valheim-chat

[nocturne wolf]

Unique fish can be found in deep north

[worn bolt]

damn

[nocturne wolf]

So you need to go there early for the hat

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, and some people mined a lot of old Flametal, thinking they wouldn't have to mine it when the biome is there, which was changed into Ancient metal which has no use in game.

[worn bolt]

how the hecc am i gonna get my cool fishing hat without ruining my biome

[worn bolt]

sounds about right

[nocturne wolf]

Go there in a different world?

[worn bolt]

damn

[tacit crystal]

I have one way how to explore as minimal as possible DN so it wouldn't probably mess up too much.

I put it here: #screenshots message

Going as edge as possible would render as minimal as possible DN area.

For the fishing purpose only.

That's a risk I was willing to take.

[wary bane]

ah yes, the deep west

[tacit crystal]

Or Deep East.

[wary bane]

Today I continue the hunt for Yagluth

Plains is weird, by the time i had found and taken down Moder i'd already gathered loads of black metal and the 2 plains crops as most of the mountains i explored were surrounded by plains. It was like: Kill Moder, port back, hang trophy, then use Moder drop to immediately industrialise production.

[rain flare]

Found Yagluth over the weekend in my new playthrough…
I was looking for Boggy the swamp merchant when I stumbled upon his very obvious altar 😂😅

Kinda hard to miss those huge grabby hands

Took me a while since I had to sail around 4 different islands before I found anything 😂

[worn bolt]

easy to spot, when youre not looking for it that is. When you actually start searching you will never find it

[wary bane]

true, although i've been hoodwinked a few times by particularly "handy" looking plains rock formations

[worn bolt]

same as the wind mechanics, Valheim really likes to screw with you

[wary bane]

Posted my map in #screenshots, my seed is Xp093tAs8K, i dont want any spoilers but you can all laugh at how close i have come/how completely far off I am if you like.

[worn bolt]

i bet he's close to the top left sealed tower

uhh right i mean

[opal prairie]

Morgen gjall.

[wary bane]

I have a portal up there from when i completed the smouldering tomb ( i intentionally chose that Smouldering tomb due to its proximity to that sealed tower)

[worn bolt]

yea i had brain damage, was talking about the top right

[worn bolt]

Fun fact: Most Valheim players stop mining iron one crypt before having enough

[terse raft]

depends, my solo game i have a crate full

but on my co-op game my friend waste the iron i mine quite fast xD

[worn bolt]

if you even consider using it for builds it WILL go buy milk

[robust token]

I do used a lot of iron on building

And tons on armor

[frozen fable]

it really seems like there are more chains in crypt chests than normal

[worn bolt]

*A chill goes down your Spine

[arctic garnet]

Dear diary. I fought a 1 star gjall and a horde of seekers and ticks including a 1 star seeker yesterday with 2 of my friends and we all died. Let's never do that again.

[frigid gust]

Root harnesk and Barleywine would put you on much more even footing in that situation 😉 but I starred Gjall is a pest all on its lonesome.

[arctic garnet]

Yeah, I didn't have my barleywine with me until I ran out of the respawn portal like a bat out of hell with some and bonemass for good measure.

then it blew up before my friends could follow so I had to dodge a gorillion seekers, jumping ticks, and the War of the Worlds tripod siren shooting fireballs from the sky trying to get the stuff from my grave into my inventory because a random-ass tick trophy was keeping things from automatically transferring so that was interesting.

[opal prairie]

Are you saying you did actually do it again?

[arctic garnet]

I guess I technically did because I had to get my stuff back 🥴

And also drop a portal for my friends to follow so we can continue going through the mist

[terse raft]

im so scared that i would need to create a new game with the new biomes

[opal prairie]

Normally you don't need to, if you haven't explored any of the new biome it should all get created like it should and not screw anything up.
No real way to know if it will be the case wit the next biome but most of the times it has been that way.

[terse raft]

alright

[tacit crystal]

Dear diary, avoid going in Mistlands during night time. Thank you.

[arctic garnet]

Glory waits for no one

DIES

[opal prairie]

Took an arrow to the knee?

[arctic garnet]

Yes. And a tick to the face.

[tacit crystal]

Like a facehugger.

[arctic garnet]

More or less.

[snow flame]

bruh hard mode moder is some bs, 1 hit ice torpedo with silver armor, keeps landing on terrible terrain even if i prepared a flat area near the moder summoning spot, wolves sometimes join in....

[rain flare]

Make them mine it themselves - they’ll be less likely to waste it that way 😂

[rain flare]

Moder is always problematic
Just have to slog through 🔥

[snow flame]

im probably ok with the other stuff, BUT bitch doesnt wanna land or good or even decent terrain

[terse raft]

they the one hosting the server, i can only play if he plays lol

but its okay, we got mostly what we needed for the Iron tier armor/weapon

[snow flame]

and it actually got worse, i died earlier due to the 1 hit ice torpedo, and the wolf kept camping the portal even after sleeping. Now the portal got destroyed and now i have to manually get to moder's spot to get my fucking stuff....

[tacit crystal]

Hard mode is... Hard.

[snow flame]

hard bullshit yea

[tacit crystal]

Takes more dodging and cannot rely solely on blocking/parrying against bigger mobs.

[snow flame]

hard is annoying but its not that bad but man moder is something else, hope yagluth isnt gonna be much worse

[tacit crystal]

Hmm, I also wonder what it will going to be. I have hard preset world, trying permadeath run and Yagluth is next.

[snow flame]

also im confused with valheim's saving system, whats a good way to get a "roll back" save when something fucked up happened? i tried alt f4'ing and quitting steam while the game is active

im trying to roll back to when the portal was not destroyed so i can tp to get my stuff, but nope, it still saved despite alt f4'ing and the "save" icon not showing up earlier

[quasi latch]

Save a backup file before going into the game

[snow flame]

ah

[quasi latch]

The reason this isn't a feature is because it goes against the risk vs. reward aspect of exploration and combat

You could potentially find something in #mods-discussion if you really wanted to go that route

[snow flame]

im just gonna get my stuff manually thanks, im just so salty that my portal got destroyed last second for trying to retrieve my stuff.... The portal is properly far away from moder summoning area even... sigh

[frigid gust]

Yeah... Valheim can be punishing like that, unfortunately. You can restore old worlds and characters, but only from the regular timed savepoints that happen, not just any time. It's always risky to have a singular portal far away from all others.

[snow flame]

took me 30 mins to get my stuff, "you are being hunted", dies again... fuck this game jesus

game wasnt even hard from start to pre moder, idk how it suddenly spiked to this...

[frigid gust]

Yeah, being hunted sucks. The one thing I do is I don't get rid of old gear... if it was good enough to get you into your new gear it's usually enough to mount an actual body recovery mission instead of trying to run in and out. The biggest thing is making sure you have good food, once you get food from the new biome things get a lot easier.

[ember kraken]

The combat difficulties being multipliers, will generally make them escalate more the later in the game you get.

I ended up going back to playing normal in general, just because the more I played hard, the more I found myself abusing terraforming and pathfinding for everything. Because, well I just didn't find it very fun to engage in combat most of the time.

[snow flame]

finally moder is killed

she wasnt even hard the moment the other mobs' bs disappeared

[frigid gust]

Nope. The additional mobs always complicate things.

[snow flame]

also shoutout to the stone golem who killed the wolves and drakes for me when i had no items with me

[ember kraken]

Yeah, once you're familiar with her moves, I find her very easy to deal with. But yeah, you kind of have to walk around and clean out the whole area first to avoid extras joining in.

[snow flame]

bro didnt even chase after me

[frigid gust]

I will dot campfires around boss altars, especially things like the tar pits, just to prevent extra spawns before I summon them.

[snow flame]

wait campfires reduce spawns?

[nocturne wolf]

Campfires prevent spawns nearby even without fuel

[snow flame]

damn i didnt know that, that would be very handy because i was planning on making a moat around yagluth's fight so other mobs (other than deathsquitos) wont bother me

[frigid gust]

Campfires also don't attract enemy aggro, unlike workbenches and everything else that prevent spawns

[chrome badge]

Yeah, I like to make watchtowers for workbenches for that reason

[snow flame]

can yagluth's meteors damage stone pillars that were erected via hoe?

nice

[ember kraken]

Haven't really used spawn prevention in a long time for bosses. I tend to just clean out area, so less spawns anytime soon.

But I do remember liking using workbenches, for also doubling as distrctions, so mobs like wolves went to attack them isntead of me, so I got time to adjust.

Earth walls are indestructible. (well there's one enemy in ashlands that can put a dent in them)

[idle fable]

yo

How does one get a server up

[slim ibex]

I use GPortal, solid prices and customizable

[frigid gust]

Please don't ask the same question in multiple channels, it makes it hard to properly answer it

[oak river]

Does the swords special attack do Pierce damage?

[shy marlin]

No

It’s slash

[nocturne wolf]

Secondary attacks always use the same damage types as the primary attack

[tiny tiger]

Porcupine is still the only weapon to deal more than 1 physical damage type right

[median ivy]

Is making any of the feasts worth it? I saw they can last for like 50 minutes, although I'm not sure if they're worth it or just carrying the base food with me at all times

[vocal rivet]

Absolutely. Most people have a couple of feasts now in their standard loadout.

[azure yacht]

Knives

[tiny tiger]

The last 2 feasts for mistlands and Ashland’s are the only ones i used in my playthrough

[median ivy]

Oh that's cool. Can you make your own custom feast or are they a set ingredient

[tiny tiger]

I don’t think the others are really too useful

There’s set recipe feasts

[tiny tiger]

Oh right yeah forgot about those

[median ivy]

What does that mean

More than 1 physical damage type? Like.. frost and poison? Or

[tacit crystal]

Physical damage types are blunt, slash and pierce. Knives have partial slash and pierce and Porcupine has partial blunt and pierce.

Others are elemental damage types.

[snow flame]

do you guys bother taming stuff?

[nocturne wolf]

I tame boars but nothing else

[tacit crystal]

Starred animals are quite nice.

[snow flame]

im tryna tame lox since i just got to plains and since im gonna walk around plains to look for fuling bases, might as well ride a lox, taming is ez anyway

[median ivy]

I tamed one Lox because I thought Lox were rare and thought getting their meat was gonna be dreadful until I realized at least 3 spawn in one pack

They're pretty good tree destroyers

[snow flame]

nvm

i need black metal for lox saddle, so much for riding across the plains early in the biome...

[pearl thorn]

hello

[median ivy]

A few fulings would help

[snow flame]

i didnt bring iron with me when coming to the plains so nah ill just walk

[tepid prawn]

you can sail some black metal home, thats what I often do for those uses, the saddle itself can be teleported through a normal portal

[median ivy]

I don't see how iron would help you kill fulings but yeah walking is another option

[ember kraken]

Stagbreaker (not that anyone cares about the miniscule piercing damage it does though)

[toxic mason]

Just wait until you see the black metal armor you can make...

