valheim-chat

[pliant radish]

You can parry anything* with enough health and a good enough shield

[gray sand]

There are some attacks that are unparryable due to there not being enough hp in the game.

[fast stone]

so my next step now is probably.. mining tin and stuff?

[fast stone]

aw man

[gray sand]

Depends.

[untold sinew]

30 mins

[gray sand]

If you're confident in dodgerolling a very telegraphed stomp attack, I would find Elder before mining.

[pine fable]

Bruh no wonder it feels like its been ages

[untold sinew]

Yeah

[fast stone]

ive had this game since it game out and always been scared to go beyond meadows

[gray sand]

Because Elder's power makes mining easier.
So personally I would kill him first and then use that to make the bronze slog faster.

[fast stone]

and eikthyr lmao

[untold sinew]

I recommend taming 2 at the same time so you can reproduce them

[pliant hatch]

There's a potion you can craft with certain items from the Bog Witch, which cuts the taming time in half.

[fast stone]

is elder super strong..? is he in the black forest?

[gray sand]

He is the black forest boss, yes.

And strong is relative to how much you can dodge 😉

[fast stone]

oh man my black forest biome feels wonky

[gray sand]

Everything is chill till a bear walks up on you.

[fast stone]

is bow and arrow with fire still good enough for him? hes not gonna summon trolls on me right? 😅

or bears

[untold sinew]

Go in burial chamber

[fast stone]

especially bears, they take forever

[fast stone]

burial chamber?

[gray sand]

No boss summons anything until Mistlands 😄

[untold sinew]

Yes

[gray sand]

Wait.. Bonemass does but you can one-shot those.

[fast stone]

do bosses stay spawned after you summon them

[untold sinew]

Exept roots

[untold sinew]

Wdym

[gray sand]

Yes.

Until you kill them.

[fast stone]

so i should probably avoid it if im not comfortable ill be able to kill them then

[untold sinew]

Yes

[pine fable]

Yeahh i didnt bring any with me tho 😮‍💨

[pine fable]

Yup

[gray sand]

Yes, my recommendation is if you are confident in dodging.

[fast stone]

i cant dodge very well i misclick and jump randomly a lot tbh

[polar osprey]

I'm telling ya, fires are the number 1 offensive tool early game 🙂

[fast stone]

i believe you 😭

im making a dear hide cape
😄

[polar osprey]

Just make sure you don't smoke yourself out of a burial chamber....

[fast stone]

oof

id definitely end up doing that ngl

[polar osprey]

It's super tight quarters so it happens quick! Once you get beat claws you don't need to use them in chambers anymore though. Easier to just spam attack!

[fast stone]

i need one more bear paw and i can make those

i dont think i can handle fighting another bear tho that took me a good like 20 mins just to kill the one

and i cheesed it hard by staying on a roof of my building lmao

[polar osprey]

Fire arrows and a tall rock?

[smoky quarry]

All you have to do is hold a torch...

[polar osprey]

Fires also work good for bears...Just don't burn your base down.

[fast stone]

for a bear?

[smoky quarry]

for a bear

[untold sinew]

Get on top of it and super attack with an axe

[nocturne wolf]

Bears avoid fire

[fast stone]

whaaaatr

[smoky quarry]

go at the bear with a torch, see what happens

[fast stone]

need to find my torch...

[smoky quarry]

Tab and craft 1

[gray sand]

Killing Elder with torches is fun tbh.

[untold sinew]

Resin wood

[gray sand]

Takes 7 iirc.

[fast stone]

can you resummon bosses after killing them

[polar osprey]

Hammer is low key best weapon in early game.

[gray sand]

Yes.

[smoky quarry]

torch left, sword etc on right. Start smash

[untold sinew]

Yes

[fast stone]

is their any point to farming eikthyr

[gray sand]

Killing Eik 1 more time so you can hang the trophy at home. Otherwise no.

[nocturne wolf]

Only if you need more than three pickaxes (you don't)

[untold sinew]

Exept getting alot of coal in the obliterater

[fast stone]

obliterator?

you guys are awesome btw thanks for all the advice

[untold sinew]

(throphy gives 1 )

[whole viper]

its late game stuff

[fast stone]

o

[untold sinew]

Haldor sell it

[fast stone]

i have cape, edna would be mad

who is haldor

[smoky quarry]

you just worry about that torch

[untold sinew]

Trader

[pine fable]

Ohh the pain.. Morgen came in and killed my one star asksvin JUST after it finished taming..

[fast stone]

ok... im gonna head into the black forest towards a dungeon with a torch

[untold sinew]

Good idea

[smoky quarry]

...rested & with a sword or such main weap

[fast stone]

i wont be obliterated right? 💀

[untold sinew]

No

[smoky quarry]

on an empty stomach

[fast stone]

o i need to make more food thats right

[untold sinew]

Do you have cauldron

[fast stone]

no

[untold sinew]

Craft with tin

[fast stone]

oof

[smoky quarry]

you don`t need food

[untold sinew]

Smelt tin

[fast stone]

gotta find a tin thingy then

[untold sinew]

In smelter

Need sutluing cores

[polar osprey]

If you decide to mod then you can rekill bosses over for extra material, but you're new so I would stick with vanilla valheim.

[pliant hatch]

If you got bear meat, put that on the cooking spit. It's about as good as a Black Forest type of food.
And easier to achieve.

[untold sinew]

Found In burial chamber

[smoky quarry]

go woods at night with a torch, hit a tree once

[fast stone]

do i hit the tree with the torch

[untold sinew]

You need fire hasard

[marble orchid]

I shouldn't have gone to the skeleton dungeon

[fast stone]

i got a skeleton trophy and ive no idea how

[fast stone]

oh goodness why 💀

i should craft a shield rq

[untold sinew]

Yes

[marble orchid]

Me and my spear couldn't handle all of them

[untold sinew]

Spear on skellet is not a good idea

Use mace

Deals x2 damage on skellet

[marble orchid]

Where tf am I supposed to get a mace

[untold sinew]

Bronze mace

[fast stone]

neither of us have bronze yet lol

[untold sinew]

Or club

[orchid locust]

yeah, was about to say you might need iron, but I always forget you also get a bronze one

[tacit crystal]

Troll deals more damage than bear, so it's usually much harder to parry with wooden shield, better try with the next possible buckler.
Weaker attacks of bear can be parried even with quality 1 wooden shield, which are their swings with one paw.

[marble orchid]

Yeah and guess where are the cores at

[pliant hatch]

Wooden club. Upgrade with the skelly bones. But even a lvl 1 wooden club is able to kill a skelly.

[polar osprey]

How you get a macro without having bronze? I guess meadows has a wood club!

[untold sinew]

Yes

[fast stone]

macro?

[untold sinew]

For 6 wood

[fast stone]

cores?

[orchid locust]

I'd still use a sword in close quarters with skellies inside tombs, though

[untold sinew]

True

[orchid locust]

the mace is really not that suited for small spaces

[marble orchid]

the funny hot squares

[untold sinew]

Mace doesn't have alot Of durability

[fast stone]

so i have to time a block to parry, like dark souls?

[whole viper]

yep

but its very forgiving

[orchid locust]

it's actually quite a forgiving timeframe

[whole viper]

unlike... dark souls

[orchid locust]

to the point you can even parry two different attacks with different timings with a single parry

[marble orchid]

Yeah a club does NOT damage skeletons

[pliant hatch]

It does.
Club do blunt damage.
Guess what the weakness of skelletons is?

[marble orchid]

Well if 1 damage is with their weakness than it'll be a very long fight for me

[fast stone]

wait should i be making a campfire in the dungeon instead of carrying a torch

[whole viper]

well

the smoke is a problem

but its a... questionable plan

[fast stone]

axes do slash damage?

[whole viper]

yes

[fast stone]

what are skeletons resistant too 💀

[polar osprey]

Mace*

[whole viper]

u should use a club

skeletons take damage to blunt damage

[orchid locust]

they're resistant to pierce, as you'd expect from hard bones

[whole viper]

but first try to level it up

[polar osprey]

Skeletons are resistant to stabbing because they're just bones. So you have to SMASH

[fast stone]

ah damn now i gotta run back to ym base

[pliant hatch]

Resistant to pierce damage. Neutral to slash damage, I think.
And weak to blunt damage.

In other words, bows and spears aren't the best choices, a flint knife is so-so, but the club and later the bronze mace rule.

[fast stone]

💀

[marble orchid]

So you need a mace to effectively kill skeletons in the burial chambers to get the cores needed to make a smelter to craft a mace to effectively kill skeletons in the burial chambers...

[fast stone]

can i risk it with a level 2 axe

[polar osprey]

Just use fires...

[whole viper]

not rlly, your axe is probably gonna be fine for now

[fast stone]

ok

[orchid locust]

yeah, the axe is better than nothing

[polar osprey]

Bear claws work great too

[fast stone]

im gonna axe them then lmao

[whole viper]

a torch may help too

[pliant hatch]

Better use a flint axe if you got that one.
It's doing more damage than a stone axe.

[orchid locust]

I don't think he'd have bear claws already, and by the time he gets them, he might not have that much of a hard time with skellies

[fast stone]

wtf a ghost?

[whole viper]

ok

and its a one star

[fast stone]

should i run LOL

[orchid locust]

unless you have a shield and know how to parry, yes, run

[whole viper]

well, there ir a lot of mobs, maybe u should

[fast stone]

wtaf LOL

i didnt know there were ghost thats terrifying

[whole viper]

they are, specially after the ''rework"

[pliant hatch]

Try to kill it nevertheless.
It drops something that can be used to practice your fighting skills.

[silk token]

its possible you’re hitting walls which reduces your damage, try to lure skeletons to open rooms. OR, a flint axe secondary attack doesnt lose damage if you hit multiple things. good for hallways

[fast stone]

ok i survived...

[whole viper]

hell yeah, nice nice

[fast stone]

what is this place

is it a maze

[whole viper]

its a big dungeon thingy

[fast stone]

oh dear lord im gonna get cooked

[orchid locust]

yeah, ||TWIG|| is the goat in this game: I planted down a couple and swang a wooden sword at them until it was broken and I levelled up 15->24.5

[whole viper]

naah, just remember where is the main room with the staircase

[fast stone]

surtling core

[whole viper]

thats the thing you're after

[pliant hatch]

Not if you're going to use "right hand exploration". Or 'left hand exploration"; whatever you prefer.

[fast stone]

right hand... left hand..?

[whole viper]

its like, only follow the wall on your left or right... isn't it?

[pliant hatch]

Keep following the wall at your right hand or left hand. When doing so you will make turns, but always end up at your starting point, which is the entrance

[fast stone]

im directionally challenged

[whole viper]

oh crap

[marble orchid]

I just rushed them instead because I couldn't stop them from spawning if I lured them out into the main room at the entrance

[pliant hatch]

In that case, just run around until you see light at the end of the tunnel. If it doesn't flikker, it's the exit.
If it does flikker, it's a torch and you need to keep on running.

[fast stone]

all the noise is just ambience right

[whole viper]

yes

[fast stone]

not something terrifying about to murk me

[whole viper]

most of it

[fast stone]

ok cool

[heady parcel]

So am I, I get lost in my own house - but sticking to the shield-arm or sword-arm rule works fine for me too, it's such a basic rule that even confused brains like mine can hack it.

[fast stone]

frack

i died

honestly i suck at rolling @whole viper

i always misclick and jump

[whole viper]

ahaha thats fine

the problem is, there ir usually a lot of mobs

so its kinda easy to get overwhelmed while playing alone

when i started i died alot in those dungeons

well, probably cause im bad at the game, but either way

[fast stone]

im terrible

[silk token]

oh, yeah definitely charge the spawners if possible. but in general in this game remember most weapons lose damage if you hit walls, terrain, rocks, trees, etc. except swords and 2 hand axe

[fast stone]

are they just gonna chilling on top of my stuff

no no honey

i saw one beehive somewhere and i didnt have a bow and arrow

wish i marked it

[marble orchid]

Just jump and hit it

[silk token]

its very possible to run or even walk away from a skeletons swing instead of dodging. moving 2 steps back is op vs skeletons

[marble orchid]

Oh wow the Elder is FAR

But what matters is that I got enough cores to make the smelter, yippie

[fast stone]

i didnt realize how low i was lol @whole viper

yeah i need corewood but to scared to get corewood @whole viper lol

i think i died right next to the spawner @whole viper

[fast stone]

didnt know this

[heady parcel]

It's funny how the deer race gave up on trying to run away once grew up. Now that I no longer need their stuff, they just walk up to me and throw themselves on my weapons. Stupid creatures.

[fast stone]

@whole viper i forgot i need food for health

is there any other ways to get health

[heady parcel]

Nope, eating food is the most important core feature of the game. Improving your foods is more important than gear tbh.

Never go without, even greylings are dangerous and you have so little stamina you can't even run away...

So for example, don't put off making the cauldron or growing carrots if you haven't started that already, they are very important for progress.

@fast stone

[pliant radish]

The MOST important feature?

[heady parcel]

Yeah definitely, if you don't eat you won't get anywhere 😉

[pliant radish]

Won’t get anywhere without boats on a lot of maps either

Or without any weapons, or no tools

Or no building

[heady parcel]

Very true - but unless you're a sweaty hardcore gamer you will truly struggle to do any of those things if you walk around without food.

[polar osprey]

You'll still need hide later!

[tacit crystal]

Using better foods allows you use new weapons and tools more comfortably as each new set of weapons gradually need more stamina to use. Plus having more HP from better foods increases your blocking ability as the enemies get harder each biome.

[polar osprey]

Food is key but rested bonus is just as important

[heady parcel]

I mean yeah saying one thing or the other is "most" important is probably stupid since everything interacts. Point is - eating food and getting better foods as you progress is very important in Valheim.

[tacit crystal]

Maybe most important upgrades during each biome are the better foods?

If one wants to be technical.

[polar osprey]

I mean, you can't make the foods without the stations

[heady parcel]

It's always the first thing I worry about. New gear etc is fun, but figuring out what stuff goes into the cauldron to make me live longer takes priority 😄

[tacit crystal]

Nowadays some foods don't even need cauldron upgrades as they are made in preparation table.

[gray sand]

@fast stone you want the Configurations tab.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b_obmQ_F5u5p-2K0NvFNzL2aHWLauisve63lvOsoD54/edit#gid=0

[smoky quarry]

iron box + golem trophy = fridge

[heady parcel]

Got a chest full, I think I'll be fine haha ;D

[marble orchid]

wow why do wolves hit so hard man

I literally got 2 shot through my shield

[fast stone]

mary do you wanna play together sometime

[nocturne wolf]

Have you progressed far enough? Mountains are the fourth biome.

[marble orchid]

I'm just trying to find copper

[fast stone]

ooo ok

[heady parcel]

Big sharp teeth. They're pretty squishy too so often it is better to go on the offensive against them. Now what foods and gear were you using? When you are truly ready for the mountains they shouldn't eat you that quickly.

[heady parcel]

Yeah, don't go near the mountains then, you are not ready for them. Hacking copper close to a mountain can be dangerous, since the noise carries far and any wolves nearby on the mountain will come have a look.

[marble orchid]

man AGAIN I can't even take my items

[heady parcel]

Is it just one or more than one?

[marble orchid]

Okay I'll just run and take my stuff and find copper somwhere else

[marble orchid]

No but there's also a bear nearby

[heady parcel]

Oh dear

[nocturne wolf]

You could try to make them fight each other

[heady parcel]

Yeah, that might give you the chance to get your stuff and run away

[nocturne wolf]

If you hold a torch you should be able to lure the bear close without it killing you

[heady parcel]

What's the most sustainable chicken feed btw? Carrot seeds?

[merry pebble]

Any type of seeds really

[tacit crystal]

Tree seeds work too.

They also eat dandelion and barley.

[heady parcel]

More awkward to grow more though

[merry pebble]

Yeah, but you usually have quite a bit of beech seeds just laying around anyway 😄

[heady parcel]

Oh yes, they've eaten through a stack already

[merry pebble]

I personally pretty much only use them as chicken feed xDD

[heady parcel]

Hungry little critters

[tacit crystal]

Usually up to that point I end up having almost 2 full stacks of beech seeds during my playthroughs.

I only plant birch and oak.

[heady parcel]

Aye, I get a little less since I normally go after the sapling underbrush first and rarely fell grown trees other than to clear ground for a build.

[dark coyote]

same, also so I can see deer

[heady parcel]

Makes my meadows so pretty, they become like parks. And no lethal trunks threatening to pulp me when I am squishy

Yeah, visibility is a key factor. I can see those roaming fuling bands from afar. Granted, mostly thanks to some of them carrying torches, but still - with the underbrush intact you don't see them at all..

[fast stone]

what for

[gray sand]

It's the food spreadsheet? It has helpful information? 😭

[fast stone]

my bad 💀

im a little special

ive accomplished running through a little skelly dungeon for surtling cores and making stagbreaker

[polar osprey]

Stagbreaker is great for finding silver pre bone mass

[fast stone]

where would i find silver? would it be in the black forest

[polar osprey]

Colder...

[serene hollow]

it is only in the mountains

well you can get it in ashlands too but that is a long way off

[pine fable]

What’s gonna happen after deep north come’s out? Will there be any more big updates like it?

[fast stone]

do dungeons respawn surtling cores or change after a while?

[wintry basin]

Nope

[pine fable]

I believe the cores respawn dont they?

[serene hollow]

no just the mushrooms

[pine fable]

Oh alr

[fast stone]

what do i need for portals? i keep getting the greydwarf eyes

[wintry basin]

Eyes finewood surtling cores

[serene hollow]

2 surt cores, 20 finewood and 10 greydwarf eyes

[fast stone]

finewood?

[wintry basin]

Yes from birch trees, shipwrecks

[serene hollow]

Need a bronze axe to cut them down or a troll, whichever you find easiest.

[fast stone]

woof

[tacit crystal]

I wouldn't advice new player trying to find silver in non-intented way, better focus on progressing the game as intented.

[muted mortar]

I just recently made a post on Reddit about how to get access to Valheim and was removed for “Trying to Pirate the game even though I stated that i wasn’t pirating just looking how to play the game and someone offered to buy it for me and now I’ve been removed and blocked from posting even though SOMEONE ELSE offered up buy it for me

Any ideas on what to do ?

[tacit crystal]

Silver is higher tier metal found in 2 biomes forward, so don't worry about that yet.

[wintry basin]

If you want to get an idea on how to play the game there is plenty material to look at on YT

[muted mortar]

I’ve been watching gameplay and was thinking of getting it, but someone offered to buy it for me and now I’m not allowed to post on that Reddit anymore :/

[polar osprey]

If it's not intended they would have patched it out by now. Everyone is entitled to their playstyle. Playing full vanilla, modded or sitting on chairs to enter crypts. Have you killed a bear by sitting on top of a rock and shooting it? Is that the intended way the devs wanted you to kill bears? It's all about interpretation.

[muted mortar]

It kinda sucks, I can understand if I was spamming posts about getting the game for free but it was my first post and got banned :/

[wintry basin]

That's something you need to handle with reddit, not much we can do here about it

[tacit crystal]

Progression vise not intented way, which is why I wouldn't advice new players doing that to save them from the frustration of trying to find silver without the drop from 3rd boss.

[barren whale]

ehhh if it's someone's first playthrough I'm not gonna go and tell them all the niche tech skips and shit
that's just distracting from the experience mannn

[polar osprey]

First playthrough they might not want the mobs attacking their base because they killed the biome boss no?

[barren whale]

more importantly I'd definitely not tell some player in BF about silver

[fast stone]

ive made a cauldron

[gray sand]

🎊

[polar osprey]

Do you have carrots planted yet? That's huge if you do.

[fast stone]

where would i even get carrots

[fast stone]

ive already said idc about spoilers tbh

[tacit crystal]

Welcome the culinary adventures of 10th world.

[tacit crystal]

You can find seeds around the terrain in Black forest. White flowers.

[polar osprey]

You're looking for white pickable flowers in the black forest, and you need a cultivator to plant them.

[gray sand]

So swapping between Bronze and Iron trinket during a fight is pretty interesting tech.
Proc Bronze, and you've got 60s to proc Iron and swap back. 😄

[fast stone]

ooo

[fast stone]

how would i get a cultivator

[gray sand]

Bronze + Corewood.

[barren whale]

duuuude trinket swapping would be so fun if it were a bigger part of the game
you should try with the ones that refund stam/eitr

[polar osprey]

You haven't harvested core wood yet so you don't have the recipe

[fast stone]

i harvested corewood

i got it from a pine tree

[polar osprey]

You have your bronze already

[heady parcel]

Crikey what are the odds, this fuling village had two 2-star fulings and one starred zerker

[tacit crystal]

You do you, for me personally the first time was quite magical when I got to figure things out by myself. First time experience is only once for us all.

[polar osprey]

Do you have a smithy unlocked yet? I'm not sure if it's work bench or smithy.

[fast stone]

yeah im too scared

[tepid prawn]

not that unusual imo

[fast stone]

i just built a forge and i dont see a smithy anywhere on workbench or anything

[heady parcel]

Oh a couple of one-star little ones too

[polar osprey]

Forge* is what I mean by smithy.

[tepid prawn]

like i had one with 3 x 2 starred berserker, and 3 one starred normal fulings for instance, but i got 3000h haha and love the plains so do lots of fuling villages

[tepid prawn]

and you have made bronze yet?

[fast stone]

i havent made bronze yet ive to find more copper

[tepid prawn]

thats why its not unlocked yet then molly

[polar osprey]

5 bronze 5 corewood

[fast stone]

oo ok

ill hunt for more bronze

[tepid prawn]

dude you call things the wrong name stop lol

[polar osprey]

It's autocorrect. Deal with it on the last one.

[tepid prawn]

no offense just don't want to confuse new players too much haha

[fast stone]

what is ectoplasm for

[gray sand]

training dummy

[fast stone]

i got it from a ghostrr

[tacit crystal]

Slight correction, you hunt for copper and tin, which both are required for bronze.

[tepid prawn]

you will unlock it if you craft bronze nails, see the recipe i mean

[fast stone]

ye, does tin only spawn by water?

[gray sand]

yes

[heady parcel]

Bloody hell more than half the fulings in this village were starred, never seen that before

[fast stone]

does mining tin or copper make trolls come rumbling

[heady parcel]

Lots of BM tho

[gray sand]

Sound makes enemies come find you, so yes.

[tepid prawn]

not just trolls, a lot of things come investigate when someone makes noise

[wintry basin]

Mining always attracts enemies

[tacit crystal]

If they happen to be on range of the noise mining causes.

[fast stone]

rats

[polar osprey]

Just do it during the daytime.

[tacit crystal]

Trolls are rare spawns tho.

[tepid prawn]

once you got some bronze there is an amazing weapon also unlocked that deals with lots of creates relatively easily

[tacit crystal]

You will encounter more greydwarves during the mining.

[fast stone]

how do i summon the second boss guy? i found his thing in the dungeon

[gray sand]

Burn his young*.

[fast stone]

trolls chase me 😠

ive to burn the skeletons?

who are his young

theirs no chance of me accidentally summong him with fire arrows right lmao

[gray sand]

Well he is the Elder.
So you could say he is Ancient.
And the "young" of trees are Seeds.

[wintry basin]

No you won't see those :)

[heady parcel]

Is it five totems to call Yaggy? Can't remember

[tacit crystal]

Bosses cannot be accidentally spawned, only by their altar with proper sacrifice.

[fast stone]

lol

[heady parcel]

Need one more then

[fast stone]

so burning like birch tree seeds or something

[gray sand]

Ancient Seeds 😭

[fast stone]

where do i get ancient seeds

[gray sand]

Is what there are literally called.

[tacit crystal]

In black forest, there are few sources.

[fast stone]

can stagbreaker stagger trolls

[tacit crystal]

Hardly, trolls resist blunt.

[heady parcel]

Yeah, if you kill the biggest baddest greydorfs or find unusually dense concentrations of them, that should help you.

[wintry basin]

It almost sounds like you're speed running the game Molly :)

[fast stone]

lmao

i just wanna be comfortable enough to play and not be scared

wish i had people to play with that have as much experience as me that way im not as scared

[polar osprey]

Playing with friends is an amazing experience, don't get me wrong. It just sucks when people have different schedules, progress at different speeds and lose interest in the game.

It sucks making a community and then it's just you playing by yourself. You see the empty homes and lone for your friends back.

[heady parcel]

Work slowly on your gear and stores of food, meads and so on. Don't walk too far so you get caught out in the forest at night - better to sleep through the night until you are comfortable enough to run around at night without worries.

Greys become like locusts in the woods at night, it's like a darned gauntlet - but they are mostly a nuisance - I worry more about the bears at night now.

[polar osprey]

Best time to farm up some eyeballs though!

[heady parcel]

Indeed

[fast stone]

i honestly wanna kill another bear

and more trolls

[polar osprey]

All this progress, what's your shack look like?

[heady parcel]

Bears can be hard to see in the dark, and dealing with a them along with a throng of greys can be hairy if not overgeared. Plus at night the big ones come out of hiding..

[fast stone]

uhhhh

im far from my shack rn

[fast stone]

big ones?!

i got a beehive knocked down

[polar osprey]

Honey is a key ingredient

[silk token]

that sounds awesome though, youre just immersed!
i love this idea that burning something might summon the boss and now i want every 50th piece of wood added to some kind of fire to make the ground shake and a huge groan echoing from the trees

[tacit crystal]

Big ones, meaning ||2 star ones during night||.

[fast stone]

i was trying to shoot a greydwarf and realized there was a bear right next to it after the fact, he blended in so well

its a one star too 💀

i want to shoot the bear

but its probably gonna take me out

[neon steppe]

u guys just freestyle build endgame main base or go to build mode and try stuff out first?

im having hard time getting started on building 😂

[polar osprey]

I generally have a go to build style, which I leave room for expansion. Mind you it's really nice just starting with your foundation and then start your floor plan.

[silk token]

maybe start with the framing like with corewood beams and walk around imagining where things go, and you can easily move beams around

[fast stone]

niki should i try to go ham on a one star bear with stagbreaker or a bow

[polar osprey]

By endgame main base what do you mean exactly? Have you moved your main base to the Mistlands?

[fast stone]

or should i just run

[polar osprey]

Fires!

