Sort of like the DLC for the single player as opposed to them being microtransaction based, as that would make them playable with LAN and not have to connect to Klei's master servers. I'm not sure if that would mean weaving them with spools would be possible anymore, but if you can't lose the DLC characters after as a result of this system, you could simply make the characters impossible to unravel after. It would also clear up any confusion about how to purchase them from the list of the in-game shop too.

Next on my list of questions: do you like rolling back?

Have you ever been blessed by the drop system? Have you ever started the game with the Daily Gift being an Elegant tier gift and wanted to show it off somewhere? Feel free to post it here.

I'll start first.

Hey everybody.

We're back with another QOL update, this update contains some changes to world options, they have been split into two categories, world settings (things affect the world after it has been generated), and world generation options (things that affect world generation). By default, saving and loading presets will work as before, or can choose to unlink the world settings and generation options and manage their presets separately. If you host a dedicated server, the method for applying world options is unchanged and will continue to work just fine.

Changes

• Containers can now be opened by multiple players at the same time.
• All actions can be repeated by clicking and holding the action button.
• All crafting recipes can be repeated by double clicking and holding the crafting button.
• Setting world generation options to “More” will no longer generate more of that object in every biome, it will now only generate more of that object in biomes where that object already exists.
• World settings, (things that affect game behavior after the world has been generated) can now be changed after a world has been generated.
• The preset menu has been overhauled to allow custom presets to be named.
• Added over 20 new world generation options.
• Added over 60 new world settings.
• The server commands menu (eg. roll back, regenerate the world, etc) is now accessible via the “Server Commands” button in the not-a-pause pause menu.
• The rescue command has been added to the Server Commands menu.
• The player listing screen (scoreboard) can now also be accessed via the not-a-pause pause menu
• Added world settings to assist players when joining someone’s server. These settings should only have an impact on public servers. If you are locally hosting your own private world that only you and some friends play on, your experience will not be affected.
  • Extra Starting Resources. New players joining a world after day 10 will start with a few extra resources to make up for the starting area being most likely picked clean. 
  • Seasonal Starting Items. New players joining a world that is not in autumn will receive a basic seasonal clothing item to help them survive long enough to get started.
  • Spawn Protection. When a player spawns in, if there are too many structures near the spawn point or if there are hostile creatures, the player will gain a temporary buff that allows them to walk through structures and prevents them from being targeted.
  • Drop Items on Despawn. Sets whether a player will drop only irreplaceable items or drop all their items when they leave the server.
• Year of the Beefalo has ended.
• Beefalo bell has been moved into the tools crafting menu,
• Beefalo groomer has been moved into the structures crafting menu. Recipe changed a little.
• The Year of the Beefalo skins are available all the time now.

Bug Fixes

• Ice now floats
• Lesser Glow Berries now have a different animation on the ground.
• Fixed a bug causing birchnut trees to update when they shouldn’t

Notes For Modders

• The worlddeciduoustreeupdater component is now deprecated
• You can see this post for the modding api changes made in this update.

Workshop API Upgrade
The Steam Workshop API has been upgraded, this provides the following improvements:

• Mods will be smaller in file size, along with downloading faster.
• Updates won’t require redownloading the whole mod, instead only the changes are downloaded.
• The File limits imposed by the previous API are gone.
• Mods will be automatically updated by the steam client without the game even needing to be open.
• The Mods Tab should perform better due to using the faster API for getting mod info.

More Victorian Skins!
The gang's all here! The rest of the survivors get the Victorian treatment in the Latecomers' Victorian Chest for $7.99 or you can get the Complete Victorian chest for $24.99usd. I don't know about you, but I need that Wortox skin, like now. 

New Login Bonuses!
We have a new login bonus for you. The worm Riddled Chest contains the Snaggletooth Wormhole, Lureplant Wormhole, Arachnoid Wormhole and Glow Berry Bush skins just for logging in to the game. 

And this week's Klei Rewards link!
Twitch drops are still on Hiatus but hopefully, we'll have some news pretty soon about their return. But for now, have 1700 points and get something cool. (Link expires on 3/18/2021)

And that's it for now. 
We're not quite ready to show you what we're working on just yet, but we will post something as soon as we've got something ready. Until then, have fun out there!

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Just ask if things like salt box shaker or other cool skins been add to Fools collection this year?

