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[merry pebble]

onion

[uncut bough]

I foraged 250 mushrooms in chest

[half dragon]

mushroom itself is already a reason for me to skip it since I'd rather use it for something else

that 10 extra hp barely matters to me

[uncut bough]

Accumulated since meadows, me and my friend got the habit of foraging all the raspberry and mushrooms there are

Not knowing if it ever will see use

[half dragon]

again, was talking about casual 24/7 use when you may or may not even see combat

[merry pebble]

sausages are great food to have when you just plan to run around your base, wolf skewers are indeed better food however since you get 4 sausages from 1 set of ingredients its indeed much easier to mass produce them 😄

[half dragon]

also I think I'd rather go for wolf jerky instead. more stats and less resources

[merry pebble]

yeah, that in also great base food, and both ingredients are farmable 🙂

[half dragon]

if you're not using stamina hungry weapon without stamina regen boost that should be enough stamina boost and skip stamina food

[uncut bough]

Honestly i will still die on the hill that wolfskewer is also easy to mass produce

[merry pebble]

its always good to have at least one stamina food i would say (maybe not in higher difficulties but i didnt try them so i cant say) and i use one health one meadium and one stamina ususally 😄

[uncut bough]

I got a 2 star wolf farm in my house, got all the onions and mushrooms i can harvest

Life can’t get better than this

[merry pebble]

oh i dont think anyone said its hard to mass produce it, just that sausages are easier 😄

[half dragon]

and I'd rather not spend any extra effort if I don't have to

I'll get the get the real good food when I'm raiding those villages and not dealing with random stragglers

sausages don't really get much easier to mass produce. 1 boar meat and 1 thistle for 4 sausages, entrails are even easier as long as you just have a portal near a corpse pile

oh just noticed it's also 2 mushrooms instead of 1... that's already basically 4 times more effort just for that

[dim adder]

yeah the mushrooms can be a bit of a nuisance if you dont happen to find a few big clumps of them to farm

[half dragon]

no such luck for me. only got around 7 of them near my base or any of my portals

never really seen any big clusters of them while adventuring either despite of paying attention to them. That is mostly why I can't really bother to collect them at all since I'm not planning any long term use for them, with exception of serpent stews I can produce without really putting much effort into collecting mushrooms, if it's the only food (to use mushrooms)

Wish that recipe used yellow mushroom instead and I'd be all for it

[half dragon]

Holy shit what a lucky find, 2 fire geysers basically hugging each other

near 3 other geysers relatively close

[hallow canyon]

Leather scraps are always useful for decorating - all the banners require them

[mystic gale]

i hope that after we get 2 more biomes the previous food items dont become irrelevant

although it would be weird to have a dish consisting of all the meats in game

[half dragon]

almost certain that all foods we have now will not be all that good in the final biome. best foods we have right now still should be decent in ashlands though

[merry pebble]

yeah, basically as it was in all biomes... 😅

[mystic gale]

Its just that i like boars and picking blueberries in the black forest so it would be sad if there wouldnt be any need any more

[half dragon]

blueberries are good for tasty mead, doubt that recipe is going away

it's really good for what it does

combat or just doing stuff at base that requires stamina? it has you covered

[mystic gale]

also you still need blueberries and leather for blue banners so i guess there's that

[hearty niche]

https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/1blc25j/its_raining_tetra_has_anyone_seen_this_happen/

That's a weird one.

[gray nexus]

the fishes sometimes clip through the frost caves and fall down

[regal spoke]

Tetra render before webbing? Similar to other animals passing through objects.

[brazen shore]

The tetra pond I found is actually quite close to the cave entrance and definitely not the lowest part of the cave like the wiki states. And sometimes I find the fish at my feet near the edge of the pond ready to pick up.

[half dragon]

abominations finally started spawning for me. for some mysterious reason they just refused to spawn until now. first 5 hours in swamp, only 2 spawned, about 2 hours later a 3rd, and now in 15 minutes 3 of them spawned

[lyric olive]

Yeah in the big swamps they spawn more often. The size of the swamp seems to matter for them because you enter a new grid area and it gives it another chance to appear?

When I needed those I just went to my biggest swamp once a day and checked every area of it

[half dragon]

it's a huge swamp with 20 crypts yet it still struggles to spawn them consistently

I think abomination spawning could usse some rework...

[lyric olive]

Strange, but maybe the crypts is why, my swamp barely had any and they spawned like every few minutes of me wondering around

From my experience they never spawned near a crypt

They can go towards one once spawned but while in the ground I've never seen one near a crypt

[half dragon]

hmm... same. never seen one spawn too close to a crypt

[lyric olive]

I think the crypt and abomination probably share some properties maybe

[half dragon]

what is frustrating about this is that this abomination hunting is the last thing holding me back from progressing to mountains

[lyric olive]

I think the crypts are put onto the map, then ther abomination is spawned away from them

[half dragon]

well there's still that bonemass but at this point it's just a 1 small thing to remove from checklist...

[lyric olive]

Ah yeah, I did get root armour for my friend so I know this grind. I did it like last week

[half dragon]

I could easily kill them, if they just decided to spawn

[lyric olive]

Good luck! Are you playing alone?

[half dragon]

yup, solo all the way

[lyric olive]

Ah okay, I'd recommend not doing the archer playstyle against bonemass unless you want to be there all day

i mean its possible though

Maybe with a higher bow level its a different result too

[lyric olive]

Yeah they arent very common the abomination, it took me 3 days to get root armour

[half dragon]

not planning to fight it with a bow, just don't want to make iron armor. want to stick to light armor as long as possible

[lavish cargo]

Does anyone know a seed with a tall sealed tower on a somewhat small (read spawnprovable) island.

[rare birch]

Do tamed wolves not eat Hare meat?

[merry pebble]

no they don´t

[uncut bough]

They eat deer meat, neck tail, boar meat, lox meat, raw fish

First time i hear dog eat fish

[merry pebble]

why wouldnt they? 😄

[rare birch]

Strange. Seems like that is something they actually will eat in real life. I got like 10 wolves in the edge of the mistlands. It is basically a hare meat farm. As long as a Gjal doesn't show up. Then its a wolf meat farm lol

[strange arrow]

i'd be going nuts if my wolves were munching through my stocks for misthare supreme xD

[merry pebble]

i personally explain it to myself that it would be too hard to catch them 😄 + very dangerous for them in mistlands, i could see that pack of wolfs would be able to kill lox but mistlands would be too hard for them (but again thats just how i explain it to myself and i dont know the actual reason)

[latent wraith]

Hare meat wasn't a thing yet when meat was split into types and wolves got a specified diet. :p

[merry pebble]

yeah, thats probably the reason XD

[strange arrow]

it may be a retroactive change that gets made

[latent wraith]

yeah I guess it was just either forgotten or considered unimportant.

[strange arrow]

at some point, or not 😅

[slate glacier]

it has the default login. i should set its name back to orange tho.

[half dragon]

Well at least you can't feed your wolf a vegan diet 💀

Gotta take good care of those pups

[rare birch]

The wolves do have a hard time catching the hares but with a bunch of them they manage to get me several every day. It's Plains but the section I have them in is inside the mist of the neighboring Mistland

[merry pebble]

oh i am not saying they are not able to do that 😄 it was just my personal reasoning why they dont eat hare meat

[analog nacelle]

any good xbox servers?

[half dragon]

well, wouldn't be the only inconsistency in the game imo. Cloudberries would make far more sense to grow in swamps, but they're in plains instead. They can grow outside of marshes and such, but that would usually still be a location near one or just abundant moisture in the soil. Plains look pretty dry to me...

but anyway, not too important

[odd helm]

Give #1024264966712340510 a browse

[strange arrow]

don't they usually grow in forests in scandinavia?

[latent wraith]

Plains used to be called heathlands and is far closer to heaths/"highlands" than actual plains. Cloudberries fit there, the biome name not as much. :p

[half dragon]

a swamp is a forest usually

but not always, of course

but there's so many different types of swamps that would be a topic of its own

[strange arrow]

i suppose there's a few places they could actually thrive

[latent wraith]

and yeah, a swamp isn't a mire or bog. Cloudberries commonly grow in mires or bogs (though they can also grow in much drier areas).

[digital nexus]

guys, is there a mistland boss? or is the skeleton the last one?

[half dragon]

a dry grasslands just doesn't seem like one of them to me, swamp would be the closest biome but whatever, not everything has to be 100% realistic

[latent wraith]

The Mistlands has a boss, yes. All the progression biomes do.

[digital nexus]

hm... thx

one other doubt i have... is there a way to improve equipments besides leveling it up on the forge?

[latent wraith]

No.

[digital nexus]

so the upgrade on he forge is the only way to improve an equipmen?

[latent wraith]

Again, yes.

[strange arrow]

some pieces require other workstations, but the method is identical

[digital nexus]

K, thx! ♥

[latent wraith]

You make things and then you can upgrade them to their max level (or the maximum available level if they require a higher workstation than you can currently make).

[digital nexus]

i saw some dudes doing over 1k damage with silver swords... thought it was some sort of enchanment... but ok, thx :3

[strange arrow]

lel

[latent wraith]

Could be modded, mods can do all sorts of stuff.

[strange arrow]

mods for sure

[digital nexus]

oh! yeh... interesing, good to know... thx for the info

[strange arrow]

that's like 10x it's output xD

[digital nexus]

yeh... i was struggling to get 120~150...

only on unnoticed strong attacks

[frozen void]

with mods you can spawn higher level items, like level 1000, etc

[half dragon]

1k is way higher than you can do weapons like that. You won't get much higher than 200 or 300 with sneak attacks and strong hits on staggered enemies

[paper marsh]

knives get so great backstab damage I luv it

||Crossbow ||too

[half dragon]

there we go, finally done with the swamp. bonemass wasn't too bad. quality 3 root armor got the job done with help of poison resist mead. Iron mace does really nice damage to it... just need some patience and make sure to dodge all those swings

[white mural]

i maxed out my iron armour and got a level 4 iron axe with iron buckler, abominations are easy

[frigid gust]

"Done with the swamp", you're silly

[white mural]

dont know if that means i should go for bonemass or not

[strange arrow]

do you have an iron mace maxed?

