valheim-chat

[zenith mist]

wdym ?

[polar mulch]

If you get far enough there is a portal from the ashlands that works

[solar plaza]

You can enable it in world settings, but it ain't how the game is supposed to be played.

[polar mulch]

It can transport anything

[solar plaza]

And yeah the port from ashlands too

But that's way later tho

[polar mulch]

Ye

[zenith mist]

isnt ashlands like the last biome

like the last stage

[polar mulch]

It is for the moment

There is gonna be a new biome in the next update

[zenith mist]

uuuuuuu new updates anytime soon?

[polar mulch]

Sometime 2026 people are predicting

[solar plaza]

Not yet, but it'll be worth it

[polar mulch]

No official announcement

[zenith mist]

alr

so conclusion is boat

[solar plaza]

For a coast base yeah

[zenith mist]

fastest way to transport without changing the settings

[solar plaza]

Of course cart for close land, but yeah boat

[polar mulch]

I use a cart for mining in black forrest

Js gotta be careful of trolls

[zenith mist]

trolls r so easy to kill tho

leave cart fire 5 arrows at head and hes ded

[polar mulch]

They like to bonk the cart

[zenith mist]

nah u gotta it em

[polar mulch]

And it breaks it or leaves it close to break

[zenith mist]

they leave the cart then

hit*

[polar mulch]

The cart can draw agro

[zenith mist]

im lucky ig

[low warren]

wow it's surprisingly easy to just swim into the ||ashlands after abandoning a karve at the closest rocks||

[hasty geyser]

How much area do i need to have as a stone floor for comfort items later on?

[pliant hatch]

If you use some tricks, I think a 6 x 6 m area would do.
But the floor with your bed will be quite cramped.

[hasty geyser]

I have a wood floor too for any items that dont need a stone floor

Its more that I dont want to stone this full floor because it all needs iron beams

[wintry arrow]

Hello. Where can I search for players on the server?

[hasty geyser]

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

[wintry arrow]

Thank you very much

[pliant hatch]

What I did for my main building was using 3 - 4 standing iron beams covered with the stone collomn for looks to support the floor. For the horizontal part I used the 2x2m iron grate set halfway the last row of stones, then expanded all over the area, with the exception of where I had the staircase.
Since that grate was both supported by the wall and the iron beams, I was able to get enough support all over the building for the entire floor.

Plus, because I started it halfway the stone wall piece, the grid was completely covered inside the floor pieces, making it a great support.

For looks, I also used the stone arches, branching out from the top of the collomn and the walls under the floor to give some extra support.

[hasty geyser]

Yeah I thought about doing that but I dont mind having this floor wood, It's not got great support because I used the small blocks and also raised my foundation to have a basement kinda thing

[heady parcel]

Gods, if the ashlands dvergr can't be taught to avoid the lava, at least make them immune to it so they don't self-destruct constantly

[lone rampart]

Or make a flametal net launcher so you can drag their loot safely back to shore

[heady parcel]

I had this two-star guy running around near my base keeping blobs and stuff away from me, loved him. But he, of course, couldn't stay out of the damn lava so he's history. Sigh.

[pliant hatch]

I posted a link in that channel to a screenshot of how my base sort of looks like. Build with the setup I mentioned in my previous post.
I was able to cover a 24 x 18m floor that way.

[heady parcel]

Starting to experiment a bit with grausten building. Not sure I like it, walls and floors look a bit too plain and smooth, and there seems to be a fair bit of build pieces that should exist but are just missing

Roofs look cool but seem very messy to get right

[tacit crystal]

You can make nice details with the pillar parts.

[heady parcel]

Yeah, I'm thinking a stone house with the upper floor in grausten, with wooden beams to break up the grey, that might look nice

[pliant hatch]

Hmmmm. Sounds familiar. 😄

[heady parcel]

But are there really no 1-meter high wall pieces? And ways to fit walls around arches? The "grausten wall arch" doesnt seem to fit with anything. This is all very confusing...

Right, the wall piece fits the big arch, but there's noting for the smaller arch I guess

[pliant hatch]

There's plenty of 1m high stone, Black Marble and (ash)wood building pieces.
And arches do fit, you just need to keep a good eye at the snap point and occasionally disable the auto snapping for one of the other points.

[heady parcel]

I was thinking of grausten, if there are any 1m high wall sections of grausten I haven't unlocked them yet

[pliant hatch]

All build pieces are unlocked the moment you pick up the material.
So if you don't see 1m Grausten pieces, they aren't there.

[heady parcel]

Frustrating since I want to make a 3 meter high wall hehe, if use a snap point to phase one section half way into the first it doesn't look good

[barren whale]

no 1m pieces, though there's a simple Gizmo mod that lets you rotate in 3d and then you can get 1m high by rotating the existing 1x2 piece 90 deg

I'd recommend building the first layer out of stone 1x1 and then clipping grausten into the ground to replace it

[heady parcel]

Nah, no mods for me. I'll work around it somehow. Guess it will have to be a 6 meter high wall instead with two floors

[heady parcel]

Thanks, I'll try that

[fossil delta]

One of, and probably the biggest, reasons I stopped building a lot is because of how monotonous the basic build materials look. So it then took me a lot more additional mats to make all the walls stop driving me bonkers. Which won't be bad once we get past 1.0 and I start using dev commands and mods for building. Just while I actually go out and gather my mats the hard way, yeah, I stopped doing big builds. I keep things relatively small, so mats I'm going to gather any ways are all I need to break up the monotony.

[hasty geyser]

the mats are killing me, it was easier farming a full boat of iron

[heady parcel]

Right now I'm getting annoyed that there is no small wall arch section, so there is no way to use the small grausten arch other than as a free-standing arch, which is a very odd thing to do. So there's this gorgeous arched door, but no way to make an arched opening that will fit it. (Yes, there is in ashwood, but dangit I'm building in stone here. Aaargh!)

[topaz steppe]

hey guys, im very enw to the game and just got flint gear, but I have a decent base. What should I do?

[heady parcel]

Listen to the bird, explore, experiment with new things you unlock, explore more, make better foods and equipment, explore more, and so on

And welcome!

[fossil delta]

Beat bosses as needed,

[heady parcel]

Food is key to progression in Valheim, arguably even more important than gear. Never go hungry (=always have three foods in your system) so you don't get killed by just about anything, always keep the rested buff up, and learn defence in combat (blocking, dodging)

The "I feel cold" debuff is dangerous, it slows down your stamina regeneration, so exploring at night when fresh and squishy is deadly

[fossil delta]

At least blocking. I do fine without parry or dodge rolling.

[crimson trench]

just to double check this version of valheim does have the bears and all that stuff right?

[heady parcel]

What other version would there be?

[crimson trench]

like its not in beta still

[fossil delta]

If your on Steam you should have the newest version by default.

[nocturne wolf]

Call to Arms has been out of public testing for a few months now

[crimson trench]

okay thats what i was double checking

i dont need to be on beta to play it

[fossil delta]

If you were in ptb, you still need to manually exit ptb.

I forgot to do that after Mistalnds. That was fun to figure out. 😄

[merry pebble]

The ptb should currently be the same version as live branch iirc 🤔

[nocturne wolf]

small patches don't always go through public testing and you could miss one by staying on that branch

[fossil delta]

Apparently we do not auto exit, because my laptop was still on the ptb version when I went on a road trip.

[merry pebble]

Oh, you do always have to do it manually if you want to switch from one branch to the other 🙂
I was just saying that currently the version on both the branches is the exact same

[fossil delta]

This was like a year after Mistlands left beta. I was initially assuming it should have auto updated to the newest version, then I realized it was still in the play test.

[thick gust]

hi guyz

[hasty geyser]

Can anyone tell me where in the black forest I left my cart please

[barren whale]

yeah anything I want to look good is built in modded godmode
vanilla survival is for cozy authentic shit shacks lmao

[merry pebble]

I would look next to the tree, or maybe that rock over there 😄

[heady parcel]

Naaah, half the fun of building something big is feeling "I MADE THIS!!!" when I'm done, and I simply don't get that if I do it without the grind.

[fossil delta]

You didn't have to make a trail with your hoe? An unusually smooth forest you have there...

[heady parcel]

Every single big build I ever did was 100% completed in survival - meaning many deaths to fall damage because apparently I cheat a lot with scaffolding

[hasty geyser]

I cleared it by crashing into everything with a full cart

[heady parcel]

I'd be a disaster as a construction overseer

[fossil delta]

Yeah, I did some absolutely huge builds. Some even by myself. Still, that grind got to be too much for me to want to do it yet again.

[barren whale]

i have a shitshack with 897 blm chests grinded out in survival

[heady parcel]

Hmmm, what I built now either resembles a random barn in Tuscany, or the beginnings of a cathedral

[fossil delta]

897

BM chests? Man, I thought I had a lot with 27.

[barren whale]

many fulings died for the cause (my storage needs)

[heady parcel]

I have enough black metal to make crapton of BM chests, but I'd never need them...

Got a whole row of empty ones I crafted months ago,

[fossil delta]

Yeah, I am often well on my way to filling a second BM chest with Black metal, but I have never needed all that many chests for storing my mats.

[barren whale]

yeah i've only ever filled up a little over 100

[heady parcel]

Bloody hell Ashlands is dark at night. It's always dark, but fudge this. The only thing I see is patches of lava glowing and the odd starred charred shining like a beacon

[fossil delta]

Yeah, it does get pretty dark. I usually don't travel around at night because of that. I'm old, so have lost my night vision.

[heady parcel]

I should do that too, sitting here squinting at the screen...

[fossil delta]

I use the dvergr circlet to help with that issue, but not always.

[heady parcel]

I use that when building at night, but when out and about I use the wisplight actually. So I don't lose my helmet

[tacit crystal]

-# I was thinking about night joke but realised it wouldn't land well in English (and it's from one song in my native).

I'm more comfortable in Ashlands during night than Mistlands during night.

[fossil delta]

I'd rather lose a helmet than lose my belt. 😄

[heady parcel]

It's only temporary, wisp comes off at dawn, and there's always the troll mead if I need to carry anything in the dark

[ivory lantern]

I just died to a falling tree

I died to a tree and not the siege that happened like 5 minutes ago

[fossil delta]

I'll do that in Mistlands, because, Mistlands, but in the Ashlands I am gathering tons of mats pretty much all the time, so need my belt.

[hasty geyser]

Thats a true Valheim initiation

[fossil delta]

Welcome to Valheim. Even the trees are deadly.

[hasty geyser]

I'll be so happy when I finally move into my new base, I think I've been building it over a week lmao

[fossil delta]

Sounds like a massive base. I build mine over time. So build my house first, then expand it out as needed as I progress. So I have no idea how much time, over all, I put into building my bases. 😄 This time was rather easy though, since I just took over a draugr village, so just did a lot of repairing, then put up my walls.

