What do you guys WANT/EXPECT to see in the next update?

[Cheggf]

Want: Not rifts

Expect: Rifts

[Evelo]

I want more intense survival elements.
I expect another boss that I don't care about.

[Auth]

I want new biomes, new seasons (or at least seasonal variation/mechanics), and maybe even a new resource/craftables/structures to be introduced into the whole grass/twigs/rocks/wood family to help deal with threats new and old, just some good ol' fashioned survival materials and mechanics. Nothing too crazy, nothing tied to boss/game progression, nothing locked behind arbitrary side missions, not something from a rift, just something fun and new. Throw it in the ocean even to give the ocean more of a reason for why you'd want to actively go out there and farm a resource.

I don't expect anything anymore. Saves me from disappointment and lets me be pleasantly surprised whenever content I do enjoy does get added.

 

12 hours ago, lowercase skye said:

Like, it's obvious that the Nightmare Werepig was only on the surface so that people could more easily test the fight during the beta though, isn't it?

No. The menu artwork/animation still depicted NM werepig on the surface during it's own update. It was moved to the caves after very confused feedback saying it'd probably make more sense if he was down there given he had the whole ruins color thing. Which they changed anyway.

Additionally, dreadstone had no precedent nor established lore at the time as this was it's introduction so it really could've been put anywhere. And marble pillars are more of a surface occurrence than the caves if you want to get more pedantic about it. Honestly the marble pillars look out of place down there to me...

I could also be misremembering but I don't know if dreadstone was even a thing in the first version of the fight in the beta. Like I feel like him smashing the pillars and those making dreadstone was added after the initial beta. But again I'm probably misremembering.

They also have not done anything like this for any other caves/ruins boss or content. If Klei wants people to test something, they'll probably want them to test it in the environment it's being designed for, yeah? If they wanted people to easily find him just for testing sake, how come greater depths worm wasn't on the surface? How come frostjaw was out in the middle of the ocean still?

And also his debug name is Daywalker. Not that it really matters but it does mean that him being a daytime werepig was something they were more actively considering and thinking about in development. Otherwise he'd probably be like "ruinswalker" or yknow "nightmare_werepig"

[Well-met]

Same things people have been asking for ages, biomes and survival stuff.

Also pig raids and a flintlock for gunpowder.

Oh and a true local singleplayer mode, where you don't need dedicated servers to host shards.

[lowercase skye]

2 hours ago, Auth said:

No. The menu artwork/animation still depicted NM werepig on the surface during it's own update.

The Eye of the Storm update's main menu depicts Wilson in a Moonstorm taking place in a muddy biome. The New Reign trailers also liked to show bosses like Bee Queen and Toadstool and Klaus in a forest biome during autumn, which is impossible for all of them. It's like showing a Mario character in a green grassland with question mark blocks, it doesn't mean they were all actually intended to be in world 1.

2 hours ago, Auth said:

They also have not done anything like this for any other caves/ruins boss or content. If Klei wants people to test something, they'll probably want them to test it in the environment it's being designed for, yeah?

The ability to kill the Antlion was intentionally pushed to a later update so that Klei could get feedback on how players approached appeasing the Antlion, rather than just killing her.

2 hours ago, Auth said:

Additionally, dreadstone had no precedent nor established lore at the time as this was it's introduction so it really could've been put anywhere.

But like, Klei isn't stupid though, are they? They aren't making things up in real time as each update drops. Why would they come up with a new resource with 0 lore or idea behind it and then try to come up with something on the fly later? They've been building towards the same story beats with the moon since like, 2015, of course they had plans in mind for Dreadstone and what it was going to be used for literally two updates later. The Nightmare Werepig was added two months before From Beyond started, it is really silly to imply that they had not planned out what Dreadstone was and what it would be used for just 3 months before shadow rifts were added.

I don't know, it just feels intentionally obtuse to pretend that the Nightmare Werepig, a piece of content added 3 months before Shadow Rifts, was actually always supposed to spawn at random spots on the surface because Klei is stupid and didn't think it through, rather than the far more obvious reasoning that the shadow mob who drops the shadow armor blueprints and a new shadow resource used for starting shadow rifts in the shadow-themed caves area of the game as a middle point in the shadow questline was probably in fact intended to be in the caves.

