now burnable and have a leafs effect when hammered (HAM).
Hippopotamoose Antlers can now be stacked (HAM).
Waves now collide with Lily Pads (HAM).
Claw Palm Sapling is now an item instead of a structure (HAM).
Vortex Cloak no longer prevents stunlocking when at 0% durability (HAM).
Mant Mask durability is now consumed by wearing it, like the Mant Suit (HAM).
Lamp Post will not turn off when placed in caves (HAM).
The Glommer's Flower can no longer be stored in the Root Trunk (HAM).
New Mechanics:

The Lazy Forager can now be refilled with Nightmare Fuel (ALL).
Tree saplings and crops can now be dug up with a shovel (ALL).
An animation used when setting things on fire with the torch and lighter has been added (ALL).
Non-Endothermic Campfires and Fire Pits will now drop a charcoal when the fire goes out, if it was fueled to the max stage (ALL).
Most burnt trees now have a chance to occasionally drop a charcoal, and all burnt trees now have a chance to drop an extra charcoal when chopped down (ALL).
Krissures can now be removed using coconades explosion (SW).
Yaarctopus accepts a new recipe and has new common loot (SW).
The Sea Yard can now repair the boat without the player being in it (SW, HAM).
The Tar Extractor will pile up the produced tars if the player is away (SW).
The Tar Lamp can now be refilled with tar (SW, HAM).
The Living Artifact is now able to break Obsidian Rocks and Dragoon's Dens with its special attack (HAM).
Cloth's Blueprint and Bamboo have been added to Smashing Pot loot (HAM).
Particulate Purifier now prevents the Hay Fever (HAM).
Stone Slabs will regenerate their loot over time (HAM).

Older worlds will have their Stone Slabs restocked.
Shears can now be used to efficiently hack bamboo and vines (HAM).

Trawl Net will collect a different set of items when used in Lily Ponds (HAM).

Items made from iron can now be smelted in the Smelter (HAM).

Dark Tatters can now be used to efficiently refuel the Vortex Cloak (HAM).

Oincs now drop in their higher value versions, when possible (HAM).

Wilba will now drown when transforming into Werewilba while on a boat (HAM).

New Crock Pot ingredients:

Batilisk Wing, Raw Birchnut, Leafy Meat and Rainbow Jellyfish.
The following items have had their stats changed:

Pick/Axe: has more uses, does more damage (ALL).
Thulecite Club: has more uses (ALL).
Star Caller's Staff: the Dwarf Star stays longer (ALL).
Insulated Pack and Sea Sack: has more slots, are no longer burnable (RoG, SW, HAM).
Tar Suit: lasts longer, can be repaired with tar (SW).
Windbreaker: increased water resistance (SW).
Quackering Ram: more uses, less damage, added cooldown (SW, HAM).
Snakeskin Jacket: increased water resistance (SW, HAM).
Fancy Helmet and Tin Suit: increased defense, decreased movement penalty (HAM).
Weevole Mantle: increased defense, added water resistance (HAM).
Vortex Clock: has more slots, less sanity drain, cheaper repair (HAM).
Bramble Husk: increased defense, increased durability (HAM).
Thunderhat: lightning strikes consume less durability (HAM).
Crafting recipes changes:

Changed the position of the Bundle Wrap crafting recipe to be near the top (ALL).
Insulated Pack, Bat Bat, Marble Suit, Potted Ferns, Thunderhat and Cat Cap cost less resources now (ALL).
Rabbit earmuffs no longer need a Science Machine to prototype (ALL).
Tar Extractor and Sea Yard now require the Alchemy Engine to prototype (SW).
Boat Torch can be crafted in Hamlet (HAM).
These items/structures now drop items when hammered/deconstructed:

Spiderhat, Palace's Watch Tower, Swinesbury Academy, Farm House, Quarry Lodgings, Mandrake Hill and Intricate Topiary.
Creatures changes:

The Ancient Guardian fight has been redesigned (ALL).
Batilisks now drop Batilisk Wings more frequently (ALL).
Bees and Killer Bees now need to be closer to their targets to hit them (ALL).
Tallbirds without a nest will now make a new nest, but only on rocky, dirt or magma turf (ALL).
Changed the time for Tallbirds to lay a new egg to be more inline with other food sources (ALL).
Shadow Hands (the campfire stealing hands) no longer trigger spider creep (ALL).
Deerclops’s attack area more accurately reflects the FX (RoG, SW, HAM).
Dragoons now drop Dragoon Hearts more frequently (SW).
Fire Packim Baggims now no longer attacks monster mobs, and instead helps the player by attacking their target (SW).
Snakes and Flup can now be trapped (SW, HAM).
Adult and teen Doydoys will now float when dropped over water (SW, HAM).
Nightmare creatures, Ghosts and companions no longer trigger traps in Hamlet ruins (HAM).
Rabid Beetles, Vampire Bats and Royal Guards are now susceptible to the Deep Rainforest poisonous gas (HAM).
City pigmans now walk home during the dusk, preventing them from getting stuck in walls (HAM).
The Worker pigman will no longer spawn to repair player built structures (HAM).
Bees and butterflies are now affected by the Bug B'Gone's poison cloud (HAM).
Hamlet's economy changes (HAM):

