Patch 0.221.10 — Five Years of Valheim

Detailed Patch Notes:

• New Emote: Vibe
• New Emote: LoveYou
• New Buildpiece: Flower Garland
• New Buildpiece: Fey Lights
• New Consumable: Frosted Sweetbread
• New Weapon: Early Axes
• New Hat: Celebratory Cap
• 2 New Materials: Mysterious Axe Head, Curious Axe Head
• 3 New Hairstyles (Champion, Chronicler, Sunbringer)
• Added radial menu for emotes
• Tweaks to multiple hairstyles (Castellan, Painter Curls, Pulled Back Curls, Tidy Curls)
• Tweaks to berserker armour
• Carapace Buckler now provides 5 adrenaline instead of 10 on perfect block, just like other shields
• Updated Game Engine to Unity 6000.0.61f1
• Added localization string for tombstone container
• Replaced “Render scale” percentage slider with “3D resolution limit” dropdown with fixed resolutions – improves use case as performance target
• Added new “Upscaling method” setting with new “Pixelated” option
• Added new “Low” SSAO quality option, which achieves a similar look to the existing SSAO quality (now named “High”) with a significantly lower performance impact
• The frame rate limiter can now be used together with v-sync (chooses the lowest submultiple of the monitor refresh rate that is greater than or equal to the selected value)
• The frame rate limiter setting is now applied during the splash/loading screen
• The resolution dropdown setting now sorts resolutions from highest to lowest, instead of the other way around
• Change engine settings to improve performance in areas with many instances
• Massively reduced CPU usage of armor stands
• Skip texture copy for image effects (shield dome and heat distortion) when those effects aren’t being used, which should reduce GPU overhead in most areas
• Grass vegetation is no longer included in environment reflections, improving performance
• Ensure one-shot sound effects are started the same frame they’re created, reducing their latency by up to one frame
• Reduced memory usage of minimap
• Only load graphics presets for the current platform, rather than all platforms, reducing memory usage
• Removed a duplicated matchmaking manager that wasted performance in the start menu
• Fixed “Generating” progress bar not always being shown during world generation
• Fixed server list sometimes failing to save when quitting from the start menu
• Fixed crash that could occur in multiplayer when a T.W.I.G. throws a rock at a player who is at the edge of a shield dome
• Fixed crash that happened when hovering the cursor over a bee hive without being the network owner of that bee hive
• Fixed audio stutter that occurred when a lot of sounds were playing simultaneously
• Fixed Yggdrasil not being visible in environment reflections
• Improved error message shown when trying to play online without being logged in to Game Center
• Player list now successfully shows profile pictures of non-friends too
• All settings are now stored per-user and synchronized to the cloud, rather than being shared between all users on the console
• UI is now rendered at native resolution (up to 4K) on Xbox Series S|X and Xbox One X
• Improved graphics:
• Xbox One and Xbox One S: Added SSAO and increased number of point lights
• Xbox One X: Increased number of point lights
• Xbox Series S: Increased number of point lights and enabled point light shadows
• Xbox Series X: Increased number of point lights, enabled point light shadows and adjusted resolutions
• Reduce power draw even more when the game is running in the background
• Reworked graphics presets and unified them across the three platforms
• Fixed automatic render scale sometimes being set incorrectly in windowed mode
• Improved graphics presets:
• Performance mode now reaches 60 fps
• Optimized preset settings for battery life
• Native resolution is now used on first start, instead of 1366x768
• Sprite atlases are now included in the extended manifest file for Asset Bundles