valheim-chat

[wintry valve]

Y'all have a trick to find mountains? Like a good one?

[cobalt canyon]

You can spot the shape of the terrain from pretty far away while sailing

[wintry valve]

Its because I visited like 2.5 mountains so far, and apparently none were high enough to spawn silver
well... except one node. I got a whole 9 silver

[frozen fable]

look at the heights of the mountains

[wet mango]

Try going farther away from spawn (or, if you don't care, just look up your seed on the Valheim World Generator website unless you're modded* w/ terrain modifiers)

[frozen fable]

really tall mountains that have flying drakes will usually have silver veins

[wintry valve]

killed plenty of drakes

[tacit crystal]

Flint Spear is what I always craft as main weapon in the beginning - throwing it is much more accurate than shooting with Crude Bow when hunting Deer. And it fares really well against Greydwarves too.

In my current Hard preset run I've been going without bow, having 2 spears in my inventory (best tier for melee, latter tier for throwing). I've been able to oneshot Draugr with maxed Flint Spear throw for example. It is also quite good against Leeches: throw at it, collect spear, repeat.

Range for melee attacks could be longer IMO but it is quite good weapon type for its quick attacks. Also Splitnir the Storming is great weapon.

[wintry valve]

Ill get to try that eventually

[glacial sedge]

valheim

[wet mango]

I find myself doing that sometimes if I want to find cool terrain generation. Don't be afraid to use it

[wintry valve]

I mean going further from spawn

Man... another mountain with nothing

[fading dove]

the epic loot mod borked my controller, sorry for putting on chat a mod issue

[gray sand]

#mods-issues

[rain flare]

This - all of this!
Spear’s don’t need ammo, so as long as you are careful with how you use them you’ll be fine

[gray sand]

Bronze Spear also kills Elder in under a minute.

The attack speed goes brrrrrrr.

Can get 5 hits in between each roll.

[rain flare]

Stabby stabby stab!

[gray sand]

I'm about to enter Swamp and I'm already at almost 50 skill due to how many hits you can get in so rapidly.

[rain flare]

It’s really good as a weapon!
Only downside is the reach and attack angle

[gray sand]

🤷‍♂️ Melee is melee.

[rain flare]

But that is offset nicely by the ability to hit flying mobs and the attack/leveling speed

[rain flare]

Yeah, I just find it easier with the wide sweeping strikes on a sword or an axe.

But spears are a bit cheaper to make than swords - especially on late biomes where you don’t really use metal.

Infinite wolf spears 🤩

[gray sand]

Wide, sweeping strikes?

You mean Stagbreaker? 😛

[rain flare]

LoL! 🤭

Big stick go Bonk!

[gray sand]

Soon to be replaced by Iron Spear and Sledge 🙂

[warm sandal]

why is that, that when i am in a hurry to get somewhere there are heaps and heaps of fish, but when i want to go fishing i can find none? 😛

[rain flare]

I see where you are going with this 🥰

[rain flare]

Fish like to spawn in little shoals/groups

normally it’s best to kinda note where the shoal is so you can go fishing later 🥰

[warm sandal]

yeah i keep meaning to do that but forget when i am in a hurry to get somewhere 😄

[gray sand]

Spear-fishing when? 😦

[rain flare]

You know the boat will keep going in a direction without you steering it right? 🙃
Take a second next time to mark their general location on your map

[gray sand]

So we can lose many, many spears in the ocean. Never to be recovered.

[rain flare]

The harpoon counts as a spear - I’m seriously wondering if it’s damage/stamina use is tied to that skill set?

[rain flare]

What was that about infinite wolf spears again? 🤭

[gray sand]

🤷‍♂️ I only ever build 1. Because I rarely throw.

[rain flare]

Ooooooor, how aboooout…….
Demolisher fishing??? 😂

Big stick make nice impact 🤭

[gray sand]

Basalt bomb fishing like they do with dynamite in the movies.

[rain flare]

I really wish you could go lava fishing with that 🤭

[gray sand]

Build the drakkar in the lava to make flametal mining easier 😛

[warm sandal]

I am brewing my way through all the new mead to try them out and make a nice display of them all 😄 and while i am at it i might as well go see if i can procure a serpent trophy to make more fishing bait ... i love that they added another reason to go fishing 😄

[frozen fable]

you can also use abyssal razor in black forest and swamp biomes, it's pretty strong

[warm sandal]

i usually use abyssal razor up in the mountain too 😄

[tacit crystal]

Abyssal Razor makes very fast work of killing Elder if you manage to find Leviathans early on. 👍

[wintry valve]

Vinny update: I found a real mountain. All is well.

[fair cairn]

dont they float?

[tacit crystal]

I forgot how cool Ancient Bark Spear looks.

[errant knoll]

Came back to valheim after a super long break. Last time I played was before even the mistlands update.

Just want to express just how much fun I'm finding exploring the mistlands

[fossil belfry]

I just want to pass and say thank you for this awesome game developers. I just realized I spent a thousand hours playing this on steam and is somewhat a personal achievementfor me. This game is awesome!

[errant knoll]

The infested mines stress me out so much, and I'm loving every second of it lol.

Can't wait for the ashlands (though I have a feeling i'll be in the mistlands for quite a bit longer yet)

[tacit crystal]

Mistlands and Ashlands are great biomes. They are so different and I like it.

[near furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-7898695231799564452

[errant knoll]

I just now got my 15th black core so i cam finally have all of the crafting stations up and running all at once. Gonna try and figure out magic, to see if it's something that clicks for me

Some of the deaths I've had in these mines have been absolutely hilarious.

[tacit crystal]

Many people like that playstyle.

[modest trout]

Hey, can the boogy witch spawn in already traversed swamp biomes?

[near furnace]

no. you need to find one you haven't visited

[errant knoll]

Hearing insect noises behind a wooden wall. "What's the worst that could happen?"

Breaks wall St melee range, stunlocmed by a starred seeker and his friends and dead in like 2 seconds

[modest trout]

Oh, thanks :3

[tacit crystal]

She appears only in unexplored Swamps 🙂

[modest trout]

Tytyty

[errant knoll]

I could only laugh lol, for being so brazen

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, they sometimes like that if careless 😅 and 2 star Tick can surprise too.

[errant knoll]

Yep. Learned a lot of lessons the hard way.

Never go into infested mines without bonemass buff, and use it before a potentially big fight, not during.

Always carry around fire resist barley.

Hug the entrance and slowly pick off seekers since there's usually a large number waiting to swarm the start

[pliant hatch]

Next time you have something like that, move to the wall, then move back and drop an Ooze bomb near that wall.

Your movement will most likely draw the monsters to the wall, the Ooze bomb will damage them a lot.

[errant knoll]

Yeah, good tips - I realised after the first time it happened. I've never really used bombs before this as nothing else has warranted it

[teal matrix]

Are ooze bombs effective on seekers? I've never even made one.

[pliant hatch]

First time I used the Ooze bombs was in Frostcaves and I found them not really useful. Used them in plains while being perched on a rock so I could pick off the Fulings and found it even less usefull.

But in Mistlands those things rule as they're an instant death to the broods and ticks and damage seekers quite a lot. Although you may need multiple bombs for those buggers.

[rotund parrot]

@teal matrix They are pretty effective but the main thing for the infested mines is that you can cheese enemies on the other side safely, better than the sledge since it doesn't damage the doors

[teal matrix]

Ah, interesting

[tacit crystal]

Any AoE weapon is good in Infested mines, Ooze bombs make it even easier if you're patient enough. And soon probably you can craft better bombs that are more effective.

[candid basalt]

Bile bombs go brrrr

[tacit crystal]

Exactly

[smoky obsidian]

Hi, already asked this this weekend but anyone would know if there is a database with all texts and runes availables somewhere ? Either in data files or on Internet, I'm looking for the french translations and I couldn't figure it out yet and I dont want to spend 234 hours to sleep all night wishing to get all dreams

[tacit crystal]

Huh. It seems like crafting skill increases chances to not consume materials when upgrading. Just upgraded my Battleaxe from 2 to 3 and 30 Iron and 10 Ancient wood are still in my inventory.

[errant knoll]

That's happened to me a few times, and I noticed that every single time it happens it happens like this:

1. go to upgrade item in the menu.

2. upgrade is done, but items status in the menu is unchanged.

3. Leave menu to check my item, and it has indeed upgraded.

4. open crafting menu again and the items status is now fine there.

If it's supposed to not consume the materials sometimes, then certainly this implementation feels like a bug.

I've had crafting create extra items sometimes too, like extra porcupines or iron nails

[tacit crystal]

Crafting duplicate items is intended afaik, I also have gotten some duplicates.

[merry pebble]

I think that is a bug, i dont feel like it should do that (the no cost upgrade)

[errant knoll]

The dupes are intentional yeah, there's a special sound effect for when you get dupes, and there is no such sound effect for upgrading not consuming the materials. The lack of sound effect as well as the general non-responsiveness of the menu leads me to believe its a bug

[tacit crystal]

The sound doesn't always activate, for example when foraging berries and getting bonus yield from berry bush. Mushrooms however have that sound.

[errant knoll]

Only time I've ever noticed the sound not activating while farming is when I used the scythe

But I will keep an ear out in future because you're probably correct on that lol

[tacit crystal]

I have heard the sound when farming with scythe.

[errant knoll]

I've heard the sound sometimes, but not always

[azure yacht]

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Sleeping?so=search

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Runestone?so=search

[smoky obsidian]

Thanks but they're in english (it's a very good start lol)

[frozen fable]

i like the new farming skill where you get an extra item that you are picking up, I think that is a decent change

[errant knoll]

Same thing happens when cooking. Having high level cooking skill can actually result in a lot of extra meals being generated, especially if you're making oven cooked meals, since you get the chance to create a dupe first when you make the base, and again when you retrieve it from the oven

First time I cooked a batch of misthare supremes, I had resources for 20 and got 24 from them

[frozen fable]

what was your farming skill at by then? and i wonder if they will do the same thing for mining and woodcutting, almost seems like a logical progression

[errant knoll]

So that was cooking skill doing that. I didn't track what my cooking skill was at the time but I did it shortly after entering the mistlands and did no cooking since cause I got a huge stockpile of good. I've died about 5 times since. My cooking skill is now 9, so it's safe to say I was probably sitting at around 13 cooking skill - not exactly high

I think I probably got quite lucky. Farming skill is at 32 - way easier to get exp for Farming than cooking

[frozen fable]

seems like there is good motivation to cook as much as possible instead of stockign all the ingredients and leaving them in chests

[errant knoll]

Indeed - got a massive stockpile of honey and wolf meats, I should probably just spam make wolf jerky with them

Both up the skill and free up inventory space ( I should just bite the bullet and use my stockpile of black metal to make better chests - just paranoid I'm going to need it later, after learning the hard way the first time that I will never ever have enough iron)

[frozen fable]

wolf skewers are a better use of wolf meat

that's also the catch 22, you don't want to blow all your blueberries and raspberries on queens jam when muckshakes are better and really easy to make and use less materials

[foggy glacier]

yeah, but with the update, ||you need wolf skewers and queens jam for your feasts||

[frozen fable]

ahhh i didn't know that, i haven't reached the bog witch yet, i started a new world and just downed Elder

[high lynx]

Quick question, will upgrading axe make that axe chop tree faster because of more slash power?

[odd helm]

Yes, but not because of the slash power, but the chop damage hidden in the stats of the weapon

[high lynx]

oh alright slash damage is just for attacking only right?

