Don't Starve Together News

Just dropping in for a quick (not-so-quick) update.

As I mentioned previously we ran into a bit of an issue that caused a delay in the live update "Turn of Tides". Long story short we had some performance issues that required a decent amount of work to correct. While it's ok on a beta branch, we did not feel comfortable putting things out to the live game in it's current state. So we thought it be good to let you all know what's been going on and where we stand.

Things worked on during the delay:

• Put in Retrofitting (Adding new content to old worlds)
  
• Improving the reaction of land creatures to the water environment. (fixing things like bosses just walking towards the player even though they are stuck on the shore)
  
• Improved creature pathfinding when dealing with the water. (So they may or may go around a body of water, fly or swim across it if they can, depending on the situation)
  
• Ocean related stability improvements. (lag)
  

In progress:

• Making sure controller is properly supported for boating
  
• Improving the visuals of the water. (Separating biomes, putting an edge to the world.)
  
• Redesigned the gameplay of boat, mast, anchor and steering wheel for more interesting Ocean navigation.
  

We have done a lot of work that will prepare for future content so we do not expect upcoming content to experience this type of delay. We expect all future content to come on a regular schedule from here on out. We will have more details on that next week.

Because of the complexity in the changes that were made to the game, we need extra time to get this update out to console. We expect this to take an additional 3-4 weeks (hopefully less), and we will update you with the expected date as soon as we submit to cert and have a better handle on what the date will be.

We are very sorry for this and we know this is going to be disappointing, but we believe that given the extent of the changes we are making to the game, we need the extra time to make sure everything is ready.


We have also been working on a few other things. These things are mostly outside of the content team and doesn't affect the current content plan, but we have something new for you today.

We have been working on a system that will allow you to collect "points" on your account by doing various things like subscribing to our Youtube or following us on Twitter and then use those points to get items. Currently we will be using this to distribute our out of cycle Twitch items rather than selling them as we had previously suggested. This allows players to get what they missed before or just get them without going through Twitch.

The first version of this can be found on our accounts page here: https://accounts.klei.com/account/rewards

In the future we will update the rewards program with new ways to earn more points and pick up cool rewards they may have missed, or even possibly entirely new stuff. Let us know what you think here.

That's all I have for now. Thanks everybody, have fun out there!

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A ship has dashed upon the shores of the island and our survivors have recovered a new member to add to their team; Warly! Armed with a variety of rare ingredients and fancy cookware, Warly can't wait to spice up the lives of his newfound taste testers... er, friends, with a full-course dinner of brand new meals and invigorating spices.

Here are his details:

• Warly can craft a Chef Pouch, which is a small backpack that also helps to preserve food items a little bit longer.
  
• Warly can craft a Portable Crock Pot, Portable Grinding Mill, and Portable Seasoning Station, usable only by him.
  
• The Portable Crock Pot cooks 25% faster and includes new exclusive dishes with unique bonuses and effects.
  
• The Portable Grinding Mill can be used to craft a variety of seasoning powders.
  
• The Portable Seasoning Station combines a prepared dish with seasoning powder to add bonus effects to the food.
  
• Warly has an increased max hunger of 250, but it decreases 20% faster than other characters.
  
• Warly can only eat prepared dishes from a Crock Pot.
  
• Warly remembers the dishes he ate for up to two days and will enjoy them less every time they are repeated.
  
• Added new vegetables, available to all characters: Toma Root, Potato, Asparagus, Pepper, Onion, and Garlic.
  
• Added several new Crock Pot recipes, available to all characters.
  

Warly is available for free for all DST players.
The Warly Deluxe Wardrobe is $7.99 and includes Warly's Roseate, Victorian and Trawler skin sets.





Next on the list of Character Refreshes is somebody we think many of you are going to be excited about. We are having a bunch of fun with this one and we hope you enjoy Woodie when his refresh comes to DST early September.

• New food recipes will now work with cooked ingredients.
  
• Added new Seeds to Catcoon’s random gifts.
  
• Improved resolution of most crops.
  
• Fixed animation bug with new crops being invisible when grown on Farms.
  
• Fixed crash when attempting to add seasoning to mod foods.
  
• Fixed crash caused by new Wardrobe Popup Screen.
  
• Fixed animation bug with Willow’s custom idle animation when using skins.
  
• Fixed animation bug with Victorian Warly’s beard.
  
• Fixed animation bug with WX-78’s Unfinished Robot Hands.
  

• Electric attacks from Volt Goat Chaud-Froid buff will now properly charge Volt Goats.
  
• Fixed animation bug with modded food being invisible in the Portable Spicer.
  
• Fixed some issues with the new Wardrobe Popup Screen.
  

A ship has dashed upon the shores of the island and our survivors have recovered a new member to add to their team; Warly! Armed with a variety of rare ingredients and fancy cookware, Warly can't wait to spice up the lives of his newfound taste testers... er, friends, with a full-course dinner of brand new meals and invigorating spices.

