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[strange arrow]

nice confirm on that

[pliant hatch]

Thanks for checking, @merry pebble

[uncut bough]

wait Plains tier only have 1 armor type?

[vocal rivet]

Yes.

[merry pebble]

yes

[half dragon]

there used to be only 1 armor type for each biome, except meadows and its 2 scuffed armors and black forest with troll armor

[frail wagon]

yeah but you probably should use the root chest for the pierce res

[heady parcel]

I never use the root armour, apart from the mask for poison resist

[frail wagon]

in mist lands the chest pierce res is god tier

[heady parcel]

I've never felt the need for it tbh

[frail wagon]

alot of mist stuff dose pierce

[heady parcel]

I know, but not getting hit or parrying serves me well so far

And upgraded carapace soaks a whole lot when I do mess up

[uncut bough]

i want to fight yagluth, root armor will make me cook even faster

[frail wagon]

then dont fight him with root armor? fight fuelings with it

[merry pebble]

padded or fenris it is then 😄

[frail wagon]

Root for fuelings
Padded for yagluth

[uncut bough]

that is why i am making padded armor, i know to bring root or fenrings when roaming

i only asked whether or not there is only 1 armor set in plains tier

[frigid gust]

Yes, only one set

[heady parcel]

Only real must-have in the mists is the feather cloak, any excursion into Mistlands without it is an exercise in frustration

[frigid gust]

Ehh... you gotta get to that point somehow. Fenris + root harnesk served me pretty well, really conserves the stamina climbing up the rocks and such.

[heady parcel]

Yeah, I simply stuck with padded and good stamina food - and made very sure to not lose the rested buff haha

And never went further in than I could get out before dark 😄

[paper marsh]

Indeed

[light moat]

Yep, that’s what I did as well- rested is your best friend!

[paper marsh]

Lmao that was like the last mistlands item (of the ones I wanted) that I made this run

I always feel like it’s hyped up as required because it gives a bit of quality of life, but I’d rather have combat power and survival first and worry about ease of transport later

[heady parcel]

Same for me actually, I went for weapons and armour first, then it took ages to find the last few cores (and I couldn't bring myself to tear down my forge...)

[light moat]

I don’t know why, but I feel dirty destroying the refinery/forge to make the other station 😅

[heady parcel]

It does feel wrong haha

And tearing down the refinery means tearing down the shielding too to be able to rebuild it later, ugh

[frigid gust]

I'm still trying to find another infested mine so that I can have all the stations built at once, including the refiner.

[paper roost]

i know i m little bit late to that conversation, but everybody keeps fortgetting you dont need parry with flesh rippers, you have the kick that is even better than that

[heady parcel]

Took me forever, now that I have all three I'm finding mines everywhere I go...

Sailing near borders between plains/swamps is fun, I love seeing fulings getting Jaws-ed by leeches

[frigid gust]

Hah. Yeah, I found the Queen altar before even finding my first mine, so once I get enough of the parts I'll be good. They just seem to be pretty sparse in the areas I've explored so far.

[heady parcel]

I have everything I need, my plan is to leave the Queen until Ashands release date is announced 😄

Still got 70% of the world to explore

These giant mistlands regions are incredible

[paper marsh]

why do you have to tear down the shielding?

[paper marsh]

How's that? Kick doesn't feel great to me

[azure yacht]

Me after managing to get mistlands resources blindly without wisplight (no feather cape obviously):

[heady parcel]

Build an iron cage very tightly around it, can't place the refinery inside the cage due to collisons, so I have to remove one wall and the roof

[azure yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/ben-stiller-blue-steel-walking-zoolander-gif-3546636

[paper marsh]

Maybe just bc it doesn't stagger as much on Very Hard and its annoying it pushes enemy away a bit.

But even then, I wouldn't imagine kick to do more damage/stagger than another weapons secondary attack?

[azure yacht]

And I'll do it again

And I did manage to craft the cape afterwards...

I still haven't killed yag

[paper marsh]

why no feather cape? I'm running around in fully geared mistland stuff pre yag rn too

[paper roost]

provide damage and stagger most of enemies, even star ones, while parry only stagger them, than you deal damage

[paper marsh]

But, it doesn't stagger more than like a sword or mace secondary attack does it? Doesn't feel like much of an advantage over others.

And yea I guess the not staggering is more of a me issue, as well as not liking to stand still for long enough to do a heavy attack

[heady parcel]

Hahahahahhaa I'm so stupid

[paper roost]

i m not 100% sure, but think the effect is the same as on parry with shield

[heady parcel]

Sailed 45 minutes to drop off a chest at Hildir, I FORGOT TO BRING GOLD

"It was at that moment he regretted the no-portal setting"

[paper marsh]

should be same damage multiplier and duration, but requires you to do enough stagger

[paper roost]

with decent skills, you stagger even mistland creatures

[paper marsh]

on Very Hard?

I will say tho I am impressed if a mountain weapon staggers a seeker in one hit

[paper roost]

ah, no, it was on hard

i wouldnt use them as main weapon on VH i think

[paper marsh]

hmm does sound pretty powerful. Just still sounds like a club would do better every time, from what I remember they do double the stagger on their secondary attacks and since they get new versions more frequently you'll usually have more damage on them

[paper roost]

yes, but with club you kick them far away and before you get to them, its over 😄

[azure yacht]

BC of that I said, I haven't killed yag. I only go to mistlands as suicide missions to gather materials and it was only until very recently that I managed to get the feather cape

I have enough now to craft a single staff, I'll go for dead raiser

[ember panther]

I'd recommend fire staff first but dead raiser is pretty cool too

[paper marsh]

oh if you're doing suicide missions I get it yea. Not much need to get feather cape if you're struggling every step of the way to acquire the gear

[pure plume]

Yea no portals is this kind of fun. I did it multiple times. Going to trader for something and forget the gold I even fixed some tower I found on the shore and build a small port plus road towards trader from that point. On the other hand I like this preparation part. Where You need to plan how much food, arrows and other stuff to take on the trip

[heady parcel]

Yeah I like it. This buggerup won't be repeated tho haha

[half dragon]

eh... having no portals would cause me to lose access to a crap ton of things I like about the game

[uncut bough]

Man oh man ooze bomb is mad fun to use in raiding fulings camp

[pure plume]

Yet I still can't convince myself for no map play. The navigating part without even simple compass is terrible for me xD

[uncut bough]

It is not practical cuz poison dmg doesnt do much to those fulings but it is fun seeing every enemy huddle together and inhale mustard gas

[paper roost]

when you count the damage multiplied by number of enemies, its actually huge number at the end

[half dragon]

even bigger when you pull out an Atgeir and wrap things up quickly

[heady parcel]

Oh sweet, finally found a plains pillar spawned offshore

[grizzled wing]

It does 57 over 10 seconds and fulings have like 120 hp. 2 ooze bombs basically kills them for you. And you can use it from stealth so the poison does double

[half dragon]

I spotted 4 or 5 pillars close to each other near a shore. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to do something with it, but it looks like it would have a lot of potential

[uncut bough]

Oh yea poison dmg dont stack

I kept spamming bomb and i ran out of 50 of them

[azure yacht]

That's my second choice but between immediate and long term usefulness dead raiser wins.

I can use fire staff vs everything except yag, but I can use dead raiser against everything and yag in case I decide to stop bothering going to mistlands to gather more tissue

[half dragon]

those pillars might be close enough to be connected them with iron reinforced wood

[azure yacht]

Feather cape is useful everywhere, especially mistlands

[half dragon]

I would imagine it's a lot of fun in mountains

[paper marsh]

The preparation is a lot of fun I agree

[paper marsh]

Yea I think I misread what you said initially

[desert tangle]

yeah so far out of the 3 dungeons i got 21 iron. I a little desperate for lightining while searching around and my torch ran out so i used my bronze axe and hacked away a few standing torches and thats how i found out lol

maybe new thing they added recently? im not using any mod that alters dungeon stuff

[pure plume]

I just wish for some simplier camps. Like premade tent You carry with You or something.

[heady parcel]

A tent made from Lox pelts and poles would be nice

[gray nexus]

that's so interesting, i never knew of this

[half dragon]

I think that would become possible if they allowed us to put pelts on any surface, walls or sloped roofs

[north umbra]

I'm still thrown off by "standing torches", because I dind't think those were inside burial chambers... are you sure we're talking about the same dungeons?

[paper roost]

not really, it could be same as workbench, just build it if you have the mats

[heady parcel]

Got my eyes on those ugly fuling buildings, they can doo roofing with hides, so why not we... 😄

[paper roost]

shhs, i like the look of those 😄

[serene talon]

so uncivilised...

[heady parcel]

Too tribal for me haha

[regal spoke]

Fulings got a nice tribal vibe

[desert tangle]

im in the black forest, i think the official title for them are burial chambers? is there actual dungeons in this game?

[half dragon]

They're in need of some democracy

[heady parcel]

My brother calls them giggle midgets

[regal spoke]

Lolol accurate

[nocturne wolf]

What do you mean by ‘actual dungeons’?

[regal spoke]

Found the HD2 player 😉

[north umbra]

Oh yeah, I just found one 😱 There's a standing torch. Did not drop iron yet

[regal spoke]

Henrik does an incredible impression of the giggle goblins

[desert tangle]

like big dungeons that are like 20min+ long to explore cuz these burial chambers are very small to what i had assumed. i easily explore everything inside under 5-10

[paper roost]

he does, yeah

[paper marsh]

Ah making outposts are all the fun for me. Knowing I need to setup a safe house for rest and maybe storing a bit of stuff if I’m far from home and gonna need to do a lot in that area

Especially since you can just convert pre existing structures in the biome

[desert tangle]

i used bronze axe, if this matters?

[nocturne wolf]

Some infested mines (mistlands) can be very big

[nocturne wolf]

No it doesnt

[heady parcel]

Spine snap + frost arrows is unfair advantage vs serpents btw, poor things

[nocturne wolf]

Tools dont affect drops in this game, fortythousand.

[north umbra]

Was like every torch you destroyed dropping iron? Or only some?

[heady parcel]

Dvergr towers in Mistlands are annoying though with the Ward, if the dumb beards at least had a fireplace!

[desert tangle]

out of the 3-4 dungeons, i got 21 iron

[north umbra]

So you're not sure?

