valheim-chat

[plucky hinge]

OMG, does it have the pour spout on one side?

[dull warren]

That was my first thought

[plucky hinge]

Maybe we should take our Southpaw chat to General?

It probably only relates if we're still talking about keybinds and such.

[dull warren]

I tend to just respect the channel and shut up if people show up and actually want to talk about the game, it's all tangentially related anyway because I was complaining that the keybind opptions for this game don't respect lefties

Well unless a mod slaps me around a bit

[plucky hinge]

Random: Survival is hard. Feels like I'm working a virtual homestead on my own sometimes.

Can I find and tame a farm worker with berries and muckshakes?

I set my chair in JUST the right place, totally on accident, so I can sit there next to the fire and cook + collect meat without getting up. Lazy campfire setup. Have been unable to replicate it anywhere else.

[hoary latch]

This is one of my biggest praises of Valheim, my base feels so important and I really enjoy tending to all the different things I have set up

it's a very different game but as much as I love No Man's Sky for example, I have no reason to go back to my bases in that game. In Valhiem theres so much functionality to my base and it feels good.

[plucky hinge]

Yeah, that's actually one thing I was slightly annoyed with. But I did have a base that had recurring attacks and things to do, so I'd go there periodically and check up on them.

Just wish there was more to it.

[plucky hinge]

Guys, I think I may have found a bug. I died while AFK at my cauldron and couldn't find my corpse, so I restored an earlier save. That was yesterday. I was just repairing some panels around the cauldron and spotted my tombstone up inside the chimney. All my items are there, so it looks like there's unintentional item duplication going on.
Is this a known issue or a feature or what?

[spark plover]

that can happen when u just restore your character save but not your world save

so it isn't rlly a bug, more of an exploit

[plucky hinge]

Ohhh. I didn't know I had to do that when I restored, too.

[silk token]

did you restore your character only? maybe your tombstone was up in the chimnee all along and you yourself duplicated your items

[plucky hinge]

Yeah, that's what I did. Didn't realise the tombstone was tied to the world like that. I foolishly thought if I restored a save, it would take me back.

[timber marsh]

This game has become like animal crossing for me visiting all the different bases we built all over the world

[silk token]

also restoring backups is only a thing to do as a last resort it’s not perfect

[plucky hinge]

Never played. I think my daughter did / does, though.

Ahhh

[timber marsh]

Don't forget to feed the lox

[plucky hinge]

Mmm bagels and lox.

[timber marsh]

How tf do they climb the vertical walls of the pen...

But won't when I ride them to the mistlands

[silk token]

they dont so much climb the walls as much as they climb each other

[sweet pagoda]

What do thunder stones do? I noticed the trader started selling them after I beat the Elder

[glad grove]

Buy one and see what it unlocks.

[solemn jay]

like a flint and steel in minecraft, a flint and thunder stone creates thunder

[sweet pagoda]

Hmmmm, interesting

[light moat]

That’s kinda misleading 😅
It’s a crafting component for a placeable object.

It’s kinda handy, but not a huge necessity

[sweet pagoda]

That's far more boring

[dim python]

it won't be boring once you've placed it 😈 ⛈️

[prime moth]

didnt you used to need it for the ?

i dont think you do anymore though

[dim python]

him is a filled with trophies

[plucky hinge]

How do y'all keep your boats from getting smashed when you park them? Do I have to build an actual protected port / pier for them?

[silk token]

just park a little further from shore, about as far out as you need a big ol' jump and 1 or 2 breast strokes to get to shroe

idk why or how the aggro works, but mobs love smashing boats that are against shorelines but mostly ignore them in deep enough water

[dim python]

🤔
i should build a pier

but if you follow yacko's advice and give your boat a repair every now and then you should be okay

another tip: keep your ship parked far enough away that it tends to be unloaded and things won't be attacking it

[plucky hinge]

I must have been too close to something. The sucky thing is that my nails are gone - lost to the bottom of the ocean. I can't rebuild it at the tiny base camp I'm at.

[sweet pagoda]

I remember once heading back to my ship after getting something and seeing in the distance the sail slowly sink down into the ocean

[dim python]

if you jump off a ramp you can dive into the water deep enough to pick your arrows back up

[sweet pagoda]

Swimming in this game really sucks, we should be able to dive down in case important items sink to the bottom

[desert mauve]

im a trophy collector, in order to get the serpent trophy you have to bring it to shore so its trophy doesnt sink

[foggy glacier]

I feel ya, but for different reasons. Getting enough of those trophies to catch enough tuna and cod for a hat is ridiculous.

[desert mauve]

i was hauling iron onto my boat, i was encumbered and had to drop some, it clipped through the boat and i spent 15 minutes trying to raise the ground with my hoe

[foggy glacier]

it always does. You can't drop anything in a boat except the cart or creatures (including fish)

[paper venture]

guys how much iron for all stuffs?

New run before dp north xD

[foggy glacier]

it really depends on what you use iron for. Are you looking at weapons and armor, building or just basic workstation upgrades? The answer is 'A lot' in any case.

[plucky hinge]

Does that work?

[worn hearth]

Is there a way to auto walk while checking your invo on the controller

[knotty cave]

Literally all of it

[thorn shuttle]

Is it just me or do the Words from the Devs seem to be spaced further apart

[foggy glacier]

To set up a full base you need a minimum of 83 iron. That doesn't include anything for weapons or armor but does include nails for a longship or Drakkar

[paper venture]

My only fear is not being able to farm gems in the Deep North 🙁

[foggy glacier]

time will tell.

[paper venture]

Creating a new world just to go to Ashlands and farm doesn't make sense to me

[plain shard]

can someone help me with a idea cause i want to build a new base but dont want it to look the same like the old one that was just a barn with chest and im thinking of building something taller maybe a tower or smth like that

[paper venture]

Have you ever thought about a castle?

[foggy glacier]

You'll probably find some ideas in #building-tips or #building-ideas , but for a starter, try building your base on a slope. You can take advantage of the terrain to build at different levels without sacrificing support for height.

If you want to build a single building for a base, think like a split-level house. Put your workshop in the basement (walk-out?) and up a few steps to the kitchen area, then add a comfort/bedroom/rest area above one of the two.

[plain shard]

yea maybe i will do that with a cool bigger tower in the middle

[foggy glacier]

I built a cool circular tower for my Galdr table in my current base. Sticks way up above the roof of everything else and got a 360 view with the windows.

[plain shard]

can you send a pic

[tacit crystal]

One does not necessarily need to craft all gem enchanted weapons and upgrade them all to max really.

[foggy glacier]

in a few, it's nighttime RN in game.

[plain shard]

kk imma hunt some vile inn the mean time

[paper venture]

I know that for sure, but I'm the kind of player who likes to do everything, collect everything, farm everything, you know?

I currently have about 1.6k hours logged, I'm on a run of collecting everything, doing everything, and maxing everything out, one base per biome

[plain shard]

is it day time

[foggy glacier]

2 min

[plain shard]

kk

[foggy glacier]

I don't sleep.

[plain shard]

yea me to im trying to get the vile trophy

but it just wont drop

[foggy glacier]

seems to be the way. RNG is funny that way. I had a hard time too. I think 20 vile to get my first trophy.

[plain shard]

and is there a easy way to farm rocks

[foggy glacier]

If you're in plains, destroy the big tall ones.

[plain shard]

i forgot about them

and if mine the bottom will the rest just fall onto me

[foggy glacier]

sure will

[plain hull]

Hi

[paper marsh]

Hi Rick

[plain hull]

How do I find people to play with

[tacit crystal]

Check posts in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1024264966712340510 or you can create your own.

[winter surge]

I'm looking for a world as well. posted in a few waiting to hear back

[earnest imp]

Anyone have advice on solo that howling cavern with the frost cultist thing?

[knotty cave]

Slow is fast

[last canyon]

Why did hugine try to kill me? 😭

[static ruin]

you know what you did

did he poof in front of you at a bad time?

[last canyon]

I was literally sailing and he kept popping to me say well met then he destroyed my ship and I killed him

[static ruin]

🤔

[last canyon]

I'm stranded in the ocean now

did he not want me to go to the Ashelands or something

[merry pebble]

How about you actually hear him out for the first time he appears? 😄

[last canyon]

I was literally running away from the Serpent chasing me

[silk token]

he was saying “hey your boat and also you are about to boil if you dont turn around”

[idle epoch]

I am in bronze ages. Day 103. how do i get spice rack, and tool rack upgrade for benches. I am missing some thing. I think this makes sense . work bench level 4, forge level 3. thanks

[merry pebble]

Spice rack will unlock in third biome 🙂

[idle epoch]

that must be the swamp?

[merry pebble]

Correct 😄

[dim python]

good luck norseman

[idle epoch]

i was afraid of that. lol

I need to find it now..

[tacit crystal]

It might require sailing, in most cases.

[tepid prawn]

yeah third biome on starter island happens less than 50% of the time from my experience, quite a bit less

[oblique oyster]

heard rumors of 1.0 so I came back after playing in 2022

WHY IS THERE SO MANY BEARS

[static ruin]

could still be a while

[plucky hinge]

Hm. Is it possible to build bridges across the ocean?

[oblique oyster]

Ive got a good feeling

[light moat]

Usually requires a pretty small stretch of ocean

[static ruin]

theoretically sure, practically there are hurdles

[mental tendon]

bro is it just me or is mistlands insane

had like 60 hours in game up to planes and now like 70 in just mistlands

[tepid prawn]

takes a while to find POI you need on normal settings

[mental tendon]

Yeah we need 2 more seals and we can finally fight the queen. Took us forever to figure out sap. The terrain in mistlands is awful.

[tepid prawn]

sealbreaker fragment you mean? I usually do a lot of mines because of cores, tip, you will want to have some extra cores for next biome (not that many)

[hoary latch]

The Mistlands is my favourite biome even though it pains me. I'm playing through it again with a friend and now that the novelty of it being new has worn off, it's gimmicks are getting seriously annoying to me.

My two biggest wishes for the biome is that

More of those valley areas generated between the crags and with better connection to each other. That's where most enemies and mist seems to spawn so it would make walking around the Mistlands easier, but walking in the convenient valleys would be more dangerous in terms of enemy encounters. Then the crags would have a lot of the POI's and also allow you to traverse over water flooded valleys.

