valheim-chat

[near furnace]

I wanted to find the wife in Falwty towers to yell BASIL

😄

[midnight roost]

how do you get access to gifs

[near furnace]

you don't 🤔

[merry pebble]

You need different name colour than white or yellow 🙂

[tacit crystal]

Not like Tenor would have been down or else.

[midnight roost]

how many copies of valheim do i have to buy

[tacit crystal]

None of that is required.

[granite grail]

I'd rather hang glowing porcupines or Draugr fangs

[gray sand]

Wall of Kroms 😮

[azure tulip]

since when does valheim keep open the cmd in the background?

[near furnace]

?

[midnight roost]

bro got valheim from the darkweb

[azure tulip]

gimme a sec, trynna sreenshot

oh i cannot post screens in here

[midnight roost]

#screenshots

[near furnace]

well. you use mods

[azure tulip]

send it, if i close it, valheim also closes

[near furnace]

so ask in #mods-issues

[midnight roost]

i can't see anything on the screenshots anyway

[lone rampart]

That looks normal. When you use modded Valheim, BepInEx runs a little box as well. Just let it cook.

[azure tulip]

i dont have any mods downloaded tho

[near furnace]

doesn't matter

if you have bepinex, you have mods

[nocturne wolf]

you're playing with a mod loader, that's what the window is

[azure tulip]

ahhhh okay

thanks guys!!

i installed vortex today, thats why ig

[lone rampart]

It doesn’t hurt anything. At worst, it makes alt-tabbing back to discord a little annoying because sometimes you’ll grab the wrong window.

[near furnace]

like I said ---> #mods-issues or possible #mods-discussion

[mild mason]

hello guys, new to the server. Looking forward to being part of the discord community and talking about valheim 🙂

[near furnace]

welcome mr.swiss

[warped mauve]

Got my head handed to me on a plate by a 2-star Draugr archer. Can someone please help me kill the stinking nest? It's right next to the crypt entrance, but they pop out so quickly, I cannot kill it.

and retrieve my corpse 😿

[mild mason]

do you wear the Root Harnesk? It reduces a lot of the archer's damage

[warped mauve]

I made the helmet, but not the chest yet.

[mild mason]

Ah. Well you're getting there. Sorry that I cannot help you in-game (at this time)

Maybe try shooting the stink nest from afar

[warped mauve]

The nest is right next to the entrance. I had to clear the mudpile to have clear sight of it, but it let Draugrs get thru, I'm boned.

[lofty moss]

Is there any kind of safe refuge or LoS obstruction to allow you to employ a stag breaker to at least chip away at the bone pile?

[warped mauve]

No, they can walk thru the opening I made to try to snipe the spawner.

[lofty moss]

Yeah that sounds tough. (The root harnesk is a great investment regardless) If I had some time I’ll come help but I’ve got family in my office. I will check back if I have a window.

[warped mauve]

Thanks, I got him. I just kept swinging, killed him and somehow killed the nest too.

[celest prairie]

the spear animations bring me great trauma

i need my underhanded rapid thrusts not overhead half jabs <\3

it's like using a bow and limiting yourself to half draw

[wet lodge]

can enemies climb stairs now?

ah no they can just scale vertical walls now

[paper marsh]

You get used to it

Sadly the jab is reserved for atgeir

[celest prairie]

bruh 😭

BRUH just crafted the atgeir and yeah thats absurd :( just rename the spear to javelin atp

[chrome badge]

It's incredibly useful, it fills the niche of extreme range at the cost of the throw, while also having an animation that can be used with or without a shield. This means it's got the flexibility of being useful without shield's movement debuff, while also having the flexibility of that safety alongside it's rapid attacks.

Spears are always tricky for game developers because they do translate to extreme range in people's minds, but there's still balance and utility to consider.

[celest prairie]

yeah but it just feels shnasty when you want regular spear thrusts

[silk token]

yeah honestly it is a very proper javelin ill give you that, and designed to be frequently thrown.

[wet lodge]

it is a javelin from the way its used

[celest prairie]

yeah spears are hard to balance when irl they're effectively overpowered

[wet lodge]

but Javelin is just a word for spear

[celest prairie]

javelins are more oriented for throwing while spears are heavier and more meant for general thrusts

lances are a word for spear

[wet lodge]

short spear vs long spear

[brittle umbra]

Is there a way to turn off twig?

[celest prairie]

i do think the atgeir functions really well for a polearm tbh though

[silk token]

also if you do some dorky math, the dps between jabbing and throwing is almost exactly the same assuming you’re in range to pick it up immediately, so it kind of IS a long reach melee weapon if you use it right. that can ALSO hit air and sea targets AND parry with whatever shield

[celest prairie]

a partisan themed one would be wicked

[wet lodge]

the atgeir is the definition of a polearm

its a spear and axe in one

[celest prairie]

im just here as a spear fan first and valheim second lol

[wet lodge]

though no clue if its historically accurate, we assume it is but there are no depictions and maybe a dozen mentions in all of norse history, in sagas

[dim python]

take him apart 🤖

[silk token]

gotcha. yeah then definitely better “spear” combat out there, just use atgier and pretend it’s a spear lol

[celest prairie]

true

[wet lodge]

I only got into valheim cuz I love norse mythology

[dim python]

dissassemble number 5 🤖

[celest prairie]

the atgeir animations are quite tasty

[dim python]

atgeir has a permanent spot in weapon slot 4 in my inventory

[brittle umbra]

Rip. I was hoping for an actual way to turn him off instead of destroying him since I just build a new “training” building

[wet lodge]

im 100% gonna make a iron atgeir, rn im rocking bronze axe/mace combo cuz bear armor

[dim python]

bear armor boosts chop yes but also slash

when full bear

[celest prairie]

I'll probably do a shield/1h and atgeir combo

[dim python]

not strike/bang

[wet lodge]

yeah but going to swamp without a blunt weapon would be dumb

mace power attack 1 shots leeches

[dim python]

troo

[wet lodge]

and the other enemies I smack in 2-3 hits too

[dim python]

leeches? i thought it was for the slimes

[wet lodge]

slimes do no damage

[dim python]

slimes poison

[wet lodge]

poison res :)

[dim python]

:(

[wet lodge]

meads are gud

[silk token]

yeah but you gotta pack your gear first lol. those pesky rafts dont have storage XD

[dim python]

#u#

-u-

@u@

[chrome badge]

Why are you spamming 🤔

[dim python]

that was all i'd do

i'll admit that was toeing the line if not crossing

i have no good excuse i just wanted to play out closing my eyes and reopening them in a different expression

i'm not planning on doing that again @u@

[near furnace]

when I am like that, I usually go apply pillow to face and sleep

[chrome badge]

All good I was just curious

[forest mica]

Hey guys question, I’m a returning player and forgot how to pull out my command chat on Xbox, anyone can help me out of what to press to open it?

[dim python]

if it's not clear by that last message i wanted to get across that i realized my mistake afterwards even before your spam message

[near furnace]

look in settings @forest mica

we changed it

[wet lodge]

I could only tell you the pc key

[dim python]

sorry for replying to "all good" with more self justification 🫠

maybe that is itself spam
maybe it's all good

[chrome badge]

I understand now no worries 👍

[dim python]

it's actually much easier than it is with a mouse

think like dark souls with a mouse versus dark souls with a controller it's very similar

i don't even play dark souls pc with a mouse i rebound the camera controls to my keyboard

[forest mica]

I’m not sure what I’m looking for

[dim python]

sad to say i can't quite afford the controller i've been eyeing 🔍

[near furnace]

enable console trigger

[chrome badge]

Oh god I could never, I am a mouse and keyboard enthusiast. Mouse feels closer to looking around for me than pushing a joystick side to side.

[near furnace]

and then there is a key shortcut on the controller 🤔

[chrome badge]

Controllers are for driving games and fighting games only for me.

[near furnace]

you could also ask in #xbox-bugs-discussion

[dim python]

if it's first person i prefer m&k if it's third person i prefer console controls

[wet lodge]

dark souls pc port was just very jank, elden ring is easier with KBM than controller

[chrome badge]

Interesting, is that a fortnite thing or something?

[dim python]

if you're talking to me: i've made a point to never play fortnite and am thusly shuddering at the thought of using hammer for on the fly defenses in valheim

[chrome badge]

I always felt the same, well said.

[dim python]

dark souls pc with ijkl bound to ⬆️⬅️⬇️➡️ is better than people think it is

my keyboard controls are what the kids of a couple years ago used to call "scuffed"

[dim python]

i will say i'm looking forward to making controversial contributions to the community in faction based afk farms

like, actively looking for spots where skeletons and greylings will keep meeting and fighting eachother

but i'm also looking forward to making helpful video guides where i narrate gameplay actively intentionally making mistakes to teach newbies how to clean up after their own failures

i should really look up valheim let's plays that stuff is probably golden @u@

[prime moth]

its pretty funny

[granite grail]

Just curious, is there a list anywhere of weapons that you can use while also having a shield equipped? Just would like to know before crafting the Mistland and Ashlands weapons

[silk token]

not that i know of, there are a lot thought, is there a specific weapon type you wanted to know existed in either biome?

[balmy seal]

Drakes and wolves really should be prevented from interfering when Moder is active.

