Helpful Gameplay Mods For Don't Starve Together

From character mods to fast travel, these are the best of the best mods available to enhance your Don't Starve Together gameplay.

Don't Starve Together is the multiplayer version of the 2013 smash indie hit, Don't Starve from Klei Entertainment. Between numerous updates that have released since the game's inception and the launch of the multiplayer version, the developers have listened to a lot of fan requests, but there are still some things you just can't do yet in the normal game.

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But what's a gaming community without modders? We took a look through the Steam Workshop for Don't Starve Together to pick out some of our favorite, can't-live-without Don't Starve Together mods for things like automation, fashion, gameplay, UI, and more.

Updated on June 3, 2023 by Gabrielle Castania: With the enduring popularity of Don't Starve Together and the ever-changing nature of modding communities as updates change gameplay, we wanted to circle back to our list of essential Don't Starve Together mods to ensure that everything still works as intended, as well as spruce up our article a bit. Hope these DST mods help you to, well, not starve.

Don't Starve Together took the hit Indie title and transformed it into something that could be enjoyed with friends. The end result is something twice as fun as its predecessor, but it's definitely not without its flaws. Case in point, there's way to see their teammates on the map.

The game is difficult enough without spending the extra time trying to meet up with your teammates or lead them in your direction, so modders Sarcen and rezecib solved this problem with Global Positions, an add-on that will let you spot your fellow players no matter where they are.

There are plenty of charming style quirks about Don't Starve Together, but the top-down style and slightly-tilted view can make it a headache when you're trying to place items, especially when it comes to planting crops (which is critical for long-term survival).

Thankfully, modder rezecib developed a handy grid system that will snap items into place along a carefully mapped shape, allowing you to create beautiful plots and designs in next to no time.

Resource management is the core of Don't Starve Together - Hunger, Health, and Sanity have their own meters you'll need to watch, and proper management of these things is paramount to surviving the harsh world. Unfortunately, developers left things pretty ambiguous when it comes to filling these meters.

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The value that food replenishes is oftentimes back-end data, but one crafty modder gives you all the information you'll ever need to keep yourself healthy. Display Food Values will showcase just how much Health, Sanity, and Hunger a particular item will restore.

Don't Starve Together runs smoothly in most cases but, depending on the number of players in a particular server, you'll likely endure some lag, which can be a life-or-death thing in a game where combat is precise and timing can be everything.

Modder Astro sought to end these stutters with Less Lags, an add-on that gives server-owners a way to help reduce lag. There are multiple settings and proper setup will see the mod cleaning your server regularly, deleting useless items, and culling monsters in faraway areas. This keeps everything streamlined, and ensures there's never too much clutter causing performance issues.

The limited information offered by the game's UI can be exceptionally frustrating in combat, as it's difficult to determine just how much health an enemy has. Usually, you're forced to strike, using "how much health it loses" as a gauge for whether you can kill it.

The Simple Health Bar mod from DYC solves these woes by giving a customizable health bar that's much more informative - for monsters, animals, and pretty anything else you can fight in-game.

As if the map in Don't Starve Together wasn't already imposing enough, your playable space will multiply time and again with the Giant Size mod. This mod is as easy to understand as it is to implement, offering larger maps overall and plenty of new customization settings to tweak the world to how you'd like it.

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One tip we have after trying out the mod is to be sure you pair it with a way to add some extra biomes - with base-game biomes only, the map can quickly become repetitive, making the extra space a challenge to manage if you don't use it well.

Skin Queue is a big time saver that can easily become a staple for any ardent DST player. The ability to queue up items you want to unravel or weave every time can be as boring and time-consuming, but this mod seeks to deal with that tediousness.

Not only that, but you've also got the "Unravel All Duplicates" option in here, too, to handle everything all at once. Imagine how much time you'll save with this simple little time-saver tweak.

Not everyone has a green thumb. For some, gardening in Don't Starve Together is an enjoyable pastime that harkens to other popular farming sims, but for others, tending to crops can be a time-consuming chore.

For those in the latter group, Automatic Gardener is the mod for you, enabling you to craft a machine out of supplies that are not too difficult to find, which does every aspect of gardening for you. All you have to do is put seeds in, choose the area you want the machine to operate in, and all those pesky tasks are done for you almost instantly.

Unless you attack them (or they've gone into heat), Beefalo are friends in Don't Starve Together, capable of fending off mobs and giving you all-too critical poop for use on your farm. This mod allows you change anything and everything about a Beefalo, all to fit this gentle giant to your gameplay preferences.

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Want Beefalos aplenty that let you ride them for as long as you want? You got it. Want scarce Beefalo that hate your guts and will attack on-sight? Peculiar, but possible.

Unless you rely on Wormholes to warp you around large swaths of the map (which we'd recommend limiting, for Sanity's sake), you'll need a way toto save time in Don't Starve Together - enter Fast Travel. Using signs in the game and a helpful UI alongside it, this mod makes crossing vast distances easier and far less tedious.

One drawback of the mod is it makes the game significantly easier, especially in the early stages where you're meant to feel challenged - there's less fear of finding out what lays ahead when you know you can always just skip it.\

With so much to see, do, and collect to ensure your survival in Don't Starve Together, you'll need to reliably be farming replenishing items to stay on top of your resource management, but DST doesn't offer a way to see how close you are to your next harvest.

Questions like: "Did I grab that yesterday, the day before, or a week ago?" Will no longer haunt players thoughts with this simple and effective mod. There are color indicators of Red, Yellow, and Green that show if there is no drop, you’ve collected the drop, or the drop is available, respectively.

G10MM-3R is a simple and easy way to automate collecting resources. Leaving all the hard parts of labor to the easy-to-build robot, this mod is one of the most well-designed and polished that you can find on the Steam Workshop.

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You can tell G10MM-3R which resources to pick up (and which not to), and all the resources picked up will also be stored in a convenient base for you to grab when you're ready.

Not every mod needs to have a direct effect on gameplay in order to enhance a player's experience with the game - some of them can be purely aesthetic. This mod replaces the innate textures used in multiple heads up displays in Don't Starve Together with tVictorian texture that was used in The Gorge event.

After the event ended, many players felt that the Victorian HUD fit the theme of the game more than the default one, and so this mod was created to implement that stylized HUD into gameplay permanently.

ActionQueue Reborn is the mod to use when playing Don't Starve Together. It is the most helpful, time-saving, and easy to use mod for the game. In its simplest form, this mod allows players to hold the Shift key, click and drag the mouse over the area you need to do the action in, and the mod queues up the uses of the tool you have equipped, so you don't have to click repeatedly.

This can automate so many of the tasks that can become somewhat tedious, freeing up time to spend doing other critical survival tasks.

Individualized characters are what make multiple sessions of Don't Starve Toghether continue to be engaging and fun. While the base game has a litany of interesting, quirky characters to choose from, mods have taken this aspect of the game to a whole new level.

With so many cool character mods out there, all offering something unique, it's tough to highlight just one, but some of the more popular in the Steam Workshop are from Jak, Wort, and Sue-Shi. They're a great place to start your character customization mod journey for Don't Starve Together, allowing players to make themselves into almost anything

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