valheim-help

[tired root]

When on melee range he doesn't shoot ranged attack.

His melee is quite slow, easily dodgeable.

Move away when he summons roots.

[coarse lantern]

is a mead ketill worth using?

[coarse lantern]

tyvm

[tired root]

Definitely, if you want to make meads.

[coarse lantern]

how good are the mead effects

[tired root]

They are very useful, varying in healing HP and restoring stamina and granting resistances, plus else.

[coarse lantern]

do they take a food slot?

[tired root]

No, they don't.

[coarse lantern]

sweet

[tired root]

HP/Stamina meads get 2 min cooldown when used, preventing to use another until the CD is off.

[coarse lantern]

i mean thats fine with me, i have no real way of healing in boss fights otherwise

[tired root]

Then those other different meads last for 5-10 mins usually.

[coarse lantern]

how long will it take to ferment?

like comparable to smelting or tree growth?

[little zodiac]

two in game days

[coarse lantern]

icic

[little zodiac]

they are 100% worth it

[coarse lantern]

also is there anything if i just mine a hole through the earth?

omg wait i can make a cave house

[little zodiac]

you can only mine so far down

there a limit on how far the game will let you based on the starting height of the map

i think its something like 8m

[lilac coyote]

Terrain can be modified +/- 8m, yeah.

[coarse lantern]

icic

im making a pit to tame boars in lol

[little zodiac]

good underground base is the elder shrine

[coarse lantern]

why there specifically?

[little zodiac]

top cant be damaged so you are bsically completely protected from stuff

you can dig down as far as you can and its a decent sized base

[coarse lantern]

awesome

[little zodiac]

cave bases or bases under rocks can stil be broken by mobs like trolls and what not

[coarse lantern]

mines in the meadow so im mostly safe until i kill more bosses

[little zodiac]

best defense for most bases is either a trench with wall or a plateau

[coarse lantern]

icic

how can you tell when a boar is tamed?

[little zodiac]

there will be a noise and a message, their health bar will also change from red to green

[coarse lantern]

icic, ty

[little zodiac]

np~

[coarse lantern]

and is there a set amount of berries they need?

[little zodiac]

no its only time

[lilac coyote]

Tames will eat one piece of food every 10 minutes and tame in 30 minutes if uninterrupted.

[little zodiac]

ok theres that lol

they cant be aggro'd as well that will extend the time

[coarse lantern]

rip lol

[little zodiac]

can just sit there (literally) to where they dont see you and youll be fine

[tired root]

The timer doesn't revert back tho even if the animal gets alerted during the taming. It continues after it calms again.

[coarse lantern]

does eikthyr drop deer hide?(rip)

[coarse lantern]

icic, i pissed it off once trying to figure it out

[lilac coyote]

It drops something far more important.

[coarse lantern]

it does? i thought the antlers were the best thing that came from it

[lilac coyote]

Exactly.

[coarse lantern]

ah

yeah no im just lazy and don't wanna hunt more deer to make a karve

[coarse lantern]

are they useful past the pickaxe?

[lilac coyote]

The pickaxe is essential, isn't that enough?

[coarse lantern]

fair enough i suppose lol

are there bigger chests I can make?

[full mesa]

No my tower is mostly covered in stone

The roof is like 1 tile away from the floor tiles and stairs

so its fully covered but till decaying

[little zodiac]

are you still building the same build?

[full mesa]

Yep

Ill show you in a sec just give me a min doing something atm

[little zodiac]

k

[full mesa]

Its in the #building-screenshots

[little zodiac]

are only the pieces on the top floor taking damage?

[full mesa]

No like all the pieces in the 4th screenshot are taking dmg

All the way down

[little zodiac]

are they at ground level?

[full mesa]

wdym by ground level?

[little zodiac]

are they touching the ground

[full mesa]

No the foundation starts at my stone slabs

Heres one I decayed wood I found

Heres the size difference

[little zodiac]

its not a basement or anything like that?

[full mesa]

Nope

[little zodiac]

do you get big waves where youre at?

[full mesa]

Nope the land is high

[little zodiac]

hmm did you attach everything to snap points?

[full mesa]

All are in snapping points

I did everything by the book and the wood is still decaying

[little zodiac]

im not sure then tbh, sometimes if youre too close to the water level the waves can still effect the floor and sometimes if you dont use snaps points and free place they can be placed in a spot to where its not "covered"

i mean from what i can see everything looks fine i dont see anything that looks like it might be causing that

[full mesa]

I did everything by the book and game say no

[little zodiac]

only happens when it rains?

[full mesa]

Yeah

[little zodiac]

best thing i can say is wait for it to rain and see if you can see where there are rain particals coming in and try to go from there

[full mesa]

Hm

I'll check 🙂

Like how my new base turned out

[little zodiac]

its looking good

[full mesa]

took me like a week to build

The interior is probably my favourite

bc of my 2nd floor supports below

[little zodiac]

i saw those they do look good

[full mesa]

I just need to add decorations and this is probably my most coziest base ive built

The building part is pretty much complete, just gonna add some flares and details

[little zodiac]

idk if you like the vines or not but if you do you can get em from the bog witch, for me they always add something just a little more to the exterior walls

[full mesa]

Ill see what I can do

with the vines

[little zodiac]

i mean thats up to you its your build

looks good regardless

[cedar lintel]

There are bigger chests eventually yes

[small imp]

has anyone ever had this bug i spawned in i couldnt move and it says i have 0 health but im not dead

i still cant move either

[little zodiac]

i havent but i'd start by checking mods

you could ask in #mods-issues or #mods-discussion

[small imp]

thing is everything was fine 20 minutes ago

[little zodiac]

mods can sometimes mess things up for no reason

one that comes to mind is a floating items mod, when a bonemaw would spawn your character actions would go crazy otherwise the mod worked fine

[small imp]

i think it is my mods i just looked in my Bepinex and something is having an anuerism

[little zodiac]

try finding out which mod is throwing the error, you should be able to see which one it is in the bepinex log

[small imp]

do u mind if i send a ss?

[little zodiac]

thats fine

[small imp]

happens when i load in

[little zodiac]

can you send me a SS of your mod list as well?

[small imp]

1 sec

theres a few lol had to take a vid

[little zodiac]

first i guess are your mods up to date?

[small imp]

yes there are no updates

[little zodiac]

is bepinex up to date?

[small imp]

i believe it is

[little zodiac]

k what were you doing in the game when that happened?

[small imp]

so i logged back on after playing a diff game w my buddy. got in a boat started sailing stopped sailing bc i came across a small island in the middle of the ocean that said plains so i got confused and logged out to look it up when i logged back in my character was underwater moving around like bungeeing around and then i couldnt move logged out again to try and fix it then thats when i took the video

[little zodiac]

hmm one of the mods is trying to create something that doesnt exsist basically, given your mod list its hard narrow it down to exactly what it could be; the best way to figure it out would be to disable all the mods and reenable all of them one by one til the error comes up again, at that point delete the mod

i assume your game is also up to date yea?

[small imp]

yes

[coarse lantern]

so its something added in the mod thats the issue?

like a vehicle or something?

[little zodiac]

ive seen that error before i just cant remember which mod i was using that threw it, mods on that list that ive used in the past are: Epic loot, drop that, backpacks, missing pieces, azucraftyboxes, and sears catalog; id like to say start with those but tbh im not sure which one its going to be

[small imp]

i mean is it something that i can delete and reinstall or just delete for good

[little zodiac]

this is just trying to create something that doesnt exist what exactly that could idk, it could be a mob, an item, a structure, etc really anything that is added

if its throwing the errors its likely you either have a conflict with another mod thats throwing the error or its the mod itself so you "might" still be able to use that specific mod still if you can find the other mod conflicting with it if that is the case

[small imp]

im gonna make a test server and go down the mod list

[little zodiac]

sorry i couldnt tell you which specific one it was

[small imp]

just confusing why it would take so long to have a heart attack

[little zodiac]

all other things may work fine in the mod til you came across that one thing in the game

[small imp]

i have a feeling ik which one it is

bc while booting rght below it says failed to find shader blob for a specifc mod and the mod is supposed to spawn things in around the map

[little zodiac]

take that mod out and try again

[small imp]

it was chebs mythical weapons

[little zodiac]

everything works now then?

[small imp]

i guess i came across the mob location for it and it had a stroke bc it couldnt compile the shaders for it

yeah i can move again lol thanks for all your help my guy

[little zodiac]

np~

have fun playin!

[small imp]

thanks brotha!!!!!!!

[coarse lantern]

does workbench level increase the build radius?

[little zodiac]

nope

[little zodiac]

ok nvm i was wrong according to the wiki "Each upgrade also increases the build radius by four meters, up to a maximum of 36 meters."

[coarse lantern]

Lmao i was wondering why i had so much room suddenly

[little zodiac]

tbh ive never noticed it

[coarse lantern]

also, do trolls respawn in troll caves?

[crisp hare]

no

[little zodiac]

i dont think they do outside yea inside i dont think so

[coarse lantern]

the only reason i did was because i was making a garden, and my walls were like on my borders lol

ty

[somber trail]

What enemies have enough pickaxe tier to damage a ||Charred Fortress||?

