valheim-chat

[fair cairn]

you will need plenty of stone once youve gotten iron

resin is msotly just for fueling torches i beleive so you dont need much of that unless you like having torches

[charred otter]

What about the mob heads

[charred otter]

Fire arrows

[fair cairn]

some are need for baits, some are needing for weapons and some are needed for armor

[charred otter]

Idk when I get the next upgrade to arrows

[fair cairn]

that too

[merry pebble]

you can throwaway probably all of the ones you have now, you will need some for crafting later tho

[fair cairn]

metal arrows are kinda a waste

[uncut bough]

flint arrow until obsidian arrow

[charred otter]

The deer I am keeping for the stagger weapon thing

[fair cairn]

probably best to keep some troll heads

[uncut bough]

skip bronze and iron arrow, they are meh,

[charred otter]

Not fire?

[uncut bough]

well i mean i thought u r talking about plain damage arrow

i mean yes, fire arrow and flint arrow will be ur best friends till u get to mountain

[fair cairn]

most metal head arrows are kinda meh and expensive

[charred otter]

Fire is not metal

[fair cairn]

my point

[charred otter]

U replied to the not fire tho

[fair cairn]

yea cause evildog talked about metal arrows
and you brought up fire arrows which arent metal arrows
and metal arrows are meh and expensive
fire arrows are not metal so
they are still cheap and pretty good

[charred otter]

When do I use flint vs fire?

[fair cairn]

fire is for stuff weak to fire

[opal prairie]

The only good "metal" arrow is obsidian.

[fair cairn]

so greydwarves
aboms
and other such things that are weak to fire though
fire in general works against a lot of stuff

[toxic rose]

Glass is not metal, you could bring through portal

[fair cairn]

wouldnt the silver arrows be the metal and the rest are the alternative like poison,frost and obsidian arrows

[opal prairie]

True.

[charred otter]

aboms?

[fair cairn]

its our shortened name, you learn soon enough lol

[merry pebble]

well the silver also does spirit dmg compared to pure pierce obsidian, so that would be the alternative one i think 😄

[fair cairn]

but its metal still with a bonus anti undead

[opal prairie]

Yeah, maybe it is better to differentiate in "plain" arrows the ones that just do raw damage and nothing special.
Obsidian, needle and carapace amongst others fall under that and the alternative arrows that do extra damage or effects.

[merry pebble]

yes, but "main" arrows up to mountains do only pierce, so by that logic obsidian arrows are main with silver being the anti undead alternative 😄

[charred otter]

Shortened for what? lol

[toxic rose]

Some funny trees))

[merry pebble]

you will see 😉

[fair cairn]

the bigger and malformed older uncle of the greydwarf?

[charred otter]

Oh I think I accidentally saw it in some vid

It's really hard to not get spoiled when the game needs so much meta knowledge to progress

[toxic rose]

But you could learn meta by yourself

[charred otter]

Yea but some things are really hard to discover

[opal prairie]

Well needle and carapace arrows do only pierce as well.

[toxic rose]

For example?

[charred otter]

Like gl finding copper from just the in-game description

[merry pebble]

well its a game focused on exploration quite a bit 😄

[charred otter]

Yea but even if u discover it, u don't know that it's copper

[drowsy magnet]

point at it, it says copper 🙂

[toxic rose]

If you don't read any in game text then ofc

[opal prairie]

I've first done a playtrough without looking anything up and discovered copper on my own amongst other things.
With exploration and experimentation you can finish this game without looking anything up.
Looking up things online will just speed the process up.

[charred otter]

Why would u randomly look at the ground

[merry pebble]

to see what the shiny lines on a rock are 😄

[drowsy magnet]

i do it with any survival games 😛

there might be random items laying around so i would always look at the ground

[charred otter]

I am on an integrated-cpu as a gpu laptop, so maybe it's just me but I barely see any difference, it's not that shiny, especially if it's raining

[opal prairie]

Because you know that when you point your cursor at something you get a tiny description, so if anything looks a bit odd, you point at it to find out if is just a special looking rock or something else.

[charred otter]

Maybe with higher visual settings it'll be more obvious

Do I need to water the carrots or something or do I just make the time pass until they have grown?

[merry pebble]

they need sky above them, thats all 😄

[charred otter]

Also I don't think I can do anything about this, but if I block and use key are the same, I can't sleep in beds

[toxic rose]

It wasn't a problem for me to find the bronze without hints. The bigger problem was to melt it down. In the very first burial chambers, I was greeted by a 2-star archer skeleton + spawner. After such a unluck, I was very afraid to go there. It was only later that I realized that they were very simple.

[charred otter]

My workaround is to just rebind it each time I go to sleep

[charred otter]

Yea that was also an issue, I didn't know about the spawner so I kept killing them and they started being 2-star constantly and I didn't understand what I should do

And then after clearing that first one, next time I tried one it took me like 5m

[toxic rose]

It was my first death. That's when I learned how cruel it is when you don't have anything at home at all, and the old stuff is thrown away like garbage...

[charred otter]

I keep my old stuff, but it didn't really help me when I die

If it's a stupid death to an easy mob then I usually don't even need any gear, but if it's a really tough mob that I died to, then my old gear sure won't be enough to deal with it

[raven heron]

getting the last tier of armor and 3 health foods helps a lot in tanking for your items back

if u know you're gonna die in 1 hit anyway, then lure the enemies away from your body, die again and run back

[dense steppe]

Get close to the body with stealth 😼

[lusty crescent]

Or
And this is a classic move
Activate dev commands and fly

[toxic rose]

Uninteresting

[fair cairn]

or, get good

[uncut bough]

after plains it is mistland right?

[clever torrent]

Yeah.

[merry pebble]

yep

[uncut bough]

well i am grinding for plains stuff now, maybe a few days or week later i will fight yagluth

[opal prairie]

You are in for a treat.

[velvet harbor]

that or something with black metal. it'll probably be made with the wood in the mistlands and some sap and probably black metal nails (assuming they get added) or yea, something with the queens drop. because then that would make it so you have to beat beat her to explore the ashlands

[cursive dust]

Hey, everybody. Any idea what the conference will be about?
INDEPENDENT GAMES SUMMIT: 'VALHEIM': VIKINGS, ROADMAPS & BUYING A HORSE DURING EARLY ACCESS

are they going to make an in-game store?

[latent wraith]

What conference?
The webstore is already available via a link on he start screen in-game.

Based on the "headlines" it looks like either someone trolling or someone going to talk about idiots using clickbait headlines.

In either case, not worth giving attention.

[vocal rivet]

I doubt it has anything to do with Iron Gate in any case and therefore doesn't belong here.

[cursive dust]

GDC - Game developers conference, March 18-22, valheim developers will be speaking tomorrow

[latent wraith]

So clickbait headlines then.
You might want to start with saying what you're talking about...

[cursive dust]

The developers hinted that they'd be at GDC on their Twitter feed.

[latent wraith]

Most people aren't on twiter so you can't really expect people to know what "the conference" is without giving any sort of context.

[cursive dust]

I'd post a screenshot, but you can't do that here.

I apologize, they posted a spoiler on instagram.

Anyway, IronGATE hinted about GDC, and me and the guys started following the happenings at GDC. The official site now has a program of speeches by different developers. Tomorrow morning there will be an hour-long talk by the valheim developers.

[uncut bough]

smiffe fact check when

[regal spoke]

Would have been nice they put that in the news feed here

[uncut bough]

probably they have thought of that but then it was buried under 2341432 "when ashlands" questions

[regal spoke]

#news

[uncut bough]

i know

[regal spoke]

It's read only

[uncut bough]

my point is they might have thought of updating the news but after reading the 1000th when ashlands question they forgot about it

[cursive dust]

Unfortunately, I can't find any information about whether there will be a broadcast of the performance.

[uncut bough]

man my sense of humor is bad

[regal spoke]

It's early. Heads full of thoughts. I'm being dense on humor atm

[half dragon]

I suddenly remembered why I dislike sailing so much. EVERY time. Every single time I sail, the wind just happens to be blowing the exact opposite direction I'm trying to sail. At this point might as well walk and only sail when have to, then break the boat and keep walking

There are other directions the wind could be blowing... but no

[vocal rivet]

Fortunately it'll change again in a few hours. Or you could use Moder if you have it.

[half dragon]

unfortunately it's relatively new save since I restarted. hauling back my first batch of iron on karve. Wasn't lucky enough to have a proper swamp connected to the starter island

[half dragon]

Also.... when I finally change direction I'm sailing, the game will decide to update and blow the opposite direction again. Happened a few times...

[vocal rivet]

Just pick a time when it's blowing the right way, I guess then.

[amber flicker]

Does parry bonus from weapon and bucklers stack?

[frigid gust]

Nope

[amber flicker]

ok. im not sure i understand the whole parry bonus mechanic then, why would i use a buckler if thats only 2,5 parry bonus and a knife is 4.0?

[half dragon]

I think my boat is just cursed. The game hates it lol. I'll post a screenshot of what just happened

[frigid gust]

Because the multiplier is applied on the base defense of the item. The buckler is still better defense.

[paper marsh]

Parry bonus multiplies block armor.

If a shield has 40 block armor and 2.5 bonus, A parry will give you 100 armor

If a knife has 8 block armor and 4x bonus, you get 32 armor on a parry

[amber flicker]

ok so the winner is the carapace bucker with 292 parry block armor it seems

[paper marsh]

And ofc if you mistime your parry and it just becomes a block instead, the parry bonus is wasted. Missing the parry with a knife hurts

[amber flicker]

how do i caclute if i can parry enough to "stagger" a unit?

[merry pebble]

also it multiplies the dmg while enemies are staggered iirc 😄

[paper marsh]

Check pins, there should be a blocking sheet from Sevrahn somewhere

Ability to parry depends on your block armor and also your maximum health (very important)

[amber flicker]

ok. that excel sheet is some high brain stuff lol

I usually run full stamina food and parry alot, so i just wondered if the skol and hati was my best option

[paper marsh]

Skoll and hati are pretty good. Might struggle with starred enemies tho, not sure

[uncut bough]

man taming wolf is such a chore

[paper marsh]

Taming takes a bit. I’m not much for it although I have just started creating a lox herd

[amber flicker]

At what situations is Skol and Hati better than BM knife and carapace buckler?

[opal prairie]

Can be done afk though, trap wolf in pit, toss it food, put floor over pit, get into a pit close by yourself and floor that one as well and go do something else till wolf is tamed.