Here are his details:

Warly can craft a Portable Crock Pot, Portable Grinding Mill, and Portable Seasoning Station, usable only by him.
The Portable Crock Pot cooks 25% faster and includes new exclusive dishes with unique bonuses and effects.
The Portable Grinding Mill can be used to craft a variety of seasoning powders.
The Portable Seasoning Station combines a prepared dish with seasoning powder to add bonus effects to the food.
Warly has an increased max hunger of 250, but it decreases 20% faster than other characters.
Warly can only eat prepared dishes from a Crock Pot.
Warly remembers the dishes he ate for up to two days and will enjoy them less every time they are repeated.
Added new vegetables, available to all characters: Toma Root, Potato, Asparagus, Pepper, Onion, and Garlic.
Added several new Crock Pot recipes, available to all characters.
Warly is available for free for all DST players.
The Warly Deluxe Wardrobe is $7.99 and includes Warly's Roseate, Victorian and Trawler skin sets.

And, like always, Warly will have an animated short released on the same day. For now, here is some art from the making of that short.

NOTE: Steam has an issue right now and I can't post new images. So for some cool images we put together for this post head over here: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/109036-warly-makes-landfall-in-dst-next-week/

Hey Everybody,

Dropping in to let you know that Warly will be coming July 25th, I will have a post next week with details about his upcoming skins and info as usual.

In addition I hope to have more info on the upcoming content for Return of Them too.

I understand that this has left console players out of the loop here a bit but we ran into an issue in testing where we found a pretty bad memory issue related to the new oceans. We were left with a situation where we would either have to release the next update without the new ocean and boats and rearrange the lunar islands or spend a bunch of time getting that fixed up so it was good to ship soon.

So, when I have more definitive info on the next live update I will let you all know. We also are working on something else... unannounced that I hope to share soon as well that I think you will all enjoy (especially console).

Once again, sorry for all the timing issues, we're getting it sorted out. Thanks for your patience.

Though the circumstances of his creation were unusual at best, Wormwood came into this world full of optimism and curiosity, ready to make new friends and see all that life had to offer. But as time wore on and he experienced the cold sting of rejection, he came to learn what the moon above had always known: Wormwood the Lonesome does not belong here.

• Wormwood can plant Seeds directly in the ground without using Farms.
  
• In Spring, Wormwood blossoms, gaining increased movement speed, draining hunger faster, and attracting Bees.
  
• Eye Plants are friendly to Wormwood.
  
• Wormwood has a Green Thumb crafting tab:
  
  • Living Log can be created at the cost of 20 Health.
    
  • Bramble Husk provides 65% Armor and shoots out thorns when hit, dealing 23 damage in a small radius. The wearer is also protected from thorns.
    
  • Bramble Trap shoots out Thorns when triggered, dealing 40 damage in a small radius.
    
  • Compost Wrap restores 30 Health to Wormwood. It can also be used as a very potent fertilizer.
• Wormwood can use Manure, Guano, or Bucket-o-poop to fertilize himself, restoring 2 Health.
  
• Food items do not heal Wormwood.
  
• Wormwood takes 25% more damage from fire, and burns for slightly longer.*
  
• Wormwood loses sanity when plants are destroyed near him (e.g. picking flowers, completely chopping or burning down trees, digging up stumps, grass, saplings, or bushes, etc.) This excludes plants that are diseased or already burnt.
  
• Wormwood gains sanity when plants are planted near him (e.g. seeds, flowers, trees, grass, saplings, or bushes, etc.)
  
• Sanity effects from planting or destroying plants is reduced the further it happens from Wormwood.*
  

• Wormwood is available for free for all owners of Don't Starve Hamlet on Steam.
  
• Wormwood is available for purchase for $6.99 in the Wormwood Chest. Wormwood's Roseate skin set is included in this chest for free.
  
• The Wormwood Deluxe Chest is $10.99 and includes Wormwood as well as the Roseate, Oasis Bound and Hollow skin sets.
  
• You can weave Wormwood for 2700 spool.
  

With Wormwood now among new friends the team is headed toward our first big Return of Them content update titled "Turn of Tides" is coming later this month on June 20th. If you haven't checked out the content beta, you can find out more details in our roadmap post here.

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• Fixed controller bug with using items on yourself, such as eating.
  
• Fixed bug where Bramble Husk’s thorns are still triggered when the Player is mounted.
  
• Fixed missing sound FX for Wormwood’s /sleepy emote.
  
• Fixed death announcement for dying to Thorns.
  
• Fixed layering and hiding issues with Oasis Bound Legs.
  

• Added a new custom idle animation for Wortox.
  
• Fixed bug where an equipped Bernie gets damaged when Willow attacks on a mount.
  
• Fixed bug where waterproof gear did not protect Wes when crafting Pile o' Balloons.
  
• Fixed bug where Cactus destroyed by a Sinkhole did not drop Cactus Flower.
  
• Fixed inspection strings for Ancient Fuelweaver.
  
• Fixed various Wormwood skin bugs.