Nov 27 Preview!

[Kevin]

OK, we're starting to wrap up our sprint, and I can talk about what's coming up in the next major update:

Hounds - Hounds will attack you every so often. They will warn you in advance. Prepare! Or Die!

Flame Hounds - Some Hounds are red. Watch out for them!

Blowdarts - You can craft sleeping darts, and shoot them at things!

Bee Mine - You can make a landmine that is full of bees and when something steps on it the bees come out.

Better Bugnet - You can capture bees and butterflies alive. You can make new flowers by releasing butterflies!

Dapper Vest - It's so dapper!

Scared Rabbits - If you attack one rabbit, all rabbits nearby will run to their holes.

Better sleeping - rabbits and birds can be put to sleep.

Backpack - Wilson will have 10 inventory slots by default, which are all visible all the time. He can build and wear a backpack that adds an additional 8 slots if he has it equipped.

The Amulet - The amulet can finally be worn. If you die while wearing it, you consume it and come back to life. You can also craft new amulets, but it is made from very rare stuff.

Inventory Hotkeys - 1-10 are like right clicking on the corresponding inventory slot.

Football Helmet - Keeps your noggin safe. The feather hat attracts more birds.

Action Button - Pressing space will attack the nearest enemy, or pick up / harvest / chop the nearest appropriate object.

Bloom - Fires are prettier!

[cptCalavera]

Dapper vest - Yeah! Now we just need a monocle

Backpack - What happended to the thing that was gonna bet cooler than a backpack?

The Amulet - So now we will forever be immortal? Amulets come from graves in abundanse.

The rest - Sounds awsome!

[Kevin]

Backpack - What happended to the thing that was gonna bet cooler than a backpack?

It's still in the works. But you also get a backpack. You don't get bags.

[Kevin]

The Amulet - So now we will forever be immortal? Amulets come from graves in abundanse.

Thanks for reminding me. I'll make them more rare from mounds.

[cptCalavera]

It's still in the works. But you also get a backpack. You don't get bags.

Yea, thats right. It was gonna be cooler than bags, not backpacks. To. many. words. to. remember.

Anyways, good for us, double win

Thanks for reminding me

No problems

[A Bad Feeling]

That's awesome! I love the updates.
Please, please make The Amulet a VERY rare thing, otherwise it could even make Wilson's ability worthless (if I got what it does right).
Oh, and Flame Hounds will be some kind of tougher enemy (which also means they will be not so common), right?

[Jov]

Awesome update.

Tamable hounds in the future, for a faster, less lycanthropic companion? I'm also imagining how handy a "hound" dog specifically could be in a world ripe with birds and rabbits to hunt.

[Royal]

I am so in love with the magnitude of this stuff. I literally drooled a little bit.

[NippleKing]

Wow very nice preview.Also,is it possible that you can activate your own mines? would make sense but at the same time you wouldn't want that.......

[Excess]

I love how we'll get new everything. Enemies, objects, tweaked behaviors, tweaked interface, additional controls and better graphics.

And you are still faithful to your philosophy of under-promise and over-deliver?

I don't know how you guys manage to launch the game on a new (very popular) platform, with all the customer service that entails, organize the forums and still make time to add a bunch of new content for the game.

I guess with Mark of the Ninja out of the way you are now all dedicated to Don' Starve?