Valheim 0.218.15: Ashlands

New content 14

• The Ashlands is a new biome with 30+ new weapons, 3 new armour sets, 2 new capes, 10+ new creatures, 70+ new buildable items, 5 new crafting station upgrades, 30+ new crafting materials, 15+ new food items and potions, plus new locations, music, events and mechanics.
• The Ashlands is cut off from other biomes and reachable only by sea, and its boiling hot waters can only be sailed by the sturdiest ships, such as the new Drakkar.
• Cinders rain from the sky and damage unprotected players, wooden build pieces can catch fire and spread it, and deadly lava covers large parts of the land, which you cross using your own platforms.
• A new world modifier, part of the immersive preset, lets fire spread outside the Ashlands as well.
• New enemies include the Fallen Valkyrie, Charred Warrior, Charred Archer, Charred Warlock, Charred Twitcher, Skugg turret, Morgen, Bonemaw Serpent, Volture, Lava Blob and the Redbeard Dvergr.
• The Asksvin can be tamed and ridden with the new Asksvin Saddle, and it also has a calf form.
• The new boss is Fader and the new miniboss is Lord Reto, with the Monument of Torment and Effigy of Malice as new spawners and a new forsaken power.
• New weapons include the swords Dyrnwyn and Nidhögg, the Slayer greatswords, Flametal Mace, Bloodgeon, Storm Star, Klossen, Berserkir Axes, the Fang bows, the Ripper crossbows, the Splitnir spears, Flametal Shields and Tower Shields, and the staffs Trollstav, Staff of the Wild, Dundr and Staff of Fracturing.
• Flametal weapons can be combined with Bloodstone, Iolite or Jade to become magical weapons with blood, storm or nature based effects.
• New armour sets are Flametal, Robes of Embla and Breastplate of Ask, along with the Asksvin Cloak and Ashen Cape; new Basalt and Smoke Bombs and several new ammunition types such as Grausten Payload, Charred Arrow and Flametal Missile are also added.
• New crafting materials include Flametal Ore and a new Flametal (the previous Flametal is obsolete), Sulfur, Ashwood, Grausten, Majestic Carapace (previously Queen Drop) and various Asksvin, Morgen, Bonemaw, Volture and Charred drops; new crafting station extensions include the Artisan Press, Feathery Wreath, Metal Cutter and Gem Cutter.
• Building additions include 25 Ashwood pieces, 26 Grausten pieces, Flametal Gate, Pillar and Beam, new furniture such as the Bone Throne and Lava Lantern, a Shield Generator, a stone Portal, a Catapult and Battering Ram for claiming Charred Fortresses, and plantable Ashvines that grow on base walls.
• New food includes Fiery Svinstew, Piquant Pie, Scorching Medley and cooked Volture, Bonemaw and Asksvin Tail meats, plus Lingering Healing Mead and Lingering Eitr Mead.
• New locations include multiple Ruins, Redbeard Dvergr Outposts, the Putrid Hole and the Charred Fortress, along with two new events, new lore stones, dreams and Munin dialogue, and new music.

Changes and balancing 4

• Old Flametal items have new names.
• The popup for unlocking new things now stays on screen longer.
• Gameplay Settings has a new "Attack towards look direction" toggle; when it is off, attacks go in the direction the camera is facing.
• The map now closes after a debugmode teleport.

Fixes 3

• Fixed the materials of Major Healing Mead and Minor Eitr Mead.
• Texts throughout the game have been standardised.
• ESRAM usage is disabled on Xbox One to work around a Unity bug that corrupted shadowmaps in some particle systems.

Other 2

• New console command 'findtp' goes to the nearest found item, and 'setfuel' fills all nearby lights to a specified fuel amount.
• For modders, IMonoUpdater no longer has to be inherited from, and its error messages were removed.