Restart on v1.0

Hi all, My friend is at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, Germany, and had a chance to meet Jonathan, one of the lead engineers/designers on Valheim. I've been playing Valheim for a while, but I recently started a fresh 5-6 player playthrough with some friends. We've only put in about 15 hours so far and just took down Eikthyr, mostly because it took a few sessions to get everyone online at the same time. While talking with him, my friend mentioned our world progress, and Jonathan suggested that we consider a full restart when the update launches.

The impression he got was that there will be new content that players may not want to miss, in addition to the obvious new material in the Far North. I'm sharing this as an FYI. We're still very early in our playthrough, so restarting wouldn't be a huge deal for us and would actually give some of our newer players a chance to experience everything from the beginning. For those of you much further along, though, it might be something worth keeping in mind.

I also wanted to mention that I had assumed we'd be fine as long as we hadn't explored the Far North yet. Based on this conversation, it sounds like there may be additional changes outside of that biome as well. I don't know whether that means entirely new content, world generation changes, spawn changes, or something else, so take this as unofficial information. The recommendation was simply that a fresh world would let players see everything the update has to offer.

Personally, I have a separate solo world that's much further along that I specifically pushed ahead while waiting for the Far North update, and I'm not going to restart that one. For our new group world, though, a restart seems like an easy decision given how early we are.

tldr: developer suggests restart on 1.0, but it’s really up to you since it’s your game