[plush umbra]

yepp

even tree-like enemies aren't affected by chop damage

one's for combat, the other for gathering resources

[errant knoll]

For the purposes of levelling up cooking skill, wolf jerky is fine. I've been hunted so many darn times in the plains that I have enough wolf meat to last me a lifetime, and I have better things to do than go scrounging fot mushrooms.

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, I've seen many newbies believing axes would be better against tree-like creatures like Greydwarves and even Abomination because axes are used to cut trees.

[errant knoll]

It's like, food ill be eating while going around weaker biomes either way

[nocturne wolf]

Axes are better than blunt and pierce weapons against abominations.

[errant knoll]

By extension swords too, though there really isn't that much point building a sword prior to swamp if anyone is trying to progress efficiently (assuming they know what's coming)

[frozen fable]

oh i always build the bronze sword because i don't want to use my axe in case i want to chop down core wood or fine wood while traveling to and from camp

[errant knoll]

The issue with building swords is that at this early stage of the game, blunt damage is hilariously efficient and cheap on resources

You can quite trivially get a fully upgraded club just by doing things you have to do anyway (exploring crypts), and there's not much else to use your bone fragments on. Meanwhile bronze isn't exactly a cheap/low demand resource

On new saves I usually skip bronze armor entirely, opting for a trio of copper knife, Finewood bow and basic club. Lasts me until the swamp

[frozen fable]

you're really just limited by how many cores you find than anything else, if you get lucky and find a bunch of cores, you can smelt pretty fast and it makes mining more tolerable

[warm sandal]

I would not w ant to blow all my ooze on muckshakes when ooze bombs are so helpful in the infested mines - so i gonna go with queens jam all the time 😄

[errant knoll]

I personally think it's far better to just get to the swamp as quickly as possible and set up a few surtling core farms

[rotund parrot]

If you know you are going to end up sticking with sword until the endgame, it is worth the time investment to make one early and start leveling up. You will also get most of that time back by just killing things much faster

[errant knoll]

Takes the rng out of searching for cores in crypts

If I do decide to build a sword it's usually once I'm in the mountains, because the silver swords high spirit damage makes it well suited for fighting yagluth, and then I'll train My sword skill on the fuling villages

[warm sandal]

well... i am just now starting to get some sword levels while i am running around in Mistlands... the first sword i ever make ist Mistwalker... 😄 gonna go with spears, knifes and mace all the way up there 😄

[frozen fable]

by the time i'm at moder, my sword skill is high and i don't mainly use the bow and arrows to kill Moder, I wait for her to land and use sword and shield

[warm sandal]

I wait for her to land and use spear and buckler 😄

and i do fry her a bit with some bonefires in strategic places 😄

[errant knoll]

To be fair I could use moder as an opportunity to train sword skill a bit too

[gray echo]

@pseudo linden Internet is gone but I like the sealing and the under the floor part

[errant knoll]

I really hate fighting melee on the mountains rough terrain though, hitboxes are jank

[warm sandal]

true hit boxes are jank but i am way to impatient to pelt her with so many arrows to get her down and risk more mobs spawning and joining the fun

[rotund parrot]

You decide where you fight though, except for moder but that fight is just always janky

[frozen fable]

yeah i've had bad terrain and still did it ok, you just have to pick your spots to attack her when she is on the ground

[errant knoll]

I don't really mind the adds. Starred enemies never spawn in the mountains during the day, so there is an element of consistency with adds joining the fight there compared to other biomes. Having bonemass buff in the back pocket helps too

[warm sandal]

and uphill fights are to be avoided anyways as you would hit terrain instead of enemy ... so don't go haywire and pick from what angle to attack 😄

I started a new run with my son on hard yesterday 😄 are we having fun with killing Eik on day two and then getting forest raids more often than on normal? Yes we doooooo 😄

[rotund parrot]

Ever tried all the hardest setting? I was getting raided constantly it was absurd, I would just run laps around all the mobs until the raid was over and then kill everything as otherwise you just make it harder on yourself

[frozen fable]

my sword skill is at 30 and i haven't found a swamp yet

[errant knoll]

Love the forest raids, they're one of the most profitable ones I can think of. I love it when resources I'm never going to stop needing come to me

[warm sandal]

tha is always a good strategy ... not only on very hard 😄

[rotund parrot]

True, unless you need the ressource they drop and you are comfortably able to take them out

[tacit crystal]

I know Slash is better and I think 1h Sword is better than 1h Axe against Abomination, but the point was that many have believed axes deal some extra damage against tree-like mobs.

[warm sandal]

I think once i am done with my current run i play on youtube, i will do a normal but no map... that will be hilarious because i am getting lost WITH a map.. I am going to be sooooo lost 😄

[errant knoll]

One I don't like is "you are being hunted".

It's great the first time it happens.

Every time afterwards is just "look at all these pelts and meats I'll never use!"

[rotund parrot]

It's probably the hardest difficulty jump removing the map, especially if you also remove the portal otherwise it doesn't change all that much

[tacit crystal]

I also started Hard preset playthrough some days ago, trying to go deathless. Hard combat and more raids 👍

[plush umbra]

axes and swords are meant to be balanced around axes having slower attack speed but higher per-hit damage.
but the extra per-hit damage axes get isn't big enough to bring them on par with swords, so yea, against any enemy with enough health for dps to matter, swords are generally the better options

[warm sandal]

I use the axe becaue it deals slash and i have no sword at that point... so gaining axe levels is not a bad thing as they become a real thing in ashlands (all the battle axes before do not work with my playstyle, so i skip them)

[rotund parrot]

Crystal axe seems decent

[frozen fable]

swords also deal sweeping damage in an arc

[tacit crystal]

Swords also have far superior secondary attack which deals 3x damage.

[warm sandal]

deathless i do try always... but the got me right a our door step... i was trying to kite them off our base and the shaman poisoned me and then three rocks hit at the same time leaving me with not enough to weather the poison ... hard is ... well hard... :d

[errant knoll]

Swords heavy attack has more reach too

[warm sandal]

i could not make it work for me... i would have to revise my playstile to make that one work... so i skip it... 😄

[nocturne wolf]

The axe secondary has low damage increase, low knockback increase and no stagger multiplier, it's terrible.

[errant knoll]

They are good weapons don't get me wrong I just really, really find it hard to justify building one early on given the extremely large bias towards blunt damage the early game has

[frozen fable]

also you can parry with sword and stab for big damage

[rotund parrot]

For the shaman I look at their hand animation to know exactly when to dodge roll during the poison attack so I never get poisoned

[warm sandal]

i usually do dodge them.. but with 5 greydwarfs a shaman and a brute around in the darkest part of the night under a canopy of trees to block what little moon there is... i would love to see you try and see the handmotions of the shamen 😛

[errant knoll]

Just about the only thing I use axe secondary attack for is removing tree stumps that are too low for the primary to hit, or similar (like destroying unhatched larva in infested mines)

[tacit crystal]

In case of Forest moving raid, wield a torch and Greylings and regular Greydwarves try avoid you (they can try throw rocks tho) and run around avoiding taking damage. Worked for me.

[rotund parrot]

That's fair yeah, during a raid when they are all together it will be hard to see but in those time you probably would rather use range

[warm sandal]

I never carry torches... on slot less to occupy that i would need for other things... i usually just keep my distance and get out of the way... but there are those unlucky times where you can not avoid the damage taken and it can be fatal that is the game 😄

[tacit crystal]

I actually made the Battleaxe in this run, seems pretty fun so far. You can negate some of the movement speed penalty with Ratatosk Tonic.

[tacit crystal]

I have 1 or 2 ready somewhere in case of that raid until I have geared up enough.

[errant knoll]

Eh, the vast majority of deaths in valheim are preventable

Most of them are just caused by greedy play

[rotund parrot]

I sometimes use a torch to smack a few trees to get wood for a club during the first minute of a playthrough just to never carry a torch again

[tacit crystal]

Consuming stamina when needing it the most is one of the causes.

[warm sandal]

in my current play through with Brigid - she is mistlands now chort of killing the Queen... i did die only 2 times all the way up to here... if you are prepared, and cautious only very unfortunate events will get you dead 😄

[errant knoll]

Just generally impatience, that being only one example of many

[plush umbra]

but a very common one, people don't seem to be used to how to manage stamina

i see so much sprinting in battle

[tacit crystal]

Sprinting and jumping

[errant knoll]

It could even be something so stupid as wanting to rush through the swamps as fast as possible so you decide "I'm skilled enough, I don't need poison resist meads".

And yet, all it takes is one stray poison hit to kill you sometimes

[warm sandal]

i see so much sprinting during the night in the forest... while being out of rested buff and cold and wet to boot... why not send out invitation cards to the mobs to come and kill?

[plush umbra]

pre-H&H PTSD

[rotund parrot]

My number one rule while fighting it to never start a combo with less than 50 stamina

[plush umbra]

kinda same, i take long breaks to regen stamina and always move by just walking, only dodging or occasionally burst sprinting if really needed

[tacit crystal]

Like those popular streamers back then who tried to rush content only to their quick demise

[rotund parrot]

Other than talk just walking away from mobs to gain stamina back work on most thing, it will be enough to get away from the attack, for long range attack just a small boost of run while the attack is happening will be enough

[warm sandal]

i do jump in battle... it is a good way to jump over an attack... less costly than dodge 😄

[errant knoll]

I will say that this is my 3rd playthrough now, and only the first since before mistlands update.

The only places I've died so far are swamps and mistlands, and mistlands is completely new to me, swamps was all just impatience and greed

[frozen fable]

i remember launch week playing this game, i didn't know you could repair items so i kept crafting items that were broken

[tacit crystal]

That's quite common one new people miss.

[errant knoll]

I died quite a lot in the mistlands though, I think it will take me several tries to clear it deathless, and I have a feeling it will be the ender of many hard-core runs if I ever decide to do that

[rotund parrot]

Those 2 star seekers are really dangerous even on normal, also engaging a dverger tower is always dangerous

[tacit crystal]

My most cases of deaths in Mistlands have been either getting swarmed in Infested mines, sudden 2 star Gjall and Dvergr Frost Mages.

[warm sandal]

It took me 3 runs complete to get to the point i am not dieing all the time in mistlands... i can do it deathless now... but i do get in some pickle now and then with 3 seeker and 1 ** seeker after me and the next dverger base far off... even more important to know how to manage your stamina!

[tacit crystal]

But I died more times in Ashlands PTB than in Mistlands.

[warm sandal]

i never engage dverger towers... i let gjall do that and pick up the spoils 😄

usually if the gjall finished off the dverger not much is left and it can be shoot out of the sky with a few arrows

[errant knoll]

I got lucky on this playthrough, my first foray into the mistlands involved a couple of 1 star seekers getting into a brawl with a small dverger encampment. I didn't know you could fight them and accidentally hit one with friendly fire, but they were so close to dead it didn't matter.

Didn't realise at the time I had lucked into one of the more annoying resources to grab

[rotund parrot]

Well I am defnitely not as patient as you but I got tricks, I push them apart, use bonemass, fire resist, go for the strongest dverger first

[warm sandal]

fight smarter, not harder ... let them mobs fight it out between them is helpfull too 😄

[rotund parrot]

usually is fine

[frozen fable]

yeah if you kill the starred dverger first, that usually ends well

[warm sandal]

when i am new to the swamp i will kite an abom to the next troll i have scouted out before and have an easier time killing who ever stands last

[rotund parrot]

I did die once doing that just since the camp next to it had aggroed too and I did not expect it at all

[errant knoll]

You can also just scout the tower for starred enemies and frost mages, and if either exist you can always choose to not take the fight and look for the next one

[rotund parrot]

Yellow ones are always my priority

[errant knoll]

Although tbh, I'm overthinking it, probably wearing a frost resist cape lol

[errant knoll]

My personal cheat for fighting abominations during early swamp progression.

