{"id":1695473,"date":"2026-09-17T17:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cJCwudTEsFkbKSPMcFeSLh"},"modified":"2026-09-17T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:10:23","slug":"valheim-devs-finally-get-around-to-reading-5-years-of-player-feedback-let-you-remap-dodge-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/valheim-devs-finally-get-around-to-reading-5-years-of-player-feedback-let-you-remap-dodge-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Valheim devs finally get around to reading 5 years of player feedback, let you remap dodge key"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When battling tree-swinging trolls, ice-spitting dragons, and fire-breathing skeletal demigods, it’s hard to think of a skill more important than dodging. A shield or a weapon held up defensively can help, sure, but escaping deadly attacks in Valheim is often down to how quickly you can tuck and roll.<\/p>\n

Which makes it a bit curious that over the past five years of early access, you couldn’t redbind the dodge skill to a single key or button press. If you want to dodge on keyboard, you have to hold the block button (mouse 2) and press jump (space bar) and pick a direction (WASD). On controller, it’s a stick + button combo. No single tap for a deeply important maneuver has been available for the past five years.<\/p>\n

Until today! Those busy Valhiem devs finally took a peek at player feedback and noticed the request people have been making constantly for the past five years, seven months, 15 days, 17 hours, and 22 minutes: You have now been granted the ability to remap your dodge key to an alternate\u2014no doubt single-tap\u2014configuration. <\/p>\n

Better late than never?<\/p>\n

That’s not the only key rebinding option that’s been added. You can rebind items on the radial wheel and hotbar, too. A much newer request, to disable the intro cinematic (which only appeared with Valheim 1.0 last week), has also been granted. There are also some bug fixes, notably more tinkering with the Valheim cheat<\/a>-flagging feature that was mislabeling some players and resources as cheats. <\/p>\n

Have a look at the full patch notes<\/a> below, and good luck trying to unlearn the muscle memory you’ve developed for dodging with three different keys over the past five years or so. One note: the patch, devs say, “will require a few days to get uploaded to all platforms.” I’ve checked and it’s live on PC now, however.<\/p>\n

Quality of Life<\/strong>:<\/p>\n