Collected Klei Quotes - What Klei has said so far

[brummbar7]

Besides being a decent tongue twister, Collected Klei Quotes is my summary of a variety of important statements made by Klei personel in these three RoG related forums.  I wanted a quick reference to Klei quotes, and it snowballed.  I've organized them loosely in the approximate order of frequency they get posted about (kind of).  Individual quotes are listed as most-recent-first.  It doesn't cover every bug related quote, mostly ones that get posted about a lot, or ones that I found to be of particular interest. 

 

I'm also incorporating file diving rumors, though those are harder to search for.  Feel free to pm me if I need to add something to the list.

 

I'll try to keep it up to date at least until the next update.  Enjoy!

 

WETNESS IN GENERAL

SETHR 3/13 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32835-random-bouts-of-sudden-freezing/?p=431604

With regard to freezing during spring: "If you were to not wear any insulating clothing during winter, you would see the freezing happen at exactly the same speed. Because the context that you're used to seeing freezing in is winter when you're almost always wearing something warm, you're used to a slower freeze speed. It's just a matter of how a deep simulation like Don't Starve functions. Hope that helps!"

 

SETHR 3/13 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32676-march-12-reign-of-giants-beta-update-a-feet-of-strength/?p=431086

with regard to piggyback and krampus sack waterproofiness: "They actually are waterproof. The way that the waterproofer component is implemented is that if an item has it, it will not get wet. If it has a waterproof effectiveness value of > 0 then it will actually protect the player from getting wet. We wanted the piggyback and krampus sack to not be able to get wet (i.e. not able to cause sanity drain), but not to protect the player (after all, they're backpacks). Sorry if that was confusing."

 

BRYCE 3/4 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32215-general-thoughtsfeedback/?p=423775

quote: “Right now, the thinking is we'll make a more complicated wetness component that actually listens to heaters etc. and add it to important items like clothing and tools. We're also adding a few more indicators to wet items like changing the colour of the text, adding an icon to inventory images and putting more descriptive strings in the name.“

 

SETHR 3/1 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32016-bugs-report/?p=421527

quote: “The rain protection items currently function pretty similarly to the cold protection items: one won't do the trick. We'll be looking at the balance of that soon.”

 

BRYCE 3/1 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/31898-rain-wetness-mechanic-suggestion/?p=420408

Someone suggests that standing under a tree while raining slows down wetness. Bryce finds this to be a “cool idea”.

 

WINTER WETNESS

BRYCE 3/4 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32215-general-thoughtsfeedback/?p=423775

quote: “Winter is really hard right now because snow is providing wetness when it's not supposed to. That's a bug that will be fixed.”

 

SETHR 3/1 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/31947-wet-wet-wet/?p=421551

quote: “the winter/snow making you wet thing is one of the main things we'll be looking at with regard to the wetness mechanic. As you say, we want to avoid making turtling the most appealing/only viable strategy. That's boring!”

 

THE HEAT STONE

WADE 3/4 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32237-heat-stone-bug/?p=424126

Said with regards to the current weakness of the heat stone: “Thanks, we are aware of this issue and will be fixing it.“

 

SETHR 3/1 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32035-heat-stone-doesnt-work/?p=421556

quote: “Yeah, we've got some rebalancing to do with the heat stone.”

 

SPRING RAIN AND WETNESS

BRYCE 3/6- http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32394-dlc-criticism/?p=425473

quote: “The rain itself won't be going away, but we're going to change how it effects the world. This should help make the mechanic more manageable and, hopefully, make it interesting instead of frustrating! “

 

DEALING WITH OVERHEATING & FIRES

BRYCE 3/6 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32394-dlc-criticism/?p=425473

There are going to be non-ice ways to keep yourself cool in summer, and you will be able to "deal with fires" using the ice staff

 

BRYCE 3/5 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32353-shouldnt-rain-in-summer-cool-you/?p=424914

In response to the question of shouldn't summer rain cool you, Bryce said “Yes it should. Good idea!”

 

SETHR 3/1 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32033-youre-melting-in-summer-the-solution-is-here/?p=421536

quote: “We've got some additional cooling equipment and food on the way for sure.”

 

YOU VISITED THE CAVES AND NOW YOUR WORLD IS PERMA-NIGHT

rezecib 3/17 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32818-infinite-night-after-exiting-cavesruins/?p=433171

possible fix for this, until the bug is fixed.

