The nights are growing colder, and a distinctive holiday cheer has permeated the air. That can only mean one thing - Winter’s Feast is upon us! Take a break from enduring a hostile world to spread some holiday cheer. You could enjoy a tasty sugar cookie and decorate a tree or two… or three. Be wary through… something terrible lurks nearby, ready to punish naughty survivors who try to steal presents. What is it, exactly? We have No-Eyed Deer!

An Uncommon Holiday
New winter skins have appeared to get our survivors into the winter spirit, and for a limited time, the chances of receiving a rare gift have been substantially increased!

Everyone will also get a small set of skins to enjoy, including a festive Gingerbread Chest skin. These skins can be accessed in players’ item collections, but will only be around for the duration of the Winter’s Feast seasonal event - so enjoy them while you can!

Happy Winter’s Feast, everyone!

And for added festive fun, check out this cool mod that <default> posted on the steam workshop!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=818038080

UPDATE: Last week we released sheet music and lyrics to a "Starver's Carol" and loved the covers people started recording! We decided to have some fun with it and do our own recording! Here's the "Starver's Carol" animated, and sung by developers and team at Klei Entertainment. Happy Holidays from everyone at Klei! 

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to share a video that has been created to wish the best of health for one of Forums Members, @Arlesienne

She is not well right now and our humble group decided to band together and created this, we hope you enjoy it Melady!!

SPECIAL THANKS: 

@Ootay Video editor 

@Kittydub For playing as the characters featured in the video

@Ninjanemo Thumbnail drawing

KLEI FOR MAKING THE GAME!

OUR FRIENDS FEATURED IN THE VIDEO: 

Ootay

hiduys 

@Meingrossterfan

@isthisworkingnow

@PiturcaCladiuStef

MYSELF

and Bob.

Despite Klei's best efforts thus far, griefers, trolls, and other internet bullies are still infecting group servers like a cancer, especially on dedicated servers, or even on maps that DO have a voting sytem.

Just tonight, I was playing on a server when one player, Aaron, had stolen items, and even got himself killed, but refused to let anyone rez him so he could drain our sanity. Our group voted to kick him about a million times, but with each time, he kept leaving before we could finish the vote. Then, he'd come back after a few seconds, and then cycle would repeat again, and again, and again, until the rest of us gave up trying. We tried to ignore him, but he was haunting everything as he was dead, and trolling more players (in a non PVP server) when he was alive. 

Of course, on dedicated servers, trolls can just burn bases and cause trouble without being banned or kicked out. Incidents like these just leave players' hard-earned bases in shambles, forcing everyone to have to leave the server whenever a troll comes in and ruins it.

I know folks will say to "Don't feed the troll," or "Just host your own server," but these incidents have been happening so frequently that nobody can run a dedicated server anymore without a griefer coming in to destroy their worlds and harass the players. It's escalated into its own form of internet harassment.

We really need to change the system so that it's easier for good players to fight back. With this one, it's much easier for a griefer to keep harassing players with no consequence than it is for good players to kick them out, or better yet, ban them without an admin.

Skin names:

body_dress_flouncy_tan_cream  (This one's weird, honestly. Perhaps it's for the Meadow vibe, or a Vacation vibe.)

body_dress_yachtsuit_white_pure  (A Yacht Suit. Self-explanatory.)

body_jacket_shearling_orange_salmon  (Contrary to popular belief, salmon does in-fact come from the sea.)

body_jacket_toggle_navy_phthalo (Navy is self-explanatory. Toggle Jackets are outdoorsy.)

body_tanktop_tiecollar_yellow_goldenrod (Tiecollars are the kind of thing a crew member would wear. Like the Flouncy Dress, Goldenrods are found in the Meadow.)

As you probably see:

Navy and Salmon are new colours, both directly related to the sea. Unlike every other colour, they're unrelated to things currently in the game. (every colour not related to a game item is totally made-up too. Out of here with your Salmon Theory of mathematics.) - Goldenrods and Salmon could definitely be added to SW, in the Meadow and Sea respectively.