Oh... wait... Next biome. Maybe

[tacit crystal]

Good note, but yeah quite miniscule amount of pierce.

[ember kraken]

It's the principle though, I have to stand up the Stagbreaker, best weapon in the game! ;)

[snow flame]

i dont see why id sail iron bars from home to plains or black metal from plains to home to make a blast furnace just so i can make lox saddle.

I just thought getting to ride a lox wouldnt require me to sail from home since my plains are very far away, i prefer getting all the black metal i need in 1 sailing so yea ill just walk across the plains lol

[median ivy]

You already need to make a blast furnace to smelt the black metal anyways.

[raven heron]

is there a way to turn off xp drain completely

even the 1% drain is too much

[snow flame]

yea so riding lox for me is kinda pointless and make me do an extra sail

[median ivy]

Well then I guess if its a big hassle to sail to get a lox saddle then yeah I guess walking is the better option. Their only purpose to me is the lox meat and they can break trees for you.

[tacit crystal]

Devcommands.

[vocal rivet]

It only happens when you die.

[raven heron]

which happens a lot

im on kinda high ping and if you miss one parry its pretty much over if theres enough enemies

[median ivy]

Valheim the only game when I run out of crossbow bolts and suddenly Gjall raids start

It was fun though. I did like having Dverger mages and rogues killing em for me

[exotic swan]

Gjall raid sounds terrifying lol

[median ivy]

I think a total of like 5-6 spawned. Thank God for the fact there was a few starred Dvergers in vicinity. Lol

[wary oak]

can't send pictures?

[pliant hatch]

It's disabled in this chat, but can post them in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202267437647527977

and then link them here.

[waxen plover]

yo chat quick question: playing on a very old map, does altering the world modifiers the hugin tutorials?

havent played since the bog witch update

and the crow didnt appear to tell me the appearance of a new merchant

[vestal summit]

have anyone tips for the queen?

[tribal trench]

try not to hug the walls in her chamber as she hits extremely hard

[vestal summit]

ok thx

[pliant hatch]

@waxen plover iirc you can reset the tips from Hugin from your inventory. Which will trigger the messages popping up the moment you enter a biome, craft something and so on.
I can't remember if there's a message for the bog witch, but if there is it should trigger if you enter a swamp.
However, on old worlds you will find her only in unexplored swamps.

[wooden tapir]

time to start a new playthrough!

[shy marlin]

Any plans/goals?

[wooden tapir]

to not die

and make a forever world ( something i can always come back to)

[pliant hatch]

If you do, stay out of the northern part until after the 1.0 release.

[wooden tapir]

a 0 death playthrough would be pretty cool to do at least once

[wooden tapir]

yea for sure

[errant lava]

I have a dedicated server and we just was able to craft the black forge and are unable to craft any of the weapons or gear in the work bench
however we are able to craft bolts for the crossbow but not the actual weapon, we have tried uninstalling and verifying integrity on the files but this did nothing
PLEASE HELP!
stats "Missing Requirements" but we have all the materials required to craft

I can not upload image here but I have one in the help page

[lost falcon]

Hi, i'm new in Valheim, wana find team

[wide wagon]

Anyone else scared to see how they make the deep north top ashlands?

[wooden tapir]

ashlands killed me over 50 times my first experience

[wide wagon]

Ashlands killed me mentally, I turned difficulty all the way down

[wooden tapir]

i remember my first 2 star warrior experience

[wide wagon]

and I cheated a few times

When I died to get my stuff back

But yeah mistlands was also brutal

[wooden tapir]

my mistlands experience wasnt that bad

[wide wagon]

But ashlands I cant imagine going into that completely blind and not quitting

[wooden tapir]

i only died like 3x my entire mistland time

[wide wagon]

Well it wasnt sooo bad but it was hard, terrain sucked and you couldnt see anything

[wide wagon]

You are far better than me at this game 🙂

[wooden tapir]

nah i think i just got lucky

[wide wagon]

Im quite terrible, I dont think being better than me is a high bar

But man I still dont understand how one could survive their first ashlands experience

[wooden tapir]

that sounds impossible

[wide wagon]

And if you lose your stuff you have to build a new boat, get other similar quality gear

[wooden tapir]

without outside knowledge, someones first ashlands expeirience is brutal

[wide wagon]

Idk about you I dont have that much spare gear. I'd die once or twice, lose 2 ships, lose all my best stuff, quit

Right now im trying to search for the merchant man so I can get the belt. But I cant find it, ive went like 90 degrees around the map at the right distance, right now cant see shit and wind is against me

Every single aspect of this game can frustrate you easily

[wooden tapir]

yea one thing ive learned tho through my time, in most cases if you die, it is 90% your fault.

ok hunting deer day 2 is abismal

[wide wagon]

Yep

[hybrid hedge]

I am. 😭

[wide wagon]

I wish I could upload screenshots

[dusk bloom]

so, why does "level ground" not actually level the ground? lol

[wide wagon]

Ive now gone 180 degrees around the world at Haldor radius and not found him

Im seasick

[wooden tapir]

yikes

[wide wagon]

Maybe im not at the right distance or something

Or I need to do on land exploration

[wooden tapir]

wait i found an abandond hut with a full roof!

never seen that before

[wide wagon]

I just plugged my seed into the world generator

I hate cheating but I also hate sailing for 3 hours just to not find anything. And I need that belt to make my mining time worht it

Turns out I was on a crash course towards him 🙂

[wide wagon]

Why would someone ever build a sword? I dont think anything is weak to slash that isnt weak to other damage types

[ember kraken]

Slash is the damage type that the least enemies resist. So it's an ok middle ground if you don't want to deal with damage types. And as with much else in the game, it's up to personal taste.

[wide wagon]

Ahh i see

[vocal rivet]

No such thing as Haldor radius.

[wide wagon]

Ik

But like in the right kind of radius. Like far enough out but not so far north or south

[vocal rivet]

Haldor can spawn anywhere from 1500m to 8000m out.

[wide wagon]

Yes I know

Thats what I mean. Far enough out

[vocal rivet]

Fair enough. What you were saying earlier suggested otherwise but as long as you know that's cool.

[wide wagon]

Yeah thanks

[tepid prawn]

You are technically correct, its a Haldor "annulus" 🙂

#geometrynerd

2D donut is what you could call it too

[tepid prawn]

Sword also has a special thing, it does not have "multi-hit" penalty, if you hit more than 1 monster or rocks and trees while fighting, the damage does not get smaller, only sword has that exception for non aoe type weapons.

[wide wagon]

Oh thats neat

Glad I asked

[tepid prawn]

also one of the swords is the most powerful weapon you can use on one of the bosses (5th boss)

[shy marlin]

Or donut 👍

[tepid prawn]

2d donut though, much less tasty then 3d donuts

[wide wagon]

Like that mistalnds one or the ashlands one. Yeah I know, was just asking for general though

[tepid prawn]

nah silver one

[shy marlin]

I do appreciate the math nerd session tho, love to see fellow geometry nerds

[wide wagon]

Oh right the one thats good against wolves

[tepid prawn]

its okay but wolves are immune to spirit

[wide wagon]

Ahh right my memory is faling me

[tepid prawn]

also mist sword is great in ashlands

the weapon balance is quite good, not perfect, but you can make almost anything work on normal mode

[snow flame]

mist sword is so good imo

[tepid prawn]

but Primal Berserkir Axes... ❤️

[snow flame]

primal? what element/status is that again?

[rain flare]

Greeeeeeen

😂

[snow flame]

ah i used lightning berserkir on my last playthrough

[rain flare]

It’s actually just plant magic

[snow flame]

also lord reto was uhh.... just tedious and not hard

huge damage sponge but his AI is borked so i can just walk away then roll after 1-2 attacks from my mist sword

[rain flare]

Love this one - I use it in conjunction with primal so I can slap my enemies with the rooted effect then I swap and go ham with lightning

[snow flame]

berserkir axes reminded me of dual blades from monster hunter so that made me like them even more

[rain flare]

I killed him when you could still spawn a certain undead ||troll||

Just dropped 2 of them on him and watched 🤣

[snow flame]

too bad the fire sword is meh right now, but i know it will be very good when deep rock galactic north drops

[tepid prawn]

you just reminded me I need to make sure my DN test character has that sword ready haha

[glass tree]

man is it hard to find friends to play this game..

[halcyon thistle]

playing solo is really cool too, but I believe 1.0 launch will make this very popular consistently because of replayability, after a game is "done" people can start modding with no limits because there won't be as many small updates breaking them

[snow flame]

oh modding? i just immediately used the difficulty slider as my first way of getting a 2nd playthrough for this game

[halcyon thistle]

yeah I'm on my something'th playthrough and never once modded the game so I am biased to say it doesn't need it but there are some cool ones out there, I like the ones people use for building giant cool stuff, rotating pieces in different axis and being able to use pieces that exist in the game but we only have access via commands

[snow flame]

are you at the point where youre doing or already succeeded on doing a hardcore playthrough? (no deaths)

[halcyon thistle]

I wanna say I have the experience, wisdom and dexterity for that, but I don't have the time... so you decide

I'm currently playing on a world with 3x resource rate and portal everything modifiers

[snow flame]

its nice to play with the game favoring the player

[halcyon thistle]

yeah, I'm in a workaholic phase so I really need the time save that comes with that

IRL grind = no valheim grind

[snow flame]

also am i just blind or does this game not allow us to re-bind the hotbars to other keys?

[halcyon thistle]

hotbars will always be 1-8 yeah

but then again, there are some mods for that (kinda)

I see people using them for food and gear

[snow flame]

wish they add more quality of life stuff and possibly better inventory UI management in full release, no mods

like they should really adopt the inventory management style of terraria

i find managing items to store or take out of chests in this game very iffy, even if i already know about manually typing numbers so i can select how many number of items of something i want to take

[halcyon thistle]

once it's all sorted, storing is easy since holding E was added

[tacit crystal]

Also battleaxes primary attacks have no MTP.

[median ivy]

MTP?

[tacit crystal]

Multi-target penalty. Most weapons have it except 1h swords, battleaxes, atgeir secondary attack and 2h sledges.

[median ivy]

What does multi-target penalty do, whats the dis/advantage

[tacit crystal]

It means that when you hit more than 1 target, weapons that have MTP will have the damage dealt to them split a bit.

[median ivy]

So, a battleaxe having no MTP means if 3 creatures are bunched up and I swing in the middle, I'll only hit one?

Instead of the entire "slash" animation actually hitting them all?

[tacit crystal]

No.

