When Valheim came out and quickly blew up to nearly seven million players, developer Iron Gate Studio came out with an ambitious plan to drop four big content updates in 2021, starting with the Hearth & Home update. Now it seems like Iron Gate may have overpromised a bit on that roadmap.
“As we’re sure lots of you suspected, we won’t be able to deliver four updates this year,” Iron Gate wrote in an update earlier today. “Instead, we’re now planning to launch Hearth & Home in Q3 2021, and we’re temporarily taking down the roadmap whilst we make some changes.”
As many new indie developers quickly find out, launching your game isn’t the end of development. With so many players reporting bugs, Iron Gate’s focus for the past several months has simply been putting out fires and making Valheim “as stable as possible.”
“To put it clearly; we haven’t been able to focus all of our resources on Hearth & Home until May,” the developer added.
This means a revised and hopefully more attainable roadmap is on the way, starting with Hearth & Home in the fall followed by the Mistlands biome after that. Cult of the Wolf and Ships and the Sea are now more likely to arrive in 2022. We’ll get Iron Gate’s revised roadmap in the coming weeks.
But in the meantime, we have a few Hearth & Home teasers to go over. Iron Gate shared several screenshots for the upcoming content drop, including new build pieces to make quaint Viking cottages, new cooking station extensions for Viking gourmands, and 10 new recipes “including Eyescream, Shocklate smoothie, various wolf meats, and more.”
And if you haven’t played in a while, the latest patch will feel like a bit of a content update because of two random event triggers that were recently fixed. The Wolf Hunt and Fuling Army events were previously in the game but the trigger was bugged so neither would actually happen. That’s been fixed, so expect a few tough fights in your immediate future.