[desert tangle]

nope i was more interested in the sulting cores that dropped so i didnt pay attention lol

[nocturne wolf]

You’ve said you play with mods, right? This could affect it.

[desert tangle]

no mods that changes loot/drops from dungeons

[pure plume]

I also use the preexisting structures to build outpost but still on some travels I would like to have a premade fast to set up rest space.

[north umbra]

Yeah I can't get any iron to drop, so possibly a mod you just didn't notice changed how that works

[heady parcel]

Mods are notorious for messing shit up that they shouldn't have anything to do with

[nocturne wolf]

This is why you shouldn’t have used mods for your first playthrough, fortythousand.

[desert tangle]

hmmm #mods-screenshots message

[desert tangle]

its just minor stuff ;p

[nocturne wolf]

It gives you iron from burial chambers, it could easily do much worse.

[oak river]

Mods do mess up weird things 9 times out of 10

Iron out of burial chambers is already pretty bad ngl

Especially for a firs playthrough

[north umbra]

For the sake of not getting into a long mod conversation in the valheim chat, I think this can move to #mods-discussion if people want to figure out what mod is doing that 🤷‍♀️ But mystery solved

[regal spoke]

Their 2 story structures with basements are perfect for 1-2 players to live out of. Easy enough to fit a fire in them

[paper marsh]

true, gotta kill 'em or take a non-dvergr inhabitated tower

Or cheese destroy the ward

[regal spoke]

Isolate and decimate 💪

[half dragon]

21 from 3-4 dungeons is far from unheard of. Just bad luck

some dungeons have 0 iron lol

those are very rare luckily

Now that sounds ironic...

[nocturne wolf]

Are we both talking about burial chambers?

[half dragon]

wait what? iron from burial chambers?

[nocturne wolf]

Fortythousand is using mods that are probably unintentionally affecting the torches

Mods for a first playthrough are always a bad idea

[half dragon]

well no clue then. This is one of the few games I prefer with near 0 mods. Only ones I've got is grid for farming to make it bearable and another for giving small speed boost for using dirt paths and gravel paths

I don't understand why they haven't added a grid for farming like there's one for building...

[nocturne wolf]

I’ve never touched mods and dont plan on doing so. I’ve messed around with the files a few times though, so I know yagluth can beat the queen in a fight.

Maybe in her arena the queen could win though..

[heady parcel]

I'm currently exploring the biggest Mistlands region I have ever seen, I've taken to claiming the abandoned towers with mine entrances. I no longer need to clear the mines, but killing off some bugs to make camp feels better than killing the dvergr. (As for the wards, I am not above kiting soldiers and gjall to their camps and watch the show...)

[half dragon]

I nearly quit the game permanently when I hit plains for the first time and started farming... only to discover how ass it is to farm and not have a lot of the plants be unhealthy. It drove me crazy and luckily found a mod to fix that

[paper marsh]

I'd put my money on Yag still. He has good AoE for killing her minions and his damage is more effective against her than her damage is to him. Plus I think Yag has higher general DPS anyways

[paper marsh]

I like to keep Dvergr alive most the time. Cute guys, good pals, nice defense against the hordes of the mist

[heady parcel]

Same. But their mages are shoddy at aiming, they're more efficient at tearing down their towers than the soldiers attacking them..

[austere hearth]

Does anyone have an idea of when the ashlands will release?

[heady parcel]

Within 90 days basically

[paper marsh]

What Derleth said. It also says in the description for #general chat

[austere hearth]

oh my b

[heady parcel]

By the sound of the latest tease, it sounds like they are mostly done with content etc and are mostly busy with bugfixing and polish. Knowing software development, that can take a good while - but it could mean it is actually ready for public testing sooner than we might think. But nobody knows until they actually tell us.

[austere hearth]

IM just excited, just built a server PC for the express purpose of playing the ashlands with my fellas

Ive been looking at the devblogs since december in anticipation

[heady parcel]

Haha I run my server on an office PC from like 2012

[austere hearth]

epic

[heady parcel]

Was a brutish pc back then, but yeah 😄

[austere hearth]

Was gonna PM the devs and ask if I could have an early build of ashlands to test out but yea fosho

[heady parcel]

A question for the veterans in here, for how long did public testing last with previous biome updates?

[frigid gust]

It was a bit longer last time than they really wanted, I think it was almost a month from PTB to full release of Mistlands. I believe they're trying to find more of the balance and other issues internally before hitting PTB this time so it's a shorter cycle.

[austere hearth]

Hmmmmb

would the devs be open to release a test build do you think or is that strictly forbidden

[heady parcel]

There will be a public testing period, but before that I'd say no

[austere hearth]

So with valheims terrain is there any way you can use the same world for multiple updates? Like does the terrain update with new updates or does it stay the same? Say like how you can update old worlds in minecraft

[heady parcel]

Terrain you have already explored will not be updated, but anything still in the grey fog-of-war will be updated and work as intende. But Ashlands is going to be different due to major changes, they're cutting away any land connection between Ashlands and other biomes, so terrain in the borderlands will be heavily changed

So don't build stuff you want to keep near Ashlands...

[austere hearth]

So what you are saying is I can start a world now in preparation for the ashlands? And when it arrives I can still use the same world and have the new biome included when I update?

[heady parcel]

Yes, just don't go near Ashlands for it to go as smoothly as possible

[austere hearth]

Do we know how far out they will spawn or any general area?

[heady parcel]

No, but I am going to stay out of render distance at least

[austere hearth]

Aight

[merry pebble]

even when you go close enough that you can see them you should still be fine i believe, since the coastline will be pushed back by few hundered(?) meters

[pliant hatch]

OK, just a request for a quick update; as I just got home.

The iron and surtling cores from the Iron Torches in Burial Chambers are generated by a mod?

[austere hearth]

So the ashlands is an island?

[uncut bough]

ashlands is land

[merry pebble]

could be, 100% not a vanilla thing

[uncut bough]

whenever i look at cloudberries i would imagine that it would taste like condensed milk + strawberry

[pliant hatch]

Thx.

As I play 100 % pure vanilla, that's something I don't have to look into anymore then. 😄

[heady parcel]

Cloudberries = Hjortron, its the best tasting damn berry in existence

[merry pebble]

it will be basically a BIG island after the update, you can look at the current ones if you just search full map valheim on google i think

[pliant hatch]

If you use the Valheim world generator and pick a random seed there, you will see the bottom of the map being covered in a reddish area.
That's basically where the Ashlands are going to be.

[austere hearth]

Ok

[pliant hatch]

Come to think of it; we have maps posted over here as well.

[merry pebble]

i think i saw a pic how they will look after update but i dont remember where 😅

oh yeah #1202740443352137838

[pliant hatch]

Ah, GMTA. 😄

[austere hearth]

Oh so it’s a big island at the bottom?

[merry pebble]

basically yeah

[pliant hatch]

Either a big island or multiple islands at the bottom of the map.

I would put 100 greydwarf eyes at the latter. 😉

[merry pebble]

ah, found it, this blog has it shown how they will look 😄 https://valheim.com/news/development-blog-lava-landscapes/

[heady parcel]

What is clear is that they are removing any land connection between Ashlands and other biomes

[pliant hatch]

Ah, multiple islands. 🙂

Too bad that link was posted before anyone could take the bet. 😦

[merry pebble]

oh well, i usually dont have much luck with bets and stuff so i am not mad 😄

[austere hearth]

Ok

Well good info, I’ll be off making my new valheim world

[merry pebble]

you should be ok if you didnt explore them 😄

[austere hearth]

Oh don’t worry I’m horrible at the game haven’t made it past the mountains and wolves yet

[nocturne wolf]

That probably doesn’t mean you’re horrible, depending on how long you’ve been playing for.

[pliant hatch]

Just in case you want to keep playing your current map for a long time;

Don't explore too far to the north (top of the map) either. We're getting the next biome after Ashlands over there.

[austere hearth]

I’ve been playing for a little over a year. But haven’t touched it in months (around 5) because I wanted to wait for the new update.

[obtuse cloud]

Okay so, I might just found the biggest mistlands.
I've got over 500 soft tissues from this chunk of a land and it looks like half of it is still unexplored

And like 8-9 mines

[regal spoke]

That's a lot of black marble

[heady parcel]

Mistlands islands can be weirdly huge sometimes. I'm exploring one currently that seems to go from the equator to the Far North...

Longest uninterrupted island I have come across, and apart from a narrow plains at the equator it is all Mistlands

(The bits I have seen so far, that is...)

[rustic compass]

is there a way to find the queen location

[heady parcel]

Stones in the mines

[rustic compass]

just unlucky then

[heady parcel]

Yeah I don't know the % chance, but out of 7-8 mines I have cleared so far, only one of them had a vaegvisir to the queen

[spark ginkgo]

when will ashlands update come

https://youtu.be/b3rNUhDqciM

[pliant hatch]

Some time in the next 90 days.

[heady parcel]

Scroll up a bit dear, it was asked not an hour ago

[merry pebble]

first half of this year so in next 3 months

[nova crow]

I've just read the latest dev blog, and I got the feeling the update is about to come very soon.

[merry pebble]

oh 3 months is soon 😄

[light moat]

It’ll honestly be here before you know it lol

[merry pebble]

and they said this in the latest devblog: "That being said, the Ashlands update really isn’t far away now..." 😄

[wide zodiac]

when do troll raids start to spawn?

[merry pebble]

after you killed elder and at least one troll

[heady vector]

not excluding if a troll just dies

or is killed by another enemy

[loud valve]

If I never do a killing blow on a troll, does that mean troll raids never spawn?

[merry pebble]

i am not sure if it is triggered just by death or by player kill so i cant say

[heady vector]

to the best of my knowledge its just if one dies, player or no

[light moat]

Hmm it was my understanding that the cause of death doesn’t have to be from the player?

For example, don’t you still get the surtling raid if a surtling is killed by the water?

[gray nexus]

yeah, it's triggered by death

[merry pebble]

it can very well be triggered just by death, player induced or not, but i have no idea about that so i cannot say

[gray nexus]

btw just to be sure in mistlands. you can only farm over the soil-y part right, the black marble-y ground cannot be farmed on right?

