i saw this pic in the screenshot showcase thread. looks like no one knows what it is.
i think its this what aliens are making when no one is looking xD
dunno hows it called in english. maybe crop circle signs.
if that would be true, does it mean alines were in the dst world?
Hello everyone!
It’s been a while since I’ve made a post here, I’d like to share with you our plans for 2019, which are extensive!
First, I’d like to recap what happened in 2017/2018:
In 2017 we launched the Forge, and followed it up in 2018 with the Gorge. The idea was that we could offer a new way of playing Don’t Starve Together, in a limited-time format. We were a bit burned out on creating DST core game content and this format allowed us to try something a bit different, so we made these crazy game modes and provided them to the community for free.
Every time we launched these events, tons of players came to play, and in every instance we hit our highest ever DST concurrency. We’re super thrilled that so many people came to play the our weird game events!
While we enjoyed the events and are happy with the result, there were some drawbacks:
It has been a valuable experience and we think the game is better for it, however we feel that it’s time that we turn our attention back to the core Don’t Starve Together experience: surviving together.
Here’s what we’re doing for 2019:
Brand New Content
The team is now working on brand new content for Don’t Starve Together. Survivors will be able to travel to new lands with new biomes, creatures, and more.
The first drop of this new content will come in mid-April, and we will continually be adding to the content every couple months afterward. As we said before, we think it’s important that everyone can play together and we don’t segregate our audience, so all of this content will be available for free to everyone!
Character Refreshes
The team also felt it was high time we gave our core cast some love (yes, we heard you). Over the course of the next year, we will be bestowing every character with revamped abilities, and give a glimpse into their backstory. Our goals here are to make each character unique, interesting and valuable in their own right and we expect this to be game changing in many ways.
Starting in March with Winona, we will be releasing a character refresh once a month.
These character refreshes will again be free to all players, and we will be selling new skins for these characters on the month they are refreshed.
In addition, the Triumphant, Guest of Honor and Survivor skin packs will be available to purchase for the character on that date. All owners of these skins prior to that date will be upgraded to an “Heirloom” rarity, with a higher unraveling value.
New Characters Enter the Fray
A fresh batch of four characters have been unwittingly ensnared and brought into the world. These new survivors will be released into the wild starting in Mid-March, and a new one will be released every 2 months.
We are still deciding the final price of these characters, but we currently think they will be $6.99 USD each, which includes a full character skin set. You will also be able to weave the characters with spool.
Since we do not want to charge players for the new world content, these new characters will be our main way to fund development of this new content.
Console Development
We are working hard on keeping the console versions of the game up to date. Specifically, we are investing in technology to allow us to more quickly update the game without going through lengthy certification on every small change, and we've also added more staff to work exclusively on updating the console versions.
We're happy to say that the next update for the Year of the Pig King event will launch within 2 days of the PC version.
Quality of Life, Twitch Drops, Etc.
We will also be continually updating the game with bug fixes, QoL updates, new skins for Twitch drops, and more things that we’re not quite ready to announce yet.
Speaking of which, the Year of the Pig King update is going live on Thursday! Long Live the (Pig) King!
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And that’s it folks!
In short, we are significantly increasing our support of Don’t Starve Together in 2019 with new game content, character refreshes, new stories to be told, new characters, and new skins.
Thanks so much for playing this crazy game, once again. I’m still amazed at how it’s evolved over the years. Please give us your feedback and thoughts!
Yeah, everyone's talking about how the under-rated characters (Willow, Woodie) are getting their reworks done very soon and talking about that, but let's flip the board around and talk about one of the OP characters, WX-78, and how it can be reworked.
What are your thoughts on possible revamps that can make our favorite narc of a robot fun to play? I personally can't wait for an excuse to main WX again.