[neon steppe]

i'm moving my main base to plains, next to mistlands and wanna use the new materials like darkwood and black marble that i've gotten

i used to live in small small hut until i got into swamp and then i moved to my current base that's in meadows somewhat far from spawn

but now this place is way too small for me and too much work to make it work

[polar osprey]

Definitely start by laying down your foundation and walls with the marble! Plan out where you want your basement too.

[neon steppe]

easier to just build a new one i feel

[polar osprey]

I generally make a wooden base in the meadows and hoard chests and benches in it until I unlock stonecutter. Then I build a stone home in the same spot.

Then I scout for a decent plains/mist cross biome, if you find a triome even better! I build a nice farm outpost there and work by way to Ashlands after that.

[fast stone]

my biomes feel kinda wack

does black forest always show up as the darker forest on the map?

[fossil delta]

Now I just lay out my huge floor plan and just replace walls and roofing as new mats become available. Mess with upgrades for chests as I have to.

[fast stone]

i think i found a spawner

[polar osprey]

I love the plains for farming, but deathsquitos are not fun.

[fossil delta]

They are not likely to kill you. So more annoyance than anything.

[fast stone]

its a greydwarf nest

it keeps spawning them ;-;

deathsquitos are more a nuisance?

[polar osprey]

On a farming alt? They will absolutely kill you. Then you lose all that sweet farming xp...

[fast stone]

how many ancient seeds do i need

just one? I got one and idek how

[wintry basin]

3

[fossil delta]

I wear full armor when in the plains, so just an annoyance.

[polar osprey]

You need to discover the Elder alter. Quite often it is not reachable by walking. You might have to make a ship and start sailing! You'll need 3 ancient seeds and alot of arrows.

[neon steppe]

root harnesk and they do almost 0 dmg

[fast stone]

i thought the one i found in the dungeon was it

[fast stone]

id show you my shack but i cant post piucs

pics

[tacit crystal]

Regular people have no embeds in all channels, but you can post a pic in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202267437647527977 and copy message link and post the link here for reference. 👍

Building is certainly one fun aspect of the game but it takes time to learn it. Some channels here can give some inspiration for building too, like https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202264206628630548

[fast stone]

ive no idea where my screenshots for valheim are at lmao

[tacit crystal]

If you use F12 they should be found in Steam library.

[neon steppe]

oops, wasn't paying attention while sailing and ended up in ashlands 😂 well now i got bonemaw meat!

[fossil delta]

Save them to your own system, Used to have over 1,000 screen shots on Steam. Now I have less than 50.

It's a good food all by itself.

Ie bonemaw

[smoky quarry]

eeal meat

[polar osprey]

What boat are you using?

[neon steppe]

longship

[polar osprey]

It didn't burn up?

[neon steppe]

nope, to be fair i wasn't far off mistlands

[fossil delta]

Takes a bit of time.

[neon steppe]

but it said ashlands

[polar osprey]

I can remember my first Ashlands experience we crashed into a pillar and then played leap frog all the way to shore. Didn't have the plates unlocked yet

[fossil delta]

You can sail adjacent to and still spawn them.

Same with just ocean.

Scared the crap out of me when I learned that. Thought I was safe.

[tacit crystal]

Spicy ocean is part of Ashlands area.

[eager bough]

thanks for that tidbit was unaware of that

[wintry valve]

ocean full of sriracha

I like how, in the ashland, the vultures fly over the water they are absolutely not immune to, and in my last game did die rather often to it.

Self cooking turkeys.

[cedar stump]

operation body recovery, completed!

now im just farming shrooms and berries in older biomes with muh fenris set forgot theres fuling around here now

[neon steppe]

ran outta food, no teleport to home and i gotta run thru big big plains to my ship

all i got is blueberries and cloudberries, like 46 HP

[reef juniper]

It is egregious how not singleplayer friendly this game is

[neon steppe]

is it alot easier in multiplayer? never tried

no scaling?

[reef juniper]

I would 100% never recommend someone play this game singleplayer

[gray sand]

The only way I have and will play the game is singleplayer and it is quite friendly.

And I 100% recommend people play it singleplayer before playing it multiplayer.

[neon steppe]

there's no way im willing to play this with my friends, they will eat all my food and meads 😭

[reef juniper]

I think that's a bit insane given what just the 2 player experience has been like

[gray sand]

It is a metric asston easier in multiplayer.
Which is probably why they dislike the solo experience.

[reef juniper]

??

No I'm saying singleplayer doesn't seem reasonable because of how difficult and somewhat bs it already is in multiplayer

[gray sand]

😂

Given how not difficult singleplayer is, MP is a cakewalk because you can beat it all yourself and stuff is going to now die twice as fast because you have an extra person.

[reef juniper]

Fucking elitism I swear to god 💀

ight whatever man

[neon steppe]

i dont have problem with difficulty but i find many MANY things in valheim annoying asf

game needs alot of QoL updates pls

[gray sand]

If you're having troubles, say you're having troubles and we can advise on that.
Making a general (and incorrect) statement about difficulty is not the way to go though.

[gray sand]

Expand?

[haughty quest]

Multiplayer's harder 'cause I have to contend with my friends stealing my food and resources. 💀

[fast stone]

I’ve been playing single player and enjoy it

[gray sand]

Valid. But you can just up the resource multiplier for that case 🤷‍♂️

[neon steppe]

i write them all up one day

[neon steppe]

yeah that's why i play solo 😄

[gray sand]

RIGHT MEOW! 😡 😏

[neon steppe]

i'm gonna try somekinda dedicated server one day thought, where i can play with others but have my own pace and place!

if the game is too hard and you are not having fun you can always use world modifiers

personally i rather die than make the game too easy tho

[gray sand]

The only way I would do MP is everyone splits up and has their share of the map all to themselves 😄

[foggy glacier]

that'd be a bit tough with location specific biomes, I can imagine.

[gray sand]

Oh it's more like you can claim an island that is "yours" to build your base and such on.

Last time I did it, since I like to grind more than other people do, I would leave behind a fully stocked waystation in each biome that people could find and use if they wanted.

[foggy glacier]

nice. Last time I played with a couple of friends, I spent a lot of time gathering and cooking for the team.

[gray sand]

I cook only for me 😄

[foggy glacier]

i made use of personal chests a lot to hold on to stuff I wanted to keep.

[gray sand]

I made use of a private world to hold on to stuff

[foggy glacier]

I suppose you could use a portal and a ward to make yourself a mostly secure warehouse if you wanted to play on a server.

[foggy glacier]

same, now. I started in Valheim by joining my friend's server.

[neon steppe]

it's fun to play survival games with friend group but it's also fun to be able to decide yourself what you want to do and where you want to go

[reef juniper]

You can play the game singleplayer sure, but I also sure as hell don't think you're gonna have much fun.

That's my general opinion for most of the game

[neon steppe]

especially valheim that'll take alot of hours to clear (atleast for me since i enjoy doing all kinds of stuff instead of just rushing bosses)

[fossil delta]

Fortunately I enjoy solo play. No one has the time to play as much as I do.

If you do, we need to team up some time. 😄 😄

[polar osprey]

I generally die more while trying to save friends or help them recover their bodies than I do as a solo player.

[neon steppe]

these skeletons destroyed their own spawn?

[foggy glacier]

I've seen some buggy AI lately. Greylings attacking nothing, etc.

[reef juniper]

The AI for this game since me and my friend started playing has always been quite bad

Also I think people just glaze this game in general a bit too much

[shy marlin]

Game is great but it certainly has its flaws yea

[reef juniper]

Like the last update was 100% amazing and added / changed a lot of good stuff, but there's still a lot of aspects that I don't know if I'd be able to tolerate personally without mods

Like limitations on building for instance sucks

[shut nexus]

I felt this in my bones 😆

[gray sand]

My top death reason still remains "Tree"... 🙁

[reef juniper]

I also think there's little to no reason why boats don't have interactive map markers

[polar osprey]

Right? When I play solo I'm so careful. I always have 2 portals on me. I lay one down the second I make landfall in my boat.

Then when I play with friends all I get is, "Hey want to go on an adventure to get my body?"

Sure let's go... Do you have a portal there?

"No we have to sail 12 hours through hell just to get to the third island over from where I think my body is."

[gray sand]

Because you can just mark your own boat?

[reef juniper]

A marker that moves, with the boat.

[gray sand]

But you can just mark your own boat, no?

[reef juniper]

It's not as if I'm going to have 40 boats scattering markers across the map, so I'd like to be able to see them and other boat's locations if possible

I'd love to not have to do that every single time I land somewhere

[polar osprey]

You got a whole fleet?!

[reef juniper]

Why is this even a matter of question

[polar osprey]

Man I generally have one boat then a boat in a box.

[gray sand]

Ok but how does that end?
-I'd love boats to mark dynamically.
Ok we added that.
-I'd love dungeons to mark dynamically.
Ok....
-I'd love berry bushes to mark dynamically.
....
-I'd love deer and serpent spawn to mark themselves dynamically.

And so on and so forth.
Add one, door opens for all.

[reef juniper]

What in the actual fuck 💀

Dawg why would we need dynamically marking dungeons

[polar osprey]

Then your map is like an updated map table map in a group play.

[reef juniper]

Jumping to nonexistent conclusions that never existed

[polar osprey]

Markers EVERYWHERE

[gray sand]

Same reason we "need" dynamically marking boats.
We don't.

[reef juniper]

I genuinely don't understand how you can have this personality

You are treating everything you say like it's a matter of final authority and just took my "I wish this thing existed" statement to an extreme that never went there or implied that in the first place just to fabricate a reason it shouldn't exist

Dynamic boat markers is something that could reasonably exist and has actual use

[gray sand]

If you don't understand how "give an inch" works idk what to say.

Dynamic dungeon markers is something that could reasonably exist and has actual use.

[reef juniper]

No, I don't think so.

Boats move, dungeons don't.

[gray sand]

Just because you don't think it doesn't mean it has no use, lol.

[reef juniper]

Dungeons are something you can pass by, put a marker down at, then never have to touch again and you'll always know the location.

Your boat moves and would require you repeatedly put down new markers every time you move

Use some logic instead of just saying shit lol

You're not even providing reasoning for what you say

[gray sand]

I did use logic.
You failing to see it as logic is a you issue.

[polar osprey]

You ever forget where your base is?

[gray sand]

When moving, sometimes 😭

Once you destroy the bed the marker is gone and things can get dicey.

[reef juniper]

Holy shit imagine providing reasoning for a dynamic boat marker wowzers

It's almost like you can lose the location of your boat in the same way 💀

[steel mica]

boat

[polar osprey]

Sooooo what should you do if you move your bed often and want to not lose your base?

[gray sand]

Get a dynamically updating base marker 😏

[polar osprey]

[gray sand]

😂

[gray sand]

Ship 😉

[polar osprey]

Karve

[steel mica]

DRAKKR

[gray sand]

Fit as many Karves on a Drakkar as you can.

[reef juniper]

This message is genuinely so baffling to me still

my b didn't mean to ping on it

[gray sand]

That message is the reality of video game features.
If you don't think so, be in more early access games. It is exactly how things go.

[polar osprey]

Can I taxi a karve on my drakkar through the spicy ocean?

[reef juniper]

Okay so for example based on what you said

This game already has map marker filters

You can activate and deactivate the visibility of entire marker types based on map settings, a feature that's already in game.

That means that something like dynamically marking boar stone markers or berry bush clusters isn't even out of the realm of possibility

Based on your already existing game logic, yeah?

[polar osprey]

A fun activity when playing with your friends is leaving a raft on their roof.

[reef juniper]

aging with your friends lol

You just put a boat on their roof and they're too old to get it off

[gray sand]

You misunderstand my position.
Do I think the game needs dynamic markers of any kind? No.
Am I opposed to them making all markers dynamic and having the ones you place be the rarity? Also no.
I'm just saying they probably won't add just 1 dynamic because then you have to deal with people asking for all the others.

[polar osprey]

Gotta call the boat movers.

I also have a character dedicated to building code inspections and HOA enforcement. Sometimes I leave fines on signs.

[neon steppe]

ah finally found a place for my new base! between mistlands, black forest, mountain and ocean, and really close to all 4 of them 🙂

like really really close! perfect plains

[gray sand]

Mountain bases 🥵

[polar osprey]

Gjall vs troll vs wolves GO

[gray sand]

Gjall loses to drakes actually 😂

[polar osprey]

It's a shame you didn't find a plains in that mix. Makes for a good farm.

[neon steppe]

i'm with trolls and wolves, kill that gjall

[neon steppe]

i am IN plains!

[polar osprey]

Dudes got endgame base location. You essentially beat the game 🙂

[reef juniper]

Yeah and to that degree I don't see the issue with others being added considering people can just toggle them off if they conflict with their map or mods. Back to specifically adding one thing like dynamic boat markers, I find it odd that you're constantly working under the assumption that IronGate just simply can't resist caving to demands of players on things that are far less mechanically useful than a marker for the boat.

Like you said, dungeon markers, bush markers, animal stone markers, etc don't move and cam make do with a simple player placed marker.

[neon steppe]

looks good to me, but im no expert

[gray sand]

IronGate has repeatedly caved 😂

[reef juniper]

For something that constantly moves though like the boats, I think that serves actual purpose.

[cosmic summit]

Are there any mistlands level weapons that are exceptionally useful in ashlands?

[gray sand]

Demolisher.

[reef juniper]

All of your reasoning somehow revolves around adding something = bad

[cosmic summit]

Im just started ashlands and ive never made the hammer or spear

[polar osprey]

Plains/mists is always a good combo. You have sap collectors close too?

[neon steppe]

i got 2 that i found so far, havent really checked out too much been wiping out fulin villages 😄 check #screenshots i posted map

[polar osprey]

Looks like a great place to build.

Can grow everything.

[gray sand]

Demolisher will give you infinite space to fight.

Otherwise the "exceptionally useful" is just magic because it is overpowered AF.

[polar osprey]

Have you played much in the Mistlands yet?

[neon steppe]

pretty much i only have left to find more cores and kill the queen

i've found her spawn and got enough keys to open the seal but unlucky with cores

[polar osprey]

Have you done much wiping out the bearded little people? I spend too much time vacating them from their towers and then I bulldoze them.

My friends like to keep them around, I just really enjoy their marble.

[neon steppe]

i've cleared few and found some ruins etc. that i've marked but they are yet to be bulldozed

i got iron chest full of marble already thought from ribs

[polar osprey]

Yeah I guess you can always do the skulls and ribs, or the bridges even the dungeon entrances. I guess I'm just evil and go with the eviction process!

[neon steppe]

i didn't want to kill them at first and destroyed the totem with cart but once i learned u can get their marble.. it's me or them!

[fossil delta]

Bridges are better, since the iron drops as bars.

Still have to smelt all the copper, though.

[neon steppe]

are there like big bridges or do you mean those small buildings with pier?

[fossil delta]

The bridges are huge. Go well over your head.

[polar osprey]

There's big big broken bridges in the sky

[neon steppe]

okay, i haven't seen any of them yet then

[polar osprey]

They give you iron too.

Lots and lots.

[fossil delta]

Iron bars. Important distinction, I think.

Like I said above, copper still needs to be smelted. So no difference there.

Even though you do occasionally get actual bars out of towers, but most if it needs smelted too. Meaning copper.

So I keep towers, destroy bridges, armor and weapons.

So between those and ribs/skulls, I get plenty of marble too.

If you go to do bridges, it goes fastest if you can build a forge and stonecutter on site. This allows you to break it down with your hammer nice and quick. In comparison to a pick, anyways.

[neon steppe]

won't workbench and stonecutter be enough?

[fossil delta]

You have to do the iron with a pick, then. Iron is the framework of the bridges.

[neon steppe]

ahhh

[fossil delta]

Plus you can reach much higher with your hammer.

You will still have to wait for a lot of it to just fall.

Bonus is we get attacked a lot less using our hammers. So I guess that means we make a lot less noise.

Another tip, a lot of bridges go into deep water. So build a wood dock underneath to catch more of it as it falls.

[steel mica]

what in gods name did I just witness in the valheim community hub

[steel mica]

masculine urge to not wear the rag tunic

[foggy glacier]

at least it's better than nothing 🙂

[wintry valve]

iron is the powerhouse of the bridge

[foggy glacier]

An argument could be made that Iron is the powerhouse of the tenth realm.

[fossil delta]

Builders would likely agree with that easily.

[gray sand]

Iron is the mitochondria? 😮

[wintry valve]

valheim is not a cell

[gray sand]

Map is cell-shaped 😉

[upbeat ginkgo]

peak valheim moment
mining copper

[gray sand]

One of the best sources of stone.

[steel mica]

I gotta praise the composers of irongate

the biome ambience/ost of ashlands is something else

its similar to mistlands but atleast in their theres hope, dvergrs are alive and doing ok in the mistlands

but in ashlands, hearing its main biome theme

man...

[neon steppe]

i was watching some videos about valheim builds in youtube to get inspiration and i think i just lost all of my motivation

how are people building such amazing bases i have no idea haha

[fossil delta]

A variety of mods, possibly, plus there are dev commands that help.

So running into 2 star soldiers in Mistlands during the day is apparently a thing. Ran into them twice now, during the day. Still no starred gjalls at night.

[subtle breach]

Exciting! Did you weaponize it against dwarfs

[fossil delta]

No, too far away for the terrain to allow it.

[subtle breach]

Awwww

So what do you think seeker meat tastes like

[fossil delta]

Bugs. Just no chocolate.

[subtle breach]

Ok agreed re: chocolate but is it more like lobster or chicken?

