valheim-chat

[vestal river]

Idk where the swamp is

I found swamps in the edge of black forests but not a proper swamp biome

[trail pelican]

at about that point in the game--frankly if not before--you will be forced to build a boat to effectively navigate and find the biomes you need (more examples, and one ultimately with a boss spawn)

not every biome will have a spawn site for its respective boss--in fact most won't statistically

very roughly speaking, the further out from center you go, the more 'advanced' the biomes that will spawn, but there's a lot of "overlap" which is why it's quite easy to stumble into 'advanced' biomes well before one is prepared if one does not know yet

[vestal river]

I got the boat already

[trail pelican]

if you kill the swamp boss though, he will drop an item that will let you find more stuff in the mountains you need to gear up and by ready for plains

also, if you haven't found any yet, there are caves in those mountains--dungeons for their biome like the BF burial chambers--that also have some materials needed for progression in the biome (though, for each biome, you don't have to build anything by any means, most biomes have multiple armor sets intended as 'sidegrades' to each other)

[vestal river]

I will just refine the black metal i found and see what it does

[merry pebble]

@eternal sundial https://discordapp.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202267437647527977/1420103780506144849 No, they are obtained in ashlands 🙂

[vestal river]

Atleast i got an outpost in the plains

[trail pelican]

another example of how often getting stuff from later biomes isn't all that helpful earlier than intended--you won't actually be able to refine it until you've got what the mountain boss drops

[vestal river]

I'll go there then

[trail pelican]

yeah TECHNICALLY I think you could then do some "skipping" if you can manage to beat the mountain boss--there's no hard limit to kill them in the 'intended' biome progression order--but you will PROBABLY find that a lot harder to do without the gear from that biome (and harder the further "back" in biomes your gear and food is coming from)

and even then you will still need to refine some iron--i.e. need to find and go into at least a few of the swamp dungeons

[vestal river]

I just don't find anything but wolves in the mountains

[serene onyx]

I am still waiting for the full release to play for the first time^^

[pine wave]

Wait isn't the game in the test version??? Or whatever

[trail pelican]

like other biomes, each specific biome won't usually have all the points of interest that it can generate

[merry pebble]

It is in early access if you mean that

[pine wave]

Ohhh Bruh I didn't know that

It's early access damn are. They going to make keep inventory???

[trail pelican]

for example, they may not have the cave dungeons I mentioned earlier, USUALLY won't have the boss spawn site, and may or may not have other locations like where you find items needed to spawn the boss (if you recall when you fought elder, you had to collect a certain number of particular items--the same more or less will be true for every boss, the items and exactly how you get them change, the general idea the same, get those items, and find a boss spawn site and take them there)

[merry pebble]

You already have an option to keep equiped items upon death 🙂

[gray sand]

You already do keep all of your inventory at all times.
Just don't die. 😏

[pine wave]

Oh really Bruh well Im new to the game so lol

[pine wave]

Well I die alot because I wanna explore shitt

[gray sand]

Idk how those 2 things are related.

Just the act of exploring does not inherently increase death rate.

[tacit crystal]

Exploring to new biome undergeared would end up fatal for new players. 🙂‍↕️

[gray sand]

"I die a lot due to lack of prep and not being careful while exploring" -- related points.

"I die due to exploring" -- unrelated point.

😭 make it make sense 😭

[merry pebble]

Since newbies dont really know a lot these two may be very very similar to them 🙂
They dont necessarily know what stuff to prep and how careful should they be.

[gray sand]

I remember my early days. Because I didn't know, my approach was "pretend everything can one-shot you."
Worked out very well 🤷‍♂️

[vestal river]

@trail pelican if you get to new biomes does the game scale random attacks?

It just spawned two trolls in the meadows

They are dead but i would prefer not have trolls close to my main base

[gray sand]

Entering a biome doesn't change anything.

[trail pelican]

mostly no--I assume you mean raids, if they're popping up text

[heady parcel]

Did it say "The Ground is Shaking"?

[vestal river]

Yeah

[gray sand]

That's the troll raid.

[heady parcel]

That's a raid, and yes those are recurring things, but rare

[trail pelican]

what triggers those is killing bosses and in some cases killing particular mobs--like that one, a troll died in the world

[gray sand]

You killed one once. Now you get to deal with raids.

[trail pelican]

does not even need you to kill it--if you don't like that feature you can also turn it off in the world modifier settings

[gray sand]

Provided you have raids enabled 😏

[vestal river]

I killed alot of these tho
But it only started now

[gray sand]

That is how rng of raids works.

[vestal river]

Hmmm

[gray sand]

I prefer having them off, but that is just me.

[heady parcel]

Raids are events that happen near your base when you are currently in it. Which raids are available depends on your progression.

There's a random chance for a raid within a certain time frame, if it doesn't happen that time the game won't check again until next time the opportunity is up, and if you are not at "home" nothing can happen. (Except for one particular raid that comes later)

[lusty dirge]

The troll raid in particular does only start after the elder (and at least one troll) is killed

[fossil delta]

There is only one raid that really annoys me, and thats because I have to have my boar fully enclosed in order to keep them from being killed. My 2 star wolves, on the other hand, help me get even more of the mats. Which I want for my bombs.

OK, 2 raids, because the wraiths always go for my boars, and later, chickens, despite my standing right there.

[open pecan]

I love the chains delivery raid. ⛓️

[fossil delta]

I do too, as long as I have my boar and chickens nicely locked up in their vaults.

[topaz crypt]

Bear armor sucks

[open pecan]

I had my heart broken by the boars, so now I only keep chickens DEEP in my base. 😭

[fossil delta]

Fortunately I already keep them in their own little houses due to the other flying raids. So I only lose chickens, for some reason. I guess they hug the walls tight enough the wraiths can strike them through the walls.

[open pecan]

Those bum Wraiths... I have a little 4x4 pen for my chickens but sometimes one will just go "missing". I think they get pushed through the walls or something by each other.

[gray sand]

That's... an opinion to have.

[fossil delta]

That does happen upon occassion. I will find a chicken wandering my compound. Fortunately the whole thing is enclosed, so they just roam until something flying kills them.

[topaz crypt]

Bear armor should paradigm shift into something better like a synergist or saboteur armor set ;)

[gray sand]

Those... are words.

[fossil delta]

Its on par with the other BF armors.

[gray sand]

It's better than Troll.

[topaz crypt]

The guy with the FFXIII picture doesn’t get my FFXIII reference, curses

[trail pelican]

is your base built near the world center standing stones? #screenshots message @smoky quarry

[smoky quarry]

Replaced & placed few more benches and such, still have a ninja spawner mob. Only spawns when I port in base at night, portals are close right behind the moat wall. Spawns on that cobeled area, covered by many.

[topaz crypt]

Troll is great, that stealth bonus is great when foraging

[gray sand]

This is Valheim chat. I am thinking in terms of Valheim. And we don't have anything like synergists. Sabotuers is just poison weapons but poison sucks currently.

[open pecan]

I heard sarcasm is an art.

[fossil delta]

Poison sucks? Have you seen all the new poisons? Especially the one that requires the ooze trophy?

[gray sand]

Compared to fire and spirit? Poison sucks.

[trail pelican]

mmmm, that is odd if you're confident you've spawnproofed--I was asking b/c i found in my experience I cannot quite fully mobproof the area of my base around the central spawn standing stones (which I built around, a thing I wouldn't do, in hindsight)

[topaz crypt]

I love spirit so much

[smoky quarry]

yea nowhere near the center stones. Area is covered fully by a lvl 5 and many others. He is skipping the proofing

[gray sand]

Doesn't stack. But I don't want all DoTs to stack because that would be boring. Which is why my suggestion was to make them all operate differently on repeat hits.

[smoky quarry]

thought they come from afar, area is fully walled behind and spoofed. But they spawn as i port in Only at night

If i walk in the area, no spawning 😄 Its ninja mobs

[fossil delta]

Sounds like a weird game glitch to me. Especially if you rebuilt all your spawn proofers. They some times stop working for an unknown seemingly random reason.

[smoky quarry]

luckly its just greydwarfs

a troll with a big stick would cause a mess

[fossil delta]

Yeah, easy to handle, and not destructive unless you leave them alone for a long time.

Except with your crops.

I hate it when they destroy just one carrot. 😄

[smoky quarry]

pig is the wildest, runs all over the place madman

crops safu they walled out as well :p

[fossil delta]

Lately, I just use an old copper pit for my farm. This time I made a really large base, so do my farming within its walls.

[trail pelican]

i love repurposing like that

i used a dug out copper pit as a "resource dump" to build stacks and stacks and stacks of wood & stone (the usuals that fill chest after chest) and left an unliked portal called "Quarry" to it

[fossil delta]

This time I got to repurpose the pit as a troll home. It spawned in it today. 😄

[trail pelican]

handy as hell for any building project

[fossil delta]

We still had a bunch of stone piles in there. Since it was a double pit. I put up benches to keep them from despawning until I jump down there and get it all.

[trail pelican]

and they shouldn't despawn if you're making the 50 stack objects--as opposed to leaving loose stone drops

[steel mica]

Hm

How difficult are the enemies on max combat

[fossil delta]

Yeah, they will, since the troll broke them all. So I'll get them soon. I'm in silver gear now, so its not like the troll is a threat any longer.

[trail pelican]

LOL, trolls

[fossil delta]

My main goals, currently, are to find a Moder mountain, and to build up our plains crops as much as possible until we beat her. I already have us at over 1,000 flax and barley, so we are already well off with that.

[steel mica]

Encountering 2** greydwarfs like its nothing

max combat really is something

OH SH- A BEAR

[rocky sandal]

"the ground is shaking" is the only raid I still panic about.
I find the raised earth walls distateful in my builds, the consequences being I have to take them down quick as possible before they smash my farms up.

[fossil delta]

I think I have finally found a mountain that may have Moder, let alone a location for her. The mountains have been really lacking in this seed.

[steel mica]

Ngl encountering bjorn/bear for the first time with low gear and max combat is kinda terrifying

[rocky sandal]

exploring kilometers of mountain for zero caves, zero vegvisiers, zero chests with onion seeds, I curse them, i spit at them.

[fossil delta]

Depending on the stage of the game your at, you can take trolls down real fast.

[fossil delta]

At least I found onions. First mountain, first chest. So that was really good.

[gray sand]

Is there a bear raid?

[fossil delta]

Not that I have seen them in.

[gray sand]

It should be called Bear Necessities. 😁

[vague aurora]

They need bear meat used in a higher level food

[eager bough]

they want your honey

[fossil delta]

I want it called The Honey Heist.

[nocturne wolf]

We need a morgen gjall raid first

[fossil delta]

I am very disappointed that wolves will not eat bear meat.

Maybe I should try the cooked version on them...

[rocky sandal]

probably cause wolves dont hunt bears. other way around, more likely

[fossil delta]

I doubt the devs worry about things like that.

[nocturne wolf]

They don't hunt necks either

[fossil delta]

Wolves? They kill necks all the time.

[nocturne wolf]

They're more likely to find a bear because water usually can't be next to a mountain

[fossil delta]

Or do you mean bears?

[nocturne wolf]

Wolves hunting bears

[fossil delta]

I haven't tried that yet. Only chance I had was when I was leading my 2 stars home. I killed the bear before they could fight.

[steel mica]

a no map run is nice ngl

[fossil delta]

Very easy to do when you have the crystal axe.

[rocky sandal]

wolf does pierce right?
2 star wolf vs no star bear sounds like a toss up

[fossil delta]

Well, I had 4, so pretty sure they would have won. I just wasn't going to risk them.

As it was, a log troll almost killed one of them.

[nocturne wolf]

Wolves only deal slash

[rocky sandal]

gotcha, yeah the wolf would take the bear.
wish wolves were a bit tankier.

[fossil delta]

2 stars are tanky enough. Especially if you build a large pack. They can even take out bosses then, including Yag.

[steel mica]

I just realized

finding haldor is gonna be really difficult

with no map

[nocturne wolf]

He could be generated somewhere you never visit

[steel mica]

Literally

so im forced to check nearby BF

[nocturne wolf]

Who's forcing you to find Haldor?

[fossil delta]

Depends on how much you want that belt, let alone to make certain weapons.

[steel mica]

I made a new game and added some modifiers

no map, max combat, max raids, 1.5x resource drop

[nocturne wolf]

Haldor is very helpful but he is entirely optional

[steel mica]

the belt alone is so worth it

[fossil delta]

He is not optional to me.

I want my iron sledge too.

[neon magnet]

Mini rant about Valheim build videos on youtube - most of them seem to be focused on making one specific build "place a 26 degree beam here, then a 2x1m wooden wall, then..." rather than explaining how they arrived at a design. So if you're watching them to learn how to build better but aren't interested in copying the exact build you kind of have to reverse engineer the actual information. End of rant. Lots of cool builds though

[gray sand]

I need my flashlight hat.

[fossil delta]

Anyways, I'd never do no maps. I am directionally challenged badly enough even with maps.

[gray sand]

Valid rant.

[fossil delta]

Yeah, people inviting me into their worlds and showing me how they built their stuff, was by far the most helpful help I ever got.

[merry pebble]

I never bought it after the first playthrough 😄

[heady parcel]

Check out Chiselchip, he talks about his designs as he talks about the builds in question. Seems he's moved over to Enshrouded these days, but his Valheim videos have tought me a lot

[gray sand]

I wear that thing until I get to Mistlands 😄

[steel mica]

HOOO THIS TROLL

LMAO

[fossil delta]

A friend of mine and I have serious issues with dark vision, in real life, and in Valheim. So we buy that ASAP.

[neon magnet]

I'll check him out, thanks for the tip

[fossil delta]

Time for me to sign back in and see if that mountain finally leads me to Moder. Later!

[heady parcel]

I use it when building at night, too much squinting and swearing and placing dozens of torches otherwise...

[merry pebble]

Well... I mean... You could go to sleep xD

[heady parcel]

Sleep is a waste of time haha, I need nightspawned viles to wander near too

[sly oyster]

I feel like it's always night

[merry pebble]

only 9 minutes out of the 30 minute day is night 😄

[heady parcel]

I know nights are only 1/3 of the time, but it sure feels like more

[sly oyster]

It's day 10 and I'm finally building a house

[heady parcel]

dusk lasts quite a while too, so it gets dark some time before it is actually night

[sly oyster]

I need to cover the area with campfires, get some light

[steel mica]

Yeah encountering a troll at max combat is a bit of a sweat fest

[gray sand]

Helpful for seeing when in swamp crypts too.

[sly oyster]

Only good thing is it hasn't rained yet , but I'm gonna be pretty mad at the lack of rain when I wanna hunt serpents

We're forsaken powers changed? I keep hearing they were but can't find a comparison. They all look the same to me lol

[heady parcel]

Agh, trying to shepherd a deer out to the ocean to sacrifice it to the serpents, but the damn thing is not cooperating

And now it got itself run over, need to use the harpoon next time

[merry pebble]

Yep they were, here is a wiki page before it was updated to the new ones 🙂 https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Forsaken_power?diff=prev&oldid=41845

[sly oyster]

Gotta be logged in to see it 🙃

[merry pebble]

Ah, didnt know that xD

[sly oyster]

Maybe because it's an archived page or something

[merry pebble]

Its just the history of that page

[heady parcel]

Now, harpooning and dragging a deer into the open ocean should work as serpent bait, dangit

[merry pebble]

Boss powers before CtA update:

Eikthyr - Jump stamina usage: -60%
Run stamina usage: -60%

The Elder - Faster wood cutting.

Bonemass - Resistance VS physical damage.

Moder - Always tailwind when sailing.

Yagluth - Resistance vs Fire, Frost and Lightning

The Queen - Faster mining and increase Eitr regeneration. (Eitr regen: +100%)

Fader - Increase carry capacity by +300 and increase Movement speed by 10%.

[eager bough]

Never hurts to ask is there a such thing as a supply house lol , just rebuilding base after server dropped save on a new world and don't have my 2 dragon tears needed for art table..:-O

[sly oyster]

So eikthyr gonna let me swim a bit more now that's nice

[errant knoll]

I am reminded randomly that I found a very pretty spot yesterday which is derailing my plans because I had yet to build my forever home in my current save

Had found technically the perfect spot for it (loads of roots, mistlands/plains border so can grow everything). BUUUUUUT.

I've now found a very small mistlands bowl, surrounded on all sides by mountains biome. In that tiny bowl are 3 roots, all converging and it looks pretty

Unfortunately there is no cultivatable soil inside that bowl to the best of my knowledge so essentially I'd be building a mountains base, with Sap extractors directly underneath it

[heady parcel]

Do mistlands mushrooms require open sky? Otherwise having a shroom basement would be kinda fun

Maybe not fun, but fitting 😄

[merry pebble]

Yep 🙂

[unique oar]

Is there anyway to speed up loading times?

Right now it is taking about 20 min or so to launch the game and then 5 min or so to load the save

[merry pebble]

What the heck, thats way too long 👀

[unique oar]

I do have mods installed, so that is likely part of it
And I am using an 'older' computer (made like 8-9 years ago)
It runs the game fine, it's just the loading that is slow

[merry pebble]

Eh, then i would really try to dissable the mods and try it again 🤔 even if it is an older pc it should not be this slow

[unique oar]

Thats what I was kinda thinking.
Next time I close the game I will do the whole binary debug method.
I will keep track of how long it takes to load each time

[wicked quarry]

Hmmm its a long long fight but I didnt think Yagluth was terribly tough

[gray sand]

That is kind of all bosses with proper prep.
Long, but not terribly tough.

[full frost]

What's your storage type? It's probably taking a long time retrieving it, do downloads take a while?

[gray sand]

My storage type is blackmetal chests

[full frost]

... I mean like for the computer, or is it a cloud save

[gray sand]

I know, hence the

I am also not the actual person.

[full frost]

Yeah I know

[smoky quarry]

Yagluth has firestorm, wish i had such Powaaa

[gray sand]

You gain fire powers in Mistlands.

[smoky quarry]

I mean his fire storm

[unique oar]

I am using an SSD, though I do have a few drives.
I am launching it from Thunderstore, not sure if that matters but it's on a different drive than the game

[gray sand]

🤔 What is Thunderstore?

[unique oar]

The mod manager thats on Overwolf

[gray sand]

So this is a #mods-issues #mods-discussion thing?

[unique oar]

Not initially

[wicked quarry]

Makes the obliterated

[unique oar]

I was asking why it was taking so long to load the game and it was suggested that it was a mod thing

[wicked quarry]

Nm you said store?

[merry pebble]

Only one letter difference 😄 but entirely different things

[gray sand]

They need to update bear AI to target the Obliterator before all other buildings.

Bears in trashcans is a classic.

[flat vector]

vikings, i've an inquiry. what be the orangy bar that appears under the stamina?

a new mechanic confuses me

[nocturne wolf]

That’s adrenaline, it’s used when you have a trinket equipped.

It increases when you perform various actions in combat and decreases over time. When full, you gain the effect shown on the trinket.

[flat vector]

That's awesome. Figured it had something to do with the new trinket, but i assumed it was an instant bonus. \

[gray cairn]

I assumed the same. Guess I should go read patch notes before I start plahing.

[gray sand]

It increases when you perform various actions in combat and will almost never proc. When full, you gain the effect shown on the trinket.

FTFY 😛

[flat vector]

Im sure it becomes more beneficial within larger groups of enemies

[merry pebble]

They are indeed meant for bigger or longer fights 🙂

[gray sand]

So... Queen only?

[flat vector]

I managed to proc it off a group of skeletons, so queen might be included.

[gray sand]

Skeletons die in like 2 hits, how big was this group? 👀

[flat vector]

a pretty hefty group if im bein real, dungeon spawner

[merry pebble]

You can proc them even on one enemy if you really try 😄 so group of skeletons is really not weird

[gray sand]

Use the weapon they have resistance too in order to get trinket procs.
That's some 5head planning right there.

[flat vector]

That works?

[gray sand]

By making it take longer to kill them, yes.

[merry pebble]

Do you perhaps mean resistance?

[gray sand]

Yes, but I am old and get confused.

[flat vector]

im confused too

[gray sand]

Fixed.

[flat vector]

ahhh, i thought you had meant using an enemies weakness increases procs.

[gray sand]

Asatru keeps my old brain in check.

[merry pebble]

Sometimes 😄

[gray sand]

For example: the first year I was here I thought their name was Astaru. 😄

[flat vector]

Both sound cool, no crime committed 😅

[gray sand]

Asatru punches drakes.
Astaru kicks drakes.

[flat vector]

but nah, i've been 2 shotting the skellies with the new bear fists, insane weapon so early on

[merry pebble]

Surprisingly many people do that tiny mistake 😄

[merry pebble]

Heh, i do too 😄

[gray sand]

Fair. But I will probably stay on my standard weapon progression.

