valheim-chat

[glossy heath]

fair

[heady parcel]

Not bad, but certainly not better than anything else.

[gray sand]

I would hope they fix... but I have a limited number of hopes left, so I am keeping them for more important things.

[glossy heath]

well my first plan after bonemass isn't usually to go rooting around in mistlands to make mistwalker 2 biomes early so frostner gets made to fill that niche either way

[heady parcel]

Frostner looks cool and shines later on, I just find it weird that I put it on display on a wall and kept the iron club after a few scares on a mountain..

[gray sand]

If knockback didn't scale with club skill I would actually like Frostner 😭

[heady parcel]

The knockback is my no one peeve with it, before its feeble damage even

[glossy heath]

actually, the silver sword has 93 slash, frostner's 35 blunt and 58 frost combined make 93 total damage, so it's the same as the silver sword except you also slow them down
so the only case where frostner is actually worse than the silver sword one on one is stone golems, ironically, though not by much at all

[heady parcel]

And stone golems not resisting blunt would be the only reason for me to use a club in the first place... so I brought the iron club once I realised this 😄

[glossy heath]

it's the plains, mistlands and ashlands i'd make frostner for personally, any scenario prior to those biomes where it beats the iron mace is just a bonus for me

[gray sand]

Iron Mace until Plains.
I build the sword but I don't use it until Yag.

[sharp bluff]

by ashlands frostner is left behind stats wise, unfortunately
its a cc monster tho

[heady parcel]

Personally I only make Frostner if I find silver before I have killed bonemass. It makes Bonemass downright puny.

[sharp bluff]

bonemass is easy anyway

[heady parcel]

He is, Frostner just makes the fight a little shorter

[glossy heath]

yea i originally wasn't considering using frostner in ashlands at all, figured the low damage compared to everything else would be too big a turn-off.
but then i realized how good it is at keeping enemies at a safe distance

[sharp bluff]

special attack to the face and the monster wont be an issue for a while

[heady parcel]

Bosses don't get knocked back, so you can sonsistently connect the whole combo with Frostner

[gray sand]

Secondary on maces launching people is fine. Primary having NFL-punter level pushback is my issue.

[sharp bluff]

frostner is a very heavy weapon, it should do that

[heady parcel]

In that case it should really be a sledge

[paper marsh]

All the spirit silver weapons just feel eh to me at that stage because I feel like the only time I’d actually use them would be yag or Ashlands

Like yeah theyre nice in caves especially if you wanna fight geirhafa but I feel like flesh rippers or spear have plenty damage in caves anyways

[sharp bluff]

silver suffers from doing squat against half the enemies you face, especially in the plains

[heady parcel]

I'd be fine with Frostner being a 2H mace if the sledges got a primary combo and the me-smash thing was its secondary

[gray sand]

Two-handed Frostner I would also have no issue with.
And would LOVE the aoe frost proc.

[paper marsh]

More than half tbh

[sharp bluff]

frostner is great specifically because its low spirit dmg

(and because everything else about it except range is busted)

also banger flavour text

[merry pebble]

The boats is accurate, i remember putting this exact info there
Should be cleared now
-# Tho it didnt say they are twice as fast

[paper marsh]

Eh I dislike the knock back and low stagger too

[sharp bluff]

the knockback is either cursed or the best thing ever

but hey, parry into special means knockback doesnt matter

[gray sand]

Joel pointed out it's not the baseline knock that is the issue. It's the knock scaling with skill level that creates the ridiculous amounts.

[paper marsh]

Low stagger on a mace feels so counterintuitive to me

[sharp bluff]

idk, my enemies usually dont need to get staggered

[paper marsh]

Mine do

[sharp bluff]

granted, im also team club from raspberries and mushroom times until d-day

(aka my skill level is usually fairly high)

[heady parcel]

If I deconstruct a ballista, will I get the missiles loaded back?

[tacit crystal]

Should, been long time since I've used them tho so not 100% sure.

[heady parcel]

Just built my very first and accidentally pointed it so it will shoot me as I tend to my crops...

And I don't want to program it with a trophy so it's useless unless one specific enemy pops up

[tacit crystal]

I once saw someone using door in front of it to open when needed to shoot enemies and close when going there on area.

[pliant hatch]

You can keep it unloaded when you work in front of it.
Another option is to put shutters in front of it, so it won't spot you.

[heady parcel]

Like cannon ports, that's not a bad idea

But mine are on tall towers without any walls around

They sweep a wider arc than I anticipated

yeah I got my bolts

[pliant hatch]

I think the arc is 90° in total.
45 to the left and 45 to the right of the center axle.

[heady parcel]

Heh, right, better alignment now. Night, soon - making popcorn.

Ah well, about as useful as I expected. A novelty item, but not really an efficient defence

They killed a vile at least, because it was a big and stationary target. Did not score a single hit on all the fulings, greydorfs and other critters running around

[pliant hatch]

The Balista is only useful against slow targets. Meaning Trolls, Bears, Viles, Drakes, Beserkers, Lox, Gjall, Seeker Soldiers.

Anything else is simply too agile so it can be avoided.
Even Drakes can be a problem if they move sideways compared to the ballista.
And don't even think about using it against bats, because that's just a waste of materials.

So for the fast critters wolves are in general better.

[heady parcel]

I've never had the gjall raid outside of Mistlands, it doesn't happen in other biomes, does it?

[merry pebble]

Only in mistlands 🙂

[pliant hatch]

Used to be in all biomes, but that one got nerfed out very fast, if I'm not mistaken.

[analog stirrup]

Omg I'd cry if that was a thing 😭

[tacit crystal]

Just run outside base and it's fine.

Or in that case it would have been fine.

[pliant hatch]

Yeah, so did many others. Reasons why it was removed.

The ticks were something most players could handle, but having (half or more of) your base being burned down was not appreciated.

[heady parcel]

Too bad the ballista doesn't fire at birds, that would actually give it more purpose

[pliant hatch]

Not really, considering birds are too fast......

[heady parcel]

But they often sit down on the ground

Not even I try to shoot them out of the air, and I'm hella trigger happy

[analog stirrup]

sounds like you need chickens

[heady parcel]

Oh I have. It's just when I see a bird sitting on the ground I see an untapped asset... I'm not going to waste frost or carapace arrows on them though. But ballista bolts are cheap

[analog stirrup]

fair

[tacit crystal]

Wooden arrows?

Or spear.

[heady parcel]

I rarely carry either around

[analog stirrup]

letting them just exist?? lol

[heady parcel]

Aaaargh can't do that!

[tacit crystal]

But them precious feathers.

[analog stirrup]

chickens

[heady parcel]

Ooh look at that, B1 tagged a two-star fuling

[heady parcel]

It was busy bullying a greydwarf and let its guard down

[merry pebble]

Is it just me who has almost always full chest of feathers before even getting to chickens? xD

[tacit crystal]

Depends the size of the chest.
or

[heady parcel]

Holy crap both are out of ammo, now I see a consistent use of black metal 🙂 But really, I think I'll program them to only fire on lox, the lox race is what set this whole defence upgrade project rolling

Any way to un-program a ballista shy of dismantling it?

[tacit crystal]

Iirc same way how you set it for certain mob with their trophy.

[heady parcel]

There's no "Nothing" trophy that I'm aware of. Tried with an empty quickslot and that didn't work. A well tearing it down and replacing it doesn't take long

[tacit crystal]

Try with the same trophy.

[forest jacinth]

If you use the same trophy the ballista goes back to normal

[heady parcel]

Yeah that worked, thanks. But I'll leave them on lox-mode, or they will burn through my blackmetal stores in a week with all the activity outside the walls...

Just saw a neck kill a deathsquito, good on you!

[lone rampart]

Way to go lil fella!

[pliant hatch]

Of course it did.

You think the green scaled things would feed on lost Vikings only?
If they're related to any kind of lizzard, they would have insects for breakfast, lunch, dinner and as occasional snack.

[sullen lynx]

helllo 👋 👋 👋

[analog stirrup]

hiii

[paper marsh]

Hmm, I rarely have many feathers. Only a couple stacks

I don’t tend to hunt birds down, but also my only use for feathers tend to be for crossbow bolts or feather cape

[low warren]

Given spawn rates, sound distances, etc. what is the most efficient way to hunt bears? Having bad luck with the trophy

[lone rampart]

I accidentally stabbed a seagull when lunging for a greydwarf earlier today. Free feathers I guess!

[merry pebble]

I never hunt them really, i rely entirely on chests to provide them 🙂

[heady parcel]

Yeah running chests in BF and Crypts will give a lot of feathers

BF exploration gives a steady supply of free flint arrows too

[forest jacinth]

You never need to craft arrows with exploration

[heady parcel]

Only if you want the latest baddest

[forest jacinth]

I've personally only crafted needle

[heady parcel]

I use absurd amounts of frost arrows in Ashlands, so I have de-obisidianed more than a few mountains

[forest jacinth]

Good to know they'll be useful there

Is it spirit or frost theyre weak to

[heady parcel]

Spirit. Frost arrows don't do a lot of damage - but it keeps them slowed

[tacit crystal]

If you're having bad rng, try finding Haldor and break his bear rug after leaving and re-entering the area.

[lone rampart]

I’m thinking…should I continue struggling under my no-map challenge or throw in the towel?

[heady parcel]

Are you still having fun? That's the really important question - if the frustration eats away too much from the fun, you have one answer, if not - the other..

[lone rampart]

It’s fun but frustrating, if that makes any sense. I haven’t even explored the entire starting island, still in troll armor, 60 in-game days in.

And I don’t think I’m ever finding Haldor without a little 💰 to track

[heady parcel]

In that case, stay on it - and use another character and world as relief when the frustration gets to be too much.

[paper marsh]

I prefer no portal over no map

Though the only playthrough I’ve had with them was both at once

But the no map felt like a lot to me. Though drawing my own map was fun

[heady parcel]

Same, no-portals feels like the game should be played to me, portals are a bit too convenient. But I couldn't go a day without map, I'd be lost before the spawn stones were out of sight

[runic pasture]

fr😭

[lone rampart]

Yeah, I'm playing no map, no portals, fire hazards...might have been too ambitious in my challenges.

[paper marsh]

Fire hazard doesnt change much for me. But yeah no map and no portals are both monumental gameplay changes

[lone rampart]

I haven't managed to set any of my outposts on fire yet. ...yet.

[heady parcel]

Fire hazard is not much of a threat if you know how to build securely - but the greatest feature of fire hazards is FIRE ARROWS. The most viking thing I have done in this game is when I came upon a draugr village while still rags and raided the bejeesus out of them with fire arrows. It was beautiful!

Granted, nothing much to be looted from that village except coal and guts, but that was fine by me...

Also the other night in Mistlands, I saw a fight between a dvergr fire mage and something set off a massive forest fire in the distance. I wasn't anywhere near, I just heard some explosions and saw the blaze

[lone rampart]

Suuuure, sure, totally believable. "Honestly, officer! I wasn't anywhere near! I just heard explosions in the distance!"

