Very proud to be a part of this 🌟 Finding all sorts of game builds and many other things from the entire internet (I mean entire-entire) over the past five years has been a very long and interesting story, but it was definitely worth it. Glad you could make a two-hour video on the material I provided! (Funny thing, but the video was originally scheduled to be released on May 18, 2022 (a decade since the start of the public alpha), then was postponed to April 23, 2023 (a decade since the game's release), and has only come out now)

It’s wild that Klei failed their one task successfully and now we have this dope game to play

31:22 "stop playing the fight music, I punched a butterfly" Favorite quote from this video

I feel a weird sense of pride knowing that my suggestion, that Wilson's beard provide warmth in the winter, was taken and added. It's such a small thing compared to everyone else's suggestions but I literally just threw it out there because its cute, and just... made respect to Klei you know? They didn't have to do that, no one would have cared. It's insane being such an old player and seeing what the game has become. I used to be able to survive like 300 days, now I'm lucky if I survive 20. Wild.

There's something poetic about the very last DLC for Don't Starve ending up being a proper realization of what the game initially started as. It's like the game has come full circle as it finally passes on the torch to its multiplayer counterpart.

As someone who has never played Don't Starve, I can now learn about the history of that game.

I can already say that this video is an instant classic.

I actually like the story behind the idea of these major bosses being added into multiplayer with the intention of being fought with multiple people but because of pure human injenuity and creativity (or just cheesing the fuck out of everything) we were essentially able to bypass whatever conditions they made over and over, it just comes to show how adaptable humans really are

dude, hearing john's voice after all this years made me tear up. he worked so danm hard and genuinely cared about the entertainment industry. taken WAY too fucking soon, GNU John Bain

I played don't stave since the grass was simple, seen this video felt like going back and enjoying what made the game good! Amazing Video OrangE! love the Documentary funny vids you make! And the Mokey mod mention got me by surprise ahahahahha

I Remember playing this game all the way back in 2013 on the day it was officially released, and its really cool to see how much it has changed and improved over the last decade or so :)

You forgot to mention that with the “get one copy give one copy” advertising, instead of a player giving their copy to a friend, they would actually give it to their favorite streamer, DRAMATICALLY increasing sales

I think this game is a case of creativty naturally taking over what was originally just another job. Props to Jamie Cheng too, for letting his team deviate from his original goal into something greater.

To me it seems like the people who hated Krampus DID experience it, it's just that they felt like their ethics were being judged by the phrasing of "naughty/nice" and being punished for doing "unethical" things in-game via Krampus.

I love how you were able so sum up the entire human experience of abating hunger over all time in 2 hours and fifteen minutes. Thank u orange man!

I am totally in love with these new documentary style videos. I bet they take an absurd amount of time and effort to make, but I love every single thing about them. It's absolutely worth it.

Mans really made a 2 hour documentary about maxwell gaming lore.

This makes me realise how incredible and nice Klei is. Thank you, OrangE man. Now go take a break, you deserve it.

I remember how challenging the game was when I first started to play it back in the All's Well That Maxwell update. I remember one of my favorite mods was a Hatsune Miku one where she was given a gun with craftable ammo as well as some kind of slowing ammo, but the slowing ammo would crash the game all the time when you tried to use it. She also spawned in with a glowing green leek which dealt very little damage but gave you a small ring of infinite light like Willow's lighter. The gun ammo was actually pretty expensive to craft and dealt the same damage as a blow dart so all in all it was a fairly balanced recipe since you needed rotten eggs to make gunpowder and the rotten eggs were always a pain for me to get. I either had to wait for pengull's to spawn in winter and then let them despawn naturally to leave their eggs behind, or sacrifice a bunch of good meat to a bird to get eggs and then let them rot over time. I actually probably had a harder time playing the modded character than anything by default since, while the light and the gun was great, her stats were basic at best and had no other upside. I think she also dealt less damage like Wendy but I can't really remember that much. All I do remember is that it was my go-to character for the majority of my singleplayer life until I got wind of DST and started to watch content related to it. I actually only ever managed to get it after the end of the first Forge event which I just barely missed by like a week. After that I played the game off and on again from then until now where I'm currently in a "I don't feel like doing anything" sort of mood. I also like how they tried to nerf Willow to make her seem less like a default griefer character but it did literally nothing to change the stigma attached to her by that point. As a matter of fact, even though most people I see run public servers with 6 player slots, they still automatically kick anyone they don't know immediately. So fast to the point where I log in and wait for the loading screen, and then once I spend 5 minutes waiting for the screen to go away I get the 'You have been disconnected' or 'You have been banned' message. I love how people make public servers just to deny anyone from getting in like....just make a password you troglodyte. Stop being an asshole and insta-banning anyone and everyone who you don't want to play with and just password protect your world, it's literally as simple as just typing a single character into the field. The chances of someone brute forcing the password which can be a random number of characters and any random combination of them is slim to none and would be almost impossible. Aside from that, the game is a blast to play with friends and good people. I joined a server in the recent months and ended up playing with a group, regularly, with some fun mods, for over 3000 days before the server got refreshed for the update and some mod fixes (since it was common for mod incompatibility messages to appear even though everything was up to date between players and server.) Aside from that it was a really good time and we had a lot of fun. Also, unpopular opinion, but I think that the Palmcone trees are better than the lunar trees. They're easier to plant and take care of, provide the same if not more logs when you dig up their stumps and stuff, and any unused palmcone scales can act as a single log for fuel on the fire, meaning you can turn all your other logs into armor or planks and use the cone scales exclusively for fuel. Their only downside is they don't duplicate themselves with multiple saplings and only drop one to renew the cycle, meaning you have a definitive amount unless you camp the unnatural portal for a few days to get more sprouts. Aside from that I think they're far superior. They also don't spawn treeguards much like the lunar trees because there's no treeguard variant for them....yet.