Run away before you find your first surtling fire. Mine it into the ground to force the surtlings to die on spawn, and then whenever you encounter an abomination you can kite it to the fire geyser for an easy fight, with free loot. Don't have to hit at all, just keep it occupied and dodge the attacks

[frozen fable]

I craft the iron buckler first just for fighting aboms

[rotund parrot]

bronze buckler can parry each of the abomination's attack, on hard an iron buckler parry all of them

[warm sandal]

usually i do that too but i have been unlucky with finding surtling spawners at times...standing on a crypt and building something up theree to keep it interested results in it trying to tear down the portal next to you and you can axe it to death standing on the crpyt works like a charm

[errant knoll]

Abominations attacks are usually easy enough to dodge, punishment for failing a parry is too high and my timing ain't that great.

[frozen fable]

stand close to the abomination

[errant knoll]

Close to the abomination and when it motions to drop ifs centre bit back off

[warm sandal]

i usually do dodge them attacks too, not parry ... specially when i am low on health... dodging is more save... 😄

[rotund parrot]

Yeah I stand under it, I just need to worry about 2 of the attack, the swipe and the body stomp, the foot stomp will never hit you underneath

both of those are really easy to parry

[fallen zephyr]

I like to lie on the floor and do that circular woop-woop move that Homer Simpson does until enemies get confused and walk away.

[frozen fable]

I just avoid the abominations until i have the iron buckler, since I don't need the loot from them right away

[warm sandal]

well... they are more easy to dodge, becaue in case of mistiming i will at least have my buckler up to break the worst hit.

[errant knoll]

Yeah, I don't normally play a ranged build so aboms aren't high priority

[warm sandal]

the root harnesk is to good to pass up even if you do not do ranged it gives resist the damage too not only the bow perk

[errant knoll]

Might kill some for pierce resist gear, that's about it

[warm sandal]

I usually only wear it for the beginning of mountain untill i can get my hands on some silver to have wolf armor... no going into frost caves while i am flamable 😄

[rotund parrot]

Most people would benefit from the harnesk no matter what weapon they use, just switch the draugr archers from being the most dangerous thing in the swamp to something you can pretty much ignore

[foggy glacier]

I use abominations the same way I do trolls. Free treecutting labour.

[warm sandal]

and then i do what ever i hae to do to get that fenris set

[errant knoll]

Not to mention, if it's a rainy day in the plains root harnesk is so free to wear

[warm sandal]

that too... i have not cut an ancient tree myself in a looooong time...the aboms do the job so well i would not want them unemployed would I

[rotund parrot]

Any day as long as you have barley wine

[errant knoll]

Deathsquitos? More like ticklesquitos.

(I mention rainy day because literally the only time the plains is difficult is during early progression)

(Where you won't have barley resist)

[rotund parrot]

I agree with that, early plains and raiding camp before I have barley wine is one of the only time I won't wear my root harnesk

[errant knoll]

Once you got the basic plains prog stuff set up, it's a free biome. The terrain is easy to fight in, you can pick your major battles, and you can even turn enemies against eachother

[warm sandal]

well... i need to find another mistlands patch that is decent sized as I saw all of the first patch now and can not be bothered to go look if i missed something there... i need more carapace for armor and more mandibles and more of everything (except cores i got 16 spare now)...

[rotund parrot]

Also the surtling raids, you really don't want to wear the harnesk for those, you'd rather be naked. You get too used to fight them in the swamp where fire damage is irrelevant that you forget it's very dangerous in a raid

[errant knoll]

Yes, I learnt the hard way that surtlings are actually secretly terrifying lol

[warm sandal]

while running in the plains i usually am in fenris armor...so the surtling raid do not phaze me 😄

[frozen fable]

16 spare black cores is nuts, i haven't had that kind of luck, I'm just happy when I have 5 cores so i can start the eitr farm

of course I get black cores as I keep going in Mistlands, but i've never had that kind of surplus

[warm sandal]

I have been raiding each and every infested mine i could find in that patch of mist... some had only 2 some had 1 and one had 8 and another had 6

[errant knoll]

Not the same for me. Mountains is usually the time I excessively mine silver because it's a cheap resource for making weapons and armor with (demand for silver is low), and it also doubles as stone farming, which I need to do.

[warm sandal]

so all told i found 31 cores 😄

[errant knoll]

I often eventually build a fenris set just cause I can, but usually is not my progression gear

[frozen fable]

crazy

i rarely use god mode when playing but when i do it's for 2 starred seekers and soldiers, i don't mind the one star versions but 2 stars are a little much, i think they need to tone down the damage on those a little

[warm sandal]

i do not use a lot off sliver--- just the frostner, the wolf stuff and the shield and that is about that no knife no sword 😄 so i get off the mountain with a wooden box full of silver to spare 😄

[errant knoll]

I had 14 cores and needed just one more to have all 3 stations running at once, then the next infested mind I found had 10 black cores and 4 seal breaker fragments

[frozen fable]

now that is interesting, i use silver sword for both Moder and Yagluth, so the time invested pays off

[warm sandal]

I usually go with fire and kiting them they are not that fast so it can be done

[errant knoll]

Silver sword is uniquely positioned to do extremely high damage to yagluth, so I'll usually build the silver sword.

Frostner is good as a cc tool so I'll usually build that too.

[warm sandal]

i use fang spear for moder and frostner for yagluth 😄 no need for sword here 😄

[rotund parrot]

Silver knife is really underappreciated for yagluth

[warm sandal]

I have never had trouble getting yag dead with frostner and fenris armor on and silver shild in hand in case some stupid goblin wanted in on the fun 😄

have not died to yagluth with that combo in a looooooong time

[errant knoll]

I don't doubt it, knives are underappreciated in general

[plush umbra]

yea because its stat balancing is sadly not as unhinged as the silver sword's, on top of the fact that half of its physical damage is a terrible type against yagluth to begin with

[errant knoll]

Extremely efficient damage for stamina consumption, fast strikes

[rotund parrot]

When I reach yag my knife level is around 80 too but more importantly it use very few stamina and move fast so you can get way more damage in

[warm sandal]

knifes are my second love - spears my first 😄 i am so sad that everything in ash is resist to pierce (weell almost everything)...

[errant knoll]

No mobility hit

I usually use knives in the super early game before pivoting to other weapons

[tacit crystal]

Storming version hits hard when lightning procs

[frozen fable]

silver sword upgraded for Moder and Yagluth also pays off when doing the plains against berzerkers as well, you can two shot a berzerker with a parry and stab, that's also true of the blackmetal sword

[errant knoll]

There's nothing quite like sneak attack staggering a troll and then knifing it to death

[warm sandal]

another underappreciated skill is fists... usually i start training it up with greylings in the beginning so i got a decent level once i get the fenris armor and the fleshrippers...they reek havoc on those goblins... just sayin

and they are so cheap on the stamina 😄

[frozen fable]

abyssal razor is a great knife early game so is the flint knife, i usually craft a flint knife and cheaply upgrade it, it keeps the axe fresh

[warm sandal]

my fist level is currently 42 (without counting the fenris blessing) 😄

[errant knoll]

Abyssal razor is great, IF you luck into the resources for it

[plush umbra]

flint knife and abyssal razor carry my earlygame

[rotund parrot]

Anyone know what ressources you need to upgrade the copper knife?

[frozen fable]

i didn't get abyssal this current bog witch playthrough since i didn't start sailing until i found the elders stone

[warm sandal]

I do not know i never made one 😄

[errant knoll]

Copper and greydwarf eyes

It starts at like, 4 copper 8 grey dwarf eyes for the first upgrade

[rotund parrot]

The eyes are very surprising, I though most people wouldn't know that

[errant knoll]

I know cause if I ever can't find chitin I'll just bite the bullet and make a copper knife

[rotund parrot]

I do think that knife is worth it though and then when you have portals and a boat you can just look for leviathans

[errant knoll]

Grey dwarf eyes being required foe the upgrade is kinda bad, but it's whatever

[rotund parrot]

But it's pretty cheap metal wise and much better than the flint one

[errant knoll]

I never have enough of those as is

Absolutely it's better than the flint and I'd still build it if I've gone a long time and still not found chitin

The fact that copper knife is cheap metals wise is basically the entire reason my super early game is built on knives and clubs

8 bronze is 3 times more expensive than 8 copper, it's quite easy to forget that

[rotund parrot]

I used to use clubs on skeletons but I just do the knife now and make sure I have a good knife. I just make a level 4 wooden club before fighting bonemass and drop it when it's no longer moving

[errant knoll]

Ill confess I'm not quite confident enough to prog swamps without blunt damage

I really should playtest fighting bonemass with just a level 4 club and troll armor and see how it goes before I do a new save

[frozen fable]

lol wandered over to a Plains close to the black forest where i found the trader, killed a deathsquito and then saw a 1 star fuling. I ran for my life

[nocturne wolf]

Troll armor is good enough if you also have poison resistance

[rotund parrot]

I am sure that if you are at least pretty consistent at dodging his attack you will be fine and find that the club takes him down very fast

[errant knoll]

I know troll with poison resist is fine, I just usually do it with an iron mace. I'm more concerned about whether I'm able to go for a longer period without messing up

[final bloom]

Just got back to the game and I loved the new cooking stations

[errant knoll]

Longer a fight goes on the more likely I lose focus

[nocturne wolf]

Just hold out a serpent scale shield whenever he’s about to attack

[final bloom]

Just rebuild my main hall to add a proper kitchen and it's so cozy

[rotund parrot]

With some decoratives feasts I hope

[errant knoll]

I found the serving tray quite weird to use at first

I didn't immediately clock that it worked like the hammer did and I was very confused

[final bloom]

For now I only have one, but I'll change it later for sure! Also some meads, cuz we vikings need some cool drinks

[rotund parrot]

Plenty more meads to choose from now and they are very useful too!

[errant knoll]

Animal whispers

[final bloom]

Yeah! I managed to find the new NPC, so will be starting brewing them next session

[rotund parrot]

Used that on loxes, worked well, you can't really use it sooner unless you want to tame wolfs as you need onion to make them

[warm sandal]

I have been brewing my way through all of em ... now i need to try them out 😄 but i always for get to bring them 😛

[final bloom]

I just reached Ashlands, so one of my goals is to find a 2*Askvins

[errant knoll]

At some point I'm going to take on the challenge of trying to locate, trap and tame a 2 star wolf, and animal whispers will help for that

[final bloom]

So the update is right on time for me

[frozen fable]

i haven't made a serpent shield or serpent stew in a few playthroughs. Just never see serpents anymore, not even at night or when it rains, its really low chance it feels like

[rotund parrot]

Good luck, it can take 1 to 23 nights

[final bloom]

Yeah, build a shed, trap it and wait... and wait...

