valheim-help

[steep tusk]

It's only "better" vs blobs. Which don't have much health to begin with.

Atgeir is fine.

[frail cave]

oh, it's mostly because blobs are weak (x1.5) to blunt and resistant (x0.5) to pierce.
draugr are neutral to both types, so maces don't really have an advantage against those

you could argue they're actually worse because they're more likely to hit the walls in the same swing, applying multi-target penalty

but if you manage to only hit your target, the two weapons should be equal against draugr, and clubs are better against blobs

[vocal plinth]

Okey so what enemies will i meet in the sunken crypt

Blobs and draugrs?

[frail cave]

blobs, draugr and draugr elites~
the third is basically just a beefier draugr, shares the resistances iirc

[vocal plinth]

Cause I've killed draught in two hits so im not worried at all about them

Okey so atgeir is pierce right?

Is the ultimate ability slash?

And then bows what damage do they do

[frail cave]

a bit misleadingly, the secondary attacks always deal the same damage type as the primary attack, so the secondary is still pierce

[vocal plinth]

Okey

[frail cave]

bows primarily deal pierce damage, but they get access to some elemental damage types through arrows

[vocal plinth]

I see

So I'm basically full on countering trolls with my set up then

[frail cave]

pierce is commonly resisted in later biomes, probably because bows have a very powerful reputation, but that balancing measure unfortunately also hurts atgeirs, knives and spears, still those weapons work, i love atgeirs~

[vocal plinth]

Interesting

Still a little confused about weakness, so for example if something has a weakness of 0.5 vs my weapon does that mean i do 0.5x more damage or less damage?

Oh

[frail cave]

it's a multiplier yea, when i say "resistant (x0.5)" i just mean that your damage is multiplied by 0.5, aka halved

[vocal plinth]

If weak i do 0.5x more damage
If resistance i do 0.5x less damage

Or no?

[frail cave]

well when an enemy is weak to a damage type, it's x1.5

so +50% damage

if they're resistant it's x0.5, -50% damage

[vocal plinth]

I see

[frail cave]

very resistant is x0.25, -75%, very weak is x2, +100%

[vocal plinth]

And if i do gray damage i should consider changing my weapon

[frail cave]

if it's bothering you at least.
grey could mean immune, very resistant or resistant, but often an enemy is easily killable even with a resisted damage type

and sometimes it's just unavoidable - wraiths are resistant to all 3 physical damage types, only being more susceptible to elemental damage types which you have very limited access to at that stage, so i'd recommend just whacking them with whatever you have

(at range, fire arrows should work well though)

[steep tusk]

The only time you really need to consider changing your weapon is if you, personally, are no longer enjoying using that weapon.

[brave forum]

Yoyo! i got a question

[tired root]

I think if enemy is immune to some damage type then there is no damage number to see.

[tough hare]

Ugh.

I got a deja vue from 11 hours earlier when seeing that comment. 😖

[frail cave]

shooting a stone golem with a frost staff still displays a grey 0

[tired root]

Really? Haven't seen any numbers and I've used the Frost staff to a trapped golem many times to level up the Elemental magic skill.

Of course, it could be the distance where it doesn't show if it is the case. Have to check once I get to my pc.

[frail cave]

huh, interesting, it indeed doesn't show on a stone golem

but it does show when you're hitting objects with weapons, weird

moder doesn't show pure frost damage numbers either

guess i never noticed because pure elemental damage types weren't really accessible til mistlands 😅

but still immunity colouring damage numbers grey is relevant because f.e. if you use frostner, you have 35 blunt and 58 frost, the frost is greater on the weapon itself, so it will decide the colour of the damage number, even if the enemy is immune to frost and weak to blunt

so if you hit a stone golem with frostner, damage numbers will show as grey even though it's neutral to blunt

[tired root]

You tested it?

[frail cave]

yes

[tired root]

Might be the case if the weapon has two different weapon types and the target is immune to either type the number shows grey. But if only one damage type and the target is immune to it then the number doesn't show.

[frail cave]

if the damage is 0, it won't show apparently (unless it's an object for some reason, those do show 0s)

if one type is immune, it'll colour the damage number grey only if it's the dominant type

plenty of things are immune to spirit, but since spirit only takes up a small percentage of each silver weapon's damage, it doesn't affect the colour of damage numbers silver weapons get

[tired root]

Could it also be it doesn't show anything because it's damage per tick type of damage? Same with those targets immune to fire.

[frail cave]

DoT is interesting because it still counts the full effect's damage on the first hit, and the actual ticks are then dealt in true damage, always showing neutral number colours
the elder is neutral to blunt and weak to fire, yet hitting it with a staff of embers shows a yellow initial hit and white subsequent hits, despite the fact that the fire tick on the initial hit (even with the weakness) is much smaller than the blunt damage - because it counts the full effect's damage.
though i do wonder what decides the colour if two damage types are equal as on the staff of embers, both are 120

[tired root]

Interesting really. Gotta do some testing by myself too. At least Cultists are immune to fire so could see how it shows when hitting fire based damage.

[frail cave]

(and it's not a case of "weak" overriding "neutral". mistwalker's damage colours are decided by slash, since it's its highest damage, and if you make a fuling wet and then hit it with mistwalker, the damage number is still white from the 75 slash despite the fact that the frost hit a weakness for 87 damage)

[frail cave]

either way, thanks for letting me know about 0 damage showing no number at all on enemies, i did not notice that yet 😅
i really should start actively using magic

[tired root]

If I remember correctly, hitting wet targets with Frostner shows the number as yellow, apparently since the frost damage portion is larger than blunt.

[frail cave]

yes, because its base frost is higher than its blunt

mistwalker has 75 slash and 58 frost, so slash is the dominant type
but frostner has 35 blunt and 58 frost, so frost is its dominant type

[tired root]

Yeah no problem, there was something new for me too. 😁

And yes, magic is good

[steep tusk]

Just a tip: You have to actually ask the question if you want an answer.

[brave forum]

yeah i got help my bad for not saying it lol

[tired root]

Yes that's what I meant too. 👍

[frail cave]

oh sorry 😅

[tired root]

Don't be 🤗

[dull nymph]

do stars on mobs go up to 2 or 3?

[echo sparrow]

just 2 stars

but each 'level' is quite a step up as it's +50% base damage and +100% base health

[barren compass]

hello guys., im using r2modman does it auto sync my friends' mods to mine if i'm the one hosting?

[lilac coyote]

#mods-issues would be better.

[willow thunder]

So I'm trying to understand the parrying mechanics from a statistic lvl.
I'm playing on very hard mode and I'm trying to parry a fuling.
Fulings do 85 damage and on very hard to 170.
I have 31 defense w/ a bucker lvl 3. (30 x 2.5 with parry (75))

So if you grab the damage a fuling does (170) subtract it by my armor (31), then subtract that by my block armor (75), that should equal a remaining damage of 64.
40% of 215 health (hare meat, seeker meat, serpent meat) is 86.
So with 86-64, I should still have a stagger of 22, right? So why does my guard break when I try and parry a fuling?

[vocal plinth]

Maybe you can't perry fullings

[last osprey]

You have the calculation order wrong.
Damage first gets reduced by block armor, then stagger gets applied, then leftover damage gets reduced by regular armor. If you're staggered during step 2 your block fails.

170 damage - 75 block armor = 95

[vocal plinth]

Can i make a house where the inside fireplace has a roof and enough air to burn and not smoke the room?

Cause my friend has a fireplace and just no roof above it, so the suction is good but when its raining it doesn't burn

I had a sloped roof with a hole on a side but the fire kept switching on and off

Idk how fireplaces work

[steep tusk]

What shield are you using?

[tough hare]

Build two wooden walls on top of each other, then add the 1m wooden beam to the corners, add two 2m laying wooden beams to those and in the end add a roof top piece.
Should work.

[last osprey]

you don't need a chimney, you just need enough space for the smoke to collect until it despawns. A 2x2x4m shaft directly above the fire is enough for that.

[vocal plinth]

Won't the smoke go everywhere then if there's no suction above

[steep tusk]

Goes everywhere until it despawns.

[last osprey]

smoke rises up naturally, just make sure the top is enclosed

[steep tusk]

So you just need enough "everywhere" space for it to time out.

[vocal plinth]

Ok

[last osprey]

you can build a little "hood" over it so it doesn't go everywhere

[vocal plinth]

What is that black material like stone?

[lapis terrace]

what it actually is?

[tired root]

Black marble.

[vocal plinth]

How does one obtain it

[lapis terrace]

lol no no nooo. it's not black marble

[tired root]

How so?

[lapis terrace]

it is fuling poop

[tired root]

They poop stones?

[lapis terrace]

yes

look in the holes in the fuling villages

where there is black metal "chunks" and bones in them 😉

[spare ravine]

black marble is from mistland

[tired root]

They also fertilise the holes so they grow dandelions?

[lapis terrace]

mhm

a bit of odd lore 😄

that not many people know

[tired root]

I was just going to ask if you were responsible of any bit of lore in game.

[vocal plinth]

What are the coolest materials to build a base from are vs strongest?

[steep tusk]

That's entirely subjective vs. Ironwood.

[vocal plinth]

What about stone

[steep tusk]

If you like stone, stone is cool.

[tired root]

I like grausten. The thinner walls are nicer IMO than stone/marble. Although marble is cool too.

[lament dune]

Hello! I just got back into Valheim recently and killed the elder, I found a snow biome but I keep freezing and losing health

[buoyant peak]

Black marble is the strongest

[lament dune]

Where do I find clothes for that place?

[buoyant peak]

In mountains

Make frost mead

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

[wispy skiff]

i'm kinda new it's my first playthrough atleast through and through and we just made it in the snow, but i've been using a spear up to this point. What should i use instead? bonemass was so tanky lol

[lament dune]

Oh gotcha okay! I was so confused why I was just dying

So I need leches for the frost resistance mead, they’re found in the swamp right?

