Valheim — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Word From the Devs: Yeah, That’s A Drawbridge | 2026-04-28 | Hello vikings! We began this month of April, as is customary, with a bit of a laugh. Most of you caught on to the fact that it was an April Fools joke, but we do want to make sure to clarify that there is not going to be an additional game mode in Valheim where you can romance all the bosses, as fun as that might have been. Who had the most charming dialogue options? Who had the most romantic ending? We shall never know. We also want to thank the team behind Val-Con for organising their event for the second time! Thank you for taking the time to bring the community together and celebrating Valheim! Our very own Robin Eyre and Jonathan Smårs f |
| Word From the Devs: Winter Adventures | 2026-03-25 | Hello Vikings! While the story of Hervor Bloodtooth has come to an end, the same cannot be said for the Deep North. We continue to work away on crafting the biome, and today we want to show you a couple of different wintery snippets of what to expect, before spring is properly upon us! First out, we want to show perhaps one of our most Swedish aspects of the biome – the lingonberries. They can be found and harvested in the woods, and used in several of the biome’s food recipes. Got any guesses as to what you might be able to cook? When it’s cold and snowy, one thing to always watch out for is slippery ice. The Deep North will be no different, |
| Word From the Devs: Looking to the Future | 2026-02-25 | Hello Vikings! First of all, thank you for all the kind messages during our five year anniversary earlier this month. We wouldn’t be here without all of you! You might also have noticed that we announced that Valheim is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 later this year! We’re really excited for this, and as usual we’re very thankful to have Piktiv helping us out with the port. Please note that the release will only be for Nintendo Switch 2, and not for the first Nintendo Switch console. More information about the release will come in time, but for now you can wishlist the game on the Nintendo eShop. With these two milestones behind us we also want |
| Patch 0.221.12 | 2026-02-19 | We've got a couple of fixes for you today! Please also note that playing using Vulkan might currently cause Valheim to be unstable and/or crash. If you want to continue using Vulkan, you can disable the FPS limiters in e.g. the Nvidia Control Panel for a hopefully smoother experience. Rest assured that we're working on a solution for the Vulkan issue, however, and that it should hopefully be back to normal soon! Patch Notes: * Added release-to-select in the radial menu: If you continue holding down the radial menu button/key after the radial menu appears, you can select an emote by releasing the button/key. * Reverted crouching being unintent |
| Patch 0.221.10 – Five Years of Valheim! | 2026-02-02 | Greetings vikings! Today marks the five year anniversary since Valheim was first released into Early Access – and what an incredible five years it’s been! We want to thank everyone who has been a part of our journey and our community since then, whether you started playing on day one or have just been carried by the valkyrie for the first time. We greatly appreciate every single one of you, and we’re so glad to have you walk this path with us. For this anniversary you will find a patch live right now for everyone, with some new celebratory items and emotes, along with some quality of life fixes! If you want to keep the celebration going throu |
| Word From the Devs: It’s Freezing! | 2026-01-28 | Greetings, vikings! 2026 is here, and we hope you’re just as eager for this year as we are! We’ve been having quite a bit of winter weather here in our corner of the world lately, which feels apt as we’ll be sharing with you the ninth part of The Voyage of Hervor Bloodtooth today: What was it that she saw, snow and frost covering more than just the Deep North or the Mountains? Only dreams, perhaps, or visions of something yet to come… That looks a bit cold, doesn’t it? Though in the Deep North you will learn to deal with something even colder, such as this brand new addition to your workshop: The Frost Foundry! Build of the Month As we had no |
| Word From the Devs: Through the Roof | 2025-11-26 | Greetings vikings! We’ve truly hit the colder part of the year now, which gives us plenty of inspiration for the Deep North landscape. And just as we continue to work on the biome, Hervor Bloodtooth is continuing her journey: Many of you have speculated for a long time, and as we now take a closer look at some of the abandoned structures in the Deep North, we want to properly confirm that the update will add the possibility to build steeper roofs! The 67° roof pieces will be 4 meters high, and available for both the thatch as well the darkwood roof styles. We’re really looking forward to seeing all the new and creative ways you will use these |
| Word from the Devs: Picking Up the Thread | 2025-10-28 | Hello vikings! We want to start with mentioning a Unity security vulnerability that occurred a few weeks back. There is no evidence that the vulnerability ever reached Valheim in any way, and we hurried to patch the game with the necessary updates from Unity as soon as we could. We didn’t make any announcement about this at the time as we didn’t want to cause unnecessary alarm, but we do also want to assure you that the game is safe for you to play. We thank you for your understanding! But now to the more lighthearted stuff! The time has come to finally check back in with Hervor Bloodtooth. Without further ado: The creatures down in the windi |
| Word From the Devs: We Fight On! | 2025-09-18 | Greetings vikings! Since our last check-in we have moved the Call to Arms update from the Public Test Branch and into the Live version of the game! We want to thank everyone who tested the game during the PTB, as well as everyone who has played it since the official release. We hope you’re not too bruised from your battles! There are possibly some more tweaks coming to that update in the coming weeks and months, as we want to see how everyone experiences the new changes, beyond those who tested in the PTB. But besides that we’re now focusing the team solely on content for the Deep North and 1.0. Armour sets are being designed, dungeons are ge |
| Patch 0.221.4 – Call To Arms | 2025-09-09 | It's time to bring Call to Arms from the PTB and into Valheim proper! As always, a huge thank you to everyone who has tested it already, and a grand welcome to all new players! This updates features plenty of ways of self-improvement – whether that be wooden weapons for sparring with your comrades, or a built structure to hone your fighting skills against. You can also find a brand new type of item in the form of trinkets, which will help you in the heat of battle. And as there are some new dangerous foes around, you might find that you very much need them… You’ll find the full patch notes below, whether you want them abbreviated or detailed. |
