# Don't Starve Together [Game Hotfix] - 69835, 696980 & 696742

- Product: Don't Starve Together (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/don-t-starve-together)
- Vendor: Klei Entertainment
- Date: 2025-10-28
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/322330/view/539994465116360070
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/don-t-starve-together/releases/2025-10-28-game-hotfix-69835-696980-696742

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- **fixed** — Fixed Gestalts not hitting anything during the Celestial Champion fight
- **fixed** — Fixed Wortox's No-Eyed Deer Costume having a bad layering order for the torso
- **fixed** — Fixed a crash case related to peeking into Bundle Wraps
- **fixed** — Fixed a crash when Telelocating a spawned in Frostjaw
- **fixed** — Fixed the Webwam tent skin going invisible when burnt
- **changed** — Revived merms from lunar mutation will remember their original home and leader if they are of lunar affinity
- **changed** — Tuned Crystal-Crested Buzzards flamethrower cooldown, damage, and lifetime
- **changed** — Crystal-Crested Buzzards won't stack walls of flame on top of each other, and will instead extend the lifetime of existing flames when firebreathing
- **changed** — Horror Hounds and Permafrost Pengulls will not target Crystal-Crested Buzzards
- **fixed** — Fixed Shadow Merms from attempting to perform a lunar mutation
- **fixed** — Fixed being able to indirectly hire Lunar Merms as a non-Lunar aligned Wurt through recruiting other nearby merms
- **fixed** — Fixed an uncommon crash with the circling Crystal-Crested Buzzards when moving around in the world
- **fixed** — Fixed a case where a gestalt possessable corpse can lose its gestalt
- **fixed** — Fixed the Shattered Spider Hole regenerating all its spiders when being mined
- **changed** — Reduced Crystal-Crested Buzzard health from 400 to 300
- **changed** — Crystal-Crested Buzzards go away when the Lunar Rift closes
- **changed** — There is now a limit on the number of Crystal-Crested Buzzards that can circle a player
- **fixed** — Fixed a crash on load related to the Moonstorms
- **fixed** — Fixed Dead Red and Blue Hounds will no longer be mutatable, and will have the correct visuals
- **fixed** — Fixed Shadow merms and the corpses that they came from will no longer be mutatable

##### [Game Hotfix] - 69835

##### Bug Fixes

-  Fixed Gestalts not hitting anything during the Celestial Champion fight.

-  Fixed Wortox's No-Eyed Deer Costume having a bad layering order for the torso.

-  Fixed a crash case related to peeking into Bundle Wraps.

-  Fixed a crash when Telelocating a spawned in Frostjaw.

-  Fixed the Webwam tent skin going invisible when burnt.

##### [Game Hotfix] - 696980

##### Changes

-  Revived merms from lunar mutation will remember their original home and leader (if they are of lunar affinity)

-  Tuned Crystal-Crested Buzzards flamethrower cooldown, damage, and lifetime.

-  Crystal-Crested Buzzards won’t stack walls of flame on top of each other, and will instead extend the lifetime of existing flames when firebreathing.

-  Horror Hounds and Permafrost Pengulls will not target Crystal-Crested Buzzards.

##### Bug Fixes

-  Fixed Shadow Merms from attempting to perform a lunar mutation.

-  Fixed being able to indirectly hire Lunar Merms as a non-Lunar aligned Wurt through recruiting other nearby merms.

-  Fixed an uncommon crash with the circling Crystal-Crested Buzzards when moving around in the world.

-  Fixed a case where a gestalt possessable corpse can lose its gestalt.

-  Fixed the Shattered Spider Hole regenerating all its spiders when being mined.

##### [Game Hotfix] - 696742

##### Changes

-  Reduced Crystal-Crested Buzzard health from 400 to 300.

-  Crystal-Crested Buzzards go away when the Lunar Rift closes.

-  There is now a limit on the number of Crystal-Crested Buzzards that can circle a player.

##### Bug Fixes

-  Fixed a crash on load related to the Moonstorms.

-  Dead Red and Blue Hounds will no longer be mutatable, and will have the correct visuals.

-  Shadow merms and the corpses that they came from will no longer be mutatable.

-  Fixed Crystal-Crested Buzzards to be targetable by the attack key, instead of force attack.

-  Fixed Bright-Beaked Bird’s chest gem being missing in its art.

-  Fixed an issue with the number of circling Crystal-Crested Buzzards duplicates on a player leaving and rejoining.

-  Fixed crash when Terramite mines Glommer’s Statue.

-  Fixed Walter’s storytelling not stopping when fire runs out.

-  Fixed Waxed Pumpkin Heads not saving properly.

-  Fixed a crash with the Sanctum crashing on load.

-  Fixed a crash with the fake Koalefant carcass when the game saves.