If u lucky, u wont wait longer

[rotund parrot]

15 minutes instead of 30 is a huge improvement especially for wolfs which you can't really do anything else but wait on a mountain

[errant knoll]

I see serpents often enough so serpent stew gets made, issue is I usually have a set goal while sailing and so I just want the serpent dead, rather than go through the trouble of kiting it to a shore to grab scales

[warm sandal]

this is odd ... i do have things falling appart for no good reason i can make out... one of the roof tiles of my portal house on the ground, a box that is next to a nother box had been broken thrice the other is intact, and one box inside my house next to the door fell appart too... what is going on here?

[frozen fable]

that is odd, i have not seen that issue yet

[warm sandal]

is that a poltergeist? 🤪

[candid basalt]

Support. Make sure what it’s connecting to isn’t red

[warm sandal]

nah... all is well the portalhouse is all green up to the top it is a small house

[candid basalt]

Mobs getting in?

[warm sandal]

and the box was on the stonefloor that is blue

[frozen fable]

i'm currently chopping down trees next to a greydwarf spawner and chopping down core wood and greydwarfs for eyes

[warm sandal]

no mobs getting in... the ocational buzzy fly but they come for me

[candid basalt]

Eitr refiner?

[warm sandal]

and the one in the house can not be hit by those

[errant knoll]

That's the first thing that came to my mind too, that thing destroys it's surroundings

[candid basalt]

Refined Eitr sitting on the floor?

[warm sandal]

the zip zap machine is in a black marble housing with iron gate and iron grate for a roof no sparks shooting out

[errant knoll]

Oe at least, it destroys wood

[candid basalt]

Welp those are my ideas

[warm sandal]

no refined eiter laying out somewhere, i would not have radiocactive balls laying around where i grow chickins

there is NONE of the obvious reasons for things to break

[candid basalt]

Sleep casting ember staff?

[warm sandal]

and i would not even mention it if it was just one thing but i have had three things breaking for no reason now and one of them thrice

i am really baffled... i need to keep an eye on that....

[fervent hemlock]

anyone having issues uploading mods and bepinex?

will pay whoever can teach me

[warm sandal]

sorry can not help ... not using any mods what so ever go better over ask in the mods_issues channel?

[warm sandal]

who knows....

[near furnace]

almost everyone has problems with loading mods atm since we rescently updated

[fervent hemlock]

thanks just found it

[near furnace]

#mods-issues

[fervent hemlock]

ah so its normal for vortex to not work?

[near furnace]

yup

all and any mods

will break

[fervent hemlock]

dope

[near furnace]

we updated the game engine so...

[warm sandal]

LOL ka-ching i got two frost staff... I LOOOOOOVE that getting double thing...

[near furnace]

you can use a thing on steam to keep on playing with old mods until they are "bog witch" compatible

[fervent hemlock]

ahhh yea i used to play modded and i thought i lost the ability

[warm sandal]

first i got two feather cape and now two frost staff 😄 don't you just love getting the spare in case of death for free 😄 oh i am having so much fun whti that 😄

[near furnace]

valheim in library -> properties

[fervent hemlock]

i play on a server, will this affect me being able to connect

[tacit crystal]

I quite like those barrels. #screenshots message

[onyx pier]

I'd give up the bog witch update if it meant the game worked like it was

[vocal rivet]

What, worse?

[onyx pier]

I cant name portals or signs anymore

So now it's worse. Plus stuttering in the meadows

[warm sandal]

do you have mods running? those are most likely the problem if you have

[onyx pier]

Nope, vanilla xbox

[warm sandal]

hm..... i am not on xbox... so sorry can not be of help...

[vocal rivet]

Have you made a bug report?

[royal tendon]

Wait what my feast has disappeared from my table, i dont think i dismantled it and i definitely did not eat it

[vocal rivet]

Hm, looking at it, it appears to be a known issue already, so there's probably a patch imminent.

[warm sandal]

did you find the ingredients laying around?

[royal tendon]

Nope, i had already eaten from it a couple of times

[formal reef]

What happend to Valheim OST on spotyfi?

[vocal rivet]

We don't know. I guess they're updating it.

[odd marsh]

gotta love people planting

[formal reef]

Yo i'd love to add move valheim songs to my playlist

[onyx pier]

O ye. Its known. I've got a work around but its longer so I cant use it for emergency adventure portals like I have been

[vocal rivet]

Remember you're playing a game in early access. This can happen from time to time.

[formal reef]

Yea, I think like people are forgetting about the fact that this game is still in early access

[onyx pier]

Ye, but its frustrating with a favorite game. Especially when it was running smooth for so long

[vocal rivet]

Yep, that's the risk we take.

[fallen zephyr]

leans heavily on his walking frame ...for over... three and a half... years.

[fair kindle]

"back in my day" noises

[fallen zephyr]

Back in my day, we got the first level of games on a 3.25" floppy disk attached to a magazine cover, and we could try them before we bought them.

[warm sandal]

looks like you are about as old as me 😄 been there done that 😄

[fair kindle]

hold on, that was an actual thing that happened? 👀
(i was only around for the advent of floppy disks and video tapes)

[vocal rivet]

I remember those days.

[tacit crystal]

I also remember some of those disks, even thought CDs started to be common when I was small.

[final bloom]

Well, in Steam you can always return before 2hrs usage

[warm sandal]

I was adult when they CD came out...and the first CDs you could make yourself... 18 euro for ONE Disk ..that hurt if you messed it up

[vocal rivet]

I had half a dozen CDs before I had anything to play them on.

[fallen zephyr]

2 hrs being absolutely calculated to be the round number that provides Steam with a nett profit.

[vocal rivet]

Some games you can complete in 2 hours and that screws over any dev that makes such a game.

[fair kindle]

whaaaat? stores relying on well-known, subconscious triggers to exploit their customers? in this economy?

[warm sandal]

okay now... new mist patch found... now let's hope i can find a decent amount of skulls in it

[fallen zephyr]

That's an interesting observation. I wonder if that gets thrown up on the planning whiteboard. "This games needs to avoid completing Act-2 before two hours of playtime, or Steam is going to shaft us!"

[fallen zephyr]

Mist skulls?

Oh, you mean petrified bones.

[near furnace]

yes. all versions have to be the same, sadly

[fallen zephyr]

It worked for McDonalds.

[near furnace]

🤔

[odd marsh]

DAMN i love the whole roasted meadow pork, i could smell it through the screen like i could already imagine that tasty crispy pork skin, and that fatty layered meat

[warm sandal]

lol was raiding a fuling tower when i got the hunted event so i just stood up on one of the walls and blasted them wolves with fire 😄

[odd marsh]

love it when that happens

[fair cairn]

speaking of whole roasted pork
that is our plan for cristmass
a whole roasted pig

[odd marsh]

niceeeeee, idk what my family is going to cook for christmas tho soo yea xD were pretty random

[fair cairn]

though kinda sad, we planned something big and then my grandma went and passed away last week so.. its just going to be a whole roasted pig now with the entire family
and i mean entire family

[odd marsh]

ohh damn my condolences

[fallen zephyr]

That's fascinating! How does your family randomly determine what they'll cook for Christmas?

[odd marsh]

well not really random more like looking for something new, like last year they just ordered some sushi(from my friends father who was a chef,) was pretty cool ngl, last last year we went to this fancy looking buffet, last last laaastt year yea it was pretty boring xD had to cook some food cause it was just me and my 2 younger siblings at home lol

[tacit crystal]

We once had whole roasted pig on stick during one fest with relatives and it was very good. Please don't make me hungrier lol.

[fair cairn]

that is our plan this year

[teal matrix]

But making people hungry is fun. 👀

[odd marsh]

yea i just had pizza, and pasta, logged in and saw a whole roasted meadow pig, i forgot i left my character staring at it for hours lol

[fair cairn]

its evil
and absolutely 100%
positively
fun

pizza is pretty good, not a tihng in valheim yet i assume

[teal matrix]

Nah, doubt it will be, seeing as we lack tomatoes

[odd marsh]

we got eyescre- oh yea we got no tomatoes

[fallen zephyr]

Can I use this quote to promote my efforts with World Vision?

[teal matrix]

Do it up

[fair cairn]

we can subistute blood bags for tomatoes

[fallen zephyr]

Are you Scottish?

[teal matrix]

Vampire pizza.

[fair cairn]

unfortunately not

that spelling was so bad discord didnt even know what word it was 😦

[fallen zephyr]

Discord didn't know what to subistute it with.

[nocturne wolf]

Vineberries or a deep north eitr ingredient could make a sauce. We have bread for stamina, and a meat could be added on top in some way. Then the pizza will have health, stamina and eitr so it can be used as the final and best feast in the game.

[fair cairn]

i had to retype the whole word (thistime right) and yay discord didnt tell me it was wrong

[fair cairn]

pizza needs cheese though, i wouldnt want to eat a pizza my grandpa would eat (he hates cheese)

[nocturne wolf]

Greydwarf eyes are used as milk for eyescream so put some of those in the recipe

[tacit crystal]

Damn I'm hungry, gotta eat some Karelian pasties then.

[fallen zephyr]

Your grandpa sounds like a 'none pizza with left beef' kinda guy.

[fair cairn]

cheese made from creamy eyes
hmm
im not too sure

[nocturne wolf]

Either that or a new deep north ingredient

[fair kindle]

we do have minced meat sauce 🤔

it -looks- like it'll make for a nice pizza sauce

[fair cairn]

he was yea
we tricked him once with some food he said he hated
we made it anyway
he enjoyed it
we told him
he changed his tune to he hated it

[fallen zephyr]

I can't reply honestly, I'll get a channel warning. I hope your grandpa enjoys his left beef pizza.

[fair cairn]

i am now indeed curious lol

[warm sandal]

hm... well.. storm in the mist... not gonna go explore with a gjall know to be around in that ruckus ... can not hear where the foe are 😄 gonna build base instead

[odd marsh]

whoa, whats the clink sound when harvesting plants?

felt like stardew valley lmao'

[tacit crystal]

Bonus yield. Extra crop.

[odd marsh]

well thats a nice sound

[tacit crystal]

Correct. And it can also happen with foraging mushrooms and berries.

[odd marsh]

makes me want to plant more

ima go harvest more, luckily iv marked the berries and mushrooms

[tacit crystal]

I always mark mushrooms and berries in Meadows and Black Forest. Makes it easier to go foraging.

[vocal jackal]

Is there a way to fully eradicate a fuling village and settle the land safely, or do they still attempt to spawn even if you destroy all the structures?

[tacit crystal]

Fulings in villages spawn only once.

[vocal jackal]

I searched the issue and found extremely divided opinions on it, but all the entries are almost 3 years old, so that's why I asked here

Thank you for the answer

[rustic bane]

It's a shame valheim went off game pass

[tawdry wadi]

OUGHHHH I DIDN'T KNOW TAMED BOARS WOULD JUST RUN AWAY

[odd marsh]

yea, theyll roam aroudn

gotta prison them fully

[tacit crystal]

They might try getting to their original location. Their offsprings however stay still.

[tawdry wadi]

They didn't just roam off, they full on ran away
Ughhhh
THEY WERE FULLY TAMED DANG IT

[odd marsh]

gotta triple layer that prison xD

[pliant hatch]

Doesn't work if one of them is namelijk Houdini.

[frozen fable]

you can kill them all then raze their structures and build your own there. If you find a really good location, it can serve as a plains farm for you

[vocal jackal]

Aye, I'm trying to expand into the plains finally

Playing on this save with a few friends but they rarely have time, so we've only killed eikthyr and the elder so far, but the practical progression is much further along

[teal matrix]

Harvesting using the scythe is one of my new favorite sounds

Reminds me of bubble wrap

[odd marsh]

im getting that ASAP

[tawdry wadi]

good call, they did! But the necks were faster to act than me... Not like I could do anything anyway, there's no way to get them back to the sty

[tacit crystal]

I usually kill the originally tamed ones after they birth more so no one of them will run away.

