Release Notes for Don't Starve

Update 429404 (28 September 2020)

Hamlet DLC made available for purchase
Updated the less photosensitive lightning effects for DLCs
Changed the lightning visuals to be less harmful photosensitive eyes.
Added a "Screen Flashes" option in settings to adjust the effect.

Patch 276758 (24 July 2018)

Catcoons and other such "home" spawned critters won’t overpopulate now
Wx78’s overcharge will save between games and world hops in ROG save type games. (already worked for Shipwrecked compatible worlds)
A failed operation on the Drying Rack won’t crash the game now.
Bringing Blueprints to a world where their object does not exist won’t crash now.
The planting sound will play properly now on some items it wasn’t before.
Characters will now use their special battle cries for some critters.
Fixed issue with input dropping for some people on Mac OSX.

Patch 246924 (04 January 2018)

Fixes the issue of old cave and volcano worlds being reused. Also fixes a couple ballphin bugs.
Fixed a bug that would reuse old cave and volcano maps after the player's game had ended.
Fixed a bug that allowed some ballphins to spawn on land
Fixed a bug where an invisible object (ballphin pod manager) could block building.

World

Crocodogs. Will hound you at land and sea.
Ballphin followers and the Ballphin Den.
Roe. New food item. Stocks the fish farm.
Cormorants. New sea bird. Source of Roe.
Tar Slick. Pools of crude oil bubbling on the surface of the water.
Tar. New resource.
3 new variety of tropical fish.
Rainbow Jellyfish.
Coral Nubbin. Replant coral after it's mined.
Ox will produce offspring.

New Craftables

Buoyant Chiminea and Sea Lab . Make your base at sea.
Sea Yard. Keeps your ship repaired on the water.
Tar Extractor. Gets Tar from Tar Slick.
Tar Suit. Temporary protection from wetness.
Tar patch. A sticky situation.
Oil Lamp. Quick lightsource for land and sea.
Fish Farms. Grow food on the water.
Encrusted Boat.
Quackering Ram. New craftable for the Quacken Beak.
Sea wall. Water craftable wall. Blocks waves.
Tropical Bouillabaisse. New recipe with new tropical fish.
Caviar. New recipe with Roe

Bug Fixes

Support added for fullscreen mode on Windows XP.
Fixed a but that caused an occasional crash when loading minions.
Fixed a bug where crafted items would come out wet.
Coral reef’s grow time reloads properly now.
Growables can now advance multiple states when off screen instead of one maximum.
The player won’t pop about when planting elephant cacti now, so they can’t sometimes get stuck between them.
Some trawlnets shouldn’t remain forever now.
The surfboard won’t kick off flotsam while in the player’s inventory.
Fixed a freeze at the key binding screen.
Fix for an animation bug on plantables being picked while windy.
Fat Packim will revert back to regular Packim properly now.
Flup spawner won’t block building placement now.
Fixed a missing texture for Snakeskin rug turf on the minimap
Fixed a duplication bug when using the orange amulet.
Fixed Iron Wind missing animation.
Fixed Dumbrella color bug.
Fixed a rare crash with the telescope
Lobsters won’t burn underwater.

Patch 246228 (04 January 2018)

Fixed missing walls in Vanilla DS

Patch 245789 (04 January 2018)

Fixed some controller bugs and a graphic problem with shadow creatures in Linux and OSX
Fixed pirate hat birds in vanilla DS
Hammer can now be stored in chests using a controller
Closing and opening the craft menu with a controller will now return to the same menu category.
Fixed the crafting menu missing text in Vanilla and ROG Shipwrecked compatible worlds.
Fixed an issue with the shadow creature art in OSX and Linux

Patch 243968 (04 January 2018)

Home Sea Home update name present on the main menu
Crocodogs won’t spawn when turned off in the world gen options
Fixed missing animation with Baby Beefalo in Vanilla Don’t Starve
Fixed missing animation with the mosquito in DS and ROG.
Fixed a problem with the Corcodog warning bark.

Patch 243469 (04 January 2018)

Fixed missing animation on Beefalo and Monkeys in vanila Don’t Starve
Fixed an issue with being unable to hammer coral for it’s nubbins.
Fixed an issue when unequipping boat items from a different boat than the players.