[flat vector]

There aren't any other fist weapons other than the fenrir gauntlets, right? im sure there's one more a tier higher i think

[gray sand]

Vilebone Maulers in the Plains.

But my standard has always been:
Wooden Club -> Iron Mace -> Blackmetal weapon of choice.
I don't diversify until Plains.

Although last time I did Spear -> Spear -> Spear -> Spear 😄

[flat vector]

I dunno how i missed those, are they new? And there aren't one in the ashlands right?

[gray sand]

They are just as new as the bear claws given they are literally the undead bear claws.

[merry pebble]

They and the bear paws were added in the Call to Arms update 🙂

[flat vector]

I forgot about the other bear wow\

[gray sand]

SHAME 🔔

[flat vector]

I haven't played ashlands yet Dx

and so the undead bears are apart of the plains?

[chrome gust]

Hello I'm pretty new to Valheim so I decided to look into the discord

[dark coyote]

first mistake

[flat vector]

wonderful, another large creature to deal with, if lox weren't enough

[gray sand]

Fwuffy lox are fwuffy and cute.

[flat vector]

They're great , they just hit hard

[chrome gust]

Lox are pretty cute

[fossil delta]

Yeah. I have actually been meaning to buy those and the necks for years. 😄 I need to get around to that.

The search for Moder continues. Another mountain a complete bust. Not even any caves. Nice houses and a well, though.

[lean solar]

Anyone got a good seed?

[gray sand]

Good is a point of view, Anakin.

[merry pebble]

Look in #1202740443352137838 if any catch your eye 🙂 but the recent update might have moved some POIs around so their positions on some seeds there (especially ones from before September 9th) might not be entirely accurate anymore.

[pliant hatch]

I got carrot, turnip, onion, vine berries, beech, birch seeds if you need those.

[topaz crypt]

Last time I wanted one, I just googled it and found a variety of good world seeds on Reddit

Having positive experiences on Reddit feels so unnatural

[dark coyote]

yeah plenty out there, its not like we hide the good ones here

[gray sand]

The good side of the reddit is a pathway to many comments some consider to be... unnatural.

[dark coyote]

I feel like all forums suffer from biased moderation, its like you just pick your flavor of north korea and hope for the best

[topaz crypt]

It truly is a…
paradigm shift

[gray sand]

Lightning/Snow/Sazh best comp.

[fossil delta]

I just had the wierdest Ground is Shaking event. I had no idea that Trolls would come out of the water, let alone go back into it. I hope that was a glitch.

[dark coyote]

is this a raised island base? what biome?

[fossil delta]

Meadows, on a peninsula. I had black forest just to my north.

So the troll, and only one of them, came out of the water/ocean to my east, and when I shot him he turned around and went back into the water. Over his head, and disappeared.

[dark coyote]

lol guess he got the message

[fossil delta]

Yeah, it was so odd/weird I am guessing it was a glitched event.

[onyx lava]

I dont remember moder hitting so hard..

i miss a block or miss step dead with silver armor and 160 health

[fossil delta]

Been a long time since I have taken a full hit from her. I'd have to look at the wiki to see her numbers.

[smoky quarry]

fight Moder using a Rune stone, its indestructible. Jst sit behind it during his hits ;p

[silk token]

her air attack always hurt a surprising amount even with frost resist, but no way her normal attacks do that much, what difficulty are you on??

[flat vector]

Hey is there one other way to remove the hud for screensyhots other than ctrl f3? its not working for me :(

[buoyant panther]

Make sure your OS doesn't have a keybind assigned to Ctrl+F3. macOS tends to have Cmd+F3 bound already. Server Devcommand mod adds a hud console command to disable it, but note your character might get marked as a cheater in its internal stats.

[flat vector]

Understood. I found one way, was to connect a controller and remove it that way which works. Appreciate the help anywho

[pine fable]

I have killed moder on the 99th night 🎉

Time for the plains now 😮‍💨

[shy marlin]

Plains era lowkey goated

Fuling camps were my stomping grounds and where i learned the most about combat

[gray sand]

Plains best biome.

[light moat]

Plains always felt like the biome that was interned to have your main base in lol

Baking bread is one of my favorite past times

[smoky quarry]

Mist is nice when out of fog. Would be nice to see :p

[silk token]

my favorite part of every run is loading up the boat with snacks and raiding every coastline i can find.

i've taken to sprinting into camps and throwing a spear into the shaman's face and then weedwhacking the swarm after, it's the best content of the game

[pine fable]

Like a real viking 🔥🔥

[smoky quarry]

I pop queen power & start throwing fireballs at random drunk on eitr juice

[shy marlin]

It's A tier 😏

[smoky quarry]

closest I can get to Rain of fire

[gray sand]

Odd way to spell S.

[shy marlin]

Mistlands s tier

Bf s tier

[silk token]

hot take on mistlands

[barren whale]

how is that a hot take lmao

[silk token]

it's probably the most 👍 👎 biome of all depending on who you ask

[smoky quarry]

it`s ok if you like sneak and all that

[light moat]

Mistlands is A tier for me,
Black Forest is S

[smoky quarry]

fields more hands on approach

[light moat]

Ehh, actually, Mistlands B tier

B+

[gray sand]

Plains S+
Mistlands S

BF and Mountain A+
Swamp A
Ashlands B due to optimization
Meadows F-

[chrome badge]

That between biome blending where Meadows has snow leading up to the Mountain?

[shy marlin]

#screenshots message Quick everyone make their own tier list 😂

[gray sand]

When you're done I will make a tierlist of all your tierlists. 😏

[smoky quarry]

swamp near meadow & forest trio for the free wood and leech infested moats

[chrome badge]

Did the thing

[shy marlin]

Interesting

[shy marlin]

What's wrong with the meadows?

[silk token]

Super off the cuff but:
Meadows A
BF S
Swamp S
Mountain B+
Plains S
Mistlands A
Ashlands A-

hmm. yeah i think actually that can go on my cuff

[light moat]

Meadows: A
Black Forest: S+
Swamp: B*
Mountain: A
Plains: B
Mistalnds: B+
Ashlands: B

[steel mica]

Mistlands is literally just BF but 100x better and terrifying

[shy marlin]

So both are s tier

mhm

[rocky sandal]

plains are dope, luring a whole fuling camp to a nearby tar pit is some satisfying stuff

[light moat]

Mistlands gets points against it because I don’t like bugs

[rocky sandal]

thats just like, your opinon man. dont play silksong, youll get something worse than fear of bugs

[steel mica]

Exactly

[shy marlin]

Plains in A is only because it feels like it's lacking something

[rocky sandal]

Mistlands was nasty for me too, but i was unlucky with my initial landing zone, never occurred to me to try a different spot

[steel mica]

I gotta give Ashlands a B

the landing is quite a chore and can be very difficult if players are not prepared

but once you get pass it, the toys you can make are absolutely worth it

[rocky sandal]

which, if youre landing for the first time, you are.

[steel mica]

I already landed on ashlands

I just wanted a fresh start

[rocky sandal]

oh yeah it would be a breeze by comparison now

[steel mica]

Not really

I set my combat to max

So no parrying here, only dodges

Scales would be proud

[rocky sandal]

gods be with you, i parry for my life.

[shy marlin]

idk

Makes me proud but also makes me sad that parrying kinda is left in the dust on harder difficulties

[rocky sandal]

staff of protection makes your parry techincally infinite block armor, but if the attack exceeds the bubble health, its still gonna break

[steel mica]

SoP is just a free ticket for parrying and dmg absorbtion

[steel mica]

Yeah, espeically on hard hitting enemies

starred or not

[shy marlin]

yea doesn't really compensate all that well tho

[steel mica]

Also fire is friend

use it till you can

I legitimately have not come up close to a bear

just burn it

[shy marlin]

🐻 💢

[steel mica]

No map run is kinda annoying

[rocky sandal]

I must have killed 100 bears since they were added, 3 trophies total.
Im being punished for something

[steel mica]

but it forces me to use general sense and look at my surrondings more carefully

marking things in my head instead of my map

[shy marlin]

Henrik makes his own map

It's actually really interesting

[steel mica]

Question do bears care if you're chopping a tree or not?

[primal blaze]

I'd give mountain S

[shy marlin]

I mean they'd hear the chop noise if in range?

[primal blaze]

It's just such a good vibe and so fun to drop boats down

[rocky sandal]

chopping is loud, but bears that hear it lumber around pretty slowly.

[steel mica]

Bear doesnt seem to care, BUT THE LANDLORD DOES, THE DAMN TROLL

[rocky sandal]

only when they spot you do they speed up.
The trolls are always right up in your face about it though, yeah

making your own map, does this mean flattening a wide area and just making a scale model of the general idea of what youve explored?

[steel mica]

No, just literally memorizing my enviroment

[rocky sandal]

mm

[steel mica]

and marking structures or POIs in my head

[rocky sandal]

cause now i have it in my head that i should make a 100m X 100m zone where its an approximation of my seed, just kinda eyeballing it with a hoe

[steel mica]

No from the looks of it, the bear doesnt care if you're making noises like chopping and mining

@shy marlin I have provided my ratings

the ocean is just

water

[shy marlin]

sailing music tho

[wicked quarry]

OMG a 2 star seeker can just eat me!

[steel mica]

Omg the ashlands music I just realized

[rocky sandal]

I dunno if i see anything to do about the ocean feeling empty.
Its the ocean, thats what it is.

We could put islands in it maybe, but then its not the ocean, its land

[shy marlin]

It's actually really good but the constant overlap of audios ruins it

[wicked quarry]

Do Mistland dungeons reset? Cause I partially cleared one the other day, came back and its fully stocked

[shy marlin]

yea ( the mobs will respawn along with the jelly piles)

[steel mica]

Yeah, maybe in the future IronGate might fix it

[shy marlin]

Hopefully

[scenic wing]

I wanna drop honey to lure bears.

[shy marlin]

I haven't tested but perhaps maybe you can lure bears with blueberries (they eat them)

[smoky quarry]

these bears don`t eat honey

honey infused vikings on the other hand

[steel mica]

Seeing copper veins pop is so delightful

and on the process I was standing on the copper vein, the troll threw a rock at it, it popped causing me to fall to my death

[vague finch]

hey I have a server without plugins installed. but I have plugins and mods installed in my local files

and they are working on my server is this nromal? It is so much eaiser wtf

[civic stirrup]

Any chance the devs are gonna add more plantables? The onions and turnips work great but I'd like to be able to do more landscaping without hopping onto dev mod

[shy marlin]

we dunno

[burnt glen]

SS: The secret desert biome
S: Mistlands, Ashlands, Black Forest
A: Plains
B: Swamps, Meadows
C: Mountains

Left to right is better to worse in its own tier.

[civic stirrup]

Breh, how is meadows not an auto S tier?

Spent a while looking for just the right one, the music is the best imo (peak valhiem music), there's nothing to really bother you, looks pretty and if you can find one with a micro plains attached you can grow 90% of the foods there

(Also I'm pretty sure the "secret desert biome" is just the ocean floor)

[burnt glen]

The best music is the Ashlands sailing, and the best idle biome music is the Mistlands one. There's nothing to bother you but not much else going on in the biome either. It does look pretty. You can grow those 90% just in Plains.

[civic stirrup]

My issue with the plains is its to drab, mistlands music is pretty baller but nothing can top meadows for me
I should mention I'm not really taking play through in mind, more base locations

My main world has been around for about 4 years now so I build a masterworked base in the meadows with a micro plains for growing barley

[shy marlin]

Mistlands music really does the enchanted forest/mystery really well

[steel mica]

Another reason why its S tier for me, its calm but that calm can be misleading

the bugs 😭

[burnt glen]

Ahh nice, I'm awful at building and it's embarrassingly apparent whenever I show anyone my bases. But I really like exploration and the whole play-through of the game so my preferences of a biome over another comes from that. Also that secret biome thing was a joke.

[civic stirrup]

I really wish there was a way to clear the mist in mass (outside of mods)

[shy marlin]

🤔 Perhaps a wisp ingredient that could be crafted at a level 2 artisan table (makes it so the queen has to be dead)

[civic stirrup]

Fair enough, got about 2k hours in the game and most of that is building. I usually end up taking care of the base as well

[civic stirrup]

Just something, I wanna build a base without searching for the mistless areas

[shy marlin]

🤔 I like the joy in finding a mistless part and building there I feel like that element would be lost but idk

[burnt glen]

I think Smiffe has said that clearing a larger amount of mist is a performance issue for lower end machines.

[tepid prawn]

@civic stirrup this for me too, its an incredible accomplishment of exploration for me to find those areas, especially with farmable land included, it is worth a grand construction project, I do not want it changed.

[steel mica]

Scales, id like for you to check screenshots

[shy marlin]

💢

[steel mica]

Practically free raid

[civic stirrup]

Really? if anything I'd think it would be the opposite

[tepid prawn]

the machine still needs to calculate the borders and whats in it and how much to clear etc

[civic stirrup]

Fair enough
I'm still gonna hope, for that and a good cargo ship. The macgyvered ones with carts are annoying

[tepid prawn]

I'd like another ship for DN, one can hope. #suggestions

[civic stirrup]

Currently playing with no portals and its fun aside from the lack of good cargo capacity

[tepid prawn]

But yeah the mistless mistlands are great incentive to explore for me, my perfect holy grail is an island, not too small not too big, with mistless mistlands with farmable area, and plains can be a mix of 30-70 either way for the biomes, but no mist, and also island 100% surrounded by ocean biome, and ideally 2 roots (will take more as well.) Thats it, my forever quest!

[burnt glen]

Another ship to take you to Valhalla at the end of the game

[gray sand]

Greylings. We've been over this.

[shy marlin]

🤔 i don't remember

[gray sand]

One sec.

[gray sand]

https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/s/jG9jNUw4Cn

[shy marlin]

o

[supple solstice]

all of your tier lists are wrong

S: Ashlands and Plains
A: Mistlands
B: Mountains, Swamp, Meadows
C: Black Forest

[lunar sapphire]

That's subjecthive

[supple solstice]

thanks subject

hive

[rain flare]

There is nothing better than stumbling upon the perfect building spot in a world

You find it, and your heart says to you “I’m gonna live here now” 😂

[tepid prawn]

Current world: Swamp treehouse in a relatively small swamp with 3 crypts and 1 surt spawner, nearby are big plains, a small Meadows with Hildir by the sea, and a big looking mountain above that meadows. North of the meadows a black forest that has 20+ burial chambers and the Elder. Ah the treehouse is also on the shore so can build a swamp dock.

also:

Meadows: A
Black Forest: A-
Swamp: S
Mountain: A+
Plains: A+
Mistlands: A
Ashlands: S

[mint canopy]

Hi Vikings. I recently installed Linux Mint on my Pc as i was running Win 10 before and felt the need for something new. But i need some advice and goldcorns from you. I've have installed steam and Valheim and would like to run it with mods. I've installed r2modman but can't get it to work with steam, when i run modded from r2modman the game crashes immediately on launch. So do any of you have some advice for a Linux Mint newbie?

[tepid prawn]

I do not have that knowledge but if you find someone to help you it may be in the #linux channel @mint canopy

[willow hound]

S+ tier: Meadows, Black Forest, Swamp, Mountains, Plains, Mistlands, Ashlands, Deep North, Ocean. F- tier: People who make tier lists

[neon steppe]

oof died in island without putting my portal down, now my ship is there too with my lootbag 😄

[tepid prawn]

If it’s not too far bring out the raft of shame, else I’d make another boat

[neon steppe]

luckily it's really close, i just thought i was far away haha

wouldn't take long to run, with raft it will take some time but it's better than go farm bronze or iron for nails 😛

there is certain charm to a raft thought!

[neon steppe]

everything happens for a reason i gueess, found fishing trader on that raft trip!

[ashen timber]

haha awesome

[neon magnet]

Checked him out a bit - watched the first 4 episodes of the "minibuild" series. Liking it a lot so far!

[heady parcel]

Yeah I like his style, I've been using his chimney design and steep roofs a lot. I also love that he does it all vanilla, no funky mods used.

[neon magnet]

Chaotic biome borders (like little slivers, tiny patches etc) - fun/interesting/exciting or annoying/ugly etc? 😄 I'm leaning more to the latter but would like to hear why someone who feels the other way feels that way 😄

[neon steppe]

there was shadow figure that vanished in meadows

wtf was that?

[merry pebble]

Thats your boss, show some respect xD

[left moat]

hellooo

does anyone want to start a word together?

[tawny pike]

Unfortunately I just recently started one. None of my friends even want to try valheim 😭

[pliant hatch]

There's a big chance someone in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510 might.

[worldly valve]

New to Valheim?

[left moat]

yeah like very new

[worldly valve]

Message me in DMs, I'll see what I can do

[worldly valve]

I'll help you get started

[left moat]

kk

[supple sun]

helloo 🙂

[tawny pike]

And goodbye, to anyone who stands in John Cena's way...

[wicked quarry]

That was Odin checking in on you.

[tiny mortar]

whats the max comfort as of the latest patch?

[merry pebble]

Still the same 🙂

Without seasonal items 17 and with them 19

[tiny mortar]

ah, thanks! got 18 right now, ill have to figure out what im missing.. does anything from ashlands give an extra one?

[merry pebble]

Lava lantern does give you 1 comfort level 🙂

[tiny mortar]

thats what im missing then, cheers! gotta get to the ashlands soon....

[merry pebble]

Hehe, enjoy 😄 the fight has just begun.

[maiden terrace]

hallo

[smoky quarry]

new day, new building opportunities

[gray sand]

Black Marble my beloved building material.

[light moat]

#suggestion-discussion message @minor pike this is probably a good channel to answer your question- the biome/region was made smaller to better isolate it from the rest of the map. In the current version, Ashlands is typically only accessible after traversing a dangerous ocean

[minor pike]

Thank you so much!

[orchid locust]

is there any plan to allow building pieces to be rotated vertically?

[near saddle]

check #1024264966712340510 to find folks to play with

[maiden terrace]

forgot to pick the im a bot role

[rancid lagoon]

can you still make greydwarf spawn farmers or was it patched? its not spawning anything 😮

[merry pebble]

You should still be able to do it

[gray sand]

I doubt they will spend any more effort on cheese farms because people will always find a way around the new rules to make a new system that does the same thing.

[maiden tartan]

Leveling gear is so annoying

[dapper token]

They added cheese?

[gray sand]

Yes.

[dapper token]

What bench do you make that set at?

[gray sand]

Gather materials, go to bench, click the upgrade tab == annoying?

[maiden tartan]

The amount of resources

And I would not be complaining about that if I wasn’t playing in coop with people that want to level their gear

Cuz it’s optional n all

[gray sand]

Option A: Make them upgrade their own stuff so they aren't taking your materials.
Option B: World slider, increase resource drop rate.

[light moat]

I’ve kinda gotten into the habit of only upgrading gear up to level 2 (with a couple exceptions) if at all 🤔

Before, I used to do this thing where I had to upgrade all gear to the max it could before before the respective boss lol

[neon steppe]

can i save on ship or can the game bug me into water when i log back on?

[merry pebble]

Make sure that its completely still by jumping out of it first and then manually save and then exit for best chance of game no doing some shenanigans 🙂

[neon steppe]

i thought i had explored whole starting island but turns out there was like 60% more to it lol

even had plains and swamp in there, had no idea

[merry pebble]

Nice 😄

[wicked quarry]

I had a similar experience with my starter this play through. I had been sailing the seas hunting various dark forests in search of the trader and come to find out, he was on my starter island

[gray sand]

Bot number 2.

[near saddle]

omfg

[shy marlin]

Yea I got a friend request from them lol

[gray sand]

Well you're just such a friendly guy

[light moat]

I also got a friend request from them

[tacit crystal]

Me too.

[shy marlin]

[left moat]

https://tenor.com/view/silly-cat-gif-16653606838521083623

[left moat]

[rain steeple]

Do tokyo game show has presentation schedule to expect for us outside of japan or its just free for all who came to the show only? I am asking bc can we expect some more news these days?

[gray sand]

We literally just got news 6 days ago...

[rain steeple]

That does not prevent me from expecting more

[gray sand]

Having expectations leads to expectations not being met leading to the negative feelings that follow.

Best to expect nothing and take things as they come.

[chrome badge]

I believe they had mentioned a playable Playstation build, but beyond that nothing can really be expected only speculated. It's likely they'll be doing more direct showcasing of content teased/released recently.

[merry pebble]

Of you go to their website you can see the platforms they will be streaming it at

[worldly valve]

It took us 4 years to get here. I'm not holding my breath.

[warm sandal]

@rocky sandal nah you just got the same bad luck I have ... I have been hunting those elusive trophies for ages too. I want 4 of them total to have 1 to hang up and the others for the stuff that can be made with it. I am going to be busy killing bears for a loooooooong time 😄 (drowning in bear hide too)

[fossil delta]

I got my 12th bear trophy last night.

I too am feeding bear hides and meat to Thor. (The Obliterator).

Now if only I could do so well on trophies for the golem, wraith, and fenris. I've killed more golems than bears, and only have 1 trophy.

[tiny mortar]

fought so many bears and viles, zero trophies from either 😭

fought 3 this night, no trophy

[worldly valve]

The vile armor set is so nice. That 40% extra stamina regen is huge.

[tiny mortar]

also are visions of Odinn more common now? ive seen a lot since the update

[fossil delta]

I've only found 1 vile. Are they a night time only spawn? Thats the only time I ran into it.

[worldly valve]

Indeed night time and recommend using silver

[fossil delta]

OK. I did use my silver battle axe on the one I ran into. Made fast work of it.

Guess I need to spend more of the night running the plains. I'm usually only there at night to tear down a fuling village.

[worldly valve]

Maybe we'll get new bear armor when Deep North come out? I hope there is polar bears.

[fossil delta]

I'm still pretty sure the bear dream is about the Northern boss. If so, the North will have its own version of bears.

Just, they too may be headless and limbless.

I have to admit, I am finding the image of rolling fur balls trying to kill us in the North rather funny. Humor would be a nice change to the ugliness of the Ashlands.

[past pivot]

any info about bear meat getting its own cooking recipe? its kinda bummer if its not utilized.

[fossil delta]

We can still only cook it, and even my wolves won't eat it. 🙁 Still, 45 HP food for the BF is good.

[past pivot]

is it 45? i think its 40 hp last time i use it in game.

[nocturne wolf]

It’s almost as good as minced meat sauce but it doesn’t cost neck tails

[fossil delta]

It may very well be. So many numbers to try to remember.

[worldly valve]

45 hp is not bad for black forest. Cheap and easy.

[fossil delta]

Isn't it on par with the deer meal?

[past pivot]

more like deer stew or mince meat

[fossil delta]

I think its deer stew its the same as. I'll have to check next time I sign in.

[past pivot]

if you bored with current cooking recipes, i suggest valheim cuisine mod by Xutz, currently im too invested learning what things to discover again lol, so many dishes but makes the game feels fresh again.

[steel mica]

sword good

versetile for many situations

only weakness is some enemies having resistance

[past pivot]

true

especially forest phase now

bear is neutral to slash, resist to others

[fossil delta]

I won't use mods until after 1.0. I'm the kind of guy who won't stop using them once I start. So I don't start. Until after 1.0.

[past pivot]

suit yourself. thought, qol mod like equipment slot is must have, at least for me.

[fossil delta]

Apparently I love Valheim as is. First game I have not used mods on by the 100 hour mark. Let alone the 4800 I now have.

[eager notch]

some italian play valheim with me ????'

[worldly valve]

If they planning on adding more tinkets like rings or necklace, then we need equipment slots.

[fossil delta]

Aren't the current trinkets necklaces? Or ankle bracelets?

(That was cute, IG, to make the movement trinket a ankle bracelet.)

[worldly valve]

Some of them necklace, some of them bracelet, some of them look like something you carry.

[fossil delta]

Yeah, not sure what the iron one is supposed to be. A luck coin, maybe?

[worldly valve]

Luck coin. Imagine if they add critical hits in this game.

[fossil delta]

Whatever it is, I have not noticed it on my silver gear.

[fossil delta]

Thats what I think of getting staggered as.

[worldly valve]

But seriously, critical hits would suck if enemies can do it. Some 2 star just delete you.

[nocturne wolf]

Players don’t take extra damage while staggered it would be funny

[steel mica]

Late game enemies already have the ability to instantly vaporize you especially the starred ones

so their ability to do crit hits is just overkill

[dreamy kiln]

drops in and says hi to everyone 🙂

[fossil delta]

Long time no talk! I hope all has been well with you.

[dreamy kiln]

Heya Robert 🙂 jap all fine here, hope likewise

[fossil delta]

Some rough spots, but we got through them.

[worldly valve]

Now imagine on very hard

[steel mica]

its not longer vaporized

you're just reduced to atoms at the point

[fossil delta]

?? I guess vapor would be a molecule, not just atoms...

[steel mica]

Actually no just non-existant at that point

imagine lord reto but its every single mob

[shrewd lynx]

Hits so hard it deletes your save

[fossil delta]

I'm hating Ashlands just on standard settings. I don't need help to hate it even more.

[worldly valve]

The people that play it on very hard, I sometimes wonder if they made to ashland.

[fossil delta]

I'm sure they have. There are always gluttons for punishment.

[supple solstice]

I don't like very hard, but hard on ashlands is great fun

[fossil delta]

See?

[worldly valve]

I'm looking at the numbers and wonder if blocking is even a thing in hard/very hard?

[supple solstice]

on very hard blocking is worthless, but on hard you can usually parry if you upgrade your shield

[worldly valve]

I figured. Playing on very hard is playing tag.

[supple solstice]

yea that's why I avoid it

but normal is a bit too easy for me so hard is my go to

[silk token]

i think the perfect challenging difficulty would be hard but no 2 stars allowed. basically you fight against either 1 or 2 star enemies the whole time, things the balance of the game intends to be POSSIBLE to use the full mechanics of the game. otherwise 2 stars are like..... ok... i guess i'm going to kite you for 5 minutes and shoot a bow, weeeeeee....

[quasi latch]

or use a spear to make the best use of openings

[silk token]

i like the gameplay of parry me right or you're dead that 2 stars have. but on hard or more you're only kiting and using a bow zzzzzzzzzz

[quasi latch]

or fists

[silk token]

i guess dodge rolling works too against them yeah, idk but i dont like the harder difficulties not because they're hard but because the mechanics of parrying blocking and staggering enemies are removed

[supple solstice]

well 2 stars are rare enough that I think its fine to have what effectively amounts to a mini boss

especially since it brings the rest of the game into a nice spot difficulty wise imo

[silk token]

in a way, a really great balanced challenging mode unintentionally introduced by the devs is to only use bear or vile armor, all the mechanics are there but you can die real good

[supple solstice]

also makes upgrading (especially your shield) a lot more of an important mechanic, whereas in normal you can kind of ignore it

[silk token]

oh i always upgrdae my shields in case i meet a 2 star

[supple solstice]

idk I think they are too powerful (especially bear armor) for it to really be that challenging

I honestly just wish the harder difficulties had some sort of minor shield scaling as to avoid them becoming useless (particularly on very hard)

obviously it makes sense for them to be less powerful than on normal, but not to such an extent

[silk token]

imean bear armor in mountains for exmple feels like hard mode except you can parry and stagger wolves if you hit them, which is imo the best difficulty balance

right or hard mode with shield scaling would work

or normal mdoe with 25% extra damage taken

its kinda the same thing

[nocturne wolf]

If the block armor was multiplied by 150/200% to match the enemies you would still take 50/100% more damage instead of significantly more as you do now. Would that be too strong?

[steel mica]

I am so glad troll raids dont happen until you defeat the elder

💀

[silk token]

whatever needed to use parry mechanics, but still scary damage taken if you miss

which again imo is like wearing bear armor through mountains on normal

[supple solstice]

I mean something a bit more like the actual block / parry values being slightly increased to allow for more shield play on harder difficulties - but still to the extent that they are less useful than on normal

[opaque bobcat]

whats with the constant updates? is this gonna be like Ark where it updates every day?

[nocturne wolf]

I meant block armor sorry

[supple solstice]

no worries, but yes I don't think it should match enemy scaling necessarily

[nocturne wolf]

The 50/100% increase isn’t enough to parry enemies as strong as on normal. On very hard the enemies have double damage so you wouldn’t be able to block anything that does half of your stagger on normal.

[silk token]

idk honestly using bear and vile armor in ptb felt like the right amount of everything to me. getting hit was still ooooooookay ow, but i could enjoy killing enemies too, not just carefully poking and dodging around

[supple solstice]

oh alright, well then yes I would say that would be a good change

[supple solstice]

it probably is, but it necessarily restricts player freedom obv since you are forced to use those armors

[obtuse pecan]

Hello and f
Good morning

How far has everyone gotten in Valheim?

[supple solstice]

finished the game a couple of times, how far are you?

[obtuse pecan]

Ive been to the plains first runthrough

Playing with my manager now and we're currently on mountain

[supple solstice]

nice, the game gets a lot more serious after the plains

[heady parcel]

I swear the draugr elite, two star archers and abominations bullying me for weeks on my first swamp adventures were pretty darn serious! 😄

[silk token]

the worst are the 2star archers cuz that arrowc omes out of nowhere

[heady parcel]

Difficultywise I think the ladder is pretty well constructed to be honest. Black forest raises the stakes a bit after the first scenic days in Meadows. Trolls mean business and if you loiter in the forest at night you can get flattened if you're not careful early game. Then with the swamp comes the first really noticeable difficulty spike. Draugr hit pretty hard and their starred guys are no joke, and if you get launched into deep water the leeches can make short work of the unprepared viking. After that the mountains have their own unique obstacles - anyone walking into a frost cave wearing the root chest and getting swarmed by cultists can testify to that, and starred wolves bite HARD. Same with the plains, lox are beasts of destruction and they come in threes. Fuling villages are nightmare stuff before you get used to dealing with them, and don't get me started on how growths can absolutely annihilate an unwary viking. But yes, after that Mistlands does raise the bar even more and yeah, Ashlands is the current end-game and behaves like it should basically. Not a place for casual walks...

[silk token]

yeah agree i think the game is pretty dang well made. it think it's just for sweats who can normally just beat the game without dying looking to feel alive again

or at least thats how i feel as someone who's played way too much, i like playing 1 life, no map/portal, sometimes do hard runs

but i always enjoy PLAYING THE GAME. beating the game on hardcore difficulty gives me no joy if the whole time i'm kiting and cheesing and bowing everything

[heady parcel]

Indeed. Valheim does a good job of providing ways to shake things up for the ones who need further challenge. Although I am not personally a fan of how hard combat is constructed, making mobs do more damage so certain mechanics (parrying e.g.) become unviable is not the way. More mobs, greater chance of starred ones, starred examples of those who don't have stars normally - that kinda thing I'd like.

[silk token]

same, give me all my combat mechanics, but make it scarier. i think i'd be pretty happy doing a playthrough of a setting with 1 star mobs more common, like if they're 10% make it 30-50%

[chrome badge]

After a big update goes public it is normal for the game to patch a handful of times to fix discovered issues

[hallow glen]

oioi

[slender saddle]

When Ashlands first released, there were so, so many enemies around at any given moment. It was great and felt like a true warzone.

[silk token]

yaaa i want that difficulty back now that i know the mobs and biome some

[chrome badge]

That becomes stale very quickly imo

[heady parcel]

Yeah, having an option to make earlier biomes consistently behave more like that (or black forest at night when mining copper, sheesh...) would, to me at least, be a more fun way to raise difficulty.

[heady parcel]

Better than only being able to beat mobs by cheezy tactics because they out-damage your stagger-limit no matter what you do.

Basically, you shouldn't need to re-learn game mechanics just because you raised difficulty. If you see a starred lox you will know "oooh mama this bad boy will destroy me if I let it hit me" without first getting destroyed by a regular lox where you'd normally have parried it.

That's just my take on it anyway, I know not all will agree. 🙂

In Ashlands, when I see a two-star warrior, I bring out the frost arrows. No way in heck I let those things get close enough to swing at me!

[slender saddle]

I never wanted it to leave! It was a great time. We were warned about it from the other crow - "up until this point, everything was a quarrel. Now prepare for war." It was perfectly fitting.

[chrome badge]

Cheesing isn't necessary, you can learn attack timings and dodge...

[neon steppe]

does enemies do more dmg during night?

just 2 normal no starred wolves just killed me

and fast

[heady parcel]

True, but that's beside the point imo, the point is you just can't parry, so if you have used that mechanic a lot you're forced to play other ways. When maybe what you want from a "hard" mode is not fighting differently, but fighting more.

[light moat]

I think what he’s saying is that parrying becomes a restricted option in harder difficulties 🤔

Oh LOL sorry, didn’t see Detleths message in time

[slender saddle]

Honestly, being elusive and not getting hit is still the way to go.

[light moat]

I find parrying to be a lot of fun, even if it’s not necessarily the most ‘optimal’ maneuver 🤔

[slender saddle]

Not even speaking of ranged attacks via bow, short sprints to get out of their range, dodge rolls, etc. Usually pretty easy to do up until ashlands.

Still a lot of fun in this game.

[barren whale]

always found it weird that parrying depends on stats that don't scale with higher difficulties

they could just multiply the parry bar like fader power does, so the mechanic works as expected

imo bows shouldn't have a 3x surprise attack multiplier
when every attack you do with a bow from range is a surprise lmao

[heady parcel]

It is one possible tactic out of several in the base game, but in hard modes it's basically the only one, and that's why I don't like how they are constructed - but some people like it so I wouldn't want it removed, but maybe an alternative where you just up the number of mobs and/or their chance of being starred. And possibly starred lox, deathsquitos and other mobs normally not starred.

I have fumbly fingers, in games where it's succeed-with-certain-finger-acrobatics-or-die I will die a lot, so if I can tank stuff wearing heavy armour and a shield, that's what I prefer to do 😄

[slender saddle]

I think its doable as a straight tank, but of course you'd need a group that can do the damage necessary while you hold attention. Kinda hard to move as a tank.

But, i have not played on the harder modes, so i may be mistaken!

[worldly valve]

I rather on hard every enemy is a 1 star and very hard every enemy is a 2 star, but you got a chance to run into 3 or 4 stars.

[rain flare]

Man after my own heart 😂

🛡

[fossil delta]

They reduced the movement penalties with the last update. I almost feel like a ballerina now. 😄

[heady parcel]

Oh yeah, I need to try tower shields again. I rarely use them due to not being able to parry, but for bosses they might really shine now

[tacit crystal]

Ballerina with a huge shield.

[fossil delta]

I use tower shields because I hate dying. Its hard to miss a block, and die. Parry, well, thats a different story.

[worldly valve]

I wouldn't mind using a tower shield if I had people to do damage

[fossil delta]

Go to the right show...

[fossil delta]

I do damage. Seems I kill everything I fight, and they don't kill me.

[heady parcel]

Dangit, seeing a serpent trophy spawn but sink before I get to it, poop

[fossil delta]

I've been running all of the mountains and plains looking for Moder in my silver gear, with my iron tower shield. Haven't died a single time. This time. Last time I died around 7 times by this point. I blame it on not having played for over a year.

[fossil delta]

Yeah, we had it die right up on our boat yesterday. Got the trophy.

[heady parcel]

I lured it close and finished it off right next to the boat and jumped in after it, saw the trophy but wasn't quick enough

[fossil delta]

It was like literally on our ship, so didn't have to jump in.

[heady parcel]

Hah, that works too

[fossil delta]

We've managed that a few times now. Wish it worked so well for the scales.

[pliant radish]

You can also bring it to one shot, charge your bow, and then jump off the edge and release your shot as you impact the water, and you’ll get most of its drops including scales and trophy

[heady parcel]

Just don't be out of stamina and jump off the wrong side of a karve. Speaking from experience...

[light moat]

I’ve been using the knives secondary to finish them and collect the resources. I feel like a badass too, bonus points!

[errant knoll]

Just very quickly, since I saw this while skimming:

Not sure why the difficulty modifiers don't also buff the parry % multipliers so that parrying is still actually viable and not just something that no longer exists

I feel like that'd be a good compromise, you can still parry but the punishment for messing up is higher

[heady parcel]

I'd be totally fine with that. Do it right or do the corpse run...

[errant knoll]

Difficulty modifiers should allow for expression of player skill, not just restrict your options

[worldly valve]

That is genius, can't wait to test it out

[azure yacht]

should allow for expression of player skill

it already does

[errant knoll]

Removing mechanics from the game isn't allowing for expression of player skill.

Very hard difficulty effectively does just that

[azure yacht]

relying on the exact same strategies and tactics you used in lower difficulties despite you're supposed to try to play differently is much less so

[errant knoll]

I'm not even suggesting it's like a 1 to 1 scaling

[azure yacht]

so idk how come seeing that everything is more dangerous and you should adapt to those dangers isn't "a expression of skill"

[errant knoll]

Have the parry available but damage to staggered enemies is lower

Or maybe enemies don't stagger it just allows successful blocking

Or like, ANYTHING

[azure yacht]

so... remove a mechanic...

you literally just contradicted yourself

[gray sand]

Turns difficulty to Very Hard on blocking sheet.
Sees how many things you can still parry by just changing from HSS to HHS food.
🤷‍♂️👍

[errant knoll]

As a compromise

[shy marlin]

Hear me out, vh and hard should not rely on pure number changes to increase difficulty

[errant knoll]

Like number changes to difficulty is such a lazy way to do difficulty anyway

[gray sand]

GET OUT OF HERE WITH THAT LOGIC

[azure yacht]

but simpler and easier

[shy marlin]

🚪 cya

[supple solstice]

ideally yes, but I sincerely doubt they would dedicate any amount of actual dev time to something that is entirely optional... so just adjusting some of those values is a more realistic fix

and making blocking more useful is a good fix

[shy marlin]

If there’s a 1.1 update I’d love for it to be a world modifiers revisit

[heady parcel]

That's why I like moar enemies and higher (random) chance of said enemies being starred. The greatest fights I have had in this game, both the ones I survived and the ones I did not survive, have been those when I've been messing up one encounter and managed to get into even more trouble trying to get away from the first. Classic example: Exploring Mistlands, run into a starred seeker soldier - no worries I just kite him around and hit his vulnerable butt - enter two seekers, one of them starred - oh bugger this is too much, better make tactical retreat - RUN - HOOOONK - dangit, big fly-bug deploys disgusting ground bugs - RUN FASTER - get into plains - oh a flock of lox - CHAOS - oooh deathsquitos - EVEN MORE CHAOS. Somehow, through luck and profuse use of my atgeir, I managed to survive that scenario - and I will NEVER forget it...

[supple solstice]

I would also love more music... I've resorted to downloading a mod that replaces the music with skyrim/morrowind soundtrack because I got tired of hearing the same exact one song each biome has (especially you black forest)

[errant knoll]

The ideal world modifiers for me would let me toggle the drop rate of just stone, wood, black marble - all the stuff which you build with 99% of the time and whose contribution to weapons or crafting stations is mostly a token contribution, while having the rest (food, coal, metal, etc etc) totally unaffected

[silk token]

know what i'd really love too, idk if this was said, but spawn rate and spawn limit. like you hit that ancient bark tree in the swamp and you see ohhhhhhmygod HOW many eyes are walking toward me??

[merry pebble]

Why would you just not turn the music in game off and turn the music you want on youtube or spotify?

[supple solstice]

because the music remains dynamic in game... each biome has specific tracks that fit it and things like boss music and such are untouched

[errant knoll]

Oh, and the modifier doesn't affect grausten

[supple solstice]

so mistlands has a lot of morrowind tracks because it fits better than the more "foresty" skyrim tracks

[errant knoll]

Because hell, enough grausten drops already lol

[supple solstice]

I can also just configure which tracks play myself, so in effect it is not dissimilar it is just more convenient

[gray sand]

Because that is what works for all games in existence and yet in every single game people ask for either different music or a way to put their Spotify in the game as if it is somehow different 😁

[merry pebble]

Sev... They explained it fine... Why this?

[gray sand]

This is what I want for Meadows actually.

Like I do 100% want different attacks for all other enemies when you scale difficulty, but for Meadows just bump up the number of greylings and we good.

[gray sand]

I ate a spicy svinstew... sorry. 😞

[sly oyster]

Anyone have a seed request, I've found myself rolling seeds during downtime at my work lol

[supple solstice]

I explained pretty precisely how its different lol

[prime elk]

is there a way to prevent enemies from damaging trees and rocks? I don't care about protecting my structures, just trying to prevent the enemies in ashlands from wrecking the terrain and spawning tons of objects

if anyone knows a particular mod I'd appreciate it

[gray sand]

Would have to ask in #mods-discussion as there is no vanilla way I know of.

[merry pebble]

Folks in #mods-discussion might be able to help on the mod end 🙂 but ashlands trees quite often just break on their own since the cinders burn them

[fossil delta]

Yeah, I found that interesting. Then if you don't harvest them, they turn into coal, or just disappear.

[pliant radish]

They’re a great source of coal

[merry pebble]

I would rather have the ashwood 😄

[fossil delta]

Me too.

I have plenty of Surtling spawners for coal.

[gray sand]

Seeker Meat is a great source of coal 🙂

[merry pebble]

Coins are too 😄

[tacit crystal]

Something something money sink Bog Witch something something.