[WilsonHiggs]

Since we are talking about the next update, I will be realistic and say that we will get, atleast, a new gestalt possession which is linked to the junkyard (maybe changes to this one), maybe a boss or a new structure to get benefits from gestalt catched from the new possessions (new recipes using gestalt as pure horror counterpart?) and a new bug net made of thulecite and retrained static

[Bumber64]

2 hours ago, lowercase skye said:

I don't know, it just feels intentionally obtuse to pretend that the Nightmare Werepig, a piece of content added 3 months before Shadow Rifts, was actually always supposed to spawn at random spots on the surface

Counterpoint: Lunar grotto in caves.

[Radicaljoe]

I wonder if we'll get skilltrees+update stuff like Winona and Wurt trees and the ocean qol update 

[Hungry French]

Balance changes and optimizations...  I'm kidding. 
To be realistic. Then in the next update, we can expect a continuation for alter rift's content with some useless things and some too strong ones.

[Curly Bill]

Main thing I want is a rework to Maxwell's default outfit. I'm tired of him just wearing a recolor of Wilson's outfit; I think it's a leftover of when they were making some early characters and as such Wes, Wilson and Maxwell all have the same body silhouette; Please give him his dapper shadow suite designed outfit, like he has in all the animations

 

another interesting addition I would like is kinda controversial:

I want a new optional interaction where you can make your character get buffed in some way, at the cost of making true downsides for characters. Something like severe lower stats for WX, in exchange for more circuit slots and an increase to the circuit's stats; wigfried having some form blood thirst mechanic (kinda like how her hunger currently relies on you battling/killing monsters to receive the only food you can eat/meat)

It would be nice to have some legitimate downsides for some characters, cause it leads to really fun play styles. Right now I feel like only Walter, Warly, Wormwood, Wurt, Wanda, and Wes are the only characters with any NOTICEABLE downsides.

I know they would never truly nerf characters, as so many people would be really upset and sad about that, but if you let it be a late game option or something, I think that could be really cool.

[cropo]

14 hours ago, lowercase skye said:

But like, Klei isn't stupid though, are they? They aren't making things up in real time as each update drops. Why would they come up with a new resource with 0 lore or idea behind it and then try to come up with something on the fly later?

There is my theory that the Shadows are stealing cheap imitations of the cultures they absorb, and all shadow items are remnants of former things they have absorbed. In Shipwrecked, the map shares a common theme that every new Don't Starve area adds in that a civilization that was once there was no longer there, said civilization worshipped a previous god before switching to the shadows because they were more immediately convenient to them. 

As the goats worshipped the gnaw before being taken in by the DST crew(working for Charlie unintentionally) and Pugna's group seemed to have a warrior culture before switching, whatever lived in Shipwrecked had the Altar of Snackrifice, requiring tribute lest it rain fiery hell on the lands.

Lore-wise, I think Dreadstone is the fully converted form of Obsidian from Shipwrecked, and that the Shipwrecked world while not being canon as we play it in DS(in that none of the crew besides maybe Wagstaff have actually visited it.) is just one of the many worlds the shadows have done this to as they amass their own imitations of life. 

I've felt that this is, or is getting close to what is actually going on with the shadows before most content in DST was out and more and more updates only convince me more and more.

[Malfario]

What i want:

Id like more enviromental challenges related with the rifts, content attached to places rather than randomly spawning in the world or near the player. maybe stuff like conditions in the style of "farming on diferent byomes grant you diferent pools of crops, and each byome has a unique crop" or maybe "this particular weapon has this particular interaction in this particular byome".

And, the progression of the gear been lengthen in the mid game, as in having more tools, eqipment and weapons that are accesible since the start, be bia crafting them or finding them, and,in the case of the arms, that can compete or be better than the darksword on general scenarios. Basically i would like enough new weapons so the darksword wasnt the universal best both in term of been worth the hussle and been actually efficient. Something like "the giant slayers hand" and its a weapon thats particulary effective against giants and mediocre to regular mobs etc. In the case of equipment maybe a hat that heavily increases fish spawn around you, a staff that relocates buildings so you dont have to hammer them and rebuilt them.

