Source-checkedQuality of life & UI

Chester Family

by kooky112 · for Don't Starve Together

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LARGE UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As of today 05/06/2026 Rayshen and I finally finished tackling and fixing as many bugs as possible. In list form here is what we worked on. Fixes: 1.…

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LARGE UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As of today 05/06/2026 Rayshen and I finally finished tackling and fixing as many bugs as possible. In list form here is what we worked on. Fixes: 1.…

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LARGE UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As of today 05/06/2026 Rayshen and I finally finished tackling and fixing as many bugs as possible. In list form here is what we worked on.

Fixes: 1. All chester family members may now embark on boats 2. No more invisible chesters!!! 3. Afester now can morph and his morphed forms can also embark on boats.

NEW!!! Stovester no longer just cooks food, he cooks MEALS. He's officially a walking cookpot! There is currently no cooking animations and he immediately spits out the cooked food once it's finished. I do plan on changing his look eventually as well to look more like a little walking cookpot and maybe also give him a chefs hat but that may be over doing it.

TO COME!

Momma Chester - What do moms do? What are moms known for? They're known for fixing things, so momma is going to fix your tools and weapons is the plan. I'm still in the planning stages for her so don't get too excited.

Shroomster - I still am in the planning stages of this guy but I plan on him doing something fun with mushrooms. He's based off of a little mushroom plushie I found in the mall a couple of years ago that now sits happily above my stove while I cook.

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This mod adds in new chesters to the game, all have their own unique abilities and talents. They also all have their own drawbacks as well which helps level out the playing field so they arent maknig the game TOO easy for you. They are spawned on the map just like chester when the mod is enabled but you have to make a new map. Otherwise if you have a save you like, use my prefab list below to summon their respective eyebones.

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Compatibility issues: There seems to be a list of mods by Zarklord that don't agree with the chester family. To help narrow down the specific ones EXACTLY, the one thing these mods have in common is they are all dependant on the [API]Gem Core mod. For me to fix this issue, it would require me to basically change the entire code of my mod, so that it would also rely on Gem Core.

Invincible Chester also causes issues(Which defeats the purpose of Dubster FYI). I recommend avoiding all mods that modify Chester unless it's arca tumbulus which just adds morphs to regular chester. (SMALL EDIT: It seems there are now multiple versions of the invincible chester mod, so trial and error helps in picking out which one works with this)

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Current Chesters available: Blue Chester (Bluster) Big Daddy Afester Party Chester (Dubster) Cavester Stovester

Chesters currently on my to do list: Stovester's morph Momma Chester: She repairs broken clothes over time. I'm by no means an expert in coding, but I'm going to figure this one out. Pandester - He infects things with a disease, all your enemies will die of a plague.

The prefab debug list for the eyebones so you can manually spawn them in if you so choose: Bluster: bluechester_eyebone Big Daddy: bigdaddy_eyebone Afester: afestertoy Dubster: partybone Cavester: glowbone Stovester: ladle

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Honorable Mentions:

Afetogbo: He originally had collaborated with me on this mod. Over time though he stepped away from DST and left modding for DST behind.

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AS ALWAYS REMEMBER TO POST LOGS! I CANNOT FIX A PROBLEM IF I DO NOT GET LOGS!

And also from this point on, if a problem is persisting, then I will be ignoring any posts that do not have a log attached telling me IN THE CODE what is happening and your post will be deleted.

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I'd also like to bring attention to the character mod Elsa, because they used some of our code to make an olaf that follows elsa and acts a bit like a chester. Go give them some of the love too since Olaf may as well be considered a part of the family.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=441024679&searchtext=Elsa

Highlights

From source data

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 6 mo ago.

Chester Family on Nxeon

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One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Don't Starve Together servers. We download it from Steam Workshop, place it, and restart the server.
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Don't Starve Together — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
2026-05-16, released 2026-05-16

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Quality of life & UI

Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.

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  • ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-11-01Open ↗
  • ✓Authorkooky112, as published on Steam Workshop
  • ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

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