[merry pebble]

My go to is fishing bait

[neon magnet]

Just had a crash (video driver methinks) while building and had a weird rollback. Not too bad though, but threw me off. Been thinking about a potential different settings playthrough... like nomap, noportal but also no raids and less skill loss on death. To be a chill, immersive setting with more of a "get lost in the world" type of thing.

Any thoughts? Settings you use and would recommend for me? 🙂

[gray sand]

No map will definitely help with "get lost" 😄

But it sounds very chill.

[neon magnet]

I heard someone (a youtuber, can't remember which) say that a lot of players end up looking at the map more than the interesting, beautiful in-game world and I felt attacked 😄

[gray sand]

Never had that issue, personally 🤷‍♂️

[merry pebble]

Same, while i do look on the map quite often i look at the surrounding nature much more 😄

[neon magnet]

I suppose nomap is a fairly extreme measure if that's the issue

[silk token]

once i tried no map i noticed how awesome the great tree was and even noticed different star constellations, you by necessity have to notice neat things about the landscape, shapes of mountains, etc

[gray sand]

I use the map to tell me how to run back home when I've been out for a long time. But even then it's a "check every 5 minutes to make sure I am running in the correct direction" as we do not have a compass.

[silk token]

once you get good at it you can do that by the tree or by mountains etc

[merry pebble]

There is one compass in the sky 😏

[gray sand]

Um... I just going to say "you don't know how far I can run in a day" rather than take this as a "git gud" type of message.

[gray sand]

That's a sextant. 😉

[rotund parrot]

My hammer works as a compass

[silk token]

the tree is pretty big

[quiet lantern]

When is deep north?

[merry pebble]

Nobody knows yet 🙂

[quiet lantern]

😫

Do the devs know?

[merry pebble]

They probably could have some estimations when it might be done, but with loads of work still before them it can easily change, so basically no i would say 🙂

[quiet lantern]

😑

[gray sand]

This isn't a AAA studio. They aren't going to hard-force a release date whether the game is done or not.

[trail pelican]

thank Odin

[mortal talon]

I think the closest forecast is in the middle of next year.

[merry pebble]

Meh, all guesses are just guesses 😄 we have no official info about the release date.

[mortal talon]

Of course! It's just a personal guess from me.

[merry pebble]

Ah, i thought you are quoting a date someone somewhere guessed 😄 my bad then

[mortal talon]

I absolutely know I don't have anything concrete but I still really like to stipulate

[merry pebble]

"Stipulate"? 👀

[mortal talon]

I probably used the wrong word? Sorry, English is not my first language.

[merry pebble]

Ah, i think you meant "speculate" 😄
-# And no worries, for lot of us it isnt first language either

[quiet lantern]

Thank you for speculating. I’m trying to plan our next play through.

[mortal talon]

Omg I always wanted to say that hahaha

[mortal talon]

I could be wrong too, as I made this prediction based on Hervor's videos and it's been a long time since they posted anything.

[merry pebble]

Tbh roughly half of 2026 would somewhat corespond with my own speculations, but i am more basing mine on how long Ashlands took to make and adding some time to that since it will not only be biome update but also 1.0 🙂

[rotund parrot]

Stipulate is definitely a word though, but speculate was the appropriate word

[heady parcel]

Does the stone oven wink out if it's raining, or will it burn regardless of weather?

[merry pebble]

I think regardless of weather 🤔

But would have to go test to be sure

[heady parcel]

Awesome, thanks

[rotund parrot]

No clue to be honest, always had an indoor kitchen with the ovens on the other side of the fire

[heady parcel]

I'm building a large chimney and putting the oven next to the hearth, just wondering if I need a roof piece to shield the oven too. Will try without, no biggie to put in afterwards

[rotund parrot]

It kind of make sense that it doesn't need to be covered

[heady parcel]

It has a very narrow little smoke vent so yeah

[silk token]

pretty sure it doesnt need a roof, ive made their little oven butts sticking out the side of a stone wall to vent before

[rocky sandal]

I put my hearth over the top of two ovens, works just fine

[gray sand]

My kitchens are almost always in the basement.

[quiet lantern]

Oh ok so they’re leaving alpha same time they release deep north?

[merry pebble]

Leaving early access, yes, Deep North will be 1.0 🙂

[glossy heath]

alpha and beta are long over yea

[gray sand]

So this is... gamma testing? 😛

[glossy heath]

i mean fair, i'm sure many (or even most) definitions of "beta" would include this period 😅
i'm just going with the words the devs use

[merry pebble]

Yep, if this was beta we would all have Odin capes 😄

[gray sand]

NO CAPES!

[merry pebble]

You dont have to use them 😉

[chrome badge]

Sorry am at work couldn't respond, I think the frustration likely lies in expecting things to work in a way you've previously experienced. There's a degree of communication from the developers when you are required to dodge more in harder difficulties, not a lack of forethought.

[gray sand]

I use them on armor stands for decoration 😏

[merry pebble]

But i thought "NO CAPES!" 😏

[gray sand]

Decoration is different than me saving inventory slots 😄

Seeker Armor also is just absolute drip with no cape.

[merry pebble]

I will agree to that for sure 😄

[silk token]

hehe, i did the same this run once i had wolf chest i didn’t use cape for inventory 😅 but once i get vile armor i’ll have to wear it again..

[gray sand]

Bear armor not needing one just makes it even easier to go Rag -> Bear -> Fenris -> Seeker
None of which need capes 😄

[merry pebble]

Meh, i dont like skipping armors 😄

[gray sand]

But I am fairly certain they are doing armor-inventory when they do full release. So capes won't take up an inventory slot anymore.

[shy marlin]

WHAT

[gray sand]

Is there a Vile armor?

[merry pebble]

Yep

[undone forum]

Smiffe...... why can't I send links in fanart.... now I can't release the public draft of my Valheim based book..

[gray sand]

So Rag -> Deer - > Bear -> Root -> Fenris -> Vile -> Seeker.

No skipping. No capes. 😄

[gray sand]

Don't act surprised.

[merry pebble]

Nono, he just cant hear very well 😄

[shy marlin]

oh i just couldn't hear you

[gray sand]

NO CAPES

That is as loud as I can say it.

[merry pebble]

I know of possible way to say it louder, but that would not be apreciated i think 😄

[gray sand]

^

[pliant hatch]

You skipped troll armor. 😠

[gray sand]

Bear is just outright better. 🤷‍♂️

[shy marlin]

what is balance 🗣️ 🔥

[gray sand]

Tightrope update will add balance mechanics.

[pliant hatch]

Well, I think the right balance is you defeating Fader after 20 ingame days, while I haven't defeated the Queen after 550 days.......

[shy marlin]

i don't think people realize i don't speedrun the game

[pliant hatch]

Oh, I do realize that.

I also realize you're 250 times a better player as I am.

And I realize we're both enjoying this game.

[shy marlin]

and this is related to balance how

[pliant hatch]

The fact that it's hard to balance a game and the things in it, as it will always be too easy to one player and too hard for another. Even when the same settings are used.

[shy marlin]

That's semi true but you can make very obvious footsteps in the right direction

[tacit crystal]

Aren't ⚖️ used for balancing things?

[shy marlin]

not dragon scales 😏

[undone forum]

What if I made a scale out of dragon scales? Then they would be used for balancing things

[pliant hatch]

I agree, but the problem isn't the balancing itself, but the moment it has to be done.

When you add things to a game with an entire line of development worked out, it's easy to balance.
The armors we have in the game are a good example for that.

Many players went from (partially) Rags -> Leather -> Troll -> Root -> Fenris -> Padded -> Mage armor. And usually mixed pieces to get the best out of it.
Or instead of going from Troll to Root, they went to Iron -> Wolf -> Padded -> Carapace or mage armor.

The moment something got added after a line of items is complete, the balancing becomes a problem.

And the Bear armor we have now is a good example of it, as it makes Bronze completely obsolete even before it can be used and troll near obsolete.

[shy marlin]

Eh I'd just argue that irongate sucks at adding new things to previous biomes and actually making them balanced

You can implement new things into old content and not have them be dumb op lol

[barren whale]

it can't possibly be that hard to make hard/vh difficult without breaking your own parry mechanic

you could increase block and parry power to keep up with harder enemies (they'll still hurt just as bad if you fuck up)
speed modifier already exists
you could increase enemy cones of vision and hearing range
you can increase starred spawnrates
you could increase enemy spawns in general
you can allow enemies to see through mist (don't do this)
you can turn off circulate while charging in monsterAI

all of these are already existing global keys or fields in the game

[rotund parrot]

That kind of balancing and balancing the world modifiers isn't too hard, it's mostly changing some values, but the later I think really needs work

[barren whale]

for casual low farming playthrough with some metaslaving

naked -> troll hood -> root chest -> fenris legs -> padded helm -> feather cape -> embla chest/legs + flametal helm

[rotund parrot]

I just want smaller increments in difficulty and the 1.5x to actually be 1.5x, it cannot be that hard to have a 50% chance to get a duplicate on single drops

[barren whale]

they'd have to add in the RNG to a bunch of shit that currently doesn't have rng lol

maybe they could implement it as 1x with 200 farming skill

[rotund parrot]

or just remove the 1.5x and leave 2x as they are essentially the same thing

[shy marlin]

What are the things that are actually 1.5x and not 2x on 1.5x? Trees?

[rotund parrot]

Trees, troll hide, roots ...

[tacit crystal]

Anything else that doesn't normally give only 1.

[shy marlin]

Word it's been a while since i've messed around with resource modifiers

[barren whale]

yea it's just round up
the thing is all the bottleneck mats drop 1 so it's effectively 2x with fewer building mats available

[pliant hatch]

Greydwarf Eyes, mined ores, coins are a few.
All gems you find in the various crypts the moment there's more than one.
All items dropping from a starred creature.

[tacit crystal]

You get resources like ores and wood 1,5x amount as expected, but anything that would normally grant 1 of the item, like all forageables, surtling cores, etc grant 2 with the 1,5x multiplier.

[chrome badge]

Again, it is definitely just your opinion that it's broken, as you said it can't be that difficult, which should communicate to you the intention behind it. Hard comes with a new set of challenges, some of those including combat being less familiar.

Don't play hard if it's too hard. 👍

[shy marlin]

Eh I know many people that can absolutely dominate hard / vh but find it unenjoyable because they're "parry gamers" and they don't find atgeir gameplay that fun

[chrome badge]

That's all well and good but they mentioned having difficulty with moving around quickly and on time

[barren whale]

lmao
weird take that same-biome shields not working against non-starred enemies at max skill and HP food
is my opinion

[rocky sandal]

I've been fishing a bunch of herrings cause i want to collect huge fish
And i had an idea.
we get iron ore from fishing these suckers up right? a bit random but its not a bad chunk of metal.
What if, I toss a herring back in the water, and catch him again? Do i get the bonus drop from the fish already caught?
The answer is YES. CAN CONFIRM. INFINITE IRON FROM THIS SINGLE FISH. Im building him an aquarium right now, bless his little ferrous guts.