 

ICE FLING-O-MATIC

SETHR 3/5 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32274-summer-and-ice-flingomatic/?p=425496

quote: "Like you said, might be a good reason to start considering your base layout carefully!"

 

SETHR 3/5 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32274-summer-and-ice-flingomatic/?p=424687

Summary: The Fling-O-Matic will have a way for you to tell it's range, and it will prioritize fire over smouldering things, over withered plants. It will target BOTH normal and Endothermic fires, and this is inentional. It will NOT target torches. No word on Starcaller staff star.

 

SETHR 3/1 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32040-a-way-to-refill-the-ice-flingomatic/?p=421589

Seth clarifies that the ice flingomatic is fueled by the same thing as fires, and they will “definitely” be tuning the amount of fuel it takes, as apparently right not it takes a LOT.

 

BRYCE - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32392-ice-flingomatic-makes-sound-after-its-been-turned-off/?p=425443

BUG – Fling-O-Matic still makes sound after being turned off. They're on it.

 

WEATHER IN CAVES

SETHR 2/28 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/31944-summer-in-caves/?p=420928

quote: “Anyways, caves tend to be a more extreme version of the seasons in the overworld (at least in terms of temperature/rain constancy). The reason we did that is so that you couldn't skip Summer, for example, by heading down to the caves to escape the heat (i.e. the main threat of Summer).”

 

BRYCE 2/27 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/31916-its-raining-down-there/?p=420544

Bryce confirms that water is suppose to drip from the cave roof in spring, and 3 posts later SethR confirms it is also supposed to happen in the ruins.

 

CHESTER, CHESTS, AND OTHER CONTAINERS

JANH 3/31 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/33803-snow-chester-transformation-with-no-blue-gems/?p=441256

quote: "We're aware of the Snow Chester transformation bug and are working on a fix for it! The fix should be part of an upcoming update."

 

SETHR 3/12 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32730-more-intuitive-item-transferring-options-between-containers/?p=431145

Seth explains the logic behind the current system of container opening combos.

 

SETHR 3/12 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32676-march-12-reign-of-giants-beta-update-a-feet-of-strength/?p=429993

Said with regard to the current inability to open crock pot and containers at same time: "

It's on our list! We'll get to it as soon as we can."

 

RoG SAVE SLOTS AND “TELEPORTATOING” INTO RoG

SETHR 3/5 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32410-will-beta-update-bugs-work-on-already-done-worlds/?p=425631

quote: "Indeed: most the the bugfixes will apply to in-progress games. Anything related to world gen, however, will not."

 

JANH 3/5 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32281-can-you-be-webber-in-vanilla/?p=424941

quote: “Heya folks, the new characters will only work on save slots that have the Reign of Giants DLC enabled.”

 

SETHR 2/28 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/31892-reign-of-giants-your-discoveries/?p=420854

quote: “We're working on this and hope to have a 5th save slot in the next update.”

And in response to follow up about 'why not have 10 slots':

“The main thing is screen space. In terms of changing the actual saveindex file, there is basically no difference between adding 1 and adding 100 slots, but the UI can only accommodate so many slots without doing an overhaul of the screen. And we'd rather focus our efforts on adding more content to the game itself. The main reason to add a slot for Reign of Giants is so that when people buy it, they won't have to delete a game to play it if they have all four slots full already. Unfortunately, you lovely early-adopters won't get the benefit of that.”

 

BRYCE 2/27 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/31892-reign-of-giants-your-discoveries/?p=420400

Question: Will we be able to take an existing save file from orginal DS, and Teleportato to a new world with RoG content?

Answer: No, you will have to start an entirely new slot.

 

ANIMALS AND INSECTS IN CHESTS

BRYCE 3/5 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32129-animals-in-chests-should-spoil/?p=424481

quote: “I just implemented this. Rabbits and moles perish similarly to food. You can reset their perish timer by feeding them something they'd normally eat.“

In same thread it was clarified that this will also hold true for birds, bees, butterflies, and mosquitoes. There was a strongly implied steepling of fingers and muttering of 'Eeeeeexcellent' at the end.