[merry pebble]

but lets be honest, how likely it is that something kills troll before player? 😄 unless you are doing quite a bit of exploring and have a lot of luck that is unlikely to happen 😄

[merry pebble]

yes

[gray nexus]

cool

terraforming mistlands is a pain

[loud valve]

Just don't bother?

[merry pebble]

i usually just make one farm there and thats all 😄 but it can be very beautiful there thats for sure

[loud valve]

I made a field outside of some mines I was doing

[gray nexus]

I am making a farm, just went to a very isolated patch of mistlands yesterday for the first timn

[loud valve]

I generally like to take over a mines or dvegr tower

[gray nexus]

luckily it's mixed biome so no hostiles spawn in that place, basically apart from raid, don't need to care about any other stuff there

haven't bother exploring mistlands yet, thought of getting this farm running up first

planning to not spawn proof a small area in this for hare spawns, gonna let some boars hunt them for fun and free stuff lol

[loud valve]

Mistlands crops can also grow like anywhere

[merry pebble]

yeah, the mushrooms will not grow themselves 😄 (well they will but you have to plant them somewhere 😛 )

[loud valve]

You can plant them on a giant slope and have them roll down to collect

[merry pebble]

i would hate planting on that tho

[gray nexus]

i like flat areas, just a personal preference

easy to plant in a grid

[loud valve]

Just plant it from where you can reach from ground level

[gray nexus]

also leaving a small chunk of water in that for fish spawns, it's basically my all-you-need mistlands farm plan

[light moat]

Hey I’m also working on my mistalnds farm! Spent forever mining away a big rock haha I found an area that’s pretty coastal and for some reason doesn’t have too much mist.

[gray nexus]

also i came across an interesting fully auto chicken breeder idea today, it was very interesting

[gray nexus]

I am mining rocks and stuff too haha I just started an hour ago, gonna leave it for tmr tho

gonna make it around 64x40m or something

[hearty flume]

Hello!

[gray nexus]

it even has ancient root, it's just too perfect of an area of skip

[light moat]

Oh wow, that’s pretty big! I’m just making a small farm- hoping to be able to grow maybe 40 mushrooms at a time.

[gray nexus]

it exploits the fact that somehow chicken hitbox is bigger hen (also why smh???)

[light moat]

And yeah, I have some ancient root near me as well! But three extractors depletes them pretty quick lol.

[gray nexus]

i do large farms always, so just going on the same track as always

[merry pebble]

Hi 😄

[hearty flume]

Having a nice day/evening/night? 🙂

[light moat]

My giant farm is in the plains, I don’t really like the mistlands much so I’m trying to spend as little time there as I can 😅

Also that is very strange (chickens and hens hit boxes)

[gray nexus]

it's always bothered me lol

when the chickens stack up, they look like they are floating

[merry pebble]

oh for sure, nice peacefull night/reeeealy early morning 😄

[gray nexus]

their hitbox is so much larger than their model

[hearty flume]

It's 1:44am here so xD

[merry pebble]

same

[gray nexus]

hadn't been playing valheim for a month ngl, just started again a few days ago

[hearty flume]

I'm trying to get myself some ideas for an portal hub!

[merry pebble]

i dont like the really efficient and technical farms much 😄 i like just a pen with animals in it and i drop off food 😄

[light moat]

Must’ve just been an oversight. Yeah I noticed you hadn’t been around as much, how is that giant build going?

[gray nexus]

aesthetically the open ones are definitely more beautiful, but at the same time, i love breeders too, some designs are so smart that you just gotta appreciate them

[gray nexus]

same as before

I paused it, until i unlock mistlands stuff now

[merry pebble]

i mean #building-ideas and #screenshots might have stuff to take inspiration from 😄

[hearty flume]

I'm looking through youtube 😄

[gray nexus]

I need to spiral stairs to do the factory, I tried so much so somehow make a staircase for that thing but it's just hard when there's iron beams running through the whole ceiling

[light moat]

Fair enough! I’m working on a design for a build to host my mistalnds stuff as well.

[gray nexus]

also it's too big in size, so the walls look so bland, it ended up becoming a box, im kinda thinking of what to do about that

[light moat]

I used a Stonehenge in the plains for my portal hub, turned out pretty nice 🙂

[gray nexus]

but I atleast did get the metal slides working

[hearty flume]

I'm building mine near the throphy stones xD

[gray nexus]

The blast furnace gave me so much trouble since the black metals just get stuck on its outlet

[light moat]

Might be able to break it up with some additional rooms? Could add some depth to them using core wood?

[gray nexus]

wait lemme show what i mean

[merry pebble]

just untill there is few of them 😄

[hearty flume]

I'm like having this vision of a pathway in stone from the throphy stones, and then make different sections for what portals who goes where!

[gray nexus]

there's always some stuck by the end tho, i just added some wood shutters to push off the remnants

then i had another problem, the shutters worked too well and pushed some metal into the smoke outlets of the smelters that were on the below floor

I tried a few stuff and just added a divider in middle of the chute to stop that from happening

[hearty flume]

But it is kinda hard to gather everything when my friends are tired of Valheim tho x)

[loud valve]

Free build mode exists

[light moat]

Nah you got this! Hang in there 👍

[merry pebble]

grinding can be quite fun 😄 (also few Elders make for great lumberjacks if you need wood 😉 )

[hearty flume]

Well, I need to do the elder boss and bonemass again to the throphy wall x)

[light moat]

@gray nexus Ah, that is a very big box indeed. Hmmm… I’ll think on it.

[gray nexus]

oh yeah they made it so elder doesn't spawn on altar, i'll have to actually fight to farm him this time

[loud valve]

Grinding is fine, if you want to do it. If your constraint is you don't have enough time in your life to do so, why not take advantage of free build mode?

[gray nexus]

yeah 😂 it's rather funny

[hearty flume]

I was a bit curious of the plant everything mod tho!

[gray nexus]

Honestly at this point I'm convinced I'll just wait for Ashlands build pieces in hope

[hearty flume]

Making some berry gardens in the right biomes :3

[dense steppe]

@gray nexus Remove all non-load-bearing structures and add more windows 😼

[light moat]

That’s a huge area too! I specialize in smaller builds personally, but yeah I think just a ton of small add-ons that get smaller and smaller as you branch out from center would be neat. Are you a symmetrical builder?

[gray nexus]

definitely will be adding windows and balconies 👍

[pliant hatch]

Bit late perhaps, but have you checked out the altar of the Elder yet?

If that one's at a nice level above water level, mining out the area under it will give more than enough room for a portal hub.
And if you put the portal leading to your main base straight in the center, you'll get a rested bonus the moment you enter that hub.

[gray nexus]

unfortunately sort of

I need symmetry and snap points for everything

[hearty flume]

I think the stones you start at is better, because of new players tho!

[dense steppe]

The main question is, why do you need such a big box? 😹

[gray nexus]

I'll maybe start working of the other building while ashlands arrives, i was thinking of using the warcraft 3 barracks as reference as build a barracks in front of this factory but i'll have to scale it according to available space

[pliant hatch]

Just build a small house with a portal leading to the hub nearby.

Also, spawn has a non-buildable area around it.

[light moat]

Gotcha, I might actually challenge you to experiment breaking away from that habit 😉

[gray nexus]

I have tried honestly 😂

[merry pebble]

you can make a BIIIIIG circular building around it 😄

[light moat]

It takes some getting used to!

[gray nexus]

it just feels wrong

[hearty flume]

I know 🙂

[pliant hatch]

You say that to the guy who used 3 - 4.5K stone for a building the other day?

Want me to clear the entire map from boulders and rocks? 🤔

[dense steppe]

@gray nexus #building-screenshots message Here are the window options you can make 😼

[merry pebble]

you still didnt use everything you could until you have mined the whole map to the dig limit XD

(and greydwarf farms exist 😉 )

[gray nexus]

it's a factory,
B2 - Workshop with all crafting stations
B1 - Storage for crafting materials
G - ???
1 - Two Eitr Refineries
2 - 9 Smelters
3 - 9 Blast Furnaces

A slide for metal that sends them directly down to B2/B1 runs down the middle

[pliant hatch]

I'm not done yet. Still need to build the inner defensive walls and raise a bit of the platform to get a proper farming area.

[gray nexus]

ooooo those windows look very nice, my girlfriend didn't want me to use the same ones as the house so this would a great alternatives for the upper two floors

The stone grind is real

I have well over 40k spent in this base, 12k just for terraforming

I stopped bothering eventually and just used a greydwarf farm

[hearty flume]

But.. do anyone know how to add mods to dedicated server? I'm a little unsure about that

[merry pebble]

you can ask in #mods-discussion 😄

[hearty flume]

Thank you 🙂

[desert tangle]

@gray nexusbtw about earlier, it was a mod issue

[hearty flume]

Sometimes I wish you could go through portals with iron and such 😮

[desert tangle]

so forget what i said with the torches and iron in burial chambers lol

[gray nexus]

lol

[merry pebble]

you can make it so you can with world modifiers 😄

[gray nexus]

thought so, iron before swamps would be a big oversight

[crude yacht]

World modifiers allow most coveniences.

[desert tangle]

throwing those sulting cores away into the oceans ;(

[hearty flume]

Yeah, but it would be kinda cheating tho xD

[pliant hatch]

Oh, but you can nowadays.

Need to adjust the world modifiers before you start your game.

[hearty flume]

Ok? Mine is a dedicated server through a host x)

[merry pebble]

why? its part of the vanilla game 😄 entirely depends on how you see it tho

[crude yacht]

This is true with the cheating part...but if it makes you happy...is it really cheating?

[merry pebble]

i mean, its different from devcommands for example 😄

[hearty flume]

I have some members of the server that is kinda against mods xD

[merry pebble]

oh world modifiers are not mods, its a setting of the game

its part of the vanilla

[hearty flume]

Yeah, but it's a struggle to fix everything and then reupload the files and such

[crude yacht]

You can actually adjust the world modifiers from your start batch file.

[merry pebble]

well i have never worked with dedicated servers so i have no idea about that 😅

[crude yacht]

So it's just a matter of adding some text to the start script, and then restarting the server.

Heck, you could even just copy the start script to a new file, edit it then just choose whichever one you want to launch to restart for convenience the next time around.

