Game Scripts | Don't Starve Together Vanilla API

📄️ Achievements

Defines the list of achievements available in the game, mapping internal names to platform-specific identifiers.

📄️ Actions

Defines the core action system that handles player interactions with entities, items, and the world through keyboard, mouse, and controller inputs.

📄️ Beefalo Clothing

Defines predefined skin configurations for Beefalo character customization, mapping cosmetic variants to mesh/symbol overrides and metadata.

📄️ Behaviourtree

Implements a behavior tree system for AI logic, providing core node types and execution control.

📄️ Brain

Manages AI behavior logic and state for an entity, including behavior tree execution, event handling, sleep/wake cycles, and integration with the global BrainManager update loop.

📄️ BufferedAction

Stores and executes a deferred action between an entity (doer) and a target, with support for success/failure callbacks and validation.

📄️ Builtinusercommands

Registers and manages built-in chat commands for players and admins in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Camerashake

Generates procedural camera shake offsets for visual feedback during gameplay events.

📄️ Characterutil

Utility functions for loading character assets such as portraits, names, avatars, and titles, and for computing character-specific starting inventory.

📄️ Chathistory

Manages client-side chat history storage, filtering, and synchronization for in-game chat messages.

📄️ Class

Provides a lightweight object-oriented programming framework with support for class inheritance, property setters, and read-only properties.

📄️ Clothing

A static data registry defining clothing items, their visual overrides, hide layers, and associated sounds/symbols used by the game's rendering and UI systems.

📄️ Componentactions

Central system for managing and dispatching context-sensitive actions (e.g., INVENTORY, EQUIPPED, POINT) based on components, tags, and user input.

📄️ Componentutil

A utility library providing helper functions for entity state, death, combat, world tiles, bridge placement, close inspection, item handling, and luck mechanics.

📄️ Config

Manages platform-specific and user-defined configuration options for the game.

📄️ Consolecommands

Exposes a comprehensive suite of console commands for debugging, world manipulation, player control, entity spawning, and game state management in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Consolescreensettings

Manages persistent storage and history for the console screen, including command history, word prediction state, and save/load operations.

📄️ Constants

Defines global constants and utility functions for special events, festivals, tile maps, and color conversions.

📄️ Containers

Manages container-specific behavior including item validation, UI configuration, and construction/interaction logic for game entities.

📄️ Cookbookdata

Manages the player's unlocked recipes, food discovery status, and cooking filters for the cooking system.

📄️ Cooking

Centralizes cooking recipe registration, ingredient classification, and recipe selection logic for cookers in DST.

📄️ Crafting Sorting

Manages recipe sorting and ordering logic for the crafting menu across multiple filter types and states.

📄️ CraftingMenuProfile

Manages user-specific crafting menu preferences, including favorites, pinned recipes across multiple pages, and sort modes, with persistent storage support.

📄️ Createstringspo

A standalone utility script for generating localization template files (.pot) from game string tables, supporting both legacy msgid-based (v1) and modern msgctxt-based (v2) formats.

📄️ Createstringspo Dlc

Utility script for generating PO/T translation files from the game's STRINGS table using v1 (msgid-based) or v2 (msgctxt-based) formats.

📄️ Curse Monkey Util

Provides utility functions to apply or remove the Monkey Curse transformation effects on an entity using item thresholds and state management.

📄️ Custompresets

Manages custom world and settings presets created by users or mods in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Datagrid

A utility class for managing a 2D grid of data stored in a 1D Lua table, supporting coordinate-to-index conversion and basic persistence operations.

📄️ Debugcommands

A collection of debug console commands for spawning entities, modifying game state, testing components, generating scrapbook data, and manipulating world topology.

📄️ Debughelpers

Provides debugging utilities to inspect entities, components, and function upvalues for development and troubleshooting.

📄️ Debugkeys

Provides debug key bindings and mouse input handlers to control game state, spawn entities, inspect systems, and manipulate entities/components for development and testing.

📄️ Debugmenu

Provides a text-based interactive menu system for debugging UI, allowing dynamic configuration via numeric toggles, checkboxes, submenus, and actions.

📄️ Debugprint

Custom print function wrapper that logs messages with optional source location and supports external logger registration for debugging output.