[frosty frost]

Afaik Fader does, but from normal enemies i am not sure if any can dmg it.

[full mesa]

All of the enemies in ashland cant dmg charred fortress walls it seems, mine is stil standing strong

Even trollstav's spawn explosion cant dmg the walls

[topaz igloo]

Note to self, never put your portal in a fortress when fighting him….. his little spike attack will spawn on it……

[ebon iris]

does anybody know what to do if my world gets reset after loading into it

like the seed is the same but the structures are gone

never mind

[eager rose]

i need help

[frosty frost]

Seems like mod stuff folks in #mods-issues might be able to help 🙂

[coarse lantern]

are there any land mounts? like a horse or like primitive bike or something, idk lol i just feel super slow

[true steeple]

There are two mounts available, one from the fifth biome and another from the seventh. There are also various items and a forsaken power you can use to increase your movespeed.

[coarse lantern]

icic, tyvm

[high rampart]

Isn't this stat kinda useless if a player like me is using both sword and shield at the same time? It sounds like, this stat doesn't activate if I'm holding a shield in my off-hand.

[true steeple]

#mods-discussion

[frosty frost]

It Is indeed useless for anyone not using this particular mod...

[knotty jetty]

my crops disappeared, can animals or mobs eat them or was it another player?\

[true steeple]

Untamed creatures will attack them

[marble igloo]

I have been trying to find a 2 star wolf for like 30 mins far away from the spawn. I have difficulty on Very Hard... The highest level i found till now was 1 Star. I am looking for them while its night. Could it be that it is because of mods or is it somehow influenced by playing with 2 ppl?

[true steeple]

It might be because of mods, more players won’t affect it

[marble igloo]

I only have these animal related mods installed rn.

• Leash
• Ranching
• Teleport everything
  Do you know if any of these mods influence that?

[true steeple]

Any mod can cause bugs anywhere in the game, but I haven’t played with mods so I don’t know if these cause any problems. You might just be getting unlucky.

[marble igloo]

alright then, i will keep looking 😉 Thanks tho!

[little zodiac]

is it night time?

[marble igloo]

yea ofc

tried several nights by now

[little zodiac]

k just seeing if that might be the issue but if you checking at night then it might just be bad luck or maybe a mod but i cant speak for any of those mods you listed so idk about those

[tired root]

It really depends on the favor of RNG to get 2 star wolf.

[bleak willow]

theres no way to destroy these towers?

[little zodiac]

you can build up to it and continue to using the ram on it

[bleak willow]

yea i aint doing that ill have the admin get rid of it at this rate thats dumb

[tired root]

3 ways: either catapult (risky tho), battering ram level by level or dig as deep as possible under it.

[little zodiac]

or build onto it and use it as part of the base, it works nicely to put ballistas on as a defense for valkyries

[tired root]

I once dug under it so it floated and it started to crumble from the bottom to up until the adjacent vegvisir.

[marble igloo]

its already day tho. Will it despawn if i render?

[tired root]

Did it start to eat?

[marble igloo]

not yet

[tired root]

Welp, it should eat before dawn.

[marble igloo]

found it the last second before sunrise 😦

[tired root]

Try staying very close until the next night.

[marble igloo]

gotcha

[tired root]

If you leave the area it will despawn.

The taming must start before the dawn.

[marble igloo]

alright. I will just try and stay till the next night. If it doesnt work, it doesnt.

[tired root]

It should work as long as you stay close and give it food during the night.

Hopefully you have enough foods for the waiting.

[marble igloo]

ye

[glacial holly]

what upgrade can copper buckler parry abom at?

[marble igloo]

i guess its more about blocking skill rather than shield lvl

[viral cave]

Depends, max health also affects parry strength

[pulsar tiger]

Depends on your health, armor, block armor, blocking lvl and parry or not. Also, difficulty setting

[tired root]

I've been successful with lvl 2 buckler and deer stew, minced meat and carrot soup.

[tawny solar]

I would say like maybe 2

[viral cave]

You can parry the swipe attack with your bare hands if you have at least 180 health

[marble igloo]

😏

[viral cave]

So theoretically, serpent stew + sausages + black soup should be enough

Maybe you could get away with deer stew instead of serpent stew if your blocking skill is high enough and you eat literally right before fighting the abom

[tawny solar]

Well you don’t have to parry the attacks

You can just run around it to where it cant hit you and hit it till it dies

[viral cave]

Parrying causes your hits to do double damage though

[tawny solar]

True but I just think it’s safer in case it breaks through the parry

[true steeple]

0% turnspeed on the light branch attack and 1% on the others, moving around it is very safe

[viral cave]

That doesn't happen very often if you eat food and have an adequate shield

[tawny solar]

I agree but this is a bronze buckler

[viral cave]

60 health is enough to parry the sweep attack with a lvl 1 buckler.

[tawny solar]

Then thats the way to go if your good at parrying

[viral cave]

You need 100 health with a lvl 1 buckler for the other attacks, though.

[true steeple]

That’s the lowest turnspeed above 0 of any attack in Valheim, with second place at 10% for a Rancid Remain’s mace and Fader’s flamebreath

[viral cave]

60 health with a lvl 3 buckler is enough for the heavier attacks.

[tawny solar]

For the other attacks I would just roll/dodge or run out of the aoe

[true steeple]

When an abomination does the heavy branch attack you can run straight towards them. The hitbox is a sphere offset far to the front so if you’re close enough to their centre it won’t hit you.

[tawny solar]

I did not think of that

[true steeple]

I noticed when I was looking through these numbers that the hitbox might be dodgable like this, I hadn’t tried until a few minutes ago

I don’t think there are any other attacks in the game that work like this

[tawny solar]

Maybe the trolls heavy attack?

[true steeple]

No, very few attacks have spherical hitboxes and if they do it usually surrounds the creature.

[minor finch]

All my worlds and characters were deleted from the game, but they remain in both folders

[knotty jetty]

steam momento

back up the folder and try restarting

thats what did it for isaac when it happened to me

[clever juniper]

Make sure Valheim is fully synced to the cloud on Steam as well

The other place you can try making sure they are is in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata(yoursteamuserid)\892970\remote\worlds

[lilac coyote]

But they know where they are.

[ornate finch]

Do you see saves when you click on manage saves button in the world selection menu?

Nothing really crosses my mind as why none are visible. Are you sure that you are logged in via correct Windows account?

[minor finch]

no. its all empty

[minor finch]

i use steam

[ornate finch]

Steam won't pull local saves from Familia Belo Windows account if you are logged in with another one

[minor finch]

wait

the cloud was disabled, I found some saves in the cloud from the last time I played

i fix the problem

[minor finch]

thanks for you too bro

[glacial holly]

does tar cause player progression/plains raids or building tar related building stuff

[tired root]

Nope.

[tawny solar]

You can build new things with tar if that helps

[glacial holly]

yes ik, wanted to make sure it didnt cause new raids tho since this server im playing is all bronze age

[tawny solar]

Sorry, it does not affect anything like enemies or raids

[little zodiac]

i think there is only one raid that comes about without having killed a boss/mini boss

[tawny solar]

Is it one of hildirs quests?

[little zodiac]

those would be the mini bosses

[tawny solar]

Oh ok

[little zodiac]

i think the only raid that can happen without any of that is bats

[tired root]

Actually, bats can trigger after defeating Bonemass and when a bat gets killed in world.

[little zodiac]

good to know i thought it was only after killing one

[tired root]

Yeah, and to mention, it doesn't matter if player kills it, as long as it gets killed by any means.

Similar requirement is for troll raid: Elder needs to be defeated and troll needs to get killed in world.

[little zodiac]

i see its the same for surtlings too

[tired root]

Yeah, also Bonemass defeated (iirc).

Defeating Bonemass unlocks the most amount of different raids.

[little zodiac]

im curious as to why the mistlands raids go away completely after killing the queen

[tired root]

The seeker raid is the boss army raid which normally stops triggering after defeating the boss, but yeah Gjall raid also does that.

[little zodiac]

i think it would be better if after the queen died the seeker raid extended out to the other biomes and prior its only mistlands, kinda like you killed our queen we are coming after you now

[tired root]

Don't remember if Gjall raid ever did trigger anywhere else than in Mistlands, but seeker raid did trigger in Meadows too and also spawned soldiers.

[little zodiac]

i dont think it does

[tired root]

It doesn't currently, but I don't recall if it ever did trigger anywhere else.

I played Mistlands PTB version back when it was released.

[little zodiac]

i cant rememeber if i ever had a gjall raid any place other then mistlads

but i really dont think ive ever seen it outside of there

[lilac coyote]

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

[full mesa]

Howdy, how do you resize texts in signs?

the knowledge is appreciated since im starting to organize my storage room

Nevermind I got it

[tawny ledge]

My mods arent working. I use Thunderstore and they have been working but when I logged on today my hammer for mods arent working, my dirtyhoe mod isnt working, and my stacksize mod isnt workin. they all run through Joten so can anyone help??

