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Christopher Livingston

EXPLAINED: Valheim is getting a creative mode and some truly brutal hardcore difficulty options | Vintage Vibes

Valheim Viking giving thumbs up

As teased back in January, Iron Gate Studio has been working on adding difficulty settings for Viking survival game Valheim. Today on Twitter Valheim lead designer Jonathan Smårs gave us a quick look at what's planned, ranging from a creative mode that lets you build without resources to a peaceful "casual" mode to a hardcore setting that will brutally punish the bravest (or most foolhardy) players.

Smårs says these settings aren't final, but a quick skim of the video posted gives us a look at the text descriptions of the various world modifiers and difficulty presets the Valheim team is working on. Here's the current state of the new in-development modes, subject to change:

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