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[marble roost]

wolf jerky for 66 or serpent stew for 106. I'll pick stew for a tough fight

[fathom badge]

Yup. It's good for puttering around and not dying, but it's not good food for when gearing up for a big fight is all 😉

[vague bay]

the whole fact that its an uneven mountain i have to fight on really sucks

and the wolves are spawning, cause all the fires are out

[reef flame]

I have about 40 serpent stew in reserve, I just don't use it after plains. The difference is really small

And serpent stew is significantly harder to get

[fast cape]

Is Moders' vegvisir found within the caves or in destroyed towers on the mountains?

[marble roost]

both

[reef flame]

Sounds like you want a spoiler

[marble roost]

I most often find it in towers though

[fast cape]

I wouldn't've asked if that wasn't the case ^^

[fast cape]

Gotcha

[reef flame]

ah Moder is in the Mountain biome and spawns outside the caves.

I found her hint location at a castle but I'm not sure if there's more than one. I know they can be in caves but from my experience it's only in the very very rare caves.

[fast cape]

Ik she is xD. But, yeah I'll keep a lookout for it out and inside the caves

I just have to find another mountain biome, since the one I have has 0 vegvisir's

[reef flame]

Check mountains decently far, on my seed she spawned no where near my starting point

[reef flame]

Yeah if you are close to your starting point I'd suggest going a few continents away

Much more likely to find her

[marble roost]

I managed to find a Moder a few steps from spawn on my most recent world, but I feel like that's unlikely. Best bet is just finding a big mountain and exploring for vegvisirs

[fast cape]

yeah, that is the plan^^

[reef flame]

I checked 5 mountains before I found Moder, I found her once I started looking further away

3 were close, and 2 were far. The 5th was quite far away, but I found her much easier

I actually found her spawning ground first, so I got lucky in that respect.

[fast cape]

sounds like a pain, but it's whatever

[golden tartan]

Hi every one, i had a question about multi platform sistem. If my friend has valheim on xbox and i have it on steam, can we play together?

[fast cape]

From what I know, Valheim has made it so crossplay does work, as long as all players are on the same version. Could be wrong, but that's what I've found out after researching

[golden tartan]

thank you so much

[fathom badge]

The one thing to be aware of is that XBox doesn't play nicely with mods most of the time, so it's generally recommended to not use mods if there's a chance you have been.

[broken hatch]

for some reason the hearth refuses to snap to the center of a room, regardless if the room is 5 tiles or 4 tiles wide? is this intentional?

[marble roost]

maybe try different snapping modes with "e"? it can be tough lining stuff up though yea

[broken hatch]

i did, but no luck

[harsh sequoia]

i typically free hand shift-click hearths where I want them, since I'm too lazy to make snapping points to center it.

[fathom badge]

Hearths snap to the fire center part of their model as if it were a floor piece, so they overlap by the stone edge on anything they snap to.

[broken hatch]

the fire part isn't aligned with the floor either

[fathom badge]

I still believe it as a 2m x 4m box that it snaps to on the bottom, even if it's not perfectly aligned. It is pretty much centered on the hearth, though.

[pearl mortar]

If you use one of those 1x1 floor tiles in the corner and try snapping to that. Otherwise just shift and eyeball it

[stray stump]

Is this flying cart bug a old bug or is it new?

I can just roam around while flying

[fathom badge]

That's... very weird. Were you playing on a server when that happened? Locally? No mods?

[stray stump]

yeah

[fathom badge]

Ok, so on a server or locally?

[stray stump]

I don't knows it's just a server for my friends and I.

[fast cape]

does it mean anything if a drake's pit has a lot of colour?

[fathom badge]

did you get the egg from it already?

[fast cape]

you can get egg's from the drakes?

idek why it's glowing

[marble roost]

Their nests (like you’re looking at) has an egg always. That one seems somewhat buried tho which is a bit weird

[fathom badge]

Ok, so it's a server. That can happen when there's a desync between the server and the client is what it looks like to me, there used to be an old terrain offset bug and it almost looks like that's what you're experiencing

[fast cape]

what can u use the egg for

[subtle parrot]

Summoning moder or decorative pieces

[fast cape]

They weigh A LOT tf

[subtle parrot]

Lol that they do

You need 3

[fast cape]

ah I see, I got 2 so far

[fathom badge]

They're somewhat common. If you're not on Moder's mountain I would only haul them around if you want them for decoration

They also respawn after a while

[fast cape]

So I don't need to take them with me now

[marble roost]

Takes quite a bit to respawn tho

[fast cape]

aight, I'll just leave them there, and see if moder is on this new mountain I found

what food is very good for mountain?

[fathom badge]

Starting, you will probably have turnip stew, sausages, maybe blood soup or something similar. As you start getting mountain resources you will be able to upgrade soon. Silver unlocks another cauldron upgrade.

[fast cape]

I have upgraded cauldron, and I'm currently using all 3 of the food u said

[fathom badge]

There are further upgrades, just like there are for the workbench and such.

[fast cape]

ik, but what abt specific foods, are better than those 3, or like next in line

[fathom badge]

They will be wolf and onion based, largely

[fast cape]

Trying to get my items back are proving quite difficult. Died twice now just trying to get it back, due to deathsquito's 1 shotting me

[fathom badge]

Yeah... skeeters will do that. They're glass cannons though, so if you see them before they see you they die easily, and when they attack they fly straight at you so it's easy to predict with a spear or bow.

[somber coral]

||do i still need to keep the swamp key in my inventory to get access to the crypts if i need to go there|| or can i leave it in a chest in my base (i am already in the plains)

[fast cape]

I am naked, can't rly do anything atp

[somber coral]

spoiler warning 🙂

[marble roost]

Could try and make a Finewood bow or flint spear before corpse running. Those should take care of deathsquitoes quite well

[fathom badge]

Once you unlock it it will stay open. But you need to unlock each one separately.

[somber coral]

ok, thanks !

[fathom badge]

The root chest is brilliant against the deathsquitos, as well as bonemass power. If you're just running naked and hungry to recover your body you will certainly have a bad time.

[fast cape]

don't rly wanna waste matts to get back my main thing, + I don't have enough roots for the chest

says I parried, and then I just dropped. lovely

[fathom badge]

Well, you can ask for help from the body recovery squad, but beyond that you're probably in a position where you need to reequip somehow in order to survive the ordeal.

[fast cape]

how long will the gravestone stay there for

[fathom badge]

Forever. There is no time limit.

[fast cape]

thank god

[fathom badge]

They stay until fully looted, and when that happens you get the Corpse Run bonus which is a boost in your weight carrying capacity, stamina regen and such for a few minutes to let you get out of dodge, but it doesn't help if you die before getting there 😉

[fast cape]

yup, I have to make a whole new bow just to get my stuff back :/

[fathom badge]

I always keep tiers of my old stuff on hand so I can do those kinds of recoveries. I've learned the hard way by being naked with no anything. Plus I make a ton of food. It's actually a lot easier to survive in higher biomes if you have appropriate food from the biome even if you're in lower biome gear.

[fast cape]

alrighty, finewood bow and some arrows

hopefully I'll get it back this time... even found my root chest

[fathom badge]

Make sure you eat a good meal, too

[fast cape]

all the good foods are on the dead body

or well the 3 stacks xd

[ripe ivy]

yeah I didnt have a backup plan like that, and died on Moder's mountain.. which was butts to get back to without being seen by her and one shot again

[marble roost]

Also in the future try to keep some good food at base, teleporter to get nearby to where you might die, a bit of backup gear, etc. if you do not feel comfortable doing naked corpse runs or travelling far to get back to your corpse

[fathom badge]

Yeah... can you take some time and make more of the good food? Food is critical to surviving almost anything

[fast cape]

I have tp nearby, but food is not so good

and animal spawns ain't that great icl

had to look for like 15min just to find 1 single boar

[fathom badge]

I always overmake my food, and if I get myself down to a stack of my current best food in storage at my base I consider myself out and making more is my focus.

[fast cape]

they're now expecting me, they're like 4 near the coast

[fathom badge]

Yeah, they'll stay where you left them. Go slow and take them one at a time. The root chest will really help.

[fast cape]

these are new squitos

75hp and a dream

new friends as well here, 3 lox's just waiting

[fathom badge]

With the harnesk and a couple other pieces of armor they should hopefully only do 10-15 HP per hit, not enough to stagger you. At least lox are deaf and dumb and you can outrun them.

[fast cape]

just realised... I'll prob die of cold as I forgot to take some meads

will the cold kill me from this distance+

[harsh sequoia]

as long as its daytime and the weather is good, bring enough stone and wood, you can make a chain of fires

[fathom badge]

It will do consistent damage, so if anything delays you you will be in trouble. But yes, campfires are a good way to stave it off if it's too much trouble to go back and get potions.

[fast cape]

I recovered one of the bodies I died with that had 1 mead

[fathom badge]

That will give you the corpse run boost too, so you might be in pretty decent shape. I've heard of people intentionally littering their return path with gravestones so they can keep getting the boost.

[fast cape]

Finally got my shit back

Leaving quite the ships on the shoreline

[fathom badge]

Now go buff up your food production 😉

[fast cape]

Will need to kill a lot of wolves first

[stoic trench]

Always have some backup meals!

[fast cape]

Bit hard icl, we so say never have boar meat

which is needed in some meals, but now I have a stack of wolf meat

so will make some skewers

[fathom badge]

Yeah, figure out some boar meat. Sausages are great and cheap considering how many you get from a single piece of boar meat.

[fast cape]

that is true, but I feel like finding boars are incredibly difficult. Like 15 min to find 1 sometimes is annoying

[fathom badge]

The trick with that is to kill literally everything in an area of the meadows. Deer, necks, greylings, everything, and then cycle through. There can only be so many things spawned in an area, and if none of them are boars it will stay that way until there are slots open.

Or set up a boar farm 😉 That's also handy.

[fast cape]

Some of the squitos hunted for me
got 14 boar meat now

You said sausages are good. Should I also make wolf skewers and continue making turnip stew and black soup, onion soup?

[subtle parrot]

If you're going into plains, i would start making onion soup more than turnip stew.. lol you got it

[fast cape]

Done with swamp for now, so going into Mountains

[subtle parrot]

Ah gotcha, still the onion soup is easier to make once you get the seeds, no extra ingredients

And you can save your boat meat for more sausage

[fast cape]

yeah I have plenty of onions, so will prob make that to actually run away from shit in mountains

[fast cape]

So basically, make a ton more sausages, start making onion soup, and some wolf skewers?

[subtle parrot]

Sounds like a good meal to me

[fast cape]

bet

[subtle parrot]

Ofc if you have the time or inclination i would suggest serpent hunting, the meat alone is great, but serpent stew is wonderful

[austere basin]

what is the distance needed between wisp fountains for them to have seperate wisp counts?

[subtle parrot]

10 meters is what goggle says

[summer canyon]

I've got a question, I wanna make a lox pie in real life, and am wondering what would be a good comparison meat? I assume they're gamey, with a diet of primarily berries - very muscular, with a lizardy sort of vibe. Current Idea is Minced Crocodile and Venisson, but I wanna hear some other thoughts.

Maybe not strictly valid for this channel - but its valheim related at least

[lilac coyote]

#valheim-chat is probably SLIGHTLY more suitable. Crocodile/alligator does sound about right though.