@JoeW

we've talked about character refreshes and what you think the new character will be. What about summer solstice? How do you think this'll go, and do you think this'll come back every summer?

A while ago there was a thread discussing a potential animated series: 

It ultimately ended on a stalemate of "We should not force Klei to spend more time on this than the rest of their projects". Since then they have made the decision to no longer be an indie company in order to not worry about finances as much and to maintain the quality of life of their employees. Hopefully this means that they will be able to work on projects much more freely and efficiently. 

It's not clear what a potential series would look like, but Klei has said that they have a couple of ideas up their sleeve. I completely trust that they will be able to create something fantastic and worthwhile no matter what they decide on. If Klei are up to the request and most importantly: if working on an animated series is still in interest to them, there is nothing stopping us from reaching out to a big streaming company and potentially achieving the beginning of a DS animated series.

For some time I have been thinking that Wickerbottom and Maxwell should have new books; after all why should only Winona have invented new machines?

For Wickerbottom:
"Book of Anarchy"

(Did someone say "The binding of Isaac?")
Wickerbottom's description: "The only book not worth reading."
Recipe: 2 gunpowder, 1 torch, 2 papyrus.
Effect: Consumes 50 sanity. Random explosions of 200 damage are generated on the screen up to 5 tiles away from the caster. Highly destructive.

For Maxwell:
"Necronomicon"

(Did anyone say Lovecraft?)
Maxwell's description: "The gates of hell are open; life and death are just a stubborn illusion."
Recipe: 2 pig skin, 1 telltale heart, 2 papyrus.
Effect: Consume all of Maxwell's sanity. All skeletons within five tiles of Maxwell come to life and become shadow duelist-like; they just can't be killed. You cannot kill what is already dead.
They will return to dust after two days.

(PS: For the moderators, don't let this topic die by moving it to suggestions and feedback, nobody looks at that section :'D)

Some* think Walter needs new ammunition, 
Let's see what else your favorite scout could shoot with his slingshot:

Lava Ammo:
Cost: 1 Red gem, 1 Moon rock.
Effect: Creates a lava pool that ignites anything that walks on it.

Solar Ammo:
Cost: 1 Yellow gem, 1 Moon rock.
Effect: 68 AoE damage, enemies hit begin to glow and their aura of sanity becomes +25 per minute.

Time Loop Ammo:
Cost: 1 Orange Gem, 1 Moon Rock.
Effect: 68 AoE damage, enemies hit teleport approximately three tiles away from the player when they successfully hit him.

Negative Entropy Ammo:
Cost: 1 Green gem, 1 Moon rock.
Effect: Deals no damage. Enemy kill generates double the normal loot upon death.

Alchemical Ammo:
Cost: 1 Iridescent Gem, 1 Moon rock.
The enemy that is hit has an increasing chance of transforming into a moonstone statue (instant death).
The probability increases as the enemy's health decreases:
100% health -> 1% chance of instant death.
50% health -> 50% chance of instant death.
10% health -> 90% chance of instant death.

Anarchy Ammo:
Cost: 1 Gunpowder, 1 Mosquito bag.
Effect: 200 AoE damage, enemies caught in the explosion catch fire.

Sand Pillar Ammo:
Cost: 1 Desert Stone, 1 Salt Crystal.
Effect: Generates sand pillars similar to Antlion, with everything that happens.

*approximately seven billion people who play DST.

I have all the conversation with a griefer, It was a lot of time and work what other players invested there, it is not enough to put griefer spawn protection, players want to feel safe when playing and know that every time we enter the server, we will find reliable players and our bases equal or better , I have proof of what this player did and I hope he will be sanctioned, obviously in steam he will not be sanctioned, I just wanted to scare him but it did not work, I would like there to be a blacklist of players, which being there you can not enter the server of other players, maybe I'm exaggerating but this really bothers me because it's not the first time it happens, thanks for reading the post and below are the screenshots of everything.

Here is the steam profile of the griefer https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198359818518/

Hi fellow survivors!

I've been a long time fan of the franchise and I felt like it's time that I give back something to the community. For the past two weeks, I've been practicing to hone my skills as a programmer so I thought I might as well program a tool that would be useful to my fellow survivors in the constant.

Do you find the new farming system too intimidating? Need a way to try it without risking your current survival world?

