valheim-chat

[normal badger]

all hail valheim

[odd helm]

[regal spoke]

Hail

[rain flare]

Except the bloody wooden spikes 😂

[regal spoke]

True

[odd helm]

I keep forgetting about those

[regal spoke]

No return

[odd helm]

I hardly ever use them

[regal spoke]

I made a spike pit for a bf spawner. To much maintenance keeping the spikes fixed.

[rain flare]

At this point it’s a I will never use them based purely on principle 🤣

[paper marsh]

Man coordinated dragon attacks are actually kinda scary. Just walked up on dragons nest and 3 of them came at me at once. Get hit once and you're frozen in place for the other two to take a shot, and they're doing 60+ damage per shot

[odd marsh]

mofos are becoming intelligent

next thing you know, theyll be planning to take over a biome

[paper marsh]

They'd probably succeed

[gray nexus]

did someone say dragons

[paper marsh]

I did!

huh just uppercut a wolf to send it tumbling down the mountain. It took me with it somehow...

[normal badger]

shakes in amusement

[normal badger]

I'm reading this and I'm like: HUH

idk which one of these scenarios are easier to imagine lmao

🐺 🐉

[paper marsh]

Silly there are no dragons in Valheim

[rain flare]

It’s worse when you combo that with wolves or golems 😂

[paper marsh]

Frozen while golem approaches

At least Golem might take some aggro

[brittle flower]

I still dont know what happened when i got to the mountains in my survival

I had lvl4 iron armor and 190hp then a drake shot its attack to me and i died how does 3 drake shots deal 190dmg to lvl4 irons

[paper marsh]

Normal difficulty?

[odd marsh]

hmmm staggered perhaps?

[paper marsh]

they do 90 damage per shot on normal and shoot 3 shots. If you have frost resist it's gonna be half that damage that goes through. If you don't but if you have full levelled iron I'd expect each shot to be like half that as well. But you coulda gotten staggered and taken extra damage, gotten pushed off a cliff and taken fall damage, got hit by more dragons you didn't see, or had less health than expected

Drakes are brutal if you don't have frost resist

Alright I've explored 2 smallish, 1 medium-large, and 1 large mountain now. Still have only found ONE non-frost-cave structure, and that one didn't have onions. Off to this very big mountain with a howling cave to see if it has any onions for me

I'm just a poor boy in a drake helmet and troll armor, I need da onions

[gray nexus]

dragons remind me of the ballista tower I built in my devcommands world, it was made of black marble and i spawned 100 of them of watched the massacre lmao

[paper marsh]

lmao

[gray nexus]

xd

[near furnace]

now you understand why we hid the mistlands boss in a place you're not allowed to build balistas? 😄

[gray nexus]

[toxic rose]

Ashland boss will probably be hidden somewhere too

[bold garden]

Should have hid the swamp boss in a place where i couldnt build a treehouse 2 feet taller than him

[merry pebble]

Where is the fun in that tho

[near furnace]

he will not smash your house 😄

not like before

[modest pewter]

About that, how is bonemass meant to be beaten by the developers? I just can't do it as I have said to myself I'm not going to use bow and arrows this time (I never got passed bonemass last times I played)

He just get replenished as i run around with my knife and spear killing the skeletons and blobs haha

[heady parcel]

Use the mace, and get out of the poison cloud when he burps, even with poison resist it will wear you down. Dodge or parry his melee, and use the stage when he pukes to clear adds.

Arrows are pretty much useless, so is knife

[ionic iron]

Yup Iron mace. What armour you using?

[modest pewter]

To be fair, im pretty bad at the combat haha, but I'm getting better because I'm not using a bow this time! Yeah I heard someehere you want blunt damage on him?

[heady parcel]

yes, only damage type he doesn't resist

[modest pewter]

I am rocking the troll hide at level 3

[toxic rose]

Good luck)

[ionic iron]

Keep exploring the swamp, theres other armour that can help alot 🙂

[heady parcel]

That deep in the swamp you should have root by now

[toxic rose]

What about food and heal/stamina meads?

[modest pewter]

As I'm melee and want to be fast, I don't wanna get the heavy gear or the tree gear as it slows you down, it might be my own demise 😆

I got some meads going! I did use the posiion resistance and had some medium health potions and some minor stamina on me, but I just attack him to slow!

[heady parcel]

The troll suit is really too weak for swamp, root armor is also light so shouldn't slow you down that much

[ionic iron]

Tree/root has poisen resist so alongside the mead you dont need to leave the poisen cloud

[ionic iron]

I mean its fine for swamp, maybe not for bonemass 🙂

[modest pewter]

Oh right, i forgot about that! I should make it then. I made it for my brother as he has bow and arrow, and it gave a buff to bows or something. I should have enough to make one for myself too! A question about that tho, if i have the trollhide cape on, does that make the root armour loose its full gear buff?

[heady parcel]

Fair enough, I always get out of the blue rags asap, I hate it 😂

[ionic iron]

Nope you only lose the bow skill bonus

[modest pewter]

I tried to foolishly do bonemass on my own as my brother was not home

[ionic iron]

Could even just pop on the root helmet on its own as thats what gives poisen resist

[modest pewter]

Oh okay, so my brother should not wear a cape as he uses bows then, but I can 😌

[heady parcel]

Chest piece has pierce resist also, which is good vs enemy archers. And other worse things that come later...

[modest pewter]

Oh! Didn't know that!

[ionic iron]

well cape is fine either way actually

capes arent considered part of a set

[modest pewter]

Like the.... Bzzzzzzzzzz ? 😂

[ionic iron]

so he just needs to use legs, helm and harnesk to get the bonus

[heady parcel]

Among others!

[modest pewter]

Alright!

[ionic iron]

Yup still using it in mistlands 😉

[modest pewter]

I have been in all the biomes apart from the mistlands i think, but I'll make me some root gear and a iron mace and grab my mead and try again!

[toxic rose]

As long as you're not being chased by the green army, bzzz is not a problem

[modest pewter]

But its quite deadly when you go there with troll hide gear xD me and my brothers explored a lot last time we played. We were not meant to be in the mountains or the plains or whatever the other one is called with the fulings

Yeah i noticed how i could easily kill the bzzzz with a spear

[ionic iron]

Nothing more existing than being caught somewhere you're not supposed to be!

[toxic rose]

Always kill with sword without problems

[modest pewter]

True!

I like my way 😎 i wait for them to charge and throw the spear at them, and they tend to come quite close so its a little scary but fun way to kill them

Oh also another question, what does the levels do? Say running and jumping, does it cost less stamina as you level up or? I have no idea what the levels does

[ember kraken]

Depends a bit from each skill, but I think most/all reduce stamina use, weapons tend to do a bit more damage, jump makes you jump higher etc.

[toxic rose]

There's nothing to do on the plains in troll armor. If you don't want to lose movespeed, you can give your soul to the god of grind and collect Fenrir's armor.

[rain flare]

Does this mean that the Ashland boss will be immune to pierce damage??? 👀👀👀

[ionic iron]

I have a run skill of 85 which is like having Eikthyr buff permanently 🙂

[merry pebble]

And is even weak to it 😉

[rain flare]

Wait till you get to lvl 100 with eikthyr

SPEEEEED

Then add fenris gear 🥰

[merry pebble]

It doesent stack, only the greater resistance counts meaning only mead is in efect

[modest pewter]

I like to go to there and collect the cloudberries so I can make mead, but else its not much one can do there as I have not found out how to smelt the ore one can get of the green little men. But don't spoil it for me 😇 this is the first time I'm even asking about the game, I tried to play this game by just figure out by myself

[near furnace]

can't say but it would be bad if we locked out Legolas 🤔

[modest pewter]

Damm!! I keep on dying in silly ways, so i was stuck on 28 for th elongest of times xD but now im a at 40 or so i think

How old is this game now even, feels like it came out like a week ago

[merry pebble]

3 years celebrated recently

[toxic rose]

Moder, she is the only boss who cannot be skipped in any way, for further gears)

[ionic iron]

Well disclaimer, I now play on reduced skill drain on death. Made the game much more enjoyable for me

[modest pewter]

Holy! What is time even?

Yeah, I should probably do that too, as my adhd get me caught up in silly situations and then I lack focus and end up dying hahah

[ionic iron]

Yep Im a slow learner..

[modest pewter]

What makes me the most frustrated is that I need to run to get the gear, so kinda wanna do so I spawn with my gear on, but that feels like cheating too me.. then I could keep the skill drain anyway

Also it could be exploited, so probably better not to do that

But I kinda wanna beat the game once before modding or changing anything

[merry pebble]

I think there Is an option for this in world modifiers

[near furnace]

some players use to take the bosses in reverse order. before mistlands

[modest pewter]

Yeah, If I keep getting frustrated, i might do that for my own sanity 🫡

But eikthyr is op, I cant live without that ability

We call him Einar tho, easier to say

[toxic rose]

You can kill bosses in any order, you don't need to have top tier items for that

[modest pewter]

Also i like that fuling is a word in swedish, and no offense to the goblins but they are not the prettiest creatures 😆

I think they are called fuling, or its my dyslexia reading that every time

Anyway, gtg, need to go somewhere and then I'll get back and try bonemass again. Take care everyone!

[opal prairie]

Morning gjall.

[merry pebble]

Mornin 😄

[latent wraith]

Mornin'

[clear shuttle]

hi

[merry pebble]

hello 😄

[thorny condor]

Is year of the full release known?

[merry pebble]

nope

[thorny condor]

I already got my engineering thesis done and this game is still in ea

[azure yacht]

Game development takes years, that has never been surprising

[thorny condor]

yeah right

Im wondering, are they implementing ideas from mods to their game?

[opal prairie]

Some suggestions have made it into the game.

[thorny condor]

Or are they listeing to users? I've heard about some quick stack/sort thing that got backed out

Because it didnt feel valheimish

[paper roost]

good morning

[proud glen]

gm

[azure yacht]

That question is answered above.

