Long ago, the five food groups lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Carbohydrate Nation attacked. Only the Turnip Lamp, master of ‘tacticool’ and nutritional value could stop them, but when the world needed it most, it vanished!

Not a lot of people know this about me, but I find making weird comparisons to anything regardless of context hilarious. Back to the news!

Book 1: Context!

Valheim is an open-world action-adventure survival RPG, or PVE (player vs environment) experience. It is set in a land where Odin banished his greatest foes and defeated enemies in battle. So, between this, Elden Ring, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, God of War Ragnarok and VA-11 Hall A, I’d say us gamers like us some good ol Norse mythology.

After a series of patches to Valheim was announced by Iron Gate Studio, another update confirmed for the game was the ability to make Jack-O-Lanterns from turnips, in celebration of the upcoming Halloween season.

Fun fact! Turnips and potatoes were among the first known Jack O’Lanterns in Irish history. If you’re in the mood for a dose of nightmare fuel before bedtime, have a butcher’s at the handsome devil pictured below.

It looks like the twisted lovechild of Leather Face and The Watcher! And for those of you who don’t know who those are, here you go:

Book 2: Updates

As far as other gameplay updates to Valheim goes, stamina costs for attacks have been reduced to allow for more flexibility in combat, based on feedback from players. Status buffs from foods have been increased too; or in lay terms, ‘when get hurt, eat deer meat, make life bar feel good’. It’s no Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild levels of culinary brilliance (psst, click here for more on that), but still works perfectly well in it’s own right. The game devs haven’t announced whether this item will be here to stay all year round, but either way, still nice to see folks getting into the holiday spirit.

Book 3: I Searched For Copper And Found Gold!

Was originally going to close this off with a ham-fisted plug about how “oh, Valheim has a lot of cool agricultural stuff, but Red Dead Redemption has that too, please buy it FROM US“, since some of our products have better prices then the Playstation Store at the best of times. Last time I saw, the thing was on sale for 80-something quid, so was hoping we’d have it cheaper and… Well, yes in terms of Xbox One, but I found an even better deal!

Not one for one. Not two for one. THREE! Tres. San. Trois. Drei! A menage-et of epic proportions!

For £69.99 (nice), you can get Red Dead Redemption 2, the Definitive Edition of Hitman AND… *checks notes*, well, it was based on a hit show directed by Guillermo del Toro, so I’d say there’s about an 80-20 chance you’ll have a good time with it. Click here for the full details of the product deal.

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The new update is definitely going to test our inventory management…

Since its announcement, the upcoming seismic update for Iron Gate’s Viking simulator Valheim has been shrouded in secrecy. However, Iron Gate has been releasing snippets of information here and there, giving players a brief idea of what to expect. The developer has now served up a few more morsels of information, and this time, it’s related to the game’s food system. The whole system is set to receive a huge overhaul – and it looks like some food items are getting a nerf in the process.

In the game’s current form, simply shoving some food in your mouth will result in (somewhat) even amounts of health and stamina, but the system arriving in Hearth and Home will change that. Food will soon be divided into three categories: those which provide health, stamina or an even split.

The different categories will be marked by a coloured fork icon, with red indicating a focus on health, yellow for stamina, and white for a balanced meal. The food bar is also being replaced by a timer system to indicate how long the foods will last.

We also received a very brief look at the stats provided by food, and it looks like some meals are getting a slight nerf to the maximum amount of health and stamina they can provide. As spotted by PC Gamer, Cooked Lox Meat currently gives you 70 health and 40 stamina, but after the change, it will only provide 50 health and 10 stamina. As another example, Blood Pudding currently provides 90 health and 50 stamina, but after the update, it will give a maximum of 14 health and 70 stamina. Blood Pudding provided the biggest HP buff of all the food items in the game until this point, so that’s quite the shake-up.

It also looks like these items won’t last for quite as long, either: Cooked Lox Meat will now last 20 minutes (1200 seconds) instead of 33.3 minutes (2000 seconds), while Blood Pudding will last 25 minutes (1500 seconds) instead of 40 minutes (2400 seconds). The way things currently work in Valheim is that the potency of food steadily decreases over time. So if the new system provides the buffs at maximum strength for a longer period, things could balance out. And indeed, one developer has confirmed that the new system will have a “less linear curve”, with little deterioration for the most part and items only deteriorating quickly towards the end of the timer. It should at least make managing your health a little more predictable.

The update will also give us a wider variety of food items to craft, with new foods like Eyescream, Shocklate Smoothies and “wolf meats” being introduced. It sounds like the new update will put further strain on our inventories with a new number of ingredients to keep up with.

We have also been informed that new ways to store treasure and your stacks of gold will come with the update.

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Some of what to expect…

The next major update for the superb Viking simulator Valheim is in the making. Developer Iron Gate has previously revealed some of the details we can expect, with new foods, cooking stations and building pieces among the new additions. However, we have now been informed of the inclusion of iron cells, treasure chests, and giant piles of gold also debuting through the update, landing autumn.

If your chests are getting too full of gold coins, you’ll be able to store them right on the ground in tidy stacks or sloppy, dragon-like piles (see below).

There will also be a new type of storage chest, black and silver treasure chests (see below), which Iron Gate say are “to keep your additional excess wealth and supplies safe”. They don’t elaborate on that point, but at a guess, that may mean you’ll be able to lock them somehow to keep your goodies safe from your co-op pals. Or perhaps they don’t break as easily when attacked by invading baddies.

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Iron Gate says they’re still on track to bring Hearth & Home to the game “this very quarter”. After that, they’ve said that the spooky Mistlands are next up on the to-do list.

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