[foggy glacier]

oh, are the drops tied to the fish?

[light moat]

Yep, sure can 👀

[rocky sandal]

the type, yes. Biome specific, troll fish give you copper, maybe tin?

[shy marlin]

📈

[rocky sandal]

This feels illegal

[foggy glacier]

I keep forgetting you can get onion seeds from coral cod, way before you need to go up in the mountain.

[rocky sandal]

I've been living in the swamp without opening any crypts for two weeks, so i have like 16 abomination trophies, Im gonna get SO much iron, magneto wont be able to take it from me.

[humble prairie]

anyone else having troubles with servers atm??? directs me here https://www.dockerstatus.com/ not sure what this means

[fossil delta]

I've been doing fine on G Portal all day.

[scarlet fossil]

if you are using a paid hosting provider report the issue to them

[humble prairie]

appreciate you @scarlet fossil got in touch with bisect, theyre gonna notify me when its fixed. they gaqve me an extra day for the delay!

[scarlet fossil]

bepinex is a mod loader, not a hosting provider

[humble prairie]

*bisect my b

got em confiused

dsylexctic

[steel mica]

The increase starred enemies is already a thing, ive been encountering alot of 1 star greydwarf sometimes 1 star brute and shaman vs in normal combat difficulty

also let me just hop in the conversation 🤔

Troll one shotting you is a new thing to me 💀

[gray sand]

Starred % rate needs to be pulled out of difficulty and made into it's own slider.
Because I know plenty of people who would welcome the difficulty bump of "normal with more stars" compared to fully bumping all enemies to hard.
Or even "hard with more stars" compared to bumping everything to VH.

[steel mica]

You'd atleast survive one hit from a troll on normal difficulty but on vh its a different story

[shy marlin]

At least for me stars are a lame way of difficulty

[steel mica]

Starred enemies on their own with default combat difficulty is already a menace so having the ability to control wether you want both hard hitting and more starred enemies, or more starred enemies but default combat, etc

[gray sand]

Are you saying "so having the ability..." == good? or bad?

[steel mica]

kinda of a mix of both I like the simple, "you want hard or very hard" no too many options just straight to not masochist or being a masochist

[dense bloom]

valheim needs to add some friggin dragons yo

[gray sand]

It has 2 full-on dragons and many drakes.

[dense bloom]

i didnt frigging know this yo

are they ridable yo

[steel mica]

They probably havent encountered them

[dense bloom]

they needa add some frigging ridable dragons yo

[gray sand]

The % increase in the difficulty is only like 5-10% iirc.

Wanting to be on normal with like 40% would be a difficulty spike without needing all enemies buffed to hard/very hard.

I also want to answer the person but their continued use of "yo" as a period stops me from doing that.

[dense bloom]

friggin ridable dragons yo.

[silk token]

actually... if you time your jump right you can ride it a bit

[dense bloom]

someone get this guy hired rn

SOMEONE GET THIS GUY A JOB AT NASA

[gray sand]

Suddenly I am missing the girlfriend bots we had earlier...

[dense bloom]

watch me hit a embed failed

[shy marlin]

🧙‍♀️ ⌛ @light moat

[silk token]

not sure it's hard liquor or coke happening right now

[dense bloom]

https://tenor.com/view/speed-looking-down-disappointed-gif-10039657752664545881

predicted

[silk token]

i think hard liquor

[dense bloom]

frigging drinkin hu

who drinking frigging you

[steel mica]

So what im getting here is just enemies being harder in general but not to the point they instantly vaporize you from one attack ?

[gray sand]

Having more hard enemies while still having normal enemies vs. all enemies being harder.

[steel mica]

ah I see

[empty cradle]

started digging a pit to tame sum wolves got 3 tf down and dead center of a silver vein i wasnt even lookin for 😄

barely got the hole started around the vein and a 1 star fell in ontop of me

swo night time wolf spawns only tame at night ??

[foggy glacier]

they only start eating at night. Once you see the yellow hearts, they'll continue taming through the day

that is specific to the night spawns

[empty cradle]

guess i just missed the dropping of the food by a minute

[dense bloom]

aurrrr

[empty cradle]

now i gotta sit here all day so the 1 star doesnt despawn

[dense bloom]

bear so easy to parry man

[foggy glacier]

yeap.

[foggy glacier]

easy to just move out of his way, too.

their animations are so long.

[dense bloom]

that is indeed truthful

and on higher ground he just misses..

[empty cradle]

ive killed about 40 bears no trophy yet but first vile i killed trophy :S

[undone forum]

You are getting pretty dang unlucky then, took me 12 bears for my first. Still no vile trophy but I’ve only killed 2 so kinda expected

[knotty spade]

Are bears in the same faction as trolls, or am I just unlucky that they don't seem to be hostile or even capable of injuring each other? x)

[chrome badge]

Same faction 😛

[knotty spade]

Alright x) I feel like that doesn't make the most sense, but at least now I know there's no point trying to get them to fight each other when I get jumped by both at the same time 😂

[chrome badge]

Forests would be getting leveled left and right if they attacked eachother

[knotty spade]

That's true xD And I suppose it might be rather unpleasant if a bear took out a troll off in the distance while you're still in the stone age and not expecting troll raids to be enabled yet

[chrome badge]

I think defeating Elder is also a prerequisite, but even still not a bad point if you've somehow managed to avoid trolls unintentionally. 😛

[empty cradle]

ok its midnight and still no hearts on the 1 star wolf ???

[chrome badge]

Is it eating? Does it have a large space to roam?

[empty cradle]

it was kinda stuck in the silver vein so i just went to free him another 5 wolves spawned in also another 1 star and killed me lol

[chrome badge]

Ah, my guess is that it was stuck pathing to the food, it can sometimes be the case where pathing is strange and even though the food is beside them, they want to wrap out and back towards it.

[blissful ibex]

I'm sorry what

troll raids? trolls can raid you?

[chrome badge]

Yes, you'll want to have sufficient defenses before defeating the 2nd boss.

[empty cradle]

ok now he can move around he is taming

[knotty spade]

Yep! After the second boss is defeated, AND if at least one troll has died, they can raid you. Though I think it's usually just 2 or maybe 3 trolls for the whole raid?

[empty cradle]

dafuk i got 2 of my chickens here on the mountain with me

aparently i need to turn off that setting in the mod lol

[visual sparrow]

Let’s just say you might want to fortify your base before you beat the black forest boss

[empty cradle]

well taming wolves is only half as boring with the new taming potions but still lol

[glad night]

For those who responded to me when I asked about the ||bear||. I did get one with my trusty knife. Had to upgrade to a copper from the flint though haha

[stray shoal]

can xbox play with modded people

[scarlet fossil]

it depends on the mods, some are client only while some require everyone to have them

[fossil delta]

I've gotten up to 6, but you have to kill them fast enough to spawn that many by the end of the raid time frame.

So kill them slower if you want fewer.

[knotty spade]

Fair xD

[blissful ibex]

already beat him unfortunately

elder was a lot easier than expected

trolls shouldn't be too bad hopefully as long as they don't destroy my base

[gray sand]

Killing Elder with torches is fun.

[smoky quarry]

big troll with big stick will come to test your base

[barren jacinth]

anyone got an heavily modded server that's active right now that they'd recommend ?

[empty cradle]

why is it when im at my base storms last most of the day or longer but out in the ocean they only 30 seconds

day 75 no serpents yet

[steel mica]

just rng

[steel mica]

Killing everything with fire is fun

Surtlings included

[gray sand]

#1024264966712340510

[barren jacinth]

i've looked thru a ton of them and didn't really find what I was looking for, hence why I'm asking here in a last attempt @gray sand

[gray sand]

If not in the discord list, best bet is to make your own post in that channel of what you're looking for and people will find you.

[sage quiver]

Troll raids are the absolute worst, at least before mistlands. I've lost multiple bases to them.

[sage quiver]

Is it tho? Not sure if it's been changed but weather used to stick to a pre-ordained schedule.

[chrome badge]

You can in theory have endless rain if you roll that weather type forever, the probability of that is just very very low.

[shy marlin]

what

Weather is pre determined

https://jerekuusela.github.io/valheim-weather/

[chrome badge]

The wiki lists weather types as probabilities that differ for each biome.

[shy marlin]

That’s just not true

Weather is predetermined and not random

See the GitHub it has data on every biome for every time

Like Day 2 meadows has fog

Day 6 meadows has your first thunder storm

[sage quiver]

That day 2 meadow fog is SUPER annoying.

[chrome badge]

That's odd, why is it written this way in the wiki?

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Environment#Weather

[sage quiver]

I'm guessing it's the percentage of schedule dedicated to the weather type. Which is your probability of encountering it.

[shy marlin]

Yea

Which is very misleading

[chrome badge]

But does that imply there's a final day?

Will weather start again after x day?

[shy marlin]

I think somewhere the weather series loops

[chrome badge]

Interesting

[sage quiver]

It must.

[shy marlin]

If I were the wiki guys I’d change that page

[sage quiver]

I wish the weather schedule was a bit more seasonal.

[chrome badge]

Yeah, the wiki is definitely not explaining how they achieved that probability

The github is letting me view day 150 000 so far

Apparently day 10 million is a thing as well... I'm not so sure there's a final day, maybe this is an average?

Apparently a lot of the wiki editors are in this discord, I've just no idea who

[sage quiver]

It's definately not an average. For those of who've done dozens of replays, that d2 fog and d6 storm are definately a thing.

[chrome badge]

Not the weather itself, just the wiki information

[sage quiver]

Oh yeah, maybe.

[chrome badge]

This is the type of thing that makes me question the validity of the information on the wiki entirely 😛

[sage quiver]

Right?

Dude, bear rugs blocking pathing is the most annoying thing ever. They look so good but I'll probably never use one.

[rain flare]

Not to mention how damn hard it is to get a trophy for it

[steel mica]

Ah interesting never knew that

[chrome badge]

Scales for wiki editor please 🙏

[sage quiver]

I didn't find it difficult. Got 2 trophies killing ~12 regular and 2 1-star bears. Funny though... in this playthrough I just CANNOT get a drake trophy.

[shy marlin]

Not a chance