And that's still there

[modest topaz]

EA made them rich, and brought in like 90% of the total revenue the game will ever make, the motivation to work hard and finish is much less unfortunately

side effect of a successful EA by a small team of devs

[opal prairie]

Game development always takes years, if it is EA or not, average game development time is 3-5 years and can take longer, take a look at some of the big game developers out there and you'll see.

[modest topaz]

its about monetary motivation to continue, they got paid for their work before they were finished, finishing won't bring in more revenue so whats the motivation?

[opal prairie]

Finishing a product, getting their view for the game out there, rewarding their supporters with a good product, building a name for themselves so that if they make another game other people will be interested in that game as well, ...

[modest topaz]

this is capitalism bud

[thorny condor]

How much of a product did you get for past 3 years/since ea release? @opal prairie 1 new biome?

[azure yacht]

Morality apparently. You do know that despite what you said they are still working on the game right? They could've left it at H&H stage or earlier and get it done but didn't

[azure yacht]

There has been like dozens of update and you're focusing on literally one of them

[opal prairie]

2 / 3 major updates, and loads of small ones.

[modest topaz]

in 3 years they built the entire game, did 4 biomes, in 3 years since they'd got 1 biome and some small updates.

[azure yacht]

Forget it, this discussion has been done many many times before and it's always a waste of time.

Kamap, just leave it, it's not worth it

[thorny condor]

People wont acknowledge that money is what makes ppl running

[modest topaz]

yep

[thorny condor]

Like couldnt they 100% had funds for more employees. They could work closely with modding community. Rimworld creator implements mods into the base game

[modest topaz]

i dunno how the revenue got distributed, but there was enuf to easily give each dev several million dollars, if i had a couple million dollars, i wouldn't be motivated to work hard unless i could see millions more in the future

[drowsy magnet]

If they're not as motivated as when they started because there's no money in it, as you say, they'd be rolling out DLCs 😂

[thorny condor]

Its not that there is no more money in this game

[opal prairie]

Money is what makes people run, doesn't mean that once they have money they stop working on whatever got them that money.

[azure yacht]

They won't, it's been explicitly stated "no DLCs"

[thorny condor]

Its that they already got a lot of money

[modest topaz]

gotta get over the hump of finishing the game for a small fraction of the money they've already made

[opal prairie]

I don't think that the devs are rolling in money, they might be well off but I doubt they have millions in their personal bank account.
Making a game is expensive.

[ember kraken]

I dunno, I can't help a morbid fascination in watching people that are completely clueless about game design sit and talk as if they know stuff. It's like watching an animal repeatedly walk into an electric fence. 🍿

[opal prairie]

More employees isn't equal to get shit done faster.

[modest topaz]

they did hire more employees

was 1 guy until 2017, hired a team in 2019, released EA in 2020, hired 4 more people...

13 employees

EA brought in 240 million in gross revenue

[opal prairie]

Yeah but at a certain point it isn't a good idea to add even more people, more people doesn't equate to getting stuff done faster.

[modest topaz]

nah being broke and needing to work to survive gets shit done faster

[thorny condor]

Like taller ladder doesnt make you reach higher. Until you use it appropriately

[modest topaz]

if EA hadn't done as well, the game would probably be done

[thorny condor]

coping hard

[opal prairie]

You don't need a taller ladder if the ladder you have let's you reach all that you need to reach.

[modest topaz]

if theres a thousand bucks at top of the ladder, but you already have a million bucks, the motivation to climb the ladder is much less

[opal prairie]

@near furnace Bold question of me to aks maybe but how rich are you devs really? Did that "240 million" revenue you raked in make you all extremely wealthy and you wouldn't have to work a day in your life anymore?

[near furnace]

it's actually a commonly asked question to me

I get asked in DM alot

but I get a normal paycheck like any other normal human being 😄

[modest topaz]

who got the fruits of the labor? lol

[ember kraken]

Usually that kind of money goes into the company itself. For future projects and backups.

[modest topaz]

yea it would go towards the company, if i were the one in charge, i would hold the money in escrow till game is finished, then pay everyone a bonus

[hollow pine]

I'm wondering what kind of companies you work for that you think that the turnover is simply divided among all employees.

[modest topaz]

turnover is the wrong word, but i definitely wouldn't be opposed to a company that pays their workers a portion of the profits

[near furnace]

the company 👀

[modest topaz]

especially a small company that hits so big

[near furnace]

correct

and 240 million revenue is a very very bold statement 😄

[modest topaz]

12 million copies, $20 each

[near furnace]

we have sales, regional prices, etc

and then taxes and taxes 😄

[modest topaz]

Gross revenue, i know a lot gets cut from it

steam and taxes etc

[near furnace]

so 20$ is just not something you can use either

[hollow pine]

you're right, turnover is the wrong word. but i guess my point was understandable 😅

[ember kraken]

I always am ;)

[near furnace]

since the game cost less than 5$ in some countries during a steam sale

[modest topaz]

true

[near furnace]

and then steam takes 30% the first sales a company do

[pliant hatch]

May I see the evidence of that, please?
Because in some country, statements like this may be considered as slander.
So got anything to back this statement up?

And with "anything", I'm not meaning the slow development and the presumed income the dev's had; but real facts.
Like a quote from a dev stating that or a you-tube vid where one or more dev's mention this happening.

[ember kraken]

A more interesting question would be how much you guys earned (to the company) after all taxes and other reductions. Per sale.

[near furnace]

it's a number 😄

and then it becomes uninteresting once you know it

[modest topaz]

3 years to develop everything prior to mistlands, 3 years for mistlands, is the evidence of slowing .

[ember kraken]

True enough, but it could be interesting number to slap int he face of people that keeps making statements like these "They make 5 cents per game sold you know."

[near furnace]

trust me. you will see Ashlands what we can do 😄

[pliant hatch]

But not the evidence of what you claimed.

[modest topaz]

i hope so, love the game, don't have a huge issue with the slow development, was just conversating

[opal prairie]

Are you forgetting the rewrite of the engine, all the qol things added, hildir and such you can't only measure with a new biome, look at the whole picture.

[rain flare]

You guys already did that multiple times 🥰
We’re just along for the ride at this point 🤩

[modest topaz]

well we'll see, at this rate we'll get the great north in 2026/2027

[ionic iron]

Wait I didnt think the slow dev was an issue for you. Drop the shovel buddy

[modest topaz]

?

[near furnace]

he just said it wasn't an issue 😄

[opal prairie]

Could have fooled me ;p

[drowsy magnet]

I bet they're already getting started on Deep North by now

[ionic iron]

You don't have an issue with the "slow development" but then you have a dig about deep north?

[near furnace]

no no no no

[ember kraken]

They already started doing research about Deep North (Since they live in it) :p

[modest topaz]

ummm, stating i don't have an issue with slow development, then pointing out the pace doesn't really change that

[near furnace]

once Ashlands is done
it needs to be even more balanced (mobs, damages, resistances, recepies) to figure out if we need more or less or something
then more testing

[drowsy magnet]

Ah

[opal prairie]

<MOAR_kylo.gif>

[pliant hatch]

How to contradict yourself within 2 minutes.....

Jookya — vandaag om 11:37
3 years to develop everything prior to mistlands, 3 years for mistlands, is the evidence of slowing .

Jookya — vandaag om 11:38
i hope so, love the game, don't have a huge issue with the slow development, was just conversating

🤔

[modest topaz]

im running out of space on my buildables page, wondering how they'll tackle that, currently scroll wheel changes page

[modest topaz]

how is that a contradiction, i pointed out development is slow, and said that doesn't bother me

[pliant hatch]

the moment you point it out, it shows it bothers you.

If it doesn't, you wound't need to mention it in the first place, nor mentioning how long it took the dev's how much time it took them to do the various bigger updates.

[modest topaz]

whatever dude

being aware of the slow development, and thinking about reasons why, doesn't mean im upset about the slow development

[drowsy magnet]

Weren't you saying you're not happy with the slow development of this game due to lack of motivation then you or someone mentioned hiring more devs, which implies you're bothered by the slow progress

[thorny condor]

Truly a reddit moment

[modest topaz]

no i was hypothesizing that lack of motivation was the reason behind slow development

you totally misread what i said

[thorny condor]

Well

[drowsy magnet]

Ah okay

[thorny condor]

SLOW DEV IS AN ISSUE FOR ME

I've started this discussion

[ionic iron]

Yeah we all misread it

[pliant hatch]

The only thing I see is the same bunch of assumptions I see popping up both here and at the steam forum over time; but no-one is giving any true evidence of it other as "development has slowed down, which means they are just taking the money and run" or the "they just did a cash grab" or the "they lost the motivation after making so much of an income of it."

Show proof of it and don't abuse the slower development as an "excuse". Because just a few minutes ago a dev was here and surprisingly not a single thing was mentioned about the lack of motivation......

[modest topaz]

we don't work for irongate. we don't know the internal stuff going on, why would you expect me to know that

[thorny condor]

And yeah development of such a simple survival game that Valheim is, cant be compared to some big EA releases, like some earlier did. Well they can be compared but it doesnt make any sense

[modest topaz]

im honestly happy they didn't abandon the game after EA release like half of studios do

[thorny condor]

But saying more employees wont make game develop faster - lmao. With bad organization maybe.

[ionic iron]

Proof you know nothing about software dev right there

[thorny condor]

XD

I will let you live in your imagined world where you are always right

[opal prairie]

You need to screw in one screw lets put 3 people on it it will get screwed in faster.

[rain flare]

Let’s get one thing straight here:
Valheim is being developed on the fly

[modest topaz]

or you need to screw in 3 screws, and u put 3 people on it.

[thorny condor]

And you were telling me that I dont have any knowledge about development. lmao

[rain flare]

They COMPLETELY reworked mistlands for release, same on Ashland’s

[modest topaz]

umm mistlands was an empty area before release, i wouldn't call it "reworked" they replaced the placeholder...

