Valheim Hearth & Home Gives Food, Heath and Stamina An Overhaul

When Valheim launched back in February, it made us think differently about the survival genre. Now, the game’s Hearth & Home update is set to refine everything we love about the Nordic adventure. Let’s take a look!

Valheim hearth & home screenshot
Credit: Iron Gate

So, what actually is Hearth & Home? Well, it’s essentially Valheim’s first major overhaul that implements changes to things like food, health and stamina. The team over at Iron Gate has released the first in a series of spotlight videos that aims to explain the various changes coming to Valheim in the update. The first change, described in the developer’s debut video, delves into the game’s new food system and how it now caters to a range of play styles.

As you’d expect with a survival game, Valheim’s food system is crucial. However, the Hearth & Home Update aims to define specific foods by giving them unique health and stamina properties. This is something that Iron Gate aims to achieve by colour coding foods, with red foods providing health, yellow for stamina and white being a mixture of the two. By doing this, Iron Gate believes players will be able to be “more creative” with their playstyle, whether you’re a homebody or a wandering warrior in search of glory.

It’s worth mentioning that this latest Hearth & Home Update video is to be the first of many. Therefore, we’ll probably hear more about the various changes coming to the game soon. However, if this first teaser is anything to go by, Hearth & Home will make the world of Valheim an even better survival adventure experience.

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Featured Image Credit: Iron Gate