📢 Version v0.1.4 (beta) - Crossplay multiplayer, Steam achievements, faster downloads

ℹ️ ValDroid works best with Valheim 1.0.15 or newer. For multiplayer you need the same game version as the server: Valheim is on 1.0.21 now, so update the game in ValDroid first.

☕ ValDroid stays free, but coffee (and rent) doesn't. If the new version makes your Viking life a little better, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi. Thank you! 🪓

🆕 What's new

Main features

✅ Crossplay multiplayer — on the native engine you can play online together with players on Steam and Xbox: join their servers or host your own. It works through Valheim's own crossplay, so it needs your Steam account: drawer → Online & achievements, pick the instance, turn on Crossplay. When you start the game, ValDroid signs in to Steam and you approve it in Steam Mobile (Steam Guard is required). Your password is used for that sign-in only and is never saved. You can join crossplay servers from the list or with a 6-digit invite code. No router setup needed.
✅ Hosting from the phone (experimental) — Start → your world → tick Public server and Crossplay, set a password and give your friends the invite code. Keep the game on screen while you host. Please send a report and tell me how it went.
✅ Steam achievements — turn on Send achievements to Steam on the same screen, and at each launch the new ones are added to your account. My achievements shows them all, with dates. Achievements are only ever added, never removed.
✅ Faster game download — up to 12 connections at once, also on the big files. An update keeps the files that have not changed and fetches only the rest.
✅ Valheim news on the home screen — the two latest posts from Steam; a tap opens the post.
✅ In-game interface size — 125 / 150 / 175% for the HUD, bars, messages and chat on the native engine; menus and inventory keep their size.

Mods

✅ The author is shown under the mod's name when known.
✅ Enable all / Disable all, both asked first.
✅ Export writes the mods you pick into one zip, which Install takes back all at once.

Controls

✅ Physical mouse on the native engine — left, right and middle buttons and the wheel all work, with one cursor.
✅ Soft keyboards that compose words (Gboard with suggestions and others) now type in the game.
✅ On-screen buttons stay in place after a screen rotation.

Other changes

✅ Report a bug is a screen now: send by email, copy the address, or save the report to a file.
✅ The app is now signed with my own key. It installs over your current version as usual, and fakes can no longer install over it. Download ValDroid only from this GitHub page.
✅ The Full emulation engine is removed: the native engine does it better. Instances on it move to the mixed box64 + Mono engine.

Patch

✅ Patch 0.1.4v2: on the native engine, the graphics preset buttons now follow the graphics you set in the game.

Known issues

⚠️ Multiplayer works on the native engine only, and only with crossplay servers and worlds. A Steam-only server (crossplay off) cannot be reached from the phone.
⚠️ While hosting, the game pauses in the background and your friends get disconnected. Leave Keep running in the background off on the native engine.
⚠️ Steam playtime is not counted yet.
⚠️ On the native engine, mods that bring their own x86 libraries (.so files) cannot load.

⚠️ Reminder
ValDroid is only a launcher. To run the game, you need the Linux version of the game files — for example, the game bought on Steam.

Sᴜʙsᴄʀɪʙᴇ If you want to stay up to date with changes, tips, and useful tweaks, feel free to join our ValDroid subreddit.
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