[thorny condor]

Yeah I made my camp there because it was the safest place XD

[rain flare]

Because this is a small development studio, they are not creating a big benga pile of details off the bat.
They are inventing this stuff as they go

[merry pebble]

ok, picture this, you want to bake a pie, you put it in the oven but it takes too long for your liking, but what if i give you ANOTHER oven? 😄 does it go faster?

[thorny condor]

another stupid metaphor

[rain flare]

False.

[exotic cradle]

No it wasn't, it had trees, webs, skeleton heads and many other things. THEN they made it empty, THEN they made the Mistlands.

[opal prairie]

If 3 screws need to be screwed in and their is enough room to put 3 people next to each other to screw in those 3 screws at once then yeah it might be a good idea to put 3 people on the job.
Now if those 3 screws are in a cramped space and it will only fit 1 person than it will still be a bad idea to put 3 people on the job.

[latent wraith]

The trees and stuff were just placeholder stuff though.

[rain flare]

Mistlands had a design of cobwebs, big trees, giant skulls

[thorny condor]

Comparing advanced development process to baking pie lmao. Are all here first to say you have no knowledge about X and then prove they dont themselves?

[pliant hatch]

If so, then where have all the cob webs found in Mistland prior to release gone?

Dissolved by the mist or did the Dvergr eat them?

[modest topaz]

it was a placeholder biome, they scrapped it but there wasn't a ton of work into it in the first place

[rain flare]

They changed it drastically from what it was into what it is now

[exotic cradle]

It still wasn't empty though 👀

[rain flare]

There was a decent amount of work bud

[near furnace]

we scapped it because monsters couldn't traverse it and pathfinding was horrible

[rain flare]

Several long hours of designing and coding that had to be redone

[near furnace]

amongst other ideas we came up with

[modest topaz]

but from our end, we never had monsters or structures or anything, just trees and cobwebs

[latent wraith]

Iirc dvoid had used it to test some stuff and didn't bother removing it before ea release since it wasn't in the way of anything (yet).

[near furnace]

and skulls, and more skulls, and diffrent size skulls. and roots and sometimes fulings in there because they can end up anywhere

[opal prairie]

Just saying that hiring more people to get a job done doesn't work in any business, there is always a limit to how many people you can put on a job.

[modest topaz]

a lot of staff in studios is often in the art department

i feel like valheim with its 16 bit textures doesn't need a ton of artists

[exotic cradle]

What a wild take, just because something is 16 bit doesn't mean it doesn't need to be designed or modeled.

[azure yacht]

I was hoping mods would kill this discussion a while ago

[ionic iron]

Yep there they go again

[modest topaz]

it means the time investment is a lot less, also the models are low polygon, also less time investment

also if u have more artists you have to work harder to make sure the art all matches up

[azure yacht]

Anyway I learned the joys of getting raided by mobs hostile to the biome mobs you find yourself at.

I got the (in)voluntary help of two trolls and later an army of skeletons in plains

[near furnace]

well...
well..
we..

This isn't #general after all so go there and discuss Iron Gate as a company if you so wish.
This chat is #valheim-chat after all

[thorny condor]

We are discussing valhiem development right?

[modest topaz]

guess thats an irongate topic

[near furnace]

you guys are all just guessing and arguing with each other over things I just can explain to everyone of you by answering pretty much all questions.
so you don't end up having to have the same old fights of "number of developers versus content created per hour spent" discussions

[thorny condor]

This discussion was more than that, but yeah Judge kamap was hooked on this one

[modest topaz]

ive got like 400 hours in valheim, if u guys dissappeared off the planet i wouldn't get mad lol. I got my $$ worth which is more than i can say about a lot of modern games from big studios

[ionic iron]

Huh nice, I just learnt that its difficult to outrun a Gjall in a Karve 😂

[thorny condor]

Valheim would benefit greatly from steam workshop, and collaboration with modding community

[rain flare]

Not the same as discussing ingame activities that already exist

[modest topaz]

@near furnace is more integrated modding a feature that the team is considering?

[rain flare]

No not really - again with the too many cooks spoiling the broth

As I noted earlier, this is an indie studie’s game

[thorny condor]

Again with supid metaphores lmao. People here likes extremes

[opal prairie]

Yes please, clear all this up.

[paper roost]

yeah, its great sometimes

[rain flare]

It is THEIR GAME.
They are making it how they want it

[modest topaz]

a lot of indie games thrive on their modding community

[thorny condor]

yeah and modders would FORCE their mods into their game. Bruuuuuuuuuh discussion with you 💀

[near furnace]

-------------------> #general 😄

[rain flare]

Very true, but again, it is the developer’s choice on the matter

[near furnace]

stop hijacking chat or I just temp close it 😓

[modest topaz]

i went to general

[rain flare]

I want to make a lovely mistlands base.

Full pathways and walks through the whole biome.
I prefer the island hopping type since it often looks prettier and has the option of building huge bridges 🤩

[modest topaz]

i made one on top of a spire with a blue orb

[drowsy magnet]

Nice and quiet now
5 minutes slowmode 😢

[near furnace]

is it?

not for me

https://tenor.com/view/burning-hell-muahaha-evil-laugh-gif-10739654

[opal prairie]

Would it be for me? I noticed.

[near furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-definitely-agree-blanche-devereaux-golden-girls-gif-27025299

[rain flare]

The power of Smiffe!
Unlimited power!!! 😂

[azure yacht]

Place the karve on top and sail the gjall. Easy solution

[ionic iron]

Do ghalls flee when low on health? Maybe you could harpoon one and use it to drag the boat 🤔

[rain flare]

Nope

Mobs don’t flee
Not unless you are damaging them and they can’t reach you

[covert gorge]

smiffe how did you get hacked?

[near furnace]

magic

[covert gorge]

fair enough

valheim magic

[near furnace]

yes

it's scary

don't use it. even if it's sent to you from a trusted source

[toxic rose]

Elemental or blood?

[covert gorge]

the draugrs hacked you

[paper roost]

thats incorrect answer to that question

[near furnace]

some monster tries to flee

[paper roost]

yeah, the trauma is super annoying

[torpid mango]

will there be any monsters that are going to use lighting type of attacks?

[near furnace]

Yagluth does

eikthyr does

[torpid mango]

oh right

but I said will there be, or you cant say

[frozen token]

Is there a decent non fandom wiki?

[toxic rose]

I think no

[rain flare]

Eh?
Which ones?
Never had that so far as I can tell 😂

Maybe cause I murder them before they can get away

[exotic cradle]

The Valheim wiki is great and made by lovely local folks here in the discord!

[hollow pine]

trolls sometimes tend to run away from me 🤷‍♀️

[opal prairie]

Trolling the trolls and then trailing the trolls?

[hollow pine]

exactly

[rain flare]

Huh.
I thought they were just running cause they couldn’t pathfinder a way to get to me

Legit only see that sort of thing when I use a bow 🤔

Same with swamp abominables actually…

[hollow pine]

ah yes, the abomination also runs away when it gets distracted or idk

i'm not sure if that happens when i'm not using a bow. im a scaredy-cat, i usually first run away and/or use a bow 😅

for the abomination i jump on a crypt and use the axe. and hope its focus stays on me and it does not run away

[paper roost]

its more common recently, not sure how long. trolls, aboms, lox, draugurs, even wolf sometimes when you shoot it from distance

[torpid mango]

will valheim drop on ps?

[frozen void]

we have no idea, probably not before 1.0 though

[torpid mango]

alr

thx

[plush umbra]

It’s mostly on Xbox because Xbox reached out for it so I imagine a lot of that depends on if ps reaches out

[languid root]

I thought there are can't be ea games on ps, don't know if it's true though

[near furnace]

playstation don't allow Early access games on there platform

but don't count on us porting to every possible console or so :/

[torpid mango]

but 7 days to die is avaliable and its in alpha or beta idk

[torpid mango]

thats kinda sad but i will live with playing this game on pc

[latent veldt]

Hello, my friend is trying to download the game from Steam, but it is stuck on 93 percent, whats the problem?

[exotic cradle]

Sounds like an internet or steam issue, restart the download?

[paper marsh]

Make sure you have enough space too

[latent veldt]

We tried, she has 600GB free space. We restarted the download, deleted all files ecc.

Oh now it downloaded it properly Thank you

[exotic cradle]

We didn't do anything but you're welcome \o/

[latent veldt]

The problem is steam cloud, the game is downloaded and is working, but if it tries to sync the game cloud it is stuck on 93 percent.

[stuck crypt]

Is the ashlands update so far still scheduled for the first quarter of this year?

sweet

[hollow pine]

ah no

[stuck crypt]

not sweet

[hollow pine]

not quarter, first half!

sry for the confusion!

[stuck crypt]

oh, well that's acceptable i guess. Google said first quarter

[hollow pine]

google said that? interesting 🤔

[exotic cradle]

Ah yes, my Valheim cloud hasn't worked ever, I just save locally :/ dunno why

[merry pebble]

it actually worked for me quite well, but it had the tendency to freeze the game in mornings when the game saved 😄

[languid root]

So it's Google who spreads rumours

Lifetime ban for that gentleman

[merry pebble]

google says "The Ashlands update has been confirmed for the first half of 2024." when i search "when will ashlands come out"

[languid root]

O, what a little sly chameleon

[azure yacht]

Could you give the link of the website that showed this?

[stuck crypt]

Euh, it's literally just the first thing that pops up in google when looking for the ashlands update release datye

[odd marsh]

gamerant huh

[fallen iron]

Tem Brasileiros aqui?

🇧🇷

[odd marsh]

i think there are but please keep it strictly english

[odd helm]

Mind that the server is English only, please and thanks

You might find Brazilian servers in #1024264966712340510

[odd marsh]

try #1024264966712340510

[fallen iron]

Okay, I've been playing Valheim for 3 weeks and I still haven't found a large community of Brazilians

[odd helm]

Also hecc, just tried googling and even the first link (gamerant) says first half

[fallen iron]

thankss

[frozen void]

Imagine having a large community from your country dedicated to a game. Couldnt be me

[formal kraken]

How many South Americans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A Brazillian.

