valheim-help

[bright reef]

weather was fine then suddenly im in a storm ;(

[hollow mantle]

If you capsize, please take a screen shot. 😉

[marble roost]

I dunno how likely a raft is to capsize, rarely ever used one. It can def get destroyed out on the water tho

[lunar cedar]

you could definitely eat another bite

[bright reef]

ok maybe rafts too op i saw my guy literally submerged under water and im still able to row this raftl ol

[hollow mantle]

Raft is perfectly fine in early game...even in late game. Like I said earlier, any strat that gets you to the next biome is viable.

It would be neat if you put too much weight on the boats that they would sink.

[bright reef]

this was a fuckin bad idea

[hollow mantle]

Welcome to Valheim!

[lunar cedar]

hey at least you ate something

ocean free meat

there's no Ocean boss yet, and not confirmed to be a plan for that either

[bright reef]

;/

[lunar cedar]

maybe just more encounters

[hollow mantle]

swim swim simw!

[lusty sigil]

this is why we don't brings rafts into the ocean

[lunar cedar]

there are no fish to kill tho

[bright reef]

i pushed my luck, i should of turned back when i had the chance ;/

[lusty sigil]

I also warned him a few days ago

Fk around and find out

[hollow mantle]

Sometimes the only way to learn is through experiencing it yourself.

[lusty sigil]

I haven't build a raft in 2 years and I plan on keeping that tradition alive. Karve or we riot

[lunar cedar]

you can be damaged by fish, but you can't kill them... just fish them and suffocate them out of water which is killing but definitely not combat

[hollow mantle]

I use rafts to cross narrow bits of ocean...perhaps when you see land in sight from another shoreline. And we've sailed close to the shoreline with rafts, but I can see how it can be dangerous if you venture out into the deep ocean.

[lusty sigil]

Everyone builds a raft, flies a little too close to the sun and learns. It's a process we all do, at least but usually only once.

[hollow mantle]

I disagree...

[lusty sigil]

The problem is, no matter what if you are in an ocean biome with raft you are already too far away from shore to swim, if a serpent finds you it's a guarenteed death lol

Because Ocean biome specifically is set to be a ways away from shores

[hollow mantle]

As soon as you see the serpent, you need to head to shore. Hopefully you aren't that far away to begin with.

I have seen a serpent from the shoreline as well...

[lusty sigil]

Honestly I have no idea, I haven't died in the ocean since like 2022 on my first/last raft.

[marble roost]

Hope you have high fist skill!

I think 100% of my ocean deaths have been to deathsquitos

Serpent

[hollow mantle]

I think it's a sea serpent.

[bright reef]

i dont really have much choice early game tho

[subtle parrot]

It's only the serpents in the ocean

[marble roost]

Don’t worry ‘bout it yet

[bright reef]

yeah i dont even have bronze yet lol, i just got 5 sutrling core today

[hollow mantle]

You still have alot of land you can explore. Until you've travelled the entire shoreline and know you can't get out any further, then you bring out a raft/karve.

[lusty sigil]

Looks like there's tons of area left on the main island to explore for BF to me

[hollow mantle]

One of the first things I will do is follow the shoreline till I've uncovered the entire landmass.

[subtle parrot]

Must've made it to some shallows, karve isn't fast enough to fully outrun a serpent on the open ocean, unless it just got distracted

[hollow mantle]

You'd be surprised how many times I think I've found everything just to discover a small offshoot that then curves back around to a huge chunk of landmass.

But it's all really RNG.

No need, Bakee. I've had maps that started me on a small island, and maps that the starting landmass seems like it's more than 1/2 the map.

Island hopping was fun.

[lusty sigil]

no sense in spoiling yourself, just go for a cheeky jog around your island with eikthyr until you find BF

I like the aesthetic of mountain bases, I just don't like the fps drop during snowstorms lol

[hollow mantle]

heh heh...whiteout conditions with a wolf about the chomp on your butt.

[bright reef]

hmmmm im already almost set on this new base, just need to run a few runs to transfer everything i have.. i completely stopped exploring as soon as i saw the black forest across lol

[hollow mantle]

There is still a possiblity that those two landmasses are actually the same landmass, and you can just walk the shoreline to get to it.

[lusty sigil]

Well, I wish you luck and I hope you enjoyed your FAFO Raft moment

[bright reef]

yea i was very naive, ima try exploring the left side

[bright reef]

i kinda regret i went full flight mode, i should of stand my ground attacked the beast, didnt even get 1 hit ;(

wats fafo ?

[hollow mantle]

I give him 2% of a chance...

[lusty sigil]

Serpent will shit all over you in that tier of kit, unfortunately lol

also FAFO = Fuck Around and Find Out

[subtle parrot]

Fudge around, find out

[hollow mantle]

heh heh...

[lusty sigil]

Like I said, the moment you're caught lacking on a Raft in Ocean and a Serpent sees you it's 99% of the time gg

[bright reef]

ahhhh

[hollow mantle]

It's all good...dying is part of the game. Unless you aren't having fun, there isn't a wrong way to do it.

[lusty sigil]

If that happened to me and I see the serpent pop out of the water I'm just getting up and going for a smoke, I'll come back to my cozy bed

[hollow mantle]

heh heh...there is always the possibility when you enter a new biome that you aren't coming back alive...1 shots are real in this game.

[bright reef]

thats the thing i got too complacent, made a good 5-6 runs and i thought this would just be another run ;( never again

[lusty sigil]

Classic

[hollow mantle]

Doesn't matter how big or small that enemy is, you don't know until it hits you...and by then it's too late.

[bright reef]

ngl i wish valheim had more dangers, i miss that first night experience on another game called ark.

[lusty sigil]

"haha it's just a bug what can it d- Awwww....."

[subtle parrot]

I don't even know how many times I've died, on day 230-ish in my nomap very hard playthrough. Just found bonemass, though. But I've definitely died a lot lol

[hollow mantle]

it's just a leech...OH SHIT...it's a 2-star leech EVERYONE OUT OF THE WATER

[lusty sigil]

Leeches are one thing but if you're super unlucky and just trying to do a cheeky driveby on a body pile you didn't clear because you've got iron, and then a 2 star draugr elite pops up thats when I clench up

[subtle parrot]

2 star is big and purple

[hollow mantle]

That first night when you get hit by a poison blast and are a dead man walking...ahhh....good times.

[lusty sigil]

That happened to me, very first playthrough just came back from elder didn't even KNOW what swamp was, got the swamp raid. Never died so many times back to back.

[hollow mantle]

Honestly, the first time I died it was because I jumped down over a hill that was just a little to steep.

[lusty sigil]

Gave my ass swamp PTSD hadn't even been there yet

"they can FL- NOOO MY BOARS"

[subtle parrot]

Been there

[lusty sigil]

My first valheim death was to the good ol' loggy boi

[hollow mantle]

Death by tree...classic.

[subtle parrot]

Boars got me

[lusty sigil]

Honestly pretty sure I've died more times to greedy zero-food woodcutting than to anything else

"oh, so thats what ki- and I'm dead again, aweome"

dragon eggs?

[hollow mantle]

I haven't gotten that far.

[lusty sigil]

Need them to summon 4th boss, be warned they're very heavy

you can use them as base decoration, put them on item stands but other than that, nope.

[hollow mantle]

We are kind of shy for going into new biomes after we visited the blackforest before killing Eikthyr, and then the swamps before Elder...and then just stepping a toe into the plains...yes, we've gotten very cautious about entering new biomes.

[lusty sigil]

Have you thought about maybe.... just maybe... not doing the dumb

[hollow mantle]

Yes...nekkid exploration = the best exploration.

[lusty sigil]

not die

Very worth exploring, yes

But I am not going to actively spoil the content of the game, just know it's a lot of fun

I will only say 1 thing , don't bring a full root set into the frost caves

It's a certified bad time

[hollow mantle]

heh heh...always have a backup plan.

We just finished grinding iron...so we've dabbled in plains and mountains. But I've been kind of cautious as we only play a session once a week and I don't want to get too far ahead of my friends.

[lusty sigil]

you can tame wolves, root isn't required. Just meat, and probably waiting until you can build stone structures because wolves will demolish wooden walls.

[west ore]

how do you unlock the bow again? restarting after a year away and i can't remember lol

[hollow mantle]

You gotta find all the mats that go into it.

[lusty sigil]

wood + leather scraps + deer hide, iirc

[hollow mantle]

And maybe upgrade the workbench?

[west ore]

i got that done. its 2 star already

[hollow mantle]

Yeah, then when you get all the mats to make it, you unlock the recipe, which I believe is what Tofu posted.

[west ore]

sweet

[lusty sigil]

wolves are known for being able to climb near vertical terrain, they live on mountains after all.... they will find your base unless you build literal walls

[hollow mantle]

I do wish they would add some kind of signifier on the build and workstation menus that indicate "new recipes"...and keep them new until you've made it at least once.

[lusty sigil]

nothing scares them, they're the boogyman

[lilac coyote]

We've suggested it before, it's a good idea.

[lusty sigil]

I won't say anything more since I'd be spoiling too much, and sure yeah i don't see why not

Same, I'm mostly a builder myself.

10pm on the nose

Europe time

[buoyant peak]

That sounds like "You have this annoying highlighting on this specific item, don't want/need to craft it? Too bad, it won't go away until you do"

[lusty sigil]

Make it togglable like Hugin tips, problem solved maybe?

[buoyant peak]

Better: Click on the item. There, highlighting goes away

[lusty sigil]

I mean, sure

Also @frail cave "You are being hunted"

[hollow mantle]

I'd be okay with that...I just worry about it going away the 1st time you open the workstation with it new...or hovering over it with the mouse...I'd prefer the highlighting be a little more robust than that.

[hollow mantle]

It's a surprise.

[lusty sigil]

😂

"guess I die"

[visual radish]

You will be eaten in pieces though.

[lusty sigil]

Classic Swamp

[vapid warren]

are any of you actually helping someone or needing help?

yeah, but you can keep it going in #valheim-chat

[coral prairie]

I'm playing in a friend's world, and we hit the Moder summon button ONCE after loading the eggs, but we got TWO of them.

Is there a way to remove the second one for this particular boss fight in our world, or do we have to go find another alter and hope it doesn't happen again?

[visual radish]

Can the world/server owner still use cheats in multiplayer? If so they could run a command to kill them then spawn 3 eggs back in.