[paper marsh]

Fun fact, i||f you get the shield from staff if protection, you can parry any hit no matter what is in your hands. You can parry a 2 star seeker with no food in your belly and using your bare hands if you want, bc the shield negates all the damage. ||

[opal prairie]

Dodge rolling and stabidy stab stab.
For when you can't parry.

[uncut bough]

it doesnt tame when i leave the area tho

[paper marsh]

Just up to preference. Skoll and hati does more damage but is a bit less likely to parry (still pretty good tho) and it really hurts on a block

[uncut bough]

and also this mf is so subseptible to sound, just walk by a bit and it started running around

[merry pebble]

just make a hut or a hole next to the taming hole as kamap said 😄

[uncut bough]

i gave it like 40 deer meat tho so it should be fine

[opal prairie]

Park yourself into a pit nearby and do something else in real life, read a book, watch a movie, get some snacks, a walk ^^

[paper marsh]

I hate wolves

[uncut bough]

but he said do somethign else, and i took over a built hut in #screenshots

[paper marsh]

Build a base while you wait for it to tame 😄

[merry pebble]

yeah, thats more than enough 😄 iirc taming needs 1 piece of food for 10 minutes of animal being tamed, so 3-4 pieces should be all you need (i always drop double just in case)

[uncut bough]

but what happen if i afk and then raid

i sent the location in #screenshots

[azure yacht]

Prepare to rebuild

[uncut bough]

or i might just stand on top of the hut, that way no wolf reaches me

[merry pebble]

if you dont have base structures then you shouldnt get raids (exept wolf raid) but if you are in the hole with floor over your head it should be fine 😄

[azure yacht]

That's why you don't afk in the first place. Pause the game

[merry pebble]

he is taming...

[opal prairie]

You need to be in range of 3 player based items for a raid to happen, so the only raid you can get would be the wold one and if you are in a pit with a floor over the chance that they can get to you is minimal.

[paper marsh]

I’d keep an eye on the game while taming even if I wasn’t actively playing

[uncut bough]

well i am near a work bench, bed and a portal

imma break the bed then

[opal prairie]

Read a book while behind your pc, if you have two screens put a movie or serie on.

[uncut bough]

the game still progresses to nighttime when i am not on the game screen tho

[vocal rivet]

Well, you're taming wolves, so you want it to be night-time really.

[uncut bough]

music started picking up pace, and then "you are being hunted"

[white mural]

i finally found a crypt, thankfully

[uncut bough]

i am so dead in this one 🗣️

actually bonemass will just turn the raid into a casual wolf farm

boneass ability is so broken, most of damage form in game is physical attack ( blunt, pierce, slash) and having the damage slashed by 70% means you are basically a moving tank

[fair cairn]

and someone that started after me, by months now beat me in progress while litterally not even trying to actually progress
wellp

[paper marsh]

It is quite broken. At least on Normal.

I haven't tried it out on Very Hard but I feel like it's a bit less useful there. I like Eikthyr

imo it makes the game more fun not using bonemass power

[uncut bough]

are you at swamp?

[half dragon]

It's not that strong if you don't get hit

[fair cairn]

arent you basically almost done with mountain biome?

[uncut bough]

i am done with moder

[fair cairn]

then you did progress further than me lol

[uncut bough]

it was tough fighting alone because the fight with it is way longer than 5 minutes of boneass power

i am not at plains yet, i am still mass farming silver

i want my chest to basically be filled with silver, maybe iron but i havent got a plan to return to swamp yet

[half dragon]

I do not recall having an issue fighting moder... it was easier fight than the tree boi once I figured out how it works

[uncut bough]

tree boi was easier, just run around and not get hit by tentacles, and stay behind the pillar when it do the "Elder Blast"

[half dragon]

and moder managed to be easier than that... at least from what I remember

[fair cairn]

silver doenst ahve many uses past mountains, but i do think you need plenty of iron even in plains

[plush umbra]

moder you just shoot from far away she often gets stuck on stuff when she lands

[uncut bough]

after an animal is tamed it has a sfx right?

[half dragon]

the tree boi has shit ton of HP with the gear you have at the time. took almost all 100 fire arrows to kill it

[uncut bough]

so i dont just over-wait the entire period cuz i didn't remember when i started taming it

[fair cairn]

though it may have uses in mistlands i guess?

[fair cairn]

it name will be green and youl geta notif saying "wolf" has tamed or something

[paper marsh]

It's used for wisplight and mistlands sword, that's all from what I remember

[fair cairn]

plus taming takes like 30 minutes iirc

[uncut bough]

i am not glued to the screen, i am basically doing homework while let the music plays

[near furnace]

no we aren't 😄

[uncut bough]

in game store in valheim: haldor sells u real stuff for American Money

[fair cairn]

so its name will be green once its tamed

[vocal rivet]

I honestly don't know why anyone would think that.

[paper marsh]

I killed Moder last night, shit was rough. I ran triple health to have like 230hp, but she still brought me to 50ish hp every time she swiped me. I think I could have survived a frost barrage hit but I'm glad I didn't test that theory

[near furnace]

some of us went to GDC yes 🙂

[uncut bough]

yea but i am specifically asking whether it has sfx

[cursive dust]

this is good) Russian players make such theories about what you will tell ) horror)

[uncut bough]

because i may overshot the wait time by 10-30 minutes if i dont hear anything

[near furnace]

smiffe is not at GDC

[fair cairn]

it does i believe?

[uncut bough]

but smiffle will fact check if it will happen

wait i just realized it is smiffe not smiffle

[vocal rivet]

Just NOW?

[opal prairie]

It has sound effects but no different than what they have normally.

[uncut bough]

just now

[near furnace]

S M I F F E

😄

[fair cairn]

oh you too? i just stopped saying smiffe and started saying smiffle a long time ago lol

[near furnace]

@vocal rivet why sad face? you went to GDC with the hope to find me?

[uncut bough]

big fan

[vocal rivet]

No, I'm sad you didn't get to go.

[near furnace]

everyone could go if they wanted to

but I didn't want to go so

[uncut bough]

wait i saw sth at the screen lemme check on the wolf

[vocal rivet]

Oh, then fair enough. I retract my sad face.

[near furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/patpat-pat-comfort-pat-on-the-head-there-there-gif-10534102

[uncut bough]

nope nothing happened

[fair cairn]

you sure? i recall i heard a sfx when the wolf tamed

[sonic star]

got carried away designing a building and need to rebuild the thing in survival now pre-iron 🥲

[cursive dust]

@near furnace give a spoller on the release date of the update) if possible )

[uncut bough]

i saw sth at the screen, and now i rememered it said "You could eat another bite" now that i think of it

[sonic star]

it isn't super expensive but it's gonna be AWFUL to try to recreate

[uncut bough]

i didnt catch a glimpse at it but i saw the food bar is empty, so i deduced it like that

[opal prairie]

First half of this year.

[uncut bough]

second quarter of this year

[vocal rivet]

Not really a spoiler, that.

[fair cairn]

ooh yea that happens too

[uncut bough]

slams table

[half dragon]

you could say that the update will be game changing

[cursive dust]

😐

[near furnace]

Not tomorrow 🤔

[uncut bough]

day since last "when ashlands" : 0 days

[opal prairie]

Today isn't looking good either.

[vocal rivet]

That counter will never go up.

[uncut bough]

yesterday wasn't it either

[cursive dust]

😥

[uncut bough]

the counter encountered an underflow, now it is at 9999 days

[near furnace]

next on PTB will be another round of PTB

since some people are so damn good at finding issues. we will have things solved soon™️ 🙂

[merry pebble]

wait, you didn´t put spoiler on that 🫣

[vocal rivet]

Why would the counter be using base 10?

[near furnace]

well.. I can ||not this week either|| obviously 😉

[uncut bough]

i like it to be in base 10

then we could use base 64-bit and then we get 2^64-1 days since last when ashlands then

[vocal rivet]

I just hope I can actually run the next PTB.

[uncut bough]

what is ptb?

[vocal rivet]

I nearly typed ?ptb then.

[azure yacht]

I know Smiffe doesn't care about being pinged but being pinged for this kind of stuff must surely be annoying. Especially when the answer would be obvious

[near furnace]

Public Test Beta

[uncut bough]

oh , what happened to public test alpha

[cursive dust]

@near furnace Thanks for the info, hopefully we'll have a quick resolution to all the problems.

[near furnace]

@near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace @near furnace

boom

smiffe ping

[vocal rivet]

2021

[near furnace]

^ wrong 😄

[azure yacht]

reports Smiffe for pinging Smiffe

[near furnace]

the public alpha test client was removed in 2020 🙂

[vocal rivet]

Oh, my mistake.

[cursive dust]

I saw that the man was active in the chat room, that's why I asked.

[near furnace]

Caught Derek on a rare occasion on being wrong

https://tenor.com/view/incredible-dance-crazy-dance-michael-scott-the-office-danse-gif-20731710

[uncut bough]

dang wolf keeps howling

[plush umbra]

Caught ya

[near furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/awoo-heavy-weights-yeat-wolf-gif-1326479860896545498

[vocal rivet]

*occasion 😉

[uncut bough]

*yr'oue

[near furnace]

🤔

[opal prairie]

2nd on = of

[near furnace]

@exotic cradle halp!

the regulars are being mean to me

[raven heron]

My only wish is to have exponential chicken growth like in minecraft

[vocal rivet]

She's one of us too.

[plush umbra]

Not the English major

[near furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/ugh-disgust-disgusted-kristen-bell-eleanor-shellstrop-gif-17906916

[uncut bough]

the people hath spoken

YES i heard some jingling noises, the wolf is tamed

[near furnace]

oh you better watch yourself 👀

[merry pebble]

smiffe i think this guy is spaming 😉 #valheim-chat message

[vocal rivet]

Ah, a GIF from a show where I literally have character named after me.

[near furnace]

and hes like.. spamming valheim-chat with non-valheim related stuff also probably 👀

[uncut bough]

i watched myself, awaitng further orders

[vocal rivet]

If Subject were here he'd try and ban you again.

[opal prairie]

He's also gotten gif privileges.

[near furnace]

🫡

[paper marsh]

I think Smiffe is relatively valheim related

[raven heron]

I honestly havent noticed #general exists until now

[opal prairie]

Indubitably.

[plush umbra]

Flick of a gif

[near furnace]

is this the #English-word-flex-channel? 🤔

[uncut bough]

no it is the "1 english word per day" dictionary

[near furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/rolling-rotating-neon-glow-in-the-dark-glowing-gif-26666518

[uncut bough]

guys why cant i toggle friendly fire #screenshots

what the.... NOOO where the flower comes from?

[plush umbra]

Unambiguously

[uncut bough]

i am infected

[near furnace]

cannot toggle during combat

[raven heron]

Too close to other people i think @uncut bough i had to runa fair bit away to enable it

[uncut bough]

how to remove flower petal,

[paper marsh]

make a blood sacrifice to the gods and hope your cries are heard

[near furnace]

pick them up

[opal prairie]

Beg @near furnace ask @lunar sapphire .

[near furnace]

Subject is... sleeping 🤔

I think

[uncut bough]

wym beg smiffle?

[paper marsh]

Smiffe has cameras set up in Subjects house to monitor them, CONFIRMED

[near furnace]

or we wrote to me and told me 😄

[uncut bough]

i have to give an entire viking feast table offering to sniffle?

we implies you write to urself too

we have 2 smiffles guys, this guy is a doppelgänger

[opal prairie]

Smiffe likes the flowers and to get him to remove them you'll have to ask very nicely or beg.

[paper marsh]

sleep writing?

[opal prairie]

Smiffe is royalty, he is using the royal form of we.

[uncut bough]

i am devastated

[near furnace]

SIR. Sniffles? 🤔

[uncut bough]

he who sniffs

i am about to tame another wolf

somehow this 0 star wolf bites the chunks out of me , normally i dont remember taking 10-20 damage per bites

[vocal rivet]

You're taming 0 star wolves?

[uncut bough]

yea

i dont consider it waste of resources, i have 200 neck tails that i want to get rid off, and also 140 deer meat

which i also am not using

[opal prairie]

If you wait till night you can get a 2 star wolf, starred wolves only spawn at night.

[vocal rivet]

Given that you'll never get starred wolves from a union between two 0 star wolves it IS somewhat of a waste.

[uncut bough]

i dont mind that, my armor is not maxed so i am scared of getting bitten to shreds by 2 stars

man this snowstorm is tanking my FPS

also i would be glad if i see a 1 star at least i have been running at the middle of mtn and saw no starred wolf

another 0 star wolf i found,

[opal prairie]

1 star wolves only come out at night.

[uncut bough]

yes i am bieng at night. do 0 star wolf that spawns at night also despawns?

i found 1 while running around and now it isnt eating the meat

[opal prairie]

Don't know but I think so.

[teal python]

I need to go sailing again because I want to find a leviathan so I can make a razor, but I’m also terrified because last time a serpent ate me and I lost everything.

I had thought a karve would be strong enough to keep a serpent at bay while I shoot it, but I was mistaken

[uncut bough]

u dont lose everything though, your corpse will be at the same place u die

so you can still get it back but yea if you see serpent again, karve is not helping u

you can hire a body recovery squad in this server, they will help u out to go to leviathan/ get back ur corpse

[opal prairie]

Karve can outrun a serpent.

[uncut bough]

unless u r playing very hard then yea no corpse

just barely and at max speed, which doesnt happen always

and if it does then it is usually at the wrong direction, like there is a chance that going with the wind lands you in plains

which is like out of the fire into frying pan situation

[half dragon]

karve is supposed to be fast enough outrun the serpent if you're going the direction of wind... but probably only in some specific conditions

[uncut bough]

yea, u dont wanna land in plains while outrunning a serpent hehe

[teal python]

Sadly the wind was awful and I was paddling

[uncut bough]

yea you need some strong bow to make short work of serpent

[teal python]

I gave up and moved to a new world

[uncut bough]

maybe huntsman bow, that one is enough to solo a serpent while not getting sunk

[paper marsh]

If you have wind with you a finewood bow should be fine for a serpent. But ofc it comes up to skill too

[uncut bough]

finewood takes a lot of skill and maneuver to kill a serpent, because it also dictates how fast you kill the serpent, because karve usually dont last long on unfavorable condition

so the time it takes to kill serpent with finewood is like longer than the time it takes for ur puny karve to sink

[teal python]

I’m thinking if I go leviathan hunting again I should just go in the buff with nothing but my antler pickaxe and stamina food so if I die I don’t lose anything good

[paper marsh]

I usually don't have a serpent catch up to me when going full speed in Karve. I feel like I sometimes have to slow down to not lose it

[uncut bough]

as i said, going full speed has its own condition, either it is way off from the destination u want to go, or it puts u in another trouble

[paper marsh]

mhm depends on situation. I think veering off your original course tho is fine if it means you don't die / you get serpent meat

[uncut bough]

totally

[opal prairie]

Are you playing with the loose everything upon death world setting?

[half dragon]

plains is complete ass for boats if you do not have proper gear for plains... those damn death squitos swoop in to poke your ass

[uncut bough]

ok as i expected the 0 star wolf at night despawned

[teal python]

No, just default settings. But I didn’t have materials for another karve and my bow was in my tombstone

I packed up my bees and moved to another planet

[uncut bough]

we could help you get back your body if you so desire

[teal python]

Nah, it’s fine. I’ve already gotten back to where I was before. Just struggling with the whole fear of ocean travel

[paper marsh]

yea never get close to plains coastline without root harnesk

[teal python]

Yeah, the only landmasses near the sad paddling karve were plains

[uncut bough]

still, u might want some help if you decide to mine chitin and fear the serpent

[half dragon]

what makes it so dangerous is that you can't really escape from them. Squitos remember, squitos never forgive

[paper marsh]

Can also always change difficulty or death penalty settings if struggling

[uncut bough]

because chitin knife is as strong as iron knife, it might have been intentional for devs to lock 2 necessary items behind iron age

which is long boat, this thing basically scoffs at serpent, it outruns serpent easily and it is durable enough to kill with finewood bow, and also huntsman bow, this thing makes short work of serpent

[teal python]

I will try the leaving all my good stuff at home method. At least then I won’t lose anything but some skill points

[paper marsh]

Always bring a portal so you can easily get back to where you were tho (if you manage to make it to land)

[uncut bough]

it is still imperative that you should bring best bow and best pickaxes for best yield of chitin and best chance of survival against serpent though

[latent wraith]

0 star wolves are just as cozy as starred ones!

[uncut bough]

bruh i found 2 star wolf

and it bit me to pieces :/

[light moat]

Bummer! Yeah, they hit hard

[half dragon]

It's just love bites, surely

pet it harder

[opal prairie]

They love you to the bone.

[uncut bough]

i got attacked by 3 0 star wolf and that large black 2 star wold came out of nowhere and bit me 2 death

[half dragon]

Do cages actually work for keeping those animals there for duration of taming?

[white mural]

i found a cluster of swamp crypts, so when i get more keys, im gonna be good on iron

[latent wraith]

You only need one key, it's not consumed on use.

[half dragon]

at least I'd assume that's what the cage walls and floors are meant for... and not some uhh... not for friends

[white mural]

ah

[paper marsh]

Hmmm, a regular wolf prob. A starred one? Prob, but can't guarantee it

[uncut bough]

welp i killed the 2 starred wolf since it is day time

finally i got my revenge, and also my sadness for not being able to tame a 2 star wolf ;-;

i am just devastated man

the loot was good but it is just pure sadness

[paper marsh]

Didn't it get changed so 2 star wolves don't despawn in day time, if they've started taming?

[uncut bough]

no i went back to my body, found the body while sneaking, and then the 2 starred wolf came back JUST as i finished equipping everything

[frigid gust]

Wolves don't despawn in the morning as long as they've eaten at least one piece of food and gained one heart. They just won't continue taming during the day, you need to be there at night.

[uncut bough]

kited it to halfway and then it is daytime, and it started trying to flee, so i had to harpoon it at one of the nearest silver pit, and killed it with bow

[white mural]

can anyone tell me a good reason why metal ores and bars can't be teleported? like a lore reason

[frigid gust]

Historically metals, and iron specifically, suppressed magic.

[uncut bough]

it didnt get tamed though, i explained it

lore reason: metal suppresses magic, only by working on it will it eliminates said suppression

[copper lotus]

if its a nighttime spawn, the wolf will only tame during the night as it tries to flee during daytime

[half dragon]

the game design reason for that would be to give you more reasons to actually travel around and not be lazy, only ever moving through portals 😂

[uncut bough]

gameplay reason: obviously

[velvet harbor]

should i use a root chest for the mistlands? some people say i should some say i shouldnt, i currently have all maxxed out padded armor. so far im doing fine, just the one star seekers can cause some trouble

[uncut bough]

like i would have gotten the 2 star wolf if i had used the boneass ability, but as i was swarmed by 3 0 star wolf, i was fighting for my life before then

[dense steppe]

they were purified by fire at the master's anvil, and those impurities that resonated with the forces governing teleportation were knocked out of them 😺

[opal prairie]

What you prefer, it certainly helps versus pierce damage.

[frigid gust]

The root harnesk halves the piercing damage before calculating in your armor. Ticks and seekers do primarily piercing damage, as well as the Dvergr rogues, so it can give you a lot more resistance to them. That said, it makes you weak to fire, so when you see a gjall you want to make sure you have some fire resist barleywine on you. It also gives you slightly lower total armor, so the seeker soldiers and mage dvergr can be more dangerous.

[velvet harbor]

okay. i think ill stick to the padded then because normal seekers and ticks havent been giving me any trouble really

[wintry dagger]

Is there anything I can do to optimize Valheim?

[velvet harbor]

so far the terrain is the hardest challenge..that and the mist

[light moat]

Lead too, but lead isn’t in the game lol

[frigid gust]

What do you mean optimize? It depends a lot on your system. In general, the render scaling, shadows and point lights settings have the biggest effect on framerate if you're GPU limited, and if you're running into CPU limitations you want to make sure you have XMP enabled and your CPU isn't being downclocked or anything, there isn't anything running in the background doing recording, that kind of thing.

[uncut bough]

killing drake midair is the goofiest thing ever

it lawndarts into the a random direction

[paper marsh]

hmm I'd say their trajectory is always predictable

If you kill them while they sit still they fall straight down. If you kill them while they're moving their body gets a boost of momentum in the direction they were moving

I must say drakes are some of the most satisfying enemies to kill sometimes. Just sprinting up a cliff and then lunging at them to smack them out of existence

[frigid gust]

Stamina and position management are key in the Mistlands. I've been going through with a root harnesk and fenris armor otherwise in this playthrough. Once you figure out how things work it's not nearly as hard.

[paper marsh]

I recommend eikthyr power for mistlands. Lets you traverse much easier, and if you do go root harnesk route (which I recommend) bonemass power isn't as much use

[dense steppe]

yes, the main thing is speed and endurance, in order to survive there, you will stop and die 😼

[strange arrow]

not really, you tame a 0 star, then get a 1 star, breed them until you only have 1 stars, then repeat the process once you get a 2 star, eventually ending up with all 2 stars

saves having to find 2 of the starred ones to get started

[plush umbra]

by default, the main group of enemies i use the bonemass power against is the big ones. in this case, ||seeker soldiers||, which deal no pierce damage.