TLDR:i would like Locations to have more content directly attached to them and the progression of tools, equipments and armory was longer and complex than having default item thats accesible with ok stats and improved item thats weird to get and has better stats.

What i expect:

Probably something on the lines of return of them, where the last updates before the finale tie together all the kerfufle, probably with a new flashy adition of content that will adress one long standing issue with the gameplay (like the groto and adition of terrafirma tamper). We know for past streams the ancient gateaway and the archive portal have new uses planed for them so i wouldnt be surprised if we had the lunar finale now with the archive portal, and on september the shadow finale with the ancient gateaway.

However in return of them one of the last updates before the finale was also an overhaul update, reap what you sow, and we also know from stream that klei is interested in more of those updates (and so do i tbh) where old system get a face lift. Reap what you sow was also an update with very impactful character changes so if the next update its an overhaul one i wouldnt be surprised if skilltrees were thrown into the mix.

This is truly speculation but this description could fit with a cooking overhaul update, with warly+wicker skilltree since those two are the ones more tied to food from the remaining characters without skilltrees.

And just for clousure, i am completly fine getting either what i want or what i expect, maybe a convination of the two or maybe none of them at all.

[Clopsy627]

On 4/21/2025 at 7:00 AM, Dr. Safety said:

If they are going the route of Wagstaff vs Charlie over shadow vs Lunar (which it seems to be heading in that direction since this will be the final lunar arc update), then I want the game to actually have more Wagstaff and Charlie interactions in game, and with each other. 

Make it so when you make progress in fighting lunar (or scrap?) bosses, Wagstaff appears begging you to stop, while Charlie appears and rewards you, and vise versa. 

I want this for the final lore update of DST

I think they could also replace there npc appearances with some kind of lunar and shadow minion that serves alter and the shadow entity directly to fully convert them into survivors lore wise and keep the in game mechanics the same

[blacknight7890]

All I want is the Webber skill tree, my spider son needs his update

[Keller Max]

Just now, blacknight7890 said:

All I want is the Webber skill tree, my spider son needs his update

His rework was cool, but he is lacking something I can't explain. Maybe it's the inability to craft different types of nests? Or maybe the criminal price for a Switcherdoodle? 1 Pig Skin for a single Spider Warrior? No, thank you! With such price I should get minimum 6 switcherdoodles for a single craft!

[reddocc]

renewable grass tuffs and beefalo

[GamePlayer42]

On 4/21/2025 at 2:59 PM, cropo said:

An early prototype of the Iron Hulk boss from Hamlet, confirmation that Hamlet takes place after DST and is the most "recent" in the timeline after the alleged war between the lunar and shadow, and a segway into the next arc.

when was hamlet confirmed to take place after dst?

[WilsonHiggs]

35 minutes ago, GamePlayer42 said:

when was hamlet confirmed to take place after dst?

Never but I think it was one of the attempts from Wilson to scape with a balloon. But the iron hulk was confirmed to be made way before any current story

[Cruvimaster]

I would like to rework the current biomes in world generation (without any concern for old maps - make another world!).

The majority of any map created in the game consists of a green ground (light or dark green) with the same types of trees and vegetation.

I could leave only 2 of these biomes in world generation and bring in the Hamlet and Shipwrecked biomes.

I can see that the developers are capable of bringing in amazing things, but they got stuck in the Don't Starve base for DST.

[Johnny_Waffles]

14 hours ago, blacknight7890 said:

All I want is the Webber skill tree, my spider son needs his update

He at least needs an easier way to unloyal specific spiders instead of all, and all the lag they bring. (idk why they haven't fixed it yet like it makes him almost unplayable)

[Radicaljoe]

4 hours ago, Cruvimaster said:

I can see that the developers are capable of bringing in amazing things, but they got stuck in the Don't Starve base for DST.

I dunno, I'd be concerned about changing the world generation too much. It's scary and unpredictable already, I have no clue how it's stable enough to generate maps reasonably.