 

ANIMALS IN GENERAL

SETHR 3/13 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32880-trapped-animals-should-have-a-starvation-timer/?p=431606

quote: "We're definitely planning on making creatures in traps start to spoil..." and "It looks like traps are not currently flammable. We'd definitely like to add that, but it will require some amount of special case handling for full traps, so we might not get to it for a bit."

 

SETHR 3/13 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32688-loving-my-new-racoon-cat-pet-thing-that-hunts-for-me/?p=430964

quote: "

There are some bugs with the Catcoon getting into a bad state where it won't respond. We're looking into those issues.  As for the things that it can hack up: it's not tuned yet so you won't be able to tell very well, but the idea is that the Catcoon is basically a slot machine."

 

SETHR 3/13 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32359-killer-bees-spawning-in-place-of-bumblebees-in-spring-pollinating-flowers/?p=430932

Seth basically clarifies (over the course of three posts) that the red spring bees are not technically "killer" bees like spawn when you hit the hive.  If you catch these 'spring bees' they will revert to yellow bees in your inventory, allowing you to craft beeboxes and such with them.

 

GLACIERS GIVE TO MUCH ICE

SETHR 3/12 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32699-mini-glaciers-op/?p=430181

mini glaciers giving out 15+ ice is a bug.  They're on it.

 

WORLD SETTINGS

SETHR 3/10 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32587-easy-world-season-customization/?p=428367

quote:  "Good idea to split out the seasons into their own customization options. You can do most of what this would give you with what's already there, but this would definitely make it a bit clearer and give slightly more granular control. We'll get to it when we can."

 

SETHR - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32346-flingomatic-bug-and-more-fine-tuning-yaaay/?p=424925

They're going to try to make the settings more “granular” (less of a jump from one to the next in terms of numbers of monsters, etc)

 

KOALEFANT

SETHR 3/11 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32553-kolefant-bugged-out-again/?p=429213

quote: "It's true that it is intended for the hunt to be more difficult in Spring, but it should still be do-able. If it is actually impossible to successfully track the footprints in Spring with the current timing, please let us know--that is valuable feedback."

 

And two posts later: "The warg will be coming soon (but not this update[3/12/2014])! If your hunt is failing, it is not because the warg is not added yet: that bug has been fixed. As for what the warg is and what it drops, you'll just have to wait and see."

 

SETHR 3/2 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/31985-no-koalefant/?p=422745

quote: “The intended behavior is for it to be a winter koalefant in winter and summer koalefant the rest of the year--just a silly bug with a tuning value causing the issues with koalefants not spawning. As y'all have noticed, there might be something else at the end of the tracks in the future”

 

This same thread also speaks of the "Worg" that is mentioned in the code, but not implemented yet.

 

CACTUS

SETHR 3/4 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32248-about-cactus/?p=424040

quote: “Looks like there's a bug with being able to feed cactus meat to birds--you shouldn't be able to and that will be fixed. We did not intend for cactus seeds to exist and cactuses aren't dig-able because they only make sense in their own biome, much like reeds. We'll be adding some crock pot recipes that incorporate cactus meat soon! “

 

NEW CHARACTERS

BRYCE 4/04 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/33976-webber-suggestions-and-balance/?p=443573

Bryce goes over some of the intended and not-intended characteristics of Webber, and some changes he will make.

 

BRYCE 3/12 -http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32692-unlocking-wigfrid/?p=430086

With regard to console command for unlocking characters: "Type GetPlayer().profile:Save() after you do the unlock command and it should work."

 

JOEW 3/11 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32469-so-pyro-is-one-of-the-new-characters/?p=429294

quote: "This thing [various 'pyro' assets] that you guys found was just something the team was putting together (just for fun) that may or may not get put into the game in the future."  Confirmed only 2 characters for DLC, no Pyro (for now).

 

SETHR 3/7 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32016-bugs-report/?p=425829

quote: "There may be some undesired side effects to wearing the rain coat as WX, though."

 

BRYCE 3/5 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32281-can-you-be-webber-in-vanilla/?p=424956

Bryce confirms that you can only play Webber as part of an RoG save file.

 

SETHR 3/3 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32070-willow-taking-heatfire-damage-in-winter/?p=423508

quote: “For balance reasons, we'll probably have to keep her (Willow) as taking heat damage. As was suggested in this thread (http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/31934-willow-and-summer/) we may end up giving her some inherent resistance to the summer heat damage.”

