valheim-chat

[hard sluice]

thats a good point, they stagger for a very short time.

[silk token]

ya, it was like wtf how do i do this?? i was just out of stamina and things werent taking damage. this was before the insane stamina changes, so maybe it’s possible albeit still terrible these days

came back next run with sword and board and had zero deaths it felt too easy

[hard sluice]

i can't parry+1.2.3. only enough time for 2 hits after a parry.

[silk token]

but man with atgier idk how many times i died it was a preposterous amount of deaths.

[hard sluice]

theres just enough time for a parry+secondary attack, if you don't waste an instant.

[dark coyote]

yeah I like to secondary with frostnir after parry there

[silk token]

thats why i use krom, you can parry thrust in time to crit

same for morgens, parry thrust on repeat like 4 times and its dead.

[hard sluice]

i've been fighting them with the mistland daggers 😛
its weird but it works. i can parry and counter with secondary

[silk token]

and thrust at a charging asksvin to stagger and almost kill it, imo most solid landing weapon it deals with all really well

dual daggers can parry things in ashlands??

[hard sluice]

yep !
on normal mode*
but not starred monsters(charred warrior, morgen, askvins)

well.... ican parry some of those starred too, but i get staggered

[elder sleet]

how is blood magic now? a lot of the info online was from a few years back. skells fun?

[silk token]

huh, x4 parry bonus, 96 base parry thats not bad.

be fun to try it with evasion mantle then u could parry starred

[hard sluice]

its great, until you miss the parry : P

i just switch to buckler+frostner anyway. its easier to keep them away from me

[silk token]

maybe next run will be a dagger bro, i used to be daggers a lot when plains was last biome but never tried skol hati

[rotund parrot]

knifes are never a bad option

[silk token]

do you know if skol and hati’s secondary is silent like the 1 handers?

[hard sluice]

it used to be kind of bad in the mountains because of the slopes, but the combat patch solved it

[hard sluice]

i think it is. it seems to be the exact same thing

i've been 1shotting askvins with it : 3

[rotund parrot]

I like the skol and hati but on very hard I use the blackmetal knife for mistlands instead

I must have the shield

[hard sluice]

i can't imagine vhard. even on hard, i don't use them. i prefer having a shield.

[rotund parrot]

I am pretty sure you could parry most things with them on hard provided you have a decent block level and really high health

It takes so little stamina to kill things with a knife

[hard sluice]

the min/maxer in me loves the knives because of it. the dps and the stamina cost is really good. probably the best in the game.
the skoll and hati are a bit less stamina efficient though* i could argue that black metal knife is best

[green reef]

Ashlands is so low, its sad. I wish it had more elevations that wasn't fragile rocks that survived just long enough for me to perch on them

[hard sluice]

i will reach boiling water right away, won't i?

[green reef]

I'm really hoping Deep North finds a way to balance it. Clearly the challenge level needs to go up, but I hope there are ways to find the peacefulness that comes with a snowy northern winter with deep drifts where everything seems to just still for awhile.

[green reef]

it does have elevation change and you can dig max depths on hills and such, but nothing that feels like a mountain or a cliff, much more flat than meadow even

I dig pits and shove 2* skeles into them

[hard sluice]

i tried to parry one of those :_) (with a carapace buckler)
even with 3 hp food, it almost killed me.

[green reef]

yeah, I don't block them into the pits, I knock them back into them with the weapon

[silk token]

evasion mantle ftw if you do the flame sword quest, they’ll basically be 1 star mobs if you dont blow your parry

[hard sluice]

that was my fav trinket on my hardmode run.
on this one, i'm still using the stamina regen...

i just do the secondary frostner attack on them to keep them away, until they die..

[green reef]

I hate those 2* skelles, my normal fight mode allows me to get hit, either block or parry but with them.... it's nearly one hit death.

[hard sluice]

they scare me xD
in theory, i know how to deal with them, but it gets me nervous and its always a near death experience xD

its the same with the deathsquitos. when i know i have the hp and the armor to not get killed in 1 hit, i have no issue killing them before they get me. but when i know that if i miss, i die.... i tend to miss a lot more

[versed ruin]

anybody wanna play just hit me up

[rotund parrot]

I found high exposure to high risk situation, getting 1 hit in hardcore hundreds of time if you miss a parry or dodge helps in the long run to stay calm in those situations

[green reef]

I definitely don't stay calm

[wary kettle]

My moder spawn is in the middle of an island that appears to be all plains lol. Any advice on how to approach?

[green reef]

run fast?

or find a different moder.

[wary kettle]

The other one I found is on an island that looks like it is all mist lands lol

[green reef]

plains is next after mountain right? so you should be able to carefully handle plains, just don't take on any goblin villages

[silk token]

slowly. just watch for skeetos and pick them off. dodge INTO them if you must. sneak by everything else. avoid tar pits at all costs.

[wary kettle]

Thanks for the tips friends! This newb appreciates it

[paper marsh]

You can parry all bosses

[paper marsh]

Wear root harnesk (swamp light armor chest piece), activate eikthyr, run for it

[slender saddle]

Root harnsk makes deathsquitos trivial.

[silk token]

probly meant stagger. and hey now that it costs no stamina its better than dodge rolling! XD

actually.. idk if he did, he is tower shield man after all

[tribal leaf]

How can i give myself admin permission on my own paid server. Im getting charred marksman in the meadows. Im only at the swamp i need to reset somethings.

[tepid prawn]

that means the map has killed Fader, devcommands to reset boss kill flags requires single player world or server devcommands mod #mods-discussion

[hard sluice]

i like a challenge, but starting the game with charred marksmen in the meadow, that sounds brutal.

[paper marsh]

Starting with it yea

If you’re in swamp progression I feel like you could deal with them? Still tough compared to regular meadows but marksmen aren’t the worst

[steel mica]

Its the warriors you gotta deal with

but with swamp progression you got root harnesk

[hard sluice]

i like the idea of that second attack being a swarm of arrows, but it rarely hits. that makes those marksmen pretty easy compared to the rest of the baddies in ashlands, in my opinion.

[paper marsh]

Yeah.

I feel like the arrow swarm theoretically is a cool bubble deterrance. Because bubble doesn't get benefit from armor and resistances, and has a bigger hitbox so a swarm of arrows should take it out quick

But it still doesn't

[neat python]

DAM ruto hurts.... keeps 1 shoting me

[foggy glacier]

Yep. Don't try to parry him.

[neat python]

ty i found a chess though good ol cross bow

[trim hatch]

i love how getting iron gives you 600 recipes all at once

[neat python]

and ull never afford all of them

[trim hatch]

i cant put fist weapon in armor stand? why?

why isnt it possible...

[foggy glacier]

Yeah, I know.

You can put them on an item stand stuck on the wall beside though.

[trim hatch]

sucks

wanted to have the full bear set there

imma put this in sugestions actually

[trail pelican]

i also wish i could display sap, it has such a nice model

[green reef]

can't put it on a item stand?

[trail pelican]

nope, not horizontal nor vertical

[green reef]

what about a serving platter? assume not since its not consumable

[trail pelican]

didn't work either

[limber finch]

Worlds constantly corrupt and characters get rolled back often. When will this nonsense be fixed

[chrome badge]

Haven't experienced this once in 5 years of consistent playtime.

[paper marsh]

Me neither

Though it does sound like it happens to quite a few people. Sounds like more than just a very rare hiccup or byproduct of messing with files

And man does it sound bad to lose your save

[steel mica]

Are you playing with mods perhaps?

[subtle pawn]

Isn't it fun to just go on a walk for blueberries?

I find all the time conusming things in valheim rather enjoyable and rewording actually

[timber marsh]

Ever gone sailing irl? That's par for the course

[mint plover]

Is it possible to parry a 1 star fuling brute?

[steel mica]

With what progression gear?

[mint plover]

Black metal shield

[steel mica]

You should be able to parry it with plains diet of HHS with full maxed out padded armor

[trim hatch]

time to sail in a random direction so i can find a swamp

[open bolt]

So, basically it's our fault that we chose the days with bad wind 😂😅

[fossil delta]

Essentially, but krilloid gave us the schedule. So we can avoid it.

[nocturne wolf]

You can parry any blockable attack

It won’t stagger the boss but you’ll still get increased block armor and no stamina cost

[stuck kite]

The perfect tree cascade, does this counting as winning Valheim.

[candid basalt]

I decided to drop my buckler and made Krom. After upgrading it, will see how it fares in Ashlands

[flat stag]

So, I am preparing my very first journey to Ashlands. I'd like to go in as blind as possible but still be somewhat prepared. I don't want to regret not bringing something with me that can't be teleported. But I also don't want to bring too much from my main base. Someone suggested iron for the stonecutter. But what about copper, bronze and silver (and maybe even tin)? Does it make sense to make a base in AL?

Or at least a mini base with some crafting stations where I can process and craft locally in AL.

Also, in regard to what weapons are viable in AL, I got some mixed replies. Someone said that Himminnafl is good for the stagger effect (I use atgeir a lot, normally). Other prased the swords like Mistwalker (never used one).

I have fully upgraded Spinesnap bow, Demolisher and Frostner. And I just crafted Himminnafl.

Any tips are welcome - but not too spoilery, please.

[rotund parrot]

The spinesnap will be your best friend at first, if you use it effectively and meticulously to take out everything before they see you

My best tip to ensure you don't need to sail back on another drakkar is just to drop multiple portals as soon as possible

[steel mica]

The mistlands buckler is stupid broken

But krom is really nice for high single target damage

[barren lark]

new arab players ??

[silk token]

if you’re used to frostner and have skill in clubs it can be a safe but slow way to kill things, it’ll be fine. krom depends on some knowledge of enemies and parrying or anticipating what they do so maybe frostner is best first landing. non-spoily combat tips would be take your time, running usually makes the situation worse. it’s very hard to escape a fight depending on what you’re fighting and you’ll probly just pull more things. sometimes the best thing to do is stand your ground and dodge around and let things kill each other because most mobs can damage other mobs.

[nocturne wolf]

Silver sword will do more damage than mistwalker against some enemies for lower stamina cost

If you made one previously, bring it

[lone rampart]

You can try making a post on #1024264966712340510 to find someone. Good luck!

[flat stag]

i literally never created a sword in all of my 500+ hours played 😄

[strange cradle]

Mistwalker. This is the way in Ashlands. Silversword is good, but useless against living opponents like the Asksvin. Frostner doesn't cut it compared to Mistwalker. Mistwalker outclasses Frostner by far.