[lapis terrace]

--> #mods-issues

[copper stump]

Hello everyone! I have a question. If I start a valheim world today, and lets pretend that the deep north update comes out next month, does it reboot my map? I mean, do I have to start again in order to play with the "deep north" included? Or does it get added automatically to my world?

[little zodiac]

so long as you dont go and explore up there you should be fine

[copper stump]

So it works like minecraft chunks? ish

[little zodiac]

it will be updated when the game updates so long as it hasnt been explored every where else in the game is fine to explore

[frosty frost]

Yep, pretty much

The previously not generated chunks will have the new stuff

[little zodiac]

tbh im not sure how chunks work in mc

[frosty frost]

Pretty much the same as in Valheim i believe, but they are smaller, iirc they are 16x16 blocks and Valheim chunks are 64x64 meters 🙂

[copper stump]

Thanks everyone for their help, cheers!

[tawny solar]

Anyone down to help me explore the mistlands and get some resources, resources will be split

I have plains equipment and a few mistlands weapons

[tawny solar]

Nevermind im going to fight yagluth

[blazing spire]

hey! if I build a base on the coastline, would raids include mobs from the nearby mountain? or should I build a safer base further in the meadows (I only just defeated eikthyr)

[viral cave]

Raids depend on world progress (bosses, slain enemies, etc.), not biome.

[small imp]

so just a curious question could a specific seed used cause goblin camps to spawn in the black forest XD'

[little zodiac]

sometimes they can spawn on the biomes lines

[small imp]

theres no plains in sight lol

[little zodiac]

is it near water by chance?

[small imp]

on a hill maybe near water but not sure i saw it for a split second

[little zodiac]

ive noticed that even when there arent any plains in sight while sailing youll be in the shallows and be in the plains biome so that might be the reason

[small imp]

yeah it may be my seed basically jumbles all the biomes together but the island i am on is nowhere near it lol

[little zodiac]

there could also be a tiny little spot of plains there where the village spawned as well

[drowsy crane]

You can always browse #1202740443352137838 though something that specific seems unlikely

[little zodiac]

heres a good example its just the smallest amount of plains right on the coast

[small imp]

i see

it was like in one of those 2 spots

[little zodiac]

theres some plains to the north of that so there maybe more in the water area, this looks like it might have a small coast of plains

[small imp]

so weird

i wanted to use revealmap in dev commands but i have an itch not to

yesterday there was a small like 50 metere area of plains that had loxes and deathsquito spawners which confused the hell out of me

[little zodiac]

the map generation can do some interesting things, wait til you find a mountains at the coast that one always is wierd to me

[small imp]

oh that would be really cool lol i looked up my seed on the world generator my ashlands and deep north look crazy

[little zodiac]

you can select iirc hostile camps and it will show you the fuling camps

[viral cave]

How does one get the <@&1394097496397053972> <@&1394097660209791116> roles?

[little zodiac]

i wouldnt personally cause ive heard things about it, but you select the role yourself

[small imp]

i have that activated but it doesnt show one there lol

mustve generated oddly idk

[little zodiac]

it may of i have come across things that are in the game but not on the seed map and vice versa

[small imp]

makes it more exciting tbh

[little zodiac]

tetra caves are the on the main things ive seen like that

[small imp]

i seeee idek what those are i havent progressed super far yet

[little zodiac]

its just a mountain cave with a fishing pool in it

only places you can get the tetra fish

[wanton veldt]

does boss despawn if u die to it?

[grim vessel]

No

[little zodiac]

i dont think so, it might after an extended period of time, it will regen to full health though

[grim vessel]

It will not despawn. Had a boss left in another world for like 20 days roaming its biome a little bit lol (think it doesn’t get far at all actually idk)

[little zodiac]

ah well good to know that, ive never left it running around that long

[vagrant portal]

Just got to my first Burial Chamber. Are some of them really small?

Like 7 skellies, a ghost and 1 room with a chest

[fervent birch]

That does sound small. Did you double check you explored it all? They can get kinda confusing.

[vagrant portal]

Yeah, 3 dead ends

[fervent birch]

Huh, that stinks. On to the next one I guess. 😅

[little zodiac]

some are super small where as other can be very large

[vagrant portal]

Thanks 🙂

[full mesa]

They're all randomly generated so some can literally have all dead ends at the entrance and sone can be gigantic

[wicked dove]

whats this mean?

theres just a blue bubble showing up at my base

[little zodiac]

i think its from the ward indicating something is attacking something in your base

[full mesa]

Its your ward warning you that something is getting damaged by sn enemy

[lapis terrace]

a ward telling you, something within it's circle of defense is under attack by something

[small nest]

oh it would be cool if they included nearby biomes, but it would break progression in half

[wicked dove]

oh right ty

[tawny solar]

How do I make a eitr refinery?

[pulsar tiger]

Black marble x20
Black metal x5
Yggdrasil wood x10
Black core x5
Sap x3

[tawny solar]

SAP ok, Ty

[coarse lantern]

is there a mod that adds farmable berry bushes?

[lilac coyote]

#mods-discussion

[coarse lantern]

ty

is it a better idea to make flintheads or fire arrows atm? i just killed elder, about to go to swamp

[tired root]

Fire arrows are easier to gather mats for IMO.

Hack smaller trees or kill greydwarves.

[coarse lantern]

fair, i also have water meadows pretty much right next to my base

but i mean dps wise, like with swamp enemy resistances

[tired root]

Iirc only blobs resist fire, since they're usually wet. Plus obviously surtlings.

[coarse lantern]

i havent found a surtling yet lol

but ty

is poison resist mead resist or immunity?

[true steeple]

The mead is very resistant (0.25x damage taken)

[coarse lantern]

awesome

first time i died in swamp i killed everything but i guess something poisoned me, prolly the draugr

there were only draugr, i believe a skeleton or 2 and leeches

[tired root]

Blobs and leeches poison, not draugr.

Better ask in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202934289898151966

[coarse lantern]

icic, is it also an environmental thing? or were the random green clouds just visual/from something else i couldn't see?

[tired root]

Environment doesn't poison. Blobs make AoE poison cloud and leeches poison with their bite attack.

[coarse lantern]

icic, ty

anything else i should know about before i go into swamp?

[tired root]

To clarify, the only environment challenge is the constant rain in Swamp areas.

[coarse lantern]

oh thats fine it feels like its constantly raining in the meadows lol

can you have multiple (different) meads active at once?

[tired root]

Avoid going during night, cold and wet debuffs together reduce your stamina regen tremendously.

[coarse lantern]

icic, I'll be going at the end of night to account for travel time

[tired root]

You can have all different type of mead effects at the same time. Hp and stamina meads however get the 2min debuff while you cannot use another before the debuff wears off.

[coarse lantern]

awesome lol

[tired root]

Hoe is also useful tool for level the watery areas.

[tawny solar]

How does the eitr refinery work?

Do you just put sap in and get refined eitr?

[stoic trench]

There’s a chute at the top for soft tissue, and a chute at the front for sap.

Be aware of the byproduct of the refinery, it can be dangerous!

[tawny solar]

Thanks!

[jade olive]

I am curious I haven't seen one yet that I know of but what color is a 2 star surtling?

[lilac coyote]

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

[jade olive]

Yeah I just looked befor you posted. But I don't think the still dose it justice. The one star is a very bright blue when running around. The still has some blue but nothing like the game. So is the 2 star more a purple like many other creatures are at that level?

[lilac coyote]

The pictures are from ingame so they're pretty close to what you'll see.

[jade olive]

Wow they are a lot diffrent with movement I am guesing. So far all the one I seen I have lowered the land so they don't live long. But the blue is quite a sight.

[calm pelican]

is it worthwhile paying for a server service like supercraft or is there better ways to get permanent servers

[lilac coyote]

I have no idea what supercraft is. The cheapest way, of course, is to run your own. Otherwise, shop around and pick one that's local and has good customer service.

[calm pelican]

okie thanks

[jade rapids]

Almost every game out there that a 3rd party hosting service can set up, you can set on your own hardware. If you think playing different games, and playing co-op might be a think you would like to do more of in the future, you should look into get your private dedicated server. And set up all your favourite servers, your self.
Don't have to be some NASA computer to start with. Start small, and get used/old hardware. Build knowledge, and get better.

[bleak willow]

does the ashlands get easier when you upgrade your gear here, this shit is miserable

[true steeple]

Every biome gets easier with better gear

[stoic trench]

Slightly, but I wouldn’t say it’s key. Best thing you can do is to practice maneuvering and combat skills.

Is there a particularly enemy/scenario that’s giving you trouble?

[bleak willow]

I just keep getting swarmed

also one star charred warriors absolutely destroy me

and 1 star askvin

[cloud lichen]

something else that might work when swarms appear: tactically retreating, aka running away

[tired root]

AoE/knockback weapons can help against getting swarmed.

[full mesa]

Or getting on top of a putrid hole

[tired root]

Or inside.

