Highlights

• Don't Starve Together has a dedicated gaming community, with modders creating mods that enhance your gameplay and customization options.
• Certain mods allow players to build structures from different DLCs in one place, making it easier to access new designs.
• Other mods might increase the difficulty of the game while improving performance or focus on the aesthetics and environment.

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 been 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 base game.

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 December 30, 2023 by William Quick: As we enter into the darker months of the year, we may feel the compulsion to play games just as dark to help us deal with it. Don't Starve Together walks that line in presenting a game with a darkness that will literally kill you, but with characters and creatures that are animated and fun to watch. It's a great survival experience made to be played with others and see just how far you can get.

The base game and the official DLCs offer a lot of variety, but here are some mods offered by independent creatives and enthusiasts that can make not starving together more enjoyable.

19 The Architect Pack

Build All The Things From Other Places

You may not know this, but the Don't Starve series is quickly rising in the ranks of "Games that I did not realize had as many DLCs as I have fingers". There are big ones like Shipwrecked and Hamlet, which add a whole farm plot of new content, including new structures to build.

For ease of access to all these new designs, you've got the wonderfully generous Architect Pack Mod. It will let you become the builder that you've always wanted to be by giving you the means to build all manner of structures from various DLCs in the same place without having to worry about logic.

18 Hardmode Rebalance

A More Difficult Challenge

If the title didn't tip you off, you should know that Don't Starve Together is a hard game. You could argue that it was made solely because the average lifespan of a solo player in the original Don't Starve was slightly shorter than that of a mosquito trying to suck the palm of an audience member in the middle of a standing ovation. There is strength in numbers, but for those looking to tear their survival game muscle fibers, there's Hardmode.

Some modders saw the brutality of this challenge and decided to arm it with chainsaw sledgehammers. The Hardmode Rebalance Mod not only makes it much more difficult but overall improves its performance while taking measures to reduce toxic behavior and making it so that each character is just as important a team member as any other.

17 Twitch Integration

Don't Starve Together With More Togetherness

At this point, if you play video games regularly and don't have a Twitch account, others in the gaming community may wonder if you deliberately missed the bus or just didn't even know where the bus stop was. Though it has transformed significantly in recent years, Twitch's purpose was bringing people together just like Don't Starve Together very literally does.

Now its influence can stretch out to any Twitch viewers that come to your channel with the power of the Twitch Integration Mod. In a vein similar to Dead Cells's inherent option, you can add a specific UI that allows viewers to spawn different dangers for you and your fellow survivors to deal with as they pop up like streamers on the news.

16 Unlock All Skins

Be Anyone Looking Any Way They Want

The Tim Burton-esque gloomy art style of Don't Starve Together presents the game as bleak and harsh. Even so, there are elements of humor and color littered throughout, with the most prominent being customization options. You can outfit your characters and even certain possessions with different styles, but you still need to get your hands on them.

But who has time to actually earn in-game content by playing the game? Not enough of us and that's why we've been gifted the Unlock All Skins Mod. Quite simply and bluntly put, this mod unlocks all the skins, so add it on, gather your friends, and organize a dress-up party as the ravenous darkness descends around you.

15 Global Positions

Never Lose Track Of Your Location

Don't Starve Together took the hit indie title and transformed it into something that could be enjoyed with friends. The result is something twice as fun as its predecessor, but it's not without its flaws. Case in point, there's a 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.

14 Geometric Placement

Spatial Planning With Nice Shapes

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 planting crops (which is critical for long-term survival).

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

13 Display Food Values

Learn More About What You're Eating

Resource management is the core of Don't Starve Together - Hunger, Health, and Sanity have their 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.

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.

12 Less Lags

Don't Starve Together More Smoothly

Don't Starve Together runs smoothly in most cases but, depending on the number of players on 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.

11 Simple Health Bar

How Many Times Do I Have To Hit It?

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 much anything else you can fight in-game.

10 Giant Size

Make The Harsh Daunting World Even Bigger

As if the map in Don't Starve Together wasn't already imposing enough, your playable space will multiply repeatedly 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.

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.

9 Skin Queue

Speed Up Your Unraveling And Weaving

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 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 here, too, to handle everything all at once. Imagine how much time you'll save with this simple little time-saver tweak.

8 Automatic Gardener

Automate Your Gardening Chores

Not everyone has a green thumb. For some, gardening in Don't Starve Together is an enjoyable pastime that harks to other popular farming sims, but for others, tending to your 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.

7 Beefalo Settings

Beef Up (Or Down) The Beefalo

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 to change anything and everything about a Beefalo, all to fit this gentle giant to your gameplay preferences.

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

6 Fast Travel (With UI)

No More Bouncy Jogging For You

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 to 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 lies ahead when you know you can always just skip it.

5 Drops Reset Countdown

Keep Track Of All The Loot

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 your 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.

4 G10MM-3R

Automatically Collect The Goodies

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.

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.

3 Victorian HUD

Use More Thematically Appropriate Menus

Not every mod needs to have a direct effect on gameplay to enhance your 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 the Victorian texture that was used in The Gorge event.

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

2 ActionQueue Reborn

Give Your Clicking Finger A Break

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 you 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 it can become somewhat tedious, freeing up time to spend doing other critical survival tasks.

1 Character Mods

Do Colorful Things To The Cast

Individualized characters are what make multiple sessions of Don't Starve Together 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 you and your friends to make yourselves into almost anything.