With Mistwalker you really can play all the way through Ashlands.

Anything that pierces (atgeir, spear) is more or less useless in Ashlands, as you come up against skellies most of the time, who don't care about being poked. I found that out the hard way, when I tried Himminafl on them. Again, Mistwalker is the way.

[sharp owl]

Do Walls provide just as much stability as beams would, meaning I can destroy beams when I build a wall in that place?

[subtle pawn]

Yeah, i saw the other day somewhere that normal wood walls and beams povide the same stability

[idle storm]

charred are basically cannon fodder who die in 2 hits of basically any non-piercing weapon so basing your weapon choice on them (instead of tougher enemies like morgen, asksvin or valks) seems a little strange.

Himminafl isn't all that useful, true, but i'd never leave my outpost without my crossbow and iolite splitnir for dealing with valks and morgen

[idle epoch]

I am 64 yrs old. I would love to play with some one that is on my level. I am taking baby steps forward. I am in the bronze age. Is there any one that is like me, that is fairly simple, and would like to play. I am in NW Vermont.

[lone rampart]

Welcome! You might find some folks in #1024264966712340510

[silk token]

agree with all of this. i hated himminafl so much in ashlands. i told them mistwalker but if he never even made a sword and had max frostner and some club skill, eh, maybe they even out for damage

[rotund parrot]

Pierce is so good in ashlands though (from a bow) it's the best choice to take out askvins easily before they can get close to you or even move, the best way by far to kill valkyrie, the sneak bonus with good arrows will take out charred twitcher and archers in 1 hit. Frost arrows are extremely good at taking out the bonemaws and vultures

[paper marsh]

For sneak attacks I'd prefer a crossbow

[shy marlin]

Why?

For twitchers/archers it doesn't matter

For valks it does ig

[paper marsh]

Yeah I don't exclusively sneak attack weak enemies. More typically I sneak attack the strong ones

[rotund parrot]

I gave the evasion mantle a good shot in vh ashlands and I don't like it. It doesn't really allow me to parry anything more than I can with triple health. I don't even see much of a difference if I fight morgens with it active or not. In both case I can still parry and it fills my stagger bar about halfway. I was not able to parry slaps from 1 star morgen with it active, but I can parry the jump with it or not, the only attack was the leap forward that I could parry with it active. I went back to the iron brooch

[paper marsh]

I mean carapace buckler is pretty goated so you don't really need evasion mantle

But it can still be nice. Especially if you wanna do back-to-back parries against warriors or whatnot

I'm a fan of carrying two trinkets though. One long duration that I proc first, then swap to another

[rotund parrot]

Yeah I did that for a couple hours but was not really able to activate them both, I am taking my time and not picking fights with too many enemies

[rotund parrot]

Do you carry both crossbow and bow with both type or ammo? If not even if the initial hit do more damage, the fact that the bow can shoot so much faster make it so the bow overtake the crossbow's damage very fast. The only argument for the crossbow I guess is that it is more ressource efficient

[paper marsh]

Nah I haven't used a bow in years

Too OP for my taste

[strange cradle]

Unless you're 100 in bows, they're not really that OP, IMHO. 😉

[tough mulch]

lvl 50 Bow is OP already in my eyes

[paper marsh]

lvl 50 bow is something like a 3x dps increase

pretty nuts, plus range in general is busted

[tough mulch]

I remember someone saying you hit the max bow draw speed at 70-80

[strange cradle]

I rarely get anything over 40 in skills.

And I'm beyond the point where I die a lot.

[paper marsh]

I usually get like 4-5 melee skills over 70

and bow at 0

[tough mulch]

crossbow forever at 20+

[strange cradle]

The highest I got, was I think... somewhat over 50 in swords.

Bows are in their 20s because I use them just where I need them. Sniping, drakes, etc.

I usually attack first, with sword and shield and try to stun them directly.

[nocturne wolf]

every level reduces the draw time

[strange cradle]

And I don't dodge, because... well, I'm also 64 of age. 😉

And I'm way too slow for that.

[paper marsh]

Doesn't it get locked at a certain rate at high level due to animation speed limitations?

[silk token]

i level bow to however many serpents attacked my boat XD. hot take: bow skill should only increase damage

[nocturne wolf]

yes but reaching full charge faster will reduce stamina cost because it slows at full charge

[rotund parrot]

If you want to increase your bow level, I recommend just chopping a lot of wood, making a ton of wood arrow, a twig, a crude bow, parry the twig, shoot 4 arrow really fast and repeat

[nocturne wolf]

why parry the twig? to level block skill too?

[rotund parrot]

to fit more arrows inbetween attacks

and it also level block with no stamina cost, not that the crude bow cost stamina at all

also you dont get knockback then have chances to miss the twig, just trust

[strange cradle]

I'm not much of a min-maxer. I just play what I like and works best for me. And that is sword and board.

Bows when I need them.

[paper marsh]

Actively training skills feels yucky to me

[strange cradle]

Exactly.

[paper marsh]

I'd rather go find some worthy opponents and earn my skills in my bloodthirsty quest for loot

[strange cradle]

I do like knives and daggers. I usually have a fairly high skill with those as well.

[paper marsh]

Yeah faster attack speed definitely levels faster

Spears level insanely fast. Once had those at lvl 100 by Plains

[rotund parrot]

For hardcore whilst on harder difficulty, you want to reduce your chance of death significantly so raising such an important skill that will certainly reduce your chance of death is a great idea

[strange cradle]

I only play default...

Too old for anything else.

[paper marsh]

A great idea for surviving yeah

But imo it's not fun, and makes the game too easy

[silk token]

id rather play normal or hard and not have to afk grind skills to make vh playable

especially if the playable is just bow combat

[rotund parrot]

I don't abuse bow at all

[silk token]

then why afk grind it?

[rotund parrot]

which part is afk to you? chopping wood or parrying the twig and shooting arrows?

I just wanted to share the best way to level the skill which the discussion was about

[paper marsh]

My list of challenges / banned things to make my playthrough more difficult and fun I think has more than 20 points

Initially I thought it would be hard to keep track of but honestly it’s pretty intuitive when most of it is just “don’t cheese”

[strange cradle]

Yeah, I try to avoid cheesing as well.

I more or less just play.

[silk token]

spamming attacks against a non-enemy who cant hurt you i guess is the afk part. technically you might be at the keyboard but.

[shy marlin]

food is op

[strange cradle]

Tru.

But it's there to use... and I like eating. 😄

[rotund parrot]

TWIG can hurt you and will

[strange cradle]

Feasts really made my day.

[silk token]

ok if we’re into technicalities and semantics that’s my cue

[rotund parrot]

Sorry for correcting things that were just absolutely wrong

[strange cradle]

Chill, guys.

[shy marlin]

we chill

[strange cradle]

It's just a game.

[shy marlin]

why u haf to be mad?

[strange cradle]

I usually just eat two feasts and either a health food or whatever the situation calls for.

[shy marlin]

I usually run FSS

[strange cradle]

FFH mostly.

[nocturne wolf]

it's the only enemy to directly deal pure damage, so you're not even safe with a staff of protection

[strange cradle]

I like something substantial between me and my enemy, so that's a shield and my belly.

[paper marsh]

HHF here

[nocturne wolf]

wouldn't hhs be stronger?

or are you just saving materials

[paper marsh]

Not if you like stamina

[strange cradle]

Feasts are simple to make and have lots of health AND stamina. Enough for most of my activities.

Even fighting Vader I used feasts.

Potions are the important part in fighting Vader.

You need to jump high and run fast.

And you need fire protection.

[paper marsh]

Do you need fire protection? It's been a while since I fought him but in my memory his fire attacks pretty much delete you whether you have resist or not

That may have been on Hard tho

[nocturne wolf]

The resist can still be enough to save you

[tribal prawn]

just a question is it normal finding 3 leviathans next to eachother like 3m apart?

[paper marsh]

Kinda rare although not unheard of

[abstract warren]

I hate having to steal from the Dvergr 🙄

[silk token]

i actually feel this so hard! i just feel so mean, wish i could barter with them for extractors

[abstract warren]

Yeah I guess the devs thought it'd be too easy

I guess I'mma just do the exploit and pretend I bartered for it...

I see a mod for it though

[foggy glacier]

There’s a reason Hugin tells you that you’re going to eventually tick them off.

[abstract warren]

Yeah

Not too fair imo. Think I'mma try that mod

[nocturne wolf]

Just break the crate and run

[abstract warren]

Yeah lol

Did that the first time

Idk...

Makes sense that we should be able to buy it I think

[nocturne wolf]

#valheim-help message its ok to kill necks but not dverger?

[abstract warren]

Lol

[silk token]

correct

[abstract warren]

Necks are annoying aggressive little buggers

[hoary scarab]

The immortal philosopher poets of the wu-tang clan have instructed future generations to protect ya necks.

[cerulean crest]

Good evening, I have a quick question that may have already been asked by others... Have the developers abandoned the game? The next area has been pending for so long.

Does anyone have an answer?

[strange cradle]

Uhm... no. That's the answer.

[cerulean crest]

What do you mean? Why has nothing been happening for many months now? Is there an internal problem?

[fathom notch]

Please see the News tab to answer your question.

[strange cradle]

There was a recent update. There have been updates happening over the past months. The game is anything but dead.

[cerulean crest]

i've been seeing emotes, new hairstyles, and minor additions since the fire biome update a long time ago, and I'm wondering what's going on.

[strange cradle]

Well, that's updates.

[pliant hatch]

For some people a game is dead if the devs haven't updated a news page or brought out a hotfix or a patch each week.........

[strange cradle]

Yo.

They're working on it. If you would read the news, you would see that.

[cerulean crest]

I'm talking about real content updates, things that advance the story, like the zones, previous weapons, bosses, which are over a year old

[strange cradle]

IronGate is known for taking their time. Which IMHO is not a bad thing.

I don't need any rushed content full of bugs.

Blizzard cough

[cerulean crest]

I've been reading them since the last Biom came out, which was a very, very long time ago. I was wondering why it was taking so long... Thank you for your answers.

[pliant hatch]

As said: "They are working at it."

[fathom notch]

The game is still in Early Access, devs are still putting out content, and fixing bugs 🙂

[fathom notch]

Have you tried making a game?

[hoary scarab]

I want early access, but i also dont want to wait for the game to finish.

help.

[strange cradle]

Something like that.

[fathom notch]

Oh no the devs care about making a quality product! I hate that!

[strange cradle]

Be patient. All good things will come in time.

[fathom notch]

Exactly 🙂

[subtle pawn]

yeah bees will be happy

[strange cradle]

Hehe.

Valheim, to me, is the journey, the exploration, the building. Smacking bosses around is less then 1% of the content.

[cerulean crest]

I don't blame the developers; I was just wondering why the game had barely progressed after so long.

I play quite a few other survival games of the same genre that get major updates roughly every six months, so I was wondering, given the initial announcements of the snow biome in mid-2024 for the final biome. I understand it's not easy, but it's true that it's taking a very, very long time, and judging by the reviews of the game, I'm not the only one wondering what's going on.

Thanks again for your replies, have a good evening.

[strange cradle]

And I can always take a break and play something else if I'm bored.

I understand. No problem. Again, I rather wait and get quality content than rushed, bugged content.

[candid basalt]

Two years is not a very long time. Maybe for young people, but I blink and it’s been two years these days

[strange cradle]

Tru... oh soooo true.

I mean, it's not like we're getting charged for that content. Valheim is pretty cheap to begin with, and IronGate has never ever charged someone for updates, DLCs and shit like that.

Which I highly appreciate.

[subtle pawn]

We all do

[hoary scarab]

you cant make everyone happy, but you CAN make all the bees happy.

[subtle pawn]

exactly

[strange cradle]

True words.

[chrome badge]

For a team of 8, they work quite fast in my opinion.

[strange cradle]

It's... ok.

[subtle pawn]

team of 16 i think

[strange cradle]

Again, usually their updates are pretty bug-free.

And that's what I appreciate most.

[chrome badge]

16 at Iron Gate, 8 work on Valheim.

[subtle pawn]

ohh..

[strange cradle]

If there's a bug, it usually gets fixed quickly.

[subtle pawn]

right

[fathom notch]

Compared to teams of 100+ at AAA companies making slop is crazy.

[strange cradle]

What I appreciate most is that they don't work their people to death, which is so common in this industry.

[strange cradle]

coughing blood Blizzard coughgargledie

[fathom notch]

I've sadly been a Blizzard pawn since I was a child... 20 years of wow

[strange cradle]

Yep. Been there... still doing it. 😛

I fall for them every time.

[fathom notch]

I can't help it, but I did skirt my 3rd play through of TBC lol

[strange cradle]

😄

Dragonflight was the last good expansion. Shadowlands before that was barely mediocre.

But enough off-topic.

[fathom notch]

You're right, we love Valheim and pet the bees.

[haughty geode]

phehe, I was going to place portal by the big Altar thingy (with boss trophies and power choice)
and then I heard loud screech
and saw the serpent
and some greyling was running around...
so I aligned myself
and kicked him into the serpent
he liked my gift

sometimes, I am really disappointed in how short spear's reach is

[timber dragon]

who whna play

[sharp owl]

how do you place the friggin Spice Rack?

[silk token]

ive found it likes to hang from things like an overhead beam or something

[sharp owl]

ye just figured it out. gotta be from smth that would provide a lock point like beams.

[silk token]

like aim for the bottom of a beam or wall

[nocturne wolf]

If you want a long reach melee weapon, try a polearm

[haughty geode]

I want spear to be at leas somewhat longer then axe and sword

[still crag]

Best place to build our main base? Newbie here just defeated the first boss eikthyr

[chrome badge]

It's design came early in development, and is more of a universal grip style so it can be utilized with a shield, without requiring additional animations.

[nocturne wolf]

in alpha versions spears were called 'throwing spears' and could only throw before secondary attacks were added

[subtle pawn]

i did my first base in meadows close to water, wood source and the boss altars

but later in game i think it is best to switch to new base somewhere else as you progress

[chrome badge]

Yeah, a coastal meadows base with a large open space is ideal, anything else isn't a huge concern as travel becomes much less of a problem.

[still crag]

Thanks man. This game is really fun, it makes me forget everything.

[subtle pawn]

And i am happy that new people enjoy the game

[sharp owl]

Is there any usecase for Troll Skin after you maxed the armor?

[pliant hatch]

"Best" is Subjecthive, of course, but many players prefer a main base at the border of Plains and Mistlands so they would be able to grow all crops.

Personally I prefer an island, as it's easier to defend against some events, plus you got access to water.

But eventually, the "best" base is where you feel it's fulfilling all your demands.

[pliant hatch]

Yup, charcoal production in the obliterator.

[sharp owl]

lol doesn't sound that efficient 😄

[silk token]

there’s a swamp tier spear that uses it

[tulip monolith]

anyone wanna start a new world wihgtr me? im pretty new tho

[sharp owl]

I'm wondering why I could upgrade my troll pants to 4 star, while I can't do that with the other pieces.

[pliant hatch]

Someone in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510 might.

[subtle pawn]

You can make horn of celebration with troll hide

[trail pelican]

you can incinerate it for coal in the obliterator

i really like the blue color, i wish we COULD use it for some kinda rugs/hangings, decorative objects in general

and I REALLY really like exterminating every troll on sight with extreme prejudice--deeply ingrained first few hundred hours trauma of their bullying

[rotund parrot]

There's blue jute if you like blue

[trail pelican]

that's ALSO pretty, and MAYBE the part of reasoning why devs might think troll pieces would be redundant--I'd argue it wouldn't HAVE to be, b/c different shapes are possible, and jute looks kind alike it has a "fabric" texture vs a "leather" texture

[sharp owl]

I can't tell you how much stuff I accidentally smashed in my base when pressing LMB ment for smth else than attack.

which stat on the shield determines if you can withstand a parry or get also knocked back?

since Force pretty much stays the same, it's gotta be the simple Block armour, right?

[rotund parrot]

block armor depends on skills and is what gets multiplied by the parry bonus

[sharp owl]

I mean it says "Block Armor" on the item itself?

or is that my skill projected on the tooltip?

[rotund parrot]

It's like weapons where the damage it tells you is the max damage but the actual damage range you can do with your skill level will be in yellow next to it

[silk token]

theres a pinned spreadsheet in this channel called “blocking breakpoints” that explains mechanics and tells you if you can block every mob with every shield/weapon

but in a nutshell block armor and max hp is what helps block and parry

[sharp owl]

btw can you search pinned messages only?

[silk token]

u can search normal messages too or wym?

[sharp owl]

I'm still not a fan at all of like food buffs deteriorating over time.

[rotund parrot]

I recommend eating food again as soon as it blinks and allows you to eat again

[sharp owl]

thing is most plantable crops or drops from killing are no issue at all. but venturing out for like berries and mushrooms gets old.

[light moat]

Have you tried out the feasts? They’re super efficient and last a long time

[rotund parrot]

It's intended to encourage exploring that some ressources are only found whilst exploring

[sharp owl]

I looked at them and thought, they are more of a grp buff thing and less efficient for just one dude?

[sharp owl]

I'd say it's the opposite of exploring. you mark your spots and grass them again.

[rotund parrot]

That's certainly an option but I think it's better to just know which ingredients you need or will need and just keep grabbing them as you explore

[light moat]

Nah, they’re super efficient and great for single player! A feast has 10 uses, and at 50 minutes per use, they’re pretty solid. Or ~30 minutes a use if you refresh your food when you’re able to

[sharp owl]

oh 10 uses? That sounds great.

all of this stuff wasn't in the game last time I played.

[light moat]

Yeah, it’s a newer thing. The catch is that they’re placeable objects.

[sharp owl]

oh it's aoe?

[fossil delta]

I just mark locations for berries and mushrooms until they make a full stack, then make that run every few game days. Pretty soon I have 10 stacks. Along the way I kill boar, deer and necks, or kill greydwarves and skeletons, or then I am killing leeches and draugr, all for mats I need more of for a substantial part of the time I am taking for the play through. I mean, this is a survival style game, not a farming game. A huge part of surviving is having food to eat, and in this game, its critical to being able to fight everything that wants to kill you.

[light moat]

No, not AoE, more like a consumable that’s placed in the world than something you keep in your inventory.

So for example, the whole boar is placed (probably in your base) and when you need to refresh your food you need to return to it.

[sharp owl]

I see. Never seen such a concept.

[chrome badge]

I would massively recommend a portal chain farm for foraged goods, running between large patches instantly is such a good feeling, and just have the end of the portal chain spit you out back at home

[sharp owl]

I was worried that it's like a banner which would have been nothing for me.

[rotund parrot]

Buy the serving tray and spices and try them

[sharp owl]

do they add like an effect? Thought this Prep Table alone does the trick?

[rotund parrot]

One is the only way to place down feasts or food item as decoration, the spices are ingredients needed for all the feasts

[trail pelican]

i wish they had a little unique effect on top

[sharp owl]

I really didn't engage at all with the bounties, since they were soooo far out of my way and sailing around really isn't my kind of thing.

I like exploring by foot tho, but just sailing really bores me.

[fossil delta]

The patches of berries, mushrooms, and thistle are usually so close to each other I never feel its worth the time and effort to set up such a network. I just run to them, fighting and killing what I need to along the way.

[chrome badge]

Totally fair, I usually set up a vast network for every single foraged item, but I'm also always setting up portal hubs. 😅

[trail pelican]

yeah the only 'portal chains' I've found 'worth it' are surtling geysers and infested mines

IF you don't no map (or if you do, and are willing to take notes 'in game' e.g. signs or out like a little notepad) you can literally halve your portals, obviate the need for a hub at all, if you simply DON'T connect portals "by default" instead marking the portal on the map with its code

bonus, you can always connect instantly anywhere to any already existing portal

[chrome badge]

I'll only typically connect the very rare patches of 10-15+ spawns of foraged goods.

[trail pelican]

e.g. you leave a portal somewhere named "1" (or whatever)--whenever you wanna come back, drop a portal at your feet and type "1" in

[chrome badge]

This cuts down on how long of the chain I'll need, and keeps me on the lookout while exploring.

[rotund parrot]

I might consider it for blueberries which you need the whole game but usually isn't an issue as I just know I'll need them for the whole game and I keep grabbing them

[light moat]

Blueberries are needed the whole game? 🤔
Ratatoskr?

[rotund parrot]

Yeah ratatosk

[light moat]

Noice, fair enough. Great mead

[fossil delta]

I do use that mead a lot. But the full wood chest I had by the time I stopped needing them for food, is still over half full.

[chrome badge]

Oh gosh I could never, I keep a black metal chest for each material totally full. I wish I were less of a hoarder. 👀

[trail pelican]

"I wish I were less of a hoarder. " well that longship sailed with the bird dropping you in Valheim methinks

[sharp owl]

where does the game save your worlds?

[haughty geode]

do wild boars fear fire?

[fossil delta]

@haughty geode yes

[lavish sphinx]

i noticed a wooden fighting arena in the meadows today while exporing, when did those get added?

[fossil delta]

The last big update.

So 5 months ago?

[wild schooner]

I just found a muddy scrap pile inside the swamp, but instead of finding one in a crypt, I found it outside a crypt

Is this a new update or is it a bug?

[sharp owl]

I really don't get it. When I'm in my "worlds_local" folder it doesn't show me like the .fwl file like for all the other maps in the "worlds" folder

for those i can see the .db and the .fwl

just not for the one in "worlds_local"

[chrome badge]

Neither, those have always been there, you can locate them with the Wishbone.

[tacit crystal]

Scrap piles can be found outside the crypts underground.

[hexed raft]

anyone wanting to link in a custom world? no building cost and max resource drop?

[haughty geode]

I really dislike how bees happen to occasionally want more space despite nothing changing around them. nothing. not even the random branch poping back

[trail pelican]

I'm like 99% sure it's solely a matter of "how fast the hive refills" because as LONG as they're in the right BIOME IME they seem to ALWAYS refill back up to the full 4 no matter what

(and usually, by the time i'm ever checking them again, they're back to 4), so i've stopped worrying about the beehive spacing requirements more or less entirely TBH

[sharp owl]

the fact they removed aoe damage to own factions, like Trolls to Greylings, is just beyond stupid tbh.

[rotund parrot]

you will like the ashlands

[chrome badge]

Oh you wanted to cheese enemies it seems.

[sharp owl]

it's just gameplay and immersion wise BS, when like a bear or troll smashes everything around them and nothing happens to the guys "of the same faction"

that's just a dumb parameter to go by

[chrome badge]

I've never experienced this, beehives check their radius like any other object, but their needs are different. https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Cover

[rotund parrot]

Not a fan of having friendly fire turned off too I assume

[chrome badge]

And yet, really common in video games, because developers typically want you to fight the enemies.

[sharp owl]

one of the best things about sandboxes are exactly these kind of interactions.

we are not talking about protecting story npcs

[chrome badge]

Watching enemies fight eachother?

[rotund parrot]

I hate that when I throw fireballs at enemies whilst the melee guy is tanking them like a badass that he doesn't die too, it just take away the immersion

[sharp owl]

to unlock Hildir's Inventory, do you have to kill the bosses from the first trader's bounties?

or rather targets than bosses.

ah got it

[light moat]

First traders bounties?

You just need to turn in the chests you get from the minibosses slain. So you won’t need to go to every location, just each unique location once

[sharp owl]

I really gotta say the core game has really become even better, while it was always great however the big downer for me is really travel time. Rn I'm lookin at the map for a Hildir Boss and that one is roughly a 10-15 boat ride away. That's just too much imo. Exploring the world on foot is excellent while sailing is such an boring affair.

[haughty geode]

I had to replace them like 10 times already.
I put them, I check ifthey are happy, they are, and then when I check again they might be still happy, or they might want more space

[light moat]

It would appear many players feel the same way about sailing, time will tell if we see something that improves the experience

[rotund parrot]

Sailing at night though is very beneficial because serpent food is better than anything else from swamp to plains

[rotund parrot]

It never change unless you build something else in their radius that essentially stop too many projectiles in random directions for it to consider having enough space

[glossy spruce]

hello peeps, anyone has some server recommendations? I went through lfg but not sure where to go, would like to play casually, vanilla

[haughty geode]

not building anything. not even loot dropping. nothing

[rotund parrot]

Then wether they have enough space or not will never change

[haughty geode]

and despite that, it does!

[rotund parrot]

It's something that you may want to check regularly until you find someone or a server that start and fit what you are looking for

[haughty geode]

ok there's one wild guess - occasional high waves reach high enough to make them think it's too crumped and they never recover on their own

[cosmic summit]

If I restore a stone tower next to a modor altar will it be strong enough to act as a respawn point when I fight her? Or can she quickly tear through stone walls?

[torpid coral]

@cosmic summit It won't last long. If you want permanent cover, dig around her altar.

[glossy spruce]

how close it is to modor altar? in any case you should be fine if you cover it

[cosmic summit]

Close enough to hit with an arrow

[glossy spruce]

you should be fine then

[cosmic summit]

Theres another castle a bit further away in the other directions. Im going to drop portals in both then just warp back to whichever one is further from her during the fight.

[sharp owl]

a portal system like Hytale has where you can connect multiple portals with the same one (often home base) would really be a thing.

[cosmic summit]

Give them all the same name with numbers, then just change the number to reconnect to the next portal in the series

[frigid anvil]

What I've been doing for portal organization is having a "main base" in each biome, which are interconnected, and then each "main base" has a room for smaller bases in the same biomes

so if I need to go to the swamps I go to my swamp base and then (if needed) to a smaller swamp base somewhere else

admittedly it gets a bit awkward at times when I'm going (essentially) right next door, but I have to portal halfway across the map to get there

[glossy spruce]

I just have a hub where I place all the portals + the main hub portal and one personal portal I use for exploring

[frigid anvil]

Ironically my main mountain base isn't technically in the mountains - it's in a meadow right next to the biggest mountain I've found

but since I'm not really at a state to protect myself while I build in the mountains it'll have to do for now

maybe I'll build a giant staircase to the top of the mountain from my base

[glossy spruce]

Staircase to heaven xD

[frigid anvil]

really wish we could have bookcases in this game 💔

[chrome badge]

For what books? 😂

[frigid anvil]

I don't really care, I just want to make it look like I have a bookcase

I don't care if it's entirely non-functional, I just want to build a library

[chrome badge]

There's plenty of ways to do that.

[candid basalt]

https://youtu.be/gQzsH_xm38E?si=LLy6dYGl6StXeFBA

[frigid anvil]

ohhh that's smart

[fossil delta]

Yeah, I watched a lot of building videos where they pulled off truly amazing looks and styles. I should watch them again just to refresh my memory.

I do want to say, I approve of how the armors for Ashlands look. Very nice touches.

[hard sluice]

art style is far more important than 'graphics', in my opinion

[flat stag]

lol just landet in AL - every time i turn around and see Drakkar, the Loch Ness thing in front of it gives me paranoia

[fathom notch]

Yaa tons of Drakkar in Alabama

[sharp owl]

Do you really have to push tamed animals towards your base except wolves?

[green reef]

Lox you can ride.

Boars yes.

Asksvins you can ride or move eggs.

Chickens.. eggs again.

[nocturne wolf]

Unless your base is very far from meadows you can find wild boars to tame them at your base

So you don’t really need to move them

[sharp owl]

Don't bounties delete themselves when the timer runs out?

[candid basalt]

Had a star asksvin and a regular chase me into a raised wall pen I made.. Right as taming finishes, regular one pops over the wall and gets killed by a morgen and friends... so much for breeding

I hate how they stack on each otehr

[green reef]

I like to tame them in their own pits with roofs. then dig them together when they are tame. portal even in the pit.

[candid basalt]

I didnt think of a roof

oh well... next time 😛

[paper marsh]

No bounties in the vanilla game

[light moat]

Wanted: Yagluth.

Dead or deader.

[fleet heath]

Hi all, just wondering if I’ll need to make a new seed when 1.0 comes out to access deep north? Haven’t loaded anything up top

[twin dust]

should autoupdate, just dont go up north just yet

[fleet heath]

Cool thank you, won’t be heading up there anyway

[twin dust]

no point anyway, nothing to see, just ice and cold water

[sharp owl]

after killing Biomass it says that I got a Wishbone for the silver in the mountains. When i check my inventory i only see the regular ones. Those do the trick, there's no special/chosen one of them sticks?

[fleet heath]

Regular ones? Wdym

[sharp owl]

the ones i collected a bunch of in the crypts

[twin dust]

lol just equip your wishbone and wait for the sound.

[fleet heath]

Wishbone is a separate equipable

When you equip it walk around the mountains until you pulse, walk towards where it’s strongest and dig

[sharp owl]

yeah I confused that with Withered Bones

[fleet heath]

Bring iron pickaxe and frost mead :)

[sharp owl]

well I certainly don't have a Wishbone in my inventory. 🤔

[twin dust]

wish bone is dropped after you kill bonemass.

should drop trophy + wishbone 100%

[sharp owl]

I got the trophy, no bone

[twin dust]

impossible.

check on the ground where you had the boss fight

[sharp owl]

I mean it should be on top of his trophy, no?

[twin dust]

bro, you know when you kill elder it drops trophy and swamp key, same thing with bonemass, trophy and wishbone

[sharp owl]

guess I gotta kill him again

[twin dust]

need help?

[wild crest]

@near furnace@mental loom@lilac mauve hello first time here is there any news on the PS5 release i have some buddies that wish to play but got PS5s not PCs

[shy marlin]

All we know is sometime in 2026 🤔

[rotund parrot]

Also don't tag developers especially not at night in Europe ...

[shy marlin]

I think only Mr. Smiffe actually gets pinged there, don't think the other 2 can 😂

[light moat]

*Dvoid comes out of the blue and says hi to us

[timid hound]

This might be a dumb question is there any reason I should rebuy Valheim on steam? Cause I know sometimes the pc version of games is better than the console version.

[light moat]

Completely up to you of course. I don’t know if the game is currently on sale, but when it’s half off it’s basically a steal lol.

PC version gives you access to mods, if you’re into those.

[sharp owl]

I don't get it. The Wiki says after defeating the "2nd boss" you can buy Swamp Dweller's delight already. After Biomass I still can't buy it.

[timid hound]

ok thanks

[light moat]

Hmm well technically, you should unlock the seasoning or whatever that is a component of the feast, not necessarily the feast itself.

[foggy glacier]

It uses the same herb blend as the meadows and black forest feasts. Make sure your cauldron is upgraded and make everything

[light moat]

Think it needs the prep station 🤔

[foggy glacier]

You need sausage and turnip stew from the level 2 cauldron

[light moat]

Ahh right.

[sharp owl]

you don't have to upgrade the preptable or have it near the food/cauldron upgrades, right?

[foggy glacier]

oh wait yes. you need the prep table to make the feasts.

It doesn't need to be near.

[sharp owl]

then I'm outta ideas

[foggy glacier]

Do you have all the food? bloodbags, sausage and turnip stew?

[sharp owl]

I think so, but it would be grey anways if I hadn't.

instead of not showing at all

[foggy glacier]

Not true. If you haven't made all the food, it won't show up.

[paper marsh]

Could be a mod issue

[foggy glacier]

yeah, that's the only other thing I can think of.

[sharp owl]

I haven't made the Turnip Stew, since I reserved the Boar Meat for the sausages...
This concept is not such a great design tbh.

[foggy glacier]

That's why you can't see it.

[sharp owl]

yeah now i do

[sharp owl]

Thanks tho! ❤️

mkay now I died in the camp fire chatting... 😄

[light moat]

I think feasts is one of the most creative features they’ve done

[sharp owl]

it's really good. However the part where you don't know the ingredients beforehand but still gotta make them remains questionable to me.

can I have all 3 buff slots from feasts?

hm, here I was thinkin the Swamp Feasat would be stronger than the first 2 🙁

kinda backwards, since I'd rather use a swamp food item then.

[green reef]

you have to be able to get to the bog witch to make all of them, so making all first 3 tiers the same makes some sense, lets you use up chested foods maybe?

[chrome badge]

They're weaker, but the trade off is they're far longer and the materials are cost effective.

Great for base activities, or situations where you don't feel intense risk, like traversing older biomes.

[sharp owl]

first 2 feasts + Sausages is just the better loadout imo.

[chrome badge]

Oh I misunderstood what you were saying my bad.

[fossil delta]

Speaking of which, is there a Mistlands feast? I have not unlocked one, and I am pretty sure I have bought everything the Witch offers.

[shy marlin]

probably missing seeker meat

(cooked)

[green reef]

Yggdrasil porridge?

[fossil delta]

No, I have turned many stacks of it into charcoal, and even pulled some off too soon. So had cooked seeker meat in my inventory.

[fossil delta]

I have that recipe, but I may not have made it.

[shy marlin]

well then its misthare supreme lol

make sure you touched the hidden hills spice

[fossil delta]

Its probably the porridge. I don't think that has been made.

We bought the hidden hills spice.

[sharp owl]

wait, you can meanwhile simply enter the mountain area without getting frostbite?

now that's convenient.

I already had frost pots craftet for this

[fossil delta]

You freeze. Maybe not immediately, but you will get hit with freezing without those meads, or the right gear. which, of course, you don't get until you get the right mats from the mountains. You can do the camp fire trick, but once a storm hits, those go out.

[open bolt]

you can enter the lower areas of the Mountain, near the other biomes. But as you go up the Mountain, you will reach a place where you need frost resistance.

[sharp owl]

idk I'm at the mountain top and only just used a pot because of dragons. Not like a longer time ago, where you'd just die because of frost bite

[fossil delta]

Freezing doesn't kill you immediately. It never has. You just start losing HP, until you die, or get out of the freeze effect.

[sharp owl]

no, it hasn't but i started 10 meters inside the snow. now it simply didnt start at all

[fossil delta]

Got a lucky glitch, I guess.

[fossil delta]

It was the porridge. Neither one of us went Mage, so we hadn't made any eitr foods.

[sharp owl]

what... my wishbone went nuts, so I dug down. There was a skeleton buried with I looted for... Bone Shards and then the alarm went off. Does that thing actually sound false alarm? 😄

[open bolt]

Wishbone going for bones 👀
It can happen, yeah.

[green reef]

wishbone has lots of triggers right?

[shy marlin]

meadows ships, swamp buried iron, and silver?

oh and the skeleton things holding silver necklaces in mtns

[sharp owl]

Do I throw Obsidian in the smelter just like silver?

[open bolt]

and chests with loot. usually found on the broken boats and "graveyard" sites in Meadows.

[green reef]

its not a metal

[shy marlin]

yea that's what i mean with the meadows ships

[fossil delta]

I wonder how many people never realize those stones in the meadows are an outline of a boat?

[sharp owl]

can I ever craft smth out of the 60 bear pelts that I have? would make sense in the Mountain Biome.

[fossil delta]

Only the bear rug, with a trophy as well.

Maybe they will add more uses with 1.0, or soon there after.

[idle storm]

vile armor in the plains

[fossil delta]

Oh, thats true.

The big limit there is also a trophy. 😄

[idle storm]

kinda? You're probably killing a dozen or more viles anyway since they only drop 1-2 ribcages per kill so chances are you'll get it through that unless RNG hates you

and viles are easier to farm than bears imo

[fossil delta]

Yeah, we usually get the needed rib cages last.

(I'm usually playing Valheim with my wife)

[sharp owl]

is the Horn of celebration worth carrying around? Seems like the weak Stamina mead.

[fossil delta]

No, its just a decoration.

[idle storm]

it doesn't actually do anything by itself, it just lets you drink other mead already in your inventory

[sharp owl]

oh than it's the buff from the actual weak mead i use for mining 😄

[idle storm]

looks good on an item stand but that's abou tit

[fossil delta]

Oh it can do it too? I was only aware of the dvergr mugs doing that.

Plus the fine wood mug we can make.

[idle storm]

it works pretty much the same as those

[fossil delta]

Makes sense. I usually make one per play through, but never actually use it. For some reason, I do use the dvergr mugs.

[open bolt]

oh, I see. haha My friend also calls them "ships". Is it an official name? I call it "graveyard" 😅

I thought you were referring to the broken boats when you said ships.

[cloud robin]

which biome is the best to make a permanent basem?

[open bolt]

If by "best" you mean safest, it would be Meadows for sure. But maybe you can choose an area in Meadows closer to other biomes/resources. Black Forest is also good, if you find a good spot.

Then in terms of terrain, I guess Meadows or Plains. But plains have difficult enemies.

[shy marlin]

maybe a plains/mistlands area with a few roots? 🤔 but honestly doesn't really matter

[open bolt]

Personally, for the roots I just use a portal to go back and forth to grab the sap. I never tried to build a base in the Mistlands or near them.

[fossil delta]

I've built a base in Mistlands twice. Its a good way to ensure you get plenty of bile sacs and carapace.

[sharp owl]

is it worth building stuff like Gold Ruby Rings and general jewelry?

[trim hatch]

man... this game has so many interesting little things and mechanics... how is a game like this not a bigger thing than minecraft...

truly, the mob prefers mediocrity

[sharp owl]

because a 5 year old and a 50 year old mobile mum wouldn't beat biomass.

After I haven't played for roughly 2 years myself. It's easily in my top 3 Sandbox/Survival Craft whatever this genre is called nowadays.

Does right clicking your gear just hide it or is it actually disabled then?

[stuck kite]

Contained a pig but I feel like he's going to rip through the walls, am I supposed to do something other than walk 100m away to deaggro him
How do I even feed him...

Dododo...

[stuck kite]

That would be unequipping it

Figured out the pig

[tepid prawn]

give it a stack of food and stay nearby but non visible, I wall them in usually so they can't see me, if you have found the swamp trader you can also make a potion to tame faster

[vast lily]

I'd say meadows and plains. Meadows is the safest bet, but plains is end game good. You can farm everything in plains.

[fossil delta]

Up to plains. As far as I know, Mistlands is only in Mistlands. Now the Ashlands vines can be grown in the plains.

[trim hatch]

im not sure if i wanna make a house in the swamp cuz i genuinelly hate the perma wet, or in the mountains... but then id have to terraform a bit...

mountain peak castle or swamp... something... i genuinelly havent seen many swamp builds aside from tree top huts

dunno, mountains it is ig, i dont want another house in the water haha

i just hope the deep north is different enough so that i may build a base there aswell and not feel like im just making a base in the mountains again

[near furnace]

Please respect our rules about not pinging developers. You did that at 02.30AM in the Middle of the night. This is'nt acceptable

[stuck kite]

I go to build and the darkness and fog roll in at the same time 😭

Well to be fair I've done nothing but build so that's inevitable

Night fog is intense though, makes no-map mode a lot more intimidating

[hard sluice]

good morning Smiffe

someone said 'no-map' ? : )
I'm having so much fun playing on immersive.

[stuck kite]

Oh yeah

I don't really play any survival game with its map

Immersive mode all in let's go

[hard sluice]

it is such a better experience, i agree.

there are some issues, like finding the queen. but its doable.

[stuck kite]

If I never find the queen then that was simply my fate

[hard sluice]

i spent more time than i can count to find her, on my current (1st time) immersive run.
But i think i would find her faster if i was to try again in a new seed. i learned.

[open bolt]

In my only no map playthrough so far I have only killed the Elder. Haven't progressed much after that. I haven't played much in that world after that, but the progress is much slower, and it gets me more tired in general. Probably because of all the roads I have to make 😅

[hard sluice]

finding bonemass is also very difficult. i found 2 yagluth altars before i found bonemass

[open bolt]

Bonemass will be interesting... 🤦‍♀️

[hard sluice]

no map also makes me tired. i think its just a lot more mental work to always have to figure out where you are, and to not make decisions that could lead to losing a grave in the middle of nowhere.
i play smaller sessions. i give myself an achievable goal, i do it, then i take a break.

[trim hatch]

yoo i found one of these little pits at the top of this mountain, im gonna fix it up and incorporate it into my base :D

[hard sluice]

i never build mountain bases because i'm lazy about that part of the game, but i think they are often the best looking bases.

i would be embarassed to share screenshots of the bases i built so far.. except 1 or 2.
if they are functionnal, its good enough for me..

[stuck kite]

I'm still on my 1st base, been building it for a couple of days

I might share but it's probably bad

Got my woodcutting to 30 so far on it very nice

[hard sluice]

the 1st real base is always memorable : )

[thorny lake]

Recently tore down my first base cus I knew that I needed a new home than the one I made before knowing anything about Valheim

Very happy with how my 2nd house turned out tho #screenshots message

[hard sluice]

i always hurt a little when i get a skill drain and think of my woodcutting skill : P
i like how wood stays a relevant resource up until the end.

@thorny lake wow ! its amazing..!

[stuck kite]

I'm building up a nice place I can work on more as the tech progresses

Building with only the basic wood is a bit of a challenge

[hard sluice]

some people have a gift for deco and builds. i don't.. but i can appreciate them

i just reached the current last biome in my world, and brought back some new building mats :3
i 'wasted' most of it just adding 'stuff' to my base : P idc, its fun.

my 1st base started as a small house, that i kept expanding as i was discovering new stuff. it ended as a weird 'frankenstein' build. it wasnt pretty or efficient.
but i'm happy i did it that way, and didnt spoil anything with the wiki. i just did my mistakes and lived with it.
(i killed the elder before realizing portals even existed in this game)

with 'no-portals', i end up doing bases for all the steps of the game. a small one at the altars, then one for the bronze age, then one for the swamp, etc.
i think it makes building a lot more important and fun when you can't link everything with portals.

[open bolt]

Yeah... makes sense. One hour of no map Meadows is like one hour in the Ashlands 😅

In terms of how tired I get

[open bolt]

Building is interesting for me, because I don't usually build a lot in a single playthrough, so I feel like I'm still very "noob" and not very efficient or creative. I can't really plan a building from the start like some people do, so most times I just build something random and then I improve it with time when I have ideas. That happened to my last base. It ended up becoming very unique because I had to work with the base structure that I had already, and with the environment as well (I don't usually choose the best terrains haha). So it's like "sculpting" something over time out of an existing simple building.

[trim hatch]

im currently terraforming the top of a mountain so i can build there

dunno how im gonna keep the drakes away but ill see

[tardy ore]

hey guys,what time is the deep north update comeing out like is it this year?\

[steel mica]

If you dont wanna switch from hammer to bow/crossbow, get a few ballistas to defend your building area

[trim hatch]

i dont think i unlocked those

[steel mica]

What progression are you at?

[trim hatch]

swamp

[steel mica]

Ah sad, best you can do is just kill them b4 you start building

[trim hatch]

they keep spawning though

[steel mica]

Thats normal

[trim hatch]

so im worried theyll come attack my base once im done building it

[steel mica]

If you build with stone its not too much of a problem

Wood ehh it'll take a few good hits till it starts to get the decay look but other than that its not a problem

They only attack when they have line of sight of a base structure

[trim hatch]

probably a mix of wood and stone

[steel mica]

Mixing both is not just good for defense but look aswell

So go ham with your building

Just be mentally prepared to do alot of tedious building

[strange cradle]

Aerial attacks are not so much a problem for your buildings (except Gjalls, but they only appear in Mistlands), but for your livestock.

[trim hatch]

holy crap i had a chest full of stone and it all went away on half of the floor

gulp

[tacit crystal]

No timeline announced yet.

[near furnace]

https://giphy.com/gifs/RobertEBlackmon-reaction-yes-ftdF4ZkueWGHBYc4b5

[candid basalt]

Anyway I am mourning the loss of my tamed asksvin. I had two and one died before breeding /cry

[steel mica]

I left to buy a burger what in haldors shop happened here

Nvm I see now 👀

[candid basalt]

There are no burgers in Valheim! Give now!

[dreamy kiln]

burgers? 😮 want!

[steel mica]

Closest thing we have to a "burger" in valheim is the health food pie in ashlands 😅

Since its flour and ahem... "tail meat"

Wait theres lox meat pie aswell 🤔

[dreamy kiln]

i demand the " deep north smash"

[near furnace]

in melted cheeze?

[steel mica]

For only 40 pesos you can get a buy 1 get 1 free burger

[chrome badge]

In Valheim, a burger is just someone who lives on an ice berg.

[steel mica]

I wouldn't mind having a burger as an april fools food

I have a feeling that the feast in deep north would have ice cream or just an ice cream feast 🫠

Wait no thats the opposite

Should be hot not cold food in a cold biome

[chrome badge]

It depends, some cold places have the best cold foods.

[candid basalt]

I'm from Alaska. You would not believe how much ice cream people eat there in winter. Bunch of weirdos (me included).

[steel mica]

I dont usually eat ice cream every day

But knowing how hot it is here in the Philippines

Yeah an ice cream wouldn't hurt

[near furnace]

milk or water based ice cream?

[candid basalt]

Mostly dairy. Big dairy farms in Matanuska

[open bolt]

I am building a base without really knowing what I'm gonna put in each building or even how I will put it there. I don't really measure the space. I just build... 😂😅

[candid basalt]

If its a main base, I try to make a room for each type of crafting with a central kitchen

also make random "houses" for no one, to make it feel like people might live there

[near furnace]

matanuska?

[candid basalt]

The Matanuska Valley

[near furnace]

ooh

thought it was some kind of animal I never heard of before

[candid basalt]

#general message

Since its off topic 🙂

[near furnace]

nice 😮

[open bolt]

I'm building three different houses and I thought about giving each house one purpose. Like, Portal hub, Crafting stations house and living quarters. But the space in each house is kinda weird rn, so I wonder if everything will fit in there 😅

[open bolt]

inadequate

[sharp owl]

why?

[candid basalt]

Not enough space

[sharp owl]

true, that would need to much server space additionally and running all that wiring would be a nightmare 😂

[near furnace]

...........

[open bolt]

Because even if you wrote it indirectly, everyone knows what you mentioned, and what you mentioned is inadequate to this channel/community. You should know that too.

[sharp owl]

Discord has as well become such a woke brittle snowflake environment. Not your fault tho.

[candid basalt]

Anyway can asksvin handle mountains? I’ve never tried them in freezing environment

[sharp owl]

They should try to have Bounties more in your "pathing" (while that's hard to implement) since one of the biggest problems people have with the game are the long and mostly uneventful boat trips.

[chrome badge]

A kid friendly server is just not the place for such topics.

[candid basalt]

Bounties? There are bounties?

[sharp owl]

well, the head hunts the first trader sends you towards

[candid basalt]

Haldor doesn’t send me anywhere. Do you mean Hildir? She was the second trader introduced

[sharp owl]

the dude with the bad ass Kodo mount

[candid basalt]

I’m lost

[near furnace]

sounds like a mod 😮

[sharp owl]

he gives you some kinda mini head hunts which are called like "Bunty: Yegoth Bloodsplit"

[candid basalt]

Yep you are using a mod

[sharp owl]

Is this really mod related? I'm using quite a few. Thought this is base line by now.

[chrome badge]

You don't know what mods you're using? 😅

[rotund parrot]

Well that explains why you were confusing everybody

[subtle pawn]

Idk i think he's right and love bounty hunting with my npc who give me quest every morning

Some base game stuff ykyk

[thorny lake]

If you think everything will fit, it wont🫡

[daring garnet]

anyone got some spare stone?

[haughty geode]

No F-ing way first time I see surtling it has 1 star... and right next to the first crypt I ever discovered

bruh
and now also first encounter of abomination?!?!?

[candid basalt]

The swamp loves you

[sharp owl]

to kill that thing cheesily:
||build a workbench and jump on top of a Crypt can't even hit you melee, while you can melee it.||

depending on your arsenal, you might wanna bring a few arrows 😄

or you manage to keep him in melee the entire time. it's possible but then you would have perfected the cheese

now I assumed it's gender 🤯

I'll spare myself the abomination joke in that regard LOL

[steel mica]

sounds like someone raised their difficulty modifier

[sharp owl]

those elementals have little to no hp and die with a sneak attack arrow.

[haughty geode]

nope, never

[sharp owl]

The mountain area is so tuned down compared to last time I played like 2 years ago.

and didn't you have to carry dragon eggs by hand instead of putting 'em in your pocket?

[lone rampart]

No but they aren’t portalable

[sharp owl]

the portal thing is such a hot topic in terms if ideologies clashing. I don't wanna open pandora's box here once again.

[lone rampart]

Fair enough

I just meant that having to physically transport them - and their being heavy AF - was the only real limitation

[hidden crag]

Hello chat

[sharp owl]

However how I handle it meanwhile is:
first time I travel anywhere manually and bring the first motherload of like Iron home by traditional ships with way too less space.

But afterwards I really can't be bothered to make a 2nd potentially 30 min trip (back and forth) again and just haul stuff through the portal changing the settings.

I mean people loading carts on their carve is a telling symptom.

Karve?

[candid basalt]

I get stone portals and then consolidate my storage to one base entirely. Same with all my crafting stations

I love a longship trip with all the iron from a swamp and several cart fulls too

I enjoy the sailing. It’s peaceful. Reminds me of my youth sailing a two man sailboat

[sharp owl]

the thing with the longship is, it's a friggin nightmare to manoveur through the tiny rivers splitting larger isles 😄

[candid basalt]

Karves are for river exploration

[sharp owl]

You often have a waaay shorter way right through a tiny corridor and in the end you are faster with the Karve than with a longship.

and sailing speed while respecting the wind is just way too slow

[candid basalt]

But the salt spray! The wind in your face! The call of the ancestors!!

Longship is also fastest boat. Which is backwards. The karve being lighter should be faster but less sea worthy

[sharp owl]

I'm no naval expert, but without the manoveuring component the Longship should be faster with the way bigger sails and more of those?

[candid basalt]

Heavier and sails aren’t much bigger

If it had a second mast or even an outrigger maybe

[sharp owl]

the heavy component isn't all that much relevant while travelling on water afaik. but w/e 🙂

[candid basalt]

Yeah no point since while Valheim sailing is fun, it’s not really based on physics

Loosely based

[sharp owl]

I'd argue that first time exploring can surely be fun, but making the same uneventtful trip multiple times is just flat out boring and tedious. Plus the long downtime, because that's what it actually is if you've done it often, just becomes not worth it, when you wanna go further away.

[candid basalt]

Beam length dose affect water displacement though.

[sharp owl]

exploring on foot is just so much more exciting.

[candid basalt]

Fair points. But I enjoy the sailing. Helps that the point of my Valheim is to relax and take it easy. Time wasting is part of my playstyle

[sharp owl]

sure I totally get that, but chilling with a video game doesn't have to be boring.

[candid basalt]

I’ve killed fader, not in a hurry to do it again yet

[sharp owl]

that's like watching a lame movie

[candid basalt]

Hey! I enjoyed “Star Trek: the Motion Picture”!

[sharp owl]

I gotta admit I'm not Trekky at all 😄

[candid basalt]

If you were you’d know that was a great joke

[sharp owl]

they are like Furries with futuristic tech, right?

jk 😉

[candid basalt]

That movie features a bald woman. So no 😂

[sharp owl]

careful in the woke space

[candid basalt]

Anyway. I need to tame another asksvin tonight. So no calm play for me

Need that egg production. Once I get two will breed them in meadows

[idle storm]

2-star asksvin were an absolute pain to get for me. I wish you luck

I must've spend 20-30 hours running around the Ashlands at night

[candid basalt]

I have a 1 star tamed already

[idle storm]

but releasing an army of them into the Ashlands is hilarious so it was worth it

[candid basalt]

I would love a 2star but a horde on 1 will still be helpful

[sharp owl]

One thing that applies to all taming is: Dig a pit and lure that thing into it. However I sure as hell installed a mod to reduce the time afterwards, since I won't stick around and oversee the animal becoming domesticated and rather do smth fun.

[paper marsh]

I’ll probably go for getting a small pen of 1 star Askvin so I have a mount to ride around

[candid basalt]

I have taming meads. Makes a huge difference

[idle storm]

1 stars perform fine, i just wanted the 2 stars to have the best

[candid basalt]

Once I have two eggs I’ll take to meadows, cull any zero stars and start my animal husbandry program

[idle storm]

animal whisper mead makes it tolerable imo. I can spend 15 minutes leveling my sneak skill against the nearest wall or just go take a smoke break.

[sharp owl]

I have so many poorly managed breeding pits around my base that all fulfill their purpose 😄

[candid basalt]

Then bring two stacks of eggs to Ashlands

[idle storm]

i brought 5

currently breeding replacements for the next one

[candid basalt]

Omg hilarious

[idle storm]

yeah my current breeding setup produces about 20-25 eggs per ingame day

[sharp owl]

but for some reason my boars stopped making love.

[idle storm]

so it's reasonably fast

[idle storm]

too many boars in close proximity? Limit is 5 within 10 meters iirc

[sharp owl]

yeah, exactly. So I kept splitting them up, but now the splinter cells with 3 won't multiply anymore as well.

[idle storm]

build a breeding tower

[sharp owl]

what's that?

ah I know waht you mean

that won't make a difference I suppose

[idle storm]

basically dig a pit as deep as you can, build a tower above it so your breeders are 12+ meters over the floor and then put a breeding pair in stalls with holes in them

[sharp owl]

sure, but if the breeders don't breed...

[idle storm]

since the piglets immediately drop out of range they never hit the breeding limit

[lone rampart]

It’s a barbaric, inhumane practice

Freefall piggies!

[idle storm]

i farm them for coal

so yes, it's all very barbaric. And efficient

it also levels my knife skill

[sharp owl]

I have 3 prisons each like 20 meters apart with atm like 3 pigs each and they don't breed.

[idle storm]

i've never used any dagger beside the butcher knife and still have skill in the mid-30s 😂

[sharp owl]

the whole thing worked before

[idle storm]

they eat though?

[sharp owl]

I keep tossing them carrots

[idle storm]

but do they eat them? Do they show as happy or hungry when you mouse over them?

[sharp owl]

yeah they even get their netflix and chill hearts

but when I come back they didn't do anything

[idle storm]

they need multiple hearts before getting pregnant

[sharp owl]

it's like they are using prevention 😄

like pills and condoms

maybe they became too domesticated in that regard 😂

[candid basalt]

Makes the bacon juicier

[idle storm]

I breed boars at my farm so i just toss them food and then go harvest and replant and there's piggies. Then i come back some days later and they're boars. Don't ask me how long it takes because i have no idea

[candid basalt]

Breeding in vanilla requires you to be in the area. They won’t spit out piggies if you aren’t within like 64m

[sharp owl]

oh true, the mod for taming doesn't apply

but tbh, this is another absolutely tedious time waster

[candid basalt]

Once babies are there they will age without you being there, but the makin of the bacon requires your presence

[sharp owl]

first of all it doesn't make any sense at all

and secondly do you want to stick around and watch your pigs populate? This already sounds kinda horrible 😄

instead of actually playing the game

[candid basalt]

It’s resources of your computer. The game doesn’t do creation if you aren’t there to load the cell

[sharp owl]

works for almost all other games.

it's nothing but numbers in a table

[candid basalt]

Breeding /taming isn’t required so if you want to be a livestock farmer, it requires sacrifice 😂

[sharp owl]

so it doesn't consume ressources at all

[sharp owl]

well I need them for my feasts

[idle storm]

just put your boars somewhere you have something else to do

or wait until chickens since they're easier to transport

[sharp owl]

what is there to do in a base that is long term fun except bulding smth new?

[candid basalt]

I rarely tame anything these days until chickens and asksvin. There’s plenty of free range for me

[sharp owl]

that's not really a good argument

saying I can't go out and do other stuff

[idle storm]

if it's your main base? Food crafting, item repairing, sorting your stuff after a trip, loading your smelters and forges etc.

if it's a farm? Harvesting and planting and feeding all the other animals

[candid basalt]

Making sculptures. Designing parks…

[sharp owl]

there's a reason for Valheim over Minecraft

[idle storm]

my farm has boars, wolves, chickens, asksvin and a bloood magic skill farm so i can spend time there without just sitting on my ass

[candid basalt]

Oh yeah need a blood magic farm just for the raving skeles and TWIGs

[sharp owl]

bottom line is that, it's just bollocks that you have to stick around to make your pigs make love...
it's logical nonsense and it keeps you from doing what you want do to freely.

[lone rampart]

I just recently dug out a charred fortress to act as my asksvin den. They like it a little TOO much! scoops out eggs with a pool skimmer

[hoary scarab]

My 1st attempt to build an island/peninsula outpost failed last night - The waves were engufling much of the structure, not to mention the little spot islands I was wanting to use as little smelting/cooking courtyards

[idle storm]

it's an engine limitation because it unloads areas with no players for efficiency. There's mods that can force an area active iirc if it bothers you that much.

[sharp owl]

there is no limitation to having numbers change. every private type writer can handle it.

[lone rampart]

….what?

[idle storm]

well if you want to rewrite the code yourself be my guest? I just figured a mod would be easier

[sharp owl]

this works for literally almost all video games having simliar features.

[lone rampart]

There absolutely is a limitation on whether a computer can handle loading extra areas, all the vegetation, all the animals, all the monsters, and running their ai

[candid basalt]

Yeah coastal and island life gets wet at low altitude when it storms

[idle storm]

they don't want the active area, just the breeding progressing. Which IS just a number, Valheim is just not set up to progress it if the area isn't loaded

[sharp owl]

you do not have to load an area... and to throw the whole argument out of the window

Why do crops grow while you are not there????

Almost all games you can come up with that have farming animals handle this kind of issue easily

[idle storm]

if they ever change it my current farms will probably crash my game 😂

[sharp owl]

it is absolutely not necessary at all to load graphical assets to have database values change.

[idle storm]

what i mean is that at the rate they're breeding it'd crash from the sheer number if they continued when i'm not there

just throw them a full stack of food each and go away for a bit

come back and boom, save bricked

[sharp owl]

lol those are less heavy than Excell Macros and your calculator could do that.

[idle storm]

the game ALREADY starts lagging if you breed to many animals

[sharp owl]

your mobile phone could do this for 100 servers with 1000 people each.

[sharp owl]

when you load the graphics that is. not the calculation

[idle storm]

yes, which is what i mean

i'm well aware that storing the basic information of "Y amount of entity X" doesn't have much of a load by itself

[sharp owl]

I see. I was more refering to the argument before, that you need to be present otherwise the host would go up in flames, if it still has to run those crazy calculations.

[idle storm]

well no as i said the breeding progress itself is just a number

it's when you translate that number into actual boars that you could get problems

[sharp owl]

yes, exactly and thus it makes no sense that you have to be present for breeding. logically and gameplay wise.

[idle storm]

i honestly don't care too much either way

there are more serious inconsistencies in the game that i suspend my disbelief for

[candid basalt]

This argument is making the pigs mad.

[idle storm]

they'll be killed shortly anyway 😁

[sharp owl]

I do because I like to venture out instead of watching my farm. Ths contradicts anyways the philosophy of Valheim being a way more combat focused approach to the genre take.

[idle storm]

base management is just as integral a part of the game as combat

it's survival crafting, not action-rpg

[sharp owl]

you won't progress your base unless you combat stuff

[candid basalt]

ANYWAY back to my asksvin conquest of Ashlands

[sharp owl]

this is not even up for debate and the general consensus of everybody discussing the game.

[idle storm]

yeah ok you've made your point, you don't want to wait 5 minutes for your pigs to breed. let's just drop it

[sharp owl]

and you want to defend this obviously lackluster design. This is basically how every progress gets lost
"let's just drop it"

[idle storm]

i already said i don't really care either way. The current state doesn't bother me. You don't need to convinve ME why it should be changed.

[lone rampart]

Lackluster 🤣 if you want 5000 boars swarming your base when you get back from a boss fight, that’s your problem

[idle storm]

I just don't get hung up on minor issues like that when playing a good game.

[sharp owl]

you are trying to make a point for obviously trash design by bringing up an absolutely utopic and absolutely unrealistic example. That's reasonable

[rotund parrot]

It is clearly a performance issues, mobs of any kinds are not loaded in if you are not around otherwise it would be a nightmare

[lone rampart]

Whatever you say buddy 👌

[sharp owl]

good argument

[rotund parrot]

If you know you will spend like 10 minutes at base just give 2 food item to the 2 pigs you have and they will have 3 babies that will be grown and ready to harvest in a couple days

[lone rampart]

Likewise 👌

[sharp owl]

this doesn't make sense.

[lone rampart]

Maybe if you have reading comprehension issues. Im saying your “suggestion” is trash and will crash your game unless they go in and make an entirely new game from scratch. But you don’t even care about that, you just want instapigs without effort. And trying to make you see reason is like trying to talk to a stump

[sharp owl]

I never said anything about instapigs at all. So you resort to making false statements. So I skip reading the rest of it

[rotund parrot]

I wouldn't say so, it feels good and relaxing to talk to nature

[lone rampart]

Yeah EVO you’re right. The complete opposite of whatever this is!

[candid basalt]

And why argue with other players? Put it in suggestions and let’s move on

[lone rampart]

Don’t say “let’s move on!” That’s a sign of weakness apparently 🤣

[candid basalt]

Wasting time in game bad, wasting time in discord good. Sounds woke /s

[lone rampart]

If I had Valheim on my phone I’d totally be wasting time there

[candid basalt]

I’m at work. I would get in trouble

[lone rampart]

I would too I just don’t give a shit

[rotund parrot]

The guy came in complaining despite not knowing much about the game or having any experience and has been searching for reason to complain ever since

[lone rampart]

Management has been nitpicking me for months to the point I very nearly walked out Wednesday. STUPID things too.

