Don't Starve Together Wiki Guide

Don't Starve Together is the sequel to Don't Starve, and features the requested multiplayer mechanics. It was originally scheduled to come out in Summer 2014,^[i] though a specific date was not given. However, sign-ups for a limited-access, airtight Beta were released. It came out on Mac and Linux after beingness finalized on Windows.

Starting December 15, 2014, Don't Starve Together Beta was in Steam Early Access, and on June three, 2015, Don't Starve Together Early Access was released for free to owners of Don't Starve on Steam. It left early access and was fully released on April 21, 2016. Don't Starve and Don't Starve Together can exist bought individually or as a parcel.

For detailed information on Don't Starve Together'southward update history, come across Version History.

Features

Don't Starve Together has multiple ways to play with others: LAN, network, and matchmaking play. Many items have been balanced or removed in gild to keep the game fair. Game mode and PvP are optional past the server operator. There are besides 4 categories for servers: Social, Cooperative, Competitive, and Madness. These categories don't affect gameplay simply provide a general thought of what the server is near. Dedicated, player-hosted and LAN servers are bachelor, and chat is global or local depending on the server admin'southward preference. A blazon of server called "Friends Only" allows a server to be created whereby the only people who tin can bring together take to exist on the hosting player'southward Steam friends list. Many console commands have changed or been removed for DST.

Game Modes

There are three game modes: Survival, Wilderness, and Endless.

Survival is the default mode. It is intended to exist a cooperative, more than hard mode, in which dead players become Ghost Characters (run into below). When all players are dead, a 120-second timer starts, and if no players are revived in that time, the world resets.
Wilderness way spawns players in random locations across the map. Players who dice are returned to the grapheme select screen, allowing them to respawn in a new random location equally a new grapheme with their map progress wiped. No resurrection items exist, including touchstones (although their prepare pieces with pig heads volition still be generated). The world never resets.
Countless manner is intended to be a more than relaxed mode that doesn't force players to cooperate. Information technology is similar to the Survival style, except that the world never resets, and that Ghost players may additionally resurrect themselves at the spawn portal when they die, as many times equally they wish.

Ghosts

The dialogue box that appears when everyone has died.

Main commodity: Ghost Characters

Ghost Players are a new feature that introduces the ability to alive after death, although in a downgraded state. Whenever a player dies, a skeleton spawns at their decease signal. Their inventory is dropped, and they become a ghost. Upon death, WX-78 also loses their upgrades. Ghosts can Haunt items and structures, maybe setting objects on fire, or affecting them in some other way.

A Telltale Heart.

In Survival and Endless Way, a ghost can exist resurrected using a Touch Stone, Meat Figure, Life Giving Amulet, or the Telltale Centre. In Endless mode, Players may also resurrect through the Florid Postern or Angelic Portal. When the ghost re-spawns, their inventory will be empty and their hunger and sanity are fix to the same as resurrection in the base of operations game. Revival is impossible in the Wilderness Mode.

Being resurrected with the Telltale Heart or with the Florid Postern Portal too incurs a maximum health penalization on the actor. Each resurrection adds 25% to the penalty, which caps out at 75% (leaving the player with 25% of their maximum wellness). The health lost to this penalty can be restored by 25% using a Booster Shot.

In Survival Fashion, other players will endure a continuous 3.3/min sanity drain for each ghost (up to ten/min total).

Boosted Content

Don't Starve Together includes near all content of the base game and the Reign of Giants DLC. Some features from the Shipwrecked and Hamlet DLCs were as well introduced over time. Additionally, several new entities were added to re-balance characters, giants, and seasonal mechanics for the multiplayer attribute of the game:

