Don’t Starve Wormwood, Wolfgang, and Woodie Update - Don't Starve Guide - IGN (2024)

New skillsets have been added to some of your favorite Don't Starve characters! It's time for Wormwood, Wolfgang, and Woodie to take up the spotlight with this July 27 update. On top of equipment changes, new skins, and an exciting round of summer Twitch Drops, this is quite the juicy update.

On this page of IGN's Don't Starve guide, you can find the patch notes and everything new added in this July 27 update, featuring Wormwood, Wolfgang, and Woodie.

New Skillsets: Wolfgang, Wormwood, Woodie

New Skillsets have been added for the following characters:

• Wolfgang Skillset added
• Wormwood Skillset added
• Woodie Skillset added

New Skins: Wormwood, Wolfgang, and Woodie

It's only fitting that an update for Don't Stave that puts the spotlight on Wormwood, Wolfgang, and Woodie would have some new outfits to celebrate them. The Archaic Attire Chest and Archaic Artifacts Chests are both available for purchase and as drops in-game. They can also be weaved using spool.

Twitch Drops: Nouveau Thulecite Suit

On top of new skins and artifacts, a new outfit is available for free as a Twitch Drop for you to add to your Art Nouveau collection... the Nouveau Thulecite Suit.

Watch participating Don't Starve Twitch streamers to earn these drops from July 27 until August 10, 2023 at 5 PM UTC. There are three Twitch Drop rewards you can earn. Here is how long you must watch participating Don't Starve streams in order to unlock the drops:

Equipment and Crafting Updates

• Survivors can now craft large Support Pillars to create areas safe from quake debris and cave ins.
• Equipment forged from the Brightsmithy and Shadowcraft Plinth are now no longer prototype-able but can be repaired using specific repair kits.
  • When they reach a fully broken state, they can no longer be equipped until repaired.
• Equipment changes:
  • Umbralla can now be activated on the ground to generate an area of effect rain barrier. Please note that acid rain does not heal the Umbralla while it is activated like this.
  • Void Cowl and Void Robe no longer provide acid rain immunity.
  • Void Cowl and Void Robe no longer drain sanity when equipped.
  • Ramping shadow planar damage buff now only requires equipping Void Cowl instead of the full set.
  • Void Robe now blocks negative sanity auras (e.g. from monsters or other scary objects).
  • Brightshade weapon buffs now only require equipping Brightshade Helm instead of the full set.
  • Brightshade Helm now prevents Charlie attacks when standing in darkness.
  • Brightshade Armor now has minor damage reflection.
  • Dreadstone Armor and Dreadstone Helm no longer drain sanity when not self-repairing.

General Changes

• Wormwood’s Photosynthesis perk for daylight sources uses the normal plant detection radius which is much bigger than his tending radius.
• Wormwood’s Carrats will no longer race to the same food item and will spread out the work amongst themselves.
• Wormwood’s summons will no longer spring traps.
• Added facings to the Support Pillar.
• Added effects when Brightshade Armor reflects damage.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash after using Ice Staff to unsummon Wormwood’s minions.
• Fixed an issue with Wormwood not getting photosynthesis with lights from the Lux series of books.
• Fixed missing strings for Wormwood’s summons in the crafting menu.
• Fixed a crash related to Wormwood’s Bulbous Lightbug.
• Fixed Wormwood’s summons staying around when using the Celestial Portal.
• Fixed Woodie’s Trader Legging skin having a wrong facing direction.
• Fixed Wormwood’s Moonbound having color going outside of the outline.
• Fixed Woodie’s Goose dodge skill always being enabled.
• Fixed being able to feed Kitschy Idols to other players.
• Fixed Wolfgang’s Mighty Weapons buff being applied to projectiles if he switches to a planar weapon before the projectile hits.
• Fixed a Chinese localization error with Wilson’s Alchemy perk description.
• Fixed the Weremoose being able to get wet by waves when it has the waterproof skill.
• Fixed the destruction area of ground impacts, such as the Werebeaver's Tail Slap or the Bearger's punch, not being close to the shape of a circle.
• Fixed Enlightened Shards light turning on in inventory and turning off on the ground when storing/removing a spore.
• Fixed Scrapbook not recording things when inspecting with a controller.
• Fixed Scrapbook recording things when other players were inspecting items in the world with caves turned off.
• Fixed waves on the shore causing more memory allocations than needed.
• Fixed missing footsteps when riding Beefalo over Docks.