v1.5.5 — the Gjall's bombs spare their own side
A Sverm Gjall threw a bile bomb at a turtle and killed the player standing on the boat next to it. Its ticks were no better.
A Sverm Gjall threw a bile bomb at a turtle and killed the player standing on the boat next to it. Its ticks were no better.
Sverm troops that followed you piled onto your exact spot, shoved each other and shoved you. One player got pushed into the water. On a boat it was worse.
Valheim 1.0 brought new creatures and new meat, and none of the mod's diets knew about them. Now the Aswid can devour them, the Draugh eats the new raw meat, and the Skeleton can pick its look in the barber's chair.
v1.5.1 was meant to bring the mod's texts back, and for players who install through a mod manager it did not. This release does.
A fix release for v1.5.0. For some players every text of the mod read like
[rov_piece_sverm_broodmound_name], and the reports that followed turned up a Trol whose weapons
shrank, a Sverm market that sold nothing, and a Furling that stayed on fire after changing race.
A player asked for a way to translate the mod. Every text it shows now lives in plain JSON files instead of its code, and it ships in English and Italian. On the way, Valheim 1.0 turned out to be sorting two of the mod's stations into the wrong build menu, the Trol's True Form was switching itself off, and the Aswid's Eclipse had never worked at all.
Players running certain magic mods kept reporting purple smoke around a Skeleton's burning skull. Chasing it turned up something larger than one bad effect: the mod asks the game for things by name, and nine of those names are not in Valheim at all. Each one failed without a word, which is why an item promised since 1.4 had never once dropped and a whole attack had never made a sound.
Two things, both about the difference between the machine an action happens on and the machine that decides what it means. A Trol's fists were being handed the boss bonus on the host's machine, where the hit does not belong to the local player. And every player's own config file was being read as truth, in a game where everyone has to agree on the numbers.
v1.4.19 taught the Fenrir's forms to walk on other people's screens and said plainly that the attacks would need their own fix. This is it — along with a Fenrir who turned back into a human at every sunrise regardless of what the tier allowed.
A tester brought a second Skadi along, turned into Moder, and found that each of them saw themselves correctly and the other one full-sized. That is the whole class of bug this release is about: a form built around the local player, with the remote copy left to guess.