The survival game Valheim will soon have new modes. For example, you can play in hard mode or much more relaxed. There will also be a building mode.
That the modifications will be available soon was announced by the developers Iron Gate Studio back in January 2023. On Twitter, director Jonathan Smars is now revealing more detailed information about the new feature.
Very difficult or very relaxed
“Are you ready for the hardcore mode in Valheim… or do you prefer it more relaxed?” tweets Smars and shows a short video of the upcoming modifications for your Valheim worlds. The following presets are available:
- Easy: Fights are easier and there are fewer attacks on your base
- Hard: Fights are more difficult and monsters attack your base more often
- Hardcore: Fights are much more difficult and monsters attack even more frequently. If you die, all your items and skills are lost forever. You cannot use portals.
- Immersive: Here, you cannot use a map and also no portals.
- Hammer Mode: In this mode, you can build all buildings for free. There are no attacks on your base, the difficulty settings are normal – this is basically the new creative mode.
- Casual: Monsters only attack you if you provoke them. There are no attacks on your base. There are more resources than usual, and when you die, you don’t lose any items or skills.
If you don’t like the presets and instead want to select all settings yourself, you can do that below. You can exactly specify how hard fights should be, how many items you lose upon death, how many resources there are, and how often your base is attacked.
Additionally, you can set that you do not want a map, no portals, free building, and so on. Everything can be customized to your wishes and should also be changeable later in your existing worlds when the update comes.
In the trailer, you can see Valheim’s new area:
Players are excited and express further suggestions
Under the tweet, there are numerous responses to be found. Players have more suggestions, ask questions, complain about performance issues of the survival game, or simply look forward to the mods. Some of them say that they now want to return because they appreciate Valheim more again.
We summarize a few of the voices for you:
- the_swizzler: “Looks like cool options. I like the game as it is, but playing this kind of game is often helped when they offer different options.”
- Coni: “OMG this is so cool.”
- Rufus West: “This is great for Xbox. Newer players find it easier to learn the game. I wanted a beginner mode at first to change the difficulty level.”
- JZBeasty: “Seeing this makes me extremely happy. Not just the presets, but also the individual settings to really customize the experience.”
- quietscribe: “I wish for an option to build skills faster. Learning the skill Spellcasting takes so long, and it would be great not to have to grind so much.”
- MiniHerc: “Please tell me there’s an option that you don’t lose items/skills when you die. Then I could start playing the game again.”
When is the update coming? When the developers of Valheim will bring the modifications into the game is currently unclear. As soon as there is a date, we will of course inform you.
What do you think about the various modifications? Are you looking forward to being able to play Valheim in a different way? Are you then more in hard mode or casual? Feel free to let us know in the comments here on MeinMMO!
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