[fathom badge]

That can happen when two people hit the summon at the same time. If it's not a dedicated server the owner should be able to start in single player and do killall or something

[coral prairie]

Nope, that is not what happened, which is why I said we hit the button ONCE. Anyway I guess we can try that.

That means we'll have to get three more eggs too, right?

[fathom badge]

Yes, but if you're running commands you can spawn them. They also respawn as well if you wait long enough

[coral prairie]

The eggs respawn? 😯 I've never seen that... I wonder how long it takes

[fathom badge]

It's a pretty long time, but the wiki has the exact details

[oblique hawk]

10 days or something, not too long.

[coral prairie]

I assume that's 10 Valheim days? 🤭

[vapid warren]

16 days

valheim yes

8 irl hours if no sleep

[oblique hawk]

Yes, real life days aren't a relevant metric as there's no set time players are in-game every day.

16 is just 10 with an extra line above the 0, so that counts as "or something". ;p

[coral prairie]

Um... could it be possible that two alters somehow spawned on top of each other?

[vapid warren]

its probably just lag since its multiplayer

[coral prairie]

We saw silver spawn almost entirely overlapped nearby

[vapid warren]

you got double input due to delay

[oblique hawk]

Altars have a minimum distance between them.

[vapid warren]

so it spawned 2

[coral prairie]

I wouldn't want to risk the same thing happening if we use that alter again

[vapid warren]

you just need to press it once, and only one of you

[coral prairie]

As I said, that is exactly what I did. Once press.

[oblique hawk]

Silver veins can spawn very close to eachother, but silver veins are not boss altars.

[vapid warren]

if you dont wanna risk a double spawn, make sure only one person is nearby, then they can portal in after the boss is spawned, you should be fine then

[coral prairie]

I don't know the mechanics, I just know there was no abnormal player activity to cause it. Maybe lag.

One person in the area does seem like a good safeguard.

[vapid warren]

yeah like i said its lag

[coral prairie]

We'll be sure to try that next time.

[vapid warren]

there'll be very little if no lag if only one person is there

[coral prairie]

I guess we'll figure out what we want to do. Probably just skip the extra work and grab some tears from my world.

Since it's already been a more extreme version of the boss fight. Nothing new to experience there heh

Thanks for the tip on avoiding lag! That goes in the checklist.

[tough hare]

You will still need the trophy as sacrifice as well.
So might as well import that one too to unlock the power Moder gives.

[coral prairie]

I've played through the Mistlands, so the glitch was the only issue ^-^

[vapid warren]

if you dont care about fighting her, but have devcommands, you can just killall

[coral prairie]

I have some tears in my world so I brought them over since my friend wasn't worried about getting the full experience of beating Moder

We've been through enough with the dual boss fight 😔

[coral prairie]

Oh! So that drops the boss items too, right? I didn't think of that

[vapid warren]

it also unlocks raids properly

no more drake raids

[lunar cedar]

I'm yet to play a full-legit run, in order to not get frustrated with multiplayer HP scaling and boss healing I just deal enough damage to break a couple weapons and then I kill them with commands

maxxed out weapons, meads, dodge rolling, parrying, nice prepared foods, max rested buff possible, daytime fighting... still frustrating

[marble roost]

wait you think multiplayer makes the bosses HARDER?

[lunar cedar]

yep, can solo no problem

[marble roost]

I suppose if you have bad teamates

[lunar cedar]

that and also the scaling so much

[vapid warren]

30% HP and 4% damage?

[lunar cedar]

being able to attack freely when I'm not the target doesn't even make up

[marble roost]

I mean they get 30% more health, you get 100% more damage

[lunar cedar]

yeah

plus their normal healing, it becomes more healing since it is a percentage

[marble roost]

If my math is right (which it might not be), you should be able to take down a boss 65% faster with two people. And that's not counting the boss now having two targets so it's easier to do damage

[visual radish]

I had more problems with the lag and attack delay in multiplayer than anything. I'm often more focused on the attacks that hit me when I'm several meters away than the fact that they hit harder. Same with the delay on enemies taking damage.

[lunar cedar]

and let's say you clear all enemies surrounding the area too, by the time you get them to 50% health it's night time and there will be spawns, so you have to deal with them while boss is healing

[marble roost]

hows that different from solo tho?

[lunar cedar]

way quicker to get to 50%

[marble roost]

I mean statistically way quicker to get to 50% in multiplayer. But again it's understandable if your teamates aren't as good/strong as you

[lunar cedar]

do you actually deal more damage too

[marble roost]

I mean, yea. 2 people shooting a bow does twice the damage of one person shooting a bow

And the boss doesn't get double health, so you kill them faster

[lunar cedar]

ok so no damage bonus

healing per tick is higher, that's probably my only problem with that

but it makes sense too, I guess I'll make new life-long friends

[marble roost]

but still by exactly 30%, so your damage more than offsets it too

I mean my Moder fight didn't get faster from multiplayer, but that's also bc I had 3x the damage output of my buddy

[lunar cedar]

my team was just running around all the time while I was literally hugging the boss administrating stamina to attack and dodge and parry

[marble roost]

that would do it

[lunar cedar]

felt like an eternity, we got Moder to 0,001% health and then stuff happened and there she goes with 50% health... by the time I got her to 0,0000001% again and didn't finish it, I considered it done and killed her with commands

[marble roost]

You took a 30min break once she got to 0.001%?

[lunar cedar]

same for yagluth, my gameplay consisted in getting him low HP and then rebuilding portals for my friends that don't look up only to have all my progress reversed while my weapons continued to break

[marble roost]

that feels rough

I'm definitely starting to bring multiple weapons to boss fights bc I'm doing no portals

[lunar cedar]

we did sleep yeah my mistake but I did go back next time and didn't skip any time

[lunar cedar]

I'm doing portal everything run

I guess you have created many beds

[marble roost]

yea sleeping through night is nice

more so campfires to get rested tho

[lunar cedar]

yeah night spawns are annoying

[marble roost]

Not just annoying, extremely deadly (it's on Very Hard). And I'm not looking to die bc it's hardcore death penalty

[lunar cedar]

what about raids

[marble roost]

it's these settings https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1207493650355986432

And then I've just set the challenge for myself not to use atgeir, bombs, or bow, not to make earthwalls, and not to cheese in general

[lunar cedar]

where are you at

[marble roost]

SINCE WHEN DO HARES HAVE TROPHIES!?!

[lunar cedar]

since mistlands release!

[marble roost]

Mistlands, haven't killed Yag yet tho (also skipped bonemass, prob not gonna come back to him)

[lunar cedar]

how was moder and the mountains in general with no bow?

[marble roost]

Not bad, spear shreds even if it's not OP like bow

[lunar cedar]

oh yeah, there's that option

many being hunted events?

as a buckler light armor guy those can get overwhelming

I'm doing a knife run too

[marble roost]

zero. That's why I skipped bonemass. I can't handle a wolf raid

[lunar cedar]

berserkers only take 1 cycle, it's nice

[marble roost]

You can tell how much I've had to use spears #screenshots message

[lunar cedar]

oh yeah I forgot boss requirements for those

honestly, if I hadn't died a thousand times my skills would be above 80 as well

and I do it often enough so no skill drain is out

[marble roost]

yea haven't died since swamp but godamnn I've had to be careful

[lunar cedar]

damn losing everything at that point must've been fun

[marble roost]

Honestly I died a lot at the start bc it was my first time doing no bows and I didn't realize how bad it would be. But around swamp I started to get my footing

Trolls just feel so immensely overtuned

[lunar cedar]

sneaking is fun I've been doing it more

specially with knife build

backstab multipler + staggering + quick attacks for more damage and staggering

lovely combo

how are abominations on hardcore?

can you parry enemies normally or do you need like at least level 3 shields from the biome

[marble roost]

At least level 3 shields to feel safe, but even then you can't parry starred enemies or brutes like aboms

Aboms aren't too bad tho bc they're super slow and you can lure them to a surtling pyre and just dodge around while they burn to a crisp. Kinda sucks to only get 2 roots from each abom tho, so that's 5 aboms for a root chest

[lunar cedar]

oh yeah I forgot about the negative multiplier

yeah not for me

not yet at least, I'm on my chillax time

[marble roost]

tbh the constant raids and low resource rate are getting a bit annoying. Especially with being unable to portal. But it's an interesting challenge, has switched up my gameplay immenseley

[slender cradle]

I like playing with no portals. Had to build a small port (using abandoned tower) and made a road towards trader so each time I want sell or buy something i need to sail there and travel. Plus this feeling of preparing for a journey when I go to a new place knowing that I won't be able to restock or repair fast.

[astral wind]

guys i need help, i tranfered files from appdata to my new pc from old one and now i dont have my character anyone knows what i did wrong?

[naive atlas]

does the game get easier with more players?

or do the mobs and bosses increase in number or strength?

[slender cradle]

It gets harder with every player within some range

[spark shell]

there's a slight increase in hp and atk of enemies, but it's a joke compared to the what you get by having an extra player in combat

effectively +30% hp and +4% atk for each player in 100m upto 5 players

[naive atlas]

Ohh ohkayy

[naive atlas]

the boar i tamed keeps running back to his spawn smh

i tried abyssal harpooning him but the stamina runs out before i reach my base

i hope the babies will set their spawn to their actual SPAWN

[oblique hawk]

Boars from runestones or villages will try to return there after they're tamed. Just kill that one once it's had offspring.

[naive atlas]

🥹

lowkey wanna keep him in a prison forever >:)

[naive atlas]

will he breed if he is in the "trying to run to spawn" state?

hvnt seen another 1 star boar in days

[stoic trench]

Yep, it will still breed

[naive atlas]

the 1 star gave birth 🥹

[open sapphire]

How do i fix this? i am trying to make world backups i downloaded work

[glacial silo]

I'm tempted to get the game but is it supposed to be co-op since i dont really got any friends so is it like still fun when solo?

[plush knot]

yeah and theres the #1024264966712340510 if you want to play with randos

[oblique hawk]

It's a single player game that you can also play co-op.

[glacial silo]

I see

i'm probably getting it thanks

[proud barn]

Total Solo game and you can tweak the settings at any time. So you can set a learning curve.

