valheim-chat

[steel mica]

bear in very hard combat: parry this you filthy casual

[tacit crystal]

Other items that work as fireworks are black cores and thunderstones.

[tame mirage]

Oh thunderstones do something?

[steel mica]

I haven't tried these two but surtling cores yes

[tacit crystal]

Required for obliterator and can put on fireplace as fireworks.

[tame mirage]

I know about the obliterator, i didnt know that you can put in a fire

why doesn't the game tell you this?

[gray sand]

I would never waste my precious black cores on that 😬

[nocturne wolf]

No molten core fireworks yet

[gray sand]

Because having a few inconsequential things you can discover for yourself in games is fun.

[tacit crystal]

When you have almost full chest of them it doesn't hurt that much.

[tame mirage]

molten cores should create a supernova in the sky

[gray sand]

Never gotten that many. But they make really good mood lights when I do have extras.

[steel mica]

We need enemy spawn rate multiplier/modifier

[tame mirage]

normal or iron?

[tacit crystal]

Blackmetal.

[tame mirage]

No wayyy

[steel mica]

Ohhh noo...

My two star askhvin

MY BOI

[tacit crystal]

Been searching and clearing those infested mines in my main world and gotten many of them.

[tame mirage]

black cores stack up to 20, theres 32 slots in a black metal chest, that's 640 black cores!

is there even enough infested mines in a world to gather that many

[tacit crystal]

I mean, not full yet.

[steel mica]

I wanted to start a new world fresh from the beginning, no higher combat, no frequent raids, just fresh good ol valheim with multiple to 2x and no map

and decided to delete my main world

i legitimately cannot control myself because I keep seeing myself join that world every single day

so it had to go

[tacit crystal]

I could never delete my older worlds.
I get bit sentient on my different bases I've created.

[tame mirage]

Has anyone here played no portals

[steel mica]

I decided on deleting my main world, I legitimately cannot help myself because everytime I open valheim, my instincts is to open my main world, and it doesn't help that im trying to replay the game fresh

I get side tracked from my old world's previous progression on buildings

atleast I have proof I did make it

via screenshots

[nocturne wolf]

Unless you manually deleted the backups those are still available if you want the world again

[steel mica]

Oh yeah but I atleast I WONT get side tracked by my main world

[heady parcel]

I am on a no-portals run right now

[steel mica]

No map and portal run when

[heady parcel]

No map is a step to far for me, I cannot subject myself to that frustration...

Although I would like a no-map light where you can only access the full map at the cartography table

[gray sand]

No portal yes.
No map never.

[cedar stump]

this Hen is driving me crazy keep running against the wall on the otherside of where I put seeds and he doesnt want noone smh

about to pull out a knife and go do other things

[heady parcel]

I built my hen house without corners, nowhere to get stuck!

[cedar stump]

tbf ig its my hobo hen house thats not helping

[heady parcel]

Circular shack with a hanging brazier in the middle, best hen house I ever had

[cedar stump]

https://imgur.com/a/z2s9k0p

[heady parcel]

I normally use Troll caves since they're automatically protected, but I didn't have one close to base, and since it's a no-portals run..

[cedar stump]

that was just a thing we built quick to hatch the egg I gotta build an actual place now but all he does is hide in that corner, tried pushing im into the seeds too haha

YES I pushed im into a corner with the seeds xd

[heady parcel]

Great success!

[neon steppe]

that sounds like a cool idea

[cedar stump]

damn never realised hammer breaks so often when spam building lol my mate always does the building

[silk token]

no portals no map ftw!

[wintry valve]

recently, I discovered the joy of battleaxes

[smoky quarry]

tbh, would never enter in real, a dank & dark infested mine full of bugs & ticks without a fully functional modern flamethrower. Thats just me maybe

[tame mirage]

i got the ghost trophy 🥲

[smoky quarry]

yea that's nice. Now get two

[tame mirage]

oh you're joking

i just got back to base

and got a raid

[gray sand]

Need 2 for symmetry when hanging them in the hallway.

[smoky quarry]

hope it was the ghost one

[tame mirage]

I got a raid named "they were bros, man"

which one is that

[smoky quarry]

ah, ya fubar

[tame mirage]

i have the game paused

[smoky quarry]

the one where you run

[tame mirage]

Oh my god that's the sealed tower raid

im so cooked

[smoky quarry]

make like a deer and get outa there

[tame mirage]

i have carapace armor tho ill be fine

[silk token]

prepare for lots of 1 and 2 star goblins

[smoky quarry]

hopefully feather cap and no barley as well

[gray sand]

So killing Zil and Thungr makes them come back to life and raid your base? 🤔

[smoky quarry]

it's what happens when one meddles. interloper for short

[umbral cairn]

can someone help me stabilize my house

[civic stirrup]

I second this

[civic stirrup]

Ooooo that is actually a really good idea, finding bosses can be ridiculously difficult with no map

[gray sand]

@silk token so Crystal BA in Ashlands...

Silver Sword clocks in at 160.5 per hit.
Mistwalker is 155.5 per hit.
Crystal BA slides in at 153 👀
Frostner 🤢 is 123

[silk token]

yeah, it’s not awful, its a toss for me between the spirit and the more potential stagger on hit with lvl 3 skull splitter

[gray sand]

"Not awful" is an interesting phase for "third highest damage" 😂

[merry pebble]

per hit* tho 😄

[tacit crystal]

Those numbers taking account the enemies weak against spirit, correct?

[gray sand]

Yes. But would have used "is good" instead of "not awful" 😁

[gray sand]

Yes.

That is weapon vs. Charred.

[tacit crystal]

And Valkyries.

Morgen take normal damage.

[silk token]

hehe, i’m just not super excited about damage over time, me likey chop smash dead more faster

the one situation id use it is vs a 2 star melee all im gonna do is no thank you away over and over

[tacit crystal]

The slash damage difference is 40, making stagger difference 60 between CBA and Splittur.

[silk token]

worrrrd

crit damage > spirit damage

[tacit crystal]

Even if the total damage is higher per hit due to extra spirit the easier staggering can raise the total dps.

[silk token]

and a staggered melee means you get to live longer

[silk token]

AND adrenaline gain! XD

battleaxe = adrenaline monster

[tame mirage]

I found a dvergr extraction place with a 2 star rogue AND 2 star mage

[gray sand]

Ok but Crystal is prettier 😏

[silk token]

it is freaking gorgeous.

[thin sonnet]

The crystal battleaxe?

[gray sand]

No, Crystal the super-hot dverger mage. 😉

[thin sonnet]

Oooooooooooooooh

[gray sand]

[thin sonnet]

Was gonna say that battleaxe looks like a church mosaic on a stick

[tame mirage]

Do creatures drop trophies if they weren't killed by the player?

[tacit crystal]

I find CBA looks a bit too.. bulky for my liking. Which is why I prefer the looks of other battleaxes.

[tacit crystal]

They can drop trophies on death, no matter who killed them.

[gray sand]

YOU TAKE THAT BACK! 😭

[tacit crystal]

I'm a man of my words.

[gray sand]

Yacko ban this man.

[tacit crystal]

Never said it wasn't pretty. Just said bit too bulky for my liking.

[tame mirage]

How do you pronounce "Kvastur"?

[silk token]

sorry was afk ON IT

hang on my ban button won't work.....

...oh wait i'm not important.

when my CB retires i'm going to mount it above my bed. or next to rocky.

[gray sand]

Gotta build 2 and mount them crossing each other behind a shield or something epic.

[errant glade]

Anyone want to play valhiem

[gray sand]

#1024264966712340510

[cosmic summit]

does the crossbow 1shot lava slimes?

[gray sand]

If you do enough damage with it, yes.

[cedar stump]

First infested mine cleared 😄 only 3 cores tho 🙁 buddy carried with frostner haha

[gray sand]

Mistwalker is the direct upgrade, so wait until you have THAT to swing around 🙂

[smoky quarry]

i just did one and only one (1) core

not great not terrible

[cedar stump]

Did get 2 sealbreaker fragment idk if rare or hard to get

[smoky quarry]

i use em as decorations

[cedar stump]

Oh xd

[untold sinew]

Good idea cores as deco

[cedar stump]

Need 2 hens to get eggs right?

[gray sand]

You need several of these to get to the boss.

[smoky quarry]

meant the sealbreakers

[cedar stump]

Hopefully tomorrow we at least get 2 more core so I can take a peek at magic :3

[fossil delta]

You can go into mines and get no cores. So any cores is doing good.

[cedar stump]

Tons of hidden door and dvergr door baiting me into nothing haha well then im happy! Got tons of jelly too hehe didn't take a peek at the unlocks yet

[untold sinew]

Me and my friend had 7 in one mine!

[fossil delta]

Jelly is important for the mage path. Best mine I had recently was 9 cores. It was our 4th mine and finally gave us enough cores to build all 3 items.

[cedar stump]

Oh 3 items 😮 ik there's forge and refiner

[fossil delta]

Now we have plenty of extras for the Ashlands.

Table for mage items and the cloak.

[untold sinew]

Black Forge, eitr refinery and galdr table

[fossil delta]

Yep.

[gray sand]

Also @cedar stump Seeker Meat is an excellent source of Coal given the sheer volume you will acquire.
Leave it on the cooking rack for an extra cycle and boom, free Coal.

[fossil delta]

Galdr table is all about being a mage.

[untold sinew]

Its realy crucial if you dont have backup food tho

[gray sand]

Why would you not have backup food by this stage of the game? 🤔

[cedar stump]

We got plenty of food can always go farm more serpent and lox

[untold sinew]

Heavy only craft feather cape

[cedar stump]

Ah like a mage forge table

[untold sinew]

Idk

[untold sinew]

Yes

But all magic

[fossil delta]

Seeker meat all by itself is a pretty good food for the "lower" biomes and working around your bases.

[untold sinew]

If you go mage i recommend seeker aspic and magecap

And seeker meat

[fossil delta]

IIRC 65 HP, or close to that.