[heady parcel]

My proof haha #screenshots message

Dammit, sec

There, link instead of suspicious-looking jpg

[glass eagle]

Anyone know if you could theoretically build an AFK skill farm with the twig? I'm thinking you'd build a small building for rested aswell as a good campfire and good armor to AFK it and take minimal damage

[lone rampart]

You can, there are a couple videos about it on YouTube.

[tiny copper]

Why does the vile armor look zesty

[umbral crescent]

I haven’t gotten to Ashlands yet I actually just got to the mistlabns but I’ve seen some criticism regarding its difficulty and some gameplay elements. Is it peak or nah?

Alright wasn’t expecting that severe of a response 😭✌️

[calm shale]

just 5 warriors and 10 twitchers and morgen spawn out of nowehre when ur minding your own business

[summer fern]

Ashlands to me is very bleh, with lots of enemy spam, and if you try to set up there, dvergr spawns can cause fights that destroy your stuff to.

[supple bear]

You can for the magics. I dont think you can truly AFK anything else, maybe block?

[gray sand]

Well that's an easy report...

[summer fern]

I was going on about wanting a revamp a bit ago, and these were my ideas: #valheim-chat message

[umbral crescent]

How do yall do base defenses there? Is it like normal with moats and spikes or is there more to it?

[calm shale]

If someone says they like ashlands they should go get their brains checked

[gray sand]

Idk what you mean by "peak" but Ashlands isn't exactly difficult. So 🤷‍♂️

[supple bear]

The summoned skeletons wont directly attack the TWIG but you can use a trapped poison blob at a lower elevation to force the skeleton to spam attack then put TWIG infront of him

[marble delta]

lol foh, the spike is absolutely bonkers

[summer fern]

foh?

[gray sand]

The spikes in the water are bonkers, yes.

[summer fern]

what does that mean?

[calm shale]

just find those big abandoned castles/churchers or what ever and build a portal on the top floor

[marble delta]

fuck outta here

[gray sand]

The Ashlands itself is not difficult.
Just spam fireball until you get wilds, then spam vines.

Oh... much hard. So difficult.

[summer fern]

Thanks I agree, the spike is crazy which would be fine if it was done in a fun and creative way, not just spamming enemies at you.

[umbral crescent]

By peak I mean plains biome which might be a hot take but it’s by far my favorite.

[gray sand]

Not a mage?
Demolisher - nothing touches you.
Silver Sword - nuke everything.

Much hard. So difficult.

[rapid steeple]

I JUST CRAFTED 10 BRONZE AND GOT 14 INSTEAD

[summer fern]

Wow luck

[rapid steeple]

ODDS???

[umbral crescent]

Except the goblin ai being so ass

[gray sand]

Plains will most likely remain your favorite. But Ashlands is a refreshing change of pace.

[summer fern]

Depends on crafting skill I think

[marble delta]

Yeah sure a veteran player can make headway easily enough, but it’s really poorly balanced

[rapid steeple]

I know the higher the skill, the more likely the return... but DANG

[gray sand]

That's an opinion for sure... and you are entitled to have it.

[short gale]

I just got to plains and it is pretty enjoyable

[summer fern]

I would rather it do a more creative way of difficulty, not just spam enemies all over everywhere.

[umbral crescent]

Mountain biome is cool too tho I hate climbing them and terraforming them though

[gray sand]

Mountains my beloved 💛

[rapid steeple]

There's usually one new thing introduced in each new biome that, in one way or another, helps you just sweep through the rest of that biome

[calm shale]

black forest is my fav i just like the peace of the forest

[umbral crescent]

Mistlands has been miserable so far but I also just got wisp light which has helped so much 😭 getting to this point has been treacherous though. I have been getting destroyed by these damn seeker soldiers and they always seem to have one star while like 3 regular seekers run up at me out of nowhere in the mist

[marble delta]

Build me a treehouse, and good to go

[summer fern]

If I wanted to suggest my idea for a ashlands revamp, how would I go about that since it is like a large amount of suggestions in one.

[gray sand]

Staff of the Wild for mages.
Lightning Berserkir Axes for vikings.

[rapid steeple]

Building a base in the mountains in survival is a power move

[calm shale]

i am working on something way more ambitious at the moment

[gray sand]

I guess I embody power moves then 😄

[umbral crescent]

I don’t really have a huge base there but I got a nice little outpost at the peak of this mountain. I tried to make a nice pathway leading up to it but I gave up 😭😭

[rapid steeple]

Up until the Mistlands, I was a beefy build person. Now I

[supple bear]

Ashlands isn't hard its just annoying. Don't say that on reddit though because you will get downvoted into oblivion

[rapid steeple]

I'm a magic goblin

[gray sand]

Caring about reddit opinions

[rapid steeple]

(I fat fingered enter too early 💀 )

[umbral crescent]

True

[summer fern]

What gets downvoted? ashlands being annoying?

[gray sand]

That being said... I have 47.7k karma 😄

[supple bear]

I mean everyone reading this can easily 1v1 any enemy in the Ashlands. The problem is you cant move 2 feet in the biome without getting swarmed, especially when you first land. Ashlands has a lot of one and done spawns that you have to clear. If you've ever wondered why morgens just randomly appear out of no where or a legion of twitchers appear with no spawner, thats why

[marble delta]

and clearing spawners hardly makes a dent lol

[gray sand]

forcedelete-ing spawners kills the invisible ones too 😉

[lone rampart]

Our landing area was one bonemaw and then nothing. We built a little cabin and plonked down a shield generator and it just sits there peacefully

[summer fern]

I feel that speaks to how crazy the enemy spam gets, when spawners don't really affect much.

[supple bear]

Theres also a lot of loud stuff going on passively

The storms knock over trees causing tons of noise, askvins and morgans destroy structures and rocks, causing a ton of noise

The slam from the wild staff root aggros the entire biome lol

[summer fern]

dvergrs spawning and triggering fights too

[marble delta]

Our trick was to just build above ground platforms into one of the ruins

[short gale]

Im dying quite often in the plains lol

[supple bear]

Fortunately you dont need to send too much time in the ashlands

Besides the meadows its probably the shortest biome

theres literally nothing to do but B line to forts

My last playthrough i beat ashlands while only exploring like 10% of it

[marble delta]

mans gettin’ boar’d

[short gale]

Green goblins r overwhelm me

[supple bear]

Ooze bombs can help with that

[marble delta]

How are the new call to arms bombs? I haven’t tried any yet.

[supple bear]

Dont even know what those are

[marble delta]

The witch sells the components apparently

[supple bear]

oh you mean the blob bombs?

I found one use for them that was it

[solar plaza]

Didja look for damaged goods? Made me trek all the way across the land for em

[paper marsh]

The gear is pretty cool. Some OP some meh, but overall adds some nice flavors and effects

enemy design is very nice imo, a good variety and some interesting interactions

Aesthetic - idk, I’m not much of an aesthetic person

The one thing I dislike is that the main progression parts of Ashlands feel extremely basic and slightly unfinished, when they could have been so much more

Other than that a lot of people complain about difficulty because the Ashlands is the first biome to throw a lot of mobs at you at once which is more difficult to handle than 1v1s or 1v2s. Personally I like that though

[supple bear]

Ashlands isnt difficult, its annoying

[umbral crescent]

Idk I feel like other biomes do that too though. Like nearly every biome you can get caught in a swarm of mobs

[supple bear]

Its really that simple lol

[paper marsh]

Ashlands is just more

[supple bear]

Deep North will be annoying too, at least until they nerf it like in the PTR

[umbral crescent]

Like from the very start you can get 10 greydwarfs 2 trolls and a bear running after you (actual situation I ended up in while first starting)

[paper marsh]

Other biomes I find you usually don’t fight more than like 4 enemies at once or if you do it’s
weaker ones like greydwarves

Unless you’re just speeding through the area in which case you’ll prob agro a lot

[supple bear]

The black forest, swamp, and plains can all swarm you just as hard as the Ashlands

[forest jacinth]

Do any of the blob bombs besides frost work on the undead

[umbral crescent]

Well I’d imagine so it’s the final biome before the inevitable deep north release. Like is it not supposed to be difficult? Or am I missing something? Like I def imagine deep north being the same way

But I don’t see how that’s a fault of the biome other than the lava which sounds annoying as hell

[supple bear]

It just depends on what you consider to be difficult

[umbral crescent]

But like I said I haven’t gotten there yet

[supple bear]

The valheim devs have had a very clear vision on what they think difficulty is since day 1

Spam you with enemies and force you to make "Tough decisions" when it comes to your inventory

[paper marsh]

It is. And I’d say it does it’s job well

Only issue potentially is that it’s pretty constant fighting which makes it tedious to explore

Deep North sounds like it will be less constant fights but strong pockets of enemies here and there, which I look forward to

[solar plaza]

To be fair, what enemy in game is anyone scared of taking on solo? I feel like the difficulty spikes with more mobs as opposed to a single tough one.

[forest jacinth]

I hope there's dverger in the dn

[paper marsh]

Honestly quite a few but thats also bc quite a few can insta delete my world on vhard permadeath

[analog stirrup]

im interested to see what kind of enemies we'll get considering we already have a cold biome?

[supple bear]

Ashlands is supposed to be a two sided war but the dverger are addicted to running into lava since the devs didn't program them to have any sense of self preservation. Which is odd because the skeleton enemies will straight up run away from you when they are in danger. Not just the twitchers either, the warriors do it all the time as well. It's clearly behavior they have experience coding

[umbral crescent]

Yeah true. I can definitely see how constantly fighting with swarms of enemies would be annoying. Hopefully what you say about deep north would be true. Like from the start the issue in difficulty with this game isn’t even the big enemies it’s the small enemies that you gotta fight while simultaneously dealing with the larger enemies

[forest jacinth]

We also had 2 tranquil grassland biomes but they both have very different enemy sets

[umbral crescent]

And they always seem to show up at the worst times

And just get in the way

[solar plaza]

True, but only diehards play that way though lol, I ain't got time to build everything again

[supple bear]

You can do destroy a pillar or two in the plains and then just cover the ashlands in campfires. You only need like 3-4 forts clears to compelte the ashlands so its a very small chunk of the biome you need to stop spawns on.

[spare lava]

yo hows valheim

[umbral crescent]

I also hope the final boss of this game in the deep north is going to be unlike anything we’ve seen before. I want lots of lore behind it and a very nice conclusion to the game

[supple bear]

This game has lore?

[solar plaza]

Lol

[umbral crescent]

Well I mean yeah

[paper marsh]

Good

[supple bear]

They say dark souls game have lore too but idk, ive never seen it

Imagine spending time not progressing to read lore 😐

[paper marsh]

I’m not a big fan of “hidden” lore

But I’m not much of a lore person anyways

[magic locust]

I think the lore is in the common societal knowledge of the viking afterlife, all of which I have no idea lmao

[solar plaza]

Same here, if the story of a specific part interests me I might check it out tho

[supple bear]

The lore of valheim is "I showed up and killed everything"

[analog stirrup]

^^

[supple bear]

Mass genocide of all races

Although they annoyingly keep respawning

[umbral crescent]

Well I mean there’s lore in the Ashland’s I’ve looked at the lore videos about like the dream of sleeping and seeing a naked child under a tree in the cold being the child that apparently drove the ashlands king to madness destroying the biome and there’s the theories that child is somehow related to the final boss of the game

Also just the ties to oden and Norse mythology in general and their ideal version of dying a warriors death and going to Valhalla

Like Odin giving a failed dead warrior a second chance to prove themselves to the gods

Idk I’m VERY autistic

For stupid game lore that really doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things

[paper marsh]

I’m slightly autistic

[umbral crescent]

I get that the lore isn’t the main point of the game or why people play it but I still find it to be an enjoyable aspect to it

For a game about ancient mythology to not have lore behind it or built into its world is kind of silly

[solar plaza]

I mean, I can feel ya a bit there. I'm not as fond of viking lore, but enjoy the game part of it. But I also can get into it sometimes if I enjoy it like gael from Ds3

[supple bear]

You know like 3 years ago someone in here argued that Elder was harder than any boss in the dark souls franchise

He was dead serious too

It was so hilarious i still remember it

[solar plaza]

Lol ok

[supple bear]

Do people still think bonemass is hard?

Does he even still summon stuff? He didnt summon anything last time i kileld him

[solar plaza]

He summons skeles

[supple bear]

I thought he was supposed to summon minions by throwing pieces of himself but he didnt do it at all this run

He used that move but nothing spawned

[umbral crescent]

Literally just approach with shield parry a few times dodge some roots and it’s over

[supple bear]

I just kill him with fire arrows

[umbral crescent]

And his attacks are slow so it’s not even a hard parry

[solar plaza]

Or fire arrows if ya can't parry

[supple bear]

The first three bosses go by so fast its pretty insane

[gray sand]

Just kill him with fire places.

[umbral crescent]

Right fire arrows work fine too

[short gale]

In plains youse think its worth upgrading to padded armor?

[umbral crescent]

Me and my brother spawned two of them at once the second time we fought him because we wanted a challenge and we both were fine

[short gale]

I have a feeling I can skip it

[supple bear]

occording to steam my last playthrough took 46.8 hours to complete.

The world record is 6 hours and 30 minutes lol

[umbral crescent]

It’s not like we had better gear or anything we just wanted his trophies

[supple bear]

fully upgraded padded armor will carry you into ashlands

I think carapace armor takes iron too anyway right

[solar plaza]

Nah, i think just carapace eiter and a thing or too

[supple bear]

i always transition to full mage in mistlands so idk

[umbral crescent]

Yagluth was pretty hard though before I figured out I could get around his aoe attack by getting behind him. The real problem was just that pierce damage wasn’t doing much to him so arrows and attires were out of the question. I finally settled on getting the bike claws for some good old fashioned slash damage and speed

[solar plaza]

Scratch that it does take iron, helmet doesn't tho

[umbral crescent]

But I legit died 3 times before I figured out a better strategy for beating him

[supple bear]

Fader could be a tutorial boss in a dark souls game

I like that he actually has more than 3 moves

Heck he has like 3 differentl melee attacks alone lol

[short gale]

The fandom wiki has some outdated recipes sometimes. That sucks tho maybe Ill get padded

[supple bear]

I mean to be honest

All you REALLY need for mistlands is the root harness

[umbral crescent]

The problem with yagluth was that I kept trying to attack him from the front and he would constantly use meteors, his aoe and the only times I managed to get damage in on him was when he used his fire breath but it was such a slow process. Eventually when I figured out the strat he was easy to beat though. The problem with Valheim bosses I think that make them easier than something like a dark souls boss is just how predictable their attack patterns are

[supple bear]

just wearing the root harness alone nerfs mistlands pretty hard

[solar plaza]

I was having the same issue and switched to fenris set for speed for that reason to avoid meteors and have fire resist

[short gale]

This is good to hear, its helped a lot with deathsquitos as well

[supple bear]

As a melee build ultimately all that matters is your shield though, thats really the thing you should make and upgrade first

That way you can parry everything in the biome

[gray sand]

Food + Shield = Win

[supple bear]

I still wish you got access to crossbows and magic earlier

mistlands and ashlands dont even feel they belong as part of the base game. They're like DLC expansions

mistlands in particular is vastly more overcooked than other biomes lol

[gray sand]

Arbalest yes, magic hell no.

[supple bear]

I dont see why not.

Parrying is more broken than magic would be in the early game

[summer fern]

Overcooked?

Also lol when I just want to get tar but keep getting my inventory filled of stuff before I even get to it.

[supple bear]

Perhaps overcooked not the best word, over polished maybe? mistlands feels way more polished than any other biome and introduces unique mechanics to the game like magic. Entering the mistlands is almost like playing a completely different game although over time its gotten better as they've gone back and added things to the older biomes. It used to be far more jarring.

[summer fern]

Well at least that seems like a good problem to have.

[supple bear]

Kind of depends

[short gale]

Fr I want a wand to shoot ice shit and fire balls

[supple bear]

Ashlands doesn't really follow that trend

[summer fern]

Ashlands needs a revamp in my opinion which I think I said earlier.

[supple bear]

Mistlands is a weird outlier of a biome currently

[summer fern]

I like the mistlands as a biome, so much interesting stuff.

[supple bear]

I doubt they are going to revamp the Ashlands. They might go back and add something to it but a complete revamp is just fantasy

[lone rampart]

about 15 times now.

[summer fern]

Why must it be a fantasy? they are capable of more.

[summer fern]

Yes apparently lol. Sorry, just it is something I really think.

[supple bear]

It seems like they're just getting tired of developing this game TBH

I mean im pretty sure dvoid worked on this game for like 5 years before it even hit steam

[summer fern]

I guess, but after the deep north, they don't ever have to perminantly abandon the game, could leave to do another, maybe pop back in to make some changes every once in awhile.

[supple bear]

The community itself doesnt care if valheim stays in early access for 20 years. Sure there will be a loud minority screeching about it, but the general sentiment is take your time and do it right

Despite this for some reason they "run out of time" on biomes now, like they did the ashlands

[summer fern]

Take your time, plus with what I suggested, it could be years between major stuff. Like pause adding and changing valheim for a few years to make another game, then pop back in with fresh ideas after a nice break.

[supple bear]

Im just saying dont get your hopes up lol

I just hope 1.0 doesnt mess with map generation too much. I've got quite a few amazing seeds right now

[summer fern]

Fair to both your messages.
Do you like my idea though, instead of abandoning the game entirely, just taking a long break and occasionally popping back in when something is needed or when a nice idea is had while interest is there for the devs?

[supple bear]

I mean it kind of just depends. If the devs reach whatever they consider to be their vision for their game then theres no point forcing more. Conan Exiles tried to do that and compeltely destroyed the game lol

[summer fern]

Conan Exiles? what happened there?
I don't mean like forcing stuff that doesn't fit though, just kind of improving things that cause unneeded annoyance.

Extra polishing too.

[supple bear]

The conan exiles story is TLDR. The game used to be one way then 5 years later they randomly decided to try to revamp the game, add a battle pass, change how items work, copy valheim buildings system which had a lot of unintended consequences (like no longer being able to share DLC building pieces), they also kept randomly reworking features to make the game "more interesting" like changing how stamina works. They tried to copy palworlds "living settlement" system and borked up the code so bad they had to turn it off for official servers.

Thats maybe 10% of it.

[short gale]

With how much money this games made them, Im pretty sure their perfectly fine to continue working on it lol

[supple bear]

They are releasing to playstation soon

Though in this day and age im not really sure if like people "either/or" anymore

[summer fern]

? fixing what wasn't broken while adding momentary ideas that were popular at the time?

[supple bear]

When I was a kid most people either had a gaming pc or a gaming console, and since consoles were way cheaper it was like a 9-1 ratio

Now days everyone has both or dont even bother with console gaming anymore

[summer fern]

No reflecting to consider if a idea actually would improve things? or if not if maybe certain aspects of it could be independantly considered?

[supple bear]

You expect too much from developers lol

Valheim devs wont do that

[summer fern]

I am confused, I was talking about what the other devs did

[supple bear]

Its likely they will do what They are Billions devs did

[summer fern]

Trying to summarize/describe it

[supple bear]

they put themselves on an arbitrary 3 month deadline for each update to line up with the battle pass which forced them to take the "easy" way out and just rework a new system every 3 months to give the illusion of creating new content. They reworked just about everything they could in the game until they ran out of stuff to destroy.

[summer fern]

Why?

[supple bear]

Like i said though Valheim devs are likely to just reach their vision and quit. They've always been pretty firm about a lot of thigns

Look at inventory for example

The community been begging for at least dedicated armor slots for years. Its an incredibly popular opinion the inventory in this game, especially later on, is too limited.

Meanwhile the Devs like, Nope. Our vision is "hard choices"

[short gale]

They probably dont wanna change things that are strenuous because thats what keeps people on

[supple bear]

Im surprised they even attempted to fix the hitboxes

That was another thing they were pretty adamant about

Not that i've really noticed any difference TBH

Ive still struggled to hit things on slopes

[summer fern]

I really hope that isn't the case, it hurts my opinion of the devs if so as it comes across as not caring about what is best for the game, but being pointlessly stubborn about things decided at the very start years ago before you could get a good grasp where things would go.
Sorry hope that isn't too harsh to say.

[supple bear]

Theres nothing wrong with having a clear vision for a game

[summer fern]

I know, but not ever refining or tweaking parts of it when it is causing issues is a problem.

[supple bear]

I dont like a lot of things about valheim but i respect them for sticking to their guns

[summer fern]

I guess I have different morals as for me, being willing to change stuff that didn't work out as well as planned is far more respectable. With sticking to something bad because it was the original plan feeling not respectable.

I hope I am fine, in the past I got instantly perm banned without warning for stating my opinion bluntly. The message also had been retracted by me before that and I still got perm banned.

[supple bear]

Im a pretty cynical person by nature lol. In my mind the Devs already have my money so why would they care what I think anyway

[summer fern]

If okay to say, I just hope you are wrong, I don't want valheim to be stuck with issues indefinitly and pointlessly.

[supple bear]

Like I said sometimes it's just vision. The Dark Souls community isn't really fond of "poison swamps" yet they end up in every game lol

I kind of prefer the way forts are now though, so i can cheese them and get out of that biome as soon as possible

I spent 2 1/2 hours out of my last 46 hour playthrough doing ashlands content lol

30 mintes of that was just trying to recover my stuff

[summer fern]

Well I wanted like forts are the same as currently, but also have a dungeon you can go into for more resources if you really want.

So there is a higher total amount of resources in the map, and potentially a more interesting thing to explore

[supple bear]

They should have just copied hildirs plains towers but what do i know

Thats what i would have done at least

Theres only like one of those things on the map anyway and already like 8 different dungeons

[summer fern]

Something like those would also be nice

And pretty in the ashlands

[supple bear]

Yeah but the problem is, ashland already has lag problems

forts are generally pretty close to each other clustered inland

imagine constantly loading int massive towers, sometimes even 2 at once

[summer fern]

What if the dungeons I want are like big empty caverns that have a tower in them? a underground tower because the cave is so big

[supple bear]

Im sure theres ways you could do it but Im not sure what causes the lag spikes in ashlands in the first place so its hard to speculate

[edgy warren]

how far away do the breeding boars have to be from the piggy

[brittle tulip]

So I just found the bog witch for the first time and she looks awesome.

[forest jacinth]

Coolest trader

[polar raptor]

so im looking for some homies to start up a world with or join a pre existing one perhaps?

[lone rampart]

#1024264966712340510

[brittle tulip]

I'll be down. Just re-started the game after a little bit of a break.

[polar raptor]

my b thank u!

[lone rampart]

All good, it's like the Great Global Phonebook of servers

[edgy warren]

can baby boar fall between two walls?

[broken kraken]

yea

[edgy warren]

how far is like the load distannce?

i want to afk but scared of raid

[paper marsh]

I think about-ish as far as the radius the fog of war is discovered around you on the map

Although if you want to afk I’d say just make a little afk spot without base items like chests, workbenches, torches, etc. nearby

Raids only trigger if you’re within 10m of 3 base items, which is a pretty short distance so you cna afk near your base just not right in it

[supple bear]

The dead have been summoned.

[hollow bear]

Is Valheim plus the way to go for simple QoL mods without installing a bunch of different ones?

[near furnace]

Have we?

AFAIK. Most of us are on vacation now 🤔

[supple bear]

You guys identify as a charred spawner?

That explains a lot

[tacit crystal]

I bet people in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202934289898151966 knows better. 👍

[near furnace]

ah. I read devs, not dead 😄

[near furnace]

we will do things post 1.0 for sure. but re-working the entire game is not highly likely since we do not want to break peoples worlds, builds etc

[near furnace]

more people want a horse than dedicated inventory slots tho.
But we've heard the inventory issues. We had a post out before on twitter asking about it

[placid delta]

This is extremely hard to believe that there are more players out there gripping about not having a horse then there are about the extremely limited inventory space!!

And posting about it in only one forum, is an very limiting pool for responses and kinda of a poor excuse for showing interest in making the game more enjoyable for players.

IMO

[near furnace]

it's because peoples first thought playing is "I want to move faster, I am a viking, where is my horse"
while those who played past plains is like "so much stuff, I want more inventory"

[forest jacinth]

I just want to pet my animals

[near furnace]

horse or dedicated inventory slots. which would you prefear?

[forest jacinth]

The latter

[supple wedge]

Any chill people in here wanna be friends and play valheim

[forest jacinth]

Im pretty plains too 😄

Pre*

[tacit crystal]

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

[placid delta]

Past Plains?? You run out of inventory slots in Black Forest!! By the time you hit the Plains, you have already figured out that you will never have the room and you literally leave a trail of dropped loot in chests everywhere ...
sigh

[placid delta]

Just my .02 and my opinion.

There are mods for both Horses and Inventory. But it would be nice to just be part of the base game. 🤷‍♂️

[sharp bluff]

wipe area, collect loot in chests, move stuff to your landing base for future transport

[supple bear]

Kind of seems like a trick question because we already have two "horses" lol.

Unless you mean more specifically a mount with an inventory, like a packmule.

Or you could take the easy way out and allow hitching of the cart to mounts.

Also, enjoy your vacation.

[summer hinge]

Best place to find info on mods would be #mods-discussion

[near furnace]

specificly a horse. not the lox nor the asksvin.

[supple bear]

Give the people what they want but unless it does something cool its just another mount right,

[candid sierra]

Hmm

Idk man sounds like management issue about the inventory tbh

[candid sierra]

Don't want to be dismissive but how do you run out of inventory even during black forest?

Inventory slots*

[sharp bluff]

not particularly difficult tbh
looting everything useful will put you over the limit quickly enough

[placid delta]

Hunter/Gather ... quickly run out of inventory space running through the forest.

[candid sierra]

There are ways around it though

For instance at least when I played the last playthrough at the highest difficulty, you'd do things in phases

You hunt food first and stock up your base

[placid delta]

either through Mods or just 'not' .. but I am referring to base game, no mods, people (myself and many of the players on my server) gather many things

[supple bear]

It only gets worse as you progress. For most players over half their inventory is taken up with "manditory" items. Food/Pots/Portal Mats/Armor/Trinket/personally on average I have like 6-7 slots open. An askvin alone drops 3 items lol

[candid sierra]

With essentials and everything, then gather building materials or items for craft

Then after that gathering forging materials only

Not only that but you could use portals to move the normal items to base

Then come back with a cart for the metals

At least I am looking at it from Black Forest

[placid delta]

This would require running around the same area multiple times, when you could make a single pass with more inventory space

[candid sierra]

Obviously it gets much harder, Swamp, Plains doing this but man running out of slots in black forest is just a tad sad

[supple bear]

Im a minimalist who only loots the bare minimum and doesn't horde anything and even I find the inventory situation fairly annoying. At the end of the day all that happens is it forces me to constantly teleport back to base.

Its not interesting gameplay, its not dangerous, its not anything but a complete waste of time lol

[candid sierra]

Exploration in game, finding stuff is way worse when it comes to time it takes than teleporting back and forth, have you reached plains yet so far?

[supple bear]

I've beaten this game probably like 30+ times at this point, in just about any way you can imagine

Granted a good chunk of those are earlier versions of the game, which were shorter experiences

[candid sierra]

What kind of stuff, the bare minimum in general that already fills up your storage may I ask?

[supple bear]

What biome?

[candid sierra]

Nice!

[candid sierra]

Hmm let's say Black Forest for now

[forest jacinth]

Make a closet

[candid sierra]

Obviously it gets worse in the following biomes, for me mistlands was annoying

Because of the mountainous biome and fog so moving stuff around was a no go

[supple bear]

That early in the game all you really need is extra food and portal mats.

[candid sierra]

Just plain teleporting or using the sea

[supple bear]

my answer is going to be the same until mistlands by the way

aside from using a frost resist mead to go to the mountains the first time and a poison resist against bonemass i dont bother until mistlands

[placid delta]

So a nomad player .. thats cool

[supple bear]

What do you mean a nomad player

We're talking about what i carry around on my person that I deem "manditory"

portal mats and food on top of your weapons/tools/armor/trinket seems pretty reasonable

[candid sierra]

Yeah pretty much honestly, I'd say if someone has inventory problems that early in the game, maybe they are missing something or not doing something correctly

[supple bear]

Its late game thats the problem

[candid sierra]

Yeah late game I agree

[placid delta]

correctly? so you are stating there is a correct and wrong way to play this game? 🤔

[supple bear]

I only run 2 pots in the late game and i still only have 9 inventory slots left for picking up items

The more potions you want to use, the worse it gets

Also i dont use arrows

[candid sierra]

I didn't say that, look don't get annoyed as I stated in the beginning I am not trying to dismiss your experience

[placid delta]

not annoyed .. text loses all context .. was merely a question.

[supple bear]

I mean to be fair the black forest does have a lot of things worth picking up

[placid delta]

but you did state if inventory was an issue then something was not done correctly

[candid sierra]

I am saying if you are having issues with inventory THAT early in the game my advice is to try and see what you may be doing wrong, cause it gets way worse so it would be good to sort that management issue or find workaround

[supple bear]

the wood, stone, and eyes the greywarves drop is always useful, berries, the shaman and troll trophies are used for crafting recipes, gold is useful early game, so is trollhide

[candid sierra]

That early in the game yes

[supple bear]

And how could i forget cores

and feathers

[candid sierra]

Wood and stone you won't need to worry about gathering it randomly if you already stocked up

[supple bear]

doesnt the towers have barrels that drop copper?

[placid delta]

tin .. but yes 😉

[candid sierra]

Same thing with greydwarf drops those drop a lot

[supple bear]

I'm just saying, there's a lot of stuff worth picking up in the black forest.

I was ignoring the metal resources because you normally do those dedicated

[candid sierra]

Yea

[supple bear]

this is just running around picking up stuff

Ultimately you'll get used to it. It's either that or lug a cart with you everywhere which good luck with that

It gets stuck on literally everything

[placid delta]

hotbar has all the weapons/tools .. then you take up 4 spaces with armor, 1 for belt, 1 for trinket, 3 for active foods. That is already 17/24 slots taken ... that leaves 7 slots for gathering ..

[candid sierra]

How many tools do you carry?

[placid delta]

all that are needed to gather/hunt in a single pass through

1. hammer 2. blunt 3. slash 4.axe 5. bow 6. shield 7.pickaxe 8. pierce

so i missed the arrow slot needed so that's an another .. so now that is 6 slots left for gathering ..

[candid sierra]

Okay that makes sense

I think the Black Forest needs Blunt only for the skeletons if I remember correctly

Or are there new mobs they added?

Also you said you carry a trinket, right?

[placid delta]

trolls - pierce skelle - blunt dwarves - axe/slash bears - slash

[safe flower]

mace for black forest is key

[rain flare]

All of them 🤣

LoL NO 😂

[safe flower]

does fine against dwarfs, but better on skeles and very handy in crypts

[rain flare]

Spears be the goat

They work very well…
Except on things where there is nothing to pierce…
Blobs, skeletons etc

[safe flower]

a dagger is good too

[placid delta]

only if you want to chase down your weapon every time you throw the dang thing

[candid sierra]

Okay so Axe and sword both deal Slash damage

I would use just one of them tbh

[candid sierra]

Haha you can use it for AoE

[placid delta]

axe for trees

[candid sierra]

It's op if you use right

[rain flare]

Aaaah my brother - you are using it wrong 😂

Only throw the spear at things just as they get within stabbing range 🥰

[placid delta]

slash for dwarves and bears

[rain flare]

Fuling rocking up - throws spear for stagger and stabby-stabby-stabs!

[candid sierra]

Haha I remember this guy we called him the Spartan

[rain flare]

Same on wolves, draugr, etc

[placid delta]

fulings not in black forest

[candid sierra]

Bro was crazy on that spear

[rain flare]

Grey dwarves are 🥰

Principle applied to all silly mobs that want to get stabbed 🤩

[candid sierra]

Yes well this is honestly what I mean tbh, you don't need to start cutting trees and collecting wood if you already have it stockpiled

[rain flare]

You get within stabbing range, I chuck my spear in your face 🤣

[placid delta]

be as it may .. spear is still pierce .. which is all i stated

[rain flare]

100% man - I just gush a bit over spears 😅

Spears and shields are a favoured combo of mine

[candid sierra]

Like for example let's say you decide that today is the day to get core from the crypts

[rain flare]

That, and axes

[placid delta]

spears are never carried by me ... IMO, worst item .. again, just IMO

[rain flare]

Axes are always necessary - so I’m always going to make one
Then spears are normally cheaper so I make one of those as well 🥰

[candid sierra]

You armor yourself specifically for that, so that means blunt weapons, a torch, some portal mats and a shield. A slash weapon for any other monster that may attack you as you travel

No need for arrows

Then you go, gather as much of these specific items, portal them back

[rain flare]

I take my axe, a spear for stagger, and a tower shield my beloved 🔥❤️‍🔥🔥

[candid sierra]

Then next day you don't need to carry blunt anymore as you may be going for copper mining for example

[rain flare]

I love me my big shields

[candid sierra]

So that means a different set of tools

[placid delta]

not disagreeing with the 'phases' aspect of your style .. just saying it doesn't apply to all styles of play. the phase style doesn't account for those wanting to make a single pass through a place and return 'home'

[candid sierra]

If you try to carry everything at once, trust me that will tire you out and just make you frustrated

[rain flare]

Weapon and tool for the situation is always a good call

Unless you’re a mage, in which case I just carry everything 😂

[placid delta]

which leaves no space in inventory

[candid sierra]

I mean you are maxing your slots already and you've not even gotten to getting potions yet

[forest jacinth]

I've yet to use a tower shield parry just hits serotonin

[rain flare]

Especially with the new adrenaline system

I just love big shields 🥰

[candid sierra]

Okay then 😅

[placid delta]

This is 'exactly' my point! Thank you 🙂

[candid sierra]

Well you carry everything, how can you say the inventory system is flawed (that early) when you carry everything at once? It's not really meant to be able to carry everything at once - I mean builds in these games exist for a reason

But I digress 😆

[placid delta]

agreed. everything is carried, cause everything is needed. would also like to point out, I never said the system was 'flawed' .. I simpled stated that more inventory space would be preferred by myself and many of the players on my server.
unless you play the game in a single aspect of phases.
🤷‍♂️
I do appericate your conversation and point of view. I accept that is your playstyle and I am very happy that it works for you.

[plush umbra]

this storm man i already slept and still going XD

i wanna find my boi haldor

[forest jacinth]

Pet his beast

[plush umbra]

found my boi haldor near a swamp and black forest

nice

OMG YOU CAN PET THE BEAST you were right

megingjord

[errant forge]

guys

i got into a charrred fortress

and im stuck in the middle tower

is the door supposed to be locked?

[merry pebble]

Yes

[errant forge]

ok

so im cooked

[merry pebble]

Why not go out the same way you got in?

[errant forge]

i cant climb 10 metre high walls

[plush umbra]

time to find hildir

[merry pebble]

Why did you jump through that hole if you know that? XD

[errant forge]

i thought maybe the door would open if i break the thing in the middle

[merry pebble]

Do you have pickaxe with you?

[tacit crystal]

You have pickaxe?

[errant forge]

yes

[tacit crystal]

Dig under.

[merry pebble]

Try digging out the corners

[errant forge]

ok, thanks

[plush umbra]

guys i found a leviathan XD

[merry pebble]

So you can get a ||harpoon|| and new ||knife|| 😄

[plush umbra]

does the logout to reset the timer still works?

[merry pebble]

It should

[plush umbra]

you just logout after 30 se?

or 60?

[merry pebble]

Never did it myself, but i would say whenever it starts shaking too much

[plush umbra]

ohhh

it didnt work XD i logged out when it was shaking and when i logged back in it was gone XD

[merry pebble]

Welp, normal mining is the way 😄

[plush umbra]

yeah its aight tho i got 40

[tacit crystal]

Bronze pick is the way early.

[charred leaf]

re-work ashlands forts and call it quits. it's clunky, me no likey

[open bolt]

Finally entered the Ashlands 🌋 \o/
Staying there on our base on the shore isn't too bad. I only died once (cause of death unknown. Literally. I just lost my entire hp and died） 😂 The problem will be when we have to get out of our base... and explore the lands. 💀

[open bolt]

I do think the cause of death was the Ashlands water, btw. I always thought the damage would be over time. But it was instant damage, I guess.
I only had my feet in the water tho. I wasn't swimming 😔 So I thought I was safe.

[pastel latch]

Does anyone know what the parry window is in frames/miliseconds?

[lone rampart]

I feel like this weekend was entirely too short; I didn't get to play nearly enough!

[open bolt]

The window itself is probably less than half a second (?）🤔
But the timing itself depends on the enemy and the type of attack.
And it's easier to parry with a buckler or a shield, but we can also parry with weapons.

[near furnace]

what's wrong with the forts?

[lunar sapphire]

My beta version world every 2 weeks back in 2020 😢 💀

[charred leaf]

great concept, poorly executed. teased us a lot about siege weapons, only for them to become optional. building over the walls is more convenient and efficient.

[chrome badge]

My pregen changes mistlands is actually far more difficult than actual mistlands, the terrain is so steep, filled with trees/webs, and enemies endlessly chase you from across the biome. 😅

[chrome badge]

They're not optional if you want the chest in the middle.

[charred leaf]

you can dig down

[chrome badge]

Ah, I would never do that, I do my best to preserve the natural generation.

Don't like cheesing? Don't cheese.

[forest jacinth]

Do the webs appear in modern mistlands at all?

[lone rampart]

They do not

[charred leaf]

it's a very obvious cheese

[tacit crystal]

The webs and big trees in Mistlands were placeholder items since launch up until H&H update.

[forest jacinth]

Ah I looked at some pre update pics the webs look nice

[heady parcel]

To me it is not even a cheese, you can dig below a vault to get in irl - so if you can do it in-game I see it as a valid method.

[charred leaf]

my first instinct was to dig down. it's clearly a design issue.

[heady parcel]

Not even an issue, it's just an alternative method. 🙂

[charred leaf]

butr when the alternative ends up overshadowing the intended mechanic, it feels less like an option and more like the default

[timber marsh]

I love the lox though it's way cooler than a horse.

[compact cedar]

I am entirely not computer literate. I have had valheim on an external harddrive connected via a usb 2.0. I just figured it was a stuttery game that sometimes took a bit to load. Just moved it to my SSD and the difference is mindblowing.

[pastel latch]

I havent used battleaxes in a few years, did they get buffed or am I misremembering?

[flat stag]

Haven't played for some time. Are BF trolls still melee-only?

[tacit crystal]

Depends when you played last time, they're faster than what they were pre H&H. Also H&H update added 1 new battleaxe and Call to Arms (latest update in last September) added 2 new.

[tacit crystal]

Trolls without log can occasionally throw large stones at you.

[pastel latch]

I vaguely remember call to arms buffing them but I guess I am wrong

[tacit crystal]

2 new and movement speed penalty slightly lowered.

[flat stag]

lol nice - I was about to suggest this - maybe I forgot... thx

[tacit crystal]

Trolls haven't changed mechanically since EA, only the model got updated during H&H update.

[flat stag]

I'm looking forward to 1.0 so much.

[tacit crystal]

As we all are.

[crude turtle]

Can you customize helm? with horns and antlers?

[tacit crystal]

There are some limited customizations, which are most round/tower shields and linen cape.

[crude turtle]

ok

[lofty ruin]

Just got back into Valheim, this time on the Xbox Series S as opposed to the Xbox One. Currently getting my bronze situation sorted so I can prepare for The Elder

Bears weren’t a thing when I last played so I was terrified when I first encountered one, until I realised they’re actually pretty easy to deal with

[gray sand]

Welcome back.

The only thing I can recommend for your current situation is kill Elder first, as his power update makes "getting bronze situation sorted" a LOT easier.

[candid basalt]

I need so much stone. And then, I’ll need more

Why did I decide a mountain castle was needed

[gray sand]

Mining silver and copper are the best ways to get stone imo.
Because you're multi-tasking!

[lone rampart]

That or practice your dodge against a golem

[candid basalt]

At this point I’m removing all the stone boulders and deposits on the mountain top too

I don’t doge golems I farm them for crystals

[lone rampart]

I get so much stone from them flailing about!

[candid basalt]

Oh snap. I forgot they break rocks too

I tend to kill them fast as I want a trophy. Still haven’t had one drop. /cry

[lone rampart]

Their trophies are fun

[candid basalt]

Last group world I had two of them. Very pretty

[tacit crystal]

5% drop chance for their trophy. 👀

[candid basalt]

I have like 5 desthsquito trophies. Aren’t they the rarest?

[near furnace]

no

you have 100's of deathsquitos flying around. and extremly few stone golems around in comparison

[candid basalt]

Ah fair

Darn math anyway

[near furnace]

so Vile or stone golem is the most rare

[foggy glacier]

ghosts and wraiths are pretty rare too.

[near furnace]

good point

ghost trophy might be the rarest

[foggy glacier]

at least until you start getting the raid.

[candid basalt]

I got ghost trophy on my first encounter with the new model. Which scared the crap out of me, let me assure you

[near furnace]

I think the best "jump scare" enemies we have done, is adding them or changing them in biomes players already know what to expect in

abomination was the best

[lone rampart]

Abomination was epic

[cobalt canyon]

It will always be the deer.

[lone rampart]

Still is! But “oh let me see what’s new in the swamps!” quickly turned into a horror movie

[cobalt canyon]

||RAWNK🦌||

[candid basalt]

First abomination completely caught me off guard. Even tho I know the ways to fight them now, they still make my heart rate increase. Even when I’m in plains gear

Tho now I farm them for guck. Gotta have my fuel for green torches

[tacit crystal]

I remember my group being quite scared of Abominations during our very early hours.

[candid basalt]

Our new world we found the bog witch by sailing by. Formed an expedition to make a “safe” landing area. Immediately devolved to three scared Vikings running around a swamp with flame arrows and screaming while getting bodied by an angry evil tree

[snow aurora]

Aboms have always been really funny to deal with. I js get on a higher ground like a tree and melee it

[candid basalt]

My newb tactic is on top of a crypt, but now they run from you when you do that

[merry pebble]

I stay under them, parry, chop chop, parry 😄

[candid basalt]

Currently I parry and chop. I need the guck otherwise they’d be as annoying as trolls (so much blue leather)

[snow aurora]

How far into the game is the serpent shield useful

[candid basalt]

Great decoration through endgame 😁

[snow aurora]

For usability?

[candid basalt]

It’s like a silver shield with pierce resist if I remember correctly so into plains

[nocturne wolf]

It’s always a good option against pierce attacks, even Fader.

But it can be annoying swapping shields so I don’t think it’s worth it

[candid basalt]

It’s a tower shield so no parry irc

[nocturne wolf]

You can stack it with root harnesk for maximum pierce protection

[candid basalt]

Sure is pretty though

[lone rampart]

💡 Bonemaw scale shield made with flametal to keep the scale shield aesthetic throughout the game

[nocturne wolf]

It would be so op

[snow aurora]

A base black metal shield has much higher block armor than a maxed serpent shield but is pierce resist really that much helpful in plains

[foggy glacier]

It's useful, but the root harnesk is sufficient usually.

[lone rampart]

Neck scale shield for starting biomes

A live neck just strapped to your arm

It would be funny if the root armor made greydwarfs nonaggressive. Like they mistake you for one of their own

[candid basalt]

Full troll armor they think you are a baby troll. Unfortunately, trolls eat babies

[nocturne wolf]

Only if ask armor does the same for necks

[lone rampart]

I’m sorry my brain has gone off the rails today with gibbery nonsense

[tacit crystal]

That's why dance while gibbering. 🗣️

[lone rampart]

No I dance when it rains

[candid basalt]

I thought you were a dancer who gibbered in the rain?

[lone rampart]

I don’t know what I am anymore existential crisis 😭

[candid basalt]

You are a dead warrior whose spirit lives on in Odin’s purgatory trying to prove yourself to get to Valhalla. That or a dream.

[fathom tendon]

Guys is there any date or month teased for when the Deep North Biom releases?
Im desperate to play valheim again but i dont wanna start a new World when the update is around the corner😭

[gray sand]

No.

[undone forum]

Even if you start a new world, as long as you don’t touch the deep north, it will still generate the new content when the update drops

Might be nice to get a little head start before the update drops

[candid basalt]

We started a new world and are focusing on slow building.

[paper marsh]

We don’t know when it’s coming, but I wouldn’t say it’s likely to be right around the corner

Seems unlikely for it to release in the next few months since they haven’t given a release date yet

[terse helm]

What is up! Ive never posted here, you really think its gunna be months??

[olive cloak]

My guess (which means absolutely nothing, take it with half of a grain of salt) is probably Q1 or Q2 of 2026

but that’s just my personal intuition, again, it means fuck all for actual release dates

it’s ready when it’s ready™

[pliant hatch]

The only things we know right now is that "it's not going to happen this year" and that Valheim will come to the PS 5 in 2026.

We also know that Sony in General don't put games in EA on their consoles, so guestimates are that the game will be released for PC in 2026.
Which means somewhere in a 365 day timeframe, making any gues as good as another.

[valid python]

I'm on board with the guess that it will coincide with the playstation release.

[paper marsh]

Do we know when PlayStation release is? And if so, when?

[timber marsh]

I wish it lasted longer it's so pretty

[pliant hatch]

We know it's in 2026.
Which means we got a 365 day timeframe, as I said in my previous reply.

[candid basalt]

In the meanwhile, go build a castle and stay out of the north

[valid python]

I wonder if we'll be preventing or perhaps triggering Fimbulvetr. That may be what the Winder child spoke to Fader about and could be the reason Fader needed to have a meeting with Yug: Another powerful pyromancer who could help hold it back.

[crude turtle]

What do i do with lox trophy

[light moat]

Can turn it into bait!

[crude turtle]

ok

[candid basalt]

Or bracelets of the brave trinket

[pliant hatch]

Good thing is, the trinket only need one trophy, so the rest you get over time can be turned into bait.

So you got the best of both worlds.

Oh, and don't forget to put one on the wall!

[paper marsh]

bracelets of the brave honestly seems like a very nice trinket. Maybe niche because of its high adrenaline cost making it more of an ashlands trinket (or at least a carapace buckler trinket), but it's a lotta health and club damage

If only I liked clubs

[valid python]

I couldn't get them to prop even in ashlands clearing pillars back to back. And unless it was change the adrinilen drain was WAY too agressive. I found myself loosing adrin straight up mid-combat...

[merry pebble]

Idk, i gotnthose to proc quite frequently even in plains

[paper marsh]

I find adrenaline sucks if you're having it as a passive thing you just hope will proc once in a while, but is pretty good if you actively play around it

Like if you're gonna take 5 sec to back off and heal or get stamina or need to travel to another enemy, swap to a magic staff or bow to just get one hit in and stop adrenaline from draining. And if you see a lot of weak fellas roll up on you, give them a quick parry with carapace buckler for 10 adrenaline each before killing them

Maybe even farm a few parries off them if you really need a trinket proc

I suppose clubs are somewhat mediocre at gaining adrenaline tho. Best sources are probably spears, knives, frost staff, atgeir, and carapace buckler

Maybe battleaxe if enemies get easily staggered

[light moat]

Knives are actually so much fun to use, been really enjoying them recently!

[tacit crystal]

Same, knives and battleaxes as my main weapons in my current co-op world with my group.

[quaint sleet]

I’ve been enjoying the blunt weapons, I just yeet my targets at this point

[paper marsh]

That’s exactly why I hate them 😭

[paper marsh]

Same, but I add in spears and fist weapons

[marble delta]

There’s vikings out here NOT carrying spears?!

[paper marsh]

Spears do be the "best" melee weapon type that's not just straight cheese, imo

[tacit crystal]

What do you mean by cheese?

[paper marsh]

infinitely spinning in a circle with atgeir to knockback and stagger all enemies, or spamming 2h hammer while sitting in an unreacheable spot (like on top of bonemass skull) or behind a wall

[tacit crystal]

I could agree with sledge attack tactic behind walls being more "cheesy" but atgeir secondary not.

[paper marsh]

yeah everyone's definition of cheese is different

[tacit crystal]

There are some drawbacks for atgeir secondary like stamina cost and lack of mobility if some enemies manage to not getting hit by the attack so it's not "infinite spinning", positioning is important.

Although I think atgeir could have slightly lower stagger multiplier so it would not be as OP.

[paper marsh]

Hmm, back when I used to use it it felt very easy. Just go to flat ground, and wait a brief moment between each spin to never run out of stamina. Or worst case take a few steps away from the enemy in that brief window if stamina really was a concern

Made everything but ranged enemies absolutely trivial

I'm definitely considering a lot of things cheesy that most people wouldn't though

I mean hell, I don't even use resistance meads because they feel a bit cheesy to me

That's a bit more for making the game fun than because its overly cheesy tho

[tired path]

I feel like too many enemies are resistant to Pierce for Spears to be "the best"

They are very versatile, though.

[tacit crystal]

Proper atgeir usage still requires getting in middle of combat. I agree with the sledge tactic being cheese tho.

[paper marsh]

Yeah that's their one huge drawback. But I think other qualities make up for it personally

I'm also not viewing it as "you are bound to only use this weapon for the entire playthrough". More just using spear as your primary weapon, but if you need to spec into a secondary like mace for situations like bonemass or stone golems thats fine

If we were saying you can only use one weapon type for the entire game, swords or clubs would probably be the best (though it might be very hard to take on those burial chambers without weapons 😅 )

[valid python]

I love club for how much of the game is weak to it.
Skelly are weak to blunt so they're good to clear Burrial chambers.

Blobs, oozers, Skellys (still) and Bonemass is weak to it so its good in swamp.

Then Frostner to carry the rest of the game.

I am smashy smashy club lover.

[tacit crystal]

Porcupine also pretty good.

One melee to deal with both growths and lox.

[paper marsh]

Blunt damage is hella nice yea

Though I find it's rarely really needed in a lot of situations where its good. Like a sword or spear takes care of skellies and blobs just fine, and in swamp those are the least threatening mobs anyways

Also I don't know if its just me but I've started preferring flint spear over club (or ideally I'd probably take flint axe) for burial chambers. I really hate how the club splits half its damage on the walls of the dungeon.

Maybe that's just an issue of me not drawing skellies into open rooms tho

[merry pebble]

I very much like slash as its quite the all-rounder 😄
While not many are weak to it, not many are resistant either

[river spear]

Seems like new modded server are rare these days. At least ones that dont focus on building.

[merry pebble]

You can make one yourself 😄

[paper marsh]

I've always hated weapons like that.

Like I love knives for everything except that they have both pierce and slash. Means there's practically no ideal target I can use them against and no ideal damage buff to focus for upping their damage 😔

[river spear]

yeah, I dont want to deal with the managing side of it haha

[paper marsh]

Is it? Taking a 5 second glance at the #1024264966712340510 it looks like 4 of the top 5 posts are modded

[river spear]

I did say, new and not building focused lo.

[paper marsh]

Or is the issue that they're older servers? I guess there's not an overflow of new servers popping up since there's a break between updates rn

idk the first couple modded ones seem a few days old with no build mods

[river spear]

yeah, those couple days dont seem like much, until you hop in and they are on day 70+ and preparing for Moder haha. In my experince, servers take about a week to beat or die.

[merry pebble]

You could still ask them how far in progression they are 🙂

[paper marsh]

Yeah, tbh though those are a lot of requirements for what I assume is a downtime in valheim popularity.

Might have to sacrifice something to find a good server. Best thing to sacrifice imo would be being more patient. Put a post in #1024264966712340510 saying what you're looking for, or check the chat daily until you see something you like

[river spear]

I'm familiar with the server. lol, I pop in for a few months when i get the urge to play then plop out. Definitely expecting it to be less "popular" rn as people wait for the deep north to be released.

[paper marsh]

I just link it because it autofills rather than having to type it all out

[placid delta]

My server is on day 897 and we havent taken out Bonemass yet.
I do have some builders on the server and they prefer the slower pace. I have an explorer. Several hunter/gatherers and a couple nomads. But none are focused on speed running the game.

[river spear]

I don't think "Speed running" and "day 897" need to be mentioned in the same context.

[placid delta]

it does when I am making a point that a server 70+ days old is not prepping for Moder already. its all context

[low warren]

I just wish there were weapons at most tiers for all types

[distant chasm]

I was reading reviews for the game and there are several mentions that this game is very hard as a solo player. Is that true? If I take my time on each area, each boss, zero rushing...is the game totally okay as a solo player?

