Valheim 0.221.3: Call to Arms

New content 14

• Trinkets are a new equippable item type: wearing one lets you build adrenaline in a fight, and a full bar gives a temporary perk tied to that Trinket.
• Adrenaline comes from hitting enemies, triggering a Forsaken Power, using certain magic attacks, and landing Perfect Blocks and Perfect Dodge Rolls; it fades outside combat and only builds while a Trinket is equipped.
• There are 13 new Trinkets, including Heart of the Forest, Bronze Pendant, Iron Brooch, Nimble Anklet, Crystal Heart, Wolf Sight, Fins of Destiny, Jörmundling and Brimstone.
• The new Perfect Dodge Roll skill rewards you with a % of your stamina back when you dodge an attack that would have hurt you.
• Two new enemies, the Bear and the Vile, appear, and the Ghost gets a visual overhaul.
• Nine Wooden Weapons (Sword, Greatsword, Axe, Two-handed Axe, Mace, Sledge, Spear, Atgeir and Knife) let you spar with friends without hurting each other.
• Bottled Blob weapons come in five kinds: Poison, Oozer, Tar, Lava and Frost.
• Other new weapons include the fist weapons Paws of the Bear and Vilebone Maulclaws, and the Battleaxes Black Metal and Skull Splittur, for 18 new weapons in total.
• Two new armour sets arrive: the Bear set (Patterns of the Bear, Loincloth of the Bear, Headdress of the Bear) and the Vilebone set (Vilebone Cage, Vilebone Drapes, Vilebone Visage), along with a purchasable Sweat Band hat.
• There are 8 new crafting materials: Blob Vial (purchasable), Ectoplasm, Ghost Trophy, Bear Hide, Bear Trophy, Bear Paw, Vile Trophy and Vile Ribcage.
• Bear Meat is a new food item.
• Three new building pieces are added: the Archery Target and Battle Brother for combat practice, and the Bearskin Rug as furniture.
• A new location, CombatRuin01, can be found.
• Character options grow by 3 hairstyles (Mullet, Castellan, Vinland Shave) and 5 beard styles (Mustache, Handlebar, Trimmed, Waxed, Crumb Catcher).

Changes and balancing 12

• Perfect Block no longer costs stamina.
• The movement speed penalty is reduced on Battleaxes, Sledgehammers and Tower Shields.
• Fighting up and down slopes is improved, making enemies easier to hit.
• Eikthyr's power now gives 60% reduced stamina usage for running, jumping and swimming.
• The Elder's power now gives 60% Chopping and Mining damage increase and 30% health regeneration increase.
• Bonemass's power now gives 25% resistance VS pierce, slash and blunt damage, 100% reduced block stamina usage, and 5 stamina on return per block.
• Moder's power now gives always tailwind, 300 increased carry weight, 10% increased movement speed and 50% frost resistance.
• Yagluth's power now gives 50% Lightning resistance, 25+ Farm skill and 10% increased damage.
• The Queen's power now gives 100% increased Eitr regeneration, 100% reduced sneak cost and 50% poison resistance.
• Fader's power now gives 100% Adrenaline increase, 50% reduced stagger meter modifier and 50% fire resistance.
• Item stands accept more items, such as Barley Flour, Tankard, Ancient Seed, Dragon Tear, Volture Egg, Cores, Padded Helmet, Fresh Seaweed, Fragrant Bundle, Thistle and Celestial Feather.
• Many items now have new positions and orientations on item stands, including Atgeirs, Axes, Bows, Swords, Shields, All Fish, All Helmets, All Meads, All Trophies, Hammer, Fishing Rod and the Asksvin and Lox Saddles.

Fixes 14

• The server list was rewritten to improve performance, scalability, reliability and retrieval speed, and a new refreshing icon now shows while servers refresh.
• The community server list is no longer fetched in the background until you visit the friends or community tab, which avoids a network overload some Steam users had.
• Community servers are advertised in the community list again on non-Steam platforms.
• Fixes for the PlayFab rate limit hit in the server list and for typing R in the filter box refreshing the list.
• The shield generator now takes damage even when another client owns it than the one that dealt the damage.
• Join code fixes: it is hidden when the HUD is toggled off, copying to the clipboard works, and gamepad copying no longer works when there is no code.
• Text written by muted players now gets its own message instead of "TEXT HIDDEN, CHECK UGC SETTINGS", and UGC text from Mac App Store users not logged into Game Center is now filtered properly.
• Integers with a value of zero are no longer reset to their default when loading a world save file.
• UI input loss at low frame rates is fixed, and tab navigation no longer works while popups are open in the world and server selection menus.
• The select button now works properly with an Xbox One Controller on Mac.
• Log spam from signs, tamed animals and portals without text, name or tag is fixed.
• Steam profile pictures no longer look washed out and now use mipmaps to reduce aliasing at lower resolutions.
• Server matchmaking data on the Steam backend can now be retrieved properly, which speeds up the favorite and recent lists.
• On Xbox, a notification now appears when you resume from suspend mode after leaving a server because of it, and the friends server list loads much faster.

Other 4

• The Unity engine is upgraded to 6000.0.46f.
• Old hairstyle names are updated, along with localisation, and the modded text in the start menu has moved.
• The settings menu has a new option to enable the developer console, and the command line argument "-console" overrides it; on Xbox the console is now off by default.
• For modders, the player limit shown in the server list is no longer hard coded.