Some old Klei concept art ... possible hints of LORE? (Walter-Wendy pact of steel confirmed...?)

A thread like this existed before but I'm afraid it fell deep into the archive, so here is a new one. You can post funny, odd and terrible pictures that you made while playing DST.

Here are some from my collection:

Love this one because it looks like as if the third bunny from the right (not counting the bunny behind the hut) is throwing the small bunny.

My dear Wolfgang managed to trap himself while being sane and of course I mocked him by taking a screenshot and weeks later finding myself trapped in this too while being sane.

Wigfrid is able to fish in carpet. Who would have guessed.

Wagstaff is a fan fav character, I like him too, I love the detail in how his voice and appearance get more distorted as he loses health, his nearsightedness flaw is genius, and I love the Thumper, Telebrella and Telepad. There's one thing though I don't like about wagstaff though. He can't be added to DST. Let me explain.

Wagstaff's main perks are his engineering tab, the electrical doodad, and being able to spot hidden dangers. "This would make a great character though, why can't he be added?" said every fan ever. Well. simply put, all his features have been given to other people. The electrical doodad is not Wagstaff exclusive anymore, his ability to spot hidden dangers was given to wurt, a similar engineering tab has already been given to Winona, and his telebrella and telepad have already sorta been implemented poorly with the Lazy deserter and Desert stones. Adding wagstaff is completely redundant as he's just a package of already implemented features. The only features of his that haven't been implemented in some way is the thumper, and his glasses types. And the glasses really only benefit him, and the thumper kinda undermines shadow loggers/mners/shovelers. Wagstaff would serve no gameplay value being added, the only value I can see being added from wagstaff showing up is lore. Because they'd have to change him much more drastically than other characters to put him in. Klei removed Warbucks because he wasn't fun to play, (That and Idt you can get oincs in SW) and Wagstaff is basically a mix of all these features of different characters/items. While I know fans would love him implemented it just isn't worth it.

i fouond 2 walkin cane skeletons in 1 world yes 2 walkin canes skeletons in 1 world

this is extreme luck

"If you look into the Abyss, the Abyss looks into you."
Never was a sentence more true.

Here's what Don't Starve's last big adversity might look like: The manifestation of THEM in the atrium; Attracted by that celestial globe that we created on the surface by foolishly connecting the three lunar altars.
The fool does not know what is going to happen...

Hey everyone, thanks for waiting. Our next work from home dev stream (episode 279) will be happening on April 1st, 2021 at 3:30 PM Pacific Time. Join Programmers Peter (and Zach who is calling in) this Thursday where we will be discussing the incoming update for Don't Starve Together!

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To the DST Community:

I am sure Helicalpuma is not an unknown name in the DST community -- he was perhaps most well-known as an early pioneer of several very popular strats, and his Maxwell playthrough helped thousands of DST beginners and seasoned players to improve their gameplay. Unfortunately, recently we received very sad news from Helicalpuma's family, that Helicalpuma had passed away by natural cause (medical).

As a member of Helicalpuma's twitch, youtube, and discord community, we are still in shock (and denial). The news hits very hard, it is devastating and despairing. At the same time, we are very blessed to have him around in the community, for all the beautiful memories we shared.

For Helicalpuma's contribution to the game and the community in general, we believe the community deserves to know of the news. And we are thinking, what we can do for him, to honour his legacy and contribution.

We are wondering, would Klei developers be interested in doing a small tribute or homage to remember Helicalpuma? It can be an Easter Egg, or a character quote, or a pig or bunny name, it can be anything, as far as their creativity goes and it is legally sound. The idea is mentioned to us by Puma's cousins. Of course, this is only a suggestion and humble request.

Otherwise, feel free to share your memories and thoughts about Puma, or write a few words for him. It is really unfortunate, that since he was inactive on Twitch for quite some time, the vods got deleted and clips were the only ones left.

As of now, as part of Puma's Discord/community server/Twitch moderator-admin team, we are still trying to figure out what to do and how to proceed in midst of grieving.