With battleaxe the damage you deal against them will not get split and damages all targets inside its hitbox.

[median ivy]

Oh. Ok. So no MTP on a weapon is good, but MTP on a weapon is bad?
English is not my first language. Apologies

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, in other words, you deal bit less damage with your weapons that have MTP when hitting more than 1 target at the same time.

[median ivy]

Oh wonderful. And what is all the weapons that have this penalty?

[tacit crystal]

I listed weapons without MTP above, here: #valheim-chat message

All other weapons have MTP.

[median ivy]

Thanks mate. Cheers.

[orchid estuary]

Depending on how you like to play I can invite you to our server. But we like to have the game set to a little more survival/hardcore settings. If you die you lose everything that not equipped. We also have enemies set to a harder difficulty.

[tacit crystal]

Just note that target can also be something else than enemy mob. It can be terrain when you swing your weapon on hill or trees, large stones, walls inside dungeons etc. All weapons hit targets inside their hitboxes but most weapons (with MTP) will have their damage split between the targets.

[rain flare]

That sounds like an improvement compared to losing everything 😂

[orchid estuary]

Well normally you would drop everything and you have to run to your grave and pick it back up. We have it were it gets deleted

[nimble moss]

I believe axe secondary doesn’t have MTP, so it’s a reason to use it chopping wood if you can secondary 2x logs overlapping

[tacit crystal]

You mean 1h axe? Hmm, it might be the case yeah.

[nimble moss]

Yeah, 1h axe.

Not sure if only applies to wood chop, or all secondary.

[rain flare]

Ooooooooooh…….
That is nasty 😂

[orchid estuary]

lol more reasons to keep gathering and going out and not getting comfortable at your base, also makes you think about back up Weapons, Armor, Tools and materials, and to think twice to maybe make a pit stop back home if you don’t want to lose it. If I was good at modding I would remove free repairs and make it cost materials to repair or gold at the guy merchant in the Black Forest. Also I would add breaking points to gear and weapons and tools. After a set amount of times repaired it would break because after being repaired so many times it wouldn’t be abled to be fixed.

[opal prairie]

Morgen gjall.

[woven dagger]

just got to iron age what should i be doing (i have the armor)?

[halcyon thistle]

in my current playthrough I did the shield first, and then my weapon of choice for the biome

also did a stone cutter for the forge improvement

[woven dagger]

i will do that thanks

[halcyon thistle]

youre welcome!

[merry pebble]

A boat 😄

[halcyon thistle]

right! def worth 10 bucks

also, hunter bow has a hidden mechanic in which the alert radius of arrows shot from it is way shorter than compared to other bows

like 4 meters I think

[tacit crystal]

And its arc is straight, not inaccurate like crude and finewood bows. Which makes me use it even in Mistlands usually too.

[rain flare]

Save up iron for other quality of live improvements at your base - you’ll need it for stuff like rested buffs and crafting station improvements

[woven dagger]

alright

[glass tree]

makes sense, I'll try your hardcore then.

[glass tree]

I've reached iron but it feels too lonely.

[halcyon thistle]

yeah, having it only drop but not go sideways is a must

[halcyon thistle]

while playing with other people might be fun, doing it on hardcore might be frustrating if you haven't played through the game before

not discouraging you to play with them, but they most likely have played the game enough before to know everything and go all "meta" and guide you through it, which can be cool but normally you just feel pressured and taken away from the progression of the game

I'd play solo once then go multiplayer, or play your first time with another player also on their first time

[glass tree]

I'm trying to find, it's tough.

[halcyon thistle]

I'm one biome after swamp, not sure if our timezones work out but maybe I can "simulate" playing for the first time, letting you discover things by yourself and only progressing when you do

[glass tree]

I'm mostly interested in having some sort of role in developing a town or a village to be honest, just looking for the roleplay aspect of this game.

[halcyon thistle]

yeah, I already know the game and did all the exploring and combat stuff so I'm just farming and building now

a real populated village with friends is the dream of every player

[glass tree]

yeah, that would be truly lovely.

[heady parcel]

Another thing I find very appealing with swords is that with the first swing will hit enemies during the entire sweeping animation, making swords feel a lot faster than especially axes, since the axe does not actually connect until at the very end of its animation. This confused me a lot at first because swords felt so much faster when fighting, but looking at the wiki the axe has a quicker first swing. By a few fractions of a second it has - but it takes longer to actually land on a target. Now if you take staggering into account this can mean the difference between you yourself getting hit or not. When I realised this I stopped using axes for combat. Axes are for chopping wood. Pah!

[tepid prawn]

true until you get the goated berserkir 🙂

[heady parcel]

Sounds like some fancy Ashlands thing, dunno anything about that! 😄

[tepid prawn]

it is something Ashlandy, also heard people compare it to Monster Hunter Dual Blades if you know that game haha

one of the variations of it is my fav melee weapon, wont say more to not spoiler it even more

[meager fossil]

My god. Sailing out of a river towards the ocean, I see a minefield of rock formations I have to dodge shortly, then BAM. Mist like having milk thrown in my eyes. FFF LOVE IT!

Njord!! I curse you!

Just as I said that, I reach the ocean and a storm arrives.

[orchid estuary]

What kind of stuff do you enjoy doing? We need city decorators, farmers, stonemasons lots of stuff to help build lots of villages, cities, kingdoms lol.

[tacit crystal]

Battleaxes tho. 👌

[heady parcel]

Meh, there's Krom! 😄

[nocturne wolf]

Another reason regular axes are bad for combat is their weak secondary attack

[heady parcel]

I've never actually made one of the battleaxes, gotta remedy that and try them

[nocturne wolf]

Almost all attack hitboxes are only checked on one frame (with exceptions for attacks such as berserkir axes third/fourth hit, and fuling berserker rage attack, but that's still one frame per hit), so swords don't attack through the entire animation.

[heady parcel]

I believe you if you say so, but in that case it simply connects halfway through the animation rather than at the end of it I suppose

[tacit crystal]

Krom is good too!

[rain flare]

My friend, you are just doing it wrong 😂

[nocturne wolf]

No?

1h axe secondary attack is much weaker than others such as sword or mace secondary. The only upside is that it has turnspeed

[rain flare]

Stands in lox head

[rain flare]

I joke 🤭

[tacit crystal]

They are fun and badass. They have quite slow windup on first attack, but once you learn them they become darn effective. They also have high staggering attacks, which can stagger bigger enemies too quite easily. Like this: #memes-and-clips message

I have only 2 complaints about them:

1. -20% movement speed penalty (should be either -5% or -10%) and
2. the lack of them (only 2 battleaxes currently )

[rain flare]

[heady parcel]

Planning to make my first attempt on the Queen tonight, but I'm scared. I know nothing about the fight more than that she's big, hits hard and spawns lots of adds. I'm wondering if there's any point going in with a shield or if I'd rather try and not get hit and try to hit harder with the Krom

[rain flare]

This one is viable right up to ashlands

[rain flare]

Get in there and kick her flabby bug butt!

[nocturne wolf]

A shield could help especially while learning her attacks. ||She is capable of teleporting, so bring feather cape, lightfoot mead and tonic of ratatosk to catch up easily.||

[tacit crystal]

Don't I know that: #memes-and-clips message

[rain flare]

I would say it depends on your skills

I main a mage so I had no shield

My second non-magic attempt had no shield

[heady parcel]

Haven't even crafted any of the staves or the eitr weave. 0 in all the magic skills - but 100 in swords, so I'll go the bonk route this time. Don't wanna spend two weeks learning the skillz 😄

As for skills, is it normal for blocking to be sat at just over 50 this late in the game, feels like it just doesn't grow even though my play style is very block/parry focused

[rain flare]

Fair 👍

Important question:
do you have the big bonk stick?

Demolisher?

[tacit crystal]

I barely know her!

[rain flare]

Blocking skillz only get better with use

If you no use shields - no block skillz increase

[heady parcel]

I've gone sword'n board the entire playthrough, so lots of blocking all the way up to now. Only crafted Krom yesterday..

[rain flare]

Hmmmmm….
Skeleton surprise raid - when one spawns in just sit and let them wack your shield

Skills increase for each thing you do (jump more = skillz go up)

[heady parcel]

Heh, could make a tower shield just for that

[tacit crystal]

Or summon several Elders to shoot you with the ranged attack.

[rain flare]

Also I assume you don’t have big bonk stick…

Do you have bile bombs?

You should have one or the other

[tacit crystal]

Anything AoE helps.

[heady parcel]

Big bonk stick is wall decoration, throwables I have a few for base defence but whenever there's an event I just run out and fight them anyway

Except 'they were bros', two-star zerkers aren't something I want to get up close and friendly with

[rain flare]

Hmmmm.
Make some.

The queen has children…
LOTS of children…

You really want that AOE damage 😂

[heady parcel]

Noted!

[rain flare]

Also, she spends too much time on tick tock and Reddit

Bring poison resistance 🤭

She be quite toxic 😂

[vocal rivet]

Huh?

[heady parcel]

Gods, with all the mead I'll be drinking I'll be smashed

(would be funny if there was an intoxication effect with exaggerated mead consumption...)

[tacit crystal]

Hungover debuff.

[vocal rivet]

It wouldn't. Drunk effects in game are awful.

[nocturne wolf]

Valheim can have the first good one then

[heady parcel]

Back in classic wow there was a funny warrior class quest where you had to go fight a bunch of orcs while completely smashed. Effect was blurred vision and you couldn't walk straight - but a slight buff to damage if I remember right. It's almost twenty years ago...

[vocal rivet]

No, I think their very existence is a bad idea.

[heady parcel]

Most game implementations tend to be exaggerated and get annoying, if it was implemented I'd vote for it being very subtle and/or completely optional. So probably best to just not go there..

[glass tree]

I'm not a very high level builder though, but building is quite enjoyable.

[pallid osprey]

Does queens power help in XP gain for blood and elemental magic?

Do you get more xp with the power active I mean

[nocturne wolf]

No, you just have faster eitr regeneration

[heady parcel]

Lets you cast more, which should indirectly give more xp

[pallid osprey]

That’s what I thought, but my mate said he read somewhere it also increases xp gain but I’ve found nothing to confirm

[nocturne wolf]

Only the rested buff increases xp gain, for all skills

[pallid osprey]

And that’s regardless of comfort level right? Level is only for rested time and nothing else?

[nocturne wolf]

Comfort is only for rested time

[pallid osprey]

Then it seems I was right and my mate is wrong

[exotic swan]

you can make a post in #1024264966712340510 to see if folks wanna join

[midnight slate]

Thanks mate I know just joined today so can’t post anything in there that why I’m doing it this way

[vocal rivet]

There's no posting restriction in that channel.

