Here’s how to haunt your friends and annoy them in Don’t Starve

What happens in Don’t Starve’s cooperative multiplayer mode when your partner dies? She or he turns into a ghost, of course! Klei Entertainment’s Seth Rosen posted some details of the upcoming Don’t Starve Together update including a video demonstrating the co-op afterlife. Rosen explains the haunting mechanic.

When I haunt something, it gives me back some life force (the blue stomach meter). As long as I have some life force, my humanity (the blue heart meter) won’t drain further, which is good because my humanity level is my maximum health if and when I get revived. If I manage to get my life force meter full (through haunting enough objects, which I was actually able to do in a dense forest – though the forest also got burned down, or by haunting a resurrection object or being given a reviver by a living player), then I will get resurrected.

Rosen noted that the final ghost implementation will be adjusted to foster less griefing. Don’t Starve Together will be a free update for all owners of the base game later this year.