📄️ Debugsounds

Hooks into the sound emitter system to capture and log sound events for debugging purposes, including tracking looping and one-shot sounds on entities and UI.

📄️ Debugtools

Provides utility functions for debugging, including callstack inspection, table dumping, conditional logging, and entity-based debug visualization.

📄️ Dlcsupport

Manages DLC registration, activation, and loading of DLC-specific prefabs and setup functions at runtime.

📄️ Dlcsupport Strings

Manages string formatting logic for constructing prefixed or suffixed names of items and entities based on language rules and modded content.

📄️ Dlcsupport Worldgen

Provides core DLC support utilities for world generation, enabling conditional logic based on enabled DLC content.

📄️ Dumper

Serializes Lua values (including tables and functions) into human-readable Lua source code strings for debugging or save/restore operations.

📄️ Easing

Provides a collection of mathematical easing functions for interpolating values over time, used for smooth animations and transitions.

📄️ Emitters

Manages particle and effect emitters with support for awake/sleep states, lifetime handling, and spatial distribution helpers.

📄️ Emoji Items

Defines a global lookup table of emoji item definitions with metadata for in-game use.

📄️ Emote Items

Defines static metadata and configuration for all emote items available in the game.

📄️ Emotes

Registers emote commands for players to perform animated and sound-based social gestures.

📄️ Entitlementlookups

Maps PlayStation Network (PSN) entitlement codes to corresponding item pack asset names for DLC content unlocks.

📄️ Entityreplica

Extends EntityScript to support networked replication of specific components between server and clients.

📄️ Entityscript

The core entity management system for DST that handles entity lifecycle, components, behavior, persistence, network synchronization, and world interaction.

📄️ Entityscriptproxy

Provides a proxy mechanism for wrapping EntityScript instances to override property access and ensure consistent reference equality for nested components.

📄️ Equipslotutil

Provides utilities for mapping equip slot names to IDs and vice versa during networked gameplay.

📄️ Eventachievements

Manages event-specific achievement data andquest tracking for seasonal festivals.

📄️ Events

Provides a lightweight event system for managing and dispatching callbacks to registered handlers.

📄️ Falloffdefs

Registers specific falloff texture definitions for different tile types using the TileManager.

📄️ Fileutil

Provides utility functions for checking and erasing persistent string files, commonly used for save data or configuration cleanup.

📄️ Firelevel

Defines static configuration parameters for a fire-like entity's visual, thermal, and burning behavior.

📄️ Fix Character Strings

Sorts and reformats character localization string tables into a consistent, alphabetically ordered Lua structure.

📄️ Fonthelper

Helper module for registering font assets in the game's asset loading system.

📄️ Fonts

Central registry for game font configurations, mapping logical font names to physical font files and fallback sets.

📄️ Frontend

Manages the UI system, including screen stack, fading, input routing, help text, and debug tools in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Fx

A runtime script that defines and configures visual and audio effect entities in Don't Starve Together using AnimState, SoundEmitter, and periodic update tasks.

📄️ Gamelogic

Central game logic controller that manages world initialization, loading, activation/deactivation, and high-level lifecycle events for Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Gamemodes

Central configuration and utility system for managing game modes, including built-in and mod-defined modes, their properties, and runtime queries.

📄️ Generickv

Manages a persistent key-value store synchronized with TheInventory system for client-server data sharing.

📄️ Giantutils

Utilities for calculating valid wander points around a given location, primarily used for giant AI movement logic.

📄️ Globalvariableoverrides

Contains no functional code and serves as an empty placeholder file in the codebase.

📄️ Globalvariableoverrides Clean

Applies conditional overrides to global variables during game initialization based on world generation settings.

📄️ Globalvariableoverrides Monkey

Overrides global variable defaults for the Monkey character’s enabled state and mod support.

📄️ Globalvariableoverrides Pax Server

Sets global configuration variables for the Pax server environment, including disabling mod warnings and configuring server termination logic.

📄️ Groundcreepdefs

Registers a ground creep asset type (web) with the TileManager system for use in world tile generation.

📄️ Guitartab Dsmaintheme

Defines a guitar tablature representation for the main theme's musical notation used in DST's guitar UI.