Well here it is: Don't Starve Together Farm Planner.

https://erocrizs.github.io/dst-farm-planner/

Features:
* Plant crops in 3x3 farm soils!
* Make plans for any and all of the four RoG seasons!
* It's a browser web app, so no need to download or install anything.
* If a planted crop is in season, has 3 or more nearby family, and is on a tile with a balanced self-fertilizing set of crops, then the crop will grow THICC AND GIANT!
* Use the Garden Rigamajig to plow tiles into farm soil, and pitchfork to flatten it back!
* Plant crops with seeds! You can filter seeds by season, nutrient absorption, and contribution to find the perfect seed you need!
* Use the Gardeneer Hat to check the status of the farm, and inspect specific tiles and crops! See what makes them happy, and find out how much you'll food and seeds you'll be reaping after a successful harvest!
* Save your farm plans and load it later when you need it! You can even export your farm plans into a files so you'll have a backup and you can share it with your
friends!
* Plan your farms wherever, whenever, since it is 100% mobile friendly!
* Keyboard shortcuts for our PC users! (Keys 1-6 for tools, CTRL+Z for undo, CTRL+SHIFT+Z or CTRL+Y for redo)
* Best of all? ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY FREE! No ads, and no need to make any account! Heck, I won't even ask for donations!

Tell me if you have questions, comments, and suggestions!

This coming Saturday 3rd April 2021 at 8pm London time (DST) Don't Fight will be hosting a Boat Race! At the time of the event the password for the server will be announced in discord (discord.gg/phewTaz), join quick to get a spot. 

At spawn you will jump through one of 2 wormholes that will lead you to the boats. Jump on any boat of your choice and start racing. One person per boat, first to jump on a boat gets it. Follow the course to get to pig king and the 4 moonlenses awaiting the winners. 

First person to pick up the green moonlens wins 1st place, 
first person to pick up the orange moonlens wins 2nd place, 
first person to pick up the red moonlens wins 3rd place, 
first person to pick up the blue moonlens wins 4th place.

Everyone will be Wilson. Everyone’s hunger drain will be stopped. The server will be all day and all autumn.
All the boats have identical things on them. The normal sea creatures will be there.

The prizes are:
1st Place – Fiery Witch’s Hat
2nd Place – Wigfrid Guest of Honor
3rd Place – Alchemy Pod
4th Place - Wigfrid The Triumphant & Shadow Armour

Pics of the race course, the start and the finish are posted in discord
If any issue comes up at the time of the event the mod team will make a ruling on it at the time, and their decision is final

Join our discord to see pics of the course (posted in #announcements channel right now), and be ready for the password when its posted on Saturday.
Link here: discord.gg/phewTaz

Hi there. Lately I've been interested in the concept a few streamers/content creators have been doing, usually dubbed "loot worlds".

For anyone unfamiliar with what a loot world is, it's basically a world that isn't what you initially generated with that you raid for loot. This normally isn't possible by default, but you can make it work fairly easily with a dedicated server and/or knowledge about how shards work. In particular, most people target the cave shard as their swap shard, as it isn't the master one and can be swapped without much issue. For instance, if you wanted to make a forest world for some extra ananemys, you can produce a forest world and quickly swap out your cave shard with this forest, which will give all of your cave entrances in the world access to the new forest world. After you are done looting the world, you can return to your main shard and swap the "cave" shards again without issue.

Obviously, this can lead to a lot of unfair advantages, particularly with nonrenewable or hard-to-renew resources. This can vary from person to person. From my stance, I don't like taking anything that can already be renewed by default, but I will take things that are not, such as ananemys, fancy berry bushes (the ones in pig villages), fossil fragments, and archive turf. While Klei will likely try making these resources renewable at one point, they currently are not at the moment, and the only ways to realistically get more are to use console/gen loot worlds, and the latter feels more "fair" to me. It also gives me a bit of a nostalgic taste moving around an unexplored map, similar to world hopping in DS, which I always enjoyed.

 

Pardon my speling mistakes but im to lazy to check for errors beour poasting so please stick with me xD

Also feel free to share your opinion on both list and argue with me, i love learning more about the game and ill admit if you change my mind and will change the tier list while crediting you !