[stoic trench]

Think of the freezing effect as general warning to stay away from the mountains for now 😉 you’ll find a way forward in the next biome!

[steep tusk]

Bonemass was tanky because he's very resistant to Pierce.

If you like the spear, keep using it. Nothing wrong with it.

[vocal plinth]

How to find bees

[agile rapids]

there are abandoned structures in the meadows that are the key to getting honey

[vocal plinth]

So what's my go to strategy to find bees

Because not once I've seen them in my server

[agile rapids]

run around the meadows and look inside the wooden huts to find wild beehives, whitch you need to destroy. sometimes the spawns are unlucky but they're not that rare

[vocal plinth]

Hm

[agile rapids]

it's always encouraged to fully explore your starter island

[stoic trench]

Any chance your other server mates grabbed all or most of the bees in your area?

[vocal plinth]

I doubt that

[tired root]

You can hear small buzzing sound and see some small bees around the beehive. They also attack with small poison damage if too close or if you harm the hive.

[vocal plinth]

Either way I've explored like 4 big meadows biomed

[tired root]

They can be also found in black forest.

[agile rapids]

really?

[tired root]

Yes. But more usually in meadows.

Some stone towers in black forest can contain beehives.

[willow thunder]

OOOH, okay! So stagger gets applied first and your armor from the damage reduction applies AFTER the block calculations are applied, not prior!

Okay, that helps a lot, thanks!

[echo sparrow]

i knew it!

[lapis terrace]

💩

[polar nexus]

hello. im playing on vannila no portal server and im about to move from meadows to plains. any ideas on whats the best way to transport whole base without portals ? Also is it possbile to move boars ? i dont want to part with my 2star boars 😦

[tough hare]

Use a long ship. It got 18 slots in the cargo hold.
You can create additional space by dragging a cart on your deck as well.

If you have the Drakar, you got more cargo space. Cart fits better on it too, but the speed is somewhat less compared to a longboat.

Could drag the boars aboar the long ship with the Abysmal Harpoon, but you may loose them along the journey when you encounter a storm at the Ocean.

[polar nexus]

i heard that its unsafe to use carts on ship while on multiplayer?

[stoic trench]

On the topic of boars, more than likely you’ll have to leave them behind

[tough hare]

Why would it be unsafe? Do you have passengers you don't trust?

[polar nexus]

that cart would crash into ship damaging it

[stoic trench]

A mutiny!

[tough hare]

First time I hear of that.
But if that happens, just make sure you got 10 wood in your inventory, dock somewhere, build a workbench, repair the ship and the cart, demolish the workbench and sail on.

I don't see the problem with that.

[polar nexus]

well im gonna try shipping a cart

[stoic trench]

I’ve seen some people load up a cart and purposely destroy it on the boat, so that all that remains is the crates. Maybe that’s an alternative?

[polar nexus]

yeah i dont believe its possible on server

maybe

[lilac coyote]

Don't see why it wouldn't be.

[shell flower]

hello why cant i cook poison soup

[polar nexus]

im just afraid that all the lag can cause cargo like crates and carts to damage my ship when im on sea

[tough hare]

You mean Poison mead?
Because you need another type of cauldron (kettil) for that.

[shell flower]

ok thx

[sturdy sparrow]

in ther server list some servers have a key icon next to them I assume that means they need a password but every server seems to ask for a password with or without the icon. What am I missing?

[tough hare]

In no particular order:

• The name of the server owner,
• The server owner trusting you enough to invite you in
• The password.

[crude nimbus]

Can everything grow in the plains or is it just Barley and Flax ?

[stoic trench]

Everything up to the plains, yeah. But the next biome has some crops that require its home biome.

Carrots, turnips, onion- those will all grow

[faint osprey]

everything excluding mistlands stuff

[crude nimbus]

Okay, so there would be no way to grow everything in the game in one area then.

[stoic trench]

Correct

[faint osprey]

you could make a farm in between the mistlands and plains

[stoic trench]

Oh right, forgot about that

[clear folio]

Hello all, recently got back into the game after a long time away. Question are the frost caves only in the deep north or can they spawn in undiscov ered mountain biomes? Having trouble finding one. Also where do you learn Mistletoe and the wreath? I have all the other Yule itmes just missing those

[crude nimbus]

That's a very good idea.

[stoic trench]

I don’t think there are any frost caves in the deep north. But yeah, undiscovered mountains should have them. They can be tricky to spot though, so keep a sharp eye out.

You’ll need red jute for the other Yule items.

[faint osprey]

I think wreath needs pine cones

[stoic trench]

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Yule_wreath this will help 😁

[tired root]

Frost caves are found in Mountain biome. There are areas of mountains in Deep North that can also contain caves but it is best to leave those areas unexplored if you want to explore the DN after it is ready to be deployed into the game, because it is certain that the terrain will not remain the same.

By my memory either or both need finewood and red jute from Frost caves.

Edit: my memory was correct.

[cosmic cedar]

Does thistle regrow the same way as mushrooms and berries?

[tough hare]

Yes, it does.

[cosmic cedar]

How much does the fermenting process take?

[frosty frost]

2 days iirc

[cosmic cedar]

😦

ty

[frosty frost]

thats not that long 😄 especialy if you are sleeping often

[charred glacier]

I made some tasty mead, saw it was supposed to give extra stamina regen while lowering health regen.
It lasted 10 seconds! Is that intentional?

Seems useless then? Expected about a minute at least, so you can perhaps chop some wood with it?

[steep tusk]

The uncontested best mead in the game seems useless to you?

Interesting take.

[frosty frost]

It lasts 10 second but it has cooldown of 10 seconds 🙂 so you can constantly drink it and its quite cheap, also its quite massive stamina regen boost (also you can drink normal stamina with it 😉 )

[frosty frost]

Are you counting the bog witch potions to that ranking? 🤔

[steep tusk]

Honestly, yeah.

The top among those would be tied for second by comparison to infinite stamina.

[charred glacier]

I guess I was of the mindset that you consume about one mead per couple of minutes in general. Have to consider it with mass production.

But it's not useful for cutting wood, right? Only for fights?

[steep tusk]

+100% Stamina Regen
Stacks with Rested Buff.
Stacks with Lingering Stamina (normal Stam Pots are blocked by Lingering).
Effectively no cooldown.

It refills you entire stamina bar until you get into HSS or SSS at the Mistlands-tier of food or higher (where it refills like 80% of it still).

[steep tusk]

No, because why would you waste pots on farming?

[frosty frost]

With the combos yeah, i would say it is incredible, on its own... i would not call it the best while taking into account the witch potions. Tho arguably i didnt play with it much so my stance on it might change 🙂

[steep tusk]

@frosty frost Off hand I would rank:

Tasty > Rat > Beserk
Major Healing = Lingering

[last osprey]

because brewing up a stack of lingering stam costs less time than i save using it when mining or chopping wood. Pretty much the only one though.

[steep tusk]

If you're ranking potions in some other context besides "Used Properly" then make whatever system of judgment you deem best 🤷‍♂️

[frosty frost]

I usually dont rank anything and am quite opposed to that actually 😄 I think whats best depends on user and their individual playstyle

[steep tusk]

In most cases of Valheim, "best is subjective" holds very true.

But like... trying to say Lingering Health Mead is good... that's a losing battle from the outset 😄

Even if you eat HHH or HHF Ashlands food, you're talking about +4.5 regen MAXIMUM that actually decays to worse and worse numbers every minute.

[charred glacier]

To farm faster. Be more efficient.

[steep tusk]

This isn't Satisfactory 🤷‍♂️

[charred glacier]

Ok. I should probably always use flint axe for cutting wood to avoid getting close to efficiency.

[steep tusk]

Using lower-tiered axes does help you level woodcutting faster.

[charred glacier]

Fists only it is then

[gray geode]

Is valheim considered a taxing game for ok pc's? bc it's the only game I have problems with

[steep tusk]

Not unless you build massive.

[gray geode]

I just mean like running around and doing anything, game always makes my pc run really hot

unless I lower my settings all the way down the game will overheat my pc after like 3 hours

[steep tusk]

PC = PC or PC = Laptop?

[gray geode]

it's a gaming laptop but I can run any triple A game on it like all day, I'm getting an actual pc soon
so this doesn't matter but I'd still like to know incase I travel with it

[weak zealot]

im trying to tame an asksvin and it wont eat anyfood. im feeding it the right foods and hes not angry and im within range to tame it. can anyone tell me why he wont eat or why i cant start the taming process

ive tamed creatures before like wolves and boars so idk why im having a hard time getting it to work

[steep tusk]

Idk what to say then.
Because I've played for hours on one of the $300 lenovo cheapers from Amazon without issue.

But I also made sure it was always on a desk or something similar to make sure the intake fans had enough clearance.

[gray geode]

I guess specific systems just can't run this game

[gray geode]

I cleaned the fans out and propped it up so it has proper ventilation and that did help it for awhile

but it went back to how it was in like a month

[steep tusk]

🤷‍♂️

[gray geode]

bet a steam deck could last longer

[nocturne maple]

Modern PCs and laptops run hotter. That's about it.

[gray geode]

yeah and my laptop runs hot for other games but they at least stay above 80fps all day

but after an hour or 2 valheim just drops down to like 10fps and my whole pc slows to a crawl

[vocal plinth]

How do i kill abominations in swamp

[nocturne maple]

Quote the games referenced and the scenes where valheim is underperforming

[gusty onyx]

is there a simple way to change the wisp torch radius?

[steep tusk]

Same way you kill everything else.
Whack until dead.

[true steeple]

Slash damage is better than blunt or pierce, and it can't move or turn during any of its attack animations so you can easily dodge if you need to

[shell flower]

does serpent attack me while hes on leash?