[pearl mortar]

I wonder if you can get Yak meat.

[halcyon crag]

i'd suggest you'd get different cuts depending on the location, so just a beef pie would do fine, put whatever Valheim veggies you like in with it, a nice gravy, and voila

[stoic trench]

Yeah, I’ve always imagine Lox as being beef-like. I know it’s a lizard-ox but I don’t see much lizard beyond the scaly faces lol

[subtle parrot]

Don't forget the big paws instead of hooves lol

[summer canyon]

If I was american I'd get bear... I still think they're pretty lizardy, maybe they have scales under their fur. As the mechanic suggested, I'll get a lean beef if I can't find anything else.... Not that I have the money for any ritzy game meats lol

You do rear them like cattle at the end of the day

[subtle parrot]

Lol do we sell bear meat in America?

[summer canyon]

I have no clue, I just assume you have them walking around n shit

[fathom badge]

I don't believe you can, no. You can give it if you hunted it, but since there's no regulation around the processing and such I don't think it's legal to sell it. But this isn't the place for that 😛

[tough mango]

Looking for help with a lost character. In managed saves, it shows up as "Deleted" with 5 backups. I've tried restoring the last file and also moving it out of the cloud but it still doesn't show up in the character selection list. I'm sure this has been discussed before but if someone could point me to where I can sort this out, I'd appreciate it.

[subtle parrot]

Possibly someone in #mods-issues could answer

[bleak flax]

ye ty

[fathom badge]

Unfortunately that sounds like data corruption, and I'm not sure there are really any other steps you can take to fix it. Best advice would be to recreate the character and use devcommands to get it roughly to the state of your previous one

[dreamy basin]

How rare are infested mines? I've been exploring for quite some time now and I can't find one.

[marble roost]

Somewhat rare. I’d say akin to frost caves. Both in terms of visibility and frequency of spawning

[dreamy basin]

You only get one per biome?

[marble roost]

Nah there’s no limit

Per biome

There’s two types though so look out for both. One entrance can be in the basement of a ruined dvergr marble outpost, the other has marble stairs and a wisp torch out front leading to it. Once you get more used to it you might be able to spot the ones with stairs from afar too because I think the rock formation the stairs lead to always looks the same

[regal citrus]

Its happened twice now that when I park my longboat that it disappears when I go foraging. This time I caught it happening and it was taking constant 10 ticks of damage and then suddenly breaks. This happened in the plains, and I didn't see any monster nearby after the ship broke. It's a hosted server but im not sure whats causing it at all, anyone else have this experience?

[compact heath]

They can be hard to find, there is also what I label as "fake mines" which are abandoned Dvergr structures with no dvergr but also no mine entrance in the middle, the one with the stairs always have a mine in there (long stairs going up)

One Mistlands I found about 4 Dvergr outposts, 6 fake mines and 2 real mines, that was on the unlucky side

[fiery bolt]

Hey Everyone,

I hope there is someone who can perhaps assist me.

I have been playing Valheim on a steam account I created for my dad. This is because he always plays Plants vs Zombies, but I only owned the game on my own steam account, so I let him use my account to play.

I have now however, gotten Plans vs Zombies for him on his steam account as well as made up the game progress. Where this becomes an issue for me now though is that I have made substantial progress in Valheim with friends, on the other steam account.

Is there anyway that I can transfer the Valheim server, with progress made (Including settlements built etc) to my personal steam account?

[halcyon crag]

yes, you can copy the world files and transfer them to your Valheim worlds/local folder

[fiery bolt]

Thank you,
How do I locate these if I save to cloud?
Also, is it possible to then even move this a paid server? SO friends can also play even when I am not online?

[halcyon crag]

if the saves are in the cloud you'll need to make a local copy by moving them to local storage, and back, before you copy them, and yes you can do the same thing on a dedi if they let you upload the world files to it i think

[fiery bolt]

Thank you 🙂. Let me see what I can do

[trail lichen]

are there any buildings/materials immune to lightning damage? i wanna place my obliterator with its back to something without having to rebuild stuff every time i use it

[coarse sorrel]

Marble

[trail lichen]

pickles. I'm still at bonemass. thanks for letting me know though!

[coarse sorrel]

Just place obliterator on the ground or natural stone. I did it on my swamp base, it didn't damage it

[trail lichen]

yeah but if you put it with it's flat back to wooden buildings, it damages the building

[true steeple]

Put it outside then

[trail lichen]

it was outside, just backed onto a building so it was tidy and not randomly in the middle of my base. i've now put it somewhere away from structures so I don't have to rebuild stuff

[halcyon crag]

iron cage pieces don't take dmg afaik

[dreamy basin]

maybe im on the unlucky side, all im finding are dvergr outposts and dvergr ruins that has a tree in the middle

[compact heath]

yeah the ones with the tree are fake mines

[mystic solar]

The boat taking damage like that is a desync issue with the server. Only way to keep it safe is to take it apart, or park far enough away that it won't be loaded while you are out exploring. Best to take portal mats along, put down the portal when you land, then you can take the boat apart and store it at home. Or stick the parts in a chest.

[regal citrus]

Thank you!

Is there any way I can fix this server side or is it a client-server sync issue?

sry if my question doesnt make sense

[mystic solar]

It is super easy to miss a mine in the mist. One sign there could be one is several seekers turning up, if you get attacked by like three or more there is a good chance a mine might be close.

[mystic solar]

I don't think you can really fix it. Maybe relogging will temporarily help, but it can happen again any time.

[silk fable]

I am the admin for a dedicated server. I took my character into the Ashland's accidentally. So I moved my character back towards the center of the world logged off, brought the server down, restored the world backup from before the moment that I traveled into the ashlands. I then logged back in and found that the place that I logged in seemed new. The only remaining remnant of my experience is that the map belonging to my character still shows where I traveled to at the tip of the ashlands even though the world would not have loaded. What's the cleanest way to rectify this? I'm okay clearing my characters map but I'd rather not if I can avoid it. I want to not update the cartography table until I know the best course of action

[real nebula]

As long as your world itself was restored before you entered the Ashlands, there's nothing to worry about. If you want to be completely clean, you should be able to restore a backup of your own character from before the incident as well, but the map exploration on your character is only visual.

[gusty citrus]

Can someone pls help me out w/ bepinex on a server? I could try screen sharing

Port forwarding took just a few mins but the config files are taking hours to edit and properly load...

[pseudo tapir]

Sorry if this has been asked a million times, hard to search for... I see people say that they are going into the Ashlands with current worlds. Is there a placeholder biome for Ashlands or something in the current game?

[fathom badge]

Best place to ask about mod help is #mods-issues or #mods-discussion

[pseudo tapir]

I understand that the Ashlands update isn't out yet, so the content isn't there... but just a little confused on the live/current ashlands biome?

[gusty citrus]

Yes, there is a placeholder, but if you load any of the biome in, the part wont get updated

[fathom badge]

Yes. There are currently ashlands there, but they will be completely different in the update, fully terraformed and changed. But if you explore it now it will make it so new content doesn't show up when it updates

[gusty citrus]

You could use the UpgradeWorld mod, lets you reset chunks I'm pretty sure

[pseudo tapir]

oh cool, I missed that. Is it in the main version of the game or just the test branch or something?

I would like to make a new world and prep for Ashlands, so the placeholder stuff is actually a nice middle ground

[gusty citrus]

The placeholder? I'm new to Val but I'm pretty sure it has always been a thing

[fathom badge]

There is no current testing version of Ashlands, this is all dev messaging. But there will be, hopefully Soon(tm).

[pseudo tapir]

I didn't realize that there was always a palceholder ashlands, thats all

[fathom badge]

The Deep North and Ashlands and even Mistlands were all generated as placeholders from basically the start of the game

[pseudo tapir]

ahhh didn't know that

surprised I never ran into them

[fathom badge]

They are at the very north and very south edges of the map, so it's not super surprising

[pseudo tapir]

thanks for the answers ❤️

ooooh okay

[fathom badge]

Stay away from the north and south and anything you do in your world should be perfectly safe in prep for the Ashlands. The one advice I heard is that maybe don't beat the Mistlands boss so you can get the full progression experience, but anything before that is fair game (and even if you do beat her, everything will still work, items will change as needed)

[pseudo tapir]

thanks!

[gusty citrus]

I was just prepping for the Queen, you made me rethink that decision...

[fathom badge]

I've got her altar found, the whole thing fixed up and ready, all the pieces needed to unlock it, and now I'm just building a cool base and collecting materials in the Mistlands waiting for the PTB to drop 😛

[gusty citrus]

I only have the Altar, haven't gone there though, it's on the opposite side of my world from where I have been exploring Mistlands

Thats a little off-topic though, however, what exactly did you fix up...?

[fathom badge]

If you haven't been there yet I won't spoil it for you. Just investigate it thoroughly, and it wouldn't hurt to bring materials for a stonecutter and maybe a forge

[gusty citrus]

That's pretty fair, thx!

[fathom badge]

I got super "lucky" and found the altar before even finding a single infested mine in this playthrough 😛

[gusty citrus]

It took me 12hrs to find the Yagluth altar once...

[stoic trench]

Also, bring some blackmetal with you to the mistlands 👀

[delicate kraken]

Do we have a rough ETA of Ashlands release? Are we still quite a ways out?

[orchid badge]

Hey there, how can i melt these irons?

[delicate kraken]

You need the blast furnace for black metal!

[orchid badge]

How can i unlock it

[delicate kraken]

Think you need to kill Moder and then craft an Artisan Table first

[oblique hawk]

You need to kill the 4th boss. It unlocks via standard gameplay progress.

[orchid badge]

Okay guys thank u

[marble roost]

We just know it will be anytime within the next 3 months

[subtle parrot]

Soon, very soon

[static finch]

When taming animals and breeding them, can you breed a 0 star with a 1 star and get a 1 star offspring?

[stoic trench]

Yep 👍

[fathom badge]

Yes. There's a 50% chance of either one being the parent, and the parent passes down their star level.

[static finch]

Does it always do the 50/50, or after one is deemed the parent they stay that way?

[marble roost]

Always 50/50

[static finch]

Sweet

[stoic trench]

And further, if you breed a 2-star with a 0-star, you will never produce a 1-star. The offspring will always be a copy of one of its parents.

[oblique hawk]

Animals get pregnancy points individually in combination with a nearby animal of the same type.

[loud linden]

I've been playing Valheim with my wife for over a year, and she's produced three additional players for our server. They're green, but we love them as family.

[marble roost]

If your wife produced them I’d hope they’re like family

[loud linden]

Valid; good call. But missing the point of the reply.

[subtle parrot]

What was the point? Lol

[trail lichen]

the math implicitly ain't mathin'

[silk fable]

Thank you, I forgot that the character saves are local and I forced mine to save locally instead of through steam. It was much easier to go back to a character save from a few days prior after dumping my inventory and then setting my skills back to what they were when I made the mistake. Now my map is clean for our cartography table and my own sanity

[silk fable]

If you look at the release history. Mistlands went to public test build two weeks before it was released publicly.

[oblique hawk]

That doesn't say anything about when Ashlands will be out as we don't know when Ashlands will be on the PTB and we don't know how long it will stay there.

The only things we know are that a: There's currently a patch on the PTB which needs finishing, and b: Ashlands will be out during the first half of 2024 (unless something unexpected happens and it is delayed).