As you probably know:
 

New SW files were 'leaked' on stream before. Namely, things like the godly Quackening Ram. These still haven't made it into the game. Almost like they're being saved for something.

Skin sets only happen for a reason. This one is quite clearly Nautical themed. That's all there is to say.

As it probably appears:

SW DST will be announced/released alongside a Nautical Set of skins, and some new content. Get hyped, my children.

Also, @Chris1488 can stop taking credit for my findings now. Thank you.

File is getmissingstrings.lua in scripts/tools directory.

Of note, there is a Shadow Palm Leaf Hut, and a separate prefab for Wolly from the boat. Please let Woodlegs have a parrot pet. Please.

Will update with all of them when I get the time.

This probably has already been told somewhere here, but I need to test a bug with deers and dead trees and I don't know how to spawn them.

Okay so I know Klei isn't adding actual achievements to the game, but what I'm posting here is a list of personal achievements for those of you who would like something to do in the game, cause if you're like me, without new updates and stuff, this game can get repetitive and boring sometimes. How this works is that there is a Key which indicates how hard I personally think the challenges are. There is also a point system cause why not. You may look at this and use it as a sort of checklist, like "Yeah, I did that, that and that." or you can go ahead and start up a new game and world and see how many you can get done. I'm going to edit this list as I get new ideas and I have a lot to start off with already so bare with me. 

Most of these can be used for both Don't Starve and Don't Starve Together. (There is DST Exclusive ones however.)

Suggestions for keeping track of your score: Copy Paste list into a word file, check off as you go and keep track of the score per each challenge completed. Hand write a list while playing and tick off mobs/times for mass collection/killing challenges, check off when complete and add to score.

I RECOMMEND PLAYING WITHOUT MODS, SINCE MODS CAN MAKE SOME OF THESE EXTREMELY EASY.

Key:

• ♥ (Green) - Easy, 1 point.
• ♥ (Yellow) - Medium, 3 points.
• ♥ (Red) - Hard, 7 points.

*  Some may find tasks easier or harder based on experience level.

Users who have help add to the list so far: @KoreanWaffles @Kzisor

Basic Gameplay:

• Individual achievements for making the machines: ♥♥
  • Sticks and Stones: Built a Science Machine. ♥
  • Knowledgeable: Built an Alchemy Engine. ♥
  • May I have a Volunteer?:  Built a Prestihatitator ♥
  • Forbidden Knowledge: Built a Shadow Manipulator ♥
• Individual achievements for finding things like Pigmen, the Pig King, etc: ♥♥
  • Hamless Enough: Found a Pigman ♥
  • Take a Bath!: Found the Pig King ♥
  • He's so Fluffy: Found Glommer. ♥
  • Fish are NOT Friends: Found the Merm. ♥
  • Eye for an Eye: Found Tallbirds ♥
  • Tracker: Tracked a Koalefant ♥
  • Found Him!: Acquire Chester's Eyebone ♥
  • Big Game Hunter: Track down a Varg or Ewecus ♥
• Individual Achievements for finding areas like Caves and Ruins: ♥ 
  • Spelunker: Entered the Caves ♥
  • Architect: Discovered the Ruins ♥
  • Explorer: Uncover every biome on the surface ♥
  • Cave Dweller: Explore every biome in the Caves ♥
  • Exploration Mastery: Complete exploration of all maps without the help of friends. ♥
• Individual achievements for killing a certain amount of mobs. (Time Consuming): ♥♥♥
  • Exterminator: Killed 250 Spiders. ♥
  • Mmm... Bacon: Killed 50 Pigmen. ♥
  • Fish Sticks: Killed 50 Merm ♥
  • I Know Where This is Going: Killed 20 Tentacles ♥
  • Bug Spray: Killed 50 Misquotes. ♥
  • Bad Dog: Killed 50 Hounds. ♥
  • Cold Dog: Killed 5 Blue Hounds ♥
  • Hot Dog: Killed 5 Red Hounds ♥
  • Do You Like Science?: Killed 100 Rabbits ♥
  • What's Your Beef?: Killed 50 Beefalos ♥
  • Get Off My Lawn!: Killed 50 Birds ♥
  • Hickory Dickory Dock: Killed 25 Clockwork ♥
  • It's a Delicacy: Killed 50 Frogs ♥
  • Thanks Giving: Killed 10 Gobblers ♥
  • Hunter: Killed 5 Koalefants ♥
  • Plucked Feathers: Killed 25 Pengulls ♥
  • Lumberjack: Killed 5 Tree Guards ♥
  • Hunting Mastery: Kill one of every creature in the game. ♥
  • Not the BEES!: Killed 1000 bees ♥
• Individual achievements for killing any of the bosses for the first time. ♥
  • You're Getting Coal...: Killed Klaus ♥
  • One Eyed, Two Horned...: Killed the Deerclopse ♥
  • That's one Dragon: Killed the Dragonfly. ♥
  • It's a Goose... and a Goose!: Killed Goose/Goose ♥
  • Left, Right, Straight Ahead...: Killed the Ancient Guardian ♥
  • That's a Big Bear!: Killed the Bearger ♥
  • What's the Buzz?: Killed the Bee Queen ♥
  • Nope.: Killed the Spider Queen ♥
  • Ain't No Princess...: Killed the Toadstool ♥
  • Warrior: Killed All the Bosses Listed ♥
• Individual achievements for Crafting Items: ♥♥♥
  • Get to Work: Make one of every tool. (Pickaxe, Shovel, etc.) ♥
  • Fashionable: Make 5 different wearable items ♥
  • Ready for a Fight: Make a Spear and Log Armor ♥
  • It Won't Fit in My Pocket: Make a knapsack ♥
  • What a Load Of...: Make a Bucket O' Poop ♥
  • Following the Title: Make a Crockpot ♥
  • Yer a Wizard, Wilson...: Make any of the magical staffs. ♥
  • "hey guise where base": Placed a fire pit. ♥
  • Pseudoscientist: Craft an Ancient item ♥
  • Culinary Mastery: Cook every Crock Pot Recipe ♥
  • Landscaper: Craft 5 tiles. ♥
  • Bee Keeper: Craft 5 bee boxes. ♥

Activities and Challenges:

• Learning the Ropes: Died 25 times in total. ♥
• Traveler: Walked 10,000 steps. ♥
• Practice: Played for 10 hours. ♥
• I Like This Game: Played for 24 hours ♥
• I Know My Stuff: Played for 80+ Hours ♥
• Oh, I say!: Equipped a Top Hat, Dapper Vest, and Walking Cane ♥
• Did You Even Read the Title?: Starved to Death ♥
• Sleeping Beauty: Pricked your finger on a rose and died ♥
• Holes: Dug up 25 twig plants, 25 grass plants, and 25 berry bush plants ♥
• Friend or Foe?: Killed a Pigman ♥
• You Mad Man: Forced a Pigman to turn into a Werepig ♥
• Fish are Food: Killed a Merm ♥
• Follow the Leader: Had more than one Mandrake follow you at the same time ♥
• Hibernation: Slept through winter ♥
• Insomnia: Haven't slept in a full year ♥
• I'm Used to it: Remain Insane for 25 days in a row ♥ (Only 1 point if using Maxwell only if you summon more than 2 shadow minions)
• Clear Conscious: Don't drop below 25% max sanity for 45 days straight ♥ (You're not allowed to summon the 3rd minion for Maxwell)
• Survivor: Go a full Year without dying ♥
• Grave Robber: Dig up 25 graves ♥
• Better him than me: Find 10 Corpses ♥
• Curiosity killed the Scientist: Inspect 100 different items ♥
• Death Wish: Build your base in the Swamp! ♥
• Savager: Never set up a base. ♥
• It's High Noon: Picked 25 Tumble Weeds ♥
• Building an Economy: Traded 25 items to the Pig King ♥ 
• Classic: Die to Darkness Charlie ♥
• Burn!: Accidentally Burn a creature's loot ♥
• Fisher: Catch a Fish or Eel ♥
• Farmer: Place a farm, grow a crop, and harvest it ♥
• Cute Fuzzy Animal: Befriend a Critter ♥
• Happy Winter's Feast!: Grow a festive tree and wrap a present ♥
• Chester's Makeover: Upgrade Chester ♥
• Resouce Variance: Obtain Grass from a Grass Gekko, Twigs from a Twiggy Tree, Rocks from a Petrified Tree, and Juicy Berries from a Juicy Berry Bush. ♥
• Kiting 101: Slay a giant with melee and take no damage ♥
• Gifts of the Walrus: Obtain both the Tam o' Shanter and Walking Cane ♥
• It Came From the Moon: Obtain the Moon Caller's Staff ♥
• Timeless: Acquire the Potato Cup ♥
• Checkmate: Defeat all three Shadow Pieces  ♥
• Mommy!: Raise a Tallbird ♥
• Landscape Designer: Replace 5 tiles. ♥
• Bee Domestication: Destroy all wasp nests on the map and replace them with bee boxes. ♥
• Spider Warlord: While wearing the spider hat, cause a great spider war. ♥
• Pacifist: Don't Kill anything for a year ♥
• Pleasing Mother Nature: Pacify 10 Treeguards. ♥
• Violence not necessary!: Defeat any boss by using alternative means to kill them. ♥
• King of Winter: Make a custom World That's Winter year round (or go actually play King of Winter in the base game), and survive the full year ♥

Don't Starve Together:

• Social: Joined a Klei server ♥
• Party Crasher: Join a random Player Hosted server ♥
• You're invited: Host a Server ♥
• 3's a Crowd: Play with 3 or more people on any given server ♥
• Water Fight: Soaked 5 different players with water balloons ♥
• Self Defense: Killed 5 players in a row in PvP ♥
• Gladiator: Killed 25 players in a row in PVP ♥
• Overlord: Killed 100+ Players in a row in PVP ♥
• Medic!: Revived 5 Players with a Telltale Heart ♥
• It's a Lot Easier With Friends: Survive a Year with 1 or more other players ♥
• A Haunting Feeling...: Haunt 35 different items ♥
• Possessed: Haunt 5 different mobs ♥
• Fries With That?: Cook a unique crockpot meal for everyone in your server ♥
• Twinning: Play a game with 2 of the same character ♥
• Fresh Threads: Build a closet and use it to change your clothes ♥
• Teamwork: Use 2 character skills together (EX: Wickerbottom to get food for Wolfgang so he can be a killing machine) ♥
• Reflection: Play a game with Maxwell and William Carter. (The unshadowed skin, this is also optional and has no scoring since certain skins are hard to get for some.)
• Setting Differences Aside: Play a game with Maxwell and Wilson ♥
• Circus act: Play a game with Wes and Wolfgang ♥
• Lost: Place a sign ♥
• Loner: Survive on your own, even with other players on the server ♥
• Hunting Party: Bring a friend on a hunt, and successfully kill. ♥
• The gang's all here...: Play on a server with at least 6 different characters ♥
• Old Mother Hubbard: Set the world resources to very little and survive the year with a friend ♥
• We come bearing gifts: Open a present at the Science Machine ♥ 

Character Specific Challenges:

• Wilson
  • Scientist: Build a Science and Alchemy Engine as Wilson ♥
  • You Shall Not Starve!: Grow your beard out to it's full majestic potential ♥
  • Clean Shaven: Don't grow a beard for a year (Shave when it first starts) ♥
  • Challenging Beliefs: Inspect a Ghost as Wilson ♥
  • Witch Doctor: Build and use 5 Meat Effigies ♥
  • Survive a full Year as Wilson ♥
• Willow
  • Rehab: Go a full season without setting anything on fire ♥
  • Smokey's Disappointed: Start 5 wildfires at low sanity ♥
  • Lump of Charcoal: Burn 100 trees ♥
  • Cleansed in Fire: Burn 50 mobs to death ♥
  • I didn't Know it Moved: Distracted a Shadow Monster with Burnie ♥
  • Survive a full year as Willow ♥
• Wolfgang
  • Well Fed: Keep a full belly for 25 days ♥
  • Going Hungry: survive 45 days on 105 hunger or less ♥
  • Concur Your Fear: Play with low light sources ♥
  • Show-off: Kill 50 mobs in Mighty Form ♥
  • Gentle Giant: Don't kill anything for 45 days ♥
  • Survive a full year as Wolfgang ♥
• Wendy
  • Fighting Girl: Try to Fight EVERYTHING. (Kill at least 25 mobs without Abigail) ♥
  • Working Against the Tides: Be on the borderline of going insane for 15 days ♥
  • Downer: Inspect 25 items as Wendy ♥
  • Extreme Measures: Kill yourself to summon Abigail ♥
  • Moving On: Burn Abigail's Flower ♥
  • Survive a full year as Wendy ♥
• WX-78
  • Picky Eater: Don't eat any spoiled or rotten foods for 45 days ♥
  • Downgrade: Don't upgrade with gears and survive for 45 days ♥
  • Mobile Lightning Rod: Get hit by lighting 5 Times ♥
  • Never Strikes Twice: Get hit by lighting in the same area twice ♥
  • System Faiulure: Avoid getting hit by lightning for 25 days ♥
  • System MAXED: Fully upgrade WX-78 ♥
  • Survive a full year as WX-78 ♥
• Wickerbottom
  • Page Turner: Don't use any of her books for 45 days ♥
  • Dunce: Don't craft without a Science Machine or Alchemy Engine ♥
  • Bookworm: Abuse the books, try not to go insane. 25 Days ♥
  • Unhealthy: Eat only stale food for 30 days ♥
  • Pied Piper: Force Yourself to sleep with the pan flute or a mandrake ♥
  • Survive a full year with Wickerbottom ♥
• Woddie
  • Betrayal: Use a gold axe to cut down 30 trees instead of Lucy ♥
  • Self restraint: Go 25 days without cutting trees ♥
  • Axe Wielder: Fight with Lucy only. Kill 30 mobs. ♥
  • Like a Corny Movie: Only Transform with the Full Moon ♥
  • It's not a Phase: Stay as a Werebeaver for 5 days straight ♥
  • Survive a full year as Woodie ♥
• Wes
  • Party Time!: Make 100 balloons in total ♥
  • It's a Serious Profession: Don't use your Balloons and kill 50 mobs ♥
  • Sudden Scary Surprise: Kill yourself with the balloons ♥
  • Keep Up: Try to keep your hunger and sanity full or almost full for 25 days ♥
  • Putting on a Show: Inspect 25 items as Wes ♥
  • Survive a full year as Wes ♥
• Maxwell
  • You and What Army?: Spawn 2 Shadow Warriors at once ♥
  • Manual Labor: Once you summon a Miner and Chopper don't build anymore axes or pickaxes, have your minions do the work for you. Collect 150 logs and 150 rocks in total through your minions ♥
  • Self Portrait: Inspect a Maxwell Statue as Maxwell ♥
  • Never Again: Ditch the Codex for a year. ♥
  • Haven't you learned your lesson?: Build a Shadow Manipulator as Maxwell ♥
  • Stolen Knowledge: Read every book at least once. ♥
  • Survive a full year as Maxwell ♥
• Wigfrid
  • Improvising: Use a normal spear instead of the starting one ♥
  • Tough Like a Warrior: Only eat monster meat for 15 days ♥
  • For honor!: Cull an entire Beafalo herd ♥
  • A True Actor: Make a Berry Hat and surprise a Gobbler ♥
  • The Brotherhood: Lead a group of at least 3 pigmen into battle ♥
  • Survive a full year as Wigfrid ♥
• Webber
  • Silky Smooth: Grow you beard to it's full potential ♥
  • Outcast: Don't befriend the spiders ♥
  • Like a Beast: Only eat monster foods ♥
  • Mother Dearest: Hang out with a Spider Queen ♥
  • Infested: Add the spider eggs to an existing spider nest ♥
  • Survive a year with Webber ♥