[raw folio]

For a minute there, I thought your pfp was you holding a roller skate.

[exotic swan]

ah I see, regardless, welcome to Valheim 🙂

[azure yacht]

Don't welcome that kind of people, please

[light snow]

What a friendly guy

[raven heron]

is there a reason i cant parry 1 star seeker in fully max level padded with black metal shield

they always stagger me

[plush umbra]

might be the food you eat (the more max HP you have, the more physical damage it takes to stagger you, so it's a very important stat for blocking/parrying) or the difficulty setting you're on

[raven heron]

244hp bonemass

i am on hard difficulty, but i'd expect to at least be able to stagger them

[raw folio]

I could be wrong but-Try it with a buckler; dont they have a higher parry factor?

[plush umbra]

they do have a higher parry bonus, there just isn't a black metal buckler (though there is a carapace buckler if you can make that already)

[raw folio]

^^

[raven heron]

i guess i can rush that

think i got enough to make the forge from the little part of the infested mine that didnt have 1 star seekers in it

[plush umbra]

since the difficulty settings are just universal stat increases/decreases, they might not be very well balanced 😅 i've not messed around with them much yet

[raven heron]

everything hurts lol

[raw folio]

Im gonna make the assumption your block skill is pretty decent to offset the damage intake if you do use the buckler- Otherwise its shield skill grind time 😅

[raven heron]

i've been using shield and blocking constantly my entire playthrough and im only 27

sword is level 60 and i've only used swords since iron

[plush umbra]

blocking moment, even with minimal deaths that skill tends to be less than half the level of my two most-used weapon types

[raw folio]

Tbh- Make a greyling trap hut and just stand at the entrance with your shield up 😅

Big cheesin it

[raven heron]

yeah i just died

[raw folio]

Rip

[raven heron]

was flinching 1 star inside a tower cus he was stuck in a window, he WAS hitting me for 50-60 damage but the one time i go for the double he hits 140 damage

so fucking annoying man

-1 entire sword level

i made 100 ooze bombs time to abuse this mechanic

[frigid gust]

I find the skill levels work best if you don't pay much attention to them. They are nice to have, but maxing them tends to be more of an exercise in frustration, and with the fall off of gains at higher levels I usually end up hovering around 50 to 60 for most things, which is more than enough to be effective.

[raven heron]

i agree but i think that "hover-limit" should be around 80-90 instead of just 60

[frigid gust]

Why?

[ember kraken]

The difficulty slider is a multiplier on enemy damage. And the shield block/parry mechanic is a static formula also based on enemy damage. So increasing difficulty makes shields effectively just weaker.

I personally wouldn't bother trying to block/parry anything with stars in hard difficulty. I'd just dodge.

[raven heron]

but whats the point in dodge rolling a seeker? their attacks are so fast that you basically just spam roll and then have to run away

[nocturne wolf]

Jumping will usually be better, their attack hitboxes aren't very tall

(All 1.7m tall, except for pincers at 2m)

[opal prairie]

Roll backwards put some distance between you and the seeker, then parry next attack and go ham.

[raven heron]

thats what i try and then i get staggered and take 200 damage

i just need to go mine some soft tissue and figure out how to make a refinery then i'll be good

[opal prairie]

You are playing on a harder setting then I guess.

[rain flare]

Minecraft lotr mod has it - the number or stupid drunk parties or obstacle courses we made just to play when completely intoxicated was amazing 😂🥰

[silk smelt]

use the bonemass skill its the only thing thats gotten me thru mistlands into ashlands

[raven heron]

doesnt help lol

[rain flare]

It helps you smash rocks by boosting mining like elder boosts wood cutting

[ember kraken]

Find other ways to kill them. Parry isn't the only way. Stun them, range them, hit through walls etc.

[nocturne wolf]

Jumping over them and hitting them from behind is a bit slower but very safe

[frigid gust]

Frost arrows and ooze bombs

[ember kraken]

But it's honestly one of the main reasons I don't enjoy playing on hard difficulty slider. Because I always end up playing the same. Only 2 hander weapons (bow, sledge, atgeir), and mostly abusing terraforming and pathfinding for everything.

Since shields just doesn't work reliably at all in hard. And the numbers just get so big that the risks doesn't feel worth it.

On very hard, I wouldn't even bother trying to parry normal mobs in same biome.

[silk smelt]

games hard enouph imo lol

[exotic swan]

Kinda hilarious that this is the power you receive from killing a much later end game boss 😭

[merry pebble]

That power has also other effects 😉 and it makes sense in relation of next biomes resource

[frigid gust]

There should be an ice wall around the deep north that we have to smash through

[exotic swan]

interesting, I haven't been to the Ashlands yet, so time will tell

[tacit crystal]

Some kind of everlasting ice that needs to be melt with the drops of Ashlands boss?

[merry pebble]

Pitch it to #suggestions 😁

[frigid gust]

Sure, something like that. Build a fire cannon with Fader's drops 😛

[tacit crystal]

Where no other tool cannot break it.

[frigid gust]

Naah, I'm sure the devs have an idea they're running with. It'll be too late to change that kind of thing unless they're already doing it.

[tacit crystal]

That remains to be seen, something cool nonetheless.

[shy marlin]

As long as if you’re good enough you can still get into the deep north early I like it

[frigid gust]

Just like you can get into the Ashlands early...

[merry pebble]

It should be harder imo 😄

[light moat]

Could always just catapult into the deep north

[thorn fiber]

so may i ask which one of these corewood pole, wood iron pole or darkwood pole the best one

[merry pebble]

Iron wood has the best support

[tacit crystal]

For stability, iron wood.

[thorn fiber]

thanks

[worn bolt]

I use iron cage so i can hide the support in the walls without stuff sticking out ever

(my poor poor iron supply)

[azure yacht]

Use dvergr walls

[worn bolt]

Copper doesnt have that feel to it tho || (and my current world is still pre moder) ||

[frigid gust]

Iron wood can be hidden in stone pretty easily, and marble, not as much with wood though. I personally kinda like the look of it sticking through slightly, gives it some character.

[languid mirage]

is there any reason why the day is longer than the nigth?

[nocturne wolf]

Players would have to wait too long if left without a bed

[tacit crystal]

Kinda works like IRL too.

[wispy latch]

Sun orbits a point above Valheim, and is thus visible for longer than it is hidden

[exotic swan]

if anything Valheim proves that Earth really is flat

[merry pebble]

How....

[exotic swan]

can't you fall off the edge?

[wispy latch]

Valheim is a separate world

[merry pebble]

Of Valheim? Absolutely, good luck trying it on Midgard/Earth tho.

[exotic swan]

wait, Valheim is separate from real life Earth? I honestly thought they were the same

[merry pebble]

Have you read the intro text? XD

[hollow peak]

What about flametal support? Is it stronger than iron?

[merry pebble]

Its the same

[hollow peak]

Oh damn, no taller building for us then. Good to know

[merry pebble]

You can always use tree support 😉

[hollow peak]

Never did that 😂

[merry pebble]

Trees count as "ground" basically 🙂 so if you put pine in the middle of your build you can support incredibly tall builds

[plush umbra]

Hi I have an Xbox. I was wondering if this game is still popular and if I can find people to play with cuz nobody I know plays.

[merry pebble]

Look in #1024264966712340510 😄 there should be at least few people

[frigid gust]

One of my favorites in early game is to grow a pine tree in the middle of a set of the tall stone rings in the Meadows, and then build up around that.

[merry pebble]

I never really tried it since i am not much of a builder but i think i would not like the branches messing with vision inside the build🤔

[frigid gust]

That's why you use a pine. It doesn't have branches until pretty high up on the tree.

Bonus points if you raise the center of the ground and plant it there for max height 😉

[merry pebble]

Well usually when i see people using pines they make a build near top or throughout the whole height of the tree 😄 so i didnt really consider building only in the lower portion

[frigid gust]

Heh. Yeah, I don't get that... it makes it too fragile. One troll swing and the whole thing comes down, any non-swamp treehouses need a protected base so I figure you may as well use the whole thing. 3-4 usable levels easily with no iron needed.

[merry pebble]

The destruction of the tree and consequently the whole build could be prevented quite easily by making few obstacles encircling the base level tho 🤔 even 1 layer of stake wall should give you plenty time to go and fight trolls, if you put more layers then even better, not to mention moats and earth walls 😄

[frigid gust]

Sure. It's easily solvable, but the way you solve it still leaves you with a lot of unused ground-level area. It takes some time to get down from a tall tree, especially in lower biome gear/food (no feather cape, less than 100 health,etc.) Why not use all the ground level stuff and just use the tree to go higher? Or multiple trees between the stones to build a whole network house.

[shy marlin]

Can’t you get 100 hp pretty easily by Black Forest lol

[merry pebble]

You can, but not often you would run with at least 2 hp foods around your base 🙂

[shy marlin]

Okay so by swamp you can just run 2 feasts and chill lol

[merry pebble]

Pretty much xD

[frigid gust]

Yeah, you might have over 100hp. But one jump and you're at like 13HP, which isn't a great start to fighting multiple trolls in bronze gear 😛

[merry pebble]

Skill Scale issue 😜
||Sry i forgot xD||

[shy marlin]

SMH

[wet coral]

are powers per person are forthe server

[rain flare]

No

You can each equip multiple of the same power
And when one of you uses a power near someone else they also get to use it

It's actually really great in a 4 plus scenario as you never run out of a specific buff like eikthyr's stamina cost reduction

[merry pebble]

All players can have the same power and if one activates it in vicinity of other players then they will get the benefit without getting cooldown on it themselves 🙂

[raven heron]

i went away for 2 minutes

a troll spawned, and destroyed my entire base, i have at least 2 hours of repairs to do now

[wet coral]

oh

[merry pebble]

Or all players can have different powers and when activating multiple with others around you can have multiple powers active at the same time

[raven heron]

he did damage to at least half the build pieces in my entire base and broke my entire cooking station that i spent hours on

[fair cairn]

dont go afk, ever

[raven heron]

it was 2 minutes

im not even joking, only 2 minutes

[fair cairn]

2 minutes is enough for something to spawn though

[ember kraken]

If you're playing solo, hit ESC and the game pauses. If you play multiplayer, try to have a portal to somewhere safe you can go into to afk.

[fair cairn]

likea cleared dungeon

or troll cave absolutely any structure that doesnt respawn enemies

[ember kraken]

One of my favourites been just reusing some of my temp bases in swamp. I tend to build a small hut on top of a crypt, put a workbench and portal there, not a fire. So there isn't enough to spawn events. So can just hop there to afk if needed.

[terse raft]

when you fall from the flat earth Valheim you get into the hell zone

its the last biome

[merry pebble]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh no...

[vocal rivet]

No, the final biome is Deep North.