And I wish the mist rolled over the terrain like how clouds drift, so going up to a high point could reveal POI's with patience and instead of some areas being permenantly misty it would be like a dynamic threat. Maybe you could plan to go mine a skeleton when the mist rolls out of that area. Maybe as you were mining it the mist decides to roll in and now you're scared.

[shadow finch]

Mistlands is practically a ghost town, least amount of creatures in the biome itself

They need to up the seeker's and soldiers in the biome itself other then the infested mines

[hoary latch]

I think I agree, me and my friend had this conversation while we were walking back to base like "It's oddly peaceful outside in the mistlands huh?"

[tepid prawn]

I like the peace tbh, a change from constant squitos and giggling everywhere, and a nice reprieve before you set sail south

[hoary latch]

yeah even though I think more seekers could spawn, I don't want it to be different than the rest of the games pacing in terms of enemy encounters

I'm not the biggest fan of the Ashlands drastically different pacing, but I would like that to be the Ashlands thing and not any other biome's

[mental tendon]

Like is this really what the devs wanted? Mistlands feels like the main mechanic is just not being able to see and climbing giant rocks for 20 minutes. I spend more time fighting the terrain than actually exploring or crafting. It’s hard in a way that feels exhausting instead of rewarding.

[shadow finch]

Post Yagluth is a different game than pre Yagluth

[hoary latch]

Whether or not that was intended I think it's how the Mistlands can feel

[hoary latch]

Also true and I've always found it fascinating. It reminds me of hard mode from Terraria the way that Munin appears and things start getting really fantastical. But I think in the Mistlands and Ashlands biome theres design choices that confuse annoying with difficult.

[daring parrot]

hey

anyone wanna play on my server? vanilla only killed first boss

[tepid prawn]

#1024264966712340510 is best place to advertise (I own servers too)

[tacit crystal]

They were added in an update released last September.

[hoary latch]

oh crap I didnt realize you get multiple squirrel hamstrings from the bog witch every purchase, so now I have a lot of dried squirrel hamstrings LOL

I will be on Ratatosk 24/7

[analog hearth]

gotta go fast

[tepid prawn]

can't have too many of those haha

[hoary latch]

once you start taking them you cant stop

[odd barn]

That, lightfoot, the feather cloak (and a trebuchet). Because you're worth it. I was legitimately hurting myself to death using ratatosk, the asksvin cape, and fenris armor. Running so fast, jumping so far, and causing fall damage on impact. "I am speed."

[granite grail]

Oh I am in physical pain. Sailed all the way up the map in a karve to Bonemass and got swamred at night and died before I could place my portal. cries

[high coral]

The pain, know the feeling

If desperate flying is your friend

[tepid prawn]

We have all done that at some stage for those who play a lot

My only cause of death now after 3500h is overconfidence

[paper marsh]

That sounds like mental pain to me, but I am sorry for your pain friend

Go show them who’s boss!

[granite grail]

My heart rate rn 🤣 🤣 I sailed back with a second portal just in case. I attracted drauger and leeches and the druagr climbed up my root I was tryna place the portal on. I got hit, poisoned, and would have died again with no portal if I didn't have a healing potion on me. Backup portal is up 😂 now to sail over and try and get my orginal body back

[granite grail]

Indeed XD 530 hours and my first time in this specific scenario

[tepid prawn]

the roofs you unlock in plains are beautiful I would not call them ugly!

[opal prairie]

True but a lighter variant would be so nice.

[neat tapir]

grausten 🙂

[opal prairie]

True but takes so long to get to, I meant in the plains ^^

[tepid prawn]

The basic one is lighter

But I just love the tar one

[shadow finch]

i have like 4 black metal chests of those, any trip in the Ashlands and you end up getting so many

[granite grail]

I love my new iron battleaxe so much such an upgrade

[mild mason]

i just killed Bonemass with no poison resistance, no shields, nor HP food... Using just bear armor, paws of the bear + abyssal razer and less than 50 pts in any given skill. Sure I died a bunch of times, but it was quite the challenge regardless

[tawny roost]

Summoning new blogpost (づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ♡

[jagged wind]

i know that feel, especially after killing ur first group of draugrs and after a killing of abomination

[silk token]

my hands feel complete once its in them

[high coral]

is there a reason why autorun goes in straight line only?

[tacit crystal]

IIRC you can direct it other way by pressing block while looking at the direction you want.

[vapid dome]

Hey guys, i am thinking of making a new playthough with a friend, i remember back in the day it was pretty bad with connections etc making it hard to play with friends, has that been fixed?

[merry pebble]

You still need a good connection, but certainly viable to play with friends 🙂

[vapid dome]

We have good connections, but he is in Japan rn for example while i am in UK

[merry pebble]

Yeah... That may cause some latency...

[vapid dome]

Hmm i see

[dim python]

@merry pebble #screenshots message where did you get this image from? is there a full version?

[merry pebble]

Yep will send it to you if you want, or you can search "valheim master map" and it should be one of the top results 😄

[dim python]

jack black salute.

[rancid pebble]

Despite the ambiguity around its existance in archeological record, - I rather enjoy the atgeirr

It stabs greydwarves and trolls really good.

And is definately not a handgonne

[eternal blade]

Atgeir is great against groups or anything that isn't resistant to pierce

[tacit crystal]

Also even if it's resistant to pierce - 3x stagger is still huge.

[kind valley]

Valheim is so much fun I already played 4.3 hours (steam) today.

[high coral]

How much stagger to stagger abomination?

[tacit crystal]

33% of max hp.

Which is 800, so 264 stagger.

[high coral]

Is stager listed in weapon stats, I didn't notice

Also I suppose that stagger is a bar that needs to be filled and is also depleting

[tacit crystal]

It is the bar that appears when you take damage or block/parry attacks.

If it fills up you get staggered.

[high coral]

On enemies I mean

[tacit crystal]

That one is adrenaline which fills up when you do actions related to combat.

Enemies also have the similar stagger mechanic but it is not visible for us, other than we see the staggering animation when the enemy gets staggered.

And while enemies are staggered they take 2x damage from any source.

They get staggered either from successful parry or if attacks exceed the stagger limit.

Most weapons deal same amount of stagger as damage, but some weapons have higher stagger multiplier for their attacks, like both attacks of battleaxes and secondary attack of fists/atgeirs/1h maces.

[high coral]

Wasn't sure how damage relates to stagger

So need to check those attack on wiki I guess

You didn't need to explain all of it me, I was only curious about the hidden mechanics when it comes to monsters since that part we don't see

[tacit crystal]

Also note that only physical damage types (pierce, slash, blunt) and lightning damage add stagger, other elemental damage types don't add any stagger.

[gritty fern]

release 1.0 already

[high coral]

thank you

[tacit crystal]

They will, when it is ready.

[high coral]

won't be soon i take it

[gritty fern]

at this rate Enshrouded will release 1.0 sooner even when its early access began 3 years later that valheim

[high coral]

it's not about speed

[silk token]

in practice, enemy stagger seems to me to behave like player stagger, decaying once it hits full and filled again more easily, like 2 hits initially fills it but you can re-stagger with only 1 hit immediately after their stagger breaks.

[high coral]

another round of:
which weapon do you enjoy the most?

[silk token]

[high coral]

does the stagger decay over time or not?

[high coral]

no one handed weapon?

[silk token]

yeah thats what i tried to describe anyway, enemies behave as they would if it worked exactly like player stagger. if you wait a long time and hit them again they wont stagger because its empty

[prime moth]

[silk token]

i also always have spear because i never have bow

and some enemies battleaxe is very inconvenient to fight

[prime moth]

im still too scared of losing my spears off a mountain

and for moder i like havning some passive dps during the fight

[silk token]

i bring 2 to mountain so its no big deal if i do, fhat way i can fight 2 drakes at the same time

[prime moth]

post mountain i could be convinved to drop the bow for spears

actually sniping the shamans is also usually big for me

[high coral]

hitting a drake with spear isn't that easy, it doesn't fly very high afaik

[prime moth]

and i see no reason to drop the bow other than novelty / maybe inventory space

[high coral]

will have to test how far can a spear fly

[silk token]

i just like chopping things, and anything in the air a spear kills great

and then its also my melee pierce damage

[prime moth]

i mean spear hits are super nice feeling

[high coral]

need that frost spear physics from game of thrones

[prime moth]

although i usually only ever use spears for deers early on

[high coral]

a slow and a fast hitting weapon

[obtuse niche]

Sup everyone, started playing again and thought why the heck not join the official discord

[high coral]

i'm going with a knife + shield and iron battleaxe atm

[silk token]

yeah also slash and pierce, its a good combo

knife and axe is pretty great too, you can fight all the large things with that which battleaxe struggles against

mainly lox and seeker soldiers is the two im thinking of

[steel forge]

Welcome

[obtuse niche]

Having just come back after a few years the black forest is way harder and kicking my ass

Guess I gotta upgrade all of my stuff lol.

[silk token]

bears have their weaknesses

[obtuse niche]

I ran into two trolls, a bear, a pack of skeletons and had a panic attack irl.

[prime moth]

jesus lol

[obtuse niche]

All at once lol

[silk token]

at least skeles will help some

[obtuse niche]

yeah I do let the monsters fight

The skeletons actually saved me cuz it distracted the trolls

[tacit crystal]

Then it will. It's not like Valheim 1.0 isn't coming at all.

[prime moth]

DOOOOMMMM

[silk token]

i feel like EVERY game is pre-1.0 these days so its kind of whatever

[feral grove]

I haven't checked recently, but I wouldn't be surprised if Enshrouded also has a larger team.

[half walrus]

Hi

[tacit crystal]

They have, also IIRC they have their own game engine, while Valheim is based on Unity.

[obtuse niche]

I need to play more Enshrouded I really enjoyed it. Love Runescape Dragonwilds too.

[paper marsh]

They stop before attacking, making them pretty easy to hit

Hitting them while moving is a bit dicey unless youve really got your aim down

[solid carbon]

is it more stable/recommended to cap very high framerate with the in game limiter or via nvidia control panel?

[cold ocean]

How does one find out about the use of a portal without looking it up online?

From exploration?