Thank you very much for your time.

Best wishes,

Muffin Sandals, Meowswing, Anxious-Insomniac.

EDIT: p/s: some of his more recent shenanigans https://www.twitch.tv/helicalpumaaa/clips?filter=clips&range=all

Puma's youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/helicalpuma

So, I, as a newer player (I only have been playing DST for a few months now), main Winona, and I just have to say that I love her in-game quotes. Whenever I play, I literally go out of my way in some of my worlds just to examine something to see what her comment on it will be. I just highly appreciate how her character shines through her words (and another plus is the fact that some hint at possible lore, which I'm assuming most people know already).

Recently, I have begun to explore some more characters as well (Wilson and WX-78), and I find Wilson's quotes (though quite a bit of it is simply saying what the item does, from what I've seen) to be adorable, and WX-78's quips are just downright hilarious to me. I'm planning on trying out Walter and Wigfrid soon, too.

I'm just going to share a few quotes that I can remember off the top of my head, and I encourage you guys to do the same! I don't think I have explored enough of this community to know exactly how much people have really stopped to appreciate the writing the developers have not only put into the characters' stories, but the writing simply put into developing their personalities too. 

Winona:

• any of the pun quotes 
• (boulder) "Mhm, yep. That's a rock."
• (some tree, can't remember which one) "Yep. Definitely a tree."
• (red cap) "Let Max try it first."
• (hot dragon chili salad) "Can't believe Warly's got me eatin' salads."
• (carrying a marble sculpture... sometimes) "Like eggs in coffee!"

Wilson:

• any of the pun quotes
• (redbird in inventory) "He likes my pocket."
• (closed eyebone, meaning Chester's dead) "It went to sleep."
• (Woby) "It's a scientific fact that petting a good dog will improve your day.
• (evergreen) "It's all piney."
• (rose) "To match my rosy cheeks."

WX-78

• (talking to the plants) "I'M NOT TALKING TO YOU." "THIS IS ME NOT TALKING TO YOU."
• (I think a feather...?) "WHY IS THE FEATHER SO APPEALING? EXPLAIN NOW, FLESHLINGS."
• (science machine) "MOTHER?"
• (burnt crockpot) "POT MALFUNCTIONING."
• (something burning, can't remember what) "IT'S BURNING. OH WELL."
• (rabbit earmuffs) "I WILL UTILIZE THEIR FURRINESS."

All in all, appreciation for the characters' quotes (Wes may not have quotes, but he still has his pantomimes! ^v^)

Hello, i think a good mob to add is Livecone, like pinecone but with eyes and small feet to go replant itself somewhere near a pine tree(10%chance to be spawned when chopping a maxed pinetree) . Also the mainland is kinda dead, the biggest mobs are deers in the birchnut forest, and buffalos in the grasslands, what about the forest, maybe a bear or some mob combined of two animals,also they should add a few more biomes and for sure a lot of birds, for example: in the swamp there are a lot of bird noises but you only see crows, where there could be swamp storks(could be really hard to capture, and spawn near ponds, eating frogs and baited by frog legs + maybe regular storks spawn near normal ponds aswell). Also owls could be added(in pine trees making spooky owl noises). Feel free to suggest more animals and which biomes could they spawn. 

Just my opinion but it would make the game more alive Sorry for bad english

What an absolute lovely community. All I wanna say is have a nice day everyone!