[terse raft]

oh is it ?

right now there is ashland north or nothing ?

[vocal rivet]

There's placeholder terrain in the North, that's all.

[fair cairn]

ashlands is south
deep north is not south

[terse raft]

i thought ashland was both side when it came out tho

[fair cairn]

also deepnorth is empty as of right now

[slim remnant]

are you sure? 🤔

[fair cairn]

69% sure

[merry pebble]

Nope, Deep North was always as it is now, exept the water channel that separates it from the rest of the islands, that was done with ashlands update

[terse raft]

water channel huh

[merry pebble]

Yes, before ashlands update you could go to both ashlands and DN placeholders by land from other biomes, now there is sea between those

[terse raft]

oh alright

the sea that killed us , breaking our boat

no idea how it broke so fast from 1 damage per 1 damage..

[merry pebble]

The further in you go to ashlands sea the higher the dmg gets 😉

[terse raft]

oh !

so do you get the new boat before going there ?

or you just speed in until you reach land

[merry pebble]

Well, yes, that is the intended way 😄

[orchid estuary]

I really wish they’d add a desert biome. There’s so much potential for content. We already have crypts, burial grounds, and mountain caves. I haven’t explored the Mistlands or Ashlands yet, but a desert could introduce buried tombs or something along those lines. Imagine scarab beetles, scorpions, or even desert spiders—there’s a lot of cool stuff they could do with it.

[vocal rivet]

None of which makes sense for a Norse themed game. Maybe an Egyptian one?

[nocturne wolf]

Ashlands is pretty much a desert already

[azure yacht]

I love Iron Gate's egyptian origins

[orchid estuary]

True, Norse mythology doesn’t include an actual desert realm—but in historical Viking history, there’s evidence that Norsemen may have encountered desert regions during their travels. While the Vikings were primarily known for their coastal raids and seafaring expeditions, they also ventured southward into parts of North Africa and the Mediterranean. Raiding and Trade in North Africa: Vikings, especially the Varangians and other Norse explorers, expanded their reach far beyond Scandinavia. Historical accounts and artifacts suggest some of them reached North African shores through trade routes or raiding activity. While there’s no record of large-scale desert warfare, their presence near desert-adjacent regions is noteworthy.

[merry pebble]

While true, non of that happened in the 10th world did it 🙂

[azure yacht]

Doesn't change the fact that DN is and will remain the last biome

[fiery jacinth]

Ngl I keep rewatching the Ashlands trailer, it's soooo good

now I just need a melee attack on staff like the bearded guy got

[orchid estuary]

The realm the game takes place in isn’t even part of the original Norse canon—it’s a fictional 10th realm created just for Valheim. If the devs want to add a new biome, they definitely have the creative freedom to do so.

[merry pebble]

Well, i doubt they will do it since whe have known all the biomes that will be in since the EA release 🙂

[tacit crystal]

The 2 handed or 1 handed one?

[fiery jacinth]

the staff of embers he wields in the trailer

[worn bolt]

Anyone know the pain of joining a server and seeing it deterioate around you with everyone losing interest?

Sunk-Cost falacy hitting me heavily rn

[azure yacht]

They do have the freedom to do it...

But clearly not the wish

[solemn venture]

i didnt play for like a month and i completely forgot how im supossed to progress further in mistlands, do i just keep exploring infested mines?

[azure yacht]

"We can " =/= "we want"

[plush umbra]

Hi All, if anyone wishes to join a London based dedicated server please let me know. we are mid game at the moment (looking for the Queen) - but we can always accommodate new people 🙂 thanks

[merry pebble]

#1024264966712340510 😄

[fiery jacinth]

you know I've been wondering for a bit. How hot are the Ashlands actually?

Like, we know of course that the water's hot enough to destroy regular ships, but what about the land? There's lava left, right and center after all, yet we don't need a mead to run around it like we would with the mountains

Which p much would mean that it's hot but has temperatures that are still somewhat survivable

[surreal whale]

yo guys i have a new system with a ryzen 7 9800x3d and 7900xtx and get huge fps drops if i move my camera im on 4k i should be able to play it on this res or?

[tacit crystal]

Ah, misread.

[heady parcel]

Pretty much yeah, ||the three new crafting tables require the black cores from mines. They require five each, and|| while you can get away with building one station, process all you need and then tear it down to build another to do crafting, it is pretty awkard. ||So a minimum of 15 cores are required to be comfortable.|| Then it's a bunch of other stuff from Mistlands you need too, but they come naturally.

[sharp bluff]

well, the soft tissue is an issue and doesnt quite come naturally

[heady parcel]

Well, by "naturally" I mean the resources are found out in the world (by various means) not in a dungeon

[tepid prawn]

thats when the admin / staff recruit more players to keep it alive, is what I do anyway 🙂

[worn bolt]

Thing is, the admin of that server is doing jacksquad, no new players, the server is outdated by an update, there's no communication from the admin himself

[merry pebble]

That is when you find a new server, or ask him for files and make new one yourself 🙂

[worn bolt]

I sadly dont have the hardware to host myself, and the prices for mediocre Game server hosts are stupid for how little config freedom they give

Plus, like i said, sunk-cost-falacy is doing me a number rn. I SHOULD leave, but i dont want to because of the already spent effort on it

Too hopeful that the host may return and do his stuff yk

[vocal rivet]

You could just play the world solo.

[worn bolt]

I cant stand solo worlds, i like building and i like showing my builds to people. Screenshots arent the same

[dreamy kiln]

thats the spirit \o/

[tepid prawn]

Same, I did play a lot of solo but now this time has come to an end, and I was on a server, and the Admin could no longer support it, so I took it over. Now I won't have to worry about the server dying anymore, because it it does I'd have no one else to blame but myself haha

[worn bolt]

How the hecc does one take over a server?

[kind iron]

Challenge the host to a battle to the death, consume their brain and take their knowledge.

[tepid prawn]

He gave me the files and I then put them on a different host

[vocal rivet]

What server?

[raven veldt]

nvm we fixed it

[raven veldt]

thx

[vocal rivet]

Ok, I guess.

[marsh barn]

hey what is the best way to locate silver veins? i have the wishbone but how do i know what general area to look?

[tacit crystal]

When mountains have drakes and obsidian you know you can find silver.

[marsh barn]

i'm not certain i fully understand. you just mean nearby obsidian nodes and drake nests tend to be silver?

[gleaming radish]

Is mead actually useful

[marsh barn]

in general yes

[worn bolt]

Silver spawns at a certain height threshold only, but its practically the same as obsidian and drakes. If you find a mountain biome high enough that either starts to exist, silver may be found closeby aswell

[worn bolt]

My bud uses the stamina ones 24/7 just for convenience when swimming/walking overencumbered/existing in the swamp

[gleaming radish]

Rested better

[worn bolt]

Problem is that the host is currently on radio silence basically

[worn bolt]

Ikr, my bud says its convenient

[tacit crystal]

Yeah the certain height where silver appears, which is around the same as obsidian and drake spawns. Those are the indicators you can find silver in that mountain.

[gleaming radish]

Drake?

[heady parcel]

Flappy things that spit blue snow balls

[gleaming radish]

The rapper?

[tacit crystal]

Small ||dragon like|| creatures.

[worn bolt]

He doesnt fly tho, and drake cant hit those screeches

[worn bolt]

I think thou hast missed the joke

[tacit crystal]

Nah, I know the artist.

[gleaming radish]

Drake snake?

[worn bolt]

That son of a fish

Denied

[near furnace]

🤔

post in --> #1024264966712340510

[tepid prawn]

Nothing you can do except wait and start a new play through if you want to

[torn aspen]

What do you guys think the deep north is going to be: a parallel to the ashlands, the next progression after the ashlands, or something entirely different? (by parallel, I mean after mistlands you can go to either one and be appropriately geared up, and to get maximum stats and gear you would want to go to both)

[tepid prawn]

Its all speculation, but I'm thinking neither a step up or a parralel to Ashlands, something in between, have to go to both, maybe the difficulty is higher than Ashlands but in a very different way, not being swarmed but having to be super strong if you do decide to take on a POI or something like that? Also devs have said (I will always remember) that they intend to do one of each weapon type that was previously available to have a final version, so a knife, a battleaxe etc all of that, and if they have time maybe a totally new weapon type on top of that.

Its all very excited and I'm here to test it and then play the f out of it when it is ready and releases, will probably even set up a server for the DN PTB!

[ember kraken]

Disco North, join the gods in a rave party.

[torn aspen]

A very good idea, I like it! I haven't been staying up to date on what the news has been as much, just what gets put on steam for the most part, so that's very exciting to hear that there'll be every weapon type. Also, I'm right there with ya on playing the f out of it, I'm currently at almost 800 hours as it is lmao

[pliant hatch]

I'm afraid there won't be a Deep North PTB.
Or at least, Smiffe has more or less mentioned there won't be one.

The reason for it: They don't want to spoil the fun for those who are waiting for the 1.0 release by having their public testers spoil the content of the Deep North while it's still in PTB. Like what has happened to Mistlands and Ashlands.

So testing will be done by the devs themselves and the release of Deep North will also be the 1.0 release of the game.

[tepid prawn]

thanks for that info, I did actually not see that info from Smiffe even though I try to read most of the discord, been busy with work. Good to know, anyway, then I'll just have to play it when its fully released or something.

[pliant hatch]

I know that feeling. I'm sometimes able to catch up, but usually I just scroll through the 100+ messages in the 4 channels I'm interested in and only read the posts of some people. There's occasionally - actually often - just too much to read through.

[shy marlin]

Source? Just genuinely curious

If that's the case i'm genuinely concerned because both mistlands and ashlands had some crazy game breaking bugs in the ptb that were not caught by internal testing

[vocal rivet]

As Smiffe told me at the time, the team is larger now and they have a bigger pool of people to do internal testing so they should hopefully catch more of those bugs. They'll also keep testing as long as they can.

[shy marlin]

Dunno how many ptb testers there are but it's at least 100x more than the internal testing team 😂

Just by sheer numbers the ptb testers are gonna catch stuff they absolutely won't

[vocal rivet]

Yeah, but how many actually provide usuable feedback that doesn't just get things nerfed?

[shy marlin]

I mean sure yea you can comment on the effectiveness on some testers

But the few who actually take it "seriously" and test well are invaluable

[vocal rivet]

At least without a PTB we can't be disappointed with what could have been.

[shy marlin]

I mean I'd just argue that the ptb difficulty will be the on release difficulty and then irongate will nerf because of outcries of the playerbase after a month lol

[vocal rivet]

eee

Honestly, the game is currently at the cheapest it's been since launch.