One of the ideas I had for a rework is to allow WX to truly customize *all* of his stats, in the sense that you can raise a certain stat, costing another stat to be lowered. Of course it'd cost items to raise and lower stats. You could possibly:
-Raise your basic 3 stats (at the cost of lowering a different stat)
-Give yourself a natural insulation bonus (at the cost of increased hunger drain)
-Increase your movement speed (at the cost of max health)
-Increase your natural damage resistance (at the cost of movement speed)
For decent downsides for WX, I think of something along these lines:
-WX gains a small amount of sanity when killing organic creatures. (It becomes an obstacle if you're trying to be insane.)
-WX loses a large amount of sanity when killing clockwork creatures (It basically ensures that you are insane when you are in the ruins, which is practically the only place in the game where you do not want to be constantly insane.)
I'd love to hear thoughts about a possible WX rework, so don't be afraid to share below.
(Also, yes, I'm aware of the "WX Upgrade Overhaul" mod, said mod was the inspiration for this.)
I'm thinking about buying some items for DST I really find the game interesting and want to buy some skins, but I dunno which ones, the complete set of the forge looks good because I really need a ham bat and wx78 skin, is there any other better set or should I go for steam market?
Basically, what I'm asking is that, if you had to put the DST cast in order from your most to least favorite, what would that order be?
So, because there's 13 characters at the moment, it'd be easy to just set this up like a top 13 list.
Here's mine:
1) WX-78 (hands down my favorite personality in the game)
2) Woodie (love having Lucy as a companion, Werebeaver is 2cool4scool)
3) Webber (precious smol b e a n, I also like spiders)
4) Willow (crazy fire lady is hot, haha get it /s a cool character in general (rework hype))
5) Maxwell (How does someone so weak look so menacing? Maxwell, that's how.)
6) Wortox (Gameplay is stupidly fun atm)
7) Wolfgang (Quotes give me a good laugh, also it's fun to just wreck the entire world)
8) Wilson (can't really hate on the poster boy)
9) Wigfrid (her gameplay never really grabbed me)
10) Wendy (im playing games to forget about my depression, dammit.)
11) Winona (Meh? Not a fan of her personality)
12)Wes (Memes aside, he's just, there. It's fun to join a pub as him and screw around I guess.)
13)Wickerbottom (Personality is big doo doo, also never really bothered playing her)
Wolfgang is one of my favorite characters, I wonder what his new attributes will be. I hope he'll be next after Willow gets reworked, because he has nothing but his transformation from Wimpy to Mighty and his declining mental health. It would be nice if Wolfgang got a natural defense of 20% damage for example.
They are already forgotten now
first off I'm sure Webber's rework will be one of the last ones but hear me out for a bit.
Webber is one of my all time favorite characters in this game aka hes my main, however for all my time playing him one thing has been bothering me more then ever... all of his perks are from the spider and is that bad? no.
now I know what your thinking, "hes a kid what perks could he have???" and well... its farming.
Webber's rework should focus on not the spider side (even though I do think some things should be added like being able to craft the other spider dens and webbed flooring) but it should focus on Webber's life before the Constant before the spider, it should be about him bring new ways to farm in the Constant. heck it could just be a cooler version of the Gorge farming! and that would be fine just something more about his past and his family.
While I feel the majority of deaths are fair in this game, although common, there's no denying that unfair deaths do happen, with us having little to no control. The worst one of these I personally encountered was very unexpected: I had been walking with a torch at night, 50 health, and walked into a Clockwork Bishop. I survived the first hit, but was unable to run away at that point, and would have taken a third had I not died after the second hit. So the lesson I was supposed to take from that was... don't walk with a torch early-game?
Has anyone else had a similar experience, and how?
do you think Wilson will get a rework?
and what would your suggestion for a Wilson rework be?
as far, I've heard about some players want him to have a portable science machine, but not much else.
Now for my next questions...
Which character do you favor playing?
And, what role do you usually fit in a multiplayer team?
Once more, do answer and feel free to leave why in the comments!
The Chinese translation for DST is too terrible.
Some words are not accurate.