[random kayak]

I haven't played valheim in a while, Question. is the spear better now?

[granite halo]

Yo folks, After you killed Ashlands boss, your friends started to quit? Do you experience the same thing with your friends as well?
Kinda meh for me, because you just opened a lot of new building possibilities, base expansions and now everyone is pretty much gone xd

[keen cliff]

only played solo, so no issue there. some gamers just want to beat a game and move on, i guess. and until Deep North adds final biome, they consider the game "beat"

[odd marsh]

are they not builders perhaps?

[tacit crystal]

Depending when you last played, I assume Spears have stayed the same fast attacking pattern.

[granite halo]

Yeah, I don't really enjoy playing any games solo:(

[odd marsh]

i enjoy playing solo, i just love the peace. (not copium at all)

[granite halo]

Says everyone who doesn't have play buddies! (joke joke!)

[odd marsh]

but truly i do enjoy the peace, im the builder of the group soo yea mostly im just naked building their houses(not a slave at all)

[keen cliff]

as an older gamer with too many life responsibilities, there's no way i could play with a group. it's a little better now that the kids are in high school, but i need to be able to PAUSE the game and deal with real life

[fair kindle]

but... who is going to fetch resources for you?

[candid basalt]

If you find a spot of mistlands that’s clear of mist, does it stay clear? Like I found one island clear while the areas all around were misty

[keen cliff]

yes.

[candid basalt]

Sweet

[plush umbra]

yes, the mist comes from invisible spawner objects that generate as the terrain does

[keen cliff]

and mistfree mistlands are some of the most beautiful spots in the game, imo. and can make perfect places to setup a farm

[candid basalt]

Yeah I have ideas now

[keen cliff]

if you're in a big mistfree area, suddenly gjalls are NOT scary.

[keen cliff]

awesome! Feel free to explore more and see if you find other good ones. they aren't super rare. don't settle for your first mistfree spot, imo.

[odd marsh]

Me ofcourse, like poor handyman running around chopping wood, naked

With a cart

[keen cliff]

if your group really loved you, they would have set you up with a greydwarf resource farm, so you could just afk to get infinite stone/wood

[shadow rivet]

there's no public servers?

they always asking me a code

even tho there's no key icon

[nocturne wolf]

Valheim is designed to be played with a single group progressing together on each server, not for multiple groups and individuals doing their own thing on a single world.

[shadow rivet]

damn

[verbal valley]

There are multiplayer servers 🤷‍♂️

Mutigroup / individual too

[shadow rivet]

where

[verbal valley]

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[shadow rivet]

I gotta wait to be accepted in their server

I just want to hop in

[keen cliff]

you can start your own game

[rotund parrot]

Doing a solo playthrough is the best way to ensure that you are learning how the game work. Playing with a group when you are new will likely result in you skipping ahead and not understanding all of the steps and not doing everything

[shadow rivet]

I know how to play I got bored of playing alone

[vocal jackal]

I've gone from swamp to plains only to be reminded I gotta kill moder to make a windmill

[granite halo]

well, I'm kinda the same. Like we arrive at Plains, select the terrain. I will build the wall, dig a moat. Build some nice storage and by that time I can see their dwarf'ish wooden houses mixed with drit, lmao

[granite halo]

I was so thankful for the Trollstav for farming stone

[frozen fable]

i'm currently fighting a 2 star troll

[granite halo]

Just summon friends for him kek

[frozen fable]

i killed him, took me about 35ish arrows

[magic wolf]

are bucklers better than banded shields/tower shields

[granite halo]

you can parry with them, so it makes them instantly better

The only way I can see tower shields work is when you play with few friends and you are set to be a "tank" But even then I would say Bucklers are btter ;d

[magic wolf]

yep, so... should i go for a banded shield or a buckler

[vocal jackal]

Depends on how much you wanna parry

[granite halo]

Still buckler, you want that parry bonus especially when with friends Monster HP scales

[vocal jackal]

Bucklers are no good for just blocking in my experience, though it depends on the enemy you're fighting

[granite halo]

Okay, one more scenario. IF you are playing on a laggy server, then Tower might be better as you won't parry that much anyways xd

[vocal jackal]

Normal shields can both block and parry decently well so if you're really unsure it's hard to go wrong with them

[magic wolf]

thanks guys

[frozen fable]

if you're in the swamp you want the banded shield

[vocal jackal]

It's mostly about how much you wanna specialize

[frozen fable]

make sure to fully upgrade the banded shield, it pays off later on when you fight Bonemass

[vocal jackal]

And you can always try the wood/bronze versions first to get a feel for them before you make iron gear

[pseudo ivy]

who play with me ?

[shadow rivet]

what is that death reaper spawning in the wood

[nocturne wolf]

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[nocturne wolf]

Odin? https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Odin

[shadow rivet]

yea that's him I thought I was tweaking

what is it doing

[cobalt canyon]

Has anybody ever turned around and seen him in their house?

[shadow rivet]

yea he'sa bitch

[cobalt canyon]

'Cause that would be creepy AF

[trail pelican]

i think you'd need a big house because he has to spawn a certain amount away

[upbeat crypt]

I take it the point of the mead ketill was to remove all the mead recipes from the tin cauldron?

[cobalt canyon]

Yup

[nocturne wolf]

Yes, the crafting list was getting too long

[cobalt canyon]

Shame it's swamp mats now though

[upbeat crypt]

good solution

[shadow rivet]

how can I go on the big tree in the sky

[nocturne wolf]

That's the food preparation table

[cobalt canyon]

mods.

[upbeat crypt]

swamp? I just built it with copper and tin

[nocturne wolf]

It has no collision and can't be reached normally.

[nocturne wolf]

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Food_preparation_table
This is made with swamp materials, not the mead ketill. It has locked cooked fish to swamps, which was already bad enough in black forest.

[shadow rivet]

ohh

[cobalt canyon]

ah

That berserkir mead though

I think that's going to see a lot of use

Pair with Bonemass, override the weaknesses, get to hackin'

[trail pelican]

gonna test it on Fader

saw people posting sub-minute kills on other bosses

[nocturne wolf]

Against fader you won't even need bonemass power. You could use root harnesk.

[trail pelican]

hahahahahaha, even better

[nocturne wolf]

His only physical non-pierce damage is a low blunt damage on meteors

[trail pelican]

root + bonemass + berzerkir--just to see how stupid we can get

[nocturne wolf]

root + bonemass won't resist pierce more

[cobalt canyon]

You can do all the new meads at once I think

[trail pelican]

right but it'd add just a little more resist right on the physical attacks? @nocturne wolf

[cobalt canyon]

Nope

resist is resist

[nocturne wolf]

No. Root harnesk and bonemass don't stack. Serpent scale shield is the only resistance that stacks becauce blocking resistances are applied separately.

[trail pelican]

ah well nvm then lol

[upbeat crypt]

so fishing is worse now, when it already felt like a moot way to make food?

[nocturne wolf]

Fishing for anything other than cooked fish is the same, but now an already bad food can only be obtained in a later biome.

[upbeat crypt]

cooked fish as a food seems like a waste anyways

[cobalt canyon]

Anybody have a clip of the newest top run speed?

Fenris armor + askvin cloak + Fader + mead

[upbeat crypt]

my main issue with fish is that you can't do anything until you have Barley flour with it

[trail pelican]

I've done with all short of Fader and it's already FAST

[nocturne wolf]

Specific fish are used in some of the new meads

[trail pelican]

like "oh shit, that was my stop" fast

[upbeat crypt]

ok that's a good improvement

[wintry valve]

fish mead sounds like a wrong thing to do

[nocturne wolf]

It gives fishing more use, that is what's important.

[little stream]

indeed - there's no added advantage or incentive to fish - feels much like the feature was tacked on as chrome (just to say 'there's fishing in-game too')

[cobalt canyon]

Fish wraps are a decent health food for Yag

[trail pelican]

fish mead sounds like something scandanavians WOULD make

[sinful fulcrum]

https://youtu.be/bwjurLeHn0Y?feature=shared

[hearty niche]

LOL it does sound so very Finnish.

[sinful fulcrum]

Ways to transport silver videos never get old

[plucky rampart]

just beat the elder for the first time, pretty proud of myself, wondering what appears in raids now that the elder is defeated

[fleet fable]

Would yall say yagluth continues the trend of not exactly being hard just taking a while that moder and bonemass and held? If it is so i might not even upgrade from silver gear unless i get curbstomped by things while doing extra plains exploration

[nocturne wolf]

Enemies from the swamp, or trolls

[plucky rampart]

…oh lord

[nocturne wolf]

They shouldn't be a problem if you've killed the elder

[fleet fable]

trolls are still more of an issue i would say because trolls can ruin bases, skeletons, draugrs and the blob family can't do that much other than minor damage and killing livestock

[nocturne wolf]

They only break what gets between you and them, so go outside and the trolls will leave your base alone.

[fleet fable]

provided you notice they are there, i had one of my bases ruined because i was not being attentive, iirc i was watching a guide

[fleet fable]

Anyone?

[cobalt canyon]

I mean Yag takes spirit damage

Might as well just bash with a frostner & move on to mistlands

[fair cairn]

silver sword would be slightly better no?

[weary moon]

to the devs, fire game

[nocturne wolf]

Silver sword is the best weapon for yagluth

[cobalt canyon]

(I like my maces)

[fleet fable]

Oh damn fr? Maybe i should get black metal pick and step up my silver game

[nocturne wolf]

Mace secondary is my favourite attack

[fair cairn]

ya know, using better pickaxes for mining silver doesnt relaly give much ofa boost

[rotund parrot]

I'd say yagluth is considerably harder than the bosses you have faced so far

[fleet fable]

I forgot secondaries existed until 2 days ago when i had to rummage through the controls to see what the wiki was talking about

[fair cairn]

unless you mine every single silver piece but the most just mine everything from out under the silver vein and pop it all at once

[fleet fable]

ok

[granite halo]

Does Root harnesk block 100% pierce dmg?

[fleet fable]

Didn't know you could do that, my reasoning was BM pick would have more damage and durability, so gathering would be faster

[fair cairn]

it also uses more stamina no?

[fleet fable]

if it does that would be insane, daresay it is 50% resist

but idk

[fair cairn]

its 50%

[fleet fable]

wdym, why would it?

[fair cairn]

100% would make you immune to well everything that pointy pokes

[nocturne wolf]

Later items use more stamina because you get better food

[cobalt canyon]

Antler pickaxe is technically best for terrain altering, because of the stamina usage

[fleet fable]

huh...

[fair cairn]

also easiest to repair

[trail pelican]

i honestly skip to the iron pick for that reason

you need a whole forge to repair bronze+ but the workbench good enough for antlers

[cobalt canyon]

You know the antler axe works on scrap piles as well?