Platapine Quills are now tradable with the Collector Pigman.
Hippopotamoose Antlers are now tradable with the Hunter Pigman.
The Trawl Net Blueprint can now be purchased in the Tinkerer's Tower.
Sewing Kits can now be purchased in the Sow's Ear Hat Shop.
Ice staff, Red staff, Chill amulet, Glow Berry and Down Feather had their price reduced in Hamlet shops. Gears and Halberd had their price increased.
Bug Fixes:

Art fixes:

Fixed a misplaced bubble in some Quacken animations (SW).
Fixed Willow's missing dark eye circle when sailing (SW, HAM).
Fixed Wimpy Wolfgang face position when sailing (SW, HAM).
Fixed Abigail not despawning when hit by Wendy (ALL).

Fixed being able to use the bug net while riding a beefalo (ALL).

Fixed Beefalos losing aggro too quickly (ALL).

Fixed Splumonkey Pods shaking while burned (ALL).

Fixed plants playing the barren animation transition even though they are already playing the barren animation (ALL).

Fixed some missing world customization texts (ALL).

Fixed boomerang sometimes stopping in mid-air when dropped (ALL).

Fixed Water Beefalo walking over water (SW).

Fixed the Tiger Shark staying invincible in some cases (SW).

Fixed picking up mussels from the ground using the long animation (SW).

Fixed Wilbur, while running, showing the hand equipment in his tail when he shouldn't (SW).

Fixed Quackering Ram not breaking Coral Reefs that had the mineable part mined by it (SW).

Fixed Sandbag's placement grid when outside Shipwrecked (SW, HAM).

Fixed being able to place aquatic structures too close to each other (SW, HAM).

Fixed floating Abigail's Flower animation being frozen (SW, HAM).

Fixed physical attacks poisoning the player, despite doing damage to the boat (SW, HAM).

Fixed manure sometimes not visually floating correctly (SW, HAM).

Fixed traveling between worlds not dropping special items from backpacks (SW, HAM).

Fixed Werebeaver drowning animation not playing correctly (SW, HAM).

Fixed the Hay Fever overlay appearing immediately on the first Hay fever (HAM).

Fixed Webber's inspection lines for Vortex Cloak and Dark Tatters inverted. (HAM).

Fixed Sandbags and walls blocking passage when broken and in interiors (HAM).

Fixed Sandbags blocking passage when broken after save-load (HAM).

Fixed a wrong compatibility text on the mods screen (HAM).

Fixed the Key to the City crafting tab constantly disappearing when the item was in backpacks (HAM).

Fixed missing floating animation for "Pig Skin?" (HAM).

Fixed Gnats making their nest over water (HAM).

Fixed Vipers losing aggro on water targets (HAM).

Fixed the player walking awkwardly when trying to enter a door in interiors (HAM).

Fixed Hippopotamoose’s freeze effect not fitting their model (HAM).

Fixed an issue with irreplaceable items stored in the Root Trunk before the update dropping at world origin (HAM).
Notes for Modders:

A new function: RegisterInventoryItemAtlas is now available in the mod environment.
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26 Jan 2023Developer post
[Beta Update] Huge Bug Fix Beta Available Now!
Hello everybody! Surprise! We have a big bug fix update for you all. This is pretty substantial, so we’re going to put this on a beta branch for you all to check out before we push it out to the live version. Instructions for switching to beta versions on Steam can be found here
Hello everybody!
Surprise! We have a big bug fix update for you all.
This is pretty substantial, so we’re going to put this on a beta branch for you all to check out before we push it out to the live version.
Instructions for switching to beta versions on Steam can be found here.
We have set up a new bug tracker for Don’t Starve that can be found here.
Please check it out and let us know any issues that you run into.
The acronym in parentheses at the end of each change/bug fix refers to which DLCs this change/bug fix is applied to:

Base: the vanilla game, no DLCs.
RoG: Reign of Giants.
SW: Shipwrecked.
HAM: Hamlet.
ALL: all of the above
Changes