Solo:

Together:

S Tier Solo:

Wickerbottom - Wickerbottom is just the best character no questions ask. Early game she can rush the bee queen to get broken loot from the start has well has having a great ruins rush i her high sanity and science up perk. Mid game she can set-up farms (Splumonkey farms, spiders farms, verg farms, klaus farms, etc) to get abundant resources and fight/cheese bosses with them plus she spawns food from the air ! The nerf to her Horticulture was big and killed a lot of food farms with lure plants but you can still use those set ups to farm twigs, grass and such. Overall she has no down side and amazing cealing, by far best character in the game.

Wulfgang - Wulfgang destroys the game with his massive damage, movespeed, sanity manipulation and hidden healing mechanics, by fair the best character to 1v1 bosses with (all but bee queen, wendy and wickerbottom solo that one easyer)

Wortox - Wortox ignores basic game mechanics due to his souls, health is a non existing problem due to healing and free quiting from souls, is able to manipulate his sanity with his souls and has a sanity modifier that prevents him to go insane in boss fights, due to teleporting on the spot to avoid damage he has a higher dps then all characters but wulfgang, wigfried and wendy with abigail, has the best mobility in the game, butterflyes are all he needs, kill them to get health/food, plant them and pick them to get sanity. Basicly, when played right, he is imortal !

A Tier Solo:

Wendy - Wendy is the closest to S tier. She is the best at farming hords of mobs (even better than wickerbottom and webber for spiders), has great dps toghether with abygail and her aoe allows her to rush Bee queen that has the best drops early game. She can also rush ruins fairly easy with her sanity modifier and abygail´s light. In my opinion she is the discount version of Wickerbottom, can make mob farms faster and efficient but cant do has much has wicker, wicker can do all she does granted a bit slower but much more has well.

WX-78 - WX-78 is the best ruin rusher in the game witch makes you set for the rest of the game with the highest stats of all of the cast and a bunch of ancient equipment. You can craft the telelocator staff in autom to bypass winter freezing and get the move speed and in spring you can recharge again with the moose/goose birdies to get set for the rest of the year. With is movesped his dps increases vs normal combat characters and he becomes the best solo resouce gatherer (better than Maxwell cause you wont need has much resources when playing solo and WX-78 travels faster)

Maxwell - Maxwell is held back by is Shadow Duelists, if they had a decent code to attack and kite correctly he would be the best character in the game (maybe tight with wickerbottom :P ). His main park are is resource gathering abilities, amazing when playing together, not has much necesary when soloing. Hes the second best ruins rusher due to his pick axe shadow and his sanity aura. Inferior version of WX-78 when solo.

Wigfrid - Wigfrid is in every way chape and form a wost Wulfgang. If your playing solo theres no reason to pick her over wulf. However, a worst S-Tier Character is still a great character (check Wendy xD). Contrary to popular belive, Wigfrid has lower overall hunger than Wulfgang due to his Absurd 225 hunger (witch translate to 150 hunger when taking inconsideration the 1.5x) and has soon has wulfgang hits mighty form he gains the exact damage buff has wig does, when fightning bosses her damage reduction (that translates to a 250 health) gets overshadowed by Wulf´s 300 Health. Her songs dont help much since Wulfgang saves health and Durability by finishing fights faster. Her one and only upside when playing solo vs wulf is her sanity steal, when wulfgang players might go insane on certain bosses, she will keep her sanity and focused on her main target. This is countered by her inability to stay insane for farming nightmare fuel and a couple minutes of preparation with sanity food gets reed of this advantage. Taunt song is useless in solo, fire resist song is useles everywhere and the scare song dosent help enogh (you cant rely only on the song to fight bee queen without her little bees, you still need to run away or use wall methods) TLDR Pick Wulfgang Instead

Wurt - Wurt is the character that i least now about so take this positioning whith a grain of salt. Her being a vegan dosent realy hinder much due to the 33% buff on vegetable foods and her king upgrades are great. She can use the royal guards to fight bosses and thats what made me put her in A-tier. Dunno how costly she his or how big of a power house she can be but feel free to leave your toughts bellow

Woodie - Woddie is an inferior version of Maxwell that gets saved by one perk, his weregoose form ! With the weregoose hes the only character that can rush the lunar island. He can use lucy and werebeever to farm resources (Slower than maxwell but a tad bit faster than WX), he can put up a decent fight whith his Weremose form to farm regular mobs and has great speed with weregoose. Hes a conditional WX-78 thogether with a conditional Maxwell that gets saved by his Lunar Rushing skills, combining that with an overal good character and you have an easy A - Tier.