That suits you and your play style

[glacial silo]

Is it like similar to Elden ring since i have played that before

[proud barn]

I am not familiar with that game, but see a lot make comparison to it with Valhiem being much better. Game is fun for sure

[glacial silo]

?I see is the combat mechanics just based weapons

[proud barn]

Not sure I follow you. You progress in game through various stages of crafting to get better equipment like bows, swords, mace, two handed weapons etc. you learn base building in similar fashion as you discover recipies

[glacial silo]

I was just curios if theres like alternate options like in some games u got spells

[proud barn]

There is magic late stage. Mostly weapon based. Have not pursued it myself

[stoic trench]

I don’t think Eldenring and Valheim are really comparable in my opinion, but yeah the progress in Valheim is basically gear and good based. There are skills, but they’re not hugely influential.

You don’t really ‘level up’ in Valheim basically 🙂

[proud barn]

Yes, this skill system needs work. Like adding a modifier for stamina and strength as you run around with 300 lbs of ore. Lol

[glacial silo]

so it consists of mostly m1's?

are like the weapons choices balanced so that others are not busted and other bad?

[stoic trench]

I’d say the weapons are mostly pretty well balanced, yeah. As you progress through stages of the game, you’re basically offered a new set of weapons to choose from. For example, in the first zone, you can make simple weapons- like a wooden club, flint spear, stone axe, etc. in the next zone, you can get stronger versions of those weapons and more, such as bronze mace (upgrade of club, functions the same) and a new weapon type, a sword.

[marble roost]

I wouldn’t say any weapon is bad, there are a couple busted ones tho but they’re by no means a must

[proud barn]

You upgrade your gear as you progress. And some gear adds buffs like poison protection

[marble roost]

A lot of good armor choices with unique effects

[proud barn]

This

[glacial silo]

thats really nice

[oblique hawk]

The different weapon types also deal different damage types, and many enemies are weak or resistant to certain damage types, so varying which weapon type you use is a good idea.

[glacial silo]

looking forward to the game

[subtle parrot]

I play it solo a lot, there's some really nice world modifiers in game now, but i suggest giving it a go on normal settings first. I find the building aspect really fun, refurbishing old buildings, or creating a whole castle.

[glacial silo]

dangg

[subtle parrot]

Indeed, if you ever need inspiration there are a ton of great builds people have done in #screenshots and #building-screenshots

[proud barn]

Learning chimneys is essential to buildings. Campfires have a 6 2m square range. So laying flooring helps plan a structure. Getting things to snap can be tricky, there are tricks to it that can easily be learned via here and youtube

[marble roost]

Luckily you get something better than a campfire not too far into the game

[gentle comet]

Is valheim crossplay? I looked in google and it says yes but when i tried to join my friend on pc i couldn’t find his world

[bright reef]

how do i transfer my game pass (pc) save to steam?

[marble roost]

yea, gotta make sure to have the crossplay option on when creating the server I think?

[subtle parrot]

In game, switch it to save to local, and then go into the game files, and copy and move them into steam. You'll need a .fwl and .db file #valheim-help message

[fathom badge]

Your friend on PC needs to start the server with the Crossplay option selected, and then send you the code that he gets when starting. You should be able to connect through that.

[shrewd sun]

how effective are wolves as a defense?

[frail cave]

hey sorry for the late response, but it tells me there is nothing to optimize

[jolly elk]

I think it would depend on the level of the wolves and their number. It's probably easier and more effective to use a moat/ditch.

[marble roost]

mediocre. They do hella damage, but they're pretty squshy too so whenever any mildly strong enemies (and especially enemies with AoE) come by, you're gonna have to breed up some new puppies to send out to protect you.

I recently started using Lox to defend my base thinking those tanky bastards would ward off trouble, but they're dying fairly quick too

[fathom crystal]

i get lag spikes, frequently, on my dedicated server and it makes the game unplayable for 3-5 seconds. any way to fix this? its been an issue for a long time for me

[jolly elk]

Thats probably the game saving your world to a file. Do you get a 'disk' symbol in the upper left corner when that occurs? If that's it, you can't do much to make it less of a pause to the game.

[slender cradle]

Does stone arc change smoke direction like basic roof pieces?

[marble roost]

Everything should change it. Any wood or stone piece

[fathom crystal]

No, its not the game saving. The game completely stops for a second when it saves, and that's not nearly as bad as what I'm talking about. The fps drops to less than one and inputs are delayed as hell.

[marble roost]

Oh wait the arch hmmm I’m actually not sure. Bc it’s not a vertical incline. I’d guess no

[slender cradle]

Yep but if I put standard stone block it is a lot worse then angle roof piece

And I want to build fully stone chimney just missing some angled piece to direct smoke

[marble roost]

Why does the smoke need to be directed, it can’t go straight up?

[slender cradle]

I want to avoid roof on top of chinney

[subtle parrot]

Offset 2 2x1 pieces inside so it goes around them but rain doesn't get passed them

[slender cradle]

Tried that but it's stopping the smoke

[subtle parrot]

The smoke needs to have a full 2x1 space between them so it can pass through

[slender cradle]

Yep but if a piece that is not angled is right above the smoke source it's stopping the smoke too much

Works fine if I put the roof piece inside but I hate the idea of wood and straw inside chimney xD

[vagrant glade]

/ashlands

[marble roost]

/deepnorth

[subtle parrot]

Idk, it's worked for me before, I'll have to try it again. I know you said you don't want a roof, but what about a stone floor piece cap?

[subtle parrot]

What are the parameters you're building to? Height x width x depth?

[deep vessel]

How do i see my 6 digit invite code while in valheim so i can send it to my friend?

[vapid warren]

press esc

will be shown in top

[deep vessel]

nothing shows up when i try to do it

[vapid warren]

then i assume you dont have crossplay enabled

[deep vessel]

thanks

[bright reef]

so all of these?

[halcyon crag]

the ones on the left at least

i forget exactly what FCH ones do but i think there's an upcoming tidying of world files (and unimportant stuff will probably be hidden)

[subtle parrot]

Just did a little experimenting and it appears you only need to cover half of the middle of a hearth to keep it from going out due to rain. And/or you need a 2x2 space between to the offset blocks for smoke to shift.

[slender cradle]

Thanks I'll check that out

[vapid warren]

fch is your character files, so if you want the same character you'll need them. the second and third are backups tho

[bright reef]

kk ty

wtfff i thought

they dont spawn in day time/sunny weather

[stoic trench]

It’s probably a serpent that spawned during a storm- those stick around and don’t despawn.

[bright reef]

yea its the same spot i died last night

didnt know htey dont despawn lol

[stoic trench]

Did it notice you 👀

[vapid warren]

nice food 😄

[halcyon crag]

5% for storm spawns which stick, 5% for night spawns which despawn at dawn, so in reality half the serpents you come across will stay

(unless it's night and not raining, in which case you know that one will despawn)

[stoic trench]

Do serpents tend to stop chasing you once you’re close to shore?

[halcyon crag]

no, they circle around for a bit, they have to go 60 seconds without contact to lose interest, at sea or on land

[bright reef]

i thought it did but im safe now 😅

[night falcon]

Question, do boar not multiply if you’re away?

[subtle parrot]

They do not breed while you're away, no

[night falcon]

So I have to be near them? Very unfortunate.

[subtle parrot]

Once the piggies are born you can leave and when you come back they will be grown

If enough time has passed

[night falcon]

And that’s the same with crops too?

[subtle parrot]

Once crops are planted they will grow as long as they are healthy

[night falcon]

Sweet. I wonder why piggies won’t multiply when you’re not near them. Is that on purpose?

[lilac coyote]

Yes. No tames do.

[subtle parrot]

Yeh, it's part of the mechanics, you have to be within a certain distance of them for them to do the deed

[night falcon]

So I just went to sleep and heard some baby boar pop out. Looks like if you sleep near them it speeds up the process. Cool beans

Thanks for the help guys I wanted to get that clarified

[lethal ridge]

Late game spoilers

||once you kill all of the mini bosses and return the chests to hildir, if there any reason to go explore the other mini boss dungeons on the map?||

[lilac coyote]

LATE game? But no, Hildir won't give you anything more.

[haughty hinge]

||your question was one of those reasons||

[lethal ridge]

: (

[vapid warren]

you can ||put the extra chests on item stands in your base for decoration||

[bright reef]

this should keep enemies away right?

[vapid warren]

no, it will stop mobs from spawning on them, but they'll just walk over and destroy those fences

or a greydwarf will kill them with a breath

i'd recommend a wooden stake wall layer too

at least

[halcyon crag]

yeh and as soon as you can put some earth walls up around them

[marble roost]

Do spawners get destroyed or stop spawning if you bury them?

[lethal hinge]

i was playing with my friend yesterday but we have different weather is it the game feature or is it a bug?

[marble roost]

I'd say bug

[halcyon crag]

they don't

[lilac coyote]

Were you in the same biome?

[dreamy basin]

can mobs see through walls? wooden stakes for example

[marble roost]

So it’s a good Strat for making sure they don’t get destroyed?

[halcyon crag]

no, but if they aren't snapped properly they will spot you through the gaps

[dreamy basin]

Thanks!

[lethal hinge]

yes i was even in the same boat my weather is raining but my friend wasn't

[keen zodiac]

Probably network delay and desynchronization caused some instability impact

[frozen star]

Hi, where do I go to find players keen on joining a fresh dedicated server with me?

[lilac coyote]

#1024264966712340510

[frozen star]

Found it thank you

[bright reef]

What are some must tamed animals as i progress? Currently in black forest stage ive been hunting deers as i come across em and i already have a boar farm set up.

[lunar cedar]

there's no must tame, the only animal I have ever tamed was a ||chicken|| but you don't need to

and they ||already come tamed so..||

[slender cradle]

Do trees attract greydwarfes and trolls? No enemies came near my walls until I planted trees around. Now I need to fix the pikes every day. I don't mean raids but normal spawns. Also base is surrounded by workbenches and torches so they walk quite some distance to get to my walls.

[slender cradle]

It's more of making things easier by having tamed animals rather then being forced to do it. Tamed boars will give You meat that is used early to mid game recipes. Then you'll get other animals for that purpose. This saves You the time for hunting trip to prepare food

[rigid silo]

Greydwarfs and greylings yes. The closer trees are to your walls/structures the closer they spawn. Also non-warded bases make it easier for them to spawn close

If you have plenty of core wood, i recommend basically turning the lower area of your walls into porcupine quills

A few of the wall stakes in place, a ward to limit durability damage to the stakes, and greylings will just bum rush it and die pretty much instantly. Any mass greydwarves get killed pretty quickly too

[subtle parrot]

I would say chickens are a must have, they provide a really good meal

[wraith bramble]

Question about Swamp, do enemies constantly spawn there? Like I am on edge and swamp and there is unending stream of enemies.

