valheim-chat

[idle storm]

works for dodging underwater rocks in a longship too since you can actually see them underwater if they're not 20+ meters in front of you 😂

[plush umbra]

-# or simply the fact that it's much bigger and thus looks slower

[fallen zephyr]

I propose a drag race!

[wintry valve]

I decided to investigate a "mysterious place" today

It was not a nice surprise

[trail pelican]

XD

[fallen zephyr]

Did you expect a Gentlemen's Club?

[wintry valve]

Well no but I didnt expect to see this many celebrities

So many stars

BUT, I made some green crossbow and it was very handy

[fallen zephyr]

It's a shame you needed to clarify that. It was a great joke.

[wintry valve]

Its hard to make subtle humor because sometime its too subtle (or just not funny)

[fallen zephyr]

Wouldn't it be fun if starred enemies dropped some item that allowed us to build floor pieces that looked like 'Walk of Fame' type tiles.

[wintry valve]

It would be funny for a while but these kind of things tends to dilute the setting. Valheim, I feel, aims to be grim and metal. If you start to allow stuff like that, it gradually becomes silly.

But yeah, it would be funny.

[fallen zephyr]

There's maypoles, xmas trees, gift boxes, and pumpkin lamps...

[wintry valve]

That is true, but at least those are seasonal

[fallen zephyr]

Oscars season!

[wintry valve]

Maypoles arent silly though. Its an ancient european tradition. And while they probably didnt have decorated trees, christmas also is.

[fallen zephyr]

We could award Golden-Flat-Earths!

[wintry valve]

turnip lamps is also older than you'd think

well... not that old actually, like not viking old

[fallen zephyr]

Yes, turnips not pumpkins... you're right.

[arctic garnet]

Besides the Meadows, what's y'all's favorite biome to build up a home and actually use it in?
also question, can onions, turnips, and carrots be grown in the plains or is that just barley and flax?

[trail pelican]

yes all first 5 in plains

[fallen zephyr]

I don't have one. My home is always in meadows. I have a bunch of satellite bases, but I lay my head on a pillow in the meadows.

[trail pelican]

which is what makes plains bordering a mistlands arguably the closest thing to a 'correct' answer to your other quetion

but yeah I do what @fallen zephyr does myself

[arctic garnet]

Cool beans.

[idle storm]

When i find a cool spot. Last game was at a border of 4 biomes (meadows, bf, swamp and mountain), the one before i made my main base under an Elder altar.
Current game has my base in the middle of a lake in the black forest.

[fallen zephyr]

This is a good plan - farming across the plains/mistands border is efficient. I just want my home to be peaceful and pleasant.

[trail pelican]

yeahhhhh...the DOWNSIDE is without adequate campfire spam a 2 star gjall wandering into your home base IS a possibility...

[idle storm]

i do like putting my bases on rivers instead of directly on the coast though. I like sailing up rivers.

[arctic garnet]

Been playing with friends and mum. All our productive stuff is in our same first house, even though I made a big, cozy building in a mountain. But yeah, Plains bordering Mistlands sounds like the best of both worlds currently for agriculture.

wait gjalls can have stars?

[idle storm]

only night spawns, but yes

[trim cedar]

they sure can lol

[arctic garnet]

I haven't ever seen a star gjall yet
I'm sure I'll crap my viking pants when I do.

[trail pelican]

yeah you probs wouldn't see it UNLESS you happened to setup a base you spend a lot of time in at one of said plains/mistlands intersections...

[fallen zephyr]

Here's something I don't know - do starred Gjalls drop starred ticks?

[trail pelican]

OR you're just a risk seeker lol, love running through the hardest biomes at night

[arctic garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/pizza-tower-peppino-gif-27503546

[idle storm]

once you have a staff of frost seekers are just cannon fodder, stars or not

[fallen zephyr]

Have you killed Fader?

[merry pebble]

Nope

[fallen zephyr]

ty.

[rotund parrot]

#screenshots message

[trail pelican]

not yet, last thing to do other than collecting dyrnwyn, but i'm taking my sweet time as usual

[arctic garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/toad-gif-26236366

[fallen zephyr]

Wandering black forest at night hits different when you come across a band of charred warriors.

[arctic garnet]

oh
oh dear that's right that's a thing
This playthrough is going to get real interesting after we beat Fader. Still haven't got Moder though.

[trail pelican]

i also forget that was a thing lol, will be fun

[keen cliff]

that's why i sleep at night like a proper, well rested viking lol

[trail pelican]

the threat of the advanced mobs in earlier biomes not so bad IMO because they spawn in manageable amounts, easily distracted by the other faction mobs which they will also fight with, it's the 2 conditions that spawn 2 star version of ALREADY the most fearsome mobs in the game (e.g. 2 star gjall, 2 star ticks, 2 star asksvin, etc.) that terrifies me

i don't recall if the post-boss night adds cna spawn with stars--off top of my head, seen many pairs of seekers running around meadows etc. never seen any with stars tho

[idle storm]

not as far as i know

0-stars only iirc

[merry pebble]

Nope, the seekers spawning in night do not have stars 🙂

[rotund parrot]

Night spawn in different biomes unlocked by boss kills are all 0 stars

[trail pelican]

this is probably for the best

[rotund parrot]

For sure

[idle storm]

0-star gjall spawning in other biomes after beating queen would be fun though

[trail pelican]

or just kept the raid or added a slightly different one (maybe with seekers, ticks and gjall?) , and let it trigger outside mistlands, instead of deactivating it after queen

[rotund parrot]

gjall are seriously scary, like that 2 star I still remember getting a sneak in from so far away, putting so so many arrows into it, I was wondering why he wasn't dying at that point

which is when he turned the corner and I saw that it was a 2 star gjall

[unborn glade]

Why do boats keep sailing on hosted servers if. you get dc and your the only one on them. Shouldn't they stop? I just spent 12 hours on a no map server and got DC'd and when I logged back on my boat and all my silver and iron i just grinded for is gone. Today I got another boat to go searching for it and my power went out I log back and once again im sitting in the middle of the ocean and no boat in sight... is there something else Im missing or is just how the game works?

[vocal rivet]

They don't, boats stop when empty.

[unborn glade]

My 2nd boat was empty

[foggy glacier]

He means when there are no players. Loot in the hold doesn't matter.

[unborn glade]

I understand nobody else was on the boat and no items in the boat.

The first boat had silver and iron in the storage

[foggy glacier]

unless someone found your boat and took it, it should still be where it was when you got booted from the server.

[sinful fulcrum]

😂😂

[rotund parrot]

What probably happened is that the boat stayed exactly where it was when you got disconnected but your character position was not saved so you end up in the water where you were when it last saved

[sinful fulcrum]

Boat stealers

[unborn glade]

Very frustrating

[foggy glacier]

Right! world save and character save wouldn't necessarily have been aligned on a server.

[sinful fulcrum]

I mean, anyone would do the same if they found a stack of fat cash

If it’s server related issue just spawn the silver yourself

[unborn glade]

Its a hosted server

[sinful fulcrum]

I saw like months ago someone suffering from this too

[unborn glade]

Im not the admin

[trail pelican]

in a server they'd need the admin, but nothing shold stop them in theory just spawning all the missing metal in on a solo world, stuffing it into their pockets, then hopping on the server

[unborn glade]

Yeah... I didnt want to have to resort to doing that. I like to play the server as if this is the world my character exisit on only. But that would be an easy solution...

[rotund parrot]

At least you know the boats are going to be exactly where they were last you saw them

[trail pelican]

i completely understand and would feel the exact same, though, after searching for the boat for what I decided was a "reasonable" amount of time, I'd feel no compunction about doing it since you earned it already, and are just deprived of it by a technical fluke (shit not working the way it's "supposed" to in ideal conditions)

[rotund parrot]

The only way the boat position would be different is if the server crashed, in that case both you and the boat would be reverted to an earlier save and in the same spot. But since the server kept going it ended up saving the boat position but your character was no longer online when it saved and it didn't automatically save when you got disconnected

[unborn glade]

Yeah it all makes sense. So likely the boats are out there in the world somewhere.. I was around the 2nd circle of Plains / Black Forest / Swamps areas. Just on the edige where if I sailed further I would start to see Mistlands.

[rotund parrot]

It happened to me before a couple times, I know how it feels

[merry pebble]

If you were exploring a new area then there should be a line of uncovered area on your map, where it ends you should theoreticaly find your boat 🙂

[unborn glade]

Im playing on a no map server

If I had a map it would be super easy to find my old spot

and sail around in a radius of that location

[merry pebble]

Ah, that makes it quite a bit harder, true that 😅

[unborn glade]

I just dont want to exploit a feature of just loading a new map creating what i lost and loading back onto the hosted server... but also im torn because I didn't lose the items due to a sea serpent or something like that. I would accept that fate if I died naturally in the game... then it would be on me.

[subtle perch]

I am having enormous problems in mystlands biome

[trail pelican]

yeah the "no map" bit really complicates the crap out of finding the damn (presumably) lost adrift boat

[subtle perch]

it keeps sending me level 3 ceratures

[trail pelican]

@subtle perch stop going in at night

most/all level 3s in mistlands don't spawn except at night

[unborn glade]

I really love the no map feature too. Im putting up lighthouses and even hand drawing the main island and areas for fun. Its been a blast putting up roads and signs etc.

