its been a while since I last played, just listening to the music made me want to go back!

I love the game and I may be out of the loop here but… were food and blocking major concerns among players? Because I have never thought about them as something that needs to be changed. I mostly think about mushrooms and thistle not being growable, or a lack of light armor options, or how two-handed weapons seem underpowered next to 1h plus shield. I don’t know, I could easily be wrong, but this part of the update feels a bit like fixing something that isn’t broken.

I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of the people choose the 3 best foods that average out the stamina and health. Given the current importance of stamina, I can't imagine doing anything with a max health build other than wait to die. Would have been a lot more interesting to be able to 'upgrade' foods to add things like health regen and stam regen effects, potentially using ground up trophies imo. I love the current food system, how it's linked to progression and how it's not just a chore which is often the case in survival games. This change scares me. Also, linking block potential to health seems weird. The core game is just so solid (500hrs in at time of writing) that it feels all that was needed was to add the missing biome content with interesting mobs and the odd building piece. I'll give the change a fair try though, I really want anything that will keep me playing because I just love being in that world.

I'm loving how the combat deepens, and we get more styles of play into the game! Keep it up, we had a lull in content, but definitely loving how this update is shaping up.

The core thing of this game is how the aesthetic compensation of your building blocks comes through exploration, different challenges and the gathering along the way. Just add content! mechanics are fine! Add new materials expand the ocean and the biomes! making it complex through unecessary annoying mechanics risk taking the fun out of the game, and artificially make play times longer. Some suggestions: Add cool puzzles to gather rare materials, or unique rare mobs, so the materials are used for cool stuff to build, building blocks and new furniture. Add a option to craft bags to expand inventory, make the domestication of animals more intuitive. Add some type of painting mechanics tied to materials. Add some type of scaffolding to the building blocks, so we can build high with ease and logic instead of building stairs or hoping around. Add wells, and water mechanics to game, the need to water crops, or use water to other stuff with buckets. Make the forge and work bench improvement stations more than just aesthetic and to upgrade, give them a proper role. Add runes to the game, runes to protect the buildings runes to other stuff, make them cool looking and hard to craft. Add the ability to craft jewelry that give stats. And the world is too lonely, add the ability to hire or find npcs With different roles . We make these beautiful places empty with no people. There is so much fun stuff that could be added , overcomplicating food mechanics is on the bottom of my list.

The fun of the game is it's simplicity don't over complicate it. Just add content.

I love, that you guys try to get people to use the shield more. They where already pretty useful, but now with the dependence from health, it will make it more fun to travel to new lands. Keep it up!

Keep up the good work!! I'm beginning to appreciate this update more and more as I begin to make different builds. Cant wait!

The love the idea of having a stagger bar that's directly tied to your maximum health. I have one suggestion for it: the stagger bar should deplete every time you get hit, not just when blocking with a shield. This way the more stamina-focused players would have to be more careful about getting hit. So the stamina builds would be more focused on dodging, and the health builds would be more focused on blocking. Also, I read an interesting idea one time that proposed foods that boost your stamina regen in a similar way that there are foods that boost your health regen. I personally think that would be a great idea.

So excited!

I always preferred to parry to create an opening and attack over sidestepping or straight up blocking. I wonder how this will feel now.

Can't wait for the content update and the ships modifications...Valheim has so much potential to add infinite content, hope it comes soon

I wish more devs put out these little vids! So nice to have a team that communicates with the players!

The most annoying thing about health for me is your max HP depleting slowly while your food buff is up. Would much prefer a sudden drop after your food buff runs out.

So much love and support to the dev team! For everyone moaning about the update taking too long just remember there's 10x more people who understand and are so excited for this, myself included! Thanks for the update videos too, great to see a sneak peak behind the scenes! :)

It’s a brutal truth, but these updates are not at all what the community has been waiting for. Food nerfs leave a bad taste. I hope to god that there’s a LOT more to this update than what we’ve seen so far.

Cant waittttt :)

I'm so hyped for the next update

Awesome! So stoked!

cool that they added a stagger bar

the stagger bar is ok to me i just hope they dont clutter the hud with too many bars. maybe if you put it below the stamina bar it will look better and one only has to focus on one point of the screen to see how much stamina/poise is left. im personally hyped by this update :)

But will there be triangle build pieces?

Hope this means if I stack health I can reasonably use a 2-handed weapon and block/parry with it, it sucked having the 2h axe and not being able to even parry so many enemies with it that a lower tier shield could

0:13 I am so sad they aren't introducing a new tier of Stealth Armor. It could be Drake skin/leather with wolf fur.

Oof this is gonna be rough. Really good idea, once they have the ratios dialed in after this is enacted for a while it will be perfect. Also, this is going to suck for me. The glorious OP blocking I desperately relied on is about to turn to dust in my crappy, poorly timing-skilled, panic button-mashing hands.

hmm, is that really all? i really hope not, the game had a really good "jump start" but.. now.. nothing for month :( i also hope multiplayer is much more smooth then!

The Lord has spoken!