*No shipwrecked goals, tried to keep it so you can do most of these in both games.

And that's all I have for now! Feel free to comment on what you think. Again this isn't a suggestion to add achievements to the game, just a list of things for you to try and do to add some challenge to the game again. I will take suggestions and ideas and update this list as I get more to add. I hope you enjoy.

(sorry if this doesn't quite go here, but "off topic" seemed too off-topic and it's not an _actual_ Tale of Life and Death,so...)

'Twas the evening of winter's feast,

And through the wilderness,

Many shadows were stirring,

With a growl and a hiss.

The survivors were huddled all close by their fire

In hopes that warmth would help them not to expire

The critters were snuggled all close in their den,

Hoping that someone would soon take them in.

And I in my cardigan, and some others in tee's

Had just settled in for a long winter's freeze.

When outside of the gates, there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my tent to see what was the matter!

And what to my suspicious eyes should appear,

But a miniature sleigh, and two angry jewelled deer!

With a big mangled driver, with stitched eyes and maws,

I knew in a moment it had to be Klaus.

Out came the weapons--the spikes and the spears,

And soon the whole campsite was loud to my ears.

Wigfrid in her helm, and Wolfgang with his coat,

Swarmed in to do battle with this overgrown goat.

Klaus raised his hands, and to our surprise,

There was suddenly lava, near up to our thighs!

Webber got frozen, and Wilson overheated,

While Wes ate popcorn and watched, staying seated.

But soon it was over, and as he faded from sight,

"Winter's curse to you all!  But it's been a good fight."

As the lava then faded, and melting ice freed our boots,

We knew it'd been worth it, because of the loot.

Not perfect I know, but hey, it was spur-of-the-moment.  (Wes was sitting by not because he can't fight, but because I thought it'd be funny to have someone eating popcorn during all this.  Heh.) 

Sorry I didn't get everyone in.  In case anybody was wondering, the "I" telling the story could be any character, but I was thinking Willow 'cos that's who I usually play. 

...Notorious

A topic for fun, at least my fun (mouhahahha). What cliches do you think our characters fit in real life.

Ok here i go.

I think wilson is the average guy. Normal at everything.

Then we have wolfgang, durable guy, can be energetic but if you dont give him some rest or food, he has stress issues or gets tired easily. (loss of sanity + hunger gain).

Willow, well dont we all have a friends that destroyes anything? No necessarily by fire though.

Wes, well some people are fragile, doing office jobs, and not talking much.

Wendy a pessimistic friend than believes in supernatural, come on, there are tons of them.

Wigfrid, a small in-your-face person that gets to fights all the time. Probably a worker at a factory unit or something, drinking beer and swearing all day.

Wx i think is supposed to be an athlete. Starts of weak, uses some "vitamines" and hard work to become tougher in the long run.

Wickerbottom well its easy, a four-eyed smart #$% that knows it all.

Woodie well a workacholic wood harvester that just wont go godzila mode. Sits alone in the bar drinking whiskey after the hard work.

And the final two i think are the hardest.

Maxwell...well? I suppose he is the paspartou guy always preparing something and being present everywhere?? Nah i dont like it.

Webber. Hmm or i can take it literally and assume he seems like the creepy guy that has lizards and snakes as pets, or just a person with many pets, being antisocial. (hence the pigmen and catcoons hunt him. I mean any person insulting the catcoons must be evil).