Im on month 3 invested into this server

[rotund parrot]

If you are still able to find the spot where you came back to, you know your boat will be somewhere between 0 minute and 30 minutes of sailing away

If it's not near land it's probably better to just get more metal as annoying as that may be at least it's a sure way of getting back on track despite being a huge setback

[ripe grove]

First time in the ashlands, been keeping myself spoiler free. stone portals are a godsend

[trail pelican]

also also, if you should replace the metal, then later should as so happen to stumble across the boat, you can just obliterate its contents to "keep yourself honest"--although, I would argue, that maybe you've earned the bonus as a treat for your suffering

[cobalt canyon]

Definitely ain't

[arctic garnet]

really wish I could put a surtling powered spotlight on the prow of my ship sometimes in the fog we get
or have a transparent sail

[plush umbra]

i'll test it with ESP sometime, sight isn't a good indicator here considering the size difference between the two ships.
a mountain moving at 50 kmh is gonna look a lot slower than a car moving at the same speed.

[subtle perch]

ok i need help i cannot unblock myself

[cobalt canyon]

The turn rate at least is way down

[trail pelican]

what do you mean?

#screenshots message sad taps starts playing

[cobalt canyon]

and if the turn rate is down, you can't compensate the wind as well, you move more slowly

[subtle perch]

managed to save the loot

8 deaths. More I play mystland, more I am convinced it's not made for alone players

[rotund parrot]

Try the root harnesk

[trail pelican]

ahhhhhh, you mean your stuff getting stuck gotcha--it's definitely an intense biome for sure

[nocturne wolf]

The entire game is balanced primarily for singleplayer

[cosmic igloo]

can u say the exact situation where u die?

[subtle perch]

a level 3 smasher and a level 2 seeker, plus dwarves: on level 2 mage, one level 2 cross, and many of them

[trail pelican]

while true the later biomes DO often get harder, or at least introduce new things to have to learn so can feel harder at first

[subtle perch]

almost everything

[nocturne wolf]

What equipment and food are you using?

[trail pelican]

the dwarves at least you avoid attacking or at least wait until one 'side' (dwarves or bugs) wins, then kill the winners

[subtle perch]

I died by fire, by fall damage, by monster attack, by pink thing explosion, by arrows, by stung, by arrows, by impacy

[trail pelican]

that way you don't hit one accidentally trying to "help" then you have TWO groups trying to kill you (of which honestly dwarves tends to be the more dangerous IMO)

[subtle perch]

everything strong I could made

[trail pelican]

for the floating blimp guys that shoot fireballs (gjall) make sure you use a bow or spear (piercing damage) on that orange sac on their underside

[subtle perch]

padded full, plus plumes mantle, plus blues sword, and spear, plus fire potion

and full powered blackmetal shield

[trail pelican]

equipment is pretty good sounds like

[nocturne wolf]

Lightfoot mead is incredibly useful because the increased jump height allows you do dodge so much more

[cosmic igloo]

if theres a lot of enemies, then u either need to play more carefully (kill few mobs u can manage, then continue). or u might be kiting into more enemies, which means u need to try to be more aware of ur surroundings (like be aware of safe areas u can kite to)

[rotund parrot]

I tried to do the technique of bringing a cart to destroy the ward to get marble on a hard server, silver age, we are waiting to kill moder. Ended up flipping the cart over on my way down there so I started destroying my own cart to try again

[subtle perch]

that what I tried

i was calmy waiting among dwarves, then enmies stormed in

then the level 3 smasher appeared

[rotund parrot]

Destroying my own cart got them mad and they all swarmed me, had to run like a coward not being able to see anything

[trail pelican]

literally same

didn't even OCCUR to me that breaking MY cart I JUST built in the radius of ward still up would aggro them

[cosmic igloo]

whats a lvl 3 smasher? 2 stars is the max

[trail pelican]

but then, thinking on the mechanics in hindsight, i realize I probably could've expected

[nocturne wolf]

Level 3 is two stars

[subtle perch]

yes 2 stars

[trail pelican]

I assume they mean 2 star for level 3, and smasher as in soldier since they smash the ground

[rotund parrot]

Never occurred to me either but yeah it kind of make sense

[subtle perch]

yah the one who smash ground

and that his mom is a b...eauty insect

[cosmic igloo]

key against soldier is to position urself behind it when its smashing the ground

[nocturne wolf]

Parry them then jump around them (or directly over once you have lightfoot mead) to hit their weak point with a secondary attack

[cosmic igloo]

and then maybe get in 2-3 hits on its back

[trail pelican]

oh yeah, their butt is a weak point

[rotund parrot]

I am sure just having a root harnesk would have allowed you to avoid at least half of your deaths

[cosmic igloo]

i dont think parrying gives you enough time to get behind it and strike. you're gonna run out of stamina that way

[subtle perch]

yah i know

[cosmic igloo]

aight so you're just getting overwhelmed with mobs?

[subtle perch]

parry is not a option, i get almost oneshotted with a block

[nocturne wolf]

It does. You have to jump so you can move during the attack animation

[cosmic igloo]

ya that too

[cosmic igloo]

ya problem is u use a lot of stamina to get behind it and then u maybe just get 1 attack off

[rotund parrot]

I parry the first of the side stomp from the side, go to the back, do the special attack with the sword and do like 1500 damage to seeker soldiers

[nocturne wolf]

One sword secondary does a lot of damage if it hits the weak point

[cosmic igloo]

anyway so whats the prob? u seem to know how to kill soldier @subtle perch

[rotund parrot]

Admitelly that's with the strongest sword for raw damage, the dyrnwyn

[trail pelican]

it's still quite effective with any sword of plains tier or up IME

[subtle perch]

that i cannot make an inches of mistake, and i was stormed

[nocturne wolf]

In normal difficulty a black metal sword hitting weak point secondaries to a staggered soldier should kill it in 3-4 hits

[cosmic igloo]

just do what i said about going to its back when its smashing, gives u tons of time

and stormed.. idk i guess i need to see clip to understand fully

[sand night]

am i tripping or is the crystal battleaxe better then iron axe on cutting wood

[trail pelican]

no it's a higher tier so more damage, plus that secondary attack is fast

the battleaxes are actually supposedly more efficient than at least equivalent tier 1 hand axes--never actually crunched the math myself to confirm, but it definitely feels efficient

[sand night]

damn thats nice

[nocturne wolf]

I’m pretty sure that it’s slower for one tree but because there’s no damage reduction for multiple targets it’s faster for multiple trees next to each other

[keen cliff]

if you're a battleaxe main you don't need to carry a wood chopper, or a shield! Free up those slots 🙂

[sand night]

yeah, it has better stats then max lvl iron buckler

[rotund parrot]

All I know is that I obliterated the black metal axe when I saw the thundering axes go on trees

[cosmic igloo]

gigachad tbh

[keen cliff]

i'm going back and forth on berserker axes in the ashlands however. I may end up going back to nidhogg and shield

[rotund parrot]

I do both, axes for weak ennemies, sword and shield for strong ones

[cosmic igloo]

weirdly enough i kinda prefer lighting slayer on very hard in ashlands

because its just 1 massive attack, u can jump and as you land you do it. with axes u sometimes gotta do multiple swings and if u dont stagger ur enemy, then ya.. rip

[rotund parrot]

I probably wouldn't use a shield on very hard

[keen cliff]

yeah, i certainly do enjoy the axes for the weak enemies. but then i wonder, if they are weak, i can just as easily use sword/shield. And i like sword/shield better for strong... axes are satisfying however

[cosmic igloo]

ya shield is a no no

[rotund parrot]

Yeah true

[cosmic igloo]

i use axes for archers and twitchers

slayer for warriors, himmini for morgen

bow mostly for valk

[cobalt canyon]

Run mead, stam mead, jump mead, eitr mead, ember staff, bubble staff, bow, mistwalker, shield, bilebombs, all as leveled as I can make them....Should be fine!

[cosmic igloo]

on very hard, that is. in normal i use axes for all :D

[cobalt canyon]

I already know it aint gonna be

[keen cliff]

i'm using jade ripper on valks. I need to figure out melee with them still

[rotund parrot]

On my last very hard playthrough which I stopped because I died during the swamps, it deleted all my gear and reseted my skills. My plan was just to use the atgeir, knife and bows

[vital umbra]

why do people play very hard

[trail pelican]

for the added challenge

[vital umbra]

i like to have fun when i play games.

[rotund parrot]

For maximal suffering

[trail pelican]

lol, they're just better than us brother

[cobalt canyon]

I only did because I was modded and wanted it to feel fair

[cosmic igloo]

its good to play higher difficulty if u wanna improve ur skills

[cobalt canyon]

(It wasn't, it just threw everything out of whack)

[vital umbra]

generally when i am playing and something doesn't go my way i don't like that and i don't want to experience more of it 👽

[cobalt canyon]

Ah but now I hardly die on normal

[cosmic igloo]

ya i mean everyone is the same to a certain extent

[cobalt canyon]

Though I'm sure I will now

[vital umbra]

i've got like the death penalty on minimum, resource rates up, just farming and fishing and building for the most part....

[cosmic igloo]

same, i do very easy on death penalty, 1.5x resource rate

[vital umbra]

do you just up the difficulty of mobs then.

[rotund parrot]

Yeah having played on very hard or even hard will make you much more aware of all the attacks. And while playing you know when you are 1 hit away from death and for those scenario that experience of being able to dodge all attacks will come in very useful

[cosmic igloo]

and very hard combat and more raids

[vital umbra]

i mean i might do that, but raids kinda annoy me.