[vocal plinth]

How to survive mosquitoes?

Im naked

[true steeple]

Hit them first (they have 10 health) or roll through their attack

[lilac coyote]

Why are you naked would be my first question.

[vocal plinth]

I died

in swamp

portal was in a plains corner

[lilac coyote]

You have no spare gear?

[gusty onyx]

turn off loosing gear on death 😛

as soon as they added this I enabled it

[steep tusk]

As opposed to tightening gear?

[shell flower]

how

[lilac coyote]

Dang, beat me to it.

[steep tusk]

😄

[gusty onyx]

well assuming you play locally you can change the "server" settings

or world settings rather

before selecting your world you can modify the difficulty

[shell flower]

can you teleport to items?

[gusty onyx]

if you struggle you can exit and change the difficulty

can even make the world creatures passive until you attack them

[shell flower]

you got any tip to take items?

from the place you died?

[gusty onyx]

can't even remember how that works

do grab everything at once if you have space?

[humble scaffold]

How are you supposed to build roofs with grausten? Nothing matches up with the arched roof pieces...

[gusty onyx]

and then have to equip each item again?

[shell flower]

i mean how to get your items back from swamp thats quite far away xd

[gusty onyx]

teleport and run?

[shell flower]

we didnt even have time to place one

[gusty onyx]

boat and run then

make no mistake, Valheim is brutal

way to much for me on default settings

[shell flower]

you cheating?

[gusty onyx]

back when I started I did after spending a week of dying in the swap and having no progress

we didn't have difficulty options at the time

[shell flower]

swap are ez

[gusty onyx]

now you can change the world settings

[shell flower]

but i remember going back form them and we ended up in plains

and i got oneshoted

[gusty onyx]

got destroyed in swamp with the best gear I could get

ran out of stamina to often due to the rain

[shell flower]

what items did you have?

[gusty onyx]

and the rested effect doesn't last long

copper stuff basically

[shell flower]

we have abyssal

[gusty onyx]

havent played in a long time so can't remember all the items and details

lost interest again once I tried Mistlands

[shell flower]

you died>?

[gusty onyx]

once maybe? I played on casual settings at that point

think I fell to my death before I got the cape

[shell flower]

bows are pretty op

[gusty onyx]

didn't find it particularly fun to walk around in constant fog

the wisp lights only work in a small radius

think I ran out of the wood to make the torches to place down

[worldly phoenix]

has anyone had a co-op save has just dissapeared? we lost everything (buildings etc) but where we'd travelled was fine?

[stoic trench]

You mean like a server world?

[west ermine]

which poi is that?

[clever juniper]

bog witch

[west ermine]

is it important to go to?

[clever juniper]

it is another trader, so they are optional, but definitely have some things that can make your life easier the further you get through the game

I would at least drop a portal so you can check back when you defeat bosses. There is one item that helps out a lot with farming

[west ermine]

ok thanks

[west ermine]

how would i make a base inside of a swamp that wont get absolutely ravaged? bc theres no safe biome closeby

[clever juniper]

the safest options are to either use the bigger trees (which you can't chop down or to use a bunch of stone and a hoe to raise the ground, either way an elevated base is typically the safest

[west ermine]

ah ok got it

[frosty frost]

Also if you are not there for most of the time its 100% safe as it isnt loaded 🙂 i usually just have lone portal somewhere

[vocal plinth]

Can i multiply bees if i have one beehive?

[frosty frost]

No, you need to find new ones.

[clever juniper]

nope, you need to find more queen bees

[vocal plinth]

Bruh

[clever juniper]

just look in all the buildings in the meadows

[frosty frost]

But be at ease 🙂 if you are playing alone you dont really need many of them, 2-3 are enough

(but its good practice to make as many hives as you can)

[vocal plinth]

My friends have one

I need to have more than they combines

How often can one harvest it?

[frosty frost]

It generates 1 honey after roughly 20 minutes 🙂

(faster if you sleep)

[vocal plinth]

I see

[clever juniper]

4 is the max

[vocal plinth]

Sure

My friends started building a mega base as today we got iron so stone unlocked

[frosty frost]

Nice 😄

[vocal plinth]

And im still living in my little shore hut

I made the longship today, damn big upgrade

[frosty frost]

I dont really build with stone all playthrough so no worries about that 😄 and longship will be massive help with gathering the iron

[vocal plinth]

Why specifically?

[frosty frost]

Faster and way more slots

[vocal plinth]

Both

Ah true, but there are many things trying to break it

[frosty frost]

It has also lot more hp

[vocal plinth]

Double?

Yes

[frosty frost]

Yep

[vocal plinth]

Question for ya

What things do i need to have in my base

Maybe there's some list

[frosty frost]

Like for comfort or wdym?

[vocal plinth]

Cause ik only in iron age and im not fitting in my hut already

And ik we will unlock many more things so how big of a base do i need

Consider one floor everything

[clever juniper]

is this the base you are planning to use for the rest of the game or just to get you through the iron age?

[vocal plinth]

Probably for the rest of the game

Tough question tho

[wispy skiff]

if i shoot a fire arrow with the draugr bow does it do poison and fire or just fire or just poison

[clever juniper]

poison and fire but I think the draugr may be immune to poison

[vocal plinth]

Today i unlocked stone building, when do i unlock something stronger?

[clever juniper]

mistlands

[vocal plinth]

Thinking how big i should expand my base

Still left mountain, plains idk whats after that

[true steeple]

Expand your base when you need more space. You don’t need to build everything right now.

[tough hare]

When you are in Mistlands.
Which is 3 biomes and 1 harder boss from where you are now. (Boss from the first biome is not that hard compared to the next one)

[vocal plinth]

Well then i need to create a base building concept so its not weird blocks

[clever juniper]

If you can fit everything efficiently, it doesn't need to be huge

[tough hare]

If you want to do that, you first have to decide if you want everything in one building, or everything in seprate buildings.
Or a building for living and a building for all crafting (wood, iron, stone, food, potions, magic).

[clever juniper]

storage and portals will be the big space consumers

[frosty frost]

The portals dont have to be an issue if you make a portal hub in different location and only have 1 portal leading there at home 🙂

Also the storage can fit in single, not really huge building

[vocal plinth]

Hmmm

Id prefer to have all in 1 thing

[clever juniper]

but endgame there are 4 1/2 crafting stations (one doesn't take up much room and not super useful for crafting)

so you need room for all the stations and their upgrades

[vocal plinth]

I have the metal one and workbench so far and stonecutter?

[tough hare]

Stone cutter is the 1/2 workbench. 😄

[clever juniper]

you only have the workbench and forge

there is another after beating the mountain boss that I'm counting as a half

it doesn't do much for crafting but unlocks other important buildings

[vocal plinth]

When can i unlock some automatic base defense stuff?

[clever juniper]

then I would have 2 hearths for cooking

[tough hare]

Also in the Mistlands

[frosty frost]

Well totaly you get 6 workstations if we count stonecutter and ||artisan table|| <--after 4th boss workstation 🙂

[vocal plinth]

Do berries work when im not loading them?

[tough hare]

And it won't just be auto-defence, but also auto-offence, as it will shoot at you as well.
Unless you use trophies to dedicate to fight a certain monster or simply doesn't load the weapon.

Also, the stake walls you can build almost from the start are a sort of auto defence too. You just need to repair them once in a while.

[frosty frost]

Eh?

[vocal plinth]

Grow*

[clever juniper]

berry bushes will repopulate after a couple of days if that is what you are asking

if you cut them down they are gone

[vocal plinth]

Yes but do i need to load then(be close to them)

[frosty frost]

Oh, yeah, tho they sometimes take a few second to load when you get to them

[clever juniper]

oh, no. you can be anywhere in the game

[vocal plinth]

Oke

In what biome do most ppl build their bases

[clever juniper]

meadows/plains

[frosty frost]

Meadows or plains (5th biome)

[tough hare]

I think Black Forest is quite popular too.

[clever juniper]

meadows are the safest and plains will allow certain plants to grow and process other materials faster

[frosty frost]

True, i would put it on 3rd place, and after that mistlands with mountains probably?

[silent hare]

What's the deal with putrid holes and vegisvirs? I've now cleared 15-20 and still no tablet...

[ornate brook]

mountains gotta be the worst place to build (mechanically speaking, the aesthetics are nice)

[frosty frost]

Just bad rng 🙂

[frosty frost]

Heh, i think i would prefer that over ashlands 😄

[ornate brook]

Idk building in the ashlands is pretty chill and there's at least some mechanical reason to do so

[vocal plinth]

I want something like this for a base

[tough hare]

Boy, you'd better start collecting 500K in stone. 😄

[vocal plinth]

Hmmm

[frosty frost]

Go for it 😄 the only limit is your imagination (and stone, true that xD)

[ornate brook]

and your pc

[vocal plinth]

Whats the most effective way to mine stone

[tough hare]

Mining copper. 😄

[clever juniper]

going to the plains

[vocal plinth]

Also whats the durability difference between wood and stone

[clever juniper]

there are giant stone spires

[vocal plinth]

Is mining ground not efficient

[clever juniper]

that is the worst

[vocal plinth]

Ok

[clever juniper]

if you don't want to go to the plains, I would find the big stone boulders that look like copper

[frosty frost]

almost 4 times stronger than wood

[vocal plinth]

And how do other stuff compare

[frosty frost]

The stuff from mistlands has the same durability and ashlands stuff is all over the place wih durability

[noble tapir]

fighting yagluth is great for mining stone - moder is too, but it's harder to get the stone down the mountain

[tough hare]

The thing is; for a building like the one in the screenshot you don't need the stone for building only, but also for raising the terrain. And each 2-stone raises it "only" 2 meters. So depending at where you start you will need quite a lot of stone.
And on top of that, there's a limit to how high you can raise the land. Meaning you will have to deal with that as well, as in either start at the lowest possible point and work your way inland or accept that a part is lower and you will need to create a path that's looking great and is sloped.
And the latter is a bit complicated to achieve.