B-Tier Solo:

Webber - Webber main porpuse is to mass farm spiders, witch wendy and wicker can also do (Wendy even does it better). Recruting spiders is wicker than being able to recuit bunnyman and pig man so if you want to mass spider farm pick Wendy. If you want to mass spider farm at a lower / riskier speed but have tons and tons more stuff to do pick Wicker.

Winona - Winona has 1 and only 1 good perk, her catapults. She can set up decent farms and solo bosses with them. Unfortunly other characters (see obove) also do that and better. Maybe she would be higher if her builds were cheeper.

Walter - Walter is the one im not certain about. I even considered puting him on E tier at one point but realizing his ability to sling cheese most of the problems (bosses) that were making me puting him on e tier made me change my mind. However is inabitlity to manipulate sanity and not being able to fuly rely on sling shot make him B-tier.

C-Tier Solo:

Willow - Willow is meh. Her ligter his cool i gues but the main thing that atracts me to her is her ability to farm Night creatures with bernie. Having a server full of Willow,s mass farming nightmare fuel uring the nightmare phsae with a bunch of bernies is cool, 1 bernie aloane gets easly overun making her a wilson with a lighter instead of a beard.

Wilson - Wilson hes just wilson, no drawbacks and a beard.

D-Tier Solo:

Wormhood - Wormhood acessebility to farm its pointless unless massfarming, hes inability to reliably heal makes him unreliable to solo bosses with and his move speed is nice but cant be fully apreciated due to the hunger decrease and not being a reliable fighter for the increase dps.

Warly - Warly only upside are is buffed diches, however you take a couple of days to get does set up and his food restrictions are anoying. I rather pick Wilson.

E-Tier Solo:

Wes - Wes is just Wes, if your nit chalenging yourself dont pick him.

S-Tier Together:

Wickerbottom - Everything that made ger a solo S tier gets even better when playing together ! You can mass farm resources and food for everyon, get everyone a head start with you science up and set up farms to make everyone selfsufficient by yourself !

Wormhood - Wormhood becomes a broken when playing together cause his weaknes are all covered up with other characters. He can mass far crops and living logs without a care in the world for fighting

Wortox - Wortox remains imortal exept he dosent need to eat food so he cant give it most/all his food to his teamates and can heal the, has well making them closer to imortality

Warly - Similar to Wormhood, Waly gets acess to his buffed dishes way faster with teamates and gets is downsides covered with help from others making him focus on coocking, planting (together with wormhood) and being a suportive character for the team

A-Tier

Maxwell - Maxwell truly shines when playing with teamates has is early game mass resource gathering is the best in the game. He can also rush the ruins if needed.

Wendy - Wendy remains he budget Wickerbottom status being able to mass farm food and rush bee queen.

Wurt - Has i said befour im not familiar with Wurt but i assume her being able to grant acess to the merm king for all players is great and loyal mers are still great to help fight with.

Wigfrid - Wigfrid is actualy better than Wulfgang when playing together, not only can she give helmets to avoid destroying pig houses but her songs buff alies. A single buff to her wasent enogh to rival wulf but a whole squad of buffed characters outshine him easy. Also her Taunt Song gains usability to make her be the focus thoese tanking for her friends.

Woodie - Woodie is great for the same reasons has solo, decent resource gatherer, decent mob farmer, can rush lunar islands

B-Tier Together:

Webber - Webber can actualy raise to an A-tier depending on how much players you need to feed early on. Wendy can farm spiders better but takes more time to set up the eggs, webber is less efficeinet at farming them but sets and upgrades farms faster. In desperate need of mass amounts of food early on ? Pick Webber over Wendy. If not Wendy is the better choice.

Winona - Winona dosent change much, her catapults can be overshadowd by more players and farms in general are best left for other characters. Can speed boss fights a lot tho.

Willow - Willow actualy gains points when playing together cause a couple willows can set up a fairly decenet and early nightmare fuel farm in the ruins. Her Lighters are also a nice thing to have and she can gift them to her team mates making her climb a tier. 