[spiral gate]

There are always people who will do something extraordinary to break the game xD
I would assume any large QA team won't be able to cover every possible case

But... Less major bugs - it's already good enough result

[shy marlin]

PTB has been proven to be effective it's just that irongate has zero backbone on sticking to the difficulty 🤷‍♂️

[spiral gate]

The devs try to push the difficulty to the limits, and it's the best part of this game

[shy marlin]

I'm sorry but that's really just not the case

They've nerfed all hard content

Rather than tell the players to adjust and adapt

They actively try not to push the difficulty

[spiral gate]

And the game is still pretty difficult, especially for the new players

Ofc now we grind The Charred Fortress in 5 mins, but I still do remember the first time, when I've spent like... 2-3 hours and died 20-30+ times

And there are the world modifiers. Finished my No Map run a few months ago and it took a lot to figure out how to play this mode without reading any tips from other people

The next step is Hardcore mode ofc and I'm not really sure if I would be able to do it

[shy marlin]

nah world modifiers are a fraction of what true world modifiers actually are

like if you're actually good at the game very hard doesn't change a single thing except you do less damage

No new mechanics, attacks, patterns, etc on very hard

[spiral gate]

Yep, I wouldn't change a mob difficulty or resources, but Permadeath and No Map are pretty good

[vocal rivet]

I think you've missed the point Scales was making. Adding more numbers is just... well, that.

[spiral gate]

Yeah, but that's how difficulty works everywhere.
It would be pretty weird to implement a bunch of things that will be used only by less than 5% of players

[vocal rivet]

No, most games would have different / improved AI and probably new attacks.

[shy marlin]

No not at all, v rising added insanely good difficulty modifiers and they recieved HUGE praise and acknowledgement for it

This narrative also just falls apart when you look at mythic raiding in wow or any challenge mode in any other game

Like many singleplayer games add nightmare mode that only 1% of players actually complete but they do it because it's good to have aspirational content for players

Difficulty sliders also INCREASE accessibility for players, which means more players playing the game, and as a business more sales

[gaunt tiger]

Some things that can add to difficulty in a healthy way, without simply inflating numbers, could include shorter parry windows, harder stealth checks, more aggressive enemies (less space between attacks), boss arenas you can't leave without dying, or renter if you have died, more aggressive nighttime spawn modifiers, lightning that actually strikes ground and is more attracted to metal armor and can ignite buildings, certain raid enemies which ignore players and head straight for structures, and damage cooldowns on building repairs.

[spiral gate]

I guess it's just a matter of time. Most likely such things will be added after 1.0, but now the game isn't even finished, so I'm pretty sure the devs are focused on the Deep North, not a Nightmare mode, and it won't be even discussed until 1.0

[vocal rivet]

Nothing else is coming after 1.0, save a few bug fixes and maybe a bit of optimisation.

[spiral gate]

PS5 release I guess

[vocal rivet]

Lol.

[spiral gate]

The game can't be released there with not finished content, so the Deep North is a blocker basically

But yeah, that's not a new content we would expect

[vocal rivet]

Deep North is 1.0 is Deep North. And that's the end of the wild ride.

[spiral gate]

It’s always unclear unless the devs would state this after the full release

[vocal rivet]

Which is unclear?

[azure yacht]

If DN is released is because the content is finished.

[azure yacht]

Fake dev obviously

[lunar sapphire]

I'm gonna have to pass that forward to my manager

[fair cairn]

gotta report smiffe for impersonating smiffe

[merry pebble]

You are about a year and 2 months too late xD

[fair cairn]

Ahh damn
Atleast I tried

[snow flame]

will there be hope for more content after deep north's release?

[tacit crystal]

Currently no, 1.0 will be the last content update.

[snow flame]

rip

[tacit crystal]

#valheim-chat message

[snow flame]

well this is one of the best early access games ever

its sitting with ultra kill and lethal company

[tacit crystal]

Current plans being what they are now doesn't mean they wouldn't change in the future, but we have quite complete game with lots of content and with 1.0 bringing us even more I believe the game will stay relevant for a long run.
And I really would like to see what else IG could bring to us rather than them keeping bloat the game with more content that would become overwhelming.

[wary oak]

guys I keep seeing fortress in the black forest, do I gotta destroy it?

[tacit crystal]

You mean stone ruins? It's up to you but enemies don't respawn in those anyway so why bother.

[opal prairie]

Morgen Gjall.

[azure yacht]

No, it just means insanely broken world gen, charred fortresses are spawning in BF (run)

[wary oak]

Does items disappear if I throw them?

[tacit crystal]

If they are outside workbench radius or over 2m underwater they disappear when dropped after about 2 ingame days (1h IRL).

[wary oak]

but if they're nearby my workbench, they never disappear?

[merry pebble]

Correct 🙂

[opal prairie]

Depending on how many of the same item and if the item is stackable they might form a stack but won't disappear.

[wary oak]

ty

[wary oak]

damn I got cooked in the burial chamber

[languid echo]

hi ya.. single player ( not server ) - will small asksvins grow up withou me beeing physicaly near them? or eggs to small asksvins ?

[spiral gate]

Hi! Yep, they will. Only taming process requires an actual player nearby

[tacit crystal]

Taming and breeding require player proximity, but egg hatching and cub growing into adult don't.

As long as the egg stays warm to hatch I mean.

[lusty dirge]

The hatching/growing time progresses, but a player must still be present for the actual hatching/growing up. The difference is relevant only for eggs, because the eggs will not grow into adults.

[merry pebble]

Yeah, you have to visit them Once when the hatching timer Is done and then you can go away again 🙂

[tacit crystal]

If you mean that they grow after the timer is full and player returns to the proximity they hatch from egg or turn into adult, then yes.

[glossy dune]

Silver sword + silver shield with full wolf set looks so good

[tiny tiger]

Goes pretty hard with the frostner too

[cosmic igloo]

so according to the blog post, there might be cold snaps?

[frigid gust]

#general is popping off about theories 😛

[wary oak]

I keep dying in this chamber 😩

[merry pebble]

You can always play on normal difficulty 😉

[simple oar]

Hi guys

I want to know which shield is the best to use

[merry pebble]

How far are you in?

[simple oar]

I can craft bone shield or bronze buckler

[terse raft]

even if it was the last biome, its fine ! the game as lot of content

great game with settings to change the difficulty and make your own challenge

[merry pebble]

Buckler Is great at parrying but blocking Is a bit lacking, tower shield Is great at blocking but can't parry and you are quite a bit slower when using it. So depends on your playstyle

[simple oar]

I see. Thank you.

[terse raft]

great parry but you get damaged so much

[merry pebble]

Not if you parry 😄

[terse raft]

all the strong monster did

[nocturne wolf]

Parrying with a buckler reduces damage more than any other block or parry with the same tier of equipment

[simple oar]

I see

[merry pebble]

Tho if you really want to be sure you avoid dmg then roll 😄

[simple oar]

Yup true. Sometimes its hard to roll and I accidentally jump but take damage anyway

[nocturne wolf]

Jumping is better than rolling if the hitbox is small enough

To roll, press jump while already holding block. You don’t need to press them at the same time

[simple oar]

Yup. When troll hit you, just roll. You still take damage if you jump.

And first time seeing troll is terrifying.

[shy marlin]

s key 🤙

[marsh barn]

My friends and i are planning on attempting yagluth tonight. The wiki says that he has no weaknesses at all. Is that accurate?

[nocturne wolf]

He has no weaknesses but he is neutral to spirit damage, so silver sword works well

[frigid gust]

Bone shield looks better as a wall decoration 😛

[marsh barn]

Hes also neutral to frost and blunt, would frostner be a good option too?

[opal prairie]

Like Blob said, silver sword is a good weapon versus yagluth, as is the frostner, silver dagger and the blackmetal sword.

[shy marlin]

Silver dagger ain't it

The three weapons you want are silver sword then blackmetal sword or frostner

[marsh barn]

I mean im gonna be up close and personal with him as i usually take on the role of tank lol

[nocturne wolf]

Yagluth is a boss you really need to move around for

[frigid gust]

The most important things you want are barleywine and good timing on your dodge rolls. Maybe some healing and stamina potions as well.

Everything else is negotiable 😉

[opal prairie]

It is the worst choice of the 4 but it is quite quick and the lunge attack is good to cover some distance quickly, you will also be out of the attack animation quite quick to move away when needed.
Pair it with the fenris armor and hit and run tactics vs yagluth becomes quite viable.

[marsh barn]

Im pretty good with my dodge roll timing, i managed to avoid probably 80-90% of moders ground melee attacks

[nocturne wolf]

Tonic of ratatosk will help a lot if you have found the bog witch

[marsh barn]

We have

[marsh barn]

Fenris armor... im currently using the padded iron set. Im a bit slower but i prefer the tougher-but-slower approach in general

[merry pebble]

True that 😄 this one and scale shield are honestly the best looking shields in game imho. And i don't even use them xD

[torpid yarrow]

if you use dev command to skip time does it also speed up smelting and other things?

[shy marlin]

think so yea

[rain flare]

Yup

[merry pebble]

It would make sense i think, but i didn't really use the command

[rain flare]

Just run the “sleep” command and sit at your smelter 😂

Not such a good idea frankly cause you lose out on some time

[merry pebble]

Or timescale 🙂

[opal prairie]

To each their own, my buddy I play the most with also like the heavier armors, while I go with the light ones.
I find movement and repositioning more important than tanking hits.

[simple oar]

Is there like a public server where people play together?

[opal prairie]

Not really but you can look in #1024264966712340510 for a server that you could join.

[simple oar]

I see thanks.

[glacial idol]

what should i build first 1. Take down the house and build a massive long house 2. Take down the house and build a storage room 3. Take down the house aand build a dock 4. Take down the house and build a tavern

[keen trench]

uh really up to you, i'm the "all-in-one and two portals for all" kind so for my seed i'd probably go large longhouse > fit everything pre-Moder in, but that's very subjective and many find it cluttered/uncomfortable

[glacial idol]

Im probatly gonna take my old house down and build a long house that has pertty much everything kitchen etc

[keen trench]

that's what i usually do, a bit difficult to squeeze everything in as game progresses and crafting/kitchen/comfort upgrades start to pile up but i like the challenge

[azure yacht]

So it does seem like the weather will be the main hazard in DN and not the enemies

[lapis depot]

I hope they draw inspiration from DS2 Frigid Outskirts for DN

[keen trench]

uhm, hard to say, weather hazard will be ofc a thing, but i'm confident we'll have a good amount of mob trouble as well

[azure yacht]

I'm not saying the only one

I coin the idea if it's the case.

