​Patch 0.221.10 – Five Years of Valheim!     ​

Greetings vikings!Today marks the five year anniversary since Valheim was first released into Early Access – and what an incredible five years it’s been!We want to thank everyone who has been a part of our journey and our community since then, whether you started playing on day one or have just been carried by the valkyrie for the first time. We greatly appreciate every single one of you, and we’re so glad to have you walk this path with us.For this anniversary you will find a patch live right now for everyone, with some new celebratory items and emotes, along with some quality of life fixes!If you want to keep the celebration going throughout the week, you can tune in to Twitch on Thursday, where there will be a livestreamed concert by the Munich Radio Orchestra! They will be playing music from a bunch of video games, including Valheim.As you all know, we’re working on Deep North, which will be the final biome update that brings the game into 1.0. While we can’t give an update on that today, we can share that 2026 is going to be a great year for Valheim. Once again, thank you so much for being with us for five whole years! Skål!!/The Iron Gate teamAbbreviated Patch Notes:* A celebratory hat!* Early Axes* Frosted Sweetbread* Added a radial menu for emotes* New emotes* New hairstyles* 2 new buildable garlands* Engine Upgrade* Multiple bug fixes and improvementsDetailed Patch Notes:New Content:* 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 emotesFixes & Improvements:* 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 containerReworked graphics settings:* 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 aroundOptimizations:* Change engine settings to improve performance in areas with many instances* Massively reduced CPU usage of armo