[odd marsh]

OMFG i have conquered the ||gjall|| that lurked into my base took me a few tries to understand what it does lol and successfully recovered my items after a crap ton of deaths xD, dude even took out my portal and had to travel by karve LOL

[opal prairie]

Bye gjall.

[languid root]

Does anyone know about some new blind playthroughs in progress to follow (at any platform)? Still in a serious search for it..

[exotic cradle]

I'm still trying to catch up to True Blue, he has SO many episodes...

Also still watching Blondie!

[odd marsh]

is their a way to spawn proof in mist?

[exotic cradle]

Same as anywhere, workbenches I guess?

[odd marsh]

i see

[exotic cradle]

My Mistlands outpost is pretty chill, almost no mobs around

[frigid gust]

Workbenches and campfires (I use campfires since enemies don't attack them). Wisp torches clear the mist, but they don't prevent spawns.

[odd marsh]

ah damn was thinking about wisp torches. aight ill do that thankss!

[frigid gust]

The other nice thing about campfires is they don't have to be lit, you can let them go out and just ignore them. I use them all the time because they're cheap.

[odd marsh]

im gonna place some for my dudes

[frigid gust]

Another trick I'll do sometimes is I'll use workbenches to make sure the radius coverage is correct, then I'll go back through and replace them with campfires so that enemies won't roll through and destroy my spawn blocking during a raid or something.

[silver osprey]

I thought only work enches prevented spawns in the radius campfires do also?

[exotic cradle]

The best part about wisp torches is them not needing a bench to be placed ^^ you can clear A LOT of mist if you just put some on the huge rocks in the area

[odd marsh]

hmm very handy

[frigid gust]

Any "player base" structure will prevent spawns. Beds, torches, fires, all kinds of stuff: https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Player_base

[paper marsh]

Wisp torches in the ||Queens Dungeon|| (late mistland spoiler) 💪

[unique onyx]

you can build in the queens area?

[paper roost]

limited things

[toxic rose]

Yes, without workbench things easy to place

[exotic cradle]

Same as any dungeon, basic stuff

That's why its a great idea to put campfires in dungeon entrances, get re-rested and sheltered the easy way

[paper marsh]

you can build in all dungeons, just can't place workbenches or forges and such, so everything you build has to be buildable without workstations

[unique onyx]

that's cool i didn't use any wisp torches i thought you were just suppoed to beat her in the fog lol

[toxic rose]

Especially in crypts, remove wet effect

[frigid gust]

Wisp torches are cool because you can build them without workbenches, similar to campfires.

[exotic cradle]

#valheim-chat message

[paper marsh]

It helps so much. She will break them during the fight accidentally but they're easy to put back up and if you've spammed them all over she'll take a while to accidentally break them

[paper marsh]

*re-rested and resting

anyone know if the mist affects stealth?

[toxic rose]

Wisp torch isn't prevent spawning?

[frigid gust]

Mist doesn't affect the sound you make, which is stealth, but it will prevent enemies from seeing you which is the only way they can fully aggro against you.

[frigid gust]

Nope

[toxic rose]

Sad

[paper marsh]

Other torces do tho

[toxic rose]

But other torches take aggro

[frigid gust]

but enemies attack those 😉 Which is why you use campfires for spawn prevention.

[paper marsh]

ye 😄

but they look pretty

[exotic cradle]

Pretty>functional anyday

[paper marsh]

Pretty+Functional is the best combo

[frigid gust]

Campfires are the best spawn prevention that enemies don't treat as a primary target, and it's super handy that they don't need a bench to create. Build a campfire and place a wisp torch on it for when it goes out 😛

[languid root]

I honestly gave one more chance to him after that previous mention and tried to catch up but found myself impatiently skipping whole parts of episodes (though usually my attention span is pretty advanced), so eventually i gave up.

[odd marsh]

imagine someone doing full immersion gameplay and drawing a map in the mistlands xD

[exotic cradle]

Understandable, I sometimes skip some parts too but I always remind myself it's because I know TOO much about the game, it's very easy to get frustrated ^^

[paper marsh]

I haev no doubt some people do

It could end up kinda rough navigating mistlands without a map too

[odd marsh]

ahh yea guess so

[languid root]

Right, but that what i strive to see in the first place: raw impressions and thinking process of a person first time playing the game. There might be false assumptions and some weird ideas or weird thinking, but the core, there should be a real intelligent core to it, otherwise it turns into some random playing

[worn ledge]

thats something people do? Not use the map in valheim and draw their own to try to navigate?

[candid basalt]

Some people like to suffer for their fun

[paper marsh]

mhm. Playing on immersive where it removes your map and minimap (and portals, although that's optional)

[exotic cradle]

I understand, yet to find something like that though! Something I notice most people have a problem with is they compare Valheim to other games so they draw very, very misinformed conclusions ^^

[worn ledge]

oh its a setting?

thats neat, and hardcore

[exotic cradle]

Yesh, world modifier before you enter world!

[paper marsh]

World modifier yea. selected before loading up your world

[candid basalt]

World settings was the best thing added imo

[languid root]

Yes, you should try it. Once tried never ever will you want this stupid real map which game gives to you;)

[paper marsh]

I like to suffer for my fun but I prefer very hard difficulty, permadeath, and banning the meta weapons. No map just seems frustrating 😭

[candid basalt]

I play normal except no raids. I’ve lost too many houses to raids

[wicked kestrel]

i feel like it's pretty normal to compare something you havent experienced with something you're more familiar with, whether that's the right thing to do idk

[worn ledge]

lol im not so sure about that

[toxic rose]

I saw even more, + hardcore difficulty + 1 life, so death = ban

[paper marsh]

it's a lot of fun, gets tense

[hollow wing]

preparing for yagluth. how many pots to make?

[worn ledge]

I could never do 1 life, Ive died way too many times from trees somehow pinching me and killing me instantly

[toxic rose]

Funny to see that 40 players at begin, and after first day 2 times less

[paper marsh]

if you make one batch (6) of stamina, hp, and fire resist that'll be more than enough

[hollow wing]

i think i gotta do 2 batches to be safe, fire resist is easy to make so ill make a ton

[paper marsh]

yea gotta be damn careful. I was doing swamp crypts with 3 hp foods, one of them being serpent stew

[worn ledge]

wild

[paper marsh]

I was at 180hp, walked through a door in the crypt, instantly got shot by a regular and a starred draugr, instantly at 40hp and staggered

[candid basalt]

lol I cleared a sliver of mud and got shot by two archers and died instantly. Day 18

[languid root]

I think it is already close to impossible as all the more or less intelligent people have already tried the game and had their first impressions spent..

[paper marsh]

oh and star chances are higher on harder difficulty too. I no joke had a body pile spit out 4-5 enemies (2 at a time, but I was killing them) and THREE of them were 2 star enemies

[languid root]

Mb there are couple of those still living under a rock tho

[candid basalt]

Rocks are great with the price of rentals

[languid root]

You are telling it is very smart to live under one of those? Mb

[candid basalt]

Yeah, can make a nice small base like a hobbit

[paper roost]

its nice, bofore troll raid come to say hi 🙂

[candid basalt]

Hence why I turned raids off 😂

[languid root]

One rock is not enough to initiate a raid on you

[paper marsh]

If you don’t kill a troll won’t get troll raid

[candid basalt]

But I need those sweet blue pajamas

[languid root]

So mb it's really waaay too smart

[toxic rose]

But you want to kill for his skin, and after for his head

[regal spoke]

Only troll can break rock in BF. No place is safe in that regard.

Can't kill troll before bonemass. To avoid raid. So I read.

[toxic rose]

Swamp immortal tree?)

[paper marsh]

Ye

[candid basalt]

Wraiths still say hi

[paper marsh]

Free chains

[toxic rose]

It's good, free chains)

[candid basalt]

lol I agree

[languid root]

Nobody is saying hi, ok?;)

[regal spoke]

With double drop rate it's "Two Chains"

[languid root]

They just attack without saying a thing

[candid basalt]

“Oh that’s some nice moonlight … oh”

[toxic rose]

If they don't see then they don't attack, so just live without windows)

[regal spoke]

If that were true
My activity under a rock wouldn't aggro

[toxic rose]

Raids mobs have rengen vision

[regal spoke]

Resident cave dweller here

[hollow wing]

any tips on finding the boss stones in plains?

[odd marsh]

go to a high place

[exotic cradle]

In my pro experience, you'll just find the boss itself before you find the vegvisir...

[toxic rose]

Go over all world and find Yagluth before vegvisir

[hollow wing]

i saw two small standing stones yesterday. but no vegvisir, i thought maybe i missed it

[odd marsh]

ah must be just stones xD

[hollow wing]

yeah lol

[regal spoke]

I look for the stone structures that are single story and open air. But the veg isn't always there either

[frigid gust]

that's how it do be. Investigate any Stonehenge looking areas, and keep an eye out for a huge stone grasping hand. I often find Yagluth's altar before I find a vegevisir pointing to it. Just sail a lot and go through all the Plains areas you can find.

[hollow wing]

but it really looks like the vegvisir i saw from screenshots

[languid root]

Just look for smth different like Haldor, or a mountain and you'll find yagluth. And vice versa

[regal spoke]

Surely there's a YouTube video describing potential veg locations for plains boss?

