Don't Starve Together — patch notes and updates
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| The WX-78 Skill Spotlight Follow-up is Now Available! | 2026-04-30 | Hey Everybody!Today we have a small Follow-Up Shadow Affinity update for the WX-78 Skill spotlight.Highlights Include:Added a new Chessmaster Circuit.Added the Shadow Servitor skill for WX-78.Replaced Field Survey II skill with Signal Booster skill, which boosts all drone ranges in general.Roto-Mapper now also functions similar to Ocuvigil, but only revealed to the owner.Additional behaviour and interactions for the Possessed Chassis.Login RewardsWe're also including some login rewards for you. Get the Ominous Exploiterator, Gloomy Auto-Grabber, Elegant Exploiterator, Opulent Auto-Grabber and Pengull Ice Cube just by logging into the game for |
| The WX-78 Skill Spotlight Update is Now (mostly) Available! | 2026-04-16 | Everyone's favorite soulless automaton is due for an upgrade to ensure their reign of terror over the innocent organics of the Constant continues.WX-78 Skill Spotlight The WX-78 skill spotlight is now available on Steam. We aren't quite happy with Shadow Affinity, so we decided to lock that part of the tree, and we'll hotfix it in as soon as we have it ready for you. We'll need a few more days for console since we need a new build for console that holds off the shadow affinity portion of the tree. We expect this to be released for console on Monday. We apologize for the inconvenience here, but we think it's worth it for us to make sure Shadow |
| Announcing: Don't Starve Elsewhere + WX-78 Skill Spotlight & Roadmap Next Week! | 2026-04-09 | Hey everybody, The WX-78 Skill Spotlight update and content update plan (Roadmap) is coming next Thursday, April 16th! Of course, we'll also have new skins and a new set of streaming drops for everybody as well. If you missed it, we also just officially announced Don't Starve Elsewhere during the Triple-i Initiative Showcase. Check that out below! And if you're Interested, make sure to wishlist the game on Steam. We won't be posting about it much in DST areas, so if you want to keep up on news and announcements, your best bet is to wishlist and/or sign up for the Klei Newsletter at https://klei.gg/newsletter https://store.steampowered.com/app |
| Don't Starve Together: Intermission - Animated Short, Login Reward and More! | 2026-03-19 | Hey all, it's time for Intermission! This time, we've got a new entry in the Tales from the Constant series of animated shorts, a new login reward, streaming drops, and a skill update beta that you might be interested in. Tales from the Constant: Birds of a Feather \ You never know who life will place along your path. Some walk with you for a moment, others for a lifetime, yet each leaves something behind. It's Beta Time! The WX-78 Skill spotlight will be released to beta later today. This first part of beta is being released a bit earlier than usual so that we have more time to take in feedback and adjust before the scheduled update mid-Apri |
| Hotfix 714014 | 2026-02-24 | Bug Fixes Fixed a crash related to the Deck Of Cards. Fixed networking exploit with tripping while galloping on clients. Fixed world settings incorrectly affecting Nightmare Light and Nightmare Fissure creature spawns. |
| Hotfix 713564 | 2026-02-19 | Bug Fixes Shtick Horse will no longer slow you down if you were already faster than its speed boost. Fixed cases where repaired or previously befriended Clockworks did not follow you sometimes. Fixed Chester, Glommer, Polly Rogers, and others from getting detached from their items when attacked. Fixed bug with Spiders attacking a Chester that is following Webber. Fixed bug related to unlucky players’ effects on Hound waves. Fixed bug with Lightning Strikes incorrectly affecting nearby Torches and Morning Stars. Fixed crashes related to Crystal-Crested Buzzard. Fixed art bugs with Glommer's Fairy Glom and Marble Impact Armor skins. Fixed Bisho |
