Where Are Don't Starve Together Worlds Stored?
Where Don't Starve Together keeps Cluster world folders on Windows, macOS and Linux, and what travels with them.
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Don't Starve Together stores each world as a Cluster_N folder under Documents\Klei\DoNotStarveTogether, with Master and Caves subfolders plus a cluster.ini holding the settings. The five slots map to Cluster_1 through Cluster_5, so your oldest world is usually Cluster_1.
Mods complicate restores. The world references workshop mods by ID, and a world loaded without its mods can behave strangely or refuse caves. Back up the Cluster folder with the game closed, and note the mod list from the world settings screen before migrating.
Where Don't Starve Together stores this, by platform
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Klei\DoNotStarveTogether\Cluster_1
Paste %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Klei\DoNotStarveTogether into Explorer. Each Cluster folder is one world slot. Ransomware protection sometimes blocks writes here: whitelist the game if saves fail to appear.
~/Documents/Klei/DoNotStarveTogether/Cluster_1
Same Klei layout as Windows, under Mac Documents. Reach it with Go > Go to Folder in Finder.
~/.klei/DoNotStarveTogether/Cluster_1
Klei uses ~/.klei instead of Documents on Linux. Dedicated servers read clusters from here by default unless -persistent_storage_root moves them.
Frequently asked questions
My friend hosted. Where is my copy of the world?
Only the host has it. DST worlds save on the hosting machine, so guests keep characters but no world. Ask the host for a copy of the Cluster folder, or move hosting to a dedicated server you both can reach.
How do I upload my world to a dedicated server?
Zip the contents of the Cluster folder (Master, Caves, cluster.ini), not the folder itself. Servers that receive a nested Cluster_1 inside the target directory generate a fresh world instead of loading yours, which is the most common upload failure.
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