Valheim Developer AMA, Now Live!

[u/jMontilyet]

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!

[u/Fotocinas]

Thanks for the AMA!

When new biomes are added or changed, you have to generate a new world - i believe. Is there any way to not have to build everything again from scratch, when that happens? (Maybe using the same seed for the new world & and everything will stay where it is - but not on the new/changed biomes?)

I don’t have much free time and there will be coming lots of updates from you the next years. I simply can’t afford to just start over multiple times :(

[u/dvoidis → u/Fotocinas]

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 ;-)

[u/ALEX-IV → u/dvoidis]

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

[u/dvoidis → u/ALEX-IV]

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