Heartwarming / Don't Starve

General

• Many players grow particularly fond of Chester, the mobile chest. The Klei team seem pretty fond of him as well◊ because they keep coming out with stuff like the above link.
• Lucy the Axe can be creepy sometimes, but she genuinely cares for Woodie's wellbeing and warns him when he's getting too enthusiastic in his wood chopping - even though she herself loves the activity as much as he does.
• You have the choice to set Maxwell free if you complete all five realms of adventure mode. Granted this does lead to you unknowingly trapping yourself in his place but the gesture is nice, all the same, especially given how much he tormented you.
• Some of the lines characters give when discovering skeletons in the wild are oddly sweet. Woodie apologizes to them, while Willow hopes aloud that whomever they were, they got to go out in a blaze of glory. With Willow's love of fire, of course, it's very possible that she hopes that they literally went out in a blaze of glory. It makes the sweetness a bit more odd, to say the least.
• In order to unlock the character Webber, you have to give his skull a proper burial.
• Webber in general can be this. Despite being fused with/stuck inside a spider, he’s still an adorably innocent, optimistic and friendly child.
• In the Ruins, there's a boss called the Ancient Guardian. If you kill it while playing as Maxwell, his examination quotes for its dropped horn and loot chest reveal that they were once old friends and that he feels remorseful about killing it. This coming from someone who usually acts like a jerk to most things. Furthermore, the Ancient Guardian's character design and attack pattern (quickly charging at the player with resting intervals where it doesn't move) are quite similar to that of the Clockwork Rook's. The Clockwork Chess Monsters are Maxwell's creations. Perhaps he modeled them after his old friend. Even though now they both try to kill him.

Don't Starve Together

• Webber and Wendy are revealed to have become friends. And it's as adorable as it sounds.
  • In Don't Starve Together, one of Webber’s lines offhandedly reveals that at some point, he made Wendy a friendship bracelet. D'awww.
  • If Webber revives Wendy, she states "You could never be a monster, Webber." D'AWWW.
  • While Webber failing to revive Abigail is a pretty big Tear Jerker, his quote afterwards is pretty sweet too.
    "Wendy would have been so happy if it worked..."
• Speaking of Webber, it's worth noting that none of the characters (save perhaps WX-78) treat him poorly, despite his appearance. It really does go to show how nice the survivors are, despite their... various quirks.
• Wickerbottom is a pleasant old lady all around, but she seems to have a particular soft spot for the children in this mode, homeschooling them and taking care of them almost like a mother or grandparent.
• Klei released a comic◊ where Wes gives everyone some Valentine's Cheer.
• In Don't Starve Together, reviving another character using the Tell-Tale Heart will cause them to respond with thanks, and the result is often really sweet.
  Wigfrid: "Maxwell has uncövered the kindness buried within his heart!"
  Webber: "Aww. We'd beep-boop WX-78 on the nose if they had one!"
• Willow's responses to other characters lighting things on fire is usually a Funny Moment, but her response to Webber or Wendy starting fires is still a little sweet.
  "Wendy! Was that your fire? I'm so proud!"
  "Your fires are so cute, Webber!"
• Warly's cooking helping break his mother Angeline out of her dementia-induced haze in the Taste of Home short, giving her some precious time of recognizing her son. Their smiles and the way she cups his face when she's lucid makes it obvious how much they love each other.
• In The Monster Marsh animated short Wickerbottom brings Webber and Wendy to the swamp to celebrate Halloween by reading scary stories in a scary place. Of course, as the swamp is inhabited by merms, spiders and tentacles everything goes awry pretty quickly, but it is the thought that counts.
• Wurt's relationship with the survivors is this. She quickly became friends with Webber and Wendy, Wickerbottom is teaching her how to read and speak English, and the survivors consider her to be a curious child and not one of the many monsters that tried to kill them all ever since they were trapped in the Constant. And in change Wurt can use the knowledge she learned from the survivors to create new homes for the Merms, making them neutral to every player character and therefore causing one of the most dangerous races of monsters in the Constant to perform a Heel-Face Turn in game!
• The cinematic Wish You Were Here features a flashback from the times where Wendy and Abigail used to play together... or so it seems at first. If you look carefully, the first image of the cinematic is Abigail's flower carried by the wind right in front of Wendy. It is possible that Abigail did not spook Wendy because she was pretending to be a ghost while she was reading, but that she spooked Wendy because she really was a ghost, but Wendy was so relieved to see her again to quickly forget that Abigail was not supposed to be there. The twins got to play together again and Abigail got to gift Wendy a flower like her own before they were separated again, and this speaks volumes about how strong their bond was and how much they meant for each other.
• Winona spent thirteen years looking for her little sister when most people would've given up. Doubles as a Moment of Awesome.
• In Constant Companion animated short shows how Walter and Woby met and befriended. Walter fed Woby in her big form one of his jerky when she was about to attack him for his food. Woby was so grateful to the kid that when she noticed that he was trying to do the same with a Deerclops she decided to step in and save his life in spite of her fearful nature. They stuck together ever since.
• The trailer of Reap What You Saw is just adorable. To start, there are most of the characters released at the time of the update, and they are all busy applying the new farming tools and techniques to grow healthy plants together. It is nice to see the survivors get along in a mostly peaceful environment and use their individual abilities to pursue a common objective.
• The Wendy rework brings in a new neutral mob in the form of Pipspooks, ghosts of children that spawn from headstones. The heartwarming part comes in the form of Wendy being able to help them, finding their lost toys, and helping them find peace. On that subject, Wilson has quite possibly the sweetest reaction towards seeing a Pipspook.
  Wilson: Aww, does someone have a little boo-boo?
• Pretty much the entirety of Wes's character animated short C'est La Vie is spent showing just how nice he is despite all the misfortunes his terrible luck causes him, from sharing his hard-earned lunch with a performing monkey to going to great lengths to retrieve a little girl's missing doll.
• In WX-78's cinematic, Disconnected, the short starts off with the survivors picking up the wreckage after a raid by some Pigs trashed their base. Among all the repairs, Winona seems to be putting her energy towards fixing up WX-78, who was apparently damaged to the point of shutting down during the scuffle. Even if they generally seem dismissive of organic life, it's nice that their human companions still care enough to patch them up if they can't repair themself.
  • If Winona examines WX-78's circuits, she will complain about their wanting to do their own manutention or she will be concerned about their apparent lack of care for themself. Other than that, it is revealed that Winona granted WX-78 permission to use her generators to recharge themself when it is not raining.
• With the A Little Drama update adding a stage, each player character now has a unique act to perform on it, many of them reciting a poem. Wolfgang's has a particular sweetness to it.
  Wolfgang likes his friends,
  Though some are weird, make scary magic, and one is spider,
  Will stay with them till very end,
  Make Wolfgang's bad day brighter.
• Maxwell's rework video, Encore, while definitely having some moments to be nervous about, has a quick moment where Maxwell regains consciousness to see the other survivors worrying over him. Wilson and Willow, two characters who used to hold particular grudges against him, smile when they see he's alright, implying they've buried the hatchet with him.