Such as "play offline" is usually translated into “离线游戏” , not “线下游戏”。
"线下游戏" hava two meanings：
１．play game in real life
2. play game without internet.
but “离线游戏” only have one meaning：
1.play game without internet.
“离线游戏” is more suitable in this situation.
There may be many similar problems like this , so we choose Chinese translation mods.
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Here is too many Chinese garbled on DST for Linux.
Maybe here was not any testing on DST for Linux.
Interestingly, this problem can be solved to by a mod named “Chinese +++”。
It means that this problem has been around for a long time and the official did not take any action.
饥荒联机版的中文翻译实在是太糟糕了。
部分词语翻译得不够准确。
比如说 “play offline ”一般翻译为“离线游戏”，而不是“线下游戏”。
线下游戏有两重含义：
１．在现实生活中游玩游戏
２．在断网的情况下玩游戏
离线游戏只有一种含义：
１．在断网的情况下玩游戏
在这个情景下，离线游戏更加合适。
像这种类似的问题可能还有很多，所以我们选择使用汉化Mod，而不是官方的中文翻译。
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饥荒联机版的Linux版本出现了大量的中文乱码。
可能官方没有进行过任何Linux客户端的测试，就把文本放出来了。
有趣地是，这个问题可以通过订阅一款名为“Chinese +++”的Mod来解决。（这个问题出现的原因应该是字库的问题）
这意味着这个问题出现了很长一段时间，而官方一直没有采取任何行动去解决这个问题。
PS：这让我对官方十分失望
With everyone's favorite pyromaniac confirmed to be next in line for a character refresh, I'd like to hear what everyone would like to see with the new and (hopefully) improved Willow! Here are a few things that have been on my mind as of late. I have no idea if they're any good or not, I'm far from an expert on this game. I do love brainstorming though, so I'd love to hear some other people's ideas!
Bring back fire immunity: Pretty straightforward, I think that this is probably the one thing that I've seen everyone agree on.
Immunity to overheating: I think I once heard that this was something that was originally intended for Willow, but it was a while ago so I don't remember the details. I'm not sure if it'd be too strong or not, but I hope that Klei has at least considered it at some point. Plus from a lore stand point, it's awfully weird that she'd be immune or resistant to fire but not especially hot weather.
Lighter buffs: As of right now, Willow's lighter is mostly just a longer lasting free torch that's not really worth keeping around or crafting again once lanterns are available, right? Being her signature item, I'm really hoping that the lighter will receive some upgrades. One way we could do this would be to simply bring back the infinite durability, and I think that would certainly be a step in the right direction. I don't think that it'd be too strong if the radius could be increased to match that of a torch either. One idea that I came up with would be that her lighter could have a durability, but it would gradually "refuel" itself when not in use. If that were the case, what if her lighter was given the ability to simply create a fire anywhere similar to the ones that spawn when red hounds are kill. These flames could burn for about a minute or so and It would use up some durability, like around 15-20%, so you wouldn't be able to simply spam fires all the time. I was thinking that this way, her lighter could function as a sort of pseudo-lantern of sorts. Oh and something like this were to be implemented, she would probably lose the ability to craft multiple lighters to be given to other players. Oh, and please keep the ability to cook food with it, I really like that feature for some reason ha ha.
Control over how her fires spread: This is something I shared in the suggestions and feedback section but I heard that not very many people go there? I hope no one minds me sharing it again but I came up with the idea that any fires started by a Willow wouldn't actually spread on their own. Instead, any objects within spreadable distance while the fire is still burning would show a "spread" prompt when you hover the cursor over them, causing that object to immediately combust, the new fire following the same burning rules. This would extend to mobs set on fire by a Willow, and if they would die to the flames their loot wouldn't turn to ashes. Willow would only have control over fires started be her though, any other fire would behave normally. I was thinking that this way, Willow can take advantage of all kinds of fire related shenanigans without the massive risk of collateral damage, like making the fire darts and fire staff safer to use. As for exactly how she's able to do this, well the best explanation that I can come up with is that she has so much experience starting fires that she knows how to light them in such a way that she can predict how and where it spreads. That or pyrokinesis, that one's a popular theory right?