[fair cairn]

he said between none starred though

[frigid gust]

I personally prefer Bonemass and tasty meads. Tasty mead is like Eikthyr on tap 😉 At least when solo.

[strange arrow]

yes but i'm pointing out it's still helpful to tame a 0 star, in the beginning

[fair cairn]

which he didnt say much about except that a union between 0 stars wont give starred wolfs

[paper marsh]

bonemass for soldiers gjall and crossbowmen?

Or do you also run like padded/carapace chest?

[uncut bough]

what are the skeletons doing at mountains man

wut da hell

[strange arrow]

#valheim-chat message

[paper marsh]

Same as in the BF and Swamp. chillin' (get the pun?)

[uncut bough]

well it is midnight so idk if it is also mountain spawned

[uncut bough]

i am revoking your cooking license

[paper marsh]

There's skelly spawners in some stone structures in mountain, and I think they sometimes spawn by other structures

[uncut bough]

and promote you to registered chef

[paper marsh]

Draugr also spawn in mountains (1 time spawn)

[frigid gust]

I only use mixed padded/root harnesk in the mines. Gjall are fine with just a fire resist barleywine and knowing how to use the terrain and dodge their fireballs. I've got like 10 gjall under my belt with fenris and root harnesk, only one death to a tower full of dvergr that needed to die so I could get their extractor 😉

[paper marsh]

So bonemass is really just for soldiers?

[strange arrow]

mines too

[dense steppe]

I only use force 😼

[plush umbra]

seekers also have a slash (or was it blunt?) attack that they don't use very often.
and it allows you to briefly switch to a heavy armor chestpiece for better defense

[frigid gust]

Pretty much. And even then I rarely use it. Frost arrows to slow them, roll away from their attack and get around behind them and dismantle them with the Frostner, or just frost arrows from a place they can't reach. Mostly only for starred soldiers or in the mines.

[plush umbra]

i like to have it as a safety net in case my extremely cheap diet gets me into a tight spot.
i don't mind stamina management and taking my time traversing - that actually just helps the bonemass power recharge earlier before the next fight if i had to use it once.

[paper marsh]

Yea when they fly in the air and land with an attack thats blunt

[strange arrow]

Frostner stops them clobbering you all at once at least, that breathing room means the diff between stun lock and living

[paper marsh]

Never been a big frostner fan (although it is quite powerful)

[frigid gust]

Hah. Yeah... I don't mind having good food. Honey chicken, lox pie and salad are what I'm using in general, replacing the pies with the misthare supreme when I need to go into the mines, using padded helm and pants with the root harnesk instead.

[fair cairn]

yes that leads to a question

[dense steppe]

I don't skimp on food, my chests are full of food 😸

[plush umbra]

i don't like putting any amount of work (even if very little) into food that i basically just delete by eating, so unless i'm fighting a boss, i tend to just eat the cheapest food i can make

doesn't stop me from making expensive food, i just don't eat it.

but yea, honey, cloudberries, wolf jerky and sausage my beloved

[frigid gust]

Frostner, ooze bombs and frost arrows are the best in the Mistlands.

[strange arrow]

crazy honey fiend xD

[frigid gust]

Hah. Cooked seeker meat is pretty solid in general, I use it for my base puttering food. But I like doing the farming and such so it's not that bad to be set with the good food and use it regularly.

[dense steppe]

someday your bees will not be happy and they will tell you no money no honey and then you will remember my words 😸

[plush umbra]

cooked meat requires me to stick by a cooking spit for a while and press E before it burns. easy, yes, but i could spend that time doing more relaxing or productive things.

[plush umbra]

i will tap my stash of 5 black metal chests of honey.

[paper marsh]

I've been struggling hard on food this run bc I've basically had to eat expensive food a lot of the time, and new food has been hard to come by

[frigid gust]

True. I've got two iron spits over my fire though, so I can make 10 in a cycle and it doesn't take that long overall, just one minute to cook each batch.

[dense steppe]

listen to the crackling fire, inhale the aroma of cooking meat, anticipating a feast, what could be better? 😸

[paper marsh]

Doing better now tho, got some nice farms up

[frigid gust]

You might even be able to get 3 over a hearth if you're clever.

[plush umbra]

not having the danger of spacing out and missing the window because my brain is past its expiration date :>

[frigid gust]

I usually do my cooking when I feed my chickens so they lay eggs, so I let them do their thing while I'm cooking, take a break and gather the eggs, then back to cooking.

[dense steppe]

I have three spits over one fireplace, and eight wooden stands for meat 😹

[frigid gust]

Hah. Yeah, I've got 5 wooden racks and two spits. It's plenty for my needs and keeps it at a round multiple of 5 to cook 😛

[strange arrow]

bread turnip stew and sausages are probably the cheapest/most renewable, and good for most situations if you have bread unlocked, otherwise sub in a cheaper option

[plush umbra]

if i was into cooking meat in-game, i'd have that many too.
doesn't look as good though, so i only do that in the earlygame when it's my best option

[dense steppe]

I try to cook more food that I can grow myself, that does not require hunting, so that I can regulate the quantity myself and not depend on luck 😼

[paper marsh]

but why turnip over carrot tho? It's not that big a stat difference and for the turnip you'd have to start an entire boar farm for it to be renewable

I guess if you're going for a sausage farm too

[strange arrow]

bcoz the boar farm provides the sausages xD

[paper marsh]

I don't think I wanna drag a couple boars all the way out to where I live tho

Nearest meadows is pretty far away

[strange arrow]

portal? or playing without?

[paper marsh]

Without portal.

And also sausages I'm starting to think might not be enough for plains (base in plains) and mistlands. I'm gonna end up getting oneshot

[strange arrow]

i usually tame a boar or 2 right away at the start of the game and progress it as i go

[paper marsh]

I think making a lox farm should make me pretty good on food

I have enough wolfskewers for now to keep me going

[strange arrow]

at your stage i'd favour wolf skewers probably

exactly, moving on to lox pies

[dense steppe]

I marked a couple of dozen mushroom glades on the map near my base and collect mushrooms there for the wolf kebab 😼

[uncut bough]

so if a wolf 2 star is spawned, will it always spawn at every night and it is just me not coming accross it, or the game randomly decided to spawn one nearby which will attack me?

[frigid gust]

Nighttime spawns are independent, so no guaranatees you will see more 2* wolves in future nights

[opal prairie]

Randomly, about 5% chance per night I think, let me check wiki.

[frigid gust]

10% chance to have a star, 1% chance for it to be 2*

[dense steppe]

my wolf 2* jumped out of a boat in the middle of the ocean when I was taking him to the base, I never tamed wolves again 😹

[strange arrow]

every starred wolf will despawn at dawn, so you have a very small window to trap, and start taming, if you get a 2 star spawn 1 min before dawn, forget it xD

[uncut bough]

i fumbled that 1% chance??? 😱

i feel so bad on myself now, like actually devastated

[paper marsh]

always gotta breed them up before taking them on a boat in case there's casualties

Or even better, play the game without taming 😎

[opal prairie]

Seems low to me but could be the case.

[strange arrow]

it is

[dense steppe]

It's a pity that you can't give puppies to each other on other servers 😸

[strange arrow]

i spent 3 in game weeks looking for a 2 star once

[uncut bough]

i spent 1 day look for 1, and then it looked for me instead

[dense steppe]

I noticed that the further from the center of the map, and the larger the mountain, the greater the chance of a 2* wolf appearing 😼

[strange arrow]

nowdays the strat is refined, so dig a pit, cover with floorboards, wait till the wolf is standing on them, and remove, from a higher platform they can't get to you on, gg no damage and wolf ready to tame

[dense steppe]

unless the golem comes and kills him 😺

[paper marsh]

Do the same strat against a golem first, so the golem is harmless in a pit and won't respawwn

[merry pebble]

nah, just make a hole and parry push him in it 😄

[strange arrow]

with a 2 star wolf that likely spells death xD

[merry pebble]

yeah, you have to be accurate with the parrys 😄

[strange arrow]

need high hp and good armor and blocking skill, much safer not to risk that with starred wolves

[merry pebble]

if its only one or two at the time its fine 😄

[light moat]

This is a solid tip by the way for a lot of mountain shenanigans

[strange arrow]

i've done it, and i've died doing it xD

usually got the wolf at the end tho xD

[merry pebble]

well its how i got two star on my last playthrough 😄

[strange arrow]

gravity is yr best friend in Valheim sometimes

[paper marsh]

Yea I trapped a golem and soawnproofed the whole area around Moder to not get interfered with during the fight. Only had a grand total of 1 mob other than Moder (a drake) turn up during the fight. Def would have died and lost all my stuff if I didn’t do all that

[half dragon]

another voyage... and another time to paddle

every. time

[paper marsh]

Every time until you get Moder power

[strange arrow]

yeh the area will have maximum spawns for things like golems, so if they aren't dying they won't be respawning past that limit

[light moat]

You can always swim across the ocean with enough stamina mead lol

[paper marsh]

Facts

[strange arrow]

or enough relogging

[uncut bough]

found an 1 star wolf

[frigid gust]

Relogging doesn't regenerate stamina any more I didn't think

[uncut bough]

not 2 star but beggar cant be chooser , this time i made sure to pop bonemass

[velvet harbor]

how can u get ticks off of you

[uncut bough]

it still hits for 10 health but much better than immediately staggers

[strange arrow]

no but logging in another world where you aren't swimming does

[frigid gust]

Roll. Either dodge roll or use something like the sledge or demolisher, and sometimes you can turn and hit them with the weapon you have on hand.

[frigid gust]

Better the one star you have than the two star you don't 😉

[uncut bough]

ye

YES finally it ate

now i can just go do sth else and let it tame

[frigid gust]

Gotta stay in range of course

[fair cairn]

you too lol, i made like 60 wolf skewers, and im not gonna eat them cause i aint sitting there again doing that
though i will make sausages and jerky and anything else that makes more than 1 ata time

[frigid gust]

Yeah... I've got some stacks of onion soup and wolf skewers I just obliterated because I just don't need them any more.