[granite grail]

Those are fine, in all the Moder fights I've ever done a friendly stone golem drops in to say hi XD

[granite grail]

Not really I guess, tbf I'm not familiar with the Ashlands weapons. I just just thinking when I unlock them it would be nice to know. I would use the skoll and hati more if I could use my shield with them lol. But they're two handed, so it makes sense

[balmy seal]

Her hit box while on the ground is absolutely horrible as well.

[silk token]

no ashlands daggers if that helps, yeah skol and hati are cool they actually have pretty respectable parry power paired with evasion mantle you dont much need a shield.

ashlands has most weapons except the 2 handed weapons, atgier battleaxe hammer, also no dagger

[granite grail]

can you use a shield with all the Ashland swords? I would assume so

[silk token]

sure, the 1 handed. theres also a 2 handed

[lone rampart]

Unless it says 2H, in which case iit requiires two hands to use.

[granite grail]

alright cool, thanks guys!

[balmy seal]

I made sure there wasn't any golems nearby, but the wolves and drakes wandering in are a real irritation

But Moder's hitbox is really bad. It makes hitting her while on the ground very difficult

[cosmic summit]

best power to use for a mage? queen or yagluth?

[gray sand]

Moder?

[naive mountain]

I KILLED A SEA SERPENT

[granite grail]

personally you can never go wrong with Eikthyr

[gray sand]

Moder beats Eik now imo. Movespeed + Weight Gain.

[naive mountain]

It busted my boat but MY BOAT WAS AVENGED

[cosmic summit]

razer updated and now my mouse keybinds dont work and it got me killed QQ

[prime moth]

lmao. it finally happened to me

rando deathsquito murder

just casuall cruising through the swamp and- nah man you dead

[silk token]

nooo..... another riperino 🙁

were you mal-nourished? or multiple skeetos or what/

[prime moth]

nah i tanked 1 and thought my bronze buckler would help the 2nd attack

.. it did not

had like 30 armor and 90ish hp

[silk token]

oh snap, yeah lol. i mightve missed a death last i noticed you were post-moder

[prime moth]

yeah that one was when i decided to tank like 3 dverger mages at once

lmao

[silk token]

oof. yeah i dont fight them until i can shove them into one spot and battleyacks them a question about their home insurance

[molten pumice]

bro whos down make a new world normal mode no mods an really try to beat the game with cool builds

[gray sand]

#1024264966712340510

[plucky rock]

whats the heaviest item stack in the game

||bonemaw|| meat?

[paper marsh]

Preference, but I'd say Eik

Yag sounds fun tho

[silk token]

either that or metal, what's the meat weigh?

[plucky rock]

10, stacks to 50

[oak river]

Oh yeah gotta be bonemaw meat

500 per stack is crazy

[silk token]

oh maybe only because it stacks to 50 then ya

[granite grail]

Silver is also ridiculously heavy

[maiden sable]

i love the mountains. i love my new bow. i love my cape, i love the enemies. parrying has never been more fun. 10|10 biome stars from a first playthrough perspective. i hope the rest of the game stays like this ❤️

[granite grail]

The mountain is my scariest biome O_o I do nighttime in every biome except mountains LOL

[balmy seal]

Mountains are pretty

The crunchy snow is so ASMR

[granite grail]

I mean by now my armor is good enough that it's a none issue at this point, but the fear still remains ingrained in my soul

[maiden sable]

its not rly that scary to me so far 🤷‍♂️ . first cave was also fine. i gotta stay out at night to see the real threats then

cuz i gotta admit star enemies werent a thing so far. maybe i was blessed by rngsus to bait me into a false sense of security

whatever the case i liked my mountain experience so far

[silk token]

night mountains is a pretty big difficulty spike, also a cool one, have fun! XD

[maiden sable]

the funniest thing is that the wind from the mountains or whstever the events is called forced me to go there. drakes kept trying to destroy my monuments and even vandalized my garden.....i couldnt let that happen. i yeeted two of their eggs off a cliff to make a point and got myself a cape and bow...the next time those hooligans show up ill not need to sprint to the kitchen for a frost mead....sounds of surpressed rage

like bru i was peacefully building....

😭

so i rly didnt expect a nice experience after my initial encounter...but the opposite was true

[granite grail]

Drake raids are annoying at first

[maiden sable]

i wasnt prepared. i didnt know about the debuff and didnt have frost mead on my character....

[balmy seal]

Golems are annoying, but easy enough when you figure out their moves

[maiden sable]

needless to say stamina wasnt a thing in that fight

i could barely move and made it into my kitchen with a bit of health left drank a mead and repaired till the event was over 😭

[radiant cloak]

You’re gaslighting us Smiffe

[maiden sable]

and u dont come to my home vandalize my garden and get away with it...so yea now im in the mountains

[radiant cloak]

But I appreciate your loyalty

Still gonna keep playing Valheim with my bad fps

[maiden sable]

blizzards absolutely kill my frames

[radiant cloak]

I think it’s half just the Unity engine

[balmy seal]

They make my vram a little warm

[radiant cloak]

I always have less than favorable fps stability and performance on unity games in general except for 2D shit like Necesse

[maiden sable]

idk most weather was fine so far but in the mountains when i met blizzards my pc screamed for help

[radiant cloak]

But I haven’t had the widest scope of experience

[maiden sable]

i mean its particles...lots of them..lots of stacked dense effects so obv its taxing af i guess thats not only engine related in that case

[radiant cloak]

But my GPU and cpu and ram doesn’t go above like 30% utilization it just lags

Which indicates some software overhead issue

[maiden sable]

cpu wise idk about this game but many utilize only single or dualcore speed or favour cache. gpu cant tell cuz my poor old ass 1060 is already at its limit 💀

if u have good hardware u might wanna look into how the game handles threads. usually niche games arent that multicore heavy and pref singlecorespeed. so even at 30% u might run into a bottleneck. idk what ur specs are but obv gpu can be a issue too

(just did a quick google search .says : valheim heavily relies on singlecore performance and cache so theres ur explanation)

[plucky rock]

how do u pronounce yigyigdrasil

[maiden sable]

google has a answer to that as well
The Norse world tree, Yggdrasil, is pronounced IGG-drah-sill (IPA: [ˈʏɡɡdrasɪlː]). It is a compound of "Ygg" (Odin) and "drasil" (steed), with the primary stress on the first syllable

[stray roost]

Lookin for a chill fun homie to play with I just started a world and playing until the deep north comes out

[plucky rock]

i say yigyig

[balmy seal]

The word I always forget to pronounce right is Vegvísir

[plucky rock]

i pronounce that as vestiger

[dim trellis]

igg dra sill, how close did i get

[balmy seal]

Proper way is VEGG vee seer

Or so I've read

[dim trellis]

what thing is a vegvisir?

[balmy seal]

The glowing markers for identifying boss locations.

[dim trellis]

oh nice

[maiden sable]

is it a vegetarian or a tiger im confused !

no but for real : as a german its rly similar to wegweiser

vegvisir...wegweiser...aint that far off

does it mean the same ? idk 🤷‍♂️ but it for sure does sound the same

[dim trellis]

how far apart is viking from german

[maiden sable]

i just googled it and yes it in fact means wegweiser

[maiden sable]

no idea ngl it mostly sounds like gibberish to me as a german but i can make out some similarities here and there

basically like the diff between nl and ger. u can understand some words but ull never get the meaning of a sentence

[mild mason]

50 Serpent Trophies.

[mild mason]

I say "yi - dri - sil" (soft i) but it's probably wrong

How do you pronounce Vananadir, I say it like Banana

[granite grail]

I have always just said yag-drasil 🤣

[coral marten]

hello everyone

I am never active inh ere long enoug to hold a conversation

[thin elbow]

yiggi tree

[strange cradle]

Swedish, or so I've been told is far closer to old German, than modern German.

[chrome badge]

It's pronounced eeg-dra-syll 😛

[strange cradle]

German and Dutch is fairly close, but there's still a lot of difference. Dutch is actually closer to Frisian, a north German dialect, which is almost impossible to understand to "normal" Germans. 😄

North Germans say "water" to "Wasser".

Guess where the English got a lot of their words from.

There's a very good channel on Youtube that deals with the differences and commonalities of English to the other European languages: "Robwords". And he's funny as hell as well.

Enough off topic. Morgen, Gjall.

[eternal blade]

Oh man, another one of my hilarious and unusual deaths. Been setting up siege camp for charred fortress with stone portal, jumped through portal to go home to grab some supplies...as it turns out, my character kept existing there for a little while and there was lava behind the portal. While the process of teleportation shielded my character from fire damage, I instantly burned to death the moment I appeared back at my base

[rain flare]

Takes notes for future reference

[eternal blade]

Learn from the mistakes of others, never place a stone portal with its back toward lava

[mild mason]

ty ty, swiss german is my first language

[near furnace]

Not at all.
But when do you have 45 FPS?
In the middle of your mega base with 40.000 instances? Or in the middle of black Forrest with just normal creatures around?
It makes a extreme difference in fps

[radiant cloak]

hear me out

if my GPU is at 30%, RAM is at 30%, CPU is at 30%, but I'm getting less than 60FPS, the choke point is either Unity or Valheim logic or both

yes i'm using lots of mods

but the mods are just hooking and patching and creating additional overhead they aren't running the game or utilizing the hardware directly

anyways I had good luck using ValheimPerformanceOverhaul which allows more fine tuning of culling and simulation distance etc

[near furnace]

hear me out

you have a car

standing still on idle

it uses 5% of the engines power

now

oh

mods

yeah that's nothing I can help with

ignore me

but you need to know how hardware work

valheim don't use every single processor core / thread you have

and once one thread maxes out, valheim stops pushing more

are you using your P cores? E cores?