I suppose i myself am wolfgang-like. Normally i am hungry and like everybody else if not more tired and generally stressed. Well i am not afraid of darkness or monsters but then again i havent seen one yet.  Given rest and food i can be very energetic and agile, but that finishes fast and i want to regain my strength. So which one are you?

We all just LOVE getting pleated shirts from weekly drops, so why not show em off here?

Is it not from playing on Christmas after all?

Is it even being used, or was some other solution found?

Hello everyone!

I have finally started shying away from the beefalo (a bit too far and hounds show up earlier).

I used my hound teeth to build a basic tooth trap field. What i want to know, is how big it should be.

I have seen massive, screen wide, perfectly arranged fields and they looked a bit too much.

Here is the current field.

Just wanted to share a few of my faverate outfits and I wanna see all the other cool outfits. Post yours here!

Hobo Woodie. All he ever likes to do is chop trees.

Rich Wickerbottom. She doesnt normally do manual labor but she knows a thing or two on how to survive!

Hi starving fellows, did you know? Don't starve together is finalist for the steam awards 2016, in the category "best with friends"...
and that's all, I just wanted to came here and say congratulations klei. These are not like the videogame awards where the indie games have their own category, this ones are selected by us, the players, and that's what really matters. I'm happy because I always play this game and say: "this game is so good, why the people don't even know that exist?, why this game isn't popular?", now I see how popular really is, how many people play it, I see how much has evolved since the single player and how good was designed when 3 or 4 players come to my server, everyone from a different country speaking a different language and we can still playing without problems.

I see the effort and dedication in every detail of the game since 2012 and I can not be more satisfied with the final result, did you expect a success like this?, how it feels to know that your game is that good and popular?, Im not telling that the other finalist are bad, I love most of them, but I think DST have everything to win.

Congratulations again Klei team!, I wait great things from you 

It's been two days that I'm not able to log in to the game and I constantly recieve this message: "Could not connect to Klei servers..." 

I've compeletly read this article and did what it says; I also tried turning off windows and modem/router firewall to see if it fixes the problem but it had no effect on it. so is anything that I'm missing about this issue? This is so frustrating, one day you wake up and you see the game is not working anymore on the same system with exactly same config that it was running on it fluently 2 days ago. I would be so glad if anyone can help me on this one.

With regards, UPRiSER.

Hi, I'm doing research on ALL of the possible uses for each book Wickerbottom has to provide. I came to ask you all for any additions you could add to my list that could qualify as a theoretical and/or practical use for every single book used in Don't Starve Together. If you have anything, be sure to reply. 

Updated 12/19/2016 10:30 PM PST. 

BIRDS OF THE WORLD

Confirmed Uses

- Quick snack; morsels (combine with pan flute or sleepytime stories; kill quickly)

- Or collect feathers (crow feathers for feather pencils or azure feathers for blow darts)

- Use scarecrow to replace crows with canaries, 95% morsel drop rate

- Summon Krampus

Questionable Uses

- Combine it with a sleep dart to collect birds and kill for cooked morsels; how

long do they sleep for it scares off the nearby birds; not practical at all unless desperate

- Make a ring of bird traps; somewhat practical

- Could feather hat increase amount of birds; seemingly not

- Used to distract hounds and other enemies; possible

- Use the eyeplants to capture birds; is it practical; do they die in there

APPLIED HORTICULTURE

Confirmed Uses

- Grow grass/twigs/berries/dragon fruit farms

- Use two times to make trees grow to fullest (massive tree farms!)

- Grow reeds for more paper

- More cacti for food and sanity gain

- Get more lightbulbs for lantern fuel or rot

- Doesn’t work on mushrooms, but what about planters; use book 3 times for full growth

- Cannot be used on saplings and unfertilized crops

Questionable Uses

- Grow things and abuse eyeplants to harvest them; but how to make the perfect farm?