📄️ Haptics

Defines static configuration tables for haptic and audio feedback effects used by the game's input and visual systems.

📄️ Input

Central input management component that handles keyboard, mouse, and controller input events for the game.

📄️ Inspect

Provides a human-readable string representation of Lua tables, including support for recursive tables and metatables.

📄️ Item Blacklist

Defines display and unlock rules for special-item skins in the game, including blacklisted items, hidden decorations, event-locked skins, and unlockable skins.

📄️ Json

Provides JSON encoding and decoding functionality for serializing and deserializing Lua data structures to and from JSON strings.

📄️ Klump

Manages loading and caching of encrypted asset and string files (klumps) for the Quagmire event.

📄️ Klump Files

A placeholder module with no functional code; used as a stub for documentation generation.

📄️ Knownerrors

Centralized error definition and assertion helper for configuration and world-related failures in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Lavaarena Achievement Quest Defs

Defines quest achievement templates and configuration for the Lava Arena seasonal event.

📄️ Lavaarena Achievements

Defines win condition and performance-based achievement requirements for the Lava Arena mini-game.

📄️ Lavaarena Communityprogression

Manages community-driven progression and quest data synchronization for the Lava Arena event, handling local and networked state.

📄️ Lighting

Controls dynamic light sources and illumination properties for entities in the game world.

📄️ LoadingTipsData

Manages loading tip selection, weighting, persistence, and localization based on player progression and input configuration.

📄️ Main

Initializes the game environment, configures platform-specific settings, loads core systems and dependencies, and triggers the global initialization sequence.

📄️ Mainfunctions

Central game logic component managing initialization, shutdown, loading, unloading, spawning, persistence, and state transitions for prefabs and player sessions in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Maputil

Provides utility functions for world topology management, pathfinding validation, and static layout placement.

📄️ Math2D

A utility module providing optimized 2D geometric intersection and distance calculations for hitbox detection and collision queries.

📄️ Mathutil

Provides utility functions for mathematical operations, including interpolation, rounding, clamping, angle normalization, and grid-based line tracing.

📄️ Messagebottletreasures

Provides utility functions to generate and manage treasure items in message bottle containers based on weighted templates and loot presets.

📄️ Metaclass

Provides a userdata-based class system with custom metamethod handling, enabling safe garbage collection and replacement of core Lua operations like `__gc` and `__len`.

📄️ Misc Items

This component manages logic and behavior for miscellaneous item prefabs in the game.

📄️ Mixer

Manages sound channel volumes and dynamic audio filters for the game's sound system.

📄️ Mixes

Registers predefined audio mixing configurations for different game states and contexts.

📄️ Modcompatability

Provides a utility function to upgrade legacy mod level data from version 1 to version 2 format for compatibility with newer DST engine expectations.

📄️ Modindex

Manages mod loading, state, dependencies, configuration, and compatibility for Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Mods

Manages the lifecycle of mods, including loading, registering prefabs, version checking, and frontend integration.

📄️ Modutil

Provides utility functions and API hooks for mod configuration, world generation, and runtime initialization in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Motdmanager

Manages downloading, caching, and displaying MOTD (Message of the Day) data—including patch notes, skins, news, and Twitch content—for the DST client.

📄️ Netvars

Provides network variable types and helper utilities for syncing data between server and clients in multiplayer sessions.

📄️ Networkclientrpc

Manages game-wide RPC (Remote Procedure Call) dispatch, validation, queuing, and rate-limiting for server-bound, client-bound, and shard-bound messages in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Networking

Manages network communication, player synchronization, server operations, and system messaging for Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Noisetilefunctions

Provides noise-based tile mapping functions used during world generation to assign tile types based on noise values.

📄️ Notetable Dsmaintheme

Defines the musical note sequence for the "DS Main Theme" by specifying pitch and timestamp data.

📄️ Ocean Util

Provides utility functions for ocean-related game logic, including tile querying, wave spawning, creature flight state management, entity sinking, and shore point detection.

📄️ Perfutil

Provides utilities for profiling and monitoring game performance, including entity counting, server/client stats, and world metadata collection.

📄️ Physics

Manages physics-based entity destruction, collision callbacks, and launch mechanics for entities in the world.

