Version History

0.206.5

2021/12/14

Fixes:

• Location music tweaks
• Abomination drop & spawn tweaks
• Localization updates
• Enabled clipping check when placing thrones

Improvements:

• Troll animations overhauled
• Tamed animals are no longer afraid of fire
• Peace and quiet (Tamed wolves no longer howl)
• Serverlist profanity filter

News:

• Building item: Armor stand (Display your gear)
• Merry Yule

Undocumented

• Abominations now drop also 3-4 Guck.
• Abomination spawn chance from 25% to 35% but creature cap from 2 to 1.
• Abomination stagger duratiom from 5.5 seconds to 3.0 seconds.
• Enabled Yule tree, Yuleklapp (small), Yuleklapp (medium) and Yuleklapp (large).
• Bonemass trophy, Moder trophy and Yagluth trophy now randomly speak like other boss trophies (might have also been enabled by a previous update).
  • However their speak object is located over 50 meters from the item position which makes the speech difficult to trigger.
• New console commands: find, printcreatures, printlocations, removebirds, removefish,
• Ctrl + middleclick on the map teleports the player (if debug mode is enabled).
• Console search no longer show words with "fx" unless searched on purpose (search term contains "fx").
• Fixed console error when console search term was not initialized.
• goto command teleports player to the water level when not flying.
  • When flying, the altitude is capped at 400.
• spawn command with "*" no longer spawns entities which include "fx" in their name.

0.205.5

2021/11/25

Bugfixes

• Fixed network issue when picking up items that just auto-stacked
• Location music transition fixes
• Swamps music volume tweak
• Some player animation transition fixes
• Monsters wakes up if hit by a ranged attack
• Jump animation issue fixed

Improvements

• Console command auto complete help

News

• Added new armor set
• Something stirs in the swamps

Undocumented

• Sneaky Effect from Troll Set changed from -25% visibility to +15 Sneak skill

0.204.4

2021/11/08

Bugfixes

• Jack-o-turnip cover offset fixed
• Spirit damage no longer affected by wet
• HP regen on mobs & bosses fix (They were previously regenerating HP faster than intended)
• Tar pits spawn fix (In some edge cases they spawned on the edge between two biomes)

Improvements

• Unity engine updated (Fixes some random crashes related to pathfinding)
• Comfort calculation performance optimized
• Mead bases show status effect on tooltip
• Localization updated, build menu overlapping fixes & added missing localization strings

News

• Some locations in Black Forest now have discovery music (still needs some work though)
• Removed clutter from spawning in Mistlands (It's now...very empty)

0.203.11

2021/10/04

• Fixed issue with resolution setting in settings gui

0.203.10

2021/10/04

• Oven & cooking station drop food items when destroyed
• Gamepad sensitivity save fix
• Acorn & Birch seed drop rate increased
• Onion seed icon tweak
• Player number difficulty scale tweaks
• Removed comfort from Crystal wall
• Atgeir, Blackmetal axe, Bronze spear tweaks
• Lower melee weapon stamina drain
• Knives have more durability
• Tweaked some food stats based on effort to craft (blood pudding, boar jerky, bread, deer stew, mincemeat sauce, wolf jerky)
• Night-spawning monsters despawn faster in the morning
• Parry ranged attacks staggers caster again (illogical but fun)
• Fuling AI tweaks (Spreads out & circles more)
• Longer Lox attack cooldowns
• Frost damage slowdown fix
• Shield tutorial trigger fix for wood shields
• Wood log 26° & 45° stability fix
• Jack-o-turnip enabled
• Torch + weapon jog animation fix

Undocumented

• Acorn & Birch seed drop rate increased
  • For birch, the first value for Meadows variant 1 and second value is for Meadows variant 2 and Plains
  • Birch seeds: Average drop from 0.15/0.1 to 0.5/0.38
  • Birch resin: Average drop from 0.3/0.2 to 0.25/0.19
  • Birch feathers: Average drop from 0 to 0.25/0.19
  • Oak acorn: Average drop from 0.1 to 1.0
  • Oak resin: Average drop from 0 to 1.25
  • Oak feathers: Average drop from 0 to 0.5
• Stamina usage reduced for iron, silver and black metal tiers (except knives and spears)
  • Axe, Mace, Sword: From 12, 16, 20 to 10, 12, 14
  • Atgeir: From 16, 24 to 14, 18
  • Battleaxe: From 20, 24 to 16, 18
  • Sledge. From 22 to 20
  • Pickaxe: From 12 to 10
• Secondary stamina usage changed for all weapons
  • Knives: From 40 to 3x of primary usage
  • Spears: +2 of primary usage
  • Battleaxe: From 15 to 0.5x of primary usage
  • Mace, sword: From 30 to 2x of primary usage
  • Atgeir: From 35 to 2x of primary usage
• Blackmetal atgeir speed penalty from -10% to -5% (like with other polearms)
• Blackmetal axe has now block force (like other axes)
• Bronze spear stamina cost from 6 to 8 (flint spear uses 6)
• Knife durability from 100 to 200
• Tweaked some food stats based on effort to craft
  • Boar jerky: Health and stamina from 20 to 23
  • Deer stew: Health from 40 to 45, stamina from 13 to 15, duration from 20 min to 25 min, regen from 2 to 3
  • Minced meat: Health from 45 to 40, stamina from 15 to 13
  • Wolf jerky: Health and stamina from 30 to 33, regen from 1 to 3
  • Blood pudding: Health from 23 to 25, stamina from 70 to 75
  • Bread: Health from 25 to 23, stamina from 75 to 70, duration from 30 min to 25 min
• Player number difficulty tweaks
  • Effective health scaling from 40% per player to 30% per player
  • Scaling range from 200 meters to 100 meters.
  • Scaling now caps at 5 players
• Reverted H&H change to night-spawning monsters despawning. They now try to flee and despawn when not seeing any targets.
  • Event creatures still only despawn after completely dropping the aggro.
• Lox bite cooldown from 2 to 4 seconds and stomp cooldown from 10 to 12 seconds
• Resolution change from settings was broken (fixed in the next patch)

0.202.19

2021/09/17

• Rebalanced hp/stamina on most foods ( more stamina on hp foods and more hp on stamina foods etc )
• Fixed tar-pit not spawning on dedicated-server worlds
• Slightly lower hp on Fulings & Fuling shamans
• Slightly easier to stagger Fulings
• Fixed issue with pressing I in server list while trying to filter servers
• Lower bow stamina use
• Cage wall 1x1 physics fix ( Already placed pieces will probably need to be repositioned )
• Boars now also eat blueberries, raspberries & mushrooms
• Chinese translation fix

0.202.14

2021/09/16 - Hearth & Home

General improvements

• Weapons rebalanced (All weapons have been rebalanced to be more viable as main weapon and also have more unique playstyles)
• Blocking system overhauled (Current maximum hp now greatly affects your ability to block attacks, stagger bar gui added)
• Naming tamed creatures
• Gamepad sensitivity settings
• Auto-pickup toggle button added
• Graphics settings (Active point lights & Active point light shadows)
• Tamed creatures affected by friendly fire setting (i.e you can’t hurt a tamed creature unless you enable friendly fire or use the new Butcher knife item)
• Various other improvements and bugfixes

Food

• Food rebalance (Most food items now give mainly stamina or mainly health to make food choices more interesting)
• Food GUI overhauled to work better with the rebalanced food
• Over 10 new things to eat (Actually 12)

World

• Tamed Lox now have a purpose
• Slimy locations & creatures added to plains
• New plantable seeds: Birch, Oak & Onions

Items

• New weapons: Crystal battleaxe, Silver knife
• New shields: Bone tower shield, Iron buckler
• Butcher knife (Special weapon for butchering tamed animals)
• Thunder stone (Sold by trader)
• Lox accessory

Building

• New Darkwood building pieces like shingle roofs, beams, decorations and more
• New types of furniture, including but not limited to a mighty Stone throne and a steamy viking Hot Tub
• Crystal walls
• New types of stacks/piles to show off your treasure and resources
• Cauldron extensions added: Spice Rack, Butcher's table, Pots and pans
• Cartography table (For sharing map-data with other players)
• Oven added (For baking bread and pie)
• Obliterator added (Items be gone)
• Iron cooking station (Required to cook some types of meat)

Undocumented

• Pickaxes can hit multiple parts of ore deposits
• Attacking only gives experience to weapon skills when hitting creatures (trees and rocks can't be used to level up)
• Creatures stop moving when reaching their random idle movement target (previously would keep moving)
• Tamed creatures are hostile to their original faction (but still friendly with the same creature)
• Passive health regeneration doubled for creatures (2x interval, 4x amount)
• Tamed creatures only regenerate passively when not hungry
• Tamed creatures show healing ticks for the passive regeneration
• Tamed creatures no longer get health for eating food
• Sleeping has a cooldown (can't sleep over and over to skip days)
• Multiplayer creature health scaling internally changed to a hidden damage reduction that scales dynamically (previously could get stuck on unscaled amount)
• Received damage now triggers camera shake if more than 10% of the player health (previously more than 2 triggered)
• New formula for speed reduction in liquids that affects both walking and running
• Lots of tweaks related to liquid interactions
• Gear speed penalty reduces knockback push with 1x multiplier (previously 1.5x multiplier, so for example 10% speed reduction knockback reduction from 15% to 10%)
• New code for sliding
• Moving, dodging and jumping is not possible while the stagger animation is ending. Creatures stay stunned slightly longer (previously stagger duration and stun duration were different)
• Staggering gradually decreases (20% of max per second), instead of reseting when staggering or after 3 seconds of not taking physical damage
• Riding skill increases creature speed by up to 20% and reduces stamin usage by up to 50%
• Received damage less than 0.1 are ignored (previously only exactly 0 was ignored)
• Fire and spirit damage fully stack (duration resets and tick damage is recalculated based on remaining damage and new damage)
• Less than 1 fire damage and less than 1.2 spirit damage is ignored, unless already burning (for example 26 armor allows standing on campfires without taking any damage, however durability is still lost)
• Poison damage gets reduced by armor (but still won't reduce armor durability)
• Poison damage slightly increased for all creature attacks
• Lightning damage also causes staggering (previously only blunt, pierce and slash caused)
• Some tweaks to animations (at least sitting was affected)
• Chat window also uses commands now like console, however it can only trigger non-cheat commands like animations
• Improved console and chat windows. Tab allows autocompleting commands and parameters. Up and down arrows can be used to cycle previously issues commands.
• Commands can be bound to keys. Also some new cheat commands
• Fireplaces support holding the interaction key
• Controller tweaks (for example JoyDPadUp and JoyDPadDown can be used to zoom the camera)
• Resistance can't replace immunity (Serpents won't become suspectible to fire when wet)
• Weakness can't replace resistance (Frost resistance always works even when wet)
• Serpent scale shield provides pierce resistance when blocking (basically 4x block armor against pierce)
• Block power changed to block armor (some damage gets through like with worn armor formula), all block armor values rebalanced
• Damage that gets through the block causes extra staggering and will negate the whole block if the player staggers from it
• For players, the stagger limit is 40% of the max health
• Parrying only staggers melee attackers
• Block stamina usage reduced from 30 to 10 (still scales down based on used block armor)
• Parrying always uses the full 10 stamina, staggering the attacker uses additional 10 stamina
• Parry force changed to block force (all blocking pushes melee attackers back, scales down based on use block armor)
• Bow skill reduces hold duration by up to 80% (previously up to 100%)
• Corrupted items can't be picked up (for example enemy weapons spawned with console which lack a proper icon) to prevent inventory getting messed up
• Items stuck in tar can't be picked and won't automatically despawn
• Item stands are protected by wards
• Light code was tweaked / optimized
• Creatures check targeting more often (from 3 / 10 to 2 / 6 depending if a player is nearby or not), this indirectly increases aggro range by giving noise less time to disappear
• Event creatures lose the hunt mode after the event ends (so they can calm down)
• Event creatures and night time creatures only flee after fully calming down
• Event creatures and night time creatures walk instead of run when fleeing
• Tables are in a separate comfort group
• Holding down the attack button continuously attacks instead of doing a single attack
• Holding bow at full charge consumes stamina only at half of the normal rate
• New food decay formula that cause less stat decay over time (for example at half decay you get 81% of the stats instead of 50% and at 99% decay you still get 25% of stats)
• New setting for controller sensitivity
• Slow from frost damage and tar is based on the base speed (so they stack additively effectively reducing the movement speed to zero
• Slow from frost damage got bugged. The slow starts as 0% and gradually increases towards 100% slow (fixed at a later patch)
• New status effect Puke that removes food (from Bukeperries)
• Smelters and kilns can get blocked by the generated smoke
• Creatures from general spawning system have 10% chance per level up (previously 15%)
• Text input of signs can be cancelled
• Gravity has 100 tool tier (able to collapse silver deposits)
• Yagluth attacks can be blocked but most of the physical damage was changed to lightning damage
• Boars no longer eat blueberries, raspberries & mushrooms (reverted at the next patch)
• Lox have a lower stagger limit (from 100% to 30%)
• Lox cause 20 blunt and 40 chop as an area damage every 4 seconds when moving more than 5 meters per second
• Lox run speed increased from 6 m/s to 7 m/s
• Lox attack cooldowns reduced (reverted at a later patch)
• Greydwarf shamans drop pukeberries
• Unarmed troll ground slam does now extra 50 blunt damage when hitting diggable terrain (previously this did 0 damage)
• Fish have actual names
• Blob and Oozer vision range reduced from 40 meters to 30 meters
• Boar meat drop chance increased from 50% to 100%
• Wolf mean drop chance increased from 40% to 100%
• Onion seed may spawn in all mountain treasure chests
• Tar pits spawn in Plains
• Birchs have a 15% chance to drop a seed in Meadows and 10% in Plains (increased at a later patch)
• Oaks have a 10% chance to drop a seed (increased at a later patch)
• 20% more blueberry bushes (max patches from 2 to 1 but bush size from 2-8 to 1-8, radiums from 5 to 8)
• More wraiths (can now spawn in edges of Swamps instead of only in the middle)
• One skeleton spawn point was changed from one time to respawn every hour outside Burial chambers (affects existing worlds too)
• All weapon primary stamina costs were rebalanced so that early game weapons use less stamina while end game weapons use more
• Secondary stamina costs were not changed, expect for spears (fixed at a later patch)
• Early game weapons now deal more damage per used stamina than later weapons (fixed at a later patch)
• Sword stamina cost increased to match mace stamina cost
• Axe damage slightly increased and attack speed slightly faster (about same DPS as swords)
• Knife damage greatly increased and attack speed much faster (slightly lower DPS as swords)
• Battleaxe damage slightly decreased and attack speed slightly faster (both primary and secondary)
• Battleaxe primary attacks have 1.5x staggering
• Atgeir secondary attack slightly faster
• Two handed clubs attack slightly faster
• Fang spear damage slightly increased
• Spear range increased by 5.5%
• Knife cone decreased by 25%
• Bronze and Iron atgeir move speed penalty from -10% to -5% (Blackmetal still -10%, fixed at a later patch)
• New dreams and runestone texts
• Hearths are slightly bigger and snap better
• Forsaken powers activate faster
• Smoke spawning for structures were rebalanced (slightly different intervals but barely any real change)
• Event area radius increased from 64 meters to 96 meters

0.156.2

2021/07/01

• AI tweaks (Monsters should always target creatures [including players] first if they have a clear path to them & monsters should only attack low priority structures [walls etc.] if they are trying to get to a player)

0.155.7

2021/06/23

• Random save bug-fix (Solves a very unusual case of world corruption caused when shutting down)
• Monster AI tweaks (More aggressively attacking structures when unable to attack the player among other things)
• Open container fix (Fixes issue where you had to click a container multiple times to open it in multiplayer)
• Taught Greydwarfs to throw better
• Event trigger tweaks (Wolf event only triggers after Bonemass has been killed, Moder army can trigger in mountains etc.)
• Long forgotten Blob event enabled
• SFX volume setting fix (Used wrong DB conversion)
• Maypole enabled (Happy midsummer!)
• AI flee behaviour tweaks (Bosses don’t run from you anymore)
• Undocumented: Bosses and event creatures are now always alerted so they can't be backstabbed (except very briefly after spawning).

0.154.1

2021/06/09

• Fixed issue where capes sometimes formed strange bumps on the back after jumping
• Close build gui with ESC selection fix
• Fuling army event trigger fixed
• Wolf hunt event trigger fixed
• Troll ground slam can now be blocked
• Longship repair & build sound fixes
• Wolfcape durability fix
• Respawning resources timer fix (Berries and flint should now correctly respawn)
• Serpents no longer flee when low on health
• Fixed issue with ship containers not closing properly in some situations
• Raise terrain is more smooth & less pointy
• Fixed water particles & water-surface clipping issues inside boats
• Better fermenter feedback when it’s exposed
• Tweaked some sound assets to use less RAM
• Covered rocks should no longer look wet during rain

0.153.2

2021/05/12

• Fixed smelter issue when a very long time has passed since visiting (10000 days)
• 30s Pre world save warning added
• Stone stair physics fix
• Inventory screen gamepad focus fix
• Large-creature visual overhaul (troll, boss-2 & boss-3)
• Troll ragdoll material fix
• Harpoon mechanics overhauled
• Engine updated (some stability improvements)
• Draugr archer visual fixes (1 & 2 star draugrs sometimes got the wrong material)
• Fixed issues when crafting station is destroyed while in use
• Creature group spawning adjusted to avoid spawning over total limit (in some cases)
• Credits updated
• Localization updates

0.150.3

2021/04/19

• Swamp draugr spawner location fix to prevent draugrs from spawning inside stones
• Lox pet-sfx fix
• Torches in locations should no longer support constructions
• Dolmen location stone size fix
• New terrain modification system
• Terrain-modification priority changed (Terrain modifications in an area should load before buildings, only applies to the new terrain modification system)
• World loading tweaks (to fix issues with ships and buildings getting damaged while loading)
• Stop server list download when leaving the start menu (to decrease network bandwidth usage)
• Lowered the amount of stone required to Raise ground using the hoe

0.148.7

2021/03/29

• Localization updates
• Added separate walk-sneak snow footstep sfx
• Music update ( fixed some sound glitches )
• Credits updated ( Changed the look of the credits screen & added missing names )
• Hammer,Hoe & Cultivator timing & input tweaks ( Slightly lower use delay & queued button presses for a smoother experience...just for you )

0.148.6

2021/03/23

• Campfire,Bonfire & hearth take damage when dealing damage

• Reinforced chest inventory space increased to 6x4

• All boss drops can now float on water
• Sunken crypt entrance tweaked (to stop tombstones from getting stuck)
• Fixed rotation of Wood tower shield on item stands
• Deathsquito & Drake trophy drop rate increased

• 1 & 2 Star creature HP fix
• Night-spawning wolves should be easier to tame now (should stop trying to run away & despawn after starting to tame)
• Harpoon does not work on bosses anymore
• Ingame console disabled by default (add launch argument "-console" to enable)
• The console command for enabling developer/debug commands has been changed to “devcommands” from “imacheater” and a warning message has been added.
• Improved enemy projectile reaction system
• Battle axe tweaks (hits multiple enemies easier)
• Player knockback force is affected by equipment speed modifiers (IE heavy gear will reduce the knockback from enemies)
• Blackforest stone tower tweaks
• Ward system fixes (You can no longer place a new ward where an enemy ward overlaps)
• Comfort calculation fixed
• "Failed to connect" error message fixed
• Serpent trophy stack fix
• Missing Moder spawn location in some worlds fixed (NOTE: For existing worlds "genloc" command needs to be run manually in a local game with dev commands enabled to generate new locations, this is only needed if your specific world has this issue, this is not very common)
• Megingjord item-collider fix
• Added a slight use-delay on Hammer, Hoe & Cultivator
• Hammer remove auto-repeat added
• Better network bandwidth handling (should work better on low bandwidth connections & also use higher data rate if possible)
• Dolmen location fixes (Stop top stone from falling for no reason)
• Fixed removing item from item-stand not always syncing item stats
• Server list refresh button can be pressed before the entire list has been downloaded
• Better bad connection detection
• Fixed issue causing server to send more data the longer a client was connected
• Localization updates

0.147.3

2021/03/02

• Localization updates

• Made Haldor head-turn smoother
• Object network interpolation is skipped if object was far away, solved issue with network players flying through the air when entering dungeons & exiting portals etc
• Added -public 1/0 flag to dedicated server again, Allows players to host local lan only servers
• Join IP-button updated to allow for lan-connections (dedicated servers only) & added DNS support
• Dedicated servers use directIP connection instead of SDR, solves issues with slow steam relays in some areas of the world
• Bonemass puke-effect network fix
• Updated Dedicated-server PDF manual
• Prevent pickup items when entering portals
• Lowered wolf procreation slightly
• Lowered chance of boss trophy talking

0.146.11

2021/02/26

• Fixed connected player counter (Correctly ending auth sessions)
• Fixes instant disconnection issue that some players have experienced.

0.146.8

2021/02/25

• Crafting item-dupe bug fix
• Harpooned player & ship bug fix
• Fixed player ragdoll
• Bonemass,Moder,Yagluth difficulty tweaks
• Moder music updated
• Tombstone bugfix (probably wont fix disappearing tombstones though)
• Fixed world corruption caused by pressing ALT+F4 while logging out.
• Deathsquitos have slightly longer audio range
• Tweaked audio on blast-furnace & spinning wheel
• Shared map position setting is saved per world
• Updated network stats (F2)
• Building destruction drop-fix
• Vulkan support in windows builds
• Network disconnection bugfix
• Updated socket-backend

0.145.6

2021/02/17

• Disable google analytics
• Updated Unity engine
• Forest crypt fixes
• Credits updated
• Save system returned to old-new
• Pickables sync fix (stones,carrots etc)
• Dedicated server CPU usage fix (Framerate limiter)
• Hearth smoke building fix
• Save system tweaks
• Console "save" function can be used remotely if player is added to admin list
• Autosave every 20min (instead of 30min)
• Manual join IP function (dedicated servers only)
• Extra tombstone checks ( to prevent them from disappearing )
• Network optimizations
• Better broken world handling ( crash/exit instead of loading an empty world )
• Localization fixes
• World list fix
• Client quit network sync fix
• Save IO-disk flush tweaks
• Ip parse checks

0.143.5

2021/02/09

• More serverlist improvements (removed initial serverlist request to lower network trafic)
• Carts detach when teleporting

0.143.4

2021/02/09

• Lower dmg on deathsquitos
• Fixed text-msg icon
• Updated server manual PDF

0.143.3

2021/02/08

• Localization fixes
• Added enemy awareness indicator to enemy huds
• Sneak tweaks
• Added save directory override to dedicated servers (-savedir)
• AI fixes

0.143.2

2021/02/07

• World & character save improvements
• Teleport ore chest hack fix
• Remove structure resource dupe bug fix
• Server map set to server name to make it filterable in steam server-browser

0.143.1

2021/02/06

• Ragdoll destruction network fix
• Dedicated server ugly file-flag shutdown system removed (Use CTRL-C or SIGINT instead)
• Updated reference server start scripts (Please update local copies)

0.142.6

2021/02/04

• Fixed world selection gui broken due to corrupt world file

0.142.5

2021/02/04

• Serverlist fixes
• Lowered enemy per-player damage scaling
• Localization fixes
• Server filter fix

0.142.1

2021/02/04

• Fixed freeze at Valheim logo screen
• Fixed Block-sfx
• Fixed Spaming dodge consumed extra stamina
• Serverlist tweaks (multi-line names, server count)
• Continous music enabled by default + Drowning effects added
• Compendium icon updated
• Made Hugin dialog guis slightly larger
• More surtling cores in burial chambers