[silk fable]

I'm not saying it's gospel or predicting a date but I do think it does say something about when ashlands will be released. Ashlands is a new biome in the last time a new biome was released (mistlands) it was roughly two weeks after it went to ptb. Sure, that doesn't mean it's definitive but if the process is similar then a betting man might find solace and saying two weeks from release to PTB. I don't think that observation should be so easily dismissed.

[lilac coyote]

It says nothing about Ashlands. Just when Mistlands released.

[oblique hawk]

The only thing you'll achieve by claiming it's 2 weeks from ptb release to full release is a bunch of people claiming they were promised two weeks (people can and will misread any guesses as "devs promised").

[silk fable]

Let's speak accurately here, I'm not "claiming" anything. How other people interpret what I say is not a me problem but I understand the concern.

[oblique hawk]

Yeah bad wording on my part.

[silk fable]

I'm sorry, I fundamentally disagree. The release of mistlands says something about the development process and releasing Ashlands does involves a development process from the same group and so things can be inferred. Not predicted but inreferred

[oblique hawk]

I think it's likely that they'll use the experience of Mistlands PTB/release to improve on whatever can be improved on Ashlands ptb/release which could easily lead to longer or shorter time on the ptb.

There's also no way of knowing what kinds of bugs or stuff that needs tweaking for whatever reason people find and how hard they are to fix.

[silk fable]

That is a good point, I would agree

[marble roost]

Whether or not the ptb tells us when the update releases doesn’t matter right now anyways. Bc we don’t have a date for the ptb

[lilac coyote]

It doesn't even do that. There's no way of knowing how long PTB will last.

[trail lichen]

i'm a little confused here - this game has been in development and early access for years now, the devs have said we're getting the new zone in less than three months, and people are arguing over two weeks?

[silk fable]

I feel like Derek is going to hold off on reporting game breaking bugs until day 13 after PTB release just to prove a point 😂

[lilac coyote]

Um, no? I test from day one of PTB.

[silk fable]

C'mon, the laughing face emoji at the end of my statement indicates it was a joke

[lilac coyote]

I also start working on new Wiki pages at the same time.

[lilac perch]

do trapped wolves (which im trying to tame despawn while im away?

[true steeple]

Not once they've started taming

[lilac perch]

Thanks

[oblique hawk]

hands Rubanana a ).

[lilac perch]

and btw does the taming continue while i am gone?

[oblique hawk]

No, you have to be nearby for it to progress. Leaving pauses it and they have to eat again to continue taming.

[lilac perch]

jay time to stand afk for 1 hour again and they only tame at night right?

[oblique hawk]

Not sure, I've never tamed any night spawns.

[lilac perch]

yeah its only a normal wolf not a lvl 2

[oblique hawk]

Could still be a night spawn if you trap it at night. If it's a normal spawn at least it tames all the time.

[subtle parrot]

They will continue to tame during the day time as long as they've started taming at night time

[lilac perch]

so basicly sleeping through night is no problem?

[oblique hawk]

Sleeping pauses taming as well.

[lilac perch]

yeah but i want to distrub him with night creature spawns

[oblique hawk]

I've tested that. :p

[subtle parrot]

It shouldn't cause any problems as long as you see the yellow hearts before sleeping

[oblique hawk]

Yah, and as long as they have enouhg food it doesn't prolong the time it takes by more than a few seconds anyway.

[lilac perch]

okey thanks

[oblique hawk]

If they're night spawns they will try to despawn at dawn.

[lilac perch]

yeah i already tamed a lvl 2 wolf and another one but it took them like 1 hour each and i saw only it took only like 30 min so i thought i was doing something wrong

i just love getting my tames killed by random raids 🙂

[oblique hawk]

It takes 30 minutes of uninterrupted taming.

[lilac perch]

i now only have 1 hen , boar and 1 wolf left 😦

[oblique hawk]

Or rather, 30 minutes of taming, any interruption will add however long it takes for them to start taming again to the total time.

Keep a few spares in raid proof boxes.

[trail lichen]

back before mistlands i upgraded my boar den to stone for this exact reason
then in this playthrough after making the same stone castle i've had to upgrade it further with cage walls to protect from ranged attacks too
it was supposed to be a fancy house for my precious little piggies and now it looks like porcine guantanamo

[lilac perch]

had the same with a stone wall until a slime jumped over it 🙂

[true steeple]

Maybe you need a roof
Or higher walls

[silk fable]

... Or ballistas

[true steeple]

Yes, the boar defence so good even the farmer can't get in.

[trail lichen]

my recommendation is stone walls, cage for windows, and definitely roofing, because from swamp onwards there are creatures with enough vertical mobility to be a problem. stone roof could be a strat but would need strong support, i've gotten on fine with wood roofing though

[oblique hawk]

Should have a double set of walls (with some distance) too as the tames will flock to the wall where the enemy is and aoe damage effects go through walls.

[trail lichen]

what kind of distance? 2 metres between the inside edges of the walls, or more?

[marble roost]

I don't typically tame animals but I'd say like at least 4 meters. Shamen like spitting poison through walls, and trolls have quite the reach

[oblique hawk]

Troll log attack is ten metres (and goes through earth walls).

[mighty merlin]

Hello, I have a question. I am currently playing with my friends on the server that I started for about a week. When the Ashlands update comes, will it come to this server as well or will we have to start from scratch?

[stoic trench]

You’ll be good! Just don’t explore the placeholder Ashlands right now.

[static finch]

I was thinking of an awesome build combo for a second story mixed with my boar pen, would raising earth walls into a hill roofed with floors to become the second story mess with the animals below the floors? Or would they be fine? Ill send a concept in #building-screenshots

[mighty merlin]

oh thats a relief thank you so much for answering🤠 🍓

[stoic trench]

I don’t think it will be an issue?

[trail lichen]

from what i know boars don't need open sky, they just need food and distance from fire, so you should be okay. your idea sounds super cool, if my terrain permitted it i'd want to do the same lol

on the subject of boars, i think my spawn island might be too small to find stars on it, so i have a couple questions:

1. is there any way to measure distance reliably/accurately in game?
2. there is an island nearby that should have the spawns I need, should i try and bridge it or is there another way to move tames?

[stoic trench]

1. Id say not really, other than using build pieces, but that’s not realistic.
2. There’s not a way to move tamed boars easily- some have had success using boats, but my preferred method is to lure wild boar to where I want them tamed.

[trail lichen]

yeah that's my plan, to lure, THEN tame. guess i'm gonna have to build a bridge about 300-500 metres long lol

[fathom badge]

I think the F2 menu will give you your in-game coordinates, you can just do some trigonometry to figure out your distance

[trail lichen]

I can't see the co-ords in that menu, didn't know it existed so thanks for that tip!
i used the world-mapper and trig, yeah

[true steeple]

Is this the same menu which shows connected players and ping? (I play with a controller)

[trail lichen]

yeah it is

[true steeple]

I never knew there were coordinates there either

[fathom badge]

There is a way to find the current location, I just haven't done it and I'm not on my gaming PC to check 😉

[trail lichen]

oh yeah that's in the f5 menu, can't recall if it's a dev or player but you can use that. after my first playthrough in my first world i ended up doing it a whole lot for teleporting and looking around

[real nebula]

pretty sure it's devcommand, yeah

[trail lichen]

starred boars on the wiki says 800 metres from world centre, on here people have said it's from spawn
does anyone know which one is correct? if it's world centre (0,0) then i might have an easy time getting them, if it's spawn i'm in for a misery

[marble roost]

should be from world center. but spawn is typically very close to the center (iirc, spawn is in the center unless there's ocean there. If there's ocean, it spawns as close to as possible)

[trail lichen]

my spawn and base is about 450m or so off the world center, and there's ocean there instead
the land i can access on foot is pretty small, all of it is inside a 600 m radius of spawn, but enough lies just outside the 800m radius from world center that i have a chance

[marble roost]

mhm. I'm 97.62% sure its based on distance from middle of map

Also boar runestones can spawn 2 stars at any distance

[trail lichen]

but they only spawn them once, right? so if i don't find them first time i visit, it's no dice

[subtle parrot]

That's how i ended up with my 2* boar farm in my current playthrough

[halcyon crag]

doesn't the map around the player clear to about 200m?

[trail lichen]

how do you mean by that

[halcyon crag]

the fog of war, so if 200m is cleared, just go 5x that distance from spawn

[trail lichen]

the land i can access on foot is pretty small, all of it is inside a 600 m radius of spawn, but enough lies just outside the 800m radius from world center that i have a chance

[halcyon crag]

don't you have a boat?

exploring a large section of meadows is the best way to find starred boars further out, and also killing the no stars you come across makes a starred spawn more likely, the last time i went searching for them i found a 2 star boar within an hour

unfortunately it got killed by a troll raid i unwittingly allowed to happen by not clearing my workbenches 😅 , then i found another after like 40 more mins of searching

once i'd got them up and running it actually took more time breeding enough to take them on a boat than finding them

2 star wolves take a lot longer to find, you can be waiting in the mountains for in-game weeks to see one

[marble roost]

weird, I feel like I've never found a 2 star boar that wasn't from a boar shrine. And I almost never go out in the mountains at night but I've seen a 2 star wolf once or twice

[halcyon crag]

pretty lucky with the boars, i've only ever seen a 2 star at one of those runestones once

[trail lichen]

I do have a boat, my problem is bringing the boar back to my base once i've found it. my island is small enough that only one tiny section of meadows exists on it outside the 800m radius, the closest island is a long walk and short swim or a very long swim/short boat ride.

i was going to build a 500m bridge but i'm not certain i'll be able to support it, and it'll require thousands of wood, not to mention however much core wood i'll need for the supports or stone to raise the ground up, if that's even possible. it would take forever but it'd keep me occupied while I avoid having to fight bonemass

i've heard you can boat tamed animals back, but I don't know exactly how and i've heard it's very risky to do

[halcyon crag]

it's nowhere near as bad as you think lol, it just takes a bit of planning to get right, first you want to make sure you leave a few spares behind in case of an accident, then you scout the area close to the boat to make sure no mobs are near, load them on with the harpoon, sail them back to yr base, and try to avoid any mobs that might aggro them along the way

[trail lichen]

hm. i'll give it a go, beats spending the next 40 years building or hoping i find one on the tiny strip

[halcyon crag]

any struggles just yell xD

[visual radish]

Not worth it, just put down a portal so you can return whenever you want, then you don't have to waste massive amounts of time and effort struggling to get it back to base and you get the added benefit of it not being at risk of getting killed by raids (as long as you don't place 3 or more base structures near the pen).

[halcyon crag]

ppl like having them at home, they can breed them while they are doing other stuff

[trail lichen]

incorrect - not having to portal around is a bonus for me, plus the way i build my portal network means it's annoying to do it that way

[visual radish]

It's not incorrect to do it in the least tedious and the least annoying/painful way. But masochists will be masochists.

[trail lichen]

entirely subjective opinion, no need to be an ass

[sturdy folio]

Let's be respectful of one another please

[marble roost]

May I ask why you’re so interested in getting a 2 star boar?

[trail lichen]

I like 'em

plus, the meat's quicker to get more of

[halcyon crag]

your mission, should you choose to accept it, entails you entering hostile territory, rescuing the boar, and getting it home safe. This message will self destr...