[uncut bough]

i was gonna keep going deep into the mtn to find 2 star one

but seeing that my boneass ability is running out, yea imma just go afk near the spot in a safe house

[plush umbra]

i could never, just reuse them as table decoration

[frigid gust]

Animals don't keep taming unless they're loaded in

[uncut bough]

i mean that since this one ate, it wont despawn, so i want to venture deeper since it is still nighttime

[frigid gust]

I've got a pile of wolf meat still, mushrooms, everything I need. I can make more if I need decorations 😉 There's other food that looks better though, IMO

[uncut bough]

to try to find either more 1 star or 2 stars, but boneass ran out, now imma just go afk instead

if it ate then it wont despawn right, i know about it not taming but if it wont despawn then i can just go in and fine more

[frigid gust]

Don't go too far AFK... once you've beaten Bonemass you have the possibility of a Being Hunted raid anywhere you are.

[paper marsh]

screams internally

[uncut bough]

oh i am afk in the mountain

and i will rely on the music picking up/ intesifying to know i am being raided

dafug the tamed wolf still howl

i never heard the wolf cub howl so i heard sth screeching on the earphone, i was scared af

i thought they wont howl when tamed

[plush umbra]

adult ones don't, the cubs still do

[frigid gust]

They won't howl when grown. Wolf cubs will howl. They all used to and it was... a lot 😛

[light moat]

Yeah that was rough lol

[latent wraith]

I wish they howled occasionally.

[light moat]

Cubs are still puppies, so they’re noisy little fellas lol

[frigid gust]

I want them to be like huskies... about once an hour they all howl for no reason, for as long as they can 😛

[light moat]

Would be neat if they howled occasionally at night!

[uncut bough]

the dang wolf cub blocked the door, now i cant get out to check on the 1 star

[paper marsh]

New game mechanic: There is a 32% chance to be woken up in the middle of the night, per tamed wolf within 100meters

[white mural]

i cant wait to tame wolves, at the moment im in swamp, with around 70 iron, but when im done, thats gonna be cool

[frigid gust]

I get that enough from stupid dogs IRL, no thanks...

[latent wraith]

I have three wishes for wolves.
1: To be able to pet them without giving them a command.
2: That they would lie down sometimes.
3: That the grown ones would howl occasionally.

[nocturne harbor]

No stupid dogs. Only stupid owners.

[light moat]

I wish they had some color variations like the chickens, would be neat 🤌

[frigid gust]

Naah, they're stupid dogs. I'm their owner 😛 "Stupid" as in "they're insistent jerks" and not like actually dumb.

[paper marsh]

Oh there's stupid dogs

[vocal rivet]

It took us long enough to get rid of howling and you want it back?

[paper marsh]

Like dogs that just run into a wall 20 times

[uncut bough]

the howling wolf is driving me mad man

i wish they would just mature so i can butcher them

[latent wraith]

Not the constant one no, but some sound every now and then (like the boars' grunts).

[paper marsh]

You can butcher them before they mature

[uncut bough]

yea but it gives nothing

[paper marsh]

it gives peace and quiet

[uncut bough]

i want both peace and quiet + loot

[latent wraith]

I want a piece of quiet but I can't loot it. :(

[uncut bough]

is there a way to rest and speeds up the in game time?

[vocal rivet]

Sleeping.

[paper marsh]

Sort of. It's called a bed, you can use it to sleep through the night fast forwarding crops and smelting and such

[uncut bough]

oh it will speeds up breeding/taming huh

but i bet it won't, so it isnt useful rn

[vocal rivet]

So you're assuming a feature you've just heard about doesn't work the way you've been told it does so aren't going to use it?

[paper marsh]

I wanna say it speeds up cubs growing up, but not taming. Derek prob knows tho

[uncut bough]

well it doesn't speed up time when it is daytime to noon then

[latent wraith]

It doesn't speed up taming - I tested it a few days ago.

[uncut bough]

so it isn't "speeding up time"

[latent wraith]

It fast-forwards time.

[uncut bough]

maybe about in game time 0.6 can u sleep

[tardy narwhal]

It's just not speeding up time exactly when you want it

[uncut bough]

or about past 0.5 or sth like that

[latent wraith]

Anything that's just passively progressing on a timer goes faster (crops, meads, baby animals growing pregnancies, probably a couple of other things).

[light moat]

I’m very thankful that sleeping doesn’t effect food duration lol

[frigid gust]

Sleeping will speed up maturing, but it will basically stop any breeding of any kind. Sleep once all the young are born/eggs are laid, but not before

[tardy narwhal]

Should I have flowers around my name? I seem to have missed a trend lol

[paper marsh]

(Don't give in to the flower cult, once you're part of it you may never leave)

[latent wraith]

You should have a cloud of flower petals.

[uncut bough]

the 1 star wolf is at 88%

[frigid gust]

You can if you want 😉 It's just springtime celebration here

[tardy narwhal]

Oh sweet

[uncut bough]

pls finish taming soon pls, i need to go look for 2 star wolf

i want to either even out the score or tame it for loot

[tardy narwhal]

I'm planning on planting some real wildflowers for spring so that sounds nice

[frigid gust]

There ya go

[tardy narwhal]

Nice

[uncut bough]

NOOO another soul infected

a fate worse than death i tell ya

[frigid gust]

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

[uncut bough]

man why does mtn nighttime music sounds so intimidating, felt like i walked into a tribe and had to fight gladiator or sth

how can u do gif while i cant

[frigid gust]

Music and sound design in Valheim is awesome

[uncut bough]

finally one wolf matured, time to get the meat

first imma just make it follow me and slash it with butcher knife

[charred otter]

Are bosses guranteed to be in their biomes?

[uncut bough]

yes

[frigid gust]

I'm a "helper", they give me some additional permissions and authority to help keep things in control here 😉 One of the few 'murricans so I'm here when lots of the rest of the team are sleeping.

[charred otter]

Oh I am fucked

[uncut bough]

YES the 1 star wolfed is tamed

[uncut bough]

i am not murican though, but hell yea

[charred otter]

Swamp is really hard, I can't survive there

[uncut bough]

i am sure u will

[tardy narwhal]

Swamp Is definitely the most grindy biome

[latent wraith]

The boss altars are in their respective biomes but there's only a few altars for each boss and many pieces of that biome. Every black forest won't have an elder altar.

[tardy narwhal]

And you need iron for so many things too

[uncut bough]

u can cheese it, if u want it easy with the boss

[paper marsh]

Bosses have a few places you can summon them, and it's always in their biome (but not every stretch of meadows for example, will have an eikthyr spawn).

They won't spawn until you MAKE them spawn by using some items

[charred otter]

Wait if Eikthyr is meadows and not bf

[frigid gust]

Sure you can. It's definitely a big step up, though. Make sure you're making good food, brew some poison resist potions, and go slowly and methodically. Remember, food is an actual mechanic, it's the only way you get health and stamina upgrades, so it's worth upgrading all your cooking stations.

[charred otter]

Is the elder in the swamp or bf?

[frigid gust]

Black Forest

[charred otter]

Oh thank god

Cuz whenever I tried getting close to it I found a swamp that destroyed me

[frigid gust]

Hah. Yeah, once you make a cauldron and some more stuff with bronze the swamps will get easier. Stay in the black forest until you've conquered it.

[paper marsh]

The progression is supposed to be Meadows-->Black Forest --> Swamp --> etc.

Don't go to a new biome until you've killed the boss and made good gear from your current biome

@charred otter

[charred otter]

So I just need to try and find a path that doesn't involve me crossing swamps

[frigid gust]

Sailing with a karve (You made bronze nails right?) can get you around swamps usually. Or try going in another direction.

[half flax]

I wish Strength for increased carry weight was something you could increase as a skill

[charred otter]

Yea, I thought for some reason meadows got "skipped" so first boss was black forest, 2nd is swamp etc

Cuz eikthyr spawned in the middle of a meadows/bf border

[paper marsh]

fair assumption. But every biome (except the Ocean, pretty much) will have a boss

[frigid gust]

You can get the Meginjord from Haldor of course, but yeah... no other way to increase carry weight. Unless you die and want to abuse the corpse run power 😛

[paper marsh]

It is not recommended to ever go to the next biome until you're all done with your current one, at least until you get more experienced

[charred otter]

Also when do I try troll caves

[latent wraith]

Don't go to a new biome until you've killed the boss and made good gear from your current biome
Reverse the order of that - the boss is the end point of the biome (and if you're ready for the boss you're ready for the next biome gearwise).
The swamp, as mentioned above, is a much bigger step up in difficulty than meadows -> black forest was. Make sure you have good armour and weapon, and good food and meads, and most importantly be careful. Rushing gets you killed.

[charred otter]

Or whatever the larger dungeons in bf are

[frigid gust]

Once you can handle a troll easily. The burial chambers just have skeletons and ghosts in them, best handled with a club or torch and a shield. Leather armor really helps.

[half flax]

The belt is awesome, but health, stamina and strength should be skills to help. Up to a limit of course

[latent wraith]

Whenever you're comfortable fighting a troll in close quarters.

[tardy narwhal]

I take little trips into other biomes all the time before I've defeated the boss. I like having my wolf carpet early

[paper marsh]

Tbh I'm not much a fan of troll caves. They can be very dangerous and they don't have that muchhhh loot in them.

It's just a smallish room that may or may not have a troll and a bit of loot. Being locked in a room with a troll can be VERY dangerous tho

Do you have bronze gear?

[frigid gust]

If they haven't done burial chambers yet, I doubt it.

[charred otter]

Yes but opted for max lvl troll armor

[strange arrow]

cheatz

[charred otter]

I did tho?

[frigid gust]

Ohh... ok. Yeah, troll armor is meta 😉 I don't build any heavy armors until I get to the Mountains, and sometimes not evne then

[paper marsh]

Nice, troll armor is my fave over bronze too.

I wouldn't worry much about troll caves, your next step should probably be to kill Elder. Sorry to say tho, after you kill Elder it's Swamp time

[charred otter]

Isn't iron worth it tho?

[tardy narwhal]

I prefer troll armor too, easy to move in. Once I get to swamp I sometimes go for that extra protection though, already move slow there so might as well have the armor

[frigid gust]

Then you're good to go. A bronze atgeir is a troll-slayer weapon for sure. If you've only killed them with arrows so far it's a very different technique, but it will dismantle them quite handily. Or a bronze buckler should be able to parry their attacks.

[half flax]

Iron is essential

[paper marsh]

yea, iron is pretty much necessary. You get it in swamp. Just know you were struggling in there

When you do go to swamp make sure to bring poison resistance mead (made in fermentor), as well as probably some healing and stamina potions. And take things slow, you run out of stamina QUICK

[strange arrow]

you can go plains in bronze armor if yr brave/daft enough xD

[charred otter]

No I mean iron armor specifically, cuz u said u skipped heavy armor till mountains

[latent wraith]

Also bring a hoe to the swamp.

