Valheim 0.221.4: Call to Arms

New content 12

• Trinkets are a new equipable item type with 13 to find, including Heart of the Forest, Bronze Pendant, Iron Brooch, Wolf Sight, Jörmundling and Brimstone.
• While a trinket is equipped, you build adrenaline in combat, and a full bar gives an adrenaline surge with a temporary perk set by 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 when you are not actively fighting.
• A new skill, Perfect Dodge Roll, rewards you with a % of your stamina back when you dodge an attack that would have hurt you.
• Nine new wooden weapons, from the Wooden Sword to the Wooden Atgeir and Wooden Knife, let you spar with friends without hurting each other.
• Two new enemies, Bear and Vile, are added, and Bear Meat is a new food item.
• Eight new crafting materials arrive: Blob Vial (purchasable), Ectoplasm, Ghost Trophy, Bear Hide, Bear Trophy, Bear Paw, Vile Trophy and Vile Ribcage.
• There are 18 new weapons in total, including five Bottled Blobs (Poison, Oozer, Tar, Lava, Frost), the fist weapons Paws of the Bear and Vilebone Maulclaws, and the Battleaxes Black Metal and Skull Splittur.
• Two new armour sets are added: 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), plus a purchasable Sweat Band hat.
• Three new building pieces are added: the Archery Target, T.W.I.G. for combat practice, and the Bearskin Rug.
• A new location, CombatRuin01, can now 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 13

• Perfect Block no longer costs stamina, and the movement speed penalty is reduced on Battleaxes, Sledgehammers and Tower Shields.
• Fighting on slopes is improved, so enemies are easier to hit when you are above or below them.
• You can no longer dodge while overencumbered.
• Eikthyr's power now cuts stamina use for running, jumping and swimming by 60%.
• The Elder's power now gives 60% more Chopping and Mining damage and 30% more health regeneration.
• Bonemass's power now gives 25% resistance versus pierce, slash and blunt damage, 100% reduced block stamina usage, and 5 stamina back per block.
• Moder's power now gives constant 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 now accept more items, including 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 most weapon types, shields, bows, all fish, all helmets, all meads, all trophies, several cooked meats, tools and saddles.
• The Ghost has had a visual overhaul, and old hairstyle names have been updated.

Fixes 13

• The server list was rewritten for better performance, reliability and retrieval speed, with a new refreshing icon and a repurposed "?" icon for servers whose matchmaking data can't be retrieved.
• The community server list is no longer fetched in the background until you visit the friends or community tab, which avoids network overload for some Steam users.
• Several server list bugs are fixed, including PlayFab rate limiting and typing R in the filter box refreshing the list.
• Community servers now show up again in the community list on non-Steam platforms.
• Join code issues are fixed: it now hides with the HUD, copying to the clipboard works, and gamepad copying no longer works when there is no code.
• Several crashes and errors are fixed, including one when looking at a beehive as another player disconnects and Null Reference Exceptions from projectiles hitting the Shield Generator.
• The shield generator now takes damage even if a different client owns it than the one dealing the damage.
• Integers with a value of zero are no longer reset to their default when a world save is loaded.
• UGC text filtering and display are fixed, including a separate message for text from muted players and a Mac App Store filtering gap.
• UI fixes cover input loss at low frame rates, tab navigation while popups are open, and the select button on an Xbox One Controller on Mac.
• The Stone Portal stairs should now be climbable, and Fader's sacrificial stone carvings glow more to match the other sacrificial stones.
• Steam profile pictures no longer look washed out and use mipmaps to reduce aliasing, and Steam matchmaking data now loads faster for favorite and recent servers.
• On Xbox, a notification now appears when you resume from suspend after it caused you to leave a server, and the friends server list loads much faster.

Other 4

• The latest Nvidia drivers are required for this update, otherwise the game risks crashing.
• The Unity engine has been upgraded to 6000.0.46f.
• The settings menu has a new option to enable the developer console, which the "-console" command line argument overrides; on Xbox the console is now off by default and uses this new setting.
• Localisation has been updated, modded text in the start menu has been moved, and modders no longer face a hard-coded player limit in the server list.