[low warren]

spear, sword, and atgeir (and to a lesser extent some maces) all feel too easy to me - I want to use fist weapons or something but ope, there's only a few. Or I want to use battleaxes because they suck, but nope gotta switch later

[merry pebble]

It is pretty much like that now 🤔 few exceptions like fist weapons for example

[low warren]

Provided you're OK with the type of game at all, it's totally fine/doable solo yeah

[distant chasm]

Can you clarify what you mean? I enjoy survival games and my main game is Escape from Tarkov...if that counts? lol

[merry pebble]

Yep, totally OK and actually designed to be played solo 🙂

[low warren]

I mean it's a bit of a tough game until you really grok the mechanics. Some survival stuff, long distance travel sometimes, and if you die you have to get back to your body to get your stuff. If you're like "well yeah, of course, that's the genre" then you're gtg. If that on its face sounds scary genre-wise, that's a different story

[distant chasm]

So basically, ignore Reddit haha

[merry pebble]

As one should, yep XD

[low warren]

Reddit will have poeple saying the game is too easy on hardcore mode because they've mastered everything, right alongside the poeple saying the game is unfair

I mean, any community will have those people. They're just easily visible on reddit

[low warren]

Fists, 2h axes (I consider the last one a different weapon type), daggers (same)

[merry pebble]

2-h axes have one from swamps to mistlands
And daggers from meadows to mistlands (abyssal razor is a swamp tier)

[low warren]

last normal dagger is plains, but yes mistlands has the 2h axe. Probably good enough but still feels bad to not get an upgrade for the next area

[merry pebble]

Considering until recently we only had 2 battle axes, i am happy we have double that now 😄
-# Tho i wish the Skull Splittur had bit more interesting handle, seems almost out of place to put that intricate axe head on such simple handle)

[low warren]

hopefuly we get a grand unification in the deep north 🙏

[merry pebble]

Yep, really hoping we get one of every weapon type there 🙏

[edgy warren]

guys i ahve a 2 star wolf in hole

[low warren]

got my new fancy bear armor and i'm shocked, absolutely scandalized that the blueberry paint doesn't protect me from the mountain cold

[edgy warren]

but how i do i start taming it

[merry pebble]

Throw some meat down to the hole and then hide so it doesent see you

[edgy warren]

it went to day and didnt despawn but it hasnt stated eatingf even thjough there is food?

[merry pebble]

And stay in the area

Should take 30min that way

[tacit crystal]

Oddly I'm fine with Splittur's handle, I've grown to dislike the handle on Crystal battleaxe a bit as it looks bit bulky. 👀

[edgy warren]

there are 2 no stars also in tehe hole which have hearts above them but 2 star doenst

[limpid vigil]

hmmm in the latest Deep North Voyage video she says ''the ruler of these lands must die''

Do they mean ruler of all Valheim or just the Deep North

[merry pebble]

Would say DN

Since if anyone would be the "ruler" of the whole Valheim it would probably be Odin

[tacit crystal]

It's actually the previous one, last one she recalled her childhood in the abandoned looking village.

[low warren]

oh btw when trying to find metal goop in the swamp without wishbone (using mallet) e.g. challenge run, is there any way to optimize the search?

[merry pebble]

Not really, just smack and look for 0s

Since iirc those dont show "too hard"

[tacit crystal]

-# Very hard.

[low warren]

Do they tend to spawn near or away from anything?

I guess there's no point in checking the water since it'd be unminable

[merry pebble]

Nope, just scattered throughout

[low warren]

Good to know it doesn't say "too hard", as that helps with the ancient tree false positives

[tacit crystal]

I think more random, sometimes they can be peeking out in cliffs.

[merry pebble]

-# For some reason my mind was thinking of difficulties apparently xD

[errant current]

does the parry bonus from my weapon and shield combine?

so if I have an iron buckler and silver shield, if I parry with buckler, do I have 4x parry bonus or 2x

[placid delta]

the parry goes off the item that you are currently using(equipped).

[tacit crystal]

Shield if you equip it, weapon if no shield is equipped.

[errant current]

ah ok

so whats the point of a knife having 4x parry bonus

[placid delta]

not everyone uses a shield and a knife .. so if no shield, it goes off the knife parry

[tacit crystal]

If you parry with knife it gets 4x to its block armor.

[errant current]

I see

preciate it

[forest jacinth]

shields slow you down if you wanna be a sneaky rogue knives still offer some protection

[tacit crystal]

Not significant amount tho, for bucklers/round shields it's -5%. Knives have no ms penalty.

[forest jacinth]

just trying to give a use casse lol

[tacit crystal]

Ofc, one can just have the weapon without shield if they want. Shield is in most cases more effective for blocks/parries than weapon.

In case of 1h knives, then there is ||dual wielded knives||.

[edgy warren]

can you level up you weapon by hitting a rock?

[tacit crystal]

Patched long time ago. But there is now ||reanimated training dummy called T.W.I.G||.

[river spear]

It really come down to your experience with survival games, your style of play and your ability to navigate the different attack patterns of each enemy and some of the negative affects associated with their biomes. But if you plan to take it slow and max out your gear with each biome, then there shouldn't be any problem. Just make sure to have extra sets of armor and weapons for body recovery.

[forest jacinth]

I've done all my body retrievals in my birthday suit

[heady parcel]

Usually that works, but sometimes you end up in really bad spots. My first swamp death ever I was yeeted by an abomination into a deep water pool where a swarm of leeches - one of them 2-star - made short work of me. When I got back there was that abomination, said swarm of leeches, at least one elite draugr and a few archers around a grave I couldn't get to without swimming... Took me a damn week and about a dozen more deaths to get my stuff back...

[paper marsh]

Naked deathruns are a lot more appealing when playing with portals, since you have very little to lose

[unique vector]

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[valid python]

Odin thew the world away. Fader seems like the closest thing to a king it had. I suspect the coins are all likely his kingdom's currency.

[merry pebble]

Fader was king of ashlands, The Queen is, well, the queen of mistlands now that seekers took over it, Yagluth is king of fulings/plains, Moder is queen of mountains, Bonemass rules swamps (tho "rulling" may not be entirely correct since he is more of an amalgamation of many souls and doesnt seem that interested in ruling anything), The Elder rules the black forest and Eikthyr rules meadows. None of them rule anything more than their own respective biome.

[tacit crystal]

While most bosses are still prideful, mocking player in their speech (as trophies), Bonemass is actually thankful for you defeating him as he can then rest. And Fader is remorseful.

[merry pebble]

Exactly 😄

[valid python]

I've been hypothesizing a timeline of events.

I suspect intelligent creatures lived on Valheim before it was severed, since they could not have crossed before then.

Then Odin decides its his trash can and dumps 5 of the Fosaken there, cuts the cord.

Then the emerald kingdom emerges as the dominant power, many colonies, outposts and villages.

Winter child incident, Emerald kingdom becomes the ashlands.

Remnants of the kingdom rebel against the gods, The Druagur/Skeletons of the Swamps and Meadow villages. The gods kick their shit in, their hatred creates bone mass in death but like its already locked on the prison planet so they dont care.

Many Vikings before us fail, imo explains the many isolated houses that dont seem to be part of a larger settlement.

We arrive.

Unsure when the Queen would have appeared but that seems like an isolated thing that the dwarves kinda handled themselves. Potentially even after the gods kicked the swamps shit in.

[grand juniper]

There's still time to release Northlands update while its winter!

[near furnace]

no updates in december 2025 as we said previously

[summer fern]

Good afternoon everyone

I hope the deep north has been and will keep taking its time.

[merry pebble]

1. Most likely true, cant remember exact runestone but i believe there was one about this.
2. Not 5, but 8.
3. If that was the case there would be remnants of the structures in other places than just ashlands.
4. No issues here
5. Plausible, tho i wouldnt say the meadows villages would be their doing. (Also, at the very least the BF structures seem to be made by vikings that came before us acording to one runestone)
6. No issues here.
7. We arrive.
8. Somewhere between when vikings started getting sent to Valheim and 200 years before that, according to Grimmcore #valheim-public-test message

[nocturne wolf]

I suspect intelligent creatures lived on Valheim before it was severed, since they could not have crossed before then.
I'm sure necks have been here for a long time

[merry pebble]

Intelligent* xD

-# But yes, they are indeed native to Valheim 😄

[nocturne wolf]

Why would you assume I missed that

[merry pebble]

-# I didnt, you reacted to it even 👀

[keen sierra]

hey, it's interesting that charred fortess spikes acts like extremely funky telporting thing

[untold sinew]

Yea

[merry pebble]

They just push you back 🤔

[keen sierra]

but it drag me inward instead.....

[merry pebble]

You mean the ones on central tower?

[keen sierra]

ALL spikes

[untold sinew]

Yea

[keen sierra]

but yeah central make stronger effect

[merry pebble]

The spikes should just push you directly opposite to the direction of movement you had when you touched them afaik

[keen sierra]

not this for me lol

[keen sierra]

funnily that i actually trapped myself in fortess becasue i tired to enter by top of tower but i don't got portal material, DON'T WORRY! my friend will grab portal material and resuce me lol

we don't have battering ram...

nor flammetal..

[summer fern]

I am confused a tamed 2 star pig I was transporting died from being hit by 1 rock of a zero star greydwarf? I have more just they were the first 2 star boar so I wanted to preserve them. Just 1 shot feels strange.

[merry pebble]

That is weird, were you transporting them by boat?

[summer fern]

No was pushing them on the ground

[merry pebble]

So not even harpooning?

[summer fern]

No

Just pushing them a greydwarf threw 1 rock and while I killed them immediatly after, I turned around and the boar had died from that 1 hit

I checked and friendly fire isn't on, even tried to get my other boar who was aggroed still

[merry pebble]

That is strange, even 2star shouldnt be able to do that. You sure there werent any more enemies around?

[summer fern]

Yep, I killed that one and everything was gone

[merry pebble]

Huh, i would sing it off to an unfortunate bug then. And quite rare one at that, at the very least i never heard or experienced this.

[summer fern]

Also sorry about trying to kill you for a test Piggles Jr

I hope weird edge cases like that can be looked into, imagine a combat tame getting insta killed randomly in a fight

The boar was a full health to clarify

[summer fern]

Should I keep Piggles Jr then? sense Piggles was the glitch casulty?

[short gale]

I could run faster with my fenris armor than this fing boat with its dinky lil paddle but I need the storage so hear I am again

[merry pebble]

Moder power or planning the journey to a day the wind will be favourable can help a lot 😄

[short gale]

5 min gets me past one biome its jank power

[summer fern]

I vote yes because PumPum should at least see his son(Well originally I temp named that pig Jeffery, but renamed them recently)

[short gale]

ok wind changed Im happy again

Im certain moder power is least used in game

[merry pebble]

Heh

[summer fern]

Issue with moder power is you rarely plan ahead for it I think.

You don't know when it might be useful, so never have it on when you start boating

[merry pebble]

Whenever you go sailing somewhere 😄

[short gale]

The problems when u get there u gotta go back an equip bonemass lol

[summer fern]

Is a bit of a hassle to do a bunch of portal stuff to save some time on the wind.

[merry pebble]

And if you dont need it on that journey you can simply hop back to spawn using portal and pick any other power you might want

If by bunch you mean around 2 portal hops there and 2 back, sure

[short gale]

If its not changed to 15 mins I will never use it again

[merry pebble]

Welp, your loss then probably 😄

[summer fern]

What about if it could also stop fall damage? might give it some more utility

[merry pebble]

It already does way more than it did for most of its existence 🙂 and after the rebalance the powers are in quite nice spot imo

[short gale]

I like this idea

[summer fern]

What did it originally do?

