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[green reef]

once you get acorns just plant a bunch near base, then always have plenty

[tacit crystal]

Quite lucky run now - early axes during first day, early Elder vegvisir, area with 3 copper nodes next to each other, 4 bear trophies...

[green reef]

presumably fires and workbenches don't block fish spawns?

[nocturne wolf]

Today I found a yagluth vegvisir before a fuling camp

[fossil delta]

Work benches most definitely do. Even this play through I had to move them farther from shore so I could fish from my base. Not sure about fires, since I didn't have any that close to the shore line.

[flat stag]

any tips on what to bring to the dungeon in Mistlands? Iron Sledge, Ooze bombs, anything else?

Also, how/where should I use ooze bombs?

[fossil delta]

On any doors, or root "doors. The gjal bombs can destroy those before they kill everything off.

It takes two ooze bombs to kill off all non starred seekers and 2 star ticks.

[flat stag]

root doors?

[fossil delta]

You can also toss them through the stone doors, but the gjall bombs, once you have them, won't destroy those doors either.

[candid basalt]

Got cocky in Ashlands... didn't notice it turned night

[fossil delta]

Door ways closed off by what look like roots.

[candid basalt]

Took 30 minutes to get my gear back 😛

[flat stag]

alright thanks

[fossil delta]

Yah, as always biomes are more dangerous at night, and Ashlands is the worst biome already.

[candid basalt]

I was having fun killing the undead and suddenly they had stars 😛

[fossil delta]

I get single stars even in the day time, but the two stars are just too much when you first get in there. Not so bad once you get your flametal shields, etc...

[candid basalt]

Yeah, havent found flamemetal yet.. still searching for a place to set up a base instead of an outpost 😛

[flat stag]

The gjal bombs can destroy those before they kill everything off. <-- what did you mean...

I gotta admit, you have a weird way of expressing yourself

[fossil delta]

The wood and root doors.

[flat stag]

ok I don't understand - I will do it trial and error

[candid basalt]

Gjall bombs do fire damage too and they break doors

[flat stag]

will ooze bombs suffice?

[candid basalt]

so the ooze bombs poison without hurting the doors

[fossil delta]

It will become crystal clear once you see it for yourself.

[paper marsh]

Did take me a couple reads too. Just saying Gjall bombs will destroy the walls/doors in infested mines, making all the mobs spill out and attack you

Ooze bombs won't destroy anything, will just kill mobs while they're still trapped

[flat stag]

thanks - finally a comment that doesn't give me a headache 😄

[fossil delta]

Kind of hard to write for the uninitiated when from the perspective who has seen it a hundred times. It s obvious to me.

[flat stag]

I mean - it wouldn't hurt to read one's own message sometimes before posting it. I read his sentence like 5 times and still didn't make sense. Then Adipocere wrote one line and everything clicked

[candid basalt]

Yeah Robert was fine in what he said, but I can see how it would be confusing if you hadn't used it before

[fossil delta]

I already specified how many ooze bombs it take s to kill off the non starred mobs, and 2 star ticks.

If that wasn't clear, I guess I better go back to college.

[green reef]

I never even use bombs, but I like this idea.

usually I just go in swinging my weapons and hope for the best. use bonemass if I get into trouble or run away outside and rest up.

[candid basalt]

This playthrough I have fully bought into meads and bombs.. was never into them really before

[fossil delta]

Bombs make it much easier/safer. Especially the rooms with soldiers inside,, in addition to everything else.

[paper marsh]

I try to avoid stuff like bombs and sledge hammers in dungeons

Feels much too cheesy for me

[flat stag]

you said ooze bombs can aoe damage monsters behind the door without breaking the door - what about bile bombs? Should I bring them too?

[candid basalt]

Bile bombs are the "gjall bombs"

[fossil delta]

Bile bombs can burn down anything not stone. Someone already spelled out what can happen.

[flat stag]

Bile Bomb is the correct name in my workbench but whatever

[fossil delta]

Yeah, Bile bomb, Gjall bomb, same thing.

[candid basalt]

So for killing behind doors = ooze bombs. Killing everything including infrastructure = Bile bombs

[flat stag]

so, when exactly do I use a bile bomb? As opposed to the regular ooze bombs?

[lone rampart]

Open areas you don’t mind setting on fire

[candid basalt]

Hiding on a tower wile mobs circle under you, or running through a fuling camp laughing maniacally

[flat stag]

i meant inside the infested mines

[fossil delta]

I use them only on stone doors, especially when I know a soldier is behind it. Ooze bombs can work on any door. No real need to switch to the bile bombs.

[flat stag]

that is where i am heading now

[candid basalt]

Oh I throw them in pits with seekers

[flat stag]

i never used a bile bomb before - so i am worried to waste them

[green reef]

other than seekers, anything ever good in a pit?

[candid basalt]

But usually just bring ooze bombs so not to take up inventory

[candid basalt]

I dont remember ever finding anything good in a pit except sometimes other tunnels

[fossil delta]

Yep, you only really need ooze bombs. Only reason I even use Bile bombs is because I play with my wife. She carries ooze, I carry the bile bombs.

[flat stag]

any meads i should bring to the infested mines? Other than healing

[candid basalt]

Ooze bombs are to prevent shit from hitting the fan. Bile bombs are for when the fan is broken and shit is everywhere.

[fossil delta]

No. No poisons or fire to worry about, for example.

[candid basalt]

I carry a lingering stamina and a strong health pot

[thorny lake]

Anyone know if theres a way to know which way a tree will grow with what way you rotate it at as a sapling?

[green reef]

if you have a portal and a chest right outside? then can swap out stuff easily eh. I wouldn't run around mistlands without Leapfoot and Fire Resist

[fossil delta]

I just carry my usual meads for the Mistlands, because, the Mistlands are right there outside of those mines.

[green reef]

swapping too much gets me in trouble. well shoot, I forgot my fire resist and just started running to find the next dungeon

[candid basalt]

I never thought to experiment with that

[cobalt heath]

hey all, Ive never played on a public server, only solo or with friends, just wondering if anyone could tell me how different it is playing with a larger group on a modded server?

[thorny lake]

I want a tree to be a specific way for a build im making 😅

[frigid anvil]

Really wish there were cranes in this game 😔

[fossil delta]

The main thing is trust.

[weary breach]

lol

[green reef]

birds or cable lifts for goods?

[fossil delta]

There are, just we can't use them. Not that I have seen the dvergr use them either. 😄

[green reef]

the big difference in the experience depends on server rules and such, but gardens grow faster, you never sleep through night, fires and torches keep burning and using up resources while you are gone. dungeons and other resources might have been taken before you get there, but the worlds are so huge usually not an issue.

[fossil delta]

Its definitely best if you play with people you know, but I played on plenty of servers where I knew no one, and had a good time.

I still hid the stuff I wanted to be absolutely sure no one stole, but no one stole anything. That I noticed, at least.

[green reef]

griefers can be a problem even on good servers. admins have tools that can help.

[frigid anvil]

The latter

[fossil delta]

Even more tools now.

[frigid anvil]

I want to have a dock where I can dock my boat and carry things up into a base

build a cool, functional port

you can kinda make things that look similar but it doesn’t function

[fossil delta]

The Dvergr at least get to pretend they have functional docks for loading/unloading.

[frigid anvil]

it’s not exactly that big of a deal, just a personal fantasy I wish I could live out

[thorny lake]

Is there any way to get a tree to grow faster

[fossil delta]

I use ladders to be able to over load myself and get up onto my docks, but still a far cry from functional cranes.

[fossil delta]

Sleeping is the closest.

[thorny lake]

yea aight

Will a tree grow if im not close to it also?

[fossil delta]

Yep. You can go anywhere you like.

Just like our crops.

[candid basalt]

Its fun to plant a grove of trees as close as possible then be gone for several game days. When you get back all the trees shoot up at once. You can actually plant trees a little closer than normal because with them all growing at once, they dont block saplings with cover

[fossil delta]

You do have to be careful with that. Come back too soon and some will fail.

[candid basalt]

True

[fossil delta]

Still, the tree avalanches are fun enough I am willing to sacrifice a few. 😄

[thorny lake]

Is it not possible to pop the tall big rocks in plains?

[candid basalt]

You can

[fossil delta]

It can be a challenge, but you can get them to pop. Just some times you may have to take off a bit of the bottom before it pops.

[thorny lake]

I mined all the ground under it and then a little bit on the bottom but no pop :/

[fossil delta]

You also have to pay attention to how close the side objects are, including ground.

[royal lodge]

That means that you have to mine higher. You have to remove the entire bottom layer about 2 l 2 and 1/2 m high

[fossil delta]

With how deep they go, you can't always give them enough clearance without breaking off X amount of the bottom.