[untold sinew]

IIRC?

[cedar stump]

I got seeker aspic and the shroom recipe too

Ill have to play around and find a comfy mix of food for mage

[gray sand]

Since you are going mage, you will appreciate this: #memes-and-clips message

[untold sinew]

But they need turnips

[fossil delta]

If I Recall Correctly. IIRC

[cedar stump]

I only have about 150 turnips stored

[untold sinew]

Ah

[cedar stump]

We keep good stock of everything:D

[fossil delta]

So thats 450 seed in a few days. Great start.

[cedar stump]

Except damn normal mushroom, I can't find alot of them!

[fossil delta]

Fortunately they are in the first 3 biomes, so a lot of opportunity to find them.

[cedar stump]

We are running out of greydwarves eyes too anyway, also a good reason to rock the fenris set and zoooom:D

[fossil delta]

I'd use a light source to look for them in the swamps. Hard to spot, with their color.

In the past I have had people insist they aren't even in swamps, they are so hard to see.

[tepid prawn]

if its 3 or more I'd mark them on a map near my meadows starter hut thingy usually and then you can go there and do a mushroom round when you have portals easily even if you moved bases

don't get them in swamp or black forest, so much easier to see and very fun to back to meadows to find them, and you feel overpowered even in troll or bear gear

[cedar stump]

Wish I had marked them early on didnt know they could grow back from the same spots tbh

[tepid prawn]

just let a few days pass ingame and then go back and refind / mark them

[fossil delta]

I mark enough to give me a full stack of 50 with all such mats.

BTW, the mushrooms are usually close to thistle, in the BF and Swamps. Not always, but frequently enough that I look, and am often rewarded.

[visual ivy]

I always forget how much fun this game is in a group

In any case
I'm also considering trying out spellcasting, because there aren't any first weapons after plains

Cooking eitr food aside, I imagine leveling from 0 will be a bit of a pain, good thing I have a teammate who also has to level (crossbows) from 0, so we can suffer together

[fossil delta]

TWIG makes that a bit easier, as does the target for bow and crossbow.

The crossbow still takes a long time just because of its reload time.

[visual ivy]

Does stacking a bunch of dummies and blasting them with AoE make it faster?

[fossil delta]

Never tried it. You mean multiple TWIGS?

[visual ivy]

Or wait you get XP for the casts, not hits
I think

[fossil delta]

I'd have to go read the wiki to find that answer.

[visual ivy]

I'm too sleepy and lazy to check rn so I'll look it up if I'll be interested in grinding XP

Anyways uhh, excited for Mistlands
Still my favourite biome and I hope it stays that way after going through it

[fossil delta]

I still like it. I just wish defeating the Queen would make the mists go away.

[visual ivy]

My friend HATES the grey mist clouds soo much

[smoky quarry]

you get xp per mob afaik with fireball

[visual ivy]

Says that they ruin the visual look a lot, but personally I'm okay, it's dynamic fog after all so some visual sacrifices will be made

[fossil delta]

It makes it kind of special when you find areas clear of the mist.

[visual ivy]

My exact opinion

[fossil delta]

We found a nice rather large area on the water front. To the point where we could see 3 separate bridges to tear down, at the same time. I was VERY tempted to build a nice big base there.

[civic stirrup]

Hey is there a command to force plant growth?

[lyric shale]

@stuck lake

[stuck lake]

hi

[untold sinew]

Fader's spike attack has Way too much range

We were at 500 meters and he still could attack us

And one shot's stone portals

[tame mirage]

I'm about to fight queen

Wish me luck fellow vikings

[untold sinew]

Good luck

👑 🐛

[tame mirage]

I did it 😁

No deaths

[lyric shale]

What crossbow would yall say is the best after you unlock flametal?

[tacit crystal]

I like the iolite version.

[heady parcel]

All they need to do is make the big marble dvergr mist lantern a build piece unlocked once the queen is beaten. Or just have it require black forge to build and it would be too awkward to spam it early on.

As is, I think I will actually spawn them in when I build and toss some mats into the sea as payment....

[heady parcel]

I think I am going to build a highway through Mistlands, just for the hell of it

[tired knot]

I've kinda been struggling with the yagluth recently. Does anyone know how to make life easier for me when fighting it?

[digital isle]

easiest way to get a lot of stone?

for building a fortress

[heady parcel]

Mining copper, or simply mining rocks (the big ones that aren't copper...)

[tacit crystal]

Stone pillars in plains, boulders in mountains/black forest, mining silver/copper (stone as by-product). Some effective ways.

[heady parcel]

Then ofc the spires in plains

[digital isle]

hmm alright

thanks!

[fluid cove]

fully upgraded padded armor, barley wine, eating a combo of Lox Pie + Blood Pudding + Serpent Stew would help you survive his attacks so much easier

[gaunt sable]

ngl I'd rather use fenris armor and just move faster lol

[fluid cove]

that works too whatever works for you

[agile star]

What armor and weapon are you using?

[long locust]

been giving battleaxes a more serious try recently and I've been really liking how punishing they feel to enemies

like I've been finding myself baiting enemies into doing long attacks so I can give them hell while they're stuck in their animation

currently getting fenris armor pre-bonemass cause I like the challenge and its really fun to dodge a cultist's fire and absolutely tear into them

[fossil delta]

I beat him easily with foods, the fire mead, and armor as described above, plus using a tower shield and the silver sword and the Eikthyr power. I just stood there toe to toe with him, drinking one stamina mead in order to keep beating the crap out of him, in under two minutes.

[balmy seal]

You go girl

[shut fable]

You definitely need the fire resistance wine. I used a huntsman bow with frost arrows and frostner. Basically use the frostner and when i am low HP I take more distance and fight him with the bow which is easy as Yagluth is slow

Ofcourse get any mead buff you can get

I had healing, stamina and ratatosk mead

[tacit crystal]

Higher stagger multiplier and no MTP is what makes them devastating against groups of enemies.

[long locust]

yeah, they're slow but brutal when they work

[tacit crystal]

Also great in closed areas as they don't lose their damage output even when hitting walls around them.

[long locust]

glad we have more choices now

[agile star]

You can definitely use battleaxes now to upgrade your axes skill until you get to the ashlands to get the berserkir axes

[cedar stump]

gooood mornin', me thinking after work I go farm more silver to make my own frostner, cba with my sword in the mistland tickling monsters.

[tacit crystal]

I still used the Skull Splittur in Ashlands.

[tired knot]

thanks for the advice

we'll try again when my friend starts up the server and see how it goes. should i let u know what happens?

[shut fable]

Sure

[agile star]

Yes you have to use it when you first arrive in the Ashlands, but after you get flametal and some gems you definitely switch to the berserkir axes

[chrome badge]

Don't be so sure tbh, the battleaxe secondary is incredible for crowd control.

Ashlands can be crowd heavy.

[fiery jacinth]

Hello, fellow vikings

[tacit crystal]

I keep both battleaxe and Berserkir axes.

[cedar stump]

so slash becomes useful again right? my sword so useless in the mistland 😛

[tacit crystal]

Only 1 mob in Ashlands has resistance against all physical damage types, so slash is good. 👍

[cedar stump]

phew, im letting my buddy with frostner do all the hard work right now

[agile star]

Slash is good and the battleaxe is ok, but the Berserkir axes are just better, more damage and less movementspeed penalty

[agile star]

In the Mistlands the enemies resist all physical damage so every weapon is the same

[cedar stump]

but my buddy with frostner is melting stuff

and I feel like im tickling stuff with my bm sword max upgraded

[agile star]

Have you tried black metal sword?

[cedar stump]

thats what I got fully upgraded

[agile star]

What is your sword skill?

[tacit crystal]

Have you considered Mistwalker? Kinda like sword version of Frostner but better damage.

[cedar stump]

maybe its in my head because of the gray number, its like in the 40s

[tacit crystal]

Or have you gotten there yet?

[cedar stump]

soooon only got 3 cores atm

[agile star]

40s is decent, if you parry the seekers you 3 hit them

[cedar stump]

yeah when I parry I do hit hard true otherwise im doing nothing but ig thats normal, like soldiers example.

[tacit crystal]

Ah, right. Read it earlier but forgot.

[cedar stump]

think my buddy hit like a 300 backstab or something after one of my parry sheesh

[agile star]

The frostner does more damage because the things in the Mistlands do not resist the frost damage, but the bm sword is more than fine

[cedar stump]

ah thats what I was gonna say the mix of frost/spirit is whats making it better ig

[agile star]

They are immune to spirit damage

[tacit crystal]

Most mobs are immune to spirit tho.

[cedar stump]

might make a mistalkwer or fully go mage road once we have at least 5 cores, we will prolly dismantle forge and refiner when we use them lol

[tacit crystal]

Only undead take spirit damage.

[agile star]

Whatever you wish you do that

[cedar stump]

idk why I was told silver sword was still decent hmmm

its just sitting on my armor stand

[agile star]

Because it only has 20 less slash damage than the bm sword but the bm sword is still better in the mistlands

Idk how the silver sword is handling the ashlands

Because 45 spirit damage on that bad boy is a lot

[merry pebble]

Very well actaually 🙂

[cedar stump]

ah that could be why then

[agile star]

Does it kill the charred faster than the mistwalker?

[cedar stump]

we only cleared like one mine so far, gotta find more, hopefully tonight.

[merry pebble]

It is indeed better against them, yep, and has lower stam cost

[cedar stump]

well im glad I got it back after putting it in oblit like a dum dum 😛

[agile star]

So you trade less stamina usage and more damage for frost damage basically when you compare the mistwalker with the silver sword

[dry dome]

Morning, havn't played in some years hoping there is a bunch of new stuff i loved the game when it first dropped

Think I might try a solo run

[tacit crystal]

Silver sword staggers better due to higher slash damage than Mistwalker, as frost damage doesn't add to stagger.

[gray sand]

And wolves. And ulvs. And fenrings. And cultists. And bats....
Because reasons 🤷‍♂️

[tacit crystal]

Not wolves, but every else yes.