[obtuse niche]

Well years ago when the game came out and friends and I played the recipe appeared when we found a specific component of it. (I forget what it was now)

[paper marsh]

Once you pick up the materials used to make it, it pops up saying "portal unlocked"

Just like it does with anything you unlock. And then it's in your hammer menu

[cold ocean]

hmmmm....interesting, I'll have to look at the list again because I picked up those materials

Oh, and on a side note, I have to say.....digging a moat around your base is the best thing ever. Grindy, but the payoff is awesome

[paper marsh]

I love the idea of a moat

The actual execution in game is often undesirable for me though 😔

[cold ocean]

well, i had to restart my game because I was getting killed heavily

but the second time around, I set the game to easy (lol) and right after I built my base, I started digging

[obtuse niche]

a good alternative is a island. A mote without the labor lol

[paper marsh]

Island has the same issue that a moat does, to me. Plus other issues which is why I hate island living

I don’t like how moats break enemy pathfinding to never attack. Even if it’s just a tiny moat or they’re a big troll that should be able to step over it

Which makes me feel pretty unengaged if I never get to engage with enemies and raids and such at my base

[tranquil sorrel]

Portal question. Which do you prefer. 1️⃣ or 2️⃣

1️⃣ Do you have multiple portals at your base each one paired to portals around the map?

2️⃣ You only have one main portal at your base with signs of names that are links to other portals around the map?

[brazen tiger]

"The Ground is Shaking" 👀

[dim python]

take out a spear or atgeir

[paper marsh]

I’ve tried making tar and water moats (with mixed success) that enemies can path through but get wet or tarred when walking through

[brazen tiger]

Atgeir stun locking works but there is 4 😭

[dim python]

eat at least two hp foods and parry them

you can parry with an atgeir in modern valheim

[paper marsh]

Option 1. Think that’s what the large majority of people do

Ive started doing a mix, mixing in a bit of option 2

[tranquil sorrel]

Good to know. I'm trying to think how can I save space at my base and save resources by only having one but it could be tedious typing in locations 😅 would remind me of the TV show Stargate

[regal cave]

#memes-and-clips message ashlands so hard plz nerf

[paper marsh]

Loved stargate

I set up individual portals for ones I use often. Then a multipurpose one for places I rarely go

[tranquil sorrel]

Only fear I have is that if I have a portal destroyed on me out in the wilderness then I'd be cut off from base and have no boat 🤔

Suppose I can can use the map with markers with same location names to help open portals back up

[paper marsh]

Always have one portal not linked to anything at base

Like “Emergency”

Then you can always connect to that

[tranquil sorrel]

Name the portal 911 😅

Haven't even got any portals and I over thinking something that's supossed to be easy

[high coral]

how do you stop enemies from swimming inside the perimeter of base when it's at water?

[tacit crystal]

Wall or raise ground so steep enemies cannot walk on it.

[obtuse niche]

So I guess it would be wise to upgrade basically everything as much as I can before really going into black forest

[cyan rock]

should I make draugr bow

cuz it looks like it isnt that stronger than huntsman

[tacit crystal]

It shoots arrows further and has some extra poison damage.

[cyan rock]

hmm, alr thanks, I guess I will craft it later

[tacit crystal]

Huntsman bow also has smaller noise area as hidden stat compared to other bows in game.

[cyan rock]

btw, what should I make first out of silver, Im thinking about silver sword or crystal axe

[tacit crystal]

What weapons do you like the most, probably depends on that.

[cyan rock]

okay, thanks!

[tacit crystal]

Spear is super cheap, requires only 8 silver for crafting and upgrading fully.

Sword is solid weapon, but most costly. Battleaxe is also devastating in right hands (also one personal favorite weapon type).

[high coral]

but how? given that i want to still be able to get inside with a boat

[dim python]

wall off the shoreline

[tacit crystal]

Also if you have bought certain material from black forest trader you have access to special hammer weapon.

[high coral]

i already did, they swim around

[tacit crystal]

Picture might help.

[cyan rock]

I havent found him yet

[dim python]

wall off the shoreline farther away from your base

[high coral]

wdym

how far is father

i walled it as far as i could put a stakewall

so far no matter what i did stopped them from swimming in

[high coral]

i'd like to see a picture of a base where enemies dont' swim in

mine is obviously not cutting it

[foggy glacier]

what enemies are you concerned about? I have a huge harbour in plains to keep them away.

[high coral]

i'm not concerned about any particualr enemy, i just don't want random grayling to wander into my base and disrupting my rest

[tacit crystal]

I mean, picture of the area you want to proof from enemies.

[foggy glacier]

I embed workbenches inside the walls of my harbour and make sure I run the walls out as far as I can. I don't have to worry about enemies inside because they don't spawn close enough to investigate. If it's just greydwarves and greylings, put a bonfire at the end of each seawall and they'll shy away before getting inside the harbour.

[high coral]

#screenshots message

[obtuse niche]

has anyone ever taken the "terraria approach" and made a new world to quickly farm up boars for leather scraps?

[high coral]

wdym by "out as far as you can"

[foggy glacier]

I use raised earth seawalls for my harbour.

keep raising earth in a straight line out into the water.

[high coral]

do you mean as far away from your base as possible or as far into the water as possible

[foggy glacier]

both. When it gets too deep, you can aim the hoe at the edge of your current wall and keep going.

by using raised earth, you can build campfires or bonfires on top of it.

[high coral]

i'd like to keep it concise

[foggy glacier]

then your only option is to maybe create an earthen pillar out in the water and put a campfire on top of it.

or accept that you might get incursions.

[high coral]

man this is annoying af, at this rate i'd welcome a water gate

[foggy glacier]

You can use two gates for that.

the large ones.

[high coral]

was expecting water being easier to defend than walls

ok, thanks for your patience and will to explain it

[foggy glacier]

any time.

[dim python]

quite a lot farther... imagine a radius from base center equal to 2.5 bench diameters

[dim python]

you'll need to go farther than that i'm afraid

check the screenshot i pinged you in. i tried to explain what i meant visually

[high coral]

i see, thanks

[frozen void]

This typo is really funny. Hes actually really far to the south

[prime moth]

or is he really far in the sky

[cold ocean]

How many times do I have to face the first boss?

I was exploring around and I found 2 more sacrificial altars to the first boss

[sleek sky]

most bosses you only have to beat once if solo for progression purposes

builders commonly fight some bosses multiple times for drops to put in item stands for decoration

but eikthyr you just need to fight once. all bosses have multiple spawn alters, but you dont need to use them all

no progression advantage to doing it multiple times, either

[frozen void]

They all have multiple altars but you only have to kill them once

[rocky ether]

Bruh i hope they revert the ghost, it was scary before now it is glowing clown

[silk token]

same, lots of shared sentiment when it first came out. not that it isnt well made for what it is. i think if they reskin it with that sort of void color the ghost had and kept the model that could be cool

[fossil delta]

I prefer the new version and am glad it finally has a trophy and drop.

[prime moth]

oml i think moder is is surrounded by mistlands....

[dim python]

i knew a guy that had to go around mountains for the elder

[frozen void]

Did you mist modersday?

[midnight hornet]

I got a seed where Moder is surrounded in Mistlands. I never been to Mistlands before, what can I expect and shat should I keep my eye out for?

It is a pretty short Mistlands so i think it should be fine though... 🙂

[opal prairie]

If you hear ominous clicking, run!

[prime moth]

i might just go to the other side of the world ngl

i dont wanna risk getting gjalld

i got a root harnusk rn and no fire pots

[obtuse niche]

I did it. I shot a troll in the face (a few times) and have won.

[opal prairie]

They don't like when you put pointy things up their nose.

[plucky plover]

Nor when you try to do a back, crack, and sack.

[sweet pagoda]

I prefer punching them in the berries until they keel over, arrows are precious deer killing tools

[obtuse niche]

I was going to shoot one in the bhole and balls next.

[radiant crow]

[granite grail]

I think I just realized.....is Hildir a Meadows trader?? I've only EVER seen her directly next to Plains so I've also just assumed she's a Plains spawn 😭 😂

[frozen void]

Yes but she spawns further out

[lavish cargo]

Today I realized chickens and asksvin can both hatch in dungeons.

[dim python]

is it theoretically possible to turn a black forest troll cave into a chicken pit

[paper marsh]

Time to make Askvin army to kill Queen

[lavish cargo]

Once DN is out, I am hoping to use world corruption to base around a floating frost cave. (Impossibly tall tower in the last biome, preferably overlooking the waterfall)

Thats why I'm looking into dungeon utility.

[paper marsh]

Sounds cool

[heavy moss]

It might be one of the best places to raise chickens actually. A cleared out burial chamber is even better. More rooms to hide fires in. You put a campfire behind a door, close it and put eggs on the other side of the door. No chance of chicks burning themselves to death.

[vapid hearth]

Quick question
Is lava damage considered heat damage? Or is heat damage the damage I receive from staying in the boiling ashlands water for too long?

[heavy moss]

Heat damage is what you get from staying in water too long. Fire damage is only reduced by the Fire Resistance potion.

[radiant crow]

Five years of nitro

[heavy moss]

Oh and yes, Lava is also considered heat damage, but the timer is so short even with the armor it's not worth counting on.

[vapid hearth]

Holy shit it's been 5 years? Didn't notice :O

[vapid hearth]

Interesting, interesting, thank you very much

[vapid hearth]

Yeah, figures. At the very least flammetal pillars won't melt so I could build bridges
Maybe a spire going up along laviathans (and popping Elder's power assuming the submerge chance still only goes up based on how many times I strike it rather than how much damage I do to the flammetal)

[paper marsh]

Heat = Lava and boiling water. Flametal armor will increase the time before those START hurting you (think it gives you a few extra seconds in water, and a split second in lava). Once it starts hurting, it hurts the full amount though

Fire resistance only lowers the damage from being on fire. Which doesn't affect boiling water, and I think barely affects lava

[silk token]

yesterday i jumped a short distance into the lava to hit an archer wearing full flame and INSTANTLY burned. i think i forgot i heard once theres a difference between shallow and deep lava

but in certain lava fields ive hippity hopped like 5 or 6 times across a huge lava field and never burned, its weird

[heavy moss]

Lava slows you too. Unless you land on the edge of it and instantly roll out of it to safety, landing in lava is almost always a guaranteed death. Then basalt bombs are your best friends.

[vapid hearth]

Oh yeah, I remember the mention that heat damage and fire damage counting as different damage types (brewed a lot of fire resistance potions because I thought I'd need them in a place called the Ashlands that's all about fire and brimstone. Turns out fire resistance is no more useful in Ashlands than it is in Mistlands (namely because of the Fallen Valkyrie's attacks, and even then the Gjall uses its fire attack way more often)

[silk token]

its true damage too, no resisting it or anything

[heavy moss]

Love it when an Askvin headbutts you six feet into lava, I run from every Askvin now if I have to fight one anywhere near a lava lake.

[vapid hearth]

Something tells me I shouldn't approach the Ashlands the same way I would any other biome 🤔

[tepid prawn]

depends how you approached the other ones haha, my first time in swamp: Oh my feet are wet, that won't matter yeah? I did not notice leeches and them poisoning me at all really thought they just nibbled me a bit and felt okay, then I died lol.

[heavy moss]

Every biome needs more enemies like the wraith. I still remember my first one.

[tepid prawn]

They are incredibly scary early on especially on H and VH

[heavy moss]

Haha. Recently joined a game that had mods for star levels and special abilities on all critters on a base hard difficulty.

I thought I was used to wraiths until I started running into 2~3 star varieties with increased movement speed.

[vapid hearth]

Oh yeah, wet feet to slow down your stamina regen, AND poison much stronger than what you've seen from bees, rancid remains, and graydwarf shamans

[silk token]

ashlands is built different. the mobs dont ask consent to fight you, you fight whatever wants to fight you. unless you have very fast move speed. imo you need to either be fast AF or sturdy AF. i like sturdy AF and hold my ground i think it works best

[vapid hearth]

Oh yeah, I remember the welcome party being never ending as I was building a floor for my portal. Learned the hard way that no matter how exposed, I should plop down a portal before even laying down the walls, because when the welcoming party arrived, I didn't have time to even set down the portal from all the running and fighting I was doing

A whole different breed indeed, because these guys are only staggered for a split second after a parry (compared to the in-hindsight generous time window everything else offered). Funnily enough, that's not what ultimately killed me (managed to find an arch to sit through the night with a campfire, desperately trying to remain undetected for long enough in a sitting position to get the rested buff). What ultimately did me in the first time I was in Ashlands was going to mine some grausten, then finding out too late that I forgot to pop my staff of protection when I got jumped by voltures

AND I had forgotten to build my portal there (ended up cheating and using console commands to fly myself all the way back there to pretend I totally didn't fuck up that badly; mainly because I was worried the ashwood piles from all the fighting would despawn, being a finite resource)

[heavy moss]

A few tips that can make your next trip a little easier. Voltures are afraid of fire. They won't land and attack if there's even a standing torch nearby.

[sleek sky]

Get your cores from morgen holes and just bail. Dont waste time fighting the morgen. If its a 2 star morgen, its already over

[heavy moss]

Don't count on parry stagger, except on certain ones like twitchers and marksmen that you can kill in a single combo after the stagger and have predictable attacks.

If you've just landed, Frostners are great if you're not a mage. The heavy attack pushes back everything enough that you can be completely safe from most retaliatory strikes.

And you can kill Askvins by just circling to the side and repeatedly hitting it with the light attack, it's turn speed is so slow that it'll never get a chance to attack you.

Works exactly the same on seekers too, so you can practice it a lot before you ever land in Ashlands.

[abstract warren]

I just increased the resource rate modifier to x3 on my new world, figured I'd like to go a bit faster this time. I'm not sure if I should enable "portal items" also?

I played only on default modifiers till now

[spark plover]

If you want fast progression then it might be good, but if you still want to have some slower parts where you just sail a bit then keep it off

[abstract warren]

So you mean sometimes turn it on then sometimes off?

[spark plover]

No, just meant it depends on how fast you want your progression in that world to be

Tho you could also keep it off most of the time and sometimes turn it on when you don't wanna wait

It's your decision in the end

[abstract warren]

Yeah

[vapid hearth]

I so wish there were ways to tackle 2 star morgens in the Ashlands. Makes me dread the 2 stars of the Deep North

[vapid hearth]

Oh yeah, Frostner's the MVP for Mistlands. After nearly tearing my hair out from dealing with them in the public test beta (and struggling against them in subsequent playthroughs), it felt so nice dealing with them with ease thanks to the Frostner. Ice damage to help against their physical resistances, slowdown from the ice damage, and enough knockback even from the light attack to keep their attacks out of range, this thing's got it all

[vapid hearth]

Interesting, very interesting. It feels great when you discover a monster's weakness (even if it's something subtle like turn speed, that is awesome, that helps in learning mobs in-and-out)

[vapid hearth]

"Don't count on parry stagger" is a message I've learned from the Stone Golem's heavy attacks; a great way to convey the message to not expect every attack to be parryable. Granted, that's a different way of discouraging an overreliance on parrying, but still.

And while the much shorter parry window is cool in further setting the Ashlands mobs apart, it makes me worry that the parry playstyle is gonna fall off starting from the Ashlands and continuing into the Deep North (no wonder there's no flammetal buckler of any sort if that playstyle is getting discouraged in the game)

[silk token]

i parry PLENTY in ashlands, evasion mantle ftw. even if im not gonna follow up just parry its 5 adrenaline for free, best way to kill morgens parry thrust a few times

[grand juniper]

UMMMM can we please fix catapults? i launched my sword by accident and now its gone forever. i dont have access to the server since dev commands are locked, what the heck

[silk token]

i once launched my max lvl protection staff 🙁 i've stopped using catapults long ago

[heavy moss]

Seeing as you are playing a mage, bubble staff lets you parry anything with anything equipped, at least once without any hp/block calculations etc. The shield will eat the full damage whether you parry/block or not, but it's a guaranteed parry and a stagger while the shield is up, including whatever hit shatters the shield.

Even playing a pure mage, it feels pretty awesome to parry a lox with a fireball staff, land two fireballs while it's staggered and watch it eat around 100 burn damage a tick. Even in Ashlands it can be used to great effect in any build, but it really shines with any hybrid build especially if you're using a purely offensive weapon like berserkir axes.

[vapid hearth]

Oh yeah, the Staff of Protection is really strong
Completely able to parry even the two star charred (I think even a 1 star was enough to nearly break my poise even with a parry). Yeah, after seeing magic's might against the seekers (and it being instrumental in fighting the Queen), I struggle going back as a non-magic user for late-game biomes (goodbye, wolf hunts! And goodbye, fulings!), especially if I'm having to fight actual entire armies in the Ashlands.

I was really hesitant to try out magic when it came out, since that's an entire new category of food, and more micromanaging involved (turns out I just need two Eitr and one Stamina)

As a melee, I'd think I'd need to take advantage of the crowd being able to hurt each other, though I've yet to run tests on how to adequately take advantage of it (I'd assume there'd be having to use my stamina intelligently as I run around, combined with fighting or stalling one of them so the others catch up and hurt each other in their attempts to kill me)

[barren whale]

lol common issue
you shouldn't be able to launch gear imo
but maybe they'll make a mod to fix that if irongate won't

[heavy moss]

They really should add an ammo slot to the caterpaults.

Like how the ballista works. I'm not sure why they didn't. They already did it for one turret type structure.

[vapid hearth]

I hear the ballista's wonky (as in, it'll target anything within range including me if I don't give it a trophy of whatever it is I want it to target), so I haven't tried that out

[heavy moss]

Yes. It's honestly kind of trash.

Even if you set it to specific enemies with trophies it barely lands anything against moving targets even if you stack 3+ in a single area.

If you want to auto farm black metal, it's easier to just breed lox in a raised earth enclosure with room for fuling raiders to wander in and get stomped to death.

[vapid hearth]

At that point I may as well just plop down a stone portal on an unexplored Plains surrounded by as many fuling encampments as possible

[heavy moss]

Yeah. It's kind of interesting how Irongate made it so black metal is basically useless once you get a little past the plains biome, and yet you can never have enough iron all the way into the end game especially if you're into building.

You'd think they'd at least make them interchangeable for building purposes, since black metal is more of a renewable resource than iron is.

Can't even make arrows. It's honestly kind of silly.

[vapid hearth]

Indeed. I'm surprised there's no blackmetal armor either, just weapons

At least black metal's a crucial component in those sap extractors, but I forget if there's anything post-Mistlands that needs black metal

[heavy moss]

Even if it does, it's like a few pieces here and there. If you base anywhere near a plains you end up just not picking it up at all after a while. There's only so many black metal chests you would ever need.

[vapid hearth]

That is indeed a good point
Though I need to construct some new metal chests
...and reorganize my entire base, really

[neon steppe]

not post mistlands, i don't think

[neon steppe]

i only use them for gjalls in my mistlands base

[vapid hearth]

Ahh yeah, big target, that makes sense
Maybe I should also use them for morgens, and perhaps the occasional valkyrie

[neon steppe]

slow too

[vapid hearth]

That too!

GOnna need to explore mistlands for as much royal jelly, because I'm running low on seeker aspics (and I think the portal to the mistlands where I keep all my functioning sap extractors got destroyed. I should take a trip there)

[plucky hinge]

Ah, the joy of finally getting into a swamp crypt and unlocking new...ways to die.

[neon steppe]

place a couple of portals next to infested mines

[plucky hinge]

There was a draugr with a bow clipped into a muddy pile.

[barren whale]

i got 867 bm chests last count

[astral trout]

why cant you roll troll attacks 🥀

[silk token]

why cant YOU roll troll attacks

[astral trout]

thats what im sayin

can roll bears abominations and all the bosses but trolls just go straight through

[silk token]

thats what IM saying, why cant you? they're 100% rollable

[astral trout]

nah man

[silk token]

maybe you're going a bit too soon?

[astral trout]

the timing must be horrible then

cuz ive tried rolling like 20 different times and it dont work

[silk token]

it's later than you think probably, it's like rrrrRRRrrr wwwom-POW

[astral trout]

ohhh

[silk token]

lol

[astral trout]

i was doing like a wuhhhaaaa-KAPOOF

[silk token]

but srsly maybe make a tower shield and eat 3 hp food and just feel it for a minute, i perma roll them to mine copper always

[astral trout]

i will NEVER use a shield 😾

[silk token]

hm.

arite well. just fyi it's a you problem they're rollable 🤷‍♂️

[neon steppe]

happened to me few times also

brutal if it's 2 star

i never dodge anything except boss attacks lol

parry parry parry

[livid tundra]

Anyone else having join issues

[heavy moss]

If you're having trouble with that one specific enemy, start a single player game, turn on godmode and just practice until you can do it 100% of the time.

Log trolls have an easier attack pattern, you can attack 3x between swings.
Unarmed trolls have less of a delay attacking before and after his smash move. That might be what's tripping you up.

[prime moth]

you're probably rolling early idk

i have never had an issue rolling trolls

[wheat peak]

How many bosses are there in the game?