[trail lichen]

I will rescue James Boar-nd

[halcyon crag]

or Jean Claude Vanham

[trail lichen]

Arnold Porkenegger

[halcyon crag]

Kevin Bacon

[trail lichen]

That ones just too easy, why not Pierce Boarsnan?

[halcyon crag]

Marcus Rasherford

[halcyon crag]

Jason StatHam

they make it too easy xD

[trail lichen]

hehe, very good

[proven salmon]

Anyone know offhand all that items that glow on the item stands?

Looking for alternative lighting options. So far I know the swamp key, fuling totem, and surling cores, and yellow mushrooms kinda

[fathom badge]

All? That's a list... lots of the potions do, frost specifically. You can put Dvergr circlets from Haldor on stands and armor stands, too. Brenna's trophy isn't bad, I think golem trophies give off a bit of light, dragon eggs...

[halcyon crag]

yes but all of them are bad in comparison to wisp torches and dverger lamps, of which i prefer the lamps as the blue glow from wisp torches becomes obnoxious in large quantities

[fathom badge]

Fair. You've also got the different iron torches you can make as well if you want green. Mixing the light colors is pretty cool.

[halcyon crag]

just gotta be aware of the fueling requirements for those as well, you don't want to be spending all yr time running after torches burning out xD

[trail lichen]

well, you won't have to refuel the item stands

[proven salmon]

Nice thank you for the tips - I didn't even think about potions and I forgot about the headlamp. I've read it makes a cool spotlight effect but I've never gotten one from Haldor yet. I'm still a noob and haven't fought Yagluth yet but I'll make sure to try out the wisplight stuff too

[halcyon crag]

it's nice to have a variety around the base, really depends on what you want to light up, for my builds i need a lot of light sources 😅

[marble roost]

Dvergr circlet produces a lot of light I believe

[halcyon crag]

i think someone did luminous testing and found that golem trophies were brightest of the trophies at the time?

this is going back a bit tho

before Mistlands

[proven salmon]

Oh nice, was that on YouTube or anything by chance? I'll try to find it if so

[halcyon crag]

not sure if it was on a video but you could try searching, it may have been mentioned in here

none of them are particularly stellar in terms of lighting however, i find them more useful for colour emphasis

like surt for red glow, dragon egg for pink, etc

and swamp keys are relatively easy to collect in large amounts at late game

[jolly elk]

I kinda like the way the plain ol' wall sconces light up an area. They seem to be brighter than torches, for sure. 🙂

[halcyon crag]

i wanted to line my "electrical lines" with himmin afl's, so they sparkled all the way along, but the tiny sparks aren't really enough to even make out in a shot sadly

ended up using swamp keys instead, and the effect is much better looking

[trail lichen]

found my boi James Hameron on the edge of a mountain biome, penned him in and dropped the fruit with howls in the background, ran off as soon as possible, will come back later to see if he's mine or the wolves'

p.s. this was as night as falling so 😬

[halcyon crag]

yeh risky, if you can, take some stone and make the pen with solid walls, that way nothing will really bother it, drakes if yr near mountains but i'd try to avoid those spots xD

a lot better with just a boar chasing you than a wolf or drake

[trail lichen]

sneaking around the boar to check the tameness occasionally is also great sneak training tbh

[trail lichen]

Boarack Oboarma

[dreamy basin]

I have a problem where my eitr refinery is unbalanced or something. Whenever I smelt 20 sotf tissue and sap, I only get 19 refined eitr and there will always be 1 sap or soft tissue left in the machine

[marble roost]

I think its like that for everyone

kinda odd tho

[trail lichen]

smelter used to do that too, some materials took 31 seconds to process but each fuel took 15 seconds to burn through, left this constant mismatch until the numbers lined up, which they'd only do once before being off by 1 for however long again

[uncut mirage]

Yes, this is kinda of a bug. You can try and rebuild it but everyone has the same issue I think

[buoyant peak]

You should get all the refined eitr, that leftover number must be visual only

I get the 20 refined eitr out of a refinery and "1" still shows in the sap slot

[thorn spire]

I heard that there’s a slight mismatch to sap and soft tissue usage i.e. 20 refined eitr requires 20 soft tissue and 20.1 sap.

I always just make sure i have an extra sap on hand.

[untold venture]

everything was fine until today's update and the server was running and playing and after today's update I have a problem, I can't enter the game properly because it immediately crashes when I'm on the server and I also have a HarmonyLib error in the message, another one in red I need help

[idle basin]

myt friend is having problems with starting valheim without any mods or anything

he has uninstalled and installed it couple times

nothing seems to work

[untold venture]

@idle basin he have problem today ? a newupdate ? did he have problem yeasterday too ?>

[idle basin]

not yesterday. yesterday we played normal and with my mr2modman mods and everything worked fine until todays update

[lilac coyote]

The update presuambly broke some of your mods.

[idle basin]

yes. planteverything isn't working. but myt friend cannot even launch unmodded valheim from steam

my game works fine without planteverything and without mods

[untold venture]

I unistal my server all mods a Clears Server He is working and dont have crash i must search which mod's dont working a newupdate

[tidal chasm]

Hello! I'm new to in-Valheim animal rearing. Do I need a landmass with all biomes on it in order to create a base with all animal types present?

[true steeple]

Animals can be bred outside the biome they spawn in, if that's what you're asking.

[tidal chasm]

Well sort of, like if I want a big lox and my homebase is in the meadows, I have to walk it over to my base right?

[true steeple]

You can swim it over (with a saddle) or have it in a boat. It will try to eat any serpents it sees though.

Make sure not to swim too far

[marble roost]

You could sail it. Pretty viable although it can get a bit dangerous. Short-distance you could also swim it over

[tidal chasm]

Oh you can sail animals? how hard is that?

[true steeple]

As long as they don't see a serpent, not too hard once theyre on the boat.

[subtle parrot]

A bit of a hassle imo

[tidal chasm]

So... maybe indeed easier to have a landmass with all 3. Or just a tiny short distance between them by sea

[true steeple]

Or you could make a farm in plains with a portal to your base

[tidal chasm]

Yeah, thought about that. I like having everything nearby though. I'm only interested in portaling for really necessary stuff

So given that, is there something specific I can look for with these conditions when finding seeds? Most of the subreddit for valheim seeds is just "good starter islands"

[subtle parrot]

#1202740443352137838

I'm sure there's some good options to look through in there, but just look for places where mountains plains and meadows meet, that'll make it easier to get them all together in one spot

[marble roost]

easier yeah just not necessary

and the 4th tamed animal is easy to transport :)

well and I supposed the 5th tame is easy to transport too

[tidal chasm]

Awesome, that is the answer I was looking for to make sure I wasn't missing some important new info

[uncut garnet]

Is player based raids available for dedicated servers? I've searched discord, the wiki, and google and been having a hard time finding if it is. Lots of info showing for single player and how to set those options if you're playing the game normally and hosting a regular multiplayer session, but I haven't found anything on dedicated servers. I really miss websites and wikis.

[true steeple]

If you enable it in-game it should stay enabled when hosting the dedicated server

[uncut garnet]

That sounds like when you boot the game and then click host a server, rather than running the dedicated server.

[lilac coyote]

We HAVE a Wiki.

[uncut garnet]

I've been unable to find anything about it on the wiki.

[true steeple]

Enable it in the world select menu then host the dedicated server as you would normally.

[uncut garnet]

That isn't how booting dedicated servers works. I was hoping there was variables you can run when running the server.bat but

But again it sounds like this is through the single player creating a world and then clicking Host to invite people. which isn't the same thing.

[lilac coyote]

There ARE variables, they're all in the server manual.

[uncut garnet]

I've been trying to find links to a server manual and haven't had luck, so if there's a URL to that, that'd be great.

The most recent one i could find was from 2021 that's a pargraph on how to start one, but no variables or configs

[lilac coyote]

There's a PDF in your server folder...

There's also a copy linked in the #dedicated-server channel.

[uncut garnet]

Perfect. Thanks. That channel wasn't showing up for me until I clicked your link.

Appreciated, and with that I'm out, I got what I needed. I was hoping to find a enable player based raids variable somewhere.

[true steeple]

I’ve just tested it and this works. Change world modifiers in-game, then host the dedicated server normally

[uncut garnet]

Dedicated servers generate a world when you run it. Again, you don't start a dedicated server through the regular game.

[true steeple]

I know. I didnt start it in-game. I started it with the bat file I always use

[lilac coyote]

Why are you suggesting such an outdated technique?

[uncut garnet]

Also the default dedicated server tool ins team doesn't run on linux so, appreciated, but it doesn't launch. I got my setup workin a while ago and just needed config/variable/file info to change. Which I got to the manual, Much appreciated again for that link. But with that I'm out

It does look like player based raids isn't a modifier to set, unfortunate.

[lilac coyote]

It absolutely is. As per the instructions in the PDF.

[true steeple]

look down a bit. I missed it too earlier, which is why I suggested changing the settings in-game.

[true steeple]

Playerevents should do it?

[lilac coyote]

Indeed.

[uncut garnet]

Ah, so the variable is player events and not player based raids.

[lilac coyote]

Incidentally, all the global keys can be found here: https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Global_Keys

Yes, they're called events everywhere except by players.

[uncut garnet]

Confusing the language isn't consistent when you're looking to do programming related things

[lilac coyote]

It's completely consistent in the places we can control.

[uncut garnet]

looks at th eserver variables ok

[lilac coyote]

I cannot control the contents of that file.

[subtle parrot]

Idk if I'm tripping or if my game is just being weird, but instead of swinging tools and weapons the direction my character is facing, my character now turns the direction the camera is facing then attacks and it's never done this before, anyone else having this problem?

[true steeple]

Are you on controller too?

[subtle parrot]

Yup

[true steeple]

That happens now, but at least we don't slow down when doing a heavy attack mid-air any more

[subtle parrot]

Dang..

This is gonna drive me up a wall lol

[true steeple]

The jumping heavy attacks are going to be useful though

[subtle parrot]

Lol if i ever utilize them maybe, I'm not generally jumping around too much when fighting though. But now i have to keep track of where my camera is at all times while fighting, which is tedious and makes it more difficult while already being on very hard lol

[true steeple]

I've been practicing jump attacks a lot in my current playthrough, the ability to move well while in the middle of an attack animation is so powerful

[subtle parrot]

Guess I'll have to give it a go too

[true steeple]

Trees are good to get the timings down when you start. Try to land the hit at the moment you touch the ground, you won't want to swing over an enemy's head.

[subtle parrot]

Right on, I'll figure it out

[marble roost]

It does make slow attacking weapons quite good, as well as weapons that already have significant movement components (specifically knife secondary)

I approve of jump attacks ❤️

Oh and good for ranged weapons too

[true steeple]

How does it help with a knife secondary? That already moves mid-animation.

[marble roost]

Better range from combining it

And less vulnerability from the short chargeup before the character jumps

[subtle parrot]

😅 i really don't like this change..

[true steeple]

I don't like it either, if I wanted to attack where I was facing I only needed to block to centre myself.

[marble roost]

It takes some getting used to

[subtle parrot]

I'm just gonna have to play later, this is frustrating me too much

[marble roost]

Does the character instantly turn to the direction or do it gradually as you’re hitting?

[true steeple]

The player turns instantly at the first frame of the attack animation, then gradually after that.