[hollow wing]

ive already found haldor

long ago

[languid root]

Look for another one

The trick is you find smth better when looking for smth else

[regal spoke]

This is the way

[toxic rose]

distortion of perception

[paper marsh]

This is the way

[exotic cradle]

End of the day it's just RNG, but the Boss "arena" itself is far more noticible and easier to spot than the actual vegvisir, so I'd just sail around and do a jog through whatever plain you come across ^^

[paper marsh]

#screenshots message This is the way

[worn ledge]

Gotta say, im a BIG fan of the addition of the option to change snapping mode, makes building so much nicer

[paper marsh]

Snapping is so good

[heady parcel]

Oh yes

[languid root]

Yea, this one is still very impressive for me

[paper roost]

i found vegvesir similar way, was sailing early game looking for something, i didnt even touch plains yet and saw it from the ocean

but most of the time i struggle to find him as well

[languid root]

Oh, i know. Look for a lynx. They say there should be only one (very secretive) in every world.

[serene talon]

anyone have any tips that could be useful for yagluth? I've beaten him once before but i just want to know what i could do to make it quicker

[exotic cradle]

That's...not true? D:

[paper marsh]

One time I entered a swamp for the first time on my world and within 1 minute found 6 turnip plants and within 3 minutes found Yags altar

[languid root]

Devs don't want anybody to know a thing about it though. Some conspiracy going on

[frigid gust]

Typically the most efficient strategy is to use fire resist barleywine, and then melee with a silver sword, frostner or blackmetal sword (unless you're coming back later after having higher tier gear)

[serene talon]

no im in a new world

[odd marsh]

i wonder if that dude who was struggling to find turnips found some

[languid root]

If you ask Smiffe directly he would probably deny everything

[boreal meadow]

i always turn foliage settings to low for that reason

[candid basalt]

I haven’t yet 😞

[serene talon]

could using fenring armor work? because it makes resistant to fire somewhat and makes me quicker overall

[regal spoke]

Staying to Yags back side seems legit. Fairly painless clear that

[exotic cradle]

I mean... I think you're just spreading misinformation here unless you're joking 🥲

[heady parcel]

First playthrough I didn't find turnips until my tenth swamp or suchlike

[odd marsh]

xD wtf

[unique onyx]

turnips can be weird on some maps you'll get none in the swamps lol

[frigid gust]

It works decently, but a hit can be very punishing if you misstep. It's up to your confidence and skill level with that. He also does a lot of blunt and lightning damage, not just fire damage.

[languid root]

Oh i see, you're one of them. Ok, that's fine

[heady parcel]

Then a greydorf shaman came and puked on my plot

[paper roost]

yes, but than you will be vulnerable against other mobs

[paper marsh]

You get barley wine in plains from barley (to make fire resist). And hten use silver sword or frostner fully levelled for best results. Black metal sword alright too

I'd recommend maybe fenris legs and chest for the movement speed buff to outrun meteors, but maybe a padded helmet for some armor

[candid basalt]

This playthrough has been cursed. Lost my world file to a corrupt save, started a new seed that is promising. But no turnips. Gonna de command some in if I don’t find any soon

[serene talon]

okay

turnips turnips turnips

[odd marsh]

spawn one to make it fair xD

[candid basalt]

Yeah spawn three seeds

“It was right there this whole time!”

[frigid gust]

Have you found turnips before? I generally find that it's easy to miss them more than that they don't exist in a world. I can't tell you how many swamps that I've been through 10 times that I go back through and find turnip seeds I didn't see.

[paper roost]

i dont understand why is always someone suggesting a weapon, let him use whatever he likes and is good with 🙂

[candid basalt]

Oh yeah been playing since before hearth and home

[hollow wing]

lynx?

[regal spoke]

Padded helm, root chest, fenr legs, cape of choice. This is me leading into Mist

[frigid gust]

Yeah, sometimes RNG is just a cruel mistress, too 😉

[unique onyx]

it's definately possible i don't see them my eyes are all messed up since treatment. oddly i don't have trouble finding any of the other materials

[odd marsh]

my world is pretty cursed aswell, all 4 elders are almost at the edge of the map

[frigid gust]

I generally recommend Frostner for efficiency with silver. The Silver Sword is best against Yagluth, but the Frostner is much more generally applicable against more enemies, and is the best weapon to take into the Mistlands initially.

[odd marsh]

but i already got past it xD its was a pretty chill long journey

[frozen void]

At least you can set up outposts on your way

[unique onyx]

i think newer maps are a bit cursed for moder too i was plugging random ones into the world generator and a lot of the time she was behind mislands lol

[paper roost]

many would disagree, me on the top 🙂

[paper marsh]

I'd say tips include gear. I just default to gear more bc whenever I try to push playstyles / dodging people tend to find it less useful due to skill differences

[hollow wing]

i found the vegvisir

[languid root]

No, never heard of it

[hollow wing]

i found it near a fuling village. very lucky

[odd marsh]

lucky

[hollow wing]

jesus

[heady parcel]

Two-star fulings, my bloody nemesis. See a green guy that isn't actually green? BEWARE

[hollow wing]

its almost at the end of the world

[exotic cradle]

Yay!

[paper roost]

fair enough, but still if its new player, that never used sword or mace, better use the weapon of his choice

[candid basalt]

I really need to embrace two handed weapons, but I love sword and board

[regal spoke]

Must be mental finding the bosses on immersive. Sounds like vegvisir are mostly obsolete in no map

[unique onyx]

krom is both a sword and a board

[hollow wing]

im thinking of just sailing to it right now and putting up a portal.

[hollow wing]

it was not that hard to be honest. I had a good feeling about this island

[regal spoke]

Sometimes the gut is worth trusting ey

[candid basalt]

That reminds me I need to build a portal hub

[hollow wing]

i just gotta make a lot of lox pies to be prepared for this boss. think im gonna fight him later today, I think i have enough totems

[paper marsh]

depending on the weapon yea. I imagine if they have a protest to the weapons suggested they might bring it up. I just don't want them going in there if their weapon of choice is a spear, knife, atgeir, or bow, and doing only 25% damage to the lad

[regal spoke]

Are you also playing very hard no map?

[paper marsh]

I'd hate it

[candid basalt]

What I love about in game difficulty sliders is we can all play the way we want to now.

[hollow wing]

regular mode

[regal spoke]

I started watching Henrik's immersive play through. He mentioned how the veg work or ehm don't early in the first vid

[paper marsh]

I think I remember a suggestion for making the vegvisirs point your camera in the direction of the boss, which I think would be cool

[regal spoke]

I may go normal-hard no map. I'm dragging my feet on pulling the trigger

[hollow wing]

It seems that the standing stones for yagluth are more narrow and wider.

[paper marsh]

And Hugin showing up to tell you when you're nearby a trader (when they usually show up on your map)

[hollow wing]

regular ones have a wide opening, for yagluth it seems really narrow

[paper roost]

it works that way

[paper marsh]

they be lookin' like a hand

[paper marsh]

o. Doesn't seem so useless then although still rough

[paper roost]

you just cant touch your mouse

[regal spoke]

Henrik explained similar Snail. But depending on distance from player, the nudge can be subtle to barely detected

[paper marsh]

Why should the distance matter to show you the direction?

I mean might be more difficult to stay on course on a long journey to somewhere, but you should get the intial direction from the veg no matter distance

[regal spoke]

I don't have experience to judge that

[worn ledge]

might be a problem if youre on console and have stickdrift

[paper roost]

sometimes its not perfect direction you can set and the bigger distance, the bigger deviation it can create

[merry pebble]

there is 5 of them in circle, they are bent and looking like a hand

[paper roost]

true, i m not on console, cant really say about that

[hollow wing]

im talking about the vegvisir

[light moat]

Wow, totally forgot that silver ore weighs a whopping 14 units 👀

[regal spoke]

Cart yeeting is fun and a Valheim right of passage

[paper marsh]

Silver be heavy

But rites of passage be fun

[light moat]

Haha yeah, I’ve seen a lot of tips about throwing carts off mountains. I’ll have to give it a try.

I’ve always done the ole’ tried and true ‘carry it yourself’ method. But with this play through, I’ll be wanting a lot of extra silver.

[hollow wing]

what are the best foods for yagluth? I'm thinking some soups, lox pie, sausages. but of course this probably will get me to around 130 hp, not sure if theres a better combination that is easy to gather

[heady parcel]

I'd like a horn to make my own honks with, to aggro monsters and call buddies to arms

[languid root]

I still think sliding down with pockets full of silver works better

[merry pebble]

i did him today with lox pie, bread and wolf skewers

[light moat]

Guess it depends on the mountain, terrain shape and all that.

[languid root]

True

[paper marsh]

Def not sausages. If possible replace them with serpent stew, if not then wolf skewers or another plains health food if there is one (haven’t been in plains for a while)

[merry pebble]

fish wraps

[hollow wing]

fish wraps i did yesterday but im not sure getting fish seems not that easy

[paper marsh]

That ^

[light moat]

Silver weighs a lot, and it requires a huge amount of silver to make some of the basic gear (for example, iron sword vs silver sword). It’s an interesting approach.

[paper marsh]

Fishing ain’t bad with a fishing rod as long as you don’t need mass quantity

[heady parcel]

Planting crops in a sub-trance. Bzzzzt STING. Those pesky bugs...

[languid root]

So why no serpent channel in vc? this one is a serious infringement. There's a nest and a pit, but not a single serpent mention. I would like to sit there 24/7

[paper marsh]

Maybe the server itself is a serpent

[odd marsh]

fishing is pretty chill. felt like i was playing minecraft and fishing irl, with me sleeping and just listening to it

[languid root]

I like how you think..

[odd marsh]

Heil Hydra

[paper marsh]

I wish fishing would have more use. At least it matters a tad in mistlands

[odd marsh]

fishing for enchanted books lol

that was like my goto meta to progressing in minecraft xD long but relaxing

[mild scroll]

Has anyone found The Queen playing with no map?