[white mural]

no

[frigid gust]

Bonemass will laugh at your axe, but if you've got a mace you're probably set

[half dragon]

crypts don't count as swamp. they are a nice cozy places to relax and just swing that pickaxe

[white mural]

i also have level 4 spear, but thats probably bad too

[strange arrow]

yup xD

[frigid gust]

Iron mace is the best one-handed blunt DPS in the game, even including Mistlands gear

[white mural]

damn, i guess its time to get the iron for a mace

[half dragon]

is that while not counting any of the DPS added by other damage typess?

since later tier weapons have a lot of split damage going on

[frigid gust]

There's really only the Porcupine, which ends up roughly equivalent when something resists piercing IIRC

[half dragon]

frostner though. only specifically effective in the swamp right now and still good in plains, no clue about mistlands tho

[strange arrow]

waste of mats

[frigid gust]

But the iron mace is also going to be your best bet against golems as well, so it's worthwhile

[half dragon]

probably good in ashlands when it comes out

[strange arrow]

Frostner is awesome, remains awesome even in Mistlands

[frigid gust]

The porc is great if you want a one-hander against Lox

[half dragon]

just take sword or spear instead...

[strange arrow]

butcher knife :p

[frigid gust]

Lox resist slashing, but a spear is ok. Porcupine uses your mace skill and can be a lot better depending on those stats.

[half dragon]

doesn't sword stab do pierce instead?

huh... apparently not

[strange arrow]

nope

realistically you'd never be taking a lox on in melee though, my strat is either tame them if i have time, or lead them to a tar pit and watch the fun

[half dragon]

why not? due to that weakness to pierce they're pretty quick to delete in melee

Atgeir is your best friend for that

[strange arrow]

why take a risk

[half dragon]

there is no risk... at least not any more risk than just taking on one of those skeeters

[strange arrow]

granted i'm also usually doing all that in bronze gear as well 😅

[half dragon]

yeaaa... bronze gear aint for taking on loxes haha

[paper marsh]

Do player base items not placed by a player still prevent spawns?

[half dragon]

silver at minimum for plains, maxed out iron might barely work

[latent wraith]

Yes.

[strange arrow]

so by the time i'm ready to take them on i'm well stocked on all their drops

[half dragon]

btw, is riding a lox any faster than walking/sprinting?

or is it just for street cred?

[strange arrow]

it's a bit faster

[latent wraith]

And you don't notice that you are carrying a lot.

[half dragon]

assuming you're wearing normal armor instead of fenrir?

[strange arrow]

ye

i've never trained it to high levels for obvious reasons

but i assume it's pretty speedy at the top end

[paper marsh]

bit faster but I think riding lox is more generally used to move the Lox, or to transport heavy metals

[strange arrow]

if Plains had dungeons they would have more use

[odd helm]

They have fuling villages

[frigid gust]

Ride the lox into battle, jump off and you've got a battle buddy 😛

[strange arrow]

lox dies

parked outside a dungeon would be less chance of that

[half dragon]

possible to transport loxes to other islands?

[strange arrow]

yes

[odd helm]

They fit inside a longship

[strange arrow]

i wouldn't try it without a saddle tho

[half dragon]

hmm... they would be nice for replacing carts for sure, no speed penalty for weight?

[odd helm]

Aye

Only problem is that it depends on your inventory storage

A cart at least has a good amount of storage slots

[half dragon]

just not very effective for heavy stuff, 4 slots filled with metal and it already gets bad for going uphill

well no clue about adding in a fenrir armor, that should help a lot

[latent wraith]

I did some testing a few days ago and concluded that 11 stacks of silver (4620kg) is the most stacks you can have in a cart and still get up a relatively steep slope.

Not very scientific testing, mind, just making a path up a slope, filling a cart with silver and see when I could get up. :p

#suggestion-discussion message

[half dragon]

the issue isn't getting up the hill at all, but doing it in time that doesn't burn though your patience

[odd helm]

That's really subjective

[half dragon]

not really... when it's that heavy would almost certainly be faster to just do 2 trips instead

would have to test that though

[latent wraith]

If I wanted more than what I could drag with relative ease I'd take two trips. 11 stacks was the limit there. I could have gotten up with more but at a frustrating crawl. Better indeed to take more trips.

And of course if you don't want to make paths for easier movement it'll be hard with that much as well.

[odd helm]

How often do y'all actually deal with hills when transporting metals?

[half dragon]

once I get a boat, I don't. Only early game, rest of the time I only push carts though roads I've made myself

[latent wraith]

Fairly often, though I prefer to get copper that's close to the shore and use a boat for transport.

[odd helm]

I get a bit of that hauling tin and copper around, but for iron I usually just beeline to the closest coast in the swamp with a longship ready, and with silver it's much easier to toss the cart down the mountain to the closest boat

[half dragon]

ngl, swamp is really nice for carts. just take your hoe with you and flatten/raise the ground for yourself

[latent wraith]

Swamps don't have hills so carts up hills is only for copper (and silver if it's a hill between the shore and the bottom of the mountain where the cart stops).

[half dragon]

hardly takes any effort but makes the transportation much easier

[latent wraith]

Swamps are perfect for pathmaking, being so flat. :>

[tulip patrol]

I try to base near the oceans so I dont have to trek metals up hills, I can dock and unload than start smelting away.

[half dragon]

I setup a small dock with a portal in meadows next to a 20+ crypt swamp, then created some paths ahead of time for fast and safe transportation

[odd helm]

My main bases have always been against a coast

[latent wraith]

In my most recent save I made my base at the top of a tall and steep hill...
I'm gonna have to make a switchback path down to the sea to drag a cart up on.

I usually build my bases on the shore but this spot was so perfect.

[half dragon]

I'd raise the ground to make that slope uphill easier to manage

[latent wraith]

I expect I'll build another base as well, I've found another spot I really like on a small island.

[half dragon]

I also found REALLY nice looking location. when I noticed that spot in the seed generator I knew I have to pick that seed

[latent wraith]

Ground will be raised, I expect, but that does't lower the heigth increasement from the shore to my base. :p

Thankfully there's a lot of copper at about the same height as the base.

[half dragon]

by raising the ground you can make the slope longer, which reduces the angle

like how steep it is

[latent wraith]

Yes, I know how roadmaking works. :>

[strange arrow]

usually this as well, but i did make one on a nice big hill in the meadows and had to work out a cart path for it, i usually limit the cart to 2k weight and then you can power up steep sections and not waste too much time

[latent wraith]

It'll be a switchback road, as mentioned above.

[strange arrow]

Eikthyr can help as well, i wouldn't want to be at a point where i'm wasting meads just to haul metals tho

[latent wraith]

Not killing Eikthyr on this save but that is indeed a very nice bonus for traversing hills.

High stamina and sprinting with Eikthyr on makes one hell of a difference.

[frigid gust]

Tasty mead: it's like Eikthyr in a bottle 😛

[paper marsh]

Damn crossbow is actually pretty good. First time I'm really giving it a chance

who thought it was a good idea for Blackmetal Pickaxe to take 105 blackmetal to max?

[half dragon]

high running skill would make that also so much easier. went to check and the benefits are quite substantial for maxed our running skill. But... currently getting skills to high level is borderline impossible for slow to level up skills. Unless you stop going to new zones where you do not have best available gear for it yet, you're going to die and lose a lot of progress.

Sometimes you just get unlucky... was hunting abominations, killed 5 without any issues, but then night arrived when I found another one, was fighting it just fine but rest bonus also ran out, then suddenly draugr archer and a few skellies decided to join a party, had no enough stamina to fight back at all had to spend it all avoiding taking damage, only occasionally get a few hits in.

Eventually killed all the small fries getting in the way and continued my fight with the abomination... only for a wraith to sneak up on me and kill me when I was out of stamina doing a combo on abomination

[paper marsh]

Yea I'm surprised at how good run skill compares to fenris as well

[fallen zephyr]

I'm trying imagine a soft snail with good running skills...

[paper marsh]

Hey snails can be pretty quick

Also my current playthrough I have 100 run and thats the first skill I've ever maxed

[fallen zephyr]

It's not about the 'quick', it's about the 'legs'. 😛

[paper marsh]

pffft all snails have legs. We just don't use them unless we have to

[fallen zephyr]

You should write a paper. Nature would be salivating at that publishing option!

[half dragon]

hmm... was about to start preparing frost resist mead for mountains and wondering how many is enough... but then I realized... I don't have to bring that silver out of the mountain to use it to craft that wolf cape. I can just melt it there, make a crafting bench and call it good. don't even need to bring in any metals, so I can just bring all the materials for level 2 bench through a portal

guess a single mead base is enough

[light moat]

Even going into the mountains and bringing silver back to base, I’ve only ever needed one mead base (6 total meads) and I’ve only even made more for decoration lol

[strange arrow]

it is in any case, 60 mins of resist should be time to get wolf trophies and silver in decent amounts for the cape/armor

[half dragon]

if you're crafting on site and only mine what you need, probably 2 or 3 is enough unless you're unlucky

think I'd want to make that first trip the only trip I'm making to mountains, if possible

I mean, for mining silver.

after getting the cape can take my time mining all I want

[fallen zephyr]

As long as the wolves and drakes let you.

[half dragon]

usually I have no issue with that. after killing the ones nearby usually can finish most of it and occasionally kill a few drakes... unless they changed how they spawn/move around

oh wow... I just realized I don't even need a boat. the mountain close to my meadows base near spawn looks high and large enough to have silver in it

[dense steppe]

You can bring the silver to the ship and carry it along the shore, it will be faster that way 😺

[fallen zephyr]

Silver is altitute dependent, you're right.

[half dragon]

I'll probably still park a boat near the coast to make transportation abit easier

ngl, this seed is a better than I first thought. bonemass was at really annoying location almost all the way to mistlands kind of distance and had to make quite long trip for elder, but mountains seem to be at great location

usually the one near spawn is just a snowy hill and no silver

[fallen zephyr]

I never understood the seed-searching mentality. I landed in Valheim with whatever the game dealt me. That's just part of the experience.

