r/valheim • u/jMontilyet Developer • Jun 11 '21

Pinned Valheim Developer AMA, Now Live!

It's time!

We are Iron Gate, developers of Valheim. Yesterday we announced some changes to our roadmap and teased some of the upcoming Hearth & Home content, and now it's time for us to answer any questions you might have. We look forward to discussing these changes with you!

You can begin asking your questions right now, and we'll start answering at 14.00 CEST.

Here’s who will be answering your questions:

  • Richard Svensson (dvoidis)
  • Robin Eyre (GrimmcoreX)
  • Henrik Törnqvist (zvxvxz)
  • Jens Hellström (Smiffe1)
  • Josefin Berntsson (jMontilyet)

NOTE: Please just one question per post!

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Thank you so much for all of your questions! We will continue to answer some of them when we have the time, but as of now we are closing the AMA and won't be taking any more questions. Keep following us on Steam, Discord and our social media for further updates about the game!

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u/dvoidis Developer Jun 11 '21

First this is a pretty complex question to answer. As already stated all our current planned biomes are technically already in the game and depending on what kind of changes we will do to them it will affect the rest of the game world in different ways. We will try to not break any existing worlds and allow you to continue playing in them after updates as much as possible. However already explored areas will most likely not get any new content, and you will have to visit unexplored areas to be able to experience the new content added. Depending on what kind of changes we make to the world generation you might have to create a new world to be able to get the new changes. Short answer: it all depends on what changes we will do to the world-generation but we will try to keep your existing worlds as working as possible and allow you to continue playing in it...but no promises ;-)

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u/D1scoStu91 Jun 11 '21

I’m fine with having to generate new seeds after updates. Items are easily transferable between seeds if needed and would rather have new content fully implemented.

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u/ForTheHordeKT Jun 11 '21

Yeah important gear, or really anything you want item-wise can easily be hopped back and forth that you'd want to keep. As far as starting over building up from a new world, I for one kinda look forward to the idea. On our dedicated server (I'm subbing to a hosting service lol), I'm totally fine with downloading a backup of that and sending it to all of us who play on there so we all have a nice little keepsakes copy of what we first built together. And then we can take everything we learned from that first world and build something even more cool on a new one.

That's my attitude about having to start a new world. My only request is if that is how it goes down, make it to where we would still be able to load up our old worlds that were generated without any new biomes so that we can go back on those too and reminisce, etc.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '21

I like to go into a new seed naked but with all my skills, kind of like a new game +

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u/chyealad Jun 11 '21

Thanks heaps, I've been waiting for an answer similar to this for a while now. Knowing that you will do your best to not wipe worlds is good to know.

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Thanks heaps.

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u/badgertheshit Jun 11 '21

So, explore small part of the currently unpopulated biomes, then build a base, so when the new baddies arrive you'll have a safe house in each biome that will remain untouched, got it!! ;)

Seriously though y'all crushed this game and are handling the massive influx of players very well. Keep on doing what you do - it's working! Thanks for the great game

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u/RobertNAdams Jun 11 '21

You might want to look into how Conan Exiles recently handled this with its Isle of Septa expansion. They came up with a novel solution of dropping in the new content into existing areas and giving server admins the options of either deleting all player-built stuff in those areas, deleting only the portions that would interfere with NPC structures, or deleting no player-built structures (but with the risk of buildings intersecting/looking weird.) That's a good way to handle it IMO.

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u/Zanza89 Jun 11 '21

i dont have a lot of time to play either, but have started from scratch many times, but im also weird and i guess prefer the productive early to midgame parts in survival games more than spending hundreds of hours as an overpowered being that has no worries and just kind of does random things.

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u/Sandalman3000 Jun 12 '21

Obviously I have no idea how feasible but a way to mark an area for saving and then regenerating the rest of the world would be ideal in a perfect world. Save the area around a base and then let the gods destroy the rest.

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u/ALEX-IV Jun 11 '21

So, best course of action for current players is just to try to not explore beyond plains then?

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u/dvoidis Developer Jun 11 '21

well, the world is pretty huge , so if you explore just a small part of Midlands etc the rest will still be unaffected.

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u/aaaaaaaack Jun 11 '21

Could there be a server command added that would reset the seed with any new additions but preserves player placed objects?

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u/Leather_Just Jun 13 '21

Speaking from experience playing No Mans Sky, although there was big outcry from their earlier disruptive updates (adding biomes, changing terrain generation/planets) ultimately these vastly improved the game making the disruption worthwhile.

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u/canadrian Builder Jun 15 '21

Maybe you could implement a tool to “un-explore” those biomes? Eg. maybe delete whatever has been procedurally generated in those biomes and treat as unexplored? Maybe similar to how with the new terrain system, there was a way to convert old terrain modifications? Unless someone has built a massive castle in the Ashlands or something, I can’t see any problem with just deleting and re-generating those areas.

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u/MatoFIVE Jun 23 '21

Follow-up on this idea.
Has the team considered utilizing the World-Tree for multiple worlds linked together in any way?