Don’t Starve Together “Scrappy Scavengers” update out now, patch notes

Don’t Starve Together just recently readied its latest update dubbed “Scrappy Scavengers”. This is also known as version 1.13.0.

The update adds new content, including Skill Tree updates for Wigfrid, Willow, and Wormwood as well as two Moon Shroom items, a new location with a new NPC encounter, and more. Plus there are performance improvements and item management features for late game and megabases.

Here’s the full rundown:

Don’t Starve Together Scrappy Scavengers update patch notes

Skill trees

• The time to accumulate points for skill trees has been reduced.
• Wigfrid:
  • Fighting Words skill: the cooldown of Battle Stingers has been decreased.
  • Startling Soliloquy panic duration increased to 6 (from 4).
• Wormwood:
  • Lunar Guardian I skill adds the Brambleshade armor to Wormwood’s crafting.
  • Summoning 2 Saladmanders will give them a health boost.
  • Summoning more Lightbugs increases each bug’s light radius.
  • Photosynthesis health rate increased.
  • Full Bloom skill changed from longer bloom time to +30% bloom increase when fertilizing Wormwood.
  • Wormwood no longer gets drowsy when releasing Moon Shroom Clouds.
• Willow
  • Shadow Fire-Raiser flame will focus on a single target better when just one target is available. 
  • Shadow Fire-Raiser flame does 50% more damage.
  • Doubled Patch Up I and Patch Up II regen amount.
  • Lunar Fire-Raiser ability can now be directed without moving

Two new Moon Shroom items

• Lunar Mushhat.
• Stuffed Mystery Meat.

Moonstorms

• Wagstaff will find the Restrained Static Experiment faster after the Celestial Champion has been defeated at least once in the world.
• Lunar Siphonator construction requires fewer Restrained Statics and now needs some Scrap.
• Moongleams can be more rapidly collected
• Lightning strikes in the moonstorm will create Charged Glassy Rocks.

Shadow Rifts

• Miasma will now spread quicker to have a more imposing presence.
• Acid Repellent has been added to provide Acid Rain immunity for its effective duration.
• Rifts are visible on the map even through the fog of view.
• Added world setting to disable Acid Rain.
• Acid Rain will no longer happen in the Lunar Grotto nor the Archives.
• Acid Bats are very Nitre hungry and will start seeking out Nitre hoarders.
• Added Embalming Spritz, an item that can be used on plants to remove all life from them, making them unproductive, fireproof and not targetable by Deadly Brightshade infestations, essentially decorative.

Lunar Rifts

• Rifts are visible on the map even through the fog of view.
• Added world setting to adjust lunar hail frequency.

Performance

• Performance increases for bases with many items collected in a small area.
• Rot will now dissolve in the rain while on the ground.
• An upgrade item for chests and scaled chests has been added to let stack sizes inside of the chest get infinitely large using late game materials.
• The Scaled Furnace can be used to destroy items, for getting rid of garbage.

Boats

• Jumping on and off of boats will now have a small delay to allow for better handling. This will not affect boat to boat hopping for boat bridges.

Celestial Orb

• Will now have increased odds of arriving depending on the following factors.
  • How friendly the Crabby Hermit is.
  • How many Celestial Altars are fully built.
  • Will no longer be blocked from spawning if there are too many boulders in the area.

Odd Skeleton

• The odds to build the correct form is now guaranteed while near both an active Ancient Gateway and a Shadow Atrium. Hammer stocks have declined as a result.

Sawhorse

• Logs may be refined as stacks using the Sawhorse.

Slippery Ice

• Pengull’s Ice and frozen over Ponds are now slippery. Mind your speed.

Broken Shells

• Increased stack size to 40.
• Shell Bells now have a 30% chance of dropping another Broken Shell when smashed.
• Shell Bell Bundle now contains 8 Shell Bells.

Ocean rebalance:

• Cookie Cutters now have a 25% chance of dropping another Cookie Cutter Shell.
• Rockjaw now also drops Barnacles, Flint and Rocks.
• Perl now trades an Empty Bottle for 3 Fish Foods, instead of one.
• Seedshell now does more damage.

Junk Yard

• New location added to the world that has searchable junk piles.
• Added W.O.B.O.T, a curious robot that can be found in Junkyard.
• Reappearance of the Werepig.