[hearty flume]

Can you also add that you could plant everything as well? xD

[crude yacht]

I don't think planting everything is a world modifier...there is a "no building cost" option...

[desert tangle]

do yall think im ready for elder? full troll armor with fine bow (no upgrades) and fire arrows. i plan to use tasty mead, deer stew and carrot soup.

[crude yacht]

Can you make the minor healing mead?

[pliant hatch]

Add Mincedmeat sauce to your menu and you'll be fine when it comes to HP and stamina

[desert tangle]

yea does that effect stack with tasty mead or replaces it?

[hearty flume]

I think you should have upgraded your weapon as well 🙂

[pliant hatch]

Also, having stamina mead may be a better choice

[crude yacht]

Tasty mead's effect only lasts a few seconds.

[desert tangle]

wait is one of the items i listed not part of the active food buffs (3 bar slot on the left)?

[crude yacht]

It's mainly to be used when you're building and need a quick stam boost.

[pliant hatch]

Tasty mead isn't part of it.

[desert tangle]

will minor stamina be better then?

[crude yacht]

Meads don't take the same slots as food, you can use them completely independently.

[pliant hatch]

It gives you an immediate boost to your stamina, without penalty to your health generation.
But downside of it is that it has a cooldown timer.

[crude yacht]

You can use both...stam and health...they are kind of like instant use type potions. Use them when you're low on health or stam, then you gotta wait 2 minutes till you can use them again.

But you can use both at the same time. You have to wait 2 minutes to use the same type of mead again.

[desert tangle]

gotcha. as for armor wise is it worth upgrading or am i fine with the regular troll armor?

and for finewood bow aswell

[crude yacht]

I used Troll Armor...make sure to upgrade it.

[pliant hatch]

Troll armor is fine.
While it doesn't have the high armor rating Bronze Armor has, you won't have the movement penalty.

And if you intend to use a bow, being able to use the movement speed over being able to absorb more damage would - imho - being the better choice.

[crude yacht]

How do you make mincemeat again?

[pliant hatch]

Boar meat, necktail and one of the mushrooms, I think.

[crude yacht]

Crap...I've had it in my menu the entire time...just didn't notice it till now.

[pliant hatch]

It's at the cauldron as a recipe the moment you have the ingredients unlocked.

[desert tangle]

Boar meat, Neck tail and Carrot. 1 of each

[desert tangle]

up to what upgrade do u think is a comfy spot to fight against elder?

[pliant hatch]

Simply upgrade your forge and workbench to their current maximum.
After that do the same thing with your weapons and armor.

iirc you'll end up with lvl 3 weapons and armor, which should be sufficient enough.

[crude yacht]

If you know what you're doing, you can probably fight him naked...if you don't know what to do or expect, then I would say upgrade as much as your patience allows. 😉

Also...the first time you go in, expect to die...then you won't ever be surprised, just disappointed when you don't die.

[pliant hatch]

If you want to cheese the fight, if the Altar of the Elder is high above waterlevel, you can mine out the area under it.
Gives you a solid spot to retreat in and regenerate your HP if / when needed.

[hearty flume]

I think I need to contact my serverhost about mods, cause it is not working

[crude yacht]

You can try asking in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202550119191412736 as well as the https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202934289898151966 channel. There may be someone who has the same serverhost service and can provide some direction, but reaching out to your server's host directly (especially for a paid service) would be the best move, imo. That's what you are paying them for, right?

[hearty flume]

Yes, and it is a norwegian hostingservice so I doubt anyone might be able to help somehow 😦

[gusty token]

?Ashlands

[lusty latch]

Does skiptime not work for growing plants on servers?
It'll say it's ready for like a millisecond but then go back to saying ready in x time

[vocal rivet]

First half of this year.

[crude yacht]

Are you doing this for decorative puproses or just to get the crops/seeds faster?

[paper marsh]

Should work fine. Maybe mods are messing with it? Vanilla shouldn't tell you they're ready in x time

[pure blaze]

is there a console command to remove the mist from Mistlands? Can't seem to find it

[paper marsh]

There's one that removes it in a certain area

Regrettably I'm not sure what it is

damn ballistas shoot FAST

Still in the process of setting the ballistas up but got raided during that process and worked pretty well. Got 1 totem from it!

[frigid gust]

You can forcedelete it over an area, but I believe it ends up hurting performance if you do it too much

[pure blaze]

how do I forcedelete it?

[paper marsh]

Quick google search says

forcedelete [radius] [object]

So like: forcedelete 50 mistarea

I think

[pure blaze]

doesn't seem to work reliably. Sometimes it removes mist, sometimes it doesn't

[paper marsh]

sadge

[plush umbra]

the command's radius has to hit the center of the mist emitter. each mist emitter covers a pretty large area

and if a viaduct or jötunn skeleton has its own mist emitter, those can't be forcedeleted

[strange arrow]

bones and bridges bane of my mist existance xD

[paper marsh]

What do viaducts look like?

[strange arrow]

tall, marble, like a broken piece of bridge

[paper marsh]

Oh, feels wack that would generate mist

[plush umbra]

sometimes they do, sometimes they don't

[strange arrow]

but if they do you ain't getting rid of it

[tulip patrol]

If you break the bridges/viaducts for the iron in them does that "mist emitter" still exist if they have an emitter

[frail wagon]

tbh its so annoying how hard it is to move all your loot from one world to another
the seed i have rn is kinda bad and i dislike it and i want to make a new world to play on with a family member but i dont want to reset all my progress but its gonna take FOREVER to move all the loot i have from 1 world to another

[plush umbra]

yes, there's absolutely no way to get rid of them without mods

[tulip patrol]

ahh, just figured id ask since somoene was asking about force removing mist with the command

[strange arrow]

yes, and the answer is you can remove it everywhere but bones and bridges

[tulip patrol]

I actually like the mist, it adds ambience and ive personally never had an issue traversing through the mist

[plush umbra]

me neither

[strange arrow]

just reminds me of faxanadu mist

[tulip patrol]

i guess you could build and scatter wisp torchs around the bones and bridges to get rid of the mist , the seekers will just aggro those if you arent in the area

[strange arrow]

torches can get rid of a certain amount but where it's unremovable it's very persistent

[plush umbra]

wisp torches aren't attacked on sight by calm enemies anymore, that was changed a while back

[strange arrow]

that's the only mist related change we got iirc?

have to celebrate those smol wins

[tulip patrol]

oh, interesting mustve missed that change when ever it happened

[strange arrow]

i'm thinking it was some time after full release, can't remember it being changed while we were testing

[plush umbra]

yea was a few months after, pretty sure

[strange arrow]

the zone looks stunning without the mist that's the worst thing xD it's like "let me see this splendor"

i wouldn't have minded them covering up the old style Mistlands like that xD

[tulip patrol]

imagine if there were alive whatever wielded the giant swords and wore the armor. like what would we do if we had to fight whatver those bones came from

[strange arrow]

our friends would be scraping us up off the floor inside their footprints xD

[tulip patrol]

yellow mushrooms still respawn in cleared dungeons correct? just checking if that was changed to not happen anymore. im running low on yellow shrooms

[strange arrow]

ye

unsure of the time tho, i suspect 4 hour cycle

[tulip patrol]

im at the point in my current run through where im prepping for Yag. just basicalyy need potions and i want some stam potions for him and mist explorations

[strange arrow]

probs a long while since you visited forest crypts then

[tulip patrol]

i do miss my feather cape, it makes building high up so much easier not having to worry about fall damage

[strange arrow]

that fall damage made us farm food twice as hard tho xD

[tulip patrol]

true true, my barley farm pumps our 400 bits of barley so i plant 200 and put the rest into the windmill

gotta keep me full of that bread

[strange arrow]

bet

[tulip patrol]

especially when i decided to make my plains base on rock spire so fall damage is a constant threat

[strange arrow]

connected 10 Plains pillars in a row before the cape came out xD

[tulip patrol]

lucky, ive explored this entire plains biome im in and it has only 1 single spire

not counting the fingers of yagluths alter

[strange arrow]

the last one was the closest, i could only just reach at full extension of horizontal iron beams each side

[tulip patrol]

do you use that as a plains base or was just to see if you could connect them all

[strange arrow]

we prettied it up later but it was mainly to see if it could be done yeh

[maiden granite]

Yeah 240 minutes, 4h.

[strange arrow]

posted some shots in #screenshots , don't have many left of that one so they're a bit scattered xD

[tulip patrol]

thats amazing amazing work

[strange arrow]

it was also a group effort and my friends did just as much of the work

[tulip patrol]

best way to play this is with friends. I often find myself getting bored solo but if im with buddies we could play for hours

[strange arrow]

still my overall favourite project

we had a lot of fun with it xD

yours looks like it's coming along nicely, gonna be yr main base?

[tulip patrol]

Honestly probably, im falling in love with this plains base even if gravity is the death of me right now

I enjoy making multiple F.O.Bs in the biomes rather than one M.O.B. I go back to.

Whats great about this base, i actually have yag right up the coast and the Sealed tower right inland from yagluth

[strange arrow]

Plains is also just good for growing as well, most allowed types of all the biomes

[tulip patrol]

yeah i might start bringing my other crops to the plains, but than i have no reason to back to the black forest base ive got.

[strange arrow]

unless you get a really clear area Mistlands isn't worth building much in other than a mushroom farm ideally close to roots you can tap

[rain flare]

This is a good idea

[rain flare]

I like building on the tall pillar structures in mistlands - it has a nice aesthetic to it

[tulip patrol]

Im actually going to work on a mistlands base when i get done with the plains, for the main reason ive never encounted a Gjall raid. in the only world me a buddy have in the mistlands we killed the queen really quick and never based in the mistlands enough we've never had gjall raids

[strange arrow]

you'll still want some things from time to time, thistle, corewood, blueberries etc but really no major reasons to be back there once you have a Plains FOB

[rain flare]

LoL 😂
My friend and I built a small base in a desolated dverger tower (the poor fella’s got themselves killed by gjall)

And what happens to us?
Gjall raid while my friend is on by himself 🙈

Some free advice living in my head:
Kill the ticks before killing the gjall 🤣

It’s what normally gets ya

[strange arrow]

or just don't subject yrself to them xD a portal to the mushroom farm and that's it xD no base items

[tulip patrol]

also in that same world, when we fought the Queen. I actually managed to do it deathless but after the queen was killed and im emptying my inventory of seeker meat and carapace to grab the queens drops i was killed to a Seeker Brood, the little guys

[strange arrow]

oh my xD

[tulip patrol]

wasnt paying attention fumbling around in my inventory and didnt watch my health

And i was wearing EItr weave armor with staves, so doing that fight deathless from the queen herself with just bubble protection for defense was kinda impressive

for me anyway. Normally my first runs i die at least once to the actual boss

[strange arrow]

true but you should also be organically quite good at not dying by that point in the game

[tulip patrol]

yeah tru that

[half dragon]

I've done that before and it doesn't even take that long unless you're very picky about where you want it to be moved. There's a lot of slots in inventory and you can overburden yourself between world swaps

just make a lot of chests to 1 spot and put them all there, you can later organize them better to proper locations

faster than moving your base in the same world, that is for sure

[tulip patrol]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Getting Tar is such a pain in the ass,

[primal pecan]

real

[plain bane]

In what manner?

