“The Spill” may sound like your favorite MMO’s requisite sewer zone, but today we’re talking tea, as it’s the name of Coffee Stain’s and Iron Gate’s new community show. And today, the studio are spilling what’s en route for survival sandbox Valheim, which has been in early access nearly three years now.
The update touches on the swamps biome upgrade and its new inhabitant: a bog witch, “a mysterious new vendor eerily reminiscent of a Greydwarf who will offer players potions, spices and new materials for additional tools and crafting recipes.” It sounds as if specific ingredients for crafting tonics, meads, and draughts will also be on offer, plus those recipes include large-scale cooked meals. Yes, cooking is coming to the game, in addition to a new farming skill and tools to make your existing farming and gardening much easier.
“The Bog Witch update will also introduce an option for the designated chefs and cooks of a friend group to prepare magnificent feasts that they can share with their fellow vikings. These banquets will last longer and offer multiple servings of a wide range of delicious dishes hailing from the different parts of Valheim. Eight new feasts are being introduced, each requiring ingredients from a different biome. […] With the introduction of feasts, a new ‘Cooking’ skill is also introduced for Vikings that wish to specialise in the finer arts of survival. As players cook more dishes and increase their cooking skill, they will be able to reduce the time it takes to prepare food, and have a chance to craft additional food items.”
We don’t have a hard date for the patch launch (or for the game itself), but the teams do say that it’ll be starting public testing “soon.”