I imagine Wilson curled up in a corner, obsessively repeating the elements of the periodic table and their characteristics: "Hydrogen, atomic number 1, Helium, atomic number 2, Lithium, atomic number 3, [...], Uranium, number atomic 92 ... well, they are all there. There are still certainties in this world ... "
Maxwell, on the other hand, I think he would continually try to extract rabbits from the hat: "How deep is the rabbit hole ..."
I imagine Wolfgang starts to pray (he mentioned prayers in one of his old quotes; perhaps he is Catholic or Orthodox).
I imagine Wendy as immobile as a statue, while seriously contemplating the idea of suicide (don't take me for a sadist, she's explicitly clarifies on several occasions that she wants to kill himself in some way).
And Willow ... well, some people just want to set the world on fire: "WE ARE THE FLAME !!! * psycho laugh *

Warly Tips:

BY: "Grim, the#1055" on discord, "Grim the" on the Klei Entertainment Forums.
Special Thanks to "dogman#6179" for asking "any warly tips" on the unofficial Don't Starve discord, and to @McNugget and @OG Nickname for reviewing this guide for typos.

Hunger:
Warly's hunger may seem difficult at first, but it really is quite simple. Since his memory lasts 2 days, and he loses 90 hunger a day, that means for any combo, you need 180+ hunger. All you need is meatballs and meaty stew, which gives 212.5 hunger.
How do you make meaty stew? 3 meat value. The recipe I recommend is 2 meat and 1 monster meat, or 1 meat, 1 monster meat, and 2 morsels/drumsticks.

Health:
While health may be difficult compared to what you're likely used to with perogi and other foods, health isn't *too* big of an issue, with enough preparation. First, use Pepper-Spiced Volt Goat Chaud-Froid in boss fights whenever you can. Why? Spicy Volt Goat Chaud-Froid makes you do 1.8x damage to dry targets, and 3x damage to wet targets. If the fight takes a third of the time, the mob can hit you one third of the normal amount, resulting in a third of the normal damage taken. In addition, you can use garlic spice to give you 33% damage resistance, further reducing the amount of healing you need. Although expensive, salt spice also increases how much a spiced food heals you by 25%. Now let's say you're tanking deerclops with a dark sword, and compare the cost to tanking deerclops with a dark sword after eating spicy volt goat chaud-froid, eating garlic meatballs, and using salt perogi as healing. 
No Spices:
A dark sword has 154.54 DPS, and deerclops has 4000 health, meaning deerclops will die in 25.88 seconds. This means deerclops can hit you 6 times, for 75 damage a hit, for 450 total damage.
Spices & Chaud-Froid: 
A dark sword has 278.17 DPS, and deerclops has 4000 health, meaning deerclops will die in 14.37 seconds. This means deerclops can hit you 3 times, for 49.5 damage a hit, for 148.5 total damage. 

As seen by my calculations, with spices you take 33% of the normal damage, vastly reducing the amount of damage you take, even after armor. 

I recommend using high-health healing foods like surf n' turf and wobster bisque, along with honey poultice.

Sanity:
There’s a couple “great” options when it comes to sanity food as Warly.

1. Jelly salad. (+50 sanity, 2 leafy meat 2 honey)

2. Ice Cream (+50 sanity, 1 electric milk, 1 honey, 1 ice)

Salsa Fresca, Moqueca, Fancy Spiralled Tubers, Creamy Potato Puree, and Soothing Tea are also good too. (Thanks to @Cheggf and @penguin0616 for reminding me in the replies, along with @Theukon-dos and @Pig Princess)

However, you also can't smash green caps for easy in-sanity, and there's only 2 crockpot foods that take sanity without taking health too. (Stuffed Pepper Poppers {-5} and Fish Cordon Bleu {-10}, both aren't worth the cost) Because of this, you've got a couple options when it comes to sanity- 

Option A:
Ebb and flow from sanity to insanity, and get the fuel that comes with it. 

Option B:
Rush the shadow manipulator for a dark sword and night armor **exclusively** for going insane, and farm fuel like that.

Option C:
Gonna copy the discord server's rules here, and make my own rule 5:

Rule 5:
"If a member of the Staff team asks you to stop doing something that is not explicitly listed here, please listen to them."
Pretty much these arent the only ways to farm fuel, and if you find another method, please do tell me.

EDIT: I’ve been playing Walter too much recently and forgot about sanity clothing. Tam o’ Shanter and the Hibernation vest are solid options too, especially since it reduces hunger drain.