[primal pecan]

plains

maybe

[tulip patrol]

not saying difficult, jsuta pain in the ass

[plain bane]

W-what. I mean in what regard are you having difficulties

[plush umbra]

idk just dig a deep pit a good distance away and then extend it towards the pit while clinging to the wall, takes like 1-3 minutes
okay about 3-5 is more accurate

[plain bane]

Try two good health foods and one stamina, pop a poison resist mead, get just close enough til you hear one aggro and back up a safe distance, straffe to avoid tar jets while closing in then clock it with a blunt object.

Repeat til the oozes are dead then chisel a drainage ditch to drain the pit

I do wish oozes were more farmable, though. They respawn but the drop rate isn't usually worth setting up a portal.

[tulip patrol]

lol that deathskito tried to prick me and got pickaxed instead XD

[plain bane]

Heheh

Punching them is fun too

Next goal: kick a squito to death

[plush umbra]

the game generally encourages you to go out and find new sources of stuff instead of farming something in one place (except crops of course) so the inefficient farmability makes sense.
you get a whole lot of tar per pit too so i've never been too bothered by the grind

[tulip patrol]

how much damage does kicking do, they dont have much health you probably kick it in shot

[plain bane]

I have inconsistent luck with tar pits. Either I get like 5 stacked on top of each other and die repeatedly trying to clear it out, or go an entire map seeing maybe 1 or 2 pits total

[plush umbra]

ah yea, one of the 3 tar pit variations you can find has 4 holes but doesn't seem to have more pickable tar than the other two single-hole pits

[tulip patrol]

also the part i was referring to bout being a pain the ass, i forgot my poison mead and got too close it aggroed the entire pit and couldnt get away due to the tar and poison

[plush umbra]

those are indeed a pain to drain

[plain bane]

So many oozes. Like a splatoon map of pain 💀

[plush umbra]

oh ouch yea. almost half of their damage is blunt though, so they hurt even with a poison resistance mead

[plain bane]

Oh yeah, I finally took a page from your book and made a mountain house. It's my profile banner for this server :V

[tulip patrol]

pretty mountain cabin

[plush umbra]

ohhh!~ looks cozy!

[plain bane]

That cave has tetra right when you walk in.

[plush umbra]

hope the drakes aren't being too annoying

[still haven]

cann you guys play with me?

[plush umbra]

might find someone in #1024264966712340510

[plain bane]

The drakes usually leave me alone. And the outcropping is too difficult for wolves to get to and they can't navigate the boardwalk.

[plush umbra]

yea the difficult terrain can narrow down the amount of sides you gotta protect, pretty neat

[still haven]

still asking for people to play with me. guess i failed

[tulip patrol]

meanwhile I get wolves who can bend the laws of physics and meander the verticle sides of cliffs like their a Skyrim horse getting to me

[still haven]

im full carapacesed geared

[still haven]

Ill love you long time?

[plush umbra]

also true, sometimes hard to tell which surfaces they can and can't run up/down, many factors involved

[tulip patrol]

also they deal blunt but there also very weak to blunt and spirit so Frostner works wonders against them

[plush umbra]

i gradually approach a pit making noise until just one of them hears me, wait for it to approach and start its spit attack, walk sideways to avoid it, then run/jump up to it and start up the clubs secondary to oneshot it, repeat

definitely slower if you don't use ranged weapons but i don't like spending arrows

[half dragon]

I basically built a small fortress on top of a mountain. All walls are buried in stone, only the front and the roof is visible for drakes. I also steepened the mountain around the base and dug some ground to make sure golems and wolves cannot get anywhere near it to damage it

[plain bane]

The crunchy smack when you bash one with a mace just makes arrowing them unappealing imo

[half dragon]

it's a base for melting silver, and very close to moder to fight it again if I need to

even when the mountain runs out of silver it's still just a nice place to go and relax

[opal prairie]

Morning gjall.

[rain flare]

Meowning

[tulip patrol]

do placing workbenchs in emptied tar pits disable the growth spawn at that tar pit.

[plush umbra]

yepp

any player base structures work. i recommend campfires since they're some of the few that aren't attacked on sight by calm enemies

[tulip patrol]

alright, theres a tar pit that was cloe to my base that kept getting close to my loxes and frightening them so was wondering if workbenches disabled thir spawns

also aight, will change them to a campfire

[half dragon]

I prefer work benches if it's in an area where I plan to build something. Can just bury them to keep them hidden and still be able to build stuff in the area

oh right... anything with longer than 20m radius for preventing enemy spawns?

[fair cairn]

a upgraded workbench

[opal prairie]

4m per level with a maximum of 36 meters, correct?

[fair cairn]

have no idea lol, i only know that upgrades increase the area around it. have no idea for the numbers only heard it here

[opal prairie]

Checked the wiki, the 4m per level and 36 max is legit! Hooray!

[fair cairn]

awesome!

[half dragon]

hmm... I suppose that does make thing easier for the base itself, but anything else doesn't seem very viable option for that

[opal prairie]

Burying campfires for aesthetics.

[half dragon]

waaait a second. waaaait a second. Artisan table has 40m range. Does that also mean 40m spawn prevention?

if it does, that is actually really damn good alternative

if only goal is to prevent spawns

[opal prairie]

Wiki says only 20m spawn prevention for artisan table.
Only workbenches and forges have a spawn prevention bigger than 20m if upgraded.

The wiki could be wrong though so maybe some experimenting is in order.

[half dragon]

to be fair, 40m for just 2 tears does sound too good to be true

[half dragon]

Hate being right... raised the ground in the ocean/coast by about 5 meters in large area, predicted that I'm not going to have much stone left after all that work despite of starting with around 4k stone. All I have left is 47 stone 😂

[zenith star]

fuling bersekers are basically hobgoblins right?

[frigid gust]

Upgrading increases the build radius, but I don't believe that spawn prevention is increased.

[civic rampart]

I'm guilty of having basic workbenches buried inside roof spaces to cull spawns around my base 😄

[wet hearth]

when do you guys think that ashlands will be released?

[rough iris]

In may ig

[civic rampart]

I look forward to the update, though I'm so starting a new world, so many lessons to learn from.

That said, I might repeat one of my bases I have in the plains, practically unassailable because it is built on a sheer terrain wall out over the water.

[merry pebble]

only info we have is first half of this year so within next 3 months

[wet hearth]

hope so, want to start a new world

[rough iris]

That will be great,if ashlands will be released in april

[frigid gust]

Depending on how fast you progress, you could probably start one now. Existing worlds should get the new content seamlessly unless you explore the very south of the map.

[wet hearth]

yeah but mistlands gave some problems in some worlds that were created before the expansion

[rough iris]

Fr

[wet hearth]

so I'll wait to be safe

[civic rampart]

Good point, I haven't explored the south at all in my world, but tbh I haven't played since slightly before mistlands so I'm probably best starting over anyhow.

[plush umbra]

Why does everyone speak so badly of the mistlands? I'm a new player so haven't even got into bronze age yet.

[wet hearth]

not speaking bad about them, just the release gave some problems to older worlds

[civic rampart]

I haven't spoken poorly of the mistlands, I simply haven't experienced it yet due to being overworked 😄

[balmy python]

I don't like it, generally speaking taking away vision is irritating in any game

can't really build on it either unless you enjoy not seeing your house

[wet hearth]

I played them at the release and it has been the biome that I enjoyed the most, even the bossfight is cool

[tulip patrol]

most likely because of the terrain being vastly different and visibility being severely limited. It's very vertical terrain and with the low visibility even with the Wisp light, it can get tedious to traverse through

[lusty crescent]

It's misty

Hard to see

[opal prairie]

It is increased 4 meters per level with a max of 36 for workbench, a forge gets 3 per level for a max of 38.

[frigid gust]

The build radius is, but are you sure that also extends to spawn prevention?

[tulip patrol]

Yes, The Queen having her own instance dungeon to fight her in is awesome . I just wish the Mist wasnt in the citadel. its not in the infested mines, it shouldnt be in the citadel.

The mines dont have a door, the Citadel has a door that was sealed. you telling me the mist got in there immediately opening the door

[balmy python]

the best I did with mistlands was build part of my castle between 2 biomes so I could farm tree sap and magic plants in the garden

and as a result you can barely see half of the castle even with dozens of lights

[lusty crescent]

Maybe we have to build like a super tall castle
Like the ones you see in souls games

[balmy python]

maybe lol, I basically built as high as you could go, and hid lights in the brickwork to stop it from invading the inside

but in bad weather mist still covers quite a lot

[opal prairie]

Pretty sure, I remember a discussion about it a while back and testing was done.
New testing to make sure wouldn't be a bad thing though.

@near furnace Do you have a definitive answer, does the upgraded workbench radius is the same as its spawn prevention radius?
So max workbench is 36 meter spawn proofing?

[gray nexus]

i have tested that personally before and it does

[opal prairie]

Hooray, I remembered correctly.

[half dragon]

I was joking to myself about I should ask Smiffe for tailwind, and the game herd. My jounrey to bring my metals to my new base location has been 95% tailwind and has to be thanks to Smiffe

[gray nexus]

but one thing to note, the build radius is cylindrical while spawn prevention is spherical so the spawn prevention will often be bit less on uneven ground

if it's flat, doesn't matter

also it'll be less if u bury them underground because sphere (like me)

[prime fjord]

First time in the plains, not as chaotic as people describe it to be 😄

[gray nexus]

im not a sphere

[frigid gust]

It's not, until it is 😉 go charge headfirst into a village 😛

[opal prairie]

Have you heard the buzz yet?