[radiant cloak]

processor affinity for valheim.exe only on every P core thread so 0-15

https://view.monday.com/4511671930-ab92029a19b9f5b5b12e99bf0ef088c7

I tried to find more info on the 13th gen and 14th gen intel issue logged here but I couldn't find much

[near furnace]

the 13 and 14 gen issue is basicly processor toasting itself from using to much current

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/1egthzw/megathread_for_intel_core_13th_14th_gen_cpu/

[radiant cloak]

the old microcode issues are what it's referring to in the issue tracker?

[near furnace]

on our valheim issue board on monday?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs

[radiant cloak]

yes lmao i know about the microcode issue I had disabled TVB and overclocking and enabled all power saving features in bios on day 0 building my pc so i was unaffected

[near furnace]

nice nice

if you had issues, you would see it all the time and worsening over time

I also "survived" the AM5 issues. since I used the wrong RAM

but the game will only use a few threads of your CPU.
some of the tasks are pre-ordered to go on certain threads for efficiency since if the processor got the choose by itself, it could accidently put heavy calculations on the same tread and the entire game would slow down

so we load balance it

but still. your PC shouldn't underperform as you say it does

[abstract warren]

Were copper deposits always so full of dirt inside?

[near furnace]

I think so yes

[unkempt crane]

anyone know a keep inventory mod

[abstract warren]

Holding a torch and a 1h weapon just makes bears so stupidly easy

They just walk around or stand still and let you slowly kill them

[tacit crystal]

People in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202934289898151966 might know better.

[brisk hazel]

yo have chests been removed from troll caves? ive been in like 3 and havent seen any

[deep musk]

Did an unmodded playthrough recently and the few I bothered to enter had chests, just bad luck dude

[merry pebble]

They can still be there 🙂

[tacit crystal]

Some caves have no chests when they have no troll inside.

[eternal blade]

so...upgrading trollstav only increases its durability?

[foggy glacier]

and the damage from the meteor afaik

[nocturne wolf]

it doesn't increase the meteor damage

[solemn crown]

Big weekend for me. Found my first Sunken Crypt, found and killed my first Abombination, now have many important iron weapons, and most importantly, TURNIPS!

[silk token]

so i may have been a LITTLE cavalier with my aquatic spear combat. i was fishing and threw one into the middle of a 2star leech (it went straight through, fix leech hitbox when?) and is now visible but stuck in the bottom of deep water without rising up. have to maybe build a long platform and jump from higher up? it is sadly… one of my q4 fang spears…….

this has been a public service announcement, only throw spears at a leech’s face.

[velvet hound]

Do they ever plan to add dedicated her slots for armor/weapons/tools? just curious as I’ve not found anything on it.

[grim wagon]

Guys, why arent enemies despawning

I died in a mountains and there are 4 wolves just camping my stuff

[gray sand]

Being considered but unknown what decision they will make for 1.0

[grim wagon]

It been 4 days in game

Why do they not despawn

[merry pebble]

No info about that, tho some time ago there was a question from devs on social media along the lines of "in what way would you want to see the inventory changed" or something like that. So we will see what future brings 🙂

[velvet hound]

@gray sand @merry pebble thanks! Fingers crossed! That would definitely free up some inventory slots lol

[gray sand]

Because unless they are night-specific or raid-specific, no enemy despawns.

[grim wagon]

Thats actually stupid

[gray sand]

It is not, but 👍

[grim wagon]

How so? All that would do would lag the game out

[wild plume]

when is 1.0 out

[merry pebble]

Why would it be stupid? This way you know pretty much exactly where the enemies are. And no it will not lagg the game since the area is not loaded if you are not near

[mild mason]

Not at all. Mobs do not render past a certain distance

[merry pebble]

We dont have any idea 🙂

[wild plume]

:((( i need it

[grim wagon]

Oh right, I guess that does make sense

[mild mason]

The challenge awaits you. Find a way to overcome, and fight back stronger, viking!

[grim wagon]

Ive tried three times, I made a new longboat and died, a SWAM over (thank god for eikthyr) and died again

I have the materials for a portal on my corpse but I havent even sniffed it since I died

[mild mason]

If you can get the Corpse Run buffer, slapping some sense into those wolves should be no issue. Ideally you've eaten decent foods and equipped your armor before taking them on.
Another strategy could be to lead some greydwarfs up there with you to distract the wolves as you get your stuff and gear together.

[grim wagon]

Tbh the main problem is getting there again

Last time I had to run through a swamp and swim for a while to get there again

[silk token]

a big mistake new players make is spamming half baked rescue missions for their corpse instead of actually gearing up and preparing. different if its nearby your spawn but otherwise just go prepared to fight them

always good to have a reasonable respawn point nearby too, leave a few food there in a chest, its a survival game first

[grave crow]

yeah when ur experienced then you can even do no-baked rescue missions wherever

it’s pretty fun

[silk token]

well sure. id never tell a new player “just grab your body and dodge roll all 4 wolves’ attacks

[grave crow]

😁

[grave crow]

tbh when you grab your body you just gotta spam jump and run until you’re in a safe biome

dying in the mountains sucks big time

it’s definitely the one place u should prepare for if any

[silk token]

leaving a single frost resist potion at your spawn ftw

imo these are the things that are so fun, preparing for stuff to go wrong. different when doing permadeath, always being prepared to be hunted/raided or needing to eat/rest etc

[granite grail]

Although tbf enemies usually deaggro and wander away. They should definitely have left your corpse alone by now :/ Innthe mountains I almost never have the wolves that killed me still by my corpse

[grim wagon]

They were most definitely there

[mortal isle]

i saw odin 4 times today wth

[granite grail]

I see him when I'm running from lox, consistently 😂

[mortal isle]

odin?

[grave crow]

i kind of like how morbid this game can kind like how you have to mine into a giants forehead for its brain matter

[nocturne wolf]

If they spawned near the corpse they will stay around there

creatures try to walk back to where they spawned when they go too far, it's helpful when hunting deer

[grim wagon]

My friends games keep crashing and their stuff keeps vanishing

[lone rampart]

Odin judging you extra judgily

[storm phoenix]

can i play the game now and then once the north update drops continue my world? or just wait

its taking forever

[strange cradle]

Yes, Yes, No, No.

[lone rampart]

Yes you can play now, just don’t explore too far north so the biome updates properly. Or you can wait if you prefer. Or you can play a world now and then start a new one later. So many options!

[strange cradle]

Well, that's just the long version. 😛

😄

[storm phoenix]

they giving us no dates

[strange cradle]

So?

[storm phoenix]

so idk

[strange cradle]

Just play.

[storm phoenix]

well if i start now, how long do i have to wait and not explore too much

[strange cradle]

Trust me, you will still have MUCH to explore left.

The world is huge.

Just don't venture too far north.

[storm phoenix]

lowkey true

how far is too far tho? like almost at the border?

[strange cradle]

No. Like the top 20%.

In a ring.

[storm phoenix]

the map is always the same right?

[strange cradle]

No.

It's generated procedurally.

There's thousands of different maps that play differently each time.

I have explored... maybe a 10th of my forever world (started like four years ago).

[nocturne wolf]

the closest point is 8000m north, the world has a 10500m radius

[lone rampart]

TL;DR

[strange cradle]

In other words: It's big.

[lone rampart]

Very big

And lots to do

[strange cradle]

Yep.

[pine crystal]

Hello everyone, who wants to play together?

[tacit crystal]

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

[pine crystal]

Okay, ty

[solemn crown]

I've got iron sword, spear, bow, buckler, and food prep table.

Anything I should go for before I spend iron on a boat?

[thorny saffron]

upgrade that shi

[merry pebble]

Honestly, i usually go for the boat first 😄

[solemn crown]

Upgraded the sword, I think.

[thorny saffron]

buckler

[thin elbow]

Stonecutter, iron cooking station, boat first normally

[thorny saffron]

upgrade it

[merry pebble]

Do you have upgrades for the workbenches?

[thin elbow]

Serpent stew op

[thorny saffron]

i used yellow mushrooms till mountains

just had a bit dying issue

[solemn crown]

I haven't found a use for the stonecutter yet. I will, once I start building stone towers.

[oak river]

No need to upgrade a buckler cuz it should parry just fine at level 1 if your not fighting enemies from way later in progression

[merry pebble]

You can get one upgrade from it 🙂

[thorny saffron]

is there a point in upgrading the workbench after plains

[solemn crown]

Really? What should I be looking for?

[oak river]

You cant

You max it out in mountains

[merry pebble]

The grinding wheel you can make in it 🙂 that unlocks one upgrade

[thorny saffron]

grinding wheel

its a plains item right?

[oak river]

No. It's swamp

[thorny saffron]

oh shit

[merry pebble]

You can find it naturally in plains, but you can make it as soon as you make stonecutter

[oak river]

You literally make it with like 10 stone

[thorny saffron]

i got mine from a village

[thin elbow]

Hearth is nice

[solemn crown]

Ah, right. Appreciate the tip.

[solemn crown]

Looks nice, but I have a three-rack kitchen plus a stew pot. I'd have to rebuild, and it does not seem like it would be worthwhile just yet.