[half dragon]

I picked this one based on locations for building a base. If I want to build a permanent base the location better look good and be practical

[stuck jackal]

I just started tame a lox and it started showing hearts. I don't know how long it took for it to tame

[half dragon]

also I do not want to get near deep north or ashlands by accident... kinda need to check that online map to ensure I do not

[merry pebble]

if you stay in its vicinity (so it stays loaded) then 30 minutes 😄

[half dragon]

I remember not checking ahead of time the seed of my first save, never found a location to build a permanent base so I made a new world just for that

spent hours and hours just sailing around coasts of plains but never found the right one

checked seed generator and found a suitable spot and seed in 30 minutes

[burnt stump]

.

[stuck jackal]

thank you

[odd kernel]

Best way to deal with stone golems?they keep spawning near the spot me and my brother are trying to mine for silver

[light moat]

For me, I’m really picky about my starter island- I don’t like starter islands with any swamps or plains. I’m just kinda weird like that lol.

[fallen zephyr]

Parry. Parry and blunt damage (blunt doesn't provide a benefit, but they're resistance to pierce and slash). You can jump on its head and deal really good pickaxe damage, but it's a BIT OF A GAMBLE.

(sorry caps)

[paper marsh]

What Moose said, or use a harpoon (or some smart wood floring over a pit) to drag it into a pit you've dug where it can't get out. Leaving it alive in the pit will also prevent other golems from spawning in the area

[fallen zephyr]

For me, that sounds entirely antithetical to the experience of being dumped into purgatory.

[light moat]

That’s fair, but for me I’ve already played through once with a random seed, so for this play through I definitely browsed a few to pick one that stood out to me. Of course, I don’t spoil any locations such as dungeons or boss altars.

I do similar things for games like Minecraft and Terraria. It’s a weird thing, but for me, if I don’t like the seed, it’s rare that I’ll enjoy the playthrough.

[half dragon]

out of games like these minecraft is the only one I don't do that in. the world is nearly infinite and you can find nice locations with 100% chance eventually

[light moat]

This is going to sound really silly… but I really don’t like going outside of like 2000m in Minecraft- just because the coordinates become too much to read 😅 getting a little off-topic though, sorry!

[stuck jackal]

use skill of Bonemass

[half dragon]

a good iron mace would help massively too

[light moat]

You can trap a golem in a pit, and it’ll stop them from spawning in a given area.

[fallen zephyr]

Maybe we need some experience categories? We can split players into three categories - 1. "Oh, shit, I'm in Purgatory!"; 2. "This is not the Purgatory I signed up for!"; 3. "No, I don't choose this. KTHXBAI Purgatory."

[fallen zephyr]

I had a girl attack me while I was out walking recently. She came at me and I sprayed her with my can of iron mace. She thanked me for helping deal with her anemia.

[half dragon]

iron mace solves it all

[hallow canyon]

I tried it yesterday. When I was at 1000kg the lox couldn't run, but there was no stamina drain on it walking. At about 500kg it could still run

[half dragon]

weirdge... well at least you can always make multiple runs, considering how fast the lox is compared to cart at same weight it's pretty good

[fallen zephyr]

A tonne is a lox for anyone to carry...

[hallow canyon]

I still managed to traverse the black forest pretty effectively even without run. Just had to be a bit more careful in where I went to make sure I didn't get stuck

[vestal geyser]

howdy all. I need to join a good community server.. any suggestions?

[fallen zephyr]

You're your own best friend. Everyone else will inevitably disappoint you.

[vestal geyser]

thanks moose, that's the optimism i was looking for. how do you feel about the future 🙂

[fallen zephyr]

My wife and I chose not to have children, because we didn't want to subject them to the next 80 years on Earth.

[exotic cradle]

Moose, you're way oversharing in the wrong channel my boi

[vestal geyser]

okay, that's sad. sounds like you're very skeptical which means you're exactly the person to have children... the kids wouldn't trust anyone and rightly so lol

[fallen zephyr]

Which channel can I overshare in?

[near furnace]

--> #general

[vestal geyser]

in fairness @exotic cradle I did ask the question 🙂

i will stick to the topic at hand boss

[strange arrow]

yes?

thought i was being summoned xD

[merry pebble]

he has general in the name 😉

[fallen zephyr]

Thank you. Accountability spikes my Respectometer. 🫂

[azure yacht]

That question can be answered in any other way rather than with something so intimate

[fallen zephyr]

The future is great, @azure yacht ! Worst case scenario is me looking forward to the Ashlands expansion.

[half dragon]

btw, is there still a way to raise the ground to max heigh relatively effectively? it seems like that is no longer nearly as easy as it used to be

[strange arrow]

no super fast way, but raising one pillar to max and working off the edge of it brings the next bit to the same height, and continue like that

[half dragon]

weird. quite often it just doesn't do that, but instead do some weird half way point and raise very small section...

[strange arrow]

i mean from standing on the ground and aiming at the top of the wall/pillar

[half dragon]

I did aim at the top, but it didn't raise it all the way to the height I was pointing

[strange arrow]

the terrain start level also affects how high it can be raised

sometimes a level 6m wall is preferable to a bumpy 8m one

[half dragon]

ah... probably easier to raise it in sections then and not try instantly to the max heigh

oh you meant the max max height

[strange arrow]

you can smooth out with the hoe to get it nice and level

[half dragon]

it didn't raise to the max height, just somewhere mid point and have to keep using the raise near max height multiple times until it finally rose high enough

[simple shoal]

I ask you to honor the memory of those who died in Crocus City Hall

[dense steppe]

you came to the wrong place, read the rules, dude 😸

[merry pebble]

what?

[light moat]

Very sad indeed, but not the right place 🙂

[dense steppe]

it's a Russian bot, don't pay attention 😼

[light moat]

Just made the mistwalker, first weapon I’ve made since the mistalnds.

[dense steppe]

oh this is really killer stuff 😼

[rustic compass]

how does serpant shield pierce resistence work in practice?

can it block 2x the damage if that damage is pierce?

[dense steppe]

мaybe 😸

[paper marsh]

It’ll half the damage from pierce on a successful block yeah

I’m not 100% sure if it’s twice as efficient at being successful while blocking, but I think so. Bc I think the resistance on the shield takes place before stagger and such, unlike the resistance on root harnesk

[desert tangle]

what does " the forest is moving" entails?

[dense steppe]

the ents are coming 😹

[desert tangle]

should i run away? im in my base dont want it to get destroyed ;(

[pliant hatch]

It means the resin, wood, stone and greydwarf eyes, as well as the occasional ancient seed, dandelion and bukeperries are coming to you.
For free.

So equip that bow, select your fire arrows and start sniping.
And when they're too close, use your axe and whatever kind of shield you have.

[latent wraith]

It means a lot of greydwarves will spawn around you for a couple of minutes. They will know where you are even if they can't see you so they'll break through walls to get to you.

[paper marsh]

You can have the enemies chase you and just run them in circles for a couple minutes and then the raid will disappear

They’ll focus you over your base if they can see you

[latent wraith]

Note that if you go outside the red circle on the map the raid timer will pause (and contunie when you go inside the circle again), but it can be better to get some distance to the already spawned ones if you're getting low on helath or just need a little breather.

[desert tangle]

rip my first death

oh no they are still here ;(

[paper marsh]

They’ll keep respawning if killed during the raid, but after the raid ends (red circle disappears and text goes away) if you kill the remaining enemies they won’t respawn

[rustic compass]

so I assume I wont get damaged reduction by just carrying the shield from pierce correct?

[paper marsh]

correct. Gotta be blocking

[pure blaze]

what's the respawn timer of berries?

[strange arrow]

8 in game days/4 hours

[hoary cypress]

hello there

me and a group of 4 other friends have beaten this game twice and prepparing to go for a third playthrought

what are some mods or overhauls to make this third playthrought a little bit more different?

either adding more content or changing progression

[exotic cradle]

Can try #mods-discussion ^^

[obsidian glacier]

hello i died in missedlands in a cave and i cant get again my stuff cause there is more then 10 creatures around my stuff how can i play now?

[loud valve]

Either use cheats, ask for help or abandon your body

[half dragon]

well... ideally you would have prepared or kept backup gear

[strange arrow]

leading them away is a viable strat

[fair cairn]

was about to ask if towns existed in caves

[strange arrow]

ye misreading like a boss xD

bombs or an aoe weapon might be the way

(and didn't the 5 previous biomes teach anything about going prepared? xD)

[paper marsh]

Do a drive by run to pick your stuff up, using your gamer skills to dodge creatuers in the way and then get the hell out of there

Or make a new set of gear and fight everything

If the game is too tough for you there's also difficulty and death penalty settings that can be adjusted

[nocturne wolf]

Theres even cheats

The cheat sledge is very fun to use, but only if you absolutely need to

[strange arrow]

mines are nasty places fr

[merry pebble]

If you are cheating just use kill command

[nocturne wolf]

thats boring though

[azure yacht]

"missedlands"

I will assume this was a happy little accident

[paper marsh]

I'd take a mine over a crypt any day

[strange arrow]

crouching tiger hidden draugr

[obsidian glacier]

yeah it was what i was trying with no stuff lol so if i cant do it i just change difficulte

[obsidian glacier]

lol im sorry im french i was bored to search how to say it right

[paper marsh]

Just always beware of the consequences of your actions. For example running deep into a mine and dying will be hard to recover your tombstone, but if you go slowly through it and be careful you might not die and the tombstone will have less enemies / be closer to the entrance

[obsidian glacier]

actually I was quickly deep because I didn't take much damage thanks to the power but I died immobilized in a corner, there were so many creatures that I couldn't move anymore :/

[paper marsh]

yup yup. Slow and steady wins the race, be a snail!

If you go slow and give yourself room to backup enemies shouldn't be able to come at you from more than 1 direction

[half dragon]

https://tenor.com/view/swaith-arrow-ouch-gif-14001004

no gifs?