[subtle parrot]

He immediately turns around

[true steeple]

I usually hold block if I'm not low on stamina to keep my player facing forwards so it shouldn't affect me too much
but I guess I don't need to do this now

[subtle parrot]

I would rather be in first person than not have full control of where my character attacks

Without having to move the camera in 3rd person

[marble roost]

Hmm Ngl sounds kinda useful if it works for block too 😂

Too many times have I been hit by enemies even with perfect parry timing, because my character didn’t turn fast enough

[true steeple]

It doesn't instantly work with blocking, that's still gradual

[subtle parrot]

Just make sure the camera is facing the right direction lol

[lilac perch]

is this btw enough flax and barley for the plains?\

[stoic trench]

For a standard playthrough, I’d say yeah

[fathom badge]

It's enough flax, but likely not enough barley. It stays useful for quite a while into the Mistlands and gets used very quickly with lox pies and bread.

[marble roost]

Looks good! Should sustain you for a long time. If you opt for a lot of barley recipes you’ll definitely need more eventually tho

[lilac perch]

okey thanks all

[tame wigeon]

Hello i have a question beacouse my menu in valheim look this

[spare totem]

Uninstall/Reinstall fixes most things in the game

[acoustic olive]

anyone good with mods? cus odins ship has this lil issue

[frail cave]

since the latest update, it is loading endlessly (after 8min i stopped it and tried again without success); if i start a new world, it loads in very quick. before, it has always loaded in very quick, too. is this a common problem and is there a fix?

[fathom badge]

Ask for help with mods in #mods-issues , but since there was a recent update many mods will be broken until the mod authors fix things.

[acoustic olive]

ah thank you, and sry

[fathom badge]

No worries. Just trying to keep channels with pertinent info. This is for the unmodified game, so the advice here is to uninstall mods and see if the problem keeps happening 😉

[frail torrent]

Just a question, wil i have to reset my save world for the new update to get the ashland or will it be added onto my save when it gets released?

[subtle parrot]

As long as you haven't explored too much of it, it will be fine.

[karmic ice]

I have same problem with a friend, did you find any solution ?

[frail cave]

nope

[karmic ice]

Nice ^^ So .. Welcome .. ^^

[clear epoch]

[Error : Unity Log] TypeLoadException: Failure has occurred while loading a type.
Stack trace:
(wrapper dynamic-method) Chat.DMDChat::Update(Chat)

[lilac coyote]

Those are mod errors.

[clear epoch]

endless loading, i have no mods anymore

[oblique hawk]

The screenshots says otherwise. It literally says Bepinex.

[clear epoch]

yes, but I don't have any mods, I launch the game directly. i'l ltry and reinstall the game

[oblique hawk]

Reinstalling the game doesn't remove mods, it just reinstalls the game. Any other files added to the Valhiem folder are unaffected.

#valheim-help message details how to properly remove mods.

[timber garnet]

4060ti R5 5600x 32gb 3200mhz Constant Micro Stutters when running around map

Using F2 ive managed to get that instances seem to be increasing/Decreasing by 1000ish give or take at once which i think is causing the stutters?

[fathom badge]

That's possible... do you have XMP turned on for your machine, or is it a prebuilt of some kind?

[timber garnet]

XMP profile is on yeah

Been racking my brain about it as the stutters are too often not to go unoticed and Valheim is one of my favs so not being able to play is irritating me!

[fathom badge]

Yeah, for sure. What is the render scaling set to in your settings? If it's set to Automatic, you might try setting it to Native or a set percentage and see if that changes things

[timber garnet]

Still getting the stuttering with that

i have this save on my device rather than cloud is that better or worse?

[fathom badge]

That shouldn't matter too much, the worlds and such I believe should all still be written locally.

[timber garnet]

So doing more running it will go to say 7156 instances then it will drop to 5966 and then slowly rise up to close to the original number

is that normal or is it loading it all weird?

just to clarify i am staying within the same Biome when it does that

[fathom badge]

No, that is somewhat normal. That's a pretty high instance count though... are you in a base or something?

[timber garnet]

nope

while im wandering the instance count is between 6433 and that

[fathom badge]

Hrmph. That all sounds pretty normal. You don't have vsync on separately in the game and in your drivers or anything, right? Drivers don't have any specific settings for Valheim?

[timber garnet]

Let me just reset everything to default on my NVCP see if anythings accidentally been altered¬

[old bronze]

How can I make backups of my worlds?

[timber garnet]

Reset it all to default but im still having issues, even tried changing Hz of monitor get big spikes like this

even changing settings seems to have no affect on it

[fathom badge]

Strange. Do you have any screen recording or maybe performance monitoring software in the background? Sometimes stutters can be caused by other programs using resources.

[vagrant trellis]

playing local? Data tx/rx is 0. Sure you aren't counting network latency as a visual issue?

[timber garnet]

Am playing local

[vagrant trellis]

instance load will constantly fluctuate, depending what direction you are looking. You can do a 180 and change the load number

I'm on a 3070, same 32g ram, 10850k and it rips 200ish most of the time until I enter a heavily built area. You did the diligence of checking software like nvidia gameready, driver versions, etc?

I run on linux but your mileage should more or less be the same on windows

better, with a better card

[timber garnet]

Yeah im on the most up to date driver for the card

[vagrant trellis]

using an overlay impacts framerate also, since you have one running shut it off

a 4070 will tell you it's temperatures through monitoring, is it within a reasonable spec? Same with processor, it should have sensors on board.

[timber garnet]

yeah it is

[vagrant trellis]

what's the temp at?

[timber garnet]

CPU 49 GPU 34

[vagrant trellis]

c?

[timber garnet]

yeah

[vagrant trellis]

totally fine then

nothing dumb like running 'windowed' but also at a full screen resolution?

[timber garnet]

Thing is i used to play on a 1060 and r 5 1600 with 2666mhz ram and did not used to get the stuttering whatsoever

[vagrant trellis]

If it were me, I'd take a step back from Valheim itself, and benchmark some other heavy games and see if the trouble follows. If it does, it's not Valheim

[timber garnet]

yeah i only get this on one other game

Medieval dynasty, like i play some heavy hitting RPGS like cyberpunk and KCD and the stuttering is pretty much none existant for me

[vagrant trellis]

any kind of overclocking or ram changes? Default the 4070 settings?

[timber garnet]

yeah all default in that regard

[vagrant trellis]

you can recreate this trouble by doing silly stuff like forcing the card to render direct3d instead of opengl

[timber garnet]

Would you mind telling me how to do that

And I’m checking to see if resize bar might be causing it

[vagrant trellis]

resize bar? Elaborate on that

If you haven't been messing with the nvidia settings, you probably didn't change any defaults. But, in the settings there is a specific option to change what type of render the card does. You can also set it's preference of (high quality vs high performance)

and, have it supercede game settings, because games can override some of it

[vagrant trellis]

From the Windows Start menu, select Control Panel, then Nvidia control panel

[timber garnet]

@vagrant trellis I’m having a look at that right now but I can’t seem to find the setting?

[timber garnet]

Found something that makes me feel incredibly dumb... i do apologise for wasting your time, it wasnt helping before but now using Vulkan seems to help it and reduce the stutter quite a bit

[fathom badge]

What was it, if you don't mind? It might help someone else in the future

[timber garnet]

for me switching to Vulkan, which is quite suprising as 40's typically favour Direct X in terms of perfoamnce

just want to clarify its only reduced it!

i imagine in the future when stuff moves on the stutter will probs be less 🙂

thanks all for the help! you are all amazing!

[fathom badge]

Still make sure you double-check for background processes, those can often cause weird stuttering, but glad that Vulkan seems to alleviate it.

[timber garnet]

After a little more Testing Best approach is

Vulkan

-Enable Fast Vsync in NVCP additionally enable a frame limiter in the NVCP

-disable valheims Vsync and Put frame limit in game to unlimited

as now rather than having stutters coming in a burst ill get a slight bump of just one, compared to the screenshot i sent you earlier on

Computers plain and simple are weird and i work with them for a living! 🤣

[vagrant trellis]

ahh, good catch. Vulkan ties to what I was mentioning earlier, whether or not the card is using opengl, d3d, vulkan lol. I forgot mentioning that one

My same hardware on Windows ran without vulkan and had great framrate, worse with it on. That hardware in linux runs vulkan shaders and it performs better than opengl. lol whatever works

[fathom badge]

I wonder if you're getting heat issues with those symptoms, Vulkan is more efficient so might just be generating less heat on the CPU or GPU with those settings.

Just micro-heat issues, the chip downclocks to cool down for a touch, and then kicks back up

[vagrant trellis]

vulkan is technically the best option, if you can run it well

better api than what microsoft has been using for years

[timber garnet]

I was thinking that but honestly ive been using a Temp monitor in the background due to worries about that and i barely get above 60 on gpu or cpu

yeah vulkan is one of those ones where it is either very good for you or unnoticeable from Directx

with this card i had a problem with another game that forcing it to use Dx12 when the game was made using Dx9

[next pivot]

after this new patch my server said its incompatible and running an older version of valheim, is there way I can update the server version?

[true steeple]

Have you tried opening the server through steam? That should check for updates.

[next pivot]

like running valheim dedicated server? ok al try

[true steeple]

You mean you werent using a dedicated server already? I dont know how else your server version would be different to the game…

[lilac coyote]

Because they don't update automatically.

[next pivot]

It needs an update, thanks that should be it, I do use it just not through steam

[lilac coyote]

It'll be -app_update or something like that. (I don't do much with servers)

[true steeple]

If you use a shortcut to the bat file (like I do) you’ll need to open it in steam to update it.

[next pivot]

thanks folks

yeh I do use bat file haha

[trail lichen]

so you can't harpoon tamed animals huh

[lilac coyote]

If you enable friendly fire you can.

[trail lichen]

like, the pvp crossed swords thing in the tab menu?

[cursive dew]

Hello guys... so I'm building something which has wood supports into water, I see that those supports are getting damage from water, does that damage go all the way through it getting broken or there's a limit? Kinda realizing that my bridge might have a destruction timer 💀

[last lava]

My understanding is that buildings can onl go to 50% damage by environmental sources. Only players/Mobs can destroy structure

[cursive dew]

Ohh that's perfect, thank you for the reply 🙏

[last lava]

https://tenor.com/view/robert-redford-jeremiah-johnson-nodding-yes-nod-of-approval-gif-21066931

[raw atlas]

hi ...i have a problem with my game..i cant see the map that i already discovered.
Enviaste
so..i cant see my last dead body and recover my gear

[visual radish]

Joining the world with a different character or having the game crash would be a couple of reasons why you can't see previously explored areas. Beyond that can't think of anything else, especially without more info (sending a screenshot of what you're seeing in #screenshots might help to understand what's going on a little better).

[raw atlas]

thanks

[trail lichen]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! my goals are now possible

[halcyon crag]

also the butcher knife does the same thing but without having to enable friendly fire

[halcyon crag]

also later building materials don't suffer the weather damage, just regular and corewood

and anywhere you want to keep dry you can put a roof piece or an angled wood beam above

[trail lichen]

butcher knife just kills though? I need the harpoon to keep Jean-Claude on the boat

[halcyon crag]

good luck! did you prepare a reception area?

[trail lichen]

I have a boar pen already, do you mean something else?