[hasty geyser]

Its not that big compared to most things I've seen in here. Im just slow and struggling with my first 'big' build 🥲

[fossil delta]

Oh, yeah, first time around was a huge challenge for me. Sometimes I go visit my first house, and still get amazed at how ugly it was. 😄 Even my second house was ugly, but I have since rebuilt that one, once I knew better.

[lone rampart]

My first house got turned into a doghouse for dedicated wolf breeding

It was so bad

[hasty geyser]

I like my wood house I make but this is my first build with stone, I fear I may noit have enough stability for my roof but we'll see

[fossil delta]

My first house isn't even fit for wolves. 😄 Its bad. Well, my roofing is bad. I now know how to properly connect them, etc...

[tacit crystal]

My first house was just a box with roof next to the spawn point, second was wonky mess but somehow worked...

[heady parcel]

Working on my first tame this playthrough, time to get an asksvin farm going, hunting those pests is way too dangerous to farm sustainable amounts of meat

Killing one is not really a problem, but they rarely come without a cohort of charred and the odd boneroller/flying screecher

[fossil delta]

I felt that way too. Now I just don't want to go out there and kill 200 other mobs just to get Asksvin mats.

[heady parcel]

Indeed

Saw green light in the sky when kiting this guy home, seems I have a mission later on

[fossil delta]

You do.

[proven pebble]

jeez how rare is the bears head?

i swear i killed like 10 of them

[heady parcel]

one in ten chance - on paper

[topaz steppe]

anyone wanna join me im lonely

[heady parcel]

All that means is that every time you kill one you have a one in ten chance to get it. It is perfectly possbible to run with bad luck and not get one after dozens of kills. It is unlikely, but it happens

[topaz steppe]

and terrified

[merry pebble]

You can make a post in #1024264966712340510 😄

[ivory lantern]

how do I get rid of the grass in my house?

[proven pebble]

so in reality its a 50/50 xD

[fossil delta]

Remove the flooring, use your hoe, replace flooring.

[heady parcel]

Use the hoe to flatten the ground beneath the floor

[fossil delta]

If its the game houses, those foot prints are small enough you can just use your hoe around the outside to remove the grass.

[tacit crystal]

It took me 36 bears for the first trophy during PTB.

[ivory lantern]

ohhhhhh

[proven pebble]

jeez that sucks

[fossil delta]

I think the worst I had it was 24 bears before a trophy.

[ivory lantern]

why am I too tall to go in my house

[fossil delta]

Good question. Your shorter than the door, so an over head piece is too low.

[ivory lantern]

i leveled the ground

[fossil delta]

Is there a door, and proper flooring, or is it all dirt and open?

[ivory lantern]

oh my that raised the dirt to above my floor

hmm

well don't do that again got it

[fossil delta]

Yeah, that was what I was guessing. Hence my question.

[ivory lantern]

huh

i just put a half wall above the door

[fossil delta]

I was guessing you raised the dirt too much for the door height.

Which is why I brought up the dirt.

[lone rampart]

the standard door is only barely tall enough to let our vikings in and out unimpeded. That's why I tend to use gates for all my builds.

[fossil delta]

I do prefer gates, but mainly just because they are stronger, and I have had unwanted mobs come knocking on my doors.

[merry pebble]

While certainly true if you put just a wall right on top of the door, when you put the 26° cross above them instead there is quitea bit of head clearence and it looks quite nice, imo. 😄

[fossil delta]

Now a days I do gates because I know I will eventually be using the iron gates. So I build with that in mind.

[merry pebble]

I dont usually do big builds so only place gates might get used is defense walls, if i decide to make them.

[fossil delta]

I just love them, and how they sound when you open/close them. I am talking the iron/wood gates, not the pure iron version.

[cedar stump]

Didn't play for months, we ventured towards the queen and we got her! Long fight tho ooof

[fossil delta]

Yeah, she can be a tough one. I've gotten her down to under 10 minutes, but it took a lot of fights to learn how to handle her that quickly.

[cedar stump]

Our weapons kinda sucked i think took at least 20m i think lol

[fossil delta]

Plus I am talking solo times. With my wife we take her down a couple of minutes faster than that.

[cedar stump]

Now im hanging my black metal sword and going mage

[fossil delta]

Like I said though, I fought her at least 10 times before I got her down to under 10 minutes.

[cedar stump]

It's mostly the adds that were a pain in the ass and wasn't aware of the poison too

[fossil delta]

I usually fight her with Mistwalker and Demolisher for the mobs. So I am not sure how well the BM sword does against her.

[cedar stump]

I had bm sword and my buddy had frostner/demo

[tacit crystal]

Krom.

[cedar stump]

Was hitting 200 with special attack from behind otherwise 80-100 ish

[fossil delta]

Yeah, I am not that comfortable with two handers in general. Plus I don't like that it needs bronze to craft.

[cedar stump]

I wanted to do mage but I didnt feel like leveling before getting to the queen

[tacit crystal]

Heh, Krom is actually the most metal hungry weapon, even more than Silver sword.

[pliant hatch]

Mine down a few ancient Armor or Ancient Swords and you got more copper as you will need for the sword.

[cedar stump]

got the eitr-weave set with frost/protection staff now

[tacit crystal]

But I love 2h weapons.

[nocturne wolf]

The queen doesn’t have weak points, the direction doesn’t matter

[fossil delta]

I tried out mage a couple of times. I'm just far more comfortable with melee, plus I don't want all those skill s to go to waste, so I just stay melee now a days.

[cedar stump]

Isnt her back her weakness kind of tho like Seekers tho?

[fossil delta]

Nope.

[nocturne wolf]

Only seeker soldiers, gjalls and trolls have weak points

[cedar stump]

aaah oh well, now im scared of the next biome to come lol

first time weve seen an ashland biome was random af when looking for queen and we got anhiliated by those water monsters

[fossil delta]

I think the next boss is a push over, aside from his one very over powered attack. Get rid of that and he is a marshmallow.

[cedar stump]

its more of all the monsters there making it a true hellscape 😛 at least from the little bits ive seen from clips

[fossil delta]

The ones he summons are weak, on purpose.

[ivory lantern]

how do you plant seeds

i have carrot seeds

[fossil delta]

With a cultivator, you make it at the forge.

[ivory lantern]

sounds like latin

[fossil delta]

Its basically a garden rake.

[ivory lantern]

can't even make a farm until I beat eikthyr

[fossil delta]

True. You need metals.

[ivory lantern]

will it work to just kill them in leather armor

[fossil delta]

Yeah, plus as good shield, and the flint axe works fine.

You could also use fire arrows and flint arrows, but that just takes longer.

I use the tower shield and flint axe. I usually beat him in a few minutes.

[ivory lantern]

do regular arrows not work?

[fossil delta]

Just wood? Yeah, they work, just the least amount of damage is all.

[merry pebble]

For Eik they are quite enough 😄

[fossil delta]

It will go fastest with shield and a weapon. I use the flint axe.

Oh, and tower shield, since most people love to parry.

Tower Shields only block, if you don't realize that yet.

[ivory lantern]

i have a level 3 flint axe

[fossil delta]

Perfect. As far as I am concerned.

Now just make whichever shield you prefer, and you should do just fine.

[ivory lantern]

oh yeah and my axe skill is at lvl 10

yeah I think I'll do fine

[fossil delta]

Higher would be better, it always is, but you can still do it well enough.

[craggy canopy]

robert how far are you

[fossil delta]

Over 5200 hours worth of "far".

[craggy canopy]

ok

[tacit crystal]

Don't worry about skill levels at the start, they raise up quite fast as you use the weapons more.

[fossil delta]

Yep. I go relatively slow, so my skill is usually close to 30 by the time I want to defeat Eikthyr. So you just won't beat him as fast as I would, but you will still beat him.

[pliant hatch]

Also: the game is designed to be able to defeat all bosses without a single point in a skill.

[ivory lantern]

Oh

nice!

[tacit crystal]

And quality 1 weapons/armor of the biome.

[pliant hatch]

Doesn't mean it's easy without a point in a skill, but it's doable. The skills only give some benefits for the use of the weapons.

[fossil delta]

I knew this one. I guess having a zero skill also makes sense, its just the first time I have heard that.

[ivory lantern]

i haven't used a shield at all my whole playthrough

which is roughly 10 hours

[fossil delta]

My wife plays like that. Even after 2600 hours. A shield will help you die less often is all I will say.

[pliant hatch]

Oh my.... I'm being hunted by sea-wolves.... 🐺

[heady parcel]

Whoop already got a one-star buddy for my Asksvin, sweet!

[ivory lantern]

I think I should do some more hunting so I can get plenty of resources in store in case I do die

[fossil delta]

Never a bad idea. In any survival game.

[heady parcel]

Was nervous business kiting that guy into the pit, every hit staggered me through block

[merry pebble]

As Robert said, not a bad idea. But if you die dont worry too much since you will not loose any items permanently, they will wait for you in your grave. 🙂

[fossil delta]

Won't happen with a Tower Shield. Meaning the BM version. I call it a beast for reasons.

Plus you can change the world settings so you lose a lot less, both in gear and skill loss.

[heady parcel]

I was on a bit lowish foods, I think that was more the case. 160 health is a bit low when trying to block a starred thing in Ashlands

Especially the heavy hitters

[fossil delta]

That is a bit low. Not sure how I would do even with a BM shield in that case.

[heady parcel]

Was worried a while, a one-star warrior instagibbed me through block the other day

[exotic hornet]

What’s the recommended gb # for a dedicated server for around 4 people? No mods

[heady parcel]

RAM? Whatever the system requirements are, so minimum 16 I think. 32 doesn't hurt but you should be fine on 16 tbh

[fossil delta]

The most your able to provide. It might cut down on lag issues. Maybe.

[exotic hornet]

Gotcha

[fossil delta]

The "chunk leader" is the biggest problem on servers. You want the person with the best internet and system to lead the way into areas.

You also want them to be in the bow of the boats.

It still will not eliminate issues, but it will reduce severity.

[ivory lantern]

ah

[exotic hornet]

👍🏻

[ivory lantern]

oh I don't have any idea what item I offer to the altar

[fossil delta]

deer trophies. 3 of them.

[ivory lantern]

ohhhhhh

[merry pebble]

-# 2

[ivory lantern]

i guess that explains hunt his kin

[merry pebble]

Yep, it is a hint to what you hunt 😄

[fossil delta]

Is it only 2? Heh.

[merry pebble]

Yeah 😄 the next boss needs 3 things

[fossil delta]

I fight him at least twice, so always have more trophies than I need anyways.

