Valheim: Call To Arms major update announced with new combat mechanics and lots of new items

Iron Gate AB have been cooking! Valheim: Call To Arms is the next major update to the popular survival game and it's available to test right now.

This was announced during Gamescom and it looks to be a pretty game-changing update. While the developers have previously expanded the overall content and added in new biomes, this pulls this back a bit to the more basic gameplay to expand what's possible with it. There's new combat mechanics, a new wearable trinkets system, a whole lot of new weapons and so much more.

Check out the update trailer:

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The main highlights of what's coming:

• Forsaken Powers rebalanced.
• New combat mechanics & combat improvements.
• New equipable item type: Trinkets.
• 13 new trinkets.
• 1 new skill.
• 2 new creatures, with 1 additional overhauled creature.
• 1 new food item.
• 8 new crafting materials.
• 18 new weapons (9 wooden).
• 2 new armour sets.
• 3 new building pieces.
• 3 new hairstyles.
• 5 new beard styles.
• 1 new location.
• Some items can now have multiple orientations on item stands.
• Unity engine upgraded.
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements.

See how you can test with the instructions in their announcement. It's not clear when it will launch fully, but hopefully sometime soon if the Beta testing goes well.