#suggestions message

And expect morbillions in royalties

[keen trench]

yeh ofc, dunno even about the "main", surely less "unsettleable" than Ashlands (official statements about that) but to what extent is a mistery

[robust dagger]

does anyone know about any servers I can join

[keen trench]

oh, ok, i'll have a read

[keen trench]

yup, whole well functioning section to look for games and/or people to play with https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510 😉

[robust dagger]

thank you I just found it lol

[keen trench]

eheheh, can't bet on royalties, but it's a quite possible "forecast"

[simple oar]

Playing alone is kinda boring sometimes

[keen trench]

uhm, dunno, i actually like it very much, 90% of my playtime is solo, also fun to catch up with friends from time to time but not my main sport... all this ofc is 100% personal preference

[simple oar]

I see. Yup building your own base is fun and stuff but its scary when you hunt troll and go inside cave. 😆

[keen trench]

eheh, yup indeed, yet i kinda like the "scary" part... and trolls are just the beginning of it 😁 the itchy part is usually recovering things in case fights go bad, for that you have to plan carefully to have some spare good food and maybe spare equipment at base, and manage spawnpoints/portals in advance... usually the game itself teaches you how... sometimes through unpleasant experiences 😉

[simple oar]

I see. We're still early in the game. But my friend server owner is busy often so I'm playing alone right now. Doing hit and run with trolls lol. And digging trenches around the base.

[keen trench]

yup, all regular so, you'll get an hold on it, moats and trenches is indeed the best base defence available

[simple oar]

Yup! Check out my base. I posted it on building screeenshots

[keen trench]

😁 yup, that should do for now, maybe just the external wall is too close to the main building (log wielding trolls area damage can reach up to 8 m) but can't really tell from that angle, could be sufficient

[simple oar]

Ahh I see. Yup I already dug trenches around the wall so lmaoo.

[tiny tiger]

If there’s frozen greydwarves in the deep north maybe there is frozen trolls too..?

[light moat]

Deep North does come off to me like it’s a frozen Black Forest 🤔

[keen trench]

o yeh, with added trenches you're probably well safe

[simple oar]

Yup all monsters fall down in the trench lol.

[viscid lance]

what are the chances of 2 leviathans spawning right next to eachother?

[light moat]

It’s uncommon, not super rare. Some have seen 3 or even 4

[pearl horizon]

Low, hopefully

[viscid lance]

ok, just checking becasue I've seen it today and yesterday

[snow rover]

Boss will be elder in a Santa suit

[flat perch]

while teleporting we shouldn't be dead while in animation. that's unfair

[tiny tiger]

I thought that was fixed so you don’t take damage going in and out of portals

[frigid gust]

Do you have any mods installed?

[flat perch]

i dont think i was dead in the midle but as soon as my charecter apears and boom dead

no no mod

[frigid gust]

Playing locally, or on a server? Perhaps it's a sync issue. I've never personally experienced that.

[exotic swan]

building a pyramid out of black marble is the worst, best choice I ever made

[tiny tiger]

You got a good method for acquiring a lot of black marble?

I’m wondering if it’s worth using the Ashland’s battering ram to grind black marble

[exotic swan]

yeah I have a good amount, it's more just maintaining the structural integrity

requires iron beams and all that jazz

[tiny tiger]

You can also use the copper metal walls too

[exotic swan]

this all started because I wanted to inclose my Eitr Refinery so it would stop breaking things

[frigid gust]

Stonecutter and disassemble the ||Dvergr towers||, or just fully mining out the ||jotun rib cages and skulls||

[golden rover]

Valheim helped me with my geo lab quiz

Thank you Valheim

[frigid gust]

How so?

[golden rover]

I don’t actually know if it was right but there was a question on what 2 element bronze was comprised of and I just used the fact that we used tin and copper to answer.

Airball

[ember kraken]

Be glad they didn't ask for the ratio then, as Valheim gets that wrong :p

[frigid gust]

From wikipedia: Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin

I think you got it 😉

[golden rover]

Valheim came in clutch ✊😤

[languid echo]

how many asksvin 2star to beat fader without fight? 100 will be enough? 😄

[shy marlin]

Kinda depends on rng

[merry pebble]

The rule of the thumb would be "More = Better" in this case i believe 😄

[shy marlin]

Yea for sure

I suppose the best way to find the minimum amount of asks needed to guarantee a fader kill would be find the average amount of dmg they do then just divide the bosses hp by the average dmg value, and then that way they one shot the boss before he can do anything

[merry pebble]

Then 100 should be pretty good estimate 🙂 i too the average dmg (280) of 2 star asksvin and since Fader has 25 000 hp it should be around 90 asksvin. Theoretically 100 should be able to kill him but i would still take more

Folks in #mods-discussion might know 🙂

[azure yacht]

No

[shy marlin]

100 asks also makes the assumption that they are all capable of hitting Fader at the exact same time, when in reality there sizes means that not all of them will be able to swarm and attack fader 🤔

[merry pebble]

Yeah, hence why you want more 😄

and that is not even cosidering dmg from the minions and aoe

[vast fox]

have not play this game for a year now maybe it is time to start a new game

[languid echo]

more = better 😄

[rose temple]

chat

[lean storm]

Whole bunch of nothing in this blog post

[merry pebble]

If you think so 🙂

[nocturne wolf]

There’s ||a dead George ||

[keen trench]

no he's sleeping👀

[nocturne wolf]

So this is why there was no episode 2

[merry pebble]

cryo-sleeping 😄

[light moat]

Doubt they’re going to drop a ton of spoilers and upcoming features this early 🤔 it’s not much, but people shouldn’t be expecting much either I think.

[vocal rivet]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to see much this early. Imagine what they'd have to share in 6 months! We'd know the whole biome!

[charred wing]

Hopefully they don’t take a halfyear to finish this. Prolly it’ll but one can always hope

[tacit crystal]

I prefer them taking their time to cook, so we can be sure for the quality of the 1.0 patch.

[light moat]

I don’t know 2 star boar, I feel like a year would be par for the course 👀

[primal robin]

What's a good way to find a server to play on?

[light moat]

#1024264966712340510 👍

[merry pebble]

First teasers for ashlands came around 15 months before ashlands came 🙂 and that wasnt the BIG 1.0 update

[light moat]

Exactly- that’s why I would be extremely surprised if we saw 1.0 anytime soon

[merry pebble]

Same 😄

[vocal rivet]

Oh, it'll be longer, I was just talking hypothetically

[hushed grotto]

Hello guys I’ve always had valhiem but never played it idk anything about it any waana play together ?

[charred wing]

Well shit

[spiral gate]

So... They tease us since the last year at least

[vocal rivet]

Huh? We've had precisely three teasers, in the last three months.

[merry pebble]

Didnt we have 3?

[vocal rivet]

Yeah, sorry, its 3.

[spiral gate]

Nov 20, Dec 18, Jan 29, Feb 27 and today

[vocal rivet]

Even if that were true it's one short year.

[tacit crystal]

There you could find company https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510.

[meager fossil]

I just realised I have 667 hours in Valheim so far

Few survival games can do that for me

[hushed grotto]

Could not find any 🙃

[tacit crystal]

You can also post there, good to mention your region so you could get people in same time zone for example. Sometimes gotta be patient.

[copper estuary]

I have a question about playing on multiple servers. I have my own game that I just beat the first boss on, but my friends play on one that’s already on mountain biome. I’m struggling balancing my own character progression in my world, and was curious about ways to bring my items between worlds? I haven’t played in almost 2 years so I’m relearning most of this

[nocturne wolf]

To bring items between worlds, pick up items in the first world then join the second world with the same character and drop them

[copper estuary]

Sweet. that’s simple enough

[frigid gust]

In general I prefer to have separate characters for each world, that way progress doesn't have to be "shared", each can go at it's own pace

[hushed grotto]

What to play together never played the game

[frigid gust]

I presume you mean "want", and no. This isn't the place to find players, that is #1024264966712340510 .

[copper estuary]

That’s a good idea. So the next character I make can just be dedicated to one world or the other. Thanks for the tip!

[flat vector]

Dare I say it. I love valheim 🙏

[tacit crystal]

So bold, how would you dare.

[fossil hill]

why does vallheim have little content i joined the server becouse i saw the release date and i was wondering

[heady parcel]

"little" content?

[undone remnant]

Little content? Im 45 hours in with my Girlfriend and we are just at the surface of the game

Is it a bait question?

[fossil hill]

i mean i played it since it came out and visited it after updates and yet there is nothin

[tacit crystal]

Nothing? Are you sure we play the same game?

[fossil hill]

yes the only thing thats making the game excentially longer is the grinding for materials

[tepid prawn]

It only feels that way if you speedrun through all 7 current land biomes and ignore a lot of the content. 7 bosses, 4 minibosses, one special weapons quest, endless replayability and length if you like building and exploration or playing with others. Lots of optional content like special armour sets that require certain things to get, also lots of different weapons to try out across the biomes which make the game very different to play through.

I haven't even startet with the world modifiers yet, providing more content.

[fossil hill]

i thought they added a lot of POIs into this game by now

[tacit crystal]

And what release date you're talking about?

[fossil hill]

2021 ish

early pandemic for sure

[tacit crystal]

Okay, thanks for clarifying.

[azure yacht]

So your definition of "more content" is just POIs? Not the... Literal hundreds of other stuff that are more significant?

[tacit crystal]

There have been 2 fully fletched biome updates and several smaller updates that have added content to the game and the next will bring the last biome plus possible additions to the previous biomes.

[fossil hill]

if you consider hundreds of other stuff just Furniture then its on you buddy

[heady parcel]

Well, valheim is a sandbox building/exploration survival game, it's not an rpg. So if you are expecting poi littering the world you'll stay disappointed.

[azure yacht]

Bait used to be believable

Can't believe they added ashlands with just one single new bed and nothing else. Literally nothing down there

They added a whole new biome for just one bed.

Bad devs

[fossil hill]

real

[tepid prawn]

you missed the lamp! 😭

[azure yacht]

Which one? I'm pretty sure ashlands literally only added one single new bed and literally nothing else

[tepid prawn]

lava lamp

[tacit crystal]

And throne, bench, vases, carpet.

Buildable skeleton of an animal.

[tepid prawn]

Yes, also I count the catapult and ram also as base decorations 🙂

[tacit crystal]

Plus the lava lamp provides +1 comfort.