[prime moth]

7

[wheat peak]

Jesus
Ok i didnt realise how long this game is

[vapid hearth]

You found a 2 star troll?

[prime moth]

yeah its quite long

[vapid hearth]

Digging for copper is in itself an arduous process (assuming you try to dig out the entire node)

[livid tundra]

Anyone having issues trying to join there friends or vise versa

[wheat peak]

I mean i play vintage story so im perfectly fine with the grind

But damn

Btw im assuming when the deep north update comes out i can still continue old runs right?

[neon steppe]

yeah just don't go explore deep north until 1.0 release

so don't sail too north

[vapid hearth]

Yeah, updates won't retroactively update its respective biome

Speaking of which, I should check one of my old worlds and see if the Ashlands music plays in the red barren nothingness I came across (I was trying to get around a landmass that was in the way of Moder), and if ashlands mobs spawn in that red barren area that was the pre-ashlands

[heavy moss]

Does anyone remember the giant trees they had in the mistlands pre-mistlands update? The huge unbreakable ones 3~4x the height of the big swamp trees covered in spider webs?

I built one of my first tree bases on one of those, with the top floors being covered in snow. I loved those things.

[wheat peak]

God i wish boats and carts had a little bit more health
My boat just casually exploded while i was sleeping

[chrome badge]

It was likely being attacked by something small

[neon steppe]

[chrome badge]

Boats won't passively take enough damage to be destroyed

I would recommend a boathouse or a fenced in docking area.

[odd barn]

Yeah, but skeleton archers can and will stand on the bottom of the ocean and pelt it with arrows until it stops being a thing. I think draugr archers will do the same. Fulings and greydwarves will swim up to it and whack it. Even the lowly neck will try to chew the boat to death. I have come across quite a few boats that just disintegrate with no visible cause around it. About the only thing I've seen that will swarm around a boat and not actually attack it is leeches.

[neon steppe]

workstation next to boat helps, i've never had my boat destroyed when i claim the land next to it

[wheat peak]

Btw how come a fireplace is needed next to a bed? That feels weirdly obtuse

[wheat peak]

Yeah i just rebuilt mine after building a dock
Thank god it refunds all mats otherwise i wouldve torn my hair out

[glad sundial]

If you put a maypole near your bed 🛏️

[wheat peak]

Maypole?

[neon steppe]

they are kinda rare, can't craft them atm

you can find them in your world

i've got close to 200hrs in my current save and havent' seen one

might not even be one in my world

[glad sundial]

Usually they get a temporary inclusion during summer

[heavy moss]

You're in luck though, it's getting close to midsummer, and you can craft it then.

[wheat peak]

Whar

[heavy moss]

It's like the Christmas tree. You can only craft it certain times of the year.

And it gives +1 comfort when you have it next to your house.

[wheat peak]

Oh

Interesting
Still a strange design choice considering you can be smoked out in this game
Which is hilarious

[heavy moss]

Gotta make chimneys, or if you don't like dealing with fireplaces, just dig a deep hole under the house and cover it with flooring.

[neon steppe]

it's pain trying to build base around maypole you find in your world

so much easier when you can just craf tthem..

[heavy moss]

You can also hide workbench and forge upgrades in the same hole if you don't like the clutter.

[wheat peak]

Is there a lantern or something i can make for my little karve? It can get so goddamn dark in this game

didn’t mean for that to be a reply whoops

[heavy moss]

It might be your monitor settings. I like to play with black level set to low for atmosphere, but it does make it so you can't see anything at night without a torch.

[wheat peak]

Im assuming then that lighting attachments are a no go?

[heavy moss]

Yeah, nothing by default.

You could wear the dvergr circlet but it won't do a lot.

There's mods for building on boats though?

[wheat peak]

Bugger

Wait theres mods for this game?

[heavy moss]

Are you on PC?

[wheat peak]

Nexus?

[wheat peak]

Yep

[heavy moss]

Download r2modman.

[neon steppe]

they update game once every 2 years, people have made tons of mods meanwhile 😆

[heavy moss]

It really simplifies the whole process.

You download mods within the mod manager, and it keeps track of updates and will download all dependencies.

[wheat peak]

I was kinda surprised that a game like this doesn’t have workshop support
Felt like the kinda game that would have it

[heavy moss]

Also, when playing with other people you can import/export mod lists+config files.

With a simple string.

[wheat peak]

Interesting
Well given its my first time playing prolly gonna play vanilla first but thats good to keep in mind

[heavy moss]

Try looking into your monitor settings. It really might be as simple as adjusting black levels.

[wheat peak]

Nah its also because the sun is beaming direct hatred to my monitor from my window too
Im used to it

Also i got a ton of excess resin thats taking up space in my storage shed. Anything worth using it on? Bear in mind im only past eikthyr

[tranquil sorrel]

What's best for a Tin run. I'm lucky with copper at the edge of Blackforest with my cart. Finding the cart difficult trying to get Tin with the water,trolls and bears. Would the Karve work better, swim back and forth until full I'm thinking?

[heavy moss]

Definitely the Karve.

And bears are afraid of fire. Just chase after one with a dagger in one hand and a torch in the other, if you don't give it any distance you can kill it without it ever trying to fight back.

[tranquil sorrel]

They're afraid of fire. This changes everything

[wheat peak]

Honestly i started getting tin by hand and ditching the cart all together since you need less of it for bronze. Then i got the karve and just skirted the coastlines of black forest

[wheat peak]

Yeah you can keep them off areas altogether with campfires
I learned that when one chased me to a basecamp i set up

At least it definitely felt like it was running away from campfires

[tranquil sorrel]

Noice, k so Karve for Tin runs from now on

[heavy moss]

I died so many times to bears on hardcore runs when they were first introduced, I remember feeling real dumb when I finally figured out they were afraid of fire like grey dwarves.

[wheat peak]

Also theyre not that bad to parry all things considered
Its funny because i got the bear fists after killing my first one and now its on site for those assholes.
Idk why but the bear fists feel so good to use. Idk anything about the meta, im new too, but they hit like a truck after parries

[mild mason]

even better, bears wont approach you at all if there's a lit fire nearby

[heavy moss]

Bears aren't too bad on lower difficulties, but on VH both the bite and the smash will 1 shot you with bronze level gear/food.

And they have a stupid amount of HP, and a less predictable attack pattern, and the forward swipe can catch you even when you're running. Not a great combo when trying to learn how to fight them for the first time.

[neon steppe]

i just want the bear trophy, can't have them run away

[chrome badge]

Sailing with a torch in hand is a thing

You can also hold a lantern just as you would a torch.

[wheat peak]

Oh my god it nearly happened again
A single neck chipped down my karve to below half

What an asshole

[pliant radish]

No no, necks are our cute weird frog pets. If they decided to destroy your boat there must have been a good reason

It was probably just helping you clean up

[wheat peak]

Its on sight with them now

[heavy moss]

Put torches next to your dock area.

Necks are afraid of fire too.

You can even keep them as pets by trapping them in a house with a light source nearby, they'll chill out and just hang out with you.

[mild mason]

[heavy moss]

I like to keep greylings and necks as bartenders and house servants.

[wheat peak]

Nah
Total neck annihilation
They look ugly
Yeah i said it

[heavy moss]

That's heresy.

[pliant radish]

I’m sending 200 necks your way for that

[analog hearth]

they do look ugly

[heavy moss]

You are going to Helheim.

[analog hearth]

[wheat peak]

Id win

Im gonna crash out why does everything need blueberries
I bet they spawn as frequently as raspberries but my rng has been so bad that i think ive only ever found like
5 bushes

My terrain has been hillscape hell

[heavy moss]

Nah, raspberries definitely have more spawns. Do you mark berries on your map?

[wheat peak]

Yep

[heavy moss]

I sometimes like to build roads cutting across black forest just to connect the berry spawns in a high density area, it can be a fun afternoon project, if you're into that sort of thing.

[wheat peak]

Why does this game sometimes remind me of a fromsoft game

[knotty cave]

Exploration is rewarded, exploration into new areas can be terrifying & punishing. NPCs that seem to have a back story and give quests
Different areas w different bosses and themes

Aggravating run backs if you die without prep first.

Yeah checks out, Valheim is a Souls game.

[tranquil sorrel]

I got a pair recently, I'll have to check them out. So far loving the Atgeir. Never used it before

[wheat peak]

I hope theres more fist weapons theyre fun to use

[grizzled coyote]

This rocky reminds me of some bear or doggy rather than a smile, I guess its just my imagination

[tacit crystal]

Using bear paws? There will be more later.

[wheat peak]

This makes me happy

[kind valley]

Omg i finally beat the first boss!

I was saved by some rocks :) i keep running in circles to camp until I regen health :D

[opal prairie]

3 fists weapons and 4 fists in the game.

[opal prairie]

Congratulations, first milestone in the game!

[kind valley]

Thanks!

[wheat peak]

Man the only thing, literally the only thing screwing me right now is terrain.
Is it normal for terrain generation to be super hilly?

[heavy moss]

Some parts, yes. But you can also modify the terrain, and that can be a lot of fun too.

[opal prairie]

Wait till you get to the mountains.

[heavy moss]

Fighting is about half of this game, you can freely build anywhere, sometimes I'll build a raised wooden road encircling an entire continent or one cutting across the mistland just to see if I can.

[wheat peak]

Speaking of, theres one right next to my base

Mountains i mean

[granite grail]

Wait till they get to the Mistlands XD

[heavy moss]

You can tame wolves in this game too and get puppies.

[wheat peak]

what

[heavy moss]

Yep.

And they breed like rabbits. Especially in the meadows where they have few natural enemies and plenty of deer and boar to eat.

[granite grail]

Wolves, my beloved pets ❤️

[wheat peak]

I didnt even know there were wolves

[heavy moss]

You let them breed and just take a half a dozen of them into the black forest to guard you while you do your business.

They'll die when they meet a troll, but then you get wolf pelts and meat.

[tranquil sorrel]

Yep. Even meadows can be generally flat but have some small hills. Takes so time with a pickaxe and hoe to level it all out. Remember to stick with the cardinal directions N,S,E,W. This will help with building too

[wheat peak]

I mean terrains screws me up in a fight lol

[opal prairie]

Yeah that terrain is also terrible and the mist makes it so much worse, mountains are often times steeper and have less resting places during a big climb than mistlands IMO.

[wheat peak]

I might be fighting a bear and then i get animation locked sliding down a hill because odin decided it would be funny if my dark forest was a tiny strip circling the mountains

[tranquil sorrel]

I will conquer mountains one day. So far the swamp is on my list

[heavy moss]

Build roads. It makes the swamp so much nicer.

[opal prairie]

Yeah try and lure them to a mostly flat spot or go for ranged when the terrain is being difficult.

[tranquil sorrel]

No more wet boots

[wheat peak]

I took one look at swamps and noped the fuck outta there

A wraith chased me in my karve to sea lol

In the middle of a storm

[heavy moss]

And no more leeches nipping at your heels while you're trying to carry iron back to your boat.

[wheat peak]

Most cinematic stuff ever

[heavy moss]

Your first wraith is the best one. This game needs more enemies like that.

That moment of... what is that blue glow... the F**K is THAT?

[tranquil sorrel]

Good tip, forgot about those pesky things. Made it to the swamps last time and didn't dare to venture up mountains . One wolf killed me like 5 times in a row

[granite grail]

Wraiths are definitely scary 🤣 the trophies are cool tho to put up. The first wraith I killed in this play through dropped a trophy lol

[heavy moss]

Wolves have really low hp but a fast attack/move speed. If you're playing on normal, bring a good shield, block first, and then swing.

[wheat peak]

Im only a bronze scrub so i have no clue how my gear would hold up in the swamps

[opal prairie]

The trophies look like a tattered well worn bathrobe to me.

[heavy moss]

It used to look a lot worse.

[high coral]

Bronze works there

[heavy moss]

The first wraith trophy before they changed it looked like an over-ironed T shirt.

[granite grail]

True 😂 Idk I think the chains look cool

What would be amazing is if they had the blue glow on them

[opal prairie]

A buckler and get that parry timing right or bows also make quick work of wolves.
They need to be pretty close to bite you so if you can get the timing right for an attack that is a bit longer then their reach is take a step back when to go for a bite and then attack from a bit more disttance.

[heavy moss]

And always go during the day, no two stars spawn during the day, and you can usually stun up to a 1 star wolf with a single hit.

[wheat peak]

Im assuming im gonna find the eldar there too then

Hang on this is just terraria

[opal prairie]

Comparable but so different.

[heavy moss]

Terraria is the only other game I have over a 1000 hours in.

I love that game too and I agree. So very different.

[opal prairie]

Elder ||is the black forest boss, you can find its vegvisir in the wild near stone towers or in the dungeons in the black forest.||

[opal prairie]

I've been looking for a 2 star for a while now, I want to breed an army of 2 star wolves as base defense for in the meadows and see how they fare in the plains.
So far comes a dcross a bunch of 1 star and I'm breeding those but I really want that 2 star.

[heavy moss]

They never give you a 2 star when you want one.

[high coral]

How do you tame a wolf?

[heavy moss]

I had one game where I sat in the mountains for 3~4 (in game) days waiting for a two star one. When one finally did spawn, I managed to trap it in a pit, and a second two star one popped up behind me and insta-killed me.

Of course, it was close enough to morning that by the time I got back, they both despawned.

[granite grail]

Get the wolf in a pit, throw it deer, neck, boar, or sausage, and wait nearby while it eats and tames. Yellow hearts means it's taming. You'll get a notification and the health bar will go from red to green on the wolf when it's tamed

[heavy moss]

Just a few quirks. You can't have a fire next to them or they won't calm down enough to start eating.

If you don't have enough frost potions, build yourself a shelter nearby, it'll keep you from taking frost damage even without a nearby fire.

[high coral]

It will follow afterwards?

[heavy moss]

If you catch the wolves that spawn at night, you have to start feeding them that same night. If you don't, they won't eat anything during the following day. If you leave the area, they'll despawn.

Yes, once they're tame, they'll follow you when you right click them.

[wheat peak]

Aww balls
seems my one is behind swamps

[high coral]

Will stake wall work with them?

[heavy moss]

Yeah, but you'll have to repair them a lot until they calm down.

Pits are better generally.

[high coral]

Ok thx

[heavy moss]

You throw some meat in, you cover up the hole entirely with wood floors, build a little hut on top and wait about an hour and you have tame wolves.

Then you just have to bring them down the mountain without drakes and golems killing them.

[mild mason]

i just drop em in a hole using a floor trap, toss some raw meat in and then walk 40 m away and come back in 30 minutes

[high coral]

Might be easier to let them follow down the hill and tame there?

[opal prairie]

For normal wolves that is viable, for 1 and 2 stars you have to have fed them before dawn breaks or they are gone.
So you don't have that much time.

[heavy moss]

It is, but if you're looking for a 2 star you don't always have that luxury.

Cause they'll 1 shot you and they run as fast as you do.

And they don't have a stamina bar.

[high coral]

Fat chance that I find a 2 star and have a pit ready

[heavy moss]

You build the pits in advance and wait. Catching 2 stars is about luck as much as it is perseverence.

But it's kind of worth it to watch 3~4 of them tear a bear apart in a few seconds. Stunlocking them the entire time.

[opal prairie]

The way I do it, I go to a mountain in the day and murder all the wolves in an area, then wait till night and see where new packs of wolves are.
Those spots are where the night wolves will spawn (often times with a fenrig with them).
I then make a pit near with a portal and keep returning there each night to look for a 2 star in that area.

I've also often times mined silver trough the night and suddenly there was a 2 star in the mining pit and I just went from there.

[heavy moss]

That's usually how I get mine too. I'm mining silver and one drops into my silver pit.

Kill me or don't, but if I get back to the pit fast enough I have a 2 star wolf.

If I'm too deep in the mountains I catch another one and breed them right there until I have a few spares before trying to go down the mountain.

[wheat peak]

Oh this game is mean
Odin is listening
here i am calling bears and trolls reasonable threats that i can deal with and he throws both of them at the same time

[opal prairie]

Same here, last playtrough I had a total of 18 2 star wolves, I left 4 in the pit as back up and took 14 with me to go down the mountains, trough a dark forest and a stretch of meadows to get to my base, 3 made it.
Other's were either killed or ran off.

[heavy moss]

Yeah, they really don't last long in the black forest considering they're critters from the 4th biome fighting things from the 2nd.

They get downright scary if you start giving em bubble shields though.

[high coral]

Well what's the point then

[heavy moss]

Base/raid defense. Also, even the dead ones are super useful.

Because wolf meat is a tier 4 food.

And they might die to trolls, but they do kill everything else.

[high coral]

Even bears?

[heavy moss]

They drop bears like they're nothing.

[high coral]

What about swamps

[heavy moss]

Not as useful there, the poison damage does a number on them with their low hp, and a lot of the fighting you do in swamps is in the crypts, and you can't take them in there.

They get useful again after you get access to blood magic.

Because bubble shield hits every ally/pet around you.

And it removes the one weakness wolves have. Low hp.

[wheat peak]

Im starting to hate greydwarfs
Little assholes that keep filling my inventory with garbage

[heavy moss]

Treat them like disposable drones.

Don't try to keep them alive so much as just get more when some die.

They're very easy to breed.

[wheat peak]

Havent tried breeding boars yet. I cant imagine it would be that beneficial right?

[opal prairie]

I drop everything but the eyes they drop, I'll get my wood and stone later on when I need it.
I also make a greydwarf spawner farm for the stone, wood and other stuff they drop.
Also good to feed things to the obliterator for coal.

[high coral]

It helps kinda so you never run out of their meat

[opal prairie]

The items they drop will be used up till at least the mountains and even beyond that but in a lesser degree.
The meat though is for feeding your wolves.
Try and get a 2 star boar though, makes it easier than with no or 1 star boars.

[high coral]

Much more efficient with star boars

[paper marsh]

Taming in general is very optional. I've completed the game a few times and have never really done taming for drops, only tamed a few animals for funsies

Imo you get plenty boar drops when you're out and about

[wheat peak]

Agreed

[heavy moss]

You can also tame lox and askvins in the later biomes, and you can craft saddles and ride those.

There's even a riding skill.

[paper marsh]

hey hey spoilers

[wheat peak]

Idm idk what those names mean

[heavy moss]

Everything we're telling Emu is a spoiler. 😛

[wheat peak]

Its not like i can immediately visualise what theyre talking about

[opal prairie]

If you take the time to kill them and pick up their goods but with my playstyle, I find timing to be easier for me.
I just ignore them and keep on focussing on what I'm trying to get and will kill a few once I need more of their drops.

[wheat peak]

I got autopickup so i tend to just kill them on the way to whatever goal i have in mind

Theyre aggressive so its not like i need to chase boars

[opal prairie]

True but it takes up 2-3 spots that could be used for other more important things, you could portal back when you can't pick up more but that means more trips back and forth, so less time exploring.
Also you won't always find enough boars to get a full stack so all that takes up extra time and is less efficient in my opinion.
While with taming you have to do the work just once and keep them fed which for me takes less time than "hunting" them in the wild.%
To each their own though and I like the ease of having a boar pen for me.

[wheat peak]

Fair

[shadow finch]

Boar meat becomes useless after swamp and you can get leather/deer hide much faster in the plains

[opal prairie]

I use wolves till at least the end of the plains and they eat boar meat, so having an easy source in the base of that is a good thing in my eyes.
I do get that not everyone likes taming animals and have no need for it but I like the convenience of it.

[wheat peak]

There better not be any evil ass leviathans that can eat my little ship

[opal prairie]

No but there is something that will eat it and you.

[wheat peak]

Incredible

[high coral]

#screenshots message check this out, found traders each in different direction

only 1 found organically

for the rest i spent an inordinate amount of time just sailing around

definitely not what i'd call a fun gameplay

[paper marsh]

To each their own

There are mods and devcommands that can cut down on the exploration if you find it excessive

[rancid pebble]

I enjoy the bouts of farm life between life-n-death battles.

[opal prairie]

Same here, also now that I'm just playing solo I can plant, cook and create mead less than before so it doesn't get tedious.
Also the addiction of the scythe is so nice.
I would love that it is available after bonemass instead of after Moder.
So the moment you have silver and found the bog witch you can use it.
If you are lucky you'll be able to farm your first onions with it that way.

[rancid pebble]

Oh I no longer have to swing the atgeir around like a lunatic?

[opal prairie]

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Scythe

[high coral]

that's what i did in the end tbh, was to demonstrate how inorganic it was for me

used the map with the seed and peeked at it hoping i'd find traders with normal exploration going in the general direction that i saw in the blind map but they weren't there simply

i'd likely never had a reason to venture there in the first place or do that much exploring early mid

not sure at what stage mountain/plains are

[paper marsh]

I'd say midgame

[heavy moss]

Can you share your seed? I'm kind of curious to see what other potential locations you had for the vendors.

[high coral]

347737913

[opal prairie]

The seed I'm playing on is BEEBObeebo and it has a nice grouping of early bosses.

[paper marsh]

Damn, making me miss Beebo. He was a fun character to play

[heavy moss]

Wierd, I tried inputting that seed in the map generator and it's spitting out a different map. Have you been playing that world long?

[tacit crystal]

How old your world is? They might not be comparatible versions.

Also content updates tend to switch locations in unexplored areas.

[hoary latch]

Something interesting I learned recently is that due to the way terrain generation works, theres only so many unique island shapes that exist in the game

I found part of my world that I made back when the game came out inside of my new multiplayer world

its just the biomes and positioning of structures and stuff is all different

[dim python]

moder located!

[dim python]

@tacit crystal i'll admit i used a map viewer to isolate the position of the frost cave near my base i kept having trouble finding. i was just lucky enough that it had vegvisir

[high coral]

not sure what long counts for

[ember sequoia]

whats the discord server for the BRS

[high coral]

double checked the seed and it fits

[high coral]

started it 2 weeks ago roughly

#screenshots message

[paper marsh]

Long being like, at least a year

A while back some updates shifted stuff around, making the same seed look different before and after the update

[wheat peak]

I accidentally made another pickaxe and it ended up making my mining expeditions better

[paper marsh]

Accidental upgrades are the best upgrades

[queen cloud]

Is valheim coming to ps5?

[merry pebble]

Yep, sometime this year actually 😄

[queen cloud]

Les goo

[wheat peak]

Prolly not gonna have splitscreen. Otherwise I wouldve loved to play it with my brother.
Rest in peace split screen, you will be missed.

[near furnace]

yeah for sure 🤔

[dim python]

moving to #valheim-help

[serene elbow]

Paint brush.

Mix berries. make paint. paint roof.

[valid python]

Neet, Bone maw trouphy

I've decided the but course of action is to establish a new Ashland's front entirely. I'm thinking I get 3 going. East and West to go along with my current central location.

[smoky python]

Anyone else constantly checking for the dev blog? I’m so excited to see what’s cooking

[paper marsh]

nah I'm avoiding them. And whenever one comes out I gotta hop off the discord for a few days because people are not interested in using spoiler tags

[livid tundra]

So last night no one could join me and we couldn’t join etch other did any else have this issue

[snow aurora]

Should I go for skoll and hati or mistwalker or krom?

[livid tundra]

??

[merry pebble]

Each of them is a good weapon, if you really dont have a preference in weapon type then you can just go with whatever looks coolest 🙂

[jagged wind]

id go grom, big dmg with special attack and decent parry bonus

mistwalker with shield is probably the best against starred enemies i guess

[tacit crystal]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-hoodie-emperor-all-of-them-gif-13950795

[snow aurora]

I've used the himminafl and demolisher in my first play through. My friend used the krom though he died a LOT of times using it

[tacit crystal]

2h weapons can usually parry comfortably, at least non starred mobs, but having no shield is one drawback of them.

But damage of them and no multi target penalty is nice.

[silk token]

krom is better on seeker soldiers and morgen or if you dont like parrying thrusting to start a fight, mistwalker for safe group kills, having both is best imo

[tacit crystal]

Gotta say, Skol & Hati is pretty nice against those enemies too.

[snow aurora]

Can you parry a 2 star seeker though

[tacit crystal]

Like I said, non starred mobs can be easily parried.

2 star seeker might be too much to parry with Krom.

[snow aurora]

How's the skoll and hati for it

[tacit crystal]

I suspect not enough for 2 star seeker.

You could check from blocking speadsheet in pinned messages.

[silk token]

consult the sheet!

( distant chanting, row of men in robes carrying a large chest slowly approach )

[barren whale]

skol & hati surprise atk is goated for soldiers
but also just having the 5% movespeed to run around to its ass after a parry and start slashing
how are you gonna parry a starred soldier with a 2h knife? only odin knows

mistwalker (or frostner) shits on non-elemental stuff against regular seekers though
or if you don't want to chase soldier butts every time

[silk token]

the holy sheet doth speaketh, skoll hati and krom can both parry a 2 star seeker with 20 block and evasion mantle with 220 max hp, weaker attack only 120 max hp

[silk token]

i never told you i ran around with skoll hati in ashlands for fun either evasion mantle, it was fun, they played kind of like berserker axes, not as strong as other things but fun and viable imo

[cold ocean]

How should I look at food? Balanced, or more geared to either health or stamina?

I found a spreadsheet someone made online of all the recipes and stuff, and I just wanted to see what anyone else thought about it

[paper marsh]

Up to preference, generally I'd recommend 2 health foods (red fork) and 1 stamina food (yellow fork)

Food is super important though, so see how you feel about it

[merry pebble]

Depends on your playstyle, if you want to be fast on your feet then SSH or SSB. If you want to be tanky then HHS or HHB. And if kind of both then HSB 😄

[viscid python]

Anyone have advice for running valheim on a potato

[cold ocean]

Is there any way to power up faster after eating said food?

[merry pebble]

Be resting

[paper marsh]

^ sit by a campfire or stand inside your base in range of fire. Heals you quick

[cold ocean]

but what about when you're actively exploring, and then all of a sudden a blue rock-throwing troll just appears out of nowhere and then you notice you're low

do you just run at that point and hope for the best? 🙂

[viscid python]

I have an AMD Ryzen 5 5500U CPU, 8 GB RAM, and AMD Radeon(TM) graphics (2 GB)

Anyone have tips for settings?

[paper marsh]

Once you get to the copper age, you'll be able to make health potions

[silk token]

sometimes i carry 1 or 2 optional health foods when i explore Bf and run around on 2 stamina 1 health foods while trying to keep at least one of the stam ticking so i can eat something, then if/when i see a scary thing i quick chow the 2 hp foods for max hp so i can parry it

[viscid python]

Anyone gonna react?

[paper marsh]

Sure.

I like to put all graphics pretty low in most games I play regardless of how much my pc can take, bc I don't care much about the graphics but like the gameplay to be fairly smooth

Though I don't think my opinion will help you much

If you go to #valheim-help and go to pins and scroll down a bit, there's a video for upping FPS, if that interests you

[frozen void]

Theres some videos out there for tips and tricks on how to improve fps in valheim as well, but another tip is to not build big

[silk token]

sorry i dont have a potato so i cant give potato advice

[glad sundial]

https://klipy.com/gifs/cat-explosion-26

[rancid pebble]

... Does anyone else avoid trolls because you have three small chests of troll hide and no use for the damn things.

[paper marsh]

Nah. I just stop seeking them out

[rancid pebble]

I am not seeking them out, they seek me out.

... it is silly seeing a single little shit-goblin (fuling) beat a troll into a pulp though.

[heavy moss]

I kill them for their gold. They drop like 20 gold and that's like... one potion?

[steel forge]

Troll trophy makes bait for troll fish which makes endurance potion for hauling metal. I kill all trolls I come across unless I have a fair amount of trophies already.

[rancid pebble]

Trophies yes, I said hides.

[steel forge]

Trolls drop both

I usually end up leaving the hide on the ground post Bronze Age

[foggy glacier]

Thor likes trollhide.

[rancid pebble]

Solution found, thank you

[heavy moss]

How much do you get for a stack?

I thought other than trophies it was like.. 1~2 for a full stack of skins.l

[foggy glacier]

same as most anything else: 10 to 1

[foggy glacier]

You could open a barber shop? Need some for the chairs.

[frozen void]

Troll hide is nice to make guards for your build, just make troll sets and put them on armor stands

[heavy moss]

Ah, I didn't know that. That tracks though. If feel like sometimes I fill that thing to the brim, pull the lever and end up with barely 20~30 coal.

[foggy glacier]

Trophies give you 1:1 back. Most items are 10:1, except wood and ammunition.

[heavy moss]

Is wood higher?

[foggy glacier]

wood is 5:1, all kinds.

[heavy moss]

Okay, so still not worth using over the kiln.

[foggy glacier]

including bark and ygdrassil.

dunno about anything out of ashlands though.

[heavy moss]

I'm not putting ashwood in an annihilator. Ashwood is for building and making arrows.

[foggy glacier]

sure, just saying.

[heavy moss]

Ancient bark though...

[cold ocean]

I'm using troll hide as my armor right now

[cursive dawn]

Will there be a 1.0 release this year?

[foggy glacier]

Supposed to be, yes

[heavy moss]

Is deep north update supposed to be 1.0?

Cause I can't imagine them doing two in a year.

[paper marsh]

Yes

[heavy moss]

Hell, I'll buy it again when it comes out, lord knows I got my money's worth a hundred times over.

[near furnace]

doing two what?

[heavy moss]

Two updates in a year*

[near furnace]

have we done 2?

[heavy moss]

No no. I didn't know Deep North was supposed to be 1.0.

I vaguely remember something from the early days about them doing something with the ocean, so thought maybe that was coming after Deep North.

[near furnace]

the stuff in the last PTB, the combat updates was ment for the 1.0 update, but we wanted the communitys help with feedback
this PTB with chunksaves is also a must-have-help level since we don't have 100,000's of hardware setups to test what will potentially break

and this is also part of the 1.0 update

and yes 1.0 IS the deep north update. (achivements included)

[smoky python]

Sad no blog post today 😭 love seeing what you guys show every month

[near furnace]

it's only wednesday

[heavy moss]

What does PTB stand for?

[near furnace]

and it's not montly blodpost. it's when we have something interesting to say

[merry pebble]

Public test branch

[near furnace]

public test branch ^

[heavy moss]

Ah.

[near furnace]

it's what's steam call it

it's called "flight" on xbox I think 🤔

[smoky python]

Isn’t word from the devs post every last Wednesday of the month?

[near furnace]

no

[frozen void]

Branch is what steam calls it and this branch is for public testing purposes?

[frozen void]

Its just before the end of the month

[near furnace]

we changed from montly blog since we don't post during december hollidays and summers... we are gone alot individually so..

[near furnace]

yup

[heavy moss]

Are you guys Swedish?

[near furnace]

yes. all developers are swedish

[heavy moss]

Like.. everyone on the dev/mod team?

[near furnace]

moderators are all around the world

(to cover all time zones)

[snow aurora]

So far I've been doing just fine with a level 3 black metal knife and maxed bm shield but taking on 2 1 star seekers kills me xD

[heavy moss]

They're usually pretty bad about navigating elevation changes, jumping up a rock usually buys you a little time to regen stamina.

[paper marsh]

I like hopping in water, they navigate that even worse.

Fins of destiny helps for that

[frozen void]

Then why am i here?

[heavy moss]

Because you love hanging out with folks who love the game?

[paper marsh]

Because Smiffe is only up in the middle of the night in Sweden

[snow aurora]

It's a reach problem but better than the stamina drain of the bm sword

[near furnace]

to cover time zones

[heavy moss]

I like fins of destiny but the inventory slot limitations make it so I never want to carry anything that I 'might' use.

Half the time if I'm playing vanilla I skip trinkets altogether. Just to get 1 more inventory slot.

Especially if I'm playing a mage and have more gear I want to carry.

[paper marsh]

Fair

[snow aurora]

I've swam more in this play through than sail on the boat xD

The next challenge is to swim to the next mistlands island I see across the ocean. Is it possible with the fins of destiny and eikthyr

[heavy moss]

Anything is possible with enough stamina potions and patience.

[paper marsh]

If you can see it, then i think you should be fine with fins, eikthyr, and maybe a stamina potion yea

[hexed latch]

Guys are 1 star bears way harder than normal?

[neat tapir]

no no the star indicates that they are easier

[fathom tendon]

Chat when do u think the Update will release?

[mild mason]

When it's ready
(but I predict November)

[prime moth]

my brain wants to make the winter update happen during winter so

q4 i guess

[near furnace]

when the channel topic in #general is correct 🤔

[grim ocean]

Yeah, ⭐ give enemies crazy buffs in stats

[heavy moss]

Specifically...

1 star gets 100% extra health and 50% extra damage
2 star gets 200% extra health and 100% extra damage.

But the actual extra damage you take per hit will feel like more than a 50%/100% increase because your armor reduction applies after the damage increase, not before.
And bears already have a ton of HP, doubling or tripling that just makes them ridiculously tanky.

Bring a torch, they're afraid of fire and will refuse to attack you as long as you stay close to them.

[worn hearth]

Can you use stone cutter to cut the BIG ROCKS in the plains

Or do you have to picaxe it

[heavy moss]

Just pickaxe the base of it and the rest of it should shatter and fall once the bottom is cut out.

[worn hearth]

Anyone have an avg on how much stone you get from one

[heavy moss]

Don't quote me on this, but I think it's around 8~9 stacks.

So around 400+?

[vernal karma]

i think every time i've played valheim multiplayer, it's been insanely laggy, a problem i've never noticed in other games. I've heard something about poor netcoding, is that something devs have talked about?

[frozen void]

In other games you load from a server, in valheim you load to or from other players

[prime moth]

1 star bear = about 10 torches

in my experience

[cold ocean]

what's the best early weapon against bears?

[heavy moss]

Wait... are you whacking them WITH the torch?

[cold ocean]

I've been using my bronze axe on them

[jagged wind]

sword/axe with buckler i'd say

[heavy moss]

Not like... holding the torch while you hit them with something else?

[cold ocean]

Shields don't do anything against bears, from my experience

[silk token]

early axes by a mile, they can parry their swipe and delete them in 2 parries

[dark coyote]

the power button

[cold ocean]

https://klipy.com/gifs/planet-of-the-apes-laugh

[silk token]

their swipe is very low damage, dodge the others

[heavy moss]

If you want to be evil, you can drop them into a pit, put a campfire under them, close the top off with flooring and slowly smoke them to death.

[cold ocean]

I just hold a torch in one hand and my axe in the other

then they start running away like crazy

[dark coyote]

abyssal razor is a good middle ground for bears and trolls imo

[cold ocean]

so then I chase after them like an idiot

lol

bear meat at 40 health/0 stamina is okay

[silk token]

#memes-and-clips message

hard mode bear vs early axes, just parry their swipe

[cold ocean]

you mean block with shield and then attack with axe?

i have tall tower wooden shield right now

[silk token]

yes shield has WAY better block than early axes, but axes can and they delete bear faster than anything

[heavy moss]

If you're new, don't try to copy Yacko. 😛 He's using two handed early game axes you have to find the pieces for, that have low block but a high parry multiplier.

He's also specifically parrying the low damage hits while dodge rolling the harder hits he knows he can't parry.

[cold ocean]

I have access to a two-handed bronze weapon. I just haven't built it yet

[silk token]

idk if you can tower shield block ALL their attacks if your health is low, never tried it but you can consult the holy sheet to see how much hp u need

[heavy moss]

Use the torch trick. They won't try to hit you if you stay close to them, just run from you and you can chase after them with a 1 handed weapon and a torch in the other hand.

It's a lot safer, and you'll get your weapon skills up early because it takes a while to down one.

[silk token]

false they have only x2 multiplier their block and parry is absolute trash, thats just how weak the bear swipe is

[heavy moss]

Huh, I figured they were like hand to hand weapons, guess not. I've never actually found both pieces to make one.

[dark coyote]

I've had a bear swipe me and break the torch I was holding

bears are a terrorist plot

[silk token]

a safer noob bear strat is probably bear paws but catch 22 🤪, honestly i always tell new players treat bears as a dodge and parry tutorial, never to early to learn to play the gsme

[heavy moss]

That is definitely not safer.

[vernal karma]

p2p is very common. i've played many p2p games with virtually 0 lag.

[heavy moss]

Unless by safer you mean, "If you don't learn how to do this now, you will die more later down the road".

[silk token]

you dont think? parry is much stronger in case they accidentally parry a strong attack and short 1-2 combo

[silk token]

i do mean that yes. better to learn on a bear now than a 2 star seeker later

[heavy moss]

He's kind of right. It's a good idea to learn how to parry and watch for enemy attack patterns early.

And dying early costs a lot less in terms of lost skill levels.

Some folks never bother learning and just die over and over and get frustrated and quit by the time they reach the later biomes.

My fiancee has hundreds of hours in the game and she's still scared of trolls.

[silk token]

yup. before they know it they’re in a hard biome and all they know is shoot a bow and run away and cant play the video game

[heavy moss]

Now let me delete this before she sees it.

How do I do that? 😛

Har.

[steel forge]

I screen shot it already the internet is forever 😁

[heavy moss]

Dang it.

[cold ocean]

I started taking this advice to heart when fighting a blue troll that throws rocks

and I'm now starting to feel confident taking one on

drive-by bow shot and then running, turn, fire, run, repeat works

[heavy moss]

No, that's what we're warning against. 😛

You gotta get in there with a dagger or a spear and dodge roll all their attacks and hit them in between.

You can't learn the attack pattern if you don't let them attack you in the first place.

[cold ocean]

Dodge/roll against a troll? I'm not that good yet

[heavy moss]

But you can be. 😄

[cold ocean]

and dying in this game is horrible

[heavy moss]

It doesn't have to be. It's early on, don't be afraid of dying, you're an immortal viking.

Just have a bed nearby. And tell that troll that you're going to bleed it until it dies with your flint knife.

[cold ocean]

I actually tried dodge-rolling against a blue troll.....I performed the action right into his fist-thump attack area and almost died

[heavy moss]

No matter how long it takes. Because you're immortal, and he's not.

You have a certain amount of time after you die where you won't have any skill loss. Dying once and dying a 100 times is exactly the same in terms of skill loss.

But if you learn how to dodge/parry the things, you won't die to them again.

[cold ocean]

https://klipy.com/gifs/do-or-do-not-3

[heavy moss]

Like ever. You'll get to a point where you see a troll right after spawning into a new world and go, "Oooh, I get free finewood, copper and troll skins right from the get go. Score."

[cold ocean]

well, I'm starting to get THAT kind of confidence now with the bow/arrow-run technique. Granted I need open field to do it LOL

[heavy moss]

Yeah, exactly. You need an open field. What will you do if you're the only thing standing between your girlfriend you convinced to try Valheim and an angry troll?

You need to sack up and kill that thing melee so she can hit it with arrows from a safe distance.

[dark coyote]

I mean, you have to learn to parry each enemy, each attack really

[heavy moss]

Or if you get a troll raid in your base, and you see one going straight for your 2 star boar farm? Or the first three turnips you planted? 😛

You can't run, you gotta show em who's boss.

[slim geode]

Just know the timing is slightly different between different types of trolls, and their attack patterns. Thats what got me at the start

[cold ocean]

I have a moat, so I'm not worried

😉

[grim wagon]

Is there any date for full release?

[merry pebble]

Nope

Only for PS and Switch2 release, and that is 2026

[heavy moss]

The official position seems to be: "It'll be ready when it's ready."

[tacit crystal]

No confirmed date announced yet, but the production is on works.

[heavy moss]

Which honestly is better than rushing it out when it's not.

It's not like this game is Star Citizen 😛

[fiery pine]

yh so why have i just witnessed about 3 lockwood trolls just smash my base to bits

i had to stand and watch the horror

im traumatised now

[heavy moss]

You have to rebuild.

[grim wagon]

SWEEET!

[fiery pine]

Rebuild the empire ig

[heavy moss]

And do a training montage. Find every troll cave in your continent and hunt them down one at a time.

[fiery pine]

Hunt em down like anakin did to them younglings

ofc

[paper marsh]

Bystanders are just as bad as the bullies doing the smashing

Go stop them!

[tawny blaze]

@frozen void tis done….. for now

[frozen void]

[tawny blaze]

very happy though finally took down the big man himself after close to 700 hours of loving every moment haha

[frozen void]

Hell yeah

[tawny blaze]

I can finally play the game….

[frozen void]

Thats what i keep saying!

Once the bosses are dead you can make the world your own

[tawny blaze]

Im going to finally put on some mods I didnt let myself during progression

Fuel eternal first for sure

[frozen void]

Oh lavalamps my love

[paper marsh]

Go nuts!

[tawny blaze]

Im buzzing thanks for sharing this moment with me hahaha

[frozen void]

@lunar sapphire also killed fader less than 2 hours ago his newest playthrough

[lunar sapphire]

Can confirm

3 deaths tho

[tawny blaze]

Took me like 1.5 hours is that normal? Haha

I went with dundr idk if that was the right pick tbh

Very fun tho cool boss

Cant even imagine how you would attempt to melee

[lunar sapphire]

I meleed 😄

Axe playthrough

[tawny blaze]

Sick