Valheim News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

A Valheim player has built an incredible cathedral in the Meadows biome in the game's creative mode. Hammer mode was added to Valheim last year, and players have already built impressive monuments utilizing the lack of limitations.

A group of Valheim players has built an impressive Black Forest mansion by clearing out a large section of trees. The Valheim Black Forest is one of the densest areas of the game, and it's rich with resources that these players likely depleted for their mansion build.

Valheim, the popular norse-inspired survival game, is set to get even deadlier and at least several percent more volcanic with its upcoming Ashlands biome. The new biome is due to enter public testing as we speak.

Iron Gate Studios has released its latest and most challenging region for Valheim yet with Ashlands. Available for public testing on Steam, the penultimate biome sports lava everywhere, the menacing Valkyrie and other horrors, though there’s new armor and weapons to make it worthwhile. Check out the first gameplay trailer below.

The latest Valheim trailer showcased the new biome and content in the Ashlands update. The developer, Iron Gate Studio, says that the Ashlands is the second-to-last biome in Valheimand is progressively more difficult than the previous ones. Because of that, the studio recommends that rusty players practice a bit before hopping into the Ashlands or even adjust the difficulty in the World Modifiers menu.

Developer Iron Gate Studio has released a new update for Valheim that includes a Unity engine upgrade, performance improvements, and various bug fixes. Iron Gate explained that the update's main goal is to make Valheim smoother and prepare it for the future Ashlands update.

AValheim player has shared a video with the community, showcasing their large base built in the Meadows biome. The base tour reveals the intricate structures and designs that highlight the player's creativity and skill with Valheim's building mechanics.

A Valheim player has outfitted their Plains biome to resemble a World of Warcraft Horde settlement. With how many building options there are in Valheim, players have shared countless impressive creations, and this one introduces World of Warcraft to the game.

A Valheim player has shared images of a unique house that resembles a taco. Since the game was released, Valheim fans have shared numerous creations, but this base could be among the most unique.

A Valheim player has shared screenshots of their impressive bakery building that highlight every angle of it. With how many workstations can be created in Valheim, some players are building around each role, and this player has a genius idea for a bakery building.

A Valheim player has recently shared their latest work, an awesome mountain castle with several rooms. Valheim players often create bases and share the results online, and this castle stands out due to its size and how detailed its interiors are.

A crafty Valheim player has recently shared screenshots of the incredible city they built together with their friends during 270 in-game days. Base-building is among the most important parts of Valheim, and this city shows that this activity can achieve even better results when done with friends.

A Valheim player has shown off screenshots of their complete playthrough bases, including one in each biome minus the Ocean and Swamp. The different biomes of Valheim provide not just a change to the landscape but also the resources and mobs in the area, and one player decided to make unique bases in most of them.

A Valheim player has shown off an impressive fortified Meadows base that appears nearly impenetrable. With Valheim offering many build options, countless players have shared what they've made using the materials that they find, and this port is incredible.

Many items are available for you to collect in in every biome, but some of the best ones to grab first lie deep within the waves of the Ocean environment. Every place in the game has its own unique enemies and materials for you to discover. Locations that exist in the Ocean can provide special resources you wouldn't be able to find anywhere else.

Rival survival sims Palworld and the just-launched Enshrouded are now openly battling for hearts and minds on Steam, and here comes genre supremo Valheim out of the blind corner like, errrr, one of the celebrity WWE wrestlers who hasn't turned out to be Problematic - I don't know, maybe Zack Sabre Jr? Educate me, wrestling fans.

Transportation is one of the most important parts of , and a fast travel hub is the perfect way to build how you move around from place to place. Organized Portals in your base can decrease clutter and cause less confusion as you try to reach certain locations. Creating a nexus for travel can be a great project that offers convenience as you need to travel more often.

In survival games like, making sure to have access to good food is extremely important. At the start of a new game, players will likely find their Viking foraging for foods like berries and mushrooms in the Meadows biome. However, as players begin to explore and progress, they will be able to access more food items, including meats, Honey, fish, and root vegetables.

The massive open world of is challenging to travel across unless you craft and use teleporters called Portals throughout your adventure. The resources you need to harvest in the game will often be too far from your base to risk walking on foot. As a result, you need to build Portals to transport you or other players directly to the materials you require for your next project.

Valheim is previewing a little of what we will see in the Ashlands, along with a new format video about the creative process behind creating a new biome, featuring work they’ve been doing on Ashlands.

The next major biome for Iron Gate’s Valheim is the Ashlands, a fiery region with lava and extreme temperatures. In a new Steam post, the developer confirmed its launch for the first half of 2024 but noted that it would arrive in the Public Test Branch first. On top of this, it released a new “Walk and Talk” video where the team discusses various aspects of the new biome.

Valheim has announced Trial of Tyr, a new solo, hard mode speedrunning competition for glory and rewards.

A patch for the open world survival game Valheim went live on the public test server back in June that, among other things, added world modifiers that enable players to change the game's difficulty in various ways. With that update, called Hildir's Request, now fully live, developer Iron Gate is celebrating in an appropriately viking-ish fashion with the Trial of Tyr, a speedrun competition that challenges players to race through the entire game—in hard mode—on their own.

Valheim has stood the test of time as a fun survival game to always go back to, with a unique Viking setting and whimsical yet punishing gameplay. Iron Gate Studio continues to regularly update the game, making changes to its public test branch before implementing them in the full-release version of Valheim so as to see what players think about them. The latest public test update has just dropped, bringing the branch to 0.217.13, and it comes with bug fixes and an especially useful new feature.

Valheim is one of the most unique survival games available to play, boasting an immersive Viking setting and fun co-op capability. The public test branch of Valheim has been around for a while, allowing players to explore upcoming changes before Iron Gate Studio implements them fully into the release version of the game. Valheim’s latest public test update has just dropped, bringing the version to 0.217.12, and it sees some changes made to enemy scaling as well as a variety of bug fixes.

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Skyrim finally has comprehensive cooking, as this incredible Skyrim mod for the Bethesda RPG game overhauls its food system with recipes, better effects, places to cook, more to buy from merchants, and an entirely new system incorporated into the base game of Skyrim. Hopefully, the Elder Scrolls 6 release date comes with better Tamriel cooking, too.

Polylithic caught my eye for a variety of reasons, from its vibrant color scheme to its unique premise. The indie game looks to be bringing a lot to the crafting-survival table with its Paleolithic Age setting. After thrusting you into the role of a tribal leader, Polylithic has you fight through a mysterious epidemic to help your people not only survive but also thrive. The strange sickness is not your only obstacle though, as the environment can be harsh and you’ll need to work to keep your tribe fed, happy, and growing.

If you're looking for a new survival crafting game to jump into with a pile of your friends, we just got a peek at what could become your next destination. Codename: Islands (a working title as you might guess) is a 16-player survival crafting game inspired by Minecraft, Valheim, and Terraria, being described as «100%» cooperative by its developers: several veterans of Riot Games, now part of the team at Treehouse Games.

Multiple former Riot Games executives have finally shown off their new game, Project: Islands, which wants to enter the co-op survival game space and rival the likes of Minecraft and Valheim. With both pre-alpha images and a teaser trailer, you can see what the ex-Riot staffers have got coking.