Added inspection lines for bee box stages (ALL).
The Fryfocals fire rate has been lowered a bit, based on other weapons (ALL).
Lazy Explorer can no longer be spammed and has its own effects (ALL).
Monkey houses will release all monkeys when set on fire (ALL).
Houndius Shootius will no longer target others Houndius Shootius (ALL).
Some minor changes to the mods screen text positions/colors (ALL).
Many popups now support the cancel key to close them (“ESC” by default) (ALL).
Players can now collect, pick up items, craft and load weapons while mounted on beefalos (ALL).
Deployables can now be placed from a tiny distance (SW, HAM).
Wood Fence, Wood Gate, Mini Sign and Feather Pencil now floats (SW, HAM).
The Volcanic and Ancient crafting tabs will be both available when using the Brain of Thought hat on non-Hamlet compatible saves (SW).
Map-exclusive recipes are now learned when prototyped and thus available for crafting on other maps (SW, HAM).
Some staffs can now cast on land while the player is sailing (SW, HAM).
Added distance to the placement of wood fences and gates, like walls (SW, HAM).
The Fire Packim Baggims will no longer attack monster characters, like Webber (SW).
Packim Baggims will not trigger spider webs and will not be slowed by them (SW).
The gas mask now applies a special voice effect (HAM).
The Root Trunk UI is now in the screen’s center, like other chests (HAM).
Sprinkler Pipes don't block placement anymore (HAM).
Bug Fixes

