Don't Starve Together Out of Memory Mods: A Solution

As a player of Don't Starve Together, you may have encountered an issue where the game's memory usage increases exponentially with each reload, causing performance issues and even crashes. This problem can be especially frustrating when trying to troubleshoot mods or test new content.

The culprit behind this issue is often overlooked, but a simple adjustment to the torch dust in the game can help resolve the problem. Specifically, adjusting the torch dust to match vanilla settings (#3531) can alleviate the memory leak caused by reloading mods.

To reproduce the issue, follow these steps:

1. Ensure that your enabled.json file is empty, eliminating any potential mods causing the problem.

2. Launch Don't Starve Together and navigate to the Mods menu.

3. Force reload the mods repeatedly (15 times or until you notice significant slowdowns) while monitoring memory usage in Task Manager.

As you reload the mods, you may notice that the game starts to hang at the 'Unloading tModLoader' step for several seconds, accompanied by a drastic increase in dotnet.exe memory usage. This persists even after reloading the mods again.

By making this simple adjustment to torch dust and following these steps, you can identify and potentially resolve the root cause of your memory leak issue in Don't Starve Together out of memory mods.

Dont starve together out of memory mods