So playing Valheim at my cubicle just gives them something valid to complain about

[idle storm]

Sounds rough. Last time i even hinted at not renewing my contract my employer offered me a pay raise a week later. So i'd totally play Valheim at work, he isn't going to fire me. 😂

[lone rampart]

Are they hiring? 😹

[candid basalt]

I just wrote out a two page essay on how I quit retail management and firebombed the bridge as I left. But this isn’t the place for it

Let’s just say I work in funeral service now and it’s so much better

[idle storm]

right. Back to the important questions in life. Like "how many asksvin does the Ashlands REALLY need?"

[candid basalt]

All of them

[sharp owl]

praising the game for what is good and criticizing what's bad is actually constructive.

[idle storm]

sounds reasonable

[ancient sand]

Give it up man. You aren't in a discussion with devs here. If you were a skyrim character your room reading skills would be zero

[sharp owl]

kinda true. Rather a glazing chamber

[open bolt]

Yeah, I guess I'll expand parts of the house when I need. Doesn't have to be a definitive build. I usually do that.

[lone rampart]

If only there was a dedicated #suggestions channel

[steel mica]

Correct me if im wrong but dont you get 1 and 2 star surtlings only when difficulty modifier is higher?

[ancient sand]

I guess it beats someone shouting into the void and complaining tbh

[idle storm]

no, they spawn even on vanilla difficulty, just more rarely

[steel mica]

Ah noted

[thorny lake]

thats lowkey my favorite way of doing it too, seeng it slowly get bigger and better as you learn more and unlock more things throughout ur playthrough

[pliant hatch]

Yeah, well, there's a reason I say this about management:

Management are people who talk to much, don't work and don't know anything at all

[candid basalt]

Tell me you’ve never been in management without telling me

[lone rampart]

He’s dead on for MY management

[candid basalt]

And a lot of management. I just don’t like absolutes. Sounds very … Sith

[lone rampart]

Well you know what they say. Sith happens!

[candid basalt]

There wasn’t a job in my stores that I wasn’t willing to do. Can’t teach if you don’t know.

I’ve cleaned toilets so my crew could focus on the more important stuff

[lone rampart]

Your management teaches? Mine just print out lists and say “do this by the end of the day!”

“This program takes 3-5 days to verify!”
“Well do something because it has to be done today.”

[candid basalt]

To be fair, I’m management. Now I just manage paperwork and fix issues caused by other managers 😂

[pliant hatch]

Yup, that's management all right.

Them: "You should produce 25,000 bottles of product today."
Me: "I'd like to, but I had to convert the machine to this type of bottle first. And you know that takes me 3-4 hours."
Them: "So increase the production speed and you'll be fine."
Me: "You mean faster as 100%. How am I supposed to do that?"
Them: "I don't know. You're the operator. Just make sure we get those 25,000 bottles today."

[lone rampart]

I used to be management at my previous job. That one required some level of competence

[pliant hatch]

So eventually I simply scanned enough pallets with empty bottles and said I got their 25K of bottles.

[candid basalt]

There is a difference in being a boss and being a leader. Bosses manage, leaders help manage

[pliant hatch]

And somehow they didn't like that. I wonder why? 🤔

[candid basalt]

Oh shit we off topic

[pliant hatch]

Happens all the time.

Besides, I wonder how most managers I know from my job would manage Valheim.

Somehow I think it's not that good. 😄

[candid basalt]

When I set up storage, my inventory management shines

[lone rampart]

When I play with friends I end up assessing strengths & personal preference and delegate tasks accordingly

I wonder if I could pad my resume with Valheim

[candid basalt]

I know someone who used his guild leader role in a major raid guild back in WoWs heyday to land a management role.

[haughty geode]

what, other then dying again, can reset "no skill drain" effect back to 10 minutes?

[hoary scarab]

I would consider something similar for an EVE guild

[quasi latch]

Some EVE Online corp apps are genuinely harder than IRL job apps, so I've heard

[chrome badge]

Nothing other than dying will reset it, if you see it refresh the timer, it is just a visual bug happening currently.

[haughty geode]

oh I see it reset a lot

[lone rampart]

I’ve already used my time working at a renaissance festival on there I might as well go whole hog! 🤣

[candid basalt]

Resume says you were a boar farmer? And then you ran a wolf farm? Tell us about that…

[lone rampart]

“Well, demonstrating excellent problem-solving skills and a ruthless efficiency prized in today’s workplace, I enclosed the breeding pair in an elevated box and let the newborns plummet to a pit below, maximizing yield and drastically reducing processing time.”

[candid basalt]

“You were a boar farmer for checks notes 302 days? And then lost your income due to a checks notes bat raid? Please clarify”

[candid basalt]

There’s upper management skills right there

[lone rampart]

“That there’s a real go-getter with upper management written ALL over him!”

[candid basalt]

The woman whom lets me live with her saw me making a wolf breeder box and was horrified

[lone rampart]

I would be too lmao

All my critters are free range to some extent. Still enclosed but they can walk around

[candid basalt]

The falling puppies were what convinced her I was a psychopath

[lone rampart]

It’s definitely on your list

[candid basalt]

“They’re fine! And look, they love me”

[wet kestrel]

Tried in LFG but no success yet, Seeking someone to join me on my personal world to work on plains forward 🙂 (might be tricky to find someone but even more if i give up hehe)

[candid basalt]

Don’t give up. Take it slow, have upgraded mountain gear and best food you can make. Wolf skewers and eyescream etc

Pierce resistance like root harness is good too

Keep eyes open and don’t be afraid to run.

[green reef]

What's your current method? Moder dead?

[lofty moss]

Embrace running, always have an exit game into another lesser biome, identify rocks and other high ground as you dive deeper. Stay the hell away from tar creepers, always snipe them safely one at a time.

Use Huntsman Bow when you’re sniping your way into Fuhling camps (most quiet bow, less likely to aggro extra enemies).

[cloud robin]

are we all doing play valheim using vulkan?

or just the regular

[hoary scarab]

regular - vulkan was crashing for me everytime I started a new seed

[near furnace]

@zinc dagger ?

[brazen linden]

Sorry if this is answered; Do we have an official timeline for the release of Hotfix of latest patch 0.221.10?

[uncut pecan]

Is Valheim going to be in EA longer than Palworld?

[subtle pawn]

I don't know what you are talking about, palworld is from 2024 and valheim from 2021 so it obviously is longer yeah

[pliant hatch]

It could be. But it's most likely shorter in EA than 7D2D.

[uncut pecan]

Idk what that is.

[subtle pawn]

7 days to die

[pliant hatch]

It's a game that has been in EA for 10 years.

[subtle pawn]

world of tanks has been for long too

[uncut pecan]

Is that supposed to be a positive note for Valheim?

[lone rampart]

It’s neither positive nor negative. It’s just pointing out Valheim isn’t an outlier

[uncut pecan]

World of Tanks is on patch 2.2.1.

How is it in early access?

[subtle pawn]

it was in early access for so long

[uncut pecan]

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

[hoary scarab]

at least change pic bro

[uncut pecan]

I guess.

[subtle pawn]

It's not a bad or good thing, some devs just come up with some much ideas to their games that it is needed to be in early access longer because they don't thing the game is yet complete

Valheim will get the 1.0 version early this year so i think it's got to be before June i guess

[uncut pecan]

That makes it sound like those devs didn't have a good foundation. Just look at The Forever Winter making paid DLCs to an early access game.

[subtle pawn]

I don't think there should be paid DLCs to early access games, that's just silly to me

[shy marlin]

i'm fine if it's cosmetic dlc 🤔

like v rising did some EA dlcs and did them well imo

[subtle pawn]

oh yeah actually

[uncut pecan]

Yet people wonder why Nintendo, EA, and Ubisoft do the things they do.

[uncut pecan]

Uh, yeah, no. I've played too many games in where you can unlock skins/characters in game without MTX to ever believe cosmetics are justified.

[light moat]

So is all DLC bad? 🤔

[uncut pecan]

OLD MAN MEME "Back in my day, they were called expansions. Star Craft Brood War and Halo 2 multiplayer map packs were actually good deals."

[light moat]

Yeah, I remember loving all the old Halo expansions. At the time, I never thought anything bad about DLC

But it gets tricky when developers appear to blatantly hold back content for the sole purpose of releasing it as DLC.

I probably wouldn’t love if Valheim released DLC before 1.0? 🤔

[uncut pecan]

But, then you think back and remember that Nintendo sold two copies of the same game, which arbitrarily kept you from encountering certain Pokemon. And then you need an N64 and Pokemon Stadium to complete your Pokedex.

[lone rampart]

I would buy so many cosmetic dlcs for Valheim I JUST WANT MY VIKING TO BE PRETTY!!

[light moat]

Talking about Red/Blue? don’t think you needed stadium to access any exclusive Pokémon, though I think there were moves locked behind it.

Not being a Nintendo defender (I really don’t like modern Pokémon, don’t get me started lol) but I can believe that at the time the intent was to encourage trading, considering the scope of the game(s)

But yeah, if any other game tried that nowadays, I don’t think it would be received well

Funnily enough, imo, I think a bigger offender is actually the Zelda Oracle games. The big bad boss was locked behind having access to both games 🤔

Oh and on a side note, when I made the comment about content being purposefully held back… I was definitely thinking about Pokémon ZA Mega Dimension lol

[uncut pecan]

You needed Pokemon Stadium to get a surfing Pikachu, which was used in a minigame in Pokemon Yellow.

And Capcom made the Oracle of Seasons/Ages games.

[light moat]

Sure, but that’s kinda negligible imo 🤔
Pokémon has done far far worse… gen 3 locking numerous Pokémon in the GameCube titles for a time, so many locked Pokémon in mystery gift in gen 4… plenty of questionable things they have done.

Ah right, Capcom did make those, forgot about that. Love those games though 👀

[uncut pecan]

The Oracle games are top tier gameboy games imo.

It's neglegable, until you have nothing better to do than to 100% the games. I barely even hunted for the Regis in Gen 3, and that's the Gen I stopped playing Pokemon.

Oh, yeah. Don't forget that Gen 2 Pokemon had MTXs in Japan. People bought wireless adapters for their cell phones to hook up their gameboys to the internet.

[light moat]

I stopped after gen 4 for the most part, I was a gen 5 hater at the time haha

[uncut pecan]

Once I saw Dialga and Palkia's designs, I knew Pokemon wasn't for me anymore. And then when I saw that Key-ring Pokemon or that chandelier Pokemon, I knew there was never going back.