Isn’t it great when a game developer listens to players’ feedbacks and starts delivering on the requirements posted by the community? Well, though it rarely happens when it does it feels our heart with joy.
The recent case with Valheim has proven that the developers behind the game are as hardcore gamers as any of us reading this piece of article. And they have listened to what players have asked them and have delivered it, and when something like this happens players can feel like they’ve taken part in shaping the game, and devs get a happy community.
Valheim has just received its Hearth and Home, and with it, there’s all the stuff we’ve already talked about which is a new food system and strategic vomiting, combat and weapon rebalancing, and some changes to health and stamina and how they work.
The Hearth & Home is now live and adds a huge amount of stuff to the Norse afterlife. To say things simply, the latest update adds many tools for players to create a fancier dwelling for themselves, as well as a plethora of new cooking options.
There are many surprises in the new update, which, belief are enough to tempt anyone to start the game all over again. With the new update players will be able to name their pets, share maps (via a cartography table), plant additional tree types, and destroy items with something called ‘the obliterator extension’.
Finally, there are some new recipes and they come alongside a reworked food system allowing players to “fine-tune their Viking diet to suit their playstyle.” this simply means that most food items now give mainly stamina or health.
The update has also brought something which was one of the major discussions in the community and that is the new types of furniture, including but not limited to a mighty stone throne and a steamy Viking hot tub.
“As the first major update, we wanted Hearth & Home to truly expand the Valheim experience and make the core gameplay richer and more complex while still adding new content for players to return to and explore. While it’s taken a little longer than anticipated to make sure it’s the quality people have come to expect, we’ve listened to our community every step of the way, and with some much-requested features added we’re glad that they can finally get their hands on it.”
There has to be at least some mystery left in the new update and that is the addition of some sort of goo to Valheim’s overworld. Players will be finding new slimy locations & creatures, which are doubtless building up to something that, as of yet, remains unknown.
Here are the patch notes for Hearth and Home:
General improvements:
- Weapons rebalanced (All weapons have been rebalanced to be more viable as the 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 tamed creatures 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 Boxes now have a purpose
- Slimy locations & creatures added to plains
- New plantable seeds: Birch, Oak & Onions
Items:
- New weapons: Crystal battleax, Silver knife
- New shields: Bone tower shield, Iron buckler
- Butcherknife (Special weapon for butchering tamed animals)
- Thunder stone (Sold by the trader)
- Lox accessory
Building:
- New Darkwood building pieces like single roofs, beams, decorations, and more
- New types of furniture, including but limited to the mighty stone throne and steamy Viking hot tub
- Crystal walls
- New types of stacks to show off your treasure and resources
- Cauldron improvements: 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 stations (Required to cook some types of meat)