Extra Tips:
The belt of hunger allows you to go 5 days without eating on a full stomach.
Base in the oasis, as it allows you to be close to Volt Goats for Volt Goat Chaud-Froid, and farming during summer without flingomatics. Also fish during summer for Moqueca.
https://dontstarve.fandom.com/wiki/Crock_Pot/Recipe_Table is your friend until you learn all the recipes.
Get a lureplant farm set up fast, as it gives you access to Jelly Salad and Beefy Greens.
The best farm synergies for Warly, at least in my opinion, are 3 pepper, 3 garlic, and 3 onion, and 4 potato & 4 tomato.

This is not final, and it may change as I continue to learn more about playing and mastering Warly.

Closing Notes:

I might do a Walter guide after I eat a couple jelly salads to regain my sanity, and I might elaborate more on recipes I use. If there's any typos, please DM or @ me on discord or the forums.
This guide was originally written for discord, and as such, there way be formatting errors.

Au Revior,

Grim, the

What is your average FPS when playing DST?

Hello everyone, I cannot guarantee these methods would fix the issues for you but I'm making this thread in hopes of collating all the possibilities of why players cannot claim their Streaming Drops. So first and fore most, let's double check that we have all the necessary checkboxes cleared that SHOULD allow us to receive our drops.

Latest Info on Streaming Drops click: NEW Streaming Drops Available Now! (The Smite'ning Rod)

NECESSARY INFORMATION:

[1] Klei Support Article: How to link your Twitch Account to your Klei Account

If you have already properly connected your Twitch Account to your Klei Account before, here's how to make sure you've linked them correctly.

[2] Below is the image of what your https://accounts.klei.com/account/info should show, if Twitch Account is properly connected:

[3] Clicking the Twitch Account Number should directly bring you to your Twitch Account's setting (IF you are already currently logged in your Twitch Account in the same Web Browser). Then below is the image of your Connections and under OTHER CONNECTIONS should reflect Klei Entertainment:

[4] If you've accumulated enough watch times you can go to https://www.twitch.tv/drops/inventory and CLAIM your Streaming Drop. On the Twitch App Mobile, click your Profile Icon in the Corner > Drops > Click Reward > Claim. Be aware that you have to CLAIM each reward individually before you can accumulate more watch time for the next reward. Click All Campaigns Tab to see more details about the current drop:

[5] Twitch Gift Drops are received the same way we all received our Daily Drops which is upon first login of the day as soon as we enter the Main Menu of DST (after pressing Play and properly logged in). In case of Twitch Drops, if you've claimed the Twitch Drop while DST is open then simply go through the login process again by restarting DST. Shown Below:

TROUBLESHOOTING:

If you've made sure of the things mentioned above and you still haven't received your Twitch Drops, then follow the links below:

• Earned Twitch Drops are not showing up in Don't Starve Together

• Don't Starve Together items are missing from my Steam Inventory

• Trying to re-link Twitch Account? Instead of using REMOVE ACCOUNT on Klei Account in [2] to unlink your TwitchAccount, try use the DISCONNECT button for Twitch in [3] instead. Then go through the process of LINKING your twitch account using the link in [1].

Make sure to double check for every method mentioned in the listed Klei Support Articles.

STILL NOT WORKING?

If none of these help, our last resort would be for you to directly reach out to Klei Support staff through this Submit A Request for with the following details:

Game: Don't Starve Together

Category: Account Help

Provide your Klei User ID (found in https://accounts.klei.com/account/info) + Twitch Account Username + ALSO a copy of your client_log.txt (Click Add File > Browse to to Documents\Klei\DoNotStarveTogether > Double Click client_log.txt)

OR DRAG-DROP the whole client_log.txt file from that folder into the drop files here box at the bottom of the Submit a request page.

Do not forget to add any substantial information in your description about what you've tried so far in trying to fix it. In case you might provide details that could help the devs further reduce the risk of any issues in the future.