[tough hare]

Hang on; Grausten is stronger than stone and black marble?

[frosty frost]

Some of its pieces, yes

[tough hare]

Oh some. Like the pilars. I thought the walls were weake.

[frosty frost]

Well, some walls have 1000 and some 3000 xD

Pillars and beams are quite weak actualy

[tough hare]

Dang! That means I need to reconsider the idea I had in mind for my main base's main building in my current play through

[frosty frost]

Look here for all the values 😄 https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Grausten_structures

[vocal plinth]

Im gonna start with something like this tmrw to get a feel, a small size castle

[clever juniper]

that should be a good pre-mistlands house, just an impractically sized garden

[frosty frost]

Yeah, you will want a bigger one 😄

[tough hare]

If you really want to get a feeling about it, start a private game, with a new character and use that one to build things.

That'll help you to understand how things work, what you can (and can't) do and how to solve the problems you surely will encounter.

[vocal plinth]

Nah i prefer to improvise as i go

Il make a floorplan in paint and start building, it will probably look terrible but for the first base will suffice

My friends have the edge on me tho

[tough hare]

Because you will make mistakes, you will have to rebuild things and you will occasionally get frustrated when things keep collapsing without you understanding the how and why.

And I say this from my own experience, despite not even having build something as good looking as what you posted in those screenshots.

[vocal plinth]

They already started big and working together

[tough hare]

And why aren't you working with them? Or they helping you?

[vocal plinth]

We explore and fight together but i like to be the man of my own house

Additionally i feel like they generally are more practical than tasteful when doing creative work so living in the same base would be slightly inconvenient

Besides awe are advancing slightly differently

They rush ahead and i catch up, i play more but i waste more time exploring or building or whatever while they are working together and progressing fast

And i want to be able to flex

When do I unlock brown roofs?

Shingle

[clever juniper]

plains, from tar pits

[tough hare]

Looking at those screenshots those buildings are build for beauty, not for going through the game.
Practical doesn't have to look dull, but it shouldn't be considered more important as beautiful.

[vocal plinth]

Am i able to sneak into plains and mine that and run away from any enemies? Or is that guaranteed death?

Pre mounting biome

[tough hare]

That's very likely a guaranteed funeral

[clever juniper]

you definitely can, but it depends on your ability to dodge deathsquitos

[vocal plinth]

Okey i just remember i got oneshot by mosquito today

Cursed stuff

[frosty frost]

Yeah they can be annoying 🙂 but they are the textbook definition af glass cannon, insane dmg but abysmal hp

[tough hare]

So did I, hence my comment

[vocal plinth]

If im in full iron armour can i durvive the mosquitos

[tired root]

There is one armor piece that counters very well against the squitoes.

[vocal plinth]

Almost 3am here, im so dead tmrw

[vocal plinth]

Which is

[clever juniper]

possibly, but killing the abomination will give you access to armor best against the mosquitos

[vocal plinth]

Oooo go on

[frosty frost]

The chest piece of root armor gives you resistance to pierce dmg, so it halves it 🙂

[vocal plinth]

Sick how many abominations do i need to kill

[frosty frost]

2 i believe

it needs 10 roots

[tired root]

1 abom drops 5 root and one armor piece require 10

[vocal plinth]

What things should i invest in first with iron

[tough hare]

The wiki shows exactly what you need, how much and what upgrade level a crafting station should be.

[tough hare]

Most will say a pickaxe. After that most likely your main weapon and a shield if you use that.

[vocal plinth]

But in practice donibgo for pick first or maybe armour, assume il head back for more iron to the cryptd and swamp

Epic

Gn tired very

[steep tusk]

First 10 iron goes to nails.
Without exception.

[vocal plinth]

I did that

I have big ship

[steep tusk]

Nails -> Buckler -> Mace
Would be "optimal" imo

[vocal plinth]

Buckler whats that

[frosty frost]

Small shield specialized in parrying

[vocal plinth]

Can i use it with atgeir?

[clever juniper]

or banded shield if you aren't great at parrying

[tired root]

Banded shield is fine too

[steep tusk]

No.

[vocal plinth]

Then no shield for me

[steep tusk]

If you aren't good at parrying, either learn to roll or build tower shield.

[tired root]

Atgeir secondary also good defensive option.

[vocal plinth]

How do tower shields work

[clever juniper]

there are a lot of forge upgrades with iron

[tired root]

Stonecutter!

Enables building with stone

[steep tusk]

Just block, no parry.

But atgeirs are solid at parrying anyway so if you like the weapon just keep it.

[frosty frost]

Wha would they use tower shield if they said no to bucklers with the reason of using atgeir?

[steep tusk]

Comment was for the other person.

[true steeple]

Tower shields also have significantly higher block force (knockback) than other items

[vocal plinth]

Gn ty yall for education

[clever juniper]

[agile rapids]

how long does it take to extract 10 sap from a root? i have everything i need in the mists but sap

[frosty frost]

it should extract sap every 60 seconds (that is while the root is full i believe tho)

[agile rapids]

oh. i was thinking it would tkae days. lol

[frosty frost]

Ah, wiki says this: "Each root dries up as Sap is extracted from it using a Sap Extractor. Each Sap Extractor collects and stores one sap every 60 seconds. Multiple sap extractors can be placed on one Ancient Root. The reservoir of sap in an ancient root regenerates at a rate of 1 sap per 400 seconds, up to a maximum storage of 50 sap. Thus, sap is a renewable resource." https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Ancient_Roots

[agile rapids]

5.5 hours to renew, and almost an hour to dry up. that's........ pretty nice!

[frosty frost]

Its usually a good idea to find a place with multiple roots in one place 🙂 you will need somewhat large ammount of it

[frail cave]

also you can place multiple extractors on one root. it'll naturally dry up faster, but also extract faster

...just noticed that was already mentioned

[agile rapids]

Ah, then I'm camping out at the spot where there are three roots right next to each other, I can go and research the crafting recipes while I wait

[frail cave]

you don't have to stay there, most timer-based things in the game (except taming and breeding animals) effectively still progress while you're elsewhere in the world

[willow lotus]

hey, did valheim use to be on gamepass?

[lilac coyote]

Yep.

[willow lotus]

ahh. wanted to pick it back up & saw i didnt have it anymore on xbox lol

makes sense

[ocean mirage]

Got a question. is Valheim like Minecraft, insofar as running a singleplayer local game is laggier than a multiplayer game hosted on an external server? if so, is the difference noticeable?

basically does anyone know the % of ram/cpu used to do server-based stuff, which I could offload to an external server - including the initial loading time?

I have a terrible machine. I called it a potato, until I upgraded the RAM. now it's more like, a watermelon. but it still has just 2 cores, so it is quite bad, but actually playable, after the 20 minute load time for mods. If I got a server, I might get more playability, as well as play with friends.

[willow thunder]

So, statistics question relating to parries (again). Does armor only effect the post parry stagger meter and not the active parry stagger meter?

In other words, is block armor (if above armor rating) the only defining factor if you successfully parry (other then health and stamina ofc)

[noble tapir]

yes, it's more resource intensive, but not much more. if you're running a slow machine, then you may notice better performance running a server, but it's not going to be night and day.

[ocean mirage]

Ah, I see. In Minecraft I notice a clear difference, but you're saying here, won't be quite the same? Gotcha.

[noble tapir]

yes, because minecraft isn't a p2p server if you run it off a dedicated machine

[ocean mirage]

Doesn't help I attach a lot of mods to it tbh, but I got a fair few I like to keep on my game.

[noble tapir]

valheim, no matter what you do, is still p2p oriented

[ocean mirage]

Ah, I see. So the local enemy ai etc. is actually generated by clients, and sent among each other?

[noble tapir]

yes, and terrain data as far as i understand

[ocean mirage]

I see, ok, good to know. That probably explains why it's not as severe a boost in performance.

[noble tapir]

the server just acts like central storage unit of info, not a server taht generates that information

there are mods that increase performance of valheim, and a config boot edit that does as well (supposedly)

[ocean mirage]

Any specific ones to recommend?

[noble tapir]

i've never used the performance ones, so no, but let me see if i can find the boot edit

https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/1ccum0s/better_valheim_fps_with_newer_bootconfig_25_fps/?share_id=oLmwba5Rrz-3fykQn-Ojb&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

[ocean mirage]

Also yes, Googling P2P, I'm seeing both developer. Denial, and articles slamming the P2P infrastructure, so yeah, seems a ell established thing, even if the devs are denying it.

[noble tapir]

the dedicated servers work pretty well if people are in the same country-ish range

but me being west coast USA, and playing with UK/German people, the handshaking that it does when it passes off "host" of an area is rough

[ocean mirage]

Ah, all UK, so should be good! 🙂 hard to hear it's not as good though. It does seem like it just is the worst of p2p as a server setup. Not seeing a lot of. Faith they'll change their ways though, sadly.

[noble tapir]

i highly doubt it, they pretty much have stated that this is how things are 😄

i am glad they at least put out dedi servers though

[steep tusk]

Blocking sheet, pinned in #valheim-chat
README section

I wrote a line-by-line of what the game does when you attempt to block, including which armor is factored when.

[willow thunder]

Didn't notice that, thanks!

[steep tusk]

Recommend you open the sheet on an actual PC and not mobile.

[willow thunder]

Lol, roger. I'm already on PC, I'm checking it out now 🫡

[cyan void]

i know you answered this yesterday... but yes, it still wont work for me lol

[gloomy pebble]

Is Iron the worst stage? These Crypts are rough even with following peoples advice lmao

Draugr are smoking me. Poison isn't bad with potions.