[full mesa]

Inside too but i expect the person trying to kill them aswell so he run away safely

[urban jolt]

Its so hard to make a bridge over a river when its deep or I dont know how to do it

[tired root]

Yeah, but if you stay still inside and not go further inside the resident will more possibly stay hidden.

[full mesa]

Haha its just asleep just dont wake him up and you wont have any trouble

[tacit breach]

There are videos on you tube to give you ideas and ways to over come the challenges.

[viral cave]

What biome are you at?

[tawny solar]

Do I make carapace armor at a black forge?

[little zodiac]

yea

[tawny solar]

Ok thanks

[winged solstice]

can regular tier'd livestock produce a 1-2 starred equivalent?

[lilac coyote]

No, only starred tames can produce starred offspring. But you do only need one.

[winged solstice]

so having one star will eventually make all of them one star?

[lilac coyote]

If you kill all the non starred ones, yes. Offspring inherit from one parent at random so if you have one no star parent you'll still get no stars 50% of the time.

[tawny solar]

How do you make a ballista? And is it good?

[tired root]

You need to craft mechanical spring in artisan table. It's okay, but it shoots everything (even you) when not using any trophy to set the target it will shoot then.

[tawny solar]

Oh ok thanks!

[full mesa]

Its good when facing away from your defensive walls

[bleak willow]

I am having an easier time now I made a blood slayer since it was the gem I had and made the ash cape. I will hopefully have the lightning axes soon

My strategy has just been running around with a portal and using it whenever my inventory fills up and not staying out at night. Also bringing the materials for the grausten portal when I found a flametal deposit. So its gotten a bit easier. Using bonemass on CD whenever I see a starred enemy is a must. Ashlands really forces you to use everything you have I guess

Do you guys have advice for taking down a fort because the first one I did I had a friend with me and we still got swarmed

[full mesa]

Curious if Deep North will introduce another 3 sets of armour with mage,medium and heavy armour

or maybe even 4 with a new set of light armour

[frosty frost]

If you mean the one teased in dev blogs then that one will not be from Deep North

[bleak willow]

probably plains since plains doesnt have a light armor

[little zodiac]

i dont think mistlands has "light" armor either unless your considering the mage set light armor

[full mesa]

I seperate them as their own thing

If its meant for mage its for mage

[little zodiac]

with ashlands have 3 sets i do as well

[blazing spire]

little late, but thank you! I've been overthinking where to place my main base because of this 😅

[viral cave]

Glad I could help!

[hexed cairn]

is brutal slayer + staff of protection good in veryhard difficulty mobs?

[stoic trench]

Brutal slayer, that’s the blood one right? I feel like the lightning one may be a better option? 🤔

[coarse lantern]

is there a way to tell what stats are lowered when you die?

[little zodiac]

they all are

[coarse lantern]

ah

[coarse lantern]

ic, so its permanent?

[little zodiac]

yes and no, you have to level the skills back up if you dont then in a sense its penmanent

[coarse lantern]

nooo i meant permanent as in like not on a timer, its just gone

but i get you dw

can you put a portal on a boat

[little zodiac]

no

[coarse lantern]

rip lol

[coarse lantern]

i found out wraiths dont care ab dev commands

[bleak willow]

If I wanted to get the world save data for a server that I'm playing on that is about to run out of time for the month how would I go about doing that? I'm pretty much the only one playing it and there's about 10 days left. Do I just ask the guy who paid for it for the data?

Or is there another way?

[coarse lantern]

can other things use portals

[little zodiac]

nope only players

[coarse lantern]

okay thank god lmao

and i thought BF was a jump in difficulty

im just barely surviving in swamp lmao

[viral cave]

What food are you using?

[coarse lantern]

boar jerky, deer meat, and queen jam

[viral cave]

Not the worst, so that's probably not the problem. Be aware that carrots exist (white flowers in forest, need a cultivator to grow them) and that you can cook a couple of better food items with those.

Swamp is kinda difficult at first with the rain and stuff

[coarse lantern]

full troll set levelled all but the cape to 3, using copper dagger lvl 2,

[coarse lantern]

tbh its not even that, just the sheer amount of enemies there are

its always at least 1v4 lmao

[coarse lantern]

I've set up a garden but havent felt like running to black forest for carrots yet

[viral cave]

If you're having a hard time with the number of enemies, try a sword, mace, or atgeir so that you can hit more of them at once.

[coarse lantern]

the first few i got i didn't know would be attacked

[little zodiac]

any of the farmable stuff is worth stopping for to grow some

[coarse lantern]

thing is half of them are ranged, so im dodging them also trying to parry the melee skeletons and draugr

[little zodiac]

shield/parry for ranged helps out

[coarse lantern]

the moment i got there a wraith came and messed me up lmao

[viral cave]

Or just walk while they're shooting

[viral cave]

Ooh yeah, those can be a menace

[little zodiac]

yea wraiths atm will

[coarse lantern]

idk if there are profanity rules just being safe

[little zodiac]

always best to be safe with that stuff

[coarse lantern]

wraiths are night exclusive right?

[little zodiac]

yes for now

[viral cave]

Swearing is allowed, just don't get so bad that rule 3 comes into play

[viral cave]

Yep, can be avoided with a bed

[little zodiac]

not a choice later on

[coarse lantern]

awesome lol the first lil dungeon i found i threw a portal next to, i should probably build walls around it tho

[coarse lantern]

i assume they get added to raids?

[little zodiac]

yea

[coarse lantern]

rip lol

[little zodiac]

which for the chains, im glad they did it

cause otherwise f farming those things

[coarse lantern]

im set on poison mead, i just need to make some more healing meads because wow

[coarse lantern]

understandable, I found like 2 in the dungeon

chains i mean

[little zodiac]

you may want some later on for build pieces but having to farm them in the swamps when they spawn only at night sucks

[coarse lantern]

about what area are serpents in terms of strength?

[little zodiac]

i personally wait til i get the bow from iron

huntsmans bow or something i forget

and ideally youll want a longship as well

[coarse lantern]

oh awesome i just brought almost a stack of iron back on my boat

[little zodiac]

you can also harpoon them and drag them back to shore, but depending on what you are after killing them in the ocean works fine

i will say that the serpent shield is a great shield and can be used up to plains/mistlands

and serpent stew im still using even in ashlands as run around food

[tacit breach]

When I ran servers I saved the file to my own PC. I shared that file with some of the players.

[coarse lantern]

is it a tower shield?

[little zodiac]

yea

[tacit breach]

Yes.

Doesn't it also give pierce resistance?

[little zodiac]

yea i think its 25%

[coarse lantern]

ah

I prefer round shields/bucklers

[little zodiac]

its well worth it

even if you like the smaller ones, it will be helpful vs arrows and help out in mountains

[tacit breach]

Being able to parry well does make the game a lot easier. Same with being good at dodge/roll.

[coarse lantern]

what all in mountains? and arrows (so far) arent too much of an issue to block

[coarse lantern]

I'm better with parrying but i can dodge if needed

[tacit breach]

Which is why I stopped doing either one. I may not have done that if the game difficulty was able to be adjusted back then.

[little zodiac]

wolves, fenris, golems, drakes, bats, ulvs, cultists and i think thats it

[coarse lantern]

wait how can i see my difficulty atm?

[tacit breach]

Its in the world settings.

[little zodiac]

er fenring my bad

[coarse lantern]

icic, I've killed a few wolves so far but thats only because they have a habit of running out of the woods to try to jump me

[tacit breach]

I ran into two Fenris at the same time tonight. That was more interesting than normal.

[little zodiac]

hopefully you got a trophy at least

[tacit breach]

Nope. I have one, but that was a few nights ago.

[little zodiac]

chase that mythical 5* tetra

[tacit breach]

I got a golem trophy rather quickly too. On my third or fourth golem, but its my only one to date.

[little zodiac]

nice ive managed to get 2 so far this run, they are one of my favorites for decorations

[tacit breach]

Same. Those and Surtlings. (sp?)

[little zodiac]

one of the minibosses have a trophy similar to the surtlings, i havent used them much i know a lot of people use them for a light source

[tacit breach]

The wraith trophy is pretty cool too. Only one of those so far too, despite killing dozens.

[little zodiac]

yea those seem pretty rare too

[coarse lantern]

trophies have higher drop chance from higher star ratings right?

[little zodiac]

um idk tbh

[tacit breach]

I am pretty sure its the same, regardless of stars.

[coarse lantern]

icic

[tacit breach]

Most are at about 5% chance.

The wiki probably gives those details.

[little zodiac]

i feel like theres no way this is right

[tacit breach]

MAybe, I do have a lot of those, and trolls.

[little zodiac]

ive killed a lot of those and am still hurting on trophies from them

maybe i am just having crap luck with it

[tacit breach]

I think both are used for bait, so I'd hope they would at least be higher than 5%.

[little zodiac]

yea they are, but i have issues getting the abomination one for w/e reason

[tacit breach]

Yeah, it has not dropped as often as Troll, and I have killed a lot more of them than trolls. Well, maybe not now, since I now get the troll event on top of just running into them.

