Its a new year and were back with new energy and even more creative ideas! Were all definitely looking forward to sharing some more Valheim stuff with you, and we hope youre just as excited to explore it. 2022 also means that its time for our first anniversary! Today, February 2nd, marks an entire year since Valheim first launched, and what a year its been! We never could have imagined that Valheim would get as big as it did, and its all thanks to you players. Were going to celebrate throughout the whole month of February, and weve got some fun stuff planned for you keep an eye on our social media pages to make sure you dont miss anything! In case you havent seen it, Valheim is also discounted during the Lunar New Year Sale! Because of how this lines up with the anniversary today, were extending the discount over the weekend as well, so tell your friends! With 2021 coming to a close, we were also named Game of the Year by PC Gamer! Its an honour to receive such an award in Early Access, and we will work hard to live up to that title all the way to the 1.0 release and beyond. Over the winter holidays weve also hosted our first ever building competion on Twitter. We got so many cool entries, but in the end we managed to settle on a few winners. Since our community is so talented when it comes to building, we would really like to share more of your creations. To do so, well be keeping an eye on the hashtag #ValheimBotM on social media, and going forward well share some of our favourite Builds of the Month! For now though, turn your eyes once more to the build by Zugzuglife, the winner of the Build for Baldr competition:
Additionally, Steam Deck is also planned to launch in February! We would of course like to have Valheim running smoothly on it from the start, so thats something were working on at the moment. Wouldnt it be great to be able to bring Valheim with you on the train, or maybe even out into the woods? (If the greydwarfs give you their wifi password, that is.) Aside from the Steam Deck, were also putting the finishing touches to the Mountain update that weve teased in our previous Steam posts. Were really excited to share it with you, and we hope that this can get you in the right mood for it as well:

Alongside the Mountain update, weve also been ramping up work on Mistlands. The phase of nailing down the core concept is done, and we know what kind of inhabitants we want the biome to have. This means were now working on a bunch of new build pieces and enemies, as well as defining more of the new mechanics we will be introducing (though wed like to keep those secret for a while longer). Heres a little piece of concept art to get a feeling of where were heading:
Thank you all again for having been with us this past year, and were looking forward to many more adventures to come! The Iron Gate team Discord Twitter Facebook Instagram Reddit