[cosmic igloo]

ya i feel u

[vital umbra]

i didn't die this entire time until the zil and thungr raid where a two star berserker fucking one shot me

[cosmic igloo]

tbh im not a lot in my base so dont get it that often

rip

[keen cliff]

i got raided by the bros when i was trying to build a draugr farm. i accidently had too many workbenches near me. that sucked. killed my spawners

[cosmic igloo]

ya berserkers have kinda weird timing on their attacks. can be tricky

[vital umbra]

Is is on normal mode and i have 2 of the best health foods, full padded, full black metal shield and when i returned and used bonemass i still couldn't parry.

[nocturne wolf]

Their delay of their attack depends on which side they’re swinging from

[vital umbra]

thungrs a fucking joke in comparison 🤣....like compared to a 2 starred charred versus lord reto.

[keen cliff]

if i see a heavy hitter with stars, i don't try to parry those things 🙂

[cosmic igloo]

i like when they make tricky enemies like that. charred warriors with their feinting is awesome

cant say i enjoy dyin to em tho

[nocturne wolf]

Just jump backwards, then while descending sprint forwards and hit a secondary

[cobalt canyon]

Oh god I landed at night

[keen cliff]

i'm assuming Ashlands landing? i salute you. good luck

[cobalt canyon]

we're fine- It's all fine

[keen cliff]

i would back that ship out and portal home off a spire, and come back in the morning 🙂

[rotund parrot]

portal as close to shore, kill anything that hear you build it and get out of there

[cobalt canyon]

I only had to kill;

2 askvin (no stars)
8? twitchers
2 voltures
6? warriors
3 archers

[keen cliff]

depending on the rate they were coming, it's not the worst

[vocal rivet]

That's a quiet night.

[keen cliff]

asksvin and warriors are the real threats there. and at least warriors are slow

asksvins punch above their weight class imo

[cobalt canyon]

1 bonemaw coming in and 1 while I was on the beach*

Inv space is a real problem with all these meads

[cosmic igloo]

ya ashlands has a lot of item types, it will fill ur inventory after 1 fight

[livid zenith]

But you need basically none of them

[vital umbra]

i recommend not dying, and dealing damage to enemies until they die, because then they can't damage you any more.

[cobalt canyon]

Anybody ever tried interlacing multiple shields in such away that the archers can't fire more'n a few inches in front of them?

Huh. I landed right next to a putrid hole

-With a sword clue- OH MY

uhhh, guys?

#screenshots message

[vital umbra]

(yeahhh i kinda just used the fly command cuz i fucking hate sailing through the ashlands)

[cosmic igloo]

it sux

[vital umbra]

it was fun the first 2 times i ever tried to do it, it took me like 5 in-game days to find my first real ashlands continent bbetween a bunch of stupid islands, thematically the boiling seas are awesome i just wish the rocks were further apart.

[cosmic igloo]

2 star draugr archer spawns in crypt. slime jumps and blocks the only escape. if theres anytime to smash my monitor then its now

[pliant hatch]

What I do in those crypts is to make sure not all of the muddy scrap pile is removed so I would prevent the monsters in the other room from entering the one I am in.
Then retreat until I'm able to hide behind the wall near the entrance and pick the enemies off with a bow.
Fire arrows work well against blobs. The iron arrows you can find in the chests there are even better.

[long locust]

yeah, imo the spikes should only start appearing when you're nearing an island

[fair cobalt]

hello everyone... any tip for getting boars +2 or +3 ?

[pliant hatch]

Mark spawn points at your map, set up an area to capture the animals and check regularly if any starred boars have spawned.

[fair cobalt]

Thx for answering. 2 question: How can I identify a Spawn point? And what if my base are far away of there ?

[vocal rivet]

There are no 'spawn points' in that sense.

[fair cobalt]

how is it ?

[vocal rivet]

Mobs can spawn anywhere in suitable biomes.

[nocturne wolf]

Most creatures spawn completely randomly. Only very few creatures (growths, skeletons in Black Forest, maybe others I can’t think of) have set respawn points

[vocal rivet]

In the case of boars, starred boars only spawn from 800m out from the centre.

[shy marlin]

or any range for 1 time spawns 🤓

[fair cobalt]

so... i have to look there, if they are without star, kill and wait until reappear ?

[vocal rivet]

True, but let's not complicate things.

[shy marlin]

I thought we loved being pedantic here!

[nocturne wolf]

Yes, but they won’t reappear in the same spot. Killing them is just allowing more to spawn nearby.

[vocal rivet]

It has its place.

[fair cobalt]

huh...

so.. what should i do ? xD

[vocal rivet]

Just play the game and don't worry about it too much.

[fair cobalt]

but.. i need make a farm... we are 3 playing the same world and it is hard to get food xD

[vocal rivet]

You can make a farm, no problem. You don't need boar for that.

[nocturne wolf]

0-star boars are good enough, make two farms if you need to

[fair cobalt]

hmm yeah, that is true

[shy marlin]

if you can't find a 1 or 2 star just increase your production of the boars with normal ones

[fair cobalt]

and if i find a boar in some where, there are a easy way to move to my base ?

[nocturne wolf]

It will follow you if you anger it, just don’t go too far ahead of it.

[fair cobalt]

where I placed my base... there are no boars :/ hehe

[nocturne wolf]

If it’s in meadows they’ll spawn eventually

[fair cobalt]

i have to wait until meadows, I'm just going to snow xD

[vocal rivet]

Wait, you're worrying about boars and you're playing in Mountains?

[pliant hatch]

Depending at the distance, you can create a small "road" just wide enough for a single boar using the wooden fences and push the boar to another "coral". If you got work benches at regular intervals, you can build a fence or door behind you so the boar won't run back.

For the larger areas you can use the Abysmal Harpoon to drag them into a "road" again, then rince and repeat.

[long locust]

easiest way to find starred boars is by looking for boar runestones

they pretty consistently spawn boars with 1 or 2 stars

[fair cobalt]

yeah!

[fair cobalt]

thx!

[fair cobalt]

its like my 5 time playing from begging

[long locust]

honestly boar farming in the mountains is still pretty valid, you don't really stop using boar meat and the scraps until plains/mistlands

[fair cobalt]

food is so bored ... but well planice become easier with bread

[long locust]

tbh, I prefer blood pudding for an actual stamina food at first, bread is just nice once you've got an excess of flour

[fair cobalt]

but blood pudding needs blood form swamp ?

[long locust]

yeah, leech farming isn't that bad

[fair cobalt]

really ? haha

[long locust]

gonna need the bloodbags anyways for plenty of other stuff

[long locust]

the trick is to do literally anything else while standing near the shore, by the time you're finished with whatever outpost or whatever you're doing there'll be like 20 leeches nibbling your boat

[arctic garnet]

So, food. Do y'all think feasts are worth making?

[vocal rivet]

Absolutely.

[arctic garnet]

Which one's y'all's favorite?

[vital umbra]

the ones that are the best typically....lol....unless you mean aesthetically..

[pliant hatch]

That depends on the biome I'm in.
Right now best I can have is Swamp tier feast. But hope to get Ocean tier soon enough and Mountain (my current biome) after.

[vital umbra]

i mean after the first 3 which have the same stats its all uphill from there.

i like the looks of the meadows feast still after all this time.

[pliant hatch]

First three are useful to replace one of the others if you lack resources.

[arctic garnet]

Haven't unlocked any feasts past the seafarer's feast

aesthetically though, plains pie picnic sounds like a good time.
it's just a crapload of pies

[teal matrix]

Craplload of Lox Meat Pies

[keen cliff]

I like mountain, swamp, and plains feast as base food late game.

[long locust]

about to fight the elder on hard, pretty proud of this world so far

my spawn was right next to a shore with ocean access so I made a little port there as my main base and I'll be able to pretty easily make that into a big base

[arctic garnet]

gonna be real for a few seconds.
maybe a unique and required bait for each and every single biome is just annoying for fishing, for fish that are largely functionally identical with the one exception of the angler fishing having a specific recipe for it.

[long locust]

yep, my biggest problem isn't even the unique baits, it's having to swap them out constantly and running into areas with more than 1 fish type

annoying as fuck when your forest or plains bait keeps getting wasted on meadows fish

[rotund parrot]

There's 2 more exception for the trollfish and grouper for potions, at this point there's more exceptions than non exceptions which means they are not exceptions

[long locust]

imo it's the best looking feast, up there with the mistlands and ocean feasts

[rotund parrot]

The bait doesn't get wasted if a fish try to bite at it

often you can even catch a fish, pick the fish up while it's at 2 meters and the bait is still on the rod and you can catch more fish with it

[long locust]

welp, now that the elder's dead I gotta go searching for a good swamp to raid for iron

gonna look for my traders too while I'm at it

[arctic garnet]

why is it only foggy when I want to sail

[teal matrix]

Njord does not give his blessings

[vocal rivet]

Just unlucky timing I guess.

[arctic garnet]

njord needs a kick in the amber pearls

[long locust]

god why tf do these greydwarves have to break their own nest

[vital umbra]

hi scissor

[long locust]

hi

god, swamp on hard is actual hell

[vital umbra]

is hard hard

[long locust]

for meadows and black forest it's a bit of a learning experience but not unfair

then you hit swamp and you basically eat shit, does not help that I also haven't found a single fucking crypt yet and am waiting on turnips to finish growing for my spice rack

[vital umbra]

i mean isn't it like that in normal difficulty anyways when you're new and first get to the swamp

[long locust]

not nearly to the same extent

getting touched by any poison damage rn without resistance is basically a guaranteed death

because leeches poison for like 10-15 seconds and blobs for 20+ seconds

0* draugr are okay, a bit beefy but manageable

starred draugr are basically troll levels of tanky

[vital umbra]

i partway wish there was a way to hide meginjord....