[little zodiac]

its probably right but damn it doesnt feel like it lol

[tacit breach]

They love to spawn by the Bog Witch for some reason. Killed 4 outside of her hut alone.

OF course now, having the crystal axe, they are quick to kill.

[little zodiac]

i continually am going back there to try to find/kill em

[tacit breach]

They felt hard to find until we maxed out my wife's root set. Now they seem to pop up every time we turn around. We have nearly 100 root pieces now.

[viral cave]

This.

[little zodiac]

hmm i may try that then

[tacit breach]

Still less than 10 trophies, but I do not know how many my wife used for bait.

[little zodiac]

i ideally would like finish my fish collection and 4* 5* swamp fish is part of what im missing

[tacit breach]

My wife is the one that gets into the fishing. I stick to the basic fish.

[coarse lantern]

whats the difference between block armor and block force?

i assume armor is how much damage can be taken before staggering

[tacit breach]

Check the wiki for those definitions.

[coarse lantern]

alr

[tacit breach]

I just know higher is better, and thats all I really need to know with Tower Shields, and the few weapons I block with, like the crystal axe.

Oh, crap. I thought I was in the valheim chat channel.

[little zodiac]

oh right prob should move up there

[true steeple]

Block armor reduces damage the same way normal armor does and is applied separately, before damage modifiers such as Bonemass power. Block force is knockback dealt to the enemy when blocking melee attacks.

[sturdy sparrow]

I have a issue with my world save / generation someone have knowledge in that kind of things?

[fervent birch]

What's the issue?

[sturdy sparrow]

Basicly I was playing with my brother on my local server, before stopping I make the server save and then I just /save for be sure that i have a backup, sometime before the build we made just like pop off disappear, so I solve that by putting the backup I've made and it was working until now, I checked the 3 backup I've got this morning when we stopped 3/4am, 2 backup goes in the backroom ig?, and the last backup charge and we have everything's, except the build and tamed animals, but the logo of bed boss and else on the map are here, and now all the backup before this one is same as this one, no build just the world

And idk how to get back my world since we was at the mistland zone and I really really don't want to loose all my farm 😭

[coarse lantern]

is there like a hip mounted lantern or something I can get?

[pulsar tiger]

There is a wisplight that you get eventually but if you use it, you can't wear the belt

[coarse lantern]

ah

im in swamp so ik what none of this means atm lol just thought itd be nice to be able to see while mining

[tired root]

It comes into play later, after 5th biome.

[tawny solar]

Im finally about to fight yagluth! Any tips/suggestion?

[frosty frost]

Bring barley wine 😄

[tawny solar]

Alright thanks!

[fervent birch]

Hit him a bunch as he crawls out of the ground undefended.

[tawny solar]

Alright I will do that

[coarse lantern]

5th biome is mountains right?

[tawny solar]

Mountains is 4th, plains in 5th

[frosty frost]

Progression goes meadows, black forest, swamp, mountains, plains, ||mistlands, ashlands and Deep North|| 🙂

[small nest]

if you've met haldor you can buy dvergr circlet off him, it works as a light source perfect for crypts. it gives 1 defense tho

[coarse lantern]

I haven't and I've fulled explored every black forest I've found so far 😭

[small nest]

oh, that fella is not so rare, you'll find him eventually. he has 10 possible locations of spawning, when you are near the location, he'll be there and you'll get a marker on map. hope this helps

[small nest]

oh and he wont spawn too near to center of the world

[frosty frost]

Also the icon can be seem through the fog of war

[zealous scarab]

Pretty sure it's 1500m+ from spawn

Don't recall the exact value, but it's more than likely he won't be on your first continent or two

I got mad lucky and stumbled on hildir, haldor, and the witch over the course of like 3 irl days

[tired root]

At least 1500m from the center, spawn point is not always at the center (0,0 coordinates).

[pulsar tiger]

If I don't find them by the time I'm done with swamps I usually look up a seed map, silver grind without belts is no ty

[zealous scarab]

Didn't know that part, neato

[zealous scarab]

Just put it all in a cart and toss the cart down the mountain
Fun times

[pulsar tiger]

it is the way

[small nest]

or you can make a boat ramp which is completely useless but feels fancy

[zealous scarab]

I should try doing that
Never spent the time building one

How much does it break the boat/ramp, anyway
Feels like you'd have to fix it a lot

[small nest]

its tedious as hell to build it, especially in the mountains

ramp is not that damaged from boat just sliding from it, but the boat can be a bit damaged, not to much tho. Karve should have enough health

[zealous scarab]

As if I wouldnt full send and build one for the longship

If there's anything I do too much in the game it's building mediocre stuff
I will 100% find a big mountain and make a boat ramp for it that leads directly into the sea to sail home

[frosty frost]

Throw the boat down the mountain 😉 no need for ramp. But Its pain to get it unstuck if it ever does that

[small nest]

its a pain to get on the boat..

[zealous scarab]

Couldn't you just block the ramp with a piece of wood and deconstruct it once you're on

[little zodiac]

does the mist torch block fish spawning? like a campfire or a workbench would?

[zealous scarab]

I neef to remember to workbench spam around my compound
I'm tired of greylings wandering into my farm and getting stuck

[frosty frost]

Nope 😄

[little zodiac]

didnt think so, just wanted to make sure; ty

[zealous scarab]

Question about this while I'm here
Is the radius the workbenches block spawning the same as the radius for building, or is it different in some way?

[frosty frost]

Campfires are not attacked on sight tho, might be better to use those 😄

[tawny solar]

Is bonemass power better or is yagluth power better

[tired root]

Bonemass.

[tawny solar]

Alright thanks

[tired root]

Only very few mobs deal lightning, and other resistances can be covered with meads and equipment.

[tawny solar]

I haven’t seen any mobs (other than yagluth) deal lightning damage

[viral cave]

Unlit torches work as well

[frosty frost]

Should be the same iirc, but the spawnproof area Is a sphere, not cylinder like the craft area.

[zealous scarab]

Didn't know they stopped spawning too
Cool

[frosty frost]

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

Everything here does 😉

[zealous scarab]

Using artisan tables for the extra radius because I have no other use for tears rn lol

[frosty frost]

That one entry Is actually wrong i believe, i was planning to test it today but forgot xD. It should have 20m spawnproof radius and 40 build radius

[zealous scarab]

Aww bummer

Doesn't upgrading a workbench/forge increase their build radius

[frosty frost]

It does 🙂

[vagrant portal]

It happens to me occasionally that I can't split stacks. Logging out and back in doesn't help. Only restarting the game helps.

Is this a known issue?

[lilac coyote]

Sounds like some sort of server desync issue. Not heard of that one specifically, but it would make sense.

[cinder furnace]

We are having trouble finding seal breaker fragments, we found some early on, but, we are now trying to access the Queen and have been through 10 IM's with no seal breaker fragments whatsoever

[ornate finch]

Be sure to open all stone doors as well, not just those with switches.

[cinder furnace]

What do the stone doors have on them?

Is it the Dverger face

We have opened the wood barriers, ancient Dverger gates, and the short stone doors with hieroglyphs in blue

[tawny solar]

Have you went through the whole IM’s and checked every room of them?

[cinder furnace]

Incessantly

repeatedly

[pulsar tiger]

10 without a single seal is unfortunate but it'll even out, I've found 2 in one IM at times. You could always use the map generator to find more Mines if you ran out

• if you're playing on times 1, you'll probably have to farm the mines 2-3 times for enough carapace.

[cinder furnace]

What does Carapace have to do with the Seal breaker fragments?

[tired root]

Nothing?

[little zodiac]

i think it comes down to just bad luck and crap RNG; there have been a number of times ive gone into the mines and havent found any seal breakers or cores, and other times where i walk out with upwards of 7 cores and at least a few seal breaker fragments

[tawny solar]

Are there any more infested mines in your world?

[cinder furnace]

quite a few in the seed viewer, but laborious, and hard to find

[little zodiac]

I have had times as well where ive gone into multiple IM's in a row and havent found anything, it does happen

[marble roost]

Usually dark cores are more of my concern than fragments. Sounds like rotten RNG :(

[little zodiac]

keep looking for em eventually youll get the 9 you need to make the item

[normal oar]

Is the first raft you make always slower than a snail?

[little zodiac]

yes

[pulsar tiger]

A lot of people skip the raft

[tired root]

There should be 250ish Infested mines in each world.

[marble roost]

Raft pretty useless. Get to bronze age make a real ship

[tawny solar]

I wish I did

[pulsar tiger]

yea it's pretty bad

[normal oar]

I sailed to a far island, died, made another raft, sailed go get back go that island then died again so im making my 3rd raft bit my pc keeps shutting off

[little zodiac]

its your computer telling you the raft is crap as well

[pulsar tiger]

Sounds like my first time playing, going through a river on a karve and end up freezing surrounded by mountains far away from home xd

[marble roost]

oof. Once you get a bit further in moving around the map especially for getting your gear back, gets wayyy easier. As long as you make sure to prepare stuff

[normal oar]

Probably is but if its shuts off again im giving up

[cinder furnace]

Thanks for all your help

[normal oar]

Probably is but if its shuts off again im giving up

[small nest]

thats the whole point of it, so you can get it on boat without dying from fall damage/dying from your stupidity

[normal oar]

If im off can my friend still play my world?

