Valheim News

Please note that these rules have been updated as of August 25th. If you have submitted an entry before that, make sure that it complies with the new and updated rules. If it does not, you are of course welcome to submit a new run.

Vikings, the time has come to prove your worth to the gods once and for all. You’ve slain the mighty Eikthyr, you’ve bested the horrors that hide in the Swamps and you’ve taken Yagluth’s power as your own, but the Allfather has more in store for you.

There can be only one champion, one viking that is stronger, braver and faster than everyone else. Welcome to the Trial of Tyr, a competition that will pit the best among you against each other in a race against time.

To celebrate the upcoming Hildir’s Request update that will introduce difficulty levels to Valheim, we are announcing a hard mode solo deathless contest, challenging Vikings around the world to enter Valheim and defeat all bosses on hard mode solo, without dying and as fast as possible. The winner of this contest will dine in the halls of Valhalla with a custom-made engraved viking tankard that will bear the winner’s name and completion time. There are also three merch kits at stake for the first, second and third prize:



As with every contest, there are rules you will have to follow in order to participate, and have your run be considered for first place. These are as follows:

• The run must be made by a single player without dying, external help or the use of any dev commands. No mods or other kinds of third party software are allowed.
  
• You are not allowed to exploit the game in any way. This includes the usage of bugs, glitches (for example, but not limited to: Clipping through objects, resetting status or even conditions by logging out, duping, and boss summoning exploits, etc.) and all other methods not intended by the developers which are used to gain an unfair advantage over other players.
  
• You must play with the “Hard” preset in the world modifier settings.
  
• You must stream and/or fully record your run. In order to pause the run (taking breaks are important!), players must toggle the pause screen, stop recording, then after the break, start recording and untoggle the pause screen. If the player needs to log out, the recording must restart as soon as the player presses play. Cuts in the recording may NOT be made during active playtime (when you’re able to freely move your character).
  
• When submitting, please calculate your total run time and subtract any pauses. We will verify the run time when watching your submission.
  
• You must play with a new character and a new world, on the official Trial of Tyr world seed: MX7L9GYcf2 (You are allowed to scout the seed in advance, but for the actual run you must make a new world). The run must be played on the current stable (default) branch of Valheim.
  
• Re-mapping keys is allowed, but only within the confines of the game. Using secondary software to bypass this is not allowed.
  

Your time starts the second your character lands in the start temple, and the run is considered finished when the player has defeated all of the Valheim bosses (Eikthyr, The Elder, Bonemass, Moder, Yagluth and The Queen) and mounted their heads at the Ancient Stone Circle. The winner of the competition is the player with the fastest completion time — players can submit multiple runs if they manage to beat their previous times.

Please upload your run and submit your entry according to this form, before Tuesday 19th September at 23:59 CEST / 14:59 PDT, to be considered for the competition. And should you want to show off your run, please make sure to use the hashtag #Trialoftyr on social media!

Terms & Conditions

This update is for the Public Test version of Valheim, and may therefore be unstable. Before we launch this update to the Default version of the game, we want to make sure to have a chance to discover bugs and adjust the balancing, to give you the best game experience possible.

Access the Public Test branch on Steam by right clicking Valheim in your Steam library, and then select ’Properties’. In the new window, select ’Betas’ and type in the code “yesimadebackups”. The Public Test branch should now be available for you to choose from.

To access with Microsoft / PC Game Pass, launch the Xbox Insider Hub app. Navigate to ’Previews’, and then find ’Valheim Public Test’. Select ’Join’. Wait for the registration to be complete to be directed to the Store and then install ’Valheim Public Test’.

Be aware that there might be some minor offsets between the PC and console versions, but that we are aiming to keep the two as consistent as possible.

Please leave any feedback you may have in the appropriate channel in our Discord, or in the subforum on Steam.

As always, remember to be considerate towards players not partaking in the Public Test, in case they want to avoid spoilers.

Please make sure to make backups of your save files before playing.

Yes, we know we've said before that we hoped the last patch was going to be the final one before we release Hildir's Request to the default branch, but third time's the charm, right? If all things go well, we shouldn't need to make any further fixes after this in order to release it properly.

After the last PTB patch a lot of you were upset that we did some changes to the newly added quick-stack function. In this patch, you'll find that it has been altered to once again be done with a single button press, but the inventory will automatically open up (and then close again) so that you can still see what you're actually doing with your inventory. Hopefully this is a change that will make most of you happy!