Hearing TotalBiscuit again almost made me cry he was a legend and I used to watch all his wtf videos literally no one gave a better game review and I bought several game because of him so sad he passed RIP TotalBiscuit

OH man the nostalgia ... I feel so fortunate for having discovered the game fairly early and seeing it evolve over the years.

Guys these types of videos are valuable Don't waste the video and watch it all to the end because then you will feel like orange doesn't upload many videos, you should watch a little of it at different days so it feels like seven videos instead of one.

Playing Don't Starve and then moving to Don't Starve Together is like playing another game since literally EVERYTHING is different.

The comparison between the developers and player testers to Maxwell and Wilson is so comical. A constantly changing battle to make the player not have it too easy was really cool to see in this video. Another well done "history of" video. tbh I can't tell whether or not it's a coincidence or if the devs adapted the lore/characters so Maxwell and Wilson work like they do with the player base but both are hilarious.

It's nice seeing that even after all these years Klei kept the looks and personalities of their characters, like Wilson is still a gentleman scientist and Wolfgang is still broken character that he was.

39:05 Feels crazy to think that people theorized that our cute little fella was that giant murder base destroyer deer, just amazing

I remember my first winter, i was so proud to make it, and then i think a few days later i died. Or the first dearclops. Chilling at base one night, and then i heard a noise I've never heard before, then i saw it. He walked towards my base and i thought "I'm good" then he smashed my plants, chests, firepit, etc. And then in just a couple swings i was dead, but for some reason i started over amd kept going. So addictive.

I feel the addition of the tips and in game notes are not really making the game “easier.” Since the original dont starve released, the game has only gotten more and more complex. As a new player many years ago you only had to keep track of a few things. Now there is so many complex bosses, item interactions, and threats, that it would be very difficult for any new player in dst to hope to keep track of it. I’d say the accessibility they have added in dst counteract the insane amount of complexity, balancing out the difficulty. I like to think of the relaxed mode as an alternative mode, moreso like practice for actual survival.

I love that you did a shout out to totalbisuit. That man held the games industry on his shoulders. RIP John, you a absolute legend.

NOT THE GUY WHO SUBMITTED A BUG REPORT BECAUSE THEY DIED TO THE DARK💀💀💀

some things i wanna note -I feel like the absurdly strong nightmare creatures and top hat are amazing ideas. Having a constant fear of going insane just doesn't happen, despite that being the point of insanity. I also feel like the top hat was balanced with insanity auras and not being able to use other head gears. -Lack of thermal stones sounds awesome -custom endings sound frigging awesome

Man the editing is INSANE! I am amazed how much time you spend on these videos❤

As someone with 1k+ hours on DST I love relaxed mode, I get stressed easily so it allows me to have easy fun

Hard to imagine someone playing this game without never playing Zork and thinking that dying in the dark is a bug

i love the detail of the diffrence between his bloons video and this videos thumbnail the bloons one was a monkey pieceing the history of the bloons story going crazy and stuff but the dont strave one is just wilsion and maxwell playing chess representing the back and fourth of the devs and the community

god i miss totalbiscuit, he pointed out so many good games and shouted at so many shit games. everything he touched made the industry a bit bettre.

I kinda miss the mobs leaving behind their corpse when they died, to this day I'm still looking for a mod that replicates that.