Patch 222215 (02 August 2017)

Catcoons and other such "home" spawned critters won’t overpopulate now
Wx78’s overcharge will save between games and world hops in ROG save type games. (already worked for Shipwrecked compatible worlds)
A failed operation on the Drying Rack won’t crash the game now.
Bringing Blueprints to a world where their object does not exist won’t crash now.
The planting sound will play properly now on some items it wasn’t before.
Characters will now use their special battle cries for some critters.
Fixed issue with input dropping for some people on Mac OSX.

Patch 205648 (09 June 2017)

fixed an issue where one of the creatures in the game was not appearing correctly in the Windows version of Don't Starve: Reign of Giants.

Patch 198251 (10 February 2017)

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue where some po files could cause the game to assert.

Patch 198177 (10 February 2017)

An issue was discovered as a result of yesterday's update that was causing the game to not display any joypad or mouse button icons. This should now be resolved.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue with new string parsing code that was causing button prompts to not show correctly

Patch 198080 (10 February 2017)

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue with new string parsing code that was causing a crash with mods.

Patch 197843 (10 February 2017)

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a bug with the Physics. Dropped items drop properly, Wilbur won’t throw poop at himself anymore, Ice machine won’t break the laws of gravity, etc..
Fixed a bug that caused puddles to stick around after the Monsoon season.
Fixed a bug with world gen putting spring and summer defaults to none in ROG worlds.
Fixed a bug with the Moose/Goose egg causing a crash in ROG worlds.
The wall placer visual will now hide when the “repair” option is the actual action available.

Patch 190713 (22 September 2016)

Bug Fixes

Packim’s fire form will shoot at targets as intended.
Coffee Plants won’t be targeted by flingomatics now.
Only shipwrecked character’s uncraftable items are guaranteed when loading or starting a world, which means only Warly’s cookpot.
Fixed save files being created for each day in game.
Contents of boats that are hammered or destroyed will spill out and not be lost.
Land traps won’t function on water and can’t be baited on water

Patch 189297 (05 September 2016)

Changes

Added lots of new "place" sounds for buildings.
Put in a profiling and save submission tool to help track down performance issues.

Bug Fixes

Prevent large saves in old worlds from crashing when merging SW and RoG.
Prevent trading/refusing from frozen creatures.
Boats will smash if they end up on land.
Fix Wolfgang animation bugs.
Fix Maxwell shadows getting stuck in boats if far away.
Fix issue with placing queued structures after wearing brain hat.
Tentacles are no longer summoned on the water.
Doydoys correctly drop loot, even if they die in your inventory from being fed bad food.
Lighter no longer activates if equipped while rowing.
Lureplant correctly shows items now.
Fix issues where incorrect instrument was showing while boating.
Poison now shows as a cause of death in the morgue.
Monkeyball sounds better near walls.
Player can “ingest” venom glands by clicking on themselves
Proper animation plays when player gives venom glands to other poisoned targets.
Lots of examine and character speech typo fixes.
Lots of sound playback issues fixed.
Sandhills can now be destroyed.
Make sure Rocky overpopulation fixes are properly included in Shipwrecked DLC, as well as other herd-related cleanup.
Sunken Boats no longer appear in Adventure mode.
Now Wildbore won’t run off into the distance when they walk if they lose their target.

Patch 184394 (01 August 2016)

This update is for the Windows and Mac versions of the game.

Additions & Changes:

Shipwrecked and RoG support in the mod uploader Revised grammar & fixed typos in many strings! Merged several string changes from DST. Adjusted some strings to bring them in-line with established lore. Added/Fixed/Tweaked some sounds.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed issues with hound spawning related to moving between SW and Vanilla worlds. Fixed Catcoon Den Crash Fixed a crash on saveindex related to world options on SW compatible RoG worlds Fixed adventure mode crash on SW compatible Vanilla worlds without RoG installed Fixed a crash where GetClosestTile would crash due to a negative index on volcano Fixed a bug where Wilbur would talk when repairing walls Fixed a bug where the inventory grave would reset everytime players jumped between worlds, allowing for infinite item farming Coffee now lasts for its full duration. Locomotor speed modifier timers now respect long update. You can no longer select invalid inventory slots using a controller. Several items that should not have been inspectable can no longer be inspected when using a controller.

Update (04 May 2016)

Updated the Russian translation from ZoneofGames.RU to version 4.1.

Update (04 April 2016)

The 64-bit Linux version has been added.