[merry pebble]

Usually same. I want the trophy for my house 😄

[fossil delta]

Exactly.

Its why I fight every boss twice, unless I am trying a zero death run.

[pliant hatch]

I'm just preparing for just that. The trophy for myself.

Except this time I'm going to make it a very short fight.
Got Dead Raiser and Protection staff at tier 3, got the ember staff at tier 1.

I don't think this fight will last long. 😄

[fossil delta]

Which boss?

[merry pebble]

Tbh, even with gear from BF it is VERY short fight

[pliant hatch]

Eik. 😄

[fossil delta]

Thats not even a fight. Its a slaughter.

[hasty geyser]

I don't know what any of that stuff is so I think you might be able to kill him

[pliant hatch]

Fight is on Hard level. So it's a bit longer as it usually will be.

About 10 seconds, I think. 😄

[fossil delta]

I've never tried those settings, so I have no idea.

[pliant hatch]

Well, nobody said the fight should be fair.
Besides, the b!tch called "Queen" is using unfair tactics either,

[fossil delta]

Yeah, she is still the most difficult fight even on standard, in my book.

[pliant hatch]

Well, it took me 4 fireballs, 1 hit of a skellie and 6 second to deal with him.

Next: The Elder. 🙂

I think I'm going to let the skellies do the fight that time. At least it'll be a bit more fun to watch.

[fossil delta]

They should still kill him pretty quick. Again, I just don't know, since I have never used those settings.

[ivory lantern]

I just beat him

that was pretty easy actually

[fossil delta]

He is. The next one won't be as easy, but still not bad, as long as your properly prepared.

[merry pebble]

It is kinda tutorial boss 😄

[pliant hatch]

The fireballs and the fire dot already removed about 90-95% of his health.
So in regards of that I didn't even need the skellies.

But it was fun for as long as it lasted.

As for the settings, bosses got a bit more HP and hit harder iirc.
While player hits for less.

That's not really a problem with Eik and the Elder. But from Boneblob on things will be a bit harder.
With Yag and the Queen being quite a PitA. One due to his spells, one due to the minions she keeps summoning.

And what I also discovered: Queen is able to demolish her lair now.

[fossil delta]

He still kills plenty of players.

[merry pebble]

True true 😄

[heady parcel]

I think Eik is a perfect first/tutorial boss. He looks cool, he sounds cool and he will destroy players who haven't even grasped the basics of eating food and combat. But anyone who has learned the basics won't have any problems.

[ivory lantern]

kinda soulsy

i like it

[fossil delta]

She has always been able to damage it, as far as I can remember. It just never got to the level of what I would call "demolished".

[fossil delta]

The sound track is pretty epic.

[ivory lantern]

that was fun

i was iffy on boss fights in a survival game at first

but now I have an idea of where this is going

[pliant hatch]

Before the nerf, the entrance wall was unable to be damaged. Which is why people abused it.
Same was for the ledges.

But my last fight I jumped from the top floor to a ledge and she was able to destroy it when standing below it when using that hard smash she does.

Surprisingly, the seekers still can't get up to those ledges.

[fossil delta]

Yeah, plus these fights are mandated by Odin, so its also part of the over all story. So it all fits well enough as you go along.

[fossil delta]

Yeah, OK, she doesn't destroy that area, but she damages a lot of things internally. Probably even the ledges you describe. I just try to melee her in that main first floor area, so only see what she destroys around there.

[pliant hatch]

I'll be.....

I summoned a skellie named..... Gloin

[fossil delta]

Very fitting.

[pliant hatch]

And a challenge!

A bear and a troll decided to join the fight.

So Elder for the skellies, the other two for me. 🙂

[merry pebble]

Sadly i dont think others from your company are possible to get xD

[ivory lantern]

is there a way to get hard antlers in the wild?

[fossil delta]

No, only the boss gives them.

3 is plenty, though. You can build a bench when you need to repair them. Which is easy to do in the case of copper.

[exotic hornet]

I use the bone pickaxes through the swamp and skip copper

[pliant hatch]

Right. Skellies don't work against the Elder.
They're too distracted by one of his attacks.
(Can't say anything because of spoilers)

[fossil delta]

I can guess which one. Probably.

[pliant hatch]

What's worse, he also destroyed part of my portal hub.
So I have to rebuild that. 🙁

Lesson learned: Don't fight a boss when his altar is above your portal hub.

[nocturne wolf]

fighting with skeletons isn't spoilers but elder attacks are?

[pliant hatch]

Yup.

That's called Dwarven logic. 😄

But the underlying thought:

The Elder is a boss someone will encounter sooner as the moment the skellies can be summoned.
So while the skellies are somewhat a spoiler, it's something in a far future, while the Elder fight isn't.

[fossil delta]

I guess I'm a dwarf, I get that logic.

[hasty geyser]

Guys, I've finally 'finished' the structure of my base, would love any tips to help make it look better ❤️ https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202303747053846608

[pliant hatch]

Well, you might consider to put your farm in your front yard. You will also get items over time to decorate your walls with.

[hasty geyser]

I still need to teleport and boat over all my stuff from my starter base, not done any decorating yet but I'll be able to make the courtyard look better 😄

[heady parcel]

Remember, if you have done a lot of terraforming you can make earth walls and open ground (without buildings) look much better with the "Grass" function on the cultivator

Makes rock look more natural instead of the pickaxed pattern

[hasty geyser]

My base is a big terraformed square but I will put some grass and cobblestone down as paths between my base and outbuildings

[heady parcel]

(I always go back and "grassify" old mining holes to make them less of an eyesore...)

[keen sierra]

Very well, I'm afraid that I will get less and less active here, kind of close to point where i will be straight up gone for this server until final major update comes. Because we recently finished journey for now.

[pliant hatch]

I just realized something.

Have you found that trader in the Swamp yet?
If you have, she's got some seeds you can buy.
Plant those about half an meter (see the with of a wooden beam) from your wall and it'll give some nice decoration.

And another tip: you can use the seed growing versions of some food plants as decoration in front of your walls as well.

[hasty geyser]

Yeah I've found 3 traders, I had enough building for today though im on Balatro lol

[short gale]

Mistlands and mountains might be my fav biomes

[tacit crystal]

Mistlands definitely. 🤝

[short gale]

I like the frost caves. But mistlands with magic, wahooo is this shit the next level

[tacit crystal]

Both biomes do have very neat dungeons.

[short gale]

I wonder if theyll add dungeons or something unique to plains with 1.0 that would be shweet

[ivory lantern]

is it normal for there to be 2 altars

there's one literally just outside my base i realized

[tacit crystal]

That remains to be seen, but IMO plains is fine without those closed in dungeons.

[pliant hatch]

There are three "dungeon like" instances in the plains though.

They're fun to deal with, although you need to prepare quite well for them.

[short gale]

Good point, I probably died the most in plains so far but it went by fast overall

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, plus villages could be considered as plains "dungeons". Which is welcome change at that point.

At least one of my friends in my group absolutely loves clearing them villages.

And they also were thrilled about the addition of ||viles||.

[short gale]

Havent encountered one of those yet

[ivory lantern]

ah got it

nvm

read context wrong lol

[hollow panther]

looking for a dedicated server.

[pliant hatch]

Have you been looking in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510 yet? You may find one over there.

[strong iron]

is the game worth it

i'm considering grabbing it, but i dont really have any friends to play with lol..

[gusty horizon]

np it can be addictive even without friends

[lone rampart]

And you can even poke around in #1024264966712340510 to find others to play with, if you want

[pliant hatch]

If you like to run around to slaughter things, building a great looking - or a very efficient - base and sailing and don't mind the occasional grind, this game may indeed be worth it.

Considering there are a lot of people here having over 1K hours - and I know there are people who got over 5K - I'd say it's worth grabbing it. Even if you don't spend that much time. But 100 hrs or more is easily done.

[strong iron]

Ah, okay, so it's just an exploration type of open world game and generated worlds, dungeons and crafting trees i assume

because I like Terraria and Palworld

[gusty horizon]

you'll i like it

[gusty horizon]

one of the best games of this type I've ever played

[pliant hatch]

It's a sandbox survival game. Some compare it to Enshrouded and Minecraft and those two have similarities with Valheim.
One of the things Valheim does different is that you will have to defeat a boss to process on to the next biome; but at the same time there's tricks and glitches that makes it possible to skip some steps of the progress. With the exception of one boss.

It offers challenges, especially when you enter a new biome, but the game is also set up that you should be able to defeat a biome's boss with the first tier of that biome's armor and weapons. And even without having a skill in the weapons you use.

Hmmmm. That sounds as if I'm trying to sell the game again. 😄

[ivory lantern]

Valheim's in rotation with 2 other games for me rn

i have 13 hours

since I got it sunday

or saturday

[lunar sapphire]

One of the days that end in Y

[ivory lantern]

it was saturday

[lone rampart]

It's the week between Christmas and New Years time has lost all meaning and you can have fudge for breakfast who cares

[lunar sapphire]

Russian fudge? 👀

[lone rampart]

I don't know what that is and I'm afraid to google it. No.

[pliant hatch]

Vanilla Fudge?

[lunar sapphire]

but alas, fudge is not in Valheim

[lone rampart]

alas

[short gale]

why is sometimes I load up and my screen skips bad and its all laggy like?

Like its skipping half the frames

Well when I cap it to 120 it smoothes out. Something to do with the frametimes ig when its set to unlimited

[plain bane]

Mine gets like that if I've done more than like, 25³m of terraforming in an area.

[plain bane]

Copper ingots

[short gale]

I think its apple music. When I press play it starts laggin lol maybe its my macbooks gamemode twitchin

Cant a man game and listen to adele at once?

[lunar sapphire]

If it wasn't Adele yes you can

but no on that front

[iron whale]

mine lags when i have to many trees chopped and nothing picked up.

also read online that having too many things ready to pickup or chopped can lead to lag. so may be that, idk, not an expert

[short gale]

That makes sense, happens on minecraft as well. But its something external causing it like I mentioned, like gamemode not sure where to send resources

[worn cedar]

Anyone wanna play together?

[lunar sapphire]

Please use the #1024264966712340510 channel to find other valheim players

[static sentinel]

Any seeds with land at the edge of the world?

[placid delta]

I would assume not as there is a strong force that pulls anything near the edge, over the edge.. thus no land will be on the edge.

[static sentinel]

It doesn't have to be right at the edge. My world is pretty close, but anything closer would be cool. Close enough to dangle a structure over or right at.

Was wondering is all

[placid delta]

right right ... I think you can get about 30m before the currents get too strong for anything buildable ...
so if you can build out 30m+ .. then "maybe"

[loud latch]

how is that my Moder is surrounded by plains and mistalnds and it's that hard to reach 😭

[clear hazel]

That's unfortunate. Mine was really close to spawn on the same continent.