[merry pebble]

as always 😄

[loud valve]

Can use ghost so it's kinda like a reset

[uncut bough]

idk if i can bring wolves to fight mistland enemies with me

[strange arrow]

you can

[uncut bough]

well i mean i could but would it be viable or the seeker just 1 shot them

[nocturne wolf]

They would be hard to move around all the cliffs

[uncut bough]

oh yea the cliffs, i remember now

[strange arrow]

they can manage to follow you around but you'd need lots to have good chance

[uncut bough]

man first time entering mistland, it is such a headache to play

[strange arrow]

some of them would probably lose pathing tho

[uncut bough]

visibility is near 0, it takes time for the wisp to clear a patch of mist in front of it, terrain looks like someone drew that with a pencil and forgot to roughen the edge

actually i would argue they made more edges which creates endless mountain where suddenly it is all about parkouring skill

[paper marsh]

they'd get 1 shot. Wolves are weak already, and you wanna pit them against enemies two biomes above them

But they'd also take some nice bites out of the seekers

wait actually if they're 2 star wolves and just against regular seekers on normal difficulties they could tank a hit. Not much more than that tho

[nocturne wolf]

They will make finding enemies in the mist much easier

[uncut bough]

i have 2 star wolves

10 of them , i have 4 in a pit, 6 of them roaming in my loooooonghouse, and they keep making more cubs

well of course it is near the dock and in meadows so there are plenty deers and necks to farm meat and chuck it to them

[nocturne wolf]

How long is the loooooonghouse?

[uncut bough]

idk it is looooooong though, took 3 hours to build

i believe it is about 30-40 meters long

[strange arrow]

i'd take 20+

[uncut bough]

ok then i will not take them out at all

[paper marsh]

I'd take 0

[strange arrow]

you'd spend most of the time defending them from aoe

[nocturne wolf]

You'll be fine in mistlands if you always have a portal near you

[uncut bough]

then i take 5

[paper marsh]

wanders through mistlands with heard of 50 wolves

Gjall noise in backgruond

[nocturne wolf]

At least they won't take fall damage

[uncut bough]

i just took down 2 gjalls with someone else

never in my life have i seen a more hideous creature, next to mosquito

[paper marsh]

Gjalls have less health than I remember. Even on Very Hard it's like 5 spear throws to kill it

[uncut bough]

stop the cap

[nocturne wolf]

Their eggs take increased pierce damage

[paper marsh]

You cannot stop what you do not start

[uncut bough]

then u stop the cap

[uncut bough]

yea ik but it took me at least 8 needle arrows in the underbelly to kill it

[regal spoke]

Snail, Your spear skill is near max?

[paper marsh]

yea I think it's 91 or 92

[uncut bough]

so hearing 5 spear throws is actually sounding like cap

[paper marsh]

And the lvl 2 carapace spear. Does good work at range, even better work in melee

[regal spoke]

Has to be the difference

[pliant hatch]

Mistlands is the first area / biome where you shouldn't run, but walk and stop often to listen.
If you do run, stop quite often to have the wisp catching up on you and use that time to listen to your surroundings. Gjalls have a very obvious sound, but so do seekers.

[uncut bough]

well i would never, a seeker soilder will kill me

[nocturne wolf]

Hitting a tree with an axe or a rock with a pickaxe and then crouching is an easy way to tell if there are enemies nearby, there will be an eye over the crosshair.

[regal spoke]

Night in the mist on very hard sounds like a death sentence

[paper marsh]

I wouldn't say near zero, with a wisp to guide you you can see the immediate area around you pretty well

I'm doing mistlands rn with no wisp and visibility is a bit annoying but it's not too big a concern. I can still see most enemies coming, and hear them from even further away

[nocturne wolf]

And then they will all start hunting you

[uncut bough]

also it is kinda funny how weak dverger rogue 0 star is, i saw a normal seeker just absolutely bodied the rogue

[paper marsh]

One enemy that I just can't spot unless it shows a healthbar tho is deathsquito

[uncut bough]

and that is seeker 0 star

[regal spoke]

Lone Dverger perhaps. But a group puts in work

[uncut bough]

probably they are stronger in packs of dverger

[paper marsh]

Dvergr don't have lots of health, but the rogues do decent damage and the mages shred anything they hit

[uncut bough]

it was lone dverger, it died so fast i got the black marble

[paper marsh]

Plus they can heal each other

[uncut bough]

time to lure some seeker soldiers then

at worst, it is free seeker meat, at best, the entire outpost is overrun

[paper marsh]

I always try to assist the dvergr in their fights so they don't die. It's nice to have safe houses scattered around the mistlands

[regal spoke]

2* soldiers I would assume give dvergr groups a challenge

[halcyon blade]

I know they give multiple groups of lox a challenge.

[uncut bough]

light bulb!

[paper marsh]

I find it depends on terrain a lot too. Dvergr stand a much better chance if they can see the opponent coming, than if they're sitting behind a wall waiting for a seeker to be right in front of them

2 star ice mage could prob dispatch a 2 star soldier if good terrain

[uncut bough]

well i will make sure to run around and gather enough seeker and soldiers then

[paper marsh]

if bad terrain - bye mage

[uncut bough]

like at least 20 of them before i lead them toward the dverger

[paper marsh]

I need to find a 2 star ice mage near ashlands and then try to bring it over there

[uncut bough]

that is if i manage to get that much but it is worth a try

[paper marsh]

counter offer: Gjall

[regal spoke]

Do you have your tick army assembled already?

[uncut bough]

that is a plan, i havent gotten to it

[paper marsh]

I want an on-demand tick army but it is rough without portals

[uncut bough]

besides that progress is only achieved in another coop server where i only tagged along, my lone server i am only in plains

technically i could fight the Yagluth now but i want more iron

[odd helm]

Can't you portal with a tick that is already clung to you?

[paper marsh]

I love how overtuned ice dvergr are. On Normal I think they do 200 damage per shot 💀 , and they rapid fire

Mates are made of tuff stuff

[uncut bough]

i am not leaving without loading a longboat with max iron

[paper marsh]

yea, opens a lot of possiblities. I'm sadly on a no-portals run right now tho

[odd helm]

Oh, gotcha

[wide zodiac]

when is the next major update coming?

[pliant hatch]

soon

[light moat]

First half of this year

[regal spoke]

There's opportunity to live your dream without portal

[light moat]

Finally got all three chests turned in to Hildir!

[barren widget]

Nicee

Also, do the other mino bosses (excluding plains) despawn, because I cannot find the other 2 bosses after killing the first one and turning in the chest

[paper marsh]

They do not despawn

[desert tangle]

so i finally gathered a bunch of fire arrows (well not really only 100) do you guys think its better i hunt trolls with these for troll armor before hitting up burial chamber? or do burial chamber first for sultring core?

[light moat]

Burial chamber first, in my opinion

[desert tangle]

is no armor fine? i do have stagbreaker

[merry pebble]

i usually also do chambers first, but you should bring at least leather armor i think 😄

[barren widget]

Depends on ur skills and difficulty

[uncut bough]

i watched on youtube how some valheim players can just tap on the bow and it is already fully drawn, is that a mod?

like i doubt that even at level 100 it will be that, or it makes arbalest totally redundant

[merry pebble]

is it an old video? bows were insane at one point

[uncut bough]

oh idk i didnt check the date

but i guess, cuz there aren't too many recent videos

[merry pebble]

then it could be that, or some mod, currently i don´t think its really possible to "insta" draw even with 100 skill

[uncut bough]

man i wonder if i can build a chest with black metal

i mean for me black metal is easy to obtain so it makes better chest building candidate then iron

[merry pebble]

answer -> ||yes||

[uncut bough]

no way, damn

[merry pebble]

i am not sure where you are in the game but i believe you are missing ||tar|| <-- click if you dont mind little spoiler 😄

[uncut bough]

i got 200 tars

[merry pebble]

then you should only need black metal 🤔

to unlock it i mean

[uncut bough]

bloody hell 6 black metal???

[merry pebble]

not that much 😄 its everywhere

[uncut bough]

sure it is everywhere, just make sure to carry it home

[merry pebble]

yeah it could be pain sometimes

[lunar ridge]

My only gripe with blackmetal chests is that they are fugly

[merry pebble]

i don´t like the looks too much either so i stick with the reinforced ones 😄

[desert tangle]

high skill level makes the draw faster right?

[merry pebble]

yep

[lunar ridge]

yep

Archery is one of the more satisfying skills to level in the game because of how many benefits leveling it confers compared to others

[merry pebble]

yea, its really op 😄

[lunar ridge]

Also why the root set is goated

But yeah black metal chests just do not match any aesthetic I typically build for, so I'm very okay with losing a few item slots, building a couple more chests, and having everything look squared away and homogeneous

Once you get to Mistlands and start building with ||black marble|| that can change but until then, nawww.

[paper marsh]

the set is decent, the chestpiece is goated

[lunar ridge]

If you're still on a low archery level entering Swamps, that +15 is pretty noticeable tbh

[paper marsh]

Yea its pretty decent

[lunar ridge]

And you're not getting smacked with fire(yet) so there's no real downside until plainy greenbois wanna say hi

[paper marsh]

I think the buffs on all the light armors are pretty nice, other than troll. Troll is still useable just very niche cases

[lunar ridge]

or if you're entering frost caves but.... dont lol

[paper marsh]

why not?

[lunar ridge]

Entering frost caves with root set?

[paper marsh]

Also surtling raids can still hurt

[paper marsh]

Nah just why not enter frost caves? Can always take root off

[uncut bough]

not in a million year would i think bread is a stamina food

[oblique magnet]

Ugh just seen a shadow in black forest with a stick

[paper marsh]

If you really do go archer heavy tho I don't think fire in frost caves is much of a concern. You can just shoot enemies down before they get close. Such is the power of the overpowered bow

[lunar ridge]

I thought it was very clear we were still discussing root armor, yes, obviously take it off when entering frost caves, and dont enter frost caves whilst trying to use root set....

