Klei Entertainment has ushered in the Halloween season with Hallowed Nights 2025, the latest festive event for Don’t Starve Together. This year’s update, titled Intermission + Hallowed Nights 2025, brings with it a range of chilling new features, including Carvable Pumpkin Heads, Crystal-Crested Buzzards, and expanded lunar mutation mechanics for creature corpses. Players will also encounter Inimical Gestalts with enhanced spawning and combat behaviors, adding new layers of challenge to the ever-treacherous world of The Constant.
Alongside gameplay updates, Klei is offering an abundance of spooky cosmetic rewards. Players who log in during the event will receive Trick-or-Treat chests packed with exclusive skins and a special login reward, while Twitch viewers can earn a new Pyric Core Thermal Stone skin through drops. The event also increases drop rates for the Hallowed Nights and Costume collections, making this the perfect time for players to expand their wardrobes with seasonal flair.
Full Patch Notes
Event Overview
- The annual Hallowed Nights event returns, featuring new content, skins, and rewards for all players.
Gameplay Additions
- Carvable Pumpkin Heads: New craftable headwear that helps reduce fear of the dark during the event.
- Crystal-Crested Buzzards: Strange new creatures that appear after a Lunar Hail.
- Mutating Corpses: More fallen creatures can now transform into their lunar counterparts under certain conditions.
- Inimical Gestalts: Improved spawn mechanics and combat behavior, making these foes more dynamic and threatening.
New Skins
- The Trick-or-Treat Chest is now available for all players and includes the following items:
- Webwork Quilt
- Beast Effigy
- Webwam
- Sarcarrotgus
- Web Master T-Shirt
- Players receive the chest automatically upon logging in during the Hallowed Nights event.
Login Reward
- The “Supercapa-sitter” Replica Relic Chair skin is available as a free login reward during the event period.
Twitch Drops
- The “Pyric Core” skin for the Thermal Stone joins the Orbital Collection and can be earned through Twitch Drops.
Trick-or-Treat Rewards
- Every player receives a second Trick-or-Treat chest containing one random Hallowed Nights costume set.
- Increased drop rates for all items in the Hallowed Nights Collection and Costume Collection during the event.
Don’t Starve Together is the standalone multiplayer expansion of Klei Entertainment’s acclaimed survival title Don’t Starve. Set in the dark and mysterious world known as The Constant, the game challenges players to survive against hunger, insanity, and monstrous threats through cooperation, exploration, and resource management. The title launched on April 21, 2016, following its Early Access debut in 2014, and is available on PC (Windows, macOS, Linux), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
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