[odd marsh]

I Dont think the people i know have reached it yet

[plush umbra]

I haven’t seen mention of someone even finding yagluth no map

[paper marsh]

dunno, I'd assume so update has been out a while. I'd imagine finding queen is easier than Yag tho because although Queen has a pretty disguised structure, and it is a preset huge one so if you know what it looks like it's not too bad to spot from a distance

[languid root]

I have 2 full playthroughs on nomap (with fighting the queen as an end rn)

[mild scroll]

found yag before bonemass while exploring randomly, but i guess i'll call it quits for the queen, it's even hard to find her on regular mode :p

[paper marsh]

I'd say queen is super easy to find on regular

Yag is a pain on regular and no map tho if you don't get good rng and just come across him immediately

[languid root]

I would say it might be hard to find some boss, but other times it comes so naturally that you forget about it being a thing

[latent wraith]

I found Yagluth when I was still looking for the Elder altar. :>
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[torpid mango]

sup guys so i got a bronze chest from hildris quest it was a copy bc i gave her a bronze chest before and she doesnt want to accept it. What do I do with it?

[fallen zephyr]

Don't be eager to find the next boss. Enjoy your freedom. Bonemass basically forced me to progress through the mountains. I was quite happy 'working from home'. Now I have to wear some cold-resistant gear!

[paper marsh]

Nothing, I think

[torpid mango]

oh alr thx

[latent wraith]

Decorate with it.

[paper marsh]

I'm skipping bonemass bc he's gonna force me to be hunted by a infinite pack of wolves in mountain

[paper roost]

not infinite, just enough to kill you 😄

[paper marsh]

If you keep killing them during the raid they keep coming back 😭

[fallen zephyr]

That's such a fun idea. Playing through Valheim for the first time (assuming you haven't researched TF out of the game beforehand), you're going to get destroyed by world events that you didn't expect. The question is: is it more fun to plan for it, or just to discover it in the course of play?

[paper roost]

i know, it was a joke

[paper marsh]

Always more fun to discover everything for the first time

I will say tho I've really been enjoying figuring out how to effectively biome skip/postpone to give me a balanced shot at Very Hard mode

[fallen zephyr]

I would agree. There's also the inherent frustration to that of 'learning-by-doing', though.

[paper marsh]

true. I hate a game where I can't get the initial hang of it and get turned off from it. Once I get somewhat of a hang how things work tho I love trying to discover and figure out the rest of the game tho

Anyone know if allied skeletons and dvergr get the damage bonus of hard and very hard mode? I would assume dvergr do since they can be hostile too (could be they only get it when they become hostile, but I reckon they'll have a damage bonus on spawn), but the skeletons I feel like wouldn't although I really really hope they do

oh and tames too

According to redit tames do get damage buff which makes me hopeful of skellies

[fallen zephyr]

Dvergr are incredibly stubborn. Even an accidental arrow/bolt to one of their kind will turn them against you for eternity.

[paper roost]

dvergers do, they hit like truck on hard mode, i m not that far on very hard. idk about skletons

[odd marsh]

no witnesses

[paper marsh]

yea I look forward to weaponizing a 2 star ice mage. 0 star normal mode ice mage is already an absolute menace, multiplying that damage by 4x can only be a war crime

[odd marsh]

even the children must not know of the mistake youve made

[fallen zephyr]

"I am not the purgatoried Viking you're looking for"

[odd marsh]

cause I am, was helping them kill their enemies until i accidentally hit one of them

[paper roost]

i also hate killing them, they are soooo cute

[odd marsh]

but i must correct my mistake to prevent further bloodshed

[paper marsh]

pitting enemies against each other on very hard is such a fun time. Just damage numbers going crazy all over the place

[manic kite]

Hello, will there ever be Steam achievements for Valheim? 🙂

[paper marsh]

Likely. I'm not 100% sure if devs confirmed there will achievements, but I know they said that it won't happen before the game releases though (which should be around when Deep North biome gets added)

My guess is that that will happen in a few years, so then from there on achievements have a good chance of being added

[manic kite]

Ah okay. Thank you! 😄

[digital iron]

There is this thing that makes me kinda sad

Visiting my old worlds..

My very own builds, all of them become a time capsule

[light moat]

I love stumbling upon an old outpost I made in my world lol

[digital iron]

They make me really sad, i always feel like i lived there, thrived, had happy moments and all of a sudden those majestic places i spent hours upon

Looks empty, dark, like nobody lived there and its just random building left for nothing

[paper roost]

than dont visit them?

[digital iron]

Thanks for pointing out the obvious solution, im just expressing my feelings in the hopes of finding like minded response 😀

[azure yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/drake-gif-21355539

[light moat]

Stumbling upon an old build and all the torches and campfires have gone out. “If these walls could talk”

[digital iron]

Lol 😀 hi there rianu

Haven’t seen you in, in ages??!

[paper roost]

i felt nostalgia when doing that as well, thats why i dont do it anymore 🙂

[paper marsh]

Seeing old builds makes me happy in a nostalgic way. A bit sad if I built it with a friend and we haven’t played together in a while tho

[azure yacht]

I died...

But I survived

[paper marsh]

If you can survive death you’re cool

[odd marsh]

cheated death i see

[digital iron]

Since playing this game for 600 hours already, in my last playthrough i decided i had enough if grinding and moving metals around and turned off portal restrictions

My tactics has changed as well, i soend more time focusing on my main build rather building a shit shack at the start

Then abandoning it due to having to build outpost near ore deposit areas so i can progress even further in the game

Thus not enjoying the building aspect of the game from very early on but rather delaying it for end game because moving metals to my main base all over the world map was not always an enjoyable experience to say least

Now, i strarted building a cozy place in meadows instead of shit shack like i used to, i don’t need to make outposts and force myself to move out since

[odd marsh]

thats why we have world modifiers. pretty nice addition

[digital iron]

I can just portal stuff and make my base complete with new stuff that i unlock along the progression

[odd marsh]

i agree hauling those large crates filled with metals. the pain

[digital iron]

Yes, yes and yes again! It was the most important addition for me.

It drastically changed the way i played this game and i can surely stay in one place without worrying on moving metals around

[paper roost]

as was said earlier today, these changes gives us options to play the game as we like it. some playing very hard difficulty, some switch no portal restrictions, some play immersive. big add to the game

[hollow wing]

black soup, turnip stew + lox pie. ive got a lot of it for yagluth, i plan to use wolf skewers at first though

[paper marsh]

I don’t like to haul metals too far which is why I set up my main base near a swamp that has iron and a tall mountain. In my current play through iron is a 2 minute jog away and silver takes 1-1.5 minutes to get from the top of the mountain and to my smelter

[hollow wing]

where do you place the portal for yagluth? how far away?

[unique onyx]

far enough away that you won't get a base raid during, you only make that mistake once lol

[hollow wing]

im just hopin g its not a god damn village there near the boss

[frigid gust]

My main base in my latest world is on top of a pillar on a Plains island where I've raised the ground for a farm and protection. Iron is a 3 minute sail across a strait, still have 3 untouched crypts, and silver and bronze were just a bit further off, but only an hour or two to get enough to make all the upgrades and such I needed.

[paper marsh]

I dunno like, 70m? I don’t usually need a portal nearby for him

[hollow wing]

now i need two more totems. i had like 4 and i cant find em

[odd marsh]

xD mustve been stolen by the gremlins

[paper marsh]

Uh oh better make a good sorting system. Put those black metal chests to use!

[odd marsh]

oh dude black metal chests. theee best and cheapest imo

since my heart burns to kill more of those laughing green fks..soo when we getting baby gremlins?...not that im going to do anything bad to them ofcourse not. i take that back

[paper roost]

are you sure you want something than you wont see in the grass and wont be able to hit with any weapon? 😄

[hollow wing]

now when i need totems i cant find em. what luck i have

[odd marsh]

time to SET SAIL!

[languid root]

Look for a lynx i told you

[hollow wing]

you keep talking about a lynx

[odd marsh]

set sail to the pyramids

[hollow wing]

im very fortunate. i just found another yagluth spawn very near my haldor portal, so no need to sail. still need the two totems tho

[languid root]

Cause you keep not finding things

[hollow wing]

dont know what you're talking about

[odd marsh]

lmao

[hollow wing]

looks like swamp portal is very close to yagluth. gonna go there maybe i can find the two more totems there

jesus h christ 4 berserkers

no totems though here. 5 actually

[frigid gust]

Hunter's bow, draw them off one at a time 😉 A spin with a blackmetal ategir can stun a normal or I think even a one-star

[hollow wing]

yeah but no totems. i just need 2 more to spawn yagluth

[frigid gust]

The berserkers can drop them

[merry pebble]

thats quite rare iirc (tho i think i had one that droped me yesterday 😄 )

[frigid gust]

Don't forget they can be in the stone towers as well

[hollow wing]

i must check those then

right now im just gonna go to yagluth boss spawn near haldor. great chance of totems on that plains as well

[frigid gust]

The bigger buildings with Fulings in them, not the small things with central stairs

[hollow wing]

very lucky that the island is barely connected. swamp has one small patch connecting it to yagluth

[frigid gust]

May as well get a portal setup so you can get to Yagluth easily

[hollow wing]

yeah thats why im going right now

[light moat]

World modifiers was probably the best change since Valheim went early access.

[paper marsh]

Would it be weird if I argued some biomes might be easier or at least faster to complete on Very Hard than on Normal mode? I mean of course it depends on the specific situation but I think very hard gives some nice advantages in several biomes

[frigid gust]

Like how? Do enemies drop more resources?

[drowsy magnet]

no, its the raids

[hollow wing]

my yagluth spawn boss is right neck to a black forest. very nice

[paper marsh]

Raid frequency doesn’t change in very hard

Meadows you have better chances at starred dears and boars which is rly nice,

Dvergr in mistlands are twice as strong and more likely starred so can dispatch mobs for you with ease

Assuming dead raiser works as I hope and anticipate those skellies do double damage too which can be good for mistlands and probably great for Ashlands

Oh yea and wolves are one shot to kill for most mobs anyways so getting hunted event in plains with double damage wolves that can inflict more pain on lox and goblins before being deleted is nice too

[paper roost]

also tars can delete whole villages and bunch of lox pretty fast

[odd marsh]

tar spitting burst rifles

[paper roost]

i went to plains just to gather some tar for my roofing, brought a village there, deleted- brought 3 lox- deleted, had to kill them myself at the end

[fresh jasper]

I just realized that there are rag pants in the game

Who in their right mind would craft those

[drowsy magnet]

me 🙋‍♂️

[hollow wing]

no totems, ive been to over 6 villages. very lucky

[paper roost]

go for those 5 berserkers 😛

[odd marsh]

got most of my totems from them

[errant forum]

Do the plains have 2 armor sets?