[halcyon crag]

just somewhere safe to unload ye

[trail lichen]

yeah i'll just do it right at my base
i tried to get him on the boat just now but he fled fast as he could and the line broke

re-penned him but i'm at a loss for how to make this work again

[halcyon crag]

you need him to be calm, so the best way is to hit him with the harpoon, then wait until the ! drops, then he'll be relatively docile for loading onto the boat

[trail lichen]

oh okay. does feeding affect anything?

[halcyon crag]

drag him up steps and across boards and then use the hammer to deconstruct the board he's stood on (you can do this while he's still harpooned)

you can also drive the boat with harpoon still attached, as long as he's not pulling the line it should be fine for the whole trip

[halcyon crag]

it will restore some of his health and give him regen ticks, but they are best dealt with once you've reached home

[trail lichen]

aight, i did everything, as soon as I broke the stuff surrounding him he still fled as fast as possible and is now under the boat

[halcyon crag]

is there a mob nearby that he's aggroing on?

once he's in calm state he should stay that way unless something else is bothering him

[trail lichen]

no, he just seems to constantly make a break for freedom every time

even though he's tame he just wants tp run back to where he spawned, even harpooned, etc. he's calm ,tame, fed, and just bolts every time. this is incredibly stupid and frankly I'm just gonna devcommand in a two-star boar at my base and tame it there. this shouldn't be this badly designed this is fine and i am just being stroppy

[halcyon crag]

ahh, it's 1st gen return behaviour, you need to breed him then take one of the offspring instead

they won't have that

[trail lichen]

they won't because his bloodline ended with him

thanks for all your help but my patience, already razor-thin, has run out

[halcyon crag]

unfortunate, you did most of the work lol, i did mention yday about breeding spares before attempting transport, but if you ran out of love for the process then that's that xD

[trail lichen]

yeah, it's a me problem, i haven't the patience for it frankly, but i guess it makes sense that a creature, even one familiarised with you, would try and leave for its "home" as soon as it could, but one bred in captivity wouldn't

on my next run, assuming the process does not change further, i'll know what to do at least

[gloomy edge]

so raid mobs dont despawn anymore? it was an hour ago the raid happened and ive been in the area since then so its always loaded

[trail lichen]

when i've been raided they've usually tried to leave, never to any success because i thirsted for absolute vengeance

[halcyon crag]

i've never been a big fan of that particular quirk either lol

[halcyon crag]

they do, mostly, but some of them lose pathfinding and end up hanging around

[gloomy edge]

ah so i can keep it as pet

[halcyon crag]

it might move off and despawn eventually

i had wolves from a raid that were trapped in a trench at my plains base, and they stayed for a long time, until i eventually got fed up and finished them off

[trail lichen]

why not tame them though?

[halcyon crag]

they can't be tamed

[stoic trench]

So I have some question about creature spawn mechanics. For context, I have an island that is about 75m in diameter that’s a meadows biome. It appears to spawn deer, boar, and other meadows creatures at a pretty alarming rate.

1. How far must you be for an animal/creature to spawn?
2. Does debris (rocks, trees, etc) affect spawning in any way?
3. Do dirt paths have an effect on spawning? How about terraforming?
4. Do necks spawn exclusively in water?

[fathom badge]

1. Not sure, I think it's a couple hundred meters though. 2) No. 3) No 4) Not in, but I think they need to be near. I think it might be altitude more than specifically water.

[lilac coyote]

1. it's the other way round. Mobs spawn 40-80m from the player.

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

[fathom badge]

Derek knows all 😛

[stoic trench]

Haha that makes sense actually, because I feel like I’m watching these deer spawn, it’s kinda crazy! It’s almost like a natural deer ‘farm’.

Thanks for the wiki link! Checking out the page now.

[halcyon crag]

also for 2), if it touches ground and covers it mobs can't spawn there, however if there is even a tiny patch of terrain inside a rock, mobs can and will spawn there

[lost breach]

where can i find my valheim world saves to make backups ? please and thank you

[halcyon crag]

manage saves section in-game, switching from to cloud to local and back or vice versa makes a backup copy

[stoic trench]

Hmm so on my isolated meadows island, if I ignore the deer (and others I suppose) would that suppress boar spawns?

[halcyon crag]

why don't you want boars to spawn?

[trail lichen]

[stoic trench]

It’s the opposite, I’m trying to maximize boar spawning. So currently, I’m killing everything to try and make sure more boar spawn, but I’m wondering if that’s necessary.

[halcyon crag]

it rolls the rng counter when you kill boar i know that, not sure on everything else

[stoic trench]

(All this because I’m salty my 2-star boar was killed while I was leading it back to base and I want another lol)

[trail lichen]

🐗⭐ ⭐

[halcyon crag]

i think the more you kill the more chance you have overall

lotta salty boar farmers today xD

[trail lichen]

helps preserve the meat tbh

[halcyon crag]

actually yeh i'm pretty sure killing meadows spawns will increase yr chances, it works the same in the mountains, the more of any mob you kill, the more chance of the fabled 2 star wolfy

[stoic trench]

Nice, good to know. I took my demolisher with me and it’s a fun little game to try and kill as many necks in one swing as possible lol. I have more deer hide than I’ll ever need. I’ll keep at it then, hope for that 2-star.

[trail lichen]

i might try to tame wolves on this run tbh. i skipped it last run but two-star wolves sound like a vibe.
"It was me, Baha Men. I let the dogs out."

[stoic trench]

And yeah, I was pretty bummed when that 2-star boar was killed by a deathsquito. Found him early too. Oh well, purely for completionist sake anyways.

[lilac coyote]

Nope. 2* chance is always 1%

[halcyon crag]

not disputing that, we're discussing rolling the rng counter faster by killing mobs

[brazen thunder]

hey, what dictates the rate at wich mobs with more stars appear? in my solo world i playe don a while ago for example, i barely encountered any 1 star, though i played like 100 days, but i just started a new world with a friend, not even 10 days in and we must have had like 10 1star deers/boars, about the same amount of 1star greylings and 2 2stars greylings, wich seems a lot to me, or is it normal?

[halcyon crag]

it's an rng roll, based on a few factors like distance from spawn, total number of mobs of that type per chunk, etc

obviously on the whole seeing lots of starred mobs should be rarer, but you will inevitably get pockets where they seem to all pop at once

[lilac coyote]

World modifiers can change that too.

[trail lichen]

distance from world centre (co-ords 0,0 ) not spawn, while usually close they can vary significantly enough to make things "interesting"

[halcyon crag]

yeh fair

we just generalize it as spawn to identify it easier

also any mods may interfere with any/all of those

[brazen thunder]

i see, thanks

[loud tiger]

Help, I haven’t played in a while and tried to play yesterday, I’ve been trying since and can’t get on to my old game where I have 1298 hours, or start a new one. It keeps timing out. I have tried everything they said and nothing is working.

[willow raft]

Everything includes a full remove, reboot pc, reinstall, try again?
Make sure to backup your files though, so you don't lose your world.

[loud tiger]

I did back up, got in my code and fixed. Last resort was that step 😭 I didn’t want to

[willow raft]

Sometimes that is all that helps.

[loud tiger]

Thank you. I will try that next. I was just hoping with all the updates I missed something

[leaden island]

r they any new player guides online? can't seem to find them and struggling w/this game for 2 hours rn

[true steeple]

What are you struggling with specifically?

[leaden island]

building, controls and how food and status effects works

[true steeple]

Food temporarily increases maximum health, stamina and health regeneration. Can you give more information about the building and status effects?

[leaden island]

is food required to survive in this game?

[true steeple]

Yes, you will die very quickly without the health and stamina when fighting enemies in later biomes

[leaden island]

also, what conditions have to be right in order to be able to place a campfire?

[true steeple]

You need 5 stone and 2 wood. Campfires can’t be placed on wood.

[leaden island]

ah so I was placing the campfire on wood

[willow raft]

What seems to be the problem?
You pick up sticks and stones from the ground so you can break some bones.
Incidentally that will also let you chop wood so you can build a workbench and start your first tiny house that will provide you cover from the rain, a place to sleep and cook you food, do leave a space in the roof so the smoke can get out.

Building is a learning process just keep trying and you will figure it out there are a few tutorials on youtube.

Food is either eaten raw but you can prepare some food over a fire or in a cauldron.
Food is rather important because you will only ever have a small base pool of health and stamina.
Food is divided in 4 categories, stamina, health, mixed and eitr (eitr is end game so don't worry about it for now)
Stamina lets you dodge more, fight longer and run longer.
Health is for surviving the attacks you can't dodge, what you can block and how good you can stagger also depends on health.
I would advice taking 2 health and 1 stamina food if you go melee, for bow or hit and run tactics 2 stamina and 1 health.

[leaden island]

ty, this really cleared some stuff up for me

[willow raft]

Any other questions feel free to ask, we are a helpful bunch here, most of the time.

[frail cave]

i am using mods. what worked for me was returning in the beta selection to default_old previous stable. now it loads perfectly

[lapis terrace]

send a DM to --> @lofty orchid

[lilac coyote]

Or anyone you don't know, really.

[oblique hawk]

"From this server" is rather irrelevant. Allowing any strangers on your server always carries a risk.

It's a single player game/co-op game meant to play alone or with friends, if you choose to let random people on that's on you.

[lapis terrace]

we have our eyes open for those 2

[wicked kelp]

Guys could someone help me with the difference in the starting Popup window between launching the game on Steam or Xbox game pass? Problem is, I bought the game on Xbox - but not through Game pass, just normal full price and I have it on Steam as well. I would like to try the Ninebytes RPG map on Xbox without hosting it on a PC, but I cant figure out how to use the Xbox version I have to enable it on Game pass and how to use the RPG map file to host the game on the Xbox console directly.

[halcyon crag]

that's like asking why there's a bully in every school

and why we don't close every school to prevent it

[lilac coyote]

Why does what server exist?

[halcyon crag]

this one

[lilac coyote]

Well, so people can talk about the game and get help and support with it. Which I think it does well

What? Theres 120,000 people here to talk to.

[halcyon crag]

we can't be expected to know every one and their respective character lol

[lilac coyote]

Chatting in Discord is very different to giving them your game server password.

[halcyon crag]

the discord server is moderated, what more can they really do?

[lilac coyote]

What a weird take. That's not what I said at all.

[lilac coyote]

This is what I said.

Yes, that's correct.

[halcyon crag]

you can protect yourself against losing any progress/items with the regular saves the game makes and that you can trigger, and if you lose items they can just be spawned back in

don't take anything to a dedi you don't want to lose, and always assume the worst will happen, we've had server wipes and all sorts, it's the wild west of Valheim honestly

[lilac coyote]

What?

[halcyon crag]

if someone bashes yr build it can be awkward to retrieve but going back to what i said about assuming the worst will happen

if that's yr takeaway it's a bit sad, we're not all baddies

kick/ban, restore backup, move on, it's their loss

[fresh veldt]

DAMN!

‼️

[buoyant peak]

The host is responsible for the people they invite to their servers.

That's why is very explicitly stated that valheim should be played with trusted people rather than strangers in the internet.

And there are still people who will try to do it. But it's to be expected they know and understand the consequences.

[halcyon crag]

reporting it to the modmail thing seems weird but it is actually fine and the mods respond to all messages

[buoyant peak]

Because that is witch hunting. Which isn't even forbidden by the rules of the server, it's forbidden by the rules of the platform itself.

