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 Friday, 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 team

Abbreviated 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 improvements

Detailed Patch Notes: