valheim-chat

[agile temple]

bruh my highest skill so far is my 27 elemental magic

oh yeah i never actually used the staff of the wild, shot it like twice when i first summoned fader ages ago and just kept it in my inventory after that

[errant knoll]

I tend to let skills train naturally as well but I don't have 100 in any of them, I have like 80 running. Highest combat skill is 65 in swords.

Thundering Nidhogg to victory

[heady parcel]

I don't die much, I do my damndest to avoid it - and I progress veery slowly!

[errant knoll]

I don't die much nowadays but I had a big hard reset of skills when I first entered the Mistlands

and it persisted through much of the Ashlands too. Lots of death whittled away the skill levels I did have

[tacit crystal]

Just play deathless.

[errant knoll]

I've kinda realised in future playthroughs I should play super risky in the early biomes to make fast progress and have very low punishment for dying, and then be extra careful later

[heady parcel]

On this world I think I have only died once in battle (they were bros). All my deaths have been to fall damage or lava...

[errant knoll]

Even for a deathless playthrough I'd take the same approach, afterall if I die early into a deathless playthrough I haven't lost much time

[errant knoll]

But the Feather Cape!

[heady parcel]

Built my mage tower before I had it!

[errant knoll]

Rookie mistake! 🤣

I would not dare continue work on my (never-ending) mountains build project without first getting my feather cape out of storage

[errant knoll]

Oooooh, I don't think I've ever had this raid. My curiosity is piqued!

[heady parcel]

I never take that thing off. Ever.

[errant knoll]

I take it off in the Ashlands because Fall damage is a very low threat there.

I put it back on whenever I go back to the mountain or mistlands for something mostly

[heady parcel]

My outpost has high enough walls to make fall damage a factor, and being able to glide over lava sometimes is good. But mostly because when I did craft an ashlands cloak I died within an hour since I forgot I wasn't wearing the feather cape...

[errant knoll]

I mean my mountains base is extremely tall as well and I can take fall damage if I fall.

...I put Banisters in place so I can't accidentally run off.

I'm an enjoyer of the Ashen cape reducing attack stamina usage so xD

Thanks to those banisters the only risk of falling is if I'm jumping on top of them and moving about to extend my build which is, frankly, getting really tiring now because while this games build system is simple, there's so many minor irritations that make things look not that nice and I have to spend ages making placeholder things to clip build pieces exactly where I want and... reeeeeee.

I'll even obsess over things like digging the ground with a pickaxe, putting a stone block down and then using the hoe to make it look like the foundations sink lower into the ground

[tacit crystal]

Ashen cape is cool, but lately the cowl part has been irritating a bit lately since I've been solely using Ask set more comfortably in Ashlands and it clips weirdly with the hood.

[errant knoll]

Yes, it's kinda weird that it clips so much with the ask set.

[tacit crystal]

With other hoods too.

[errant knoll]

Haven't tried it with other hoods actually

haven't broken the fenris set out in a while lol

[tacit crystal]

It almost fully covers Embla hood.

But probably it's more intented to be part of Flametal armor set, while Ask set gets Ask cape too.

[errant knoll]

It does go well with the Flametal helm.

Source: My build is Flam helm, Ashen Cape, Embla chest and legs

[plain wraith]

fasdjkl;;ajkfsld jka;lsd;kajlsdfk;jladsf

i'm raging hard at ashlands right now holy smokes this is bs

[errant knoll]

#screenshots message

Considering my building skills are awful I'm pretty proud of what I've done so far.

[errant knoll]

Have to treat Ashlands a lot like the Mistlands - take your time and inch forward slowly, only this time its because of the enemies, not the mist. The lack of mist lulls you into a false sense of security that because you can see everything, you'll be fine.

Unfortunately that's not how it goes lol xD

[plain wraith]

nah ashlands is stupid, there's absolutely no respite whatsoever, it's just plain unfair at times

fjuck it i'm just running naked to my corpse

[errant knoll]

I agree that it's stupid, I don't agree that it's unfair. You get used to it after a while in the sense that you'll stop dying. But it never, ever stops being annoying.

Can't breathe 2 seconds without being interrupted.

As for the "no respite whatsoever" - the 2 main points of interest you will interact with on the map both act as safe zones once they're cleared out, and one of them is a dungeon.

Well, cave

So make sure to mark them on your map when you're done with them.

[near widget]

it used to be way worse lmao

[plain wraith]

i know i'm just ragin

because i can't get my corpse

but i'm okay now

[near widget]

did you get your corpse

[plain wraith]

well 1 of 3 lol

[dusk valve]

Roughly 6mo

[errant knoll]

Ah so last time was after the mob spawn rate nerf.

In that case, yes. (Was just checking cause if you'd said closer to when it released I'd have said "still yes, but not as bad as it was")

[dusk valve]

I guess the potential is there for it to have been longer? The last time I played it was unenjoyable, utterly. I was unable to establish any kind of foothold or outpost. This is also the first time I have heard about a nerf? So I guess that 2-star Troll must've hit me harder than I thought... I'll have to give it a go.

Thank you.

[neon swan]

is the flat side of a wood wall the outside part or the inside

[vocal rivet]

Yes.

Honestly, there doesn't appear to be a consensus.

[neon swan]

kinda torn on where to put the ugly side

[quasi latch]

Mix and match

[worldly violet]

iight, i have just entered the Bronze age, about to go on a Tin hunt. is there anyway to regrow grass on land ive flattened? idk i couldnt build so close to spawn

[vocal rivet]

You can use the hoe to re-grass land.

[quasi latch]

||There's a tool unlocked upon obtaining bronze and corewood||

[worldly violet]

Cheers,

[worldly violet]

appreciate that.

[plain wraith]

ah that satisfying feeling when finally get your corpse back after a full day of trying

[quasi latch]

Corpse runs are kinda fun ngl
The other day, I died, walked out of my swamp outpost, and immediately got onetapped in the butt by a draugr archer camping in the lake near my door. It was really funny.

[plain wraith]

cultivator

[errant knoll]

Release Ashlands was far, far worse than it is currently, it was so bad that you basically had to spawn proof everywhere just to have a chance at making progress.

Current Ashlands... it's still an annoying slogfest, at least for me it is, but I was able to make progress in it.

[steel mica]

How durable is the drakkr ship?

[errant knoll]

It's 3x as durable as the viking longship, + as long as you take materials for a workbench with you there are places where you can jump out the ship and place a workbench down quickly to fix it while sailing into the Ashlands

Worry more about not dying yourself, but don't take too long to kill enemies that appear, then quickly take a moment to repair it when combat ends

[steel mica]

Is it like safe to dispatch enemies from the boat before landing in ashlands

Because before I continue making my huge ass base I kinda wanna go and fight the queen

[errant knoll]

You're more vulnerable to taking direct damage sailing into the Ashlands than you would be while fighting a Leviathan, put it that way

Leviathans primary threat to you is sinking you at sea after destroying your ship. Ashlands enemies can sink your ship, but they will harrass you directly as well

[steel mica]

So what would be the gameplan for ashlands

[charred gale]

Bumrush

[errant knoll]

Take Fire Resist Barley with you and ideally set sail to get into the Ashlands while the wind is naturally pointing down, you really want to have Bonemass buff as an option for when you land

Once you're on land you likely won't need fire resist but it can be useful while sailing in.

As I say after fighting enemies at sea, take time to repair your ship

[charred gale]

The thing is

In my experience you often get swarmed instantly when you reach land

[errant knoll]

It depends on the landing site, not all of them are equally hard. Some of them are harder than others

[charred gale]

Might be situational but it’s been that way for me everywhere

it’s good to have rested buff just in case and definitely bonemass

[errant knoll]

My first landing site was hell. My second one was much easier in comparison

[steel mica]

im Ill equipped to fight the queen now, I just need to locate her so these ashlands preparations are nice to take note of

[errant knoll]

When you build a portal, build it on a rock, not on the mainland - you want it out of reach of enemies so that if you die you can corpse run. many enemies do a lot of chop/pickaxe damage and destroy structures really quickly.

Thats probably the most important thing.

[charred gale]

My first one was complete shite too but it mightve been because it was on area that I had loaded before the update (i played on the ptb with my friend) so it was juuust a flat area

[worldly violet]

if i had kids id train them to make coal

[steel mica]

After landing and dealing with the abominable amount of mobs what is my next priority, build a fort or find a pre-made well defended structure?

[charred gale]

Have you got a shield core by chance

[errant knoll]

Explore, taking materials for a second portal with you to help you get back home. The first structure you want to look for, before doing anything else, looks exactly like a troll cave. It's called a Putrid hole

They give you resources that mean you basically don't need to build a base in the Ashlands at all

[quasi latch]

On the cooking station?

[errant knoll]

Once you got what you need from the putrid hole, gather some metal, make some basic gear, then try to take on some charred fortresses

Thats the "basic" progression order of the ashlands

[steel mica]

I have zero clue what this is because thats how little I know about the ashlands and I want to keep most things spoiler free, I just want general tips for the biome since its literally the last biomeim going at, mistlands I am very much prepared to take on the queen

[errant knoll]

He said he hasn't beaten the queen yet so the answer is "no"

[charred gale]

Must’ve missed that

[errant knoll]

It was a bit before you joined the conversation I think

[steel mica]

When it comes to The Queen drop I have zero clue what she drops

[charred gale]

I can’t even remember that myself

[steel mica]

The rest of the mistlands materials I knew by checking wiki since Im now preparing myself to fight The Queen

[errant knoll]

Queen drop is Moder 2.0

if that jogs your memory

[steel mica]

Moder drop huh

Is it like an upgrade for the artisan table?

[charred gale]

Crazy how it’s been like two years since I beat the queen

Maybe more

[errant knoll]

TL:DR its special carapace whose only use is to upgrade the artisan table

[charred gale]

Took me a year to beat ashlands (tbf i wasnt exactly active for most of the time)

I love doing stuff at my own pace

[steel mica]

Same I am literally working on ny base but I wanted to defeat the queen to get the drakkr ship

[charred gale]

I’ve had the same world for like 4 years soon, and I’ve been playing with my friend on it since

[steel mica]

This is the only time where im just properly equipped to take on a boss

[charred gale]

I got the game in 21 summer iirc

[errant knoll]

If this motivates you more - the tools you get in the Ashlands will help you gather resources SIGNIFICANTLY faster than you have been able to up to this point.

[steel mica]

previous biomes I was over prepared lol

[errant knoll]

Which makes it a lot easier, and faster, to make bigger bases, or more bases

[steel mica]

I kinda wanna make the ashlands last because once im done with ashlands, now what?

[errant knoll]

I'm not just talking pickaxe upgrades here, they're proper game changers

[errant knoll]

You kinda need to defeat the queen anyway so Ashlands will still be last

[steel mica]

How fast you say

[errant knoll]

We're talking you can instantaneously destroy those massive stone pillars in the Plains

[charred gale]

Quite fast

[steel mica]

o

nah you're lying

[errant knoll]

I'm not

[charred gale]

Even I didn’t know that

[steel mica]

for real?

[errant knoll]

You can make coal from wood without even waiting

[steel mica]

thats how little I know about the ashlands

[charred gale]

What???

[errant knoll]

Just exploring in the ashlands will give you so many resources from incedental combat

[charred gale]

Hang on

How much have I missed 😭

[steel mica]

All I know are the askvins and some enemies and thats its, the rest is a literal mystery to me, and even if they say it I have zero clue ehat it looks like or how I can approach it without experiencing

[errant knoll]

Next time you entre the ashlands.

Put down a campfire.

Then put down a stack of 50 wood on it using the hammer.

Voila, 50 coal.

Who needs to wait?

[charred gale]

Oh jeez i need to try that out

Thanks mate i had no clue

[worldly violet]

me in the meadows lol

[steel mica]

Wait so the normal woods instantly turns to coal?

[errant knoll]

Only if it's destroyed while burning

[steel mica]

well it is hellish ofc

[charred gale]

Have you got any more hints

[errant knoll]

It's a setting you can enable for the whole world, but its ALWAYS enabled in the Ashlands.

[steel mica]

Wait cant you just use the staff of embrs to set it ablazed

or does it have to physically burn

and not just be textured into burning and breaking

[errant knoll]

||Use the Trollstav and aim the attack at the base of the giant stone pillars in the plains. What happens next is satisfying||

[undone forum]

The best is the stone pillars in the plains, thats satisfying

[errant knoll]

Problem with staff of embers is it also does blunt damage

[charred gale]

Ooooh yeah of course

[errant knoll]

And I think the blunt damage just destroys it before it burns

You CAN use the staff of embers and sometimes a residual flame burns on the floor for a bit - you can place a stack of wood on that

So what you're saying works you just need to sequence it differently

[errant knoll]

You can also use Shield cores in the swamp to protect yourself from the rain.

[charred gale]

Didnt know that either pretty smart

[errant knoll]

Even for other things, the Siege tools you get make good ways to gather resources quickly without having to get your pickaxe out

I just wish builds didn't go through Ashwood faster than normal wood 😢, twice as much ashwood for a 2x2 wood floor piece. I want to use the shiny build material not the basic, awful looking wood 🤣

[undone forum]

||Battering ram|| vs copper is slick

[errant knoll]

My TL:DR review of the Ashlands - exploration and combat is a hell of a slog, but it's almost counteracted by being given the means to make all other activities (other than farming) much less of a slog

It sort of balances out

In fact even farming becomes less of a slog I love Vineberry Clusters so much, yes for not needing to replant them all the time!

[undone forum]

Except for the bug with them

[errant knoll]

They're bugged?

[undone forum]

I think so

[worldly violet]

noob question, do maces/blunt weapns fall under the club tree?

[undone forum]

Yeah

[errant knoll]

i haven't seen anything to suggest vineberries were bugged but maybe I'm not paying enough attention

[worldly violet]

cheers

[charred gale]

True that

[undone forum]

I think its something to do with their growth resetting after logging out. So if you log out before they are grown it resets and starts over next log in. I could be wrong though

[errant knoll]

The main bugs I noticed in the Ashlands were monuments of torment spawning inside rocks, Morgen occasionally phase through the floor, and sometimes the music doesn't fade out properly, leading to extremely chaotic soundtrack overlaps

[errant knoll]

I've seen online, though I don't know if this is true, that apparently player grown vineberries take longer to respawn than natural ones in the biomes

It might be this bug you're talking about, but I'm not sure

[placid plinth]

Hey everyone

[undone forum]

No idea, might be that

[errant knoll]

I just like going back to my old meadows base (which has been repurposed purely into a farm for my pets and crops) and seeing my massive stone wall, covered in vines, peppered in all these clusters

I'm thinking of extending it into a fractal pattern and just having a really massive wall thats got lots of vineberries growing on it

[errant knoll]

Checking my wall again now, there is definitely something fishy going on

There were much more here earlier and I never harvested anything, but it's empty now

[vocal rivet]

Vines are broken, logging out just resets their growth.

[errant knoll]

Sad

At least the vines look pretty!

[undone forum]

Devs.... pls fix vines

[vocal rivet]

Eh, it'll be fixed in the next patch or the one after. It's not like theyre not aware.

[errant knoll]

I'll probably still plant them as decoration everywhere

And its a note to self also, for the time being, harvest everything before I close the game

[undone forum]

A session that is a couple hours should get you at least one maybe two harvests, so its not to bad but still

[wooden sleet]

Hey guys. I'm currently building yet another cathedral. I'm looking for opinions!!! Starting a stream in 15 and I'll post in self promotion. This is my 3rd cathedral so I'm trying to change it up a bit

[worldly violet]

might be a bit of a reach, but my favorite book is called Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Its about the building of a cathedral. maybe you could find some ideas there?

[valid python]

Speaking of vines, I've not seen any vine berries

Are they like further inland?

[errant knoll]

Not always, sometimes they're right next to the water.

You're not actually looking for a wide open space with nothing in it, you're looking for ruins of previous buildings. Sometimes they're really far inland, othertimes they go into the water

Oh my gosh I found a LOVELY patch of mistlands

[near widget]

post a picture

[errant knoll]

It's in the screenshots

[near widget]

oh yeah that is pretty

[errant knoll]

Every now and then you get these clearings

[undone forum]

I have almost a entire biome of mistlands that has no mist, it’s freaking amazing

[errant knoll]

Yes - While a lot of people complain that the mist hides the beauty of the biome, I think it makes it that much more special when you find a spot that you can see everything.

[undone forum]

I honestly forget that I need to use a wisplight in other mistlands

[undone forum]

Real, only downside is mine is almost like an archipelago lots of water and narrow strips of land which makes it hard to build a base. I’ll get some photos tomorrow

[worldly violet]

When I’m dismantling my structures like the smelter and Kiln, will I get all my cores back?

[undone forum]

Yeah

[feral eagle]

guys why do I have the impression that updating and introducing new things to the game takes too long? The game does not seem to be technologically advanced, without new things it gets boring quickly. Do we know more or less when the full version will be released?

[dark flare]

Everyone has an idea they think would be an ideal implementation.

From what I know. There is a very structured design plan for the game, currently.

My understanding was that the Deep North was the last major content patch for the base game.

[valid python]

You would be hard pressed to find a player who didn't wish updates were at least a little more frequent even if smaller tweaks/fixes.

But the game must be doing something right to pull the numbers it is when similar games with more frequent updates have nose-dived.

In the mean time there's pretty strong modding scene and ridiculous goals to shoot for like fishing hat.

[worldly violet]

any gear dropped outside of my workbench radius will despawn right?

[thorny panther]

Today I learned a very punishing lesson

I built a thing right on the edge of a Dvergr Ward. It slid into range of the Ward in an inconvenient way. I started chopping MY OWN BUILD to get materials back and it aggro'd them anyway.

I understand why but it was still unfortunate. I had no intention of killing them.

[thorny panther]

After a while yeah

[rain flare]

Saw the screenshot
Mistlands is beautiful 🥰

Oooof
Dude

Glad to hear it!

Get flametal
Raid fortresses
Kill the boss

[wooden moth]

same happened to me and lost a 1 star wolf because of it

[rain flare]

Eh
Tame a wolf then watch it die instantly to a troll 😅😭

30 minutes of my life wasted 🙈
At least boggy makes it take less time now

[worldly violet]

So i have decided to move away from spawn, i have 1 location prospect, kind of on the edge of the Meadows and Black Forest. but i also have a spot where the Mountain meets Meadows and Black forest, so ill be scouting that area next

[steel mica]

I have no clue atm but some people said you need something? to get it back

[rain flare]

Basalt bomb
It makes a temp platform to jump on

[worldly violet]

terraforming is not like it is in minecraft, and im so glad for that, i feel like a grown up again playing this game.

[steel mica]

@errant knoll Alright im heading off to my nearest Queen what should I expect

[rain flare]

Yeeeeah that is how it is unfortunately 😅
They are the most difficult biomes in the game thus far

One word of advice:
preparation, preparation, preparation

You are going to die in there, make preparations accordingly
You are going to get mobbed by nasty enemies and have to deal with environmental hazards
Prepare accordingly

Exploration is going to be a tedious but hopefully rewarding process, you need to prepare escape portals and safe houses to make your life easier so you can get the rested buff, and just have somewhere to run if 20 things start chasing you at once

Lava…? 🙈

[worldly violet]

isnt there a discord that helps ppl retrive their bodies?

[rain flare]

Yeah, that’s happened to me

It is nasty
Best I can suggest is avoiding the damned stuff altogether 🙏

Asksvin right?

Basalt bombs is your only saving grace there
That, and just avoiding fights near the stuff

If I get mobbed by multiple enemies I lead them away from the lava cause I will be dammed to Hel before I’m letting the bloody charred pick where I’m going to kick their skeletal asses 🥰

Aaaaw dude.
That is rough

[rain flare]

Not sure, but people do volunteer if they have time to help

I can’t right now sadly 😭

[worldly violet]

yee, its called the body recovery squad. i just joined lol, just incase

[vocal rivet]

Ugh, that lot.

[worldly violet]

are they no good? im still the new guy in this world

[vocal rivet]

I just find them quite self righteous. We all try and help people where we can, we just didn't have to make a special club for it.

[worldly violet]

thats fair, i know a few other games also have servers dedicated to body retrieval, seems to be a popular thing

[steel mica]

The queen is very hard with melee

[honest burrow]

Is there a better way of picking up boats than laying into them with an axe?

[tacit crystal]

If you mean collecting their mats, then you can also use sword secondary for more damage.

[honest burrow]

Short on iron at the moment, but I take note of that. I wish hammer could deconstruct them

Currently on a long iron run. Second one, to be precise. I'm smarter than I was yesterday what I said "Surely this is enough"

[tacit crystal]

It's never enough.
At least for builders.

[honest burrow]

I want to build pretty stuff like what I see here. Sadly, my skills are currently stuck at "box" and "slightly taller box"

[steel mica]

My man the queen fight is really a up in difficulty

even magic is struggling

[rain flare]

You didn’t throw enough fireballs 😂

Summon more skellies and throw more fire!!! 🔥

[steel mica]

I am throwing everything I can at the queen

[steel mica]

I do not have dead raiser

[rain flare]

Keep it up!
She will die eventually

[steel mica]

You can watch me struggle if you want 💀

[rain flare]

You muppet 😂
Go make one quickly! ❤️

[steel mica]

I DONT HAVE ENOUGH EITR

[rain flare]

You are a glass cannon - go make more eitr food and make some friends to take the aggro off your back

You a spell sword?

[steel mica]

No I mean I dont have enough refind eitr

[rain flare]

Heavy armor / melee / eitr?

[steel mica]

to make dead raiser

No full magic

[ornate sentinel]

All problems can be solved with a loyal pack of 2-star wolves.

[rain flare]

Ooooooh 🙈

[steel mica]

Yeah nope wolves cant help you here

and even if they could they would instantly die

[rain flare]

The queen is not one of those problems bud 😂

[steel mica]

due to the her high area damage

and high dmg in general

[ornate sentinel]

I've admittedly yet to face her on my own 😅

[steel mica]

You can watch me struggle in meadow's glade 😭

[rain flare]

Work doesn’t let us do that sadly 😅
I’ll have to just chat

[steel mica]

oof

shes like 1/3 of her hp left

[rain flare]

You should do that
It’s an experience to say the least

[rain flare]

Keep going! You’ve almost got her!

[steel mica]

See screenshots

[rain flare]

🔥 🔥

#The queen wants it all

#Burn baby burn!!!

Throws an unreasonable number of fireballs in her direction 😂

[steel mica]

Finally shes dead

My god that took me about like 1hour and 15mins

[plain wraith]

the queen is dead! long live the queen!

wtf are the boss markers in ashlands

[ionic elk]

If it's any consolation dead raiser is kinda a pain in mist fights imo ._.
100 Eitr per use and the lad will absolutely die in 1 hit from anything in that arena..I'll probably try 1 Eitr food, a high HP and high Stam one and just keep the barrier up as often as I can

[plain wraith]

i've looked everywhere

[ionic elk]

It's in the mines, I found it in my 2nd one ^^

[plain wraith]

there are mines in ashlands?

[tacit crystal]

In ||fortresses|| or ||on those big ruins||.

[ionic elk]

Reading is hard

[safe tide]

My personal world's battle speed is faster than dedicated. Anyone know what the problem!

[plain wraith]

ah k so i'll just keep looking

[safe tide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiXqa7FueVE&list=PL3trpIenkve5AMttNQdWu2NRiHoLde4Xi

[tacit crystal]

If you see green light spire in the sky you are close.

[plain wraith]

yeah i've stormed 3 castles but no luck so far 🤷‍♂️

[tacit crystal]

I think they were talking about infested mines.

There is one cave type in Ashlands, inside them you can find specific vegvisirs but not for the boss.

[tacit crystal]

Keep looking. 👍

[ionic elk]

I found enough Fenris Hair to max out my armor set finally! I don't think I have the recipe for the hood yet tho, that comes from ||Cultist trophies right?||

That's actually appalling that I've never found one D: I'll continue bullying the mountains then..

[rain flare]

Ding dong, the queen is dead! 🥳

[rain flare]

The Ashlands boss markers are best found in the fortresses
I don’t remember finding them anywhere else

[rain flare]

Rng strikes again
Go sack another 🔥

[plain wraith]

i actually randomly stumbled on the boss like 10 minutes ago. love when that happens

[rain flare]

Nice! 🔥

[steel mica]

Im about to enter the ashlands

viking's first experience

[rain flare]

What is Valheim’s rule number 1?

[plain wraith]

it's.................. fun......

[steel mica]

oh

[rain flare]

I spy a Loki 😂

[steel mica]

there we go my bad

[plain wraith]

ssshhh

[steel mica]

on words

Water aint boiling me tho

[rain flare]

LoL I don’t think you understood what I meant 😂

Rule number 1 of Valheim:
Preparation preparation preparation

Do that and you’ll be fine in Ashlands

[rain flare]

Sailing a drakar?
Or standing in it?

[steel mica]

Sailing with a drakkr

I tested the water, It didnt kill me, and now huginn introduced me to the ashland

I got grausten

[rain flare]

The water is like lava
You have a few seconds where you can stand/swim in it before you spontaneous combust and take ridiculous amounts of damage

Lava gives you like a split second though - don’t swim in it 😅

You’ll be dead before you can say “What?”

[steel mica]

The ashland theme slaps, really good drums

[ionic elk]

I like drums..maybe I'll try facing off vs the queen tonight

[steel mica]

ayo magma fish just jumped into my boat

[ionic elk]

I haven't tried Ashlands just yet, but the ice staff has always been significantly weaker per hit, just that it slows targets and has a much higher rate of fire. So best used on big single targets, but fire staff has always been the big damage dealer

I imagine they are, but the fire staff straight up deals a lot of damage. I think the fire resistance is mostly that they won't be set on fire, but the initial attack damage is still gonna mess em up!

[tacit crystal]

They are. It's just that Ember staff also deals blunt damage which most of them don't resist.

Well, charred are very resistant and lava blobs are immune to fire.

Others are just resistant iirc.

[rotund bay]

my current world has the bog witch spawn in between 2 surtling spawners, plus its on the same island with a bonemass altar

finally afk spot without needing to build a base on a tree top (still would do it for my portal)

[ionic elk]

What fresh horrors await me 🫠

Mine had 6 spawners nearby, quite the welcome party

Really dig the bog witch stuff tho, lots of shenanigan approved potions

[steel mica]

OK I HAVE NOW TOUCHED GROUND AND SECURED A PORTAL

my god those charred warriors hurt alot

[rain flare]

Yeah they are little shits 😂

Murder them with extreme prejudice

[steel mica]

Ok what are the POI's I should be looking for

[tacit crystal]

Anything really.

[steel mica]

the area I docked at has a nearby high like structure and something glowing to the left

like not the usual glow

[rain flare]

Caves made that look like they are made of solid lava like Grausten

[tacit crystal]

Glow points out one of the POIs.

[rain flare]

Also, look for this - it’s a charred stronghold

[steel mica]

It looks like a portal with like little fireballs circling the portal thing

[rain flare]

It’s like Minas Morgan

[rain flare]

Screenshot maybe 😅
Can’t recall it from that description

[steel mica]

I FELL IN THE WATER

[chrome badge]

Honestly look for a nice little peninsula without maybe enemies around, and try setting up a safe haven before exploring much, Ashlands can be brutal when it comes to destruction of portals in the wrong places.

[steel mica]

the screen started growing orange around the screen

[ionic elk]

I imagine it's quite nice to be able to see again

[steel mica]

Ill send in dm

[chrome badge]

Live blogging the ashlands experience is pretty hilarious ngl

[steel mica]

Tbh I should live stream it lmao

[chrome badge]

Waiting for the inevitable "WHAT IS THAT"

[rain flare]

It would be, if all I was seeing wasn’t a literal helscape 😂

[rain flare]

Yeah, that is you cooking 😅

[steel mica]

Ok the portal is "properly" secured stake walls will do for now

[rain flare]

Aha - that is a spawner
It summons charred minions

[steel mica]

The left one?

[chrome badge]

You'd think so wouldn't you 😅

[rain flare]

Like these bastards

[rain flare]

Yup 👍

[steel mica]

Bro I SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT EXTRA 2 IRON FOR BLACK MARBLE

😭

[rain flare]

👆

[steel mica]

oh wait I can use the shield generator for iron

[rain flare]

Don’t worry bud - you can find iron in those caves I mentioned

And there is a REALLY cool thing you can craft which will solve all your metal problems

[steel mica]

What is it

[rain flare]

BIG portal 🤩

[steel mica]

Portal?

[rain flare]

By by transport restrictions 🥰

[steel mica]

Theres a new portal?

[rain flare]

Yup 👍

Happy hunting bud 🔥

[steel mica]

That sounds too good to be true...

[ionic elk]

All this is getting me excited for the trauma to come, although even if I finish Queen today I haven't explored south of my spawn island at all so it'll be quite the adventure to get there!

[tacit crystal]

It's true.

[rain flare]

Behold spoilers 😅

#screenshots message

[steel mica]

THERES A ||LAVA BLOB||

[rain flare]

Careful, they like to cuddle 😅

[vocal rivet]

Ashlands, bringing back all your retextured favourites.

[rain flare]

Skeletons in goth!
Explosive blobs!
New birds dyed white!

[tacit crystal]

At least they're on 'roids.

[rain flare]

Quite lovely 😅

[errant knoll]

Don't treat them like you would another blob - you might not last very long if you do...

[steel mica]

Ok thy portal is now secured in the finest black marble structure

Live ashland experience brought to you by Black

[errant knoll]

Also the er, that grausten resource you mentioned.

Be prepared to pick up a lot of it and return it to storage in your base lol.

[steel mica]

It only gave me structures

Is barely resistance wine any help here in this hellish landscape

[rain flare]

For explosive blobs and dead wizards - yes

[errant knoll]

It can be, though it doesn't help as much as you'd think

[rain flare]

For lava?
Absolutely not 😅

[steel mica]

OH THEY EXPLODE

that almost got me, the lava blobs

[rain flare]

And there it is 😂

[steel mica]

The demolisher saved my life

and knocked it back

[errant knoll]

There's 4 enemies in the ashlands that do fire damage.

3 of them have spawning restrictions.

The 4th of them is the lava blob which are more like walking bombs than real enemies

[steel mica]

OK ONE SNEAKED UP ON ME

I lived

WT# A 1* TWITCHER ALREADY

[errant knoll]

A lot of the damage you take is physical.

[steel mica]

BRO IM ALREADY FACING A 1 STAR

nvm he dead

[rain flare]

Nice dude! 🥳

[near furnace]

just wait for the 2 stars 👀

[errant knoll]

Tbh the Charred are easier enemies than the seekers, just there's more of them.

[rain flare]

Be prepared, you are gonna see a LOT of starred mobs down there

[steel mica]

Vine grapes

[errant knoll]

The main threat in the ashlands is everything else really.

[steel mica]

berry I mean

[rain flare]

I need to play Valheim again
I’m gonna convert a charred fort into this 😂

[rain flare]

Nice find!
Those are use in a lot of new foods

[errant knoll]

Oh and charred wizards are an exception, they are vastly more dangerous than the other charred enemies. You also won't randomly encounter them

[rain flare]

Mostly for magic foods

[errant knoll]

If you find yourself in a situation with a charred wizard or two, they need to die fast.

[rain flare]

I think it’s cause they took this lesson a little too literally 😅

[steel mica]

Is there anything of usefulness in these high like structure filled with vinegrapes?

[errant knoll]

Funnily enough my build was a spellsword

[rain flare]

Occasionally
Nothing expressly needed

You don’t have to raid the whole thing

The berries are the most valuable item

You might find pots - drops loot good for decoration and occasionally something more useful like silver

[safe tide]

My personal world's battle speed is faster than dedicated. Anyone know what the problem!
record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiXqa7FueVE&list=PL3trpIenkve5AMttNQdWu2NRiHoLde4Xi

[rain flare]

Send in #valheim-help ❤️

[safe tide]

yeah sir

[errant knoll]

It's possible that "information" is at the top of those ruins too.

[rain flare]

Never seen a vegvisir up there

[steel mica]

o I see this green creature

[errant knoll]

It can happen

[rain flare]

Interesting

[errant knoll]

But they're way more common in the normal place

[steel mica]

THERES DVERGRS IN THE ASHLANDS

[errant knoll]

And funnily enough the first thing I found in my ashlands journey was actually the boss altar lol

It was just a tiny little island with nothing but the boss

[rain flare]

Dverger?
Lore wise, it’s cause they are looking for ||bloodstone||

[errant knoll]

And like 1 putrid hold

[rain flare]

Lucky!
Very nice

No
They spawn randomly

[steel mica]

askvin hide?

[rain flare]

Killed an ash swine already?

[errant knoll]

It didn't feel very lucky at the time! Lol

I found a second altar on the main ashlands continent bit.

[steel mica]

No the dvergrs did

[rain flare]

Nah - the world will update

[steel mica]

I am so tempted to just touch the lava...

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, in unexplored areas.

[errant knoll]

You can touch the lava for like a split second with no consequences

But er, I wouldn't do it.

[steel mica]

I lived :D

[honest burrow]

Christ on a stick, wyvern raids are brutal

[rain flare]

You crazy 😂

[steel mica]

Are these creatures called askvin tamable?

bc they look tamable

[rain flare]

Ah.
Found a mountain raid Ey?

[rain flare]

They are amazing mounts - they can run on lava

[steel mica]

FIRST DEATH

[errant knoll]

Got my first 2 star tamed just a few days back.

[steel mica]

Why do the charred warriors fake their attacks sometimes

[chrome badge]

It's called a feint

[rain flare]

Cause they are more clever than regular skellies

[errant knoll]

That's a quirk of how they fight

[honest burrow]

yep. There's several big holes in my house now. On the upside, I was looking to rebuild anyways

[chrome badge]

It makes them less easy to parry/react to

But still possible if you mess up

[steel mica]

What do I need for the askvin?

[errant knoll]

I did mention earlier that warriors took some time to learn how to dodge.

I'd still prefer to face 3 2 star charred warriors than 3 2 star seekers though.

[steel mica]

THERES A 1* ASKVIN HELLO?

[errant knoll]

They can be 2 stars too xP

Though you don't normally find those unless you're going out of your way to look for them

Also have you noticed anything odd happening while you fight in this biome?

Something you're not used to seeing?

[rain flare]

👆

[steel mica]

what can I feed the askvins

[errant knoll]

Plants from the biome. They're herbivores.

[rain flare]

They like vineberries, Ashlands mushrooms and ferns

You need flametal (the Ashlands metal) to make a saddle

[errant knoll]

I normally feed them vineberries

Also i haven't tried this yet but I don't think I can kill a 2 star with my butchers knife in 1 hit lol

[rain flare]

They do have a LOT of health

[errant knoll]

The first one I found almost died while I was kiting it to a pit despite that. It had a death wish

If it could run into a form of damage, it did.

[rain flare]

I found the perfect asksvin spawn spot - so I spent several days farming asksvin after surrounding the place with a wall to prevent any escapees

The first one I found ran away cause it was day 😭

[errant knoll]

It was a messy thing, It found me rather than the other way around - while I was trying to deal with 2 valkyries.

[rain flare]

LoL 😂

Typical Ashlands experience!

[steel mica]

About this flametal thing

[errant knoll]

Then when I got back I trapped it in a pit, and day started.

So I just sat there for 20 minutes stopping this thing despawning

[steel mica]

does it need the blast furnace?

[errant knoll]

Because I didn't have time to feed it yet

[rain flare]

It does

[steel mica]

I dont wanna look up anything

[rain flare]

Find the materials for the new portal first

[steel mica]

I want to be a real genuniue full on experience of the ashlands

Im not even properly maxed out on mistland gear

[rain flare]

From experience, the best way to tackle a new biome 🥰

But also, it never hurts to…
Be prepaaaaaaaaaared! 🦁

[steel mica]

Before I go out looking for POIs first I gotta lock this 1star askvin in its containment

[rain flare]

Dig a pit or surround it with a stone wall 🔥

[errant knoll]

Tbh you'll find plenty of 1 star asksvins

They're not especially rare.

[steel mica]

Can I somehow get iron here in the ashlands?

is there like anything breakable that could get me iron?

[vocal rivet]

That's a lot of questions for someone not wanting to look things up.

[steel mica]

Very much

I mean they get to have fun aswell sharing their knowledge

[errant knoll]

Iron can be found in the biome yes.

[rain flare]

Look for those dungeons I mentioned
They are often surrounded by asksvin skeletons

[merry pebble]

What do you need it for? 🙂

[steel mica]

stone cutter

[merry pebble]

Ah, for building in general or for 1 specific item?

[rain flare]

Guilty as charged 😂

[steel mica]

[rain flare]

I love re-experiencing someone’s first time on Valheim
It brings back mega naustalgia

[steel mica]

what is this thing in the water

going in circles

[tacit crystal]

Go say hello.

[steel mica]

iT DOES NOT WANNA SAY HI BACK

[rain flare]

Say hello to sea serpent 2.0

[steel mica]

Bonemaw

[rain flare]

Now comes equipped with head spikes and lava breath 😅

[steel mica]

Its dead now

[rain flare]

You can make cool weapons from the drops

[steel mica]

and askvin secure

[rain flare]

And the meat is pretty good

[keen trench]

it does! it's just his way to communicate, poor misunderstood hellfire's-demon-serpent!

[steel mica]

time to find more POI's

[rain flare]

Good luck! 🤩

[errant knoll]

Wait...

Are you telling me it's rhe first time you saw one of those?

...you managed to sail in without being harassed by like 3 of them!?

[rain flare]

Man’s lucky

[steel mica]

nope

Its my first time seein em after I landed

[errant knoll]

Oh.

Yeah they can appear at the shore sometimes

[steel mica]

the only thing that harassed me were vultures

[near furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/superstore-pray-gif-25373459

[errant knoll]

You got off pretty lightly then!

[rain flare]

Odin’s singed beard those are annoying 😂

[rain flare]

I got incredibly lucky on my first world
I have a permanently Bonemaw serpent directly next to my base

I farm that fella for all the goods 🥰

[errant knoll]

I should probably look for more serpents at some point.

... I mean I'm gonna have to sail to other patches of ashlands soon to do the side quest.

...do I really want to finish the side quest?

That first point of interest kinda wrecked me lol.

Its a miracle I got my stuff back.

[rain flare]

Yes
Yes you do

||The mighty Drynwyrn calls to your name warrior!
Answer it’s call with fury and fire!||

[errant knoll]

My boyfriend watched me get it back and was like "that's why I'm not playing this game"

And I pretty much went you could distract them I wouldn't have this problem!

[rain flare]

2 players are infinitely better than 1

[errant knoll]

Yes,

Tbh I really want to play through 1.0 with another person, not on my own. I suspect the Ashlands is a lot more fun with 2 people.

[rain flare]

One has not truly conquered the Ashlands until tho hast bested Lord Reto

[errant knoll]

It felt like a bit much on my own.

[rain flare]

I have been playing with a friend recently
Was so much better with a shield brother to tank and tag our enemies together
Nothing could stop us

Except for that asksvin that bopped me into lava…
Or the 5-7 deaths he got trying to kill fader 😅

[plain wraith]

i'm about to fight the ashlands boss, any tips

[rain flare]

Lava.
Don’t touch it

He summons lots of the stuff

You’ll know when you see the spikes popping out of the ground moving in your general direction

[errant knoll]

He summons lots of stuff but he kills his own stuff as well if you bait certain attacks into them.

So you don't wanna waste too much time attacking his adds

[plain wraith]

should i bring lots of arrows

[rain flare]

Not good idea
Do you know the way brother? 👀

The way of the wizard 🧙🏻‍♂️?

[plain wraith]

frosty wand?

[rain flare]

Cause if so, just make a ||trollstav|| and a ||staff of the wild||

[plain wraith]

ah gotcha

[rain flare]

You will slaughter him in no time

[errant knoll]

I was pretty proud of my win over fader.

I got 3 deaths but 2 of those were nude corpse runs, so I only really count one of them as generally dying while fighting him.

[rain flare]

Awesome! 🤩
I was such a cheese abusing my magic 😅
He popped my magic bubble several times, but I killed him on my first go round

[errant knoll]

I also didn't use staff of the wild, though I did use Trollstav and frost wand

[tacit crystal]

Why not? Frost arrows work fine.

Regards someone who defeated the game deathless in bow only challenge. 😅

[rain flare]

No deaths 🥰

[rain flare]

Colour this man impressed! 🤩

[errant knoll]

Trollstav, frost wand and blood ripper

As I said earlier I ran a spellsword build so I had more hp and less stamina than the average mage build so the blood ripper trollstav synergy worked quite well

[tacit crystal]

||Dundr|| works fine too, I fought him first time with that and ||Thunder axes||.

[rain flare]

Dundr…
I am so ashamed to admit it took me a good 6 months to realise the pun behind the name 😅😂

[errant knoll]

I am so ashamed to admit I only just now got it!

Literally because you just said its a pun

[rain flare]

LoL 😂

We’ll blame it upon the countless concussions from repeated head injuries 😅

We are VIKINGS!
It’s an occupational hazard! 😂

[plain wraith]

so i never used trollstav before so i thought it would be a friendly troll 😦 long story short i learned not to use it in my base

[errant knoll]

Oofles!

...yeah, normally I don't take the long range or minions staves with me, I take staff of fracturing and Dundr as a pseudo-melee weapons that can create distance and just tap enemies back.

I was just too scared to take fader on without more cheesy tactics

[errant knoll]

Oh no! I hope it didn't do too much damage.

[rain flare]

Honestly, the man lives up to the hype

[tacit crystal]

It is also great for shooting logs around! #memes-and-clips message

[plain wraith]

he did enough

[rain flare]

I discovered this a while ago by accident and I love it! 🤩

[plain wraith]

took a good chunk out of my ufo

[rain flare]

Welp, now we knows not to do that 🙈

On the plus side, now you never need to mine for copper ever again

[plain wraith]

sadly i often have to learn things the hard way 🤷‍♂️

[tacit crystal]

I noticed it during PTB and posted about it in PTB channel, I think even Grimmcore was amazed about that finding.

[errant knoll]

Tbh I died at an elite monument of torment.

What killed me wasn't the enemies - I assumed that the meteor I created from the trollstav wouldn't hurt me because none of the other wands hurt me.

... it was a mistake.

Maybe standing right underneath the giant fireball of death wasn't a good idea.

[rain flare]

LoL 😂😂😂

I accidentally killed my friend with that 😅

[errant knoll]

I came back.

Of course there was no troll, the 2 star charred mopped the floor with it.

BUT apparently I hit the monument of torment with it too because that was gone.

I genuinely think that's the only reason I got my stuff back.

I might have been softlocksd out of that gear for a bit if not for that.

[rain flare]

Gotta love the ability nuke your enemies like that 😂

Equally, you gotta hate it when the plan backfires 🤣

[errant knoll]

Part of me wonders if i hate myself enough to just casually use it to record it knocking my base down once it's fully built up

The intrusive thought says "it would look so cool!"

[rain flare]

Weeeeeell….
There’s always backups… 👀

[errant knoll]

True I should back it up first lol

[rain flare]

Sildar slaps the gremlin off his shoulder

[tacit crystal]

Can't wait when my group gets to play again, one of them probably will love the Trollstav as they switched solely to mageplay when we unlocked the Eitr stuff.
They called using staves even "quidditching" lol.

[errant knoll]

I'm hoping either my dad or my bf gives it a go to play with me at some point.

Bf has valheim but only really uses it for creative mode

He seemed intimidated by the Ashlands bit he saw, I tried to reassure him that a) not the whole game is like that and b) the bits which are would be so much easier

[rain flare]

He needs to put his big boy Viking hat on and go exploring 🥳

He will enjoy it if he tries it

Especially if he already loves the building aspect 🤩

[wary bane]

Grausten my love

[steel mica]

I see IT

flametal

I assume I need basalt bombs?

[errant knoll]

If you mean the pillars jutting out of the middle of the lava, yes.

You could alternatively look for one close enough to jump to.

[steel mica]

speak of the odin there is literally one close by LMAO

[undone forum]

Usually when you find one pillar there are more

[errant knoll]

Optional - put a portal down near it and come back with the Queens power.

Nowhere near as necessary as it used to be, but could still be helpful.

[steel mica]

Oh my there is 2 nearby

and all 3 of them are walkable

what is this flying creature

that aint a volture, that is BIG

[errant knoll]

You want to kill that before trying yo mine anything

[wary bane]

Valkyrie you say? They're friendly right? Work for Odin n that...

[undone forum]

I’ve mined enough flametal for 4 sets of armor, several weapons and upgrades ||and only had one pillar sink|| my luck is wild

[steel mica]

I died

[wary bane]

sounds about right

[steel mica]

That tore through my hp even with bonemass

active

[errant knoll]

||nah, they only have a 1% chance to sink each time you hit them with the mining pick. It used to be 10%. Back then having the Queens power while mining was crucial to get the maximum amount possible before it sinked||

[undone forum]

||Ohhh I though it was still 10%||

[errant knoll]

It's one of the Ashlands nerfs I personally disagreed with.

I understood and could get behind most of them. I really wish that change got reverted

[steel mica]

I swear whenever your in ashlands it doesnt feel like valheim anymore

[plain wraith]

whoa i just found out you can cycle though the loading screen tips with spacebar, this changes everything

[errant knoll]

It actually gave an importsnt use case for the Queens power even for non magic builds, and I liked it didn't fall into the same failings that elders power did.

Elders power just kinda gets unused by me.

[undone forum]

In my eyes elder power should have been the first power.

[errant knoll]

But with only 1% odds, you just don't need to care

[undone forum]

But then you would have to shuffle bosses around and do all sorts of stuff to get that to work

Or really to make sense

[vast lily]

Well the flametal was kinda redundant when you can have stacks of it from fortresses and Dwarven bases. Not to mention before the nerf, you needed to mine at the top before it sinks. Though catapult with explosive was generally safer option as the catapult didn't count as player.

[errant knoll]

You're right. It really doesn't feel like valheim at all for so many people.

Which is why a lot of people complain about it.

[errant knoll]

It's easier to minenif you climbe to the top and mine downwards anyway

[steel mica]

I dont mind I like the feel

[errant knoll]

I like it a bit.

There's also a part of me that gets annoyed by it sometimes, like I'm audibly groaning because of how many enemies there are.

[vast lily]

I personally feel like Ashlands kinda fits with valheim though some players might think it looks straight out of Doom than valheim.

But my reasoning why I like ashlands is because it gives me heavy metal viking vibes.

[errant knoll]

To be fair those pillars give players a way to upgrade their gear a bit before taking on a fortress.

[undone forum]

Ashlands is probably in my top three favorite biomes in the game

[errant knoll]

I kinda disagree that they're "redundant"

[steel mica]

Finally the valkyrie is dead

I didnt realize but the valkyrie was actually degrading my weapon

[errant knoll]

It's 3rd from the bottom in my list. I really did not like it, like at all.

[undone forum]

Fair

[vast lily]

Eh I play x3 and fortresses can have 3 stacks of it. Its ridiculous. And raiding them is kinda easy.

[errant knoll]

Not the point.

Players can still upgrade their gear before raiding a fortress and assuming some level of blind play they don't know what to expect. Upgrading the gear also means their mistlands gear acts as a backup if it goes wrong.

[steel mica]

WHAT IS THIS THING ON ALL FOURS?

[errant knoll]

In the grand scheme of things, mining flametal from a pillar is just a lower risk way to get it than trying to take down a fortress.

[undone forum]

Ah yes you’ve found them

[tacit crystal]

Ah, you encountered a ||Morgen||.

[steel mica]

THEY ARE BIG

[plain wraith]

the future Mrs. Black if you play your cards right

[undone forum]

And mean

[vast lily]

Well the devs did intend players to mine for the pillars before entering the fortresses (like me first time) , but once you figure out how ashlands work then it isn't necessary unless you want a black metal chests full of flametal and max gear.

[steel mica]

This thing is just camping this flametal I wanna mine

[tacit crystal]

Umm this isn't DnD, they aren't bard and dragon in question.

[errant knoll]

I don't know if I would have succeeded raiding my first fortress without gear upgrades.

Much of the game works like this by the way, once players understand how systems work and good ways to fight enemies while not necessarily having current gear, a lot of different resources become totally redundant in a lot of ways.

[vast lily]

Also I agree, its also one of my favorite biomes in the game.

[plain wraith]

its top 6 for me for sure

[steel mica]

Where can I find these caves that you guys are saying

or whatever they look like

[errant knoll]

Considering there's 7 finished biomes "top 6" isn't exactly glowing praise lol

[tacit crystal]

You see specific stone formations and asksvin skeletons around the cave and the entrance.

[errant knoll]

For me Ashlands is 5th ahead of the meadows and swamp.

First place is mistlands

[steel mica]

Mistland enjoyer ay?

[plain wraith]

i actualyl don't hate the swamp, am i weird

[tacit crystal]

Mistlands enjoyers.

[errant knoll]

My first playthrough I hated it.

The more runs I do though, the more I appreciate the mistlands and the less I like the plains.

[tacit crystal]

Swamp enjoyers.

[undone forum]

Mine is
Plains
Mountains
Ashlands
Mistlands
Swamp
Black Forest
Meadows

[dreamy kiln]

Meadows is the perfect start biome to get u addicted to valheim 😎

[errant knoll]

Swamp is 6th.

Meadows is dead last because there's barely any content and while I like the meadows I don't think I can justify putting, essentially, tutorial biome that's damn near impossible to fail in ahead of anything else.

[plain wraith]

meadows and black forest are my favs hah. I love how cozy they make me feel

[steel mica]

Tbh im more of a ocean biome enjoyer :insertgigachademote:

[undone forum]

The only thing that is really dangerous in the meadows in a 2* Boar

[errant knoll]

Swamp and ashlands both irritate me a lot, but it's not mundane the way the meadows is

[tacit crystal]

Sadly it's not finished yet.

[undone forum]

For building my list changes completely

Black Forest and meadows jump to to top

[errant knoll]

Top 4 are all biomes I actively enjoy playing.

Plains, mountains, black forest, then mistlands (in order)

The only thing I dislike in the black forest is mining for copper, but I love everything else about it.

[steel mica]

The grind is satisfying to be real

after all that hard work, and hours and hours of mining

[vast lily]

Well if I make the list, I got this:

#1 plains
#2 ashlands
#3 meadows
#4 black forest
#5 swamp
#6 mistlands
#7 mountains

I'd list them mostly on progression, gameplay and difficulty.

[steel mica]

you can now make

a full set of iron armour (only)

[vast lily]

Used to comment on spazzy videos but has changed. Im kinda mixed between mistlands, mountains and swamp.

Black forest and meadows I'm mid.

[errant knoll]

1. mistlands
2. Black forest
3. mountains
4. plains
5. Ashlands
6. Swamp
7. Meadows

That's a rough ordering.

It doesn't mean biomes at the top totally eclipse others in all areas. I like black forest more than swamp and ashlands, but i think the process of gathering metal is more fun in both of the other 2 biomes.

[plain wraith]

1. Black forest
2. Meadows
3. Plains
4. Swamp
5. Mountains
6. Ashlands
7. Mistlands

[errant knoll]

Meadows I'm only putting at the bottom again not because I hate it but because it kinda feels criminal to put it ahead of stuff with objectively more content.

[steel mica]

Alright thats in it for me

[plain wraith]

fair point. I just love it for the cozy vibes

[steel mica]

stay tune for more "black's first experience with the ashlands and does not know what the hell he is doing"

[rain flare]

Wait until you meet a 2 star 😅

[errant knoll]

Mistlands is no.1 for creating a very unique gameplay experience that I enjoy a lot nowadays, it used to stress me out overly that I couldn't see cause of the mist, but it grew on me overtime.

[undone forum]

I'm lucky enough to never have found a 1*

[vast lily]

Fair point. Meadows is a nice starting biome but I feel like it becomes less special once you get into plains and onwards. It's many players favorite biome but is also a beginners trap for others.

[plain wraith]

I think I'll like Mistlands more when they fix slope fighting

[errant knoll]

Literally the only flaw with mistlands for me is a wider flaw in combat

Which is yeah the slope combat

[rain flare]

Mistlands
Mountains/plains
meadows
ashlands
darkforest
swamp

[errant knoll]

Everything else about it is top tier content.

[steel mica]

ah yes love me the new darkforest

I gotta say the blackforest is the best on terms of introducing you to how large mobs can get

[vast lily]

Definitely agree. I tend to dislike mistlands because terrain and it's long progression. You need to get 15 or 20 black cores and it's not fun when you don't know where the next dungeon is.

[steel mica]

The good ol troll

A vikings first wall

[errant knoll]

It's possible to make everything with 5 black cores, but you need 15 if you don't want to dismantle everything all the time.

[vast lily]

Yet unlike many I don't have a problem with the mist. It might not make me see things unless I zoom close and enemies spawn little and have less detection range so it's not a huge problem.

[errant knoll]

5 is where you can basically get all the progression tools to really help, the rest you get from further mines is QoL

I don't have a problem with the mist anymore, I did at first. I came round to the idea that it makes the few patches where it clears that much more special

And i also came round to it being the biome where your ears are your best friend

[steel mica]

The gjall

[rain flare]

Once you master navigation without relying on your eyes you are going good

[errant knoll]

You can hear the seekers as well, and even in the mist the visual effects those seeker soldiers make are hard to miss.

[candid basalt]

I enjoy most biomes. Ashlands is too busy for me, but is its own thing. I like building in swamps for the spooky feel, but Black Forest has a great vibe for housing

[errant knoll]

Ashlands Is too busy for me too, but I put it ahead of the meadows and swamp for the QoL features you get from progressing

Instant coal and fast resource farming are both fun to have.

[steel mica]

My purpose in the ashlands is to get whatever those things are that can allow me get stone easily

[vast lily]

I'd probably put current deep north and ocean biomes last but deep north is getting updated and since I like the ashlands, I would certainly like deep north.

Ocean however is kinda unfair ranking.

[tacit crystal]

Ocean is not finished biome tho (and DN obviously).

[errant knoll]

Deep north and ocean are both unfair to include in the rankings really

[candid basalt]

Can’t wait for deep north. My group is starting a new world to prep for it

[errant knoll]

Thought when I hear some of the scary ideas people have for the ocean I'm cautiously like "yeah... as long as it's opt in and can't screw me over at anytime".

Since dying at sea is the absolute worst.

[rain flare]

I like building in Ashlands
But blood and Hel fire I hate how much fighting is required to make a safe space 😅

[rain flare]

Like seeing a serpent in a karve isn’t bad enough

Now you want a giant squid???
Nooooo thank you

[errant knoll]

Upside is the terrain itself is pretty nice and easy to build on.

I just don't like the biomes aesthetic though

It's not pretty the way other biomes are. (Also a big part of why I dislike the swamp)

[tiny tiger]

Yeah the aesthetic of a post apocalyptic hellscape only fits certain buildings

[rain flare]

Just an ashen land makes it nice

[tiny tiger]

the dwarf fortress a YouTuber made that was very object heavy looked amazing for it

[errant knoll]

And tbh that's why I'm kinda looking forward to the deep north, the teasers shown so far make it look pretty

[tiny tiger]

deep north seems like the perfect place for a huge winter wonderland castle so far, more so than the mountains

The aurora borealis is a nice touch

[tacit crystal]

Conquer a fortress, then build and decorate it inside.

[errant knoll]

I am kinda tempted to make a massive village that covers the entirety of a small ashlands island though.

Think that could look pretty cool

[tiny tiger]

Out of Grausten?

[errant knoll]

Grausten, Ashwood, whatever

I really like the Ashwood doors, speaking of

[vast lily]

The main reason i like ashlands is:

#1 progression is probably the shortest of any biome In the game. All you need is to land a shore and raid fortresses. That's it.

#2 it look like viking hell and it looks awesome

#3 the difficulty comes with enemies than with terrain mostly. And enemies can fuck you up.

#4 it has probably the most interesting lore of any biome.

#5 build pieces and base building.

[undone forum]

Ngl that’s kinda a genius idea

[errant knoll]

I like a lot of the Ashlands in theory.

Unfortunately no.3 is a point of pain for me. Enemies can present a challenge but once you know what attacks can do none if it's particularly hard, just really annoying.

I'd like to be able to breathe longer than 2 seconds without having another swarm of enemies on top of me.

The combat doesn't remain enjoyable despite being enjoyable at first.

[vast lily]

There's also few things I dislike about ashlands and these are:

#1 fortresses being same,

#2 enemies give junk most of the times as drop and never gets usage for crafting

#3 sometimes swarms of never ending enemies can get annoying yet it's least of my concern. Most players put it number 1 problem.

[shy marlin]

#4 Optimization

[errant knoll]

The swarms unfortunately hurt the biomes placement for me because it realistically impacts the player more than a lot of other things

The aesthetic isn't my cup of tea, but it does look cool so is a positive.

QoL and lore is a positive.

Buildings are a positive.

The new cultivatable is a positive for being different and cool in it's own way, if only it weren't bugged.

But first and foremost you can never escape the swarms that just serve to annoy you, so unfortunately it matters little that I like all the other stuff

I'm sure other people probably feel the same way about sloped combat in the mistlands

I've got so much charred bone and asksvin tails/hide sitting in storage.

I'm never gonna use it all lol

I think if the horde of enemies dropped more useful stuff it wouldn't feel like meaningless slaughter and might make it more enjoyable

Imagine if there was like, an extremely low drop rate for gems from charred enemies or something. Makes sense one of them might have carried something while they were alive.

[vast lily]

I'd usually dislike mistlands because of progression coupled with terrain. The enemies aren't the most difficult but you need few random things to get all gear.

#1 sap extractor

#2 raid mines for black cores

#3 find sap which is easier sid than done

#4 create eitr refinery

#5 get the black forge

#6 get the galdr table for both seal breaker and feather cape.

And don't even get me started on farming or becoming a mage. It feels like it takes long.

[errant knoll]

Maybe that's a bit much but you get the point, rare drops

[errant knoll]

Finding roots has never really been a problem for me.

You can do everything in the biome with only 5 black cores too, and after raiding your first infested mine you can make a lot of seeker aspic to get the start of a mage build going quickly, while you grow magecaps for stuffed mushrooms.

At first I held your opinion about needing to farm a long time to become a mage but I don't think it really takes that long, I just have an obsessive compulsion to over farm

[vast lily]

And you need to find all of it in a biome that is covered with mist that you don't even know where you go, a terrain that make you jump 90% of the time and spawn rate of both skulls and dungeon that sometimes spawns 1 or 2 times on a large biome. Oh and fall damage is deadly as well if you don't take it slow.

Uh I think mistlands slows many things a lot.

[errant knoll]

Seeker soldiers are an upside for being a rare enemy with a weak spot.

Like an actual weak spot. I loved that.

Finding mines can be difficult, but hearing a lot of seekers in one direction is normally a sign you should look there.

[vast lily]

I hate killing the soldiers but the plus side is that there rare and there skippable. In dungeons not so much.

[errant knoll]

If you liked the plains Ashlands gameplay mimics the plains in a few ways

It's more focused around taking points of interest than searching for and exploring dungeons

[light moat]

Mistlands does give black marble though, which is a 10/10 building material imo 🤔

[vast lily]

Yes there's few things I like about the mistlands.

Black marble is really good build material.

Mistland weapons are pretty cool yet expensive.

And my favorite part is that you can play as a mage. The magic staffs are all great to use.

[steel mica]

More iron

[errant knoll]

Farming for eitr/refined eitr doesn't take too long, just gotta take out a couple of the friendly neighbourhood dvergr sites (you can place multiple extractors on the same root to extract sap quickly, then move them to another root)

[steel mica]

Maximum of 5

[errant knoll]

Get started with just one staff to begin with and slowly get stronger as you make more.

[steel mica]

since a single root holds 50 sap

[vast lily]

I feel like it's more worth saving eitr for staffs than weapons but some like spinesnap are pretty good. The new crossbow and krom were also great addition as there eitr free and do a lot of damage.

[errant knoll]

You could make 10 to get it gathered in half the time though.

[steel mica]

My viking couldn't carry all that blackmetal to the next one

Unless I make multiple run backs

[errant knoll]

Fair tbh, since you need the wisplight particularly

Carrying capacity is lower in mistlands than a lot of other biomes due to needing that.

[steel mica]

You need like 4 bases for most of the things ingame
-Main base
-Plains base (farming barley, and flax)
-Mistland base (farming jotun puff, magecap, and sap)
-Ashlands (general base fort)

[errant knoll]

I can see how the magic stuff can take a long time if someone feels like they need to make everything at once before trying it, rather than slowly transitioning to it over time.

[errant knoll]

I don't have an Ashlands base, and I don't have a proper base in the mistlands or plains either, just a rudimentary farm with some walls around it.

If you underbuild you don't get raids

You get more dvergr extractors to extract more sap faster.

[vocal rivet]

I've never seen anyone claim Plains was their favourite biome.

[vast lily]

Now what's the negative opinion of the swamp?

I feel like it's to me not a bad biome and it's also straight forward compared to other biomes. It's brutal for beginners especially due to wet debuffs and enemies hitting hard. However I got used to it and enemies aren't really that bad and if you have the rested buff then rain isn't mad either.

Poison can be brutal but most of it is easy to avoid.

Swamp also feels like it has polish yet for some reason I feel like there's something missing and it doesn't feel great.

Swamp kinda feels like pre ashlands if it makes sense.

[errant knoll]

You can do all the magic stuff with just 1 extractor, but having more means lots of sap more quickly, which means you're potentially making e.g. both yggdrassil porridge and staves quickly, rather than just staves.

(Although tbh I wouldn't recommend eating yggdrassl porridge)

[vocal rivet]

You've answered your own question really. It's a big difficulty spike, the permanent wet debuff is annoying and the iron grind is real.

[steel mica]

Id like to see some new additions to the mistlands staffs like the frost staff to me is lacking something maybe like a splash attack that when doing the special you do the animation of the staff of protection and when it hits the ground a big radius causes nearby enemies to slow down

[errant knoll]

Objectively both the swamp and the ashlands have lots of good things about them, but due to the oppressive environment a lot of players don't want to go to either of them. That's like 99% it.

[vocal rivet]

Well, I don't mind it either just explaining why it's a common opinion.

Silver is so easy to get though.

[vast lily]

Well I don't find iron to be that annoying to mine especially compared to black forest. Not to mention dungeons have plenty of iron. I never seem to craft iron gear or most weapons as I can survive with black forest one just fine.

[steel mica]

Probably the easiest

Blackmetal is second

[errant knoll]

The frost staff doesn't feel great to use like a lot of the others I agree - doesn't have "oomph" to it. Despite that it's still a very strong weapon.

[steel mica]

but you still gotta run around to fight fulings

[vocal rivet]

I'd put black metal top, it literally gets delivered to your door.

Any mountain over 100m should have silver.

[vast lily]

Though the biggest pain is that plains and mistlands require you to get iron, but the problem here is that you already got late game items so most mobs are easy.

[errant knoll]

This is kind of a problem though.

A common theme I see a lot of people who replay valheim mention is that iron gear gets totally skipped for the modt part. Part of that is because players don't like crypts and the swamp, part of it though is because EVERYTHING costs iron and silver in the mountains is just so much easier to get.

[steel mica]

Yeah maybe like a special attack with the radius around the player slowing down nearby enemies

[errant knoll]

So a lot of people figure "why spend my hard earned iron on gear when I need to spend a fair bit already on the pickaxe and forge upgrades, when Silver is just round the corner?"

[vast lily]

Yes silver is far more worth if to use. Not to mention despite silver being resource heavy, you still get really good weapons that works even at late game.

[steel mica]

I wanted to skip iron but I kept on mining crypt after crypt after crypt till I emptied out all the crypts on my swamp

[errant knoll]

And tbh I think that kinda signals a problem with the swamp as a progression biome. Once players know the design of a game, no one really WANTS to progress naturally within it, but rather skip it.

It leads to a situation where despite the fact that the swamp has all these features, it feels a bit lacking.

[vocal rivet]

The game we're playing.

[steel mica]

does ashlands require a ton of iron aswell?

[rain flare]

Pull an alpha move and build a small town on the coast 🥰

[steel mica]

or not as much compared to mistlands and swamp

[vast lily]

Well you only need iron for getting builds and all and its more worth for late game than early.

[rain flare]

Nah - tons of flametal

[steel mica]

Doodly noted

Still id like to get more since im going to build a massive base

[vocal rivet]

Most players are playing för the first time though.

[errant knoll]

Ashwood doors require flametal to build (oh no!)

But don't worry flametal is a lot easier to get than iron is.

[rain flare]

You get flametal support structures so you won’t need iron beams anymore

[errant knoll]

Tbh i find the flametal support structures kinda ugly looking

[steel mica]

I was just about to say this

[rain flare]

Hide em with Grausten

Tada!
Problem solved 🥰

[errant knoll]

And introduces another problem - more instances.

[vast lily]

Can't wait how deep north progression goes. I wouldn't like if you need to backtrack by 4 biomes just to get a stuff. Thank god ashlands only used ore is flametal.

[rain flare]

RIP computer 🥳

[steel mica]

I want to keep the viking look on my base because despite black marble and the other building materials in the ashlands being better in terms of availability I still prefer the good ol stone and world for the raw tavern feel

I build bases with the materials in that native biome

[rain flare]

Enters Ashlands
finds temple built with flametal and Grausten
“Why are you all chanting in Latin???”

[errant knoll]

Black marble being better in terms of availability is wild to me.

I don't get that take personally.

[rain flare]

Someone spent too much time farming jotun skulls 😂

[errant knoll]

It might just be that because you're not using it much for building you have a lot of it.

Believe me though, black marble is A LOT rarer than stone is.

[rain flare]

Braaaaaaaaaaaaains! 😅

[steel mica]

THIS LMAO

I mined like the entire petrified skeleton

[vast lily]

Tag is pretty much icon. Notice when other users got it. You can get it by clicking an icon for it.

[steel mica]

not just the skull

[errant knoll]

I really love building with black marble and have kinda resigned myself to using stone instead simply because gathering more black marble is such a pain

[steel mica]

Still maybe in the future I might use the black for making a mistlands base but for now it sits in my blackmetal chest gathering dust

[errant knoll]

I will do a full black marble build for my mistylands base though. That patch of clear mistlands calls me to build on.

[vast lily]

Yes

[steel mica]

while my 7 iron chest worth of stone get gobbled up building my stone perimeter

[errant knoll]

And tell me.

What is the availability of petrified bone vs sources of stone?

You can find stone in any old biome.

You can find it pretty much everywhere in fact.

[rain flare]

Breaks jotun skelly = has few chests of mooble

Breaks plains pillar = fills all the chests with stone

[errant knoll]

You can't just find petrified bone any old place and get loads of it.

Black marble is a RARE resource, as far as building materials go

[steel mica]

The stone pillars give so much stone are you kidding me

It gives like iirc 7 stacks of stone

[errant knoll]

If you think those stone pillars don't give much stone, I'm fairly sure they give more stone than petrified bone gives black marble

And you have the advantage of seeing them from really far away.

[steel mica]

You get like 6 stacks of black marble from what ive seen mining out the jotun remains

[errant knoll]

That's what I was saying earlier, I think if people don't build with black marble they don't think it's a rare resource.

The reality though is that if you DO use it for building, it's far rarer than the others are.

Getting more black marble is a lot harder than more stone or grausten

[steel mica]

including the ribs

[steel mica]

Also yeah I get what your saying

[errant knoll]

Can get quite a bit from that to be fair, particularly the large viaducts (they have iron in them too!)

[steel mica]

Them juicy black marble bridges

free 60 iron

wait no its close to around like 50-55 iron

[errant knoll]

Yeah like, obviously when you find these things you can mine them out for black marble.

But you ONLY get it... in the biome where seeing far away is hard.

You get stone throughout the whole game just for playing really.

Mine copper and silver? Here's some stone.

Stones are everywhere.

Giant pillars are in the plains.

Even in the midtlands you can mine stone basically everywhere

[undone forum]

Sorry but black marble is more common? No way I heard that right

[errant knoll]

It's cool I'm trying to set them straight xD and I think they got the point.

[steel mica]

Very much

[frozen jewel]

Helo i got a qestion all 3 traders have the same price for the stuf that you can sel at them?

[steel mica]

Still I have like so much black marble lol, I dont know what to do with them

[light moat]

Yep!

[frozen jewel]

@light moatok ty for the info

[steel mica]

Isnt haldor the only trader that you can sell goods?

[nocturne wolf]

You can sell to all traders

[steel mica]

I DID NOT KNOW THIS AM I BLIND

[shy marlin]

Me personally I sell all of my goods to the bog witch in hopes that she'll notice me

[steel mica]

[vast lily]

Good question about the mountain? Do I feel like mountain feels unfinished or less polished compared to other biomes. It feels almost like the ocean biome.

[keen trench]

it gets rapidly eaten up by any building (like stone), so if you wanna build something new with that, or maybe renew some stone structure, full carts of that will disappear in no time

[steel mica]

Not my main base eating up all the 17 stone pillars I gathered

Hello lauri

[vast lily]

There are good things about the mountains.

Progression is the fastest and most straight forward. It's all just mine silver and find frost caves.

Frost caves are also one of the best underground/dungeons as it looks cool and enemies are fun outside of underwhelming bats.

And mountains do look good.

The only reason I say mountains feels unfinished is because the outside world has little enemy variety. There's just wolves, drakes and stone golems most of the times. And even if you get towards the fenris, they only spawn at night which you should probably not be in the mountains at night to begin with.

[nocturne wolf]

Also at day none of the enemies can spawn with stars

[steel mica]

Only thing I hate about the biome is that specific stairs in the dungeon not the slope one but the one you gotta jump every step and thats about it the biome is nice

[errant knoll]

Black marbles primary function is to help you protect surrounding structures from being damaged by an Eitr refinery. My main base has a black marble basement purely for the purposes of doing all magic related shenanigans.

[undone forum]

Bats are the most annoying thing ever, right infront of drakes

[steel mica]

Not the cauldron event

[undone forum]

Don't even start

[steel mica]

My poor tamed animals

[nocturne wolf]

Stone golems are my least favourite enemy because dodging them without rolling often isn’t possible without sprinting out of the hitbox so you’re too far to deal damage

[steel mica]

Or getting huge knockback and flying off the mountain

[light moat]

Huh, never realized that 🤔

[steel mica]

this happened to me

[errant knoll]

Mountains and plains are both a bit lacking in content volume. In the plains it's kinda made up for a bit by all the artisan table shenanigans that you get but both biomes still feel a bit empty.

[nocturne wolf]

I hate rolling

[errant knoll]

Plains especially feels A LOT empty.

[vast lily]

Bat's are underwhelming when you encounter them. Sure there swarm and hard to hit but they take 1 hit and drop nearly nothing.

Cauldron event on the other hand... I hate what these flying rodents are doing to my 2 star boar farms.

[errant knoll]

I solve this by not having a boar farm 🤣

The HENS however... oh God they need protecting.

Thankfully I always keep a few eggs in storage just in case there's a problem.

[vast lily]

If the bats were just as deadly in the real world, the farmers would have decimated the whole bat populations.

[errant knoll]

I do have a 2 star boar tamed somewhere in my world but I never really made a farm.

It's just sitting in a box somewhere lol

Until I risk being short on leather scraps I probably won't bother moving it either

[steel mica]

do bats drop trophies

[vast lily]

Well plains compared to mountains has slightly more content. It has camps, miniboss towers, some variety of enemies and tar pits. You're mostly just farming in this biome.

The only thing it needs is an underground structure and a light set which the new combat update will be promising.

[nocturne wolf]

It doesn’t need an underground structure

The best thing about fuling camps is they give you space to move, we need more places like that

[errant knoll]

The miniboss tower is a 1 to 1 comparison to howling caverns.

Villages are kinda the biomes "Dungeon" so like frost caverns.

Both have a tameable.

You're right that the plains has slightly more enemies but at the same time I'm far more prone to running around and going "wow, there's nothing here!".

Also only 1 armor set.

[vast lily]

Well there's also a lack of a second vegsil stone for yagluth which makes finding it difficult.

[errant knoll]

The majority of the content within the biome that sets itself apart from the mountains comes from all the artisan table stuff you get from beating moder.

You get deathsquitos but they're just a pest, like bats but more dangerous.

It's got "building feature creep"

[vast lily]

Though plains is probably the best biomes to build a base in. It's really just a farm biome and all you have is that you farm wheat and flax while infinite spawning fulings give you black metal for free. Also tar pits are also good for farming growths tar which coupled with black metal can make you have infinite chests.

[errant knoll]

By its very design it's supposed to be meadows 2.0 in a lot of ways

It's your "safe haven" for the late game, in the areas of the map where meadows stops spawning altogether.

Has crops you can grow but can't grow back to the meadows, strongly incentivising you to make a base and hunker down

Easy to build in.

[vast lily]

Well technically meadows can still be a good biome to live, if you beat yagluth you get fulings spawning at night for free yet progression wise Plains performs better.

[errant knoll]

Tbh when I need more black metal nowadays I wait for nighttime and then go to the plains.

Watch the carnage as villages aren't just being assaulted by me, but also seekers and charred.

Especially useful since I get to pick up seeker meat to store for mistlands feasts

[vast lily]

Yeah beating bosses and placing boss trophies while biome specific enemies fight each other at night is probably the most fun reward you get. It feels like I had a peaceful day until streets gangs are having a gang warfare at the middle of night.

[steel mica]

Are askvin good to tame?

[undone forum]

You want a few spoliers?

[steel mica]

I would not like em ty

[plain wraith]

does the trollstav summon a more powerful troll if you upgrade it?

[steel mica]

[shy marlin]

no

[errant knoll]

I upgraded mine just because, but only did it after there was nothing else I wanted to make.

[undone forum]

Ok then yes imo they are worth it

[errant knoll]

I have a 2 star asksvin farm.

Very worthwhile, even if you have just a 1 star farm.

I wouldn't tame the no stars though.

[vocal rivet]

It is?

[errant knoll]

On the outer edges of the map meadows stops spawning.

Easier to build in plains than other biomes, and is even the first case of introducing a crop that can only grow in the biome.

[steel mica]

Off to bed and mentally preparing myself fir more ashlands torment

[vocal rivet]

No, I know Meadows stops spawning... just wondering how you had that inside information.

[errant knoll]

I always kinda saw it as "the meadows of the late game"

Have to admit meadows has far more in common with the plains than the other biomes, even if its not dangerous in anyway

[vast lily]

I always associate meadows as a starting level in video games.

[shy marlin]

Meadows/Black Forest are the starting levels imo

[errant knoll]

Oh yeah I'm not really contesting what the starting levels are, but I do just think that the meadows and plains have a lot of similarities and that the plains kinda takes the place of the meadows in a lot of functions, particularly once meadows no longer spawns.

[vast lily]

Though the difference is that meadows mobs are passive while black forest mobs prove more aggression though aren't as hard hitting as later biome.

Or I guess meadows is a tutorial level.

[errant knoll]

Once you've conquered it it's not particularly dangerous anymore. You can grow things there, it's easy to build, you never really need to take specific tools with you like the feather cape or wisplight to make navigation less of a pain

[maiden iris]

is it unpopular opinion if i say mistlands sucks asshole

every aspect of this biome sucks

[shy marlin]

many other players have that sentiment yes

me personally i like it idk 🤙

[frozen jewel]

@maiden irisif you are a new player that just reach the Mystlands for the first time good luck in the next biome after that 😄

[warm sandal]

Mistlands has turned into my favorite biome 😄 it is just sooooo pretty 😄

[light moat]

I think for the most part, I really enjoy mistalnds. I have a couple nitpicks, but I think it’s like a 9/10 zone.

The Dvergr honestly give a whole new breath of life to the world, and contrasts the desolate world of Valheim extremely well.

[tacit crystal]

Well, not unpopular opinion really, most people on Reddit hate it at least.
Personally I love it (the biome, not redditors bashing it to clarify).

[cobalt token]

Steam people have harsh words as well

[charred gale]

i dont know anyone who has a swimming skill better than 10 lowkey

my friend said he had 43

🤖

[shy marlin]

One playthru i went through the entire game with blocking at lvl 6

🤙 yoooooooo

[tacit crystal]

No food run?

[shy marlin]

Casual vh run

No food run I never got above like 5 or 4

[charred gale]

yea my blocking is at 17 rn

[tacit crystal]

No wonder, probably very little things to block in that challenge.

[charred gale]

on my post-ashlands character

bows level 2 💀

[shy marlin]

now that's crazy

[charred gale]

ive been using crossbows as long as i can remember

well as long as i got the first one

[shy marlin]

🙏 earlier crossbow

[charred gale]

my lvl for that is a humbling 14

[tacit crystal]

Crossbow could have earlier version true, and bit more xp per hit.
Iirc crossbow xp is 1 and bow xp is 1,5.

[charred gale]

yeah its way too low imo

[wooden tapir]

@shy marlin just now watching your vid, absolute goat! gotta study and impliment some of these tactics ( i knew atgeir was op weapon but ive never used one )

[errant knoll]

Think the earliest time a player should get access to a crossbow is the mountains personally

Or maybe the swamp

[tacit crystal]

Swamp would be good IMO.

[violet inlet]

hola

had this game since it came out and never thought to join this discord lol

[plain wraith]

yeah same here lol welcome

[worldly violet]

Morning yall

[violet inlet]

Morning

Or well afternoon for me (est)

[worldly violet]

how yall doing?

[plain wraith]

trying to decide if i have enough energy to do a boss fight (i don't)