[marble roost]

Yeah enemies in the game do constantly respawn at small intervals

[keen zodiac]

Probably there is a body pile there

[reef flame]

I have the serpent shield, should i switch it for the blackmetal one? It has a lot more armour... Is it worth it?

[lilac coyote]

Probably both.

[marble roost]

Serpent will prob be better against spear fulings, knife fulings, and desthsquitoes (and most mistlands enemies). Black metal will be better for other enemies, so ur choice

[reef flame]

isnt more armour always better on a shield?

[willow raft]

Nope, most shields with high armor have less parry chance, so it depends on your playstyle.
Want to tank, take the shield with the highest armour, like parrying more look for a shield with a high parry stat.

[reef flame]

I like to block

[marble roost]

Yes, but serpent has pierce resist which is very powerful

[zealous shadow]

what do u feed boars to get them to mate ?

[crystal frigate]

Carrots

[lilac coyote]

Among other things...

[lilac coyote]

Blueberries, Carrots, Onions, Raspberries, Red Mushrooms or Turnips.

[wraith bramble]

Thanks!

[weary crag]

guys i need some basic starter plains tips

[haughty hinge]

dodge roll all the time, they must not see you standing straight

[willow raft]

Root harnesk, if you hear giggling look around there will be fulings nearby, stay away from loxes, bow is your friend, if you hear a mosquito dodge roll and look around.

[fathom badge]

Root harnesk will make the fulings with torches much more dangerous though, so... be careful.

[weary crag]

oke im more scared that i used to be yay

what piece of root armor should i use

[willow raft]

The chest that gives pierce protect.

[fathom badge]

Honestly, full wolf armor is fine for the Plains. Root chest only gives pierce protect, which is super handy against the flying bugs and the spear throwing Fulings, you can run away from pretty much everything else is why people recommend it 😉

Just have your Bonemass power ready, and go slowly and methodically. They aren't that bad if you've got good Silver weapons (Frostner is especially handy against everything except the Lox). The Huntsman's bow is really nice for getting the attention of only one or a very few enemies at a time when you start out.

[weary crag]

wait so the other bow doesnt work like that one? and thanks for the help luckly my bro has the frostner i have a silversword w no upgrades lol

[fathom badge]

Upgrade them 😉 Frostner for you too if you get the chance, it can be very helpful in the Mistlands. The Huntsman's bow is unique among all bows in that it has a very small radius of noise, only 4m around where you fire it and where it lands. Most other bows are like a 15m radius, which attracts a lot more attention.

[weary crag]

oh oke thanks for the bow tip but upgrading tip is wayyy too much cuz i hate ice rn i cant step there like in the next 10 days i had enough, and btw how do i enable the option to tp w rudes and stuff? my brother is against it but its not like we have that much time playing cuz of the school and stuff

[fathom badge]

You can set those in the "World Modifiers" settings when choosing your world, after choosing your character but before starting the game up. But I would highly suggest getting buy-in from your brother because I've had people just stop playing if it stops being fun because of things like that.

[weary crag]

eh but all the time that traweling waste :( but oke

[fathom badge]

I've played both ways and personally prefer the no ores through portals, it forces better logistics 😉 But either can be fun. At the end of the day you're both playing the game togther, so you gotta figure out what works for your group. It can't be one-sided with decisions.

[weary crag]

aaa okey thanks for the help tho means a lot

[wheat token]

guy,i have a question

does you have a network proplem when you play with your friends?

[fathom badge]

That is going to be very individual depending on the connections between you and your friends. If you're using Playfab (Crossplay) that can introduce latency as well

[placid solar]

Can fulings respawn in their village if I clear them all out and leave the village alone?

[fair wharf]

@placid solar Hasn't happened yet in the ones I've cleared out. Treating them as a "limited resource" for now.

[weary crag]

how do i melt black iron?

[vague goblet]

Blast Furnace

[fair wharf]

@weary crag With the blast furnace.

Should be right next to the smelter in the crafting menu

[buoyant peak]

No

[placid solar]

@buoyant peak damn ok thanks!

[buoyant peak]

Fulings still spawn at plains during night

[fathom badge]

The fulings won't respawn in the village, but they can spawn in the nearby area. The campfires and bonfires in the village actually prevent spawning in the village area specifically.

[buoyant peak]

And at meadows after the boss is defeated.

So they are an infinite resource

[buoyant peak]

Does that mean removing them would make them technically respawn in the villages?

I never thought about those fire places preventing spawns

[marble roost]

should yea. But again it's just regular spawns so you won't have a big village of berserkers and stuff spawning back

[weary crag]

thanks guys

[weary crag]

how do i find the boss locationer or w/e the name is

[true steeple]

Which boss specifically?

[true steeple]

If you don't know its name, which biome?

[marble roost]

4th boss (plains)? The vegvisir (boss locationer) can show up in the stonehenge structures or (I think) in the fuling stone towers. They're somewhat rare tho, he's for sure the hardest boss to find

His boss altar is pretty noticeable tho, 5 huge curved stone pillars (resembling the 5 fingers of a giant stone hand sticking out the ground) against the flat landscape of the plains. People often spot the altar before finding the vegvisir

[lilac coyote]

Plains is 5th.

[weary crag]

oh okey thanks its gonna be pain to find it basically

[marble roost]

basically

[marble roost]

indeed. I might need to talk to my math teacher

[lilac coyote]

Could even be 6th depending on where they pitch Oceans when that's redone.

[bright reef]

are tin deposits always this small? im surprised to see a huge boulder for copper but cant find any for tin

[lilac coyote]

Yep, that's right. There are LOT more of them. Usually around water.

[bright reef]

ahh ok so i was wasting my time trying to find one inland similar to copper big deposits boulder

[vague goblet]

I typically just pick them up if I have extra space after foraging (unless I specifically need tin for something). It's a nice way to keep a good stockpile.

[ruby mulch]

Noob question here!! How can I hide the UI for a screenshot?

[oblique hawk]

Ctrl+F3

[ruby mulch]

Ah ty !!!

[deep shard]

Tips on getting more fps?
Feels like if it was limited in some way.
Upgraded from 3070->4070tis
Getting about same fps 80-120 just a bit more consistent.
CPU is i7-12700k, wqhd resolution, reinstalled fresh drivers etc

[fathom badge]

That's pretty good for FPS in general. Valheim can be very CPU limited no matter how good your system is. If changing your resolution scaling doesn't affect much then you're CPU limited, and the only real tweaks you can do then are making sure that XMP is enabled and your memory is running at full capabilities, and possibly reducing render distance.

[deep shard]

Need to try that out, i'm still running DDR4 if it has an impact. I was expecting a larger jump but i guess it could be cpu side then

[fathom badge]

The actual CPU is likely fine, it's often the XMP and memory bandwidth that can be the biggest impact

[visual radish]

I'm confused where the issue is. 80-120 fps is already well above any meaningful fps amounts, and is well above a normal playable experience.

[sweet crescent]

i kinda forgot how to sail could i please get a refresher on how it works?

[fathom badge]

Grab the rudder at the back of hte boat for control. W(forward) will move through the stages of going forward, from rowing to half-sail to full-sail, and S will do the opposite. Left to right to turn. If you're going with the wind you want some level of sail, but if you're against the wind you can really only row.

[sweet crescent]

also whats the best way to avoid serpents?

[fathom badge]

Don't sail the oceans in storms or at night

[sweet crescent]

wait time and wether has effect on serpents???

[fathom badge]

Yup. They only spawn at night or in storms. If they spawn in a storm they will stay around until you kill them, but if they spawn at night they will disappear at daybreak.

[marble roost]

what pita said and also just sail directly with the wind if you find one. Should be able to escape it before it destroys your boat

[static finch]

can I pickup naturally found maypoles?

[fathom badge]

No. You can destroy them accidentally or on purpose though, so be careful. You can only build them when they're in season.

[lilac coyote]

Sadly no.

[delicate kraken]

Hey guys!

We were on a hosted server with one of my raid leader’s from World of Warcraft (pls no hate)- we were in the Mistlands at that point, had carapace armor and nice weapons crafted. I had a personal chest with stuff that I had looted and mined. Well, he ended up disbanding and deleting the server and I lost my personal chest stuff.

I have my armor and weapons, but mine and my fiancé’s mistlands level weapons are broken and since we’re restarting on our own server, I just wanted to see if anyone would be willing to donate stuff for the forge we need to repair our mistlands weapons 😂😭😭😭

I have nothing to offer in return right now other than my eternal gratitude and thanks 🙏🏼 we can help out with bosses or whatever once our weapons are repaired 😂😭

We’re currently in the process of getting through the swamp to get iron, but we can’t kill anything cause no weapons and we can’t craft anything cause we can’t mine anything 😭

[fathom badge]

So, you can pretty easily spawn things into a world with console commands. It's up to you whether that counts as cheating or not, but if anyone gives you anything that would almost certainly be how they did it so you may as well cut out the middleman 😉

[marble roost]

Yea looking up how to enable and use devcommands is fairly simple, and you can spawn in what you've lost. I'd suggest turning them off afterwards tho so you're not tempted with using them more ;)

[fathom badge]

Also, you might just go back to square one and go kill Eikthyr. Put your Mistlands gear in a chest until you can repair it again and just restart from scratch-ish. It should go pretty quickly if you know how things go.

[delicate kraken]

I’m going to screenshot this and then try it 😂 I’d prefer to not have to start too much from scratch if I can- thank you!!!

[fathom badge]

This may help: https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Developer_console#Commands

[pearl mortar]

If you got the recipe already you can just turn on hammer mode world modifier and build it

[fathom badge]

Oh, good call. I forgot about world modifiers. That might be the easiest way to do it, and then turn the cheats back off.

Still want to go through and kill all the bosses to get the world state right and explore things

[delicate kraken]

Thank you guys!!!

[last scroll]

how do i capture and breed boar?

[true steeple]

Make it chase you into an enclosed space with food, then leave its sight for a while until it calms down

[marble roost]

build a lil pen, get boar to chase you into pen, build a wall where you lured it in to close off exit

[last scroll]

okay got one

[marble roost]

and then yea gotta feed it and stay in the area to tame it, but not too close to it bc you'll freak it out

[last scroll]

but now when i get 2 how do i breed them

[subtle parrot]

Feed them after they're tamed

[marble roost]

First tame them so their healthbar turns green (give them berries, wait 30 minutes ish while staying in the area)

Then you can feed them again and they'll make babies

[subtle parrot]

You need to be near for them to do the deed though

Within render distance if i recall

[last scroll]

how do i feed it berries

just drop them?

[subtle parrot]

Yes

[last scroll]

hes still agro

[subtle parrot]

They will eat them off the ground, and once they start taming you'll see yellow hearts floating off their heads, and once they've been tamed you'll see a bunch of pink hearts pop off and it'll flash a message across your screen saying it's been tamed. Hide, or go into sneak.

Make sure the walls are big enough so it can't see you. If you're using the basic pen fencing, then you'll want to put up a thick wall so it can't see you behind it

I typically use the stake walls for my boar pens, tall but kinda expensive on the wood cost, but they're great

[last scroll]

still agro lol

[subtle parrot]

It should calm down soon you can sneak away from the pen and come back while sneaking and it should be taming

Oh wait if you have a fire too close that's why it's aggro

Kill the fire

You can put it back after it's tamed @last scroll

[last scroll]

hes hitting the WALls

[subtle parrot]

They'll be okay

[last scroll]

can we sleep or will it disaper<<<

[subtle parrot]

You can sleep

[last scroll]

greeen heartssss

[marble roost]

won't disappear unless you let something go and kill it. Which, beware, Greydward Shaman can poison it through walls

[last scroll]

wait is yellow yeart mean tamed?

[subtle parrot]

No it's taming in process

You'll see a bunch of pink hearts when it finishes taming, which takes about 30 minutes like snail said

[marble roost]

And it will only continue taming if you're relatively nearby. If you go further away it won't break anything, it will just stop taming and resume from where it left off when you come near again

[subtle parrot]

Also it's health bar will be green instead of red like it is now, once it's tamed

[last scroll]

shit it got agro agian

[subtle parrot]

Yeh, they can be finicky if you're not careful

[bright reef]

finally unlocked the forge, what should i prioritize farming first?

[tough hare]

If you just got the forge, you can only farm carrots. So I hope you got carrot seeds?

[real nebula]

Nails first

Always get the nails first

[true steeple]

Make nails and a cultivator

[tough hare]

Personally I'd go for nails first to get a karbe and a bronze mace right after that. Perhaps the bronze buckler as well and smash the crap out those skellies in the burial chambers, so I can get more cores to build forge and kiln as well as some portals as you're going to need all of those.

[bright reef]

whats karbe?

[subtle parrot]

Karve*

[bright reef]

ahh

[subtle parrot]

Better than the raft

[tough hare]

It's a typo.
Consider it a failed version of the Karve.

[bright reef]

is it a good upgrade to stagbreaker? this was my weapon of choice in burial chamber

closer door > spam attack 🤣

[true steeple]

You might want to make an atgeir instead if you’ve been having problems fighting trolls

[bright reef]

nah trolls are more easy than burial chamber, i use fire arrow and watch the hp melt ;p

[sweet crescent]

stagbreaker is the expert burial chamber clean'er

[sweet crescent]

pre swamp anyway

[bright reef]

well i do have quite some resource to use guess ill just try the mace for myself and see which i prefer

[true steeple]

The mace attacks like a club, not a stagbreaker

[bright reef]

yea i havent touch the club since i learn about stagbreaker lol

[sweet crescent]

tbh i used the flint axe as my weapon of choice until i reached bronze age

and now im just using the bronze axe

(Axe's my beloved)

[true steeple]

Axes are good weapons. Dont be put off because they are also a tool.

[sweet crescent]

from what ive seen Bronze axe 2-3 hits skellys

pretty good troll killer too if you can hit your parry's

[true steeple]

Not as good as spears or atgeirs though, because trolls are weak to pierce

Better than a mace, at least

[sweet crescent]

tbh i cant see why you would use a mace for anything but skelly's

[true steeple]

Have you fought the third boss yet?

[sweet crescent]

im still pre eldar sadly

[true steeple]

He is resistant to all physical damage except blunt. bring a mace

[sweet crescent]

noted take alot of posion mead AND a mace for bm

[tough hare]

And the root helmet

[sweet crescent]

anyway im about to try to beat eldar so wish me luck

[true steeple]

That doesn’t stack with the mead, and is weaker than the mead.

[true steeple]

Use the pillars at the summoning altar as cover from his ranged attack

[sweet crescent]

wait i thought the root armor only effected your archer stat it has MORE effects?

[tough hare]

But it works the moment the mead isn't working and you don't have time to drink another mead or the cool down timer is still running

[marble roost]

Feels like a lot to bring root helmet for

[true steeple]

The mask has poison resist and the chestplate has pierce resist. All pieces individually have fire weakness

[marble roost]

Chestplate is very powerful

[tough hare]

Chestplate is a great piece to use in the Plains.

[true steeple]

Just make sure you’re bringing something else to fight the shamans with

[sweet crescent]

wdym?

[true steeple]

Fuling shamans do fire damage

(Enemies from the 5th biome)

[tough hare]

So wear a Fenris chest piece if you prefer to use light armor.

Only disadvantage of that is that you smell like a wet dog after it has been raining.

[marble roost]

and that you're not as insulated against spearthrowesr and mosquitoes

I would have died so many times this run if not for root chest. 180 damage squitoes and 240 damage seekers no thanks. Not to mention starred enemies

[last scroll]

WOOOOOOOOOOO

2!

[sweet crescent]

nice

now get a wolf

[bright reef]

each of these adds 1 minute to my rest buff right?

[vapid warren]

no, out of those, bed, table, one of the bench/chairs and one of the banners add 1 comfort

[bright reef]

so bench and banner thats 2 comfort = 2 minutes added?

[vapid warren]

you can get more indepth here, but with mild spoilers: https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Comfort

yeah

[sweet crescent]

also larsi theres a maypole on my starting island but i have to move my entire base over to get the boost is it worth it?

[vapid warren]

oh, carpet too gives 1

[vapid warren]

up to you, it's one minute extra. you can build them during summer

[summer canyon]

I'm interested in the 'optterrain' command which is mentioned in the patchnotes, what does this command do exactly? I've seen mods that exist to facilitate 'updates' to terrain generation, though they are stated to only affect unexplored zones. Does the optterrain command do something similar?

[lilac coyote]

Assuming you're referring to the PTB patchnotes, yes, that's what optterrain does, but only in the event you had pre-Mistlands terrain that was incorrectly updated with that patch. Otherwise you shouldn't need it.

[vapid warren]

all it does is fix old and new terraforming problems, where the edges of old terraforming is broken

[summer canyon]

Do you anticipate it will work to blend old-gen and new-gen ashlands terrain as well?

[vapid warren]

the ground in ashlands will update automatically most likely, i think it did in mistlands

but it wont generate new content

[summer canyon]

to confirm - won't generate new content in areas already explored on the map?

[sweet crescent]

while were on to topic do we know if theres gonna be a 7th world boss for ash lands?

[vapid warren]

optterrrain just stands for "optimize terrain"

[lilac coyote]

Of course, every biome will have a boss.

[sweet crescent]

im terrifed of what the deep north boss is gonna be

[summer canyon]

I see, so it shouldn't have any effect on content like bushes, structures and spawn locales, but should instead affect terrain geometry?

[vapid warren]

Unless your world is from before april 19 2021, all it will do is remove the ugly visual borders between old and new terraforming, it functually does nothing,

[sterile jay]

Meanwhile the world I play on is so old that it’s from a month after game launch

[lilac coyote]

Smiffe has worlds even older than that that still work.

[winter bloom]

Been searching for bee hives for 3 hours and haven't found any. Are they a low spawn or smtn? I've searched several meadows

[oblique hawk]

They're not particularly rare. They spawn in abandoned houses and sometimes on the campsites.

[coral prairie]

Walk close to every wooden structure you see in the Meadows and listen for the buzz. You’ll have a dozen queen bees before you know it.

[sweet crescent]

How rare are levithans and what tier of pickaxe (or higher) is required to break the barnacles?

[oblique hawk]

Not very rare, you need an antler pickaxe.

[sweet crescent]

only antler???

[floral token]

makes sense, the dagger you can craft from the materials is good through iron age or before

[sweet crescent]

while were on the topic whats the best way to locate a lev?

[random storm]

Hi All, new to the server but not Valheim. I have a private world in which I build regularly to relieve stress. I've recently moved states, and have a much stronger internet connection and a stronger computer than when I began. The server is locally saved, not cloud. Every time I load in and try to enter my little city, I lag and cannot move. Run in place. My husband joined the server and was able to run around in the town just fine with no lag. This save has 6 months worth of effort and time logged and I'd really prefer to save it if possible, but at current I cannot play on it at all. Any ideas?

(It ran just fine with no lag before I moved for what it's worth)

[random storm]

as far as locating levs, I just boat into open ocean. usually run into one within 20 minutes, but rarely see them from shore. so the more open the ocean, the better for my saves so far. Chitin daggers are nice, but I've always felt that they're not worth the headache as they're only useful for that one object. Hope they implement a use for the chitin and give a reason to farm them.

[sweet crescent]

also do levs tend to spawn far out? or are they just everywhere"

[random storm]

Yes. But they do immediately begin to submerge with the first pickaxe strick. so start on a low node and work your way up and back toward your ship to get the most out of it as you can. Eat Stam food first and have enough to swim back to the ladder on the boat.

[sweet crescent]

on averge how much chitin do you seem to get per lev?

[random storm]

hard to remember since its been a while since I've personally farmed them. but I'd say I would get between 8-13 per lev. (this is just me personally) more if you're with someone or a group. I mark them on the map too as they can respawn in those areas, but it's not guarenteed.

[sweet crescent]

alright thanks for the help!

[random storm]

Sure thing! hopefully someone can help me with my lag issues on my favorite save file 😅

[visual radish]

If you can mine something with an antler pickaxe, you can naturally mine it with higher tier ones as well.

[mystic solar]

Do you lag as well if starting that world as private, aka without your husband able to join?
Since he can play fine and you can't, I'd assume the problem is with your pc rather than the save.

[mystic solar]

The better the pickaxe is you take, the more chitin you'll get, as every strike has a chance to upset the levi so it sinks.
That dagger is pretty nice to have, and you can make a harpoon which is great to hunt another sea beastie, and has other uses too.

[sweet crescent]

rq what use do the serpent scales have?

[mystic solar]

They make a pretty shield

[rain quail]

Does spawn prevention protect your base from raids?

[oblique hawk]

It prevents raid mobs from spawning in the spawn proofed area.

If you spawn proof enough you can have an event woth no mobs.

[last scroll]

can you not kill your own tamed boar? we wanted to farm them for meat etc. is it because we named them all?

[gritty lance]

either turn on friendly fire or make the tin butcher knife

[halcyon crag]

they made it harder to do "by accident"

[last scroll]

how do i get a butcher knife?

[halcyon crag]

craft it with tin

[gritty lance]

yea wood, tin and a forge

[last scroll]

im not that far into the game yet... looks like im just keeping them as pets lol

[halcyon crag]

friendly fire can be turned on and off

it's the 2 swords icon in the tab menu

[fathom badge]

So it's just one world? Run locally, not a hosted server? You said you had a new computer, did you build it yourself?

[last scroll]

right the killing has been done back to 2 boars now. i feel evil

[gritty lance]

you'll feel better when they're in your belly

[fathom badge]

Leather scraps are so useful in the Mountains and Plains, and even the Mistlands.

[odd stratus]

Hello everyone, I need help
Yesterday, my friend and I played on his server, he plays with the xbox, and I play with the PC. I'm trying to connect today, but the connection fails. We compared our versions and he has version 0.217.39, and I have version 0.217.38. Could this be the reason that I can't connect?

and is it possible to fix it?

[real nebula]

That's weird, the last live branch version is .38 and PTB is currently at .43

[odd stratus]

i don`t understand🥲

so what could possibly be the reason that I can't connect to his server? Yesterday, literally everything worked...
and I have his server highlighted
And he also stopped showing the community servers.

[real nebula]

As far as I'm aware, your game version (ending in .38) is the latest version of the game. The current public test branch (or PTB) ends in .43, which is a few versions ahead of that. I've not seen anything about a version .39 being pushed anywhere.

@lapis terrace do y'all know anything about this?

[lilac coyote]

The Xbox is a version ahead as they got a special patch.

[real nebula]

Ooh, gotcha

[odd stratus]

Well, that's what I thought..
And in the end, when can we play now?)

[real nebula]

When did this happen? Today?

[lilac coyote]

Aaaages ago.

[real nebula]

Huh, so it wouldn't be that.

So the version mismatch in this case wouldn't be an issue, otherwise a lot more folks would've complained about this by now.

@odd stratus is your friend hosting directly from an Xbox or running a dedicated server separately?

[odd stratus]

and how to solve the problem then?
we reinstalled the game, rebooted the router, I turned off the firewall, and it didn't help anything

[odd stratus]

we play on his server, local

[real nebula]

How are you joining his game?

[odd stratus]

Before that, I entered the connection code, and after that the server was just saved and I just needed to enter the password.
But today I had a connection and the window "it is not possible to connect" flew out

[real nebula]

Have you tried again with the connection code?

[odd stratus]

Yes, we tried, it didn't help

[lapis terrace]

it's the network-version that matters really

the n- number

version number is just.. superficial 🥲

[real nebula]

Hm

[odd stratus]

the network version is the same for us

[real nebula]

It could be any number of network issues, then. I'm not seeing any outages on Playfab, Xbox has a few maintenances going on but none of them are Valheim related from what I can see.

[odd stratus]

oh..

Thanks for the help, we'll try it ourselves for now...

even now, a new world has been created, and I also could not connect, so the problem is not really with me. Because I could connect to the community servers

[real nebula]

And nothing on your end has changed between yesterday and today, yeah?

[willow raft]

Any updates the pc is missing?

[odd stratus]

this morning, the PC was updated, maybe the problem is in the update?
although again, I can join the community servers, but not locally

[willow raft]

Was the community server xbox or pc?

[odd stratus]

what?

now I tried to create a server, and as a result, they couldn't connect to me either...

[willow raft]

so it is from xbox to pc anc vice versa but you can join pc servers?

[odd stratus]

He can connect to other servers via xbox

[willow raft]

Any crossplay settings changed?

[odd stratus]

well, yes, we included cross-platform configuration

If that's what you mean

[rocky laurel]

Can somebody tell me how the heck I can find a 2 star wolf? I've been camping in the mountains for 6 nights just running around and it's a massive mountain

[lilac coyote]

It's only a 1% chance spawn, so they are quite rare.

[rocky laurel]

oh that explains it

many 1 star wolves tho

[lilac coyote]

10% chance of a 1 star.

[odd stratus]

My husband plays with xbox, I play with PC.

We tried to create a new server on xbox, the PC couldn't connect.
We tried to create a server on my PC, my husband could not connect to my server

But we can connect to community servers, but we can't connect to local servers.

What could be the problem? In my PC? Or his xbox?
We set the network settings correctly, cross-platform

[jolly elk]

Are you able to review your game and server log files after a connection attempt to look for the specific errors there that could explain the problem?

[odd stratus]

how to do it?

[jolly elk]

On the PC, your Player.log file will be in the same folder as your worlds_local folder.

Find it here: C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim

[odd stratus]

what's next?

I think I found it right

[jolly elk]

Yes. That's the right log file and the part you're showing indicated that the PC is able to reach the MS playfab network lobby and search for the server you're trying to connect to. But it's unable to find the server there.

That would seem to indicate that either your husbands Xbox isn't completing it's connection to the playfab lobby and establishing a presence there for some reason or possibly the playfab lobby is having problems. It's impossible to tell whether the problem might be with the Xbox or with the playfab network lobby itself.

[odd stratus]

I didn't understand much
So we won't be able to solve the problem?

It's just that he couldn't connect to my local server either

[jolly elk]

The available data isn't yet sufficient to identify the problem. I suggest having your husband post in the #xbox-bugs-discussion channel here and see if any of the folks there have had experiences similar to yours and may be able to suggest a course of action or a solution. The only other alternative is to simply wait a while and try again in case the problem is actually with the playfab network and they eventually get it fixed.

[odd stratus]

Okay, thanks for the help.

[jolly elk]

You're very welcome. Sorry I couldn't find a quick and easy solution for you. Good luck with it!

[snow iron]

so should I change my bronze aetgir to a bronze sword to kill abominations?

since apparently it's weak to slash

[real nebula]

Ideally yes

You can still kill them with an atgeir, it'll just take longer

I believe they're resistant to pierce, which is the atgeir's damage type

[snow iron]

yeah no wonder I dealt no damage

I'll just swap to my axe for now lol

[real nebula]

That works fine too~

[fathom badge]

Not just resistant, very resistant. They take almost no damage from pierce.

[snow iron]

I noticed

[fathom badge]

If you have a bronze sword it's faster than the axe in general, and can be easier to manage dodging and parrying with, but the axe is perfectly usable. I never built a bronze sword so the axe was my go-to on this last playthrough.

[snow iron]

looking at the root set, is the pierce resist enough to make it worth using in plains and mountain?

the fire weakness should only really be for the skeleton king right

I never used this set in a playthrough before, I always went for plate

[fathom badge]

Root armor is amazing. +15 bow skill is pretty big if you get the full set, and in the Plains and even the Mistlands the root harnesk (chest) piece provides the pierce resistance and is amazingly powerful. The cultists in the Mountain Frost Caves do fire damage, as well as some Fulings with torches and Fuling shamans, so it's not a panacea

[snow iron]

oh I forgot they hit with torches yeah

[rocky laurel]

i give up trying to find a 2 star wolf...they're not really any better than the 1 star ones right

[last lava]

i think they're literally twice as good? they only appear at night, if i recall

[fathom badge]

Each star adds 50% of the damage that the base creature does, and 100% of the health.

[willow raft]

80 more life and 35 more damage and double the resources from it.

[rocky laurel]

almost 10 nights and I haven't spotted even one

[fathom badge]

Wolves have a 10% chance of having a star at night, and starred wolves have a 10% chance of having two stars, so overall it's a 1% chance of a two-star appearing. It's pretty rare 😉

[random storm]

Yes, it lags regardless of its private or joinable.

[random storm]

It’s a prebuilt computer. Skytech with a 3070ti, 7500 ryzen 7. More than enough power to run the game on every other file with quality graphics. It’s just this one world that it has issues with. There are a lot of packets to load as it is my most built world, but it’s nothing compared to some files I’ve seen.

[fathom badge]

Yeah, that shouldn't be an issue. Is there a chance they didn't enable XMP/DOCP on your system? Valheim is very memory bandwidth sensitive. When you're in the world and hit F2, how many instances are showing?

[random storm]

I’ve just woken up and am not currently at my pc but I can check once I am there. If those are not enabled, is there a way for me to enable them?

[fathom badge]

It will depend on your specific motherboard, but it's generally enabled in the BIOS overclocking settings. It's technically overclocking, but it's basically just asking the memory to run at the speed it reports it can run at.

No rush on getting any of that done 😉 I'm here on and off as well, we'll see if we can get you figured out.

[random storm]

I was wrong about some specifics. I looked up my pc from@amazon

https://a.co/d/50lSLW5

[gloomy edge]

it can see you

[barren seal]

Then what do I do

[random storm]

Unless you intend to keep it there and trap more, I suggest you build a spikey walled enclosure, leave on piece of wall over and trap it where you intend to have the actual farm. Since theres no way to control them once they're tamed. (they don't follow like wolves)

they won't see through the walls, and won't take as long to tame. but they still take time. its not instant. once trapped, I throw down the food, a couple of work benches (something for them to attack besides the walls) and walk away.

[barren seal]

So do I cover the entire hole with a floor, and then stand on top of it?

[random storm]

Why would you do that? If you want that boar to tame, walk away.

[subtle parrot]

Use the stake walls around the edge and sneak away, if you're intending to tame it, then you need to wait nearby for roughly 30 minutes after tossing some berries in the pit

[random storm]

you don't need to be near it for it to tame, just in the same general location. it has food, and can't get out. just leave it alone now.

[fathom badge]

13k instances is nothing, that shouldn't cause any kind of slowdown

What are your graphics settings? Lots of fires or lights or something?