[willow thunder]

As rough as crypts are, there are area's later in the game that are incredibly rough as well. Meadows and the Black Forest are easy mode in comparison

I'd say that the Swamp is a massive curve in difficult though. A average draugr is about as strong as a 2 star skeleton!

I'd suggest making healthy meals and a good shield for blocking/parrying. Draugr's aren't weak to any particular type of damage, so just bring the best weapon you got.

[gloomy pebble]

Yeah lmao I can manage, but it is veeerrrry slow and the crypt rooms with spawners in them are a pain in my rear.

Does dying, in a way, nerf my damage?

[old bronze]

I'd say swamps are the most tedious biome in the game

[willow thunder]

If you're playing with no modifiers
you lose 5% of your skills

[gloomy pebble]

I use mainly axe and shield.. bronze. With my skill lowering is it making me weaker?

[old bronze]

Yes.

[gloomy pebble]

Yikes

[old bronze]

Keep in mind if you die many times in a short period you won't lose skills

[willow thunder]

This is just my preference. But the spear is a good option if your comfy with parrying, as they're low stamina cost weapons for solid damage. I honestly use the flint spear in the swamp.

[steep tusk]

What's your food?

[willow thunder]

You can also try voyaging to find a turtle and get a dagger from there shell

[gloomy pebble]

Been using the jam, carrot soup I think, annnnd beef jerky? lol

[steep tusk]

Problem located.

Food is unquestionably the most important stat in this game.

Gear is secondary.

[willow thunder]

Those are high stamina foods. I may recommend Deer stew, meet stew, and cooked dear or another alternative food item

[gloomy pebble]

The issue I am facing is the time it takes to get the materials for these higher foods. Am I not spending enough time hunting or something?

[steep tusk]

I recommend the food sheet that is pinned next to the blocking sheet 😁

Configurations tab has everything one needs.

[gloomy pebble]

I do have a boar farm though

[willow thunder]

LOL yeah, Sevrahn knows whats up xD

[steep tusk]

If something taking time is an issue for you... this is not a game you will enjoy on any level.

Preparation is key.
And preparation takes time.
The game is grind, followed by exploration, followed by more grind.

Repeat x8 biomes.

[gloomy pebble]

So I should go foraging and deer hunting until I got at least a chest full is what you are saying lol

[old bronze]

And then you die, lose your portal and need to get your stuff back naked.

[gloomy pebble]

I have been taking extreme measures to avoid this as much as I can lmao

[willow thunder]

It's not a bad idea to setup some things in advance however. Maybe consider taming starred creatures or marking key spawn points on the map

Understanding spawn mechanics can greatly help with killing the grind if you know what to look for

[gloomy pebble]

Did do this with boars, and plan to do with wolves. I got a ton of no star wolves atm tho

[steep tusk]

For now? Yes.
Because in doing that you'll get a better handle on what is worth stockpiling and what isn't.

Also you're in Swamp. You need to find Turnips ASAP.

[old bronze]

[willow thunder]

Okay, that's good. For deer, there isn't a super easy solution, but I often like to make my bases over what was a forest. As deer spawn in forests and black forests. If you clear out the trees, the deer will still spawn where the trees were. Making them wide open for free kills!

[steep tusk]

The fun words after my name sort of translate to me being good with spreadsheets 😁

Given I have written like 4 of them at this point.

[gloomy pebble]

Turnips you say.. another thing to add to my farm? Was in distress when I found out you can

[willow thunder]

HAHAH, it is indeed a fancy spreadsheet! I'm trying to figure it out, I'm kinda testing stuff in game as well

[gloomy pebble]

cannot plant berries**

[steep tusk]

Turnips are a major food upgrade in multiple ways.

[steep tusk]

Figure out which one?

[gloomy pebble]

Will get on this. I got a "main base" set just between a black forest, meadows, and mountains biome

[willow thunder]

Oh, just the spreadsheet as a whole. I don't often look at spreadsheets

[steep tusk]

Which one?

[gloomy pebble]

What should I be spending my first bit of Iron on to improve things? As of now I just made a longship to transport heaps of metal and then a stone cutter. I got about 3 stacks more of iron or so.

[steep tusk]

Like I said I have written multiple.

[willow thunder]

Valheim Blocking - by Sevrahn

[steep tusk]

First 10 iron goes to nails. Without question.

[steep tusk]

Health Thresholds tab.
Type your desired info in the top right.

Keep in mind that Capitalization Matters In Those Boxes.

Sheet will auto-update.

[gloomy pebble]

And after that? I know that Iron is needed in heaps and heaps so wondering if I just make pickaxe, whats needed for bench upgrades, and save rest?? Armor idk

[willow thunder]

I think that kinda varries imo. For more experienced players, I'd say the first 3 should go into making a iron cooking station

Also depends on difficulty you are playing on.

[steep tusk]

You don't need the pick for a good while.

Nails > Buckler > Mace > Forge Upgrades would be my recommendation.

[steep tusk]

As an experienced player... Boat > All

[gloomy pebble]

Why Mace?

[willow thunder]

I meaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. LOL I guess as a OVERLY CAUTIOUS player that plays on very hard
Cooking comes first

[steep tusk]

Boss weak to blunt.
And it carries you through all of Mountain easily.

[willow thunder]

Seeker Meat, Hare Meat, and Serpent Meats is 👌

[steep tusk]

Simplest weapon progression through the game is:

Wooden Club -> Iron Mace -> Blackmetal weapon of personal choice -> Mistwalker or switch to Magic -> Ashlands weapon of personal choice.

[willow thunder]

Not Frostner?

[gloomy pebble]

I can be a wizard in this game?

[steep tusk]

Fuck Frostner.
They nerfed it to shit and I will never touch it again because they aren't changing it back.

[willow thunder]

Oh? When did they nerf it?

[steep tusk]

Long time ago.

They added NFL punter knockback to it.

My weapon shouldn't prevent me from killing my enemies.

Originally it had similar knock to the Wooden Club. And it was perfect.

[lapis terrace]

Time zones makes it funky sometimes where we both never are online at the same time.

For Xbox, the network setting need to be crossplay. Else it will not work at all

[steep tusk]

The views and opinions expressed by Sevrahn in the previous statements do not reflect those of Irongate Studios or the general consensus of the Valheim community.

[gloomy pebble]

Can you guys tell me more how the stamina and health meads work? Are they 10 minutes like poison? 5 second health things? a burst?

[steep tusk]

Health meads are 10s and have a 2 min CD.
Stamina meads suck because Tasty Mead exists.

[willow thunder]

Okay, yeah. I can see that. I was thinking a while back that the knockback was larger then I thought. Though that was around the time mistlands was released and it'd been a while since I last played. So I wasn't sure if they changed the knockback or if I was remembering it wrong.

[steep tusk]

If I want massive knockback, that is what 2-handed hammers are for.

[willow thunder]

Yeah, honestly! Speaking of, I had been sleeping on those hammers. They're honestly so useful for the swamp!

and for clearing out crypts

[steep tusk]

Demolisher makes you nearly untouchable in Ashlands with the amount of space it provides.

[willow thunder]

Hmmm, haven't tried it in the ashlands yet. I just entered the ashlands for the 2nd time on another playthrough. Perhaps I'll try it out then.

[woeful pivot]

how rare is this wtf

[steep tusk]

Like 5% rare iirc?

[woeful pivot]

wtf do i do

shld i fight it

[steep tusk]

It is your world.
You are the sole person in charge of "should I?".

[willow thunder]

Do it, kill the troll!

(I've only ever seen 1 2 star troll. They're only rare because you can only spot starred trolls in the first place 2000m out from spawn.)

[woeful pivot]

HELL NO

[tired root]

Knockback of Frostner is easily manageable in

1. fighting multiple enemies at once where you can keep hitting with primary hit combos but just hit different targets when one gets knocked, or
2. against single target where you can hit once and when target gets slowed by frost you can get closer and hit with secondary attack.

It is easily one of the best one handed weapon for crowd control and survivalibity and it keeps its relevance during 3 biomes after Mountain.

[steep tusk]

I did clarify that my opinion on it is mine alone.

[tired root]

Of course. I just gave my 2 cents where knockback is manageable/useful.

I used to dislike knockback of 1h maces before. Now clubs are easily one of my favorite weapon types.

[steep tusk]

It's useful on 2-handed hammers. 😄

It's annoying af and counter-productive on 1-handed maces.

[lilac coyote]

1% for a 2*.

[steep tusk]

Fair.

[lilac coyote]

It's basically 10% per level so 10% of 10%.

[worldly grotto]

should i make the upgrade from karve to longship ? am not on the sea very often 🙂

[steep tusk]

Your world.
You are the sole person who decides what you should and should not do.

[vocal plinth]

Is my boat at risk of being destroyed by enemies while i am in a sunken crypt? Say the boat is parked next to the crypt, trying to understand how loading works in this game

[steep tusk]

While you are in the crypt, no. You're far enough away that nothing outside is really moving.

But overall I don't advise parking in the Swamp.

[vocal plinth]

Where do i park then?

I want to export lots of iron fast

[steep tusk]

Adjacent biome.
Use a portal that you can move from crypt to crypt for mining and removing all non-iron materials.

Leave the iron itself in the crypts in the closest room that has a chest to the entrance.

Once you have cleared all crypts in the swamp, go get your Eikthyr power and do a sprinting run of just grabbing your iron one crypt at a time and running it back to the boat.
Sail the entire haul back in 1 shot.

[vocal plinth]

Why do you suggest this method instead of parking relatively close to the swamp on the ocean side and heading into crypts and back again until i loot all shore crypts?

[steep tusk]

Risk of losing boat for one.

[vocal plinth]

Additionally whats the use of iron bones?

[steep tusk]

There is no such thing as iron bones.

