valheim-chat

[dreamy sierra]

LOL

I had no Idea, I am just starting to even look at that stuff. Heck I RARELY even touch meads or pots.

[tacit crystal]

Wielding Dundr while wearing bear armor chest.

[gray sand]

Tasty Mead my beloved.

[gray sand]

Dual wielding Dundr when?

[dreamy sierra]

I will say I love my Axes, And my Bows. Nothing like a Good Snipe Shot when Clearing Fortresses and Villages.

[tacit crystal]

Maybe mini-Dundrs, I'd imagine 2 shotgun like weapons packing a punch for both arms.

[gray sand]

Have you run the vomiting sniper build?

[dreamy sierra]

Vomiting Sniper build ???

[gray sand]

Bloodstone enhances damage based on MISSING health.
So get blood ripper.
Puke.
Eat 3 max HP foods.
Shoot before the first healing tick happens.

Highest single damage weapon instance in the game 😁

[dreamy sierra]

Wonder if that would crack the 2500 HP Mark ???

[gray sand]

I don't think so, but if you get the sneak shot off for the crit it is absolutely insane 😂

[dreamy sierra]

Using the Blood Sword upgraded fully with Sneak I have managed 1267.9 HP hit on a bear.

[gray sand]

Poor bear 😭

I think you can one-shot gjalls with the vomit build, but I have not personally tried so cannot confirm.

Would be a decent chunk out of any boss if you get the shot off while the sparkles are still collecting.

But for that you'd probably get more value out of standard blood bow and pumping as many shots in as possible before you healed too much.

[dreamy sierra]

Sounds like a plan to try out over the next couple days 😄 Gotta break that 2.5K mark somehow LOL 😄

[heady parcel]

Oh gods, now I finally see a usecase for the blood weapons. I've never even considered them becase walking around injured enough for it to have any kind of impact is begging to die from a random half-miss. But for sneaky, well-timed ambush opener... I might actually try this.

Combine with a tasty to delay healing a few more seconds

[fading shore]

Ask-set and Yagluth Power might also Work Wonders If timed right :P

[pallid orchid]

people who want to start a world with me?

[tacit crystal]

There might be people in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510 👍

[orchid kayak]

Man Im this close to uninstalling the game again I cant get anyone interested to play in the lfg channel

[near furnace]

game not fun unless playing with someone?

[orchid kayak]

yea

Ive grown incapable of enjoying sandbox games on my own

half the people that join only to leave say there's not enough people or that they cant join the server at any time since i dont want to pay for a dedicated server

paying for a server isnt really worth if player retention is weak on my end

[real pike]

damn

[lone rampart]

currently paying for both a valheim and a v rising server that aren't even played except for myself and one other friend. This resonates deep 🫂

[near furnace]

and no one in the "group" can host a dedicated server themselves? (it is free if you self-host with the tools we supply you)

[heady parcel]

Hehe, big bad serpent surfaces to roar at me all fearsomelike, I just run it over with my drakkar and continue on my way without looking back

[heady parcel]

I run a dedicated server on an ancient office pc I "rescued" from the IT guys' scrap pile. Valheim servers are not particularly demanding, as long as you have a stable connection you can run them on pretty much any PC that will at least accept W10 on them.

I'd recommend swapping old HDD:s for an SSD or save lag could probably get out of hand, other than that any used pc should do the job.

Gods, when I hop on a leviathan for the sole purpose of sinking it - since it's bloody blocking my way - it won't sink until I crushed the very last barnacle. Not even picking up the chitin, what a waste.

[warm nova]

So, question, there a tool to view seed based data? want an idea where my traders are

[heady parcel]

Don't have the link at hand, but google "Valheim map viewer" or suchlike and you should find it

[warm nova]

thanks king!

[pliant hatch]

You mean something like https://valheim-map.world/?

Yeah, it's there. 😄

[warm nova]

im trying to scout my map for the traders

[merry pebble]

If you put in your seed into the site Thorin linked you can see all their possible locations 🙂

[lone rampart]

How is it I can spend every moment at work thinking about what I’m doing next in Valheim…and then on the weekends I get maybe a couple hours before I’m tired? Adulthood is a scam!

[heady parcel]

How did it go again, "All work and no play makes..."

[lone rampart]

Makes Homer go crazy

[heady parcel]

Oh yes, it goes like that. Although in fairness once you get past a certain threshold of adulthood and slip into the "I'm too old for this shit" phase, you actually start to get time and energy over to do shit you want to do, not stuff you have to do. It's a glorious feeling, worth the wait.

[lone rampart]

Spoilered for potential tw || sometimes I don’t think I’m going to make it to that stage ||

[silk token]

this is AFTER your kids have left for college we’re talking about right

[heady parcel]

Yes, nest is empty. FREEEDOOOOOM!

[silk token]

omg i cant wait. love my son. also i cant wait.

[heady parcel]

Exactly! 💖

[lone rampart]

Both can be true

[light moat]

Finally! Some time to play some video games!
-passes out

[silk token]

lol, see you cant make the mistake of sitting down

sitting down for a minute is a lie. only sit down on the computer chair

[lone rampart]

And don’t even think about “just stretching your back for a sec” 😴

[silk token]

but ya i get about 1 hour ti play a day during his nap, and even that hour i SHOULD be doing a thousand other things, but mentally/physically i cant do that

[light moat]

Totally understand that, that’s kinda where I’m at right now
Hmm kids are asleep… I should probably be doing the dishes… but I also want to game…

[silk token]

You just had a new one right? So you have toddler daytime plus no sleeping newborn at night? I don’t think any part of my being could handle that.

[heady parcel]

When my offspring were really small I'd often need to walk them asleep in one of those thing you carry them on your chest with. Only the second I tried to slide them out of that thing they'd snap awake - so, ever the opportunist, I did more than one all-nighter by the computer with them snoring away on my chest. Boss asks "why are you so damn tired all the time?!? Err....kids, you know!"

[tacit crystal]

When my small ones were babies I sometimes put them laid on my lap, having my legs crossed while on PC. Luckily they didn't get too fussed about it.

[silk token]

my wife would’ve been so pissed if I did any of that lol

[candid basalt]

I’m in my fifties. I got plenty of time after work to sit down and fall asleep to the plains music at my base

[heady parcel]

Will a damaged tree "heal" if it is not felled? Asking because a troll saw fit to smash my beehive tree (don't ask how it got so near, I have no idea..) and disintegrated every single hive but the tree still stands. Wondering if I dare let it stand or if a greydwarf stone toss can finish it off...

[foggy glacier]

Don't think so. I've come back to trees ages later and one-shotted them.

Just plant a new one or put your beehives elsewhere.

[heady parcel]

Dang it. A well, don't have the patience to wait for a new one to grow so I'm gonna risk it

[foggy glacier]

I like to put all my beehives on the roof of my boar pen. Keeps everything safe inside the base.

[heady parcel]

Planted a pine tree for the purpose, only less suitable trees around apart from that

I've only had the beehive tree get felled once, and that time it was a freak tree-bounce that should logically have been impossible, but well, it's the tenth world, crazy stuff happens.

[heady parcel]

Main menu music does that for me, it is so soothing and suggestive at the same time!

[light moat]

Yep! It’s definitely not easy LOL but the time goes by pretty quickly. Toddler takes a two hour nap during the day, and that’s usually my opportunity to have some ‘me time’ or whatever. I tend to be extremely efficient during the day- cleaning while I’m cooking, scheduling alarms for laundry, picking up the house as I walk through, that kind of stuff.

Because of that, I often have windows to enjoy some peace lol

[heady parcel]

Bloody hell stone portals are huge, can't fit it in my house

[candid basalt]

I’m glad I managed this weekend to spend several hours gathering materials. Just need to find a place for my castle. I have 400+ tar waiting for it

[gray sand]

Good. They shouldn't exist at all 😏

[candid basalt]

Also spent time this weekend helping a lower tiered player deal with aboms while he set up a surtling farm with pathways connecting 6.

Was a good Valheim weekend

I love how stone portals look

[ivory zodiac]

[solid birch]

is this game good to play with mods

[foggy glacier]

Better to ask that question in #mods-discussion .

[pliant hatch]

Some say it does, some swear to keep using the Vanilla option only.

So eventually the choice to use them is yours.

[lone rampart]

It can be but vanilla is super fun as well

And I say this while running a modded server

[light moat]

Definitely this lol, some people say they could never play Valheim modded, some say they could never use mods. It’s 1000% up to the player

[paper marsh]

I'd say do your first run vanilla, but after that you can look at mods yeah

[lone rampart]

Was just about to say the same thing

[candid basalt]

Over 1,000 hours no mods. I am tempted to use plant everything but haven’t given in yet

[tacit crystal]

Almost 3,4k hours and still not used any mods. 👀

[candid basalt]

I find the game rewarding as is. I love it. Solo worlds and group play; I’ve enjoyed every bit

[lone rampart]

I will warn you, PlantEverything is a gateway mod 🤣

[candid basalt]

I know, that’s why I haven’t given in 😂

[lone rampart]

“It’ll just be nice to add decorative plants…ok maybe PlantEasily too….” 37 mods later

I resisted the one where you raise and ride dragons but only barely!!

[candid basalt]

I enjoy planting vanilla. I even do the farmers insurance jingle. “We are Vikings! Dum duh dumdum dum dum dum!”

[lone rampart]

I don’t know you but you just became my favorite person in here

[silk token]

never used a mod. i could appreciate something like plant everything if i wanted to make berry farms i guess? or if i was super into decorating… but my berry gathering overlaps with boar deer thistle etc gathering and ifs more fun to just run around gathering and exploring. if you really really like harvest moon sure go plant everything i guess lul

[candid basalt]

Yeah I would only use it for decorating. Instead, I look for areas and build there trying to keep the local spawns. My BF build has thistle and blueberries in the yard as well as some natural pine trees

[tacit crystal]

I enjoy some berry/mushroom runs. While at it I can also decimate any tree people, blue neighbors or bjorns I encounter.

[silk token]

I think it would just feel wrong, like it’s such a special thing to come across conveniently placed blueberry bushes and building near them or returning to them, if you could just plant massive amounts of blueberries then it’s like who cares if you found blueberry bushes

The more convenient anything becomes the more it cheapens it

[candid basalt]

I won’t yuck someone’s yum. Have fun with it. We have one person on our current server who uses it and has a berry bush fence.

It’s cute

[heady parcel]

Aaaw, I worked so hard to get to Ashlands on no-portals. Now I finally reached the stage where I thought I'd unlock portals and pretend stone portals are the only portals. But this monstrosity is to big for my house - and I built a bloody big house. Ah well, just gonna have to build a special house for the portal...

[candid basalt]

Place them on rune stones and set up a “moongate” network connecting each island

#screenshots message

[gray sand]

(Being cheeky do not take personal)

So you lack the conviction of a true no portal run? 😏

[light moat]

Yeah, been playing around with plant everything, though I only use it for decor- not mass farming or farming tweaks. If there was a way to have access to those build pieces without making them too easily accessible (this is my problem with the Plant Everything mod) then I’d be all for it. But y’all know how I feel about berries

[lone rampart]

I was sailing around yesterday and found an island with a single, massive mountain peak. And now I must build there

[gray sand]

Friend gave me seed with the 2 tallest mountains in the game, and one of them is very flatten-able at the top + has a sunken tower to build off 😮

[light moat]

I got this crazy tall mountain (I don’t know if it’s the tallest?) with- not a frost cave- but a howling cavern on the very top! It’s so wicked cool!

[candid basalt]

I found a howling cavern up a smooth slope with Black Forest on the coastline. It’s in a natural cove with plains on either side. I’m thinking mountain fortress and black forest port town

Mountain castles are such a vibe

[subtle nimbus]

what if we had running trolls

[lone rampart]

Love that! I have a mountain that completely surrounds a valley that’s half BF, half plains. I’d love to build there but no access to the sea

[candid basalt]

Yeah I have to have sea access

There is a burial chamber and troll cave I can incorporate into the build too as mine entrances

[subtle nimbus]

you can dig to water level

[lone rampart]

Not through the surrounding plains! 🤣

[candid basalt]

If only we could make tunnels

[lone rampart]

Hell of a canal. It would need mosquito netting

[candid basalt]

I fish up groupers so I don’t have to worry about skeeters

[lone rampart]

Blaaaaaah that’s what I keep forgetting. Gotta put my fishing pole in the ship so I remember it!

[candid basalt]

Playing on a server where we started fresh and playing super chill until deep north. So I’ve taken up fishing and mead making which I’ve never really done. It’s actually fun

[lone rampart]

They scare me every time they spawn in and pop! outta the waves. Like toast popping outta the toaster

[candid basalt]

I’ve already caught tetras because they jumped out of the water in the cave

[lone rampart]

I just run the docks after every storm. Free perch & pike for days!

[candid basalt]

I have a fishin rock at my BF island. Troll fish for days. Troll heads were piling up. I have like 200 mossy bait now

[lone rampart]

Nice!

I keep forgetting they can be used for that eyes obliterator guiltily

[candid basalt]

We have newbs on our server so no elder dead yet (don’t want them nuked by brutes) so have to wait until everyone votes to progress before I can get thunder stones

We turned off raids and only killed moder since it doesn’t affect night spawns

[timber marsh]

Holy shit I finally saw THOR flying through the lightning

[candid basalt]

Using a porcupine instead of frostner

[lone rampart]

My server has dwindled to just the two of us and I don’t want to bring in new folks because we beat the Queen. Nothing like getting ransacked by bugs your first night

[candid basalt]

Yeah we had new people interested so we started the new seed and set the limitations

[timber marsh]

Isn't there a better hammer than the 2 handed iron? Smashing is so much fun but it's not very powerful in the plains...

[nocturne wolf]

The next is in mistlands

[candid basalt]

Mistland teir

[lone rampart]

We’ll probably start a new seed post-1.0

[timber marsh]

Ah, still waiting on my friends to upgrade so we can tackle yagluth

I got full padded and black metal but they're still messing around lol

[broken wharf]

hi, just installed the game, does anybody run a 24/7 vanilla server I could play on?

[timber marsh]

Our server is modded

[candid basalt]

Yeah I’m the most advanced on our server. Rank 4 padded and plains tier foods

[timber marsh]

#1024264966712340510

[broken wharf]

thx

[lone rampart]

Should see which mods I can ditch with the next run

[timber marsh]

Well I built a "tavern" at spawn with everything they could ever need so...

[timber marsh]

Our mods don't affect vanilla gameplay, it's for custom content

[lone rampart]

The avatar art swap?

[timber marsh]

Ya

[lone rampart]

I need a mod where I can just play as Moder only less crying over slaughtered hatchlings, more swooping across the lands leaving a wake of destruction

[timber marsh]

If you sail to the edge of your world... do you fall off the edge?

[lone rampart]

Probably I haven’t gone that far

[nocturne wolf]

Yes, you won’t be able to get your items back

[timber marsh]

Lore accurate. Awesome

[lone rampart]

That’s why you do a pre-corpse run with no gear and a cheap karve. Geronimo!!!

[candid basalt]

Our spawn has a structure where we put things for newbies to use. Most of them just took an antler and two iron for stonecutter but are doing their own thing. I did put a portal to each vendor tho

[candid basalt]

Make sure you scream it as your boat goes over for proper effect

[lone rampart]

My spawn point is an entire village. Farms, shops, tavern, docks, two storehouses, simple housing…. And then almost everyone stopped playing

[candid basalt]

Our guy who hosts the server is super busy so never finished that build for new players

My port town to the east of spawn gets lots of people using my kitchen and smelters

[lone rampart]

Aww.

[timber marsh]

This tavern has rooms for guests and everything. And doggies to pet

[candid basalt]

Yeah we had someone tame dogs before we even left starter island. So lots of good bois wandering around

[timber marsh]

Yeah we don't play everyday. It's been months and we finally got to the plains. We built another village right at the corner of 3 biomes

That's where the farm and livestock are

[candid basalt]

Our first server we did we all built huge bases in a meadow near each other. So much lag 😁

This time we spread out

[timber marsh]

We rolled a seed with a massive starter island

[marble delta]

We used to love the "settlement/village" approach, but yeah, it's a cpu melter

[timber marsh]

Even Makes a rtx cry...

[lone rampart]

My starter island has all 3 traders and, I think, every boss up to Moder

[timber marsh]

Had to use a render mod, i wanted to see the whole horizon, it looks so much better. and turn down shaders to run above 60fps

Unity engine be like...

[marble delta]

last time around, there was 5 of us, then a 6th pal showed up and dug out a whole basement for their house....went from like 45 fps to like 11 lol.

[timber marsh]

But it's all static building materials... why does it lag so bad

It's not like 20 windmills...

[marble delta]

it increases the number of local 'instances'

[lone rampart]

That’s been a recurring point of contention between me & bf. “Don’t make the village too big” … “ok you can expend the walls I guess but keep the terraforming to a minimum.” … “what do you mean you made all the surrounding ground one level??”

[timber marsh]

The render mod and some performance tweaks helped a lot with this btw.

[lone rampart]

I hate feeling like a naggy wench but my potato laptop can’t handle it

[timber marsh]

I just priced out a laptop with a rtx 5090... it's 4 grand

I can get a rtx 5080 for my desktop for only 1k

[marble delta]

I bought a laptop in 2021 because of the hardware crunch then, but that was 1250, not 4 G's....jfc

[candid basalt]

Village is fine if everyone makes a basic house and shared crafting areas. But everyone wants a huge house with all the crafting features etc

[gray sand]

Upgrade to mango laptop 😉

[lone rampart]

I have a gaming pc I just need to set it up but then to set it up “properly” somehow leads down a rabbithole of installing floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in the front room

[candid basalt]

Ten years ago “let’s set up the computers in the library”. We don’t have a library. 6 months later last paint applied and monitor mounts installed

[lone rampart]

Nice!

[candid basalt]

Just like Valheim, oak was too expensive so had to build it out of corewood, I mean pine

[lone rampart]

I’m about to venture into an IKEA for the first time

Just to get it done

[heady parcel]

I don't particularly enjoy spending time running around Ashlands, so yeah I want it to be over as soon as possible, then I can continue exploring the world in peace (without portals...) until it's time to sail North

[candid basalt]

Last time I did Ashlands I just used it to gather mats. I could never have a real “livable” base there the biome is too crazy for me

[gray sand]

For me that is mostly a matter of "they should never have added the spires, or they should be much fewer so that sailing in and out isn't an annoying fustercluck experience."

Remove half the spires, crank water temp up by like 3x-4x so you can't straight sail in other boats.

[heady parcel]

I've also been playing with the idea to use the stone circles around meadows, only I haven't marked these on the map so it would mean some re-exploration 😄

[orchid kayak]

I am only aware of the "Start server" and "Community server" option

[candid basalt]

Yeah I thought about that too. Would be perfect

[orchid kayak]

both of which are unable to run a world 24/7 from my experience

[heady parcel]

There's dedicated server files you download from Steam under the "tools" category.

[fossil delta]

I did not know that. Wish I had known years ago. 😄

[orchid kayak]

I've never seen a tools category on steam

ive only ever seen some games like Zomboid have a seperate launcher for a dedicated server

[heady parcel]

It's in the menu to the left, in the library. Defaults to games, if you toggle "Tools" you'll see lots of various server files for all sorts of games.

You don't even have to own the game on Steam as far as I know, so a console player can run a server on their pc and play on their console.

[orchid kayak]

and how do i add my mods to this server

also this still requires it to be turned on on my computer for the server to be online

so it cant be 24/7

[barren whale]

I'd recommend r2modman
#mods-discussion will tell you more
but yeah you need your computer to be on

[candid basalt]

People turn off their computers?

[orchid kayak]

I use r2modman i just never found out how to add mods to any dedicated server

[orchid kayak]

So I can either pay 20 dollars a month for a server or spike my electricity bill

[barren whale]

correct, that's what the 20 dollars is paying for

[orchid kayak]

I cant afford to spend money on either

so i'll have to stick with the player hosted option

[fossil delta]

Your looking at around $9/month for 24/7 computer usage. Depending on where you live. In certain parts of the US you can triple that cost.

[candid basalt]

Server doesn’t have to be a powerful machine either. Can run it on a potato if you have one running windows 10

Tho an SSD drive makes a difference

[orchid kayak]

again if I were to host 24/7 i may as well pay for a hosting service than pay even more for the electric bill

[fossil delta]

If your living some where in the US like NYC or San Diego, your still looking at about $27/month in electricity.

[orchid kayak]

I live in Croatia

[fossil delta]

I have no idea what Croatian costs are. I'd have to google that.

I just know in the US average cost is a little less than $.20/KW hour, and a "average" computer uses about 36.6 KW hours per month, ran 24/7.

[dark coyote]

I have a server x99 mobo with 2 xeon 2680v4 cpus, its around 200w/h which is about 20/mo @ .15 per kwh

[fossil delta]

I presume you mean KW, not just watts. Otherwise, thats far cheaper than 20/month.

[heady parcel]

An idling PC consumes barely any electricity at all, a pc running one single Valheim server instance is pretty much idling, except possibly when entirely full. I don't shut down my pc:s other than when I go on vacation or something, shutting down/restarting wears more on the components than letting them run 24/7. Haven't had any sort of compontent failure since I started doing this. My former gaming pc - now guestroom gaming rig - has been running day and night since 2014 and it's still going strong 😄

[dark coyote]

I think thats right, 200 * 24 * 30 / 1000 * .15

[fossil delta]

Depending on where you live, you may be looking at $9/month/computer you leave on 24/7.

Thats based upon "average usage", so it could be lower.

[heady parcel]

It's not as much here, but I'd consider it worth it anyway. A mb failure because of a botched boot is more costly

[fossil delta]

True. Plus RAM has gone astronomical in the last several months.

[heady parcel]

Dare I even look? I was thinking of upgrading mb/cpu to be able to install W11, but I assume that would mean swapping to a later generation RAM

[fossil delta]

Even DDR 4 is around $200 for 32 Gbytes.

[candid basalt]

Price of RAM hits like a deathsquito to someone in trollhide

[fossil delta]

DDR 5 for 64 Gbytes is around $800.

[heady parcel]

Fecksake

Couple of years ago it was GPUs

[fossil delta]

It is due to the AI market eating up RAM products.

[heady parcel]

Yeah when gpu prices went nuts it was crypto farms

[dark coyote]

yeah im pissed, Micron discontinued their crucial brand, ,said will no longer make retail ram period, only ai ram

[heady parcel]

Gods below

[fossil delta]

Yeah, I got shocked too., I bought a new PC with 32 Gbytes of RAM, so I looked into upgrading to 64, saw the current pricing and decided I am doing just fine with what I have.

Its not like I do anything where I need more any ways.

Valheim certainly doesn't need more.

[candid basalt]

We got new systems last year and sprung for the 64. So glad we did

[dark coyote]

thankfully I bought the server and new pc parts a year or two ago

[fossil delta]

Just 5 months ago it was far less.

[heady parcel]

I think I have like 32 gb of DDR4 lying around I never installed, because I just don't need them. I should probably sell it 😄

[fossil delta]

Thats currently around $200.

[dark coyote]

same, I have 4 ddr4 3200 16gb sticks

[fossil delta]

I think only my laptop is DDR 4. I'd have to check. Regardless, still fine for what I do on my computers.

[candid basalt]

I want to leave work and work on my base.

[fossil delta]

I finished turning a draugr village into my new base yesterday. All those buildings probably make this the largest base I have ever had.

[candid basalt]

Nice

[fossil delta]

Yeah, it still had 6 buildings and a tower.

Right on the coast too, which is why I used it.

[candid basalt]

Large draugr villages are neat

[heady parcel]

I like the design of their mead hall

[fossil delta]

Same. The throne was not intact, but I can make it now, so no big loss.

[candid basalt]

I did a playthrough where I limited myself to only building where previous buildings were

Draugr villages were so nice

[lone rampart]

That’s a fun challenge

[heady parcel]

I've been meaning to upscale that meadhall and see if it can be made into a complete base if just a little bigger

[lone rampart]

My favorite pre-existing structure is the Black Forest castle with the porch (usually has a brute in it and bees if you’re lucky)

[solid birch]

yea ive been playing for years but never have used mods so im wondering if the mods are good for this game

[candid basalt]

And a troll behind it

[heady parcel]

Aye, when I find one of those mostly intact I always claim them, because they are so rare

[lone rampart]

Some are, some aren’t. Some improve basic quality of life and some completely change the game

[fossil delta]

These buildings are actually smaller than what I build for my usual home, but I just divided up the purpose of them. So one is my craft hall, another is my storage warehouse, another is my sleeping hall, etc... Typically that all fits in my home.

[fossil delta]

I always mark those, just in case I ever decide to go back and restore them. I never do, but the desire is there.

[lone rampart]

The trolls are the main reason I don’t. Much as I would love some riverside forest village!

[heady parcel]

Almost felt bad now, kicked a greyling into the path of a deathsquito while I pulled out my weapon

[fossil delta]

Trolls rarely spawn close enough to worry about them, especially if you have fully upgraded work benches in them.

Plus I do add fortified walls for events, when I do use them.

I much prefer walls getting hit, than my buildings.

[dark coyote]

lol I love kicking greylings around, if its post parry you can really kick them far

[fossil delta]

They are so irritating, especially in early game, and they come around and ruin your sneaking up on a deer.

[heady parcel]

Aye

Dang it, out of iron. Ugh, time for an iron run

[fossil delta]

I just did a sealed tower this morning, got a decent amount of iron and iron bars out of it.

Over 50, in total.

[heady parcel]

There is one along the way down to Ashlands, I might as well raid it on my way there

[fossil delta]

Too late for the eggs to do you any good, but plenty of black metal and iron. Usually 10 or so chains in the loot chests.

[heady parcel]

But... When I sailed past it last week most if not all the external stairs and whatnot were on fire. If I am to ascend that tower I need to bring lots of wood...

[fossil delta]

Two stacks should be plenty.

[lone rampart]

How in the world did that happen?

[heady parcel]

Fire hazards on

[fossil delta]

He has that fire hazard option turned on.

[heady parcel]

Lots of shamans inside, I suppose some seekers or whatever got inside and stirred them up

[lone rampart]

Didn’t realize that tower was sealed with petroleum products 🔥

[fossil delta]

Just shaman and lots of wood.

I come out of that tower with over a stack of wood.

He will come out with coal. 😄

[heady parcel]

Hehe now I kicked a deer towards another deathsquito. A new sport!

[fossil delta]

I use deer when I want to go into the plains in my bear armor.

I let them show me what has spawned.

Oh, saw something hilarious yesterday. A deer swimming, with a draugr in the water underneath, chasing it.

[heady parcel]

Haha yeah deer kan end up in strange places when chased by stuff

I once sailed by a deer with a very angry lox swimming after it

Pretty far from the nearest plains too

[fossil delta]

It was in a rocky area between BF and swamp. So I just stood on one of the rocks, and watched for a bit.

[fossil delta]

I've seen that too!

I didn't even see a biome deer are in near by either.

[lone rampart]

I have a random rock in the middle of the ocean with a single deer spawned on it. “Lone Deer Island” has become a landmark

[fossil delta]

I've had those too. Just they are usually at least some what close to an island. I don't recall seeing one that isolated.

[lone rampart]

My seed has the shallowest dang oceans, it’s ridiculous. Not another landmass in sight and suddenly I’m scraping a sandbar.

[fossil delta]

Almost did that last night. The storm made it visible before we ran into it.

[heady parcel]

I ran solidly aground with my long ship in the middle of an ocean a while back, no land in sight - but I managed to place a workbench on the rock once I nudged the ship off, so I have marked the place to build a very lonely lighthouse eventually

[fossil delta]

I once ran into a rather large rock. Eventually I realized it was so big looking because it was the top of a plains pillar. No idea why it even spawned in water that deep, but it was identified as a plains area.

[heady parcel]

I'm just annoyed the bonfire renders so late. I always see trees on the shore long before my light house - and the tower itself long before the light. At night. That's just wrong..

[fossil delta]

I've built keeps on top of those pillars, so I was tempted to have one in the middle of the ocean, but didn't do it.

[heady parcel]

Cool find though, that has to be pretty rare

[fossil delta]

I have not seen one since. Its been at least 3 years and couple of thousand hours ago.

I THINK I know which world its on, and I still have that save.

[heady parcel]

Bah who am I kidding, I'll put the damn stone portal by the smelters...

[valid arrow]

hey guys join the trolls cave vc i started a server its called server1 and the password is qwerty

[fossil delta]

Those are so huge, after I built the first one I just went back to using normal portals, and set the world setting to allow metal through them.

[heady parcel]

#1024264966712340510 Is the place for that

[valid arrow]

well it isnt fully a server i have to be in the world for it to run

[dark coyote]

...and lfg

[heady parcel]

Crafting experience - does doing the shift+craft give 5x the exp too?

[fossil delta]

I believe its been said that it does.

There is an exception or two, but I forget what those were.

[vast jewel]

Besides my minor criticisms with building. This game is incredible.

[fossil delta]

Even so, the building has improved a lot over the last few years.

[summer fern]

Am wondering about a idea so want to say it here first to ask, what if wards super duper slowly repaired stuff in there radius? I worry that could pressure players into placing them everywhere, but I mean super slow, like 25% per in game day, so 4 ingame days total for a object to fully regenerate/repair. Mainly at the speed where attacks aren't really affected, but minor things from like collisions or past non breaking attacks do get repaired.

[candid basalt]

I like building Blackforest bases on islands. Easier to troll proof and still give calm Black Forest vibes

[dark coyote]

this is my biggest gripe,, wards are pointless, I use the wardislove mod personally

[fossil delta]

Wards are only useful on group servers where you don't know everyone.

[dark coyote]

but even then they can be destroyed

[summer fern]

Well also for a kind of alarm if damage is being taken somewhere I noticed.

[fossil delta]

Still, they only do you any good when your on the server.

[summer fern]

So do you think my suggestion is a good idea?

[candid basalt]

I use them as deco

[fossil delta]

Yeah, like some idiot player trying to break in and rob you.

[heady parcel]

One very simple use of them that would make them worth their mats is if they would interact with ballistae so they won't shoot at the owner of the ward

[summer fern]

Solves 2 issues with one change? Utility in Pve, and trying to search every single piece to repair damage which can be pretty annoying, especially if it might be inside or hidden by others.

[heady parcel]

Because - locking a ballista to one specific target makes it mostly useless, and having it kill yourself makes it...kinda awkward to use.

[fossil delta]

Yeah, having to key 3 different ones to 3 different types of enemies is irritating.

[candid basalt]

Position ballista so you have a slim corridor to run in. Better hope you are on target

[heady parcel]

Sounds like a decent use for an otherwise purely decorative thing

[fossil delta]

I think its a worthy suggestion to make.

[summer fern]

Thanks am typing it

[timber marsh]

lure lox vs bear for great entertainment

[candid basalt]

Wards repair would be super useful. Or maybe even WARDING an area to keep mobs out

[dark coyote]

wardislove can do that, separate option to pussh out players or monsters

[heady parcel]

One suggestion I saw way back was that it would reinforce building pieces withing its range, so walls etc would only take like half damage from mobs or something like that

[candid basalt]

If I ever start modding maybe 🤔

[heady parcel]

It already reacts when mobs hit stuff, so I think it could be done

That's what I thought it did until someone said nope, that's not what it does

[candid basalt]

They are expensive spawn blockers really

[timber marsh]

nothing beats just digging a ditch with a pickaxe

[fossil delta]

I would like to have Haldors wards. To actually keep stuff out of an area.

[heady parcel]

I have only made one, ever. After learning how they function I refuse out of principle, even though I think they are cool looking

[chrome badge]

It's been suggested before, and other games have utilized a similar system, one that comes to mind is SCUM. I don't see it as a necessary change, but definitely could be convenient.

[candid basalt]

Some areas look horrible with moats

[timber marsh]

in our group server we had to just turn off raids because other people are stupid and just afk in the tavern...

[candid basalt]

Last server I played on with raids more players died falling into my moats than mobs

Night time running and plop in they go with a bunch of angry mobs

[chrome badge]

Terrain walls/moats are so unnecessary, just stone walls will do the trick, even against Ashlands mobs.

[dark coyote]

you know, you can spawn tar into your moats?

[fossil delta]

They aren't meant to look pretty. They keep what does look pretty, stay pretty.

[candid basalt]

Just build them away from main buildings and defend/repair them

And lead raids away to fight them

Tho spawn blocking an area helps with raids

[summer fern]

I have tended to end up needing moats or terrain walls personally, stuff tends to like deciding a stone wall is their sworn enemy sometimes in my save.

[timber marsh]

lox just eat stone wall for breakfast

[errant yoke]

Spawn blocking?

[chrome badge]

Yeah I build a ring of watchtowers to prevent spawns for about 20m beyond my walls. 🤘

[summer fern]

Not fun when "stuff" equals a big troll with a log, was painful.
Added a moat to stop that after other attempts failed.

[candid basalt]

Yes

[chrome badge]

It actually resulted in raids spawning on the massive pathway leading up to my gates, so raids feel ultra realistic.

[heady parcel]

When I build defensive walls, I usually raise a low earth wall and dig a shallow moat, making the earth barrier just deep enough so walking mobs can't walk over it. Then I cover it all in a stone wall 2 or 3 rows thick, with battlements. Then I sow grass in the moat and the whole thing looks pretty decent, and mobs can't get by it. They will smash parts of the wall, but that can be repaired.

[candid basalt]

Nice. Ballistas and a secret entrance for yourself 😂

[candid basalt]

Yes exterior walls I do this

[errant yoke]

I wasn't terribly clear, that was meant to be asking what that meant lol

[candid basalt]

Oh some building items block spawn points in their radius

Workbenches, torches etc

If you overlap coverage, nothing can spawn there

[errant yoke]

Oh

I had no idea that stuff actually disabled spawns lmao

[candid basalt]

Campfires and torches don’t have to be burning and they will block spawns

[chrome badge]

That's why nothing spawns in your house 😅

[fossil delta]

You still have to keep an eye on those areas. Like if any creature can get to your spawn blocker item, they will, and destroy it.

[errant yoke]

I always kinda assumed that it was just "stuff won't spawn on built structures"

[candid basalt]

Torches I think are 20m radius

[chrome badge]

This is why I'll make watchtowers, the workbenches are high above and they'll just walk by them.

[candid basalt]

I bury benches and put a wood tile or stone over them sometimes

Especially if I’m making a “graveyard”

[heady parcel]

Yeah, hiding them is enough for them to not get wrecked

[fossil delta]

I mean for all situations. Not just fortified bases.

[candid basalt]

Also can stick wood over torches and mobs tend to leave them alone

[fossil delta]

Heck, even my new base, a work bench keeps getting destroyed, and its inside my walls. So I am still trying to see what is getting in, and how, so I can stop it.

[candid basalt]

I make paths through swamps that way

[chrome badge]

Oh I'm just describing a situation where I don't have to keep an eye on those areas.

The watchtowers are outside of my base in the fields, and they're left totally alone.

[candid basalt]

And I imagine they are nice decorative base parts

[chrome badge]

Yeah they look quite nice, I can shoot from them, and I can repair anything in the area.

[candid basalt]

I have started making armor stands and filling them with troll hide gear to pretend I have soldiers on battlements. And to use up the ton of trollhide I have

[chrome badge]

I love that idea

(I might do that now too )

[candid basalt]

It’s the loneliness of Valheim. At least I haven’t named them Wilson

I would love npc generators

[fossil delta]

There is a friend I play with every once in a great while. He likes to build towns. So we use the armor stands to create "people" to stand behind various service counters, etc...

[chrome badge]

I believe there are commands to spawn enemies that will not attack, so you can encase them in an area, and they won't aggro anything. Not to sure how to do that myself.

[candid basalt]

Imagine if we could have “ghost” inhabitants. Like make a big enough forge and have spooky NPCs pretending to work bellows etc

[fossil delta]

Does the clothes we buy from Hildir go on those stands?

[candid basalt]

… I’ve never tried. Huh

[fossil delta]

Yeah, just occurred to me too.

[candid basalt]

They are armor pieces. They should

I will try tonight ADHD willing!

[fossil delta]

I'll have to try them out next time I play.

[candid basalt]

My Valheim: imma log on and gather some silver. 2 hours later whew that was some fun plains exploration!

[heady parcel]

I've seen youtube videos of that. Someone captured a skeleton and made it act as bartender. When they can't get out they become passive

[fossil delta]

I don't usually make people when I play, even solo, but I might start to now.

[summer fern]

You have betrayed me on the popularity of my suggestion lol.

[paper marsh]

I haven't been following the context here, which is probably why that statement looks odd

[timber marsh]

Oops I built a new house

[fossil delta]

I've tried that. Found it to be much more hassle than its worth. I think they used dev commands to even "trap" them.

[fossil delta]

Using armor stands and armor sets, and now maybe Hildir sets.

[candid basalt]

Draugr melee won’t attack half walls. So as long as you don’t get close to them can trap them

[heady parcel]

I'd spawn in dvergr, but there's always a risk there's a bat raid and they blow half the house apart

[fossil delta]

Don't spawn in mages, just rogues.

They fit in with most players any how. All rogues.

[heady parcel]

Fair enough. But it's funnier if there's different guys

[paper marsh]

The ashlands rogue are pretty strong

Can they ever spawn with stars?

[tacit crystal]

Lantern mages are the least destructive of the mages.

[fossil delta]

You mean with dev commands? I am sure they can.

[fossil delta]

Oooh! Yeah, great one!

[paper marsh]

I like the wisps that lantern mages spawn

[tacit crystal]

They can naturally spawn with stars.

[fossil delta]

Yeah, I thought everyone knows that, so thought they were talking dev commands.

[paper marsh]

2 star ashlands rogue on vhard would go hard

like 8x as strong as a regular rogue on normal

[fossil delta]

If you can summon that version in, using dev comands, they would be my wall guards. 😄

In my standard vanilla games.

[lone rampart]

I’m way behind on the convo but they do. I have them on display in my tailor shop

[twin grail]

Hi, is anyone need help? Wanna play with someone

[round shard]

dvergr rogue are they passive if i dont attack them or?

[echo wind]

They are your allies (but won't hesitate to turn on you if you attack them)

[round shard]

what about the dvergr chests u can steal from them (loot) then they will attack or?

[gray sand]

What would you do if a random stranger came into your house and took your stuff then kept wandering around and looking at you while holding your stuff?

[round shard]

wtf is that question?
some games ur allowed to take stuff from chests without they do something and now im asking bc its my first time in mistland

[gray sand]

Take something and see what happens.
Knowing everything ahead of time ruins games 🤷‍♂️

[heady parcel]

It is a question that answers your question

[round shard]

lol

[echo wind]

I'd have a bucket on my head so I wouldn't have seen anything

[silk token]

the bird tells you all you need to know

why doesnt anybody listen to the bird 😢

[round shard]

i have disabled the bird bc its annoying 😂

[gray sand]

....

[echo wind]

The bird is the word

[glossy heath]

i have been pretty quiet

[gray sand]

I am fine if people choose to disable the bird.
They should just be banned from asking any questions whatsoever about gameplay if they make said choice.

[gray sand]

Thou hast spoken quite a bit in the past few days tbh 😄

[round shard]

then go report me to valheim's discord 😂 toxic people these days....

[gray sand]

Nothing you've said is reportable 🤔

[glossy heath]

he's jokin don't worry~

[round shard]

lol

[heady parcel]

Well...if advice is annoying, then take it all the way and go by the F.O.F.O strategy... Anyway, as it turns out the bird actually has some sound advice on most aspects of the game.

[silk token]

oh so now WE get to be your bird?

[round shard]

i didnt say that?

[glossy heath]

hey don't say that like it's a bad thing :> kinda what this place is for

[round shard]

but i have disabled the hints

but yeah lets stop this before its getting too far

[silk token]

KRAWWW!

[round shard]

SHH

[heady parcel]

[gray sand]

-# Not entirely. In a perfect world, forums are run by the game company directly, you have to use your actual game login to have access (cutting down on alts, and tying your in-game actions to your on-forum opinions/actions), and game stats are also tracked. Meaning if you disable the bird in-game, the forum side knows you selected that option and automatically deletes any mechanics-related questions. 😏 😈

[heady parcel]

Haha imagine the raging over such a feature, beautiful. Reddit would burn

[silk token]

that would be intense if your game stats were visible in discord for all to see. then someone would be like “i killed my first bear!”(4,378 hours played) 😐

[barren whale]

ngl if my bird was like this i would disable it too

[gray sand]

😄 😂

[silk token]

imean the bird is pretty annoying sometimes but i love lore and junk

[gray sand]

I wouldn't have stats be public in that capacity.
Moreso just visible dev-side.
So you can see things like "OMG ASHLANDS" and the player has 2 hours on their account -- can immediately disregard the feedback.

[silk token]

today i came across the first crypt while mid-fight with my first bear still wearing leather on hard with permadeath hes like SKRAWWW A DUNGEON! (bear dives past me) SKRAWW hey look at this hole, talk to me! (bear just misses a bite)

[silk token]

thats a slippery slope because you shouldn’t go the opposite way either, people can have a bajillion hours and not have a dang clue what they’re doing (see league of legends silver league)

[heady parcel]

That happened to me in mistlands. Find my first skull SKRAAAAW while I'm doing my damndest not to get bled dry by the fudging ticks

[gray sand]

What if I have no interest in going to opposing way? Sometimes things are just flat land 😉

[silk token]

or a uhm… god i havent talen math class in so long..

asymptote!

[gray sand]

Aye.

[silk token]

well but a brand new player’s experience is also valid in ways… not all ways. not ways when they’re like “the combat is too hard. my meadows gear doesnt work against these tall green guys with clubs”

[rocky moon]

hola

[gray sand]

This is why I like the idea of them people reading the feedback having the metrics 🙂

Feedback in context is more useful.

[silk token]

or “this game is confusing” (disable hints)

😂😉

[heady parcel]

Omg

I kicked a greyling into the path of an angry lox, I think he got sent into orbit around the tenth realm

[silk token]

my new favorite thing is actually using stake walls and using the battleaxe alt attack to knock greydwarves into it. they bounce around like pinballs.

[gray sand]

Do you need the workbench to build the stakes? I know some of the walls you don't.

Because that would be funny to see how effectively you could Fortnite your combat 😄

[silk token]

yeah, you need the right bench to build all the stake walls, sad face, but that doesn’t mean you can’t put a bench down ahead of time

[heady parcel]

Doesn't ivy/vineberry grow on stakewalls? My only bush (only found ONE seed so far) won't grow. It rooted against the wall in the first stage, but won't spread

[silk token]

you mean palisades? i think so

[heady parcel]

Bugger

Yeah, tore it down and built a stone wall instead, started growing instantly. T.I.L

[oblique totem]

obv theres no set date for final update, but is there any like estimates on when it would come out?

[silk token]

was this palisade or stakes?

[heady parcel]

Nothing with any form of substance, speculation is all over the interwebs, all we know is they said PS5 version in 2026, which means probably 1.0 and hence Deep North at the same time since Sony doesn't do early access.

[heady parcel]

The regular stakewalls, not a heap of corewood stakes

[silk token]

oh why am i thinking its called palisade im getting my video games crossed

[heady parcel]

Because it looks like a palisade

[silk token]

so vines dont grow on palisades aka stakewalls aka the wall things that cost 6 regular wood

[heady parcel]

4 - but yeah!

[silk token]

ugh god im failing so hard. its been a very toddlery day

[heady parcel]

They come and go...

Time to get all grown up and serious and head to bed, cyall

[dark coyote]

the corewood pieces mod has a sick palisade wall with built in spikes at the bottom

[unkempt marten]

Back in a day when bear was new thing and I wasn't playing I just called people saying bear trophy drop rate bein horrible just whiners

Now I'm that whiner too

[dark coyote]

do you mean the trophy? I feel like there are way way too many bears

[merry pebble]

Pro tip: Just complain about not getting the trophy here and you will get one quite soon xD

[unkempt marten]

THAT'S WHY I'M DOING IT RIGHT NOW XD

[merry pebble]

-# You have to word it correctly tho, or the magic wont happen

[steel mica]

-Be me
-Goes to the blackforest for first time
-Kills bear
-Get trophy
-Man happy
-Gets sneak attacked by troll
-Man still happy

This was actually true lmao

Got snuck up on by a troll

Too busy celebrating that drop

[errant yoke]

Does anyone know any good tips for mass deconstruction of stuff?

[steel mica]

Troll

[merry pebble]

Destroy all pieces connecting it to the ground, then wait 🙂

[errant yoke]

When stuff is destroyed via lack of support, does it drop its mats? Dunno if I've ever noticed before

[steel mica]

Yes

[merry pebble]

Yep, drops everything

[errant yoke]

Oh.

[steel mica]

They return

[errant yoke]

Well that simplifies that, appreciated

[steel mica]

With some exceptions like traps and spike defenses

They wont return materials

so place it wisely

[merry pebble]

Unless its naturally generated, those drop less than their player made counterparts

[fossil delta]

In game structures? Yeah, its 50% if it takes two to make it, and less than 1/3 if it takes more. Like a chest you only get 3 pieces of wood from. 1 from most build pieces, since they cost us 2. Bonfires you only get 1 of each material back.

[fossil delta]

I had never noticed the rock talking before. Words of wisdom.

[open rampart]

Got a weird bug and wondering if anyone else has seen it happen. Oddly enough, a beneficial bug. My cart got busted up by some skeletons and dropped a bag of contents. I cleared the bag and rebuilt the cart, but in the spot it was destroyed, hard wood stick and boards keep spawning. I clear them, then come back a few days later and the ground is littered again.

Never gonna run outta hardwood sticks, that's for sure

[tepid prawn]

hardwood sticks? what even is that? you mean the pickable branches on the ground?

if its the pickable branches that give normal wood, they do normally respawn same as pickable rocks

[open rampart]

no, you know ...the dag gum hardwood sticks. Staves I guess? can't recall what they're called. Hardwood Long Stick chopped into the two sticks in carpenter.

shafts!

hardwood shafts - there it is.

[tepid prawn]

that sounds like #mods-issues #mods-discussion nothing from the normal game, they can give all sorts of bugs

[open rampart]

Not using mods

[tepid prawn]

there is no carpenter? there is no hardwood shafts in the normal game, no dag gum hardwood sticks

[chrome badge]

Hardwood isn't a thing 😅

[open rampart]

uh

...I'm in the wrong discord lololol

sweet jesus

[chrome badge]

Nice

[tepid prawn]

I thought that could be the case lol

[open rampart]

Aska and Valheim discord right next to eachother

My B dawgs

[tepid prawn]

there is carts, skeletons and the cart drops crates in valheim when destroyed, not bags I shoulda seen it there haha

[open rampart]

Ya oddly similar now that I re-read

[plush umbra]

guys can i ask why the fall damage here is so sensitive

fall 2m and removes 10hp on my character

[sturdy lichen]

@plush umbra i mean logically correct, you JUMP full Speed from 2m and See If u get away without a scratch

[plush umbra]

alright make sense you right you right

[sturdy lichen]

Thats why i love valheim. ITS logically in alot of aspects

😄

[plush umbra]

i dont like that we have yet to get a backpack

thats just me

[distant girder]

i wish the ask skeletons could be summoned as a higher tier blood magic minions thing
and rideable

[ashen sierra]

hi i dont really have friends who own this game soo i was hoping that i could find a good group to join

[tacit crystal]

Look no further than https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510 👍

[ashen sierra]

thanks <333

[snow aurora]

Greylings are so damn annoying. I made an earth wall all around the base area yet they find ways to come from the ocean

[chrome badge]

Yeah, all enemies can swim and will path through any water depth.

[candid basalt]

Sharp stakes can help with that. But need to repair them occasionally

[candid basalt]

Except undead. They just walk along the bottom

[chrome badge]

Swimming is just moving through water 😅

[candid basalt]

Why doesn’t Hildir sell pants? Such a weirdo

[tacit crystal]

Buy dress so no need for pants.

[merry pebble]

Superior ventilation

[candid basalt]

But it covers my manly ankles

Need kilt

[smoky valve]

https://medal.tv/fr/games/valheim/clips/lIBPwSh9tdfj9b2-u?invite=cr-MSxZcUksNDY1MDMzMDE5&v=11

didn't found the clip chat so

yeah

[lone rampart]

#memes-and-clips

[smoky valve]

thx

guys i am going for the queen any tipes?

[plush umbra]

how many bronze you guys get first? before moving through iron age? like do you guys stock up or just get to iron age for stone cutter and boat and thats when you guys start hording?

[lone rampart]

AOE is your friend at certain points of the fight. Stock up on high-quality foods/meads, and keep moving

[smoky valve]

i am in solo

[real pike]

keep the high ground, have single target and crowd control attacks, poison mead,

what's ur loadout look like

[lone rampart]

Solo is fine, I'm saying a weapon that deals AOE will be your friend*

[real pike]

i always keep a bit of surplus

[merry pebble]

2-3 copper deposits should be enough 🙂 i often get more just because i like to always have some left over just in case

[smoky valve]

ho yeah

[smoky valve]

a renforced chest full of it

[real pike]

but yeah, i mined only 2 veins and its been enough, you get other sources of the metals later

[smoky valve]

and you should be fine

[real pike]

what weapons you use

[fading shore]

Prob Mistwalker and Himminafl?

[smoky valve]

go in clips and memes i just put a clips where we see my invintory (i suck with name)

[fading shore]

Second for AOE and First for single Target, Poison/Bile Bombs Work also Wonders

[smoky valve]

i got that yes i got the demolisher, the mistlands staffs, that big ass golden sword, the Paniramix wapons, the cross bow, etc...

[smoky valve]

is that good?

[real pike]

yeah, everything but thrust, spirit, chop, and pickaxe is good

partially what i did was just dodge and m1 bm sword her torso on and off, you'll see how it is when you fight her

[real pike]

personally i've never made bombs, they seem expensive, but i wanna try em out

[merry pebble]

The bile bombs work well for both normal seekers and the brood, +they also help keep Queen on fire. The ooze bombs are weaker but much cheaper, and they will still wipe out the brood and help quite a bit with seekers in single throw 🙂

[real pike]

yeah i am at endgame so getting mats is easy, perhaps i'll get to it today

[smoky valve]

I am gonna pickaxe the shit out of that mf

She is the queen but i am the queen bender

[real pike]

she's immune 😭

[merry pebble]

Pickaxes do also pierce dmg 🙂 but you will be there for a LOOOOOONG time

[smoky valve]

Nobody is immune to me, i am so over prepar i 2 shot seekers

[merry pebble]

Immune to pickaxe dmg* 😉

[real pike]

yeah ember can 2 shot em if you let them burn

among other things

[smoky valve]

Ha

[real pike]

ember is my 2nd fav staff so far

[plush umbra]

Alright thanks for the tip

[plush umbra]

Alright thanks for the tip

looks like it means i have to prepare first before going in blind since its my first run and havent really gone to the 2nd boss yet

[smoky valve]

You should stop playing 6 hour 40 of elden ring is crazy

[real pike]

lol i just left it on, i'm at work currently

i'm also at like 30h running a valheim server for friends

testing some funni dmg stuff in elden ring

might pay for dedicated tbh

[vast jewel]

GUH

[candid basalt]

There is no such thing as “under preparing” in Valheim

Prepare. Then prepare again for your corpse run

[merry pebble]

Going naked and without foods or weapons against Fader might be under preparing a little bit

[candid basalt]

No that is YouTube content

[merry pebble]

And it is also impossible 😄

[lone rampart]

“I punched Fader to death eating nothing but mushrooms!” challenge

[merry pebble]

Possible if you use fist weapons 😄
-# And even without any food at all

[candid basalt]

Oh, you’ve seen that too?

[tacit crystal]

This little. 🤏

[candid basalt]

I need to start my mountain base soon so I can build a Yule tree while it’s active

[candid basalt]

Also your tailor shop is great

[lone rampart]

Aw thank you!

[sweet moon]

so I fought yaggy last night, and there was this reaper looking thing standing on top of a rock a little ways from my fight, watching as i got absolutely wrecked.

#thanksreaperfornothing

[candid basalt]

Odin watching you fail

[sweet moon]

at the count last night when I finally beat yaggy, was 24 deaths

[lone rampart]

But you beat him!

[candid basalt]

Odin always shows up to either jump scare you or to watch you get bodied

[sweet moon]

changed back to my crystal battle axe because I figured, why not, can't hurt at this point

[lone rampart]

He’s especially invested in the season finales

[sweet moon]

dude watched me lemming train into a cheese grated that was on fire

eitherway. it's time to prep for the mists

[candid basalt]

First time I saw Odin, I was running from two wraiths in the swamps and thought he was something new to royally screw me

Then I found out he’s just a creeper

[merry pebble]

Oh, did he explode your house? 👀

[candid basalt]

Took me a minute. Never played Minecraft

Was all “what myth does Odin have explosion powers?” Figured it had to be something marvel did and then went oh, creeper is a Minecraft thing

[steel mica]

Curious how many if yall integrate other buildings into one house

Calling out builders here

Like integrating your house and your dock at the bay

Maybe even integrate the furnace stacks

[lone rampart]

I’m a fan of several smaller buildings instead of a single giant structure

[merry pebble]

Same here 😄

I like dedicated structures for different purposes

[candid basalt]

Depends on the base and its location

[paper marsh]

@turbid cipher Pretty fortress! I feel like it would fit in better in the Ashlands or maybe mistlands though

[lone rampart]

#mods-screenshots message
my dock isn’t really “integrated” but it does serve as the major thoroughfare for the main craft buildings

[candid basalt]

I tend to put my smelters at my docks. So when I land a boat it’s right there

If I build a base at that dock area, my crafting stations are part of that as well

Otherwise I make roads connecting various parts. Kitchen and brewing stations, gardens, living quarters etc

Base defense is usually a wall around the area, a moat, or just spread out with lots of spawn blockers

I favor island bases for the plains, but love a nice mountain chalet or castle with a road to a coastal port

If I find a nice spot in mistlands that happens to be without mist I usually build a house there too

[paper marsh]

I've been considering some creative base defenses lately to deal with max raid rate

Moats / earth walls / spawn blockers feel like they're very unengaging methods of dealing with the enemy

[candid basalt]

Lately I play to chill. I turn raids off. Makes building nicer and doesn’t require a ton of defenses, just stuff for night spawns

After losing my first real build to two trolls with logs I was all about trenches and diverting pathing into spikes etc. these days I just relax until I seek out combat

[merry pebble]

I just run out of my base for the duration of a raid and kill everything 😄 most defenses i build are stake walls.

[paper marsh]

Yeah that's the typical way to deal with a raid imo

[candid basalt]

Best thing about Valheim is we all can play how we want 😁

[paper marsh]

For me when a raid has 3 enemies that can oneshot me in addition to a bunch of little fellas and I'm on a permadeath run defenses can be surprisingly useful to split them up so I can handle one at a time

Or even take out some of the smaller guys

[silk token]

if rather turn raids off than build ugly terrain walls and also not fight the raids

[paper marsh]

Yeah that's my view of it too

[silk token]

thats cool you’re attempting to fight them creatively on hardcore though. ive done a bridge with stakes and beehives zigzags along it against BF raid on hard it was pretty funny and not entirely useless

[paper marsh]

I don't find non-raid enemies to be too threatening

[candid basalt]

Islands with a bridge are great defense by themselves

[silk token]

Oh really? I’m almost comforted against raid mobs because I know none of them are going to be starred.

I was thinking about a battleaxe defense, it’s kind of cheese, so I don’t know if I am going to do it. but basically a series of walls like a maze where I can just hit them through the walls as they go through it.

[merry pebble]

Raid enemies can be starred tho iirc 🤔

[silk token]

oh true some raids. “they were bros” is 1 and 2 stars and pretty scary

[paper marsh]

hildr raids yea

[merry pebble]

Yep 😄 just wanted to say hildir raids
Also if you drink love potion and get ground is shaking i believe

[silk token]

The Hilder ones yeah. Even the mountain one when you’re in Ashlands gear can be rough if three or four 2-star fenring leap on you its surprising damage

[candid basalt]

I have too much troll leather. I won’t ever drink love potions

[paper marsh]

I tend to be very careful about what raids I trigger.

Mostly because I don't want to be stuck with random annoying raids in lategame

[foggy glacier]

If I could go the whole game without killing a bat I would be ecstatic!

[candid basalt]

They are so annoying

[silk token]

hashtag bat raid…

[foggy glacier]

Of course, if I somehow managed that, one would probably fly into a brazier just to spite me.

[short gale]

Hildir has just appeared on me map

[paper marsh]

I get around that one by going all game without killing bonemass

Though lately I've been considering hopping on another world to kill bonemass

[candid basalt]

Yeah I tend to skip Bonemass as well

I find plenty of silver with my stagbreaker

[pliant hatch]

Wishbone isn't just useful for the metals. It also helps finding special items. Like the wooden weapons and the chests in the stone shipwrecks.

[candid basalt]

Hammer works too

Don’t even need to dig em up

[paper marsh]

I wonder if wishbone will be useful in the Deep North

[pliant hatch]

Actually, if you want to collect all the wooden weapons, you will need to dig up those chests.

[paper marsh]

Why?

[chrome badge]

No, you can just break them through the ground and they'll surface like any other object.

I still prefer the wishbone in the mountains though, because there are often cases where Silver is tucked under a large boulder.

[pliant hatch]

In other words, using glitches. 🤢

[chrome badge]

More of an exploit, not a glitch.

[pliant hatch]

Which is even worse.

[chrome badge]

Maybe by your standards, I wouldn't personally do it either, but to each their own.

[paper marsh]

Luckily we can all do this

Personally I don't care a ton for whether something is a glitch or not, but I'm not a fan of stuff that feels cheesy.

Some glitches in games are just funny

[fossil delta]

I like my wolf meat delivery system too much to not defeat Bonemass.

[paper marsh]

I play max raid rate and I don't want constant wolves bogging me down

Especially during like the Moder fight or something

[silk token]

how do you balance playing on hardcore with not liking cheese? I feel like hardcore requires you bow things from where things can’t get or see you or hit things through walls. or maybe that’s just how anyone i’ve seen plays it, cheesing bosses from where you cant be hit, bonfires, etc. ive only gone through black forest on hardcore before i was like eh… i miss the game’s
combat mechanics

[fossil delta]

Just put down campfires, a minimum of 3 of them, and you won't have that raid during the fight.

[short gale]

Luckily Ive found haldor on my return journey as well!

[paper marsh]

It's tough for sure, I did play hard for that reason for a while

But it's doable, though there's a few fights you might have to choose to just not take. Like if I see a starred troll or bear I'm gonna ignore it. At least until I have swamp gear

But by running triple hp foods (which is a lot easier now that stamina is more forgiving) I find I can push thresholds a lot to be able to parry bigger mobs, or to just dodge roll against them but have the safety cushion that I won't get oneshot from missing a dodge

Inciting fights between different mob factions is super fun too, especially with everyone having dobule damage

Also trying to lean into really maximizing stagger potential lately, so even if I can't parry an enemy I can just hit them with a straight up stagger

[terse raft]

best defense is terraforming walls

cannot be destroyed

[tacit crystal]

One mob can tho.

[fossil delta]

Not until Ashlands, anyways.

[paper marsh]

Best is debateable

[terse raft]

i was very undangered

[paper marsh]

I personally have several gripes with terrain walls

[terse raft]

maybe

[sweet moon]

i insighted a drauger v fuling war

[fossil delta]

No, the one Ashlands mob can definitely destroy them.. It takes several to bring it down completely, but they can do it.

[sweet moon]

ended up with like 4 2star dragur elites vs 4 fuling derserkers and a dzeon fulinh

[silk token]

i guess you can probably parry most non-star mobs, it’s BARELY doable to parry a 1 star bear on hard so i guess thats about the same as a non-star bear on hardcore.. but so often the star enemies. what do you max stagger with? atgier, battleaxe, claws?

[paper marsh]

Battleaxe or claws mostly yeah. Again I'm only just starting to see the full potential of stagger

Atgeir feels cheesy to me

[terse raft]

a base = meadows

i never played in ashland yet

then i got an island for a farm in plains

[paper marsh]

Yeah a bear can be parried just fine with bronze buckler, though failing the parry is a loooot of damage

Also their swipe is pretty weak. I think you could parry a 2star bear swipe on Vhard with 2 hp foods

[silk token]

oh i only parry the swipe, with wood shield even, bite and smash are no thank you

[paper marsh]

I got more invested in vhard after recent changes. Ratatosk giving godlike movement allows me to use heavy armor, stmaina restoring on dodges and not being used on parries allows me to use 3hp foods more, feasts allow me to get half a stamina food in there if I want

Can summon blobs now and on vhard they do double damage which is cool

In general I do a lot of biome skips though. Like I usually sail around swamp edges to find some turnips before beating elder and moving on to swamp

[paper marsh]

Yeah with wood shield and meadows food even 1star swipe is a bit out of reach on vhard I think

I tend to kill trolls first for armor and go in burial chambers for some bronze gear before really engaging with bears, unless I have some nice skellies to help

A 2star sword skelly helped me take out a bear on my current run

I'm not gonna pretend like I am a master of vhard tho

I've played hardmode deathless up through mistlands, and vhard I think until... late swamp. and a lot of those runs have resulted in early deaths and resets

But with new changes I'm seeing if I can make it with vhard to mistlands, and then I'm considering changing to hard for ashlands and Deep North

[silk token]

yeah trolls are so braindead, when i see one im like ooo a troll wheres a copper node?

[paper marsh]

Going blind into DN on permadeath will be gruesome and awesome experience

[silk token]

ya im not embarrassed to play on normal even in ashlands lol

[merry pebble]

Welp, that is the difficulty it is meant to be played at 😄

[paper marsh]

I do feel like root harnesk gets pretty cheesy on high difficulty, but I'm too fond of it to give it up

[silk token]

but then im gonna PLAY ashlands on normal. i smash open the fort gate knock knock come get some! no cheesing everything

[silk token]

yeah early biomes are easy for veterens but i get its a tutorial stage, ashlands is like “ok so you’re good at the game by now”

[paper marsh]

I've come to appreciate stealth a lot. Being able to do big damage, big stagger, or even just grab the attention of one enemy at a time is quite nice

[silk token]

except people whove just been cheesing all game now things are deadly and they still dont know how to fight

[paper marsh]

Idk if it's just me, but I find mistlands really easy

I think once you're over the "going into it blind" experience the biome gets a lot less scary

Whereas something like swamp still feels deadly to me quite often

[silk token]

i think it is too, bugs are tough til you can read their attack pattern and know when theyre gonna land, easy to stagger and mop up, death tubas are loud AF to just avoid if u want

[paper marsh]

They're also not bad to run under and just spear or crossbow to death

I do always take a dip in the water before fighting them though, as I don't use wine but I do use root harnesk

Being wet really does so much better at nullifying fire damage too than wine does

[candid basalt]

I love swamps. The atmosphere is great

[paper marsh]

Being shot by a gjall while swimming tickles. #ILoveFinsOfDestiny

[timber marsh]

THIS

i started out completely vanilla, but opening the game up has made it more fun

[silk token]

that too, their AI gets wonked out if you just stay under/behind them and just spear chuck

[paper marsh]

Yacko you've gotta stop using bear meat in frost caves

[silk token]

well sure, I COULD have had serpent meat and a serpent stew too, but I was limiting my foods on purpose. if i had 2 serpenty yums i woulda lived. honestly, I hated that seed anyway. isn’t that crazy how the fire explosion from that first cult completely masked the fact that there were two fire jets being blasted in my face? and that was it, I was already half health just from burn ticks before the burn ticks started to fall off

like i didnt hear or see them at all til i was already burning and even then it took like 3 seconds to realize the fire wasnt from the dying cultist

[paper marsh]

Yeah looked pretty rough

[silk token]

was unlucky, i GUESS from now on im chucking a spear down the shaft to see how many flamethrowers are hiding around the corner

wish i could disable cultist death animations, because it’s just a little much if you’re fighting multiple of them

[paper marsh]

My runs ending tragically is usually more the result of some 2 star archer draugr hiding behind a tree or a corner of a crypt and me not seeing him

It's always the surprise attacks that get ya

[silk token]

you see the one clip of mine that starts with a health potion? lol. i parried one that spawned at a spawner thinking iwas normal, then it staggered me and took 3/4 my hp lol

[paper marsh]

I did see that

[silk token]

oh well. i just found out guild wars reforged is a thing so good timing to pause valheim XD

[ember panther]

Trying to get back into Valheim, any fun challenge runs to recommend?

[candid basalt]

Only build where building ruins exist

[tacit crystal]

Permadeath run.

[ember panther]

Oo I like that. Tho I kinda do this anyway, I like sprucing up the ruins and adding onto them. Especially in the later game with forts and dverger

[fossil delta]

Yeah, I often use them as a mini base where I keep portals.

[candid basalt]

It makes finding villages nice because you can have multiple buildings and room for crafting, etc

[fossil delta]

I just used a Draugr village for the first time ever. Mostly because its the first I have found on a coast line. Been an adjustment using multiple buildings instead of the single huge one I typically build.

[surreal kestrel]

I found a maypole :0

🙂

[tepid prawn]

I’ve done:

Must build minimum one full base per biome.

Use only certain weapons like only bow, or sword and spear exclusively etc, or pure atgeir only except for when I need to fight flying monsters etc you get the gist.

Done: can only use light armours or only heavy armours, or no armour until I get root armour and such.

Done: Not allowed to build on islands and not allowed to build moat and earth wall, only other defenses like stakes and stone walls etc.

Changed combat to hard or very hard, no map and other world modifier stuff.

Only allowed to use 1 health food out of the 3 food slots the others have to be Stamina or balanced. Also did a 3Stamina foods run with bows only.

That’s all I can think of for now from the top of my head.

[paper marsh]

I second permadeath run, it's hella fun

In addition, I really think "No resistance mead" runs add a lot of fun to the game. Having to rely on stuff like root mask for poison resist and fenris set for fire resist, building campfires until you can get frost resist in the mountains, and having to actually be aware of the fire weakness on root harnesk and feather cape

I'm also a fan of no bow no atgeir runs, but that's just because I find those weapons cheesy

[pliant hatch]

When it's ready.

[paper marsh]

Unknown as of yet

[foggy glacier]

No one knows.

[fossil delta]

We do know it will not be this year.

[foggy glacier]

No need to leave Thorin out. His answer is actually the most accurate.

[lone rampart]

Now, see, that response was not polite

[merry pebble]

Only one acting like one of those seems to be you so far...

[ember panther]

I did a no map last playthrough that was a lot of fun. Idk why I just love starting this game fresh, whenever I log back into an old world I just get lost in my bases n don't do much but I wanna play so I gotta start over. Anyone else? 😅

[fossil delta]

Why do the people actually being rude act as if they are the one who isn't being rude?

[ember panther]

I might try a permadeath but bring a given set that im limited to. Haven't tested out the new trinkets n such or seen a bear so that'll be fun

[merry pebble]

Maybe projecting is fun? No idea 😄

[fossil delta]

I'll never do a perma death. I just try to do a Zero Death, and if I die, I treat the rest of the game as practice for my next attempt.

[paper marsh]

I often lose motivation on a world and then feel the need to start a new one

But I never put enough effort into my bases to really get lose in them

[pliant hatch]

What I think the saddest part is that with a behaviour like that the only thing you achieve is being reported and smiffe or another moderator having more work to do.

[fossil delta]

Its like they think they some how win when they start being insulting. Yet they are then the loser.

[ember panther]

I'm a hoarder, it's not like I make mega cool bases or anything I try to make things as efficient as possible to just keep processing more stuff... maybe I should do .5 resources

[solar plaza]

Agreed

[fossil delta]

Increasing resources drives me nuts. I just have that much more stuff to figure out how to store.

[solar plaza]

My rule on res is no more than 4 full stacks with some exceptions like wood, coal, ore, etc.

[paper marsh]

I will say some of the settings give interesting challenges I didn't realize until I played them.

I played one server on the most brutal settings (No map, no portals, hardcore, veryhard, max raids, .5 resources, etc.) and it was interesting how each setting affected things. Like fighting something like a troll was scary and could lose me my gear, but they also give really good armor. But I gotta kill 2 trolls now for just one piece of armor

Or having to take into consideration food and gear durability, so you don't end up short on resources when out adventuring without a portal

[fossil delta]

This game will have to get to 1.0 before I can make rules like that. Like I had no idea bones would become potentially so important this late in the game. You know how many stacks I put into Obliterators prior to Ashlands?

[pliant hatch]

Most likely just as many as anyone else before Ashlands was released.

[heady parcel]

No-portals has made me appreciate foods that stack to 20 a whole lot. Wolf skewer, Sausages and Bread took me through most of Mistlands. I was a wee bit too squishy for comfort sometimes, but I made it - and I have huge stores of "better" foods now that I'm going into Ashlands and had to abandon that combo.

[gray sand]

Be a vegetarian.

[fossil delta]

No doubt. Now I have so many stacks laying around my base I use them as walk ways. 😄

[pliant hatch]

Even better, be a Vegan.

No armor being used as long as it requires animal parts. Or Troll parts.
No potions being allowed to use whatsoever, as honey is made by bees.
No weapons and or upgrades being allowed to be used if they use animal / humanoid parts.

[solar plaza]

Fair, but for me I'd rather grind it out later then suffer excessive stacks of something. That being said tho bones definitely were one of those "well crap" kinda moments. They did make bones pretty easy to grind out tho.

[gray sand]

I think honey can be allowed because it is specifically stated

So no cruelty there.

[paper marsh]

nah I never use obliterator. I just hoard stuff and let it pile up and overwhelm my base :/

[ember panther]

Vegetarian build sounds kinda interesting but yikes that'd be low HP

[lone rampart]

Also it’s required to remove excess honey from hives so they don’t become bound up. Beekeeping is a mutually beneficial arrangement more than keeping livestock against their will

[gray sand]

It's purely SSS until Mistlands when you can either keep SSS or switch to mage.

[pliant hatch]

Well, tell that Vegans.

My employer had to adjust labels on a product because there was honey in it, so it wasn't 100% vegan food.

Meaning if you do a Vegan run, no honey can be used, which also means no potions that contain honey.

[gray sand]

Having done it, is fun. 😁
I didn't do armor restriction though, just food.

[solar plaza]

Just curious, but what about a "I didn't lift a finger" run? Not allowed to kill anything except by tames, traps, coincidental dmg etc?

[pliant hatch]

On top of that, if people can't use animal parts, sailing can't be done for quite some time either.
After all, you do require leather or leather scraps for the first two or three boats.

[gray sand]

Vegans have weird rules depending on who you ask.

Just like "no meat" people who still it fish because "it doesn't count"...
It's still meat...

[pliant hatch]

On the plus side, your swimming skill may be one of the first hitting level 100. 😄

[ember panther]

Ehh i dont wanna limit myself that much. Maybe pescatarian run. Fish and chicken eggs are OK but no red meat

[gray sand]

What color is fish to you?

Cuts salmon in half because this looks pretty red to me.

[pliant hatch]

The Scales Masochist Run:

• No use of anything animal or humanoid related, not even honey.

I wanna bet that if he does that, he's still able to defeat Fader within a week.

[fossil delta]

So don't eat Salmon. Eat the rest of the fish. Their white. Ish.

[forest jacinth]

Being a vegan in valheim sounds like you're gonna die to everything lol

[merry pebble]

-# Unless your name is Scales

[gray sand]

Just use the now-free dodgeroll mechanic.

You will want faster-animation weapons like spears and knives though, since you are not staggering things.

[forest jacinth]

You also cant use light armor 😲

[merry pebble]

Cough, atgeir, cough 😉

[forest jacinth]

My bad I just meant any stray hit will kill you pass meadows lol

[echo wind]

Just don't get hit 😄

[dark coyote]

lol getting hit 🤭

[heady parcel]

Gods almighty, I managed to fumble a raging lox into my house, before I could kill it it had wrecked half my storage room through the walls, took over an hour to repair everything. Apparently the stumble steps I built at the doors stop all mobs EXCEPT lox...

[fossil delta]

OK, I'll ask. How did an untamed Lox even get close to your house?

[heady parcel]

External walls not complete, been busy with other stuff

So it chased a deer into my yard, I was on bad foods so I had to run, because deathsquitos, and it just followed me insided and started rampaging

Everything else has been stopped by the stumble steps by the door (bunch of beams at intervals), but this guy strolled right over. Loxe are a wee bit bigger, none of them have been near the entrance before so I had no idea...

[timber marsh]

Lox eat stone walls for breakfast. Use a hoe and build a vertical wall

[fossil delta]

Crap like 1that is why I no longer allow myself to get busy with anything else until my defenses are in place. 😄

[heady parcel]

My external walls have earth wall cores, but they're not complete yet

Haven't been an issue before, so I have put it off because they're getting long, more fun to spank queen and enter Ashlands...

Time to set aside some time, because I don't want a repeat of that little incident

[fossil delta]

Give Valheim a foot, it will take a mile.

Its what I learned in my early hours of playing. So now I leave as little as possible to chance.

[heady parcel]

Today I learned hahah...

[ionic valve]

first time playing the vr mod on the forever word with my friends, lowkey one of coolest experiences I had in Valheim so far

petting my Lox Brûnhilde was absolutely peak

[short gale]

virtual reality headshit shit?

[ionic valve]

such a precious girl

[ionic valve]

yeah, pretty polished expereience

[short gale]

wahhoo yeah that sounds fun! Dope dude

[ionic valve]

would be cool if there was an offically supported VR version

[short gale]

Only reason I want a vision pro. You can use an ultrawide screen when connected to ur macbook. Pretty sweet. But I understand its not totally the same as an oculus where its full emersion

[heady parcel]

Dammit fulings in plains at night are worse than greydwarves in the forest, there's just a never ending stream of them. I could build a house of black metal...

[fossil delta]

Especially when that is when you get the starred ones too.

They are much quieter when I get my walls up.

[heady parcel]

I put my windmill on a fuling tower I cleared out on the plain, a bit from the house to catch the wind - and walking there at night to collect the flour nets between 15-20 black metal every night. And I just can't bring myself to not take it...

[fossil delta]

I just build my own tower to put them on.

[heady parcel]

This tower was so conveniently placed that I used it

[orchid kayak]

Almost a month now since i tried to do modded coop for this game
Barely attracted anyone 💀

[fossil delta]

Interest has died down a lot, as far as I can tell. It's nothing like it was the first year of release.

[orchid kayak]

Its not even that, most people want vanilla or lightly modded

Along with a 24/7 server

So my odds of attracting people is already low

[foggy glacier]

Did you ask in any of the mods channels?

[fossil delta]

Makes sense to me, since that is what I would want.

[foggy glacier]

This channel is for discussing vanilla gameplay.

[orchid kayak]

I used the lfg channel

[foggy glacier]

Well that is the right channel if you're looking for players. I expect the playerbase for heavily modded Valheim is pretty small though.

[near furnace]

suprisingly enough, most people play vanilla 🤔

[orchid kayak]

I cant go back to vanilla atp

[gray sand]

How is that "surprising"? 🤔

[tacit crystal]

[orchid kayak]

Modding scene is quite big for a game still in early access

[tepid prawn]

our 4 server community has only 1 modded server and 3 vanilla

[fossil delta]

Yeah, from what I have read very few people use mods.

[tepid prawn]

Vanilla 4 da win!

[glossy heath]

it is a pretty underrated flavour

[fossil delta]

I am a few years out of date, but last I read up on it, less than 5% of gamers used mods.

[steel mica]

I believe its the solos that the majority are playing mods

[ionic valve]

but then again, the game has been in early access for years

I mean also gameplay wise, I think the game feels complete and the comming updates are more like expansions

[lethal elbow]

Hello

Has anybody build a base inside a dungeon like the seald towers or queens lair?

[merry pebble]

You can't build in dungeons normally unless you use commands, and you can't build in the sealed tower at all 🙂

[fossil delta]

Thats disappointing. I like the view from the top of the tower.

[merry pebble]

You can build around it and connect building to the top of it, just inside Is off limits 🙂 (and maybe directly above it Is also off limits iirc)

[fossil delta]

It is off limits normally. I have yet to use dev commands for anything other than getting my characters out of locations they have got stuck in.

[steel mica]

Or getting screenshots

[lethal elbow]

A sealed tower would be the perfect base
It's easy to defend against almost all raids
The structure is unbreakable
It would be a good base i think

[fossil delta]

Which is probably why they made it completely off limits. 😄

[lethal elbow]

reasonable
air born enemys still a hard kill

[merry pebble]

If you are ok with having an empty space in the middle of your building then you can make a base on top of it 🙂

[lethal elbow]

I had the idea of using the full building
Small ares for each crafting station

[merry pebble]

Nope, can't do that sadly

[fossil delta]

If you can literally put it over the top of it, I'd be willing to do that. Be kind of like building on top of the plains pillars, just better.

[lethal elbow]

sadly not

[lethal elbow]

I think with flametal beams is possible to build a round the top

[fossil delta]

If I can connect them, even the iron beams should work well enough. Its what I used on top of the plains pillars.

[lethal elbow]

That also works but i like the flametal design better

[fossil delta]

I have yet to use them. I haven't done any nice builds with Ashlands mats.

[lethal elbow]

I did some building with them, it looks modern compared to dark wood

[fossil delta]

I have used the mats, even the roofing. Just not for nice builds. Just quick, dirty, and defendable.

[lethal elbow]

Aha.
I have build with it but i don't know if it's looking good.

[fossil delta]

The build channels here can help with inspiration and improving things.

[forest jacinth]

That is true; just a funny realization

[ancient imp]

Does anyone have a dedicated Xbox server that I can join?

[distant nacelle]

I haven't played in a while, but do y'all know if they increased the abomination spawn rates or am I just unlucky? lol

[edgy warren]

why cant my friend see my ping

everyone else cann expect him

[plain bane]

Just got back to current versions of the game for the first time since mistlands released (decided to break my mods to actually play new content) and... is the bear considered difficult? I mean given I'm playing on Normal, but it seems like an appropriate "pick your battles" enemy. Cheesed the first one with a stack of fire arrows then spent a couple deaths learning its parry patterns and they're a cakewalk now. Trying to listen to youtube at work and content creators were crashing out because of the bear...?

Am I getting it wrong or is the point of the thing to teach you to pay attention and run until you're ready to learn the fights? I like how it seems like the fight's a reward for learning proper parrying.

Maybe I'll change my tune when I get to the Vile heh

[gray sand]

Pretty much everything in the game is "difficult until you learn the dodge/block pattern."
So I agree with your assessment.

[plain bane]

Ngl I haven't done much dodging at all. The unarmed troll's double-overhand is the only attack I know how to dodge.

Also the bear hands are fun as hell to parry with. Can't wait to get a trinket to actually make use of adrenaline.

[tame jackal]

why fog in mistlands ?

without fog shiny world.

[silk token]

they’re harder than trolls imo in that they’re more complicated with different attacks, troll attacks are so telegraphed and consistent. i think people who complain about combat difficulty also complain about the bears extra because they’re pierce resistant and they cant cheese and hide with a bow. but they’re also easier than trolls when you learn them because you can parry one of their attacks with a wood shield but trolls good luck.

[plain bane]

I'll admit the bite attack is a bit of a curveball on the timing heh. I've managed to parry it more often than not, though.

[silk token]

yeah the first claws have crazy parry, later ones fall off with parry but the kick stagger is good

[plain bane]

Also I had no idea they added bears to the game when I loaded in and that thing was a hell of a jumpscare.

[silk token]

oh he bit my ass good the first fight i parried his swipe a few times then-OHHHHkayy ow that got me

[plain bane]

Giving me Abomination vibes

[silk token]

had to just limp around and regen before going back in

valheim excels in jump scares Xd

[plain bane]

Now if they could make the fenrings more worth fighting, heh. One of my favorite enemies design-wise and it's always fun when you forget what day it is as one catches you blindsided, but there's not much reason to seek them out.

[silk token]

their trophy is used for a new trinket now

[plain bane]

Oh, I only knew of the bear trinket. Shoulda figured there would be others, heh

I still haven't killed eikthyr; stubbornly trying to get a second bear trophy for the trinket first

[gray sand]

Find Haldor.

[plain bane]

I'm guessing he sells trophies now or something?

I did troll-mine enough bronze for a karve...

[gray sand]

No, he just has a free bear trophy if you break his rug 😄

[plain bane]

HEH. You can do that? I thought his wards would prevent damaging furniture.

[gray sand]

Apparently they protect him only on first load. Walk (portal) far enough away and then come back and it is breakable.

It's how many of us make the headpiece for the armor if we have bad drop rng 😄

[plain bane]

Odd. Might stick to sparring with the bears, though. I don't like it when weirdos raid my base and break my furniture, wouldn't wanna do that to him.

Funnily enough the first bear I encountered dropped a trophy (after like three stacks of arrows and a near heart attack)

[real pike]

parry makes quick work of them, should learn

[gray sand]

I don't even have a bow at that stage 😄

I rock spear as my ranged weapon until like... Plains.

[plain bane]

First bear. I'm on like... 8-ish now.

[real pike]

parrying?

[plain bane]

Wait did they make spears not suck now?

[gray sand]

Spears have never sucked?

[plain bane]

They were a complete meme pre-mistlands

Hitbox was borderline unusable.

[gray sand]

Which means it was usable 😉

But if that was your one issue, try them again since the last update was pretty specific to hitboxes.

[plain bane]

First bear I cheesed with arrows. Rest have been parry beatdowns.

[plain bane]

Nice.

[real pike]

300 arrow cheese

[gray sand]

My last run I legit built the Flint Spear and then rocked spears until I could build the Arbalest.

[plain bane]

I think I mostly used clubs in the past. I like that there's dedicated hand weapons now.

[timber marsh]

I just hunted so many lox that they stopped spawning?

[tepid prawn]

No that's not how that works, but maybe you have run into the respawn timer for a relatively large area and it feels like that because of it. Unless you have "spawnproofed" everything, they will come back.

[timber marsh]

This particular plains biome is pretty small surrounded by black forest and swamp. May just need to leave it for a while. I wound up going to another plains area. Filling a chest of pie for yagluth...

[steel mica]

The elder is actually really good for mining copper

AND CUTTING TREES

[gray sand]

If someone is an experienced player, I genuinely recommend rushing Elder. Like... kill him with flint-level weapons and then use his power to burn through the bronze age.

[gray sand]

@edgy warren you will never stop needing iron 😉

[fossil delta]

22 bee hives. Standard setting. Exploration pays off.

[marble delta]

That’s too many bees, man

[fossil delta]

Not really. Not for two players. For one we make a lot of Black Soup. We also make a fair number of meads. Will it be more than we can use? Absolutely. Its the problem I would rather have. 😄

[plain bane]

Counterpoint: infinite coal.

[plain bane]

Yay, castle and winter are still here.

[fossil delta]

True.

[vestal radish]

guuuyyys

name for my new character

[heady parcel]

My trick for names is to run something cool or stupid through a translator - into Icelandic. Guaranteed viking vibe!

[vestal radish]

thanks! I just call him Ihatebackpacks

[tacit crystal]

My first character ever I named Ragnared - combination of basic "Ragnar" and "Red" from "Ragnar the Red" song from Skyrim (also my brother's first cat is called Ragnar).

[forest jacinth]

I names my viking Karl

[subtle nimbus]

have y'all ever thought about why you can transport metal armor and tools through portals but then you cant transport metal through portals

[tacit crystal]

Because metals have "can't be teleported" tag and equipment don't?

[forest jacinth]

You see its based on the ancient folktale of shutupshutupshutup

[tacit crystal]

But on serious note, just so key materials like metals cannot just be transported easily to your base through portal but forcing you to take the big voyage of sailing them to your base.

[plain bane]

I usually use conlang lyrics/words. Decent chance of being unique/not needing a buncha numbers.

...or puns
My old username was Skald so my first character's name was "Skald Inghott."

[forest jacinth]

I find it weird only dragon eggs are non teleportable

For boss items

[nocturne wolf]

They’re very heavy but if you could teleport them that weight wouldn’t matter so much

[forest jacinth]

I get that; i looked at what comes after mountains and I feel like the mist and ash items could be non tpable

[tacit crystal]

In my experience there has almost always been enough drake nests for eggs in mountain where Moder altar is, so I've usually not bothered picking them in other mountains.

[forest jacinth]

Oh I wasnt venting about them lol sorru

[tacit crystal]

And they also respawn after some time.

[tacit crystal]

None taken, don't worry. 👍

[forest jacinth]

Im probably gonna put an egg in my base they look cool

Can they be put on a stand

[fossil delta]

Yes.

[plain bane]

Ugh. Still bothers me that half of most copper nodes isn't mineable without terrain clipping. Really oughtta expand that "no attachment point explosion" logic to when no part of a contiguous mass of copper is exposed to air.

At least it's not crypt iron :V

[steel mica]

I've only noticed this now

But the mace weapons special attack

you are practically aiming for the... yeah

[late tinsel]

that's the way it is

[exotic silo]

Don't worry, valheim creatures does not have "that"

[plain bane]

The Denji special. 💀

It's also fun to punch a bear in the back with its own paws. For me, maybe not the bear...

[trail slate]

Hello.

Not sure this is the right place, but how do I go about finding a server to join? I’m on Xbox

[tacit crystal]

https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510

[trail slate]

Brilliant thank you.

[urban thorn]

Just wanted to say; I was playing with a friend yesterday, and while sailing we came across 4 leviathans in a goddamn row, neither of us could believe it 💀