Don't Starve Together News

Wormwood the Lonesome is set to arrive in the Constant next week!


(Some details may change before launch but this is what we are expecting. Notable changes in DST are marked with an asterisk*)

• 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 and the Roseate, Oasis Bound and Hollow skin sets.
  
• You can weave Wormwood for 2700 spool.

And of course, we will have a new Wormwood animated short and more details When Wormwood launches on June 6th. But for now, here is a nice image from the next animated short!

Originally posted by Bigfoot on the official forums.

Hey folks!

With the Willow refresh newly launched, it’s time for the next phase: new game content! I’d like to update you all on our current plan.


Over the next several months, we’ll be releasing a series of game updates available to all players, under the single thematic focus entitled “Return of Them”.

Charlie’s machinations have come to a head as she turns her attention towards the skies - and the mysterious entity that awaits there. Our Survivors will be forced to contend with terrifying monstrosities beyond their comprehension, and yet, there may be a silver lining: their minds and horizons will be expanded under the sublime light of an ancient moon.

Here is an overview of what is available in our first update, Turn of Tides:

• Added a new multiplayer-centric boat mechanic, where players can build and deck out a boat for multiple survivors to travel together on
  
• Added a new boating craft menu
  
• Added the Lunar Island
  
• Added Enlightenment
  
• Added 3 new Lunar Island biomes, along with new creatures, objects, and craftables
  
• For this first update, we’ve focused primarily on building the fundamental tech and infrastructure for Return of Them. Please know that we expect this update to be a bit content light, and over the following months we will be adding more content to both the islands and the sea.
  

Turn of Tides is available to play in a beta branch today, and will officially launch on June 20th.

Hey everyone!

Here we are with our second character update! We have a few things to share, from Willow’s character refresh, to new skin sales and Twitch campaign.

Here we go!

From the Ashes
Every character has their story, and with each refresh, we will be revealing a bit more of their past. See what memories Willow has to share with you in our latest short:



Willow Refresh
With the memories of her tragic past reignited, Willow has tapped into formidable powers for her childhood friend and protector, Bernie, as well as receiving full fire immunity and other bonuses.

• Willow is now immune to fire damage.
  
• Willow is now more easily frozen (e.g. by Ice Staves or Deerclops).
  
• Willow no longer gets cold from low sanity.
  
• Winter gear is slightly less effective at keeping Willow warm.
  
• Willow takes more damage and loses sanity at freezing temperatures.
  
• Willow takes longer to overheat and less damage when overheated.
  
• Willow takes no burn damage while extinguishing smoldering fires and does it faster than others.
  
• Adding fuel to fires is 50% more effective.
  
• Bernie can now be equipped by Willow for sanity and warmth at the cost of durability.
  
• Bernie grows big and will taunt and fight most hostile creatures when Willow is nearby and insane.
  
• Bernie will still taunt Shadow Creatures when any other player is nearby and insane.
  
• In addition, Willow still gains sanity near fire and can still cook with her Lighter.
  

Willow’s Guest of Honor, Triumphant, Survivor and Rose Skins can now be purchased and are all now available for purchase. All owners of these classic skins prior to today are now upgraded to an “Heirloom” rarity, with full unraveling value (that is, an Heirloom Elegant can be unraveled for 1350 spool).

Willow also has some new items that can be dropped, weaved or purchased.



The Ghastly Attic Chest can be purchased for $3.99 and contains Ashley, The Cursed Sterling Lighter and the Baleful Lace Parasol. The Willow Deluxe Wardrobe contains 5 of Willow's item sets, including the new "Forlorn Doll" set for $12.99

Drop Changes
We have removed icons, vignettes and profile backgrounds from the drop table. These items are still weaveable, however you will no longer receive them as drops. In addition, we have added about 100 color and slight variants of many existing common drops.

Originally we added the icons, vignettes and profile backgrounds so that we had more items to collect, but as many of these items were seasonal items, it gave the appearance that these were being dropped unintentionally.

New Twitch Campaign
We are getting ready for a new twitch campaign with an entirely new theme.



Check out this post for more details.

That's all we have for you this time. As always we will be watching your feedback and bug reports. Have fun out there!

For more details (and the full update notes) see the official forums at: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/game-updates/dst/331773-r747/

• Fixed random crashes that were happening on some servers.
  
• Fixed some combat targeting bugs for BERNIE!
  
• Fixed bug where Willow’s freeze resist changes after she dies and resurrects.
  
• Fixed bug where Willow was not receiving the full sanity bonus from fires.
  
• Fixed animation bug when Willow is electrocuted while using The Forlorn Doll skin.
  

• Fixed string names for Driving Gloves.
  
• Fixed moonwalking Bernie.
  
• There can only be one active BERNIE! per Willow player, but they can now activate near each other.
  
• Willow’s fuel perk now applies to Night Lights.
  
• Updated Willow’s perk strings in the character selection screen.
  
• Using a Deconstruction Staff on a Gobbler, Varg, or Pig Shrine will now drop available offerings.
  