📄️ Plantregistrydata

Manages persistent plant, fertilizer, and oversized picture knowledge for the plant registry system.

📄️ Platformpostload

Applies platform-specific modifications to user commands for the WIN32_RAIL platform, including command localization, vote logic adjustments, and command registration/removal.

📄️ Play Commonfn

Provides utility functions for orchestrating stage performances, including character positioning, visual effects, costume swaps, and crowd interactions.

📄️ Play Generalscripts

Defines playback-ready script data for stage actor performances in DST, mapping character names, dialogue lines, animations, and action functions to structured timelines.

📄️ Play The Doll

Manages the state and animation sequence of a marionette-based theatrical performance, including scene setup, actor control, crowd interaction, and synchronized audio effects.

📄️ Play The Princess Yoth

Defines the cast costumes and script sequences for the Yoth stage play scenes in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Play The Vault

Defines the script data for the "The Vault" stage play, including character costumes, soliloquy variations, and full play sequence with actor lines, animations, and timed actions.

📄️ Play The Veil

Defines the cast and script data for the "The Veil" stage play in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Playerdeaths

Manages persistent death logs for players, including sorting, saving, and loading historical death records.

📄️ PlayerHistory

Manages persistent tracking of player interactions, including playtime and last seen dates, across multiplayer sessions.

📄️ Playerprofile

Manages persistent player profile data including customization, settings, unlocks, and character/skin preferences.

📄️ Popupmanager

Manages UI popup states and RPC communication for client-server synchronization in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Postprocesseffects

Manages visual post-processing shader effects such as bloom, distortion, lunacy, and moon pulse, configuring and enabling them via the engine's post-processing pipeline.

📄️ Prefablist

Contains a static list of all game prefabs used for entity creation and mod registration.

📄️ Prefabs

Defines core data structures for registering and managing game prefabs and their associated assets.

📄️ Prefabskin

System for defining and applying reusable visual and functional skins to prefabs in Don't Starve Together, handling build overrides, sound effects, FX, and entity state changes.

📄️ Prefabskins

This component manages player-specific prefab skins and their associated network replication in DST.

📄️ Prefabswaps

Manages configurable prefab substitutions used during world generation, supporting primary/non-primary variants, location-based exclusions, and customization-controlled prefabs.

📄️ Prefabutil

Helper utilities for constructingplacer prefabs and deployable item prefabs in DST.

📄️ Preloadsounds

Preloads audio bank files for the Don't Starve Together game at startup, including base game, DLC, and event-specific content.

📄️ Preparedfoods

Defines prepared food recipes and their nutritional, status-effect, and inventory behavior in DST.

📄️ Preparedfoods Warly

Defines special cooked food recipes for Warly's portable cookpot that grant unique or unusual effects when consumed.

📄️ Preparednonfoods

Provides a list of non-prefab crock pot recipes that reference externally defined prefabs.

📄️ Profiler

Provides a Lua-level CPU profiler for performance analysis of game code.

📄️ Progressionconstants

Defines XP progression constants, level progression logic, and reward unlocking rules for the game's progression system.

Defines achievement criteria and reward logic for the Quagmire seasonal event, including victory, tribute, chef, farmer, gatherer, and encore achievements with WXP-based progression and scoring rules.

📄️ Quagmire Recipebook

Manages persistent storage, filtering, and state for Quagmire Festival recipes, including unlocks, sessions, and appraisal data.

📄️ Recipe

Manages crafting recipes, including ingredients, unlocks, and deconstruction logic.

📄️ Recipes

Manages crafting recipe definitions, validation, and deconstruction logic, including dynamic resource generation, builder requirements, and tile-based placement constraints.

📄️ Recipes Filter

Defines and organizes crafting menu filters for categorizing recipes by type, character, season, and other criteria.

📄️ Regrowthutil

Provides utilities for calculating regrowth search radii based on world topology and entity density.

📄️ Reload

Manages hot-swapping of Lua modules during development to enable live code updates without restarting the game.

📄️ Savefileupgrades

Provides utilities to upgrade savefile data structures across game versions, including world generation presets, shard index metadata, and worldgen overrides.