Generally werewolf type creatures are weak to silver in fantasy/horror scene.

[gray sand]

Bats?

Cultists?

[chrome badge]

Cultists are werewolf type creatures, and Bats are secretly vampires(maybe? who knows).

[polar osprey]

The stam cost is huge. Same with attack speed.

[merry pebble]

Atack speed is the same tho 🤔

[polar osprey]

Silver vs BM? You sure?

Could swear silver was slightly faster with the reduced stam

[merry pebble]

Well, it is silver vs mistwalker 😄 and yes, all swords have the same attacks speed since they have the same animations 🙂

[polar osprey]

I must have misread mistwalker and BM. Black metal feels slow to me.

[merry pebble]

It may just feel like it since its visually bigger than the silver sword 🙂

[heady parcel]

Oh for fudge sake, I sailed one hour to spank Yag and only realise when I get there that I forgot the #&¤#&%¤&¤¤ idols.

[cedar stump]

thats why I always bring mats for a portal with a portal labeled SOS in base

[heady parcel]

No-portals run...

[cedar stump]

ooh rip xd

[polar osprey]

Oooof

[heady parcel]

I'll just see if I can farm them in this plain here, it's unexplored so with luck there will be enough of them

[polar osprey]

Yeah I'd try that. Could cut your sailing time in half of your respawn is still at base. Could always kill yourself and sail back?

[heady parcel]

Would probably be faster to sail back for the idols, but I just can't bring myself to do it

Nooo I have my 100 run skill and no deaths so far, can't sacrifice that haha

[polar osprey]

Yeah don't do that then!

[heady parcel]

Well, my own damn fault for having the brain capacity of a demented chicken

[polar osprey]

You're a brave man for playing no portals. Do you have no map too?

[heady parcel]

Not quite that masochistic, no xD

If they add a no-map "light" at some point where you can access your explored map at the cartography table, I'd try that

[polar osprey]

That would be a nice addition. I think playing no map no portals is like getting a full chest tattoo as your first one.

Painful.

You at least have Moder power though?

[heady parcel]

Ohyes. Since the update it's the only power I use. Has a strong case in a no-portals run..

[polar osprey]

Haven't read the notes, what did they change with Moder?

[merry pebble]

Max carry weight: +300
Damage modifier: Resistant vs Frost
Movement Speed: +10%

On top of the wind being in your back while sailing ofc

[heady parcel]

Increased carry capacity too, that stacks with both the belt and the troll endurance potion. If you pop all three you can carry a cart of iron basically heheh

Useful to haul an entire crypt's worth of scrap home in one go without needing to drag a cart through a swamp

[cedar stump]

theres a mead for carry weight 😮

[heady parcel]

Or the mountains

[cedar stump]

wonder what im missing for it, we're in mistland.

[merry pebble]

Troll fish probably 🙂

[cedar stump]

ah yes that! havent fished much most my fishes comes on our shore for free in meadows 😛

ill have to look into it later tho, I guess if I make 'x biome bait' I gotta fish in that biome.

[polar osprey]

Guess I gotta go kill moder! I was taking this playthrough slow but there's no sense farming iron without that carry weight.

[heady parcel]

Killing Moder also gets rid of the drake raid, worth something. Fulings can't fly and bombard your livestock from above...

[polar osprey]

Having to keep your boars in the basement is never fun.

[cedar stump]

oh didnt know it removed drake raids

[heady parcel]

This Yag fight will be interesting, it's right on the border to Mistlands, half the arena is inside the mist...

Me: <starts boss summon>
The Mists: HOOOONK!!!
Wouldn't surprise me the slightest 😄

[native oriole]

Plenty of mods for that!

[nocturne sage]

People usually make the switch from root chest to carapace chest?? Is that when it becomes worth it

[weak laurel]

Is it a good idea to farm 360 copper for 3 lvl 3 sets of bronze copper

[neon magnet]

So like it's good to preserve at least some Grey Dwarf Nest for a future wood/stone etc farm, I imagine there are similar cases for other spawners...

Just knowing that there might be such cases makes me really anxious about destroying them (intentionally or otherwise).

What's the reasonable way to think about spawners? Can any be disabled without destroying them apart from the GD one?

[subtle breach]

i do not ever remove the root vest after i get it (edit: mayyyyybe in the mountains)

[zealous bridge]

Depends on how u want to play of course but IMO u can more easily change armor in the next biome. Copper is the biggest grind so bypassing as much as possible keeps the game moving along unless your wanting a slow pass and build every item kinda thing

[zealous bridge]

I’ve seen swamp spawned paused by containing spawns near the spawner. There’s like a two creature limit before they spawn more

[hearty palm]

Any admin here online??

[wintry valve]

greydwarf spawners are largely not needed because greydwarves are super common

Destroying them will not be a problem

[tropic scarab]

Yo yo here later in probably 4 maybe 5 hours I’m going to be taking on fader if anyone wants to join in I’m down to invite it’s my first time fighting him but i have food for days and potions too full stacks for anyone that joins dm me if interested

[polar osprey]

No not at all.

[polar osprey]

Greydwarf spawners make really good farms... If you have time to afk farm.

[sterile hornet]

You know, now that I've finally gotten to the Ashlands, gotta say I'm pretty disappointed on the difficulty difference between Mistlands and Ashlands. Comparing them is like saying Mistlands difficulty is a 1 and Ashlands is a 10. I really think the developers need to rethink and restructure this biome to be more on par with the rest of the game, it just doesn't even come close to feeling the same.

[tacit crystal]

The vision of Ashlands is supposed to be not so nice place where you wouldn't want to stay for long, and constant combat and warfare.

[tribal trench]

Yagluth is dead! 5 man kill and it was so funny watching my friends hop around damage and fire lol

[tired path]

There's nothing like landing on the Ashlands shore with your mauled Drakkar after navigating through Voltures, Bonemaws and those intimidating jagged spikes, just to realize that that was the EASY part

They did great with Ashlands, they're insanely atmospheric and intimidating. And the massive difficulty spike adds to the terror

It's my favorite biome. I do believe there should be a bit more options for area damage, or at least some form of useful CC before getting there

[heady parcel]

I do like Ashlands, the first approach by sea was bloody epic, and the sense of never being able to relax is for real, they really succeeded with that - which is also why it is an exhausting biome to stay in for long. With my playstyle - slow, methodical exploration and gathering resources, building base and equipment - I soon found myself coming up with all kinds of excuses to go do other things in that world rather than progressing in Ashlands. In the end I put that world on ice and started on my current no-portals run... Ashlands is fun, but intense, and I don't plan on staying long once I get there on this world.

[tacit crystal]

I have 4 worlds where I've fully cleared all possible fortresses. I'm all for battling through my way.

[heady parcel]

Do you knock down the door to those and deal with everything that comes out, or other strategies? I took one look at the horde on the battlements and decided to rain death on them from a tower I built nearby, no way I go into melee with all those...

[tacit crystal]

I usually take Skuggs and spawners with bow, then jump inside with help of stairs and clear enemies with axes.

[polar osprey]

My first Ashlands experience we did without killing queen. Sailed a karve in the spicy water, jumped on a pointy rock and fought voltures while we jumped from rock to rock. Was unreal!

[heady parcel]

Yag is down. Only one seeker came to join the fun

[silk token]

i’m a masochist and role player so i have to build a forward base with ~4 balistas and ram the door down unleashing the horde upon myself. i’ve actually never towered over i always ram the door. a few times i used that useless pathetic crap-a-pult and blew up the door thinking i’ll use an explosive round when they come out but yeah that didnt really do anything..

i usually let the bulk come out and kill most of them then run in and take out the spawners while only a few are nipping at me

probably ill-advised without ashlands gear.

[heady parcel]

I'd not survive twenty seconds trying that haha

But I'm pretty excited I actually survived having a seeker flying to try and backstab me while I was fighting Yaggy

Bit of cheating that all that fiery aoe doesn't affect the bugs

[silk token]

it is a bit RNG, if it happened to spawn star archers or star warlocks its pretty rough. ive died in ashlands gear to the horse once, but this was before stamina and trinket changes so i imagine it wouldnt be as hard

[silk token]

oh god lol, last yagluth i had a 2 star goblin join in halfway like bro wtf

but how does a seeker even find you thats crazy bad luck, probably leap frogged through 5 enemies getting to you

[heady parcel]

Yag arena smack on the border to mistlands, one finger actually in the mist, depending on the wind. So yeah, had to fight one seeker while staking it out too. On the upside I already have some shrooms and hare meat too

[visual ivy]

damn, it really doesn't feel like combat update changed anything with fighting on sloped surfaces

[silk token]

really??? its HUGE to me

[nocturne wolf]

Many player attack hitboxes have extra checks at higher and lower positions

[heady parcel]

Oh it did for sure. I would have preferred if you'd actually hit what you aimed at with melee swings, but I suppose that would have required extensive animation work

[silk token]

also, im going away for like 10 days thinking “how am i going to live without valheim” and woops collectors edition game just showed up on my doorstep the day i’m leaving 😍 board game HYPE

[merry pebble]

Yep, first ones are starting to get delivered 😄
Mainly in US it seems, Europe will have to wait a bit more 🙂

[heady parcel]

Got to remember to reset to my home bed after this, so I don't die and end up here. Don't think there's enough black forest here for any copper nodes. And there's no meadows... So crafting something to sail out of here would be a bit of a challenge.

[merry pebble]

You might have to use the... ||Raft||... 👀

[heady parcel]

No piggies around here 😄

Heh, a dugout canoe would be an awesome emergency boat for those cases. Just some wood, but not ideal for long sea voyages

[merry pebble]

Black forest chests can have some 😄

[heady parcel]

There's a mountain, so there could be frost caves with bats too

Imagine needing to hunt the bats, that would be a first for me!

[merry pebble]

Indeed, quite the rare situation xD

[silk token]

duuude… in just opening the haldor’s horde box… these coins are legit metal AND he sells a crystal battleaxe.

