Iron Gate Studios continues to update Valheim as it evolves from an early access title into a full-fledged release, and with each patch comes some additions and tweaks. A group of Valheim players recently discovered a hammer that may do more damage than developers intended as it is capable of destroying their entire settlement with one attack.
Reddit user Taketheburgout posted a clip of their adventures with some friends in Valheim several days ago in which the five players are standing atop a house. The Valheim player states that one of the members of the group spawned a cheat hammer into the game using console commands and gave it to another before encouraging them to give the weapon a swing. The results of their one attack were apparently enough to make some players quit Valheim entirely as the overpowered weapon destroyed everything in the area.
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Taketheburgout's Valheim clip begins with one player thrusting the aforementioned hammer into the roof of their building which causes a brief stutter as the game loads all the physics involved with a crumbling building. A ripple is sent out in a circle around the building as hundreds of numbers are generated to reflect the damage inflicted on every item within the circle centralized with the player wielding the two-handed Valheim weapon. The five Valheim players fall into a small crater where the house once stood and many pieces of wood, resin, and leather scraps litter the small area.
According to Taketheburgout, the player that spawned in the cheat hammer suggested to their friends that the weapon doesn't do much damage before the guilty player used it. Taketheburgout stated that this one event caused them to quit Valheim, likely
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