[thorny saffron]

it gives an extra rested bonus

[warped remnant]

wyh is there no night time meadows music actaully

[tacit crystal]

Dunno but IIRC it's intentional.

[lone rampart]

There is a certain point in nighttime meadows where the wind picks up a little and an owl calls in the distance and it creeps me RIGHT TF out!

[tacit crystal]

I remember I thought the night being bit creepy when I played the first time.

[dim python]

good afternoon, chat

which damage type are draugr-es the weakest to?

[wet lodge]

I found a wooden sledge

Why... does this exist

[maiden sable]

training weapons? 🤷‍♂️ idk

i just put them on item stands

[pliant hatch]

You might want to use a mace there (or a stag breaker) as the Swamp's boss is having problems with that.
Plus you're going to face skellies in that biome as well. And they're weak to blunt too.

Using a bow on Draugr works quite well too. At least it's a somewhat more safe method to deal with them, although the boss and some other monsters have a pierce resistance.

[cosmic summit]

Do you guys think deep north weapon enchants will use ashland gems?

[frosty relic]

iron buckler n spear clear draugers easily even on the hardest mode.

[maiden sable]

spear is also useful for poking through holes in crypts or throwing it. u can just throw it at leeches as well....its not useful for every enemy though especially not the boss

works incredibly good with parrying though

[solemn crown]

I usually find myself unwilling to throw my useful weapons.

[light moat]

My personal speculation is that the Ashland gems will be an option for Deep North weapons, in addition to more gems from the Deep North. Just a guess though

[warm sphinx]

My guess is that morgen hearts will get more uses

The wiki page for them is just sad

[nocturne wolf]

there's an unused bonemaw scale item, maybe we'll get a bonemaw shield in dn

[maiden sable]

just...hit ur target. especially if u parried prior to it on a archer for example its devastating

[nocturne wolf]

spears are great, just not in multiplayer

your friends will pick it up

[maiden sable]

with leeches just throw it near the beach and ull not have any issues retrieving it either

throwing is just a bad idea if ur inventory is full

and u have auto looting on....

[frosty relic]

the spear is one of the best weapons in the game with parrying/throwing it and poking. Most bosses got a niche weapon that outperforms every other weapon tbh : always make sure to farm a iron mace n sledge for bonemass

[maiden sable]

ye thats true. i said there sadly are exceptions. bears are another example

[merry pebble]

Well, weapons dealing pierce are generally bad for bosses since most of them resist it 😄

[maiden sable]

gl trying to poke a bear with a spear. might as well switch to sth else but i guess finding that out is learning 🤷‍♂️

[nocturne wolf]

iron sledge isn't so necessary, bonemass' summons have such low health that the mace can still clear them fast

[maiden sable]

iron mace can oneshot them on normal diffeven at lower weapon skill

i think sometimes it took 2 hits but tbf i didnt have any skill whatsoever in blunt 💀

[nocturne wolf]

i let them walk infront of me while I hit bonemass to avoid lowering my damage

[nocturne wolf]

blunt isn't a skill

[maiden sable]

🤷‍♂️

[cosmic summit]

anyone have tips for clearing the purple pillars in ashlands? i have one in a field with no cover. right as i reach the stone several two star marksmen delete me

[maiden sable]

mace skill 🤷‍♂️

[merry pebble]

*clubs

[maiden sable]

am sowe 😭

[pliant hatch]

Problem with the spear is that Bonemass is resistant to pierce damage. But he isn't to blunt damage, hence why I said a mace would be better.

[regal cave]

Slowly walk horizontally or block

[nocturne wolf]

use a ranged or magic weapon, it might be slow but much safer

[maiden sable]

we had that twice already. i initially said its not effective vs all enemies and i think someone before me already said it 😄

[gray sand]

Yes, but if you use spears you gain like 20-30 skill levels on him 😉

[solemn crown]

Oh, sure just hit my target. Do I look like the kind of guy who has skills?

[maiden sable]

i mean its not that hard especially if theyre staggered |leeches on the beach | poking through holes. there are many situations where it can be useful to throw

and when its not that hard to hit

[tacit crystal]

Any weapon type work against draugrs, they are immune to poison tho.

[merry pebble]

-# If you want to hide part of the text you need to double the | on each side 😄

[maiden sable]

i didnt want to hide it 🤷‍♂️

[merry pebble]

Ah, sorry then, just noticed the lines which are used for that purpose 😄

[maiden sable]

i rarely ever use those kinda things but thx for explaining 👍 . i just wanted to seperate it in a lazy way

[dim python]

first abomination! what the vuck!

terrifying! 😃

[wet lodge]

I didnt know that crypts are actually physically underneath the map

I had iron fall up to the surface

[merry pebble]

They are above 🙂

[granite grail]

Fire is all you need 🔥

[wet lodge]

woa

so iron can fall through the floor

[merry pebble]

Sometimes, yep 🙂

Its always a good idea to walk around the crypt when you are done with it to look for any iron pieces that might have fallen there

[dim python]

if i keep seeing skeletons in the swamp does that mean there's a crypt nearby

[frosty relic]

who else play with tp materials, running/jumping stamina mod 90% less drain, but extra hard mode

[wet lodge]

I play with no portals

[frosty relic]

, i work 70 hrs a week sadly

[gray sand]

What the guck* 😉 given what they drop.

[frosty relic]

i thought it was that bark

[dim python]

i thought it was root

[nocturne wolf]

roots and guck

[frosty relic]

same thats what i mean

underrated armor

[gray sand]

The most used armor piece in the game that needs to be nerfed is not underrated.

[frosty relic]

if u dont mind, can u remind me of the stats it provides lol

[gray sand]

Pierce Resist.

[frosty relic]

interesting, ive never took advantage of it . thought iron and silver would protect more

[nocturne wolf]

the pierce resistance is percentage-based, valheim's armor points are not

[clear socket]

pierce useless

[frosty relic]

lol

[neat tapir]

ooh here we go

[gray sand]

They need to roll it into the full set bonus instead of making it work from a single piece.

[wet lodge]

root harness until ashlands

[frosty relic]

lmao my first thought too xD

[clear socket]

wym

why funny

[frosty relic]

ah thats why i remember using one piece of root armor back then

full silver wit one root was my goto

[nocturne wolf]

the harnesk has pierce resistance and the mask has poison resistance, why do the legs get nothing

[wet lodge]

better question, why doesnt the padded armor give pierce res... padded armor was literally made to resist stabby things

[nocturne wolf]

it would be too op

its not as bad on root armor because of low armor points

[lone rampart]

Meanwhile, nails are specifically made to piece wood

[wet lodge]

wood is pretty good at stopping arrows so thats fine

[wet lodge]

pierce damage is just bs

2 star draugr nearly 1 shotting me in lvl 4 bear armor with 120 hp

[nocturne wolf]

i think extra armor vs pierce instead of % resistance would fit in progression better, root harnesk stays viable for too long

[wet lodge]

odin watching me again

pervy old man

[gray sand]

Which is fixed by making it a full set bonus thing instead of a single piece thing. 😭

[wet lodge]

it would be better as a set bonus yeah

[gray sand]

Head being a single thing is fine.

[wet lodge]

pierce and poison res as set

[gray sand]

Because the mask resist is worse than the pot.

[nocturne wolf]

that would still take off more damage than flametal armor against some powerful pierce attacks

[fossil delta]

I stopped using it with plains heay armor. All around armor is much more valuable to me.

[gray sand]

Yes. But you're at more of a loss comparatively vs. 1 piece + rest flametal.

[nocturne wolf]

can we fix this with a 75% pierce resistance mead?

[cosmic summit]

im finding skeletons arent so bad in ashlands if you pull them out. shield them. then switch to a brutal slayer. sure they dont last long, but they're spells. fireballs dont stick around on the field for long either

[gray sand]

No 😛

[wet lodge]

there goes so much consideration into exploration without portals

made a swamp outpost and im lacking bees, of all things

[agile vapor]

Anyone ever try doing a flame of Olympus style woodwork around a bonfire?

[radiant cloak]

I’m wondering if I’m just neurotic and notice every stutter, and my friend is the opposite and just happy with anything above 40FPS and we are having the same experience he’s just more content

But regardless I’m running pretty smooth now

Wanted to give you credit, I reset my boot.config and it ran better

[grave crow]

u can destroy a whole brain in one pickaxe hit

[radiant cloak]

The input lag on frame generation sounds rough, also Valheim doesn’t have DLSS whatsoever (don’t ask me why)

Here’s how I got my game running satisfactorily:

• reset boot.config to default

• Installed ValheimPerformanceOverhaul for more fine tuned LOD and lighting settings

• Disabled Win11 fullscreen optimizations for Valheim.exe

• Disabled Win11 windowed game mode optimization for Valheim.exe

• used NVPI-R to enable ReBAR for Valheim in the NVIDIA driver profile

• added -force-d3d12 -window-mode exclusive -screen-fullscreen 1 to the Steam launch options. Turn off fullscreen in game settings then force enter fullscreen with Alt+Enter to trigger true exclusive fullscreen (every single time I tab back into Valheim I have to do this)

[winter glen]

reset boot config can you explain

[radiant cloak]

Ever since DLSS 5 got announced, I’ve even had friends that have never owned a PC all the sudden talking about DLSS because of the media frenzy NVIDIA caused.