[long locust]

fair

[vital umbra]

man theres honestly no weapon type more uninteresting to me than the atgeir....i don't even feel like leveling it 😮‍💨

ahh the mistlands what a bittersweet reunion, i can't see fucking shit.

[vital umbra]

dude the wisplight needs to be buffed i swear.

[dreamy kite]

Can anyone recommend a good modpack for me and my friends?

[odd helm]

#mods-discussion

[dreamy kite]

too much channels 😅

[wintry valve]

Ive noticed these days that I have seriously choppy music, and this is seemingly due to my graphics. It doesnt stutter when im alt tabbed, like right now as I am typing this message, but it does when im messing around in my chests. Anyone knows something about it?

Also, unrelatedly, are there plans to add more features to boats?

Like, passengers rowing, or crossbow mounts?

[kind pendant]

This has been discussed many times, but from what I’ve seen I think this’ll be very unlikely.

[wintry valve]

unfortunate. I hate hitting my own ship with my crossbow

[azure yacht]

They will not add players rowing

[wintry valve]

what about the choppy music?

[silver oracle]

Do I have to bring a cart in order to transport silver? heard that a silver vein will get me through the run with ease

[wintry valve]

I took home several silver veins

its up to you how you want to bring them back

[long locust]

depends on a lot of stuff, getting silver isn't the hard part, but getting it off the mountain is difficult if you don't have portaling metals enabled

I would recommend finding a decent sized mountain and making a base specifically for gathering and forging things out of silver

[vital umbra]

throw a cart of silver off the mountain

[long locust]

at that point just turn a karve into a sled

[vital umbra]

4 new build items in bog witch....am i high, so thats the food preparation table, mead ketil, candles....aaaandd 🤔

[long locust]

maybe the serving tray's food placing in general?

wait no, it's probably ivy seeds

[vital umbra]

barrel

[long locust]

oh

[vital umbra]

🗣️

i find it might have fallen off a bit already, still it does good for decoration probably.

[long locust]

honestly, for how easy they are to make and how little space they take up, they're pretty damn good

little more storage than a regular chest and like half the size

but yeah, I still just go for blackmetal chests whenever I can fit them

[silver oracle]

fuck yes

[placid copper]

Idk why but this game really bores me. Like it's a really good game, and I have fun with it. Usually. But we just hit mountain level and my buddies wanna build and farm and mine and all that and I just wanna kill stuff. I'm not good at building, I'm not good at farming, I find Mining boring half the time, at least in this game, and annoying the other half of the time cause stuff decides to jump you. It's just feeling like a total slog. Idk what to do lol.

Early game it was pretty fun since You don't need a whole lot usually so you can kinda just start jumping to do stuff but now it's just boring.

[vital umbra]

how many hours you on

[placid copper]

I have 90 total hours but as of recent... not many? I don't think?

We only play a couple hours at a time since they're only on at night for me

[gray sand]

90? That's over 9000!!

[vital umbra]

haha....i am well into 1300 now...maybe i do have stockholm syndrome

[placid copper]

I mean, I played Minecraft A LOT. But idk, this game just doesn't keep me entertained like Minecraft does.

Maybe it's because you see enemies more often during the night. Enemies that can take multiple hits.

[vital umbra]

i don't really know what to say, i think i have played for 90 hours consistently and gotten burnt out.

[placid copper]

It's more engaging to fight stuff since there's more to fight at a time.

[placid copper]

How do I check what my playtime is in the recent weeks?

It only says last played today so idk.

[vital umbra]

should be in your steam profile, the total hours played though not on a specific game i don't think, but if you mained one game atleast 75% of those hours you can tell

[mental wren]

It can definitely feel like it's dragging on if you are more combat oriented. Maybe the next thing that would be interesting for you is finding hildir and starting her dungeons. Locating them can be a pain tho. So if you don't enjoy exploring either...

[placid copper]

I mean I like exploring. But I hate using boats.

They feel janky as hell and I'm worried about capsizing or running into a sea serpent or finding myself in a high level biome and not being able to navigate

I like exploring by land. But by water it's terrifying and annoying.

And again, all my friends are focused on other stuff.

So I'm just by myself, which often gets me killed since I only have troll hide gear rn.

No I'm not running into mountains with underleveled gear. I just didn't wanna go for iron.

Takes up a lot of resources. And the only useful root piece is the chestpiece really

which I have on.

Basically I'm just too frail to be going into mountains by myself. Two wolves and I'm dead

[mental wren]

I suppose if you aren't having too much fun with, taking a break while they catch up and want to go exploring again could be an option

[placid copper]

That's the thing. I don't have money for a dedicated server.

They can only play if I decide to be online.

[mental wren]

Ah, you're running the world

[placid copper]

Yeah. So it's either I just sit there and they play while I play other games in the background, but that'll have it's own issues

[mental wren]

Hmm. I mean it is possible to transfer world files.

[placid copper]

or we just don't play.

[placid copper]

World files? Like, data and stuff too? For everyone involved?

Like do world files include the builds and loot?

[mental wren]

Ye I'm pretty sure they do.

Let me see, someone asked about this recently

#mods-issues message

[placid copper]

I cannot tell if my seed has an I or an L at the end. Lol

[mental wren]

Ah, copy the character and paste into discord

Should be able to tell. Most fonts have a difference. Type an I and an l next to it Xd

[tame mirage]

I need someone to help me understand the bloodstone effect. For the bleeding nidhogg, the damage increases by 0.2% for every hp you're missing. The nidhogg does 135 slash, and 135 x 0.02 is 2.7. If you take 100 damage, would it add 270 to the 135 for a total of 405 slash?

[nimble moss]

so if you are missing 100HP, it is .2% dmg per missing HP. So 100 *.2% = 20%. So that means 135 becomes 162 (20% increase).

I never use Bloodstone in weapons - its not powerful enough.

[wintry valve]

you are missing a zero

its 135 * 0.002
not 135 * 0.02

[tame mirage]

oh yeah that's right

Okay yeah bloodstones are only useful for the fourth black forge upgrade 👍

[wintry valve]

but it is potentally more powerful than the other two effects.
It's just not as flashy, nor "specialized"

[nimble moss]

its actually not

the blue one would give you more reliable DPS

The red might give you a brief moment of higher alpha (so maybe good in Crossbow) - but outside of that - your either dead, or not doing much

Considering you need to keep the HP difference for the dmg to be applied

[wintry valve]

dunno about that, its 25% chance of dealing 75 extra damage, on top of 10 more damage.
That's an average of 28 extra damage
With a blood weapon and powerful hp foods, you can be missing a lot of hp and dealing potentially way more than 28 extra damage.

Its just that iolite weapons can hit many at once, and the green one can, well... paralize

[nimble moss]

but with blue I can then cop a random arrow or melee hit, allowing my DPS to continue.

You cop one attack while low on HP, you are dead, and your DPS is zero

[wintry valve]

cop?

[nimble moss]

get hit by

[wintry valve]

Where does that word come from? I never heard of that.

[nimble moss]

might be an Aussie slang word

[wintry valve]

Ah, the world down under

[nimble moss]

We do things differently here 🙂

[wintry valve]

But yeah, its a whole thing. My assumption is that you are "supposed" to carry, say, a ligthning weapon, and then switch to a blood weapon if you do get hit and are hurt a lot.

[nimble moss]

Anyway - my point remainds - the crossbow with red stone for an alpha can maybe work. There's a video where someone eats rotten meat, then eats 300 HP of food, and fires a crossbow sneak attack to one-shot fallen valyre.

But outside of that - meh

[wintry valve]

What you are really supposed to do is to play the way you want. Blood weapons looks cool.

[nimble moss]

If I get hurt alot - I'm not standing there and continuing to fight - you roll away, pop a HP pot around the corner, and go again

If the damage increase was 2% per level - it would be good. But .2% - its just not meaningful enough

[wintry valve]

And I do like that iolite weapons hit hard rather consistently. I dont like that it "took" one rank of refinement tho. My weapons are squishy and fragile. 😦

Also im thinking that if you are quite hurt during a fight, a blood weapon would stagger the enemy much more making the fight "safer". I dunno. I think there's a use for it, but I havent tried yet so maybe im just talking shit.

[tame mirage]

how effective would it be to have the Iolite berserkir axes and the jade mace, hit an enemy with the mace until it becomes immobilized, then go to town with the axes

[wintry valve]

I almost do that. I have a green crossbow.

Its not as great as you think because it really doesnt last long. But free hits are free hits so whatever.

What im thinking is that a green berserkir axe would be way better simply because it would paralyze all the time.

[tame mirage]

I feel like the bloodstone weapons would work best in multiplayer. Have your friend fight something to keep in focused on them, then you (with low health) come up behind and do a lot of damage

[tacit crystal]

Primal Axes is actually one of my preferred favorite weapon. Paired with Klossen (Jade mace) you can keep enemies away with knockbacking and when the immobility procs you can switch to Primal Axes to hit them from back for proccing the immobility consistently.

[silver radish]

Cheers.

[merry pebble]

Thank you~ 😄

[normal vine]

hey guys.. i've a question regarding farming in valheim

[merry pebble]

Ask away 🙂

[normal vine]

i noticed that when i'm reaping my crops it sometimes displays a small but bright flash of sparkles accompanied by a slight bell sound

followed by a +1 text in orange

what does that do?