[h2]Detailed Patch Notes:[/h2]

Fixes & Improvements:
* “Quick stack all” hotkey added again by holding the use key when opening chests (The chest will now open so you can see what is being moved, and then close if you keep holding the key)
* Increased the chance of starred Fulings to spawn inside Sealed Tower
* Fixed the R-stick shortcut for the Stack All button while you are browsing the player inventory
* Fixed an issue where the error “can’t add component to Terrain” was filling the player.log
* Precision placement of buildpieces changed to only show when holding ctrl
* Fix exception thrown when compressing modifier data of world with unmodified preset set

This update is for the Public Test version of Valheim, and may therefore be unstable. Before we launch this update to the Default version of the game, we want to make sure to have a chance to discover bugs and adjust the balancing, to give you the best game experience possible.

Access the Public Test branch on Steam by right clicking Valheim in your Steam library, and then select ’Properties’. In the new window, select ’Betas’ and type in the code “yesimadebackups”. The Public Test branch should now be available for you to choose from.

To access with Microsoft / PC Game Pass, launch the Xbox Insider Hub app. Navigate to ’Previews’, and then find ’Valheim Public Test’. Select ’Join’. Wait for the registration to be complete to be directed to the Store and then install ’Valheim Public Test’.

Be aware that there might be some minor offsets between the PC and console versions, but that we are aiming to keep the two as consistent as possible.

Please leave any feedback you may have in the appropriate channel in our Discord, or in the subforum on Steam.

As always, remember to be considerate towards players not partaking in the Public Test, in case they want to avoid spoilers.

Please make sure to make backups of your save files before playing.

A few issues managed to sneak past our watchful gaze in the last patch, so here's a small hotfix to hopefully solve everything!

[h2]Detailed Patch Notes:[/h2]

Fixes & Improvements:
* Enemies in dungeons no longer scale size and speed on harder world modifier difficulties to avoid getting stuck
* Enemy spawn block and item despawn now matches workbench build radius
* Fixed glowing signs
* Fixed world modifiers not showing up or being cut off if they were too long for dedicated servers on Steam
* Magecap & Jotunpuffs can only be farmed in Mistlands again
* Tin, Obsidian, Guck and many destructible objects now scale drop correctly when using the resource rate modifier
* Players can now sprint while autorunning again
* Players can no longer zoom while in the build menu
* Mouse input is no longer blocked for a short period of time when selecting a build piece
* Fixed a bug causing the cauldron to be non-interactable
* Autocomplete in the console will no longer skip entries in the list
* Fixed flickering colours when placing beech sapling
* Player based raids should now activate correctly when a player has used a guardian power


Xbox:
* Fixed vegetation and reflection shader for Xbox

This update is for the Public Test version of Valheim, and may therefore be unstable. Before we launch this update to the Default version of the game, we want to make sure to have a chance to discover bugs and adjust the balancing, to give you the best game experience possible.

Access the Public Test branch on Steam by right clicking Valheim in your Steam library, and then select ’Properties’. In the new window, select ’Betas’ and type in the code “yesimadebackups”. The Public Test branch should now be available for you to choose from.

To access with Microsoft / PC Game Pass, launch the Xbox Insider Hub app. Navigate to ’Previews’, and then find ’Valheim Public Test’. Select ’Join’. Wait for the registration to be complete to be directed to the Store and then install ’Valheim Public Test’.

Be aware that there might be some minor offsets between the PC and console versions, but that we are aiming to keep the two as consistent as possible.

Please leave any feedback you may have in the appropriate channel in our Discord, or in the subforum on Steam.

As always, remember to be considerate towards players not partaking in the Public Test, in case they want to avoid spoilers.

Please make sure to make backups of your save files before playing.

We have some more adjustments to make to Hildir’s Request, but we’re now crossing our fingers that this will be the final patch before we can finally release it beyond the PTB.

The patch log is quite chunky this time, with a variety of fixes and improvements for you! This also includes something a lot of people have asked for, which is a more practical use for all the new cosmetic everyday wear you can buy from Hildir. They'll now make your chores a bit easier by decreasing the stamina use for various household tasks.

[h2]Abbreviated patch notes:[/h2]

* Hildir locations should now generate correctly on dedicated servers
* Hildir clothing now decrease stamina use for base items hammer, hoe & cultivator
* Added ability to copy build piece while in build mode
* Build piece precision fix
* Plant growing rotation fix
* Lots of bug fixes, balance changes and stability improvements.