[uncut bough]

odin found u

[oblique magnet]

Gd or bad thing

[uncut bough]

bad thing

[paper marsh]

Well health foods are usually meat, so the other things are usually stamina

[uncut bough]

now u get +100% more raid

[oblique magnet]

Ooof

[uncut bough]

ok i was kidding

it is just for cosmetic, nothing happens

[lunar ridge]

That black figure is Odin, he's just checking up on you and making sure you're good

[uncut bough]

shhould i invest in 2 baking oven?

it is sooooo slow to wait for a batch of bread to bake

[paper marsh]

I also don't find root set to be dangerous in plains due to fire weakness, but more just due to low armor

Fire weakness can be whisked away with a fire resist, and even until then only fire guys are melee and there's clear visibility

[lunar ridge]

I mean if you've got the room and the mats, why not

[paper marsh]

Yes! I usually do 2 or 3

[uncut bough]

it takes more metals

and i don't have metal to spare, not yet at least

[lunar ridge]

My usual issue with ovens is that I typically only account for 1 when designing my base so that's just a skill issue on my end

[paper marsh]

Then go with 1 for now and get 2 once you get a bunch of mistlands iron

[oblique magnet]

Lmao 🤣 it caught me off guard I was like wtf is that 😂

[lunar ridge]

Also I have a weird obsession with making sure my oven is always on and always topped up but they burn wood like it's their job so it's a struggle

[oblique magnet]

I ran up to it an poof it disappeared 🤣

[paper marsh]

Stick troll, lord of your nightmares

ohhh wait nvm Odin

[uncut bough]

should i make a house for these wolves

[paper marsh]

Dog Kennel could be cute

[uncut bough]

i let them roam free the house, now they gave me 8 more wolves

now i have 12 wolves loitering the house and i dont think my meat supply could keep up with their demand

[lunar ridge]

It's the tight corridors in the frost caves that can really seal the deal, by then you also likely dont have fire resist pots so in general trying to cleae frost caves with root set is a solid way to die fast lol

0/10, would never recommend

[lunar ridge]

Where's the base though, because if you brought them to the meadows and let them roam they kill boars and get free meats that way

[paper marsh]

Yea I agree root in frost caves is a no go unless you use fire resist. There's so many other options to use

I just usually find the cultists to be very predictable

[lunar ridge]

Cultists always, 100% open with fire that I've seen so yes very predictable

and they stand still doing it lol

[uncut bough]

meadow

[lunar ridge]

Then they will multiply automatically through the process of defending hearth and home from pesky predators

[uncut bough]

bruh aint no way the wolves touched the fire from the hearth and it is burning

[lunar ridge]

Okay, maybe they aren't defending the hearth, but certainly the home?....

[uncut bough]

i digged a trench around the house, now i cant lead them outside

there isnt a bridge that i can lead them out to roam free, cuz nearby there is black forest and last time a troll found its way in and got killed by the wolv

[paper marsh]

What I've started doing lately is just jumping over enemies when they attack, it's so funny. Like a cultists blasts you with fire just jump over him and stab him in the back

Some mobs do turn while attacking tho 💀

[lunar ridge]

I fail to see the problem, unless you're just really tired of seeing troll hide

Which, fair enough

[paper marsh]

Gotta get that obliterator action going

[lunar ridge]

"oh look, a walking pile of coal has decided to pay me a visit"

[uncut bough]

the problem that there isn't a bridge outside the house,

[paper marsh]

I'm hoarding the troll hide I get just to be able to make backup gear for my server members if they die

[paper marsh]

You can make one

[lunar ridge]

Have you tried, uh building one?

[lunar ridge]

One of my immediate builds upon accessing iron first time is building a clothes rack, putting a set of trollhide on it at the front door with a sign that says "Oh Shit Suit"

[paper marsh]

Nice. Troll hide is kinda fun to sneak around with during a death retrieval

I wanna try and get my sneak higher and really use it. Usually I don't sneak much

[lunar ridge]

troll hide + huntsmans is a solid combo I enjoy using

[paper marsh]

Huntsman is by far my favorite bow. I will say tho, I'm warming up to crossbow from doing this bowless run

[uncut bough]

i dont build one cuz otherwise what is the point of building a trench

[paper marsh]

Well you can build it, bring wolves out, destroy it

[uncut bough]

i am afraid that i cant keep track of their numbers and then lost count of it

i know wolf 2 star is basically top of the food chains in Black forest or plains but idk

[lunar ridge]

Having a bridge, but with 2 doors on either side to prevent enemies and allies from crossing when you wish for them not to

[nocturne wolf]

The best base defence is no defence. Killing enemies faster in a raid makes more respawn so I get more resources.

[paper marsh]

I like to kill raid mobs for resources but it depends which ones

Fulings? Hell yea. Trolls and bats? Hell no

[nocturne wolf]

It’s still fun to see how many trolls I can kill before I’m out of time though

[paper marsh]

Fact. My spear tears through them like butter

I wonder if I could oneshot them with a headshot on normal

[lunar ridge]

the bat raid just feels like a giant waste of time lol

[nocturne wolf]

It’s a good source of leather after they inevitably kill all your boars

[grizzled wing]

Arbalest with bolts higher tier than bolt 1shots trolls with a sneak attack to the head, so if your damage is comparable to that, you can

[paper marsh]

hmm my spears do a good chunk more damage than bone bolts. Crossbow skill aint high yet tho

My real concern tho is if it could kill them without backstab or stagger

Doesn't matter much tho. I'm not playing Normal

[uncut bough]

softsnail on his way to explains that spears are actually useful and totally stands shoulder to shoulder to the other weapons:

[versed flame]

...

im just a tiny bit upset about krom's block armor

[nocturne wolf]

Spears are good but I prefer polearms.

[versed flame]

i dont use spear so i cant speak for it's effectiveness

[paper marsh]

polearms are 3x as good as spears

[lunar sapphire]

I pretty much always use spears, using a sword for once this playthrough

[paper marsh]

Bows prob 5x as good

[lunar sapphire]

well, I started with atgeirs this time but gravitated towards swords

[uncut bough]

nah why yall put urself thru hell like that

[lunar sapphire]

Spears are fine as long as you don't throw them 😄

[versed flame]

not hell if you like it

[paper marsh]

Great if you throw them too!

[lunar sapphire]

Yep

[nocturne wolf]

Bows at close range with a high skill are very powerful because you can fully charge a shot while rolling

[paper marsh]

Spears just have decent damage, attack fast, level hella fast, and can be used for range

[paper marsh]

yup

Doing a “no rested” play through would be pain

[lunar ridge]

psychotic

[nocturne wolf]

It would get very tiring

[lunar ridge]

Even from a mechanic standpoint it would be quite difficult to achieve since you would have to essentially never sleep, never be under shelter near a fire for too long, etc

[desert tangle]

cant wait to get out of this raft, so slooooooooooow ;(

[nocturne wolf]

This also means avoiding cold would be very hard, which would make having no rest worse.

[ember panther]

May aswell make it a no fire playthrough... Foraging only. Vegetarian

[lunar ridge]

the more I ponder the mechanics the more psychotic it seems lol

[azure yacht]

In other words: Stamina-focused gameplay

Not really impossible/unfeasible

And you'd be encouraged to get the best stamina food in the game (salad)

[lunar ridge]

I'd argue it's unfeasible, but certainly not impossible. The bigger question is: Why, god, why?

[nocturne wolf]

But the stamina regen would be terrible without rested so every point would have to be used carefully

[azure yacht]

Oh no I was only talking about the vegetarian-only challenge

No sleep, or even more, no rest bonus is suicidal.

[lunar ridge]

Ah, alright fair enough

[azure yacht]

No sleep is just tediousness, no rest bonus is just... No

[lunar ridge]

Yeah vegetarian playthroughs are actually quite doable since agriculture and really good soups exists

[plush umbra]

?Ashlands

[lunar ridge]

Postponed forever, sorry

[plush umbra]

Gosh darn it

[lunar ridge]

All we know is 1st half of the year, so prior to july 1st

IG is really cooking for Ashlands, I'm excited

[plush umbra]

Tell that to our brothers and sisters 13 years ago

[lunar ridge]

I'm not sure I know the significance of 2011

[plush umbra]

More like 2009

[lunar ridge]

What's 2024 - 13

[plush umbra]

I ment 15 years ago

[paper marsh]

Tbh I’d recommend not using a raft. Just wait until you get a better sea faring vessel

[ember panther]

What?

[lunar ridge]

Ah, I was like... Naw I'm not great at math but I know I'm not that far gone lol

But then, what's the significance of 2009?

[plush umbra]

I remember my boy picking barley and jamming out to tool like it was yesterday

It's a secret

[lunar ridge]

Cryptic.

[ember panther]

Those were the days tbh

[lunar ridge]

Only game I can think of with barley picking in 2009 was Runescape

Maybe Minecraft but that wasn't the full release yet

Also never played Minecraft so

[plush umbra]

Are there snilbog RuneScape?

[desert tangle]

well the thing is black forest is across the ocean for me ;/ all the dungeons ive found looking for the black forest are also across the ocean

[nocturne wolf]

Maybe you should make a base in or near a black forest?

[desert tangle]

yea already in the process of this

but going back n forth to transfer my loot is a slog lol, using this time to cheat a little and look up a few tips n tricks for valheim in youtube :D

[nocturne wolf]

I’ve seen one of your older screenshots where you only have a tower shield and no normal shield. When you have black forest materials, make a bronze buckler and practice parrying now while it’s safer. When you are in swamps, I’d recommend you make a banded shield instead of the buckler there.

Tower shields can work well but as a new player it’s best you get used to parrying as soon as possible

Also, you should make a flint axe if you still haven’t

[lunar ridge]

I would use tower shields like twice as much as I do now if they penalty was only -10% movespeed

[nocturne wolf]

Thats the biggest problem for me too, against most enemies, I dont mind losing parrying for the tiny stamina cost of blocking.

Their high knockback works incredibly well with knives

[lunar ridge]

But the movespeed cut is a massive gimp

20% + 5% for most weapons, so 25% + another 10% if you're wearing heavy armor

RIP swamps

[nocturne wolf]

Thats another reason they work so well with knives, and with the knives having a low stamina cost like the shield stamina management becomes so easy

[lunar ridge]

yeah, and if you're in a pickle I guess you could just knife secondary away lol

[paper marsh]

That sucks, rare occurrence. You’ve explored the whole spawn continent?