[merry pebble]

And it should show a little orange +1 🙂 the bog witch added new skills and one of them is the farming skill, it provides a certain chance of getting additional crop when farming (it also works for mushrooms, berries, etc... 🙂 )

[azure yacht]

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Farming_(Skill)

[normal vine]

i knew it had to do something with the new farming skill my bad

okay thank you

[merry pebble]

If you want more info go to the wiki page rianu linked 😄

[normal vine]

i will

[gray sand]

Imagine if below 20 skill, it was a burnt red -1 for failing to farm 😁

[merry pebble]

That would be awful...

[gray sand]

😈

To counter balance, every time you got a -1 it counted for double xp, helping you level faster.

[merry pebble]

Nah, current state is great

[strange hare]

sad no lfg channel 😭

[tacit crystal]

There is https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510

[pliant hatch]

You sure?

https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510

[azure yacht]

#1024264966712340510

[strange hare]

OH

[azure yacht]

Lol

#1024264966712340510

Justin Case

[pliant hatch]

You may have to look in id:customize first to get the right permissions for it, though.

[tacit crystal]

Is Justin Case some celebrity?

[azure yacht]

Just in case

[pliant hatch]

Nah, it's a character from a 1990's movie, iirc.

[tacit crystal]

Just jesting a bit 🤭

[pliant hatch]

So was the script writer of that movie.

[tacit crystal]

Ah so he was real person lol.

[pliant hatch]

I think the lines were something like: "I'm Justin Case, PI."
"Justin Case? You're kidding me?"
"Nah, my father thought it was funny..........

I don't."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095420/

There. Now we need something like that in Valheim.

[cosmic igloo]

its kinda hilarious how broken surtling spawners are. passively fill chests with cores while u farm crypts

also free coal for the iron

[merry pebble]

Heh, did you ever make farm in ashlands placeholder? 😄 That was lots of cores

[cosmic igloo]

naah i didnt play the game then

[merry pebble]

Only surtlings were spawning there, it was a bit hilly but empty so you saw for miles and could just hunt surtlings all day. 😄 I once found a bit of land that was just barely above water and made a slightly underwater platform from it, worked resonably well but since it didnt have spawner like the geysirs have it was probably still faster to manualy hunt them 🙂

[cosmic igloo]

ah lol

[nocturne wolf]

Has anyone tested if molten cores can be used as fireworks like surtling cores and black cores

[merry pebble]

Nope, i can go try it tho

No you cant 😦 (btw i didnt know you can use the black cores 😄 nice)

[tacit crystal]

Using Black cores as fireworks was added later after Mistlands.

[merry pebble]

Well i never had lots of them so i never tried it 😄

[gentle bloom]

starting valheim gossip clip. 2 ads. jumping to where something seems to happen. same 2 ads. fuck off

[merry pebble]

What?

[serene talon]

just another youtube ad complaint

[merry pebble]

Another? I dont remember really any 🤔

[cosmic igloo]

you say that like he doesnt have a point. he does, they are rly annoying

[serene talon]

he has a point but we can't change it

[merry pebble]

I dont think he is ShyGuy is saying they are not, but this is simply not the place to vent about them

[serene talon]

that too

[gray sand]

YT has ads?

[serene talon]

if you don't use a good ad blocker, yes

[merry pebble]

Lets take it to general if we REALLY want to talk about this... 😅

[gray sand]

Sounds like a bad ad blocker skill issue and not a Valheim issue 😏😉

[serene talon]

right

[cosmic igloo]

maybe u could suggest an adblocker to him

[strange hare]

How do i farm Leather scraps fastly?

Any way?

[merry pebble]

Hunt or tame boars, but if that is exactly "fast"... Thats up to debate 😄

[strange hare]

how do i tame them? and do i need to make an area for them

[merry pebble]

You only have to drop food they will eat on the ground 🙂 they will take 30 minutes of uninterupted taming to get tamed and yes it will be good to make and area for them

[strange hare]

do they come with me after i tame them? like follow?

And how will taming get me leather scraps? i didnt get that

[merry pebble]

You can get them angry a you so they will chase

[strange hare]

Time to find boars

[merry pebble]

you tame them -> breed them -> kill them -> get leather scraps and meat from them

[strange hare]

and 1 last, Can i fight with Eikthyr first boss with leather helmet tunic Trousers. A Wood Shield, A Bow. like 40 flint arrow, 20 default, and 40 Fire arrows?

[merry pebble]

If you want to get leather scraps fast then it will be better to just hunt them tho

[merry pebble]

Oh for sure

[cosmic igloo]

would wood/stone/iron be considered the 3 most important mats in the game?

[narrow oriole]

I know this might be way to early to ask but is there a expected month that the deep north update will release

[cosmic igloo]

im thinking because they are in so many recipes

[merry pebble]

Nope

[narrow oriole]

Ait

[merry pebble]

Maybe? But does it matter?

[cosmic igloo]

what? matter?

what you mean?

[strange hare]

i think Asatru meant that what difference does that make if they are the most important thing in nthe game

[cosmic igloo]

difference to what

[strange hare]

To ur playing ig

[merry pebble]

Does it matter if they are considered the most important? Either they are or they are not, doesent make any diference.

[cosmic igloo]

oh idk prolly just id farm those mats a lot

[strange hare]

omg boars are too hard to find graa

like did i kill all the boars bro wth

[cosmic igloo]

lots of leather scraps from crypts too

[strange hare]

i dont think i can beat them yet. can i?

[merry pebble]

For stone at least it depends if you are building/teraforming a lot, wood is always good to have and iron you will generally need quite a bit of but your consumption of it will also skyrocket if you are building large builds

[merry pebble]

No they are in 3rd biome

[cosmic igloo]

if u have troll gear ya sure

[strange hare]

im leather tunic

Oh should i make a spear?

[cosmic igloo]

ya

[strange hare]

Or fight with an flintsteel axe :D

[cosmic igloo]

ah ok you're way too early in the game for crypts

[idle storm]

Youre gonna do that anyway

[cosmic igloo]

ya

[strange hare]

Time to kill a giant deer*

omg why is it that far away

[cosmic igloo]

gl, use dodge roll a lot

[strange hare]

okay ty

[cosmic igloo]

conserve ur stamina

[merry pebble]

As you are a beginner i would suggest swords, clubs and/or axes as weapons, that with round shields is probably the most "newbie" friendly playstyle

[strange hare]

do i attack it with a bow or my axe btW?

[merry pebble]

Both if you want 😄

[strange hare]

and why is there a red mark on the Eithyr symboll???????????

[merry pebble]

Did you click on it?

[strange hare]

oh yep

[merry pebble]

Try clicking again 🙂

[strange hare]

k (pls act like that never happened)

[merry pebble]

Nah no worries 😄 similar stuff happened to all of us at some point in playing

[strange hare]

btw i want leather scraps to make Tanning rack is it needed rn?

[cosmic igloo]

just to upgrade ur items

[merry pebble]

Oh for sure, upgrades to the statioons are really important

[cosmic igloo]

like for more dmg on ur weapon

[merry pebble]

And unlocking new stuff later which you will not get without proper station lvl...

[strange hare]

Wish me luck im summoning it

[merry pebble]

GL!

[strange hare]

Nvm im waiting for my health to regen 😭

i think this opened me a power idk what it gave but its a power. i used to play valheim

[merry pebble]

Be sure to get rested buff too!

[strange hare]

oh i have 5 minutes of that

[merry pebble]

Jus pop down a campfire and press X to sit to get a bit more 😄

[strange hare]

it died

time to offer the head

[merry pebble]

Nice 😄

[strange hare]

its probably from rested

but i regenerated A LOT. like the moment i get hit i get back to full

Not the worst power but i think its good like -%60 stamina usage from jump and run

[merry pebble]

it does give you
Health regen +50%
Stamina regen +100%
XP gain +50%
and also
||Eitr regen +100%|| <-- becomes relevant after you get to 6th biome

[strange hare]

is there an easy way to find boars 😭

[merry pebble]

Just run around in meadows 🙂

[tacit crystal]

They spawn randomly and sometimes in groups around certain runestones.

[hazy bolt]

You can breed 2 star boars 😄

[hollow hinge]

How come we can't use scythe on magecaps n yotun puffs 😭

[merry pebble]

Dont know, but it is unintentional i believe

[hollow hinge]

Ah so a bug for now

I tried using it on a group of cloudberries too but didn't work, shame

[tacit crystal]

They are quite rare so I wouldn't use my energy to find one if I was a new player.

Just roaming around and killing them on sight should give enough scraps and meat.

[merry pebble]

Yeah, berries are not harvestable with it

[cosmic igloo]

goated power. i use it throughout the entire game

[tacit crystal]

Of course, if you stumble upon a starred boar you might want to mark it on map and get it later if you want to tame one.

I'd start to tame after I have chosen a location for base.

[hollow hinge]

Always base near/on the coast 💯

[strange hare]

let me show you my base and u tell me if its good

i cant send sc here

[merry pebble]

#screenshots 🙂

[strange hare]

oh k 1 sec

[tacit crystal]

And near (not right next to) a border of Black forest

[merry pebble]

Pretty much perfect place for the base imo 🙂

[strange hare]

well my base is like near the water

[strange hare]

Yippee

[gray sand]

Good is a point of view, Anakin.