[trail pelican]

exactly

[rotund parrot]

Extremely slow though

[trail pelican]

that's why he gives you 3

[fair cairn]

yes but i usually upgrade to iron as soon as i can

[fleet fable]

Is there really any point of me getting bm pick then? Not likely to hop to mistlands any time soon

[cobalt canyon]

bm yes

[rotund parrot]

First 50 iron I get always go into a level 3 iron pickaxe so I can start doing actual damage to the scrap piles

[fair cairn]

3 pickaxeds would mean 2 less slots and i need muh inventory slots

[cobalt canyon]

Need that to crack some skulls

[trail pelican]

early on though the inventory slots aren't the issue/are plentiful comparatiel

[fair cairn]

thats needs for mistlands stuff (also good for mining copper,tin and iron i guess

[trail pelican]

I don't carry all 3 everywhere but when mining iron initially i will, though again because workbench is right there easy repair, you really don't need to, I just don't wanna walk outside the crypt as many times

but inventory space doesn't seem too much a probelm for me at that stage

[rotund parrot]

Iron pickaxe level 3 will last longer than 4 antler one

You realistically will never break it before you need to go back to rest at your base

[trail pelican]

once I have iron sure, I build it and start using that instead of the antler ones, my point was skipping bronze pick

[rotund parrot]

oh yeah that should probably be skipped since it's not useful for progression

[errant knoll]

Yeah, bronze pick is a waste of time and resources

Tbh bronze most things is a waste of time and resources

[fleet fable]

have to say, bronze in general was quite annoying

[trail pelican]

frankly bronze just too grindy--and about to be obsolete--for me to justify grabbing more than the essential station upgrades, buckler, maybe 1 weapon (spear, mace etc) moving on

even the weapon feels like a waste, when you just about to build iron version of at least most of them

[fleet fable]

Took a lot longer to get the stuff to the point getting upgrades in quality was outlandish when all i need to do is fight big ass tree

[trail pelican]

I wish bronze gave you 2 or 3 bronze ingots for the 2 copper + 1 tin you put in

[rotund parrot]

You will still always at least need the forge, bronze axe, 80 nails, cultivator and ideally at least 2 fermenters

[errant knoll]

If something costs 8 bronze, it's as though you were using 24 of any other metal. So it's not just grindy, it is in general more expensive than mort other resources for gear

[trail pelican]

yeah def cultivator, fermenter--you might get away with skipping the boat if you can walk straight to a swamp from starter, skip straight to longship

[fleet fable]

Yeah, always found tin to be extrememly plentiful too while copper took ages

[errant knoll]

1 iron makes 10 nails vs 1 bronze making 20 also makes bronze nails more expensive.

And it's not just the metals, its also the wood and coal needed to process them, and the time involved in doing that

[trail pelican]

way more raw input metal and coal per bronze ingot to be sure--it is kinda weird they don't give the same # of nails

[rotund parrot]

Early game will always feel worst though just because your level are so low, but come back a bit later to get copper when you have portals, a way to transport them by boat and an iron pick and it really is not that bad

[trail pelican]

like ingot to ingot, seem like about the same mass of metal

[cobalt canyon]

(How does Iron gain weight though)

[errant knoll]

If 1 bronze gave 30 nails its processing cost would be on par with irons

[pliant hatch]

Bronze is less grindy as Iron is.
You get a shitload of building mats while mining for copper, while mining for iron gives you two items you barely need anymore.

[trail pelican]

you're not wrong about that at all @rotund parrot it just strikes me as specifically weird we put 3 in to get 1 out, and if they just tweaked that one ratio it'd make the bronze age faster which I don't think most people would mind

iron is only grindy because you need an infinite amount of it

[rotund parrot]

Yeah many people seem to get stuck at that stage and struggle to progress/take way too long there

[errant knoll]

Iron isn't grindy it's just high demand. The actual iron gear is much faster and cheaper to make than bronze is, it's just something you want to skip if possible to save on time

[trail pelican]

like comparing all things--sure you do get tons of stone mining copper, which you ideally save and be grateful to your past save later you did, but that's not what most people are thinking about when they mine the bronze, esp. first time through

[cobalt canyon]

I mean once you have some form of frost resistance (fenris coat is a non-metal solution), you can just grab 3 finewood bows, 600 fire arrows, head up to moder, get it over with

(Or campfire spam)

[errant knoll]

Silver meanwhile is the opposite, the demand for silver is low but silver equipment uses a lot of it though.

Genuinely though, the small amount of iron used to make a silver sword is more of a cost than the 40 silver is

[fleet fable]

I have alerted the horde (i forgot to clear out the fulings before talking their flax, even some lox joined the skirmish)

[trail pelican]

I feel like mountain is the fastest/shortest biome

[errant knoll]

I care about parting with the iron, I don't care about parting with the silver

[rotund parrot]

I can be done with the mountain from start to finish in less than 3 in game days

[fleet fable]

Why is one glowing

[old flint]

Wait how does the moder ability work

[rotund parrot]

Always tailwind when sailing

[pliant hatch]

Also, don't forget that when mining iron SNG can hit you hard.
I've had crypts where I left with 27 iron scraps max.
And 15 of those useless Withered Bones.

[old flint]

im not getting tailwind

[cobalt canyon]

Ashlands ||Walking to, for the askvin cloak||

[rotund parrot]

are you on a boat?

[old flint]

ye

[rotund parrot]

Did you activate the power?

[old flint]

yes

[errant knoll]

If you're not sailing straight it doesn't give like a perfect tailwind

[rotund parrot]

screenshot?

[errant knoll]

Even if the curve is only slight

[old flint]

It has been pointing south for 20mins

[rotund parrot]

it doesn't change the wind direction on the map, but if you look at where the wind is in comparison to the boat it will be directly behind you

[errant knoll]

Every time I've used moders power it's changed it on the minimap

[rotund parrot]

wasn't sure about that one

you are probably right

[errant knoll]

I'm not sure how it works on multiplayer servers though, I'm playing alone.

What's it like if 2 separate people are using moders powers and sailing in different directions? Will it show the same direction on both maps? If so what takes priority?

[burnt tide]

(LFG) I am just returning back to Valheim. Its been a while and i wasnt sure if much has changed in the game from the last time ive played (roughly over a year ago.)

[rotund parrot]

It's probably independent, I assume if 2 people have the power and sail in different direction, they will both have tailwind and if a 3rd person is also sailing without it, their power won't affect him

[old flint]

im playing solo too rn

on my way to chall the skeleton guy for first time in ashlands 😎

[errant knoll]

All I know is whenever I used moders power and sail it definitely changes on the minimap, but doesn't always give me a perfect tailwind. It's more like it negates a headwind

[fleet fable]

Why the hell does padded armour use IRON, why not silver or the metal of the month black metal?

[vagrant dock]

Anyone got any tips/tricks for server performance? Like do’s and dont’s for longevity

[fleet fable]

#1024264966712340510

[burnt tide]

thank you

[errant knoll]

Silver has magical properties and is quite soft, not ideal for making armor (notice how many silver weapons use iron too).

Meanwhile black metal is glowing. Maybe its radioactive? Good foe a weapon but you wouldn't want to be wearing too much of it

[rotund parrot]

Why does X use iron is something you are going to ask yourself a lot, so plan accordingly

[fleet fable]

uh oh

[errant knoll]

Also yes, iron is the most in demand metal In the game so get comfortable with the swamps, you'll need to go there for return trips

[keen cliff]

the other side of iron: later in the game, with higher biome food/gear, it's WAY easier to obtain iron. so don't bother getting a ton when you just make it to the swamp. get what you need. you can get iron more later, and it will be faster

[fleet fable]

fair enough but entire wolf armour set does still use silver, but i spose the argument could be made that silver just binds the hide

[errant knoll]

It's using lots of layers of thick wolf fur as a defense - admittedly wolf armor using silver is a bit weird considering silver is a softer metal

[fleet fable]

yeah

[errant knoll]

Honestly though, as others said don't bother making a massive stockpile of iron, a couple of extra stacks should hold you over for a while. Eventually you'll be going to the swamps to relax lol

And you're in plains right now right? Without spoilers, the biome after this one also has access to iron

[pliant hatch]

And what do you think the Ulf and Fenris are?
You use silver in your armor to protect against them

[fleet fable]

perhaps the softness is needed to bind it, harder metals may need heated

[fleet fable]

yeah

[errant knoll]

So like, you need it but you won't need to go out of your way to find it

[keen cliff]

100%. going back to the swamp in ashlands gear to do some crypts is relaxing now.

[fleet fable]

Will i need to return to the plains often for say flax? (IE should i wait around and make a good outpost with an actual base, not just a hut)

[keen cliff]

you need a very finite amount of flax

[rotund parrot]

You will probably need to farm quite a bit of the 2 crops that grow only in the plain

[keen cliff]

barley has way more later game usage

[errant knoll]

Short answer: it depends.

Long answer has spoilers.

You can plant flax with a cultivator so you don't need to go out of your way to find it, just plant it, go away and let it grow

[pliant hatch]

Plains is best biome for a main base anyway.
All crops up to and including plains grow there.

[trail pelican]

you can grow the first 5 crops in the plains, so plains is a good spot to have at least a base farming IMO

[keen cliff]

best base is a plains island that you can completely spawn proof 🙂

[errant knoll]

I have farms set up in the plains and mistlands (have yet to go to the ashlands)

[keen cliff]

well, i guess a plains/mistlands combo island is the best actually

[errant knoll]

For crops I don't do a base, I just make a tiny, tiny outpost far away from my base and set up a portal

Nothing actually happens while you're not there so you just leave and they're safe.

It's perfect because the mistlands have a few pockets of area where you can see quite far without a wisplight and those are perfect for cultivating

The ideal mistlands farm spot is in one of those patches with access to a couple of roots so you can leave extractors there and slowly gain sap, even if you're not seeking it actively

[pliant hatch]

If that spot is close to the Queen, you're really happy. As you can build a nice mini base under the stairs.

[keen cliff]

yes, this is what i have. a large mist-free area, with 2 roots right next to my nicely planted farm right in the middle. (and more roots at the edges) i can see gjalls coming from miles away.

[errant knoll]

Yeah. I'm not really a " big base" type of guy. First time I tried to make a big unassailable base where I had access to everything actually ruined the game for me, burnt me out. So when I play now I don't pick spots to make bases, I'm opportunistic?

Draugr village? That's a lot of prebuilt territory for me to use.

Dvergr towers? Nice prebuilt mini bases just waiting to be conquered

[old flint]

this lord reto just used attack I have never seen

[keen cliff]

i love building my big bases. it's fun.

[old flint]

I fought him like 10mins he was like 1/5 health

[errant knoll]

For me, the thought of it is fun. But when I've gone through my can't remember how many stacks of stone, I'm still not done and I'm still barely laying foundations... yeah, it's a pass

[keen cliff]

i've done a lot of prep work for stuff like that. 🙂 i had over 200 stacks of wood and stone each before this latest build project. side effect of my blood magic farm

not 1000 stacks, sorry, number wrong lol

[errant knoll]

I genuinely could not stand to farm that much resources is the thing. I'm not someone who can just zone out and do it while watching netflix or something is the thing. I really like to focus on specific things

[trail pelican]

in survival proper, I feel the best way--unless you enjoy grinding for wood and stone--is to gradually evolve a base adding little by little until its a mega base

[keen cliff]

yeah, like i said, my wood/stone all came from AFK farming.

[trail pelican]

otherwise I can imagine fatigue setting in real quick, setting oneself to the task of building a whole mega base from scratch, no resources saved up, no hammer mode

[keen cliff]

skeletons kill grey dwarves over night, and i collect all the resources eventually.

but i agree with TheThirdArchon, my bases tend to evolve over time. I don't just build and done.