Walter - Walter can freely dps with slingshot without messing up someones kiting making him a decent support when fighting. Dosent offer much tho besides increased dps and bag space. Hes basicly a chester that shots stuf at the enemy and since i like chester he remains in b tier.

Wulfgang - Wulfgang suffers a massive drop on together due to his damage not being needed anymore. A whole squad or even a couple of teamates can destry bosses easly and the couple of seconds wulf saves by killing him faster dosent compensate the extra food needed to feed him. You can send him of to fight aloane while you do other stuff but its more efficeint to fight bosses has a team to make it easier and less resource intensive.

WX-78 - WX-78 has 0 to no porpuse on a team. He runs fast so you can use him as a gatherer but other than that hes just a trash  bin for rotten food that eats all your gears. One could argue that Wilson is a better teamate due to meat effegies and a couple of characters exclusive items requiring beard hair but i digress.

C- Tier Together:

Wilson - Wilson can create early meet effegies to make everyone saffer and.... thats all.

E- Tier Together:

Wes - Pick him if your trying to get the World Record Ban on dst public servers.

And thats all folks, tell me in the coments what do you think of my reasonings, and feel free to argue with meand tell me im dead rong, i wanna learn more about the game !

Ever feel that you had a question about DST but felt it didn't deserve it's own thread? Well then ask it here.

Last night I was playing with a friend we was in ruins and I was near to a wall. Shadow creatures started to cmong due my firends sanity. So I pressed ctrl f and my character atacked to a wall. If I just press f it doesnt attack anything

Second incident is about fighting with mobs. I am hitting the treeguard, dodging him and pressing f, then my character doesnt attack anything if I press ctrl f, then my character attacks. If I have pig friends while I fight, I can accidently hit the pig and get punched out of my life.

My offer is : Character must remember last target he/she hit, when pressing "F" they must attack it.

Ctrl + F should priortize mobs over sturctures

Hello fellow Forum Members! Those of you who've been around for a while probably remember this topic made by @MenaAthena:

It was pinned for quite a long time, however, it has been removed some time ago, I guess in the last year at some point.

I really liked the tips Mena gave, they can be the backbone of a healthy and friendly community. I (still) play quite often on public survival servers with random players of every skill level and these tips are still very actual. "Don't ask where the Base is Right After Joining" (a classic, heh ), "Don't Pick Everything", "Don't Enter in Winter or Summer" or "If you don't want Strangers, set a Password" are some of the most important and relevant ones and my favourites (in fact, there's been a rant on the latter topic on steam lately (again)).

Does anyone know why this topic got un-pinned? Maybe because it got archived? I think it is still worthy of being on the top of the general forums, so that new players can find it as well. Could we get it back in some way?

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^)

Hey Everybody, 

Just a quick update for the new Twitch drops coming soon. When we bring back twitch drops (currently scheduled for next Thursday), things are going to be a little different. 

We will only be doing drops for a period of 2 weeks at a time and drops will only be available from a select set of streamers. Signup to receive drops on our accounts page and then watch a participating streamer to receive drops. 

Streamers interested in participating will be selected by us and may change periodically. To be considered for participation you should be a regularly participant of the Don't Starve or Don't Starve Together categories on Twitch, Follow all Twitch guidelines, and terms of service and have an active healthy relationship with the community as well as follow our own posted guidelines for participation. 

Those interested can contact us here and let us know you're interested, otherwise we will be reaching out to our long term streamers. We'll probably have a more formal process for this in the future, but for now we want to do this very selectively so we can make adjustments as we move forward. 

Twitch Drops were intended to do three things. First, push players toward the Twitch community and maybe find a cool streamer they enjoy. Second, encourage streamers to try to retain these viewers and reward the streamers willing to put in the work to provide good experiences to viewers. Give even the smallest or newest streamers a healthy stream of new viewers to attempt to engage. 

While we did accomplish these things, the side effects were numerous and in return encouraged abuse of the system as well as degraded the quality of the category on Twitch. We had enough viewers to make the category interesting for new streamers (good and bad) but not enough to draw notice from Twitch moderation when abuse would occur.  

We're going to keep an eye on things for a while and exploring other opportunities as well, but for now this is how we will proceed. 

I think that covers everything for now. Oh, one more thing. Here's a link for some more points. (1700 points expires 3/25/2021)

See you next week!