Valheim Patch Brings New Content, QoL Improvements, and More

Iron Gate AB has released a new patch for Valheim, which in new content, various fixes and improvements, and QoL changes.

Posted By | On 02nd, Mar. 2022

Valheim

Iron Gate AB’s Valheim experienced massive popularity as soon as it arrived in Steam Early Access back on February, amassing a whopping 8 million sales by last August. Even though the hype revolving around the game has dwindled a little bit, the developers have still been working hard the content updates and patches.

With the game receiving various updates, such as Hearth and Home, and the upcoming Mistland being currently in development, the developers have also released a new patch for the game, adding in various changes.

Numbered 0.207.20, the patch adds new content, such as a new dungeon, new crafting materials, new armor sets, and more. New content aside, fixes and improvements such as an FPS limiter, UI fixes, a pause function in single player, and more have been addressed, along with QoL changes.

The developers have shared the changes through patch notes in a Steam blog post, which can be read for a more detailed description of the changes. You can check out the full patch notes below.

UPDATE NOTES:

New Content:

  • Frost Caves added as a new dungeon (Will only appear in unexplored areas)
  • New enemies: Ulv, Cultist, Bat
  • New crafting materials: Red jute, Fenring hair, Fenring claw
  • New armour set: Fenris Coat, Fenris Leggings, Fenris Hood (equip all at once for an extra bonus!)
  • New weapon: Flesh Rippers (Fists)
  • New build pieces: Red jute carpet, Red jute curtain, Standing brazier
  • New event: “You stirred the cauldron”

Fixes & Improvements:

  • FPS limiter setting and option to reduce GPU usage when minimised, menu FPS capped to 60
  • Various console command improvements and additions, see console ‘help’
  • Fixed some dungeon parts not being fully deterministic (ends)
  • Nomap mode improvements (vegvisr alternative, nomap is server setting, max distance for shouting, random build/spawn rotation, ‘noportals’ command)
  • Resolution now only shows refresh rate when forcing exclusive fullscreen
  • Various UI fixes
  • Changed name of Unarmed skill to Fists
  • Helmets covering the player character’s face should now hide beard
  • “Reduce background performance” is available as a setting
  • Recipes for Jack-o-turnip + Yule stuff disabled

Quality of Life:

  • Building marker is more subtle and indicates piece rotation
  • Corpse run gives carry weight bonus to compensate for unequipped belt
  • Crafting stackable items while having full inventory now possible if there are are available stack slots
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes stackable items won’t be taken when having full inventory and pressing ‘Take All’ in a chest
  • Chat can now be closed using esc, mouse or gamepad B

Gamepad support:

  • Full controller support!
  • Controller legend visible in pause menu and settings
  • Controller text input when running in Steam big picture mode. Chat, characters, signs, pets etc can now be named using the controller.
  • Controller mapping of all game features
  • Context menus will now always show controller buttons when using controller
  • Alternative controller glyph style option
  • Skills window scrollable with gamepad
  • Crafting can be cancelled if pressing the button again (like with mouse)
  • Fixed some missing/misplaced gamepad tooltips

Steam Deck:

  • Steam Deck controller layout shows when playing on Steam Deck
  • Loads default settings catered to the Steam Deck

Localisation:

  • Improvements for several community translated languages

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