[errant knoll]

Yeah, I can't do that is the thing

It's a psychological thing, my mind is so focused on the end goal that I have to push for that asap

I understand that's a me problem but I'm not sure I cam undo that mental wiring lol.

It's great for things like exploring, or sailing, or cooking food. Just not for base building, which is more of a long term goal

[keen cliff]

yeah, i'm ok with getting to "good enough" for my base, and then go back to other things. Then eventually I decide something like "time to work on the kitchen", or "time to improve my storage". I set mini-goals as part of the entire base project.

[old flint]

Reto doesnt give a trophy?

[errant knoll]

It nags at me lol. "Why can't I cook blood pudding yet? I need to do this NOW!"

[trail pelican]

this #screenshots message started with just that one A-frame building (not even one I build, a pre-gen I just repaired) with the troll head

[errant knoll]

But it's like that for literally the entire base once I start it

And hell knows if I try to just set up bare basics everything, I will definitely not have set aside enough space for it

[pliant hatch]

I'm usually setting up the plateau and basement of my main building when I got access to the hoe and antler pickaxe..
After that it's a 4x5 shack for bed, cooking fires and fermentor (may need to adjust that) until I get iron and can build in stone. And for quite some time the only protection are palisade walls.

[errant knoll]

Also, for reference my issue isn't so much with wood building (though that can burn me out a tad).

It's stone building

[hidden brook]

can i transfer a character onto another steam account?

[acoustic sorrel]

Recently learned about Power Combos/Dodge Counters/other combat-focused tech/exploits, was wondering if they're allowed to be discussed here - wanted to know if people were doing more research/testing into them and/or if there's a more standard name for them

[pliant hatch]

That's why building a base in steps work best.
Do a part of the main house, go off exploring, build a part, go hunting, build etc.
Makes life a lot easier.

[nocturne wolf]

They're allowed to be discussed here, but don't know about your other questions.

[errant knoll]

My issue is with future proofing any design I make. If I make something that's good enough for right now, it often doesn't have enough space for later. And every time I try to judge it, I always misjudge it.

The closest I've gotten to getting it right was this playthrough where rather than building a base, I took over a draugr village and restored the buildings one at a time, repurposing them as I unlocked new things

[acoustic sorrel]

#screenshots message was interested since I was messing around with it and discovered a movement tech you can use (using a fist power combo)

[frozen fable]

i made a nice home before going off into the swamps i built a house with 4 rooms in it and a center room

[gray sand]

I can't build nice homes until Plains.

[frozen fable]

workbench area, forge area, cooking area, livign area, storage area

[errant knoll]

That worked for me.because there was a template already in place and I just had to fill in the gaps.

When starting from scratch it feels overwhelming to me

[warm sandal]

that is why i do like to build growing houses... first a two story main house and then additions to it.. i am not good at judgeing future needs either 😄 and tearing it down and start over is exhausting 😄

[frozen fable]

when i get to plains i'll settle on a new land mass and build something closer to Ashlands

[pliant hatch]

One trick I use is to activate dev-commands, look at how large the items I want to build in the future are, and adjust my building according to that.

Only to end up screwed because the Devs come up with new crafting stations. 🤦‍♂️

[errant knoll]

In my taken over draugr village there's one building that's the comfort/bed house, a kitchen, a workshop, a forge and 2 storage spaces. The plan is to build just one new building and merge the galdr table setup with my bedroom setup in the new building, and turn the old bedroom into a chicken farm

[frozen fable]

my roofing issues are solved by using core wood beams to hold the roofing tiles when the walls are not in straight lines

[haughty falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/improvise-adapt-overcome-bear-grylls-gif-10468556

[errant knoll]

Oh, and one of the 2 storage spaces becomes a black furnace, expanding storage in the second spot to compensate

[warm sandal]

i am kinda proud of myself i managed to tetris the cauldron, three wooden cooking stations, the mead ketill and the iron cooking station onto ONE hearth and they are all working 😄

[errant knoll]

Oh right, something I have noticed.

Sometimes I can use my cauldron and mead ketil even though there's no fire beneath them

[keen cliff]

wow! that's impressive. I just do 2 hearths.

[keen cliff]

known bug post-bog witch update

[errant knoll]

I thought it was a bug because never used to be able to

[pliant hatch]

I do one with 2 campfires next to it.

[warm sandal]

cauldron and mead ketill left and right the wooden ones in the middle and the iron one in the back...works nicely and does not need that much of a chimney 😄 with the oven next to it it gives a nice kitchen front too 😄

[keen cliff]

my current kitcken build is shown here: #building-screenshots message

with a lot of black metal chests for storage in the floor

[warm sandal]

i already closed the game for today, so i can not make a screenshot of mine right now... if I do not forget i will get one tomorrow... my kitchen is way more "household"-sized...your's seem a little industrial standard there 😄 neat setup but would not fit my tiny home 😄

[keen cliff]

yeah, i've got a lot of space to work with up there. i have entire levels of the base completely empty

[warm sandal]

I usually do not have empty rooms as i glue new additions to it if I need them 😄 so i do not burn myself out getting all the stone and wood to build all of that 😄

gonna get some screens tomorrow if i do not forget

[keen cliff]

yeah, this is the first base i've built from scratch. i already had a meadows base that was completely functional. this is "hey, yagluth's altar is on a tiny island, i should turn it into my end game base"

once i framed out the large platform, that gave me the foundation i'm starting with

[pliant hatch]

I think anagromydaL has seen both the main bases in my two games, so she knows how I like to set things up.

But it's basically a Skyrim house.

[warm sandal]

yeah i know... but i would make the ceiling a wee bit higher 😄 you got loads of floorspace and a bit to low ceilings (for MY taste 😄 ) i usually go with 4m high ceilings... I do suffer from claustrophobia 😄

[pliant hatch]

I do admit the ceiling in the YT house is too low.
If I go for a plains base, I will raise it at least by 1meter.

[lilac pawn]

yea pretty good

[hidden brook]

first time getting haldor without cheats and solo (playing in a group but solo adventure)

[pallid copper]

how to turn Black marble quarter spire upside down ?

[gray sand]

Should just be another piece that is the inverted version.

[pallid copper]

ive trying been 15 mins

i don't have that piece

i cant fill the hexagonal gate from the top with marble stone lol

[idle nest]

does anyone know from experience whether the porcupine (lvl 4), frostner (lvl 4) or BM sword is best for Yagluth? Ik the silver sword is arguably the best but im too lazy to grind out 40 silver lol

[gray sand]

Silver Sword is best for Yagluth.

Of those choices, Frostner would be better.

[idle nest]

Cool thx

[nocturne wolf]

The frostner and black metal sword would do the same damage so use whatever you have the highest skill for

[gray sand]

Spirit DoT stacks.

[nocturne wolf]

It's the same damage per hit but applied over a period of time

A hit of 20 spirit and another hit of 20 spirit halfway through the effect would stil give 40 total damage

[idle nest]

Is yag affected by frost in any way? Meaning that he would be slowed

[gray sand]

Yag is slow AF as it is.

[nocturne wolf]

He'd be slowed but he doesn't move much anyway and the turnspeed reduction won't do much because his attacks cover a large area

[idle nest]

my main concern is turn speed with his laser attack

[gray sand]

Just run sideways?

[nocturne wolf]

Move diagonally towards him, it won't hit you and is a great opening for some damage

[idle nest]

Gotcha, im playing with someone who is new to the game so i was trying to strategize the best way i could keep them alive lmao

[pliant hatch]

Are you able to mine out some space under the altar?

[rotund parrot]

with 2 people it's easier as you can have both eikthyr and bonemass activated, make sure he has fire resist too

[gray sand]

Food is paramount.
Then Fire Mead.

Rest is simple.

I genuinely just face-tank him with Fire Resist mead and whack until he uses Meteor -> Run around until Meteor over, resume face-tanking.
Whack until dead.

[pliant hatch]

If you can mine out some space, do so as it gives a safe zone.

Also. Eikthyr power may be better as Bonemass power.

[tacit crystal]

Huh, so many Abominations in this playthrough... Starting to be all geared almost 👍

[idle nest]

Cause his attacks are less physical damage correct?

[nocturne wolf]

Yes, mostly fire

[gray sand]

Overwhelming majority is fire.

[pliant hatch]

And Eikthyr gives less stamina use when sprinting away. 😉

[nocturne wolf]

Don’t sprint away, you take too long to run back and resume damage. Just block the meteors while walking backwards.

[idle nest]

I Wanna play around with the berserkir mead vs him too

See how that goes

[nocturne wolf]

If you are going to use berserkir mead, bring Bonemass power

[pliant hatch]

With 2 players you can run away while the other one fights.

Especially when one is a new player.

[idle nest]

Would the physical damage weakness be that much of a difference vs his attacks tho? I figured it would be basically no downsides with the fire resistance negating most of the damage anyway

[distant turret]

can i join anyone world

[nocturne wolf]

#1024264966712340510

[distant turret]

ty

[rotund parrot]

It really would all of his attack deal physical damage

Most of the damage is not fire, it's about half physical and half fire

[idle nest]

Oh gotcha didn’t realize

[rotund parrot]

Like one meteor will deal 150 physical damage and 140 fire (70 with the potion)

[distant turret]

yo evo u got a server?

[rotund parrot]

Many people looking for people in that section, you can also create a post when you are looking and people might answer

[light moat]

Valheim is so freaking quality 💪

[pliant hatch]

Another tip:

Once Yag is defeated and the head is on the sacrificial stone, get his power, sac another 5 trophies and do his fight again.

Yags power works best when fighting Yag.

[cosmic igloo]

has the devs made any statement about making an actual kraken?

[light moat]

No, don’t think. Not a lot of interest around such an enemy 🙂

[gray sand]

Krakens aren't from norse mythos afaik.

[cosmic igloo]

The Kraken is a mythological creature from Norse legend. Kraken mythology originated in Norse Mythology and was based on sightings of a large sea creature. The Kraken was said to haunt the seas of Norway, Greenland, and Iceland

[gray sand]

So all the greek mythos about Krakens is just what.. borrowed from the future?

[cosmic igloo]

idk thats just what google told me

[gray sand]

Ah yes, because the great deity known as google is the font of infallible knowledge 😉

[cosmic igloo]

ok you are annoying to talk to, cani talk to someone else pls

[gray sand]

No, this entire server is just you and I.
Everyone else has left. You can see the population declining rapidly.

[frigid gust]

It's not just Google. Wikipedia says it right in the first paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken

[gray sand]

My question regarding the greek version remains unanswered 🤷‍♂️

[nocturne wolf]

A stronger enemy to fight on a boat would be a pain to kill with low bow skill or too easy to kill with high bow skill, and potentially losing a boat or multiple would be incredibly expensive

[cosmic igloo]

would be awesome to be afraid of sailing the ocean.. the serpent is nothing...

[frigid gust]

Many civilizations have myths around sea monsters. Just like many have dragons, and flooding, fires, etc.

[cosmic igloo]

just make it rare and only appear in deep ocean

[azure yacht]

Why would they?

[cosmic igloo]

maybe theres some interest

idk, i just wanna hear if they have said anything thats all

[light moat]

Nope, not much interest 🙂

[azure yacht]

Even if they were to add it, why would they confirm when there's not even an ocean update completely confirmed?

