Roadmap

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**Last updated 1/28/2023.**

As of January 16, 2023, Iron Gate announced that they were developing the Ashlands biome next.

While with the Early Access release Valheim had a long term Roadmap published, it was discarded in favor of prioritizing fixes and updates and only focusing on the next significant addition. This practice is more in-line with Steam's Early Access Rules, where Developers should only communicate the current state and customers should be buying the game based on its current state, not on promises of a future that may or may not be realized.

## What is being worked on?

With the unexpected success of Valheim's initial launch and early access sales, the development team was able to hire more members and form multiple teams to work on different aspects of the game. In addition to the large content updates to biomes, smaller updates get released from time to time, just like Frost Caves, Steam Deck Support or more recently, Valheim was ported to Microsoft's store & Xbox.
### **Ashlands**

Iron Gate's January 2023 update provided a teaser update for development of the Ashlands, with concept art and a description: "our current design vision for the Ashlands is that it's a land of the dead, as well as a place with quite a volcanic nature." Given that Valheim is in Early Access, this description should not be taken as what will be the final form of the biome.

## FAQ

### Why are updates taking so long?

Due to a large number of players at Valheim's release, the Developers had to prioritize bug fixing, balance, and optimization issues. This meant that they could not put all of their energy into content updates until later than expected.
### Do I need a new world with an update?

The Developers do not know this for sure; However, the progress you already have should remain working. Ideally, you can keep playing on your existing world, but you may need to create a new world to access the new content. Generally, it is recommended to not explore areas where content is still missing (in development). Because of Valheim's Map Generation, the places you never visited are not actually created, so new content will appear once you visit them. On the other hand, this means new content is only added to areas that you have not visited before. If you have explored the vast majority of your world, you need to venture to uncharted locations to enjoy new content.
### Will there ever be buildable caves in Valheim?

No. This is not a feature that the Developers want in the game. It would also require a complete overhaul of the game engine.
### When will the updates be released?

In compliance with Steam's Early Access Rules, exact dates are only announced when an update is ready to be shipped.

## References

1. ↑ Development Blog: Quests and Concepts (january 2023)
2. ↑ Initial Development Plans for 2021
3. ↑ PC Gamer, Valheim's dev says the game's success is "quite incredible and very humbling" (updated April 2021)
4. ↑ Development Blog (June 2022) - Note: These ports are being handled by two external teams, while Iron Gate keeps focusing solely on the Mistlands update!
5. ↑ Development Blog (June 2021)
6. ↑ Discord FAQ
7. ↑ Discord FAQ