Valheim 0.218.21

Changes and balancing 11

• Flametal Spires now have a 1% chance (down from 10%) to start sinking when hit, and they drop 2-4 per chunk.
• Spawn rates are tweaked: the spawn amount for Asksvin, and the spawn chance for Twitchers, Charred Archers, Charred Melees, Voltures and LavaBlob.
• Lava damage now depends on how deep you are in the lava, and there is a slightly higher threshold before lava starts hurting you.
• Trollstav can no longer be used in dungeons, warns you when you try to spawn too many trolls, and the trolls it spawns can now be attacked by bosses.
• Smoke bombs can now be used to put out fire.
• Hare meat can now be cooked on the wooden cooking station, while Asksvin and Volture meat now require the iron cooking station.
• The stone portal can now be built on stone and black marble.
• Magma fish are now interested in hot fishing bait.
• The loading screen freezes the window for a much shorter time, the intro starts playing during loading on first launch to shorten the wait, and you can now cycle through hints on the loading screen.
• The Immobilised tooltip no longer shows unnecessary stats.
• The hot tub refuel effect now matches other fire visual effects, and the small marble column hitbox is tweaked.

Fixes 11

• Fixed network objects becoming permanently corrupt, which was behind player bases loading slower over time in multiplayer, bases becoming more prone to structural stability issues, random non-tamable enemies becoming tamed, and random tamed animals dying.
• Players no longer get stuck in a falling animation on Flametal spires, and Flametal ore now makes the correct sound when mined.
• Chicken meat now attaches correctly to the hook on cooking stations.
• Voltures no longer make walking sounds while flying, and Fader's flame is no longer visible from farther away than his body.
• The shield generator no longer takes damage when built over lava.
• Grausten arched roof pieces no longer show a gap between the tops of two pieces, and a performance issue with grausten building pieces is fixed.
• The catapult no longer duplicates stacked items.
• You can no longer block yourself in the block list.
• The Player List can now be closed.
• Button rebinding started with a controller can now be cancelled.
• You can no longer switch tabs with the keyboard while the unified popup is displayed.

Other 5

• Mac: the ping icon is now correct on non-singleplayer servers, scrolling uses fewer resources (noticeable on weaker systems), and Game Center platform IDs are registered without the "A:_" prefix so muting MAS players through the player list works.
• Xbox: fixed a crash when suspending the game, and minimap pins are now a reasonable size on 4K displays.
• Xbox: fixed a bug where every player in the player list was treated as the local player, which had broken privilege checks and affected Managing Player Communication, Display Name and GamerPic, and Maintaining Multiplayer Session State.
• Xbox: fixed a bug concerning Joinable Game Sessions and Online Play, and an Xbox One error that occurred when no mouse was plugged in.
• Localization tweaks.

Hotfix 0.218.21 (September 9, 2024)

This small hotfix solves a problem that kept Mac users on Steam from using dedicated servers. It also refreshes the graphics on the main menu.

Fixes 1

• Mac players using Steam can connect to dedicated servers again.

Other 1

• The main menu graphics have been updated.