Each Skeleton player can choose to eat and to spend stamina, the Aswid can't take wing in the middle of a fight, the Dvergar build the black marble set with stone, and a faction can fight as a group. None of it was tested in game, so please report what you find.
Two fixes. With factions on, a destroyed building could freeze every creature around it, and on a server that made the world unplayable. And the Dvergar now pay the metal cost the build menu shows them.
A tester noticed wood going missing. Building something your race is not allowed to build showed the refusal, stopped the building, and then charged you for it anyway — because Valheim takes the cost in a step that never heard about the refusal.
Plus a gamepad problem with the same shape: a Skadi who could barely build, because every piece she placed also cast a spell.
Five tester reports, and four of them turn out to be the same shape of bug: something the mod computes for everyone except the player it belongs to. The Trol's height existed on every screen but their own. The Fenrir's forms animated for everyone but the transformed player's onlookers. A truced mob took a hit personally and forgot about it one frame later.
Valheim 1.0 added fields to every shop item, and a September hotfix changed how the game reads a gamepad's left stick. Both landed on this mod: the faction merchants could not open a shop window at all, and the Drake could not fly. Plus the Fenrir running at twice the speed it advertises, which has been true for a long time and nobody had measured.
One fix, and it's a multiplayer-only one: the peace every race is supposed to have with part of the world was silently failing for anyone who wasn't the client hosting the mob.
This build also swapped the Sverm's Yagluth form, which never made it into the changelog at the time — see the second half of this post.
Two versions at once, because only one of them actually shipped as its own number. v1.4.1
never got a manifest.json bump of its own — its commits rode inside the v1.4.2 release, so
this post covers both under v1.4.2's real date. Where the two overlap below, that is why.
The tenth race, a flying mount, and every existing race gets something to build.
Every race can now be retuned without touching a line of code. Nine races are grouped into three factions that stop a slice of the world attacking you and let some of it trade with you instead. And two visual bugs that have been quietly wrong since their races shipped are fixed.
The ninth race arrives, and it is the first one that gets stronger by doing nothing at all. The Dvergur becomes the Dvergar, blood magic finally costs what it always claimed to, and "no skill loss" starts meaning no skill loss.