| Patch 0.221.4 (Public Test) | 2025-09-03 | ⚠️ Note: This update is for the Public Test branch of Valheim only, and may therefore be unstable! Prior to launching this update to the Default version of the game, we want to have a chance to discover bugs and fine-tune the balancing to ensure the best game experience. ACCESS: Right-click Valheim in your Steam library, 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 select. The PTB FAQ can be found here. FEEDBACK: Please leave any feedback in the “#valheim-public-test” channel in our Discord or through the form on our website. Pleas |
| Word from the Devs: Ready For A Fight! | 2025-08-21 | Greetings vikings!We’re back after a bit of a summer break, and we’ve got lots of things going on!To start with, as you may have already noticed, we’re at Gamescom to present the latest update, Call to Arms. It’s available on the Public Test Branch right now for everyone who wishes to try it out! You can read the patch notes here, and we’ll of course share the trailer again, because we think it turned out pretty cool: On site in Cologne we have our Iron Gate team members Robin, Andreas and Emilia, and while they might be a bit busy doing some interviews, they’re happy to stop and chat if you want to say hi to them. But Gamescom isn’t the only |
| Patch 0.221.3 – Call To Arms (Public Test) | 2025-08-20 | ⚠️ Note: This update is for the Public Test branch of Valheim only, and may therefore be unstable! Prior to launching this update to the Default version of the game, we want to have a chance to discover bugs and fine-tune the balancing to ensure the best game experience. ACCESS: Right-click Valheim in your Steam library, 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 select. The PTB FAQ can be found here. FEEDBACK: Please leave any feedback in the “#valheim-public-test” channel in our Discord or through the form on our website. Pleas |
| Word from the Devs: Summer in Sight | 2025-06-17 | Hello vikings!Summer is here already! In case you’ve missed it, that also means that you’re able to build the Maypole and craft the Midsummer Crown in Valheim – you’ll be able to do so for the rest of June and through the first week of July, so there’s plenty of time still to enjoy the time of the summer solstice.There’ll be no warm summer weather in the Deep North though! Last time we saw Hervor Bloodtooth, she got attacked by an Elaking as she was exploring a large hall. And it appears she has been taken deep below ground…You may have guessed it already, but that’s your first sneak peek of a Deep North dungeon! We call them Winding Tunnels, |
| Word From the Devs: Mystery Foes | 2025-05-20 | Hello vikings! We want to begin with mentioning that we’ll be renaming these monthly blog posts to “Word From the Devs”, since many of you have felt that the name “Development Blog” isn’t as fitting anymore. We hope that the new naming will be more suitable, and that it will cover everything these posts are about! We also want to reassure you all that we are very much still working on the game, and that there are a lot of things behind the scenes that we aren’t showing you just yet! The Deep North development is in progress, but we want to leave a lot of it for you to discover yourselves. With that said though, we believe that this month’s He |
| Development Blog: Rock On! | 2025-04-23 | Hello vikings and Rocky-fans! It’s April, and you might have noticed that we were a bit mischievous earlier this month… For clarity, we did a repost of our old April Fools jokes, and as funny as these videos may be they will remain only jokes. But the video that was brand new – the trailer for Rocky the Pet Rock – was no joke at all! Rocky is very much a real thing in the game, though we won’t go into detail about how to make your Rocky happy… If you love Rocky, you will probably also love the Rocky plushie! The Makeship campaign to get your very own Rocky is live right now, and this will be your only chance to get one, so don’t miss it! Spea |
| Patch 0.220.5 | 2025-04-01 | We've gone digging deep into our archives today, vikings! We found some old stuff that you will recognize already (but we're putting it all here anyway so no one misses it), but we also found something that's been gathering dust for ages, perhaps even since the 90s! We made sure to digitize the old cassette for you, for your convenience. Patch Notes: * New build piece: Rock (it’s a friend!) * New game mode: Haldor (become the best merchant ever) * New weapon: Shotgun (extra damage against deer) * New weapon: Deer Raiser (raise mighty deer to fight for you) * New body type: Deer (when playing as a deer, other deer will not become frightened of |
| Development Blog: Venturing Forth | 2025-03-27 | Greetings vikings! We’d like to start off this post by saying thank you to everyone we met at GDC this year! It’s always a pleasure to get to meet people who have played our game, and this time around was no exception. It was great to meet you! But a new blog post also means by now that it’s time for a new episode of the Voyage of Hervor Bloodtooth. As she is making her way further inland, what will she discover? It may look like a peaceful place, but the Deep North can be more hostile than it first appears to be... That poor greydwarf! Last time we opened up submissions for our screenshot competition, the Favour of Freya. We wanted to just t |
| Patch 0.220.4 | 2025-03-19 | Just a small patch of fixes for you today, thanks for testing on the PTB! Patch Notes: * Fix a crash on Xbox that could occur when entering suspend mode while playing online multiplayer * Fix memory leak for HUDs of dead enemies * Moved pause menu back to where it originally was * Fix two cases of log spam for server hosts related to block and permitted lists * It’s now possible to hide boss and death markers via controller again |
| Patch 0.220.4 (Public Test) | 2025-03-17 | ⚠️ Note: This update is for the Public Test branch of Valheim only, and may therefore be unstable! Prior to launching this update to the Default version of the game, we want to have a chance to discover bugs and fine-tune the balancing to ensure the best game experience. ACCESS: Right-click Valheim in your Steam library, 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 select. The PTB FAQ can be found here. FEEDBACK: Please leave any feedback in the “#valheim-public-test” channel in our Discord or through the form on our website. Pleas |