[merry pebble]

Also, dont foget to make what the antlers unlocked 🙂 it will help greatly with teraforming and building in general

[strange hare]

Ye thats right

[strange hare]

PİCKAXEEEEEE? OMG I WANTED THE UPGRADE FOR PICKAXEEEEEEEEE

[merry pebble]

Now you have it 😄

[strange hare]

YİPEE

[tacit crystal]

It's very useful for progressing the next biome 👍

[crude sparrow]

Which axe do I need to break mistland's trees?

[merry pebble]

blackmetal one

[crude sparrow]

Also how can I use magic?

[crude sparrow]

tyy

[cosmic igloo]

eat food that gives eitr

[merry pebble]

You need to explore mistlands dungeons and find stuff there, also materials from mistlands that can be found in POIs

[crude sparrow]

yeah I have been eating the foods but what weapons do I need to spell magic? (Or something like that)

[merry pebble]

What makes you think they have eitr food ans staves when they did not chop down a single mistlands tree...

[cosmic igloo]

he ask i answer

[merry pebble]

Just explore mistlands and you will figure it out eventualy 🙂

[crude sparrow]

okey :)

[gray sand]

Are you in the Mistlands?

Discord loading slow moment...

[merry pebble]

Happens 😄

[gray sand]

It never happened on MSN chat 😭

Or Mumble.
Or TeamSpeak.
Or Ventrillo.

😏

I am old. 😭

[pliant hatch]

You're only old if you were there when Keith Richards was telling Odin he can be the All-Father.

[gray sand]

I was there Thorin.
I was there 3,000 years ago...

I was there the day the strength of Keith failed.

[hoary sparrow]

Do i have to break the battering ram to bring it to a next fortress?

[cosmic igloo]

no but u should

[final bloom]

Does anyone know why my Ashvines isnt growing?
#screenshots message

[cosmic igloo]

like the berries?

or u mean why it isnt expanding

[tacit crystal]

MSN Messenger... Oh those times. 🥲

[final bloom]

Both

It stoped expanding after a while, I did collect a few berries tho. but it was a long time ago

[cosmic igloo]

think it stops expanding after a certain point. ive put vines on walls and they dont really expand much more than what u have. also berries take forever to grow for some reason

[final bloom]

Thats might be it. I only had a single seed. Hope to get more after

[cosmic igloo]

ya u have to plant a lot, tbh u just have to roam and pick em in ashlands. like w other mats

maybe they grow faster in ashlands? idk

[tiny tiger]

God damn neck bastard ate half my carrots

[echo wind]

There was a 2star boar right in the draugr village I turned into main base 😄

[high flume]

get the club.

[tiny tiger]

He’s gonna make a nice mince meat soup

[high flume]

(and a fence. stakewall even.)

[tiny tiger]

I’m fencing my farm up now yeah lol

Can’t have shit in valheim

Ironically I caught the fucker while going out to hunt some more necks too

[silver oracle]

i may have found 2 silver veins in the same location

[gray sand]

Record is 4 afaik.

But double-veins are always sweet and appreciated.

[silver oracle]

damn, really?

[merry pebble]

Most i found is 3 basically touching each other and 4th few meters away 😄

[final bloom]

Does the planted Ashvines drops seeds?

Or I can only collect them in the Ashlands?

[cosmic igloo]

idk

[light moat]

They can drop seeds, yeah

[cosmic igloo]

u guys think i could train clubs on bonemass? just do like the speedrunner and build just outside of his attack range but also so u can hit his hitbox

that'd be so much more enjoyable than killing greydwarves

[gray sand]

lvl 1 wooden clubs will train really well against him.

[nocturne wolf]

The best way to grind weapon skill is to just progress normally while using that weapon type

[cosmic igloo]

lmao blobi aight thanks...

[gray sand]

Best is subjective.
Fastest is Bonemass.

[cosmic igloo]

ya ima try it after trained bows on him

[gray sand]

Actually... does he resist Fire?

[nocturne wolf]

He equally resists fire and pierce

[gray sand]

If yes, skip the Wooden Club and build a fuckton of Torches.
Better training.

[cosmic igloo]

says he's VERY resistant to fire

why better

[gray sand]

Less damage per hit = better.

[nocturne wolf]

You'll get more hits before he dies

[cosmic igloo]

oh i didnt even consider that lvl 1 club would kill him

[gray sand]

They will just break really fast, so build a lot of them.

[cosmic igloo]

i guess ill do clubs anyway, i have mats to summon him at least 4 more times i think

[sly basin]

do you guys play with or without mods?

[gray sand]

Ew.

[cosmic igloo]

without

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, RNG sometimes being like that. 🤭

[cosmic igloo]

but i dont have that much time playd in valheim, i can see myself using mods on later runs

[light moat]

Don’t have to kill him- when he gets low on HP just give him time to regen

[cosmic igloo]

true

[tacit crystal]

Vanilla 👍

[cosmic igloo]

does boss ever despawn?

[merry pebble]

nope

[gray sand]

Only on death.

[light moat]

Nope

[cosmic igloo]

lul

[wintry valve]

I dont like modding games. The one exception was with morrowind when I used an "unofficial" patch that fixed so many nagging issues

[kind pendant]

Valheim is the only game that really doesn’t need mods, such a good game, you can do so much, wide variety, Idk why add mods

[tacit crystal]

Let's say I'm not against modding a game unless it's not supported by developers. Like how Larian added mod support to BG3.

And also some mods can cause unexpected issues in Valheim especially after content patches have been added to the game, so I gladly play vanilla as the game has more than enough content for me.

[kind pendant]

I can see someone/I starting to use it after beating the game a BUNCH

[kind pendant]

Exactly! More than enough content

[cosmic igloo]

there are some nice mods that for example show how long until mead is finished

[tacit crystal]

Also how Bog Witch patch added even more content that made new run much more enjoyable after I found the Witch. 😁

[errant knoll]

I can understand if those mods are to smooth over some of the games more annoying features, like lack of half roof building pieces.

Sure, you can clip... but it looks hella ugly on any of the non-thatch roofs

[shy marlin]

how's about it's a single player game and people can do what they want when it comes to mods

[cosmic igloo]

nope sry

[shy marlin]

unluckers

[cosmic igloo]

xD

[idle storm]

I don't mind mods but i usually only use them once i get bored of the vanilla game.
Suffice to say it hasn't happened yet.

Also with the current frequency of patches mods would be a major pain so i'll do without for now.

[long locust]

the only mod I've been seriously interested in is plant everything

foraging is nice & all but I wanna have a berry garden damn it

[toxic eagle]

why is there a 30 minute timer for sending ss

[light moat]

People were having conversations in that channel, so they put a timer

[merry pebble]

Correction, wiki has his pic with red beard but in-game he has white beard 😄

[long locust]

ngl, I wish the sledgehammers had some actual combos, with the ground slam being the power attack

sucks that 2h axes and 2h swords get combos and power attacks

and atgeirs

[nocturne wolf]

The current primary attack should stay as the primary attack. Secondary can be even more powerful

[merry pebble]

Secondary could be more powerfull directional wave maybe?

[long locust]

me when I break my arms instantly by using the new more powerful power slam

[long locust]

that'd be interesting, but tbh my problem with the slam attack in general is it leaves very little room for making choices in combat, it's either do big slam or wait to do big slam

my playthrough has been interesting so far on hard, been using heavy armor with bows for the most part, with either the stagbreaker or 1h + shield as my backup

was using fire arrows for most stuff but I ran out of resin & feathers so now I'm just using wood arrows lmao

[cosmic igloo]

wow bow skill is so worth

never bothered with it until now, it carries so hard

[shy marlin]

it's prolly one of the most influential skills

since it's a double whammy

[long locust]

yeah, been messing with archery as my main playstyle ever since discovering that

hit about 35ish recently and the difference is massive already

[cosmic igloo]

i lvld mine to 70 on bonemass

now doing mountains

[trail pelican]

dying his beard to confuse us!

[merry pebble]

I bet Hildir dyed it for him XD

[royal tendon]

I have ashvine growing on my building in the meadows, its healthy and yesterday it had some vineberries on it, today when i logged in and went to collect they had disappeared, why?

[rapid portal]

How to get black forge level 3?

is it a thing?

[merry pebble]

Do you have refined eitr?

[rapid portal]

Yeah

I only have 1 upgrade thing

[merry pebble]

Look into artisan table then and make mechanical spring

[rapid portal]

Thanks!

[merry pebble]

[long locust]

yup, 4 upgrades in total, vice, cooler, metal & gem cutters

the latter two are unlocked in the ashlands

[rapid portal]

Got it! Thanks

[long locust]

nothing quite like the swamp stage of gameplay, sailing around boats full of iron across the entire world

[sand night]

why is moder spawn always surrounded by mistlands or plains 😢

[long locust]

how do yall farm feathers early game? kind of a pain in the ass to just shoot every bird I see

[hidden gorge]

i simply don't farm feathers early game -- you don't need feathers in the early game anyway

[merry pebble]

As said above, i get enough arrows from chests everywhere

[long locust]

I was thinking about that tbh, just raiding a bunch of burial chambers

[nocturne wolf]

If you're strong enough to fight moder, you'll be able to go through plains

[sand night]

not mistlands tho

[merry pebble]

Imo the meadow and BF structures with chests are the way to go since they provide arrrows AND feathers

[idle storm]

i usually get plenty of feathers from chests and chopping trees. Though i also stick to wooden arrows until i get obsidian and just stockpile until then.