[half flax]

If you can craft the stag mask you get poison resistance

[charred otter]

I got poison pots

[strange arrow]

it's do-able (swamp in troll armor) but you really can't get hit much at all

[charred otter]

Yea, used to shoot, wait for them to attack, shoot again until they die, also I went for a bronze sword (which I maxed) and a buckler which I upgraded once, I have enough to max the buckler but I think I will save the bronze and wait for iron

[paper marsh]

up to preference. If new I'd probably say heavy armor is the best. Experienced players like to use a lot of light armor because they're more confident in their combat abilities and know what to expect.

One exception though is the swamp light armor chest piece. That thing has a perk that is superrrr good for newbies and pros alike, I would recommend making it when you can

[frigid gust]

I said that 😉 But you need to be solid with combat and mechanics in general in order to do that. Heavy armor is more forgiving with missed blocks and such.

[charred otter]

Is there a better way that isn't bronze?

[light moat]

Heavy armor also looks the best 😎 ||except for the fenris set||

[paper marsh]

Also I'd say Troll armor is pretty good compared to Bronze. But in later biomes the light armors will leave you pretty weak, easily dying to hits

[paper marsh]

I'd recommend sticking with your troll right now, but then in swamp make iron armor. And make heavy armor in every biome after that

[strange arrow]

root/iron

[charred otter]

Cuz bronze lvl 1 is weaker than troll, and assuming it gives +2 armor per lvl, it'll only be +6 armor

[charred otter]

But u need to loot swamp to get it

[paper marsh]

Fully upgraded bronze should be 2 more armor than fully upgraded troll. It's not that important imo, troll is plenty fine

[frigid gust]

Troll armor is fine. The biggest thing is to make sure you're eating good food, carrot soup, deer stew, minced meat sauce when you're in the Black Forest. In general I would prefer to be in armor from two biomes back with current-biome food than eat food from two biomes back with current armor. It's a huge difference.

[merry pebble]

its important that its stronger by 2 per piece, so 6 total 😄

[strange arrow]

in prep for bonemass

[charred otter]

Ye +2 * 3 armor pieces is 6, plus like 1 maybe for the cape? idk how armor on those work

[strange arrow]

you can get any/all of those sets before fighting him

[charred otter]

Oh wait no bronze cape I am dumb lol

[strange arrow]

even early silver if you want to sequence break

[half flax]

If having combat difficulty don’t be afraid to turn down difficulty and practice blocking. Every creature and boss has a “specific” tell before attack. That is when you can block and stagger them. Timing is key. Practice, then up the difficulty. Play your way and have fun

[charred otter]

Let me first kill the elder lol, and then get through the swamp

[paper marsh]

Yea as Pita said, food is I M P O R T A N T. More so than which armor or weapons you use

[frigid gust]

Yeah, troll set is the only armor that has a cape as part of the set.

[strange arrow]

ah Elder not done yet, fairs

got yr finewood bow ready?

[frigid gust]

Roll and sword 😛 Bows take too long

[strange arrow]

armor really doesn't matter as much as staying behind the pillars and moving from the roots

[latent wraith]

Don't tell him how the fight works if he hasn't done it yet. :p

[charred otter]

ye, trying to get there I swear its surrounded by swamps

[frigid gust]

If it really is (sail around with the karve, and don't stop) you might be able to find a narrow section to go through, or you can go a different direction and find a different altar. Each boss has at least 3 altars, some of them have more

[paper marsh]

Worst case you'll have to run through a small patch of swamp. Good practice for having to actually go to the swamp and loot stuff.

The Elder won't really make you more powerful, it will just allow you to loot stuff in swamp

[strange arrow]

oof, don't you have an easier location for him?

[nocturne wolf]

If you’re ready for the elder you’re strong enough to go through the swamp

[latent wraith]

There are more Elder altars so if this one is actually surrounded by swamps pr pther biomes (which is rare but happens) then you can travel in another direction and find another altar. the vegvisirs show the altar closest to them.

[half dragon]

Swamp is still pretty dangerous with elder level gear. Have to bring good food if you want to stay alive through your first expedition to swamp

[paper marsh]

imo Swamp is the hardest biome currently in the game (relative to the gear you typically have when going into it)

[nocturne wolf]

I’d say plains is because I always find a ton of 2-star fuling berserkers that I cant parry and take forever to kill

[half dragon]

do you have to kill it though?

[frigid gust]

It's the first big jump that makes you very explictly have to manage stamina, food and tactics. You still get difficulty jumps like that with the Mistlands, but it's not really a new technique that that point, just further application of it.

[latent wraith]

Black forest checks if you've learned the basics of the game. The swamp checks if you've learned preparation and caution.

[sweet bay]

have you tried Mistlands? )

[paper marsh]

Yea Mistlands isn't as bad imo

[half dragon]

considering that some people recommend swamp gear to mistlands... probably not that big of a deal

[paper marsh]

I also have experience tho. I think at a first glance at swamp and first glance at mistlands, most people find mistlands more difficult because they take a while to adapt to its mechanics

[sweet bay]

The thing is gear (and food) doesn't grow exponentially, it grows linearily.
So the difference between Plains and Mistlands gear isn't as big as it's Black Forest vs Swamps.

[frigid gust]

The Swamp is the only safe biome at night after you get far enough 😛 All the nighttime spawns become a little oppressive at times.

[latent wraith]

My one proper exploration trip to Mistlands was in black forest/swamp gear. :p

[frigid gust]

But they make for great battle watching

[latent wraith]

Much care was taken.

[paper marsh]

I've been doing some very minor Mistlands exploration on my Very Hard Hardcore world in Mountain gear

[latent wraith]

Running away and fleeing in panic was also done.

[frigid gust]

Just came across it early? I mean, I'm currently doing it in a mix of swamp and mountain light armor, but...

[latent wraith]

No we went there to have a look at it.

[nocturne harbor]

Can't see sheibe in Mistlands without the whisp light. Don't bother going.

[sweet bay]

You can listen to tho!

[paper marsh]

Can't see a lot but you can use sound cues. Also some areas of mistlands don't' have mist

There's also naturally generated wisp lanterns some places to dispell the mist, which is nice

[sweet bay]

The thing is Swamps are often thin strips, which can be easily explored with a way to fall back to Meadows

[frigid gust]

I've got my main mushroom farm in a mistless area of the Mistlands. It's super handy for hunting rabbits, too.

[strange arrow]

sadly those ones don't tend to have crypts, ideal if you want to hunt turnips tho

[light moat]

I feel like I just find a bunch of dead hares around Dvergr outposts lol

[sweet bay]

yeah, but good for a start. Turnip recipes are great

[frigid gust]

Their spikes are the best for that, for sure. I need to set up a few spike walls around the farm and hopefully replicate it with more replaceable corewood spikes

[paper marsh]

My reasoning is that in Swamp you have a lot of ranged enemies that do high damage, especially if they're starred. They can easily sneak up on you and finish you off. Plus you're constantly wet so stamina is a bit of a struggle.

In mistlands ||you're not wet (instead you're visually impaired, but you can still see somewhat well and can hear sound cues for everything important) and there's not many ranged enemies (just Gjall which are rare and loud and glowing so they won't sneak up on ya, and Dvergr which YOU have to initate the fight with). In mistlands you also will prob have root harnesk to defend against attacks, whereas you won't have that going into Swamp||

[frigid gust]

I did that on my latest playthrough, got turnips before I even took on the Elder. Made it so much easier.

[paper marsh]

Same

[sweet bay]

sweet

[paper marsh]

I like to just sail around swamps to spot turnips and crypts, then grab the turnips and come back to make a base nearby to get crypts later once Elder is dead

[sweet bay]

Bad, if you're reaching the top biome, no +1 tier food for Mistlands unfortunately

[frigid gust]

And then I got my crappy luck of finding the Queen's altar, tons of Jotunn skulls and all the stuff I needed from the mists except a dungeon 😛 RNG is punishing me for knowing what I'm doing. Finally found my first ||infested mine|| last night.

[paper marsh]

True, but that might change with ashlands

At least getting mistlands tier food going is very easy

[strange arrow]

ahaa at last

[sweet bay]

Ashlands would be top biome still, no ice golems in Deep North tho 😦

[paper marsh]

well but

[frigid gust]

I'm thankful for that. I'd be super annoyed if I couldn't at least have the food I'm using.

[paper marsh]

Once Ashlands comes out Mistlands won't be top biome so you might be able to food skip and use Ashlands food in Mistlands

[sweet bay]

yes, but my point is that it grows lineary, not so much of a difference

[paper marsh]

I hate Moder so much

Progression skip hogging gal

[frigid gust]

I'm gonna say that's probably less likely. The Ashlands will be a completely disconnected continent, so it won't be easy to just sneak in to get a few things.

[sweet bay]

would be harder with current way of progression

[paper marsh]

I wouldn't think it a great strategy either, but I'm wondering if it is possible or if it is a Moder situation

[frigid gust]

Good question... if I were a betting man I'd say it's a Moder situation. Smiffe hinted that the Queen drops would be VERY critical, but not sure what to make of that in a vacuum.

[paper marsh]

I feel like it won't be a Moder situation of COMPLETE INABILITY to get food/gear from the next biome, but it will be incredibly difficult to do so without the queen drop, to the point of making it not worth it whatsoever to try and do it

[half dragon]

sigh
Dying with more than 300 weight is shut BS

[paper marsh]

Why?

[frigid gust]

Corpse run should give you 450 carry weight for a bit of time...

[half dragon]

it does not...

at least didn't last time I tried

[sweet bay]

well... it should. Maybe you're missing something?

[frigid gust]

It definitely does. If you don't take the whole gravestone it might not, but it should activate as soon as you empty your grave.

[sweet bay]

You can even have +150 from corpse run and +150 from picked up belt of strength, totalling 600 weight for a minute

[paper marsh]

Did you pick up everything in your grave?

[half dragon]

is there a quick key for taking everything instead of spending precious time trying to click it manually?

[paper marsh]

Yes

I don’t think there’s a hot key but there’s a “take all” button once you open a chest or grave UI

[half dragon]

yea I was asking if there's a key to skip that clicking that button in the UI...

[frigid gust]

When you interact it should take everything by default if you have room. One tip: turn off auto-pickup before going to collect your grave so you have enough inventory room to pick it all up and don't open the chest-type UI.