[tawny solar]

Is it dedicated?

[tacit breach]

Unless you set it up on its own server, you have to leave the game running on your system. So leave your character in the safest location possible.

[marble roost]

No, unless you spend money to have a company host a server for you

[lilac coyote]

Or host one yourself.

[little zodiac]

are vineberries supposed to despawn when you log out of the game?

[frosty frost]

Nope, Its a known bug.

[little zodiac]

k noted ty~

[tawny solar]

Is mistwalker sword better than black metal sword? Im asking because it has a significantly lower slash than black metal sword

[little zodiac]

its slash dmg and frost dmg so together its 115 dmg

so over all its better dmg then the black metal sword

[tawny solar]

Alright thanks!

[marble roost]

Yeah mistwalker is real good. In addition to good damage the frost effect is also very good

[full mesa]

Bug, from my understanding vineberries is on a growth timer just like any other foragables, the growth timer resets everytime you go through a portal or leave the game

[little zodiac]

i havent seen then despawn with teleporting only when loggin out of the game

[full mesa]

You dont see it that often when your at your base for most of the time but they do reset when you go through a portal

because mine hasnt grown in 4 days when I first got vineberries and planted them

[little zodiac]

good to know then

[tired root]

Can confirm, they are currently bugged. You can gather them better in the big grausten ruins where they grow plenty of them.

[ornate tree]

Is there any public servers to get free items?

[little zodiac]

if you want free items just use devcommands

[ornate tree]

How do I do that?

[little zodiac]

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

[full mesa]

Mans about to give himself the cheat sword

[little zodiac]

its a good model!

[viral cave]

What do you need them for?

[frosty frost]

Just coming back after testing it and the wiki is correct 😄 the artisan table has 40 build and spawn-proof radius.

[zealous scarab]

sick

[short ravine]

I play on a friend's laptop and I have hours recorded on my steam account, will I need to buy the game again if I get my own laptop

[winged solstice]

if you bought it on your steam account, you should be able to download it on your device

[short ravine]

I never bought it, its downloaded on my friend's laptop and I just made a new file. Though steam has hours recorded when I check my account via phone but its marked as $20

[full mesa]

To be able to play it without buying it you'll need to be in a family group so that your friend can also play games that you have and you can play the games your friend has

but really that 20$ is worth it, the content you get in valheim is alot

reminder on the family group thing

[short ravine]

Sounds like just Game Share lol

[full mesa]

certain games they cant play

[little zodiac]

$20 is a steal for this game even if oyu play through one time the amount you spend for the hours youll put into the game is well worth it; even if you were to run through it fast and say spend 50 hrs playing the game that comes out to .40 cents per hour of entertainment

[marble roost]

Just killed my first abom of this playthrough. Can't decide if I should make root harnesk or root mask

Also just remembered I need to kill two to make a piece of armor. Good thing I've marked two more, this is a great swamp

[calm gulch]

Anyone know how to fix this? Playing on Xbox PC

I haven't been able to get on for a week

[short ravine]

No idea, though when I googled "could not log in to playfab" out of curiosity, i got alot of troubleshooting steps.

[calm gulch]

Yeah I’ve done them all, no dice so far

Seems like a lot of people got it on Steam and fixed it by turning off cross play, which I don’t think can be done on Xbox

[short ravine]

Google says you can lol

[calm gulch]

I have no clue where then, it’s not in the settings anywhere. And it’s not like stream where you can put it in the launch

[ornate finch]

I just replied to you on reddit as well.

Having Windows unactivated (thus missing Windows updates) or having VPN installed, are the most common reasons why playfab won't work (e. g. hamachi). If those are ok, reinstall Xbox and gameservices apps.

[tired root]

Harnesk would be normally the choice for me, makes archers only tickle. Poison resistance mead grants you "very resistant" (0,25x) vs Root helmet grants only "resistant" (0,5x).

Except this time I will go for the helmet due to Harnesk limitation in my new run.

[small imp]

this has been cooking forthe last 10 minutes

im not sure if its a bug or what

[little zodiac]

ah yes the joy of using some mods

[small imp]

hoooooooooray

cant wait to spend the next 45 mins disabling mods XD

[little zodiac]

yea sadly unless you can see which mod it is that messing up thats the only thing you can do

[small imp]

mods are great but hurt my brain

[tired root]

You can ask in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202550198174486599 if anyone knows a fix for that.

[reef narwhal]

Sorry if this is a dumb question im still new to the game and cant seem to find a brightness slider on xbox is there supposed to be gamma sliders like in ark or?

[lilac coyote]

No.

[knotty jetty]

how do i cut the big branches in the swamp

[lilac coyote]

The ancient trees? You don't.

[frail cave]

how to not die in the swamp?

[fierce venture]

• dont go at night
• avoid any structure that isn't a crypt, they all have enemy spawners and the loot is generally worthless.
• poison resist meads
• Use the unbreakable trees and trunks to build forts high off the ground. The only enemie that can reach you up high are wraiths and archers, but they shouldn't be a problem if u dontgo at night

[frail cave]

thanks

[fierce venture]

The most important tool in this biome is the hammer. I have it bound to my mouse buttons because being able to whip out a workbench and build a ladder to safety is your strongest ability.

[tired root]

Additionally:

• Use best foods and have your armor upgraded
• Don't sprint all the time, save stamina for combat
• Consider using meads like Stamina or Tasty
• Using hoe to level watery areas helps with going around
• When possible, crafting Root Harnesk helps a lot against archers.

[frail cave]

I can't find a hive for honey

[tired root]

You need to search from Meadows, look at ruined wooden buildings.

[frail cave]

ı search them but ı cant find it

[tired root]

Depending on seed they can be plentiful, very small amount or between in starting Meadows area.

[thorn spire]

try moving out from centre area. They're more plentiful the further you get out.

[marble roost]

Yea usually I'm all about Harnesk, and actually had a very very close call to an archer last night #screenshots message. But some challenges on my current run made me go for the poison mask.

I'm playing on hard and permadeath so the poison is really a death sentence if an oozer sneaks up on me or if a leech or blob gets me when I'm at like mid health. Most importantly though, I'm doing a no resistance mead run, so Poison mead isn't an option

[reef narwhal]

Does flint respawn

[marble igloo]

yes

[reef narwhal]

Thank god just cleaned a river out and got worried

[ripe thistle]

hey

i need help with building a grausten roof

not direct help, i want someone to explain to me how grausten roof corners work

i cant figure it out no matter what

[subtle parrot]

There's no way to make traditional corners with grausten roof pieces, some folks build up little towers of some kind or another, or build with only inner corner instead of trying to make a design for a traditional roof like you can make with tar and wood roofs pieces. That being said the grausten stone looks good with the tar roof pieces, and you can always blend them in together.

[eternal pasture]

So I wanted to build a giant tower just for funsies in this island I found, but I didn.t notice until too late that I built it right under a giant swamp tree branch, one of those unbreakable ones

I wanted to know if there was a devcommand to remove the tree entirely cause I really don't feel like destroying and building it again 😭

[little zodiac]

you can use forcedelete but i recommend you make a backup of your world file in case you delete more then you were intending or make a mistake; i also suggest you test it on another world to see exactly how the command works

[eternal pasture]

I made a backup and now I will try, will update after

It worked!! Tysm
I used forcedelete 1 SwampTree2 (found the ID list on the wiki)

[reef narwhal]

Sorry for the ping but does things like copper and tin also respawn, I just wanna know if I should be marking spots I find them

[frosty frost]

Nope, ores do not respawn 🙂

[true steeple]

They don't respawn but black forest progression makes exploring more land much easier

[reef narwhal]

Damn

[reef narwhal]

Gotcha

[jade rapids]

You would be really unlucky with your seed, if you don't have enough Black Forrest for copper and tin, to do everything you need in a "normal" playtrough.
It's more "commen" to be lacking iron in the late game, due to RNG can give you too few sunken crypts.

[tawny solar]

Why is my 2 story stone building randomly taking damage when there is no enemies around

[fierce venture]

starting island usually has at least 4, often I can find 6+ but it takes a loong time to search the whole place

[small nest]

i think that the only thing that can damage your buildings are alerted tamed wolves, you, your friend trolling or mosters. make sure to build player based structures that will prevent monsters from spawning

[tawny solar]

Oh thanks! I figured out that it was refined eitr that I dropped

[median skiff]

quick question: a bed needs fire nearby to sleep in, but not necessarily a campfire, right? do any of these allow sleep nearby to?

e.g. even the braziers

and I assume that all of these have the same max range to the bed in that case

[stoic trench]

All of those fire sources work for the sleep requirement (note that sconces aren’t on that list) 👍

The range I’m not sure, I actually think they have different ranges? But I’m not 100% on that.