[long locust]

one skill I've been getting good at with my legolas playstyle is knowing when to charge a shot and when to not

one of my favorite things to do now is shoot a fully charged shot out to stagger something, then do a quick follow up shot after to take advantage of the stagger dmg

[tiny tiger]

Honestly I got like 3-4 stacks from just finding them in chests and shit and I’ve still not needed them

You only really need to craft arrows mountains and beyond for frost arrows

[merry pebble]

I currently have around 6 stacks from just exploring xD

[normal vine]

is it possible to sleep during the day

[nocturne wolf]

You can sleep from noon

[warm sandal]

really hard to decide what ashlands weapons to get ... i will have to clear out a lot more fortresses to get more gems to try them all out 😄

[tiny tiger]

Lightning dial axes 😌

[nocturne wolf]

Iolite axes are very popular

[normal vine]

good way to speed up smelting

[warm sandal]

I have the iolite splitnir and the iolite mace and the jade axes now need to find me more gems first... made dundr too to try it out seemd a bit underwhelming on a lox ... 😄

[long locust]

dundr is really good, with like 3 asterisks

[nocturne wolf]

Dundr is incredibly strong against morgens

[tiny tiger]

^^

[errant knoll]

Its a close range magic weapon too

[warm sandal]

I shall try that out... those morgens have my pants in twists all the time damn buggers 😄

[long locust]

dundr is really good if:
you're point blank
you're a dedicated mage
the enemy is lightning weak or stunned

[nocturne wolf]

Remember that the staff of protection's shield allows you to parry any blockable attack

[warm sandal]

I collected like 15 asksvine eggs from my breeding pair but have not yet gotten around to make a hatching pen... my gosh those spawn rates 😄

[long locust]

yep, bubble parry into dundr is a fun combo

[idle storm]

also remember that wet = weak to lightning

[errant knoll]

Looking at what I've built and considering how much bronze I'm gonna need to light this place with lanterns

Wondering if I've made an error haha

[tiny tiger]

What’s ur estimate

[idle storm]

use dvergr circlets on item stands instead. You don't need a lot of them since they reach a lot further.

[errant knoll]

I have no estimate. I don't even want to think about it lol

I'm saving my gold for feast producing too right now

[idle storm]

alternatively you can take the lanterns from dvergr towers in the mistlands without aggroing them even with the ward still up. 2-3 per tower are pretty common, i've seen up to 5.

[errant knoll]

I guess there's plenty of towers I never planned to build around due to the location being poor

Could always commit some friendly neighbourhood genocide

Also, I've got 2 refined eitr hiding inside the building blocks within one of those towers I took over

It's really annoying me that i can see they're trying to damage the black marble blocks but I can't get at them. There's at least 2

[idle storm]

i mean... they drop soft tissue and are easier to find than giant skulls, so why not?

[fierce torrent]

god i love this game

[hazy bolt]

I wish I never played it so I can play it again 😄

[errant knoll]

I don't think I'm likely to need anymore soft tissue tbh

[fierce torrent]

i bought it yesterday and im
playing without watching guides and stuff, its so good

[hazy bolt]

Best way to do it.

[errant knoll]

Not this run-through, in building whag I am right now partly for fun but also partly judt to get rid of the excessive storage space taken up by materials (ahem, Grausten, Stone)

[fierce torrent]

first encounter with a troll didnt go so well tho💀

[hazy bolt]

Nice trolls are a hard enemy in the beginning

[tacit crystal]

Those are great, I also like Primal axes (they look elegant!) 👌

[serene talon]

if you always listen and run from enemies you should be able to make it trough

i find going trough mistlands to moder safer than plains

[idle storm]

As long as you have a root harnesk and avoid tar pits and fuling villages you shouldn't have any issue crossing the plains even in swamp gear.
Mistlands depends entirely on what kind of terrain you have to cross and what exactly spawns there.

[rapid portal]

how do I place the eggs from the trader?

or get them to a state where they can hatch

[idle storm]

drag & drop from inventory. Near a fire if you want them to hatch.

[royal tendon]

Can anything but a battering ram destroy the charred fortress?

Or a catapult

[sage quiver]

Drop eggs one at a time tho. Stacks will not hatch.

[long locust]

nope, only the siege equipment can break them iirc

[royal tendon]

I see some white dmg when i mine the walls with a pick, i, it the spikes?

[long locust]

probably, the spikes aren't considered the same as the actual fortress itself

[royal tendon]

Okay good to know

[rocky widget]

good thing i didnt keep trying to pickaxe them open then

[unkempt hemlock]

Hi guys

How are you guys doing?

[long locust]

well, found haldor and hildir finally, just need the witch

[merry pebble]

I am currently in the exact same situation xD

[light moat]

Huh, we are also looking for the witch in our playthrough 👀

[merry pebble]

We are all synced xD

[long locust]

let me guess, everyone just beat elder?

[light moat]

Wouldn’t say just beat him, but it wasn’t too long ago haha

[merry pebble]

Nah, i am lust lazing around 😄 going slowly through swamp and spending some time at my base doing stuff. But yeah, it was just maybe a week or two in game days since i beat him

[pliant hatch]

Either that or playing at a pre-Bog Witch map

[long locust]

rn I'm just starting to mix between late-BF early Swamp gear

[light moat]

Me and my close friend are doing a playthrough together, and he hasn’t played since mistalnds- so I’m trying to let him discover the witch lol

[long locust]

still in bronze armor but I got the huntsman's bow

[merry pebble]

Oh i still have my troll armor and bronze stuff 😄

[light moat]

Root armor and battleaxe for me!

[lusty dirge]

It seems some mobs (lava blobs?) can break it too. Also I think the pickaxe is able to damage the wall

[long locust]

I mean, we can get into semantics on that but there's not much point, you either use siege equipment or you waste your time

just found a crypt directly next to the ocean those are my favorite kind

the free-est of free iron

[lusty dirge]

True, if the intent of the question was to find out how to enter a fortress, that's the right answer.
I was asking this question once, because I found a broken section in the wall of my fortress base and was wondering how that happened. In that context, other damage sources are relevant information.

[long locust]

well, witch finally found

[proven cloud]

Someone to play in a private server?

I need valheim friends tô play together

[pliant hatch]

Have you tried https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510 yet?

[proven cloud]

I Will look into that , thank you

[long locust]

the most difficult crossroads for me to choose in this game has finally come

continue expanding my dinky wooden house in the meadows, or go and make a new base

[elder glen]

meow

[trim cedar]

i find myself making bases every where haha, although i do enjoy having one big one some where in the meadows

[inland hill]

i do the same lol

[long locust]

I get way too invested in bases once I go past the "shitty box with a triangle on top" design

[inland hill]

usually a main base then spawn points all over place

[long locust]

so if I put in any effort to an outpost I'll be there for a week

[inland hill]

well tiny bases lol

[long locust]

no such thing for me, either it's a shitshack or a gorgeous fortress

[inland hill]

lmao

[trim cedar]

i have one personal world where i just build different places to get my build fix

[long locust]

that's basically what my endgame world is now

[inland hill]

main base where all my shit is then the small random ones

[vital umbra]

Its been too many hours, I lost the capacity to make a bunch of grand bases, I just like cottages.

[trim cedar]

my endgame world got erased, i had a server.. let it run out and forgot to back it up

[cosmic igloo]

F

[long locust]

I have two sides in valheim:
fuck it we ball (running blind into death)
stardew valley with vikings

[trim cedar]

biiiiiig F

[trim cedar]

i just started a new game alone this time. and i forgot how long it takes to get to the mistlands lol

[long locust]

it's such a long journey and it ends so fast once you beat mistlands

[trim cedar]

atleast the ashlands is there now, it wasnt when i finished the mistlands last time

[long locust]

true

I hope we get some opportunities to use magic before mistlands tbh, kinda sucks that by the time you even unlock the mage playstyle the game is almost over

[vocal rivet]

Mistlands, Ashlands, Deep North, that's nearly half the game.

[trim cedar]

im excited to see what the deep north has in store

i absolutely hated the mistlands lol

[long locust]

I hope Deep North has a lot, but I'm afraid it's gonna be like an epilogue after Ashlands

[vocal rivet]

It's going to be another whole biome, so I don't see why it would be an 'epilogue'.

[trim cedar]

i think what they are reffering to is that its probably the last biome were going to get (hoping not the case)

[long locust]

mainly since it was stated there are only seven Forsaken in the lore iirc

[vocal rivet]

Of course it's the last biome we're going to get.

[trim cedar]

youre breaking my heart derek

[vocal rivet]

Why? We've known that for over 3 years.

[long locust]

ocean rework will be wild though

[trim cedar]

i know i know, im just holding out hope

[long locust]

"Seven were the creatures banished to this world by mighty Odin in the first days of his kingship." - Black Forest Runestone

[vocal rivet]

Yeah, weird how the game has changed as it's been developed.

We also only had 6 sacrificial stones at one point.

[vague heart]

do you guys think ashlands is to hard or balanced because ive been dying for 3 hours trying to get my stuff

[vocal rivet]

It's balanced to be pretty hard.

[vague heart]

i cant do this anymore

[trim cedar]

i feel for you pal

[long locust]

depends on how well you prepared, if you died without a portal then yeah you're kinda fucked

[keen cliff]

No shame in lowering difficulty to get your stuff. Single player game. Have fun

[trim cedar]

no portal, no bueno

[long locust]

yep, knocked my death penalty down from very easy to casual once I hit mistlands, retrieving my gear butt ass naked just started to get way too irritating and I didn't want to hoard backup armors

[keen cliff]

I rage quit and restored world and character from a 4 hour old backup on my first failed Ashland landing. I stupidly got my boat sunk on the water and died. Second time was the charm.

