New ARG Link

[Olivehead]

https://exspectamus.dontstarvetogether.com/

So far discovered clicking on the moon switches panels, then clicking on the main window in the daytime reveals a new panel. That's all I discovered so far though. 

 

[Cassielu]

I downloaded the picture and increased the exposure, but found nothing.

I guess we'll have to wait for few days before it officially starts - just like before.

[Pe Dabliu]

Maybe the hourglass will be updated in real time, might even me a meta joke form the team telling us to wait

[UbiAnomaly]

Exspectamus means "we are waiting" in latin. Just a trial of patience once you find the hourglass probably.

[Olivehead]

7 minutes ago, Pe Dabliu said:

Maybe the hourglass will be updated in real time, might even me a meta joke form the team telling us to wait

yeah i believe it is just waiting . keeping the tab open in the background to see if anything happens 

[alainmcd]

The browser console repeatedly posts

Fire countdown: 1

sooo... start a fire somewhere in particular?

[DDNW]

If you open each panel it shows both:

Fire countdown: 1
and
Hourglass countdown: 1
 

[Malfario]

For those who dont dream in code lines, what does this mean ?

 

[alainmcd]

Klei wants us to see those messages, and we don't know what they mean.

[Crimson Hollow]

39 minutes ago, DDNW said:

If you open each panel it shows both:

Fire countdown: 1
and
Hourglass countdown: 1
 

and if you somehow glitched it, it becomes like this
 

Spoiler

 

[DDNW]

I guess we need to wait...

2nd option is assuming it's aware of that we play DST, and it requires to be in server with other players that have this page active.

[kroban]

Im no lore expert at all but isn't that like, Wagstaff's factory and the chair is now empty because he got abducted by the Scion?

[Aldair Reis]

 

I think that the fire will extinguish itself if we just wait.

[Nedigo]

When you have the fire or hourglass panels open, there's a script that streams data from the /Countdown page. That data right now is just code that gets eval'd to log the messages we see every few seconds.

The page also sends your klei ID with the request, so it's possible it's waiting for a change on your account. Could be from another URL or an action done in-game. Did the new patch introduce any web calls in the code?

Also side note, the hourglass timer sets a variable "page0panel1waiting", but the panel's CSS already has code for a "page0panel1done" element.

Edited October 2, 2025 by Nedigo

[kroban]

5 minutes ago, Nedigo said:

When you have the fire or hourglass panels open, there's a script that streams data from the /Countdown page. That data right now is just code that gets eval'd to log the messages we see every few seconds.

The page also sends your klei ID with the request, so it's possible it's waiting for a change on your account. Could be from another URL or an action done in-game. Did the new patch introduce any web calls in the code?

Also side note, the hourglass timer sets a variable "page0panel1waiting", but the panel's CSS already has code for a "page0panel1done" element.

Maybe after killing scion or smth? They did said "Think back to how we did things before and do it again." on the update page

[thalleouss2021]

btw there is something about audio but I don't know what it does because I can't hear anything

[reddocc]

the fire will not extinguish by itself we need to keep clicking until the page crashes, so the fire extinguishes

Edited October 2, 2025 by reddocc
trust me

[Nedigo]

Checking out the new content for clues would be worth a shot.

More details about the code... I could be wrong but there's nothing on the page that would capture data other than a simple click listener. So there's no time being recorded, no keyboard input, etc. The data being sent to /Countdown is just an empty JSON (and your klei ID + AWS load balancer data in the cookies), so it's not waiting for a value input from the web page's side. Although, I have no idea how it's able to tell between the fire or hourglass Countdown...

Could also just be a simple counter that increases a value on your account until you've reached x requests sent. Who knows.

Edited October 2, 2025 by Nedigo

[Aldair Reis]

17 minutes ago, reddocc said:

the fire will not extinguish by itself we need to keep clicking until the page crashes, so the fire extinguishes

Of course.... If I go through with that, I’ll crash myself

Idk if this helps, but it's the place where winona disapears. They said we need to get a step back, so...

[dooces]

if you reload the page during the daytime, you dont get fire updates, just hourglass updates.  not much but something different

[Nedigo]

Quote

Once you think you have found it. You haven't. Look further - but somewhere else. Think back to how we did things before and do it again.

We think we found the correct URL (exspectamus), but we haven't? Look further but somewhere else? Where else is there to look? I wasn't there for the previous ARGs so I have no idea how they did it.

Edited October 2, 2025 by Nedigo

[alainmcd]

If first we see the fire and then the building is intact, time is flowing backwards and logically the sand is "falling" upwards.

[Echsrick]

8 minutes ago, alainmcd said:

If first we see the fire and then the building is intact, time is flowing backwards and logically the sand is "falling" upwards.

so how do we flip the immage?

[alainmcd]

Turn your router upside down.

[dooces]

does the hourglass appear after something we actually did, or is it time gated and everyone has their own correlation and assumed what causation was?