| Hotfix 712852 | 2026-02-14 | ChangesClockworks can now only be befriended when they are stunned, and the action string has been changed to “Repair”.Bug FixesFixed bug where a Rook and a Player with damage reflect could stunlock each other indefinitely.Fixed Mockingbirds blocking placement and sticking around in an invisible state when the Knight Shrine is destroyed.Fixed certain entities that are in a non-workable state, being worked anyways from collision with the Shtick Horse.Fixed Gloombell’s manure disappearing and reviving functionalities not working.Fixed Wilson's Equinor beard side view having some of the Rosette beard art.Fixed Sky Lantern’s global map icons not |
| Hotfix 712555 | 2026-02-13 | Bug FixesFixed WX-78’s examination string for the new play bill.Fixed Clockwork Bishop’s attacks ignoring electrocute resistance.Fixed Clockwork Knight missing a foot in its stunned state.Fixed a crash when debug spawning Gilded Knights.Fixed a crash sometimes when Eye of Terror dashes through a T.I.N.G.L.E. Node.Fixed a crash when galloping into certain structures.Fixed a crash with items like Chester's Eyebone when dropping them if the follower died.Fixed a crash sometimes when Buzzards landed.Fixed a crash related to Crystal-Crested Buzzards moving around the world.Fixed animation bugs with Webber's and Wilson’s Equinor skins. |
| The Year of the Clockwork Knight is Now Available! | 2026-02-12 | The Year of the Clockwork Knight Event is Now Available!It's Lunar New Year, and we've got joust what you're looking for! The "Year of the Clockwork Knight" is now available on Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation, and will be available on Nintendo Switch as soon as it completes certification. Highlights Added the Clockwork Knight Shrine with new rewards. Added a new Stage Play, “My Knights Four and I”. Gilded Knights come to protect their Princess, lances included. Adjustments to Clockworks. Adjustments to Crystal-Crested Buzzards. New Skins! Equinor Survivors Chest, Part I ($6.99usd) This Equinor Survivor Chest contains skins for: Maxwell, Webber, |
| Hotfix 706363 | 2026-01-08 | Happy New Year everyone!Starting off with some bug fixes, which should make it to console shortly as well. I also wanted to mention that we are looking into Crystal-Crested Buzzards balancing, but that will not be part of this hotfix.ChangesAdded World Generation and World Setting regrowth options for Boulderboughs.Evergreen Regrowth, Twiggy Tree Regrowth and Reeds Regrowth settings are available in Caves World Settings.Dried Forget-Me-Lots can be used in place of regular Forget-Me-Lots for Beefalo Treats.Giant Whirlpool’s map icon now shows only when the Whirlpool is open (i.e. Caves is connected).Bug FixesFixed regrowth of Boulderboughs in |
| Hotfix - 705416 | 2025-12-23 | ChangesReduce the amount of healing from Dried Tillweed.Tillweed Salve no longer perishes. Bug FixesFixed animation flicker in the main menu.Fixed a crash related to Crystal-Crested Buzzard eating.Fixed a bug causing chains to go invisible or show the wrong skin when changing the skin of Pearl’s Light Post.Fixed animation bug and unlink connected Light Post chains when Pearl’s Tea Shop is burnt.Fixed heavy lifting objects incorrectly counted as “junk” for Pearl’s decoration scoring.Fixed a bug causing Willow to drop wet equipped weapons or tools while casting Lunar Flame.Fixed bug where Fishy Jerky turned into generic Rot instead of Spoiled F |
| Winter's Feast Has Arrived! + More | 2025-12-18 | Winter's Feast During the Winter's Feast event players can find a bunch of Winter's Feast themed features including seasonal Winter Foods, craftable Gifts and Gift Wraps, tons of Winter's Feast themed decorations and more! We've also got new skins and special drop rates on Winter themed skins. This year - we're celebrating Winter's Feast with Pearl! Highlights Include:A new upgrade tier for Pearl’s Place after meeting certain conditions, with customizable slots for Wind Charm decorations.New structures that can be crafted for Pearl after meeting certain conditions, including a Tea Shop, Hot Spring, Large Drying Rack, Light Post, Rocking Chair |
| Winter's Feast is Coming Next Week! +MORE! | 2025-12-12 | Hello Everybody! It's getting chilly out there, and that means that it's almost time for another Winter's Feast! This year we're having Winter's Feast with Pearl; with new craftables, new skins, login bonus, streaming drops as well as our regular Winter's Feast drop rate increase. For more details, you can check out the beta here. So, come in from the cold and join us for Winter's Feast on December 18th at 10am pacific. |