[exotic pumice]

I'm filled with unbridled rage for how hard the queen is. Feels 3x harder than it should be. She should never regenerate health, she should summon summons 1/3 as much as she does, and she should run away 1/3 as much as she does, and her knockback should be 1/3 as much as it is. Just ridiculously overtuned boss and it makes me livid. Why is she so ridiculously overpowered? Bonemass buff to make the fight even possible with large stamina and health pots and I still never have enough energy. When I want to DPS she knocks me back or runs away. I have to kill 100x more summons than is necessary, and by my 3rd death she has MORE health than my first encounter with her. If nothing else, just completely remove the regen. It's unfair

I realize everyone's gonna disagree with my comment I just don't care. Queen is waaaaaaaay too overtuned

[shy marlin]

No I think you bring up a valid criticism

And I say that as a player who's killed the queen with no food no rested no potions etc on the hardest difficulty

[exotic pumice]

the only boss to make me ragequit. All the rest and I actually had a good chance, even solo, and felt fun to fight. This time I'm hitting a brick wall that runs away and keeps regenning

[shy marlin]

The seekers being full hp is a bit brutal and realistically i think too punishing

Queen was also kinda designed to be fought with magic I feel

So if you're melee it's a lot harder than if you were mage

That being said did you have bile bombs or ooze bombs?

[exotic pumice]

I didn't use magic or bombs. Now I'm seeing the youtube guide where that's basically all you use my god

[merry pebble]

I basically agree with what Scales said, one thing i will add tho is that it would not make sense for her not to regen hp, every mob does it, including bosses, it wouldnt make sense that she would be an exeption

[exotic pumice]

so you're forced to use magic and bombs and there's no other option that's really really frustrating

[heady parcel]

I find magic incredibly boring to use so I'll be trying without too

[exotic pumice]

12 or 15 weapons and only 3 of them do any real damage, that's so upsetting

[merry pebble]

You are really not forced, i did it with melee the first time with 3 or 4 deaths. But magic is indeed quite a bit easier to kill her with

[exotic pumice]

I'm slamming my head into a brick wall trying to fight this boss the same way I fought any boss but this time, without warning, you either use a different strat that you weren't told about, or you suffer

It breaks my heart because Valheim is my 2nd favorite game and I don't want to feel anger or discontent when I like the game this much. I've never even come close to feeling this way with Valheim. It's always been a relaxing and enjoyable game. And every boss fight so far has been something you get really excited for, and somewhat scared of. This time, none of that. Just anger. Should not be this difficult

[shy marlin]

Well

If it means anything I consider queen to be the hardest boss in the game

And you can always lower the difficulty slider to easy for the queen if you really want

[light moat]

Queen feels like she has an extremely huge health pool. First time I fought her, I didn’t use magic- felt like the fight took forever haha

[merry pebble]

True that

[shy marlin]

Crazy that fader has 2x the amount of hp and feels faster to kill 😂

[tacit crystal]

The adds really does the difference, having full hp Seekers while Fader summons weaker versions of Charred.

[shy marlin]

Maybe queen should get friendly fire 🤔

Would be an introduction to a core mechanic of the ashlands too

[marsh barn]

i asked this earlier but i forgot. whats the best weapons to use against yagluth

[tacit crystal]

Although I never died to Queen, but once to Fader during PTB due to underestimating the damage of his fissure fire.

[tacit crystal]

Silver sword is best, BM sword and Frostner also good options.

[light moat]

Exactly! I even felt this way despite using Dyrnwyn to fight Fader 👀

[marsh barn]

ty thats exactly what i was looking for

[shy marlin]

was boutta parrot

[marsh barn]

whats the best way to get barley? im trying to get enough to start farming

so farming isnt an option yet

[tacit crystal]

Gotta raid those villages.

[marsh barn]

bet

[tacit crystal]

There can be cultivated patches where you can harvest barley or flax and also chests can contain some barley.

[merry pebble]

You really only need 1 to start 😄 but with more it will go faster ofcourse

[somber temple]

are you able to add valheim plus to an existing world?

[heady parcel]

I'd ask in #mods-discussion

[somber temple]

lol thanks didnt see that channel

[tepid prawn]

I 100% agree with you for many reasons

[near furnace]

Queen just needs to be constantly set on fire

it's my go-to method

[ember kraken]

I've beat her 3 times I think, first was with normal shield and Frostner and draugr fang, because I didn't really find any upgrades I liked. Took a while, died a couple of times but it worked. With the Demolisher for AoE to deal with spawns.

2nd time I used magic, it honestly didn't feel much easier to me, because I spent so much time running and kiting anyways.

Third was melee, forgot what I was using tbh.

So from my experience so far, it's doable with both melee and magic builds, I honestly didn't feel one was worse than the other. Though obviously you got to learn her attacks and animations better as melee. Also never block/parry, just dodge bosses. Parry doesn't give stagger anyways, so dodge is jsut better, and I tend to use it to dodge toward, to get easier time to attack, unlike block which push you away.

[tacit crystal]

She is even doable with ranged only, I've done that with about 250ish frost arrows.

[ember kraken]

That sounds so miserable >_<

[tacit crystal]

That was because of a challenge run, probably would not do that again haha.

Permadeath bows only.

[ember kraken]

But yeah, bringing some source of aoe damage is rather important to make that fight less miserable. Demolisher being my favourite, the boomstick (staff of embers), or bombs (supposedly, I've never remembered to try them)

And if you really just hate it, you can cheese it :p

[tepid prawn]

True, without magic makes her a lot harder, one of the things that makes her so hard is also the fact there are no tamed creatures allowed in there, only your skellies can come with you and your viking friends. Solo without magic is hardest, but very fun fight nonetheless.

[near furnace]

fire arrows and the fire bomb

works like a charm

[nocturne wolf]

Fire arrows? Wouldn’t frost arrows be better?

[shy marlin]

aren't fire arrows just worse damage than frost arrows lol

[merry pebble]

They are there just to keep up the dot 🙂

[shy marlin]

Doesn't matter

[nocturne wolf]

That’s not how the stacking works

The remaining damage is added to the new damage. No extra damage is magically created by stacking fire.

[merry pebble]

Meh, frost might be better, i am not saying they arent, but the fire works totaly fine 🙂

[shy marlin]

Wood club also works perfectly fine 😎

[nocturne wolf]

Use her own power and fight her with a pickaxe

[shy marlin]

yoooooo lmao

that might go hard tbh pickaxe only queen

[tepid prawn]

Might try that actually, for the good bombs I have to kill lots of doom zeppelins though

[neon quest]

wait dumb question that has been asked a million times: will the game leave early access after deep north / is the core game finished after that?

[heady parcel]

Ugh, was planning to do queen soon but I think I'll just keep exploring, that big bug will have to wait.

[tepid prawn]

yes is the short answer

[neon quest]

tq

[tepid prawn]

DN is 1.0, there will be bug fixes and small things after that but no big new content patch

[near furnace]

yes

[heady parcel]

I hate magic, don't wanna make them just for one fight, and I simply suck too much to take her on with melee I think. Need to learn to use bombs efficiently methinks.

[shy marlin]

Well good news for you bile bombs can kill her in 1 minute

[tepid prawn]

and the fire arrows I've just learned, also Atgeir and Demolisher is worth bringing there if you don't have magic

[shy marlin]

just farm 33 gjalls and go to town 😎

[shy marlin]

Please please don't use fire arrows frost are just like objectively better in every way lol

[heady parcel]

33 specifically? 😄

[tepid prawn]

do they all stack I mean is there any damage being overwritten if you spam them super quick or not?

[shy marlin]

100 ish bile bombs is the target number (33*3)

[near furnace]

bombs are amazing

[shy marlin]

The poison on the bile bomb doesn't stack but the fire does

[near furnace]

specially in the mountains dungeons

just drop a bomb at the stairs and watch the ulvs die 😄

[heady parcel]

Dang it, I've probably skipped half the bile bags from my gjall kills due to full inventory. Only got 15...

[tacit crystal]

Bile bombs are surely very useful.

[tepid prawn]

I now have an idea for next play through, BOMBERVIKING playthrough! (I like to switch it up, last one was bows and I did use frost for Queen that time) Currently its spears with a bit of traditional sword thrown in at times.

[near furnace]

under-rated for sure

[nocturne wolf]

I’ve never used bombs, I’m not a huge fan of consumeable weapons

[tepid prawn]

the bow is amazing, sort of technically a consumable weapon, you have to grind for arrows a lot because high skill it fires so fast.

[near furnace]

bow/knife is a good combo 🤔

[shy marlin]

Knife tower shield 😎

[nocturne wolf]

I only use a bow for enemies that are very annoying otherwise such as drakes, gjalls and sometimes fuling shamans

[near furnace]

haven't done a tower shield playthrough for real yet 😄

[ember kraken]

In theory, all weapons consumable, as you gotta repair them :p (I assume you hated BotW then?)

[tepid prawn]

haven't done knives for a while, but rushing the razor feels great

[near furnace]

silver knife vs yagluth is oddly satisfying 😄

[tepid prawn]

disagree because repair is free, so with a pocket portal no issue, you dont have to farm

[nocturne wolf]

It’s not much of a problem in BotW because you’re constantly finding new weapons to replace your broken ones, but the enemies aren’t dropping any bilebombs here.

[tepid prawn]

if you want lots of bilebombs might have to live in Mistlands and have a base that is good to fight Gjall raids from

and then just set raids to max haha

[heady parcel]

I've had one gjall raid ever, happened while I was building an outpost that I wasn't even planning to have as base, just a portal. So no defences. Gods below, had to run and let them raze it to the ground

[ember kraken]

That said, I suffer quite a lot from "potion syndrome" myself, really struggle to use consumable items. And usually end up in most games ot hoard them until I'm almost done with a game, and just sell them because I know I'll never use them anyways >_<

[heady parcel]

I recognise that. My scroll and potion collection at the end of BG3 was absolutely MASSIVE

[marsh barn]

uhhhhh am i reading the wiki correctly, it takes 160 total silver to make a sword and fully upgrade it?

[shy marlin]

Dunno the number and if that's right or not but silver is super easy to get so really wouldn't sweat it

[marsh barn]

40 to craft level 1, 20 for upgrade to lvl 2, 40 for lvl 3, and 60 for lvl4.. thats a LOT

[shy marlin]

That's really only like 2 silver nodes lol

And you also don't have to fully upgrade weapons

[marsh barn]

i know, i just like to lol

[shy marlin]

word, i'm also the same way

[marsh barn]

im mainly surprised because it feels like other weapons like the porcupine and black metal shield dont take nearly as much

[tacit crystal]

Somewhat Valheim nerd here, indeed 160 silver plus 23 iron. 🤓 👆

[merry pebble]

Silver is not really used in many things 🙂 so you can sink it in the sword 😄

[shy marlin]

Silver sword is also just a good investment to have, pays off in later biomes

[marsh barn]

we're gonna be taking on yagluth soon so i wanted it for him. if its useful in biomes after plains then ill make it

[tacit crystal]

It's viable in ||Ashlands||, actually any other silver weapon with spirit damage too.

[shy marlin]

Got through the first hurdle of the no food run 🤙

[tacit crystal]

Back on the action it seems.

[shy marlin]

yea did a quick v rising playthru and decompressed after the tragic death to fader