How to acquire a cluster token
Don't Starve Together requires that server owners specify a cluster token before the server is online and allows players to join. Acquiring a cluster token is very easy as long as you own a copy of Don't Starve Together on Steam.
- Launch the game on Steam, and hit "Play" on the first menu.
- Click on the
Account
tab as shown in the following image: - Click
Generate Server Token
on the web window that pops up as shown in the following image: - Copy the generated token into the
Cluster Token
section of the NodePanel UI, and hitSave
. - Restart the server and it should appear online shortly.
Alternative Method:
Launch the game on Steam, and hit "Play" on the first menu.
Hit the "~" on your keyboard, which is directly above the "Tab" key on most keyboards, this will open the debug window, which causes a brown box to appear on the screen.
- In the brown box, copy and paste the following command and press enter:
TheNet:GenerateClusterToken()
It will look like nothing happened; that is completely normal. It created a text file in the game files, and doesn't print any confirmation message.
Click "~" again, to close the debug window.
Click on the "Data" icon
This will open a view of the local files. In the list you will see a file called cluster_token.txt
. That is the file that was generated by running that command.
Open the
cluster_token.txt
file with a text editor, and you will see a long series of numbers, letters, and punctuation. That's your cluster token!Copy the token into the
Cluster Token
section of the NodePanel UI, and hitSave
.Restart the server and it should appear online shortly.