[barren seal]

I don't know, that's what someone told me to do, I have no idea
So just give it food and then camp in the house? (the house is pretty close, just barely out of the image)

[random storm]

I have it on quality rn and it isn't lagging at all. Now im wondering if its something to do with Thunderstore. I launched from there last night vs launching directly from steam today

[fathom badge]

Yeah, don't worry until you get around 40k or above, but your machine should easily handle it

[subtle parrot]

Needs to be within render distance i believe

[random storm]

yeah.

[fathom badge]

Ohh... yeah. Mods can have all kinds of weird conflicts. Generally we assume no mods here in this channel, #mods-issues is the best place to figure out problems with modded games

[random storm]

treat it like you're neighbor kids are playing hockey in the street....you can see them from the window, but don't wanna interact.

[barren seal]

lmao

[random storm]

I hadn't even thought about the mods overloading it.

[barren seal]

I don't have any windows, maybe I should add some

[random storm]

Not the point, windows aren't necessary

[barren seal]

Yea ik, it just gave me an idea

[random storm]

@fathom badge Thanks for your help. I'm going to load with the mods again and see what the packets say. give some insight about if it was just last night or thunderstore.

[fathom badge]

Like I said, double check the memory XMP settings (that can be a huge perfomance boost in general), and turn down the point lights and shadows a bit as well if you can

[random storm]

I like windows

[random storm]

I will do that. Thanks!

[fathom badge]

The render scaling is also great, it has almost no visual impact but can really increase your framerate if you're being GPU limited.

[feral valley]

We are trying to join beta play and have engaged the correct settings in Steam and on the game properties in steam but when entering a world we still only have 6 boss stones, none of the new build pieces and Ashlands is not separated from the rest of the landmasses. Have we done something wrong? We created a new world for this endeavour.

[lilac coyote]

Ashlands isn't out yet.

[random storm]

He mentioned the beta

[lilac coyote]

I know.

[feral valley]

It says we can experience it in the beta

[oblique hawk]

The beta ended three and a half years ago. You'll have to wait for the Ashlands patch to be on the PTB to be able to play it on the PTB. Look at what the patch notes for the PTB patch says to see what's on it now, or just join the PTB channels here to follow the discussions about it.

id:customize has roles you can choose to see the PTB channels.

Ashlands is not on the PTB yet, nor will it be for a while more as there's at least one more patch to test there after the current one is done from what was said a few days back.

[random storm]

(very noob question, but im bad with acronyms. What is PTB?)

[gritty lance]

public test branch

[random storm]

ty

[elder pulsar]

Is it just me or boat truly feels now much more cozy, comfortable to use (turning speed/smoothness) and speedy?

I mean, there wasn't any updates to boats?

[lilac coyote]

Nothing specific, no. General optimisation might have resolved some issues indirectly.

[elder pulsar]

It's control is SO much more good than it was

[fathom badge]

Best to take discussion about the PTB to #valheim-public-test though 🙂

[elder pulsar]

Like when I do my micromanagement shenanigans like cathing 0.1 wind to turn 90 degrees

Goated control, I'm playing now and it feels like home to rule this thing

[vague goblet]

You can control them after they're tamed (and before) with a specific item in the game. That's how I set up my breeders.

[random storm]

Which item? I've never been able to get boars to follow me.

[vague goblet]

You can harpoon them (and anything else) and manipulate them

They won't follow you like the wolves do but with the harpoon you can drag them where you want and then push them

[random storm]

Oh. Yeah I hate the harpoon. I don't want to stab them. I hope eventually they're make a shepards staff that makes the herd follow you.

[vague goblet]

I've also just set up long pathways with fences after they're tamed and pushed them, slowly closing off more and more of the area until they reach the spot I want them to be.

[random storm]

or a herd mode you can set with a tamed wolf on follow would be cool too.

[barren seal]

So wait, can u screenshot the setup for the cage where I farm themk

[fathom badge]

Only other way I've found that's reasonable is to build chute with roundpole fences and push them through, putting pieces behind me every now and then so they can't run backwards.

[vague goblet]

I'm not at my home PC right now so I can't. I'll see if I can find a similar image somewhere.

[vague goblet]

That's exactly what I do. Just funnel them in the direction I want and close off behind them.

[fathom badge]

But the easiest is to just make a farm where I catch the boars and teleport there 😛

[random storm]

same, I build a big circle (usually using the large stones) and then grab aggro. Run in. trap em.

[vague goblet]

I like the boars near my base so they breed while I'm doing other things like farming

[random storm]

With permission, Kyren, I can dm you a vod showing me doing that a few days ago.

otherwise, youtube has a LOT of tutorials on boar pens.

[fathom badge]

You can always put clips and such in #memes-and-clips if you want 🙂

[barren seal]

Sure

[vague goblet]

This is similar to what mine would look like when taming

[random storm]

Yeah, there ya go. mine look like that.

[vague goblet]

Probably a little more crude but that's the idea

Then I throw a stack of berries in there so I don't have to re-approach it at all

And I also make sure there are two boars being tamed simultaneously so I don't need to do it twice

[random storm]

I add 3 or 4 workbenches in the middle too. gives them something to attack so the walls don't get attacked while they're taming.

[vague goblet]

If you're out of view they'll stop attacking the walls but if other creatures come near them to aggro them it'll be annoying. I sometimes set up a second wall a few meters (4M or so) outside the first to ensure they can't be killed or aggro'ed by anything coming in the area

[oblique hawk]

They only attack the walls until they forget you're there, whilst a workbench in their face will make them see that and attack it all the time.

[random storm]

Its just what I like to do. they get mad about greylings too. Just works for me. and yeah, I usually add an inner layer of fence, then an outerlayer or spike walls.

[vague goblet]

If I have anything else to do I'll create a safe looking box for myself to go AFK inside of and then go do something else around the house for 30 minutes and come back to tamed boars

[barren seal]

Why 2 doors? and by "taming" u mean after 2 r tamed and u want to breed them?

Also I think I heard about some weapon or something u can use to pull them?

[barren seal]

If I have already 1 tamed and I put another one that is angry at me in the same area, will they fight?

[fathom badge]

Nope. Creatures of the same species will never fight. Means tamed wolves aren't a ton of help in the Mountains 😉

[vague goblet]

You don't need two doors. When I say taming I mean the actual process of taming them (when they have the hearts above their head).

Breeding and taming work the same mechanically in that you need to be in the vicinity in order for each to happen. So once you've tamed your boars you can begin breeding them. That's why I prefer my boars to be closer to my base so when I'm working on other tasks they'll continually breed (as long as all the conditions are met for doing so).

[vague goblet]

Yes, there's a harpoon you can get that will allow you to move animals much easier if you want to set up an "automatic" breeding situation.

[barren seal]

How do I get harpoon?

[barren seal]

They r rn in a random hole I made, so I will need to move to an actual breeding place

[vague goblet]

You'll need to find a resource called chitin, which is something you'll find while sailing. Not sure how explicit you'd like me to be and I don't want to spoil things if you don't want.

[vague goblet]

While you wait, you can expand the size of the hole incrementally as they breed. There can only be a certain number of boars in a given radius before they stop procreatinig. If you expand the hole they'll breed until that limit is hit again.

[barren seal]

I would rather not have a huge whole with boars near my base lol

[oblique hawk]

Just fence them in like most people do.

No need to dig a hole.

[barren seal]

I don't really care about spoilers, but try to explain how I can get that without the spoiler parts

[barren seal]

They r already in the hole, I need to get em out

[vague goblet]

For that particular resource it'll just be a straight spoiler. As you sail you'll come across things you'll think are small islands but they're actually giant turtles or something. You need to mine the chitin (they look like barnacles).

[barren seal]

What's a barnacle?

[fathom badge]

It's a shellfish that attaches itself to other aquatic animals and structures and filter feeds

[oblique hawk]

Fairly spoiler-free explanation of harpoon: When you've killed the first boss you get access to metals and then you can build a boat. Go sailing and you'll find stuff.

[pure pollen]

guys is there any new version of the map generator so i can find the trader easier

[reef flame]

Best way to level up your bow skill? Asking for my friend

[barren seal]

Did u both know this species before Valheim

Like I usually know a shit ton of weird words and I never heard of those

[random storm]

shoot things 🙂

[oblique hawk]

Barnacles is not a particularly unknown thing.

[reef flame]

Any good methods found to do it? Real answers pls

[stoic trench]

You get exp per hit, so if you’re really wanting to grind, get a weak bow/arrows and find an HP sponge!

[oblique hawk]

The only way to level weapon skills is to hit enemies. One skill improvment tick per hit.

[reef flame]

Yeah I was thinking of doing Bonemass because he's quite slow

[stoic trench]

Maybe trap a golem, then use a crude bow and wooden arrows and just let loose?

[reef flame]

And using wood arrows on him will take a really long time to kill him

[reef flame]

That's a good idea too

I like the golem idea, it's a lot easier to setup

But golem's don't follow you into ditches so it might be difficult to get it into one

[stoic trench]

You can harpoon them! Personally I put them in little holes just to prevent them from spawning, it’s not too difficult.

Might be able to build a little wooden floor then destroy from underneath him so he falls in?

[reef flame]

Ooo good idea, this is why i asked! community has great ideas

[reef flame]

I think just make a small ditch and harpoon him in, then make a high ground with the terrain so wolves cant knock you into the pit

The wolves will just stand next to your high ground and you could kill those too if you wanted

[subtle parrot]

Last i checked valheim-map.world works for everything you need

It's even mobile friendly now

[stoic trench]

Ahh nice, didn’t think about that!

[vague goblet]

I grew up near the ocean so they're very commonplace.

[elder pulsar]

Go to the swamp, find the crypt, wait for abomintion, climb the crypt, make sure abomination stands directly under you - spam M1 :D

Or shoot skelestons a lot with uncharged M1 - they're resistant to pierce so they're good sponges for training

[oblique hawk]

Skeletons die fast anyway though since they have low health.

Abominations or golems are much better targets for skill level spamming.

