New game required for patch content?

[Cris]

Anyone know if the new content caves, trader etc will spawn in biomes allready discovered or do we need to start a new seed?

[astator]

Nothing will change in areas already discovered. But traders has multiple potential spawn points you likely have not explored them all.

[Cris]

Originally posted by astator:

Nothing will change in areas already discovered. But traders has multiple potential spawn points you likely have not explored them all.

As I feared. Yeah there are areas not explored, but thats a long, loooooong sailing trip away either direction. The trader will have a map Icon so he's not such a big deal, but the new dungeons etc will be a bit time consuming to discover in a world largely allready mapped out

[Blakkrazor]

I started a fresh seed just for this patch but a month early so I could at least get some footing. I did use the Valheim Seed Viewer to find one that had Haldor within walking distance and scored one with a massive continent stretching all the way out to the Mistlands with only small river breaks to use for this playthrough and Hildir ended up being within walking distance as well.

[Gladi8er65]

In the official pinned thread at the top of the message boards....

https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/0/3383905288030494726/

Q: "Will new content be added to my world I currently are playing on?"

A: "New content such as tar pits, mountain caves and Mistlands in the future will not appear in areas that have been already generated. Areas are generated 300-500 meters from a player's location. "Exploremap" and "resetmap" has no effect."


This means, approximately 500 meters, in all directions from anywhere the player has ever been, will remain unchanged, or rather un-updated, and only areas beyond that, will receive updated content.

Note that the amount of map that gets revealed to the player, as they explore, (fog-of-war lifted) is a vastly smaller radius than that.

[Falcion]

Originally posted by Blakkrazor:

I started a fresh seed just for this patch but a month early so I could at least get some footing. I did use the Valheim Seed Viewer to find one that had Haldor within walking distance and scored one with a massive continent stretching all the way out to the Mistlands with only small river breaks to use for this playthrough and Hildir ended up being within walking distance as well.

Share this wonderfully sounding seed :)

[rexpiscator]

I've been playing on a world since the very beginning, 1200+hrs...and only explored in a few directions, out to the Mistlands updates. Way less that a 1/4 of the map exposed. To date, I've managed to experience all updated content...I'm wondering about the new dungeons with 'miniBosses'...I have several marked from Hildir's table, does each contain the quest item? or do the multiple dungeons despawn like the multiple Haldor spawn points??...curious as I've not entered any of the marked locations. I have a few of each of the 3.