[light moat]

Plains are beautiful though! A lot of people consider it ‘late-game meadows’

[opal prairie]

Me me me!

[gray nexus]

I find plains a bit plain

[frozen fable]

Boo

[prime fjord]

the giant mosquitoes? not much of a problem for me, they tickle.

[paper roost]

after the mountains is definitelly meadows 😄

[half dragon]

It is a nice canvas for your imagination tho

[frigid gust]

Love building high, too. Tops of those rock spires is my favorite foundation.

[prime fjord]

You monster

[light moat]

Fulings deserve it lol

[prime fjord]

I was expecting 5 fulings and their whole bloodline came at me

[frigid gust]

I thought you wanted chaos? 😉

[prime fjord]

Yes thank you i will kill them all

[frozen void]

more like 5 berserkers

[maiden granite]

Love plains except the occasional fog 🌫️

[tulip patrol]

I love attacking a fuling village in broad daylight perfect visibility than the flippin' Fog comin thru making me not able to see shit.

[prime fjord]

man that village didn't stand a chance

[tulip patrol]

How many starred Fulings were in it

2* especially

[maiden granite]

Was there any 2 star berserker?

[prime fjord]

i forgor maybe 1 or 2?

[tulip patrol]

I've yet to come across a 2* Berserker, ive seen 1* but yet to encounter a 2*

[prime fjord]

starred berserkers exist?

[mortal raven]

Yeah

[maiden granite]

Definitely not a pleasant meet!

[tulip patrol]

Yeah, supposedly not even a Black metal shield can parry them but i cant say for sure since ive never encountered a 2* berserker

[prime fjord]

yeah id throw hands with a no star one but im going home if i see one of those

[maiden granite]

Trust me, you wouldn't want to encounter one.

[plush umbra]

heavily depends on what food you eat

[mortal raven]

Guys, is it possible to really optimize valheim using mods? Im half way through building a base w/ my m8s, one of them has a worse PC than mine, and I have frame drops from 60 to 10, its unbareable even for me

[maiden granite]

Not worth it

I have tried optimization mods,
Those makes the game render abnormal lighting and makes eyes hurt.

You can adjust the vanilla game setting "render scale".
Lowering it makes the game look blurry but increases fps.

I get 9 FPS with 100 render scale and around 60 FPS with 50 render scale

[mortal raven]

So I can choose to render parts of the base...

It got very bad after I placed those flax machines and temporary roofs

[maiden granite]

Not really, the render scale is not like rendering range.
It's more like tweaking your visual graphics.

[mortal raven]

Alr, thanks man

Still worried for my friend though...

[maiden granite]

Try lowering render scale you'll notice the game will look crappy but the FPS will definitely go up.

[storm fractal]

When is ashlands releasing? I'm suprised there's not even a public test yet

[merry pebble]

first half of this year, so in next 3 months

[storm fractal]

the update or the public test

[half dragon]

taking public test into account, probably 1-3 months, but who knows, maybe it'll release tomorrow without a test? (not)

[merry pebble]

no, there will be public test

[grizzled wing]

Public test i would imagine is quite soon. Probably in April, with the full update coming start of June

[merry pebble]

we have really no idea

[azure yacht]

Both

[half dragon]

Insert spy gif "could be any one of us"

[opal prairie]

Root harnesk?

[prime fjord]

No, just maxed wolf armor...

[uncut bough]

i didnt know till now that water neutralize tar

i was digging a deep trench for tar to flow to, i hit water line so it floods, and then when the tar flows toward that water line, tar is gone, it is just gone, not even color of tar liquid remains

[paper marsh]

interesting

[uncut bough]

!!

wut da hell i got Ruby while catching Tuna

fish these days eat all kind of weird things

[gray nexus]

wait till u find out the swamps fish drops iron ore

[uncut bough]

i find it funny that whenver i am fishing for coral cod, the Tuna just bolts out of the blue and took the bait instead

[austere flame]

are dandelions important to collect?

[frozen void]

yes, but you wont need many

[austere flame]

oh alright

[opal prairie]

They are used in meads, a few build pieces and a crown you can wear.
You can also feed it to ||chickens|| when you get them.

[frigid gust]

My ||chickens|| disagree

[frozen void]

there's plenty of options for those lol

[pure plume]

I went fishing for them recently. I got 5 with the rod and 4 that jumped on my deck.

Serpent trophy is the best looking one that I found. Are there better ones?

[gray nexus]

Golem trophy

it has a frosty mist effect on it like frostner

[pure plume]

Nice it has low drop rate if I remember correctly

[merry pebble]

5% but i personally dont believe that since it took me like 70 golems to get one 😛

[frigid gust]

Gjall trophies are awesome, as are seeker trophies. Golems as mentioned as well, plus rancid remains

[paper marsh]

I've never had a golem trophy

[gray nexus]

i have like 1 but haven't really killed many

[dense comet]

They are a pain for sure 🥶 i have been playing a long time and just got one recently lol 😂

[paper marsh]

I just pretty much never kill Golems

I'm pre-yag on my current run but already got like 3-4 berserker and gjall trophies tho, and somehow lucked into 2 rancids

[dense comet]

I had several rancid remains but the golem was a toughie lol 😂

[thin fulcrum]

I had to go golem hunting for my trophy.

I think it took between 15-20 of them.

[half dragon]

if the drop chance iss 5%, 15 is still just about 50% chance to get it

[uncut bough]

I stocked up a lot of barley flour which is now divided into making lox pie, taco bell fish wrap and blood pudding

I never gonna have enough barley am i

[half dragon]

just plant more of it

watch the yellow grass grow

[crude yacht]

That's not how probabilities work 🤣. 5% chance, does not mean it's guaranteed at 20 kills.

[half dragon]

I don't think you understood the calculation I made...

kill 15 of them, and you'll have around 50% chance you'll get at least 1

[uncut bough]

I planted 200 and made flour out of them and still ran out of flour

And i need the mead fire resistance to fight yag soon

[half dragon]

need moar

[gray nexus]

barley runs out too fast

I usually farm 600 at a time

[uncut bough]

Yea i am not having that much patience

[half dragon]

5% times 15 is 75% btw...

if that is what you thought I meant

[zenith star]

i wonder how many years till we get deep north

[crude yacht]

Does that mean that if you kill 30 there is a 100% chance it will drop? And if not, how many do you need to kill to get a 100% chance?

[zenith star]

dont even talk to me about that

[half dragon]

there's never 100% chance

[zenith star]

not even on vanilla i spent 2 actual real life days in modded

trying to get 2

and i was killing a lot of them

i definietly killed over 100

which is obscenely bad rng

[half dragon]

That is quite bad luck, around 0.5% chance

[half dragon]

I was about to recommend bread, but I double checked the recipe... and holy crap they made it so much worse. 20 for a single piece of bread? 💀

nvm 10 but still bad

[frigid gust]

What? No. It's 10 barley for 2 bread dough, which is 2 loaves, or you can use it for fish n' bread, etc.

So 5 barley flour per loaf

[half dragon]

oh you get 2

why even make it 10 for 2...

[light moat]

Live baking bread in this game, plains are just the best!

[frigid gust]

Because it matches up nicely with the stack size of barley, and it would be maddeningly tedious to make the individually. Some foods are already super tedious, we don't need more of it 😉

[frigid gust]

🥗

[light moat]

Chickens, bread, fish… why even go to Valhalla!

[frigid gust]

Salad is the best food in the game from a resource vs stat balance, and nobody can convince me otherwise

[merry pebble]

salad is great, but i really like bread since you can just make a BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG field of barley and you dont need anything else for it 😄

[hidden gorge]

unless that stat is inventory space XD

[hidden gorge]

same for onion soup earlier

[half dragon]

shroom omelette not easier to farm?

[hidden gorge]

not really, no

[frigid gust]

3 onions, 3 jotun puffs and 3 cloudberries = 3 salads, it takes almost nothing.

[half dragon]

oh you get 3

[hidden gorge]

but they come in small stacks and don't last long

[frigid gust]

Yeah. There are better foods, but as long as you're growing all those things anyway (which you probably are) they are crazy easy to make

Salad does better healing and has better overall stats than bread, and I'm never away from home long enough to need more than a stack of 10. It's worth the tradeoff for me at least.

[merry pebble]

the only "difficult" thing about omelette is picking up eggs if you have just a pen for chickens and not a farm designed to roll all the eggs to one place, but i can easily live with that 😄

[frigid gust]

Yeah... I haven't figured out how to build an egg factory, tried following some Youtube tutorials and they didn't work, so I end up having to putter around the base while the chickens eat and regularly collect their eggs so they keep laying. Easier for me to just collect a handful of eggs and hatch them into the chickens instead of making the omelettes, especially at 3 eggs per omelette.

[half dragon]

1 thing I've noticed though... damn they did good job at making those food icons and items delicious looking. Kinda makes me hungry

[frigid gust]

They're great to put on item stands on a table for decoration. Especially with fun things like the frost resistance mead glowing blue, etc.

[lusty latch]

To make things grow faster

[lusty latch]

Hmm, I wouldn't expect these mods to screw with it?

BepInExPack_Valheim v5.4.2202 by denikson
EquipmentAndQuickSlots v2.1.13 by RandyKnapp
Official_BepInEx_ConfigurationManager v18.2.0 by Azumatt
PlantEasily v1.7.2 by Advize
PlantEverything v1.16.2 by Advize
Quick_Stack_Store_Sort_Trash_Restock v1.4.7 by Goldenrevolver
Recycle_N_Reclaim v1.3.3 by Azumatt
Server_devcommands v1.75.0 by JereKuusela
TeleportEverything v2.6.1 by OdinPlus
TrashItems v1.2.8 by virtuaCode

[vocal rivet]

Either PlantEasily or PlantEverything could do that.

[crude yacht]

If you are going to use devcommands to make time faster, why not just spawn in the items you want to harvest?

[lusty latch]

Those are just for planting things more easily though?