[elder pulsar]

Not really if using fine/crude bow and just spam m1

[oblique hawk]

Crude bow will just make you miss half the shots. :p

[elder pulsar]

That's why you hug them :D

[reef flame]

It doesn't work because if the abomination cant reach you for too long it begins to run away

[reef flame]

Yeah this, we did try on skeletons but they still die in like 6 hits even with a wood arrow

[marble roost]

Well they’re resistant to pierce. Still a lvl 4 Finewood bow should do well

[wide crescent]

root harnesk best armor in the game change my mind

[marble roost]

Ah for skill gain

Bonemass great for now gain

[marble roost]

My only argument to counter this is that root chest somewhat sucks on Very Easy

[wide crescent]

very easy you say

[marble roost]

I don’t think I could do Very hard without harnesk

[wide crescent]

deathsquito doing 10 dmg while I have 37 armor on normal difficulty IS CRAZY

[marble roost]

Yea it’s nice. On very hard they’re only doing like 40 to me with similar armor

Only armor in the game that can negate like 250 damage

[subtle parrot]

I just crafted a harnesk in my very hard playthrough last night, need to hunt some more aboms so i can level it up though. Gonna do that after i finish prepping for bonemass.

[marble roost]

We love us some pierce resist

Even found it useful in mountain

[subtle parrot]

That's good to know, I was planning on using it in combination with iron greaves/helm and in the mountains for help against wolves

[marble roost]

I mean the pierce resist won't help in much of mountains, just possibly against golems or (more importantly) against Moder. Pretty sure her bite is pierce (despite wiki saying its slash) and her ice barrage can also just barely be tanked with the right setup (granted, you're sacrificing a lot of utility to be able to tank a shot)

[subtle parrot]

Yeh, i typically don't get in her face too much in general, but I'm figuring it'll be harder to kill her on very hard without doing so

[marble roost]

Bow should be pretty valid, I took her on with a spear tho. Definitely bring multiple bows tho or have a portal to go repair bc one prob ain't enough

I ran fenris legs to have enough speed to dodge her ice barrage which is by far her most dangerous attack, but still went for a root harnesk, drake helmet, serpent stew, serpent meat, and wolf skewer to be able to just barely tank one hit from it if I did get hit

[real nebula]

One draugr fang is more than enough ime, as long as it's decently upgraded

multiple bows is overkill

[subtle parrot]

Even on very hard?

[real nebula]

Oh, no, sorry. I'm speaking from default settings.

[marble roost]

idk a lot of the bosses on Very Hard just seem to eat up durablility to me, but suppose it depends on bow skill

[marble roost]

summoned skeletts stick around where you left them even if you move very far away right? Only respawning if you summon more or they get killed

Do they despawn if you log off?

[winter bloom]

how long do carrots take to grow?

and are there ways to speed the process up

[fathom badge]

About 3 in-game days, and sleeping speeds it up just like it speeds up almost everything (except breeding tame animals, which it basically stops)

[winter bloom]

whats the yeild on them?

[marble roost]

One carrot gives 3 carrot seeds. 1 carrot seed gives one carrot

[winter bloom]

so i gota turn the carrots into seeds

[fathom badge]

Yup. First few cycles are building up seed stores, and then once you get to that you just replant a third of the harvest as seed and it will keep itself sustained.

[winter bloom]

i made a like checkboard farm with 2x2s i can hold 48 crops atm. i just place them in the center of the 2x2

tho im only starting with 22 seeds

[fathom badge]

I usually try for about ~100 crops for solo play, more if it's a group I'm farming for

[barren seal]

Do these islands contain chitin?

[vague goblet]

Nope

[barren seal]

Sadge

[subtle parrot]

What you're looking for looks kinda like a big turtles back sticking up out of the water, and will be found in the ocean biome, not in the shallows of other biomes, if you check your minimap it shows you're in the shallows of a black forest

[zenith nimbus]

Only in ocean biome

[barren seal]

Ye, didn't look at the map, and it was ocean (around that BF island) so it confused me

[austere basin]

what is a good way to find leeches?

[barren seal]

In water in the swamp

[austere basin]

i know that im just asking when your there what is a good way

i dont want to miss them but the swamp has shit visability sometimes

[small nest]

stay close to ocean, it is large body of water soo

[austere basin]

got it

[small nest]

if you have problems with checking where are they, just get to water they will swim to you

[austere basin]

kk

so leeches only aggro in water

[marble roost]

Might be another biome you won’t like 🤭

[austere basin]

i know im dreading it i have a mod that turns off mist but tbh ill be pretty annoyed if it turns off mistlands mist as thats part of the challenge

[marble roost]

I’ll also say mountains can get hard to see in during snowstorm

[austere basin]

yea

drakes are annoying to farm

[small nest]

the Great Fog of Plains in the morning is most annoying thing you can ever imagine

[marble roost]

Hmm I don’t mind land fog much. It’s mostly fog when I’m sailing that’s annoying

[small nest]

before time had a name i sailed in total fog at night (i was in black forest gear looking for swamps). later i checked the surrounding area and it turned out that i was completely surrounded by mistlands

[marble roost]

Lmao

[pearl mortar]

If you can find a biome close to the swamp, they'll swim all the way over. I see like 4-5of them at a time near my black forest base. And it's not even that close!

[winter bloom]

how do i get workbench lv5 if there is no other item i can build?

[foggy edge]

is ashlands out on the PTB?

[marble roost]

No

[foggy edge]

ok, i thought so, no idea where i got that notion

[marble roost]

Do you have Obsidian yet?

[winter bloom]

idk what that is

[foggy edge]

when you get it, you'll get to level 5 workbench

[winter bloom]

im in the black forest, trying to get lv4 troll armour

[fathom badge]

You can't, not with Black Forest materials. Level 3 armor is the best you can do.

[winter bloom]

what biome is that in?

[marble roost]

Lvl 5 workbench is way later

[foggy edge]

mountain

[marble roost]

Mountain. Gotta finish Black Forest and Swamp before going to Mountain

[winter bloom]

also near my house in the meadows i found a village full of swamp mobs

[foggy edge]

that happens

[fathom badge]

They do that once you get far enough from the world center

[winter bloom]

do they have good loot or should i stay away?

[foggy edge]

not much you'll be able to do with their loot just yet

[winter bloom]

oh okay, thanks guys

[subtle parrot]

Have you beaten the second boss the elder, in the black forest yet? And also have you mined copper and tin to unlock the items crafted with those? The forge etc..

[winter bloom]

i have not beat him yet but i have the forge and a bunch of the ores

my forge and workbench are at the highest level i can make

Im glad you reminded me tho lol, i was about to head into the swamp without beating him i forgot

ive just been gathering a ton of resources

[subtle parrot]

Definitely a must to beat him first lol but be on the look out for yellow flowers when you get into the swamps. Unlocks the things you'll need to use the drops from the draugr.

Which i was gonna say, if you have a fine wood bow and fire arrows, you can build a tower and snipe the body piles that spawn them and then kill them or use the area as a farm to gather more drops

[winter bloom]

ill take note, the boss alter is pretty far away sadly smh

[winter bloom]

oh for that village?

[subtle parrot]

Yup, they drop an item for crafting that you'll be able to use once you've found those yellow flowers in a swamp i mentioned before

[winter bloom]

ill go kill the boss then rn then look for those flowers after

[subtle parrot]

Just be careful the swamp is a scary place, and be sure to take poison mead with you

[true steeple]

You’ll be fine if you’re rested and leave at night

[winter bloom]

so dont stay during night time

[true steeple]

And make sure you’re always rested
Try to do this in all biomes, not just swamp

[subtle parrot]

It's a great buff

[winter bloom]

i forget about that

[foggy edge]

Don't forget about ABR: Always Be Rested

[winter bloom]

gear wise i think im good, the black forest feels super easy atm

[foggy edge]

easiest way at least in the early game is to carry at least 5 stone and some wood to throw down a campfire. then sit down

[true steeple]

It always rains in swamp but crypts are a good place to put one down

[foggy edge]

but once you get portals, just go home and you'll get a longer lasting rested buff

and don't forget to place things that increase your comfort, as that increases the rested timer

[winter bloom]

how many poison meads do i need

[foggy edge]

they last 10 minutes each, so whatever you think is best

[subtle parrot]

1 base makes 6, i usually keep 2-4 on me when i go just in case

[foggy edge]

the swamps have leeches, which will drain your health very quickly if you don't use poison resist and they're very sneaky if you don't know what to look for

[winter bloom]

how long do they last

[foggy edge]

10 minutes each

[subtle parrot]

☝️

[winter bloom]

they dont take food slot?

[foggy edge]

they take an inventory slot

[subtle parrot]

Nope, only inventory

[winter bloom]

im using deer stew and queens jam rn, whats a good 3rd food to bring

[subtle parrot]

Minced meat sauce

[marble roost]

minced meat is good

[winter bloom]

oh its cheap too, i have like 100 neck tails because i live by the water and they always chase me smh

[subtle parrot]

But i would upgrade the jam to carrot soup if you see whiteish blue flowers in the black forest pick them, and make a cultivator at the forge

You'll need 3 carrots and 1 red mushroom per soup bowl

[winter bloom]

oh thats not bad, ive been farming carrot

i have a good bit

[marble roost]

blue 🤔

[foggy edge]

make sure to replant your carrots so you can get more seeds if you haven't done so yet

[lilac coyote]

Which flowers are blue?!

[winter bloom]

the carrot seeds kinda are

[marble roost]

I don't see anything but white on those flower seeds. Well and green for the stalk

[winter bloom]

maybe im just half blind

[subtle parrot]

Sometimes they look white but sometimes they look light blue, to me. I think it's the shade.

[wide crescent]

HELL TO POISON MEADS, EMBRACE THE MASK

[visual radish]

Sure, for running around the swamp in general and for normal enemies, but the potion is definitely far better for fighting bonemass for the higher resistance.

And you aren't going to have the mask right away either.

[ripe ivy]

dont be me without poison resist against bonemass and pick at him for an hour

[green crystal]

abuse that no skill loss

Poison meads are the better option and do not stack.

[winter bloom]

is there a way to turn down or remove the agressive fog?

[marble roost]

not without mods

[ripe ivy]

yeah you can in devcommands 😔

env clear... but youd have to do it every time

[wide crescent]

yes but the difference is not that much and making abomination armor easily lets you skip the iron one saving tons of iron, so I see it as WinWin

[next zephyr]

Was thinking about this while ago. Is there devcommands to remove Mistland's mist/fog?

[ripe ivy]

Yes! type "env clear" 🫶🏻

[next zephyr]

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me... 🙁 Could this be only works on PTB? Currently playing on live version.