[half dragon]

problem is, I had more than 300 and it doesn't auto pick up anything automatically

[nocturne wolf]

This won't happen above 300 weight

[half dragon]

died 5 times already because it takes me more time to first click the grave and then trying to scramble for that pick all button and then dodge, than it takes for these a holes to put an arrow in my ass

[paper marsh]

Maybe you should bring a megginjord for your corpse runs

[uneven shuttle]

🤯

[half dragon]

it's on my corpse. that is why I had over 300...

[paper marsh]

What biome?

[nocturne wolf]

can't you lure enemies away for a second?

[pure plume]

Yay finally after 2 failed attempts my first sunken crypt is done and iron collected xD finally found a somehow safe route to the crypt

[uncut bough]

how to transport more than 200 silver from boat at the dock to house

[paper marsh]

You can buy multiple from Haldor

[nocturne wolf]

Now you only need to do a few hundred more

[half dragon]

it's swamp. they're just camping the area

[uncut bough]

with as few trips as possible

[frigid gust]

I build some stairs down low enough to where I can reach the boat hold door without actually being on the boat, and then just load up and overencumber-walk it to where it needs to be. Or at least a chest near-ish by.

[nocturne wolf]

hiding behind something makes archers run towards you.

[paper marsh]

Ah hardest biome strikes again. Good luck

Unfortunately atgeir gang is gonna let you down against ranged enemies

[frigid gust]

You can climb regular 26 degree stairs while overencumbered, not ladders

[uncut bough]

the dock was far from home tho

[frigid gust]

Load up a cart?

[uncut bough]

too heavy

i have crossed into ocean while it is thunderstorm

[nocturne wolf]

lure them away, die, then try sneaking back to your grave with the enemies away

[frigid gust]

Then multiple trips are about your only option. Or sail around the long way.

[uncut bough]

crossed into meadows now, sad that there isnt serpent

[paper marsh]

Gotta just walk overencumbered, do a bunch of back and forth runs, or use a cart

Best option would be using a Lox, but you won't be able to ride them until after killing Moder

[uncut bough]

it was slopey, not a straight road from here to house

[paper marsh]

I'd recommend running a cart with Eikthyr power and no movement penalty armor

And not taking all the silver at once

[uncut bough]

ah yes, the wind blows against me as i head home, classic valheim

[dense steppe]

you can throw a cart down a mountain 😼

[grizzled wing]

Carry as much on you as you can too, even a little bit lighter of a cart can really help move along

[uncut bough]

i would be so bidone if serpent caught me while i am paddling

oh hello serpent, didnt expect to see u ( i did)

[dense steppe]

I filled a cart full of metal, then my friends sat in it, also fully loaded with metal, and I dragged them to the ship 😸

[fair cairn]

load everything in a cart at the dock, get to stairs if you have them put everything into your invontory, walk up the stairs, put everything in a cart if ones there or drop it on the ground and repeat

[half dragon]

didn't work. too many archers camping it and they are not all right on that corpse.
But oh look at that! Suddenly I'm no longer taking damage. how could this be... oh yes thank you I'll be taking my stuff back and back to playing the game.

glad there's console commands to fix BS situations like this. Absolutely no way I could get my gear back without spending hours dying over and over again

[paper marsh]

I firmly believe Draugr Archers are the most dangerous non-boss enemy in the game

Factoring in everything

[fair cairn]

you dont have a second set of armor and weapons for that?

[half dragon]

does damn leather armor count? might as well not wear any armor at all... that's the problem of the swamp. you're not going to have any backup gear

[paper marsh]

Just depends how well you prepare

I'm more a fan of underpreparing and then just trying to overperform with no gear when doing Corpse runs

Not that I think I've done a corpse run in like at least 8 months

[half dragon]

prepare by spending twice the time to get 2x of everything though? with bronze? no thanks...

[uncut bough]

wait i can do sneak attack on serpent?

i saw serpent howling behind me, i shot it with a bow but then i hear crit noise and the serpent is below 50% health

[half dragon]

well not everything, but very large portion of it

[paper marsh]

Yup. Isn't that faster than spending hours and hours and hours getting your gear back with no gear?

But anyways as I said, I like to just corpse run naked

[uncut bough]

lmao that trivialize my encounter so much

[frigid gust]

If it's not aware of you, yeah. You can sneak attack anything like that.

[paper marsh]

You can sneak attack any enemy. Even bosses

[half dragon]

if only that didn't take about 5 hours to get that backup gear in the first place, sure

[paper marsh]

Well, I'm not 100% sure if you can sneak attack Mistlands boss, I dunno how her agro works

[uncut bough]

but the serpent howled behind my boat, that should usually mean it found me

like otherwise it should have done nothing or stay submerged

[frigid gust]

Sometimes the aggro can be weird, things can de-aggro when they're right next to you. I've had it happen with Greylings a lot.

[half dragon]

oh and found what killed me in the first place... got an arrow in the back from a 2 star

[uncut bough]

anyways, bounty from the sea, got 7 serpent meat

[paper marsh]

Gotta get that Root chest and double hp food going

[half dragon]

pretty much, but have to get it first lol...

[paper marsh]

True indeed. I have had many a world deleted by Draugr archers, probably more so than any other cause

Again, toughest enemy in game imo

[half dragon]

they do quite damn high damage. can't afford to take many hits even from 1 stars

being inside those crypts felt so much safer lol

[paper marsh]

I dunno I've tried a crypt body pile spawning 2 2 star melee draugr, then a 2 star archer draugr

One time I went in a room in crypt and immediately got shot by a 2 star and 0 star draugr hiding right around the corner. No warning

With Root chest it took me from 200ish hp to 30ish

[half dragon]

I didn't die a single time in crypts yet, but these archers been bullying me while trying to clear these corpse piles

Atger works really nicely in crypts I noticed. just need mace for slimes

[paper marsh]

yea atgeir is just broken

[half dragon]

except in the swamps outside... this biome hates it. those damn leeches? can't hit them with it unless you go in the water yourself. Takes significant amount of stamina, which isn't great when you constantly have to dodge arrows

this biome probably has the highest danged to melee ratio

pebbles don't count...

[paper marsh]

Yea atgeir is only really good for the melee draugr and skellies in swamp

[charred otter]

Trying to find a way to get there without going thru a swamp, had to make quite large pivots

How far do I put the minibase/portal away from the elder

[frigid gust]

As far as you want. Or dig under the altar and put it there 😉

[uncut bough]

man the wolves in my small hut didnt eat while food was still on the floor so i boarded them up in a tiny 2x2 square with roundpole

and it finally gave me a 1 star cub, i am now grucci

[charred otter]

How far for it to not be destroyed + not allow the elder to spot me from there

[paper marsh]

Do you take double damage when staggered? I'd assume yes

[azure yacht]

Nope

[charred otter]

Is digging under it actuallyy possible?

[azure yacht]

Yes

[charred otter]

Do I do it

[frigid gust]

If it's not too close to water level, yeah. Nice permanent infinite fire 😉

[paper marsh]

hmm, weird. Game rules just stacked against mobs

[charred otter]

oh pog

[candid basalt]

You can dig under, place a platform around big flame with stairs up, stand under the fire, and elder will stand on it and die

[half dragon]

mob lives matter. We need to start treating mobs fairly

[azure yacht]

Being stun for one second is enough to get killed very easily

[paper marsh]

True

[graceful kettle]

hey everyone some germans here?

[charred otter]

Is the fire where there is a little pillar coming down?

[uncut bough]

Man i am suffering from success, now i got 350+ silver i dunno how to spend

This is from normal resource rate

[paper marsh]

Yea Silver is quick to get just unfortunately kinda useless once you move away from Mountain

After mountain if you have like 30 silver stockpiles you should be good (might get more use in Ashlands tho)

[uncut bough]

No wonder Oly told me to stock up iron, told me that how much i think i would need, triple it

So many things to use with iron and so little for poor silver

Like i think after i fully upgrade my entire armor + weapons i will still have silver

Unfortunately i cleared out 6 crypts in the zone with boneass and still in dire straight for iron

[tidal hazel]

hi

[uncut bough]

hei

[tidal hazel]

bake beans

: )

[paper marsh]

Yea iron is used a TON outside swamp, bronze/copper is used a bit, and silver is used a tiny bit

[uncut bough]

Sorry i like canned bean

[mellow dagger]

Ooooh... Ohh... That means... I need either to kill A LOT of oozers OR find a way to flatten the swamp enough to easily find secret iron storages when I will get back to playing

[uncut bough]

But bake beans are still fine in my boom tho

[uncut bough]

Yepper, it was that intensive

[frigid gust]

Exploring new swamps tends to be easier, and once you hit the Mistlands there are some other sources of iron as well.

[uncut bough]

Devs should introduce more silver pit

Because now it is totally worthless

[frigid gust]

You can make a ton of cool treasure chests with it 😛

[mellow dagger]

OOOH... Don't spoil it to me though pls! I want to discover the goodies myself :D

[uncut bough]

Like maybe the most worthless metal in game to have surplus

[mellow dagger]

But now you got me even more interested to go to the mistlands without any preparation in root gear only. What could possibly go wrong :D

[frigid gust]

For sure. Just didn't want you spending a ton of time terraforming the swamp if you didn't need to

[uncut bough]

Bronze is fine there are couple thing here or there to make furniture, but silver is just 100% weapons and armors

[shrewd breach]

are there already infos about release for the ash lands ?

[tidal hazel]

Beans

?

[mellow dagger]

My bonemass swamp is already something like a barren wasteland, filled only with an indistutructeble things and crypts, thank you, hahaha

[tidal hazel]

Beans/bake

[uncut bough]

Use wishbones, u find tiny scraps of iron underground

[mellow dagger]

I loved that place enough to just completely salvage everything I could find on the ground :D

[uncut bough]

It is not that helpful but ~6 to 8 scraps is better than 0

[mellow dagger]

I'm doing reverse boss challenge or completely bossless run (as a first run, yep, I like to suffer that much)

[frigid gust]

Only hint I'll also give is that you want 100-150 iron for the Plains tier stuff, so plan on that 😉

[paper marsh]

Sounds fun but damn how will you know what to do as a first run?