[cosmic igloo]

jesus christ wtf. is it usually this difficult to chat here? i just asked simple question

not anything complicated

[light moat]

Why are you getting upset? Think everyone is just casually chatting, yeah? 😁

[cosmic igloo]

whatever

[keen cliff]

🍿

[light moat]

Hard to convey and interpret tone over texts, don’t take it personal 🍻

[gray sand]

Yes, it is difficult to chat here if you're going to take things personally and become upset. 😄

[azure yacht]

I have seen people whine about getting a 👎 in the suggestions channel and insult you as if you cursed their entire bloodline

Nothing surprises me anymore

[cosmic igloo]

yea im upset now etc etc nice chat guys thx for the answer bb

[light moat]

To broaden your scope a bit more, a lot of players are interested in ocean content. Many just would rather see something other than a boss.

[gray sand]

I would be fine if you threw my boss in the ocean. 😏

[azure yacht]

Ocean doesn't need a boss.

A mini boss makes more sense, but not a main boss

[cosmic igloo]

well im not asking for a boss, they can even make it invuln. just i want something scary on the ocean

right now its so boring

[gray sand]

Valheim is known for being a horror game.

[nocturne wolf]

Ashlands introduced an ocean enemy, maybe we could see something new in deep north

[azure yacht]

Fair enough.

I do wish for ocean to be terrifying as well

[azure yacht]

But that's ashlands, bonemaws aren't a danger anywhere else in the ocean.

Even if DN added something similar, it wouldn't be much different

[nocturne wolf]

The floating ice platforms already found in deep north could make it vulnerable to melee combat which would be interesting

[cobalt canyon]

Get Jonah'ed and have to kill it from the inside

[light moat]

Jabu Jabu’s belly 😂

[vital umbra]

Not judging but why do so many people ask to find someone to play....i can't understand being so eager to join/host a world for rando's lul....if i wanna play with someone it'd be someone specifically i'd like to play with..

it makes more sense for a game like deep rock galactic i think..

[light moat]

Not my thing, but meeting and playing with people you don’t know can certainly have an angle of fun to it.

[glacial sedge]

is the ashlands landing still comparable to normandy or was it nerfed heavy

[light moat]

I think it was nerfed pretty heavily

[tacit crystal]

It's lighter Normandy now.

[glacial sedge]

lame

[vital umbra]

well i do know i'm antisocial so that helps

[fading dove]

i sailed my karve into the swamp and immediately met by a wraith, abomination, and draugr patrolling the shoreline

(i felt true concern and fun)

[opal prairie]

First swamp meet up at night?

[azure yacht]

Some have still stated the Normandy landing part remains

[fading dove]

ohhh, i never took into account day night i was too excited finding the biome and sailed straight into mt doom

valheim

[opal prairie]

Same mistake I made first time I found the swamps and stayed too long till it became night and got jumped.

[cyan grotto]

Classic swamp experience

You're lucky the leeches didn't get a hold of you before all of that stuff did

[opal prairie]

I bet a classic Valheim experience is getting killed by a tree.

[cyan grotto]

Everybody that's played this game has done it at least once

And anyone that says anything else is either brand new or lying

[gray sand]

@jagged geode uh.. where is Tasty Mead?

[jagged geode]

🙈 i knew i mised something!

[gray sand]

Literally the uncontested best mead in the game. 😦

[jagged geode]

I'll have to figure out how to squeeze it in

[nocturne wolf]

What about lightfoot?

[vital umbra]

are all of its stats just copied from the old feather cape

[rotund parrot]

No, they give much better boost and the cape retain some bonus too

[nocturne wolf]

That’s why it’s so good

[vital umbra]

I get intensely mixed messages about the mead....

I have no idea what to think, thanks community....guess i'll just have to judge it for myself..

[rotund parrot]

mead give you this: -30% jump stamina cost and +20% jump height

Well it's the last time I interact with you

[vital umbra]

i don't remember what the feather cape was

huh

[nocturne wolf]

Feather cape + lightfoot mead + eikthyr power = 0% jump cost? I need to test that when I can…

[vital umbra]

wdym lol

[pliant hatch]

Killer seals!

[vital umbra]

Ehhh

[pliant hatch]

Nah, it's more like Iwo Jima right now.

[vital umbra]

i seem to have caused some variety of upset

[pliant hatch]

That's normal for this channel, so no need to be upset about people being upset because others are being upset.

[vital umbra]

lul

[pliant hatch]

Oh and to add to that, some people are easy to become upset, while there are also some users who're very good at getting others upset.

[vital umbra]

just human things

hahaa...i'm certainly not trying to upset anyone, at worst i think i've gotten heated a couple times in #suggestion-discussion

[vocal jackal]

Is the silver shield worth it or should I just make an iron one for now and go for blackmetal later?

[gray sand]

Worth is subjective to the individual.

[vital umbra]

i would say it is cheap enough

compared to other things you craft from silver like the fucking SIXTY bar costing sword

[cobalt canyon]

Reasons I like maces

[gray sand]

Iron Buckler parries for 100, Silver Shield parries for 108.

[opal prairie]

It is quite cheap so if you have silver to spare go for it, else just got for iron and blackmetal later.

[gray sand]

Blackmetal parries for 135.

[cobalt canyon]

Are there actually only 3 bucklers?

Bronze, Iron, carapace?

[gray sand]

Yes.

[vital umbra]

iron buckler looks cooler with a dagger

[nocturne wolf]

Silver shield looks cooler than any buckler

[vital umbra]

silver shield just does not fit aesthetically with it 😔 too big

i like silver shield better but i mean a certain type of build #screenshots

[vocal jackal]

Thanks!

[languid vessel]

i love this random item duplication
I turned 60 raw chicken into 67 honey glazed chicken

[vital umbra]

i just saw someone pronouncing yagluth as 'yoo glooth'

that seems wrong...am i wrong?...i say 'yah gluth'...

[livid zenith]

I say ya-gloof, but I’ve heard others

[vocal jackal]

Man, lox are tough as nails

[onyx pier]

Lol, ye

I try to lore em to tar pits. Or to hildir and shoot em from inside the shield

Lure*

[hearty niche]

2+ vikings with atgeirs is the way to go. Like huntin mammoths.

With the better atgeirs you can stun them with the spin move and then everyone just goes to town stabbing it while it's stunned

Spin, stab stab stabby stab stab, repeat as necessary

[vital umbra]

i feel like lore-wise yagluth would have been much more formidable before odin literally got his hands on him huh 🤔

[errant knoll]

Kinda justified because despite being a mountains biome weapon, it does more damage to the plains boss than anything else

[vital umbra]

a bit silly...i was always disappointed with the plains weapons / armour, except for the porcupine thats cool and unique enough.

equipment-wise my least favourite biome overall...i still love the atmosphere and all the food options..

[errant knoll]

Agree, but also o think the plains is the most incomplete biome in the game, and we're likely to get another armor set from it in the future if I were a betting man

[vital umbra]

any new weapon would be good too....

Black metal weapons are so goddamn bland...i think the basic flametal weapons get away with it because they don't have an ugly green-black texture...but the porcupine makes it work, pretty much exclusively out of all the plains weapons.

[errant knoll]

Well we didn't get a bow in the plains either. Imagine a plains tier "darkwood bow" or something that needs Tar

Make it wield more like the huntsman bow than the draugr fang where it's quieter

[azure yacht]

You only use silver almost exclusively for gear, it makes sense that the cost is increased as compensation

And it's the second easiest metal to gather

[onyx pier]

That would be cool. Give it a slow effect too. Or a tar arrow

[vital umbra]

why did flametal get changed sooo much....the smelted bar from before actually looked pretty damn cool..

[tepid prawn]

To stop some extreme cheese of some people easily mining like 800 bars and then crafting everything the second the biome releases I believe. its a nice relic to have though now.

I have 60 bars and 600ish ore xD

[gray sand]

Odd way to spell "pretty, pleasing to look at green-black texture that I wish we had build pieces made from."

[vital umbra]

the black metal sword, knife, atgeir and axe all look really lame.

[gray sand]

*in your opinion.

[vital umbra]

the shields look cool, and the chest looks cool.

[tepid prawn]

BM Atgeir imo is the prettiest one

[glacial sedge]

in my objective opinion the shields look atrocious and the sword looks dope (cool ass falchion design)

[vital umbra]

i don't mind the look of black metal but they don't work well when the weapons themselves just look boring 🤣

[gray sand]

Good thing they don't look boring then 😉🙃

[tepid prawn]

is crafting a Black Metal Pitchfork now 😛

[glacial sedge]

i just hate the weird chains and little bits on the edge of the shield. it's ugly/barbaric to me but i guess it make sense since it's metal from the fulings

[vital umbra]

i think it should look ugly and barbaric, better than boring lul..

ugly in a way that looks good yknow

[glacial sedge]

yeah it makes sense, i just feel like it couldve been uglified in a more pretty way (oxymoronic ik)

the atgeirs are basically just glaives/bardiches so i feel like the blackmetal atgeir couldve leaned a bit more into the glaive look

[glacial sedge]

i mean what could you want from an axe

[vital umbra]

look at jotuns bane

the berserkir axes

[glacial sedge]

yeah but jotuns bane looks silly, like a spirit halloween prop. berserkir axes are cool though, and i mean the blackmetal axe has a similar head. it's just the handle that's straight. maybe an engraved handle would have been more unique

[vital umbra]

i actively switched to jotuns bane even though its basically worse, just because it looks cool i think!!!!!!!!!

[glacial sedge]

how is it worse? havent ever used it

[vital umbra]

i don't remember the specifics....i think it was either the same slash damage, or worse, and added poison damage..

it felt worse as a tool

[glacial sedge]

it has worse stagger and knockback, and less overall damage to trees thanks to the poison

berserkir axes are a great upgrade though, so much more damage

[gray sand]

Poison sucks.

[vital umbra]

something has a weakness to poison...i just can't remember what..

[gray sand]

That is the whole of how it is worse.

[vital umbra]

was it cultists

[gray sand]

🤷‍♂️

[glacial sedge]

doesnt it get better? ive heard people say the jade upgrades are good

[gray sand]

Even with weakness it sucks because the DoT merely refreshes.
So multiple hits (which you're going to do) nets overall less damage due to the way the DoT operates.

[gray sand]

Jade is amazing for ranged because it Roots people, which synergizes with ranged weapons perfectly.

Has nothing to do with Poison.

[vital umbra]

cultists and ulvs are the only things weak to poison in the entire game 👽

[gray sand]

Most everything in Ashlands is immune to poison.

[vital umbra]

maybe it could've been acid as a damage type or something, that would be interesting

[gray sand]

Or just make Poison worth it 🤷‍♂️

[glacial sedge]

so i should apply jade to the the lategame bows, and iolite to melee weapons? bleed looks pretty good though tbh, but i guess that's only the case if i plan to be taking damage

[gray sand]

Yes. Melee is blue or red, ranged is green or red.

If you run HHS and can consistently be missing 25% of your HP, red wins.

[glacial sedge]

hhs?

[gray sand]

... Food.

[glacial sedge]

yeah sorry i just realised, thought you were talking about some armour

[gray sand]

Bloodstone sniper builds are the most powerful single-target damaging builds in the game. But you have to puke a lot 😂

[glacial sedge]

oh man i can imagine

[gray sand]

Puke, eat, shoot.
Your first shot you're "missing" ~90% of your HP.

Bloodstone crossbow is going to deal massive amounts on that opener.

Bloodstone bow will get multiple shots in before you heal up enough. At which point enemies are usually closing in and you can switch to a Ling melee weapon anyway.

[glacial sedge]

honestly sounds much better than green