| Hotfix 692777 | 2025-11-17 | Bug FixesFixed bug where Celestial Scion resets too easily after players use a short range teleporting skill within the arena.Fixed a crash when players are interrupted during their floating state.Fixed missing and incorrect inventory images for the Thulecite wall skins.Adjusted the freezing overlay temperature checks to be the same as the overheating overlay checks. |
| [Game Hotfix] - 69835, 696980 & 696742 | 2025-10-28 | - 69835 Bug Fixes Fixed Gestalts not hitting anything during the Celestial Champion fight. Fixed Wortox's No-Eyed Deer Costume having a bad layering order for the torso. Fixed a crash case related to peeking into Bundle Wraps. Fixed a crash when Telelocating a spawned in Frostjaw. Fixed the Webwam tent skin going invisible when burnt. - 696980 Changes Revived merms from lunar mutation will remember their original home and leader (if they are of lunar affinity) Tuned Crystal-Crested Buzzards flamethrower cooldown, damage, and lifetime. Crystal-Crested Buzzards won’t stack walls of flame on top of each other, and will instead extend the lifetim |
| Intermission + Hallowed Nights 2025! | 2025-10-27 | Hello again everybody! Hallowed Nights is upon us once again and that means that means treats for you! We have a new animated short, a bunch of free spooky skins and the Hallowed Nights event has been updated as well!Highlights include: Carvable Pumpkin Heads that can make you less afraid of the dark and other spooks during Hallowed Nights Crystal-Crested Buzzards that roam the world after Lunar Hail More creature corpses can now mutate into their existing lunar counterparts New spawn mechanics and combat behaviour for Inimical GestaltsNew Skins A new Trick-or-Treat chest is now available for all players and includes the Webwork Quilt, Beast |
| Hotfix 692777 | 2025-10-02 | Bug Fixes Fixed a crash on load with Boulderboughs desolation regrowth. Fixed Geothermite eating sound persisting at times. Fixed Geothermite not transitioning to obstacle physics when in its vent state. Fixed Geothermite improperly calculating heat rate when blowing. Fixed bug where Relics that appear in the Sanctum could be deconstructed, causing a crash. |
| From Beyond - Ancient Echoes Follow-Up! | 2025-10-02 | Hey Everybody! We have a couple of surprises for you today. First, we have a Follow-Up release for the "From Beyond - Ancient Echoes" update! Highlights Include:Items pulled down the giant whirlpool are now grouped in a single pile that can be rummaged to retrieve them.Replaced the path to one of the Fountain rooms with a new puzzle room in the Sanctum.Ruins and Sanctum Relics can now be used as furniture decoration.Geothermite creature found in the Fumarole biomeLogin RewardWe're also adding the “Bearger Fur Roll” skin for the Fur Roll. Simply log in to the game to claim it. And - one other special thing. We've been quietly working on someth |
| Hotfix 691071 | 2025-09-20 | Changes Added art to the waterfall top in the Sanctum. Bug Fixes Prefab densities for retrofitted Lunar Islands, Lunar Grotto, and Fumarole biomes will now properly be populated. This means world regrowth will properly work within these areas. This fix has also been applied onto already existing retrofits of these areas. Fixed Abigail's flower missing its inventory images for the Swashbuckler skin. Fixed Wormwood's Survivor skin missing various leaves. Fixed some grey art popping through some Primal skins. Fixed Wendy's Swashbuckler head skin having a black skirt. Fixed Wendy's Read's Rags missing the bracelets. Fixed a crash for when mods re |
| From Beyond: Ancient Echoes Update - Out Now! | 2025-09-18 | Hello everybody! The "Ancient Echoes" update is now available, and with it, we've got some new skins, a login bonus, some new streaming drops, and more. Highlights Include: Additions Added a Fumarole area where an old companion of the Ancients will appear during the Shadow Rift.Added a Giant Whirlpool, which tends to pull everything down with it.Caves must be enabled for it to appear.Added hidden rooms in the Caves that can be explored to uncover Ancient lore, that is if you can find the entrance… Quality of Life Woodie’s Wooden Walking Stick no longer consumes durability when its wearer is not moving.Birds now have death sounds.Bird sounds w |