@median skiff

[pulsar tiger]

Hearth has 2 comfort to campfires 1 and a range of 12 meters to campfires 8.

[vagrant portal]

Home is where the hearth is

[marble igloo]

How far away can i be from a lets say boar farm with them still breeding?
Is is just like taming (64 meters active radius)?

[wispy quest]

How do mods work on multiplayer? Not a dedicated server, just a server we play when the wife runs it

[true steeple]

#mods-discussion will get better answers

[wispy quest]

Ah my bad, didn't see that.

[coarse lantern]

xbox and pc have crossplay right?

[buoyant oracle]

Alright I got all my iron, have my forge upgrades too and a mace made, outside of maxing this mace and getting the boat what should I do? I have 323 iron atm

[true steeple]

Make a banded shield

[buoyant oracle]

oh right and the new bow

[pulsar tiger]

make everything your heart desires but know that there is never enough iron

you will need more eventually

[buoyant oracle]

Yeah I am prepared to get more

I just want the essentials now

[pulsar tiger]

Iron pickaxe for silver

[buoyant oracle]

alr

[pulsar tiger]

Root/Iron armor

[buoyant oracle]

so bow shield boat pick

[pulsar tiger]

I don't bother with bow usually

[buoyant oracle]

I plan to make root chest, other 2 pieces iron

[tired root]

You can fare well with Finewood bow still but Huntsman has straight arc and makes the least amount of noise of all bows in game, it's really good.

[buoyant oracle]

Yeah the guide I was following said that it's the best bow in the game for stealth which is usefull in the plains specifically

[pulsar tiger]

Huntsman isn't bad at all, it's just you will replace it with silver bow

silver bow I keep all the way to ashlands

[tired root]

I prefer Huntsman over Draugr Fang.

Still use it up to Mistlands and switch it to Spinesnap for Ashlands normally.

[pulsar tiger]

I just don't like spinesnap

[true steeple]

I have never made Draugr Fang, the low sound range of the huntsman bow is very helpful in plains

[buoyant oracle]

But what I will do is get the root chestpiece to max

[tired root]

Root Harnesk is very useful in Plains and after, not necessary in Mountains really (only one enemy variant deals pierce damage).

[buoyant oracle]

You get fenrir armor in the mountains

which I plan to get

[pulsar tiger]

it's only slightly less armor than iron, it's fine imo

[tired root]

I usually keep troll chest and legs but upgrade to maxed iron helmet.

[buoyant oracle]

Is it enough?

[tired root]

For me, yes (I have experience). But you could make iron legs too.

[buoyant oracle]

tbf I noticed that a lot comes to the correct foods and meads, the armor while it does matter it isn't as major

I upgraded to top tier black forest foods and it has helped a ton

[tired root]

Yeah, food upgrades are really important.

Use best available when going to a new biome.

[buoyant oracle]

I use sea serpent stew sausages and a stamina food

[tired root]

Yeah, muckshake or turnip stew, whichever has better availability.

I'd save serpent stew still for later tbh, black soup is good too.

[buoyant oracle]

I prio turnip but I use muckshake if low on turnips

Oh I have slain 7 serpents by now, I went hunting for them in the black forest tier

cus I am scared of them so I wanted to get over the fear

[tired root]

If you have found the Bog Witch you could also try out feasts.

[buoyant oracle]

Have yet to find her

[tired root]

Feasts are new type of food. She sells spices for different feasts.

They are quite useful for general exploration due to their duration (50 mins) and balanced stats they provide.

As they last longer their provided stats decay slower too.

You could make 4 of them now if you had found her (1 spice unlocks after killing a sea serpent).

[buoyant oracle]

Who I did find was the merchant who has the t-shirt as her sign

[tired root]

It's the swamp trader.

[buoyant oracle]

I found her in the plain tho

[tired root]

I mean the trader you haven't found.

[buoyant oracle]

ah

[tired root]

Shirt icon belongs to Hildir, who sells more kind of vanity items but also points to several unique POIs.

[lilac coyote]

The farm gear is not vanity.

[tired root]

Yeah I was coming on that.

But it was added quite recently.

I'd say it's very useful set.

[buoyant oracle]

I ended up going for the safe option and going for full iron outside of the chestpiece

[tired root]

With Root Harnesk? That's safe option.

Just take it off inside the caves.

[reef narwhal]

Is there any way to know when your close to the merchant ive walked across almost the entirety of the black forest on this island and still havent found him

[tired root]

The icon will appear when you get close enough. That's around the range where the player proximity generates the content, which is around 400-500m.

[coarse lantern]

what all stops a fire from being lit? aside from being wet and having a floor directly above it

[reef narwhal]

Thanks man

[merry umbra]

can you place a portal inside The Bog Witch's sphere?

[tired root]

Not inside.

[merry umbra]

ty

[tired root]

If you try build inside you get a message that tells something preventing you doing that.

[lilac coyote]

Imagine trying to build in someone else's front yard.

[merry umbra]

also, where it's better to make the outpost in a swamp: deep in swamp to be close to the crypts or outside the swamp to land your ship so you can transport the iron?

[tired root]

I usually build my outpost on top of one crypt.

[frosty frost]

I dont make outposts there at all 😄

Just chests on top of cleared crypts and pocket portal

[tired root]

Nowadays I take 16 Copper and 5 Bronze with me to make Forge and upgrades so I can process and craft with my iron there.

[coarse lantern]

can there only be one troll in a dark forest at a time?

[tired root]

Natural spawns may have a limit in the area but there can be one time spawn points outside and inside the troll caves.

[lilac coyote]

Each zone has a spawn limit of 1 Troll.

[buoyant oracle]

Alr I am happy w my gear now

I think it's time for bonemass

[grim vessel]

Goodluck!

[buoyant oracle]

I have a +4 hammer, +3 armor totally with maxed foods and poison potions

I think I need stamina meads still but thats a pretty quick thing to do

[true steeple]

Start fermenting frost resistance meads if you can

[buoyant oracle]

Yeah for mountains

I have a full smelter base rdy for mountains too which is neat

since swamp base 1.0 was right next to a mountain biome, sadly enough swamp 1.0 didn't have crypts

[full mesa]

Does dvergr copper wall protect from the bolts of the eitr refinery?

[frosty frost]

Yep, it should

[full mesa]

Nice, because I am running low on iron and im making my smelting area

[buoyant oracle]

is it recommended to jump to medium stamina meads if you can?

Swamp 1.0 is on the corner of a plains biome

[full mesa]

Its not necessary but really handy in situations

[buoyant oracle]

Oh right I need to make a blast furnace

[marble roost]

I’d say health potions are more important to have the medium version of. Small stamina potions are alright

[buoyant oracle]

Haven't got the recipe for those

[marble roost]

Think you need ||leech|| drops

[buoyant oracle]

wait nvm I do

I got it w the frost mead

[coarse lantern]

is there any way to find more than one troll at a time relatively easily?

[buoyant oracle]

rng seems to be the way, I had 3 of them running at me one time I was mining

[frosty frost]

Run through black forest 🙂 preferable not previously explored ones

[coarse lantern]

lucky you lol the best i get is wolves running out from the nearby mountain and 2 shotting me if im caught unaware

[buoyant oracle]

What generally seems to happen is that when you go looking you won't find, but they hunt you down when you don't want them to

[coarse lantern]

icic ty, I've gotta make the gf a troll set because she just got the game and isn't home rn

[coarse lantern]

yep lmao especially with boars

i needed a single scrap and nowhere near the rune talking about boars were any found

[marble roost]

Kill the 2nd boss. Kill 1 troll

Set raid rate for your server to max. You’ll have trolls showing up at your doorstep regularly

[full mesa]

You dont need to kill the 2nd boss to activate the troll raids

[coarse lantern]

i can kill a few but i ABSOLUTELY could never handle a raid lmao

[full mesa]

just kill one blue boi and theyll come knocking

[coarse lantern]

wiki at least says you do

[frosty frost]

You do

[coarse lantern]

im also not trying to mess with server settings since this is gonna be my first playthrough going through the whole game, I'd rather us experience it how it should be yk?

[marble roost]

Should have to kill 2nd boss unless you turn “player based events” on

[frosty frost]

And in that case you still would need to have one player that did kill it

[full mesa]

Ah interesting even tho its a non army raid

[marble roost]

Yea non army raids are still locked behind bosses. Most of them require 3rd boss dead

[buoyant oracle]

Dear god this game is addicting now that I got going in the game after the slob that was the bronze age, the iron age was super fun

[coarse lantern]

i mean theyre big and tanky a troll army raid would be terrible after second boss lmao

[full mesa]

Didnt know that, good to know

[buoyant oracle]

I despised the bronze age and got warned that the iron age would be a similar grind but it was not even close to being as bad, maybe cus my smelter base was so close to the mining area

[coarse lantern]

to clarify, by army raid you mean like greys do?

[marble roost]

Better be careful! Use some sharp poky weapons if they do show up one day

[coarse lantern]

I usually shoot them while rolling if they get too close or ring them around a log they make

[full mesa]

I actually ran out of copper wow

[marble roost]

Every time you defeat a boss, the “army” of the next boss may raid you. So yeah like once you kill Eikthyr, the minions of the next boss (greydwarves) can raid you

[full mesa]

well copper ingots

[buoyant oracle]

pain.

