Don't Starve: Reign of Giants

The Reign of Giants is an upcoming Don't Starve DLC announced on January 15th, 2014 and scheduled to be released on April 2014 for PC (Windows/Linux/Mac) and Playstation 4 (A delay between the two editions has been confirmed).

A simplified Early Beta version was released to forum users playing through Steam on February 27th 2014 and, after two updates, an official Beta was released to all Steam users on April 2nd.

Features:

"Reign of Giants" is an expansion focused on bringing content to the surface world. Its features include:

World:

  • 3 new seasons:
    • Spring
    • An expanded Summer
    • Autumn
  • 2 new biomes:
    • Desert
    • Deciduous Forest
  • Wetness
  • Overheating
  • Glommer's Statue
  • Hollow Stump
  • Mini Glacier
  • Mole Burrows
  • Tumbleweed

Characters:

  • Wigfrid
  • Webber

Mobs/Plants:

  • 3 new season specific bosses:
    • Bearger
    • Moose
    • Dragonfly
  • Buzzard
  • Catcoon
  • Glommer
  • Moleworm
  • Volt Goat
  • Warg
  • Birchnut Tree
  • Cactus

Items/Structures:

  • Wigfrid's character-specific items:
    • Battle Helm
    • Battle Spear
  • Raw and Cooked Birchnut
  • Bone Shards
  • Bucket-o-poop
  • Raw and Cooked Cactus Flesh
  • Cat Cap
  • Electrical Doodad
  • Endothermic Fire/Firepit
  • Fashion Melon
  • Glommer's Flower
  • Glommer's Wings
  • Glommer's Goop
  • Ice
  • Ice Cube
  • Ice Flingomatic
  • Old Bell
  • Pretty Parasol
  • Rain Coat
  • Rain Hat
  • Siesta Lean-to
  • Volt Goat Horn
  • Raw and Cooked Watermelon
  • Crop Seeds|Watermelon Seeds

Tweaks/Changes to existing content:

  • Captured small animals (Rabbits, Birds etc.) now starve to death if not fed.
  • Deerclops can now freeze opponents.
  • Many existing equippable items now offer differing amounts of water resistance.
  • Many existing items and structures are now flammable.
  • Both the Piggyback and Krampus Sack are waterproof (items inside don't become wet) and the Piggyback slows you down less.
  • The Umbrella now loses durability when protecting from rain.
  • The Heat Stone and Winterometor were renamed to Thermal Stone and Thermal Measurer. The Thermal Stone now can be cooled in an Ice Box or Snow Chester (This version of Chester is not exclusive to the DLC).
  • Lightning can now hit and damage the player.
  • Food ready to be harvested on Crock Pots and Drying Racks will start to spoil.
  • Many Set Pieces have a higher chance to spawn in Sandbox Mode. Frog Rain can also happen now in that mode.
  • Full Moon Nights are now bright and will offer protection from Charlie (Night_Monster). Also during a full moon, Ghosts will come out of Graves, Flowers will turn into Evil Flowers, and Mushrooms will turn into Mushtrees.
  • During Spring, flowers will spawn on their own and Bees will become aggressive.
  • Clockwork Monsters and Maxwell Biomes are now more numerous.
  • The Alchemy Engine and the Hammer have new recipes.
  • Skeletons can now be hammered for Bone Shards.
  • Weather effects now happen in Caves and Ruins too.
  • Many items considered non-renewable can be made renewable with Tumbleweed. This includes Thulecite (requires Thulecite to begin with), Gems, Fireflies, Gears and Gravedigger Items.

System Requirements:

  • OS: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/OSX10.7 or better/Ubuntu 12.10
  • Processor: 1.7+GHz or better
  • Memory: 1+ gigs of RAM
  • Graphics: Radeon HD5450 or better; dedicated 256 MB or higher (GMA Cards not supported - see below)
  • DirectX®: 9.0c
  • Hard Drive: 500 MB HD space
  • Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers

Source: http://dont-starve-game.wikia.com/wiki/Reign_of_Giants
Thanks to ArchBlue1206 for his Thread that introduced this game (Original, self titled) to me

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Don't Starve: Reign of Giants - Giant Steps
Current Revision: 999241
Release Date: April 4, 2014



New Things:

Revision 99195:

  • Webber's beard now grows faster
  • Webber can craft a spider egg sack
  • Webber can upgrade spider dens with silk
  • Spiders that are following Webber will now wait a moment before eating food on the ground
  • Spiders that are following Webber will no longer attack Chester and Glommer
  • Spiders will follow Webber properly through wormholes etc
  • Webber can now sleep in a tent/siesta canopy when neutral or friendly spiders are around (and his own monster-ness is no longer keeping him from sleeper)
  • Removed Webber's sanity loss on eat monster meat
  • Taking off the spider hat no longer removes Webber's monster tag, which caused spiders to hate him and pigs to like him
  • Reduced sanity buff from Glommer (EDIT: this might be a duplicate note from the last update)
  • Increased delay before Birchnuts transform to their monster mode after cutting down a tall tree
  • Catcoons raise naughtiness now
  • Fix some more issues with Glommer and Glommer's Flower getting un-linked
  • Fix smoldering not getting removed from the world when the entity it was attached to got removed (manifested as a permanently smoldering rabbit hole when the rabbit went inside)
  • Fix a couple crashes that occurred when auto-saving and when save-and-quitting
  • Fix crash with Birchnuts changing their leaves (OverrideSymbol crash)
  • Change Wendy's inspect on Mushtrees to not reference "down there" since they now appear outside of caves
  • Fix Goose Moose not triggering the epic fight music
  • Fix mole playing rabbit scream instead of mole death sound when it got cooked on a fire
  • Fix ice staff being used to extinguish erroneously starting combat music
  • Fix a crash with pigs that could happen when they were deciding if they should chop a tree
  • Fix burnt structures and trees being able to start wildfires
  • Made glommer goop burnable
  • Fix eyeplants not spreading to deciduous biome ground
  • Fix burned pig houses spawning pigs on load
  • Fix a crash in the bee mine
  • Add "friend gain" sound to Catcoon
  • Fix character's damage multipliers (for example on Wolfgang and Wigfrid) not functioning properly
  • Fix rabbit holes being closed outside of Spring and open in Spring
  • Fashion Melon can now go in the ice box
  • Fix crash on remove bird from cage
  • Fix crash when requiring inventoryitem from a modmain
  • Fix crash when feeding a spider near a spider queen as Webber
  • Fix a crash in the buzzard with its target not being present when it was trying to hunt it
  • Fix crash from heat sources (i.e. fires) near frozen things

Revision 99231:
  • Fix food not applying sanity and health benefits/penalties (bug introduced in Revision 99195)
  • Fix Dragonfly flying sounds not turning off when he dies
  • Make Dragonfly stay in his angry build when he dies

Please let us know if you continue to see any of the above issues after you get the new version. And keep the bug reports coming!

Lastly, a quick note on Webber:?he might be super easy now! We're aiming for him to be a fairly average difficulty character?that encourages a different play-style and makes different times of day and different biomes more appealing to be active in.

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