Minor corrections to the Chinese translation (ALL).
Fixes some craft tab popup’s alignments and an issue with the tabs layering (ALL).
Clicking "random" in character selection now no longer shows the random character (ALL).
The weather pain’s tornado now ignores spider webs while moving (RoG, SW, HAM).
The torch can set mobs on fire as intended now (Base, RoG).
Fixes not being able to feed beefalos with twigs (Base).
Deerclops will no longer spawn so early in winter (RoG).
Fireflies can no longer be captured during the day with the action key (Base, RoG).
Ground-shaking attacks (Bearger, Thumper, etc) will no longer damage the same mob multiple times (Base, RoG).
Fixes a crash caused by using weather pain or explosives on sunken relics, fireflies and others (RoG, SW, HAM).
Added Wee MacTusk missing loot and fixes a crash related to Navigadget (ALL).
Fixes a rare bug that caused Pig and Wildbore houses’s light to stay on during the day (ALL).
Hovering over entities with separate parts (fish farms, farms, wood gates, aporkalypse calendar) will apply the whitish effect to all parts (ALL).
Mobs that deal reflective damage when attacked (jellyfish, charged volt goat, etc) no longer do damage when attacked with ranged attacks (ice/fire staffs, fry goggles, etc) (RoG, SW, HAM).
Fixes an issue where the character's portrait was not loaded correctly, displaying Wilson, when using the ESC key to go back from the world details popup (RoG, SW, HAM).
The poop position when it is pooped by mobs (beefalo, koalefant, etc) will come out on the back of the mob now (ALL).
Fixes mobs getting heat from nearby things and starting to burn if it was previously extinguished (RoG, SW, HAM).
Character-exclusive structures will drop their loot when broken/deconstructed by another character (ALL).
Beeswax will now melt properly. (RoG, SW, HAM).
The farm placement view will now show its decorations and not just the soil (ALL).
Werepigs/wildbores will not revert to normal at day time if the cause of the transformation was not a full moon (ALL).
Mobs can now unfreeze by heat properly (ALL).
Fixes Moleworm being able to be picked up without being stunned in some situations (ALL).
Boomerangs caught mid-air (Eye Plant, Lazy Forager) will no longer act as if they were still in the thrown state (ALL).
Removes collision upon death for some mobs and prevents them from sliding over the ground on death animation (ALL).
Farm crops will no longer wither when protected by Ice Flingomatic (RoG, SW).
Many structures that spawn mobs, after being set on fire and extinguished, will spawn mobs again correctly (ALL).
Ghosts will no longer attempt to attack Mandrakes (ALL).
Ghosts will no longer deal damage while dying (ALL).
Fixes a crash related to ghosts (ALL).
Extinguishing explosives will interrupt their burning sound (ALL).
Foliage is no longer invisible (Base, RoG).
The following characters will no longer be invisible on Maxwell's throne: Woodie, Wagstaff, Wheeler, Webber and Wigfrid (ALL).
Thumper and Telipad now have their sounds when not used by Wagstaff (ALL).
Wes animations will not have a strange symbol in place of the hand (Base, RoG).
Unlearnable blueprints will no longer drop (ALL).
Crock Pot will now drop everything in its slots when destroyed (ALL).
Ice Flingomatic will no longer target Limpet Rocks endlessly (SW).
Flup can now respawn correctly (SW).
Woodlegs’s hat will no longer spawn treasures when repaired (SW).
Flowers can no longer be planted in water and interiors (SW, HAM).
Tropical Fan will no longer have the Luxury Fan texture while used on boats (SW, HAM).
The Luxury/Tropical Fan now has its sounds while used on boats (SW, HAM).
Swordfish will no longer chase its target forever (SW).
Doydoy will be able to eat cut grass and twigs as intended (SW, HAM).
Teen Doydoy will no longer grow when picked up in certain situations (SW, HAM).
Weather pain’s tornado no longer affects items in inventories, such as chopping coconuts (RoG, SW, HAM).
Shadow Hand will no longer be prevented from crossing the invisible water’s barrier on shipwrecked worlds (SW, HAM).
The in-water surfboard now drops its loot when broken/deconstructed (SW).
Poop thrown by Wilbur will no longer have a break effect when thrown into water (SW).
Wagstaff will have his special voice effect while sailing (SW, HAM).
Dropped fishes will no longer skip the kicking animation (SW, HAM).
Added missing dead animation and missing components for fish farm's fishes (SW, HAM).
Sealnado will no longer ignore the player if they are too close. (SW).
Sealnado will no longer collect irreplaceable items (SW).
Properly remove the boat and sail speed bonus when climbing the volcano (SW).
The Palm Treeguard's attack range and damage now scale correctly with their size (SW, HAM).
Fixed Boat Knight and Palm Treeguard ranged attack from causing a fake hurt sound and activating equipment, such as the vortex cloak (SW, HAM).
Volcano lava can no longer be removed with pitchfork (SW).
Fixed ambient sound from higher DLCs in lower DLCs. For example: turfs from HAM will have their ambient sounds when placed in SW or RoG maps. (SW, HAM).
Mob attacks on Fish Farms are no longer removed after save-load (SW, HAM).
Fish farm’s sign no longer overlap the boat (SW, HAM).
Properly removes character-unique speed modifiers on world jump (Wilbur debuff, WX-78 overcharge, etc) (SW, HAM).
Poison will be cured on world jumping (SW, HAM).
The Dragon Egg's impact marks are at ground level now, not showing over other things (SW, HAM).
Fruit Medley and Ratatouille can no longer be cooked with fish ingredients (SW, HAM).
Fixes the issue of "ghost" ice and hail, not being able to be picked up (SW, HAM).
Fixes a problem with Relics being stuck in inventory after loading in SW (HAM).
Meat/fish dropped in water will no longer trigger mobs spawn on world loading (SW).
Obsidian tools will not lose their charge on world loading (SW).
Fish shoals now have their own inspection lines (SW).
Fixes Krissure’s bloom only occurring on the first eruption (SW).
Tiger Shark jump attack will no longer break/cut things in the player's inventory (SW).
Sunken items can properly be retrieved with Trawl Net (SW, HAM).
Water Beefalo (Ox) will stop chasing its target if it enters the ocean (outside the mangrove biome) instead of trying to return to the herd and attack at the same time (SW).
Added some missing inspection lines in SW compatible worlds (SW).
Fixes Snake Den looking fully grown when it is actually withered or chopped down (SW, HAM).
Portable Crock Pot now uses the “Place” deploy verb, instead of "Plant" (SW, HAM).
The seaweed plant will no longer have a frozen animation when planted (SW).
Palm Treeguard and Floaty Boaty Knight attacks will no longer hit shadow creatures (SW, HAM).
Gobblers will no longer be able to hide in limpet rocks or coffee bushes (SW, HAM).
Flup and Sharkitten will not burn to ashes anymore (like items do). They now also have panicky behavior while burning (SW).
Raw Fish will drop cooked instead of turning to ash when a mob that drops it dies while burning (SW, HAM).
Flups will no longer be on the surface when you load a world near them (SW).
Decreases the occurrence of a rare bug that causes plants and trees to remain in a frozen wind blow animation. (SW, HAM).
Saplings now sways normally after being blown by the wind, rather than standing still (SW, HAM).
Ice Maker 3000 will not produce more ice than it should when off screen (SW, HAM).
Fixes Ice Maker 3000 going partially invisible when hammered. (SW, HAM).
Land shadow creatures will no longer reappear over water (SW, HAM).
Swimming Horror will no longer teleport to the same spot when hit in lily ponds (HAM).
City pigmans, pigmans and wildbores will not gift Wilba every time the game is loaded (HAM).
Attempting to load a Pew-Matic Horn that is already full will no longer corrupt the save after save-exit (HAM).
Fixes Pew-Matic Horn shoot animation playing in melee attacks if the weapon was never loaded after the save load (HAM).
Spider monkeys will no longer infest a new tree on every map load (HAM).
Crocodog’s raid world setting now works correctly in Hamlet-compatible saves (HAM).
Fixes an inconsistent shadow in Grabbing Vine idle (HAM).
Fixes Navigadget showing the last equipment in the unequipping animation (HAM).
Smelter will now drop everything in its slots when destroyed (HAM).
Fixes load issues with Nettle Plant’s production time (HAM).
Fixes some frozen Lotus Plant animations (HAM).
Hides some Slanty Shanty's build preview details (snow and boards) (HAM).
Corrects the position of one of the lawn decorations in a setpiece present in cities (HAM).
Fixes third arm in Werewilba form after some animations (HAM).
Each Lawn Decoration now has its own name (HAM).
Fixes mouse over selection for Lawn Decorations and Topiaries (HAM).
Fixes snow position for Lawn Decorations and Topiaries (HAM).
Fixes a crash related to the Root Trunk’s item storage entity being destroyed. (HAM).
Shop Keepers will not get stuck on shop pedestals anymore (HAM).
Vipers that fall from trees will target the tree shopper as intended (HAM).
Sprinkler Pipes don't block the Sprinkler mouse over after load anymore (HAM).
Pig Fiesta will no longer last forever after save-load. This fix will be applied to existing worlds as well. (HAM).
Pig Fiesta will end if a new aporkalypse begins (HAM).
The effects of hay fever will not take 200 days to disappear if the first aporkalypse happens in the lush season.
Temperate season will not always be the season at the end of the aporkalypse, which used to happen after save-load (HAM).
Things will no longer spawn too close to water in Hamlet’s world generation (HAM).
Glowfly will no longer cocoon near water, preventing Rabid Beetle from spawning in water (HAM).
Added missing animation on open Cork Chest (HAM).
When cutting down or burning down Piko's tree, he will now try to find another home (HAM).
Piko will no longer steal unrecoverable items, such as Lucy or teleportato parts (HAM).
Fixes Life Giving Amulet not showing up in the resurrection animation for Wilba (HAM).
Fixes the player getting pushed when dying in Hamlet compatible worlds (HAM).
Fixes an issue with Seaworthy or Skyworthy placed on volcano or in caves (HAM).
Werewilba will no longer make a shovel sound when digging something (HAM).
Feijoada can no longer be cooked without meat if one of the Bean Bugs is cooked (HAM).
Platapine and Poison Dartfrog will no longer become invisible when frozen (HAM).
Wormwood can no longer catch fire while using Living Artifact (HAM).
Wormwood will perform its special animations when fertilizing itself and crafting a living log while on a boat (HAM).
Eating Poison Dartfrog Legs or Tubers while wearing Seashell Suit or Horned Helmet now correctly poisons the player (HAM).
Fixes a crash caused by Firecrackers ignited inside containers (HAM).
Brambles will no longer spawn so close to water (HAM).
Fixes Wx-78’s overcharge sound not playing on Hamlet compatible worlds (HAM).
Setting Vampire Bats to "never" in world settings now prevents them from spawning in all situations (HAM).
Queen Womant’s loot will no longer get stuck on her throne (HAM).
Added missing lost relic’s textures when retrieved for "The Blue Sow" and "The Jeweled Truffle” (HAM).
Fixed a non-looping Reeds animation (HAM).
Pig City will now correctly give naughtiness points when killed (HAM).
Hamlet interiors fixes (HAM):

