Don't Starve Together

Don't Starve Together

Status Announcements
Is it possible to mute this mod?
Before I say anything else, let me first make it very clear: I am in no way claiming that this mod is not helpful, useful or otherwise beneficial to many people. It is all of those things, objectively.

Now that that's out of the way; is there any possible way to never see or hear any of these macro readouts again? It has been the most annoying trend I've dealt with playing on public servers for years. Not only do people tend to get very trigger happy (read: mass spam) with reporting item and stat values, the character-specific quotes that accompany them are so dismally off-brand to how Klei writes their personalities that I'm forced to roll my eyes and sigh every time I see them.

If I'd like to know if anybody has silk, or whether or not they're about to die, or if the berries at camp are about to spoil, I would greatly prefer somebody just using their own words to tell me. Additionally, people reporting the exact number of days remaining in the season or the precise ambient temperature is just... I dunno, it feels weird? Maybe a little immersion breaking. Whatever.

I recognize that I might be in a small minority with a request like this, given how ubiquitous the use of this mod seems to be nowadays. I'm not asking to ruin anyone's fun here. All I'm asking is if there is a way to stop everyone else from ruining mine. It feels wrong that a non-server mod you're not even using can have such a big impact on your game experience.
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Well, mute the players in Dont starve together clicking tab, and just connect with them on voice chat. :DSTwilson:
rezecib  [developer] 9 Oct, 2021 @ 9:31pm 
All announcements begin with STRINGS.LMB (the mouse click icon). Because you can't type that normally, it should be pretty trivial to write a mod that filters out messages that begin with that.

It's not a perfect defense (technically you cannot have a perfect defense against things like this because the game allows you to run arbitrary code in the console, even as a client, so anything a client can do through the client-to-server API, a player can script), but it will defend at least against unaltered copies of this mod.
Energy Melons 10 Oct, 2021 @ 1:41am 
Thanks a lot for your reply! This is very helpful information.
rezecib  [developer] 7 Nov, 2021 @ 11:16am 
I updated the mod today with an option "Hide Announcements", which you can set to hide both your and others' announcements from yourself. Somewhat counter-intuitively, it requires you to use this mod to "block" it, but... that's what's under my control :)
hero 26 Mar, 2022 @ 5:37am 
Same disclaimer as in the original post obviously: Before I say anything else, let me first make it very clear: I am in no way claiming that this mod is not helpful, useful or otherwise beneficial to many people. It is all of those things, objectively.

Thank you very much for the option to disable this mod client side! Is it possible to add a server mod that blocks the announcements as well? Or do you have another idea of how to do that?
rezecib  [developer] 26 Mar, 2022 @ 8:06am 
https://github.com/rezecib/Status-Announcements/blob/master/modmain.lua#L549-L594 is the code I used to do it, you could take that as the modmain of an all-clients mod. I don't think there would be any issues with it running twice (once for Status Announcements, once in your mod).
hero 12 Apr, 2022 @ 6:32am 
Wow, thank you very much for your quick and helpful reply! I don't know why, but I didn't get notified about it, so I'm just responding now. Will try it out soon :-)
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