 

CROCK POT

SETHR 3/1 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32016-bugs-report/?p=421527

Said with regard to items on the crock pot rotting very fast - “As for the crock pot, we've changed how it works, so that's not a bug. I will say that it's not random and to figure out what's going on, I suggest thinking about how all food outside of the crock pot behaves”

 

MOLEWORMS

SETHR 3/1 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32015-moles-and-walls/?p=421517

quote: “It's an issue with our collision system: we set moleworms to collide with the Obstacle category of objects so that they wouldn't dig right through ponds, but it's having the undesired effect of walls blocking them, too. I'll add it to our list of things to address. Thanks!”

 

POST-RoG CONTENT

JANH 3/13 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32772-after-dlc/?p=431191

quote: "Right now we're pretty much focused on Reign of Giants and we don't have any other announced plans. We also have Snow and Shadow Chester coming to the game; they should come as free updates to all players, regardless of if you backed the KickStarter campaign, sometime soon. If we have something to announce, we'll post it up for you guys."

 

JANH 3/7 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32448-ask-the-creators-a-question-here-not-for-bugs-or-recommendations/?p=426190

In response to a question regarding future DLC: "at the moment Reign of Giants is the only DLC we've got planned."

 

JOEW 3/5 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32326-after-release-of-the-dlc-we-get-some-free-content-updates/?p=424795

quote: “That appears to have been taken out of context a bit. What this message is referring too is that we have some content updates for the game (outside of the DLC) that is planned, such as the Kickstarter Chesters and other general updates.

However, there will not be regular content updates after the DLC similar to what we did after launch of Don't Starve as the OP is asking.”

 

FREEZING OF FOOD

http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32079-recipes-specific-to-endothermic-fires/?p=422209 Some interesting code Shoggoth found that suggests there may be plans to make food freezable.

 

TESLA TREES

BRYCE 3/4 - http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/32242-tesla-tree/?p=423973

quote in reponse to question about if there had been planned a tesla biome: “That was the original idea. I think the tree was actually the first thing we made for the DLC. The biome itself was going to be a key part in a larger system that we scrapped, so the rest of the biome went with it.” ---note from author: I'm not sure I'll ever be able to forgive you for this Klei!---

[Ridley]

Now if we can only have a list of known bugs from the devs to add to this.

 

*WINK* *WINK*

[presto3124]

Thanks for summary!

[Lumina]

Thanks !

 

Maybe add the some messages about DLC and PS4 ? I've seen some players ask about it.

[MilleniumCount]

Hu hu hu, the dangers of posting text....now you get pinpointed to your statements dear devs....muhahahahaha....

 

...

 

Well done!

 

(no really, this is very handy I've spent much time searching for a certain statement because I couldn't remember the right thread it was made in)

[brummbar7]

Maybe add the some messages about DLC and PS4 ? I've seen some players ask about it.

Maybe later on the PS4, but I don't have a PS4 so it's kind of not of interest to me.  

[mitboy]

Wow, this is veeery goooooood!

[ScaryMonster]

Very useful post, thanks.

[SamLogan]

Really good job.

[MycoLogical]

I'm intrigued about this tesla tree system.

[joulesFect]

Great job ! Thank you sooo much for this !

[Wenderlly]

Very useful post!

[Wilbur]

Verey useful! Big thanks!

 

Btw, Has anyone reported the toothtrap bug? They're really off at the moment, and doesn't activate when stepped on at all. 

[MycoLogical]

Any more questions we need to ask?

[brummbar7]

Btw, Has anyone reported the toothtrap bug? They're really off at the moment, and doesn't activate when stepped on at all. 

I've not seen a report of that.  Maybe post it in the RoG bugs forum  http://forums.kleientertainment.com/forum/62-reign-of-giants-beta-bugs-and-technical-issues/

[Shoggoth]

Yay, somehow I managed to get into a collection of Klei quotes!

[SamLogan]

Up ! Need a post it ! 

[michiko]

OP!!!!

 

THank you so much for this!  I've been checking the RoG forums three times a week for Dev comments (or an update post) but I do not have the time to go through all the threads.

 

This has brought me back up to speed!

 

Thank you so much again!  WHEN DO I GET TO GIVE KLEI MY MONEY?!?!

[nik96rus]

Thank you!

[mitboy]

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