Mods can't do anything about it either, they could ban the players and then what?, It's not like that person would stop griefing

[halcyon crag]

we just aren't allowed to go there

and the mods can only deal with complaints that go thru the modmail

indeed

just outline what happened, the mods will continue from there

[fresh veldt]

Through the mod mail it makes it offcial and lets the mod look through it

It goes to them not an ai

[sturdy folio]

Why is this being mentioned again? You were given the correct avenue and a description of how to use modmail/ what modmail is by multiple people and we’re still discussing the situation?

[stoic trench]

At the end of the day, it’s just a game after all. I know it’s frustrating, but there isn’t much you can really do. Spawn stuff in, rebuild your base(s), and potentially find a new group if you want.

[buoyant peak]

I'm sure that's illegal.

And even then, what? Mods would hack their system?

[lilac coyote]

Where have you got AI from?

[halcyon crag]

spending half an hour discussing sending a 30 second email:

[sturdy folio]

It’s not even an email

[halcyon crag]

tweet? xD

[sturdy folio]

Apologies for the bright screenshot here but:

https://discord.com/safety/using-modmail-bots#:~:text=Simply put%2C modmail bots are,as a “ticket”).

[halcyon crag]

slide into my dm's

[lilac coyote]

You're DMing a bot that passes the messages on to the mod team.

What?

[fresh veldt]

What

[lilac coyote]

Noone pays for the server.

Noone told you to email anything.

Send a DM, the mods will read it and then get back to you.

[fresh veldt]

Buh bro
The dm you send to the bot
Goes to every mod
It's just called modmail for the silliness, please worry not

[sturdy folio]

One moderator and a developer earlier

Everyone else replying is a member

[fresh veldt]

Real

[halcyon crag]

they don't signify anything other than spring club

[fresh veldt]

Highly exclusive

[halcyon crag]

the red green and purp names are the officials/staff

[sturdy folio]

[stoic trench]

If you don’t send a message to modmail, then the cheater/griefer wins.

[delicate steppe]

Why doesn't this collapse

its not touching anything

[oblique hawk]

Becaise it's still connected, the hitboxes are bigger than the visible bits.

[delicate steppe]

Ohh 🤦

Thanks ill mine some more then

[halcyon crag]

gotta work yr way up from the pieces closest to ground, a lot of it will be unreachable due to the dig limit, but the hitboxes will still be connected as said

[oblique hawk]

I think I can see some copper in the ground as well, just next to your head on the lowest picture.

[halcyon crag]

yeh any loose spots like that will hamper efforts

smoothing it with the hoe from the lowest point can help unearth some of those bits

[delicate steppe]

🫡

[halcyon crag]

it's insanely satisfying when you get that last connected bit and the rest pops and rains copper down

[delicate steppe]

Finally lol

[keen zodiac]

is it worth the time popping a copper vein?

[delicate steppe]

After all this I would say no LOL

[keen zodiac]

I mean comparing to a silver vein it's way harder and time consuming

[keen zodiac]

Yeah, just call a not so friendly troll and ask him to punch around and smash the ground a bit then grab what you can and leave the underground part. way better than trying to pop it

[silk pond]

Hi, everyone! I'm new to Valheim but I already love it. I want to know if there is an app to create something similar to an D&D character sheet for valheim. With no real use, just for fun.
P.D. sorry about my english, I'm from Argentine.

[keen zodiac]

D&D?

[stoic trench]

Dungeons and Dragons, it’s a tabletop RPG.

[stoic trench]

Nothing comes to mind though, sorry!

[silk pond]

It's okay. Thanks for reply

[silk pond]

Dungeon and dragons

[fathom badge]

Yeah, D&D doesn't really break skills down quite the same way Valheim does, so it'd be really hard to map it over for proficiencies and such. Best bet would be probably a barbarian or fighter build with some dips into maybe sorcerer for magic or ranger for ranged proficiencies

[subtle parrot]

Rogue/ranger is kinda feasible too

[silk pond]

That's right. Every app that I find were super detailed

[serene tangle]

Not sure it could be mapped... no stats—only skills. No common level. No races, no classes...

[real nebula]

We're excellent craftsmen, most of our power comes from our gear and most of our resilience comes from our cooking

We're artificers with the chef feat

Don't @ me

[fathom badge]

Yeah... you've swayed me. Scarlet is right 😛

[stoic trench]

You could absolutely make some home brew content for DnD though, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone’s made a 5e stat block for greydwarves and their variants. Even a lot of the weapons could just be magic weapons- for example Frostner could just be a +2 Warhammer that deals additional frost damage or something.

[proven salmon]

Can anyone tell me what the max height / world ceiling of the map is?

[true steeple]

There isn’t one

[fathom badge]

MAXINT ?

[silk pond]

What a great presentation! We could use it to introduce our character

[silk pond]

It's a great idea, maybe I can try. Thanks

[real nebula]

You're gonna need some heavy lifting to make 5e work in a Valheim context though, in all seriousness.

Might as well make your own ttrpg system from the ground up

[stoic trench]

Hmm I don’t think it would be too difficult, might have to rework the linear progression- make a campaign that’s a little more open ended perhaps? I think most, if not all, of the monsters could be translated to 5e.

It would likely end up as a Valheim-inspired campaign with a Valheim skin over it lol

[fathom badge]

Yeah, gotta limit classes and magic and such as well to stay within world. It's doable, but it'd be super hard to balance properly.

[real nebula]

This is the problem with trying to translate a classless game into D&D

I'm not familiar with really anything ttrpg beyond 5e tho, but I'm sure there's some classless one that can be better used as a basis for... wait, why are we in Valheim help again?

[silk pond]

It sound hard and time-demanded but whatever, everything for the fun 😂 if I can make it, I gonna tell you all. Thanks for help

[silk pond]

Sorry, my bad. I thought I could ask here, I was wrong?

[real nebula]

S'all good, we just normally keep this channel for folks needing help with the game itself~

#valheim-chat or #general would be a better place for brainstorming this

[silk pond]

Oh! I read "help" and I thought to ask here

[icy ivy]

hello, is there a way to scroll up through the console? I want to see all my stats but can't

[real nebula]

Does PageUp work?

Or cursor keys maybe

If you're looking at your own stats tho, do you mean your skill levels? There's a menu you can open to see those, open your inventory and click on the icons on the top right

[icy ivy]

nope, was looking at my chars whole stats, page up works though, thank you

[real nebula]

Nice~

[atomic totem]

what do i craft first? etir refinery or black forge?

[fathom badge]

You can switch between the two if you need, but to really build anything cool you need the refinery

[stoic trench]

Hmm I’d say refinery? But you can always deconstruct one to build the other in the meantime.

[atomic totem]

ah, smart. thanks

[fleet wing]

Has crashing been resolved since the patch?

[fathom badge]

Crashing has been largely an individual thing, not a universal issue. There was one memory leak fixed with the patch, but I'm not aware of large-scale crashing issues ever existing.

[fleet wing]

2 out of 3 of us are crashing regularly, usually with a unity gui for a moment

the 3rd is very laggy he said

[fathom badge]

That's usally because of mods... nothing in Valheim displays the Unity GUI.

[visual radish]

Only crashes I ever got were because I had an old graphics card that wasn't up to the task. Haven't had crashes since I got a newer one.

[fleet wing]

We dont use mods, its a Unity window with like aloading bar only displays for a moment

Were running 3080's and a 4090

None of us ever crashed like this before

[fathom badge]

An image that looks kinda like this?

[fleet wing]

yes

[fathom badge]

Yeah. That's mods. Bepinex, something.

[fleet wing]

We have never installed a mod

I have had this server up for 2+ years

[fathom badge]

I dunno what to tell you. The only way that window can exist is with mods. You might try following these instructions to be sure: #valheim-help message

[fleet wing]

Its a vanilla install....and only started happening with the patch

[fathom badge]

If you ever had mods installed at any point that can happen, the mod manager still injects itself and can definitely cause those issues, even if you think you turned them all off. It's just the nature of how the mods work.

[fleet wing]

Like I said, we have never had a mod installed, I wouldnt even know where to begin

[fluid venture]

what is this large stone floor in the mountain ruins? Is this a non placeable block or have I just not unlocked it?

[real nebula]

Non placeable by players

You might be able to repair it? I can't remember

[fluid venture]

too bad...

[mighty merlin]

ı cant seem to collect any serpent trophy, ı saw one spawn but ı guess it sank in the ocean. should ı use the harpoon first to drag it to the shore before ı kill it?

[last lava]

Just do what our parents did with nice hardwood floors and cover it in some cheap vinyl/carpet

[timber garnet]

didnt know about it, but i need it

[last lava]

yeah, unfortunately the only thing that floats is the meat, the rest sinks

you can either harpoon it to land, or lead it to land fight it in the shallows if you dont have a harpoon

[frail cave]

where can i get a world save of a built valhiem world ? from any decent valhiem builder ?

[mighty merlin]

but why tho?

[last lava]

because when they made items, they decided which floated and which sank, and they decided that the head/scales sink

[frail cave]

without boss saves

[fluid venture]

tell me if you find a mod or something for it xD

[mighty merlin]

it is hard to play solo🥲

[last lava]

like metal, rocks, etc

[last lava]

it can be yeah, the serpent will follow you to land and you can kill it nearer to a biome

then build a diving board to get deep in the water, if the trophy/scales are still too deep

[mighty merlin]

it doesnt respawn when ı leave the ocean biome right?

[mighty merlin]

oh thanks

[last lava]

the serpent?

[mighty merlin]

yeah

[frail cave]

anyone have a world already built in creative mode?

[mighty merlin]

because sometime like when ı leave the mountain biome, the wolves which were on my tail despawns

[last lava]

Serpants will respawn in ocean biomes

[mighty merlin]

ı tried to lure them to my base to tame but ı couldnt manage to do it

[frail cave]

like just wooden buildings and stuff

[last lava]

what's your question? I dont think I understand

are you looking for an unexplored seed with some base already created by another player?

[buoyant peak]

Not play the game apparently

[frail cave]

a base or 3 spread out in your save that is built in creative

[true steeple]

Why do you need this?

Can’t you make some yourself?

[frail cave]

im terrible in building

[true steeple]

So get better then by building stuff

[last lava]

sometimes redditors will build stuff and share their seed/creation

https://old.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/1apsqre/fortified_base_on_an_unexplored_seed_save_files/

[frail cave]

how do you access your save file in valhiem?

[last lava]

https://www.google.com/search?q=save+location+valheim&rlz=1C1GCEB_enUS1095US1095&oq=save+location+valheim&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjIICAQQABgWGB4yCAgFEAAYFhgeMggIBhAAGBYYHjIICAcQABgWGB4yCAgIEAAYFhgeMg0ICRAAGIYDGIAEGIoF0gEIMjQzN2owajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[timber garnet]

I dont bother with mods, sadly if any devs see this LET US USE IT PLEASEEEEEEE!!!!

[fair wharf]

this may sound out of left field, but uninstalling a game called Trimurti online fixed that issue (that started after i installed it) for me. If you have any new games you just installed, try uninstalling them and see if it helps @fleet wing

[stark burrow]

do trolls respawn...

trolls make me IRATE and I live next to 3 troll caves

[true steeple]

They still naturally spawn around, but their spawn points around/in troll caves don’t respawn

[ripe ivy]

Sounds like you're about to go on a troll hunt

[loud tiger]

What would be my next step when that doesn’t work

[static finch]

You could also do the spawn prevention trick of throwing down campfires or slightly burying workbenchs around your base so they have a lower chance of spawning close and running to break your walls

[stark burrow]

neat! thanks!

[delicate ocean]

What does the "This" reaction mean?

[visual radish]

Just a form of agreement with the statement being made, either because it's factual or just generally good advice.

[delicate ocean]

Thanks

[trail lichen]

minor spoilers so i'll mark it, to do with 4th biome
does anyone know if ||ancient cave markings in frost caves in the mountains|| actually do anything, or are they just "decorative"
i always feel like if something comes up with the text when you mouseover it does something, but that isn't always true

[visual radish]

Cave markings are just decorative.

[keen zodiac]

"fch" in character files, what do they represent?
"file character history?" "full character history?"

[trail lichen]

I think Gretchen put that in there. Someone should tell her it's not going to happen.

[halcyon crag]

basically decorative, although they have lore implications for the cultists, shows some of their rituals

[halcyon crag]

what problem were you having?

[halcyon crag]

fch is the extension, the file itself is yr character save file

[keen zodiac]

ik that, i just wanted to know it's full form

[loud tiger]

I can’t log in, at first it said I had a legacy save, I needed to change my save file to the cloud. I did all it said didn’t work. Tried to start a new character and a new map, nothing. I uninstalled reinstalled nothing works.

[halcyon crag]

so the game loads up to the start screen, and then?

[halcyon crag]

probably like you said, or similar

[loud tiger]

Goes to the loading screen, sits for 20+ minutes if i click it says program not responding reporting to windows

[halcyon crag]

loading a new world typically takes longer on the first log in, certain updates get loaded in while it's seemingly idle, whats your system specs? it should eventually load

[loud tiger]

Which specs. And I let it sit for an hour today and nothing

[halcyon crag]

CPU/RAM/Graphics

[loud tiger]

Sorry, where do I find it, my husband does all this but is working

[halcyon crag]

usually properties on the my computer icon (right click)

[loud tiger]

I-7 1087oh 16 gb ram nvidia GeForce rtx

[valid musk]

hello everyone, i was wondering if doing a greydwarf farm with fire still work

all videos I see are pretty dated

[halcyon crag]

easily enough to run it, have you looked in task manager to see what other stuff is running in the background like internet browsers and windows doing windows thigns? i'd look at that and kill of any processes using resources you don't need them using

[halcyon crag]

it will but there are much better methods now like using pufferfish on item stands

[loud tiger]

Yes discord and steam

[valid musk]

what makes it better?

is fire flawed?

[halcyon crag]

those 2 on their own shouldn't be enough to slow yr system down to where it takes an hour loading though, mine is about half as good and my worlds load in seconds

[halcyon crag]

yes, you have to constantly repair and re-fuel fires

[valid musk]

so you suggest puffer fish ?

[loud tiger]

My internet is 80/40. I run ark, this shouldn’t be happening

[halcyon crag]

absolutely, unless you already have 2 star wolves handy, they are almost as good but you'll still need to feed them to recover their health periodically

[valid musk]

okok i will look into this, i dont have any pufferfish yet but i guess its easy to get

thank you!

[halcyon crag]

agreed, did you ever have any mods you know of?

[loud tiger]

Definitely not. I don’t mod until I beat

[halcyon crag]

something else at play then, the question is what

[loud tiger]

I hadn’t played in over a year, kept it up to date, just didn’t play. I wanted to play with a friend and now can’t play at all

[halcyon crag]

best i can suggest is try another full re-install of the game, and maybe move it to another drive, i have my full steam library on an SSD and it loads almost insta

[loud tiger]

Mine used to, it’s on the only drive I have, it is a laptop. My ark is the only thing on an external

[halcyon crag]

yeh it sounds like it's struggling to cope with windows tasks as well as the game, i had a similar thing on another system, i'd defo move it to an external

[edgy vortex]

Do raids happen universally to all players equally, or do harder raids only happen to players that have explored that area?

[halcyon crag]

on vanilla settings universally, but you can enable player based raids for some changes with that

[lethal hinge]

what does this mean? i tried using devcommands

[halcyon crag]

mods

[grizzled smelt]

Hey everyone, im having an issue and i could really use some help. When i launch the game, the screen turns black. Where the menu is supposed to be,there's total darkness. The game's windowed and vanilla. Anyone familiar with this issue?
Thank you in advance.

[keen nacelle]

Have you tried launching with Vulkan? Any mods enabled? Have you enabled any Steam launch modifiers?

[grizzled smelt]

Im playing the game through the xbox game pass, without any mods. Dunno if it's possible running the game with vulkan through it :/

[waxen ice]

trying to start a dedicated server, but it seems stuck?
how long is it normal for this screen to show?

[waxen ice]

logs say the server is running

but i cannot join 🤔

ah, this should be in the #dedicated-server chat, moving over there

[pearl plume]

How to avoid that new PlayFab notification? I've already installed Visual C++ Redistributable and Visual Studio 2013 but the warning keeps up popping.

[fathom badge]

Haven't seen it... what OS are you running, and what warning are you seeing?

[pale anchor]

How can I clean all valheim cache? I installed a mod and it broke the game, now mistlands creatures spawn everywhere, and mistlands itself is completly empty. I deleted all files and reinstalled the game, nothing changed. May be there are some cache files left? Or mod could mess with the save file?

[fathom badge]

There's a pinned post that gives some steps for doing that

That said, mods most certainly can mess with save files, so that is also possibly just broken at this point without an easy way to fix it.

The good news is that new areas that aren't discovered are generated new, so you can likely just go find some new Mistlands areas and explore those instead once you fix all the mod stuff.

[pearl plume]

Notice that PlayFab could not load. Try to download Visual c++ redisributable at ...
Started after downloading last patch. I use Windows 7.

[fathom badge]

Yeah... Windows 7 is likely explicitly not supported by Playfab since all support for that OS stopped 4 years ago, they do note that in Playfab's releases. It's probably just the general library updates that happened with Valheim that finally obsoleted it.

"Support for the XDK and Windows 7 platforms ended on August 1, 2023. No new PlayFab Party library updates will be released for those platforms."

[pearl plume]

That Playfab is used only for crossplay I suppose? Then it's not a big deal.

[fathom badge]

Yes, only Crossplay, you should be able to still use the Steam networking and such. But I don't believe there's a way to suppress that message with your setup.

[topaz ore]

I have an issue with my ingame map. The map does not correspond to the world. For example the starting location is in the ocean on the map. All pins are on the correct spot relative to my position. I havent determined if the map is correct but with an offset or just completly wrong. Im playing unmodded through game pass.

[fathom badge]

There should be some map cache files in your world save folder that you can delete, and that will fix the minimap, IIRC.

[real nebula]

#dedicated-server might be a better place to ask/search for resources on your issue

[true cedar]

Sure, sorry. I'm moving the message

[topaz ore]

And where can i find this folder?

[fathom badge]

For Steam installs it's %APPDATA%/LocalLow/IronGate/Valheim, I'm not super familiar with Gamepass though

[topaz ore]

Ok thanks. I will have a look there

[quiet light]

this ground cannot be destroyed and has this void

upade: i restarted and it can be destoryed, but the texture is weird and there are some cracks left to be open

[trail lichen]

draugr fang vs huntsman 🪶 for serpent hunting?
one is statistically better but i'd also avoid poison damage to prevent deepwater kills
how do y'all do it?

[real nebula]

draugr fang, get the serpent low enough that a single shot will kill it, then jump on its head as you kill

If done right, you'll vacuum every drop before it gets a chance to sink

[trail lichen]

huh. well alright

I'll give that a go, thanks! Before this run I'd use frost arrows and drag it to shore with the harpoon

[real nebula]

It's nice to be fully independent from needing to pull serpents into shore

Meat will float of course, if all you care about is the food then this is a non-issue. Jumping on the head will at minimum get you the trophy if it drops.

Should get the scales as well, but that's a bit less reliable~

[trail lichen]

was about to head out and try this and my boat's doing the thing where it damages itself over time, anyone know a fix? I'm playing solo, no server

[true steeple]

Could some hungry necks be eating it?

[stoic trench]

Are you parked really close to the coast?

Could be hitting the terrain underneath during low tides/big waves

[trail lichen]

nope, it's regular and no enemies nearby, just gonna restart and see if that works

[true steeple]

Is it near any build pieces?

[trail lichen]

nope

it just keeps splashing in the water, occasionally taking damage

[fathom badge]

What is your framerate? (F2)

[true steeple]

Sleeping near it can damage it because waves move faster when you sleep

[tawny hemlock]

is there an easy way to tell how close crops can be planted w/o messing it up?

[fathom badge]

In general they need 1m between centers. But there's not really a reliable way of forcing that except for some planting grid mods.

I generally just hit C to toggle slow walking and walk backwards planting at a reasonable cadence, a couple that are too close isn't the end of the world.

[tawny hemlock]

is this close enough or can they be closer?

[fathom badge]

Those rows look about right to me. If you have some spare seeds you can experiment to be sure, they will turn brown after a few seconds saying they need more room if they're too close.

[trail lichen]

72ish, capped at 75, but I've restarted the game now and it's gone

[fathom badge]

Good to know. There used to be a bug with low framerates causing that, but it should have been fixed as far as I know. If you find a way to reliably reproduce it the devs would definitely be interested.

[static finch]

I haven't personally experimented with farming all that much but normal walking sideways and spamming click can get the spacing down much faster, but can skew the rows into weird angles

[keen vine]

I just got the ||swamp key||. Can someone give me a vague hint as to what I need to do with it?

[ripe ivy]

check out the swamp

[marble roost]

Hint: SWAMP key

[keen vine]

I've never seen a swamp lol

[marble roost]

Let us know if you need more hints

[whole coyote]

Good luck 👍🏽👍🏽

[marble roost]

Explore, will likely have to sail. Can check biome in top corner if minimap

[true steeple]

Look for giant dead trees

[keen vine]

I had to sail to get to the boss xD

[ripe ivy]

[marble roost]

Mhm

[keen vine]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-spongebob-squarepants-moving-behind-the-rocks-moving-gif-23430878

[marble roost]

Exploring is like 50% of the game tbh

[keen vine]

took me 5 minutes to get the hang of it

this is my map so far

[marble roost]

Ye just keep exploring. Swamp is fairly common. Won’t be right around spawn (middle of map) but if you out to the distance of where Elder is and explore around you should quickly find some

[true steeple]

Remember to bring a portal

[marble roost]

There is a decent risk you’ll find a swamp where the key isn’t much use, but if so just look for another!

[keen vine]

yeah, I slept on portals for a little while, but now that I know about them, I'm using them a lot

[true steeple]

While exploring try to avoid the plains biome, it’s a place you need to go to much later.

[marble roost]

Portals OP and convenient

[keen vine]

I kind of couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that you can just... teleport

same with the cart tbh

[marble roost]

I hate the cart

Only thing I use it for is throwing ||silver off of mountains||

[marble roost]

Yea that is a fun one

Harpoon launching still works too right (without a cart)?

[smoky carbon]

hey so i read the update post about how mods will be affected, but couldnt really make out wich ones will be exactly, is it just mainly mods that change dungeons for now? or is there a certain category i should stay clear from?