Спасибо за отличную игру!

The stagger bar needs some persistant indicator to show what amount of stagger you maxed out at on your last hit or so, as it drops too fast for you to be able to see that information otherwise.

Yay.. Now my blocking depends on what i eat as well.....

ooh the stagger bar is cool

I honestly switch between archery and dagger/shield so I am interested to see how the new food system affects that.

Hooooobooooy Max stamina + tasty mead+ first power to zoom across the map exploring everything

Hope the update drops soon, started getting some friends into Valheim

Thank you for making such a fun game! I have limited mobility in my hands and so keyboard play is very hard for me; still I can enjoy this game. Although my progress is slow it is still progress and I enjoy it! I know it must be so hard to balance all the demands put upon you to satisfy all the different gamer styles. Please don't nerf things too much without giving disabled players like me an option to play in the current difficulty level. I'm really looking forward to the Hearth & Home update. :)

Im not sure how I feel about this tbh, I wonder if it will affect the parry, if it will cause there to be 2 distinct classes now (which opens the question of magic/runes for a 3rd class), will more armor bonuses be added I wonder?

So instead of just choosing your preferred style on the fly, going on attack or defense as needed, you're locking us into certain styles with an unneeded food change and now this. And we can't change foods until the previous food buff falls off. How about you add a feature so people can opt out of stuff like this.

I've been playing since release. Bought the game and have been hosting a dedicated server even today. But I'll be honest... all my friends are gone because of the tremendous delay between updates. If the development ball stops rolling completely, the interest of people will eventually die down... and all that remains won't be a thriving community, but stubborn loyalists like me.

❤️

This is going to be intresting to figure out. I'm a archer, but when a max lv Black Metal Sword and Max Level Black Metal Buckler. Max Level Drugagr Bow with needdel arrows.

!!! Allow breeding and riding of Lox's !!!

0:21 new spear animations? Before I dropped the weapon I remember it had like one simple attack + spear throw.

FRIGGEN AWESOMEA A flip tool for building?

LETSSS A FUCKINGG GGOO!!

And yeah a food change is the last thing iron gate needed to focus on..and what it took nine months to program that? Seem like it should take less then a week to do something like that with this particular game

I use shields and hit with my hammer, so this is gonna effect a lot of my play. love the game and just got used to being able to go anywhere by myself and knowing I have a chance of living against any creature. this is my 1st game like this. but if it effects too much I'll just walk away from it.

Homogenizing defensives to health limits the flexibility of the system. A player who might have mixed things up before, will likely find themselves specializing out of benefit under this, instead of experimenting or servicing what they have available.

HEARTH AND HOME! HEARTH AND HOME!!!

Yasssss MOAR juicy FEWDS!! I like the changes to blocking and stagger - TANK mode engaged.

Nice to have versatile gameplay between aggressive and defensive, but the issue is that defensive is still lacking in combat, specially in groups. If you're going to tank most of the time you want their attention all the time. Would be nice to have something that makes enemies more aggressive to you. Another thing is that mobs' weapon will bounce off the greathsield after few hits since it can be very exhausting to hit a block of iron with all your might.

HP effects block, we have a stagger bar now. hmmm my big take from this "food" video.

Im againt of this.. here if you are low in health after a fight especially in plains and desperately running away from fuling and blocking the deathsquitos or end up facing a lox then you are a gonner.. relying on stamina for blocking is better 😡

Block power is based on maximum health? Not sure how that makes sense. So will there be no point in upgrading shields?

Looking forward to it. Fresh server and new food😁

nice 👍

Tank all the way BAY BAY!

Choosing to focus on this update first, before a new biome/boss, was a really bad choice IMO. Entirely revisiting the stam/HP system after most EA players have "beaten" the game doesn't do anything to add replayability or fun new content. If anything this new system is making it harder for new players to hop in and get rolling. It's kind of a "fixing something that isn't broken" solution. The game is sick, amazing combat, cool bosses, wide open exploration, good building mechanics, and atmosphere. The only thing that was majorly missing, was the remaining biomes, bosses, and maybe some random events to keep things new. A new food system seemed so far down on the to-do list to me. Maybe the new food system makes more sense with more end-game type items that we'll have access to later in future biomes, but as of right now people are still going to pick the 3best mixes of stam/HP and nothing is going to change content-wise. I hope the food update is only a small portion of Hearth & Home, to say the least.

О, большие щиты будут хорошо блочить, люблю и жду❤️ (Oh big shields will block well, love and wait)

When?

Cool... That nerf food is totally great.. very good /s

So no release date?

Missed to add #Shorts again :D

Looking further

OMG! I LOVE VALHEIM! GET ON VALHEIM! Haha xD

You guys need to tap into the modding community to help you get more content out. I've had a private server for 4 months now and I've been the only person whos logged on in the last 2 because lack of new content, and thats even after me adding 200+ hours of content through mods.

Can't wait! :-) (Please add a few new locations to discover for us explorers! Absolutely loved the variety of places to discover during my first days of play. The game was more fun to explore than No Man's Sky!)

cant wait for this to be released, it is much needed to bring back my friends to the game I'm lonely in valheim right now, and the greys are no fun and the wolves keep me awake all night :)

Yes!