[vocal plinth]

Then some kind of visually long iron sticks from the crypts

[steep tusk]

Withered bones?

[vocal plinth]

Yes

[steep tusk]

What did you use Ancient Seeds for?

[vocal plinth]

I don't collect them

[steep tusk]

You had to use them.

[vocal plinth]

For what?

[steep tusk]

...

Forgive the frustration, but how tf did you summon Elder?

[vocal plinth]

I didn't

[steep tusk]

Are you not killing any bosses?

[vocal plinth]

My friends summoned the bosses i am just a companion lol

[steep tusk]

🚶‍♂️

[vocal plinth]

[steep tusk]

Sure. After all the correspondence you've seen me have with other people.
All the information, advice, and pointing to spreadsheets full of helpful facts...
Yeah. I'm a huge troll...

[vocal plinth]

🏃‍♂️

[tired root]

Let's say in non-spoilery way that you need some withered bones for progressing the game.

[vocal plinth]

To kill the 3rd boss, yeah

[ebon marsh]

To summon

[tough hare]

Have you even fought one of the bosses?

[vocal plinth]

I fought the lightning deer and elder with my two friends and i fought the deer boss solo too

But I've slain like 20trolls solo

[tough hare]

In that case, I suggest you do the Elder solo too, so you know what it's like to fight him.
After that, find a nice "friendly" biome near the swamp you're in, set up a small dock, house and portal and use that to explore the swamp in the way Sevrahn proposed.
Or drop 2 chests in that place, drop all the iron in there and use the longboat once they are full to transport your iron back.

The last thing you want happening is leeches trying to attack you while you're in / on the boat, without a nearby workbench to repair the damage.
And docking in the swamp just does that; asking for your boat to be destroyed.

[lilac coyote]

Welcome to my world.

[tough hare]

Are you a one star or a two star? 😉

[vocal plinth]

But i can park, drop a workbench head right inside the crypt within 2mins of parking and come out with the stuff in two goes and swim off to the next one, rinse and repeat

Because my swamp is next to plains and ocean, nothing more

[tough hare]

So you picked the wrong swamp

[vocal plinth]

And plains I've already had a warm welcome from deathsquitoes

[vocal plinth]

First one didn't have a single crypt

Just some witch hut

The elder was annoying to fight tho, i kept spamming him with fire arrows and rolling constantly from a range

And his black root/cloud thingy attacks had a big hitbox

[tough hare]

There's more than one swamp in this game. And I'm certain your friends didn't loot all of them.
If they did, you may ask them why they didn't leave any goods for you.

There are more swamps out there, you just need to find one with a Black Forest or Meadows biome next to it. Even a small, half grid piece is enough.
But if you think that's a waste of time and your method is better, so be it.

I'm sure that people having over 1,5K or even over 2K hours in this game don't know anything about it.

Oh, wait, I forgot to add the "/s" to that last line.

[vocal plinth]

I'm not trying to be rude and I am thankful for the wisdom, but I also want to have my own opinion weighted, sometimes i go with y'all's suggestions but if i think i can get away with my strategy because i might not need 30stacks of iron, maybe just 90iron will suffice

Me and my friends loot together for the first time, but afterwards i want to stack up on metals because I'm usually the one getting mats while they defend or explore, and we split it 3ways

[ebon marsh]

Play how you want, you will figure out sooner or later that you have enough or not enough, in my experience it’s never enough but getting a big haul early can last you till even the plains or mistlands depending on how much iron you use

[lilac coyote]

Dude finds the bog witch on first attempt and is disappointed.

I think the bigger issue is that his friends are doing all the fun stuff and he's left to fend for himself.

[prime quest]

Can anyone give me a tip about vineberrys farm? I feel like i am doing something wrong. Whats the most efficient way to get them growing?

[tough hare]

90 iron won't be enough.
Just to give you an impression:

Iron axe requires 80 iron to craft and upgrade to the max;
Iron pickaxe requires 80 iron to craft and upgrade to the max;
Forge requires 35 iron to craft and upgrade to lvl 5
Stone cutter requires 2 iron
Weapons between 40 and 80 iron to craft and upgrade to maximum;
Shields need 20 or 25 iron to craft and fully upgrade to maximum;

If you use heavy armor, you should add this as well:
Helmet: 50 iron for craft and maximum upgrade;
Iron scale mail: 50 iron to craft and maximum upgrade;
Iron greaves: 50 iron to craft and maximum upgrade.

So if you use the light armor, you will need between 257 and 302 iron for tools and weapons; depending at your preference.
If you use heavy armor you will need between 407 and 457 iron to get the same.

And that's only for the Swamp.
And not even included some of the upgrades to cooking that need iron too.
So it may be close to 500 iron instead.

You will need iron in other biomes to craft machines, weapons, armor as well.
And the only source outside the swamps is the Mistlands, so you will have to do with what you find right now.

But 90 iron isn't enough for sure. I can guarantee that right here and right now.

[tough hare]

From what I understood in the previous days, it's a bit his own choice.

[frosty frost]

They are bugged a bit, so its hard to actually farm them, the best way is still probably going around ashlads and finding them there

[tough hare]

You may have planted them too close to one another. The vines tend to grow up and sideways, so at some point, one vine is blocking the growth of the other one and vice versa.

[prime quest]

How much space should i keep?

Every second wooden wall?

[tough hare]

I think one on each of the legs of that cross may work. But even that might be close.

[prime quest]

Or should i just plant them infront of the middle wall, if there are 3

[tough hare]

Kinda like that, yes.

[prime quest]

Okay, ill keep testing. I ran out of seeds, need to farm some more then. Ill get seeds from just picking vineberrys, right?

[tough hare]

yup.

[prime quest]

Can you guys show me some of your vineberry farms plz? 🙂

[tough hare]

What you also can do is create a "test world", use Devcommands on it to build walls and spawn in the seeds and use any character (Like a different one) to plant the seeds there to see what works.
And once you found a satisfying solution, use the world from the screenshot to use that method.

[tough hare]

The only vineberry farm I made had the same problem you have. So I doubt it'll do you much good to see a screenshot of that. 😄

[prime quest]

Okay, ill try around. Ive just to look up all those commands.

But i can let them grow on both sides of the wall, right?

[faint osprey]

no

[vocal plinth]

Damn, thanks for the big picture, i was looking for just getting lvl 1 atgeir, axe and pick off of the trip

When should I use heavy armour?

[vocal plinth]

That's also true

[ebon marsh]

Honestly if you have max bronze armor and bronze axe you’ll be fine just getting a max iron pick and weapon / shield of your choice

Save the rest of the iron for the upgrades and the boat

[vocal plinth]

Does it make any sense to bring stonecutter here to break this tower for stone?

[agile rapids]

Heavy armor is only something I would consider in the mountains and mistlands, the plains don't count because they don't have light armor

[woeful gate]

Hello, can I ask something ? I have built an aerial docking station for my boat, and my concern is the following: when I try to built it on top from the air (I dont have the mats on my bag) it turns red which means the boat would not build. But when I press Shift the boat seams buildable. Will it build or not with Shift ?

[frosty frost]

The shift allows you to build it even if you are not pointing on water atm, you still need materials for it 🙂

[woeful gate]

so if I have the materials (obviously) I will be able to build it in this position

[frosty frost]

Yepp 🙂

[woeful gate]

also do you think this skeleton will work ? 😂 . I think it will hold the boat but I have never tried it

[frosty frost]

I dont see why it wouldnt 😄

[crisp otter]

I can not find a single sentence about something like this on the Wiki (or other places). I thought the limit was 1 leviathan per ocean. Have I understood it wrong?

[tough hare]

There's a chance two will spawn next to one another, there's a much smaller chance to have three spawn next to one another.

I s'pose that's why it's not mentioned, as the chance to have that is pretty tiny.

[frail cave]

i just bought the game should i download any mods before playing?

[frosty frost]

"They have 1% chance of appearing on each full Ocean zone and require at least 30 meters depth." this is from wiki 🙂

[vocal plinth]

Is there maybe a strategy how I can perfectly level this land, i want to raise it just above the maximum water level when it floods or big waves crash etc

[frosty frost]

No, why would you?

[burnt vessel]

maybe use beams to walk on while leveling

[frosty frost]

Stay in one place and perfectly lvl as far as you can reach, move a bit while staying on the leveled ground and repeat

[vocal plinth]

oh so I level based on the height that I am?

[frosty frost]

That will not work, the leveling function will still lvl to the height of the ground the beam is above

[frosty frost]

Yes, tho while holding shift it will level to the height you are looking at

Just stay in place, dont hold shift and level 🙂

[burnt vessel]

would have to place the first beam on ground at desired height

[frosty frost]

And how is that beneficial to just being on the ground itself?

The beam does literally nothing

[burnt vessel]

seemed to me that standing directly on the ground can cause small variance in leveling, but i'm still kinda new to know for sure

and OCD about it lol

[frosty frost]

Thats why i did say to stay in one place, that way you will level the whole area to the height you are standing at and then you can move

[burnt vessel]

good idea

[frosty frost]

and you will have to level the ground multiple times for it to be perfectly flat

so 3-4 clicks on yeach spot you are looking at

[burnt vessel]

good to know that

[frosty frost]

Btw it might not look perfectly flat if you have one graphic setting on (i think it was tasselation?) it changes the visual a bit but it should still be perfectly flat

[tough hare]

I'm usually zooming out to the max when leveling and often tilt the camera to horizontal view to check if the ground is flat.
Even when doing that, I noticed you can't get it perfectly flat all of the time, but it will certainly help a lot when doing it that way.

To me, the only way to get a perfectly flat area, is simply building a wood or stone / Black Marble floor over it.

[burnt vessel]

does valheim use tessellation?