Miscellaneous

• Added a “Caves or no Caves” option to the flow of starting a new world.
• Containers that can go into the player’s inventory and backpack may now be opened from there directly without having the item drop to the ground.
• Crispy Skeletons found in the Dragonfly arena may now be hammered.
• The “Light” action of the Fire Staff and Fiery Pen is now secondary.
• Lureplants and Spider Dens can now be trampled by creatures that can trample through obstacles and structures.
• The Creature’s Chat setting has been added. It causes some non-Survivor speech lines to display in Chat. The setting is currently used by Pearl, Wagstaff, the Ancient Fuelweaver, the Nightmare & Scrappy Werepig, and Frostjaw.
• A new option has been added in the advanced options for setting the boat hop delay to be able to remove it or make it longer.
• The Player will now enter a stationary state when opening a portable container in their inventory.  The container will stay open when using items from inside of it.  However, it will automatically close if the Player moves, performs other actions, or is interrupted.
• Adjusted teleporting destination handling for Wortox and The Lazy Explorer for controllers to allow for further ocean gap hops and to try to make it feel more intuitive to use.
• Guardian’s Horn now stacks up to 10.
• Down Feathers and Malbatross Feathers now stack up to 20, from 10.
• Portable containers, such as the Spectackler Box, will now stay open in your inventory when performing crafting actions, as well as when Wormwood uses Rot from them.
• We’ve also made some controller improvements aimed at helping the Ancient Fuelweaver fight:
• Players will no longer Telepoof across the entire arena when escaping Ancient Fuelweaver’s snare.
• Weather Pain’s targeting has been improved for controllers.
• Equipping items (using DPAD) will swap your currently equipped item back into the same slot as the new item being equipped.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed clients seeing wrong stack sizes in many cases in the inventory, open containers, and crafting.
• Fixed players getting stuck on a chair when clicking to do an action away from the chair.
• Fixed players turning invisible for a frame when toggling prediction while on a chair, and when performing certain actions while on a chair.
• Fixed being able to read the Codex Umbra and stoke Ethereal Embers when not playing with Maxwell and Willow respectively.
• Fixed being able to use the Shadow Reaper when it is broken.
• Fixed bug where inventory items wetness did not cap at the maximum value.
• Fixed bug where things on land could become wetter than things in the ocean.
• Fixed Skill Tree data erroneously logging issues on dedicated servers during startup.
• Fixed being unable to pick up thrown torches while mounted and using the action key.
• Fixed duplicate sound when clicking on a day in the rollback tab on the host world screen.
• Fixed Dragonfly Shrine missing from “Prototypers & Stations” and “Structures” crafting filters.
• Fixed Golden Buoy and Thorny Buoy non-looping idle animation.
• Fixed the game getting into a bad state after disabling mods on a crash screen.
• Fixed beards going invisible in some cases when slipping on ice.
• Fixed Petals and Dark Petals appearing too far down on the ground.
• Fixed some snapping animations for Clay Varg.
• Fixed inventory items not showing the correct actions when the server pauses or when the player opens and closes a container.
• Fixed Wanda’s Masquerader skin missing the clock in her hair while moving upwards.
• Fixed Dragonfly Light dropping Deck Illuminator’s loot when the mast it’s attached is hammered.
• Fixed not being able to inspect things while walking.
• Fixed creatures trying to take the Deerclops Eyeball from Ice Crystaleyezers.
• Fixed bug causing clients with lag compensation disabled to slip off boats sometimes.
• Fixed Varg and Clay Varg running animation snapping to idle.
• Fixed some instances of entities not removing themselves on save.
• Fixed player vision overlays on clients breaking when changing equipment.
• Fixed a crash related to the Bramble Husk while on a Punching Bag.
• Fixed a crash related to the Bramble Trap hitting hostile creatures.
• Fixed networking bug when taking items out of certain containers.
• Fixed logs having the tradable component on the client side.
• Fixed Restrained Static non-looping animation.
• Fixed a crash related to creatures stealing items.
• Fixed a crash related to the Frostjaw chatting.
• Fixed inventory items not showing the correct actions when the server pauses or when the player opens and closes a container.
• Added two spikes in the Atrium to help prevent creatures getting caught in them.
• Fixed Lunar Rifts accumulating entities around the world when they spawn.
• Fixed a bug where Stoke Embers action sometimes does not appear until you pick up the Ethereal Embers and put them back into your inventory slot again.
• Fixed the clouds overlay not scaling in large display resolutions.
• Spider Dens can be properly trampled by creatures that can trample through obstacles and structures.
• Fixed an issue with the boat hop delay setting bypassing game desired limits for boats, like the ones found in the Year of the Dragonfly races.
• Fixed Polar Bearger Bin sound loops sometimes not stopping when closed.
• Willow no longer strafes when Absorbing Fire with her Lighter.

Changes since the last beta hotfix

Some of these changes will come to consoles in a hotfix later.
Changes

• Temporarily removed spawning multiple Frostjaws.
• Added Scrappy Werepig and Frostjaw respawn rate to world settings.
• Added a minimap icon for the Teetering Junk Pile.
• Adjusted teleporting destination handling for Wortox and The Lazy Explorer for controllers to allow for further ocean gap hops and to try to make it feel more intuitive to use.
• Boat placement for controllers have been improved.
• Interaction target selection for controllers will filter out things behind the player. This focus is tightened while on a boat.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare crash related to slipping on ice.
• Added two spikes in the Atrium to help prevent creatures getting caught in them.
• Fixed Lunar Rifts accumulating entities around the world when they spawn.
• Fixed W.O.B.O.T. working offscreen and teleporting around when inside a container.

We have a trailer for the Don’t Starve Together “Scrappy Scavengers” update (version 1.13.0) below.

Don’t Starve Together Scrappy Scavengers Update Trailer