[merry pebble]

Just change the wind while sailing

And it was still one of the more used powers 😄

[summer fern]

It increase the strength to full now?

I forget haven't looked at it

[short gale]

Exhibit A of my theory

[merry pebble]

It gives:
Max carry weight: +300
Damage modifier: Resistant vs Frost
Movement Speed: +10%
on top of the wind

[summer fern]

A short burst of carry weight isn't as good as it sounds in my opinion

[short gale]

I was thinking the same thing Plasma, Its like an iron hauling trope or something lol idk maybe it could be useful in that regard

[summer fern]

Most cases you need to use more weight are for extended periods of time at a constant level.

Those uses also just feel scattered amongst different niches.

[merry pebble]

It is quite good whenever you need to load bunch of heavy stuff from one place to another. Like unloading boat after iron trip, remaking storage, or just bringing bunch of metal to your forge for crafting.

[summer fern]

I guess normally I just use a cart or encumbered walk when short

[merry pebble]

Also paired with strenght mead you can carry loads of things 🙂

[short gale]

Interesting points Asatru. I will rethink my postion on this

[limber rivet]

hi would anyone mind sending me a screenshot of carrots and turnips in inventory? i want to print them as labels for a valheim-themed food basket for christmas

[summer fern]

I can in a minute

[merry pebble]

I am not saying its the best power ever or anything, just that it is by no means just a joke power as you said 🙂

[summer fern]

I feel like stopping fall damage would be a better use than the frost res though since lots of stuff around that tier gives it. Would make me interested in it for building.

Well and there is a mead for that too

[merry pebble]

You already have permanent means of preventing fall dmg 🙂 you just have to progress bit more. Giving feather fall to lightfoot mead on the other hand, i would not be against taht

[summer fern]

I just feel with the more specific use case of that cape, having it on a ability would be nice too, especially if building in a dangerous area where you might not want to be using a feather falling cape

[slow flicker]

Why would you not want to use a feather fall cape in a dangerous area?

[dark coyote]

I've never made one of those

[grand juniper]

Oh ok, I didn't see that

[short gale]

I just put death penalty to easy I earned these skills boyz f youse

[summer fern]

Spoil warning: ||In the ashlands you unlock a more armored cape variant, so the feather fall cape doesn't stay universally the best option.||

[slow flicker]

Uhhh yea it does. I use mine when traveling the Ashlands. Helps keep you from falling in lava when you gotta make a big jump across or trying to mine flametal from the top of the pillar

[light moat]

Feather cape is a good option no doubt, but it’s not the only good option 🤔

[forest jacinth]

Personally I think the linen cape is the most useful

[lunar sapphire]

Hugin says Merry Christmas

[next orbit]

But isn’t it weak against fire

[open bolt]

the brightest star ★

[plain bane]

I need to relearn how to build mountain bases. Think I just lucked out last map and had a goku-tier location. Raid mobs had to funnel in through a narrow boardwalk to get to a ledge on an otherwise shear cliff

[slow flicker]

I wouldn't say its weaker it certainly doesnt have fire resistance like the flametal cape but long as you dont get set on fire youre good lol

[paper marsh]

Yes, you take double fire damage with feather cape on

It can be negated with a fire barley wine tho, and also there's surprisingly not a lot of fire damage in the ashlands anyways

Imo feather, ask, and ashen capes all are valid options. Personally I prefer the ask cape

[next orbit]

Oh right

[next orbit]

Well I use the ashlands cape anyway cause it looks cool

[slow flicker]

To each their own

[snow aurora]

Had the craziest battle today. We got raided by wolves while we were raiding a fuling village, jumped into a tar drain we dug out and funneled them all

[forest jacinth]

A wolf raid is funny because they help you sometimes

[dark coyote]

help you get back to your bed

[forest jacinth]

I've only personally got it once and they sure did not like the golem I was kiting

[shy plover]

Hello guys I am new to this server and I love valheim but I don't want to play alone is their anyone willing to play with me teaching me stuff

I speak english hindi bangali and also assamese

Anyone please 🥺

[placid delta]

try asking here .. https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510

[plush umbra]

dragging a 2 star boar back to my island on a boat is the funniest shit ive ever done

guys what do i do if i run out of stamina on a boat dragging a boar?

erm why is this stupid ass boar faster than my boat XD

[near furnace]

Yes. Draugers use to be more normal before they turned into viking zombies

[distant girder]

due to a lot of unexplained overlapping of comfort items, the highest comfort in our base is currently when you stand on top of where we put the pie feast
so now putting our feet in pies is a server tradition

just thought you guys should know

[supple bear]

All i need is 21 minutes of rested bonus, it basically functions like a clock since the day is also 21 minutes long

[heady parcel]

Thing with stopping to use the feather cape after having used it for a very long time is that you kinda get used to being able to jump off things indiscriminately. Took me a few near deaths to get rid of those habits..

[modern copper]

ive tried to find more info on surtlings/cores and im not really understanding how to find it in Black Forest... anyone willing to provide me a link to more info that might explain it better?

[candid basalt]

Look where the dead are buried but awake.

[tacit crystal]

There are 4 (iirc) different entrances for burial chambers in black forest, having 3 skeletons guarding them. So if you see skeletons it is one hint there might be dungeon nearby.
-# Note that some stone ruins can have skeletons too.

[modern copper]

ok thats been my confusing apparently.. is the ruins/dungeon difference in appearance, but u say 3 skellies? i have not found that many guarding anything (found troll cave, ran away)

[nocturne wolf]

Try rolling to avoid damage in the troll cave

[tacit crystal]

Troll caves are different from burial chambers.

[modern copper]

yes, thats why i ran away .. me no likey trolls yet.

[silk wedge]

they generally look like simple stone structures, others look like man-made stone caves that lead underground

and generally guarded by skeletons, but not always (skeletons will fight other black forest spawns, and often lose)

[amber tartan]

any good server for new people?

[plush umbra]

bruh i think the raid forest is moving thing destroyed my boat

[tacit crystal]

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

[plush umbra]

yo guys time to fight elder

[subtle nimbus]

have y'all ever thought about how much times Hugin needs to teleport to lose his feathers because he loses a few feathers each time he teleports

[glossy heath]

one day we'll have a game where birds don't lose feathers with damn near every action they do TvT

[plush umbra]

elder defeated what do i do to survive on swamp?

[subtle nimbus]

do you have poison resistance mead

[plush umbra]

yes

so i should be somewhat fine?

[valid python]

Most important thing newer players overlook is keep upgrading your food. Gonna wanna keep an eye out for turnips and build the cooking pot if you havnt yet.

[subtle nimbus]

yeah

[plush umbra]

alright thanks

[subtle nimbus]

are you that guy in the valheim ost comments

[subtle nimbus]

you should use a mace btw

[plush umbra]

thats my main weap XD

[valid python]

I've commented on 1 or 2?

[plush umbra]

i was thinking of going sword but i like maces

[subtle nimbus]

i have seen you a second time

[polar mulch]

Just a quick question. I am at the same part as sane but I wanna know if the weapon really matters or can I use whatever I think is cool?

[subtle nimbus]

blobs skeletons and oozers are weak to maces

so you should probably use a mace

[polar mulch]

Is the difference really massive tho because I have a well upgraded iron sword with high mastery because I have been using swords since I got copper.

[tacit crystal]

Having slash option on side is good idea to have for certain enemy.

Sword, axe or bear paws.

[rocky terrace]

What's a good weapon mods

[lone rampart]

I like Therzie’s Warfare, but you might ask in #mods-discussion for more suggestions

[valid python]

For the most part, yeah. I've watched plenty of people do just fine in the swamps with sword or axe.

If you start to struggle it could be worth switching though.

[polar mulch]

That's cool then the friend I was playing with was planning to swap to mace I think

I think we will be fine

[steel mica]

sword good

[valid python]

A thought occurs to me, and I summoned a few mobs in gane to verify...

The charred warroiors/archers/mages were likely not the same species as the Dragur/skeletons, as they are roughly 40 to 50% taller...

I submit the idea that the swamps black forset and meadows largely housed the kingdom(s?) Of men and the ashlands was a kingdom of elves.

[merry pebble]

Iirc the difference between the maces and swords on the enemies weak to blunt in swamps is usually just one hit 🙂 so its totally fine not using maces in swamps.
-# On Bonemass tho, that is another story 😄

[lone rampart]

||If their king is any indication they were a kingdom of dragon-men. Until he burninated the village||

[valid python]

Hmm maybe!

[merry pebble]

Or simply just different human race 😄
-# But i do like the idea of dragon-men

[lone rampart]

insert Trogdor gif

[paper marsh]

I’d say it’s something like a onehit difference between spears and maces as well

IMO maces are pretty overhyped for their ability to kill the weakest swamp mobs slightly faster

[merry pebble]

I do think that most of the time the mace is recommended simply because its best for the boss 🙂 which is good enough reason imo. But i also agree that it can often seem like people are telling other that they have to use mace for swamp 😄

So "best" advice would probably be something along the lines of: "Use any weapon you have from BF and then get iron mace when you can/want."

[paper marsh]

Thats pretty good advice

[plush umbra]

im so glad i have a big ass hole around my base and big walls cause right after i defeat elder swamp raid showed up

[candid basalt]

I use whatever weapon I like. I like sword and board for current play. Tho I am currently doing porcupine mace. I’ll go back to sword soon. Or maybe I’ll do frostner again. Just now poking at mistlands

My buddy uses atgeir, but not my style

[solar plaza]

Yeah, honestly you can beat swamp/boss with anything, the question is what are you comfortable with/willing to do? I was more comfortable with a bow/daggers so that's what I used initially, (he's resistant to that so not recommended)

but the best weapon will be the one you can fight with and feel comfortable. (Might take longer if you use something they're resistant to, but better a smooth fight that takes a bit vs one where you struggle to get a hit in edge wise.

Of course, there's always the stubborn bash your head against the wall till it finally gives mentality of trying the same thing over and over till you overcome the obstacle with what you got. 🤷‍♂️

[polar mulch]

I think ima stick with swords because they cool but my friend who I am playing through with it's planning to switch I believe we just gotta get more iron for it

[frozen fable]

Iron mace smashes Bonemass

[polar mulch]

Do I change the armour tho i have troll with bronze helmet and friend has full bear

With troll cape

[solar plaza]

You might wanna try upgrading yeah, you're a biome behind in terms of armor rating and using the light armor on top of that.

But eh, you could also just not get hit and be fine lol.

[polar mulch]

I'm not very good at not getting hit I try to parry too much

What is the best armour tho

I am kinda going in blind

[solar plaza]

Then definitely heavy armor is for you mate. If you want a spoiler for going in blind then ||iron armor will do ya just fine||

[polar mulch]

Thanks just gotta go grinding now