[thorny lake]

oh my gosh i got it to pop

holy lag

[weary breach]

lol i just got "you stirred the cauldron" in the plains where I'm building and all of the bats got obliterated by 3 lox that spawned in near me

[paper marsh]

POP 🪨

[thorny lake]

holy stone tho :D

[paper marsh]

Sometimes I use bats as a block trainer while waiting for the raid to run out

[weary breach]

smart

[green reef]

if they had an achievement for popping a copper node I think most valheim players wouldn't have it.

[paper marsh]

If it was an achievement I feel like most might go for it

Well, maybe not if it's that you have to pop an entire node

[green reef]

I think most don't even know about popping copper nodes. but yeah, I dunno how the actual mechanic would compare a whole node vs a huge chunk of the node. its not quite like silver.

[thorny lake]

How long does an oak take to grow?

Or are all trees the same grow time

[sleek sky]

a certain amount of time between 0 and a google years

(wiki probably lists it)

[shy marlin]

i think it's like 50 min

[thorny lake]

Awesome

ah damn

[thorny lake]

i guess time to train jump skill

[green reef]

probably same amount of time as a fermented mead

[sharp owl]

do different types of e.g. wood have different amount of hitpoints or is it like that wood structures always have the same hp?

[green reef]

does the wiki say? I think it takes longer to chop up an oak a beechh

[candid basalt]

I think they are asking if wood beams vs core wood beams have more hp?

Or ashwood etc

[green reef]

durability = hp?

[candid basalt]

Yes. Core wood and regular wood are 400 durability for the 2m so I assume wood and corewood are basically the same

Ashwood the same

[green reef]

Ironwood is 2000

[candid basalt]

Yeah but as far as straight wood, they seem the same

[sharp owl]

yeah so wood is wood except Ironwood being "exotic".

[green reef]

wood iron, uses iron bar to make it, so integrated. like using iron cage

[candid basalt]

Ironwood is regular wood with iron inside

[sharp owl]

I was wondering in terms of defenses. If it's worth it to get better types of a material. You 'd obvioulsy only want better wood for specific strucutres like the 4m pole.

[green reef]

oddly more durable than iron cage

you can overlap wood structures too.

so you could make a wall pretty strong, except monsters tend to do aoe

[candid basalt]

Black marble is good as it has elemental resistances and is as tough as stone

[sharp owl]

I pretty much play it like 7DaysToDie I have a seperate Horde base instead of surrounding my entire mainbase with like walls and trenches.

[green reef]

Grausten small pillar same as wood. lol

its mostly overkill imo. as much as I've dug trenches or built earthen walls. I'd say can nearly go through an entire playthrough at a base with nearly no defense.

sleeping at night might be a big part of it though. Otherwise sure a troll raid or two could be a problem, but I find they tend to come after you, so just leave the base and deal with them.

[candid basalt]

Yes, never fight inside your base

[sharp owl]

Hence the horde base

[candid basalt]

Like orcs?

[green reef]

it is fun to build some defenses, some spike setups can help a ton. or you could build a variety of bridges or other systems that keeps monsters from invading the base. Corewood bridges you can run across but they dont' walk across are great. otherwise the 1-wood rickety fences work well too.

there are some silly tricks with stairs too like pointing them in the wrong direction. I usually just give my self little jump spots to go over simple walls.

[candid basalt]

You find what works with your style.

[weary breach]

i just went to the mistlands for the first time and got rushed by 4 seekers. is that normal? they had me running for my life until some lox in the plains killed them for me 💀

[green reef]

fight or flight

[weary breach]

😫 okay

[ashen geyser]

was it any of them seekers a 2 star?

[weary breach]

thankfully not, but i still couldnt really hit any of them without tanking a ton of damage myself lol

[green reef]

early forays into new biomes are typically extra hard. you'll have to learn the pattern they attack with, avoid getting hit back. learning to dodge and more.

meads & foods are super valuable.

[weary breach]

yea im not going back without some meads this time

[thorny lake]

Still trainin jump skill while waitin for that oak tree to grow 😭

[green reef]

why you waiting and not doing other things?

[thorny lake]

dont i gotta be close to the tree for it to grow?

[green reef]

nope

[thorny lake]

🫡

Gonna respectfully stop trainin jump skill and go do tasks

[green reef]

none of the growing garden stuff requires you to be in range, unlike taming animals or getting them to boink (which requires you to be near).

[thorny lake]

YOOO

the tree grew!

[fossil delta]

I put all of my bee hives on my roof tops (All 36 of them now) because of how much it makes me use my run and jump skills.

[fossil delta]

Only one?

[thorny lake]

yeah i planted one oak

I gained 8 jump skill levels while waiting on it growing lol

[fossil delta]

Oh, yeah, I do that with Oaks too. The rest I do as a farm crop.

[green reef]

what?

[fossil delta]

Like plant a hundred at a time, cut them all down for wood I need.

I used to do it a lot more when I used to do much bigger builds.

[steel mica]

Chpping down oak is a bit annoying

[fossil delta]

They are bigger and tougher than any other tree.

[green reef]

oh I thought you jump the whole time while staring at it

[fossil delta]

😄 I suppose I could do that too.

[steel mica]

The thing is about oak, fir and birch trees is that its leaves hitboxes take up a ton of space

In the endgame I use trollstav to do the labor work

But due to the leaves hitboxes being so big the summoned troll cant see me so they refuse to attack

Hence why I just use beech and birch

[trim hatch]

i hate the mistlands

wow this area is so pretty, or atleast it would be if i could fucking see it

[silk token]

you are not alone

or maybe you are! how could anyone tell??!

[trim hatch]

they went too hard with the fog effect ngl

like its one thing to have an area be foggy and hard to see, and then theres the mistlands wich most of the time theres a literal "fog.png" plastered on your monitor

i genuinelly cant see sometimes even with wisp

[fossil delta]

You can find decently large areas mist free, but its not exactly easy to do.

Most seem to be on the shore.

Even though I have found some real nice areas deeper in.

[trim hatch]

any way to tell the time?

in valheim

[green reef]

they have mods that make your wisp more powerful. all mistlamps have a 12m range too so you can use them to clear out areas.

without the mist mechanism, I'm curious if it would feel as interesting? I mean, misty mornings in the plains are pretty brutal.

[silk token]

not in mistlands. ive seen people make actual sundials though

[trim hatch]

ooohh nice idea

[steel mica]

Its even harder finding one with roots

[green reef]

look at shadows. compare the sun in the sky to times you know. use your rest buff to track.

[steel mica]

AND even harder to find a mistless mistlands near shore boarding a plains with roots

[trim hatch]

i mean just tone down the mist a bit, make the fog png slightly more transparent

thats all i ask

slightly more transparent mist

cuz thats not mist, thats smoke atp

[celest shale]

Guys, I know it will be an overwhelming question, but are there any popular servers or active RP servers that you recommend? Or a place to find such?

[fossil delta]

Yeah, I have found areas with docks, towers, even dungeons, but roots, at best, are on the borders, inside the mists.

[fossil delta]

Only #1024264966712340510

[steel mica]

HOW TF DID AN ASKSVIN GET IN THE CAGE HHEARTH???

[fossil delta]

They are kind of good at climbing walls, even by themselves. What are your walls like?

[celest shale]

Danke

[steel mica]

Let me send you a picture in dm

I had to break it

[trim hatch]

"motha fuckin clocks, look at this ancient ass clock here"

[fossil delta]

Well, you have a ton of them. So thats the first problem. 😄 😄

[steel mica]

Sent it in dm lmao

They just started growing up and hatching

[abstract warren]

What's the best weapon against Yagluth

Silver sword?

[fossil delta]

Silver Sword. Probably.

Frostner isn't bad, plus you don't have to deal with the knockback on a boss.

[steel mica]

Frostner is a good alternative is you're lacking silver to make the sword

[abstract warren]

Yeah I have both already

[abstract warren]

Wym

[fossil delta]

Either skill significantly better?

[abstract warren]

Don't have to deal with the knockback?

[fossil delta]

Don't you use Frostner?

[abstract warren]

Ah right

I mean I use it here and there when in the swamp

Otherwise Atgeir almost always

[fossil delta]

Yeah, its famous for how far back it knocks your enemies.

[abstract warren]

With the regular attack too?

[fossil delta]

Yep.

Most especially its regular attack.

[abstract warren]

Ok

Haven't really noticed somehow

[fossil delta]

Not sure it does it as badly versus the swamp mobs, but it does do it against fulings.

[abstract warren]

I mostly just use it to kill blobs fast

Or body piles

[fossil delta]

It doesn't knock them back, much, if at all.

[abstract warren]

Although generally my atgeir does the job well enough

[abstract warren]

Doesn't knock back blobs?

[fossil delta]

Thats why Atgeirs are so liked, by those who use them.

[abstract warren]

Indeed

[fossil delta]

Not that I recall.

[abstract warren]

And still we don't have an Atgeir emoji

[fossil delta]

My wife uses Frostner, while I use swords.

[abstract warren]

Outrageous

Nice

[strange turret]

https://tenor.com/view/wiking-viking-słowianin-słowianie-slowianie-gif-22101207

[abstract warren]

She played with mace from the start?

[fossil delta]

I use Frostner for a short while. I switch to swords with the BM sword.

[fossil delta]

We both do. Then I switch to swords with the BM sword.

[abstract warren]

Nice

Black metal is awesome

[fossil delta]

It is.

[abstract warren]

Especially BM Atgeir it's just OP

[green reef]

I like silver sword, but Mistwalker rocks

[fossil delta]

I'm really a fan of the BM Tower Shield. The thing is a beast, all the way into Ashlands.

[abstract warren]

Against big enemies too. At this point I can easily stagger even loxes and fuling berserkers

[teal crest]

When Is Valheim 1.0 Release Date ? ? ? ?

[abstract warren]

Yeah I'm using the regular shield. Was wondering if I should make the tower shield for facing Yagluth

[abstract warren]

Not announced

[fossil delta]

Well, I've been using Tower Shields for years now. From what I have read here, they may be better than parry shields. 😄 😄 I started using them because just blocking made things harder. Back then. Now you can just change settings.

[green reef]

I used to really love using a shield. now I usually run around shieldless even with 1h weapons

[silk token]

idk if u want me to spoil yagluth, but there aren't really things to parry against him

[fossil delta]

Can't parry any boss, can you?

[silk token]

you probably also dont want to stand there blockign either

[abstract warren]

Yeah I figured it's either that or just probably big attacks that would be difficult to parry

[abstract warren]

You can

[green reef]

you could block meteors I suppose, but its better to hide under something I would think.

[fossil delta]

Only thing I don't stand and block is his fireball attack. My shield blocks everything else.

[silk token]

its just that his attacks arent realy thinsg to block or parry, its more of a mobility fight

[fossil delta]

Only his meteors. I block everything else.

[abstract warren]

Yeah it's fire attacks right

[silk token]

you can block his IMA CHARGIN MUH LAZER move??

[abstract warren]

Oh ok there are actual meteors lol

[fossil delta]

I even block his breathe beam.

[abstract warren]

Ahhh spoilers

[silk token]

well i was trying to not spoil it

[abstract warren]

Lol

Np I don't really mind

[silk token]

and then everyone els eis like FIREBALLS METOERS lol

[fossil delta]

Don't worry, you will still freak out.

[silk token]

oh ok good. well yeah so he doesn't auto attack in any way, he just casts things you're probably not wanting to touch

[abstract warren]

I'll just put on my padded armour and use fire resistance mead

[silk token]

bring health potions and fire resist and just run a lot til you learn his moves

[fossil delta]

Tower shield, the BM one, blocks all his attacks just fine, aside from the meteors.

[silk token]

really?? that lazer seems like something impossible

its never even coem into my head to try to block it once ever

[fossil delta]

The fire mead is a must, for sure. Even if you use a Tower
Shield.

[abstract warren]

Wym about the block settings

[fossil delta]

I block it all the time. Its kind of impressive,, for sure.

[abstract warren]

I'm probably not gonna use a tower shield though

Too slow

[silk token]

imean if you apparently can just hold block against things why would you need to move?

[fossil delta]

Yeah, people complain about that all the time. I still move fine, plus the R key puts it away pretty fast. Plus gets it back out.

[silk token]

ive never had movement problems with being slow, i do heavy armor and battleaxe drawn all the time and just slow scary walk at my enemies i dont get it

[fossil delta]

I still run out of the meteors attack. But yeah, I don't need to move the rest of the time. Its why I beat him in around 2 minutes. I am hitting him all the time. Even use a stamina mead in order to keep hitting him.

[trim hatch]

why are copper depossits so laggy

it always takes like half a second for the ore to drop

no other vein does that

[fossil delta]

No idea, seems to break immediately for me.

[abstract warren]

Sure but some people (like me) just like mobility and getting places fast

Boss fights can be a different matter

[abstract warren]

You have a point there yeah

Just wasn't sure how effective blocking would be against Yagluth anyway

I'm generally more of an "offence is the best defence" kind of guy

[dark coyote]

because its underground, then it reappears above ground

[sharp owl]

what exactly does "Crafting Skills +9" mean. That's from EpicLoot.

[lone rampart]

It means you have 9 points of Crafting skill added to your natural skill level

[sharp owl]

threre is smth like natural skill level?

I thought there's workbench/Forge lvl and that's it.

oh the continuous skills, I see.

well, that's pretty much irrelevant then.

[green reef]

haha now ask what crafting skill does 😄

[lone rampart]

Not really irrelevant. Depending on what you're crafting, higher skill has a chance to make extras

[green reef]

you can get like 1 free arrow when you make 20 😉

[sharp owl]

What I don't understand is: I have a cloak with +9 Health. When I switch to it, I do not gain 9 health 🤔

[trail pelican]

yeah the game even really encourages you arguably to be smart about using what you might call your singularly greatest weapons--hammer & hoe--for example, it's quite helpful to simply do some ground levelling as you go in the swamp to make fewer places for you to be possibly chased into a pack of leeches

[tired path]

I once crafted an extra Bell :D

[tired path]

Huh? You sure you're talking about Valheim?

[trim hatch]

they should add a wagon, an upgrade for the cart, so that you can carry more, and pull with a lox

now there will be an use for riding

[green reef]

I think you can ride a lox with thousands of pounds of ore?

[thorny lake]

#screenshots message This is what I planted the oak tree for

[trail pelican]

as much ore as you can fit in your inventory

[trim hatch]

haldor got a wagon

why not us

[abstract warren]

Dvergr privileges

[trail pelican]

25K gold for your wagon haldor, final offer

[trim hatch]

25.001

they need to buff tower shields

its literally better to just parry

and its not even that hard to parry

i really wanted to use the one you get in the sea but ig not

[trail pelican]

stagger reduction?

[silk token]

imo they shouldn’t break something cuz they broke something else, towers are fine

[trim hatch]

i got 60 copper

i can probably make 2 bronze with this

[paper marsh]

Gonna need to start asking your questions in #mods-discussion

More than half your questions are about mods which people here probably can't help with, and it's not really supposed to be talked about here

[trim hatch]

i keep being told to not bother with heavy armor

is the armor stat really not that useful?

some of those sets look very nice

level 50 run and i havent left the first 2 zones yet haha

[paper marsh]

Sounds like bad advice. It's very preference based.

Light armor slaps. Heavy armor slaps

If being given advice specifically for the super early game though, heavy armor can be a bit lackluster there. Like black forest heavy armor is barely more armor than the light armor variants. And the swamp light armor has some unique perks that make it really good

Once you progress out of the black forest I think heavy armor is very good. A lot of people like to mix things too, so part heavy armor part light armor.

Heavy armor is especially good for helmets, because despite being heavy armor, helmets don't slow you down

[trim hatch]

i remember my first time playing i had full set of bronze armor so i sailed to the second boss, when i got there i arrived at a swamp and i got one shot by a skeleton, and i uninstalled the game

[paper marsh]

oof

[trim hatch]

i jumped onto land and got hit by an arrow

[paper marsh]

Eating food is very important. Food upgrades are honestly more important than any armor or weapon

If you've been sailing for half an hour, it's easy to forget you're on an empty stomach

[trim hatch]

yeah i cant say for sure if it was that because it was a long ago so i dont remember much

im gonna see if i can manage to kill a wolf in the mountains that spawned on my starting area... nothing bad with getting an early wolf cape

muehehe

[paper marsh]

Do need silver for that cape

Although wolf meat isn't terrible

[trim hatch]

oh damn

unfortunate, yeah wolf meat is good

but that would actually be cheating to me haha

the cape is fine, they all just give the same ammount of armor

[paper marsh]

There is one cape that gives a nice boost to armor

But it's laterrrrrr

[tough mulch]

the current late game capes are wonderful, especially the modifiers they have, hopefully future capes follow this pattern

[trim hatch]

i played on the side with a friend for a while but shes busy rn

so i havent seen the last area yet

[tough mulch]

its fine theres plenty to do even without touching the last biome

[trim hatch]

i decided to make a playtrough for myself alone

still upset that magic is so late into the game

[tough mulch]

its too OP to be added early

[paper marsh]

its too OP to be added

[tough mulch]

well I guess it does have the trade-off of needing etir food? but still OP compared to the rest

[trim hatch]

just make weaker magic

[shy marlin]

i think magic fits nicely into progression currently 🤔

[tough mulch]

oh wait nvm not all magic is OP, some of them are though

[trim hatch]

idk i had already built my character into a big axe wielding barbarian that when i found out that there was magic in the ante-penultimate zone i was so angry

theres a spell that summons roots that attack, and a boss that summons those same roots that attack

why not fuckin, add that there man

pmo

[tough mulch]

thats the most busted item in the game

[trim hatch]

the first boss be shooting lightning out his horns

[tough mulch]

so busted its basically quasi cheesing

[trim hatch]

idk i havent used it

[tough mulch]

eh you'll get to it eventually

[trim hatch]

i stuck to necromancy because the lightning magic is EVEN FURTHER AHEAD

[tough mulch]

wouldn't you wanna lvl up your elemental magic for your future lightning magic?

[trim hatch]

"theres a whole magic system in this game, all you have to do to unlock it is beat the whole game"

[trim hatch]

no

im not gonna use the blunderbuss taser

[tough mulch]

kek

poor blunderbuss, no one likes it

[paper marsh]

Game also isn't done yet. By the time it's done there's gonna be (I imagine) 2 pretty content filled biomes to viking your way through after the magic biome

[trim hatch]

i just summon my skeletons and give them shield, thats cooler

cooler than fireballs

sending an army

[tough mulch]

2 and not one? isnt DN the last biome? whats the other one

[paper marsh]

Ashlands

[tough mulch]

oh, and here I thought we will get a new sub-biome

[trim hatch]

2 is not alot

[paper marsh]

Eh to me it is

[trim hatch]

1 and a half actually, because the shock staff is in the ashlands

[paper marsh]

Honestly I expected this game to stop in Plains. There's a lot more content than I had anticipated

[tough mulch]

good thing it didn't

otherwise how would have been blessed with the PTSD of ashlands

[paper marsh]

So by that logic, if they added magic to meadows, there would still only be 1.5 biomes to use it in because the rest of the magic doesn't unlock until ashlands?

[trim hatch]

just let me make a shitty lightning staff with eikthyrs horn

let it shoot a single spark idc

[trim hatch]

no, not really

there would be all the rest of the biomes, all that would be are upgrades

[paper marsh]

Is it just that you only consider lightning magic?

[trim hatch]

i like lightning magic

not in this game, but in general

[tough mulch]

repairable torch that has minor lightning element

[trim hatch]

lmao

[paper marsh]

You unlock magic in mistlands and can use that to finsih up mistlands and do all of ashlands/deep north. It is a bit late in the game but I still feel it gets a lot of play

I think there's a lot of mods adding magic to earlier biomes tho, could try those out

[steel mica]

Its a great introduction really

[trim hatch]

i shouldnt need to depend on mods for the game to be good

i dont really like mods anyways

[tough mulch]

the games pretty good though, I do have dissatisfactions with the ashlands and mistlands but overall rating still good for me

[trim hatch]

hopefully the devs decide to add some form of early magic

whole ass witch in the swamp

but she doesnt wanna share any spells

[steel mica]

I dont think they will add early magic, thats just me

[tough mulch]

they added 'early axes', who knows you might just get your 'early magic'

[trim hatch]

haldor sells a bolt stone

[paper marsh]

Ashlands I feel like most the stuff they honestly did really well

There's just 2-3 things that really bother me and detract a lot from the biome

Mistlands is perfect, my favorite biome

[tough mulch]

its so we can make our glorified trashcan

[shy marlin]

If they ever did earlier magic I think they'd go more in the direction of adding consumables, like killing a Fuling Shaman could drop a fireball staff that had super low durability, couldn't be repaired etc

[tough mulch]

I dont like the envinroment modifier to be specific, the rest are good

[trim hatch]

imagine instead of completing the obliterator you use the spike as a spear, and you throw it, when it lands it gets stuck on an enemy and a bolt falls on them

taking appart my obliterator

[tough mulch]

oh theres your solution

early magic found, obliterator has lightning dmg

[trim hatch]

just carry all the components of an obliterator everywhere you go

having my teamate distract the 2 star troll so i can place the obliterator

[paper marsh]

I've honestly considered if the obliterator coudl be useful for base defense

Never tested it tho

[tough mulch]

hmmmm I doubt it, the timing would need to be precise and its not automatic

[trim hatch]

who do i gotta mail for this

[lone rampart]

Precise timing and a very small area of effect

[tough mulch]

how much is the dmg again? Ive only got hit a few times at most

[trim hatch]

i think its 200 if you get hit by the bolt directly

but you gotta stand on top of the spike for that

it says on the wiki lightning strikes the lightning rod above the Obliterator dealing 400 Lightning damage and additional 10 Lightning damage within 2.42 meters.

[tough mulch]

enemies take more dmg from frost if they are in water, so maybe its the same for lightning?

[paper marsh]

it is

[trim hatch]

give me my early staves valheim dev

[paper marsh]

Not even in water, just wet

[trim hatch]

and my life is yours

[tough mulch]

I dont think they added a mechanic that increase the AoE if its in water or on metal, would make it much more viable as early magic in swamp otherwise

[trim hatch]

the swamp witch is so fun i love her

[tough mulch]

I hate her broom

[trim hatch]

i love watching her broom go outside to smash enemies over the head

[tough mulch]

Im the one who got smashed

in the head

[trim hatch]

parry the broom

[trail pelican]

the broom was standing its ground

[tough mulch]

stagbreaker near bog witch is a no no

[chrome badge]

Get swept

[tough mulch]

sneaky lil sht got me from the back while I was distracted fighting the enemies upfront

[trim hatch]

i accidentally hit it once and i didnt wanna kill it so i let it kill me to see if it would calm down

[trim hatch]

oh my god dude

i hate when stuff like that happens

when im fighting a troll early game and a horde of greydwarves decides to spawn

i was fighting this one 1 star troll and they wouldnt stop spawning, i would kill 5 and another 5 came non stop

i didnt know what to do i just hid on a catacomb

[tough mulch]

me fighting a 1 star troll with a group of greydwarfs and a shaming healing him, all while having crube bow with wood arrows

[tough mulch]

atleast you had a catacomb, I was near my new base and spawning inside had a high chance the troll would smash it, so I held my ground

[steel mica]

Just put 2 campfires and all your greydwarf issues are gone

[trim hatch]

btw i got so unlucky with the early axes

[steel mica]

well except the shaman and brute

[trim hatch]

i found 2 golden heads and 0 iron heads

crying

i wanted to try them out

[tough mulch]

the troll smashed them midway, I had campfires all around but I guess a troll spawned on this tiny tiny non spawn proofed area

[tough mulch]

I had a high success rate finding my Iron axe head near water

[steel mica]

early game feels weird to me now 😅

[tough mulch]

how so?

[steel mica]

Well experience

[tough mulch]

ahhh true true

[trim hatch]

worst part is my friend installed the game, made a world, and found them almost instantly

[tough mulch]

I see you too have been blessed with terrible RNG

I do have a seed that has both of them near spawn if you want that

[trim hatch]

i mean

sure

[tough mulch]

lemme go grab it

[trim hatch]

did you see my house in #building-screenshots

[steel mica]

Ngl I hate the fog more in the other biomes compared to the mistlands

[tough mulch]

WOODHOUSE2
this is the seed, the heads are in Northwest and Southeast, very very close to spawn.

[tough mulch]

same fog is annoying, literall I decide to go explore and the world decides to fog

[trim hatch]

alright, lets see em

[tough mulch]

also why would you notice fog in the mistlands. its like being born blind and suddenly waking up to find out you lost your eyes

[trim hatch]

i like fog

but foggy fog, not mistland fog

it looks pretty

[tough mulch]

the same fog that makes it so you cant see very well? or like, the morning fog

[trim hatch]

silent hill fog

[tough mulch]

when it fogs for me its like im experiencing half of mistlands

[gray sand]

Mist > Fog

[tough mulch]

its kinda creepy when it happens in a world that used to have alot of players, basically we have a small village and when the fog hits, it feels like its haunted

since im the only one left I decided to place some graves to honor their memory, and the graves + fog hits different

[trim hatch]

on my mama i cant find them

can you send a screenshot of the map

[tough mulch]

sure, it wont be a full reveal just the areas where they should be, is that fine?

[trim hatch]

yea

[tough mulch]

sent it in screenshots

[steel mica]

@trim hatch Theres a cooldown

chill the beans

[trim hatch]

30 DAMAGE BASE?????

wgat

[tough mulch]

the most important thing is that it can cut early birch and oak trees

[trim hatch]

fully upgraded its 45

??????

this is sooo broken

[tough mulch]

it is RNG dependant

[trim hatch]

truly, i wasnt able to get them

but damn

[steel mica]

Greg looking majestic

[tough mulch]

by the time you can fully upgrade it you'd be in the swamp or mountains so

[trim hatch]

imma test these out on a tree

[trim hatch]

what

is lvl 4 not the max

[tough mulch]

you would need to upgrade the workbench for you to upgrade the axe

and the workbench upgrade mats are in later biomes

[gray sand]

The new axes do more than Flint but less than Bronze.
So they fit exactly where they are meant to without breaking anything 🤷‍♂️

[trim hatch]

the fucking charge attack lmao

[tough mulch]

its good for jumping deers 👍

[trim hatch]

i got them on lvl 4 and i havent beaten the elder yet

[gray sand]

Use them to kill Elder, making bronze age much faster.

[tough mulch]

the fastest way is still to hire the local big guy to help mining

[trim hatch]

ok they attack fast but they cant cancel out of it

almost a whole second to dodge after a swing

[tough mulch]

eh if you spam it enough you can stunlock most things

early game that is

[trim hatch]

i wanna try these out on a troll

[gray sand]

Eh. I would have to see side-by-side to believe this now tbh.
Elder buff is insanely noticeable.

[trim hatch]

but ill probably go back to sword and board

[steel mica]

Dont spam it lol

You'll find out the hard way

[tough mulch]

no, spam it, the last one standing is the bigger man

[trim hatch]

ig im not upgrading my bronze axe lol

can i plant the big fat trees

are there seeds for it

i find it silly that its easier to parry a troll with a log than without it

for some reason the ones with no log always stagger me but i can parry just fine the ones with the log

makes no sense but sure

[abstract warren]

@tacit crystal right lol

I've yet to actually discover it so didn't cross my mind

[sleek sky]

let me make sure i am understanding this, but screenshots containing ANYTHING modded (IE UI/items in inventory) cannot be posted in #building-screenshots even if the building and its construction is all vanilla?

[abstract warren]

Probably not

No reason for that

[trim hatch]

holy damn these axes are bear melting machines

[tough mulch]

The drop rate is abysmal, same as birch

[trim hatch]

what did you just call me...

[sleek sky]

ugh where do you find valheim screenshots in your files?

[tough mulch]

lol

I didn't call you anything

[fossil delta]

I thought people had issues getting Vineberries to grow well.

They grow like crazy for us.

[dark coyote]

I did, for some reason, then one day they just fruited

[tacit crystal]

There was also this bug that made all grown vineberries in self planted vines disappear after logging out, but since Call to Arms it has seemingly been fixed.

[fossil delta]

Well, now we plant them over 2 meters apart, and give them walls 8 meters high to grow up, and they do, and give us tons of berries.

[open bolt]

I found a higher place in the Meadows that is marked as Mountain in the map. Is this normal? This is clearly not Mountain.

The view from there is amazing tho, since it's super high and near the sea 🫠☺️

[trim hatch]

they need to add tameable greydwarves

these mfs keep walking into my house, i always find them inside

might aswell just let them stay

[remote zealot]

Tried to feed them arrows. They don’t like it

[trim hatch]

im such a dirty cheater

my controller has a special turbo button that can make any button held press itself repeatedly

and i use that for putting shit into da forge hehe

i play with mouse and keybaord but i got the controller right next to me haha

[subtle pawn]

You can always just hold the E button

That's fast enough

[worn steeple]

Is the bear-rug at Haldors base ment to be destroyed? If this is some error, I hope they fix it.

Damn people, even stealing from someone whos just being nice.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/0t59arGm13c

[hard sluice]

is this channel age-restricted..?

[worn steeple]

You're probably old enough

[hard sluice]

just curious

[worn steeple]

Valheim as a game has no official age-rating. Discord however, has.

[tacit crystal]

What 10% drop chance does to a viking.

[south palm]

Hey, I'm having a problem because the altar to summon the Elder appeared in the Swamp right next to (presumably) the Draug spawn (during our trip to the altar, my friends and I encountered two groups of Draugs, each with one Draug with a star, and well... even though there were three of us, we got a good beating from them).

Is there any way to move this altar? Alternatively, is there a way to summon the Elder to a different location? Or is it possible to disable "God mode" and kill the Draugs so I can play normally? Currently, it feels like we can't fully fight the Draugs when a single bow shot from a Draug with a star kills a companion.

PS. Sorry for the poor English. I'm using some help from internet translator.

[worn steeple]

Find a new one if you cant handle it.

There are four to be found

[south palm]

How do I find another one? Every time I search the dungeons and find the Elder's location, it always shows the same altar.

[worn steeple]

Look for a new Black Forest in another direction from spawn

[trim hatch]

nope

[worn steeple]

Remember you can also find the vegvisir in and outside ruins in Black Forest

[south palm]

Ok, never mind, I found the videos, I didn't know there was more than 1 altar in the world

[worn steeple]

Go get'em 😊😊

[subtle pawn]

Okey now i get it what you mean😅

[meager fossil]

Still love going out of mountain during snowfall and get faceblasted with a golden rain

[paper marsh]

Not sure what that refers to, but it sounds so inappropriate 😆

[candid basalt]

Thank you I was thinking the same

[frigid anvil]

The Valheim building addiction is honestly real

I’m planning out a base in my head instead of paying attention to my classes 😂

[frozen fable]

You can put the layout on paper and make it easier when you do get back to the game

[haughty geode]

are lily pads purely a feature of black forest?

[frigid anvil]

Meh I gotta see what the trees are like in the swamp I want to build it in

I want to make a tree base with a space for a ship to sail in underneath

[haughty geode]

am I missing out a way to upgrade stuff to lvl4?
I only see 2 different augments for workbench and forge

[paper marsh]

What biome are you in? They unlock as you progress

[silk token]

kekosummer in that last screenshot u posted, that looks like the bottom of a copper node pit? if so, trees dont like when stones or ore nodes are too close, there may be rock beneath them

[haughty geode]

about to go into swamp

[subtle pawn]

so for forge there is two at this moment but for workbench you should be able to do one more

[paper marsh]

Workbench should have a little axe thingy made of flint, deer tannign rack made of deer hide, and a bronze adze made of bronze

[subtle pawn]

bronze and finewood

maybe finewood is what you need

[stone ridge]

i respond to 10 lfgs yesterday and only get one text then ghosted. how do i play with more than one friend that losses interest in a week? (like i do)

[paper marsh]

If you lose interest in a week maybe teaming up with others isn't the best play

But my best advice for playing with people is playing with people you already know

Since that can sometimes be hard, LFG is there as a fallback but it's not always great

[stone ridge]

i quit cuz i cant do anything alone for longer than 40 hrs then i get frustrated being alone and outnumbered cant get past the queen

[gray sand]

Interesting.

[unkempt vigil]

how can i get perms for pictures

[nocturne wolf]

#screenshots, #mods-screenshots, #building-screenshots all allow pictures

[unkempt vigil]

thanks!

[frigid anvil]

How do the damage totals for Frostner work

Like, how do the different damage types combine to give a single value

[nocturne wolf]

After weakness/resistance is applied to each damage type, they're added together for total damage

[frigid anvil]

So in theory without resistances the base damage is 95?

No, 75

Because the spirit doesn’t damage living creatures

[nocturne wolf]

yes but you'll never deal that much because of skill level and damage variance

[frigid anvil]

I mean, I’m dealing plenty of damage, so I’m not really worried about that

[nocturne wolf]

it damages bats

[frigid anvil]

I’m just curious how it works

[trail pelican]

valheim bats confirmed to be vampires

[nocturne wolf]

i never thought about that

[tacit crystal]

And fenring family.

[trail pelican]

vampire werewolves

[dry eagle]

is there any sort of date confirmed for the deep north i haven’t been up to date in a while

[tacit crystal]

No dates announced.

[dry eagle]

ah damn

what’s the development looked like so far is it all coming together?

like based on the teasers and stuff

[tacit crystal]

You can read about them in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202150165449035816

[tacit crystal]

But this reads in one of their blog posts:

But besides that we’re now focusing the team solely on content for the Deep North and 1.0. Armour sets are being designed, dungeons are getting fleshed out, and enemies are being animated. We’re itching for you to see it all, but we also want to make sure that there’s plenty of things left for you to discover on your own!

And 67° roof pieces is confirmed too.

[dry eagle]

ah sweet they also said

As you all know, we're working on Deep North, which will be the final biome update that brings the game into 1.0.
While we can't give an update on that today, we can share that 2026 is going to be a great year for Valheim.

which kinda could mean it comes out this year or it might not

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, at least Valheim is going to be released both in PS5 and Switch 2 this year.

But what else might become will remain to be seen. 👍

[silk token]

hey what happens if you mine those rocky poi’s are they indestructible? do they raise/lower with terraforming?

[tacit crystal]

They seem to be destructible. But don't know about them moving if terraforming.
One way to figure out.

[silk token]

too risky! just wondering because if i find one i can make a glorious shrine to the great rock, and wondering if i can flatten land around it. but if it might shatter…’haha how funny would it be if every rocky in the world just had a permanent shocked face??😂

ooo…. or turned into a normal rock… so many easter egg possibilities

[haughty geode]

I was placing boat in the middle of the night and turns out hologram wasn't quite where I wanted it... so it dropped on top of my pier

[silk token]

that has happened to everyone im sure

[wary kettle]

I am considering temporarily flipping on creative mode to build a house that I found on YouTube. Go ahead chat, crucify me now

[haughty geode]

I don't want to destroy it and find out that nails dropped onto seabed...

[haughty geode]

it's nice to pursue your creative ambitions

[silk token]

nails do sink. if you cant shove it off, build a pier underneath the pier to catch the nails maybe?

[silk token]

people do far worse

[haughty geode]

it's not getting pushed...

[silk token]

if u really want to save your nails build as much underneath as you can. or if its faster to destroy your pier and rebuild

if its not that deep you can jump in and sink down to pick them up. how deep is the water underneath?

[chrome badge]

Do what you want, I just don't do that because I appreciate the adventures that come along with gathering materials.

[haughty geode]

sink?

[haughty geode]

maybe a bit more than 4m pole

depending on weather...

I took my chances and they didn't drop

[supple fossil]

Are there any new updates concerning the deep north? Will they incorporate objectives? Do they plan on ending the game at DN?

[tacit crystal]

Deep North will be the last biome.

And it will eventually end.

[silk token]

well not “sink” maybe “bounce” is a better word. you can get pretty deep if you jump from high up

[supple fossil]

no plans on the horizon for a 2nd game?

[flat stag]

will Lox breed in the Meadows?

[tacit crystal]

We don't know that.

[paper marsh]

I don't think there's any published plans no

Devs may have internal plans

[steel mica]

I love valheim farms

[haughty geode]

found my first leviathan
I was pretty chill, until I noticed it is indeed trying to sink.
I didn't have any meal ready, so ended up 10m away from my boat with 0 stamina and 25hp
maanged to get to the ladded with 2hp thanks to tick doing both dmg and regen from the meal I ate whiel in the waater

[steel mica]

@haughty geode your oak farm

try making them flat 🫠

the terrain

[haughty geode]

I was just palnting some oaks haha

I had enough space in my coastal base to plant 10

and now I left a added a couple to add some nice cover

[vocal kite]

can someone give me some advice on what to do next lol? ive killed the second boss and need to kill the 3rd but im too weak im stuck kinda idk where to start what to do (im playing solo first playthrough 50hrs in)

[chrome badge]

Have you crafted a Fermenter yet?

[vocal kite]

yeah got 4 of those up just lack stuff to shove in it

[silk token]

i wish i could barely make it back to my boat from a leviathan for the first time again. any trekies here?-i feel like picard talking to wesley crusher in the cave, "how i envy you, you're just at the beginning"

[chrome badge]

Try brewing up some Poison resistance mead, you'll want that to take on the 3rd boss to be sure.

[vocal kite]

ive got 10 of those! im still rocking the bronze teir 4 sword and sheild with troll armour

[chrome badge]

Ah, you'll want to brave some sunken crypts and bring a boat load of iron home to smelt so you can begin upgrading for the fight!

[vocal kite]

hmm okay okay

[chrome badge]

For that fight I would recommend the Iron Mace, and to think about making a sword only after that boss is defeated.

The 3rd boss takes a lot of blunt damage from the Iron Mace.

[vocal kite]

ive got the bronze one

lvl 4

[chrome badge]

Yeah, the weaponry from the previous biome is typically nowhere near as good.

[vocal kite]

ahh i see

kinda sucks tho sometimes playing on ur own all the time lol

[chrome badge]

You can compare them in the forge's menu when you have materials, an upgraded level 4 bronze weapon will either be as good or slightly worse than a level 1 iron weapon. The level 4 iron weapon will make a massive difference.

[vocal kite]

got u

[haughty geode]

why is htere a village of green evil man in meadows?

[chrome badge]

My advice is just take it slow, if you're overly focused on progression it can feel like a grind, but adventuring and drinking the world in can really be peaceful in it's own right!

[vocal kite]

indeed

[chrome badge]

You found a Draugr village, their lore can be uncovered in the swamps, be careful if you choose to fight them.

[silk token]

lol omg early axes kill eikthyr so fast it's ridiculous.

[haughty geode]

so they should be in meadows?

[haughty geode]

I found maybe 4 wooden spears, but only 1 axe head...

[fossil delta]

They are always in the meadows.

Draugr Villages are found in no other biome, not even inside the swamps.

[candid basalt]

At a certain distance from spawn yes

Someone built all those old houses. Sometimes they are still there

[fossil delta]

Those villages make a great base. I think I will use them from now on.

[silk token]

RNGesus is crazy, i found the tough to find axe had in the 2nd tough to find building, but somehow after hours only found 1 beehive lol

[tacit crystal]

I found both axe heads very fast during the trip to the nearest Eikthyr altar. Fastest Eikthyr kill with meadows tier equipment ever.

[silk token]

excited to try on a bear, wonder if its faster than killing with parrys and 1 hand flint

[tacit crystal]

Much faster.

You can parry even the weaker attacks with enough HP.
-# But suffer some damage if without armor.

[paper marsh]

I imagine early axes will also level you axe skill faster

[tacit crystal]

I'm still at black forest and have axe skill over 50.

Although I have only used axes and spears.

[candid basalt]

After my deaths in Ashland last night I do t want to look at my skills

[silk token]

ohrly? hmm even on hard? ill try it anyway

[tacit crystal]

Haven't tested on hard.

[silk token]

axe spear is the way

[tacit crystal]

Although I had early finewood bow with me but didn't use it, same with bear paws.

[uncut pecan]

Is this game worth playing anymore?

[chrome badge]

Always and forever. 🤘

[uncut pecan]

Why?

[frigid anvil]

Fun, hard

Can build some really cool things

[steel mica]

Yes

[silk token]

cheeeeeeeeeeezus, ok so early axes on hard at least are BAD against brutes. not even close to parrying and they attack fast enough you cant recover from a swing because they after-swing is so long.

[frigid anvil]

I’ve been going axe mace recently, but yeah axe spear is probably the “optimal” combination

[chrome badge]

Countless ways to play, bottomless adventures, engaging building systems, fun with friends, tune-able difficulties, and plenty of enemies to take mastery over.

[silk token]

yeah, cuz also inventory space, your axe is your weapon, and your spear is your bow and arrows

[paper marsh]

Yeah I wouldn't trust low parry armor against a brute

[frigid anvil]

Meh I’d still like to have a bow and arrow on me

But yeah I agree with your vision

[uncut pecan]

I could just play Palworld if I wanted that.

[paper marsh]

I imagine early axes are just for parrying greydwarves and MAYBE a 0 star skeleton (if you are on hard)

[frigid anvil]

Axe also for woodcutting

[chrome badge]

Okay, but you didn't ask me how it differs from Palworld.

[frigid anvil]

I mean hey, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea and that’s fine

Bottom line is if you enjoy a game, play it, and if not don’t

[paper marsh]

I was not a huge fan of palworld

Some reason still played it through

[silk token]

ok so 3 meats CAN parry it without self-stagger, but still take like 20 damage that it's not sustainable the whole fight. that said, i think it still killed faster than flint because the silly bear AI let me get off a couple full combos on it and that added up fast

[uncut pecan]

I didn't think I needed to. I wasn't expecting vague, obtuse mechanics every other survival crafting game has.

[frigid anvil]

I like the free build mechanic quite a lot, do you all think it’s cheating?

[chrome badge]

You asked me why in a very broad way, you want specifics, ask in a specific way.

[frigid anvil]

For base-building and the like

Not for portaling and ship building

[uncut pecan]

All I said was why? I shouldn't have to guide your thoughts down a narrow hallway.

[chrome badge]

It is cheating, that's why if you enable it, your character has "Cheater!" listed in their stat readout permanently.

[frigid anvil]

Oh interesting

The world setting?

[chrome badge]

I shouldn't have to assume the answers your looking for when you're not being specific either.

[uncut pecan]

You don't have to assume anything. Just don't parody an IGN game review, that's all.

[chrome badge]

In the /stats list when you're in your world.

[frigid anvil]

I’m on xbox 😂

[chrome badge]

It's legitimately things I enjoy about the game, you just took issue with it for some reason.

[chrome badge]

You should still be able to access chat.

[uncut pecan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBqiBu-TPwk

[frigid anvil]

Maybe? I dunno

Probably!

I haven’t really gone looking for it since I play alone

[chrome badge]

The "no not like that" approach won't get you very far. If you don't get the information you want, maybe you're not asking the right questions.

[chrome badge]

Fair, there is a chat even when solo, you can use it utilize some commands, like /sortcraft, which will organize your crafting menu's ordering.

[steel mica]

o didnt know this

[uncut pecan]

?

[candid basalt]

I forgot how big the stone portals are. I need to rebuild my main base now

[steel mica]

its like a 8x8 size

[candid basalt]

It’s the height. Don’t fit in my portal areas lol

[steel mica]

Maybe 8x9 lol

[candid basalt]

8.5x 7 x 3 apparently

Anyway time to rebuild base woo

[steel mica]

@chrome badge quick questions, whats thhe command to kill a specific enemy

bc in my ashland fortress base I hear a lava blob underneath my base and my asksvins are not liking it lmao

they keep going to the corner

[chrome badge]

Oh that's a console command, I'm unfamiliar with those, sorry!

[steel mica]

Ah ok

One of the few times I use console commands to deal with annoyance

[uncut pecan]

Is there more to do in this game other than building and exploring?

[rotund parrot]

You will have to fight for your life, like the whole time

[silk token]

hahahah.... ok so you can't parry a hard brute them, but if however you time your final combo vs them with early axes they stagger and lose 2/3 their hp.

[uncut pecan]

Idk if that's a joke or not lol

[rotund parrot]

Go experience it and find out

[uncut pecan]

I got to the forests and got bored.

[frigid anvil]

Oh dude… there’s sooo much more to the game 😭

I mean that’s valid though, I got stuck in the same spot

[uncut pecan]

That's cool. But, just like One Piece, I'm not into games that take 500 hours to get into.

[frigid anvil]

Took a break for 6 months, now I’m back and super heavily invested in it

[steel mica]

There is alot to do

[steel mica]

It can be beaten in just like 80hour'ish

[uncut pecan]

That's cool.

[rotund parrot]

Well, less than that but extremely unlikely for a new player that will make countless mistakes but once you learn from them, you could

[uncut pecan]

Is there replay value to the game if it's that short to beat?

[steel mica]

Yes

[rotund parrot]

Yes because of random generation, multiplayer and world settings

[candid basalt]

1200+ hours here. Always something new to do

[paper marsh]

It’s still being developed too. Once the final biome is added I think most people are going to spend over 100 hours on a first playthrough

But yeah one of the most replyable games I’ve played. Procedural generation really does a lot

[silk token]

the map is randomly generated every world is new, there are different weapons to use and incraese your skill with and playstyles, im also well over 1k hours and its the only game currently i want to play

[steel mica]

LMAO THEY FLOOD OUT LIKE PIRANHAS LMAOO

[rotund parrot]

Just saw that I just passed 3000 hours played, this is crazy

[uncut pecan]

Idk. It's been 5 years. I'm nowhere closer to believing them.

[burnt glen]

Just depends on how you feel about it at the end of the run. It is a game with clear objective so once you complete it (still being developed) and want to put it down and move on, that's just fine.

[uncut pecan]

Yeah, I get to the forest with the trolls, and get bored and play something else. This game doesn't have enough to hold my attention.

[paper marsh]

It’s been 5 years with updates runningly being added

Isn’t that reason TO believe that it’s being actively developed and more content is becoming available?

[burnt glen]

Hmm, have you tried playing it with friends? co-op is an option.

[chrome badge]

Art is subjective, not everyone can enjoy everything.

[uncut pecan]

No. Just like The Forever Winter devs, I don't respect games that have DLC before being released.

[rotund parrot]

Why would you care if the last 15% of the game isn't complete if you just make it 5% into the game?

[uncut pecan]

Cool.

[burnt glen]

Valheim doesn't have DLCs, it has updates.

[uncut pecan]

No.

[uncut pecan]

You can call them whatever you wish.

[burnt glen]

No you can't, different phrases mean different things.

[steel mica]

I CANT SEE SH LMAO

[hoary scarab]

trolls be trollin

[uncut pecan]

This is where people try to tell me "semantics".

[chrome badge]

Oh so people have tried to explain this to you before.

[hoary scarab]

its a month old discord acct, obv troll

[uncut pecan]

No, I'm saying I've been in his position before.

[steel mica]

If you dont like the gameplay wise thats fine no one is forcing you to play, you dont have to put a bunch of hours into a game you dont like, we play because its fun, period.

And also sometimes hilarious

[uncut pecan]

The dev's work eithic =/= my experience in their game

[chrome badge]

🙃

[uncut pecan]

If I'm playing Palworld, then surely I'd enjoy this game. No?

[paper marsh]

Not necessarily no. I'd say they're pretty different

[steel mica]

Similar games does not mean same experience

[paper marsh]

Again I felt "eh" about palworld but absolutely love Valheim

[steel mica]

In terms of atmosphere, gameplay, and other mechanics

[uncut pecan]

I wasn't even talking about the creature capturing aspect. Just the survival crafting aspects.

[steel mica]

While both do have "similar" mechanics they often have different gameplay wise

[paper marsh]

Oh I'm talking about all aspects

I rarely play a game for one mechanic

[uncut pecan]

Build bases, level up, fight bosses, etc.

[paper marsh]

In terms of crafting I'd say they're pretty similar

Valheim is more survival heavy tho

[uncut pecan]

Do you even go hungry in Valheim? Isn't food just bonuses?

[burnt glen]

Palworld's building wasn't as fun as Valheim when I played, but I enjoyed the game overall.

[paper marsh]

You don't die from hunger, but it's close to it. If you run around without food you have almost no health and stamina, which means it's hard to fight anything and you're going to be oneshot by any hit

[uncut pecan]

That's a lot of words to say no.

[chrome badge]

Going hungry makes you weaker, you're already dead though.

[haughty geode]

Just found 2 bee queens in second evil green man village just outside Hi... merchant just slightly away from first one

[minor prism]

where is the goddamn deep north update its almost 2 years

[uncut pecan]

So, no. Valheim is barely even a survival game. Crafting, yes.

[steel mica]

When its ready

I said rarely 😭

[paper marsh]

Actually it's a lot of words to say yes. Just wanted to give some detail so there wasn't any misunderstanding

[chrome badge]

I feel like they're deliberately misunderstanding. 🤷

[burnt glen]

It's a hostile, open-world game where you have to survive by gathering resources. It's a survival game.

[silk token]

its not that you ... you don't starve to death, but if you don't eat you basically die in 1 hit and can't run more than 2 feet, and learn skills slower and dont regenerate resources if you haven't rested, and nights have harder enemies, weather does things, there's plenty "survival" to it

[uncut pecan]

"You don't die from hunger, but it's close to it." What am I misunderstanding?

What am I deliberately misinterpreting?

[chrome badge]

That's pretty clear...

[minor prism]

its not a survival game

[chrome badge]

You asked if you can even go hungry, and that's a yes.

[silk token]

there's a little bit of a grey area between two things, and you're making it a weird absolute for some reason

[paper marsh]

hunger makes you weaker

So yes, you get hungry. The game even says "you are hungry" when you haven't eaten.

But to clarify, it's not the same mechanic as some games where you start losing hp when hungry

[chrome badge]

You didn't ask if you can die from hunger.

[uncut pecan]

Your character making a rumbling tummy sound is not equivalent to health draining towards death.

[minor prism]

skyrim survival mod more survival game than valheim

[candid basalt]

In Valheim you are already dead. The dead can’t starve. But they can be hungry

[silk token]

ok now you're just trolling lol.

[chrome badge]

Your health literally drains without food. Obvious bait is obvious.

[uncut pecan]

Go play some DayZ and tell me I'm trolling.

[silk token]

i've lost interest in helping such a person understand even if you aren't trolling

[candid basalt]

Yep pack up the troll food stop feeding them

Block button exists

[uncut pecan]

You should disable those mods you have.

[chrome badge]

I don't mod early access games, the feedback during the development period is part of the process.

[uncut pecan]

I'll take what you say at face value.

But that statement sounds like something a Nintendo fanboy would say.

[hoary scarab]

🤡

[uncut pecan]

"sounds like" =/= "is something"

[minor prism]

nice drama btw im getting some snacks anybody wants

[candid basalt]

I love seeing “1 ignored message”

[burnt glen]

I don't, wish discord would just remove it from my screen.

[candid basalt]

Fair

[uncut pecan]

Just wait until the age verification. Then you'll need to give Discord facial recognition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BSaLoTxfkg

[steel mica]

You dont die of starvation in palworld tho

[uncut pecan]

What kind of person?

[uncut pecan]

I don't think so, no. I know your pals can get sick and stuff from it though.

[drifting dome]

Can someone help me

[sleek sky]

No

[drifting dome]

A wraith is guarding my buddy and I bag

[steel mica]

Just sleep

They should despawn

[drifting dome]

It was there in day

[steel mica]

Ah the hut that spawns the wraith

[steel mica]

You dont mind making it a server?

So I can assist

[light moat]

Unfortunate 🤔
Do you have backup gear?

[steel mica]

From the sounds of it they dont

[drifting dome]

It’s already a server

[steel mica]

Is it modded?

[drifting dome]

No

[steel mica]

or any form of modification

[drifting dome]

Vanilla

[steel mica]

Ah ok, send me the server details in dm so I can assist

[frigid anvil]

The world of Valheim may suck, but at least they don't have to know how to do calculus

[light moat]

Hmmm calculus 📐

[marble sable]

Valheim is the best game ever 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Valheim was my late Uncle’s fav game too

[woven leaf]

https://tenor.com/view/gohan-its-so-peak-gohan-crying-gohan-its-so-peak-peak-gif-11211568239007237362

[tacit crystal]

Stupid luck run continues: managed to find and tame 2 star boar, found ||BigRockClearing||, managed to find early turnip seeds and got to test Early axes against Abomination. And even more bear trophies, this time Haldor might get to keep his bear rug.

[fossil delta]

Another good way to "find" 2 star boars, is when your far enough out to see starred boars (Not just in a village or at boar stones), just keep killing the boars until a 2 star spawns.

[silk token]

and how did they fare vs the abom?

[tacit crystal]

Got it staggerlocked.

[sharp owl]

didn't the troll trophy give comfort in the past?

[gray sand]

Nope.

[sharp owl]

Is tehre any item which would give comfort placed on an item stand?

[near furnace]

no

[green reef]

an armor stand itself does.

[unkempt vigil]

i caged a bear

look at #screenshots

[trim hatch]

this game is so fun

i love to take it slow

ive been playing for 2 days non stop and i still havent gotten to the elder yet haha

rn im boating around my starter island just to contour it on the map

[bright kiln]

RIGHT?!?!?!?

[unkempt vigil]

bro i beat the elder after 5 days

[green reef]

IRL days or in game days?

[trim hatch]

irl days

[trim hatch]

i love sailing in the ocean

its very empty, maybe too empty, they should add something to it

but what could they add to the ocean surface, its the ocean, there is nothing

unless they decide to let us explore the depths, but i doubt it

would be too much

[light moat]

POI Islands perhaps?

Would love some type of variation of sea stacks. Not as pointy and jagged as the ones in the Ashlands, something a little more welcoming perhaps 🤔

Hmmm… is there a command or something to spawn a stone spire- like the ones you see in the plains?

[trim hatch]

whats POI

[undone forum]

Point of Interest

[light moat]

So like a burial chamber or a sealed tower, for example.

[green reef]

the main ocean poi is the leviathans

but some kind of ocean based dungeon thing would be super cool. like the sealed tower

[light moat]

Yep, leviathans are POIs as well. Believe they’re currently the only POI in the ocean currently? 🤔

Yeah, some sort of ocean dungeon could be crazy cool if done right

[open bolt]

Many players talk about that we should get an Ocean update or ocean tasks or more monsters. I personally think that the Valheim Ocean works so well precisely because it's kinda empty. It builds up for the exploration where we don't know what we will find. And it can be terrifying at night, or during storms, or with fog. I really love it. It's a very unique Ocean, and it does the job well.

Also, some maps don't have Ocean areas that big, so if they were to put more stuff in it, it could easily get crowded and confusing imo. 🤔

[light moat]

What’s terrifying about it? 🤔

Admittedly the first time or two you see a serpent. But after that, they’re exciting to find

[steel mica]

My idea was a floating wreackage

[oblique zinc]

Fuling ship

[light moat]

Wrecked Dvergr ship 👀

See plenty of Dvergr docks. Where are the ships?

[calm plover]

just finished valheim modded anything else to do? any really big modpacks?

[green reef]

do it again, but with no portals and no map 😄

[open bolt]

It's not about the serpents. It's the environment itself. The emptiness that causes the feeling of uneasyness and suspense. Valheim in general can cause that feeling in many occasions. I think their ocean does that too. The "mental fear" and having to be in a state of alert all the time. It's not visually terrifying, but it can be super uneasy. Basically that. Especially the first times.

The Ashlands sea on the other hand, it can be terrifying too, in a way XD But it's also badass as heck.
But then, when we arrive there we are much stronger.

[copper karma]

People who think the ocean works well is a small minority. The prevailing opinion is that it's boring to take SO MUCH time to travel anywhere with nothing to do.

[sleek sky]

Id like it if there was a reason to get out of the boat to pick something else. Plants, floating debris, fish that tou can pick up, etc

[open bolt]

So the physical dangers don't seem so dangerous. They still are ofc. But nothing compared to finding a Serpent for the first time when we are low level.

[open bolt]

Well, it's a game of exploration. I think it's supposed to take time. And let's admit, we probably spend like 5 or 10% of our play time in land, not in the sea.

[copper karma]

"We need this boring because the nebulous concept of exploration" is a weird take but okay.

[open bolt]

Well, I didn't say that, and I am not a dev. So you'll have to ask them what the original concept of exploration is.

[copper karma]

That's immaterial to this conversation. You say it works well. The vast majority of the people I see discussing the the quality of the ocean, it's expressing annoyance at how boring it is to travel.

[open bolt]

I said that "more empty" isnt necessarily boring, as many people say. So, in fact, if I said something it's the opposite of boring, because I don't think it's boring at all.

You said that I said "we need it boring". I did not. And I also never said it is boring.

[sharp owl]

how did you replant crops again?

[open bolt]

Use the full grown crops to make seeds. Basically replant them and wait for them to give seeds. Then you use those seeds. And repeat again.

[steel mica]

I'd say similar to how mistlands generate

the dvergr shipwreacks you thought of should only spawn around where mistlands spawn in the map generation

[sharp owl]

The cultivator shows me the crop greyed out even while I have 20 in my inventory 🤔

[gray sand]

More empty? Starfield planets? 👀

[steel mica]

Seeds > Crop > Crop Seeds > Seeds > Crop > Repeat

[open bolt]

Use the cultivator, just like you used it for the seeds. But there will be a second option to plant the full grown crop to get the seeds.

If you have the full grown crop/veggie in the inventory.

[sharp owl]

ye, I overlooked the seed variant, thanks! ❤️

[steel mica]

You will encounter later crops that just needs you to replant the crop itself to multiply

But for now its just seeds > crops seeds > crop > repeat

[light moat]

Was thinking exactly the same!

Honestly a couple things like sprinkled lightly around the world could add a lot to the world without cluttering really.

[abstract warren]

Damn those groupers are heavy

[hard sluice]

my ashland landing in immersive mode has been a trip..!
i'm savoring the moments : P
the ashlands are already intimidating in most playthrough, but without a map and no portals to get out of there, its surreal.

even trying to find the shore through the spires, without a map, was a lot scarier than i expected. its very disorienting.
fun times

[paper marsh]

You are a brave Viking

[steel mica]

found another wild 2 star asksvin

[abstract warren]

Which forsaken power should I use when fighting Yagluth

[shy marlin]

eik imo

moder / bm are also decent

[abstract warren]

Why moder?

Gives no advantage for that

[shy marlin]

speed boost

if you're unaware in call to arms forsaken powers got reworked a bit

[rare haven]

We should be able to name baby animals

[steel mica]

I swear 2 star creatures become more frequent once you have one

I have encountered 2 after taming a 2star asksvin

[abstract warren]

Ok but I think I'd probably better focus on offence & defence

[shy marlin]

Speed boost is both offense and defense but you do you

[abstract warren]

It'll mostly be fire damage right?

[steel mica]

Eikthyr was honestly the best forsaken powerup even b4 the call to arms update

My second would be pre-nerfed bonemass, and third being moder

When bonemass got nerfed fader took place as my second pick for forsaken powerup

[paper marsh]

Fire and blunt, iirc

[trim hatch]

early magic when

[burnt glen]

some lightning damage too, make sure to not be wet

[abstract warren]

He fkin melts through the pillars lol

Then I get a good shelter from the meteors

[abstract warren]

Finally done lol

Took too long

[sharp owl]

can you like have only 1 portal in base and keep switching the tag to whereever you wanna go?

[hard sluice]

yep.!

[sharp owl]

and you can you then connect multiple other portals to the one in the base?

[hard sluice]

no, you can only connect pairs. if you make a 3rd and 4th with the same names, these other 2 will connect as a new pair.

i like to keep a unamed portal in my base, so when i'm out adventuring and need to drop my portal, i dont have to name it, it will pair with that unnamed one at my base.

[sharp owl]

hm, but that means in the end you'll still have a lot of portals in the base and the switching idea doesn't really work.

[hard sluice]

when i play online, i place portals all over the place and place markers with their names.
i mostly keep them disconnected, until i need them. at my base, i keep a few portals, connected to the most important ones. and a blank one that i keep for emergency portal.
(when i play solo, i have a huge portal hub at my base, with 40ish portals in late game)

[neat python]

just beat the queen for hte 1st time... (tried many times soooo much prep work to get her)

[hard sluice]

congrats !

[craggy gazelle]

How might I get the new celebratory hat? Im getting back into things after a year or so

[neat python]

melee only..... (ps i didnt know u could have more then 1 trinket on at a time till now)

[hard sluice]

you can only have 1 trinket activated at a time, no?

(fighting the queen in melee is badass :3 )