[long locust]

yep, sometimes you make a stupid mistake and the punishment ends up being too harsh, atp it's your choice if you want to deal with it or not

[cosmic igloo]

why dont we have ak47s in the game? we have magic and metallic springs and sap extractors and more high tech stuff

kinda plothole

[long locust]

not an ak, but dundr is basically a 12 gauge

[keen cliff]

I’m watching a YouTube video of a group of four players trying to get to the ashlands without beating the queen. They all just died in the water and now they’re getting raided at their base entertaining stuff.

[vocal rivet]

Well, that's really on them.

[cosmic igloo]

like we have portals but not glocks ok

[keen cliff]

Oh certainly. I think they know they are skipping content. There’s no commentary so I don’t know if they’re raging or not. It’s fun to watch.

[cosmic igloo]

nah they arent skippping, they still have time to add glocks into the game as a dlc

[vital umbra]

("dev commands -> fly")

[trim cedar]

that works if you have it set up right to start lol

[near furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/i-started-blasting-so-anyway-i-started-blasting-danny-devito-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-blasting-gif-24425727

[vital umbra]

people pronounce hearth the same way they do earth and it feels wrong

[long locust]

because it is

[near furnace]

Örth and Hörth? 🤔

[vital umbra]

harth

american pronounciation

[near furnace]

<-- swedish pronounciation

[pliant hatch]

Considering about 80-90% of the world is not a native English speaker, I don't think it's something to worry about.

99% of the worlds population won't be able to pronounce the Dutch words for hearth right and it doesn't bother me at all.

[vital umbra]

I don't think i pronounce a single thing purposefully faithful to anything that isn't of american dialect 🥴 except for meginjord which seems more obvious.

ha-arth

[vocal rivet]

I've never heard anyone do that.

[vital umbra]

i am learning from that, and apparently this chat too, that its popular to do 😬

[long locust]

yk, the stardew valley soundtrack is so comedically unfitting when playing this game that I think I'm just gonna listen to that and nothing else now

bruh

just got backed into a tree by two draugr and couldn't do anythign about it because they got me stuck in there

yk, new cloak effect idea for deep north: a buff that lets you ignore enemy hitboxes when moving

[nocturne wolf]

You can already just jump over most enemies.

[cosmic igloo]

like phasing in path of exile?

[long locust]

yep, exactly what I was thinking of actually lmao

[vital umbra]

man...

i swear to god when i first got near the bog witch in a world with friends i saw something attacking a sea serpent in the water and it looked like tentacles, i thought nothing of it i thought it was the witch doing it or something but ever since then i have heard or seen nothing of such an occurance 😭

[long locust]

some long dead mage probably drowned there and was using the root staff to fuck with you lol

[vital umbra]

i don't think my friends should have had any mods...even if i suspected that i don't believe any of them know how to set them up, so either this is some herobrine easter egg shit or i am going schizo

[nocturne wolf]

Could it have been some leeches?

[vital umbra]

do they fight serpents

[nocturne wolf]

Everything does except bosses, serpents are the only creatures with the ocean faction

[vital umbra]

got fucking swarmed by leeches then lol

[elder glen]

it's a good idea to max the black metal sword?

[vocal rivet]

There's no need to max any weapon or armour but it certainly won't hurt if you have the resources.

[long locust]

no reason not to, solid weapon and you'll get plenty of black metal

just keep in mind that it won't be that good against yagluth, silver sword would be the best option for that

[cosmic igloo]

why dont mobs have fall dmg? if i yeet a wolf off a mountain, it should die

[elder glen]

here a better question, WHY MOBS DON"T DRAWN? WHY SILME DOESN"T GET DMG FROM OCEAN

[cosmic igloo]

lmao ya

[elder glen]

im scared

[cosmic igloo]

why do charred mobs take fire dmg but no dmg from walking in lava

[elder glen]

early access valheim

[long locust]

should be tbh, most reliable dmg types for yagluth seem to be cold & spirit

[elder glen]

SOON BROTHER SOON WE WILL HAVE AN ELITE GAME

[vocal rivet]

What does that have to do with anything?

And let's lay off the caps, eh?

[elder glen]

Oh still under development don't look too close to details as it'll be fixed with time

[vocal rivet]

Fixed implies it's broken.

[elder glen]

Noo

Wait let me rephrase,
details will be implied to valheim to be a total complete game

[long locust]

I think the actual answer is a lot simpler, ashlands enemies dying in lava would make it too easy to escape them, but making them immune to fire would basically fuck over two of the best mage weapons, plus dyrnwyn as well

[vocal rivet]

Valheim can be a complete game without changing things that are not broken 😕

[elder glen]

😔 meow

[cosmic igloo]

derek u thnk the things we mentioned are fine? mobs falling hundreds of meters and taking 0 dmg from it

[elder glen]

let's get back to yagluth

[cosmic igloo]

or the charred taking no dmg from lava, yet taking dmg from fire

[vocal rivet]

Yes, of course.

[cosmic igloo]

alright

[elder glen]

is it a coward move to get a gear from mistland for an easier yagluth experience

[hollow hinge]

If you can't beat yagluth you won't survive mistlands

[elder glen]

dang, I just have bad experiences with fire bosses

[cosmic igloo]

you can cheese it if you want

[elder glen]

cheese?

[cosmic igloo]

ya like use a cheap trick to kill it with 0 difficulty

[long locust]

honestly, not true imo, if you know how to navigate the mist it's actually fairly easy to skip yagluth, the problem being that if you aren't familiar with the mistlands already it's nigh impossible to navigate

[elder glen]

no cheating is for Ps

[cosmic igloo]

no cheating involved (no console stuff)

[elder glen]

compared to moder

how powerful is yagluth

[long locust]

moder vs yagluth is not even a competition

imo, yagluth is easily the hardest boss when using on-level gear

[cosmic igloo]

his mechanics are not difficult

[elder glen]

I have lost my fear

[dapper jungle]

its kinda normal to skip black metal tools and go straight to mistlands tools

[elder glen]

time to beat yagluth

[cosmic igloo]

use pillars

[long locust]

I just said yagluth is the hardest boss... how does that make you lose your fear?

[elder glen]

Oh nvm I regained my fear,
-# i read it "yagluth is easier" not "yagluth is easily"

[long locust]

ah, yeah he's basically a more basic fader but without magic access, so he ends up being pretty difficult, he tends to attack very frequently and you can only facetank one of his attacks with the max level gear for the plains

[cosmic igloo]

iirc he has 3 moves: 1. smash 2. summon meteors 3. laser
you can hide behind pillar when he does 2 and 3. block the smash

he does fire and lightning dmg so bring fire pot

[long locust]

would not recommend blocking the smash, dodge roll is safer

[cosmic igloo]

ya or that

[hollow hinge]

How are they gonna get familiar with the mistlands if they haven't beat yag?

[long locust]

idk if this is their first playthrough or what

[elder glen]

good good tips

[long locust]

point being, it's not impossible or even super difficult to navigate the mistlands before yagluth, but it does take experience and if you've never been in the mistlands you're unlikely to have that experience

[elder glen]

Wouldn't a hamer be more effective since it's a skeleton?

[long locust]

for weapons, if you're doing melee bring frostner or silver sword, if you're using a bow use silver or frost arrows

[elder glen]

YEYE forstner

[long locust]

nope, he's neutral to blunt iirc so it doesn't do anything extra, spirit and frost are where it's at

[elder glen]

Ohh the sqatous ones are bad?

[elder glen]

Oh

[cosmic igloo]

frostner works good

[elder glen]

what blunt level should I have

[long locust]

ok yeah, he's neutral to everything except fire, pierce, and poison, which he resists

[cosmic igloo]

idk 30s?

[elder glen]

I have 56 blunt 60 sword

[cosmic igloo]

ya ur fine

[long locust]

you can go either way then, silver sword and frostner are very comparable for yagluth, they're pretty much just preference

[elder glen]

W

[elder glen]

Oh, doesn't sword have more dmg

in terms of spirit and slash

[long locust]

yeah, it has more spirit and phys dmg than frostner, but frostner has about the same total dmg when you add the blunt, spirit, and frost together

[elder glen]

Ohh, also will yagluth remove the thicc mist in mistland

[long locust]

kind of

[elder glen]

I can't see things

[long locust]

won't spoil it for you, but he will give you a way to remove the mist temporarily

[elder glen]

ohh yeee

[long locust]

btw do not underestimate the lightning dmg, since it's the only elemental dmg type that does contribute to stagger, so yagluth can stagger you really fast with that and his phys dmg combined

all this talk about yagluth has gotten his boss music stuck in my head

[elder glen]

Ohh, so

• bring fire pots
• use Frostner or silver sword
• never berry smacks
• coward behind the rocks when he does most of his attacks

[long locust]

yep, pretty much, the fist slam is your best opening to attack

[elder glen]

noted, would

would a tower shield be a good idea?

[long locust]

eh, if you really wanted to block his attacks it'd be a good choice, but there's not much reason not to dodge

[elder glen]

it's for the "it'll hit me" situations

actually wait, i never make a tower sheiled does it make you struggle to move?

[long locust]

yes

massive move speed penalty while it's out, you're basically forced to be tanking while it's equipped

that's why I recommend just using dodge rolls, if you really need a shield a regular one should suffice

[nocturne wolf]

One thing that’s often overlooked for tower shields is the significantly higher block force (knockback) which can split groups or create space to drink a potion or do whatever

[long locust]

tower shields are designed for standing your ground, regular shields are balanced for a lot of situations