📄️ Saveindex

Manages save slot indexing, persistence loading/saving, and world configuration for Don't Starve Together multiplayer sessions.

📄️ Scheduler

Manages coroutine-based task scheduling and periodic execution for game logic, supporting both dynamic and static timelines.

📄️ Scrapbook Prefabs

Defines a static list of prefabs to include or exclude from the scrapbook and achievement visibility filtering.

📄️ Scrapbookpartitions

Manages chunked storage and logic for the scrapbook data system, including tracking what items each character has seen or inspected, and coordinating with the backend for persistence.

📄️ Serverpreferences

Manages server-specific preferences such as name/description filtering and profanity filtering, and persists user data across sessions.

📄️ Shadeeffects

Manages dynamic leaf canopy shading effects using the ShadeRenderer system, including texture, position, rotation, and strength based on ambient light.

📄️ Shardindex

Manages persistent world, server, and session data for a game shard, including loading, saving, upgrades, and world generation overrides.

📄️ Shardnetworking

Manages cross-shard network communication, including world connectivity, portal linking, and event synchronization between shards in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Shardsaveindex

Manages shard-specific save index data and slot-level world/session metadata for persistent storage across game sessions.

📄️ Signgenerator

Generates a randomized descriptive text string for signs based on tile type and randomized linguistic components.

📄️ Simutil

Provides utility functions for world and entity queries, vision checks, camera effects, and world event management.

📄️ Skilltreedata

Manages persistent skill selection and experience data for player characters, including encoding/decoding, validation, and synchronization.

📄️ Skin Affinity Info

Maps character prefabs to lists of associated skin asset names used for avatar rendering and item selection.

📄️ Skin Assets

Holds and manages asset paths and metadata for skin-related UI and entity rendering.

📄️ Skin Gifts

Provides static lookup tables mapping skin item prefabs to their associated gift event types and configuring visual popup data for gift notifications.

📄️ Skin Set Info

A data-only module that maps emote or costume identifiers to lists of associated skin asset names.

📄️ Skin Strings

A static data file containing localized string mappings for character clothing, accessories, and book skin identifiers in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Skins Defs Data

Registers skin mappings, DLC assets, scrapbook entries, and texture streaming configurations for DST's inventory and UI systems.

📄️ Skinsfiltersutils

Provides filtering utilities for selecting subsets of skins based on type, rarity, item ID, and colour.

📄️ Skinstradeutils

Provides utility functions for validating and matching skin trade recipes based on selected items and restrictions.

📄️ Skinsutils

Central utility module for managing skins, packs, inventory, commerce, and UI rendering in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Speech Walter

A self-contained speech database for the Walter character that maps interaction events to localized string values, used elsewhere in the codebase.

📄️ Speech Wanda

A static data file providing speech string constants for the character Wanda in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Speech Warly

Handles Warly's unique speech dialogue system, managing line selection, emotional context, and interaction triggers.

📄️ Speech Wathgrithr

Provides dialogue strings used by Wathgrithr’s speech system for specific world events and entities.

📄️ Speech Waxwell

Contains declarative language data for the Waxwell speech system, used to define dialogue and narrative content.

📄️ Speech Webber

A placeholder component with no functional implementation in the provided code chunks.

📄️ Speech Wendy

A data-only module containing Wendy-specific speech strings for items, structures, and entities across Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Speech Wickerbottom

Provides speech dialogue data and definitions for the Wickerbottom character, used for contextual book-related interactions in DST.

📄️ Speech Willow

Contains static string data for Willow's dialogue and speech patterns.

📄️ Speech Wilson

Provides static speech string data for Wilson character events and states in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Speech Winona

Manages speech-related state and logic for the Winona character in DST, including handling of dialogue triggers and speech events.

📄️ Speech Wolfgang

Initializes and manages Wolfgang-specific dialogue strings for player character speech events.

📄️ Speech Woodie

Provides speech functionality specific to the Woodie character, handling werewolf transformation-related dialogue triggers and voice lines.

📄️ Speech Wormwood

Provides localization and speech-related functionality specific to the Wormwood character.

📄️ Speech Wortox

Manages speech-related logic for the Wortox character, including speech activation and interaction triggers.

📄️ Speech Wurt

Contains static speech string data for the Wurt character, used for localizing and organizing her dialogue.