• Fixed bug where BERNIE!, Winona’s Catapult, and Houndius Shootius can end up targeting players who attacked with a Weather Pain or Fire Darts.
  
• BERNIE! will no longer target any players that attack him on non-PvP servers.
  
• BERNIE! will target non-Willow players that attack him on PvP servers.
  

Hey Everybody,

We’re just about ready for the next Character Refresh! Willow’s Refresh will be coming May 7th.

I am going to share some of the details of her changes. Of course, this is still subject to change and will likely see some adjusting before and after release.

• Willow no longer gets cold from low sanity.
  
• Willow takes more damage and loses sanity from freezing.
  
• Willow takes less damage from overheating.
  
• Willow gets fire immunity for the first several seconds and then reduced damage thereafter.
  
• Willow takes no burn damage while extinguishing fires and does it faster than others.
  
• Adding fuel to fires is more effective for Willow.
  
• Bernie can now be equipped by Willow for sanity and warmth at the cost of durability.
  
• Bernie grows big and will taunt and fight most hostile creatures when Willow is nearby and insane.
  
• Bernie will still taunt Shadow Creatures when any other player is nearby and insane.
  
• In addition, Willow still gains sanity near fire and can still cook with her Lighter.

After going through the first few rounds of character refreshes and introducing a brand new character, we have had the chance to regroup to see how our scheduling is working out and have decided to make a few small changes. The scheduling we initially set for ourselves was too aggressive and we’ll be pulling back a bit so that the dev cycle for new content isn’t as hard on our team.

We found that our schedule was just too demanding and we want to be able to make things interesting and not just pump out stuff as fast as we can.

As of this writing our schedule looks like this:

Willow Refresh: May 7th
Content Update (beta): Mid May
Unannounced New Character: Early June
Content Update (live): Mid/Late June
Next Refresh: Mid July

NOTE: As long time fans are aware, we do not prioritize dates above content or the team, so dates are always subject to change.

We have dates set for each of these, but at this point I think it may be best to not get too ambitious with setting a date publicly. Assuming that the dust is now settled, we hope that this will be our cadence for quite some time. We’ll review again after the content update hits beta next month.

As always, we look forward to your thoughts and feedback. Thanks everybody!

Hey everyone! Today we are launching Wortox, please enjoy!


A playful imp with a colourful past, Wortox was once a gentle (if rascally) forest creature without a care in the world -- until the day he inherited a terrible curse, and lost a close friend. Unlike the other Survivors, he does not appear to be trapped in the Constant. Perhaps he views this as some sort of game?


Wortox the Soul Starved has hopped his way into the Constant to join our intrepid band of Survivors. He’s a fun, mischievous fellow with a big, kind heart… minus the fact that he eats souls for sustenance.

• Wortox catches the Souls of creatures that die around him.
  
• Souls can be used for the following abilities:
  
  • Wortox can eat delicious souls (then loses some sanity).
    
  • Wortox teleports a short distance.
    
  • Release Souls to heal nearby allies.
• Unfortunately for Wortox, his body craves Souls. Food is only ½ as sustaining.
  
• Wortox can be overloaded with Souls, causing him to drop them and lose sanity.
  
• Wortox is less afraid of monsters.
  
• Wortox can be unlocked in the following ways:

As with Winona, we will likely be tuning Wortox with balance adjustments in the future. Please let us know your thoughts and feedback!

• Wortox is available for purchase for $6.99, in the Wortox Chest.
• Wortox’s Survivor skin set is included in this chest for free.
  
• The Wortox Deluxe Chest is $10.99 and includes the Survivor, Minotaur and Uncorrupted skin sets.
  
• You can weave Wortox for 2700 spool.

These are the different Wortox outfits we are launching with:




Unfortunately we hit a bit of a snag. XboxOne will get the update today but we aren't able to get it out today for PS4. It's possible we can have it out tomorrow, but we expect it to come next week. We're sorry for the delay.
The following bundles are now available:

• Wortox Deluxe Chest
  
• Voxola Warehouse Chest
  
• All Survivors Gladiator Chest

New to this release, our in-house Chinese specialist has reviewed our entire string library (more than 25,000 strings!) and we are now officially supporting Simplified Chinese. If you have any feedback on our translation, we would be happy to hear it.


At the end of April we are planning to release the first major game update. This first update will be focused on laying the groundwork for more content. 

In addition, the next character to be refreshed will be Willow, launching at the same time as the game update.

Onward and upward!

• Armor will no longer take damage when evading an attack during Soul Hop.
  
• Sand Spikes, Relics, Balloons, Meat Bulbs, and Nightmares will no longer spawn Souls.
  
• Sand Spikes, Relics, and Balloons will no longer trigger Abigail or Wigrid’s Battleborn.
  
• Minor fixes in Wortox’s speech strings.
  
• Minor fixes for Chinese translations.

• Creatures that die in traps near Wortox will now spawn souls.
  
• Fixed animation layering bugs during Soul Hop.
  
• Fixed various Wortox skins bugs.
  
• Improved error dialog for deleted accounts.