- Get light bulb and etc for werepig to make poop, good for fuel; I want to test how practical this is

ON TENTACLES

Confirmed Uses

- Farm for tentacle spikes and monster meat, like with treeguards and charged goats

- Use near spiders to farm tentacle spikes, silk, and glands

- Use as defense for bosses and other enemies (treeguards, etc)

- Deal damage to enemies to weaken health

- Griefing tool; danger book

Questionable Uses

- Use to distract enemies (be mindful of not getting hit); possibly practical; could use in ruins like clockworks

- Solo bee queen; not practical at all; she targets you as a priority

- Kill shadow chess pieces or use to farm tentacles; not very practical, they keep targetting the nearest player as a priority

- Slurtle farm, grass wall in between a grass wall square in middle of tentacles; healing the mounds; could use ocuvigil to keep area loaded

- Spawn some by magma pools to shorten dragonfly fight

- Killing krampi and bunnymen with “killing towers”, optional lure; how to build?

SLEEPYTIME STORIES

Confirmed Uses

- Lasts for 20 seconds

- Use with Birds of the World

- Make rabbits fall asleep to kill them quickly, or use traps on them

- Make enemies and bosses fall asleep; a panic button (if timed right)

- Pacify enemies like treeguards to stop targeting you

- Shave beefalo

- It’s twice the range of a pan flute, just a little off screen

- Attacking things like hounds and spiders that defend each other will wear off the sleep effect much sooner

- Cut down the sporecaps while toad is sleeping

Questionable Uses

- What about monkeys in ruins; do they wake up to defend each other?

- 13 secs before night, cast birds of the world x2 +  sleep time story x1. Birds will sleep all the way till morning. You can farm krampus sack by killing these birds. I want to test this

- Remove dragonfly's enrage; need to confirm

THE END IS NIGH

Confirmed Uses

- Trigger WX-78’s overload, or heal him 100 health, or cause insanity

- Charge up goats and get electric milk

- Artificial lighting for lightning rods, emergency lighting; can also put one down and use book or just book on one placed beforehand

- Cause a lightning storm to happen for emergency lighting, to light up something quickly to get away from Charlie; risks burning stuff down though

- Indirectly hurt players with lightning (be sure to wear protective clothing)

- Griefing tool; danger book

Questionable Uses

- Cause chaos and panic; cause fire everywhere; not guaranteed

- Use to kill birds from Birds of the World for cooked morsels and ash; not very practical

Hey everyone, as you know we’ve been working on A New Reign - there’s a lot of content that's being added into Don't Starve Together and we need your help in testing it to make sure that we didn’t break things on the live branch while adding content to multiplayer.
 
If you would like to jump into our testing branch, we would really appreciate you letting us know if anything is broken or missing.

A New Reign Beta Requirements:

• You must own Don't Starve Together
• The game must not be running when opting into the beta branch

How to access the A New Reign BETA Branch
 

Please note that when the game is on the main/release branch, A New Reign Beta servers show up as a dark orange colour in the server listing screen. 

Thank you for your help everyone! We're really excited to get A New Reign content into your hands and we are very much looking forward to your feedback.

As always, please post any feedback or questions for the current update thread: http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/69489-game-update-east-or-west-base-is-best-beta-187380/

Hoping someone knows - I bought quite a few of the pins from the Klei store, and their webpages say that they include a random DST in-game item. I can see a code on the front of the packs, but it's only 12 digits, not 16, so it doesn't seem to work when entering it on the 'redeem' page in-game in DST. Am I entering the code in the wrong place, or have I just got a dud code?

Thank you  

So, my first don't starve together, one of us on a laptop (host, i7, 8gb) and the other on a desktop (me).

I was lagging so bad that I died whenever something attacked me, we got to day 17 and a guy who came in earlier burned everything down, so we left.

When you host, are you the server?    Can you host games on Klei servers?   My connection speed was 114ms.   

Thanks, appreciate any information I can get.

Host had minimap.   I also modified my client.ini file to set tick rate to 60, maybe this will help.