[frosty frost]

There is setting for it so i believe so, yes 🙂

[burnt vessel]

oh just read your message lol

[vocal plinth]

just got raided by the swamp ppl

I managed to deffend myself tho

no damage

[burnt vessel]

nice

I'm going to look into setting a hotkey to toggle tessellation I think

[vocal plinth]

thanks, worked perfectly!

[frail cave]

Anyone know why valheim was removed from gamepass?

[frosty frost]

The contract ended i believe

[delicate condor]

I purchased the barber Kit from Hildir but I can't find the barber Station in the Crafting tab?

[frosty frost]

Have you made bronze nails?

[delicate condor]

yes, but somehow it's in the Furniture tab, not in the Crafting, wtf

I found it, but it''s in the wrong tab? is it a bug?

[frosty frost]

Well you dont craft anything there...

no, that is the correct tab

[delicate condor]

the wiki mentions it's a "Crafting" station

nvm, got it, thanks!

[frosty frost]

Hmm, will loook into it

[prime quest]

Do the flametal ore towers repop?

[echo sparrow]

no

[loud linden]

They're reworks of the Leviathans that we mine chitin from. Once they're gone, they're gone.

[dull nymph]

can you stack resistances?
will drinking a poison or frost res mead provide more if I already have a forst or poison res cape?

[frosty frost]

No, only the highest resistance applies, so if you have poison resist from root mask (50% less dmg taken) and poison resist from poison mead (75% less dmg taken) the mead resistance is the one game counts

[dull nymph]

oh, how do I know which one is higher tho? I didn't even know those two were different strengh

[frosty frost]

Usually resistances halve the dmg you take, this is the only example i can think of right now that has different value 🙂

and you can always check wiki if you really want to know

[echo sparrow]

i think the tooltip usually says "very resistant" (x0.25) vs just "resistant" (x0.5), also pretty sure at least right now it's consistently always the case that the temporary duration item (mead) is stronger and overrides (doesn't stack, just uses the higher resistance reduction for the duration) the permanent effect clothing items

[loud linden]

There's resistant/weak and then there's 'very'.

Resistant/weak halves or doubles damage, 'very' halves or doubles again

So, -50%/+50% damage, then -75%/+75% damage; then what @frosty frost said about highest applies

[dull nymph]

Yes but that isn't written anywhere in both the items

[loud linden]

Every item (edit: that has a modifier) is either "weak"/"resistant" or "very weak"/"very resistant" as far as I know.

One thing I haven't tried yet - If I destroy the walls that vines are attached to, do they drop their berries?

[prime quest]

This is alot better now 🙂

[faint osprey]

looks great 👍

[tough hare]

Glad to see your attempts work out.
I hope you're able to get vine berries from them as well.

[prime quest]

Yeah, i looted em allready, worked pretty well 🙂

[tough hare]

You're using darkwood standing thingies instead of wood walls now?

[prime quest]

ashs wood or whatever its called, that one from ashlands

[prime quest]

i like the look 🙂

[tough hare]

They certainly look nice. And if it works, that's a win-win.

[prime quest]

I'll show again once the vineberrys grown again

[steep tusk]

You're glad someone is succeeding?

Do you even Discord? 😏😉

[tough hare]

Well, considering I offered some help earlier and seeing that things work out, yeah. I'm glad.

Even if that means I'm the only soul having a good feeling of something done over discord this year. After all, there's always one exception to a rule. 😉

[faint osprey]

this is how my farm looks like 💀

[little trench]

beautiful 😭

[steep tusk]

Thorin Oakshield, Exception

Get Smiffe to change your name 😁

[loud linden]

I'm embarrassed to say that it never occurred to me to build a wall around an existing farm for use with vines. Bravo you

[faint osprey]

i only did it recently before this I was using the walls of an fortres
but it was too small for my needs so i moved them here

[loud linden]

More people need to offer base tours. It'd be fun to see how other brains realise their bases.

[prime quest]

Do they also grow on black marble?

[tired root]

Afaik all wall pieces should work. At least I've grown ivy on my Asksvin farmer hut which is made of Black marble.

[prime quest]

I know many people build like a village, but i do like one big building for everything xD

[loud linden]

I think my bases have undergone some convergent evolution. Discovering what works, where things are best built, managing floor-space, comfort levels, all that stuff. It'd be amazing to see other solutions.

[loud linden]

You built a meeting room?

[faint osprey]

gaming set up

[loud linden]

Ah ok.

[faint osprey]

i have 4 diffrent buildings in my base

[loud linden]

I did once build a house around a vesvigir, and turned it into a TV for the home.

[loud linden]

Sorry, I missed that because there's only one monitor and it appears to be in 4:3. 😛

[faint osprey]

could make an ultra wide with the half wall piece

[loud linden]

Oh shit! I built a sports arena in another game instance and I forgot all about it! Let me log on and I'll post a pic or two.

[vocal plinth]

I feel like some witch fermenting meads

[wispy skiff]

so i made it through the snow and now im in the plains, but my biggest struggle currently is moving this lox. Does anyone know how to move a lox if i dont have a saddle?

[little trench]

thought those were bulbs on a line

[prime quest]

looks nice, like a stadion 😄

[loud linden]

It's a tamed lox?

[wispy skiff]

it sure isss

[loud linden]

You can move them by luring them with cloudberries, but that's pretty slow and you have to pick up the berry before it gets eaten, or you have to wait for the 'Hungry' tag again. Just make a saddle is my advice.

[wispy skiff]

i do believe im gonna go on the hunt for the saddle lol thank you

[cosmic cedar]

Do I have to be inside of the raid circle for the raid to stop or can I just wait it out?

[steep tusk]

You have to be inside.

[loud linden]

The timer only ticks while you're in the circle.

[echo sparrow]

except wolf raid, i've read according to wiki, the timer ticks down in circle or not--never tested it myself; also technically you can also end it by just not coming back until ANOTHER raid triggers elsewhere, which 'overwrites' (just ends) the last raid

again, info from Wiki I read but never personally tested

[loud linden]

Interesting... maybe worth testing.

[vocal plinth]

can i deconstruct the longboat like Karvem, so materials drop?

[echo sparrow]

sort of--it drops all materials, but you have to break it manually by attacking it

and also, be sure you're in shallow enough water because the nails sink

[loud linden]

(I'm an idiot, here's the correct response) Boats, carts, battering rams require destroying - as opposed to deconstructing with the hammer. There may be more, but I don't know them.

[old bronze]

And the catapult(?)

[loud linden]

For boats, I've found the easiest recovery is to find the bearing that allows you to drive a boat into the coast under wind, and destroy it as you go to have it fall apart in shallow-enough water to recover all the materialas.

[shell flower]

what iron things do i need? im on swamp yet

[little trench]

1st iron pickaxe

2nd iron nails for boat

[shell flower]

why not armor first?

[little trench]

just so u mine faster. maybe if u struggle a lot with enemy go for armor first. just about what u need i guess

[stoic trench]

It’s up to you, really, but most players like building a longboat first.

[loud linden]

3rd (presuming you've found Hildir) an iron to steam the wrinkles out of your newly found clothes.

[shell flower]

im playing with a friend so how many iron do we need? around 300?

[little trench]

if u wanna go full iron armor and upgrade etc, a loooot

iron is an important resource in this game that u even use later on

[shell flower]

but around?

[stoic trench]

Start with like 200 id say

Raid like 6-8 crypts, usually about a swamps’ worth. Bring it back, check out the new stuff, then plan for another raid and get what you need.

[little trench]

150x iron for full upgraded armor set so yea 300x at least for that

[shell flower]

its worth to upgrade?

[stoic trench]

Debatable, but imo I would do level 2 or 3.

[loud linden]

Your criterion is entirely subjective. How much iron you 'need' is entirely dependant on what you want to do with it.

[little trench]

tbh i only get upgraded iron helmet and use root armor chest

[prime quest]

Is there a better wall than black marble yet?

[stoic trench]

In terms of health? I don’t think so

[shell flower]

which is better amror root or iron?

[prime quest]

Yea, guess thats it

[stoic trench]

Most will tell you root armor. But iron isn’t bad.

[little trench]

u just get root chest for the pierce resistance

[loud linden]

All I can tell you is that I have no interest in rooting in iron armour.

[little trench]

if you're new and arent facerolling enemies, just go for full iron

[stoic trench]

Iron armor looks cooler anyways 😏

[shell flower]

root set is 24 defense and each piece of iron gives you 14 def

[hardy veldt]

what are the best melee weapon types for very hard playthrough?

[stoic trench]

Root has no movement speed penalty, and it gives a bonus to archery and poison resist. Also, the noteworthy pierce resist Is huge.

[little trench]

atgeir

why? spin

[hardy veldt]

does it insta stagger?

[little trench]

ya

[shell flower]

so im quite new and should i go more iron?

[frosty frost]

Yep

[stoic trench]

Grab yourself like 200 iron and get it back home, that’s a good start 🙂

[loud linden]

With due respect to the desire to learn, tonight's questions are clearly coming from positions that have made no effort into learning how the game works.

[hardy veldt]

is 1k wood enough to build i large sized wood base?

[little trench]

and also stagbreaker/demolisher very good

stagbreaker allows you to clear burials safely early on

and also makes it easy to kill swamp blobs without poison resist pot

[shell flower]

how many slots are on long ship?

[stoic trench]

Hmm I’d say like a medium sized base?

[stoic trench]

Way more than the karve lol

[shell flower]

but how many xd

[frosty frost]

18

[stoic trench]

Sorry, didn’t know the number off the top of my head 😅

[shell flower]

its fine

[lilac coyote]

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

[balmy mesa]

Can the stag breaker still be used to find where silvers at before bonemass

Tired of waiting for my friends and would rather swing a stagbreaker around than do nothing

[frosty frost]

Yep

[vocal plinth]

Why would i have to save my game? I always come back in the same spot i logged out?