The final 15 or so minutes of this video are a fantastic review of the current state of the game and ending it out of nowhere with no wrap up or outro adheres to the philosophy that the real value of watching this video was the experience of watching it, not the summary I got at the end, bravo Vince

This is so well put together, massive props and much love

As a 17 years old who played this game since 2013 and knew about it since 2012, this video feels like the story of my life. Every update you mentioned in video brought more and more memories, watching this video felt almost as good as playing the game for the first time 10 years ago

I can't believe the last words of this 2 hour long video really were "Was that the freeze of 87?" Simply phenomenal

Very good. I like to listen most of video essays I see, rarely looking at the screen, but editing here makes me glued to the screen because of how good it is.

Bassicaly 1v1 story of Wilson and william

love to see OrangE's dedication to the Don't Starve series, even after creating Fear&Hunger series all by himself. this man is a genius. Edit: Also OrangE, can you add "severe an*l bleed" status effect to DST too? that one's a classic

1:33:50 had me laughing because you could tell orange was going to like make fun of him only to notice that he was connected to eets

I don't even play Dont Starve yet I watched this entire video...

I actually love the idea of adding vast new spaces like the ocean and caves. Minecraft faced a similar issue. When the nether was introduced, it was bland and there wasn't much to do. Over time though, we can't imagine a minecraft without the nether. It's been updated and has made the game so much more fun. I feel the same way about the caves and oceans.

My jaw dropped upon hearing Totalbiscuit's voice again, it's been so long and I grew up watching his videos. He was a shining beacon of this platform, you sir earned a like and sub!

I might be as coward as Wolfgang, but I'm not ashamed of it. Yes, the Deerclops from the early don't starve version was a childhood trauma for me. Somhow it eventually made me love this game even more.

YOU are the ONLY KZfaqr that made me watch a 2 hour vids multiple times and that is not all. I Had so much fun while watching them. You deserve every good thing in your life

Phenomenal video! I've never personally tried the game (only watched a few YT videos of people playing) but this makes me so interested in experiencing it first hand. The lore and update list is amazing to go through!

Hearing TB's voice out of the blue was a heavy punch of nostalgia, thanks Orange man

The point about Intrinsic vs Extrinsic rewards honestly reminds me of modern Minecraft. Current Minecraft is all about progression, get your Netherite Armor, get your mending enchantments, kill the Ender Dragon, get your elytra, and then stop playing because you "did everything," when people are asked what they want from updates they say "more progression."

I put sooo much time into the original Dont Starve on console. It was so addictive, i mastered it. But i haven't played it in years. Been thinking of returning to it recently.

Oh, Gods. Hearing TB's voice so suddenly had me tear up and gasp for air. Pardon me as I go sobbing in a corner. Rest in peace John.

I've managed to watch your videos on repeat without getting bored. You've got some talent.

29:47 "The issue was sOo%$$lved"

Oh hell yeah. Finished the vid. Got me hooked from start to finish. Great stuff mate and love ur vids

When its over 2 hours it is always good

1:50:15 I love how The Evil Monkey Baron™ has become a recurring joke in these videos

These types of history videos must take a lot of time to make, but they're so worth it. Very entertaining, informative and fun.

This is the most interesting developer-player interaction ive ever heard about. Well done video! I've had don't starve but felt intimidated to play it until now!

I’m so glad you brought up the terraria wiki coming before the don’t starve one when searching up deerclops, that bothered me so much

A TWO HOUR video release in the middle of the work day? Come on, we got stuff to do.

I've never been so gladly baited in all my life haha I was expecting a lore video and got one, but not the way I expected xD Marvelous video and content, trully.

I seriously need more video essays from you. I could listen to your voice forever!

This really made me do the dst wilson thinking pose

Oh thank god. I thought that after the BTD video, and it's massive popularity, our Rook ambassador would stop making DS videos. Can't wait to watch it all!

Amazing video, dude. Really sums up why I keep coming back to this wonderful game.

Amazing content! Thanks for sharing all of this. I also love hamlet. I am blown away you got all of this in 2 hours.

This guy spent 500 hours recording this, that shows dedication. If this video doesn't blow up, idk what will

2:12:45 I totally agree with the new content being exciting! The planar damage and defense systems alongside the new weapons, armors, enemies, and environmental hazards really give a fresh breath of air to the game. Its really cool to see such big changes into this game that's 10 years old now, and I'm really excited to see where this new content line is going.

This is the longest video I’ve actually payed attention to. Good job. I’m gonna start playing again

i love this video. watched it 3 times and it's still interesting. good job OrangE!