[merry pebble]

Do you also have the 24-hour coin? 👀
Looks amazing from the photos i have seen.

[silk token]

what is the 24 hour coin?

i havent even opened the main box yet just the little extra goodies from the take my money version

[merry pebble]

Its a coin that people who backed in the first 24 hours get with the board game

[silk token]

ohhh… i do not.

i watched way too many preview videos and thought about it before buying

if i knew there was fomo loot ida just bought it

i can say all the take my money extra seems pretty worth, wooden figures and all seem super quality

[merry pebble]

I also got the collectors + wooden furniture and the fancy dice 😄
Though i didnt get mine yet i saw other people showing the dice and they are also really good looking

[silk token]

they are. They’re very fancy, but still legible.

[heady parcel]

Love it when trolls have spawned down by the beach and are just looking out towards the horizon. They look like they're thinking about swimming over to see what's on the other side.

[silk token]

i’m just waiting for the toddler to wake up before we can leave, then I have a 5 hour drive thinking about how badly I want to play the game, probably can’t even play it for another day or two till I get everything unpacked and read the instructions and everything

[visual ivy]

Using fists in mistlands is still a big struggle

can't parry can't block

[silk token]

does kick stagger seekers?

[visual ivy]

only the regular ones

[silk token]

i dont think claws are meant to block

[visual ivy]

elite ones don't care much

[silk token]

that does sound rough

[visual ivy]

they should be able to parry I think

you don't have a shield so they should have more base block

[silk token]

i wanna try them one run, they’re on the list of runs i wanna do

my goal is to use fist until I get to mistlands and then switch to Magic because one weapon trail stops and the other picks up

[visual ivy]

also parrying and blocking is kinda ruined by random damage spread

sometimes you parry sometimes you get guardbroken and die

okay stunlocking 2-star seekers is possible when you're 1 on 1

[heady parcel]

I think the idea is you primarily dodgeroll with those, but I can't say I'm an expert on the matter, never crafted any fist weapon..

[oblique maple]

guysssss how to switch back to the eikhtyr power in valheim

[gray sand]

By asking in multiple channels for no reason.

[heady parcel]

Go back to the stones and pick it

Oh..

[oblique maple]

My bad, i didnt see the valheim-chat before writing in general

[unkempt vigil]

Velheim

[oblique maple]

Anyways, I'm at the stones and pressing 'e' but nothing is going on

[gray sand]

How many bosses have you killed?

[oblique maple]

Do you think it could be the mods interfiring or something

first 2 so far

[gray sand]

#mods-discussion

👋

[merry pebble]

Quite possibly

[oblique maple]

interfering*

[heady parcel]

Mods can definitely be an issue, try without. If it works, the answer is yes.

[silk token]

sounds like you might benefit from evasion mantle +50% parry bonus might turn those sometimes into always?

[silk token]

are you pressing E on the stone or the trophy head?

[visual ivy]

eh
I have it but it's almost impossible to get enough adrenaline reliably

[tacit crystal]

I've been able to stagger even starred ones with kick.

[visual ivy]

more than 50 per fight at least

[rose raptor]

hey is valheim fun and worth buying?

[heady parcel]

Yes and yes

[rose raptor]

better than attack on titan?

[polar osprey]

I paid 5 dollars and I've put 3k hours in.

[rose raptor]

i wish it was on disscount on steam

[polar osprey]

It's only 20 bucks regular price...

[tacit crystal]

20 for a game is rather cheap for the content the game contains.

[rose raptor]

yea i know but im broke

but ill get it

[tacit crystal]

But next sale will probably be Winter sale during holidays.

[heady parcel]

Well, it does come on sale from time to time, so just keep watching it

[rose raptor]

i might just get it now still

i need the boys to get it aswell tho

[tacit crystal]

Definitely fun with close friends, but also definitely fun for solo too. 👍

[fossil delta]

Thats the thing with games, just because you like it, even love it, doesn't mean your friends will as well.

[rose raptor]

yeah ur right

[oblique maple]

yes, my bad
i had the forsakenpower mod, it had a shortcut for changing it instead

[pliant radish]

Like how my brother liked hollow knight but doesn’t like silksong

Absolute insanity

[fossil delta]

I get that. There have been series over the years where I did not like the entire series. Just specific versions of it, with how they can change game play, etc... Usually its the story line changes that turn me off.

[heady parcel]

Now - this is not a jab at you @oblique maple in particular, it probably doesn't even apply to you, I just got to thinking and have an honest question - why do so many players hop on a new game and immediately download a plethora of mods before they even know the game? Why take the words of random knobheads on the internet as gospel on what mods a game "needs"? Why not play it out of the box a while to figure out how it works and what - if anything - they'd like to change about it?

[pliant radish]

I agree

I’m all for mods, but at least try the base game first. Also I think I like vanilla valheim best

[fossil delta]

I feel the same. I've been modding for about 15 years now. One rule I have is to play a game as is before I use any mods.

[heady parcel]

Aye

[fossil delta]

Besides, I have to find out if I like it enough to even want to bother with mods.

[pliant radish]

I think that’s not as much of a factor as it used to be. I remember trying to get mods to work in Minecraft as a little kid, with my dad who is a software engineer also getting confused, whereas a lot of games nowadays is as easy as a click of a button or even automatic in some cases

[fossil delta]

Yeah, it has gotten easier to mod over the years, by magnitudes at this point.

[wild elbow]

Anyone got the Valheim deluxe boardgame mines in the UK and it is 100% amazing.
The quality is so good I cant say, the colours and materials are GOATed.
It's a lot of reading and can't wait to play with my friends.
It weighs a lot too so if you are a bit dodgy with your back careful.

[fossil delta]

I think it helps that at this point, game studios know to make their games mod friendly.

[fossil delta]

Still waiting on mine. ITs in their shipping cue, so hopefully soon.

[heady parcel]

Getting curious about that board game now, not gonna lie 😄

[fossil delta]

IT looks really good, but the game play videos looked solid too.

So if you like board games, you probably should get it before it goes out of print.

[heady parcel]

Haha ffs the sacrifice animation hadn't even played yet (sacrificing Yaggy) before the first fuling came running at me out of the woods.

Green guys ANGRY

Ooooh so yaggy's power is a damage buff now?

[fossil delta]

All of them got a bit added to them.

[heady parcel]

Won't make me drop Moder's though, not on this world

[pliant hatch]

Pfff, just to get Magic going you'll be needing 91 refined Eitr. Feather cape not included.
More if you want to use a shield and a few "normal" weapons before switching.

[fossil delta]

Moder got a lot of things added to it, so a lot more useful now. I still stick to Eikthyr the vast majority of the time, but we now have a lot more reasons to use the others. Especially outside of combat.

[heady parcel]

Yeah I keep some ratatosk mead and the nimble trinket on me (and run skill 100...) that covers Eikthyr for me, but Moder is priceless on no-portals, saves me so much time

And the carry capacity thing too

[fossil delta]

I just still use Eikthry so much because its good to have activated in and out of combat. Need that stamina...

[sharp dune]

@dapper bane @wind elk @vernal kindle @silver salmon Hi, could I get access to join voice channels? I don’t have the permissions, and I don’t even know why it was taken away from me, as I haven’t done anything wrong.

[fossil delta]

Mod mail is a thing...

[tacit crystal]

Instead of pinging Helpers, you can send DM to @dusky pivot if you want to contact moderator team to ask for the reasoning of your No VC role.

[nimble adder]

hey, im new to the game and was wondering if enabling FIre spreads would be a good idea? me and my group want a real gritty realistic and hard approach and it seems really cool, but im wondering if its really any good to enable or if it is overpowerd

i know how it works (roughly)

[sharp dune]

Okey

[nimble adder]

but i want to know if it is actually a fun feature

[fossil delta]

I've seen a fair number of people say they like it, no experience with it myself.

[tacit crystal]

If you enable it you have to be careful with planning your buildings so they don't catch fire. Although you can set things on fire with fire based weapons like torches and fire arrows, and by setting trees on fire you get easy coal without the kiln.

[nimble adder]

is there a way to extinguish the fire? like a water bomb or something

[heady parcel]

I'm using fire hazards in my current world, and I love it. For one thing, it does force you to think of how you place your campfires, and building a wooden chimney is not the best idea for example. Also, using fire arrows becomes a much more tactical and - honestly - BADASS playstyle. I have never felt so absolutely viking as when I raided a draugr village with fire arrows. Hoah!

[nimble adder]

hell yeah that sounds sick

[tacit crystal]

There is one, but it comes in Ashlands. Smoke bombs they're called.

[nimble adder]

definitely making me think hard when building so far. i have my campfire outside my house and a little far so i can just about sleep

the only issue is will i ever be able to build a bed inside or will it always be needing to be at the edge wall for warmth?

[heady parcel]

Just observe the fire - you'll see how far the sparks fly. Keep your bed out of range and you'll be fine.

Also more advanced fireplaces later on will contain the sparks

[tacit crystal]

Stone floors can be good idea once you gain access to building with stone as it doesn't catch fire.

[nimble adder]

are sparks an indicator of fire range?

i assumed it was just within a radius of above

if thats the case i can potentially be more fluid with my design

[heady parcel]

It's the sparks that actually cause fires

[fossil delta]

The smoke hazard has killed me enough as it is. So I'm like", "Do I really want to give my camp fires yet another way to kill me?" Nope.

[heady parcel]

Tsssk tsssk, gotta be afk to die from smoke inhalation!

[fossil delta]

Nope. Looking at crafting menus long enough does it too.

[heady parcel]

Bah, same thing, just different approach. Key being not paying attention... 🙂 But yeah, it's a sneaky killer

[fossil delta]

I was also wrongly assuming just because my smoke was dissipating just fine, meant I could stand relatively close to it and not worry.

[heady parcel]

Ohyeah that I have done, "wait what why, I have a chimney!?!" <caugh caugh>

[fossil delta]

Yep. Just because your house is clear over all, doesn't mean its going away just as well close to it.

Heck, I've even died next to out door fires, because the roof protecting it from rain was too low.

[marble orchid]

burial chambers
come in
come out
bear
dead

[gray sand]

Bear-ial chambers right? 😉😏

[deft lava]

Is there a discount for this game anytime soon?

[tacit crystal]

At least during Winter sale I'd assume.

[deft lava]

Thanks

[neon steppe]

holy moly does stone floor and walls eat stone..

i been farming stone nonstop in todays session 😭

[fossil delta]

Yep. Its why any time I mine, I save all of the stone too.

Any time lox, trolls, soldiers, etc... break stone, I probably pick it up, and so on.

[neon steppe]

i went with someone elses base design for my plains base, it looked really advanced so im hoping to pick up some tips and tricks while building it that i can use on my own design later

once i get ashwood open one day

so many building tips and tricks in youtube, need to watch more 👌

my windows used to look so bad hahaha

[fossil delta]

Yep. I learned a lot that way too. Plus a few people here were willing to let me visit their builds as well. So showed me "in person" how they did things. It was great.

[deft lava]

Was wondering if anyone has a video that will just want to make you get Valheim, I'm trying to convince my friend to play it with me.

[fossil delta]

Back in the day IG's own videos were more than enough to convince me. All the "Do this and DIE!" "Do this other thing and DIE!"

[dry dome]

Still can't craft from chest : /

[pallid walrus]

is therre anyone that has an extra set of iron armor and maybe material for a karve i could use

[fossil delta]

That would be sweet. Eventually I will be using mods There is definitely one that adds that.

[pallid walrus]

just lost all my shit sailing lul

[fossil delta]

Use dev commands to spawn you in a new set. There is a wiki, or similar, that tells you how to use them, and activate them for Valheim.

[pallid walrus]

on pc?

[fossil delta]

Yes.

Probably other platforms, but I am on PC, so...

[shy marlin]

17 core burial chamber

[fossil delta]

On default resource settings?

[shy marlin]

Ye

[dry dome]

how do i repair specific items instead of it just cycling through ones that need repaired

[shy marlin]

don't think you can specifically choose which things to repair

idk never messed around with it but ig you can also just drop the things you don't want to repair for w/e reason and then repair then pick up

[fossil delta]

I can't think of a reason to not just repair everything, anyhow.

[dry dome]

ok yea that weird how u can't lol

[cedar stump]

omg we hit the jackpot in that last and 2nd infested mine on this continent 😄

8 goddamn core

[cosmic summit]

what should i make first in ashlands? I can currently make the bow, 1h sword, or shield. im using max level mistlands gear

[gray sand]

All matters of "should" are your personal choice and there is no wrong answer.

[cosmic summit]

is the spinesnap better than ashfang due to its spirit damage? and does ashfang fire faster? spinesnap seems really slow

[gray sand]

Ashfang can be enchanted.

And bow fire speed is purely on your skill level.

[cedar stump]

so erhm do I just craft all the staves and use em all hmm

[cosmic summit]

my bow skill is 24 🙁

[vast wren]

Spinesnap takes more stamina per draw compared to other bows for more damage. But yeah, once you find the gems from the Ashlands forts, the ashbow can be transformed into variants with powerful abilities that's much better than a spinesnap

[vast wren]

You can also just fire wood arrows at low level mobs as a fast rate to level up your bow. The amount of damage doesn't matter to skill up. It's a hit per skill raise system

[cosmic summit]

I just spent half an hour dumping all my low level arrows into TWIG it was very boring and got me two levels

[vast wren]

Just make wood arrows, it's easy. I just run around black forest and meadows shooting anything that moves instead of standing still in one place. Makes it less boring and actually practical how you would survive with bow skill fighting an actual mob from late game

[inner cosmos]

Just beat queen that was fun. Didnt die once 😎

First time fighting her I expected harder tbh I think yag hardest boss

[gray sand]

Eikthyr hardest boss.

[bronze sierra]

Went into a burial chambers, looted it, left, directly outside and i'm trapped by trees, no axe so i can't escape. Waiting for a friend to reach me to cut said trees

[fossil delta]

Sometimes going back in and exiting by using the E button can work getting you past things like that. Some times.

[radiant pivot]

Anyone have any input on how the new update is? Can't wait to see how the spear and trinkets feel!

[cedar stump]

3 extractor set up, almost mage ready 😄

[slate grove]

Started a new world to play the new update and I’m going to do mountains early so I can do swamp with better gear. Maybe even try to do plains early too

First trip up the mountain was rough in bear set

I caved and did one crypt for some iron and I’m trying again next time

[tribal trench]

Never had so much fun with Yagluth than when we 5 maned the boss today on a very small island big enough for the boss only. Love this game =+)

[dire hollow]

Anyone interested in starting a new world with me? I have little to moderate experience (in my current singleplayer I'm in the swamp and haven't fought Bonemass) and to be honest, singleplayer can get boring with nobody to interact with.

[gray sand]

#1024264966712340510

[vital estuary]

s

[winter heath]

I had more trouble with Moder than with Yag. I actually rather enjoyed the Yag fight

[snow flame]

moder getting stuck at an elevated ground for the 34th time

[tacit crystal]

In short: the latest update is quite impactful for the whole game.

[vast wren]

If you don't shoot arrows at moder when she's flying, she mostly lands quickly after which you can meele her consistently.

And keeping yourself ideally on flat areas when fighting her will mostly make her land there instead of some impossible cliff edges

[polar osprey]

Moder is definitely harder than yag

[nimble adder]

my friend and i got chased by a bear, it was terrifying

it didnt make it easier when he shot it with a fire arrow and now we had a flaming bear chasing us

[neon steppe]

the only thing that has jumpscared me in this game was a bear. was running to mine some copper and thought it was a rock but it roared very loud while i tried to jump over it 😄

[errant knoll]

Today I went head to head with a 2 star morgen.

Surprisingly the engagement was less scary than many engagements involving unstarred morgens.

(Additional context, i haven't raided a fortress yet on this save, so I don't have access to Anything that requires gems)

[nimble adder]

this is a very scary name. i assume thats a difficult enemy?

i played years ago and just about got to bronze, but beyond that i never really advanced

[errant knoll]

They're kinda like giant playful puppies that have no idea how strong they are.

They're also terrifying when not prepared to deal with them

[nimble adder]

oh god

im excited to get eaten by that then ig

[errant knoll]

Not like puppy shaped, but puppy tempered.

Their visual appearance is very grotesque lol

[nimble adder]

for context with the flaming bear part we play with fire hazards on so it started burning the forest a little

[nimble adder]

well thats not very nice lol

[errant knoll]

If you get to the endgame, you'll learn.

Never getting oast bronze, you have a lot to discover. I envy you, I wish I could wipe my memory of the game and rediscover everything

[nimble adder]

hopefully having 3 people will help, maybe a fourth soon

last time we had alot of trouble with the black forest

but the gameplay was so fun

only stopped playing cause it went off gamepass and some of us (we had about 8) didnt want to buy it

[errant knoll]

My advice would be to take your time to familiarise yourself with every new mechanic the black forest introduces, even stuff you think looks boring. Its ALL important.

My first playthrough I ignored making a farm for far too long, didn't realise how much of a disadvantage I put myself at.

[nimble adder]

really? i think i made a farm at one point

i dont know if it helped that much though

we had a kingdom with a wooden keep and a moat all up on one of those rocks that stick outward toward the sea, so a farm was made for honey and carrots i believe so that we didnt have to hunt 24/7

[errant knoll]

It makes a massive, massive difference

In fact upgrading your food makes a big difference in general.

And it's not just about having ease of access to food either, not having a farm directly gatekeeps you from making the best foods you can

[nimble adder]

i think we realised that late, if i remeber i built my friend a tavern to make the food and drink in called "The tavern of scotts" (she was the only scottish one) but it was too little too late since we had stopped playing about a week after

it was fun though. the building is what i really loved

[errant knoll]

Yes.

My current base has 2 expansions to make, both for farms (my living area is complete).

[nimble adder]

i built our entire base, including a lighthouse

[nimble adder]

thats cool, what stage would i get stone stuff?

i assume thats what you built the base from

[errant knoll]

I currently just have farms elsewhere that I use lol, would prefer them to be close

[nimble adder]

i found wood to be limited and it made the keep i built for king bob ross (that was his name) smaller and weirder than i wanted

[errant knoll]

It's not, but it's a material that is structurally similar to stone in most ways.

You get the ability to make a stonecutter once you've found iron.

[nimble adder]

oh ok

[errant knoll]

And er

It's far cheaper to build with wood than stone. Just warning you

[errant knoll]

The trick here is to replant seeds to get more wood.

Oak trees are statistically self sustaining and actually expected to grow in population if you cut down and replant a lot of them.

Of course random chance could screw you out of that, but they're an excellent source of both wood and fine wood. Well worth cutting them down to collect acorns

[nimble adder]

ill keep that in mind, i have bad memories from oak trees from the time one rolled down the hill and flattened part of out defensive line during raid

[errant knoll]

If you have no aversion to portals, a way to deal with this is to just have a portal that goes to a tree farm

Portals to farms is a good way to keep them safe raids, but you don't get the aesthetic for your base

So it's preference what you do at the end of the day

[visual ivy]

anyone else having their average framerate drop considerably after reaching the mistlands?

I thought that was fixed

[errant knoll]

For me it's the Ashlands which does my framerate in

[visual ivy]

oh so it gets even worse?

joys of unity

[errant knoll]

Unfortunately, there's a lot (and I mean A LOT) of stuff happening in that biome that i think the game struggles to process it all.

Especially during an ash-storm. It's borderline unplayable.

[chrome badge]

I've never experienced that myself.

[errant knoll]

I dread running around and a sudden ash storm hits and now my games like 15 fps

[chrome badge]

I get a steady 144 on a decent PC.