Fixes hurricane storms resetting after entering and exiting an interior (HAM).
Resurrect between interiors and exteriors now works correctly. For example: dying in Hamlet and resurrecting inside an interior in Shipwrecked. (HAM).
Fixes Portable Crock Pot and Smelter’s light always on when in an interior (HAM).
Fixes a crash related to burnt Crock Pots in interiors (HAM).
Fixes a crash related to building interior doors with the action key (space bar by default) (HAM).
All interior crafts can now be correctly positioned with the action key (HAM).
Hedges, fences and sandbags will no longer be visually angled wrongly when leaving an interior (HAM).
It is no longer possible to place deployables inside interior walls (HAM).
Prevents loot from getting stuck inside interior walls (HAM).
Iron Hulk pieces fixes (HAM):

They will no longer attempt to use the jump attack if their target is in water (HAM).
Fixes the light staying on sometimes when they deactivate (HAM).
They will now look in the direction they will fire their laser attack (HAM).
Destroyed city structures fixes (HAM):

Will have their correct inspection lines.
They will not get an invalid name after reloading the world (or just exist in the case of Topiaries) and didn't become invisible after the second world reload.
Tamed beefalo fixes:

Fixes many actions that made the character invisible and frozen (ALL).
Weather pain and Lazy Explorer cast animations will no longer use beefalo's attack animation (ALL).
Prevents the player from remounting right after being thrown away (ALL).
The player will perform the sneeze, poison and cold animations properly (ALL).
The height of the player's quotes is adjusted with its height (ALL).
Meele attacks no longer use the equipped weapon (durability and damage) (ALL).
Mini sign fixes:

The mouse now tries to ignore mini signs. Solving the issue with mini signs and chests in the same place (ALL).
Will no longer draw the utility "shelf_slot" entity (HAM).
Can now be only drawn with nearby items, as intended (ALL).
Can no longer be placed on water (SW, HAM).
Lazy Forager fixes:

Can no longer pick up sunken relics and stuck them in the player's inventory (HAM).
Has its own visual effects (ALL).
Items taken from a stack will visually come from the stack and not from a random position on screen (ALL).
Bundle Wrap Fixes:

Can now be used while sailing (SW, HAM).
Improved animation timing, added sounds and effects (ALL).
Floating bundles and wax paper on non-Hamlet saves will no longer be invisible (SW).
Does not allow irreplaceable items to be packaged (ALL).
Can now be unwrapped when on ground (SW, HAM).
Fixes the position in which the items come/go from the container on the screen (ALL).
Items will no longer fly away from the bundle when you open it (ALL).
It now has its own wrapping animation (ALL).
Fryfocals fixes:

The projectile will come out of the glasses when using it mounted on a beefalo (ALL).
Shock damage caused by using it while wet will no longer be doubled (ALL).
Will use the correct attack animation while sailing (SW, HAM).
Wood fences/gates fixes:

Can no longer be placed in water in non-Hamlet worlds (SW).
Added the missing texts for opening, closing and placing (ALL).
Will not have their drops doubled after being broken by charged obsidian tools (SW).
Improved positioning preview accuracy (ALL).
Telebrella fixes:

On the last use, it will only disappear after the teleportation animation ends (ALL).
Fixes player bloom and shadow in teleport animation (ALL).
The boat will not visually disappear on teleport anymore while on a boat (SW, HAM).
Trees fixes:

Tree seeds, after being set on fire and extinguished will no longer be automatically planted (ALL).
Birchnut and tea tree stumps will no longer become non-flammable when the player moves away from them (RoG, HAM).
Vipers will drop from Cocooned trees, instead of normal snakes, when the tree is set on fire (HAM).
Tuber tree fixes (HAM):

The bloom will remain after save-load if any tubes have already been collected.
The amount of tubes will be visually applied after the save-load.
Fixes some crashes with stumps and burnt trees trying to bloom.
Can now be collected after save-load if any tubes have already been collected.
Now swings normally after being hit.
Fixes the bloom not ending at the end of the lush season in some cases.
Notes for Modders:

The icon_atlas in a recipe tab with multi-tab support will be used in the multi-tab now (HAM).
SGdungbeetle is now accessible via the AddStategraphPostInit function (HAM).
New console commands were added.
Added autocomplete feature for console commands.
Updated some data definitions to be mod friendly, accessible by these new files:
trawlnet_loot_defs;
slotmachine_loot_defs;
pig_shop_defs;
pig_trades_defs.
This update will first be made available on PC, but we’ll working on getting this out to other platforms as well.
We've setup a new bug tracker for Don’t Starve, so feel free to report them on the Bug Tracker! Please make sure to be specific and clear in your bug reports including which DLCs are enabled.
Please focus on bugs and feedback for this beta for now. We will be looking at additional feedback after this beta for an additional QOL update in the future and we'll update with more details about that in the future.
Have fun!
Original post
23 Jan 2021PCGamesN
Don't Starve developer "will retain autonomy" as Tencent buys majority stake
Klei Entertainment, the developer of Don't Starve , says Tencent buying a majority stake won't change a whole lot for the studio. The indie game makers will "retain full autonomy" amid the new ownership. In a post on Klei's official forum , founder and CEO Jamie Cheng confirmed t
23 Jan 2021Eurogamer
Don't Starve dev Klei Entertainment insists it "retains full autonomy" after Tencent buys majority stake
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22 Jan 2021GamingOnLinux
Tencent now own majority stake in Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included creator Klei
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22 Jan 2021Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Tencent have bought a majority stake in Don't Starve developers Klei Entertainment
Klei Entertainment, developers of indie hits Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included have announced today that they've agreed for Tencent, the media conglomerate that's been doing quite a lot of buying, to purchase a majority stake in the company. Klei founders say that they will ke
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Tencent have bought a majority stake in Don't Starve developers Klei Entertainment
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The best survival games on PC
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03 Sep 2020Developer post
[Game Update] Hamlet - 428605 to 429404
- 429404 Updated the less photosensitive lightning effects for DLCs - 428605 Changed the lightning visuals to be less harmful photosensitive eyes. Added a "Screen Flashes" option in settings to adjust the effect.
[Game Update] - 429404

Updated the less photosensitive lightning effects for DLCs
[Game Update] - 428605