Hopefully everyone who needs this information finds it.

I hope it helps, cheers.

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POST UPDATE (March 27, 2021):

• Reworked information to better reflect the new Streaming Drops System.

POST UPDATE (Oct 28, 2020):

• Decluttered post for ease of use.
• Since issue that originally prompted the creation of this thread made has long been fixed, I've enclosed in the spoiler below all the prior information involving that specific issue for posterity.

POST UPDATE (April 27, 2020):

New update for the Klei servers has been deployed and any discrepancies has been retroactively applied to affected accounts cause by unintended side effects by a previous Klei server update. Refer to the dev replies in this thread for more info. Unless outliers come up, everything should be back in order for everyone.

Thank you devs for the updates on the matter and just as importantly thank everyone for your cooperation and patience on the matter.

Cheers.

A thread like this existed before but I'm afraid it fell deep into the archive, so here is a new one. You can post funny, odd and terrible pictures that you made while playing DST.

Here are some from my collection:

Love this one because it looks like as if the third bunny from the right (not counting the bunny behind the hut) is throwing the small bunny.

My dear Wolfgang managed to trap himself while being sane and of course I mocked him by taking a screenshot and weeks later finding myself trapped in this too while being sane.

Wigfrid is able to fish in carpet. Who would have guessed.

When I am trying to make a poll it glitches out and either doesn't let me add questions or says: "enter presentage" and removes everything I wrote... I'm just trying to see if the DST community still remembers the dying community of the Roleplay community that I'm barely holding up.

Really, why don't more things respawning in this game? It just becomes more boring in part of that and people who join later have less to play with or have a tougher time due to no fault of their own. Since Klei have been looking at world generation options, I thought to list some very important things that should and would be preferable to respawn to address these issues.

Following are things that are either required or quite essential and if destroyed, will not be possible to get back in the world. Some things are already respawn, like trees, and you can renew some things like goat herds through hunting suspicious dirt piles. Why this hasn't been done with more resources, I have no idea. Some of the listed can respawn, but in very specific areas whereas a new world would give them to you in multiple places, so for example new players in an old world need to go to caves or find the pig king to get any gold. Rock biome in particular becomes a very empty biome later in the game. For balance, some could be changed to discourage certain interactions with them as well, like pig houses could require only 1 pig skin to build, and you would only get one back when hammered, or have the world-spawned houses be indestructible and mandrakes could respawn once every year. 

Following are not really that needed resource options or mobs for anything in particular, but it removes an option and content from the world permanently when destroyed. With some destroying them permanently being the old way you can interact with them to begin with. To build merm houses you need to be Wurt to make them, and that character isn't even free and you can't pick her on LAN servers, and that's just not fair. Others make areas challenging, but only for so long as they are there and once you kill/destroy them, the game just becomes more boring.

Despite berry bushes not being listed in the world regrowth options, I'm sure I've seen them respawn and sometimes in really weird places like savanna. Some other oddities I have found are things that don't appear to affect anything at all yet are just there, like Bunnymen being in the surface World Settings when none ever even spawn on the surface. Does this affect their frequency? If so, that's a weird thing to even have when clearly there are more important things to cover. And does anyone else find it weird that there is no meteor area on the lunar island?

By far the most essential yet difficult resource to get when starting in Summer particularly is grass, second to which is nitre. If you start in Summer and stay on surface, both of these resources you can really only get from the meteor areas and tumbleweeds in desert. One idea is to add another grass resource variant, the Grassy Trees in Savanna biomes which would shed grass as they grow or could be chopped for grass and replanted for more.

Really feels like this season as a whole should be less challenging. Winter is a cool challenge and gives you new stuff to work with, but Summer is just hated in general besides living through it in caves, even with the good stuff you can get only during this season on surface, and that's in part because in winter you can just burn a tree to heat up and stay warm for up to a minute with nothing on you, while in Summer you don't have an option as easy as that. May be you would not overheat or have plants wither normally unless there is a heatwave happening, which could be intermittent like rain in Spring and items like the Ice Cube could be made better and more reliable if you gathered the ice (slower wetness gain, no speed reduction).