[errant knoll]

That being said

I'm on steam deck

[visual ivy]

I mean, even right now my average framerate got from 80 to 60 despite CPU or GPU load being 50% or lower

[errant knoll]

I don't have issues anywhere else in the game, just the ashlands

[chrome badge]

You should lead with the steam deck bit. 😅

[errant knoll]

Game stutters for a bit whenever it autosaves as well but I can directly see that happening and know when to expect it so it doesn't bother me

[errant knoll]

My boyfriend has a good gaming PC and performance is noticeably slower in the ashlands for him during an ash storm as well, though it's much better than on my deck

[merry pebble]

Ashlands simply have a lot of stuff going on all the time, hopefully it will be a bit more optimised in the future but it is not really that bad 🙂

[errant knoll]

For me it is noticeably bad

Multiplayer was worse

The whole rest of the game was fine but Ashlands during an Ash storm I have to leave and wait for the storm to pass.

[polar osprey]

Anyone else having issues with single player saves not working properly? I went for a surtling core run in a few burial chambers. Got 20-25 cores, saved and logged out. When I went to use my cores for portals this morning not one was in my box.

[neon steppe]

no problems for me, was just doing core run myself earlier today

time to hit up swamp and clear some sunken crypts

[polar osprey]

I was thinking of scouting for a swamp maybe look for some vendors. Haven't sailed off starter island this playthrough yet

[neon steppe]

just a general new playthrough or do you have some rules?

[polar osprey]

Everything's set to default, trying to access each area in an unorthodox way though. Skipping Elder. Playing with some seating arrangements near crypts. That kind of "Fun" stuff. Killed Ek without attacking him.

I'll up the difficulty in a biome or two

Just spent the last 3 days clearing forest for my meadows base aswell as an island with a boarstone. Just watched my first 2 star piggy pop out. Now I can murder her 0 star momma and start inbreeding with the 2 star adult.

Essentially focusing on building and farming more than progressing super fast.

[neon steppe]

sounds like a good time 👍

[polar osprey]

I'm really enjoying solo right now, it feels nice.

[merry pebble]

Solo runs can be very chill and cozy

[chrome badge]

I might assume there's a lot of cleaning up to do in their Ashlands, a lot of trees topple and instances litter the ground if you're not actively cleaning them up. I never experience this, but I will utilize purtrid hole's chests to store any fallen objects in the area as well.

[errant knoll]

It's just more busywork to have to do stuff like this all the time though.

Which tbh is just the theme of the ashlands in general

[chrome badge]

Oh definitely, I just don't mind because I will mostly utilize the resources anyways and can feel like a shortcut ultimately.

[errant knoll]

While yes, the fact lots of grausten and stuff drops is nice, I have to be in the mood to really gather and build stuff, otherwise I wanna turn the game off

I don't feel like I'm making much progress if I keep having to organise stacks of grausten after every engagement with a foe

I like to play a mostly nomadic game, only building a base when I find a truly exceptional spot to build (like the mistlands 8 roots base adjacent to a plains biome I've got, with expansion planned soon)

[chrome badge]

Yeah don't get me wrong I don't expect players to play the same, just theorizing why I might not experience Ashlands frame drops. I really slow burn my playthroughs so I hardly ever see something as taking too much time.

[gray sand]

Danger link is dangerous.

[shy marlin]

🔗

[heady parcel]

I'm running a server for my brother, myself and a bunch of friends. But since it has turned out next to impossible to get everyone online at the same time, I play solo worlds 95% of my Valheim time. The gang is a bunch of people from various countries, in various time zones, with various work hours and in various stages of their lives... The few times we have run together were some of the best times I have had in Valheim, but nothing beats being able to fire up the game and play when I want to play, without needing the organisational abilities of someone running rock festivals...

[stuck lake]

what ashland weapons should i get as a defense tank for my friend

i kinda just tank for my friend

[tacit crystal]

Mace is considered as more defensive weapon due to its added knockback.

[stuck lake]

i see

[tacit crystal]

Have you raided any fortresses yet?

[stuck lake]

not at the ashlands yet we are about to go find one

[neon steppe]

real question: when you enter BC or SC, which way you guys go first?

whenever i clear right path first i get the best loot, it works 100% time!

[merry pebble]

I do "always left" tactic

[neon steppe]

i used to do that, but im a changed man now!

[tacit crystal]

Okay, I especially consider one variant of mace as one of my favorite Ashlands weapon, but another variant is really good too. 👍

[stuck lake]

do i unlock a new tower shield at ashlands

[tacit crystal]

Yes, there is tower shield available when you get the new metal.

[stuck lake]

yessss

[tacit crystal]

Out of curiosity, what weapons you are using currently in Ashlands?

[stuck lake]

im gonna use mistwalker and demolisher with carapace buckler

[dry dome]

if i have a smelter going can i put a box in front of it to cellect the ingots or will it be ok on the ground for a while not sure what time frame it will clear off map

[neon steppe]

stuff don't despawn inside workbench radius

[loud surge]

yall is soundpad allowed in the vcs?

[neon steppe]

campfires/firepits work too i think?

[tacit crystal]

Good options. You could also go next sword when you get new metal and ||one of the gem options||.

[stuck lake]

gems?

[merry pebble]

As TenKey said if you have workbench or another player base structure nearby it wont despawn at all 🙂
And even if you dont then it wont despawn for 1 irl hour/2 in-game days

[tacit crystal]

Do you mind spoilers about Ashlands weapons?

[stuck lake]

nah i dont

[tacit crystal]

In fortresses you may find 3 different gems, which can be used to enchant weapons made of new metal. Each gem variant has their own effects.

[stuck lake]

what do the gems do

[tacit crystal]

The effects?

[stuck lake]

yeah

[tacit crystal]

One can trigger chain lightning around enemy mobs, other can immobilize mobs so they can't turn or move and third increases your damage per HP you miss.

[stuck lake]

whoa

[tacit crystal]

And each Ashlands weapon made of new metal will have those 3 options.

[stuck lake]

thats cool

[tacit crystal]

Then there are some magic weapons that also require some of those gems to craft.

[stuck lake]

so i can have a sword with chain lightning

[tacit crystal]

Yes, that is one option.

[stuck lake]

which one is the best gem

[tacit crystal]

Best depends on who you ask, but generally people like the lightning one the best.

[stuck lake]

ima get lightning

[tacit crystal]

I like both lightning and rooting, maybe bit more the rooting gem.

The 3rd gem most people might find either underwhelming or risky to play with effectively.

[stuck lake]

lighting sounds the coolest

[tacit crystal]

It's pretty cool, yeah.

The gems are only found in the fortresses. Metal can be found near lava or also in fortresses.

[stuck lake]

ok

[stuck lake]

ashlands have been reached

the water is all red

[gleaming hemlock]

sounds spooky

[stuck lake]

just killed a bonemaw

[gleaming hemlock]

just started adventuring into mistlands

[stuck lake]

i hate that place

[gleaming hemlock]

i need to build a mushroom farm, do mushrooms need an open open ceiling to grow?

[stuck lake]

idk

[gleaming hemlock]

oof

[stuck lake]

im not that experienced

[gleaming hemlock]

me neither

[errant knoll]

Just raided my first fortress with a magic build.

Only gems that dropped were lighting gems.

...the fact that Dundr does electric damage and yet it's recipe uses bloodstones is some class-A BS

I literally got nothing I could use from this fortress unless I pivoted all the way back to melee

[merry pebble]

Yes they do 🙂

[errant knoll]

The 3rd gem is pretty important for magic builds. For melee its definitely higher risk.

[neon steppe]

yes i've seen bears

[errant knoll]

Might just be bad luck. Call to arms is thr live version yeah

[stuck lake]

day 145 we made it

[errant knoll]

I found quite a lot of them in my first black forest, but the second one didn't have many

[merry pebble]

That is because their id isnt bear 🙂

It is bjorn

[errant knoll]

Rng seems oddly buggy at times.

I had to kill 43 asksvins on my current world before I got my first asksvin trophy

[neon steppe]

reddit is full of people crying about bear trophy rng

[shy marlin]

makes you wonder if a pity system would be good

[neon steppe]

until someone found out you can get one from ||vendor camp||

[errant knoll]

Is the fact that exists really a spoiler? Doesn't hugin kinda tell you they exist the first time you enter black forest?

[merry pebble]

It was the guy right above you i belive

[neon steppe]

oh 😂 i just saw post on reddit and then few days later i got youtube short about it

[merry pebble]

News spread fast 🙂

[shy marlin]

ye i found it out, shared it with some buddies and this discord and just became common knowledge now

irongate plz don't fix

[errant knoll]

Stuff like that is cool, see no reason for it to be "fixed" xP

Little Easter eggs

You still need to kill bears to make the armor at the end of the day

[merry pebble]

Well, it should either be fixed and not be destroyable or be always destroyable 😄 right now it is not when you first go to it and after reloading it is

[errant knoll]

I'd prefer the Ashlands music bug gets fixed first xD

[neon steppe]

some devs just don't like bugs to exist in their games even if they are popular among players

[errant knoll]

Unless someone comes in and tells me the overlapping music tracks in ashlands is intentional... in which case I might cry lol

[wintry valve]

why cant blast furnaces be used for iron?

[merry pebble]

Too nice for smelting such basic ore 🙂

[heady parcel]

Make-belive scientific reason - temperature in the blast furnace way too high, you'd get iron with all the wrong characteristics!

[vocal stone]

Hey do u recommend any mods to try when i play first time ( i played before for like 10 h could not get intro it ) i see a lot of ppl like to use Epic Loot

[heady parcel]

No mods

If you're playing for the first time, play the vanilla game until you know it. Once you feel you don't have anything more to learn (and maybe have something you're annoyed with), go ahead and ask in #mods-discussion ...

[turbid pumice]

there's so much in the game already😭

i;m like 35 hours in but only at the start of the iron age

i love it though

[heady parcel]

It's a game best experienced without feeling stressed to progress, take it slow and enjoy the ride. The journey IS the game, there's no end game MMO raiding scene...

[turbid pumice]

frrr, the grind is the game

[shy marlin]

No but actually, if temp is too high you mess with grain size, grain size boundaries, makes it more brittle, and surface imperfections

[gray sand]

Conversely, if the temp is too low and you try to work it you put cracks and imperfections into the structure of the metal.

So having the blast furnace needed for some things but not be viable for others is in the realm of believable.

New YouTube: Science with Scales 😏

[shy marlin]

Ye it's certainly realistic but i'm 50/50 on whether or not the game should just allow you to melt the lower tier ores with blast furnace just for qol

[gray sand]

Given every other QoL concession they have made...

[shy marlin]

idk I like most of em

the hold e to stack is amazing

[tacit crystal]

And snap points for building pieces.

[shy marlin]

yupppp

[tacit crystal]

Biggest QoL:

[tribal trench]

Everyone thinks my hot tub is for actual use... pfft I have 3 pufferfish in there. Take a dip if you want 😂

[cosmic summit]

Is there any point to building a nice pen for my ashkin? Or will they rip it down at the first sight of a raid?

[errant knoll]

If they can't see enemies and don't take damage they typically don't get angry

At least I've found this to be true. Had some drakes fly really close to my asksvin pen and they've never gone ballistic

[cosmic summit]

I think ill dig a pit for them and use it as a basement to my archery range

[deft lava]

Hey guys what should i know about this game before starting it?

[gray sand]

Nothing. Playing it for yourself is best.

[civic stirrup]

Play it normal, you can always look up other stuff later if you get stuck or wanna shake things up

[shy marlin]

ye valheim is a game where information is power and lookin up stuff removes a lot of the joy of the game

Can confidently say many of the regulars here wish they could play valheim again for the first time

[gray sand]

Many of the regulars also have scale issues 😏

[tropic scarab]

Definitely, I’m trying to fight fader for the first time i’m scared to start the match because i have no idea what im getting into so I’ve been waiting for someone to help me fight him

[neon steppe]

oooh finally found god crypt

160+ iron

[tropic scarab]

Fuck ya

[heady parcel]

O dear gods below. I just read a comment on Reddit, someone who gave up on Yaggy and decided to just sail/row home to their base and build up courage and strength to try again. Well, apparantely Yagluth crawled along after them on the ocean floor and proceeded to level their base to the ground...

[gray sand]

Looooooool

[civic stirrup]

Bruh how close were they?

[heady parcel]

Heck knows, I just read their comment, I need to try and recreate this

[gray sand]

I would like to imagine they were quite far and Yag rolled up multiple in-game days later 😁

[tropic scarab]

That would be hilarious just be farming and then all of a sudden starts raining down fire meteors on your base

[civic stirrup]

Sounds fake unless they travel exclusively in rafts XD

[gray sand]

Or they have mods and one of them broke the code that tells bosses to stop following you.

[tropic scarab]

Any peeps playing?

[pliant hatch]

No, they're all on vacation.

[tropic scarab]

Danm that’s wild Bermuda or Bahama

[civic stirrup]

Playing what? 😏

[pliant hatch]

Most likely Playa Balconia.

But in case they aren't, check https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510 for online play.

[timid furnace]

Hi Everyone 😁🖤

[tropic scarab]

Haha I got a post there I was just trying to see what people were up to in their world

[tropic scarab]

Hay👋

[civic stirrup]

building a chapel

[tropic scarab]

That’s sick I’m doing a similar thing and one of my worlds. I started a new one about a year ago and I’ve been building this massive museum base that is gonna have everything from Ashlands and before then I’m gonna work on a PVP Colosseum and a actual house for myself that’s gonna have everything from the deep north when it drops

If I could post pictures in this thread, I would if you want me to DM you the pictures I can

[civic stirrup]

You can sent 'em in #screenshots

Not bad

Building is one of my favorite parts of the game and where 90% of my hours are spent doing XD

[tropic scarab]

It has two courtyards one is for smithing, and one is for crops. It has a chest for every item in the game. It has an item stand with every weapon and an armor stand with every armor. I have every shield and every trophy on display and every building station to its max level so far

[gray sand]

Having a separate building/area for the forge and its upgrades is good practice for nice builds.

[tropic scarab]

I didn’t use any commands either everything that was there I farmed for

The most annoying part was leveling out the ground to build everything because I had to carve out basically a mountain right next to spawn. The only downside is in the middle of the farm. There’s a mound that’s bedrock that was too high to level out with the rest of the groundso I have to figure out what to do with it and I’m not 100% any ideas

[gray sand]

If I may offer:
Level it for specific areas/buildings, yes. Don't try to get the whole of your build on one level though.

Having buildings/areas be a meter or two off from each other also makes it look more organic.

[civic stirrup]

Leveling definitely can be costly, leaving the terrain more natural however will make your base look that much better and will reduce the lag in your base. Especially as it gets bigger and fancier

I try to do it as little as possible

[tropic scarab]

I understand I just need to figure out something to put there like maybe surrounded in Stone and raise it up, but I don’t know what kind of structure would look good there or maybe should I just turn it into a spot for the windmills?

[gray sand]

They did an update a while ago that drastically reduces the effects of terrain manipulation on lag.

[civic stirrup]

Definitely but my endgame base had to take every last bit into account to keep the instances down

[heady parcel]

yeah, actually terraforming will usually reduce the amount of instances, so in most cases it is beneficial for fps, if there is any effect at all

[civic stirrup]

For most bases its not a big deal but someday it might be a limiting factor

[gray sand]

I build villages and haven't had an issue with lag 🤷‍♂️
Not unless you build in Ashlands 😄

[civic stirrup]

How many instances are you runing?

I had to keep my base around 16k

[gray sand]

I don't even know how to check that because it's never come up 😄

[heady parcel]

I did check my old base once, out of curiosity. Can't remember tho

How do you check it again?

[civic stirrup]

f2

current base is at 9k

[tropic scarab]

19k

[civic stirrup]

I do have a decent amount of terrain mods going on though

[civic stirrup]

Figured if you had everything perfectly level lol

[heady parcel]

Just under 8k then with my current mansion. I've been doing some pretty massive terraforming to build terraces for the house and growing barley. And a few roads down to the traders and the port

[tropic scarab]

No mods mines just

Vanilla

[civic stirrup]

Instances are only counted in a certain area so the roads and even likely the terraces aren't being factored in

[heady parcel]

Do berserkir meads have a cooldown, or can you spam them?

[civic stirrup]

Not sure how large valhiems chunks are

[civic stirrup]

Not a clue

[tropic scarab]

Any meat that you can drink that gives you a time defect you can drink as soon as the time affect is over as long as the time affect is active you can’t use another one

[heady parcel]

Yeah running around the terraces I got up to about 7800 at most

[tropic scarab]

Mead

[heady parcel]

I'm trying to think of use cases for that mead. It would have been great against Yaggy, since he mostly spams fire damage and shit the weakness would hardly matter, just the benefits to spank away.

[tropic scarab]

It kind of sucks sometimes because sometimes you just wanna top off your poison resistance or whatever and it won’t let you until the last second

Honestly, there’s so many different ways to stack items now it’s crazy and since they change the boss heads, you can stack the boss heads with potions and trinkets to make them more powerful

[heady parcel]

Yeah I'm abusing moder's power and troll endurance to not need the cart anymore...

[tropic scarab]

Definitely between those two and the belt you get like 1000 carry weight I use that combo for solo mining in the Ashlands

[tacit crystal]

Klossen + Primal axes + Berserkir mead = Reto is minced bone.

[prime moth]

think i just spammed staff of the wild

hc run for beating rito was very fun

[cedar stump]

4 sap extractor set up, 15 cores obtained, finally used to monsters in mistland 😄

Screw those 2 stars seeker tho

[merry pebble]

They become a fun challenge after a while 😄

[cedar stump]

We had to beat one after a long run with 2 food buff was scary,I learned to just dodge them and not try to parry and get staggered lol

Time to hunt hares then I can craft my mage armor woohoo

[fossil delta]

The 2 star soldiers are fun too. Ran into a couple of those the last few days. During the day.

[cedar stump]

I love how we started by struggling hard in the mistland and now I feel like we almost Own it!

we even scouted during the night and stuff 😄

[errant knoll]

I chug it right at the start of a boss fight and then wail on a boss while they're entering the arena.

Some bosses entering animations last a pretty long time, so you get a lot of free damage

Bonemass powers resistances also overwrites the weakness so if you run bonemass you get 5 minutes of potion uptime without downside

[heady parcel]

Yeah. Kind of my point - the use of that potion when fighting something that can actually hit you back is...not strong.

Kind of a group thing, if in a group of folks with a dedicated tank working to keep the attention of the boss, someone with berzerkir meads could whack away without a care in the world 😄

Brings certain cooldowns in old-school wow to mind

[errant knoll]

For solo play you can pair it with bonemass buff, though that has the opportunity costs of not running one of the other powers - all of the powers except Elder power are pretty decent to run in combat now.

[heady parcel]

Yeah, potion and bonemass powa combo sounds strong, gotta test that on Queen later on

[errant knoll]

Before the forsaken power changes, when bonemass granted very resistant, it was ridiculous

[merry pebble]

He granted resistant, not very resistant status 🙂

[heady parcel]

Never used anything else haha. Now I've been using Moder non-stop. But then I'm on a no-portals run so it very much makes sense.

[merry pebble]

Now he gives slightly resistant

[errant knoll]

Ah, well still op either way lol

[merry pebble]

Not gonna argue that xD it was basically, "Haha! You cant kill me now!" button 😄

[errant knoll]

Bonemass always felt like a no skill "I win" button for the next 5 minutes lol

Eikthyr was probably stronger but wouldn't save you if you were stupid

[heady parcel]

Ultimate panic button when aggroing too many baddies in Mistlands

[merry pebble]

And later ashlands 🙂

[heady parcel]

Me <shoots arrow at seeker>

[errant knoll]

The mistlands experience, hears horn noise, runs in the opposite direction

[heady parcel]

3 starred seekers and their 2-star soldier buddy and a gjall: U WOT MATE?!!?