Move speed sucks but no parrying sucks more to me

[lunar ridge]

I almost exclusively use tower shields only if I'm fighting a boss, or playing co-op

I'm gonna sword&board anyway, may as well make myself useful

[paper marsh]

Next time I play a Very Hard world I feel like I’m gonna dev command my block skill to 80. It’s just annoying not being able to parry

[nocturne wolf]

I still havent touched difficulty settings because my friends dont want to

[lunar ridge]

I know the block armor is calculated with skill in mind, but is it scaled up from the base armor of the gear in question or is it a flat increase + scale? Because if it's increased based only on item that would still mean you'd get pooped on trying to parry with starting gear yeah?

[nocturne wolf]

It is a multiplier, yes

[paper marsh]

Based on base armor. All skills increase damage/block/etc. by a % of the items stat

[lunar ridge]

So parrying with a wooden shield would still do peanuts even with high block

[paper marsh]

Yea

Max block skill is +50% block armor. So you won’t be blocking stone golems with a wooden shield. But you might just be able to parry a skeleton

[lunar ridge]

Those super early game skeletons do hit different

[paper marsh]

Especially when they’re all running around with stars

I can’t believe I had a body pile spawn 4 enemies and 3 of them were 2 star

[ember bolt]

Just turned raid world multiplier to highest and damn, I didn't expect that much

[lunar ridge]

I can, because that was me at one point with a nearly doomed death run fiesta

I did manage to body recover but it took a significant amount of praying to Lady Luck, swearing and a few smoke breaks lol

[plush umbra]

I freaking love the fog while serpent hunting. It's so beautiful not being able to see them for the 3rd night in a row 🤬

[pliant hatch]

Yeah well, those serpents need a chance too, you know. 😄

[pliant hatch]

Not dead.

Just not as active because lots of discord members are sleeping atm.

[frozen void]

it's almost 4am

[paper marsh]

Might need to go to bed soon Larsi

(Although I stay up late too)

[pliant hatch]

Well, this was the last comment:

I freaking love the fog while serpent hunting. It's so beautiful not being able to see them for the 3rd night in a row 🤬

So I dunno if you can add anything to that?
Perhaps a hint or tip how to deal with it?
Perhaps some epic story you experienced when hunting serpents in the fog?

[paper marsh]

Hmm I just realized bow skill might not be the best scaling skill

Fishing gets hella buffs from levelling

[pliant hatch]

Well, in a way in the BF the moment you find Haldor.

[paper marsh]

Black Forest

[pliant hatch]

But you can fish in any biome

[paper marsh]

Well he sells a fishing rod and bait

[pliant hatch]

So you never got that nice belt he offers?

And if you didn't, how the heck have you been hauling all the ores all this time?

[lunar ridge]

carefully

[pliant hatch]

And how have you been transporting ores?

Using carts at your base as well?

[paper marsh]

damn fuling brutes wreck my stone walls so quick. I really gotta double my efforts to set up a marble wall

[digital nexus]

Guys, is there a way to put shields on the side of the longship?

[paper marsh]

No, but it's been suggested many times\

[digital nexus]

quite sad...

[versed flame]

just kill them

its easy

[paper marsh]

true but it's like a 15 second run out there, plus sometimes I'm not rested and they're annoying to fight without rest

[half dragon]

a lot of discord members are sleeping at all times tho

a bit more active at specific times of day because players are not evenly distributed around the world

just make it so they cannot damage your walls. Even a few meters deep moat is enough to prevent them from walking to your walls as long the moat is steep enough

[paper marsh]

But whats the point of a raid if you don't let the mobs at least attempt to - raid?

[nocturne wolf]

It’s missing out on free materials

[exotic cradle]

free delivery!

[rain flare]

Yeah no thank you 😂

[half dragon]

I hate raids. They always happen when I don't want them. Just let me smelt my shit in peace

[dense steppe]

Build an indestructible defense, and live in peace 😸

[unkempt eagle]

So we played and completed all the content when valheim first released. Now we want to play again with mods this time . Which modpack would you guys recommend ? Im trying to decide between relicheim, jewelheim and epicvalheim

[exotic cradle]

#mods-discussion might help you better 🙂

[half dragon]

my recommendation would be unmodded again 🤷‍♂️

Especially if haven't played since multiple big updates came out

The only mod that I honestly believe is needed is the one that forces farmed plants into a grid to prevent them being too close to each other. I almost lost my mind when I was mass farming stuff and many of the plants constantly got unhealthy being too close to each other

I honestly can't believe that isn't a feature...

[rain flare]

I had a gjall blast me in my mistlands base
No imagine 2 gjall AND ticks harassing me

NO thank you! 😂

[half dragon]

can imagine. Ngl I'm not sure if I'll make a base in mistlands, but probably will at least make an outpost there

just loving plains too much

[exotic cradle]

Misltands bases>all bases

[rain flare]

Mistlands is just too good to pass up my guy

Excessive difficulty in making but extraordinarily and satisfactarily satisfying to accomplish! 🤩🥰🥳

And yes I know that is not a word - bear with me 😂

[charred lake]

Awesome! Leviathan capsized and destroyed my boat.

[dense steppe]

Yes, it happens sometimes 😸

[charred lake]

Don't mine barnakles in storm(

[wicked snow]

man I hope the ash comes before june

[rustic compass]

wait you can capsize a boat?

dont think I've ever had that happen

[dense steppe]

If the ship was damaged, the waves could easily smash it against the leviathan 😼

[wicked snow]

when I was a noob I got my boat smashed by a deathsquito

not knowing that the bugger is one spit away from dying, in my mind it was like Nooooo plains creature RUN AWAY

[charred lake]

At least carve, don't know about longship

[silk rivet]

Yep. I've managed it one time so far, after playing for 1500+ hours. Out and about in a carve, going full speed during a storm.
Rescuer told me to use a decent boat next time 😁

[uncut bough]

dear god i just saw 3 tar growth easily killed a 1 star fulings beserker

i know tar growth are dangerous but damn i am not touching that in close range

[fallen zephyr]

Dodge the spray, wait for them to jump pretty much right to you, BLAM BLAM! melee - dead.

[light moat]

All the mistlands weapons seem so cool, I really want to try out Jotun Bane

[frigid gust]

A single tar blob is easy. A group of them can really ruin your day.

[half dragon]

don't suppose there is a single way to drake proof your stuff in the mountains?

[latent wraith]

Same as everywhere else, spawn proof the area with base items.

[half dragon]

that's not everywhere else. Everywhere else it's sufficient to just have a moat or wall to prevent them coming to your home and make sure the base is spawn proof...

[light moat]

Really appreciate that 2-star hares are white rabbits, they look so neat! I just want to trap it and bring it back to base lol

[paper marsh]

Storm should be okay, just don’t park the boat too close

[uncut bough]

Ballista

As drake proof as it gets

[paper marsh]

Do you guys think deep north will have weapon gaps like other biomes, or have everything because it’s the last biome?

I kinda wish DN would skip sword, sword is currently in every biome but meadows and I think sword users need to be taken down a notch

[light moat]

I actually imagine not only will it have all weapon types, but maybe even multiple choices of the same weapon type. Since it is the last biome, I’d imagine there would be a plethora of options. Maybe even a third armor option or so?

Clubs are in every single biome haha but yeah, minus meadows sword is also an option in every biome. If you’re like me and consider the meadows a tutorial, then you might consider the sword having an option every biome.

Hmm isn’t axe also available in every biome? I guess to be fair, the crystal battleaxe is a two handed weapon.

[lunar ridge]

When bows get taken down a notch then I'll start caring about fairness lol

[paper marsh]

I think Axe, and knife are the only weapons that are in every biome. Axe is understandable because it's used for wood, knife could use a skip tho.

Clubs don't have a BF or Plains variant do they?

[lunar ridge]

Needle club, bronze mace.

[paper marsh]

bronze mace is a mace

I thought the spiked one was a mace but I could be wrong

[light moat]

Yeah, Porcupine and bronze mace. Mace uses club skill.

[lunar ridge]

uhhh..... mace = club.

It's the weapon type.

[paper marsh]

Hmm mayhaps I am stupid. I thought there used to be an actual mace skill

[merry pebble]

nope

[lunar ridge]

[light moat]

Nope, only club skill 🙂

[paper marsh]

Shows how much I use maces lol

[lunar ridge]

Even the mauls use the same club skill

[uncut bough]

I wish they will add more overpowered bow so people would write a 1000 words essay over how bows are broken and everyone need to relearn melee combat

[lunar ridge]

Currently bows offer, far and away the most options if you take into consideration all the bows + all the ammo available

[paper marsh]

Bows is all upsides other than having to make ammo for them

[lunar ridge]

But fire sword is locked behind dev command spawn even though it isn't even that strong

[uncut bough]

Bows are OP people when they see sea serpent ( they must sail away or fight it with melee like real worthy warrior that valhalla will take)

[light moat]

Clubs are crazy represented, think it’s something like;
Meadows: 3
Black Forest: 1
Swamp: 2
Mountain: 1 (but Frostner is crazy good)
Plains: 1
Mistalnds: I think 1?

[paper marsh]

||That'll change in a few months || 😄

[lunar ridge]

It freaking better, it's the Ashlands! If no real fire sword, I riot.

[merry pebble]

what?

[paper marsh]

looks right other than I can only think of 2 in meadows

oh Torch is a club

[lunar ridge]

torch(technically.....), regular club, stagbreaker

[uncut bough]

I want the devs to give us end game bow that instantly charges with just a tap of a button and the trajectory is similar to arbalest, meaning point and click

[light moat]

Meadows has club, torch, and stagbreaker… if you consider stagbreaker meadows tier. Might be BF

[lunar ridge]

Can make stag with 100% meadows drops

[paper marsh]

Yea they're represented very highly and are probably THE most useful damage type (of physical damage at least, and then one gets frost too)

[merry pebble]

ah, i didnt really considered sledges clubs 😄

[paper marsh]

I'll say I do really like torches

[lunar ridge]

I don't immediately consider it but, it's the same skill used, so you get benefit from switching to mauls at least if you're already a mace/club user

[light moat]

I will admit, it is a stretch to call the torch a weapon/club, but 🤓TeChNiCalLy it is.