[steel mica]

The thing I like about very hard combat is that it increases enemy spawn rates

so rare enemies like bears are alot more common

[snow flame]

i wonder which tastes better, seeker bugs or terminid bugs

[wintry valve]

seeker probably tastes like crab

[worldly chasm]

Maybe its me but I dont like how you can run out of bell fragments in a world, there should be another way of spawning fader after killing him once

[heady parcel]

First time I was going to Ashlands I built a tower on a small Mistlands rock island in the ocean as far south as I could find, to have a portal close by in case my landing went badly. When finishing off the tower inside I heard a roar from the sea - was a damned Bonemaw that had somehow strayed close and aggroed on me. He ate my longship before I could kill it...

[digital isle]

Frostner vs Crystal battleaxe?

[fossil delta]

Depends. Frostner is better for small groups. The axe I find to be better for 6 or so fulings.

Best to go with what you are most comfortable with.

[tacit crystal]

In case of me, I go both.

[digital isle]

peak

[heady parcel]

I'm thinking lobster 🦞

[merry pebble]

Sea bugs are sea bugs 😄

[heady parcel]

I'd like a difficulty setting that simply increases the amount of mobs, with the option to also raise the percentage of starred mobs. On top of that, maybe give mobs not normally starred a chance to come with stars. Two-star lox, the horror!

[tacit crystal]

#screenshots message Didn't expect Lion King reference from Finnish translated fish lol. @steep lynx

[neon steppe]

there is finnish translation? 🤨 i gotta try it

[cedar stump]

good morning! so huh what do I actually feed to a chicken? also rip lost my 2nd egg, I guess the fire extinguished and it wasnt warm and disapeared or something?

[merry pebble]

It shouldnt dissapear, maybe the chick hatched and fell into fire, and you can feed them seeds, but only grown ups will actually eat them 🙂

[cedar stump]

I even barricaded him with walls around him, just went out to explore to find shrooms/berries then it was gone, maybe it didnt have enough space maybe idk, oh well ill get more valuables.

[merry pebble]

If the egg was right up the wall it might have glitched through it when hatching 🤔

[cedar stump]

it was indeed kinda close, ill build a proper spot for them next time and babysit em 😛

feels good to have recovered our gear yesterday I missed valheim!

[tacit crystal]

Most translations are community made, like Finnish one too.

[merry pebble]

You can see which ones when in game and going through the languages 😄

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, I just found it funny since the thing I was replying was the line from Timon & Pumbaa song from the first Lion King.

[pliant hatch]

Use the hanging brazier as fire. It'll work to hatch the egs and the chickens won't accidentally spawn in the fire and get killed.

[cedar stump]

theres not even a fire nearby except my mead and cauldron tho

[pliant hatch]

You will need some heat source to hatch the eggs.

I found the hanging brazier to be the most convenient

[gray sand]

You don't use the Bonfire? 👀

[cedar stump]

my mead and cauldron was providing them heat tho, anyhow was just really curious how it disapeared.

[steel mica]

Kinda of like an advance setting or just seperate the two

[cedar stump]

the chicken spot is just super random, might've just clipped thru the ground or some weird shit, maybe there wasnt enough room and he hatched outside the little enclosure and got killed.

[polar osprey]

The eggs don't disappear. The chick hatched and died from smoke. You need to ventilate your coop better. I usually do a hanging brazier.

You also need to keep in mind that the adult hens will not lay eggs unless you are within render distance.

[cedar stump]

there isnt any smoke close-by either otherwise the other egg would have died as well like they are outside

but ill be super careful next time and babysit the egg

[polar osprey]

Smoke won't kill both. Chick AI is stupid. Some of them fly around and get caught in the top of the coop. The heat source then smokes them out and they die. I've never heard of someone using a cauldron as a heat source. It doesn't provide heat... It goes over a fire.

[foggy glacier]

Also, the hitbox for chicks is bigger than for hens

[cedar stump]

well somehow he had a heat source then idk how then

[merry pebble]

They cant fly...

[cedar stump]

oh right the Heart probably that is nearby

[polar osprey]

They "jump and flap" how about that? They elevate themselves.

[cedar stump]

ill make it my first building ever, havent built anything yet, and make them a cozy place.

[merry pebble]

They also dont jump tho 😄
If you dont mean that they are pushing each other on top of one another

[polar osprey]

Putting iron bars between the ground and the hanging brazier works wonders.

9/10 accidental chick deaths are caused by smoke. The other ten percent is bad building leading to bats entering the coop.

[merry pebble]

Tbh i would argue that smoke deaths are also mostly due to poor build design

[plush umbra]

DN out yet or nah

[gray sand]

It isn't ready yet, so no.

[gray sand]

Takes this out of context and presents to tobacco companies 😏

[orchid locust]

yeah, you should have build your body better so it can withstand the smoke damage

is unsolicited advertising even allowed here?

[gray sand]

No...

I'm assuming bot or hacked account because no living human would be that obstinant...

Has been reported.

[polar osprey]

Like I stated above. Use iron to block the chicks from getting up into the top of your coop.

[silk token]

i’m excited for the chicken update, i can’t wait to build fun perches for my flying chickens!

[haughty stone]

how much bronze do you guys bother getting before killing the elder

I got full armor, weapons, tools and the boat

[gray sand]

Now that they changed Elder's power? Very little. I get most of the bronze after.

[haughty stone]

they changed the elders power?

[gray sand]

They changed all the powers 🤦‍♂️

[silk token]

fermeneter too? plus a little more for random needs, carts, hanging lights, etc

[gray sand]

Does no one read patchnotes 😭

[haughty stone]

i havent played in like 3 years lmao

[nocturne wolf]

They were changed in the recent call to arms update

[gray sand]

Elder now improves both woodcutting and mining.

[haughty stone]

Yeah got the cookery stuff, an alright little carrot farm

[haughty stone]

very nice

[gray sand]

So it's "better" to just rush him and then use his power to get your bronze.

[haughty stone]

🫠

[silk token]

then you’re probably good for copper for a while

[haughty stone]

🫡

[gray sand]

Bronze spear my beloved.

[haughty stone]

atgeir is where its at 🔥

[silk token]

nah troll mining ftw

[gray sand]

Bronze spear with bronze buckler in bronze armor is like 100% quality drip though tbh.

[haughty stone]

but the atgeir tho

[gray sand]

I understand the allure of OPness.

[cedar stump]

love the fenris set drip 😛

[haughty stone]

this is actually my first time trying out the atgeir, didnt use it last time i played

didnt know it was known as an OP weapon

[gray sand]

Carapace Armor is my favorite look in the game tbh, and the armor that made me stop wearing capes 😄

[nocturne wolf]

The secondary attack has 6x stagger

[gray sand]

Spin2Win.

[haughty stone]

that makes a lot of sense

explains why everything staggers

[cedar stump]

soooooon we can make some of these!

[gray sand]

Combine it with Bersekir mead and you are unstoppable due to it not costing stamina 😄

[cedar stump]

gotta go hunting for cores I think for the new stations, without dying this time haha

[haughty stone]

im using the bronze pendant for now to cover my stamina

[gray sand]

Bronze pendant is the best trinket for a good majority of the game tbh.

[haughty stone]

damn, im just discrovering the meta all by myself

😭

[cedar stump]

think ill get rid of my brooch for it

[gray sand]

Bronze is really just the best one unless you go mage and then you pick one of those.

[cedar stump]

Soooooooon ill be a mage!

[tacit crystal]

I like using Resounding shackle when I get the chance.

[cedar stump]

hmm doesnt look too bad and a nice lil slash bonus...

[gray sand]

If I can find a Fenrig trophy I will try out the spear-specific one.

[tacit crystal]

Vilebone set plus that trinket, quite strong archery lol.

[gray sand]

But spears 😉

[tacit crystal]

Did try only with my bow only character, not yet with spears.

[cedar stump]

I dont like the erhm, hitbox? or range always feels weird, only use fang spear for lox hunting.

[gray sand]

Nope.

And I rarely ever throw it.

[polar osprey]

Hit the rear end of a lox with frostner, follow the rear end and keep swinging while walking in a circle. Easy lox kill!

[gray sand]

Flint Spear -> Bronze Spear is most of the early game for me 😄

[nocturne wolf]

Lox are resistant to blunt and frost

[cedar stump]

no frostner haver, my buddy using that ive only been using swords so far. Not really liking my sword damage in mistland atm ngl

[gray sand]

I am VERY upset that Wolf Spear USES SILVER but does NOT have Spirit damage for some unknowable reason.....

[haughty stone]

what are bears even weak towards

[gray sand]

Neutral to slash.

[nocturne wolf]

They're weak to fire, but they're neutral to slash and that's strong enough

[haughty stone]

i noticed that, but are they weak to anything

fair

[nocturne wolf]

The only fire damage you can get at that point will be put together with damage types they're resistant to

[polar osprey]

Fires are low key best offensive weapon in the game. Well, hammer I guess.

[gray sand]

Come back to the BF with Dyrnwyn and be a god 😏

[cedar stump]

that sword looks so kewl with the fire.

[gray sand]

It looks cool, yes.

[haughty stone]

how long do i gotta build my walls for the greylings to not swim around ‼️

[gray sand]

You can't. They will always swim.

Welcome to why the Meadows is the worst biome.

[cedar stump]

Probably also very good since I think those are super endgame stuff? did play around with some on my cheated game.

are those 'gems' for them super rare too ?

[gray sand]

Limited, not exactly rare.

[nocturne wolf]

They can feel rare since they're rng-dependent but generally not too bad

[haughty stone]

god damn "michael phelps-ling"

[cedar stump]

anyhow gotta get thru mistland first haha im so not ready for ashlands

[haughty stone]

felt like i just had a large deforestation effort to build a miniscule amount of walls, and now i emptied a full chest worth of wood. time to deforest some more

[cedar stump]

I was looking for mushrooms forever yesterday barely find any, probably shouldnt have deforested most of our spawn/meadows area.

[haughty stone]

also anyone know how to get a lot of strawberries and blueberries, i feel like i run around and barely find any

[merry pebble]

Well, that would actually help with finding them 😄

[cedar stump]

thought they mostly spawned UNDER trees in shadows

[nocturne wolf]

Mushrooms always respawn in the same places

[merry pebble]

Nono, they have set spawn points 🙂

[cedar stump]

I only have 10 in our chest at home sadge 🙁

[nocturne wolf]

If you find a lot of them together, mark it on the map

[cedar stump]

I didnt know they acted like berries, will do tho!

I want lots of them for skewer and serpent stew

[tacit crystal]

Most pickables/forageables respawn after some time.

Exceptions are pickable stones and Mistlands shrooms, plus tar.

[cedar stump]

the jotun puffs?

[nocturne wolf]

Jotun puffs and magecaps

[fluid cove]

you know, with the Tar pool draining system already existing, I wish the game engine can allow us to drain water around structures made in the ocean so we can build cofferdams and bridge pillars down to the ocean floor

we'd be playing Roman engineering game rather than Viking adventure game tho

[merry pebble]

I encourage you to mark them on the map when you find a patch 🙂 that way you can return in the future without having to search again

[tacit crystal]

Fenris set + Ratatosk + Moder power = speedy forage run.

[merry pebble]

[cedar stump]

hell yeah I made a set just for that yesterday 😄

it also looks cool on an armor stand

[cosmic summit]

Is there anything I should look for in ashlands before setting up a base? I have some portals and a blast furnace on the beach, but nothing else. Idk why people say landing here is difficult. I just had to blow up some skeletons and giant birds

[gray sand]

You should look for the mats to make Stone Portal so your normal ones don't catch fire.

[tacit crystal]

You can raise earth walls to keep non flying mobs away (voltures are not huge threat), also high enough so blobs cannot jump over. Lava blobs can alter the terrain when they explode tho, but they only trigger the explosion if killed or if you're close enough.

[gray sand]

And people say it is "difficult"...
-# Because they are bad at the game.

[cosmic summit]

They havnt caugjt fire yet maybe because they're near water?

[tacit crystal]

They can catch fire if it happens to rain just the right spot.

[cosmic summit]

Ooh the falling fireballs? I didnt realize those where real. I thought it was just a visual decoration

[tacit crystal]

There can occasionally drop some small fires from sky, more often when storm starts.

Those small fires are mostly the culprit for trees falling and getting turned into coal when the fires hit them.

[cosmic summit]

The shield generator will keep them safe while I try to find stone portal mats, right?

[subtle breach]

yeah i bring shield gen mats for the ashlands beach

[tacit crystal]

Also protects from projectiles like arrow shots from archers and skulls twitchers throw.

Doesn't prevent them entering inside the bubble tho, unless you have walls around.

[haughty stone]

How do you guys make docks, i just made mine and realized now that when theres a storm with lots of waves its casually just submerging my dock

[heady parcel]

You either just accept that, buid very tall docks with stairs down to the boats, or build a bit inland in rivers where the waves don't reach

[haughty stone]

hmm alright

[heady parcel]

I would have loved if the engine allowed the water model to recognize built obstacles like breakwaters, that would have been truly awesome, but alas I don't think Unity (or any other engine) is quite there yet.

[orchid locust]

I see it as another reason to encourage players to explore and find that location that screams home

[heady parcel]

Oh aye

[orchid locust]

I also quite hate high waves, but we can't do anything about that...

[cosmic summit]

I catch that while building because every time I start building a dock it starts storming:(

[iron gazelle]

Anyone else feel like mods are the death to multiplayer?

the more mods arrive, the more specialized servers are made to tailor the exact liking of people.

and you more or less end up with the 1 million servers with 1-2 people on them?

[smoky quarry]

why I stick to le vanille`

[chrome badge]

This has been the case since early access released, Valheim isn't exactly made for playing with random people, and is best played with a small trusted group of friends.

If that group of trusted players wants mods, that's no different than not having them.

[heady parcel]

Same in most games. Part of the reason I eventually stopped using mods on a server I run for another game. Never used mods in Valheim so haven't had that issue here.. 😁

[smoky quarry]

mods are great at keeping games interesting long term, example Skyrim and many others.

in Mp kind of hard because there needs to be a standard

[chrome badge]

It's odd to question the effect of modded servers have on other servers, every server has a password.

[smoky quarry]

valheim better suited for lan party

game trolls only proliferated with online gaming

[chrome badge]

It's not like you're joining multiple servers only to find they're modded, if you join a server with zero information beforehand, you're not looking close enough.

[heady parcel]

No doubt, but the reverse is also true, mods can water down the experience or even worse, alter people's perception of what the game is. Classic example - a mod breaks something but raging players blame the game devs, because they have no clue what is what.

[barren whale]

nah if I have the ability to mod a PvE game the way I like then I'm using it. I'd have maybe 500hr instead of 5k if it weren't for mods

[chrome badge]

That's fine tbh, if these hypothetical players aren't looking deeper than the one modded server they played, they're also not looking close enough.

Mods inherently reduce feedback during early access periods though, it'd be nice to disable them until release imo.

[smoky quarry]

the better the game the less mods needed

[chrome badge]

Exactly, feedback would make the game better.

[cosmic summit]

May I see a screenshot of your dock?

[barren whale]

yeah the mods aren't the cause of player behavior, more a symptom

[smoky quarry]

or may just be a case of expansion or experimenting

[cosmic summit]

Lol, send dock pics plz

[smoky quarry]

is that...legal?!

[cosmic summit]

I build with iron beams and black marble because I like big black docks

[chrome badge]

I will add, plenty of docks are submerged in storms in real life.

[orchid locust]

yes... "docks"...

ever so slightly on the verge of an inappropriate typo

[smoky quarry]

if there was a way to barage waves, or tide was a thing. Ye

[cosmic summit]

Idk what your docking about

[quiet robin]

Let's make like a boat and get the dock outta here. 😛

[haughty stone]

cant send screenshots here

[cosmic summit]

You can dm it or post in the building screenshot channel and tag me

[smoky quarry]

what you need is a harbor in a nice quiet place on the water

[haughty stone]

ait, i'll do that

[visual ivy]

chat i'm going insane
there's statistically no way that bear and vile trophy drop rate is 10%

[cosmic summit]

I got my trophy with wolves... Just fill a black forest with invasive speices and wait

[tacit crystal]

It is, very much rng tho.

[chrome badge]

I believe it, calling people chat is insane.

[cosmic summit]

I've never even seen a vile haha

[visual ivy]

and honestly it doesn't seem like it's worth it
like, it's cheaper than padded armor at least

but it weirdly seems more suited for bows because of pierce damage increase and physical weakness?

melee combat in this game is very much about trading damage and always being 2-hit doesn't seem that good

[silk token]

bows or spears or vile claw weapons

[chrome badge]

Not weirdly, that's exactly right.

[silk token]

or porcupine would be sick with vile set too

[tacit crystal]

Porcupine gets benefit from both blunt and pierce damage increase.

Atgeirs too.

[silk token]

OR wear the chest and pants with padded helm so you dont have move speed reduction

AND look awesome

[visual ivy]

like I somehow struggled through with berserker set up to plains and apart from aesthetics I felt like I was always struggling more than other people

who had on-tier ore armors

[chrome badge]

Well, you wore black forest tier gear through an entire new biome, that might be why.

[tacit crystal]

Last playthrough I went bear -> fenris.

[visual ivy]

I mean

[orchid locust]

I made the bear set and didn't even use it lmao

[visual ivy]

workbench allows upgrading so it's "technically" on-tier

[chrome badge]

That's not what that means.

[visual ivy]

but that -25% resistance drags it into the ground

in any case
i'll still try to get vile armor set and I hope that it will be good for mistlands

[chrome badge]

If upgrading were to imply it can be utilized into the next biome, it'd require materials or workbench upgrades from the next biome.

[tacit crystal]

There are 2 ways to override the slight weaknesses: either Bonemass or Crystal heart activation.

[orchid locust]

you forget taking off the set 😉

[chrome badge]

That'd make them weaker..

[orchid locust]

instead of overriding it, you get rid of it

[tacit crystal]

By overriding I mean with resistances.

[orchid locust]

I'm mostly joking of course

[silk token]

so actually +25% gives you +50% because resistence doesn't cancel out it goes with the higher

so you go from -25% to +25%

[cosmic summit]

Or dont get hit

[chrome badge]

Good, I hoped you didn't think that was clever, I was picturing you getting naked and triumphantly getting mauled to death.

[cosmic summit]

Play with a group and have a good tank

[orchid locust]

I did fight a bear naked and with only an axe, which is pretty close to what you imagine 🙂

[silk token]

what i also did was wear vile set until i foudn something scary, then i put on a padded helmet so -25% went away and i was a little safer with less stam regen

[unreal vapor]

speaking of bears ive killed about 25-30 and yet still no trophy, and i want two, one for headset and one for my wall

just what are the odds for it?

[tacit crystal]

If you find Haldor you can find free trophy from his camp (by dismantling newly added bear rug).

[visual ivy]

tank will deal more damage than you anyways

because straight swords

[tacit crystal]

No curved swords?

[silk token]

curved. swords.

[chrome badge]

Drinking ale from curved swords.

[polar osprey]

10%

[heady parcel]

RNG is like that. 10% drop chance just means that you have a 10% of whatever thing dropping each time. Which means there's a 90% risk that it doesn't. Statistically, getting zero drops after 30-40 kills is unlikely but very possible, some statistics guy can calculate the probability but it is pointless - point is you can get that trophy from the first bear you kill or the hundredth, although it is more likely to come somewhere between no 10-20 or so.

(Calculated it, chance of not getting a single trophy in 30 tries is 4,24%)

[silk token]

and also, if you kil 30 bears and don't get a trophy, the chance of you getting a trophy on your 31st bear.... ...10% 😂

[heady parcel]

Yep. Some MMO:s I shall not name invented some kind of "bad luck-modifier" that would slightly raise your chance to get something for each time you were present for a boss kill but didn't get anything. No such thing in Valheim though.. 😄

[polar osprey]

Bad luck mitigation is gross!

[chrome badge]

I think it should be 18% personally 😅

[heady parcel]

Thou Shalt Not Take Away My Bragging Rights of Epic Bad Luck!!!

The screams of boars getting ganked by random mobs is one of the least dignified sound effects I have ever heard in a game

[chrome badge]

10% is certainly going to result in players bypassing the Berserkir set just during natural progression.

[topaz warren]

I see it like this: either you get lucky with the trophy and get one soon enough (I got one on my first try!), or you settle for the blue loser set.

[tired path]

I played with the Bear set, it's honestly quite bad

[polar osprey]

Definitely skip over it. Can farm bears forever or you can go straight for iron

[tired path]

The physical damage weakness is too much for me, and the benefits weren't as noticeable

[polar osprey]

Claws are decent in burial chambers. But that's about it.

[gray sand]

Phys damage weakness doesn't apply if you block/parry.
And the woodcutting buff made a solid difference for me. 🤷‍♂️

[silk token]

imean i just kill bears when i see them 3rd run ive gotten it reasonably quick, this time i didnt even use it for headpiece i got trinket instead

[visual ivy]

one of the biggest pros is that it's cheap to make and upgrade to high quality

less ore grind = better

[hearty niche]

So - I've seen this a few times. Alt-tabbing away from Valheim while on the menu screen or the pause screen results in the process locking up. Anyone else seen this?

[gray sand]

Unless you're like me and find mining relaxing 😁

[tacit crystal]

IMO bear claws could require paws for upgrading, as they're super cheap and good weapons.

[heady parcel]

I love the burial chambers, they have this wonderful dark, gritty iron age feel to them. I go back to sack one occasionally long after I don't need them anymore, just to enjoy the ambience

[hearty niche]

yeah I really like the ice caves for the same reason.

What are folks favorite trinkets? I've been rocking Iron Brooch and Nimble Anklet well into Plains.

I also found Fins of Destiny power + Vanadir potion == unlimited swim stamina

[heady parcel]

I'm using Nimble, the occasional stamina buff is nice, but I hardly pay attention to it

The higher tier ones require so much adrenaline that I find them very underwhelming

[tacit crystal]

Bronze pendant is simple and effective. Also like both swamp tier trinkets, Bracelets of brave and Resounding shackle.

[heady parcel]

A whole lot of buildup for little effect

More often than not they proc when I just killed the last mob

[neon steppe]

i've only used bracelets of the brace and bronze pendant

atm not using any trinket

i like to collect useless stuff to my chests, i need my precious inventory space 😂

i'm slowly getting better at not picking up everything

i pretty much only pick them up for boss fights that take more than few hits

[heady parcel]

2,500 hours in I still can't do that. If I leave anything sparkling on the ground I get anxiety, I NEED IT ALL!!!1! So I fill up barn after barn with stuff I won't ever use. At least the obliterator gets to work.

[neon steppe]

yeah it hurts my soul too to leave stuff behind 😂

[gray sand]

It's easier to leave stuff behind once you have your storage area built.

Because then you know what is "full" and can ignore it.

[heady parcel]

Maybe if you are a rational being

[gray sand]

I am very rational 😄

[gaunt perch]

I already murdered literal armies of tree people and I can’t be bothered to clean up the corpses. Unless they end up having a purpose that is

[heady parcel]

Resin feeds my sconces, wood feeds my hearth, stone builds my roads, eyes goes into fishing and base loitering stamina food. There's nothing exactly useless that comes out of them. Except the damn bukeperries, I think I have used one of those maybe five times total in all my hours of playing Valheim...

[steel mica]

I use pukeberries to clean up previous biome foods

[heady parcel]

I am to cheap to ever vomit up a few minutes of stats value - the only time I use them is if I have just eaten some shitty old cooked neck tails etc and get a major raid like Bros

....and since I have learned from past mistakes, too old food goes into the obliterator.

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, in one or two older worlds where I made lots of salads, honey chickens and platters before Ashlands update they found quite fast their way to obliterator once I got lots of mats for Ashlands tier foods.

[heady parcel]

Oh, you're way more hardcore than I am - I tend to save the current biome foods for Rainy Days - i.e. the boss fight or particularly difficult dungeons - but for the most part I rely on a mix of medium tier foods even in Mistlands. There's value in the Wolf Skewer+Sausage+Bread combo - they all stack to 20. Stats are obviously not optimal, but when you run no-portals you need to bring food along that lasts...

Ashlands -when I was there - is a different beast, that's the only place I didn't feel I could slum it out with older foods.

[sharp pagoda]

Random Viking here, Ive recently gotten back into Valheim again but my new world generation is chocked with bears at every turn and surprisingly close Plains to every swamp i am starting to fight through.
I think ive stablized with some Iron gear, but with pre swamp boss items, what would you guys suggest for dealing with plains if I have to fight edge mobs?
Food and Gear loadout ideas? best weapon choices?

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, but I mean like I made chests full of salads and other foods.
One for salads, second for those HP foods and then one for eitr foods.

[heady parcel]

Oh I build up enormous stores of food - but the stuff that is actually good for running around most places, I save 😄

[smoky quarry]

all i need is honey

[tacit crystal]

Nowadays I usually save up one chest for earlier biomes foods.

But then again I usually quickly try get enough ingredients for new foods so I get plenty of them.

[tame mirage]

I have almost a stack of ectoplasm, and i haven't gotten a ghost trophy yet

that's at least 25 ghosts that i've killed

the wiki says its a 10% drop rate

i really feel like i should've gotten one by now

[gray sand]

Valheim has true % drop rates. They do not have escalating %'s that guarantee drops after an amount of time.

[tame mirage]

Yes I know, I'm just getting really unlucky

[steel mica]

Hmm, I thought about this

but what if we can use surtling core as fuel source for furnaces aswell

1 core can fully fill a furnace

[gray sand]

Valid.

Try throwing one in a bonfire some time 😏

[gray sand]

Would make it blast furnace only though.

[steel mica]

It'd atleast give surtling core another use

[gray sand]

Also, not being funny, you genuinely should throw one in a bonfire.

[tacit crystal]

You could set your raids to maximum to possibly get ghost raid until you get the trophy.

[steel mica]

Oh wait fireworks yes

[gray sand]

Bingo.

[tame mirage]

Nah I've defeated yagluth, I'm not gonna risk getting a raid that will ruin my base

[tacit crystal]

If your base is in meadows you won't get the Mistlands army raid.

[tame mirage]

just killed another, no luck

[tacit crystal]

Also easy way to keep your base safe is going outside during the raids.

[tame mirage]

I'm gonna create an army of twigs

[steel mica]

Funny how you can parry bears on normal difficulty with just a wooden shield

[tame mirage]

I've stopped collecting surtling cores because i have an iron chest full of them