[half dragon]

teleport everything sounds pointless these days since you can just edit the world settings to allow that anyway

[lusty latch]

I guess lol

[crude yacht]

I guess to some, one way might be considered "less cheating" than the other... 🤣

[lusty latch]

lol

[crude yacht]

oooh, does the TeleportEverything mod allow you to bring a cart or tamed animals through?

[lusty latch]

animals yes not sure about carts

yeah carts work too

[crude yacht]

nice

[smoky quarry]

love my new troll xxl mouse pad. So bright, like i`m always in game. .

made out of troll hide

[rare birch]

what is an Old Dvergr gate in an infested mine

[smoky quarry]

||treasure||

[wide zodiac]

Is bronze armor worth it? or should i just stick with troll armor till I get iron armor

[merry pebble]

i dont want to invest more bronze than i need to so i stick with troll

[rare birch]

Yeah but should I expect something aggressive behind it too?

[wide zodiac]

making bronze bars is so draining

[rare birch]

I used Troll armor till the mountains. Never made Bronze or Iron armor

[wide zodiac]

you didnt get 1 hit from stuff?

[plush umbra]

On default they don’t hit thaaat hard

A wolf will still kill you but it’ll be like 3 hits

[rare birch]

Not really. Eat good food and have a shield. I used bronze pretty much just for the Bronze Buckler and the Bronze mace. They both work good in the swamp

[crude yacht]

If you never get hit, you'll never get 1-hit. 😉

[wide zodiac]

is the bronze atgeir good? or however you spell it

[plush umbra]

If anything only do the bronze helmet and the other pieces troll so you don’t get the movement speed penalty but still benefit from a bit higher armor

[plush umbra]

Atgeirs are too good in general almost

[smoky quarry]

nah

[frigid gust]

If you're ever unsure about a door in the mines, then throw an ooze bomb at the door and see if it does damage to anything behind it 😛 /cheese

[rare birch]

Turned out to be noting behind it. Man these mines are huge. I'm gonna get lost

[smoky quarry]

i drop stuff, crumbs, at intersections as reminders

[frigid gust]

With all the dungeons I try to follow the left-hand rule. Just turn left at every doorway at a given level, and then go down if I can. It tends to let me clear things pretty completely, it's a guaranteed way to solve any 2D maze at least.

[odd helm]

Can confirm. I've stuck to this rule since release and it works every time.

[toxic rose]

Yes the same for me

[frigid gust]

But... root armor...

[merry pebble]

root is great 😄 until you go into frost caves 😉

[frigid gust]

Root gets me silver, silver gets me fenris 😉

[chilly bone]

is ashlands still supposed to be released in q2 2024?

[livid oriole]

fenrir or wolf armor for plains?

[merry pebble]

well in first half of 2024, and since we are nearly done with first quarter i would say its will be that way 😄

[rare birch]

I do wolf but with the root harnesk. The Harnesk makes deathsquitos pretty much harmless with it's pierce resist

[toxic rose]

What if they have a surprise for tomorrow?)

[frigid gust]

I do fenris with the root harnesk. Or just full fenris. Zoom!

[frigid gust]

Not gonna happen. Current PTB still has bugs with the engine update and dungeon generation, they're not going to release anything without a bit more notice.

[merry pebble]

well considering even current ptb is not done i highly doubt that even if there would be some surprise tomorrow it will have to do anything with ashlands 😄

[chilly bone]

id assume they would tell us a few weeks before release that its happening and not just surprise us 😛

[frigid gust]

There will be a PTB release of the Ashlands before full release, IG has been clear on that. Exactly when is unknown, but it won't be a complete surprise

[desert tangle]

for those who is settled in bronze age+ do u guys bring around material to craft forge anywhere to repair?

[frigid gust]

Pocket portal FTW

[desert tangle]

im doing no portal rule ;3

[ancient ledge]

usually just bring mats to plop down a portal but if you prefer no portal then yeah, mini forge base

[frigid gust]

Then a cart with forge mats would be my suggestion, unless you're near your base

No-portal runs make the cart much much more useful

[ancient ledge]

even better when you get it on a boat

[desert tangle]

yea cart would be the goto if it was inland. How about for when ur out in ur boat?

[light moat]

Even on standard play, I usually keep some metals (copper, bronze, iron, BM) and some other materials in my longship. It’s a ton of space, might as well use it!

[frigid gust]

Hurry to get some iron and make a longboat

[strange arrow]

having that longboat storage literally pays for itself

[ancient ledge]

a lot of these lfg posters dont check the messages again, wonder what they're up to

[desert tangle]

im kinda mad how there is this huge space on the karve but i cant put anything on it ;(

longboat is def something im going for once i beat the elder

[frigid gust]

Definitely bring copper and bronze with you, and maybe some tin for a cauldron then. That should get you a full forge setup wherever you go, pocket full of surtling cores, you should hopefully be able to gather everything else necessary wherever you end up.

No portals will kind of imply a lot more resource gathering at destinations and rebuilding of various stations as you get places. The longboat will give you a lot more cargo space for you to not need to do that, but up front with the karve you've got some limitations. I'd also suggest trying to stay on land 😛

[austere flame]

how exactly do i use battleaxe against abominations?

[azure yacht]

Holding left click (basic attack button) while you're adjacent to one, and dodge roll before they land an attack on you

[austere flame]

alr thanks

[plush umbra]

Lead it to a surtling spawner for a surprise

[austere flame]

i would but they always seem to spawn very far from the surtling spawners and run away in uninterest whenever i try to lure them towards the spawner

[plush umbra]

Fair

[wide zodiac]

can you put a cart on a raft?

[paper marsh]

yes but its risky

not worth it imo

[pure plume]

Can You sail raft while being attached to cart? XD

[paper marsh]

doubt it

[pure plume]

Wish I could fill my longboat with ore on deck

[plush umbra]

Those are better for carts than rafts

Best way to pull it off is have a friend hold the cart but be careful I’ve lost 8 carts of mats to a storm

[pure plume]

High risk high reward

[half dragon]

high risk, not so high reward 😂

getting those materials takes far more time than it takes to do an extra trip

[elfin atlas]

When is ashlands supposed to come out?

[half dragon]

within about 3 months

[merry pebble]

first half of this year

[elfin atlas]

Also I'd have to create a new world when it comes out right?

[dreamy kiln]

public testing is planned in april

[merry pebble]

👀

[dreamy kiln]

if you havent discovered ashlands on your old world you should be fine

[elfin atlas]

I see

[half dragon]

Herd that even if you explore it, the new stuff just will not spawn in explored areas

[dreamy kiln]

yep

thats for all valheim content.. discovererd areas wont change for updates

[azure yacht]

https://valheim.com/support/getting-ready-for-the-ashlands/

[elfin atlas]

I mean there is no way I explore every part of the map by the time that comes out i'm on my first playthrough

So i don't wanna have to create a new world and have to progress and do all that again to reach ashlands

[half dragon]

Can keep going with your old saves yea

Although, I did restart from scratch few weeks ago because those saves were already 2 years old

[dreamy kiln]

i would definitely make a backup of your old (and maybe loved world with a lot of buildings inside) before starting and "converting" it for ashlands

[elfin atlas]

Yeah for sure i'll do that when it comes out

Thanks a lot folks

[dreamy kiln]

sure thing...

but afaik the existing terrain shouldnt be touched really for ashlands

[elfin atlas]

Good to know

[half dragon]

and if you have any structured built there, there is very high chance of it going kaboom 😂

[dreamy kiln]

😄

well, who was building in the old ashlands anyway

[half dragon]

I saw somebody talking about a massive warehouse they built in ashlands

[dreamy kiln]

haha ok

well THEN def make a backup 🙂

[half dragon]

and had to start moving it all away from there

probably makes easier to start the update with smaller chance of things going wrong

Now this is 105% speculation, but can't help but wonder what's going to be the enviromental hazard in ashlands. Maybe you'll get lit on fire unless you have fire resist?

[dreamy kiln]

sounds like a player request 😄 gonna forward that to the devs 😛

[half dragon]

oh no 😅

[dreamy kiln]

[elfin atlas]

being lit on fire unless fire resist makes perfect sense actually

[half dragon]

the other idea I have is maybe the air could be filled with smoke and makes the air unbreathable without an item. Similar to what happens if you make a campfire in a sealed room

[elfin atlas]

That's also a good idea yeah

[dreamy kiln]

takes notes

[rare birch]

I have 3 warm eggs in a building but they don't seem to be hatching. I can use a workbench in there. It seems sealed up ok?

[uncut bough]

idk what happens but sometimes if i ALT+ TAB, the name of the biome at the corner is glitched out to an enlarged text

[warm depot]

thats so evil dog

[uncut bough]

usually when a new biome is reached, the text is zoomed in a little, and then zoomed out

here it is zoomed out, zoomed in and then stayed zoomed in, which makes the text bigger and frankly more intimidating

[azure yacht]

They already teased it

||Meteor rains||

[wide zodiac]

how heavy can a cart get before its too heavy to pull up on hills

[uncut bough]

off to great start , i got 3rd partied by a TAR GROWTH fighting yag

and goddamn his music is intimidating god help me

porcupine sucked i shoulda use frostner

[frigid gust]

Use the Blackmetal sword instead of the porcupine. Yagluth resists piercing damage.

Blackmetal sword and Frostner are roughly equal, the Frostner is more general purpose across more enemies is the main reason I recommend it

[warm depot]

WRONG, frostner for everything 😎

[half dragon]

depends on your movement speed penalties and bonuses. Around 3k weight it starts getting really slow and hard to go up hills. If you want to move in and out in a reasonable amount of time, would recommend sticking to around 1k, fine to go a bit above or below it

[uncut bough]

dear lord soo many fireballs, i think i am fighting a losing battle

[warm depot]

3 tons is already painful to move

[dreamy kiln]

depends how steep it is... u cant say it in general... stamina is important and if its too much, take 2 carts and share it or make a road...

