Valheim Update Adds Crossplay and More

gamerant.com:

Valheim developer Iron Gate officially releases an update that enables cross-platform play in the Viking survival game. The virally successful release has now been available in early access on Steam for over a year and a half and Iron Gate continues to expand Valheim with new features and content regularly. This new Valheim update is relatively insubstantial, but it shows that the development of the game is ongoing with Iron Gate constantly looking toward the future.

Before any Xbox fans get confused, the release date for Valheim on console has not changed since the last time Iron Gate talked about it.Valheim will still be coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in the first half of 2023 as an Xbox Game Pass Day One release. When those ports of Valheim arrive, they will support cross-platform play, too. That's not what the latest Valheim update is necessary for, however.

Valheim Player Creates Working Sundial

The latest Valheim update addresses a different type of cross-platform play. While the Xbox release of Valheim won't arrive until next year, a different announcement confirmed that the survival game would be released via PC Game Pass on September 29. That means Valheim will be offered on the Microsoft Store, in addition to Steam. Today's update will enable cross-platform play between PC storefronts, so that Steam, Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass for PC players can all play together.

Several other quality-of-life features have also been added in this Valheim update. There's now an interface allowing players to restore/remove saves and backups, the «Join Game» tab now supports adding favorite servers, and various other changes to make finding a cross-play server easier. Basically, not every server will convert to the