[h2]Detailed patch notes:[/h2]
Fixes & Improvements:
* Hildir locations should now generate correctly on dedicated servers
* Hildir clothing now decrease stamina use for base items hammer, hoe & cultivator
* Correct icon for tunic4
* Hildir items can now be repaired at workbench
* Added ability to copy build piece while in build mode
* Manual snap cycling now shows a name of each snap point
* You can no longer accidentally cycle snapping points while having the build menu or the map visible
* Snap points removed for barber station
* You can now zoom the camera while using the hammer, hoe & cultivator if no rotation is possible while using the mouse, and always on gamepad
* Fixed issue where precision placing build pieces would appear to be a few centimetres off
* Removed possibility to build on fire pit
* Removing a piece is now done when you release the button rather then pressing it (to allow for button combinations and so you can change your mind and hover away)
* Prevent character from jumping when in piece selection
* Place stacks is now available only when a container has been opened (You can no longer press shift-e on a container to place stacks)
* You now have better control over growing plants as they will now grow into approximately their sapling’s rotation, but they start with a random rotation when planting.
* Hard and Very hard combat difficulty now also increases star mob chance
* Pickables, honey and sap scales correctly with resource rate modifier
* Resource rate modifier should now scale more correctly for all drops
* Toggle run renamed to toggle sprint, and works again
* Reset "auto run" after dodge
* Fixed a crash related to the old portal
* Fixed a bug where being near a Queen dungeon would block portals when using the ‘No Boss Portals’ option. Bosses will now count as active and block teleporting after the first time they have been aggroed rather than when they are spawned
* Blocked portals and dungeons exits will now display the same message when being blocked by the ‘No Boss Portals’ modifier
* Fixed crossplay servers failing to register if too many modifiers were set
* Fixed modifiers not being set for in-game hosted servers when registering to Steam’s matchmaking
* Fixed modifiers not being reset when starting a world with no modifiers after starting a world with modifiers
* Fix random events only spawning for the host when using ‘Player based events’, or not at all if on dedicated server
* Fixed the saving of some stats
* Added ‘hildir’ to itemset command
* Tombstones can now be deleted with 'forcedelete' command
* "randomevent" and "stopevent" commands can now be called by all admins, not just the host
* New optimised low vegetation quality setting will have a small amount of grass rather than none
* Fixed LOD terrain mesh becoming visibly distorted when standing near modified terrain in some cases
* Fixed a vegetation shader issue
* Fixed a threading issue, the game quits a bit faster as a result
* Fixed a bug where the music could get stuck in the morning and evening when in dungeons
* Alt functionality key changed to LB for Console 2 mapping
* Added quick selection commands for console (Store: X+DPad, Load: Y+DPad)
* Fixed incorrect click sound on "B"
* Fixed sometimes missing tooltip for inventory items
* Fixed an issue where boats could fall through the ocean
* Localisation updated

UI:
* Fixed Asian fonts readability in bold style
* Fixed rune-stone texts to only show rune symbols in all languages
* Made sure all text fields have the correct fonts set
* Minor text optimizations
* Fixed some missing localization updates when language is changed
* Saving icon is now displayed on low FPS as well
* Fix a bug that caused the server modifier summary to be empty in the server list for all servers
* Moved tooltip from server browser to not overlap with cloud warning text
* Fixed some incorrect key hints
* Removed several control characters that were rendered as a box in item descriptions
* Fixed “Custom modifiers” text showing up as the localization key in the server list, rather than the localised text
* Fixed world list not being updated when the last world is removed
* Added full localization support to modifiers text in world and server list
* Fixed tooltip position for store items when using gamepad
* Added X to quick close and save server modifiers

Stability
* Various crash fixes related to generation and projectiles
* Fixed a bug that could cause more backups than intended to be created for world saves when migrated from an older version
* Fixed a bug where creating a new world with the same name as a just deleted world would give that world the same seed as the just deleted world
* Fixed an issue that could make worlds with certain very large dungeon seeds to not be loadable
* Fixed an issue where saving of world on server and character on client could be out of sync, all saving methods should now work the same way
* Fixed an issue where a world is saved twice when using manual save, doubling the amount of save time
* Fix memory leak when opening and closing the skill dialog
* Added check for available cloud storage after save and before world start (which should prevent world wipes after all)

Xbox:
* Own chat messages are not filtered anymore
* Own sign texts are shown when playing offline
* Cloud storage check after save and before world start to prevent potential data loss
* No more privilege pop-ups when playing offline
* Having used a guardian power from given boss will now also enable events related to that boss, and when killing certain enemies, when using player based events