Events

Hallowed Nights

• For starters, WENDY IS ACTUALLY HAVING FUN. This is NOT a drill. She giggles when eating Choco-Pigs, apparently likes Candy Apples, and she states that she's having fun when examining a Ghost Pop or Tentacle Lolli. Seeing as how she's usually perpetually depressed, seeing her actually enjoy herself with her friends is not so much heartwarming as much as it is DIABETES-INDUCING-SWEETNESS.
  • Her quote when examining a pair of fake fangs?
    "Now Webber and I can match."
  • When Webber examines a Gummy Spider he states "We're not entirely comfortable with this." When Wendy examines a Gummy Spider she comforts her friend by saying "Don't worry Webber, it's just candy."
• Wickerbottom offers to trade her candy for any raisins that the other survivors might get.
  "I'll take the ones you don't want, dears."

Winter's Feast

• Wilson, Willow, and Webber celebrate Winter's Feast (the Don't Starve equivalent to Christmas or Hanukkah) together in Starver's Carol. This is even nicer when you consider that Wilson and Willow are both (to some degree) aracnophobes, and Webber is basically a giant spider (of course, it helps that he's also half boy).
• Maxwell's reaction to a glass of Heavenly Eggnog, which ostensibly references Charlie, who is currently occupying the Nightmare Throne, half shadow monster, and indirectly trying to kill the survivors:
  Maxwell: My... favorite... she remembered.
• Webber's quote when examining a Chocolate Log Cake is "Haha, Wendy! Watch our Woodie impression!" Seeing these two children play together even though both are trapped in a demon-infested hellscape is pretty sweet.
• Just the fact that these people, who essentially now spend every minute of their lives fighting monsters for survival, have found the time to celebrate joy and goodwill with their friends is pretty dang heartwarming.

The Forge

• The Forge event also introduced the Curio Cabinet feature, which includes a few customisable loading screens, complete with their own descriptions. Some of these descriptions give us a glimpse into the minds of some of the characters, which can range from tearjerkingly tragic (cough, Wendy, cough) to kind of touching.
  "Whether in troupes or in troops, Wolfgang has always thrived on the spirit of camaraderie. He considers the day he joined the survivors to be the moment his luck finally turned for the better."
  "Webber could have easily seen his unique predicament as an affliction or a curse. Instead he's chosen to view it as a second chance, and one that he fully intends not to waste."

The Gorge

• Successfully completing the Gorge. After satisfying the Gnaw enough times to gain three of its favors, you end up being able to re-open the portal your team came through and escape. As you do, you're greeted with Mumsy thanking your team for their efforts and promising to follow while Billy cheers for your efforts. Though Don't Starve definitely has plenty of grim moments, being able to help out a family in a dire situation can really make all the trouble worth it.

Year of the Carrat

• Popular fanon holds that Charlie is the one responsible for DST’s seasonal events. Carrat seems to confirm it; the shadowy rats your rat races against when there are no other opponents are “Charlie’s Carrats.” Looks like she wants to be included in the fun too.

Midsummer's Cawnival

• Corvus Goodfeather is a refreshing change of pace for the event NPC's. There are no stakes or threats involved. He's simply a carnival host looking for a good venue, and is perfectly happy letting the survivors participate in the festivities and cawnival games.