Bernie: Actually, I didn't have anything in mind for the teddy bear. Considering he was only added as compensation for her original nerfs, I honestly don't think I'd mind it too much if they just removed him in favor of other useful fire related perks. (Though at the same time that would feel like a bit of a shame wouldn't it?)
Downsides: I don't have anything in mind for this either. Isn't it generally agreed that no one really likes Willow's current downside of freezing when insane outside of using it to help survive summer though?
I start playing and eventualy my computer makes stranfe noice like it stucks and then the whole computer just turns off by itself and then it just restarts. It's happend when i was selecting my character and in the past during gameplay. Also basic don't starve and other games working normal.
So I got an elegant head for Winona and was going to sell it on the steam market as I already have two of the same head but for some reason it isn't showing up in my steam inventory? After I realized this I also noticed that none of my other Winona heads were appearing in my inventory either. Is there something going wrong or are the characters that are being reworked no longer going to appear on the steam market?
Hey everyone! Today we are launching Wortox, please enjoy!
Possessions
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?
Please enjoy this glimpse into Wortox’s past:
Wortox’s Abilities
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.
Here are his details:
As with Winona, we will likely be tuning Wortox with balance adjustments in the future. Please let us know your thoughts and feedback!
Wortox can be unlocked in the following ways:
These are the different Wortox outfits we are launching with:
Console Update
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 on console:
Official Chinese Support
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.
Upcoming
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!
So what do you think Wendy's rework's going to be? Will Klei remove her damage penalty and make Abigail weaker? Or add something completely different and make her a more decent character to play as.
Please share your thoughts.
I just sometimes imagine how one character might interact with another and I laugh out loud. Than people wonder why I'm laughing, and dang ain't that awkward.
Anyway, wondering if people do the same thing, and if so, what do they imagine characters doing? XD.
I mean things like,
You know, silly small things like that. Anyone else here?
With the quotes Ancient Gateway (inactive)- "The thing I hopped through!"
And Ancient Gateway (activated)- "That's how you get imps. Hyuyu!”
And Florid Postern- "I can come and go as I please."
We can conclude that Wortox has some access to interdimensional travel, and can leave as he pleases, but he had to hop through the Ancient Gateway to get some places anyways. Can he travel to only some other dimensions?
With Abigail (failed revival)- "This soul's already been sucked! Hyuyu!”
And Wendy (Reviver)- "Thanks for not eating that soul, [Wendy’s Username]!"
Compared to: Ghost (failed revival)- "There's no body for it to return to."
We can get a clearer understanding of Abigail’s predicament. While Wickerbottom’s line says Abigail can’t be revived because she’s bound to an object, we didn’t know what that meant. Wortox implies that someone or something has already laid claim to Abigail. And whose souls did Wendy consumed? Hopefully, this’ll get cleared up more when Wendy gets reworked, but it’s starting to sound like that Wendy may have accidentally internalized/consumed Abigail’s soul...?
Champion Adornment- "I remember when we played there!" (The champion adornments were Winters Feast baubles of Forge bosses)
Wait... so Wortox canonically came before The Forge? Or did Krampus and Wortox steal from the Forge? I can’t imagine that going well for them.
Codex Umbra- "I don't think he knows how to use it.”
All these years and Maxwell hasn’t learned his lesson about playing with forces he doesn’t understand. Also, how much does Wortox know about magic? Can he read Wickerbottom’s books?
Okay, if I’m honest I mostly included that quote because I found it funny that some random imp was throwing shade at the knowledge of the guy who talks like he’s all-knowing.
I'm playing Wicker in DST for the first time, man she's kinda ******** lol I love it.
Anyway I didn't see the end as nigh as requiring anything on the wiki so I'm confused.