[Johnny_Waffles]

27 minutes ago, Radicaljoe said:

I dunno, I'd be concerned about changing the world generation too much. It's scary and unpredictable already, I have no clue how it's stable enough to generate maps reasonably.

It's not. Almost every server I generate is worse than the last. There's random holes everywhere, random branches to no where, long lengths of nothing and more

[JustAPineapple]

Id love more world changing rift content, especially for the surface and oceans, that open new avenues for survival progression and protection against the elements, I get that the surface is touchy though because by the time you reach rifts many people will have established a base and farms and decorations they care about, and having that destroyed the first time you encounter a new hazard (and thus wouldn't have been able to prep for it) blows imo, expressly because of how late game post rift is.

I want content that kills or wildly inconveniences the player, or even renders part of their bases inert until dealt with, ala shipwreck and hamlet seasons (or the sandstorm / moonstorms <3 controversial I know)

What do I expect? Well certainly some kind of rift content, this is, after all, the "expanding the late game arc" of course its going to continue to expand the late game until the arcs finished.

[Uedo]

On 4/21/2025 at 5:33 AM, Mike23Ua said:

Just new content that isn’t locked behind the maybe 14% of the games player base that can actually reach that point of the game.

The “End Game” stuff in DST has been overwhelmingly Disappointing, not only do I have to skip a huge chunk of intended gameplay and just toggle rifts to ON from the start (otherwise spend forever fighting annoying multiplayer raid bosses and doing rpg collect-a-thon quests) But the “challenges” that the End Game stuff introduces into the game are things that should be Early or Mid-Game.

Klei expects you to kill a fully beefed up pearls Pearl socketed crab king, slay a celestial moon god, fight AFW and for WHAT??? What is the trade-off?

Oh yeah you get some easy to kill Deadly Brightshades that should have just been part of a “lush” (aka 5th) Weather Season for the game, and some minor Non-Threats with what should be Early game “Mimics” 

The balance for DST is off the charts Bonkers…. They seriously want you to do a bunch of major tasks and bosses… just to get a few significantly easier to deal with late game “challenges”

I’m no game designer, I make no claims towards ever being a game designer… but this is just beyond flawed.

What Works?: Easy to access locations you can build a boat and sail to to explore (see lunar island or moon quay or the SW and Hamlet DLCs)

What doesn’t work: locking so much behind tasks only 14% of the fanbase ever actually reaches.

So the TL:DR I want another Lunar Island sized map expansion, just this big mass of land I can sail towards and explore its unique mobs, maybe even unique to that island weather mechanics Etc..

Allow us to take a tool to the plugged sinkholes on pearls hermit island to explore the area Pearl plugged up.. (new cave biomes only reachable from pearls island)

But the one thing I don’t want, is a bunch of boring bosses… the game has enough.

mods then.

[Mike23Ua]

5 minutes ago, Uedo said:

mods then.

I don’t believe so, sure mods exist but for console players, mods are either limited.. or can’t be used at all.

PC players get to use mods sure, but that isn’t Official gameplay content, that isn’t the developers intended experience.

Whats interesting about that is that if you choose to game outside of the PC, and you say for example install a Mod for Skyrim/Fallout/Minecraft ETC onto your Xbox- The actual developers of both the mod, and the game itself have to ensure that that mod works with the base game product.

Like: I can not go on the Minecraft Market Place and pay 10$ for a “Mod” (that PC players get to install for free***) and then have that mod Break and Not Work.

In most cases when it comes to console gaming a “Mod” CAN become official gameplay content.

With that said, what starts out as a mod has historically been proven to become officially part of some games (see left 4 dead 2 cold stream DLC or Arks The Center)

The TL:DR- is that Klei & the Mod creators need to decide what stays as being a “Mod” and what becomes Official. (Should they ever choose to support mods for DST)

But I stand by my original post: the balance of dst is way way the hell off, like: i fear fighting Rabid Rabbit King More then I do Lunar possessed Armored Bearger.

And why? Because the rabbit king endlessly pursues you while spawning minion helpers until he is dead.. Armored Bearger will actually ignore you altogether and wander off to do its own thing.