The Constant

Maxwell's World is the unofficial name for the semi-nightmarish parallel world of wilderness where most of the gameplay of Don't Starve takes place in, all of the main characters in the game seemed to have originated from the "Real World" are transported to the world through Maxwell's Door.

Maxwell's World seems to be mostly controlled by the Shadow Creatures, and after they imprisoned Maxwell on the Nightmare Throne, he also gained the power to control the world in many ways, by creating many of the world's creatures through an unknown method of experimentation.

The World seems to be quite similar to the Real World, with a Day and night cycle, Seasons, and Biomes, as well as Crows that are no different from those seen in the Real World, and Gobblers which are similar to a Real World turkey. Though there are also many creatures that are different from their Real World counterparts; Pigs have become semi-intelligent humanoids capable of speech and seem to be the dominant species on the planet as shown by their villages and farms, Rabbits are a lot like real Rabbits except having short little horns as well as their ordinary ears, and Spiders come in different types but are all larger than real Spiders and live in nests.

As well as containing many Real World creatures, Maxwell's World is home to many unique and in many cases frightening creatures, such the flightless and violent Tallbirds, the Beefalos and the Seasonal Giants such as Deerclops, the Moose/Goose, the Dragonfly and the Bearger.

While the maps in Don't Starve mostly take place on islands, it is possible that there is more to the planet than the islands, for example, when Maxwell examines the Moose/Goose, he says that he doesn't know what it is, only that it's from the North, making it possible that there are many other unfound areas in Maxwell's World that are currently unknown.

Littered around the islands are sinkholes whose caves lead to the ruins of a long extinct yet once proud Ancient Civilization of what seemed to have been arthropodic creatures who had eventually killed themselves through overuse of Nightmare Fuel, it is possible that they were once the dominant species on the planet until the Shadow Creatures and eventually Maxwell gained control of the world.