I think you also mixed up the starting items for Spring and Summer. You get straw hat for Spring, but pretty parasol for Summer. Both work for both seasons, but clearly Straw Hat is more valuable, fitting and needed for Summer than the Pretty Parasol, and the same for the parasol in Spring (bar the valuable part). You don't need to gather any grass to get one for the season and can use whirly fan as well, but the parasol just ruins that option unless you started near the end of Spring. The hat also takes 12 grass to craft, which is a hefty price when you can't even gather a single one in your vicinity.

Know what would be fun? An official Klei CHALLENGE. I think the devs are super creative and had a lot of enjoyment from creating adventure mode; I've come up with a way to bring that back. This would be in the form of Klei's challenge of the month on the main menu. Custom worlds unlike anything that can be built with the current custom world presets, character restrictions, strange new initial spawn locations, crafting restrictions and a world goal. Perhaps an extra skin roll for your efforts? Well, that's for Klei to decide.

Introduction

Charlie thinks she can push each character to their limit and break their spirit. She will build a world that exploit each of the survivors weaknesses and shake them to their core. Can they overcome with their own strength? 

Community

How cool would be to brainstorm with each other and proving our mettle as a community? Perhaps a unique skin on extremely hard challenges that make grown men cry?  A way to fit in a small amount of content and discussion in between updates.

Examples: 

Do the monster smash- Wurt only

World- An enormous swamp biome at the center surrounded by small forests biomes. The swamp is infested with tentacles at every turn. No wild merms, a starting gold axe but there is no flint in the whole world. 

Goal- Clear the swamp of tentacles before Winter. 

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Trapped in the spider's web- Webber only

World- Small island resembling a web and a few patches of resources. Hounds spawn daily, in small amounts at first such as 1-2 a day, to eventuality 10 every day. 

Goal- Reach the main Island which is a far larger spiders web with more resources and spider nests. Survive 10 days on the main island.

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Gumming up the works- Wx-78 Only

World- Spawn in the ruins. There are some resources on some biomes guarded by night lights and clockworks are scarce. Only source of food is gears. Night lights activate in the surrounding biomes in a clockwise fashion every few minutes. Every complete cycle (a day) they all turn on at once. 

Goal- Survive 24 cycles (24 days)

Conclusion

Probably a pipe dream since I'm sure there are a lot of limitations that could keep this from happening. The devs might have no interest or time but I still thought it would be cool to share. 

Although, perhaps it can work if its simple custom worlds like the worlds in the single player adventure mode? And scattered about the area are pieces to a marble Charlie statue (look for right arm, etc). Put the statue together and charlie fills the surrounding area with roses, just before chopping your head off. 

I'm nearing 600 hours of this game. I play with my friends exclusively. Most of the times I played Wickerbottom, I recognise she was overpowered when I started playing, which was before refreshes started to happen, but I liked that everyone had a role. Recently I've been playing with Warly and Wurt a lot, and I always had something that I can either do faster, or better. My impression on all the new characters and refreshes is that now everyone can do something better or faster.

I now decided to try out Walter. After about 40 days (granted, not much), I'm not impressed with him. He can collect more stuff when he ventures out (although he does need more food because of his low hunger for it), and he can get from point A to point B faster, but that's about all the upsides I found about him. I was hyped about using his slingshot, with or without Woby, but it's underwhelming even with Marble rounds. He is shooting so slowly I feel like it would just be better to use a hambat. Freezing rounds and slowdown rounds sound good, but not super useful in my opinion. I haven't used cursed rounds yet, but that doesn't sound too good either. I expected similar or better DPS if I invest in expensive ammo, but at this point I'd rather mass produce blowdart with any other character and play a better Walter that way. He doesn't even have sleep rounds to be useful against dragonfly.

Can he actually do anything way better than a Wilson can?