[frozen void]

No

[smoky grail]

Is there any graphics mod that still works? I know the pixel graphics were part of the charm of the game, but I love HD graphics if I can find them.

[frozen void]

#mods-discussion would be where to ask

[smoky grail]

Oh sorry and thank you.

[heady parcel]

Baking stuff in the oven is so oddly satisfying

[odd marsh]

place a chair infront of it and sit down

[heady parcel]

Baking irl is such a damn chore making the dough 😂

But the smells are lovely, I can almost feel them in-game 😄

[odd marsh]

oh indeed xD wish it was the same as throwing flour into a cauldron ang magically turn it to dough xD

ahhh the smell of yeast in the kitchen

[fair cairn]

cant even smell so
😦

[odd marsh]

you cant smell?

[fair cairn]

that is what i said

[odd marsh]

ahh damn thats just sad

[frigid gust]

Baking is science, cooking is art, I'm not very good at either 😛

[odd marsh]

yeast+flour+water=bread xD

[merry pebble]

you forgot the most important ingredience, time 😉

[regal spoke]

Lov

[odd marsh]

oh that aswell

[fair cairn]

through my precise calculations ive concluded, i suck at math

[odd marsh]

you gotta FEEL it

[merry pebble]

i am doing 10000 calculations a second... and they are all wrong!!!

[hollow wing]

been fighting yagluth for over 40 minutes with a friend

[fair cairn]

group effort

[frigid gust]

The Max Power way?

[odd marsh]

hows the fight going?

[hollow wing]

no pots left

[fair cairn]

40 minutes and counting?

[merry pebble]

you should be able to even shoot him to death in that time 🤔

[fair cairn]

i wonder what their strat is?

[hollow wing]

strat is killing him

[fair cairn]

but how

[odd marsh]

must be the viking YOLO way

[frigid gust]

Tickling him with feathers

[fair cairn]

i think my heart wouldve stopped after 40 minutes of that torture

[odd marsh]

id be seeing the meteor everytime someones raises their hand xD. those scenes might even play in my sleep LOL

[frigid gust]

I can solo Yag in around 5 minutes with a maxed out Frostner... it shouldn't take too long unless you're on repeated death runs 😉

[regal spoke]

Was just thinking deaths are involved

[fair cairn]

maybe even the flying kind

also, are they even propperly equiped for the boss fight if its taken 40 minutes

[frigid gust]

Forgetting to clear out the nearby tar pits and getting swarmed with blobs, and there are always a few fulings or whatnot...

[odd marsh]

With the power of friendship they shall win ❤️‍🔥

[hollow wing]

well i've never fought him so good luck

mess up a few times in the beginning and over 40 mins is what you end up with. still fighting him

defeated

[frigid gust]

Congrats! Now go do it again and get his trophy for your home! 😛

[hollow wing]

gonna try to find mistlands

[merry pebble]

good luck 😄

[worn ledge]

Do drauger respawn in their meadow villages evem after smashing the body piles?

[odd marsh]

nope dont think so

[hollow wing]

got there. real weird thing. i saw big blue clouds

[odd marsh]

i assume you brought some portals with you?

[drowsy magnet]

beware of the flying roaches

[merry pebble]

and hot air balloons 😄

[hollow wing]

yes

[drowsy magnet]

listen to the war drums

[merry pebble]

if you hear fog horn... run...

[hollow wing]

did i just get into a bad patch or is this what mistlands is? cause all i see is just rocks

[merry pebble]

most of it is rocks 😄

[odd marsh]

oh, youll see more of it

[regal spoke]

Hard to see anything in the Mist

[odd marsh]

i know, if only we have something to light our way with 👀

[hollow wing]

the wisp thing you mean

[odd marsh]

mhmmm

[merry pebble]

or there is a long shiny piece of metal you can get later 😄

[odd marsh]

gotta love the smol guys, i start hiding behind them as i see bugs

[frozen token]

to get loads of boar meat should i make a boar farm

[regal spoke]

A dversion if you will

[frozen token]

or just kill them out in the field

[merry pebble]

if you want stable source of it then go for the farm

and get 1 or 2 starred boar

[odd marsh]

made mead, to battle, forgot mead, i died

[hollow wing]

seekers are not so muc htroubl e as gjall is , i just saw him first time. very scary in the mist

[odd marsh]

duuude have you heard the sound they make? fking epic

[sick echo]

guys but

any date for the next patch?

[hollow wing]

so first impressions of mistlands are, really interesting biome. it really uses the mythological side of things.

[merry pebble]

Ashlands will be out in first half of 2024
There will be a public test beta

[paper marsh]

Do you love it or hate it or both?

[frigid gust]

Have you met all the major enemies in the Mistlands yet?

[hollow wing]

i cant hate it i was there for around 20 mins before gjall chased us out

[hollow wing]

dont think so. only saw tick, seekers and gjall

[frigid gust]

Gotcha. Yeah, the Dvergr can help with the other enemies 😉 Gjall have that big pulsating thing on the bottom for a reason, too...

[hollow wing]

dvergr is a friendly npc?

[pliant hatch]

At least until you find out they have an essential item locked in a chest.

But the good thing, it's only one tower where they're hostile to you if / when you try to grab that item.

And you can cheese it, if you use a cart to destroy the chest instead of using a weapon.

If you do it like that, grabbing that item won't make them hostile.

[paper marsh]

Figure out for yourself 😉

[hollow wing]

in time

think i gotta utilize black marble now to make my plains base prettier. i'd make one in mistlands but that seems a bad idea according to most people.

then again i totally forgot, can ballista target gjalls?

[pliant hatch]

They will target anything they can. Including you.
To avoid that you can put a trophy in it to "order" the ballista to fire at a specific monster.

Or you simply load them the moment you will need that weapon

[odd marsh]

hmm mshould i make the blackforge first or the other one?

[regal spoke]

I rather like mixing stone and black marble. They contrast eachother well

[odd marsh]

or does it depend on the playstyle?

[hollow wing]

is it worth building a base in mistlands?

[pliant hatch]

I'd choose the forge first, but yes, it may depend a bit at play style.

[odd marsh]

heck why not xD im building one rn lol

[hollow wing]

i guess i mean a base that you put a lot of effort in

very nice

[regal spoke]

I turned an infested mine on a chain of islands into my base. No mist. No mobs spawning. Even raids aren't bothering me.

[paper marsh]

It’s fun but I wouldn’t say practical. You could prob use a little outpost to plant mistlands crops

I also personally make a smeltery in mistlands for smelting black metal as you need that IN the mistlands, but you might as well bring it from home

[pliant hatch]

Depends a bit at you want.
In general an area with a portal, workbench, bed and some land to grow the crops will do.
If you're able to locate the Queen, there's a wooden panel at the side of the staircase, leading to some rooms under the staircase which is enough for a bed, portal, workbench and a chest to store some food.

[regal spoke]

Efficient foothold to the biome

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Finding space to grow a garden in the mistlands is problematic. So many places won't allow cultivating

[quick orbit]

Always good to create farms adjacent to black forest, meadows or the coast in my experience. Minimise the chance of attack from Mistland creatures.

[paper marsh]

Ngl I hate using terrain to effectively stop attacks

[regal spoke]

I found one of those inland ponds. Surrounded by tall spires. From above it has a teardrop look to it. I set benches in the crevices all around. Made my garden around the limited perimeter of the pond. Even have dvergr who's taken a liking to the place. Garden security

Posted garden in screenshots

[quick orbit]

I managed to chisel a farm into a mistland mountain on the coast. Worked well for the most part. (Distant Gjall noises of course!)

[regal spoke]

Work with what we can in the mist

[odd marsh]

its pretty nice that the blackforest is connected to my mist

[paper marsh]

Very pretty

[regal spoke]

Ty Snail. Turned out pretty sweet. I was just thankful to get crops in the ground. When I climbed up to my portal and looked down I seen what I created lol

[paper marsh]

After 6 mountains I found an onion seed 😄

[regal spoke]

Woww rng can be brutal. Glad you got your start

[paper marsh]

still need to find the mother of all drakes tho

Got plenty of ice caves waiting to be plundered

[regal spoke]

You didn't want to go spelunking ey? That fenr gear though.

[paper marsh]

Wanted the onions first. Frost caves can be dangerous

[regal spoke]

Fair

[paper marsh]

Especially bc I'm in troll and root armor atm

With a drake helm

[regal spoke]

Ooo squishy yea

[candid basalt]

Skirted my swamp on my starter island. Finally found three turnip seed plants near the meadows. I knew I should have gone counterclockwise in my search 😭

[paper marsh]

Just got ambushed by 4 drakes and a wolf, so you got your wish I fled into a ice cave

[regal spoke]

Nice save

[paper marsh]

Almost just lost the run. Although tbh I'm loving Very Hard so much and want to get to the endgame so if I die from this point imma continue. Still try not to tho!

[frigid gust]

I find turnips so much easier when looking at the swamps from another biome. It's my go-to method.

[regal spoke]

That's heart

[frozen token]

Is there a point in a half lowered sail

[azure yacht]

Maneuverability

[regal spoke]

^ slow/paddle ^^ medium speed ^^^ max speed

[paper marsh]

If you wanna go not full speed. If you want more maneuverability but still a bit of speed. If you want a serpent to keep up with you but don't wanna sit dead in the water

I barely ever use it

[regal spoke]

Yep paddle when wind against. Full sail when wind assist

[paper marsh]

paddle can also be good in mistlands even if wind with you

[hollow wing]

i wish they'd add a feature where with a crew you can row it

[regal spoke]

Accurate

I'd dig that too

[hollow wing]

not really necessaryi guess. but i assume when they revisit they might add that

[frozen token]

Why can't my wolf row with his jaw?

