Valheim is a popular multiplayer open-world survival game set in a procedurally generated Norse-inspired world. The game was released in early access on February 2, 2021, and has since sold over 10 million copies and received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players and critics.
The game is developed by Iron Gate Studio, a small independent team based in Sweden, and published by Coffee Stain Publishing.
The game is constantly updated with new features, fixes, and improvements, and the latest update, version 0.217.28, was released on November 7, 2023. Here is what’s new in the latest version of Valheim, according to the official patch notes.
Valheim Update 0.217.28 Patch Notes
We apologize for the delay, but this patch finally adds the Jack-o-turnip and the new pointy hat to the game’s default branch! Hopefully, we’ll be able to update our system soon so that seasonal material may simply be attached to specific dates in the future, rather than needing to go via the Public Test Branch first.
In addition to the autumn items, this patch includes an engine change to Unity 2022. Please keep in mind that environments utilized in this update will not be backwards compatible with previous versions of the game due to the Unity upgrade.
- Jack-o-turnip enabled. Spooky season!
- New seasonal item: Pointy hat
- Added a new “Render scale” graphics setting that enables the main camera to be rendered at a lower resolution than the viewport and UI
- Improved automatic input switching so that connected gamepads with stick drift no longer take over control when playing with keyboard and mouse
- Optimized code that determines which objects in the world to instantiate, lowering the baseline CPU time by up to 5%
- Optimized structural integrity calculations, massively decreasing CPU time in areas with large builds
- Optimized enemy AI
- Optimized underwater logic
- Re-enabled objects to have more than 255 KVPs of arbitrary data of the same value type (important for some mods)
- Fixed a bug that could cause traps to trigger multiple times in multiplayer depending on how many players were near it
- Engine upgraded to Unity 2022
- Upgraded Steamworks.NET and PlayFab Party libraries to newer versions
- Engine-side optimizations for dedicated servers
- Tweaked boss spawning to prevent them from occasionally getting stuck when spawning
- Fixed bug that caused clicking sounds when selecting building pieces via controller
- Localization updated
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