That hyper realistic image of wilson at 1:15:26 now lives rent free in my mind playing everywhere at the end of time

"You can attack the player and its fair game, but you steal their stuff *sucks in through teeth*" well yeah, if I was in the wilderness trying not to starve to death and some guy just showed up and started stealing my shit, I'd be pretty goddamn pissed. Edit: I might get flack for this, but I kinda think removing Warbucks was a bit of a mistake. It feels weird that all it took to remove a whole character that was once playable was a few bad perks and some non-troversy. If Klei just edited his speech to be less ""offensive"" and gave him better quirks he could have really fit in with the ruins exploration theme Hamlet had. I know Wheeler technically took the niche Warbucks originally had, but I still think he could have worked. And if people did end up getting royally pissed at him staying past the beta, then chances are those people probably weren't fans of DS and were just offended to be offended. Also he had a gun, like an actual gun, and I'm lowkey mad that we couldn't just go full Grandpa Harley and shoot monsters with a blunderbuss.

I don’t say this lightly, but this is pretty much the perfect video. I’m entranced by video essays, and you made a video about one of my favorite games OAT. The structure and sections are immaculate as well. Do I wish this video was 10 hours long? Of course. But I still love this video. Thank you.

Fantastic video, can't believe that the game is still being updated after all these years.

Makes me wonder how much money they make from DST skins, especially considering it's still a paid game. Also, rest in peace TB, he was how I got into DS. I pretty much unconditionally bought every game he recommended back then.

Currently pulling an all nighter to fix my sleep schedule and this helped me not pass out, thank you.

Devs:(*make a long and complicated way to reach the boss*) Players:oh no, anyway(*beats final boss at day2*)

Amazing video, amazing work ! Thanks for making this, OrangE !

Dont starve is literally one of my favorite games of all time so seeing you post a history about the whole game was very cool getting to learn more about it

Damn another banger. Can't wait to watch it later.

I played Don't Starve since it launched, and man it's so awesome seeing this game go from a weird flash game concept to a full fleshed creation :D

This is amazing, OrangE! Keep up the good work, pal.

i love how some dude died of darkness and thought it was a bug

Don’t starve is a game that I hold very dear to my heart. I have over 2000 hours of memories and friends I’ve made that I’ll never forget. I don’t think I’ve ever met a team of developers and community that cared more about their game. It’s sad to see that Don’t Starve Together has strayed away from the core elements of the game but it’s also bittersweet to see how well the community has flourished over the years. Most of my hours from DST come from the time when everyone was saying it was dying because of the forge and gorge events and the lack of focus on the actual game but really it is nice being in a community that cares so much about such a unique game with so much personality.

glad to see the new video and it's not easy for someone continue to update dontstarve channel for several years

This type of content will go down as the best content in KZfaq history. Keep making more! and keep up the great work!

These videos are so well made, so well put up and so well researched, I've been watching since less than 50k subs and the work you put it deserves serious recognition

I don’t even play Don’t Starve, and I love this video! Now I actually want to play the games! Good job man!

I love these new hours long documentary/easy videos

Really good video! I watched it all and still wished it was longer and that there was more! Good job!

i really like the direction DST is going in. adding more challenges and end game content, keeping things challenging and fun, but also making an effort to be palatable to newer players. if you've tried to get friends into the game before, you already know just how tough it can be to get new players to really enjoy the game for what it is. in my opinion, that's been the enemy of DST for the longest time now. they sit at base constantly, scared of doing new things and exploring, only to then get bored and give up playing. and you can't really blame them. stuff like offering an optional "easy mode", or giving the players a scrapbook to fill up to learn things about the game, will certainly make it a lot easier for newcomers. also not to mention how the scrapbook is gonna make it so new players aren't constantly pausing the game to check the wiki.

I love this video, I joined during "The return of them" arc and seeing the new update adding stuff that's not optional feels so weird lol. 2:04:08 Also I saw this like a month ago in a short, it made me so mad to see a LOT of people not know Deerclops is from DST and asking why the game copied a terraria boss, the same way half of TF2 players don't know the Hambat is also from DST. Crossovers never make DST more well known lmao

i really just watched this documentary without having ever played it or planning to play it.... thanks for the effort you put into it i did enjoy watching it

I've never played Don't Starve but you made this so interesting I ended up watching the entire thing. Well done.

That was a really good video! The analysis of the features atogether with the reasons they were added and explanation of the proces that made a ,,free to play game,, into the dont starve we know was really well made and edited! You can see the time and effort that went into making of this video ♥