World

Mechanics
Characters
Mobs/Plants
Giants
Items/Structures
Food
Crock Pot Recipes

Tweaks/Changes to existing content
- Captured small animals (Rabbits, Birds etc.) at present starve to death if non fed.
- Deerclops tin can now freeze opponents and has a smaller attack range.
- Ghosts' attacks no longer ignore armor.
- Many existing equippable items now offering differing amounts of water resistance.
- Many existing items and structures are now combustible.
- Both the Piggyback and Krampus Sack are waterproof (items inside don't go wet) and the Piggyback slows the player down less.
- The Umbrella and the Straw Chapeau now lose durability when equipped.
- The Thermal Stone and Ham Bat tin can now be cooled in an Water ice Box or Snow Chester.
- Lightning can now hit and damage the player.
- Food ready to exist harvested on Crock Pots and Drying Racks will start to spoil and some existing meals requite warmth, or cool the thespian downwards when consumed.
- During Spring, flowers will spawn on their ain, Bees volition become ambitious, and Beefalo will be constantly in heat.
- Many items and structures take new recipes and crafting tiers.
- Basic can now be hammered for Os Shards.
- When the role player dies, a Skeleton will be left at that location with the actor's items.
- Weather effects now happen in Caves and Ruins also.
- Many items considered not-renewable tin can be fabricated renewable with Tumbleweeds. This includes Thulecite (requires Thulecite to begin with), Gems, Gears, and Graveyard Trinkets.
- Copse now offer protection from overheating and rain.
- Striking a Mob with a Torch or Lighter may set it on fire.
- Beehives, Killer Bee Hives, Spider Dens, and Slurtle Mounds can be lit on fire straight using a Torch, Lighter, or Fire Staff.
- Fertilizers and Ice Staves tin can exist used to extinguish fires directly.
- Feathers tin can now exist used every bit fuel.
- Glow Berries and Deerclops Eyeballs are now stackable.
- The Ham Bat now does less harm as it spoils.
- Silks go tradable.

A New Reign

Primary article: A New Reign

A free DLC originally called Through the Ages was announced for Spring 2015, and contains new content specifically made for multiplayer, such every bit mounting Beefalo using saddles.^[ii] However, due to complications with implementing Cave biomes, Klei pushed dorsum the release date. After the Caves made their way into DST and the game went out of Early Admission, the DLC was again announced, now under the name A New Reign, and was distributed through an ongoing serial of updates.^[3] Some of the features that are officially part of the DLC were incorporated into the game via update on December 23, 2015, much earlier than the Beta Launch of the DLC, August eleven, 2016.

Return of Them

Primary commodity: Render of Them

Return of Them is an expansion to Don't Starve Together, styled similarly to A New Reign. Information technology adds many new features including sailable waters, a new Lunar Isle area with new biomes, new mobs, craftable items, and more than. Its beta branch was both announced and launched on May 16, 2019.^[4]

Rebalancing

Don't Starve Together features Caves and Ruins, which must be toggled on via a tab in the Server Creation menu. The Caves and Ruins now share the same map level, since each map level requires a separate server.

Thermal Stones now have durability, intended to represent cracks formed every bit a consequence of heating and cooling. Armor has less durability (past 30%) and tin no longer exist multiplicatively stacked equally before; the game now uses the amend armor'southward absorption and so divides the damage absorbed between the ii worn armors weighted by their assimilation. The Pan Flute now has the ability to knock other players likewise the user unconscious for a brusk fourth dimension, if PVP is enabled.

Due to Gears being a less available resources, WX-78 at present starts with 150 health, sanity, and hunger, but each set of gears provide less of an upgrade (all the same bringing information technology to [[one]] overall subsequently 15 upgrades).

Maxwell now comes only with his Codex Umbra and 6 Nightmare Fuel. His Sanity heave has been reduced from 20/min to 6.67/min. The Shadow Tab was added, in which one can arts and crafts the Codex and different types of puppets. Puppets cost 2 Nightmare Fuel, a tool matching their action, and xx% (worker) or 35% (duelist) of Maxwell's maximum sanity.

Many mobs have had their health increased:

DST Health Rebalances
Enemy	DS health	DST health
Werepig	350	525
Squealer Guard	300	600
Merm	250	500
MacTusk	150	300
Clockwork Knight	300	900
Clockwork Bishop	300	900
Clockwork Rook	300	900
Beefalo	500	chiliad
Koalefant	500	1000
Spider Warrior	200	400
Treeguard (small)	1400	2100
Treeguard (medium)	2000	3000
Treeguard (large)	2500	3750
Moose/Goose	3000	6000
Dragonfly	2750	27500
Bearger	3000	6000
Deerclops	2000	4000
Tallbird	400	800
Teenbird	300	600
Krampus	200	300
Spider Queen	1250	2500
Aboriginal Guardian	2500	10000
Slurtle	600	1200
Volt Caprine animal	350	700
Buzzard	125	250
Cavern Spider	150	225
Spitter	175	350
Big Tentacle	500	750
Rock Lobster	1500	3000
Mosling	350	525

Sleeping

Sleeping has been significantly changed. Normally, when going to sleep, the twenty-four hour period would fast-forwards to sunrise and furnish wellness and sanity at the price of hunger upon waking up. However, when on a server, sleeping will not fast forrad to sunrise simply will instead leave the role player unable to move and unaffected by the night monster. This will furnish health and sanity while draining hunger faster than normal over time; the rate at which volition be dependent on what type of structure or particular was used to sleep. When using a normal sleeping item, the thespian can wake themselves up by trying to motion. If the player was put to sleep (pan flute, cooking a mandrake, etc.), they volition reawaken after a small-scale amount of fourth dimension. The player volition e'er wake up if hunger reaches 0.