[paper marsh]

nah I think it's fair, it's pretty useful

[lunar ridge]

I call it the fire mace lol

[paper marsh]

A stretch would more be calling butchers knife a knife because it isn't used for real combat

[light moat]

Right, I personally consider it a weapon because it’s actually pretty useful (the torch) as a weapon

[lunar ridge]

Either way, until bow gets dropped down like 3 pegs I don't wanna hear anyone complain about swords being too strong lol

[halcyon thistle]

why is abyssal razor considered swamp tier? damage value only? because you can get it as soon as you get a pickaxe

[paper marsh]

I'm okay with swords. They could lose the (I believe bugged) no cleave penalty but swords are in a pretty good spot. Just odd they don't skip tiers like most other weapons

[lunar ridge]

damage value, and also just generally you won't be able to get to it without a karve. I'd consider it more BF tier myself

[halcyon thistle]

not bugged

[paper marsh]

damage value yea. And because there's no iron knife so it takes its place

[paper marsh]

How do you know?

[halcyon thistle]

being here a lot

[lunar ridge]

It's been stated, the no nerfed cleave was intended

[light moat]

Dumb question… but what do y’all mean by cleave?

[lunar ridge]

attacks hitting multiple targets at once

[light moat]

Ahh gotcha

[paper marsh]

hmm one of the helpers the other day was speculating it was bugged saying it was added in Mistlands update along with Krom and thought that was why. Suppose they hadn't heard devs say otherwise

[lunar ridge]

Cleave damage was the same well before mistlands for swords

[halcyon thistle]

and then, normally, dividing the damage into the different targets it hits

but for some cases, for balance, they made it so they are still viable in tight spaces

[lunar ridge]

yep. 2 targets usually 50% each, 3 targets usually 33% each etc.

[halcyon thistle]

if the attack animation is too wide or something

[light moat]

So the bow gets a gap in progression, as well as the aetgir. What other weapon types? I guess fist weapons… but I feel like that’s a unique case.

[lunar ridge]

Due to the nature of the sword attack animation, unless you spammed secondary it'd be very difficult to target only 1 enemy which is why I believe they gave it full cleave damage

[halcyon thistle]

spears

[lunar ridge]

But, they're devs. they could have made sword animation different if that were the problem, so I believe it was intended from conception

Also, considering how ammo works I don't think bows really get a progression skip

both blackmetal and needle ammo in the plains even when the plains don't have a specific bow

[light moat]

Is there blackmetal ammo for bows? Thought it was only bolts?

[halcyon thistle]

only bolts

[lunar ridge]

oh, only bolts my bad yeah was thinking of bolts i guess

[halcyon thistle]

and missiles, but that's not plains

[half dragon]

I guess biggest gap of no weapon would be unarmed?

or "fists"

[lunar ridge]

BuT yOu AlWayS HaVe YoUr FiSTs

[halcyon thistle]

and you do progress them

[half dragon]

I AM THE WEAPON!

[lunar ridge]

You know what would be really cool? If they amped the unarmed skill gain like crazy so that it was viable throughout the game. Think about it. Your character is gigajacked.

[halcyon thistle]

each boss giving you damage bonus

[paper marsh]

man I wish. So many times I've hit enemies with a sliver of health left or a deathsquito or something and fists just don't cut it

I rly wish deathsquitoes had less health

[light moat]

Deathsquitos trophies as fist weapons 😂

[lunar ridge]

Now we're thinkin'!

Seeker mandibles as fist weapons, too

[paper marsh]

Ashlands gotta have a fist weapon right? ... RIGHT!?!?

[lunar ridge]

Then Charred skull cesti?

[halcyon thistle]

pelvis bone

[paper marsh]

ngl tho so pumped for my axe skill to be useful in ashlands

[lunar ridge]

Jotun Bane is pretty good isn't it?

[halcyon thistle]

nope

[lunar ridge]

I've never gone out of my way to even build it, so

[halcyon thistle]

poison is bad, that's all

[light moat]

Bummer, was looking to make it soon 😅

[lunar ridge]

you could 100% still make it for a wall decoration, it does look cool

[half dragon]

deer head fist weapon when? that's pretty metal

[halcyon thistle]

as soon as poison stacks or does something different, it's gonna be good

[paper marsh]

Go for your dreams!

But yea its not great. Axes already are slightly below other weapons, and the poison makes it less good for cutting while still costing a lot of stamina and also poison doesn't stack so some of the damage is wasted if rapid firing an enemy

[light moat]

Wonder how much refined Eitr will be used in the next couple biomes after mistlands. It’s slightly odd to me that you need it for carapace armor lol

[paper marsh]

I feel like blobs are the reason poison doesn't stack. Although they could make it stackable for players

[lunar ridge]

About as much as you ended up needing thread for pretty much only padded armor lol

[paper marsh]

threads also used for a lot of the weapons and the lox saddle

[halcyon thistle]

and the linen cape

[lunar ridge]

Linen cape is a meme though unfortunately

[paper marsh]

also why is the blackmetal pickaxe so expensive to upgrade? 105 blackmetal is crazy compared to other stuff

[half dragon]

unironically, the most reliable strat I've noticed for oozers is just smack it with a mace and ignore the poison (if you have resist from mask) and just keep smacking. what's that second poisoning going to do, poison you again?

[lunar ridge]

They added it on mistlands, didn't they? Prior to mistlands there was no blackmetal pick so maybe that's why, but still dosn't make much sense

[light moat]

Wow, never realized it’s that much, kinda crazy lol

[paper marsh]

Yea I pretty much never bother with blunt damage for oozers/blobs. They die easily to anything and can hardly hurt you if you have poison resist

[half dragon]

oozer poison is still pretty dangerous even with that root mask, but getting poisoned once is't a big deal. just kill it quickly and you won't get damaged much

[halcyon thistle]

I'm using it with fenris set, no need for the frost resistance so I like having the extra durability

plus it's pretty black

[half dragon]

same. or at least that is my plan.... no plains yet

[lunar ridge]

Even the wolf fur cape gives more armor though

It's pretty much a cosmetic only

[halcyon thistle]

all capes give same armor

[lunar ridge]

nope

[half dragon]

yes...

[light moat]

Linen cape is for drip 🤌

[half dragon]

just check the wiki before you say anything further...

[paper marsh]

No Feather cape maxes out at 3 armor I believe (currently), while all other capes I know of goes to 4

[half dragon]

well... technically yes. it will get that level 4 eventually tho

[lunar ridge]

Ah I was checking the wiki, was looking at the workbench tier required though

[halcyon thistle]

same base armor that's for sure

[light moat]

Ive made that mistake before as well lol

[lunar ridge]

Coulda sworn capes used to have differences in armor though

Even if they did, glad they changed it because now you can wear whatever cape you wish

Except troll hide cape, or feather cape I guess

[light moat]

I used to think troll cape had more armor than the deer cape

[half dragon]

if it looks cooler, it musst be stronger

[lunar ridge]

I swear it used to have +1 armor, maybe I'm going senile though

by that logic feather cape should give +10 armor

[half dragon]

so far liking fenris armpit hair hunt for my armor. far more interesting than relying on RNG for trolls or abominations to spawn

[light moat]

Yeah, pillaging frost caves is still probably my favorite thing in the game. I think the frost caves are the best dungeons.

[half dragon]

that fire is pretty brutal to me though... full root set 😂

[lunar ridge]

brother in christ, no..........

[half dragon]

just don't get hit, ez

surprisingly haven't died yet, cleared 2 caves

[paper marsh]

fire resist!

[lunar ridge]

Root set in frost caves gives me night terrors just imagining

get 1 fire dot, actually game over

[half dragon]

with good food you'll survive once... just don't get burned 2nd time for a while

[lunar ridge]

You probably use bows though

So shouldn't usually be in range of fire attack

[half dragon]

Atgeir. I only use bow to start combat for a few free kills

[lunar ridge]

Welp...

I can't tell if brave or psychotic

[pliant hatch]

Bows aren't much good in the cramped frost caves where Fenris cultists live.
Too many corners for them to hide behind, making it easy to get you with their fire attack the moment they see you.

[lunar ridge]

You just gotta go in once and get them to see you, then run out into that big open corridor that typically precedes their lairs

they all file through the doorway and it's ez pickins'

[paper marsh]

Bows are good in any terrain conditions. Can be drawn and fired quickly even in melee range if you just have a bit of skill in them

I actually ended up throwing my spears for most my frost caves. One shot the ulvs, hurt the cultists real bad

And I didn’t want them touching me cuz they could 2 shot me even on triple health food

[chilly forge]

Hoping we get 1m pieces for darkwood and possibly log beams

[copper lotus]

some steeper degree beams and roofing, maybe like a triangle shaped stairs to fill in sides if ur trying to guide 3 with stairs into a single doorway

like a corner stair piece

[pliant hatch]

38 minutes to capture a serpent while using a Karve.
Bloody thing kept turning away from the coast the moment I tried to harpoon it.

[paper marsh]

Now you have a serpent pet for life tho!

[pliant hatch]

Nope, only some meat and scales

[paper marsh]

ah, capture and kill

[pliant hatch]

yup.

Problem was, I had an area prepared, but it was night before I managed to get it on the shore.
And at that points, Greydwarfs and Greylings decided it was nice to attack me, instead of the serpent.
So it escaped, I had to lure it back, took me 3 attempts to get it on the shore again - this time in daytime - and had it attacked by boars and necks. But at least it got killed in shallow water, so I could retreive everything.

[kind pendant]

Just got you are being hunted directly next to a fuling village

Can I kite the wolfs into the fulings and berserkers to attack them?

[light moat]

Oh yeeah… it’s all coming together…

[kind pendant]

I’m just thinking about what to do next lol

I was thinking jump on a house while they deal with eachother??