Now there’s herds of brain rotten DLSS haters acting like they’re standing up against robot fascism by being “anti AI slop”

[winter glen]

fsr and dlls are both great tech tbh its just the frame gen atm is crap

[radiant cloak]

Local game files /Valheim_data

there is a boot.config file, it used to be popular to edit this but as @near furnace said, it should be left alone since all the old performance guides for editing it were using a completely different older version of unity

[winter glen]

yeah and i cant get vulkan to run it crashes on startup

[strange cradle]

I think that's still a known bug.

So, no Vulkan right now.

[fossil delta]

Haven't seen anything about it being fixed.

[strange cradle]

Yup.

[radiant cloak]

I forgot to mention I also use -force-d3d12 in my Steam launch options and it indeed runs on DirectX12 without issues

[winter glen]

tf

really

will it mess with mods tho

[radiant cloak]

Nope

It’s just a graphics library as long as everything looks fine visually then its all fine

[winter glen]

yes but dx11 and dx12 can have significant effects

im doing the fullscreen command so i just put the dx12 command right next to it it wont mess with mods right

-window-mode exclusive -screen-fullscreen -force-d3d12

Like this

could that actually be a reasson why vulkan refuses to work the fullscreen command

[radiant cloak]

No, Vulkan is broken right now, it’s a known issue

And yes it won’t mess with mods

[winter glen]

-window-mode exclusive -screen-fullscreen -force-d3d12 so this is right?

especially on a amd gpu dx12 runs way better

[radiant cloak]

Unless you’re using GraphicsConfigurationManager for advanced graphics settings which I wouldn’t recommend anyway

[radiant cloak]

Yes

Wait

Put the 1 after fullscreen

[winter glen]

a 1 after fullscreen

[radiant cloak]

–screen-fullscreen 1 –force-d3d12

[abstract warren]

Walking around the black forest with my pet troll miner is my new favourite activity

[radiant cloak]

They are tamable?

[fossil delta]

No.

[abstract warren]

Nah you just utilise their rage lol

[fossil delta]

Just manageable

[radiant cloak]

Oh word

[rapid bison]

They are unwilling harvesters.

[radiant cloak]

I still find it easier to just dig out the deposit and make them collapse

[abstract warren]

That takes a whole lot of time

[radiant cloak]

I swear it’s faster if you’re proficient with the approach

[rapid bison]

But you know how it is, when you need fine wood and don't have a bronze axe, gotta make do.

[fossil delta]

Yep, when you want a lot. More useful for tin and wood.

[radiant cloak]

Start diggin about 6 feet away from the edge of the deposit and 3 feet down from center… keep going until you find the bottom, then mine under it perpendicularly

Then you have the maximum depth so you just go around the perimeter and each pick swing is taking out huge chunks of dirt

[rapid bison]

Digging under a copper deposit then watching it collapse at once though... very satisfying.

[fossil delta]

Hard to get a lot of the nodes to pop for copper. Silver is much easier.

[wet lodge]

humongous ditch digging

[radiant cloak]

The hit boxes are just huge I honestly have a mod that draws them for me with faint lines so I don’t have to guess where they are lmao

[near furnace]

we have been paying attention alot to how minor things have a big impact on consoles performance since they have locked hardware.
and all those adjustments and fixes we have done over time is also included in the PC, linux, mac version aswell. so what use to be almost a huge FPS boost before, is now more hinderance

[radiant cloak]

Makes sense. I put a short summary of how I fixed my FPS

[near furnace]

I wonder if the game actually runs on DX12 tho

you can look in the player.log file?

[radiant cloak]

.

[fossil delta]

I still get 80 to 120 fps, depending on location and weather. So I'm not complaining.

[near furnace]

also heavily depends on the instance numbers

4000 or 40000

[fossil delta]

Yep.

[near furnace]

Direct3D:
Version: Direct3D 11.0 [level 11.1]

is the default I see when I start valheim

what does yours say @radiant cloak ?

[radiant cloak]

Yeah I will in a bit when im home. I’m pretty sure it does tho because the launch option for dx12 caused me to hard crash when using GraphicsConfigurationManager but it worked fine on dx11 and I can’t see why that would happen except for the mod trying to hook DX11 methods but idk

[radiant cloak]

Even with -force-d3d12?

[near furnace]

lets see

Forcing GfxDevice: Direct3D 12
GfxDevice: creating device client; kGfxThreadingModeSplitJobs
d3d12: failed to query info queue interface (0x80004002).
Direct3D:
Version: Direct3D 12 [level 12.1]

🤔

I'd gladly play with DX12 with my sub-rig

it's a AMD + intel GPU computer which runs amazing with intel graphics card 😄

[radiant cloak]

Hell yeah. I noticed the dll for DX12 in the game files and so figured it was usable with the coinciding Unity updates Valheim has done

The only quirk with Valheim is the whole Alt+Enter thing but it’s not a big deal. I am curious if it’s NVIDIA specific or case-by-case with various card models

I was gonna try to make a mod today to just force exclusive fullscreen 24/7

Or I might look into a 3rd party upscaler and see if it just maintains exclusive fullscreen mode

Thanks for staying helpful and putting up with my complaining earlier tho Smiffe

[lean sphinx]

what do yall think, black marble towers or stick with regular stone within the compound? #mods-screenshots message

[fossil delta]

I like it.

[neon magnet]

I love some of the things generated by worldgen in this game... but I really detest the messy biome edges sometimes

[lean sphinx]

i only really notice it in the plains

[lean sphinx]

#screenshots messagei get this weird lines running through all the plains biomes

[neon magnet]

That's a different thing, but I can see how that's annoying too

[merry pebble]

Those are zone edges 😄

[lean sphinx]

i only see them in the plains, might be due to how bright the biome is so its more noticeable?

[neon magnet]

I'm thinking more of when there's a random sliver of plains in between a dark forest and swamp, or when the center-of-the-map meadows "flower" causes a bunch of tiny splotches of dark forest next to a mountain edge etc

[lean sphinx]

ive had nearly perfect squares of biomes happen

probably not the same thing youre talking about #mods-screenshots message

[neon magnet]

Sometimes it just feels like there's no swamps that aren't contaminated with plains (making it annoying when just getting into the swamp stage of the game) and similarly for other combinations

I've seen the clean lines too in some seeds. Don't mind that as much. Weird but not disruptive ^^

[prime moth]

whatre the chances i die to this 1 star bear

syke it is raining

[fossil delta]

Only swamps close to spawn won't border the plains.

[rapid bison]

What are you wearing right now?

[prime moth]

5 armor and bear paws

[neon magnet]

Some are pretty clean even further out. Randomly. Don't mind if they border each other either, just when they're like intertwined in weird ways

Like at what stage of the game would you like to see an island like this:
#screenshots message

[abstract warren]

What happens if I just ditch an area being raided and it remains unloaded?

And wait for some time?

[lean sphinx]

#mods-screenshots messagepretty close to spawn island

all 5 biomes in 1 island

[fossil delta]

As early as possible. I go into the plains in bronze gear now a days. Just not to wipe out villages. Even though I have done that too.

[glad dome]

do yall think they'll ever add like starred trophies

[fossil delta]

Maybe. It's been asked for. Even by me.

[glad dome]

i hope so, i feel like that'd be sick. i want a 2 star leech trophy

[granite grail]

After razor and harpoon are there any uses for chitin?

[fossil delta]

A spear, I think.

I was hoping for a shield, but I guess that was too Skyrim like for them.

[nocturne wolf]

that is the harpoon

[eternal blade]

harpoon, knife and trinket.

[fossil delta]

Which does jack all for damage.

[eternal blade]

it's not for damaging

[fossil delta]

Guess its the ancient bark spear I was thinking of.

[fossil delta]

I know. Doesn't mean that they couldn't add another actual spear.

[lean sphinx]

the mod that adds in a ton of chitin weapons is so cool

[paper marsh]

I feel like spears are pretty evenly represented. Only biomes they skip are Plains I think? Wouldn't mind one in DN but I don't feel like they need to jam a second spear into ocean

[fossil delta]

I'll probably use it some day. After 1.0.

[lean sphinx]

after a couple vanilla playthroughs we cant really play without some QoL mods.

having more weapon choices is always a great bonus so you can keep leveling those stats evenly

i wish pierce in general was overall more useful

[fossil delta]

I've managed over 5400 hours without mods. So I will persevere past 1.0 without them.

[lean sphinx]

crazy lol

[fossil delta]

I can accept that.

[paper marsh]

I dunno, pierce is definitely the worst damage type but also it's on some of the most broken weapons in the game

[nocturne wolf]

spawn neck Humanoid.m_turnSpeed::Infinity Humanoid.m_runTurnSpeed::Infinity
(real command go try it)

[lean sphinx]

done like 8 playthroughs with 1,000 hours now, mostly modded. our forever world is modded but we're likely going to make a vanilla forever world to enjoy the deep north when it comes out

[paper marsh]

I hope there will be some banger achievements. Always love a good achievement hunt

[fossil delta]

I have no idea how many play through I have done, other than dozens.

[paper marsh]

I have 950 hours and probably close to 100 playthroughs 🤣

Probably because a lot of my "playthroughs" ended in black forest bc I run permadeath along with a slew of other challenges and game modifiers

[lean sphinx]

permadeath is too much, theres too much bs to die to lol

theres a rogue-lite mod though, been debating on trying it

[vale flower]

Can irongate be more transparent with their development process, we wait months to see a photo of some berries

We’re fine with waiting so that they deliver a polished finished product

But a single photo showing some snow and 2 sentences is just lame

[lone rampart]

They show what they feel is enough to be shown.

[dim python]

moving to #general

[cosmic summit]

three burial chambers with no ghost 🙁

omg i just found one with zero treasure or cores

[rapid bison]

That's the random dice-roll breaks.

[paper marsh]

That's why we love procedurally generated games

[abstract warren]

Man I can't even dig all the way down below the copper deposit...

[silk token]

bad dungeons make good dungeons good hashtag thats life

[cosmic summit]

so if i build 5 TWIG right on top of each other and swing my sword do i get 5 xp per swing?

[rapid bison]

I know people that mod their world to the extreme. Only one boss altar on the map, a mod that resets all progress in death, and Haldor is at the edge of the world.

And when I say reset, that's a literal make the map untouched with you at spawn.

I didn't know a mod can do that, I'd just restart with a new random seed. The only thing I keep is the skill points—kidding, skill points get reset to nothing with that hard-core difficulty.

I think it's worth doing at least once.

[silk token]

id want a new seed after a hardcore death, be kind of lame and boring to immediately reroll the same seed

[dim python]

maybe like. once

just to feel the rush

[rapid bison]

The way I seeit, if you can punch the first boss to death without any food buffs, you might be able to go far with max difficulty.

[silk token]

imean thats meadows, its basically tutorial

if someone dies to eikthyr theyre in for a ROUGH ride

[rapid bison]

There are some that struggle to time their dodge rolls. It really is an essential skill.

[fossil delta]

I've gotten to Ashlands without dying. Not going to throw all that time and effort away with a permanent death run. The rest just becomes practice for the next time.

[dim python]

does anyone else carry a butcher knife into their houses to guaruntee they won't damage anything at all

[rapid bison]

It's more about the experience for me. Like removing map and functioning portals. That's not my preference but I wanted to say I at least tried.

[cosmic summit]

What?

[rapid bison]

I just keep my hand off the mouse button if I'm not fighting or building

[cosmic summit]

My butcher knife stays mounted on the wall at Lox Ranch

[rapid bison]

I take one with me when using skeletons.
Sometimes I don't want a bow user, and I just need to make them disappear before summoning another, hehe

[cosmic summit]

Mine tend to disappear from chasing twitchers into lava

[rapid bison]

Make skeletons use bow in Ashlands.... scribbles some notes

[cosmic summit]

Eh. They get squashed so fast I dont see the point in wasting time hp,eitr,and inventory space trying to get specific types

I mainly use them to distract things so I can get a backstab with my slayer. Bonus points if their shields pop and stagger the mob first

[winter glen]

My friend just started valheim and wants graphics mods . Now Ive got willybachs installed. Can i copy my bepinex plugin folder and sent it to him so all he has to do is copy the folder inside his own bepinex?

[rapid bison]

Honestly I haven't tried them in that biome yet. There are so many things trying to kill you i didn't think it would be worth the effort.

[cosmic summit]

I pull them out to lower hp and power up the blood gem. Any damage or crowd control they manage is a bonus

[rapid bison]

Use thunderstore to install mods. Keeps the install of your game clean when you're not playing.
#mods-discussion should have some links to set that up.

[cosmic summit]

Also I tend to only summon 2 even tho I can support 4

Really wish I could infuse dead raiser with gems

[rapid bison]

Less downtime between skirmishes that way,

[cosmic summit]

Imagine green skeletons that root foes

[rapid bison]

That would make for a crazy raid

[abstract warren]

Just wasted a whole lot of time trying to dig around a copper deposit

I can't even dig all the way down all around it

And the shit is so full of dirt inside dafuq

I don't remember it being like that

[cosmic summit]

Just skim the top off and move on to the next node

[coral marten]

hey everyone

[abstract warren]

Yeah..

[gray sand]

There are usually more than enough nodes to just take the top off and move tbh.

Only time I even stop for a "full" node nowadays is if it's on a hillside and over half of it is just sticking out.

[rapid bison]

And yes to this if all mods files are identical.

[dim python]

the abomination is wandering into the ocean

[coral marten]

What's a question you could ask to many people without any duplicate answers?

[dim trellis]

it like the water there

[cosmic summit]

Is block a skill that has noticeable differences at high level?

[dim trellis]

What is the MD5 result of a string made from your full name, date of birth, city you were born in, and your favorite color?

[cosmic summit]

Im trying to build tons of TWIG to stack and level block. But the wiki mentions something about dragging skeleton archers into a hole

[dim python]

how much roots does each abomination drop...?

[rapid bison]

If a rainstorm and high winds could carry it out to sea, that would be neat.

[dim python]

that fight was actually really fun and easy idk why you all were so scared

[cosmic summit]

5

[dim python]

oh i just totalled 5

cool.

that was awesome 🤣

[solemn crown]

Just so I don't ruin anything, the only use for fish is to make raw fish, then cooked fish?

[dim python]

i think a type of fish called trollfish is used in special recipes

[solemn crown]

So noted. Thanks!

[abstract warren]

I guess the ore deposit needs to be really high up in relative altitude otherwise I can't dig deep enough...

[dim python]

i'll need to kill another one 😭 dam

[coral marten]

lol

[cosmic summit]

Parry and use axe or sword

[dim python]

i was using axe it was very effective

i figured "the elder and this thing are both made of wood hmm"

[coral marten]

I meant like an interesting question eg "whats the most obscure song you know?" but that works too

although in reality itll probably get a lot of duplicateresponses of people saying "what?" or "no"

[dim trellis]

well you said no duplicate answers

[granite grail]

I never craft polearms until the Himminafl, and since I'm scared of Morgen, I have been doing doing some training. Started at a greydwarf farm then went all out murdering a dozen lox and now we have polearm skill up to 23. I may be ready to fight those Ashland demons....

[dim python]

polearms are great i recommend them heartily

[cosmic summit]

I afk farmed my bow skill to 75. Now when I see a morgen I turn it into a pincushion

[paper marsh]

Polearms are da goats

I hate them

[abstract warren]

Huh

[paper marsh]

They feel OP af making any melee enemy a non-threat because you can just spin in place, making the game quite unengaging and thus unfun for me

I hate things that make the game unfun

[abstract warren]

Trust me it gets harder later

[paper marsh]

Got 1000 hours and even beat up to mistlands on vhard permadeath along with other challenges

Dunno how much harder that that it’s gonna get

[abstract warren]

Well

I like the feeling of being OP as long as I know I'm not cheating

Then when it gets challenging again it's all the more rewarding

[paper marsh]

That’s fair

I find a lot of people don’t share my views on a lot of gear in Valheim, which is fine. I actually feel like the game generally does pretty good making all gear viable, to where it really just comes down to to play style what you like using. Aside from a few OP items

[glad dome]

should i upgrade my frostner to 3 or make draugr fang with my remaining silver

[dim trellis]

save silver

[paper marsh]

If you have the iron bow that one is fine imo, actually a lot of people prefer it over draugr fang bc it is more stealthy with its shots, which is very nice for the next biome

Frostner is a solid weapon and actually compares very well to the weapons of the next couple biomes, so if you wanted you could totally upgrade it and stick to it for a while

Or get some of the next weapons. Your choice

[near furnace]

some people are just amazingly good with a set of weapons in valheim

[paper marsh]

Fact

Flashbacks to people one shotting Gjalls with skoll and hati or soloing queen with flint spears

[near furnace]

I have to force myself form not playing my favourite combo when I playtest 😄

we all usually have a combo we excel at / with

[paper marsh]

I force myself to swap to a new weapon type every biome

Not the most optimal, but man is it fun

[near furnace]

ye

for me. I like pushing enemies away

but most people just likes to quickly kill things with atgeir

[paper marsh]

Glass cannon does seem like the preferred play style for many people across a lot of games

Myself included. Glass cannon or super utility based often magic stuff

[nimble aurora]

just found 2 queen vegvisirs in one room lol

[abstract warren]

The karve is just great for river sailing

So much more than longship

[dim trellis]

longship more like stuckship

[paper marsh]

I used to always use the karve for sailing mistlands

It’s since been replaced by fins of destiny

[warm sphinx]

My record is 3 in one mine, but they weren't in the same room.

[nimble aurora]

there were 4 in total in the mine, but i had 2 i one room lol

[warm sphinx]

Nice

[hazy widget]

I used magic for the first time since 2022 (Mistlands beta), and.... I remember why Queen needs a rework now.

[paper marsh]

Why does she need a rework?

[hazy widget]

Basically every aspect that makes her... well... "the queen" is overtuned, and instead of an enjoyable bossfight like Fader, you get a bossfight, where you get 5 seconds to damage the boss before she spawns 10000 minions and ragdolls you around before digging away from you.

Playing normal armor isn't too bad, but as a magic user.... oooh boy, you get no time to do anything, unless your elemental and blood magic is at least lvl 50, which mine wasn't.

A very simple change that can be made: Instead of her S T U P I D poison spit attack, where she summons seemingly 30 Seeker Broods, make it like Bonemass, where she spits out an egg or a pod, and if you don't break that pod in time, it explodes, dealing damage to anyone within range, summoning 5-20 broods (Depending on difficulty). That way you give the player a choice. Either deal with the pod to prevent minion spawns and a potentially lethal explosion, or run away to focus on the boss.

[dim python]

what are the best low tier push weapons? is one of them mace?

[hazy widget]

Mace and fist weapons

Honorable mention to the atgeir and its insane alt attack.

[paper marsh]

And then once you hit swamp you can also get battleaxe, some pretty nutty knockback on the alt

Also absolutely love that they added more fist weapons

By far my favorite weapons, they feel so good and do basically everything

[celest prairie]

i like the atgeir cuz big spear

[cosmic summit]

#screenshots message

block leveling lets gooooo

[safe flower]

The worst to level up is the crossbow, and you get that so late in the game, it’s a turn off

There’s no fast way that I know of like there is with a normal bow

[safe flower]

lol block leveling, I backed myself in a corner with about 5 necks attacking me and a put someone on my block button and went afk for a few hours

[cosmic summit]

do necks attack fast?

[broken kraken]

yes

with lethal precision

[cosmic summit]

I mean is their attack rate high? I dont remember if they hit once and run or if they'll stand their ground and keep hitting

[smoky pendant]

Any of ya want to heim?

[gray sand]

#1024264966712340510

[paper marsh]

It's pretty nice for sneak attacks tho

But yeah with how OP bow is, there's not much that can really compete

[brittle umbra]

Do surtling cores in a fire scare enemies away? I heard that but don’t have anyone to test against rn

[smoky pendant]

I need slaves for my sevrer guys common

My tribe needs more people

[paper marsh]

Majority of players are probably asleep or at work right now

Probably gonna have to give it more than 10 minutes, and put more info in your lfg post

And not call people slaves

[smoky pendant]

Slaves can become chief in ritual by combat every 7 days

Otherwise they are slaves to the law depicted by the wind spealer and village chief

[chrome badge]

What the...

Also, #1024264966712340510

[upbeat prawn]

what is this romance mode?

april fools?

[glad dome]

im in a frost cave and i just found this thing called "geirrhafa", it has an orange name though, is it strong?

[gray sand]

It's a miniboss, yes. And you're in a special cave, not just a normal frost cave.

The bird outside was there to warn you 😬

[glad dome]

oh i sniped him lol

will i get 1 shot? i have tier 2 iron gear, a tier 3 frostner, and a tier 2 silver shield

rn im picking away at it with my bow but ill run out of arrows soon im sure

[gray sand]

Bows are almost always the slowest method of killing boss-type enemies.

Gear is secondary to food.

Both are secondary to skill at dodging.
So 🤷‍♂️ Idk, I have faith in you though.

[glad dome]

should i try dodging or parrying more?

im not sure how dangerous attempting a parry would be

[gray sand]

That would depend on food.
And I cannot answer the question of how you, personally, should approach fighting him because idk how you, personally, fight things.

😭

[glad dome]

alright well ill just hope for the best lol, im assuming its likely worth the effort considering how weird this cave is

[gray sand]

It's one of Hildr's quest dungeons.

[glad dome]

the blue lady?

[gray sand]

The very same.

[glad dome]

im cheesing the hell outa this miniboss. hes ate like almost a stack of obsidian arrows so far 😭😭

i survived with 12 health

im so goated

[unborn junco]

You can test if your exclusive fullscreen works or not by pressing windows key. If the game completely minimises, you had it working, if it doesn't, it's not working. Launch arguments to force exclusive mode are not recommended (they don't apply every time). Use exclusivefullscreen console command instead. Once you toggle the command, don't change any graphic settings, as changing those will turn if off again. The console command has to be initiated on every boot. While exclusive fullscreen mode is useful as workaround for some bugs, you should not see any significant preformance impact of enabling it.

To me it looks like you did too much there to "fix" your performance issues, which you also haven't clarified.
The more you mess around driver settings, installing difference apps, without changing one variable at the time, the more driver and BIOS related bugs you will introduce in the future.
Talking about GPU/CPU usage doesn't mean anything if you don't clarify in which scenario (e.g. GPU will be utilised a lot when CPU can feet it - like on oceans, and won't be when main thread is busy - like large bases).

[balmy seal]

Indeed. I killed Moder in half the time by meleeing her while on the ground instead of staying at a distance shooting arrows.

[grave crow]

health + gear are the most important, its really helpful to know how to dodge at times but the skill is negligible

[warm sphinx]

I think they mean the player's own skill with the keyboard/controller

[radiant cloak]

the main thing for wanting exclusive fullscreen is for proper gsync performance to reduce flickering especially on OLED

Win11 fullscreen optimizations disabled, Windowed game mode optimization disabled, use exclusive fullscreen, VSYNC off in game settings but on in NVIDIA control panel

my game still randomly runs like shit and i did change one thing at a time but, it runs like shit less often now than it did originally, and im just giving up so i can enjoy the actual playthrough lmao

[near furnace]

club. make it level 4 and you will basicly smash all any anything up until you get the iron mace

[grave crow]

in that case sure if youre running more of a light armor melee build otherwise there's tower shields and running

[balmy seal]

What gpu?

[unborn junco]

And you actually do see VRR flicker reduction in exclusive mode, even though have gsync enabled for both windowed and fullscreen apps (nvidia control panel)?

When you say that performance gets randomly bad, you mean the same area that was running on high FPS can later run at much lower after some time playing? These kinda issues are usually caused by mods or graphic card drivers bugs.

Common ones:

• Certain drivers bugs can also lead to bad FPS after alt tabbing, so be sure to check that.
• Also note your FPS during Valheim boot process and while Valheim is in main menu (if FPS gets capped on dividors of your monitor refresh rate, it can also point to driver related bugs (vsync works, but no gsync, often happens with Nvidia inspector)
• Also one driver related thing that can wreck performance is destroying large mining nodes in one hit, so also check if FPS drops in your base after you return from e.g. mining silver veins or tall rocks in plains

Can't think of CPU related issue where this would happen (maybe dual CCD CPUs), but that usually causes stuttering during zone loading rather than overall AVG fps decrease.

[radiant cloak]

4070 Ti Super + i9-14900K

[hollow crag]

The thing I realise about Valheim and that I don't like is how every late game boss just have like 50% res to pierce dmg

[hollow crag]

Literally kills off or makes half the builds in the game more difficult

[radiant cloak]

Wait I dont fully understand what youre saying about mining nodes

if you venture off then destroy a large node then go back to your base it can have lingering negative performance impact?

[warm sphinx]

Would be nice to have more late game arrows that don't rely on pierce damage

(like boxing glove arrows. Those would have looked funny in the call to arms trailer)

[civic tendon]

is there a way to join a chill server? literally just wanna run around and explore with others cuz i hate playing solo

[tacit crystal]

You can look up for servers to join in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510 👍

[sage egret]

anyone know when we looking at 1.0 release

[near furnace]

no, since we haven't said anything about it

[strange cradle]

That's why you go sword and board. It's the best option in the game. There's only one boss where you will have to use the mace, but other than that it's sword and board all the way.

[balmy seal]

There's plenty of content in the game to keep you entertained until 1.0 drops.

[strange cradle]

Arguably not for the players who just want to rush through and kill bosses. 😉

[balmy seal]

Sucks for those players then.

[strange cradle]

Tru... Tru...

I tend to fully explore every continent I find. On foot. The entire continent.

That's why I haven't even fully explored my forever world. It's just very time consuming. And also relaxing. And sometimes you find fun things, or interesting landscapes.

I just wish that the ocean exploration radius would be much bigger. So I don't have ugly holes in the map on oceans I passed through.

[hollow crag]

Yea it's the "Meta" choice; but I just wish the devs can balance it a little bit

[strange cradle]

I agree.

[hollow crag]

Like I'm playing with knives and spear for my run

[strange cradle]

I also hate that you have to use dodge-roll with the Queen. It's the only boss I can't block. Well, I sorta can, but then she sends me into the next biome.

[hollow crag]

It's good for almost anything except all the bosses and it becomes nightmarish cuz the resistance makes it 2x the difficulty

[strange cradle]

I like knives to and use them on regular mobs as well.

[hollow crag]

I just fought her with knives it was hell

[strange cradle]

Oh, I believe you. 😄

[hollow crag]

It wasn't really only a dmg problem tho

Queen is just a tough boss in general

[strange cradle]

Yep. I really hate her.

[hollow crag]

The swarms of enemies really stacked on quickly and knives aren't enough to take them out before they regenerate

[strange cradle]

I would be fine, if I could block her, and wouldn't then have to run half a mile to take the next attempt at swinging at her.

[hollow crag]

Once I ran out of the bombs it really made the fight turn into just corpse run and dps queen

The teleportation was also annoying

[strange cradle]

Yep. That's why I gave up my last Queen fight. It turned out pretty much like my first one, which was just endless corpse runs.

[hollow crag]

And obviously the mist

[strange cradle]

That really doesn't bother me.

I just hate that I can't reliably block her.

[hollow crag]

The server I played on had a build restriction on the boss arena so I couldn't place down any wisp torch

[strange cradle]

Well... that's on you then. 😉

Or whoever set up the server.

[hollow crag]

With knives and light armour I don't really have that much of a problem of running around

Which is why I loves knives to begin with

High dps, movement speed and stealth hits

[strange cradle]

I tried placing wisp torches. Trust me, they're not really that useful and get quickly destroyed in the boss arena.

[hollow crag]

Skoll and hati really became my fav weapon quickly

[hollow crag]

I see

I really hate the fact there was 0 knives in Ashlands

[strange cradle]

And the lack of vision isn't really the problem. It's more the additional mobs and that... well I've mentioned it already.