Pausing the server

Server admins and local hosts tin intermission or united nations-pause the game via interruption hotkey (P by default). There are likewise two auto pause selection that can be toggled on and off that allowing auto pausing when players opening the carte du jour (Esc by default), map or console window.

The panel control

TheSim:SetTimeScale(0)

can stop the time in the server, and will pause the game to all players. However, the game behavior afterwards that command may be unexpected, and trying the un-break command

TheSim:SetTimeScale(1)

may crusade the server to hang completely, forcing to close the game.

Favorite Nutrient

Master article: Food#Favorite Food

Characters now have a favorite nutrient, which will provide 15 extra when consumed by the player.

Exploration

The Map has been modified to include a fog of war, preventing players to run into changes to remote locations in the map. Each player's explored areas are tracked separately, however players tin share their exploration with others using Map Scrolls.

Communication

Players communicate and express themselves through two chat modes: global chat (accessed via "Y" central by default) and local "whisper" chat (accessed via "U" key by default). Global conversation is seen past all players, whether they are up on the Surface globe or down inside Caves. Whispered messages, on the other manus, can only be seen past players who are in the vicinity of the speaker. Whispered chat looks the same as global chat, but the word "Whisper" is displayed earlier it.

Emotes

Chief article: Emotes

Emotes are used by entering their respective commands in conversation, such as /happy, /angry, /no, /bonesaw, /dance, /facepalm, /joy, /kiss, /pose, /rude, /cry, /wave, /sit, and /squat. Each emote will trigger an animation by the role player's character.

In that location are also unlockable emotes that are Outcome exclusive or can only be unlocked by completing Peel ensembles.

Reputation

Attacking players, giving players items, and reviving ghosts is tracked past the game and can affect what other characters say most said thespian when inspecting them. For instance, if Willow were to audit a harmless Wilson she would say, "Hullo (playername)!". But had he been attacking someone, she would say, "Why, (playername)... that fire in your eyes!" Or if a actor has been reviving other players, she will say "(playername) won't go out anyone behind.".

Curios

Chief article: Curio Cabinet

Curios are collectable items exclusive to Don't Starve Together that can exist used to customize the appearance of players' Characters, profiles, chat letters and loading screens. There are seven unlike types of Curios which exist of various rarities: Skins, Belongings, Emotes, Emoticons, Portrait Frames, Contour Icons and Vignettes. Their purpose is to provide a stronger sense of individuality to players.

Curios are obtainable through randomly timed drops while playing the game, and when opening the game daily. Players tin earn up to 15 Curios per calendar week. The weekly reset occurs around 1pm PST every Thursday, right before Klei Entertainment'southward weekly Rhymes with Play Twitch broadcast. Some Curios are excluded from these drops and are only obtainable through special means. They can also be bought from Klei Entertainment directly by purchasing specific Curio Chests.

The Trade Inn interface can be used to commutation nine unwanted Skins or Property to an particular of a higher rarity tier. Unwanted Curios tin besides exist unraveled into Spools which tin then be weaved into other items.

For Skins specifically, there are five different categories (Head Skins, Body Skins, Hands Skins, Legs Skins and Anxiety Skins) which can be combined freely to modify the player grapheme'south appearance. Players can choose what Skins their grapheme will clothing in the Character Select screen and ingame by using a Wardrobe. Skins are entirely corrective but and do non accept a function ingame, all of them are not-gender-specific.

Mods

Main article: Mods

Don't Starve Together supports mods, nonetheless many of them that rewrite core Don't Starve lawmaking had to be updated to the new formats. In DST, at that place are 3 kinds of mods:

client-only, which are enabled past each player individually and used on any server. These usually make changes to the interface.
server-but, which must be enabled on the server, but no joining players need to download. These usually make pocket-sized changes to game mechanics, such equally changing the timing of things, or scaling animate being stats.
all-clients, which all players on a server need to have. The Steam Workshop automatically handles downloading and enabling these for players when they bring together a server with an all-clients mod enabled. These mods can change most anything about the game.