[frail cave]

logging out automatically saves

[vocal plinth]

Ah great

[little trench]

even altf4?

[frail cave]

afaik yes

not sure if closing it through the task manager does though

i'd imagine not 😅

[little trench]

yea

[vocal plinth]

Is bonemass annoying to fight in any way?

[true steeple]

Only if you don't have blunt damage and poison resistance

[vocal plinth]

How would my ideal set look? Heavy armour and mace?

[true steeple]

Any armor will do, but you'll want a shield to go with that mace

[vocal plinth]

Since im gonna be fighting upclose, heavy iron armour is a must?

[true steeple]

Of course not. Only if you're taking unblocked hits

[vocal plinth]

Don't want to get oneshot in my troll set

[true steeple]

You won't be, I've fought him with troll armor

Have you killed a serpent? Serpent meat and stew are both very powerful health foods

[vocal plinth]

I haven't

Found my second leviathan today, so got them things

[true steeple]

You could make root armor if you want something stronger that won't slow you down too much

[vocal plinth]

My friends don't want to deal with abominations and idk how to solo that thing nor how it works

[true steeple]

Fighting an abomination with bronze is much easier than fighting a troll with flint

[vocal plinth]

I have iron, but idk what strategy is good

Fire arrows probably cause they are slow

But the thing has 800hp thats like 120arrows probs

[true steeple]

Parry it and use a slash weapon such as an axe or sword. If you have a surtling spawner nearby, keep it over that.

[little trench]

he can be surprisingly difficult yea, just make sure you have poison resist up and disengage a bit if hp getting low

his swings can hurt af

[vocal plinth]

Yep would he go back or keep chasing me

[little trench]

keep chasing but hes slow and you can kite around the skull altar

make sure to flatten ground around the area before starting

[vocal plinth]

Good tip

[jovial lion]

Hello everyone, I've heard from a friend that if we get a dedicated server up and running that we would need to start all over on a fresh map, (new save)

Is this true? and if so, is there any way to transfer save files so that we could continue our current world?

Appreciated

[steep tusk]

Depends on how bad your eyes and reflexes are.

He has 3 extremely telegraphed moves. Once you know them he is a zero damage fight and one of the easiest bosses in the game.

[vocal plinth]

noted

[steep tusk]

You can transfer in a current world.
#dedicated-server best place for info.

[hardy veldt]

how much iron would an average person spend in a playthrough?

[steep tusk]

There is no way to answer that question.

[hardy veldt]

i just need an idea of how much i should get

i dont want to be mining iron for a while

[frosty frost]

Do you plan to build with iron wood beams and poles?

[steep tusk]

1,000 is a good, round number.

[hardy veldt]

nah just equipment and industry

[frosty frost]

then 2 longships worth should be good enough, add third and you really should be ok

[steep tusk]

1,000 is a good, round number.

[frosty frost]

Yep 🙂

[steep tusk]

But I fully understand choosing 900 given it stacks in 30's.

[frosty frost]

As does 1080 😄 and it fits exactly into 2 longships

[steep tusk]

Fair.

[analog dawn]

I have a problem. I have a server on Gportal. I want to register as an admin on my server. I do this but every time I open devcommands it says I'm not an admin^^

[steep tusk]

#dedicated-server

[wispy skiff]

is the plains boss hard

[tough hare]

Don't forget you can also transport at least 30 iron in your inventory.

So two ship trips will add another 60 iron.

[steep tusk]

Silver Sword + Fire Resist Mead.

[hardy veldt]

how did i just get hit for 43 with a root chest on by a mosquito

jeez i guess they will always hurt

[agile rapids]

Is the silver sword or frostner better at the same skill level?

[steep tusk]

Silver Sword is BiS for Yagluth.

[junior ingot]

yes, but if you prepare enough its managable

||or if you cheese it its a breeze||

[steep tusk]

I would say "no" it is not hard.

[agile rapids]

Every boss is cheeseable

[delicate condor]

I think V alheim is the only game that put my PC under so much intensive workload that even my youtube videos freeze.
Is that normal...?

I mean I have an RTX 3080 and an AMD 5900X with 32GB of RAM

[placid parrot]

alright, if you are on a flametal spire, and it sinks into the lava and you DIE, how do you get your gear back? Is there a way?

[clever juniper]

smoke bombs

[placid parrot]

how so?

"Smoke bombs extinguish fire on 3 meter radius around the impact"

[clever juniper]

sorry, meant basalt bomb

when you throw it at the lava, it will create a platform to jump on

[placid parrot]

Basalt bombs can be used to create small platforms when thrown into lava, its main purpose is to reach Flametal ore veins.

The basalt platform created will float in or above the lava for 30 seconds before beginning to sink into the lava at a slow rate.

COOL! thank you!

[golden maple]

ive died far from home with most of my stuff... anyone know where i can get some helpto get it back? :)

[clever juniper]

you can try to use some old armor/weapons or craft new ones temporarily to recover your stuff

if you are still unable to get it and don't have a friend to join in and help you get it, you can go to this reddit page:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BodyRecoverySquad/

[golden maple]

cool thanks ill try a post. dont have anyone who can help, made the mistake of going near the plains without enough armour

[placid parrot]

what kind of gear did you have?

[last osprey]

you can actually kill him just ||by walking circles around him and hitting him as your stam allows. As long as you stay at his back (may need Fenris armor or ratatosk mead) he'll constantly try to turn to face you and never attack||

[golden maple]

bronze items, troll hide armor, longship 🤣

[placid parrot]

Easier with a couple people

[last osprey]

nah if someone's in front he'll actually use his abilities and those are all AoE

you might actually have to dodge a fire nova then

[placid parrot]

How long would it take to get there from your closest portal? I am in Mistlands

so my gear is OP

[golden maple]

not sure, 5 or 10min possibly? this is how far i was

[placid parrot]

Is there a portal there?

[golden maple]

nope wasnt able to get to land 😭

mosquito flew over to the boat and owned me

[placid parrot]

you died in water?

[golden maple]

yeah on the boat so i think the gear will be ok?

[last osprey]

tombstones float so your gear will be okay regardless

and enemies don't do stuff when you're not around so your boat should be fine too

[placid parrot]

you need a boat to get to your boat...

[steep tusk]

Raft.

[last osprey]

at least make it a karve

unlucky storm while sailing there and you're right back at the beginning 😂

[golden maple]

ok ill make a karve and try again

[steep tusk]

Put a Raft inside a Drakkar for double sail speed. 😏

[golden maple]

dont even know what a drakkar is :D

[steep tusk]

Boat that is about 3 rafts long and 2 rafts wide.

[frosty frost]

That is is the exact oposite of what would happen...

[golden maple]

if i get a portal nearby would someone be able to get rid of the mosquito for me pls ? 🤣

[last osprey]

no need to make it complicated - log out, switch on the passive enemies world modifier, get your gear and switch it back off. Same effect, less hassle.

[golden maple]

ohh good idea thanks

[idle oar]

my freinds cant join my game, and i cant join his, but we can both join other people games, crossplay is enabled, hes on xbxo, im on PC(steam), but it wont work, I've tried everything, are any of you experincing the same thing, or does anyone have a soultion?

[placid parrot]

A couple things that come to mind - do you have any mods? Do you have different modifiers enabled in the menu (not sure if this means you can't join if the modifiers don't match)?

[idle oar]

no mods, when he tries to join it says failed to resister join code or something and i tell him the exat code, and when i try to join him, it says failed to connect after waiting a bit, and we cant join eachother on any world at all

but i can join any other random game and so can he

we used to be able to play toegther all the time back in the day when valheim was on gamepass, and a few weeks ago i bought it on steam and bought it on xbox, and we tried to fix it for a few hours watching totorials, and now he suggested i ask the discord

[shell flower]

what is worth to buy from trader haldor?

i have 2k gold and play with friend

[steep tusk]

Worth is subjective to the individual.

But the belt is a must-buy.

Megingjord

[last osprey]

i like using the dvergr circlets on item stands for base lighting

also barrels

[shell flower]

ymir flesh for weapons later?

[steep tusk]

Megingjord = must buy
Thunderstone = required for the trash can

Ymir is for Frosnter (meh, imo) and Iron Sledge

Dverger Circlet is solid if you don't want to carry torches into crypts/dungeons.

Only thing I don't buy from him is eggs tbh.

[shell flower]

ok i buy 2 belts and thunderstone then

[last osprey]

i pretty much never bother with iron sledge (the next place after swamps i want a 2h hammer is Mistlands which has Demolisher) but frostner is worth crafting imo just to make your initial Mistlands entry easier.

[steep tusk]

Solid.

[shell flower]

thx

[last osprey]

yeah definitely belts first if you don't have them already

[shell flower]

can i teleport orbs through the portal the one to craft forges

[last osprey]

Orbs? Surtling cores you mean?

[shell flower]

yes

[last osprey]

yes, you can teleport most things that aren't metal

[steep tusk]

If it doesn't have the little symbol, you can teleport it.

[shell flower]

can i make farm of those orbs in swamps?

[last osprey]

yes

[shell flower]

dig a little bit under spawner

[steep tusk]

You get tons of them in the Black Forest 🤷‍♂️

[last osprey]

the fire geysers spawn surtlings every 5 (i think) minutes

link a bunch of those together with portals and you'll have all the cores and coal you need.

[shell flower]

oh its shit then

can i teleport my storage cart?

[real nebula]

You can't

What you can do is destroy it and port the materials

[placid parrot]

I haven't played cross platform, but I'm guessing there's a button for this to make sure it's on?

[last osprey]

nah, if you've been away for long enough they spawn as soon as you port in.
So if you make a chain of portals connecting fire geysers you're basically just walking from portal to portal while collecting surtling cores and coal in between.

[shell flower]

what is the best to use in Obliterator