[light moat]

Yeah, they should fight each other! That’s not a bad idea.

[kind pendant]

Alright I’ll just get bonemass up and jump onto a house now lol

[light moat]

Just be careful, because it’s very possible to get overwhelmed.

[kind pendant]

True, there’s a pretty big house I can hop on so I hope that’ll work

Half the village is just debris now 😂

[paper marsh]

damn son my spear does almost 1000 damage to a gjall on a sneak attack

[versed parcel]

Hey guys, what's your experience with spears and knives? I did one playthrough back in summer with a buddy, but I'll do another one once Ashlands drops. I did polearms/swords last time, so I wanna try maining something else this time.

I'm thinking if I go with knives I'll probably go with the alternative armor sets too

[desert tangle]

bows and knives? ;p

[versed parcel]

I mean yeah that's kinda a given
idk I don't really treat bows as like a primary weapon

I always used them anyway as a secondary

So, how are spears? How are knives? How fun is it to play either of these, etc?

[odd helm]

I will vouch for knives.

Fast attack speed, good damage spread between slash and pierce makes them viable across most mobs, and attack animations are fast enough that you can dodgeroll between attacks more reliably compared to other weapons.

They also have a pretty good parry multiplier by themselves, so they don't need a shield - but also pair fantastically with a buckler.

[light moat]

Also, don’t knives have some sort of prey bonus? Saw it on the wiki earlier, thought it was interesting.
Edit: ah, yep, as Scarlet said above.

[half dragon]

spear is pretty fun weapon, and pretty good too. The alternate attack is the throw attack, a lot of fun to use it to finish off enemies outside of reach

[half flax]

Knife sneak attack

[half dragon]

also you can take on some enemies relatively safely with the spear by spamming the throw attack and picking it up... not most effective way to win a fight but it works

[uncut bough]

what is yggdrasil shoot

[strange arrow]

equivalent of saplings?

[merry pebble]

similar to the little beech trees in meadows

[versed parcel]

I see
Yeah I think I'll be trying knives with the alt armor sets then

Troll hide etc
Maybe I'll do spears on my third playthrough (deep north clearly)

[half dragon]

I've started considering is there even need to start completely fresh to try something new. Think I'll have multiple characters to use in the same world and have them use different builds. That allows skipping some boring parts of the game but still have mostly the early and mid game experience with that different build

biggest problem being limited resources...

you'll eventually run out of copper and tin to mine, crypts to raid, silver to unearth, but not black metal. No clue about mistlands since it wasn't a thing back when I first played

[uncut bough]

to mine all THAT copper and tin will cost you a lot of times

[paper marsh]

I feel they're criminally underated. They both have very fast attack speed which is super powerful, and allows them to level up your skill quickly. No movement speed penalty on knife is pretty cool too

Sadly they both do pierce damage which is resisted a fair bit throughout the game but I don't think it's a dealbreaker. Throwing spears is fun too, although a bow tends to be stronger

[uncut bough]

like sure u can make the case that the area near you will deplete of copper and tin, but then there is always the option to knock over the standing brazen in frost caves to have a chance to get bronze

[ember panther]

i don't think it's feasible to mine out and explore every crypt or deposit

there are SO MANY

[half dragon]

all the tin and copper in a reasonably accessable location though? unless you always go for troll hide and low quality weapons/tools 2nd one is probably enough to mine all the tin and copper in your first island

depends on seed tho

[ember panther]

everything is accessable when you bring a forge

[uncut bough]

devs gave u Karve so u get to other place to mine copper

[halcyon blade]

You would pretty much have to not progress or go out exploring if running out of limited resources is a problem.

[half dragon]

after getting some copper first... but I guess can just give a longboat to use for new charas to make the start a bit more bearable

alternatively could give yourself different kind of rules for progression, such as get a skill to specific level to allow yourself to use specific tier tools/weapons/armor crafted by the first chara

[ember panther]

i kinda want to try a skeleton only plathrough

[paper marsh]

sounds boring

[exotic cradle]

harsh

[sage dock]

Unless you are lucky enough to have anywhere up to iron on the first island

[half dragon]

you could have all the way up to black metal on first island

[paper marsh]

Eitr can't be on first island?

I'd assume you can get all biomes currently, and once ashlands and deep north come out I believe those will deliberately be seperated by water

[dark cosmos]

hey yall

[half dragon]

Mistlands generates quite far away. For Mistlands to be connected to the first Island that island would have to be quite damn long

[paper marsh]

Yea but I think its totally possible. I don't think theres any gamerules to place water between mistlands and starting island

[latent wraith]

It's rare but it happens. Ashlands can be on the starting island now, but that will change when the biome is updated.

[half dragon]

That is so unlikely that you'd almost certainly would have to look up a seed for that. Might as well try lottery if you expect that to happen randomly

while checking seed generator for random seeds even plains is pretty rare

[paper marsh]

agreed

I pretty much always sail for a good location to raid swamp and above

[half dragon]

my first save was quite lucky. up to swamps had no need to sail at all... but then again not that great. The distance on land was quite damn long and constantly had to relocate my base to be closer to the current biome

[paper marsh]

I like sailing. Able to scout swamps to see if they have crypts, and then find some nearby meadows (hopefully by a mountain too) to set up base. Ez transport of iron and silver

[half dragon]

these days also prefer sailing for swamp

found really damn good swamp the day before. There's only 2 crypts, but 7 fire geysers in relatively small swamp, 2 of them even next to each other, about 8-10 meters apart. I setup a sprinting course to run through those geysers to collect coal

No more need for kilns

[rustic compass]

uhmm I cant make butchers table any ideas

[paper marsh]

got silver and ancient bark?

[merry pebble]

you need: Ancient bark x2
Core wood x4
Fine wood x4
Silver x2

[rustic compass]

I know what I need but I found the issue haha sorry

[latent wraith]

My sacrifices have been found acceptable. I went on a sailing trip to the nearest swamp to my base which is about 5 minutes sailing with good wind. I had good wind going there and good wind back again. \o/

[frigid gust]

RNGesus approves of your worship

[half dragon]

so often the game just knows the exact direction you're going to sail, and make it blow the exact opposite direction 😂

[uncut bough]

man it is such a chore to find black metal

it is easy, but acquiring it, either over fulings dead body, or in their camp, which also means over their more dead body, is the tough part

then after a skirmish or 2 it is already afternoon and i had to run the metal back to the portal, put it in chest and wait till next time i get the boat

[paper marsh]

I love getting black metal. Feels easier and more fun to me than other metals, especially bc it respawns right by my base and sometimes it even raids my base

[dense rapids]

The problem with black metal is... it doesn't fit in our storage anymore

[paper marsh]

Gotta make some more ballistas

[dense rapids]

They aren't really usefull in my opinion

Probably for a big part because I've never tested them properly

But since the last time one killed me they ended up in my book of tech I don't like.

[paper marsh]

Yea fair I haven’t used them much either but I’m gonna start to

[dense rapids]

They are so slow..

[paper marsh]

I wouldnt leave ballistas on target player mode anywhere in my base. Maybe except if they’re up real high for air defense

They’re slow but if you have a few at different angles they should be able to take out enemies banging on your walls

[dense rapids]

Our home base doesn't get raided by anything flying other than bats..and those don't have a trophy so you cant target them

[paper marsh]

Yea I mainly use them for ground defense too

I think currently the only air defense they’re worth it for is Gjall

[dense rapids]

In one of out mistland bases we have a bunch of them aiming at both seekers and gjall

but they don't really help

[paper marsh]

Sadge

The bear traps immobilize targets right? Probably a good combo doing bear trap ballista

[dense rapids]

Havent actually ever used those

[paper marsh]

I’ve barely used them so can’t say much about them. Other than that they hurt to step in

[lunar ridge]

Okay.... I think I'm finally finished with my pre-plains base. I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Anyone want to see?

[dense rapids]

Tell me about your storage solution 😄

[paper marsh]

Yes!

[light moat]

Yes from me as well 👍

I browse Valheim content and the wiki while my baby sleeps in my arms lol

[lunar ridge]

Alright lemme turn onn multiserver real quick

[dense rapids]

I tried using skyrim music to get our baby to sleep. Didn't work, but at least it was good music 😄

[paper marsh]

I meant just screenshots, not able to join rn

[lunar ridge]

awww...

alright let me get started on the screenies then

[hidden gorge]

I sometimes feel my base never gets attacked by anything other than bats :<

they don't ever pose any risk of danger, they are just more annyoing than anything

[light moat]

@frigid gust Responding to your take on magic in suggestion discussions, I’m like right on your tail- the magic staves are what I want to make next lol. Just gotta find more black cores… trying not to swap between the crafting stations, but I just might have to.

[dense rapids]

So far I've only had bats raid once, even though they could have come for a long time already

[light moat]

Bats, the slayers of chickens.

[pliant hatch]

and boar and wolf

[hidden gorge]

I survived off 5 black cores throughout the entirety of my tech progression till the queen 😢

[light moat]

I’m trying hard to avoid that, but I’m getting pretty unlucky in these mines lol.

[hidden gorge]

its horrible

especially when you find literally none

zero

[light moat]

I wouldn’t be opposed to the crafting stations requiring less black cores, but more black metal/refined Eitr. But maybe we’re both just really unlucky lol it’s only my first time experiencing the mistlands after all.

The infested mines are interesting and challenging! But man, nothing tops the frost caves imo, just so good.

Why are there so many sausages in the mines LOL I crack up every time I see them

[pliant hatch]

Who says they're sausages and not something coming from a seeker's back end.....

Or a more pleasant thought:

And what did you think the Dverger ate?
They may as well been made from seeker intestines, hare meat and yotun puff.

[light moat]

Hmm would seekers have intestines? Since they’re bugs? 😅

[pliant hatch]

bugs do, so I'm sure seekers do too

[light moat]

Huh, learned something new today!

[uncut bough]

well i am very impatient with going to plains and farm black metals, so imma just toggle the raid to more often and wait for fulings raid

[languid root]

'It's a damn good thing they don't know how much I hate their guts'