[mellow dagger]

And I mean, I already have 2 scraps of iron from killing like 25 oozers, surely I will hit 150 iron soon enough, am I right? :DD

[mellow dagger]

That's the neat part - I dont :D

[azure yacht]

That's a good thing, otherwise you would have the same issue as with other metals:

"I want to upgrade and craft stuff with silver but I also need/want it to build"

[mellow dagger]

I mean, most of the game is completely intuitive

The only thing that scared me the most were deathsquitos, growths and wolves/lycans

Just because they're all very fast/long reach

Also that's why I love the swamp - things are very slow AND come with a big numbers constantly. Just as I want it :D

[paper marsh]

Man swamp is the most dangerous to me. Mobs may not be fast but they have ranged attacks and will 100% sneak up on you when you’re out of stamina and stuck in a water puddle

[mellow dagger]

That's why we love it, isn't it? Nothing as a constant risk to be poisoned, slammed, shot, chopped or burned alive :D (Also, hoe is the way + the monsters can't really attack you if you decide to become a beyblade one day)

[frigid gust]

Swamp teaches stamina management. You need that through the rest of the game.

Also tactical approaches... can't just Leroy Jenkins everything and then book it like in the Black Forest 😉

[paper marsh]

Ah I c, yea I do love it. I thought you said it was easy bc the mobs were slow

Draugr on very hard are a fun challenge

[mellow dagger]

Orrr you could just run at them with ye olde trusty altgeir and spin like you want to become a helicopter. Works every time until an abomination spawns, then you just kite it with bow (or run around it stompy leg, not whippy one)

[mellow dagger]

That's what I will try to do when I'm done with a bossless run :D

[frigid gust]

Huh. Here I was just parrying the abominations with my bronze buckler and getting the roots for armor. I actually dislike the atgeir in the swamps because it takes so much stamina to spin, and that's better used to reposition myself for combat.

[mellow dagger]

Well, I could, but I hate to do stuff by the book

[half dragon]

or up until there's 2 archers instead of 1... becomes pain in the ass to get hits in without trading blows

[mellow dagger]

Nothing like hitting 36 targets at once and trying to micromanage the shotty ones around smallest stones or trees for that sweet microscopic cover :D (they also love to run towards you once you are out of sight for whatever reason)

[paper marsh]

The run I’m doing rn is very hard hardcore and no using atgeir bows, bombs, bonemass power, or otherwise cheesy strategies

It’s a ton of fun

[frigid gust]

"fun" 😛

[mellow dagger]

Yay, welcome the suffering :3 Also, I didn't once used bombs, but people here said I can use them to kill THESE wolves easily, and even THOSE two-legged ones too

[paper marsh]

Ye, fun!

[half dragon]

Was surprised to see how effective Atgeir is against trolls. Never got Atgeir in early game but this time I did... and oh boy does it destroy them

[uncut bough]

It is always good to turn urself into beyblade, staggering most of enemies u face

[mellow dagger]

Atgeir is certified helicopter classic

[uncut bough]

Some that u cant are bosses and some giant/ tank unit in game

Trolls can be staggered but not for abo/ lox

[half dragon]

You sure Lox can't?

[mellow dagger]

I wonder if atgeir will stagger those buffalos I saw on that other day in the plains... Oh, you typed faster than I did

[balmy cove]

Are there servers that go above 10 players? I feel like Valheim would be a really nice game for a community based server.

[burnt glen]

Lox can, aboms can as well, just not sure if from ategirs

[paper marsh]

Not in Vanilla. I mean more than 10 people can play on a server, just not at the same time

[half dragon]

For loxes I usually just carry around that shield and parry, quick swap to Atgeir and proceed to destroy

[balmy cove]

I don't know much about anything when it comes to the game. I have less than 100hr, but IMHO, I think it'd be cool. Economy and stuff like that. Granted - players can legitimately cheat a character to beef and have a solid build, but - I still think it'd be cool..

[frigid gust]

You should be able to parry with the atgeir, or just spin to stun. That's how I do it.

[mellow dagger]

I mean, who ever would want to stagger those war machines? Aren't they cuter when they destroy stuff under your hand? :D And yes, I still didn't tamed a single one yet but I already saw how easily they can kill things or trees

Also, is there a limit how many times you can breed your animals?

[charred otter]

How good is the elder's perk, it says faster tree chopping but I tried it and I couldn't even tell the difference

[frigid gust]

They spawn prolifically, and their hides make a much cheaper frost resist cape than the wolfe cape 😛 I generally take out at least one herd of them when I'm in swamp gear just because of that.

[grizzled wing]

No but there's an entity limit (i don't know it)

[frigid gust]

No, no limit, and inbreeding is encouraged to get a herd of starred livestock 😛

Now, there are area limits where they won't breed if there are too many close together, and to many AI controlled entities can really slow the game down, but there aren't any hard limits beyond that.

[burnt glen]

Not as good as some of the others, but I activate it when I need a lot of wood.

[heady parcel]

Damn dvergr, I feel really shitty kiting seekers and gjalls down on their outposts, but if they won't sell me their stuff it's either that or me killing them - and seekers doing it makes me feel just a little less bad about myself

[mellow dagger]

Ooooh...

[charred otter]

What are the actual stats for it, cuz I can't feel it

[mellow dagger]

Well, only one way to find out how many my CPU will take :D

[bleak fox]

Halo. Anyone can suggest a website with lots of map seeds? I am trying to pick one where the landmass is not so fragmented. Using the map generator as we speak but all maps i encounter are super fragmented D:

[burnt glen]

Increases damage to trees by 60%

[vocal rivet]

That's how the maps are generated.

[mellow dagger]

Oh tactics of one particular country in the past, you never cease to amaze with your results...

Hahah

[lusty crescent]

There is no pangea
Tho that would be cool

[frigid gust]

They get upset if you hit a rock too near their tower. Screw those jerks 😛

[charred otter]

Oh that's a decent bit, so it should reduce hits by like 1/3

[heady parcel]

Yeah, they're weird like that

[frigid gust]

#1202740443352137838 has some that people have liked. That said, it is impossible to get a single continent. There is a base map that requires a number of islands, but you can get some that are more or less larger landmasses.

[light moat]

Well of course, those are their rocks, I’d be upset too!

[bleak fox]

Thank you 🙂

[mellow dagger]

I still want to find that sweet Warcraft seed if it's possible

With two giant continents

And sea in between

[heady parcel]

Don't think there area any, unless there are mods that can alter world seeds?

[mellow dagger]

Well, I will wait until someone will find it. I'm sure someone will :3

[heady parcel]

You do get the odd seed with really big landmasses, but never any true "continents" - just bigger islands than usual

[frigid gust]

Again... the world is not fully random. It is a section taken out of an about 40x40km master map which then has various other rules applied, but you can often get islands that have the same outline between different seeds.

[mellow dagger]

I once saw someone who found like one veeery long big noodle from the north to south which basically included all regions

On the map

[frigid gust]

That will also be impossible come Ashlands release, they are changing the map generation rules so that the Ashlands are their own separate continent at the southern edge of the world, separated by sea from everything.

[mellow dagger]

Oh, that's good

I actually love sailing in this game

[heady parcel]

Mee too, long sailing journeys are the best

[mellow dagger]

Dynamic camera feels amazing to me

[frigid gust]

Sailing to the Ashlands might be a bit scary... but we'll have to see how all that goes upon release 😉

[mellow dagger]

All those waves are so nice

[heady parcel]

I just wish we could hide the steering wheel so we could take good sailing screenshots without dropping the rudder

[mellow dagger]

I bet they will add another form of a sea beast. Like, not bet with something, but I still bet :D Just to avoid guys like me who loves to try every way to play the game unintended

[paper marsh]

Yea! They might do that…

[mellow dagger]

Oooh, I envy you a little. I still didn't reach that ship, only the fast boat :)

[heady parcel]

Just watched a ||two-star gjall bomb the bejeeezus out of a big dvergr tower,|| gods those things are destructive

[mellow dagger]

Once opened, I will try to ram it into the serpent :D

[paper marsh]

Think I've yet to see a 2 star. I really haven't spent as much time in mistlands as I should

[mellow dagger]

Well now guys you just openly tempt me to go there when I'm done with my bonemass island

Hehe

[heady parcel]

Now, that to do with a gjall trophy?

[frigid gust]

Hang it on the wall with a seeker trophy behind it

[sonic star]

trying to figure out the build cost of this structure and failing miserably

[heady parcel]

I never even try, I just start building and when I run out of something it is adventure time..

[sonic star]

yeah it's the kind of one where it would be a really big pain to run out partway through building it lol

[heady parcel]

They all are, but it is better than spending time trying to calculate cost, get frustrated and having to do it the hard way anyway - just hours later

[sonic star]

also fun times building nearly the entire thing off grid 😅 not sure why i decided to do this

[heady parcel]

Never thought I'd end up in a situation where I have more ||soft tissue than sap||...

[frigid gust]

That's where I am now, but at least sap is infinite

[ember panther]

Slacking on the tree farm

[heady parcel]

Just found so much more skulls than I anticipated, last world was very dry by comparison

But this is also the biggest Mistlands landmass I've ever come across

[frigid gust]

Yup. I was griping earlier about my world... I've found 3 skulls, the Queen's altar, gotten all my farms going on, but didn't find my first Infested Mine until just last night. Half a chest of marble, ton of carapace, clots, seeker mandibles and bile bags from all the enemies I've had to fight 😛 I'll be able to basically max out a full Mistlands set of everything once I finally get some cores.

[heady parcel]

Yeah, I get loads of skulls - and not that few mines either, but the mines have been absurdly low on cores. Five mines in, I have 12 cores...

[frigid gust]

At least that's enough for a refinery and you can just swap between the crafting stations as needed. I've done that in the past, just keep the extra materials needed for the galdr table or the forge in a chest when swapping between them, just build them where they will get the effect of their upgrades until I get enough cores

[heady parcel]

Yeah I did that at first, but I'm not bothering with the table since all I really want from that is the cape, and that can wait

The refinery is such a pain to build again (with the spark proofing) and I need the forge for repairs

[frigid gust]

You can build the cape and just go a long time before repairing it. If you fully upgrade it it has quite a bit of durability.

[heady parcel]

True

[frigid gust]

Just because it's so good at preventing death and giving you so much more movement potential

[heady parcel]

Very true, Mistlands terrain is driving me NUTS

I keep a healthy amount of stamina and never drop rested, and I've learned how not to fall of cliffs and die, but still the cape would make it SO much easier

[frigid gust]

You really have to just walk everywhere, and only run if you ABSOLUTELY have to. Sound cues to be ready for attack when you're in the valleys, sometimes climb a spire to get your bearings, but the cape makes all that so much easier.

[paper marsh]

I always have more soft tissue to begin with, then sap production starts picking up and tissue production starts slowing down

[heady parcel]

I'm being considerate and leaving extractors behind for the others on the server... And then I have enough either for all I need, since I'm not going mage it's not that much

But dangit if I find a skull I just can't bring myself to NOT mine it