Changed the lightning visuals to be less harmful photosensitive eyes.
Added a "Screen Flashes" option in settings to adjust the effect.
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03 Sep 2020Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Have you played… Don't Starve?
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The best building games on PC
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Games like Minecraft 16 best games like Minecraft from the past ten years
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25 Jun 2019Developer post
[Game Update] Hamlet - 345820 to 379591
Bug Fixes: Player will wait until after landing on a boat to sneeze. Fixed a graphic bug with fence gates when exiting interiors. Insulated sac, sea sack and gold rock gets a minimap icon. Pathfinding should now work better in interiors. Fixed bug where minimap sometimes didn't p
Bug Fixes:

Player will wait until after landing on a boat to sneeze.
Fixed a graphic bug with fence gates when exiting interiors.
Insulated sac, sea sack and gold rock gets a minimap icon.
Pathfinding should now work better in interiors.
Fixed bug where minimap sometimes didn't properly uncover traversed areas.
Can pick up items on the ground near un-sprung tooth traps now.
Fixed a spelling error on the Batilisk Wing?.
Thumper’s minimap icon fixed.
Dense turf will grow tall grass.
Fixed crash at the beginning of adventure mode prologue
Life vest and amulet will save the player on water in Hamlet.
Wheeler tracker won’t steal an item when a second is given to it anymore.
Poison Frog Legs and Tubers won’t bother WX anymore.
Fixed player boat crashing into shoreline when beardhair or dense jungleturf was placed on edge of lilypond.
Bramble Armor will protect Wormwood from Cacti and Spiky Bushes.
Bat Bat added to magic tab in Hamlet.
Fixed very high awake entity counts, especially near waterfalls.
Electric Isosceles won’t transport land based followers.
Webber won’t attack neutral spiders with the attack key now.
Pigs shouldn’t get stuck on city structures so much.
Fixed a graphic problem with the pig totem torch.
Roc won’t try and break non breakable structures.
Roc won’t land when you are on the edge of the jungle and sky.
Farmplot art will refresh properly on save/load
City Pig houses minimap icon fixed
Fixed some bugs with Ballphin Palace
Fixed potential humongous memory spike on world load when worldhopping.
The Doy Doy feather is actually tradeable now.
[Game Update] - 346255
Bug Fixes:

Fixed a sound glitch in the Volcano
[Game Update] - 346513
Bug Fix:

Fixed the burnt farm plot crash
[Game Update] - 346868
Bug Fix:

Fix for crash in seasonmanager when under attack in a Hamlet compatible ROG world
[Game Update] - 347153
Bug Fix:

Fix for sound problem caused by rabid beetles
[Game Update] - 347667
Bug Fix:

Fix potential infinite loop on load
[Game Update] - 354558
Bug Fixes:

Fix potential crash on load with burnt farmplot.
Wormwood will not catch fire when hit by lightning while wearing insulating gear in non-Hamlet worlds as well.
[Game Update] - 357353
Update:

Added official Chinese language support
Bug Fix:

Fix an issue with targeting a boat cannon while using a controller
[Game Update] - 379591
Update:

Fixed Catalina support
Added support for Apple's new notarization procedure
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14 Jun 2019Developer post
[Game Update] Hamlet - 343524
We've added a new Performance setting in Settings called Dynamic Asset Loading. It saves memory by loading certain data as needed, and unloading it when it’s not used for a while. Like most optimizations there’s a trade-off - while the dynamic loading decreases memory usage signi
We've added a new Performance setting in Settings called Dynamic Asset Loading. It saves memory by loading certain data as needed, and unloading it when it’s not used for a while. Like most optimizations there’s a trade-off - while the dynamic loading decreases memory usage significantly it also means the game has to load assets in the background - depending on your hardware this may be noticeable. The game needs a restart for any change to the asset loading to take effect.
Bug Fixes
Added a “Dynamic Asset Loading” feature to reduce the memory usage on some machines*
Improved performance of Tall Grass.
Fixed graphic bug when punching with Bug B’Gone
Pugalisk Gaze will now freeze birds, butterflies, bees, fish and some other things it didn’t before.
Frozen flytraps won’t go to sleep now.
Flower of life sparkles won’t block building placement
Minimap icons for Wheeler’s Tracker, Pew-Matic, Bramble Core and Spiky Bush
2nd Aporkalypse ends properly now.
Toucans won’t land in Mangrove biomes now.
Roc Egg won’t world hop, like the gizzard stone.
Fixed Silver Necklace floating anim and minimap icon.
Krampus can’t steal some things he shouldn’t be able to now.
Flower of Life just burns to ash now.
Gnats can be frozen by flingomatic.
Controller players can eat again with non-Wormwood characters in Hamlet compatible worlds.
Using the Deconstruction Staff on pig city items will remove them completely, no reconstruction project left behind.
Ancient Pickaxe won’t destroy a coral before it can be hammered now.
Wormwood will gain sanity planting seeds in a farmplot now.
Butterfly spawners don’t block placement.
Fixed the ruins and jungle seasonal music.
Queen Womant plays boss fight music now.
Fixed a caps problem with Wilba’s speech/
The Magic Water will cure poison.
Fixed a “double hair” bug on the character anim
Capped vampire bats that will collect in caves.
Pig Beautician will accept Doy Doy Feathers.
Fixed minimap texture for dense turf.
Corkboat will float if the player sinks while holding one
Fixed hover text on the Tar Lamp
Fixed some Wheeler tracker bugs so it will track more items now.
Changed Lily Pad collision so things won’t get stuck in the middle of them.
Vampire Bats will drop bat wings occasionally now.
Fixed a bug with hounds spawning where they shouldn’t.
Fixed bug where Ro-bin could randomly disappear when the gizzard stone was left in an interior.
Fixed a graphic problem with the size of the some of the growable products.
Fixed a problem with hounds arriving too soon after jumping back to an ROG world.
Fences can only be built on land now.
Fences are now taken into consideration for pathfinding,
Wheeler won’t always dodge towards things she’s attacking now.
Wheeler’s dodge target moves faster for controllers now.
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06 Jun 2019Developer post
[Game Update] Hamlet - 341281
Bug Fixes Pig town is more consistent now. Shouldn’t have missing pig palaces Fixed issue where the “Travel” option would not show on teleportato in adventure mode when playing with controller. The Camera will zoom back out after Wilba’s transformations. Fixed controller hint sho
Bug Fixes