Any tips when to shift from single item foods to feast items?

[fossil delta]

There is more than 1 location to find. So you could do that.

Even though crossing plains in silver gear is not hard. It's what you go into the plains with anyways.

[placid delta]

We started using the Meadows Feast as soon as we could.
-- 1 Stm 1 Health 1 Meadow Feast
Then we moved to the Swamp Feast
-- 1 Stm 1 Health 1 Swamp Feast
and so on and so on ...
This worked well for our group as we tended to return home every other night.
There would be a feast on the table and we would only carry 2 foods on us (this freed up a limited inventory slot)

[clear hazel]

Although the feast stats are not as great as single item foods right? So it's an interesting trade off.

I've got the tray but I'll need to search the wiki page to work out how to craft the feasts. It seems like it involves combining every food from a particular biome but there's also feasts that mix between different biomes.

[barren whale]

depends on what you're building up for
for example 2 feasts + 1 hp food is usually better than 2 hp food + 1 stam food

[fossil delta]

The feasts are 35/35, then 45/45, etc... so good for both hp and stamina and last 50 minutes.

[barren whale]

they're incredible for multiplayer when food stores evaporate fast

[fossil delta]

Not what I use in the toughest biome, but good for the easier biomes.

[barren whale]

the lategame feasts are also a big boon for allowing non-magic users to cast bubbles

[white oracle]

hello . why is there no black metal buckler and spears ??

[tacit crystal]

At swamp state you could easily survive having constantly all first 3 feasts. With them your stats are 130 HP and 155 stamina.
I've used HFS setup regularly in later biomes (from mountain/plains) for having nice balanced stats, sometimes HFF for more HP but fair amount of stamina.
The benefit for using feasts is also saving item slot per feast used as you don't need to carry as many foods with you, only to refresh the regular foods.

[sharp bluff]

it also enables using magic as a side grade without tanking the rest of your stats, which is nice

[clear hazel]

Interesting tips, thanks everyone.

[winter jungle]

There is 3 location where you can fight moder , if you really don't want to risk it go in a complete other direction and look for a big mountain there

[sharp bluff]

moder is almost as bad as yag to find
that being said vegvisirs are the easier way in her case

[winter jungle]

Yea and you might find more frost caves , which who says no to that

[tacit crystal]

What makes Yag harder to find is the rarity of his vegvisirs found on surface and no dungeons that could have vegvisirs like with all previous 3 bosses.

[winter jungle]

Idk why but in 90% of my playthrough I always find yag location even before I ever need it xD

[sharp bluff]

yag also spawns in wide open plains and has 5 massive towers around it

[tacit crystal]

And once you find vegvisir it's like this: #screenshots message

[proven pebble]

i finally got the bear head

omg

i have more than half a chest full of bear pelts

[candid basalt]

I found Yag on our current play before I found Haldor and the bog witch

Sailing along and see the fingers

[snow aurora]

I've got a whole iron chest's worth of troll hide XD

[snow aurora]

I had to cross plains for mine

[snow aurora]

It ain't hard, at max 2 deathsquitos you'd find. Anyway you will use silver gear to raid the first few fuling villages when you reach plains

[snow aurora]

I use 1 feast with 2hp in the mistlands and it works well

[winter jungle]

As long you use root harnesk you can pretty much go into plains naked with a knife and just speed through it

Everything in plains is easily avoidable except deathquios

[placid delta]

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Black_metal_shield?so=search

This is your black metal parry shield.

Not every biome has weapon teirs for each weapon.

[candid basalt]

I make sets of troll armor and put them on armor displays as if they were guards. Even give them a bow or a spear

I swim in troll hide and I found that to be a way to use it

[pliant hatch]

Hmmm, I think you just gave me a nice idea to make my base look a bit more "lively" and better looking. 🙂

[loud surge]

viking chat dead?

[lone rampart]

Not dead just resting its eyess

[loud surge]

[plush umbra]

Btw i got the bear head after killing my second bear on my first play through so i didnt know why you guys were saying its rare?

[tired path]

It's not necessarily rare, I think the drop rate is 10%. It's just that bears are hard to kill and don't spawn that often.

[plush umbra]

I think i got it again so i should have had 2 bear head but i through it away cause i did not have any inv space

XD

Bears are indeed hard to kill, for me they aint that rare maybe bcs im not actively looking

[nocturne wolf]

They spawn more often than trolls

[tired path]

I feel like Bears have an unnecessarily large HP bar

[plush umbra]

The moment you start actively looking i think thats when the game decides it doesnt wanna spawn what your looking for

Its the same to me with abominations

Thats why i stopped looking for abominations

So they spawn more often

[nocturne wolf]

It's not much bigger than a troll, and their lower damage means you can parry them with early equipment for more damage

[hasty geyser]

As soon as you have an axe and enough to parry them they die very fast

[heady parcel]

They are pretty chunky bois - but it helps to use slashing weapons on them. Spears, bows and clubs make it take a looong time to kill them. Use axe or sword - win!

[tired path]

Right, but Trolls are weak to Pierce while Bears have no weaknesses

Also, Pierce weapons tend to have pretty high DPS (Bows, Spears, Atgeirs)

I remember fighting a Bear with Thundering Berserkir Axes and taking longer than what it takes to kill a Charred Warrior

[nocturne wolf]

They have 200 more health

[chrome badge]

Fire damage

[tired path]

Fire arrows are a godsend agains Bears. Playing with Fire Hazards on, fire arrows leave fire puddles on the ground which drastically speed up killing large mobs like Greydwarf Brutes and Bears

[tired path]

Seekers have 200 HP

[nocturne wolf]

the physical resistance means that's effectively 400 for most weapons

[flat stag]

It would be so cool with a survival game similar to Valheim but in a world of Greek mythology - or even ancient Egypt, lol - i dunno, just brainstorming

[tacit crystal]

Have you checked Dawn of Defiance? It's Greek mythology based survival game.

[flat stag]

That's pretty cool - the rating doesn't seem the best, though (7/10 on Steam). I have read a lot of Reddit posts about recommendations of different survival games. Honestly, I never heard anyone mentioning this one.

[tacit crystal]

I saw it first time on YouTube where one Valheim content creator tried it.

[flat stag]

How was your impression? Anything slightly resembling Valheim vibes?

[tacit crystal]

Also, remember someone's trash is someone's treasure.

[tacit crystal]

It was long time since I've watched it.

[flat stag]

There are 2 survival games that changed me forever, and I was never able to find any games that evoke similar vibes and feels of adventure, mystery and danger. Valheim and ... I will give you the chance to guess the second one 😄

[tacit crystal]

There are quite many.
-# Terraria, Minecraft, Grounded, 7DTD etc.

[flat stag]

It's a game like no other.

You have to build something huge.

And it's basically a horror game, even though it's not really marketed like that

[queen pewter]

hello , im new ,just downloaded the game

[tacit crystal]

Sorry, brain not braining.
But we can continue in General chat so we won't derail too much.

[keen cloud]

hi guys! im new here, I am planning to buy valheim. is it worth it?

[slate glacier]

Its among my top 5 most played. I would say 100% worth it.

[keen cloud]

Im afraid I have no one to play with, I have played games same like this before, but ofc it is much more fun with other players.

[slate glacier]

There is #1024264966712340510, or honestly i could be tempted to put a server together if i can find a suitable machine to host it on.

[keen cloud]

I'm from asia, Ph specifically, i would love if they have dedicated servers for those too

[slate glacier]

Fun. I wish you luck, I would encounter a lot of lag if I did try to join you.

I won't be surprised if they do exist there, I just don't pay them any notice because the lag would drive me insane.

[hearty niche]

$10 on Steam rn. I paid twice that and Steam says I have 3600 hours into it. I'm not sure I've ever had anything entertain me for ... less than half a penny per hour.

[keen cloud]

this is the most hilarious and helpful feedback I want to hear HAHA

[hearty niche]

As far as "games still being worked on" go it feels like a very complete experience. My biggest recommendation is: play it with friends. The main adventure is a good time but the best times I've had - and I know how cheesy this sounds - were the adventures along the way.

[keen cloud]

Thank you, mate!

[tacit crystal]

It depends a lot of if you've played survival games before.
Valheim is sandbox survival with procedurally generated worlds (each seed generates different world) and it has linear progression direction (gather materials, craft, make foods, kill boss, enter next biome, repeat). You can also build fine halls, castles or just smaller bases, all up to you.
One significant difference compared to many other survival games is that in Valheim you don't need to sleep/eat/drink to keep yourself alive, rather there are different food items that grant you different stats (HP/stamina) which helps you survive better.
Valheim is balanced around solo play experience but co-op is also fun with close friends.

[keen cloud]

I will keep that in mind

does it have dungeons? just curious HAHA

[fossil delta]

Yep. I'm over 5200 hours now, and I also paid $20 for it. Definitely the best value for my money for any game I have ever played.

[lone rampart]

Several different kinds, and all procedurally generated

[dark coyote]

I like playing with unknown people, I like the "lord of the flies" vibe

[tacit crystal]

There are several different dungeons. 👍

[keen cloud]

thats it, im buying it

Im a loot goblin myself

[sharp bluff]

ah yes, the best vibes i ever had in a survival game

[sour furnace]

MY LIFE IS A LIE!!!

swords and maces have the same exact attack speed stamina drain, and combo and (i only checked with blackmetal and bronze) the same damage. so knockback and damage type is the ONLY difference

• multitarget penalty

[keen cloud]

the game is in early access, so it means it is progressively updating, wow

[sharp bluff]

and maces get their frost based war crime of a weapon 2 biomes earlier lmao

[tacit crystal]

I give you few advices:
going blind gives the best experience, learn basic mechanics from adviceful bird, preparation increases your survivability and have fun.

[dark coyote]

isnt the secondary attack different too?

[keen cloud]

YES i plan to run like an hour or more without searching in the internet, and figuring it out myself

[heady parcel]

Did you ever try DayZ? 😄

[tacit crystal]

Game has gotten many updates during the EA phase, next update will add the last biome and move game from EA to 1.0.

[sour furnace]

oh yeah, it is you're right. one does 2X the other does 2.5X

[keen cloud]

that is superb, also. What is valheim dedicated server exactly for?

[sour furnace]

it's kinda funny to realize the devs just balanced everything by making the damage number go up by 10 and changing the sprite

[tacit crystal]

Dedicated server is hosted in another machine or by 3rd party host, it means people who have access to the server can join anytime vs. world hosted by someone when people can join when host is online.

[keen cloud]

got it, thanks!

[heady parcel]

Not gonna push it, as this is Valheim chat and it's another game. Suffice to say that as far as sandbox survival without handholding or rules goes, that's as raw as it gets. Strangers - regardless of game - do bring a certain spice of "is this guy a psycho or someone I can trust" to the table...

[tacit crystal]

If you play solo you don't need to host server, you just open your world.

[jovial sleet]

Is there a loose time frame for the release of the last biome? I just know it's supposed to be early next year

[sour furnace]

really? i thought it was late next year at the erliest

[feral grove]

There is no estimate, loose or otherwise.

[heady parcel]

Nothing is known, not even if it is early 2026 or late, until there is an official communication from the devs, anything you read is pure speculation.

[jovial sleet]

Oh? I hadn't heard that

[merry pebble]

Nobody did, at least from devs.

[jovial sleet]

So it's probably out within the next week

[merry pebble]

We have literally no info...

[heady parcel]

There are plenty of channels and voices here and there that make deductions based on previous patterns, what is shown from the brief teaser videos the devs post and so on. Then they post this as their guesstimates - and then others quote these things out of context, and suddenly the "devs" have said this and that. So, if you want actual information look up the devs official channels. If there's nothing there it is because there is actually no info to be had. Just guesstimates by yourman.

[jovial sleet]

The next biome is supposed to be able to be integrated into the existing world without issue right?
As long as you haven't explored the north.

[merry pebble]

Yep

[jovial sleet]

Good

[heady parcel]

Now as Deep North will also be 1.0 I expect it to take a good while more for development and internal testing - then a longer public testing than with any previous update. Can't have a 1.0 that breaks the game...

[jovial sleet]

Are they putting out more biomes past 1.0?

[merry pebble]

No

[tacit crystal]

No official info from Iron Gate, so any other source is false.

[heady parcel]

No.

[fossil delta]

Smiffe pretty much said that early yesterday. So even the guessing based upon previous releases may not be good guessing. 😄

[tacit crystal]

-# You shouted almost.

[glossy heath]

-# was gonna say, that panicked no woke me up a bit

[merry pebble]

-# Left my finger on Shift bit too long xD

[merry pebble]

My hands are bit cold so their movements are not as precise as the typing would require xD

[tacit crystal]

-# Watch out, Winter is not deaf from her eyes.

[heady parcel]

Walked up the mountain to collect some frost glands - because I go through frost arrows in Ashlands at a frightening rate - came back with my pockets full of silver. Found an exposed silver vein, can't leave those behind unclaimed...

I'm so easily distracted

[fossil delta]

Maybe they will give us more things to use silver for with 1.0...?

[heady parcel]

With this vein I thought I'd make a stack of silver arrows, spirit damage kinda shines in Ashlands after all!

Never ever crafted arrows of any metal kind before

[fossil delta]

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

[heady parcel]

My arrow progression is usually Flint - Needle - Carapace for regular damage, and I always have a stack of Frost at hand

And of course looted arrows get used, best chest loot there is

[tacit crystal]

Neither I, until Ashlands and figuring out silver arrows can be useful too there.

[heady parcel]

I did craft obsidian arrows a while until I realised it was just a waste of obsidian, need it for frost arrows...

[fossil delta]

I use obsidian in the mountains and plains. Then use needle in Mistlands. In Ashlands I have been just using Ash arrows, but I will try out silver next time.

[heady parcel]

Now I am extremely pleased with my base, but now I need to figure out a way to build an Asksvin pen that A) they won't tear down every time a greyling startles them and B) That doesn't ruin the looks of the base. Not an easy nut to crack, Asksvin are big and destructive...

Kinda toying with the idea to build it in a copper pit in the forest a bit away, but then I need to go there and afk for them to breed

[fossil delta]

I just use raised earth, then cap them off with stone floor pieces. They look good to me. Of course I make them straight, etc...

If I left them sloped and pudgy looking I'd think they were ugly too.

[heady parcel]

I did that on my other world, I made a raised platform and built a simple wooden barn around them. It was raised high enough that mobs wouldn't startle them, and no windows so flying crap could get in. I could do something like that out on the plains on the way to the dock. Still need to go afk nearby though, I was hoping to squeeze them in somewhere inside the walls but I doubt that is feasible

[fossil delta]

I left mine in the Ashlands. That pen actually looks ugly, because Ashlands is ugly, so I don't care.

[heady parcel]

I usually use the "grass" action on the cultivator to make earth walls look more natural, it removes that ugly terraformed pattern. Or I encase them in purely cosmetic stone walls

[fossil delta]

I actually like that pattern. Looks far better than just white stone to me.

[glossy heath]

that's what i did the only time i've ever used terrain walls of any kind (hiding it behind bricks)

[heady parcel]

I'm on a no-portals run, so I'm bringing the breeding ones home to have everything nearby. The two I captured will stay in the pit in the ashlands...

[ivory lantern]

TROLLS ARE STRONG

[fossil delta]

Once I actually keep playing past beating Fader, I'll bring them back to my main bases as well.

[heady parcel]

Yes. Did you meet your first one today?

[sharp bluff]

and even slower than they are strong :^)

[ivory lantern]

I slashed at em with my copper knife and it seemed to have dented him slightly

[heady parcel]

Then he hit you back, eh?

[ivory lantern]

he didn't like that

[fossil delta]

Bears have even more HP.

[ivory lantern]

he took down 4/5 of my HP lmao

[fossil delta]

At least they are not resistant to slash.

[ivory lantern]

and I was blocking I think

[fossil delta]

You can block them just fine with the bone tower shield and about 120 HP.

[ivory lantern]

I'm guessing I need to kill one to unlock more copper recipes?

[sharp bluff]

nah

[fossil delta]

Troll? No, they just unlock their armor set.

[ivory lantern]

oh

[glossy heath]

copper is combined with tin at the forge to make bronze, that unlocks most metal stuff

[sharp bluff]

also you can stunlock trolls from full hp to zero in like 5 seconds

[ivory lantern]

oh I got tin ore didn't smelt

[fossil delta]

Once you do that you will see you can make bronze at your forge.

[heady parcel]

As far as blocking goes - as in NOT parrying but just soaking the hit in a block pose - it is genuinely useless to block with any weapon. Blocking with a buckler is slightly better than a weapon, but bucklers are designed around being used to PARRY, so they demand a bit of timing. Blocking with a shield works, and blocking with a tower shield is where it truly shines.

[ivory lantern]

my inventory is a mess

[ivory lantern]

i see

[fossil delta]

I start with one wood chest per mat type.

[sharp bluff]

learn to parry, it really helps with blitzing enemies

[ivory lantern]

i did not take organizations into account when building my base 😅

[heady parcel]

Downside with depending on parry is that when fighting multiple enemies it is hard to time parries and not get hit unprotected in between. Depending on how big the gang is borderline impossible. Hence I have never liked bucklers...

[fossil delta]

I stopped using parry in my first play through. Initially it was because it made the game too easy, along with dodge rolling. Then I started doing zero death runs, and even one death due to a missed parry became unacceptable. Blocking is far more reliable. So blocking has been all I do for about 5000 hours now.

[heady parcel]

Regular round shield has decent block value, so even if you don't land the parry it will protect you a fair deal. It has a strong enough parry value to be good at that too, so to me the bucklers are just something for the sweats who like to dance around the battlefield playing invincible until something hits them straight in the face 😄

[sharp bluff]

the trick is to use parries to wipe enemies before they get to pile up on you but hey, atgeir supremacy

[ivory lantern]

can you take wood from wood stacks or is that just useless decoration

[heady parcel]

Deconstruct it and get the wood back

[fossil delta]

You have to take the entire stack.

[glossy heath]

it's useful for storing wood out in the middle of nowhere without it despawning - you don't need a workbench around to place resource piles

[heady parcel]

And mobs won't attack them

A chest left out in the open will get smacked by mobs

[fossil delta]

I only do that Until I have portals. Then I just carry the portal mats with me and port home all of my wood mats. IE wood, resin, seeds, feathers.

Now if I ever do a no portal run, that will obviously change.

[heady parcel]

Yeah no-portals changes everything. But in a good way, to me at least. No-map I would only find frustrating, but no-portals makes me appreciate the ships and some of the tools we get (pathify, paved roads - more than just decoration). I feel like no-portals is the way the game should be played, portals should be unlocked much later - maybe in Mistlands, but definitely not earlier. That's just how I feel about it. I won't ever play with portals before Ashlands again anyways.

(Ashlands on the other hand is such an unenjoyable biome to be in that I have - in my no-portals run, as I had planned all along - activated portals so I have a stone portal in my Ashlands base leading back to my home base. It is the only portal I will allow myself.)

Had to sail the drackar back out through the maze to set it up too, so it feels deserved 😄

Another way to make portals much less of a game-breaking convenience would be to allow enemies to portal through

[ivory lantern]

woah I just unlocked portals

[heady parcel]

See... too early! 😄

[ivory lantern]

i really need a home expansion with all these unlocks lmao

[heady parcel]

I'm just kidding - if you like what they do then use the bejeesus out of them, there's no "right" way to play the game, only your way!

[ivory lantern]

i got a bronze axe

[ivory lantern]

exploration's one of my favorite parts of the game so i probably won't be using portals too much anyhow

[heady parcel]

If I remember right there is ONE specific (and very annoying) enemy who can actually use portals

[merry pebble]

They will not encounter taht one for a while though 😄

[heady parcel]

True

[merry pebble]

-# And honestly i never actually wound up in a situation they could do it

[heady parcel]

I did actually, on my last server. Me and my brother had located the queen on a very remote island and made landfall to set up a bridghehead base to start pushing inlands towards the queen. While we were building the outpost we got a gjall raid, so we fled - and yeah...

[tall spire]

Is there going to be a dev post for this month? Like Build of the month or something

[heady parcel]

Later I sailed back and dug a cave under a mountain to hide the portal haha

[ivory lantern]

is there a way later to increase how much weight I can carry?

[heady parcel]

Find the trader

[merry pebble]

Nope, no devblog for december sadly

[ivory lantern]

oh yeah I did a while ago

[heady parcel]

And later on there is another way, and later on another

[ivory lantern]

they have the big money bag on the map right?

[merry pebble]

Look at the belt he sells 🙂

[ivory lantern]

I have 100 something gold

[tall spire]

Yes big money bag

[merry pebble]

Do you have also some valuables like amber, ruby or amber pearls?

[ivory lantern]

yes!

[merry pebble]

Take them too 😄 you can sell them

[heady parcel]

Then raid some more burial chambers, they tend to provide treasure. And killing trolls of course, if that is your thing...

Troll caves can have a surprising amount of gems in them

[ivory lantern]

the belt is 950 gold

well time for some looting

[merry pebble]

That is why i asked about the valuables xD

[fossil delta]

You can also find treasure in chests outside of dungeons. Like digging for them in the stone "boats". chests in the overhead of the outhouses, chests in many of the houses and towers, etc... and just lying on stones or in the grass where you find bones under those supported rocks. Once you know where you can find it, 950 gold becomes pocket change.

[dark coyote]

would you rather have no portals or no map?

[merry pebble]

No portals

I am bit too dependant on the map 😄

[heady parcel]

No portals, no question

(But again, give me a no-map light where the cartography table is the one way to access the entire map)

Gonna keep spitting on that stone until it happens

[fossil delta]

I get lost even with the maps, so if I HAD to chose one of the two, no portals.

[dark coyote]

I need the map for my own pins more than anything

[heady parcel]

Yeah. I'd just love to see the Cartography table have some use in a single player context

Besides decoration

[merry pebble]

+bringing new char to that world

[heady parcel]

And while a pure no-map run would not be something the least bit attractive to me, one where I can go to the table and make plans, hell yeah, that I'd like

Also, I would like to ask for some light source to get bumped up the queue with regards to rendering. I built a big, tall light house on a reef offshore of my main base. Now when I sail towards this base from far away, the first thing that renders in is a <BLEEP>ING birch tree on the shore, then the tower itself and THEN the actual bloody bonfire I lit at its top. Please, please PLEASE for the love of Odin make the light from the bonfire at least render in at the same distance as the FUDGING TREES!!!!

Aaaaargh!

My light house is a good 50-100 meters offshore btw, it is far enough offshore that when I am in my house it will not render, I will see the jetty I built to walk out to it, and the boats moored next to it, but the tower won't render until I walk closer to the beach - and the bonfire a further few meters later. It's all backwards... 😕

[fossil delta]

Yeah, I no longer even bother with building light houses, or even using bon fires, because of this.

[heady parcel]

Yeah. This is the one thing I feel I am going to use mods for once 1.0 is out. (Unless it is changed before then ofc...)

[fossil delta]

Years ago, my buddy even did the fire works feature on our bonfire. Still didn't render better than the trees.

[tacit crystal]

-# I've recently built a proper lighthouse in my co-op world from surplus stones we had. 😅

[heady parcel]

Thing with light houses is they need a light source that can be seen from far away, or they're just decoration 😕

[dark coyote]

I spawn large demisters for piers/etc

[tacit crystal]

My group liked what I built.

[fossil delta]

I can see the fires in fuling camps from further away than I can see my own fires.

[dark coyote]

odd since those are also bonfires

[fossil delta]

Exactly.

[heady parcel]

Good point - you'll see the fires long before the structures render in. Why don't player built bonfires work the same?

[fossil delta]

But I also see their camp fires.

[heady parcel]

Might even be a bug, or an "unintended feature", maybe one of the lurking devs can enlighten us on that?

[dark coyote]

does terrain distance affect the light?

[fossil delta]

I doubt Smiffe knows, and he said the others won't be back in office for him to ask questions of for about another week.

[heady parcel]

Dunno, I never ran on anything but max everything

[dark coyote]

I know campfires will initially show as an orange blob until it renders, regardlesss of whether its lit or not

[fossil delta]

Yeah, I find that odd as well. They will show as lit, but then not be lit once you get close. 😄

[heady parcel]

Yeah, I always took that as a bit of lag - I sailed by this fuling village once but didn't see it, now as I approach it and enter distance I see the fires for a second and then the game calculates SHIT ALL THE FUEL IS GONE and poof.

About that - I think as long as there are fulings alive in a village the fires should be resupplied

[fossil delta]

It will do this weirdness even on a direct approach.

Not often, but often enough.

[heady parcel]

Even weirder, the fires aren't supposed to start "burning" until we've come close enough for them to render

[flat stag]

Are we talking the same game here? 😄 I meant Subnautica, which I later wrote in General chat

But yes, Valheim also had amazing vibes for me, just in a different way

[sharp bluff]

subnautica wipes are basically unbeaten, yes

[flat stag]

My hands and fingers are starting to itch real bad. I haven't played Valheim for 1½ year or so... and I haven't even touched Ashlands yet. I am saving all of that energy for 1.0 but the wait is becoming unbearable.

[fossil delta]

"Wipes". 😄 😄 😄 Funniest mis spelling of the day, so far.

[feral grove]

I just took that to mean "deaths."

[fossil delta]

Pretty sure they meant vibes, but that works too.

[feral grove]

All I know about that game is you swim, and you get mauled by giant monsters. So yeah, I'd say that's a reasonable thought.

[fossil delta]

I haven't played it in many years, so recall very little about it. I did not get into it much at all. So I might have 40 hours of playing it. Maybe.

[flat stag]

I think I accidentally set my light setting to "realistic" or something like that (in Subnautica). And as a result I could only see a few meters forward. When I had to go to a really deep place in a really huge vessel, it was really hard to descend into the depth, because I was constantly bumping into things - it was that dark. and because of that I always had to leave my vessel to scout and to leave light thingies for myself, as a guide. And it was scary AF. I imagine if Valheim had deep caves like that or underwater mechanics - it might also achieve a certain level of horror, in a similar manner.

[sharp bluff]

still accurate tbh

[flat stag]

One of the scariest things for me in Valheim, however (besides the stupid deathsquittos), was in the Swamps at night. A flying ghost appeared above the water and chased me, while I was sailing away. It ALMOST caught up to me. The first sea monster / serpent encounter was also pretty scary

[ivory lantern]

no portals

no map would be catastrophic

[flat stag]

Would be cool if you could do primitive drawings on a board or something like that, in the game, itself. This might be a suggestion for a future feature. Creating dummy maps for approximate locations.

[dark coyote]

I watched a no portal/map stream once, he was putting signs and roads everywhere

[heady parcel]

You have to do that, and keep a physical map as well.

[dark coyote]

what happens when you click a vegvisir? just nothing?

[fossil delta]

You should get a message.

[solar plaza]

For a boss? Or just the basic runestones?

[dark coyote]

for a boss in a no map run

[lone rampart]

The screen will actually rotate to point you in the direction of the boss

[heady parcel]

A shitload of years ago I played this dungeon delving game called "Dungeon Master". It was the basis on which the "Eye of the Beholder" franchise was inspired - so WAY fricking back. Anyway it was this enormous labyrinthine dungeon, and there was no map function whatsoever. So if you didn't want to get helplessly lost you had to make your own maps and keep track of where the feck you were going. Awesome game, but man now I am starting to wonder what year it was...

[fossil delta]

Early 90's.

[heady parcel]

1988

Gods below, I feel old

[dark coyote]

I think I've played that, is that the one with the tesseracts so you can't even map it really?

[fossil delta]

Dang, late 80's? BTW, I am old.

[heady parcel]

There were some levels that would change randomly so they couldn't be mapped, but that came really deep down the dungeon

Hahaha, reading the wikipedia entry about the game now and one comment is the lack of a map makes the game "extremely difficult". Yeah that's how I remember it, I had a stack of papers with maps that I was browsing profusely as I played it.

Anyway - no-map can be fun, but to be perfectly honest I think that for it to truly work in Valheim it needs to be worked into a synergy with the cartography table so you can actually access a proper map when at the table. That way you can make plans on how to go about exploration even if you can't have the full map on call at any time.

[flat stag]

I created a suggestion for a DIY-ingame-map

The big question is - what if you die. Should you be able to at least get an ingame hint on where your gravestone is? Kinda like when looking for silver ore

Coz if you died half a world away and you didn't leave any trails behind. GL, hf, searching for your corpse until you are 80 years old

[heady parcel]

Easy enough to implement in game. You simply don't get to use "M" but whatever you explore still registers, so when you copy to the Cartography Table you provide all your uncovered stuff, and when you read it you see all that you and anybody else who has interacted with that table have explored.

As for death, yes I think seeing your grave on the map should be base level...

[flat stag]

I personally can't imagine myself playing like that unless there were ingame tools to support playing without M. The payoff of playing without M should be greater than the suffering that comes with it

[heady parcel]

Yeah, no-map is not the most popular way to play the game for a reason - but still some of us do like it that way!

[flat stag]

Sure, for streamers and "content creators" it could be fun, but as a solo player who plays offline - I can't imagine that many people would go through something like that

The main thing is. Playing without map should feel like a strategic puzzle game that stimulates creativity

A limitation is imposed upon you and you have to overcome it with the tools you got. Leaving stuff in the world that helps you navigate, forcing you to take notes irl, and so on

[heady parcel]

That's pretty much how it works out now, yeah

[flat stag]

Ok here is a random idea - if you build a beacon, lighthouse or a smoke signal, it could be added to the ingame-map that you build yourself, over time. But building one of these takes time and resources

But if you build on of these it could have 2 huge benefits. You can see in the world if there are no obstructions on the horizon. And it could be added to the map.

I think it will mitigate the complete lack of map ("M") and create a balance of map VS no-map

Besides, I imagine it would feel good to be lost and finally finding one of your own navigational creations in the world

[dark coyote]

skyrim sstyle compass at the top, and you can see lighthouse pips on it, maybe color coded for distance

[flat stag]

If you build the most advanced lighthouse in the game, and you climb high enough, it could emit light from anywhere in the world. If something like this existed in the game, I would be motivated to play without the conventional, convenient map that we have now

Also, in a game about Vikings who primarily travelled by sea, lighthouses and such would make sense

So, let me recap all of my ideas as a short summary: You build a map-board as a furniture you can place in your base. On it you can draw simple objects (using chalk or with colors using dyes from plants, etc.)

On top of that you can build lighthouses, beacons or smoke signals. Different pros and cons. Simplest ones are just for you to see in the world. The most advanced ones will be added to your map automatically.

If you die and you are totally screwed and you can't find your corpse, there should be emergency solutions you can work towards to make the game help you in the right direction. These "solutions" will take time, ofc.

The navigation in the world meta game could be fun, actually, if there were proper game mechanics to support it.

[barren whale]

render distance is capped at about 120m away from your character, 200m for certain things like trees and large rocks

[heady parcel]

Yeah this is it. I think they need to go through whatever chart it is that decides what renders when, because as is it is kinda weird...

I refuse to believe that allowing light sources to render a couple of hundred meters earlier would completely tank performance for everyone

[dark coyote]

it doesnt need to be a light source, per se, similar to the lit campfire bug, just need some kind of dot imo

[tacit crystal]

#screenshots message @edgy warren Bear meat is not added to the list of items wolves eat, same as Mistlands/Ashlands tier meats. They eat chicken meat IIRC.
-# Sidenote: as your screenshot is clearly showing modded terrain it should belong to https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202934384643154001

[heady parcel]

Whatever it is, my take is that some players being on absolute shite systems that don't even comply with minimum system requirements should not dictate these things in-game.

[pliant hatch]

Glad that's for the devs to decide then.

[dark coyote]

lol you'd rather it be the opposite?

[flat stag]

Lighthouse light should be an exception, where its light is rendered on the horizon no matter the view distance (just a subtle flicker in the background caused by a simple animated 2D sprite of a few frames)

Regarding the system performance. I still play on GTX 1070, which is my old, loyal veteran workhorse. I found that the earlier biomes run fine, but the later bioms kinda lag slightly, which is a shame, because it seems like they are going away from the simple world design of the earlier biomes. Not sure if it changed... been a while since I played

[timber marsh]

the vikings had maps, but no portals

[dark coyote]

you can't prove that

[timber marsh]

reminds me of that one comic of the astronauts landing on the moon only to find the vikings were there first...

[edgy warren]

ive read that the frostnner is supperior to silver sword- is it significmnnatly better as im like lvl 40 sword lvl 5 clubs and the sword is also super expennsive

[timber marsh]

the sword is expensive but im glad i made one

its still useful even after getting blackmetal

[heady parcel]

I'd rather it would be customisable to fit your own system. Not being able to see a damn campfire that I SHOULD be seeing, because a tiny percentage of players are on ancient enough systems to make it impossible to render, is a wee bit frustrating. And my PC is fricking ten years old. The systems we are adapting to here must be truly ancient!

[timber marsh]

bruh

i said SMASH

with a hammer, and it censored me

[merry pebble]

Very much depends in which situation

[flat stag]

it's weird to live in Sweden and know that this is where they are making 1.0 right now

[dark coyote]

same here actually, i7 4790, amd 6600, building a new pc now though

[edgy warren]

just for the plains i suppose, how well does it go agianst fulings ect vs frostner

[timber marsh]

there was a few tweaks i found to help performance

[merry pebble]

Just about the same really, for plains boss the silver sword wins

[edgy warren]

ok cool ill make the sword then

i did frostner last time i played so i guess its good to switcxh it up

[merry pebble]

Frostner is superior in the next biome tho, since enemies there have resistance to physical dmg and frostner does lots of frost dmg which they do not resist

[timber marsh]

i made an iron hammer, so much fun

[heady parcel]

Even on this old rust bucket I have never had any sort of performance problems. I'm running on 1440p on high detail and I never have any fps problems, except very recently when I spammed a few more torches than I should have...

[edgy warren]

and thr black metal weapons arnt better?

[dark coyote]

I use porcupine in the plains, then back to frostner

[timber marsh]

its the shaders and particles thats the frame rate killer even on a rtx3070

[merry pebble]

For mistlands enemies, nope

I mean in terms of dmg ofc. If you prefer certain weapons for their playstyle you will probably have more fun playing with those 🙂

[heady parcel]

Stronger against anything that does not resist physical damage, but against the usual foes in Mistlands, a bit of elemental damage is very nice. Plus the frost effect will slow enemies which is VERY useful.

(And I don't even like Frostner, but it is hard to argue against its strong points!)

[merry pebble]

-# Same here hate the knockback on it

[dark coyote]

I would remove the spirit damage, and make spirit a new ashlands gem variant

[merry pebble]

Already enough weapon variants in ashlands tho

[heady parcel]

Spirit is kind of the point of the whole silver tier though. Werewolf type enemies, silver weapons hurting them etc etc

[edgy warren]

so from like silver onwards the next tier of weapons isnt alwasy better

[dark coyote]

yeah but mountain wweapons being endgame?

[timber marsh]

im glad they are not made irrelvent

[fossil delta]

Frostner and the silver sword work fine in Ashlands, but I would not call them end game weapons.

[timber marsh]

i already made a maxed out silver sword

[heady parcel]

There is always a bit of a borderland between new weapons and upgraded old ones. I advice to stick with your old weapons until you are sure that any new ones are actually better at smiting your enemies

[merry pebble]

For certain situations, correct. But if you just upgrade your gear to the one the new biome provides you will pregress smoothly even if you dont have the "totally best for this certain situation" type of weapon 🙂

[timber marsh]

like the big iron hammer does not do a lot of damage but its so fun to deal with an annoying horde of greydwarfs

[fossil delta]

Which is great for Yagluth.

[timber marsh]

ill bring it with me then

[merry pebble]

The best actually ☝️ 🤓

[timber marsh]

im waiting for all my other friends to "catch up" before progressing any farther so i have not fought yagluth yet

got a new player and they made it to the swamp in two days

[fossil delta]

Its also a solid weapon in Ashlands. Even does the most damage versus a couple of the mobs.

[iron night]

Hi guys, I know this must come quite often as a question, but any ETA on 1.0?

[timber marsh]

next year

[merry pebble]

Nope, we have no info sadly 🙂

[timber marsh]

given the teasers, im guessing 2nd quarter?

[merry pebble]

-# While certainly probable and in my opinion very likely, we dont have any confirmation from devs 😄

[timber marsh]

they said 2026...

[heady parcel]

Best response ever

[pliant hatch]

Only the devs know and they won't tell.
Even the staff here doesn't know.

So guessing won't help, as no-one knows.

[iron night]

Oh wow, I would have assumed it was really close, like early next year

[fossil delta]

Its just all guessing, since nothing has been officially said.

[merry pebble]

For PS release, not for DN. We still dont have confirmed if those two will or will not be at the same time

[fossil delta]

It might be, just nothing official has been stated.

[pliant hatch]

The only thing we do know is that about two weeks ago it was mentioned that it won't be released this year.
Other than that...... we simply don't know.

[iron night]

I'm hopeless

[heady parcel]

YESSS finally those two dumb overgrown lizrds hatched a lvl 2 egg, now I can go ahead with my farm!

[dark coyote]

hope the new serpent is an orca

[timber marsh]

serpents are easier than fishing!

watch the fish be the true final boss...

[merry pebble]

"Catch lvl 5 of all fish types before Odin takes you to Valhalla" XD

[dark coyote]

||Ulf will be the final boss||

[fossil delta]

I caught a lvl 4 Pike with a skill 8 just a couple of days ago. Fishing isn't hard.

[heady parcel]

Starred warriors, bloody fucking hell thes guys are scary

[fossil delta]

They don't go down easy, even when both my wife and I are hitting them.

[tacit crystal]

He finally got tired of something trying to mess with his beard.

[fossil delta]

I still expect the final boss to be that limbless bear from the dreams.

[heady parcel]

Oh this guy gave me a trophy, time to get the fish

To be perfectly honest, the way the general vicinity of my base has turned into a wasteland since my arrival here is very depressing.

[tacit crystal]

Fellow Porcupine enjoyer. 🤝

[heady parcel]

Every tree, disintegrated. Every rock, disintegrated, every ruin, disintegrated. All that remains is my raised plateau and lava...

[fossil delta]

I kept our boat house intact, so I was happy about that. The Drakkar fits perfectly in there.

Everything else was destroyed, Only what I built is there now.

[dark coyote]

yeah I was pretty bummed to leave it behind

[heady parcel]

Which brings us back to the question - how the FUDGE did Ashlands survive before we got there...

[merry pebble]

With difficulty...

[fossil delta]

Nothing needed to spawn, so that helped. No Morgen mindlessly rolling around...

[heady parcel]

Ash rain and blobs do more damage than morgen

[fossil delta]

Morgen destroy entire rocks, meaning the huge ones, and bring down entire buildings. It takes a lot of blobs to do similar.

[lone rampart]

Deep North...Black Forest....Ashlands...Mistlands. Long ago, the four however many biomes lived in harmony. Then, everything changed when Odin attacked.

[tacit crystal]

It's such underrated weapon. Perfect against all mobs in plains and has better stagger than Frostner.

[fossil delta]

That entire lore makes Odin look weak. We are beating creatures he was only able to imprison on the Tenth world.

[merry pebble]

-# And looks very cool also

[dark coyote]

yeah I love it, parry > secondary > out of the park ⚾

[lone rampart]

Go watch the conspiracy theory videos 🤣 Odin is absolutely the villain!

[fossil delta]

He is creepy. At least I have yet to catch him watching us inside of our house.

[tacit crystal]

Also nice option to staggerlock berserkers with the secondary attack.

[lone rampart]

I always catch him when I'm dicking around doing inconsequential tasks. Like, buddy, chill. I know I said I'd defeat your enemies or whatever but first I'ma build this tailor shop.

[tacit crystal]

"Hey All-Father, yeah you tasked me to slay Forsaken. You didn't elaborate when or how fast. Lemme build in peace now."

[fossil delta]

I rarely catch him watching me while I am building. Probably because I am so focused on what I am building I never notice him.

[dark coyote]

knock knock "hey, so uh... were you gonna kill those guys or...." 😆

[fossil delta]

Plus I build from the inside, so once my walls are up, he could be there 24//7 and I'd never see him.

[scenic rock]

guys i have a build that i want to show off, where can i show someone?

[merry pebble]

I would say #screenshots , #building-screenshots or #mods-screenshots 😄

[scenic rock]

thank you

[keen sierra]

seriously, when i try ot use # or ## thing, it's not allowed in many major server...

anyway...

WHERE is Valheim monthly news: December?

don't you dare to release voyage of herver bloodtooth part 9 AFTER December....

[near furnace]

it's not montly, and we already said no devblog for December

as in

no dev blog for DECEMBER

[keen sierra]

oh, i think i missed your report or valheim news

my bad

[near furnace]

well. I can't post that in the news section since it's not news

[keen sierra]

true, it's classified as news in steam..

[near furnace]

mhm

[keen sierra]

but for discord, not exactly new..

[near furnace]

but we posted it on Facebook, instagram, twitter and bluesky 🤔

[keen sierra]

oh

right, actually i don't use any of those lol

[short gale]

Social media brain drain

[keen sierra]

i don't have social media but youtube, that's all i got

[near furnace]

and this is pinned in #general 😮

[keen sierra]

Ah, i definitely missed but it's totally understandable

[near furnace]

unsure if we are making one in January. but we'll see 🤔

I ain't back working until the 12th

and it takes about 7 days to make 1 blogpost (writing, editing and translation)

[keen sierra]

wait, i never realized you're actually dev, i don't really focus on username color

[near furnace]

most people don't 😄

[keen sierra]

ah

[near furnace]

<-- community manager, playtester, QA-person

[keen sierra]

nice to meet you.

[near furnace]

👋

[keen sierra]

Nice

[near furnace]

sometimes my dumb ideas is added to the game 🤔

[keen sierra]

like what?

i feel like rocky lol

[near furnace]

the overhand axe attack was mine

[keen sierra]

ah

[near furnace]

rocky I wasn't apart of

[keen sierra]

KK

[near furnace]

my stuff are usually QoL or.. Fixing stuff

[keen sierra]

wait, what is QoL again?

[near furnace]

Quality of Life

[keen sierra]

Ah

[near furnace]

stuff that makes the game better for the players, or easier

[keen sierra]

yeah i see, i don't really saw shortend version of quality of life very often.

[near furnace]

I've adjusted plenty of stack sizes and weights before to make "more sence"

[keen sierra]

KK

[near furnace]

I was helping with the tar blob monster

[short gale]

F those

[keen sierra]

oh, really?

[near furnace]

so if you complain about being "tared". think like a FPS player and sidestep 👍

[keen sierra]

those tars is annoying to deal unless if i have my friend on side to help.

[near furnace]

smash em with the frostner

and/or sidestep since they only fire all shots in a single line towards you

[keen sierra]

then well, SINK ENTIRE THING and collect everything on ground.

[near furnace]

😄

[keen sierra]

you know, i noticed that me and my friend have hidden ability: has ability to make any Ashlands landing events went disaster.

but it's good thing that we already have finished long journey for now so i won't be dealing with ashlands in very long time :)

[solar plaza]

Beat ||Fader and sir what's his face for the sword|| eh?

Nice, now you can build and prep for DN

[keen sierra]

eh, not important for now.

like we need wait for anicent scale thingy to be no longer placeholder item

[spark dew]

is it just me or do the Arbalest upgrades seem pointless other than for durability. Damage scale from fully upgraded Draugr bow to Arbalest is a big gap

[keen sierra]

Maybe for me too.

also i hate how it require roots to make or upgrade

[spark dew]

i dont mind the roots, but the upgrade is kinda bleh

[keen sierra]

they're goddamn rare nowadays.

[spark dew]

had like 10 in my one swamp

[keen sierra]

what

it's strange for they to be goddamn rare in my main server, but they're basically everywhere in old world, from 2022 to 2024.

[spark dew]

yup, my server is fresh from last month. Not sure its seed related

[brittle birch]

hey
my friends and I disconnected while sailing on open sea. will we be on the boat when we connect back?

[keen sierra]

i'm sure is it, i think there's mechanic that makes boat stop when people left, i may be mistaken that they're for single player world.

[near furnace]

usually no 🤔

you will log back in the exact X, Y, Z co-ordinate you had when you log back in as when you logged out

[dark coyote]

but the boat keeps sailing lol

[near furnace]

if you leave a server and you are the only one in the "area", it freezes and the boat should completly halt

[keen sierra]

not if there's nobody in area or it's single player world

[timber marsh]

#mods-screenshots message

[dark coyote]

I was on a public server and didnt notice the network icon blinking, and what happened was the boat was way way back where I initially lost connection, and I was at the spot that it finally booted me to main menu

[muted schooner]

caught a level 3 tetra

w no rod

[spark dew]

why tf doesnt arbalest stay loaded when put on back?

[keen sierra]

i'm not sure but i feel like ir's for safety reason lol

they're fucking powerful when loaded which can seriously hurt someone if it's used wrong... or atleast i know

[spark dew]

idk takes like 10 shots for a 1 star bug

[near furnace]

that's odin checking up on your progress 🫡

[near furnace]

guess you never seen Disney's Robin hood and what happens with that crossbow the crow has 🤔

[keen sierra]

true... but nobody like to get hit by crossbow "arm" at over 100kg of force.

[lone rampart]

what crow?

[near furnace]

trigger?

https://tenor.com/view/trigger-robin-hood-gif-2135041461772666880

[keen sierra]

oh i really loved this scene

[lone rampart]

Those are vultures

Trigger & Nutsy

[near furnace]

now we don't want that accident ingame now do we?

[lone rampart]

YES.

[keen sierra]

my favorite scenes when i was extremely young.

[near furnace]

same

so guess why the player unloads the bolt when you put the crossbow on the back? 😄

[lone rampart]

Imagine a crossbow bolt just richocheting through a swarm of seekers

[keen sierra]

how can you unload crossbow, especially long crossbow if they could launch arrow at over 100kg of force?

[lone rampart]

Take bolt out before releasing tension

[keen sierra]

oh well i'm wrong, apparently you can unload crossbow but it will go total disaster if you unloaded incorrectly

[near furnace]

yup

depends on which type of crossbow you got

https://tenor.com/view/stinger-crossbow-pistol-pistol-crossbow-style-gif-20478321

[keen sierra]

yeah, not like you just simply chuck bolt or arrow straight out of crossbow and that is it.

[near furnace]

this one is one of my favourites

[keen sierra]

look like crossbow but autoloaded

[near furnace]

close to it

[lone rampart]

I've always preferred longbow

[keen sierra]

well, i wanna watch engine before i'm going to sleep.

[near furnace]

engine?

[keen sierra]

oh mb, i meant engine video

this is one i'm currently watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJipxXrGe8

[brittle birch]

ohhhh.. we didnt log out, we shut down the server. it should be fine that way then? boat should then be at least be on swimming distance?

[smoky gate]

who is the mos active server ?

[keen sierra]

wydm

this server is surprising extremely chill and less active depsite there's over 40k online user.

[near furnace]

should be close atleast 🤔

[keen sierra]

Well, atleast i finished watching engine video, goodnight!

https://tenor.com/view/sleep-time-gif-25989080

[smoky gate]

i mean user server, or some name, i dont know

[candid basalt]

How would you track whose server is most active?

[ivory lantern]

i just now discovered core wood lol

[feral grove]

Welcome to being able to build much larger structures.

[spark dew]

i feel like the crossbow skill should be reload skill, and not accuracy

[paper marsh]

What do you mean? It doesn't give more accuracy currently

Crossbows are fully accurate anyways

[spark dew]

look at the description of the skill in-game

[plain bane]

And log cabins, more useful building foundations, great farming plot grids, harbor entry markers, bronze tools...

[plush umbra]

do you guys know how hanging braziers get damage on a greydwarf farm?

[burnt glen]

Guess we're not getting a dev blog for Dec

[placid delta]

Nope. Most are on vacation.

[lunar sapphire]

It has been documented that we're not getting a dev blog this month

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1202174832729661470/1452793045366866193/image.png?ex=6955a675&is=695454f5&hm=67dc0401ac2f50e8f3751d1ee352da07428a19e110ea3cc8eb5367c54a9ce796&

[real elbow]

Hello!😁 I am a Korean valheim user

[thick tartan]

Hmm

[feral grove]

Welcome to the server.

[fervent creek]

Did the increase ore vein spawn rates?

[loud surge]

morgen gjall everyone

happy new years

[abstract warren]

How do I get media upload permission?

[tacit crystal]

There are media channels dedicated for sharing media, such as https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202267437647527977 and https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202263390056357928 for example.

Remember reading channel descriptions for proper use, all media should be Valheim related.

[polar mulch]

@abstract warren
#screenshots message
I don't think that's too rare because I have 3 in close proximity and about 5 on my starting island

[placid delta]

I've had a starting area that had 3 even closer to each other then that lol Sometimes its great ... other times I wasn't a fan lol .. just depends the playthrough hehe

[polar mulch]

I have one very close to my base. Close enough to where we have cleared all the trees around it for wood

[strong lily]

I asked this over in #steam-bugs-discussion, but someone here might also know: Does Artisan Table Spawn Prevention currently match its build radius?

[tepid prawn]

spawn prevention is 40m whats the build radius of it again?

[strong lily]

Also 40m, thank you!

I saw a post from a year ago that they were inconsistent but wasn't sure if it was patched or not, thank you for that!

[tepid prawn]

I use them more for the 40m spawn proofing instead of the build radius for some bases haha, as you only need the ovens for one bakery and then a few windmills somewhere

[strong lily]

Yeah, I'm absolutely planning on doing the same :D

[abstract warren]

Sitting doesn't really do any effect right?

[merry pebble]

Not really, but it alows you to rest near fire even without shelter effect 🙂

[abstract warren]

Oh ok

[warm sandal]

I had hoped there w ould be another word of the DEVs in December but I guess them people over at Irongate deserve a christmas break as well... hopefully we get more news in January 😄

[merry pebble]

Welp, they did say there will not be one in December on 22nd 😄
And in the same post they also did mention that they "will see us again properly in January."

[warm sandal]

I did not see that post... that totally slipped through the cracks... thank you for telling me

[placid delta]

#valheim-chat message

[merry pebble]

Smiffe pinned it in general too i believe, but it was somewhat easy to miss it for sure 😄

[tacit crystal]

"Lemme read pinned messages first before initiating to chat."
Said no one ever.

[merry pebble]

Yeah, but at least it makes it easier for us to point to it xD

-# How many of the hecking pins do you have?!

[tacit crystal]

-# That wasn't all.

[warm sandal]

Thank you for reminding me why I hardly ever come here anymore... this here is getting more toxic by the moment. I did read the pinned comments here but there is no news about what I was wondering about. thanks for nothing

[woeful dew]

question, is now a good time to start a brand new valheim playthrough? i heared the snow update is coming out soon, will that require a new save? is there gonna be an overhaul to the current content i'll miss? When do I start my playthrough

[merry pebble]

As good time as any to start a new playthrough really 🙂
We have no info about when the Deep North will release sadly.
No it will in all likelyhood not require a new save, just dont explore the current placeholder in the very top of the map.
Probably some changes to current content, but we dont have any idea what or to which extend.
Whenever you feel like starting again

[woeful dew]

is the update not coming soon ish?

[merry pebble]

We dont know

No info as i said

[woeful dew]

do we know if steam achievements will ever come?
have the devs ever spoke about it

[tacit crystal]

I didn't mean it as offence against you, I initiated in conversation with little joking spirit. Seems it didn't land well for all, so I apologize.

[placid delta]

its all speculation

[merry pebble]

Yep, with 1.0/Deep North release

[woeful dew]

confirmed

[short gale]

Second half next year my guess

[merry pebble]

Yep
#general message

[woeful dew]

sexy

[short gale]

Im exploring a mistlands I swear there is three ribcages, no brains. No infested mines in this huge area either lol I keep looking

Finally found a cave nvm ha

nvm again just a dvergr camp damn

[heady parcel]

Mistlands exploration in a nutshell. As a rule, if there's a largish group of seekers around a ruin, that will have mine entrance. There are ruined towers without, but they won't have as many seekers around them.

[candid basalt]

I have an amazing mist free valley I am building in. Several roots, tons of armor and swords. No bones, no structures, no mines. But it’s pretty and has a nice lake for my future build

[short gale]

Just got the demolisher, what a beastly weapon my goodness