There is plenty of content for this game... made by modders. Now I don't want to diminish the quality of this game by the developers, I love this game. But I'm disappointed that modders are beating them to the punch on content. It seems like Irongate are fixing things that aren't broken. How about reasons to sail other than just to transport ores that won't teleport? How about red and green troll skins and trophies? How about clues to hidden special treasure scattered on the many islands? How about some unique weapon treasures? How about unique building materials? How about some new monsters in the existing biomes or guarding treasures?... I could go on and on.

nice

Yeah but you can clearly see that blocking an attack still drains some stamina...so you can't afford to go pure health there for max blocking. This new system seems conflicted.

Release date please!!

My concern is that a high level shield can save me from needing food :/

i have question : dose when i play whit the freaind if i leave the game my freaind leave to?

Please port to consoles so we can all play!

i love you uwu valheim and developer uwu

0:44.........yeah you're dead

VALHEIM PORRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Could've easily put this into 1 food video, are we just gonna see videos about food now divided into different videos ?

Glad there is new content coming soon. They definitely are taking quite some time, but the response from the community has been dreadful. Honestly with that kind of hostility towards a new update, I wouldn't even blame the devs if they just abandoned the game altogether. I'm all for working with the community to build up the game. Yet, majority of the community thinks they are the devs. I didn't buy your games guys, stop telling the devs what their game is supposed to be. I actually like all the new content they are adding.

As a melee player I never used health priority foods. With how powerful parry is, I always opt for the highest stamina so that I can shield parry and counterattack as much as possible. Since blocking in this update still consumes stamina, how is this going to convince any parry player to switch to health foods? This just seems like a nerf to the shield parry/blocking system. And that in itself might be fine if blocking with tower shields or parrying with 2H weapons were buffed to be equally viable options. tl;dr How is this an improvement?

cool

is there ever going to be usable magic in this game? Sword and board has been done to death. I wanna be a utility mage whose cantrips effect the environment and world.

we want horses!!!!!!!!!!!

Stamina recovery should be progressive, not linear. The less you have the faster it fills up and viceversa, it's something so basic every other game has already figured out, why can't we get that here?

They need to add a Cooking skill, just like Run, Wood Cutting, Jump. Higher your skill, you get a percentage bump to your food when eating it, etc. Would be nice skill to have (and add Farming skill too - higher yields.) :D

I just have to say, this having to create a team of different characters with different roles to play because of different abilities kinda make me think of WOW.. and why I never liked WOW. I like being able to solo everything because I can balance everything for myself, and then still be able to invite others to play with me and all be balanced and have fun.. turning a game that is relaxed and not over complicated into a job-like game that requires calculation, balancing, spreadsheets, and different classes just to progress, takes all the fun out of an otherwise enjoyable experience. Keep it simple, add content, fix bugs and exploits. Don't remake the whole experience by F'ing up the food/health/stamina mechanics.

More stuff we never asked for and don't need.

I kinda want the game to have more replay value in some sort of maybe in term of weapon progression skill. Each weapons has it own skill, shortsword skill, longsword skill, spear skill, axe and hammer skill etc, everytime 5 or 10 you level up the weapon progression skill you get a new moveset that allow for more customize combat experience for example Shortsword skill at level 5 you unlock Power Wave move; "Charge up and unleash a great shock wave", at level 20 you unlock Round Break move; "A cyclone attack that knocks away foes. Great when surrounded." something like that. :) Kinda like Rune Factory 3 combat system where everything has it own set of skills, which improve upon player using it continuously, just like Valheim. I think we can all agree that 2-handed weapons really sucks so bad during combat because there is no variation of using it considering high level enemies in Plains and Swamp can inflict that much damage if you aren't using shield to block and parry that I wish I ask myself why bother with 2-handed weapon??

The army of spear wealding fulings "Haha watch my spear go zooooooooooom" Now u ded bro XD

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While modders made new game...

Soon we all see, what we whait 6-7 month. I hope it will be very big update.

Please take your time on developing the game. Us, the community would want the game to succeed as you do. Take care and stay safw

I love this game but the delay of the Update got me and my friends off this game. The time between updates will be too big so we will start playing if the full release is there. Guess we have to wait about 5 years or more, cause the Roadmap (only for this year) were aout 6-7 things and no full release mentioned. We'll see how tides will turn.

so underwhelming

Nooooo... Don't do this! :( I don't want to lose my superlong Stamina and Healthbars... Always having to look on the numbers sounds annoying as heck...

Ehhhhh, so 2 updates videos. Nearly three weeks apart and 50% of content is about food? I mean if we are looking at new combat overhauls why not more enemies or do something with the ashelands? .-. are yall still saving the build changes only thing i can recall is you can kinda add a treasury room like in fable 3?

Just fix build lags, , fps drops, and general lagging, its kinda hard to play with more than 4 Friends in a place with more than 5k instances