Pig town is more consistent now. Shouldn’t have missing pig palaces
Fixed issue where the “Travel” option would not show on teleportato in adventure mode when playing with controller.
The Camera will zoom back out after Wilba’s transformations.
Fixed controller hint showing “MISSING NAME” when near a bramble site.
Fixed examine string for cave entrance on ROC island.
Only Wormwood will see the Plant action with seeds when using a controller.
Partially constructed Robot can be teleported.
Reduced memory spike on save.
Dryrack in interiors will still work when it’s raining outside.
Controllers won’t detect depleted sparkling pools.
Fixed another way rain could stop prematurely when leaving an interior
Ancient Robots won’t push the telelocator Focus around now.
Ancient Robots can’t leave the world bounds now.
Ancient Hulk’s laser spin should cause less lag now.
Walls can now be placed on sparkling puddles.
Dung piles won’t land in the water or thin air now.
Wilba’s silver necklace will stop draining sanity when Wilba is safe from Werepigism.
Vortex Cloak float animation fixed
Root Trunk minimap icon fixed
Ro Bin won’t disappear when left alone in a room
Bramble Sites can be built on now.
Investigated mysteries will survive a save/load
Navigadget can be dropped after an attempt to put it into the Pew-matic is made.
Base Fan doesn’t work when off now.
Gnats can be carried to other worlds when infesting a character who uses the Skyworthy or Seaworthy
Minimap icon for player’s city hall fixed.
Cooked Tubers are now actually cooked.
Payment can come from a backpack when shopping.
Pig Bandit will include contents of the players backpack now when deciding to mug them.
Flower of Life’s health penalty as a resurrector fixed.
Fixed a layering issue with doors and columns.
Added Hedge item examine strings.
Fixed the spawning of multiple Bramble Cores on save/load
Pig won’t forget they paid tax on a save/load
[Game Update] Hamlet - 341620
Bug Fixes:

The Thumper still sometimes misses stuff, but now it’s not always the same things.
Controller won’t allow character to dismount boatsinto clouds now.
Peagawk Feather is not mole food.
Weather Pain works on hackable things
Ancient Robots will join together again.
Boat Repair Kit added to Hamlet recipes.
One man band and spider hat won’t befriend corpses.
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Updates & announcements

Quality of Life Update

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New Mechanics:

New Crock Pot ingredients:

The following items have had their stats changed:

Crafting recipes changes:

These items/structures now drop items when hammered/deconstructed:

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Hamlet's economy changes (HAM):

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Notes for Modders:

Changes

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Notes for Modders:

[Game Update] - 429404

[Game Update] - 428605

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[Game Update] - 346255

Bug Fixes:

[Game Update] - 346513

Bug Fix:

[Game Update] - 346868

Bug Fix:

[Game Update] - 347153

Bug Fix:

[Game Update] - 347667

Bug Fix:

[Game Update] - 354558

Bug Fixes:

[Game Update] - 357353

Update:

Bug Fix:

[Game Update] - 379591

Update:

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

[Game Update] Hamlet - 341620

Bug Fixes: