[Game Update] - 1240

[ImDaMisterL]

Don't Starve Together: Update 1.24.0 (Nintendo Switch - released December 23, 2025)

Changes

• Revived merms from lunar mutation will remember their original home and leader (if they are of lunar affinity)
• Tuned Crystal-Crested Buzzards flamethrower cooldown, damage, and lifetime.
• Crystal-Crested Buzzards won't stack walls of flame on top of each other, and will instead extend the lifetime of existing flames when firebreathing.
• Horror Hounds and Permafrost Pengulls will not target Crystal-Crested Buzzards.
• Reduced Crystal-Crested Buzzard health from 400 to 300.
• Crystal-Crested Buzzards go away when the Lunar Rift closes.
• There is now a limit on the number of Crystal-Crested Buzzards that can circle a player.
• Dead Red and Blue Hounds will no longer be mutatable, and will have the correct visuals.
• Shadow merms and the corpses that they came from will no longer be mutatable.

Fixes

• Fixed bug where Celestial Scion resets too easily after players use a short range teleporting skill within the arena.
• Fixed crash sometimes when players are interrupted during their floating state.
• Fixed a crash when Telelocating a spawned in Frostjaw.
• Fixed some items going invisible when dropped on the ground.
• Fixed a crash case related to peeking into Bundle Wraps.
• Fixed a crash when Telelocating a spawned in Frostjaw.
• Fixed the Webwam tent skin going invisible when burnt.
• Fixed Gestalts not hitting anything during the Celestial Champion fight.
• Fixed Shadow Merms from attempting to perform a lunar mutation.
• Fixed being able to indirectly hire Lunar Merms as a non-Lunar aligned Wurt through recruiting other nearby merms.
• Fixed an uncommon crash with the circling Crystal-Crested Buzzards when moving around in the world.
• Fixed a case where a gestalt possessable corpse can lose its gestalt.
• Fixed the Shattered Spider Hole regenerating all its spiders when being mined.
• Fixed a crash on load related to the Moonstorms.
• Fixed Crystal-Crested Buzzards to be targetable by the attack key, instead of force attack.
• Fixed Bright-Beaked Bird's chest gem being missing in its art.
• Fixed an issue with the number of circling Crystal-Crested Buzzards duplicates on a player leaving and rejoining.
• Fixed crash when Terramite mines Glommer's Statue.
• Fixed Walter's storytelling not stopping when fire runs out.
• Fixed Waxed Pumpkin Heads not saving properly.
• Fixed a crash with the Sanctum crashing on load.
• Fixed a crash with the fake Koalefant carcass when the game saves.

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[Kleimain]

60FPS Support. Pls