[hollow crag]

Hopefully there's one in deep north

[strange cradle]

Well, knives are really useless in Ashlands, like any pierce weapons. Most of the mobs are undead and bones.

[hollow crag]

I really like the dual knives

[strange cradle]

I like them too, don't get me wrong.

[hollow crag]

I been using skoll and hati in Ashlands

[strange cradle]

You can.

[hollow crag]

It's usable

[strange cradle]

It's just an exercise in frustration. 😄

Well, better than just using spears.

[hollow crag]

It's honestly not that bad

[strange cradle]

THAT is an exercise in frustration.

[hollow crag]

Yea spears are really bad I had the enhanced storm version

And it was not as good as my skoll and hati

[strange cradle]

Oh, I believe you.

[hollow crag]

The slash dmg in knives actually made it less painful compared to spears only pierce

[strange cradle]

I tried my beloved atgeir (Himminafl) in Ashlands and was rudely reminded that pierce just doesn't work on bones.

Absolutely.

[hollow crag]

Also knives attacks faster than spears

[strange cradle]

Spears are pretty fast too, no? Atgeirs are slower.

[hollow crag]

I was taking our warriors, Morgan and most twitchers just fine with the skoll and hati

[strange cradle]

Not for me. 😄

[hollow crag]

They are but skoll and hati is just on a different level

[strange cradle]

I need something substantial between me and my enemies.

Skoll and Hati ARE really good. I give you that.

[hollow crag]

Imo outside of high level bows skill; magic is probably the meta choice in Ashlands

[strange cradle]

I don't know... it's for dodge-rollers... not my choice, since I can't dodge-roll.

[hollow crag]

Like all the root, troll staff and blood magic bubble

[strange cradle]

And I'm faster with just sword and board.

[hollow crag]

Dodge rolls is really easy in Valheim

[strange cradle]

Not for me.

I'm old.

I need to be able to block things.

[hollow crag]

The invincible frame in Valheim is really generous

[strange cradle]

Yeah, still can't pull it off consistently. And I just hate the mechanism anyway to begin with.

It's the most unrealistic video game combat mechanism ever.

[hollow crag]

lol

[strange cradle]

I know, I'm VERY alone with this.

[hollow crag]

I would like to play just long sword and heavy knight armour once

[hollow crag]

https://tenor.com/view/paladin-eso-nameless-knight-knight-gif-11483325911537984746

[tacit crystal]

Those are nice weapons, add battleaxe for that combo and that's power trinity.

[strange cradle]

Yeah, pretty much the flametal armor does that. Plus Slayer and you're set.

[hollow crag]

Don't really like axes but yes

[strange cradle]

Battle axe would be my last choice. Way too slow.

I need to be able to move.

Hit hard and quick and move out of the way. Swords are really good at that.

And with moving I specifically mean running, not dodge-rolling. 😉

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, the movement speed penalty can feel hefty but in right hands it becomes great weapon against groups of enemies.

Higher stagger also helps with control and damage.

[strange cradle]

Knives are very good at that too. They're damage is just much lower, but they're really fast to make up for that.

I just fought two draugr with a level 1 chitin knife, and they were pretty much perma stunned.

Like I hit both of them with one swing. 😄

That was fun.

[tacit crystal]

Yeah, knives are very nice too.

The movement is not too much of an issue for the tho since I mainly go light armored anyway.

[strange cradle]

Yeah, but once you start swinging you're rooted.

For a LONG time.

[fair hinge]

Hey guys, I've built a house near a shore, is there any way to not repair it every 5 minutes?

[radiant cloak]

A) Replace the building pieces with stone

B) Move the house higher up in elevation

C) Mods

[near furnace]

no. water will damage wood until it hits 50% hp

[warm sphinx]

A stone piece below the wood will keep it safe

[mossy pulsar]

Yo I just realized: The Valheim wiki says bears are weak to fire, but the fire damage they take is neutral. Is that a bug or is the wiki just inaccurate?

[tacit crystal]

Damage ticks from fire/spirit/poison damage always show white, despite the weaknesses or resistances.

[mossy pulsar]

that sounds like a bug... How come they haven't fixed it yet...

[nocturne wolf]

the ticks deal pure damage, only the hit that applies the status has fire/poison/spirit damage

[radiant cloak]

seems like the opposite of what would make sense

[warped remnant]

i found today out they reworked the ghost

it drops now stuff

[tacit crystal]

Yes, Call to Arms change. 👍

[lunar sapphire]

[lunar sapphire]

Not the ghost's arms tho
can't hold anything

[tacit crystal]

Yah, didn't call the ghost either.

[warped remnant]

do you people use feasts
i do use them as home food sometimes when i am construct or produce stuff at my home base

[tired path]

I use them a lot, they're the best balanced food out there

You can run Feast / Health / Health for a quite tanky build that still has SOME stamina left

I do admit though, they could be slightly stronger. I did end up buffing the numbers using mods. But I've always played with feasts.

[paper marsh]

Yea I do what Hell rider mentions

HHF. Feels a bit better than going HHH

[tacit crystal]

HSF is my goto food combo.

[tired path]

I don't like HSF because it's simply too much stamina and too little health. I noticed that total stamina isn't that impactful as stamina regeneration is. Being able to do 5 or 6 extra swings before running out doesn't mean much when there's 10 Seekers up your ass

[warped remnant]

HSF?

[tired path]

Health / Stamina / Feast

[warped remnant]

okay

[abstract warren]

Oh I was wondering why it seemed like this. Never really got fully destroyed by the water. Makes sense

[paper marsh]

Stamina has been (Idk the word, nerfed?) a lot recently

You don’t need it for parrying, you get it refunded on dodges, there’s various powers, armors and potions (ratatosk and eikthyr in particular) that reduce run, jump and attack stamina usage

If you’re decent at managing stamina you really don’t need any stamina foods, though like half a stamina food is nice.

A full stamina food can also be nice. But more than that is really just for fun imo, not practical use

Goated people who never get hit can say the same about hp food tho. Useless unless you’re doing a lot of parrying

[dim python]

thanks smiffe

and good morning chat ☕

[warped remnant]

i heard that goated people do not need food

[paper marsh]

True

Not in game anyways

[tacit crystal]

I find it good enough for me.

[tired path]

Stam food is very good for Bow DPS though

[tired path]

And that's what matters

[tacit crystal]

I utilise jumps and movement quite a lot in my combat.

[dim python]

i sometimes like extra stamina food for more dodges since my stamina management skills are lacking and more running away

unrelatedly

if i am to understand it right, the way you get a 2 star boar to your base is by making it chase you all the way there(

[lone rampart]

Let it hit you occasionally so it doesn’t lose interest

[dim python]

will a 2 star boar respawn where i found it if i killed it by accident 😭

[neat tapir]

hahhaha nope

How long you been playing?

[dim python]

first time, day almost 400, not too far into swamps

[brisk citrus]

Depending on a host of different variables, yes it potentially can, but also may not. You'll likely find a 2 star boar else where before you'd see another 2star in the same spot again.

[neat tapir]

want a h and with anyhting? My usual server is maintenancing

[dim python]

i already have a hand with things but thanks

[brisk citrus]

Also for future reference, when you get into the mountains and will want to tame wolves, the 1 and 2 stars only come out at spawn spots at night and you'll want to mark night specific wolf spawnning spots(sometimes shared with the werewolves/skeletons night spawns too in some dynamic spots). Kill any of those in a night to get at least 1 more night spawn chance for a 2 star) but usually you'll taking many nights to find one to trap and tame in a pit or similar method.

[nocturne wolf]

Wolves and fenrings don't have specific spawning spots

[brisk citrus]

Yes they do at night points

[dim python]

is wolf armor any good

[brisk citrus]

Ive tamed tons over the years and in my 1400+ hours play they do have specific areas they'll spawn in at night. Its not random

[brisk citrus]

depends on your play method but in general yes. Also the cloak is important for not freezing in the mountains too(as you take damage otherwise)

[strange cradle]

Wolf armor in itself is freeze-protection. But the cloak can be used with other armor as well.

And yes, definitely worthwhile.

[tacit crystal]

Blobicycake meant that they have no definite spawn points in certain locations, they spawn randomly.

[brisk citrus]

And Im refuting that claim. They do have specific night time spawn points on areas on mountains. Its not random locations.

[paper marsh]

True, and with bows you're at range too so not really needing health

I haven't used a bow in a few years

[nocturne wolf]

Use the printnetobj command, there are no spawner objects for these enemies loaded in mountains

(use a high radius too, it's 5 by default)

[dim python]

when you're in the middle of the ocean and your boat is destroyed, and you start swimming, all you can do is "make your time" as in the meme, right?

[lunar sapphire]

Logs out and back in. Proceeds swimming and rinse and repeat

[dim python]

the devs are suggesting cheating 🤭

[nocturne wolf]

subject isnt a dev

[dim python]

oh. my mistake

[chrome badge]

This is what stamina meads are for!

(among other things)

[balmy seal]

I slept on using meads during normal gameplay for a long time. I only ever kept them for boss encounters. Dunno why it took me so long.

[lunar sapphire]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/816314002442420325/856570795140448307/ezgif.com-gif-maker_26.gif

[grave crow]

cheating would be command using

[paper marsh]

Honestly consumables are easy to sleep on at first when you don't know how easy they are to make