[errant knoll]

Those Gjalls scare me more than most enemies in the ashlands individually

I hate them

[heady parcel]

First time I heard that sound I leggedit out of the mists and didn't go back in weeks

Fuck those things still scare me

[errant knoll]

Thankfully I'm at the point where I can quite easily kill them in my current save (thank you ashlands foods, you make all the difference).

[heady parcel]

I am mostly scared of them when sailing near mistlands shores now. They can sink a boat before you get a goood shot angle at them..

[errant knoll]

That and max level staff of frost

[tacit crystal]

Gjalls are one of my favorite enemy mobs cause they're so alien.

[errant knoll]

I used to take a crossbow with me just to make them easier to kill but I don't need to now

[heady parcel]

Seekers aggroing on boats is kinda pathetic - RHAAAAAR I FLY KILL YOU SOFT-SHELL WEAKLING <splassh> guluhlughluglugh gasp spit drown dieeee...

[errant knoll]

The biome it's in does a lot to help that.

It just kinda materialises through the mist and it's a bit of a jumpscare lol.

[gray sand]

🎶
You used to shoot them with your crossbow...
Latenight when they floated by...
You used to shoot them with your crossbow...
You used to, you used to..
🎶

[errant knoll]

On progression I probably die to gjalls more than any other enemy in the game, I think

Asksvins get me quite often as well though

[tacit crystal]

Definitely, slowly sailing through the mist, sometimes noticing you first and you just wait from what direction it starts to shoot.
And starred ones, damn those look terrifying.

[heady parcel]

Fulings, and earlier on starred draugr have been my all-star killers. By the time I made it to Mistlands I had learned caution, not so much when approaching those strange abandoned villages in distant meadows. What ist that, buzzing? I need moar bees! <runs in> OOOPS!

[errant knoll]

Asksvins are a real pain in the butt

[heady parcel]

They're just overgrown necks dishing out payback for our crimes against their race

[errant knoll]

"Just" overgrown necks.

At least with a Morgen or a Valkyrie I can fairly easily get them to thin out their allies. Asksvins are fast, relentless and that lunge attack does more damage than it has any right doing lol

That being said an asksvin by itself isn't really a problem. Then again, nothing in the Ashlands is.

[heady parcel]

Thing is nothing in Ashands ever comes by itself...

[errant knoll]

Exactly lol

Asksvins always make the engagements so much worse so they're my enemy number 1

Yesterday fought a 2 star morgen surrounded by a horde. It very quickly became judt me vs the morgen.

[heady parcel]

Still haven't come across a starred morgen, thank the hells

[tacit crystal]

2 star Morgen has more HP than Bonemass btw. ☝️

[heady parcel]

Bloody hell

[tacit crystal]

Additionally they resist all physical damage types lol.

[heady parcel]

Well, in all honesty the seeker guard troop outside the queens lair was a tougher fight than the queen herself to me. One two-star seeker with two one-star buddies, and absolutely no space to move. Sheer cliff on one side, sea on the other. Gods, can't believe I lived through that. Only thanks to old Bonemass...

[errant knoll]

Made a good target dummy for my staff of frost lol.

Took FOREVER to kill but was easy

[stuck lake]

ashlands is genuinely hell

[gray sand]

What's your food?

[stuck lake]

like the honey chicken and some cool stuff my friend made

[gray sand]

That may be problem A, given food is the most important stat in the game.

[stuck lake]

i usually just eat whatever i ahve on me tbh

[gray sand]

That is confirmed problem A now.

[stuck lake]

like boar meat usually

[gray sand]

So Ashlands is not hell at all. You're just not equipped for it.

[stuck lake]

i seeee

[tacit crystal]

Salad is good and can be made plentiful for cheap.

[stuck lake]

where do i make that

[tacit crystal]

Cauldron.

[gray sand]

Have you played the game??

[stuck lake]

ahhh ok

[stuck lake]

duh

[tacit crystal]

As long as you have all available upgrades for making it.

[stuck lake]

ill probably set that up whenever my friend opens the server

[tacit crystal]

So far after black forest you should have been able to build 4 upgrades for cauldron before Ashlands (one per biome).

[stuck lake]

ok

ill get that for better food

[frank glade]

For those of you who have ran larger servers, how do you handle your Raid settings? I have a modded server that has grown to 20+ active players and our theme is based around making the game much slower and more challenging, but raids are purely vanilla and I left their frequency on default. Over time more people have been interested and joined - so raids become less and less frequent.

If 5 people are online and not playing together, it is going to take ~20 hours of gametime before you experience a raid, if using default settings. But if I crank up the raid frequency, when 1 or 2 players are online, they are going to get absolutely hammered. Thoughts?

[errant knoll]

I would suggest it's both hell AND they're poorly equipped for it lol

[tacit crystal]

Honey glazed chicken is good, same as Misthare supreme and Meat platter for the HP options, usually 2 HP 1 stamina food setup (HHS) is good.

[gray sand]

I would suggest it used to be hell and fun, but then got nerfed into the dirt.

[stuck lake]

i eat honey glazed chicken

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, as you mentioned.

[errant knoll]

I am aware it was nerfed.

It wasn't fun to play for me before

[stuck lake]

i have like hell soldiers digging out of the dirt

[errant knoll]

And that's not due to skill issue, i cleared it at the time

I just didn't enjoy any second of it

[stuck lake]

ill remember to get cauldron

[tacit crystal]

Just a question, did you ever find turnips in swamps?
-# That one can be evasive and easily missed.

[stuck lake]

my friend is growing them

[tacit crystal]

Right, then you should be able to craft all the upgrades if you haven't already.

[stuck lake]

ok

[rugged bridge]

That bad huh? Guess I got a relaxing session to look forward to

Replaying it a long time after I did in the beta client now but it is what it is, this newest update barely added enough to change the gameplay

[gray sand]

If you are kitted well when arriving in the Ashlands it is a relaxing walk through moist cake.

[wintry valve]

vinny's ready for yagluth, except one more action figure is necessary for the summon

[pliant hatch]

Depending at where you land.
I've been in a situation where landing was horrible.
I've also been in a situation where landing was that easy, I thought I had accidentally set the game at "non-agressive monsters."

[smoky quarry]

you need an MG42 fully loaded to make a good landing else chance high to get swarmed

[wintry valve]

you can make those with iron, black metal, and a bit of tread

[rugged bridge]

I'd say it's a shame, but such an experience as beta build ashlands (or potentially worse) is better kept for valheim's end

[heady parcel]

It's all about staking out the coast well before landing. Knock out spawners from afar with your bow, don't land until you know you'll have space to establish a bridgehead.

[wintry valve]

the first time I landed in the ashland, I do not recall any spawner there, but I remember that I got to meet everything the area had to offer at the same time

except the crossbow things

[errant knoll]

Just got 3 jade from my 3rd fortress, nice!

Fully (at least for now) upgraded staff of the wild inc

Now if I can just secure more of those bloodstones my build is complete.

I really hate that Iolite is useless for my build

[sonic tendon]

Any one down to play

[merry pebble]

Some people in #1024264966712340510 for sure 😄

[normal oak]

was there some kind of update this week? my friend and i can no longer connect to our server, and the password now needs to be longer, we have the same mod setup, but his server appears offline to me

[gray sand]

#mods-issues

[wintry valve]

deathskito taming when?

[smoky quarry]

use the potion, with them zooming around you go towards some other biome mob

[winter notch]

Hi I have a question

[foggy glacier]

@normal oak there hasn't been an update, but if you're playing with mods, folks in #mods-issues might be able to help.

[foggy glacier]

what's the question?

[winter notch]

What is the best way to kill fader with 3 people

[gray sand]

Reduce his HP to 0 before he does the same to yours.

[winter notch]

Ok

Is it easy with 3 people

[barren whale]

to actually answer your question, fader has an AOE attack called Fissure that spawns under every player/ally. You'll want to coordinate your group to all run in the same direction or in different parts of the arena to prevent cutting each other off with Fissure fires.

[winter notch]

Ok thank you

What should weapons should we use

What weapons

[gray sand]

The ones that you, personally, feel like using.

[barren whale]

not pierce or fire, he takes full damage from slash, blunt, frost, lightning

[winter notch]

Ok

Do the duel axes with lightning work

[shy marlin]

ye

[winter notch]

Ok

What staff

[shy marlin]

Frost / Vines

[winter notch]

Ok

[shy marlin]

It might be tough getting vines to work in multiplayer tho idk

[winter notch]

Ok

[barren whale]

keep in mind Vines will get Fissured so they aren't nearly as good as normal. with 3p expect to only occasionally trip the max vine spawn limit

dundr is quite nice since you stay pretty mobile while using it and Fader has a big hitbox

[shy marlin]

dundr mentioned

[zinc remnant]

No good servers on xbox it seems

[winter notch]

Ok thank you

But can the boss be easy with 3 people

[shy marlin]

yes

[winter notch]

Ok

[shy marlin]

I've beat the boss with literally zero buffs on the hardest difficulty you can do it with 3 people I believe in yall

[barren whale]

what's wrong with Dundr 👀

[shy marlin]

i'm just a d1 hater since there's other more op options mage has it's fine

[barren whale]

lmaoooo understandable
I wish they made it stowable loaded along with xbow

[winter notch]

What is the best weapon in the game

[shy marlin]

Overall? Prolly staff of embers

[barren whale]

tbh 95% of fader difficulty in multiplayer is lagging into someone else's fissure and dying to invis flames

[merry pebble]

Yes, but that is you xD

But yeah, 3 people should be fine 🙂

[winter notch]

Ok

[barren whale]

if you've got decent ping like an IRL friend group you should be fine

I think Embers was the most dominant weapon ever, during the period where Mistlands was last biome, but Staff of the Wild and Storm Fang gap it at high skill levels now.

[shy marlin]

ye

embers just has so much utility tied to it and you get it earlier than the two which makes me think it's just the best overall considering those factors