[regal spoke]

Would feel awesome when a team gets in sync.

[frozen token]

Ok that helps against serpent

[hollow wing]

is there some sort of horn in valheim that you can blow?

[vocal rivet]

In theory, the minimum speed on each boat is rowing, it's just not animated. And having a 'crew' would go against their ideas of favouring multiplay over single play.

[dim adder]

being able to increase speed without wind by having extra players rowing would be awesome

[regal spoke]

Plus the historic aspect. But point taken

[boreal meadow]

I played solo up to and completing bonemass and the gameplay loop already made multiplayer more favorable to me, but thats for pretty much any survival game. Such a large and beautiful world to explore, its always more fun to share it with your friends

gives me motivation to make nice bases rather than the bare minimum min-max grind cube base

[glacial kelp]

What’s new in the world of Valheim?

[lunar sapphire]

A user by the name of Nayte popping by 👍

Howdy traveller 👋

[fair falcon]

is the cart an easy thing to use, or is it not worth the hastle?

[patent wren]

Depends on terrain and weight in the cart, tbh. Meadows and black forest can be navigable, but steep hills and heavy weight do NOT get along.

[frozen void]

i like it

[light moat]

I’m in the minority I’m sure, but I don’t find the cart all that useful. I mostly use it around my base, and sometimes (rarely) if I child roads between my main base and an outpost.

[paper marsh]

I don't like it but in some situations it's useful

[patent wren]

I wouldn't bring the cart everywhere, but it's great for transporting ores on your base's continent or bringing ores to a shore to boat them. Building roads, walkways, or bridges for it can make transport easier. That can be a hassle, but it's worthwhile in really bad terrain (swamps) and places you'll use the cart multiple times, like a path from a dock to your base-- at least if it's more than 2-3 stacks of ore, anyway.

[light moat]

In my experience, just stacking 3 stamina foods and using Eikthyr gets the job done effectively without dealing with the hassle of hitting every bump in my way with a cart haha

[patent wren]

Nowadays tho I'm sort of with TooMuchDoggMan, since I find the cart too much hassle in the Mountains, I mostly use it to empty dump chests into their proper homes and shuffle supplies around my base. Sometimes for wood gathering.

[paper marsh]

Cart is kinda a must on mountain for me tho

[light moat]

I still have to try yalls advice on pushing a cart off the side of a mountain lol that’ll be a fun one

[jade vessel]

[fair falcon]

good to know, one more thing... is the fandom the preferred wiki, or is their another valheim wiki thats considered better

[patent wren]

My primary silver mountain at the moment is so steep and craggy I couldn't take a cart more than 3 meters before it got irreparably stuck 😭

[frozen void]

cart should only be used in moutnains on good paths or to get it down to your ship

[patent wren]

Currently the fandom wiki is most up to date afaik. Someone brought up transferring once but did not sway hearts

[glacial kelp]

Ahh, salutations Subject!

[fair falcon]

yeahhh, autosave is getting turn up to every 5 minutes.. just built an entire dock only for me to sleep and then the game to freeze

cant even turn it up crazy

[plain bane]

So I have a swamp loaded with crypts, but it's surrounded on all sides by Plains, even the river that gives it sea access. I'm rockin root armor but gobbos still scare me at this stage. Should I wait and come back to this one later or would it be practical to somehow build a base inside the swamp and store the iron before dashing out with it later? I can't imagine any structure here is gonna last long.

[rain flare]

Cart is awesome for pulling an inordinate amount of stuff

Like say…
12 stacks of copper ore

[odd helm]

That's a lotta copper

[rain flare]

No way in Hel am I going to walk that to my base 😂

[rain flare]

Yeah my friend and I went on a copper mining spree 🙈

We won’t use even half of it unless we do a build project - and then we need more tin

[odd kernel]

Me and my brother took on wolves today to test the strength of our new iron armor,axe,and iron banded shields.

They are not as bad as we thought,however,that's if they are alone and not more than one,They attack slightly faster,and stagger longer than graydwarf brutes,which can be bad if your not good at timing,which I actually do pretty good with

[odd helm]

The timing is hard to get used to on wolves, but I'm pretty sure if you block just as you hear the snarl, you'll parry the bite

But yeah, they're difficult in packs~

[rain flare]

This is why I like tower shields and pointy sticks

Push them away and retaliate in between snarls

Also helps for packs 🙈

[odd kernel]

That's kinda what I was going for,I've been able to learn pretty quickly the sound queues for the mobs

[odd kernel]

I worry about being weighed down when getting mobbed by more than what you can handle.

Can you only use spears with tower shields?

[odd helm]

You can use any 1h weapon with tower shields

They work the same as other shields mostly, you just can't parry with them

But they normally have higher base block power, so you don't need to parry to deflect high damage attacks

[odd kernel]

It just feels like alot more fun to parry,though that means increased chance of getting hit,tanking blows seems like it would feel tedious,but that's probably just me,even in minecraft tanking blows with a shield feels kinda odd

[rain flare]

Yeah you can use any weapon with a tower shield - I just recommend spears when dealing with wolves as you have a fast attack time and a decent secondary spear throw

Knives/daggers are just as good for that purpose

Again, tower shield is specifically for getting mobbed by tons of wolves at once

Or go for a buckler and knife - just keep on your toes cause as you parry one wolf another will bite your backside 😅

Atgirs are also a good choice for wolves as your secondary hits multiple mobs at once

[fresh jasper]

I just lure the wolf packs following me to my friend mining silver.

[rain flare]

Yooooou BASTARD!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[plain bane]

More worried about having my boat get nuked by a leech or mosquito sitting in a bat surrounded by plains and swamp at all ends while I'm off getting iron

[plain bane]

Never once used a tower shield. Can't comprehend not being able to parry at whim

[proven crag]

Do boarstones respawn?

[fair cairn]

no

[proven crag]

darn

[fair cairn]

boarstones are one time spawns

though they are a good place to check for starred boars

[proven crag]

Yea I got some starred boars from a few walking around, just started a new save since I havent done a solo run since launch

[normal badger]

NOOOOOO I WAS GONNA COME TO THEM BUT THEY CAME TO ME!! I was JUST preparing for the trip tomorrow and here they are at my doorstep goddammit #screenshots message

WHAT is going on

"the forest is moving"

they're killing my bees wth

there's like 7 of them

i take that back there were 13

im gonna need to build a fort lol

some fences and a couple of outposts, hopefully they can't do anything to me then

[opal prairie]

Morning gjall.

[heady parcel]

If you are sailing a karve, it will save you some wave damage if you get caught in a storm. If you go with full sail you will be crashing into waves so fast it gets damaged, eventually sinking if you keep going...

And now I notice that convo was from tonight... damn discord hadn't updated.

[heady parcel]

Stakewall should be enough to keep greys out, but yeah some defences will be necessary eventually...

[opal prairie]

Eventually you can dig a moat and / or put earthen walls up.
Find a nice island to make your base on and spawn proof it, no worries what so ever then.

[heady parcel]

The power of the almighty Hoe

[normal badger]

I found blackforest, killed my first troll

[heady parcel]

Honestly though, the one thing that bothers me about Valheim balancing is how superior terraforming is to using constructed defences. Too late to change now, but maybe the stronger creatures should have had the ability to damage those earth walls...

[normal badger]

I took shelter in a stone tower and kept shooting away at the troll lol

what if i just keep doing that, take temporary shelters and live the nomad life

has anyone done a no base run before

[heady parcel]

It works, but you'll need to set up a crafting station where you have the facilities to upgrade and craft stuff

[normal badger]

... there is a giant stone node that i was completely oblivious to until it said copper deposit

that doesn't look like copper lol it just looks like mosssy stone to me

[heady parcel]

Or maybe just making stone walls a wee bit stronger, feels like mobs can tear them down as if they were made of straw

[normal badger]

hopefully i didn't pass on too many of those

i guess copper is only available in blackforest right?

[heady parcel]

Yes, you'll need to find tin too so you can turn it into bronze

[ionic iron]

Nope other places too

Later on..

[normal badger]

i was literally getting the tin next to it until my cursor accidentally detected "copper node"

[heady parcel]

much later 😄

[normal badger]

what a crazy trip i can't believe i survived

[heady parcel]

Hehehe good job!

[normal badger]

and as is customary to every trip i always return without my upgraded spear xD

it's the third time now, starting to get expensive

why are spears so hard to retrieve, i threw it at the troll's eye and i never got it back

[heady parcel]

Might be easier to find if you reduce vegetation detail temporarily, world looks awful that way though

Oh they've changed that. At minimum setting you removed all grass before, turning the ground into a flat texture. That's been changed, when did this happen?

[opal prairie]

Blackforest is indeed the only biome with copper nodes.
Other places provide copper in other ways though.

"Best" way to go about getting copper ore from a node is digging all around it and under it and then making it explode.
Though you'll need to clear 1-2 meters all around so no hitbox from copper touches a hitbox from the surrounding area.

[normal badger]

Ohh animals in blackforest drop more loot, THAT'S AWESOME

I got like 4 hide out of that deer, i hope they're all like that

hopefully i find a high level boar next cause im short on scrap

was starting to get rly boring killing 10 boars for 10 leather in meadows lol

[opal prairie]

Nope, they drop the same as others, some animals will have a star or 2 and those drop more loot.
For 2 star boars you need to be 800 meters from spawn, you can tame boars and breed them, later on you can also tame wolves don't read the hidden part if you don't want to know where and how to find 2 star wolves ||(2star wolves appear only at night in the mountains)|| and loxes which can't have stars.

[heady parcel]

Starred deer have antlers - the big ones are the two-stars