📄️ Speech Wx78

Provides static speech data and localization strings for the Wx78 character across various DST content and entities.

📄️ Spicedfoods

Generates recipe data for spiced variants of base foods and registers their cooking behavior and effects.

📄️ Splitscreenutils Pc

Provides split-screen utility functions specifically for PC builds, returning fixed values that disable split-screen functionality.

📄️ Stacktrace

Provides utility functions for generating and formatting Lua stack traces for debugging purposes.

📄️ Standardcomponents

A collection of utility functions for adding common physics, burnable, freezable, perishable, hauntable, and deployment behaviors to entities in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Stategraph

Manages state machines for entities, including state transitions, event handling, timelines, and networking support for client prediction in DST.

📄️ Stats

Collects and sends gameplay metrics and session statistics to the analytics backend.

📄️ Strict

Enforces Lua strict-mode behavior by requiring all global variables to be explicitly declared before assignment or access.

📄️ Strings

Centralized string table management for game assets, including names, descriptions, and localized content used across the world, UI, and prefabs.

📄️ Strings Pretranslated

Provides localized language names, titles, and body text for the language selection UI in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Strings Stageactor

Contains hardcoded narrative dialogue strings for theatrical cutscenes and soliloquies in DST’s seasonal events.

📄️ Stringutil

Provides utilities for retrieving, formatting, and processing localized string content, including character-specific speech generation and string helpers.

📄️ Techtree

Defines and manages available technology trees and associated bonus/level naming conventions for crafting systems.

📄️ Tiledefs

Registers all game tile definitions—including land, ocean, impassable, and noise types—with associated visual, audio, and physical properties via the TileManager.

📄️ Tilegroups

Provides tile classification utilities and manages tile groups for world generation and entity placement logic in Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Tilemanager

Central registry and validation system for defining and configuring in-game ground tiles, minimap tiles, falloff textures, and ground creep assets.

📄️ Trade Recipes

Defines structured trade recipe configurations for the game's trading system.

📄️ Translator

Loads and manages translated strings from .po files, supporting both legacy and new format entries for multi-language localization.

📄️ Traps

This file contains only a comment indicating that trap-related functionality has been moved to the scenarios folder.

📄️ Tuning

Defines and initializes the global TUNING table containing all gameplay constants and configuration values for Don't Starve Together.

📄️ Tuning Override

Registers placeholder functions for all known tuning hooks used by the game to allow modded overrides of season, weather, entity, and environment-related tuning tables.

📄️ Update

Manages the global game update loop, including wall time, simulation time, static ticks, and long updates for non-player entities.

📄️ Upsell

Manages the in-game upsell screen flow and purchase state checks for the demo version of DST.

📄️ Usercommands

Manages user-executable commands (e.g., chat slash commands), including permissions, voting, validation, and execution flow for built-in and modded commands.

📄️ Util

Central utility library providing table/string/math helpers, debugging tools, memory management, path resolution, PRNG, teleportation validation, and ECS extension functions for DST modding.

📄️ Vec3Util

Provides utility functions for 3D vector mathematics, including arithmetic, distance, and normalization operations.

📄️ Vector3

A lightweight 3D vector math utility for geometric calculations, distance, normalization, and vector operations in DST.

📄️ Vecutil

Provides utility functions for 2D vector mathematics used throughout the game codebase.

📄️ Voteutil

Provides utility functions for implementing and resolving player voting systems, including vote result calculation and vote-start validation.

📄️ Wintersfeastcookedfoods

Defines configuration data for Wintersfeast festive foods, including cooking times and metadata used by the cooking system.

📄️ Wordfilter

Contains a curated list of profane or inappropriate strings for use in filtering user-generated content.

📄️ Worldentities

Provides a utility function to ensure required world-level entities (e.g., pocket dimension containers) are initialized during world save load.

📄️ Worldgen Main

Entry point for world generation, responsible for initializing the world generation pipeline, handling mod data, and producing saveable world data structures.

📄️ Worldsettings Overrides

Provides tuning override functions that adjust game difficulty settings for wildlife, weather, events, regrowth, and world mechanics by modifying global TUNING values or dispatching world state events.