Valheim Update Fixes Bugs, Improves Black Forest

Developer Iron Gate releases a brand new replace to its Viking-inspired survival sport Valheim, fixing glitches and enhancing the Black Forest biome.

Iron Gate’s survival sport Valheim has been accessible in early entry since February. Hundreds of thousands of Valheim players have explored its huge and harmful fantasy world impressed by Norse mythology.

Whereas the sport’s attracted a formidable fanbase regardless of its unfinished state, new updates are all the time welcome. Iron Gate launched Valheim‘s 0.204.4 patch earlier right now. The replace features a bevy of bug fixes, enhancements to tooltips and optimization, and atmospheric upgrades for the sport’s Black Forest biome.

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Iron Gate introduced the replace on Twitter Monday morning, with the complete patch notes accessible on Steam. Fixes embody resolving a bug with Valheim’s Jack-o-turnip decoration and one other affecting the spawn location of tar pits. The patch additionally made it in order that the “Moist” standing impact now not impacts spirit harm. It moreover solves an issue with enemies regenerating well being extra rapidly than the builders supposed.

By way of new options, Valheim’s Black Forest biome now has discovery music at some areas. Iron Gate plans so as to add extra to the Black Forest sooner or later and says the brand new music nonetheless wants work. Nonetheless, it stays a transparent improve. Builders have additionally adjusted the Mistlands biome, eradicating a lot of the litter. In any other case, the latter space remains to be a piece in progress with minimal content material.

As for normal enhancements, a Unity engine replace mounted the random crash some gamers have been experiencing because of pathfinding errors. Moreover, the studio optimized Valheim’s Consolation calculations, which decide advantages gamers get from resting of their character’s house. Builders have additionally up to date the localizations and added lacking localization strings. Lastly, Iron Gate up to date the tooltips on Mead Bases to point out standing results.

Whereas Patch 0.204.4 comprises a number of quality-of-life enhancements, Valheim remains to be removed from the eventual 1.0 launch. The final main replace, “Fireplace and Residence,” was launched on September 16. The update greatly expanded Valheim‘s building and cooking options, overhauled the meals system and added a brand new mount for gamers to tame. The subsequent main replace will lastly see the Mistlands expanded into a totally useful biome, with the deliberate “Cult of the Wolf” and “Ships and the Sea” updates being pushed again probably into subsequent yr.

Valheim is a good distance from being a accomplished sport, although the current patch does cross a number of issues off Iron Gate’s improvement guidelines. Different miscellaneous objectives embody enhancements to the fight engine, human NPCs, and an elevated variety of distinctive areas. Hopefully, gamers will see these new options carried out very quickly.

Valheim is accessible in early entry on PC.

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