Xbox Achievements

The Xbox One version of Don't Starve Together has 36 achievements.

	Requirement	Points
Not Expressionless Yet	Survived 20 consecutive days.	15
Stayin' Alive	Survived 35 sequent days.	30
I Will Survive	Survived 55 consecutive days.	30
I'm a Survivor	Survived 70 sequent days.	60
Bachelor of Science	Congenital a Science Machine.	15
Master of Scientific discipline	Built an Alchemy Machine.	xv
Md of Science	Built a Shadow Manipulator.	15
Honorary Doctor of Science	Built a Prestihatinator [sic].	15
Worming My Manner In	Willingly jumped downwards a gross pigsty.	15
Make information technology Pelting	Struck a deal with a big porky monarch.	15
What a Lovely Twenty-four hours	Grew a pretty blossom. Aw.	30
Busy Bee	Harvested some sweet, sweet dear from an overflowing beebox.	15
Quick and Thimble	Demonstrated your formidable sewing skills.	15
Squealer Pen	Had half-dozen simultaneous pigman followers. What a party!	15
Tough Oversupply	Had four simultaneous rock lobster followers. Snappy!	15
Not Your Momma	Witnessed the miracle of Tallbird motherhood.	30
Tree Whisperer	Soothed an enraged tree.	fifteen
Open up Sesame	Found a pigsty in the ground. Wow!	15
Quakin' in My Boots	You felt the earth move nether your feet and the sky tumblin' down.	xv
Tentacle Express	Travelled in the exact reverse of style.	15
Turtling	Wore Snurtle Beat out Armor and a Shelmet at the same fourth dimension.	15
We All Die Lone... Together!	Visited a public earth.	fifteen
If You lot Build It They Volition Come	Hosted a public world for 40 consecutive days.	30
A Giving Heart	Brought a friend back from the dead.	30
These Kids are our Future	Give resources to a new player subsequently establishing yourself for twenty days.	thirty
Express Yourself	Showed everyone your true feelings with an emote.	xv
Sun Best	Donned a stylish grapheme skin.	15
Shifty, but Thrifty	Crafted a new wear particular with the help of a mysterious Innkeeper.	15
Death Perception	Defeated a Deerclops.	xxx
Insecticide Regicide	Defeated a Spider Queen.	30
Ancient History	Defeated an Aboriginal Guardian.	30
Gone South	Defeated a Moose. Or a Goose. Or both?	60
BEARserker!	Defeated a Bearger.	60
No Fly Zone	Defeated a Dragonfly.	60
Brute of the Bottomless Breadbasket	Domesticated a wild beefalo.	lx
Defier of Odds	You filled your accomplishment example to chock.	100

Cyclum Puzzles

Principal article: Cyclum Puzzles

With the official release of the game, a new comic was released in which one must complete a series of puzzles to proceed following along. The story takes place right after the ending of the adventure mode, when Wilson frees Maxwell from the throne. It is revealed that Charlie saved Wilson from the throne and sent him back to the Wilderness, taking the throne for herself and thus condign the primary antagonist of Don't Starve Together.

Trivia

The style Wilson creates the multiplayer portal (shown beneath) is similar to how he created Maxwell's Door, both of which bring people into the Constant. Silhouettes of Wendy, Wes, and Wolfgang can exist seen in the portal.
- The Cyclum Puzzles reveal that Maxwell assisted Wilson while creating the Jury-Rigged Portal, which was destroyed by Charlie correct after being turned on and was replaced with the Florid Postern.
Winona is the first playable character exclusive to Don't Starve Together.
The principal bill of fare changes depending on in-game events and updates.

Gallery

Don't Starve Together Launch Trailer

Don't Starve Together - A New Reign Trailer

Don't Starve Together - A New Reign Part one

Don't Starve Together - A New Reign Part 2

References

↑ Forums Update: Don't Starve Together - Multiplayer Alpha Officially Coming Summer 2014 Posted on May vi, 2014.
↑ Forums Update: Don't Starve Together Roadmap Posted on Nov 25, 2014.
↑ Forums Update: A New Reign begins! Posted on August viii, 2016.
↑ Upcoming Content Beta and Roadmap Update Posted on May xvi, 2019.