It's that time of year again! The Don't Starve Together Hallowed Nights event has returned. This time, there are new skins, carvable pumpkin heads, Twitch drops, hotfixes, and more! We've got all of the eerie details you need right here.

Don't Starve Together: Hallowed Nights 2025

Like Hallowed Nights in the past, this event is all about enjoying the spooky season. Halloween-themed items and cosmetics abound, and plenty of event-specific items can be crafted. Several of these can also be found when you adventure through the world. Additionally, enemies can be found in new places.  Totally Normal Bats can appear when chopping trees, or Batilisks can show up when interacting with Suspicious Dirt Piles or Graves. The Totally Normal Bats are particularly pesky because their attacks can sap away ten sanity and interrupt player actions.

New Content

Regarding new content for the event, you can now craft a pumpkin into a wearable helmet! You can carve various shapes and features into the pumpkin to customize your gourd hat. Wearing it gives you total immunity to losing sanity from darkness. Additionally, you'll be immune to those action-interupting jump scares that fill the Hallowed Nights. Another new twist concerns potions created by the Mad Scientist Lab, which are now produced in higher quantities. Finally, these are the last of the new additions to the event:

• Crystal-Crested Buzzards that roam the world after Lunar Hail.
• More creature corpses can now mutate into their existing lunar counterparts.
• New spawn mechanics and combat behavior for inimical Gestalts.
• New skins:
  • Webwork Quilt
  • Beast Effigy
  • Sarcarrotgus
  • Web Master T-Shirts
  • Supercapa-Sitter

Those new skins are easy to grab if you want them! All you have to do to claim each one is log in to the game during the Hallowed Nights event. Easy! When you log in, you will also receive a free Trick-or-Treat chest with a random Hallowed Nights costume. That's a whole lot of cosmetics! If that wasn't enough, you can also head to Twitch for a Pyric Core Icon, Pyric Core Portrait, and Pyric Core skin for the Thermal Stone. You can grab this by completing up to three hours of watching Don't Starve Together streams on Twitch between October 27 and November 24.

Game Hotfixes 696980 & 696742

Alongside the arrival of Hallowed Nights 2025, Don't Starve Together has also brought a hotfix. These hotfixes 696980 and 696742 bring plenty of new changes and fixes to help the game run smoothly for all of the haunted Halloween fun.

Game Hotfix 696980

Changes

• Revived merms from lunar mutation will remember their original home and leader 9if they are of lunar affinity).
• Tuned Cyrstal-Crested Buzzards flamethrower cooldown, damage, and lifetime.
• Crystal-Crested Buzzards won't stack walls of flame on top of each other; instead, they will extend the lifetime of existing flames when firebreathing.
• Horror Hounds and Permafrost Penguils 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 coprse 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 Crstyal-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.