[frigid gust]

I mean, yes. But I didn't see Frostner in the inventory in @uncut bough 's screenshot, so I suggested the best of what was there 😉

[warm depot]

then he shall craft one 😎
nobody is excepted

[uncut bough]

i left frostner at home

[warm depot]

frostner for everything

[uncut bough]

OH MY GOD I AM GOING INSANE, 4 MORE TAR GROWTH

[half dragon]

Even with fenris set 4k is way too much weight though. complete pain in the ass to steer around

[uncut bough]

i am losing my mind, what is this

[warm depot]

in my opinion, silver age is unnacesarry

you can beat moder with an iron mace and go straight to black metal

[frigid gust]

Yeah... gotta drain the tar and spawn proof it before you fight Yagluth if the pit is too close. They will cause problems even without Yag.

[half dragon]

oh and if the area isn't too dangerous, you can take chest and leg pieces off to make pulling a cart easier, unless it's light armor and doesn't matter

[wide zodiac]

how much weight do you usually put in your cart? whats your max

[uncut bough]

dear lord and there is a fuling camp nearby

yea i am getting outta dodge, i am noping out

[warm depot]

u alwasy clear around the boss before the fight

[dreamy kiln]

hmmm i did for sure 2000 weight in pulling... but i try to go zic zac if its too steep

[uncut bough]

why am i still having electrified effect on my body despite not being under zap effect?

#screenshots for reference

[half dragon]

can also take a breather if you steer the cart to be diagonal to the direcion of downhill

[uncut bough]

so i keep hearing electric noise on my sound system

maybe i am god of thunder now

where can i get my mijonir or whatever name that is

[half dragon]

Challenge the obliterator for authority?

[uncut bough]

at least the area where i am fighting it has a small river where i can put out fire, even tho i think mead fire is nuff

the birch tree is doing all the works, Yag lazer cant cut thru the trees lol, and it let me avoid his line of sight so he doesnt spam fireball. But well i have to fight it with frost arrow

it also blocks fireball

[dreamy kiln]

birch > the gods!

[rain flare]

A very wise decision man

[uncut bough]

chipped his ass to half health with bow, and i am running out of arrow

his attack is based on line of sight too so as long as i hide behind rock or trees, he wont keep spamming fireball or his laser attack wont follow me when i hide behind objects

of course there HAS to be mosquitos, it just has to be this way

i changed my mind, Yag is more annoying than boneass

[half dragon]

You should have asked Smiffe for improved luck. Usually I have horrible luck with sailing, always blowing the exact oppossite direction. I was thinking about asking Smiffe for tailwind and the game herd that, tailwind all the way to my destination and 100% thanks to Smiffe

[uncut bough]

out of arrow, rested buff is doing all the hard work. I am going in for the melee, wish me luck guys

i used to feel bad about how Yagluth's lore is being torn to 2, but now i think that he should have been torn to pieces, like nothing left

the fight happened so long he started healing and the world started saving, gawddamn

the fire damage make it SOO annoying to melee yagluth without taking a crap ton of dmg in return, and i am using fire rez mead!

[vocal rivet]

First half of THIS year.

[uncut bough]

OMG holy moly i did it

[frigid gust]

Congrats! He's one of the hardest bosses out there even without all the other enemies you added to your battle 😉

[uncut bough]

and it is midnight ._. and the portal i took was like a few miles away

[azure yacht]

The only massive fire DMG is only from direct hits, dot fire from the leftover area is much more manageable with fire resist

[pliant hatch]

Lemme guess......

Yagluth?

[uncut bough]

more marchign

so many starred fulings, time to just run

yagluth fight was so hard, every time he hits, he hits hard

[frigid gust]

Waa-zee!!

[uncut bough]

now i need to find mistland

[plush umbra]

What does that have to do with anything.

[queen wadi]

Me making a statement.

[nocturne wolf]

Any boss that can beat the next in a fight isn’t going to be easy to kill

[uncut bough]

eikthyr first time fighting with full gear isnt hard, so is elders

boneass is hard but it can be cheesed and there is nothing it can do

but this one just sucks to fight close quarters, it also sucks to fight long range cuz it is resistant to pierce

[nocturne wolf]

Bonemass isnt too bad with a mace and either banded shield or iron tower shield. There’s no point parrying bosses, rolling uses less stamina and you take less damage.

[frigid gust]

Just sail east and west... I would suggest keeping to Mistlands you can approach on foot, much like with the Swamps. Landing a boat in the mists can be... fraught.

[merry pebble]

any shield, buckler works very well 😄

[nocturne wolf]

Even when blocking, not parrying?

[merry pebble]

why would you do that? 😄

you only need the parry

[nocturne wolf]

Bonemass is a boss, he can’t be staggered.

[merry pebble]

but can be parried

[nocturne wolf]

Blocking uses much less stamina, and rolling still uses less stamina and avoids all damage

[paper marsh]

^

I don’t see the point in a shield for boss fights

[frigid gust]

The only benefit of parrying bosses is it lets you block more damage than just a normal block does, but if you can block it straight up you're correct. Bosses cannot be stunned.

[nocturne wolf]

I like how this game has downsides to parrying instead of it being something you should always do when possible

[frigid gust]

No downsides to rolling 🦾

[nocturne wolf]

Fighting 4 wolves at once while only avoiding damage by parrying is a very easy way to die, because you’ll run out of stamina so fast.
This is why I have only ever made one iron buckler

[half dragon]

Think they made parrying too punishing. I haven't bothered to parry at all against normal enemies because why would you when you can just hit them first? With exception of big enemies like trolls, golems ect.

[nocturne wolf]

Parrying is very powerful when fighting a single target to increase dps, or when fighting a group to separate enemies.

[half dragon]

doesn't really increase dps in most cases when in same time it takes to block/parry, you can already hit twice

does make sense for enemies that are more resistant to staggering tho, like draugr elites

[dreamy fable]

I don't like the twitching skeletons that look's so dumb ash lands barf only thing i see good is the Valkyrie

[plush umbra]

I bet they’re sprinters

[dreamy fable]

who ever did the Valkyrie grate job other thin that it needs work

[nocturne wolf]

The other enemies are good too

[dreamy fable]

naa a Graydwarf look's nicer thin twitching skeletons lol

[nocturne wolf]

You haven’t even seen them in-game yet

[dreamy fable]

o yes i have seen them out of game they look ugly and not to the bone

I also seen that bone frog looking monster thats odd looking to say the lest

I wish they made a fire Jotnar

fire' ice' swamp' Jotnar or even a medium elder tree Ent that Rome the dark woods

or new type's of trolls i seen photo's of trolls they look more disgusting thin that

[nocturne wolf]

We don’t need types of trolls. Trolls are trolls.

I’d prefer to see original content than retextured trolls, wouldn’t you?

[plush umbra]

Photos of trolls? Have you not seen the trolls in game?

[dreamy fable]

I like to see a troll that's tall and bigger with 2 head's

yes the easy 2 star blue gray ones or the blue one's easy

[nocturne wolf]

Theres a bigger troll with 2 stars, if that’s close enough for you

[dreamy fable]

yes back stab it with the abyssal razer is fun

late game i just cross bolt it lol

if they did make new type's of trolls they need to look super ugly disgusting to the point it well give you nightmare's to never look at it lol

[plush umbra]

But I thought you didn’t like when the creatures are ugly?

[dreamy fable]

not that type of ugly in a good way

[plush umbra]

The beautiful kind of ugly?

As compared to the ugly ugly?

[nocturne wolf]

The twitchers are ugly in a good way. 2-headed disgusting trolls are not.

[exotic rivet]

Speaking of ugly creatures......I physically can't fight || The Queen|| and I know I'll need whatever she drops for ashlands....is there any form of trading I could do for these items? I've ||Unbroken her boss door seal|| and all that it's just the fight I can't muster up to do bc I'm squishy and hate bugs..

I'm a fake viking for not being able to beat her but I value my sleep

[nocturne wolf]

Devs have said killing the queen will be important, we don’t know how important though.

[near furnace]

VERY

https://tenor.com/view/this-much-tmr-gatordone-spring-playing-gif-15307732

[nocturne wolf]

Like moder? More?

[exotic rivet]

Yeah I love the dev blog walks. Reason why I have resorted to trading....if I have to I'm doomed

[desert tangle]

do burial chambers become obselette after i kill elder?

these were short but fun thought from the loot i got from em i dont think ill be ever coming back

[near furnace]

it will be somewhat anoying without queen drop

[exotic rivet]

Portals! You'll need lots of those cores

[nocturne wolf]

They are a good way to get coins and shinies

[desert tangle]

i heard swamps has all the cores i need

[uncut bough]

yea i give up i am not gonna find mistland by sailing blind, imma just seed generator this

[nocturne wolf]

You will, the mist is very tall.

[uncut bough]

nah imma just seed generator

absolutely tragic, everywhere there is mistland, it is bordered by plains or mountains, otherwise the area is so tiny

[exotic rivet]

did a brain blast and realized yeah swamps with those fire boi spawners. Not very common though but you give a good point

[desert tangle]

im doing a no portal rule

so i wont need much outside of the furnance coal farm

[dreamy fable]

hunting down some nasty looking trolls photos

[nocturne wolf]

Isnt this your first playthrough? Mods AND no portals??

[exotic rivet]

ah, gl viking. Then yeah burial chambers are a thing of the past for you then

[desert tangle]

minor mods and yes no portals, why?

[plush umbra]

It’s just different than the typical first playthrough approach

[desert tangle]

i mean this isnt much of a different game from all the survival game ive played which is why ive only added mods that are very minor

[nocturne wolf]

You’ve already explained how the minor mods are unintentionally breaking progression (burial chambers should not give any iron) and portals are a real lifesaver if you die away from your base, which you will do a lot in your first playthrough.

[plush umbra]

A lot of new players get frustrated with not being able to portal metals but here’s a new player who said portals who

[desert tangle]

the most op mod i have is valheim raft but ive restricted myself from using it. only when i need to transport stuff which is what portal does already but more fun way ;D

[desert tangle]

not really, as soon as i found out i threw out all the iron and core i got

also the mod author was quick to patch it

[nocturne wolf]

It’s going to be very hard for you to play without these if you ever have to, because you learn so much during your first playthrough.

[desert tangle]

like what?

the only thing not vanilla like ive added is me not needing to hold lmb for 20minutes mining a copper deposit lol, it makes gameplay much smoother. if i didnt add mod id probably just watch something on my 2nd monitor while holding left click in game ;/

[plush umbra]

How much can that even change when you have to move every 4 swings and take stamina breaks anyway