Best Don't Starve Together Mods for 2026

Don't Starve Together has one of the longest-running, deepest modding communities of any survival game — over 15,000 mods live on its Steam Workshop after a decade of active support from Klei. That scale means the hard part isn't finding mods, it's filtering for the ones actually worth running on a server your friends will keep playing.

Quality-of-life mods worth running on any server

• ActionQueue Reborn v2 — fixes one of DST's oldest interface annoyances by letting you queue up actions (chop, dig, forage) instead of clicking one at a time and waiting. Consistently cited as one of the best mods in the game because it fixes a real, constant friction point rather than adding new content.
• Combined Status — adds exact temperature, current season, and days-remaining-in-season readouts to your HUD. DST hides a surprising amount of useful information by default, and this mod surfaces it without changing any gameplay mechanics.

A top-rated content mod

• The Engineer — a custom playable character mod with over 160,000 Workshop subscribers, making it the highest-rated character mod in DST's ecosystem by a wide margin. If your group wants a new character to try beyond the base roster, this is the safest, most-tested pick rather than a random low-subscriber option.

How to mod a Don't Starve Together dedicated server

Unlike some titles in this list, DST mod installation on a dedicated server is Klei's own well-documented system:

1. Subscribe to mods in your own game client first to get their Workshop IDs.
2. Add each mod's ID to your server's dedicated_server_mods_setup.lua file, one ServerModSetup("id") line per mod.
3. Enable and configure each mod in your cluster's modoverrides.lua, where you also set any per-mod configuration options the author exposes (ActionQueue Reborn and Combined Status both ship with a few toggleable settings here).
4. Restart the server — DST will download and load the mods automatically.

This sits alongside the rest of your cluster configuration: cluster.ini sets your server name, password and whether Caves are enabled as a second shard, while worldgenoverride.lua (per-shard) controls world generation settings like season length and resource density. None of this needs to be perfect on day one — Klei's dedicated server is forgiving about config changes as long as you restart cleanly afterward.

Every client connecting still needs the same mods installed locally, same as most Klei-supported multiplayer mods, so agree on your mod list with your group before launch rather than adding mods mid-world.

Finding mods worth trusting

With 15,000+ mods on the Workshop, subscriber count and recent-update date are your best filters — the Workshop page for each mod shows both directly. A mod with tens of thousands of subscribers and an update within the last content patch cycle is a far safer bet than a low-subscriber mod that hasn't been touched since an old game version, since DST updates can silently break older mods until their authors catch up. The mods above (ActionQueue Reborn, Combined Status, The Engineer) all pass that bar comfortably.

Don't skip the cluster TOKEN

Before any of this matters, your DST dedicated server needs a cluster token generated from your Klei account — without it, the server won't run publicly at all. Generate it from Klei's account services page while logged into the same account you play under, then save it as cluster_token.txt in your cluster's root folder. This is a one-time setup step, but it's the single most common thing new DST server owners miss, since nothing else on the setup checklist depends on a linked account the way this does.

Sizing your server

DST is one of the lighter titles here to host, even with mods:

• 2 GB RAM / 6 players — vanilla or a couple of light mods, small group.
• 3 GB RAM / 10 players — our most-picked tier, comfortable with quality-of-life mods like the ones above.
• 4 GB RAM / 16 players — a large, heavily-modded world with a full player count.

Seasonal content and mod updates

Klei ships regular content updates to DST (new seasonal events, characters and refreshes), and each one is a moment where installed mods can briefly go stale until their authors catch up. Rather than auto-updating your server the instant a patch drops, many long-running DST communities wait a day or two after a major update — long enough for the Workshop mods they depend on to get a compatibility fix — before rolling their own cluster forward. It's a small habit that avoids a surprising number of "why did my modded server just break" moments.

Nxeon's Don't Starve Together server hosting gives you full SFTP access to your cluster's Lua config files, so wiring in your mod list and cluster token is a straightforward edit rather than a workaround — running on NVMe VPS instances at the tiers above.