[coarse lantern]

i see, makes sense

[buoyant oracle]

happens a lot, hate when it happens but it means you go back to hearing the music

(I set the trolls to change the music to the trololoo theme cus I was getting pissed off one time)

[coarse lantern]

how solid does my base defence need to be to deal with troll raids? I've got stakewalls surrounded by spikes with a bridge in an enclosed area to get in/out

i assume theyll one shot everything

[marble roost]

Yeah they will. Common defense is to go battle them head on away from your base

Other common defense is to make a moat (doesn’t even need water). They can’t cross it

[buoyant oracle]

The casual stunlock with the aoe aetgir usually does the trick for me

only reason I still hold my Bronze aetgir in my hotbar

[coarse lantern]

hmmmm... a boar filled moat they can enter? :)

rn i just have a hole with boars being bred in it lmao

[marble roost]

If you just dig a big trench around your base, no enemy can come near unless they can fly. Their AI won’t go into or over a hole with steep walls

Kinda the cowards way out imo tho

They won’t die but they’ll lose interest eventually

[coarse lantern]

fair enough lol

do raid enemies despawn after a certain amount of time? I've had to exterminate the remaining greys after i got raided when i started

[coarse lantern]

my gf likes the deer hammer lmao

is it comparable in stun?

[buoyant oracle]

I dont think so? I havent used the stagbreaker myself a lot

[coarse lantern]

i made it bc i wanted to see if it did more dmg to eikthyr, but ended up not liking it

[buoyant oracle]

You should definitely test it yourself, I think she might enjoy the halberg

It has a similar feel to it with the middle click

[coarse lantern]

I have tried it, it just didnt do enough damage for me

[coarse lantern]

interesting

[buoyant oracle]

I personally really like the sword

Feels super smooth in use

I for the longest time was a firm believer that only the axe should be picked up to minmax but iron age proved me wrong

Aetgir is worth for sure, it helped a ton in the early swamp to keep the draugurs at bay

[marble roost]

Big hammer is not much damage or stun no. Just good for big crowds of enemies

[coarse lantern]

I've ended up going with copper dagger, havent found any more leviathans to make abyssal

[marble roost]

Also honestly, pretty much nothing is comparable to the stun of an atgeir. That weapon is busted in more ways than one

[coarse lantern]

generally i parry a lot when im fighting so the better parry multiplier and attack speed got me loving it

[marble roost]

Very solid play style, I like it too

[coarse lantern]

I've been hearing they're op lol I don't rlly want to use one though because im not a fan of 2h weapons

[buoyant oracle]

Get your gf the aetgir and see what she thinks of it

[coarse lantern]

bet

[buoyant oracle]

If she likes the bonk I think she will enjoy the halberg

[marble roost]

I personally like things tough, and ban myself from using certain weapons because of it, including bow and atgeir (bow gets especially OP later in the game)

[buoyant oracle]

||I have decided that bows are good but magic is heresy and I will not touch it||

[coarse lantern]

bow feels balanced atm for me

[full mesa]

Magic, and especially the staff of embers is op

[frosty frost]

You mean staff of protection 😉 that one is truly OP

[full mesa]

ok maybe 2nd op but yeah I agree

[viral cave]

Bow is fine, atgeir is broken

[coarse lantern]

bug?

[frosty frost]

Nah, just lag 😄

[coarse lantern]

icic

[marble roost]

I’d say bow is worse. Atgeir is OP for keeping melee enemies at bay for an indefinite amount of time, and staggering

Bow can also keep enemies at bay pretty well with high draw speed and frost arrows, but in addition it does insane damage at high bow skill and since it’s ranged there’s so many ways to cheese things and deal with ranged enemies as well without really endangering yourself

[steel hemlock]

would anyone be able to help me? My game keeps crashing. didnt happen for the first month or so of our playthrough but now since we got to the mistlands i get it almost reguraly. I have my crash logs if anyone can decifer what they mean

i am playing with mods. ive disabled them and i get the same crash. so it cannot be the mods

[coarse lantern]

swamp is requiring that I make my base a LOT bigger for all the things it wants me to make lmao

[cloud karma]

We have been in many swamps and have EXHAUSTED every crypt in each but barely have enough iron, how come we're getting so little? I'm not finding this issue anywhere else

[subtle parrot]

Sounds like bad rng, just find another swamp and more crypts

[cloud karma]

this is the 5th swamp and we only have 2 sets of irn armor between us

like actually 10 iron from each cyrpt

[subtle parrot]

How many is us?

[cloud karma]

me, greacy, brock, jp, akuma, so 4

theyre starting to get frustrated but i told them

[subtle parrot]

Yeh that sounds kinda low, are you playing with mods or anything?

[cloud karma]

all vanilla

unless they installed mods i dont know about

[viral cave]

Fully upgraded iron armor, or level 1?

[cloud karma]

level 1

the ores give very little

[viral cave]

How many crypts?

[cloud karma]

i'd have to ask jp

i think jp said we get around 10 iron per crypt

[subtle parrot]

I'm not really sure, but it may just be bad rng anyways. You might be better off finding another swamp in another section if the map. Some swamps can be extremely small. But it just sounds odd.

[viral cave]

Are you playing with 0.5x resource multiplier?

[cloud karma]

no we didnt even know that was a thing

we checked after searrching for it

[upper basalt]

ya, the iron we get is'nt really much

I did spend some on building this cool cage-base. The idea with it is that I can build it above the water and see through the cage at the fish but have a hole in the middle so I can catch the fish

[cloud karma]

armor is 20 iron per armor piece right? and 4 pieces means 80 iron, so 10 iron per crypt means we've been in ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY crypts

I mean that's how much iron we got, 16 crypts that means approximately

[upper basalt]

greacy said he was going to make a couple of butcher knives, but I don't think those use iron

[cloud karma]

4 butchers knives, one for each of us

ya its just tin

[upper basalt]

iron

[viral cave]

Are you looking through the chests in the crypts? They usually have some half stacks of scrap.

The other thing I can think of is not swimming through the watery junctions and mistaking those for dead ends

[cloud karma]

chests ive been in have usually just been bones or torches

that mightve been already picked over though

[upper basalt]

the poison arrows you get are pretty good at least

[cloud karma]

have you tried mining down in the crypt into the ground @upper basalt ? sometimes the ore is hidden

[upper basalt]

what? rly?

I usually just hear a clink sound when I try mining down anywhere

[viral cave]

Double check. A lot of the iron in a crypt will come from chests. Each chest has 2-3 stacks and the chance of a stack being 10-20 iron is 19%.

If you remember getting a torch from a loot chest, that's not even possible for sunken crypts

[cloud karma]

must of been placed there

i thought we re surveyed the iron creeps many times but i could try again, unless someone took them

[marble roost]

10 iron per crypt sounds really low. I'd expect upwards of 60 iron from a crypt

Maybe be careful how you spend it though (too late now, but for future biomes). Like full iron armor for all of you probably isn't necessary. There's also another armor set you can make in swamp. Or if you have bronze on hand fully upgraded bronze should be about as good as lvl 1 iron

I like to mix and match armor a lot

[cloud karma]

issue is - without iron the abomation just destroyes every single base weve made

[viral cave]

Iron ain't gonna help that either

[marble roost]

gotta kill it. It gives real good drops too

Or if its too much, build your base outside the swamp

[viral cave]

Kill it with a slash weapon, it resists blunt and pierce

[marble roost]

People tend to usually just make bases in the meadows and ferry everything over to that base. Although personally I do like setting up a base in each biome its a lot of fun

[viral cave]

Did you maybe max out carrying capacity without noticing and not pick up the remaining iron? If you came into the crypt with a bunch of weapons, armor, food, and random crap, it might've been possible that you had 200 carrying capacity already full, only picked up 10 iron, and left while leaving behind a bunch of items to despawn.

[marble roost]

Also the abomination looks scary, but really it's not much more dangerous than a troll. If you can handle trolls you can probably handle it, just be careful with stamina because stamina can be tough to manage in swamp

[cloud karma]

maybe its server lag but its brutal

[upper basalt]

I always get caught up on the logs and stuff

[marble roost]

If it's any consolation, the next big upgrade material after iron is really plentiful once you find an area with it

[cloud karma]

thank you, we'll do our best for it

to the mines!

[viral cave]

Make sure you're watching carrying capacity so that you're picking up all the iron you mine

(or find in chests)

[tacit breach]

Build off of the unbreakable ancient trees. Do it high enough and the abomination literally cannot touch you, and you only have to go as high as the crypts.

I guess saying it as START as high as the crypts, and you will be above its reach.

[harsh hinge]

I am going to guess when the north lands update comes out I will not be able to use an old map to play and will have to start a new world.

Is this correct or am I wrong?

[tired root]

You can continue old world, but leave the current Deep North area unexplored so the content will be added correctly.

[harsh hinge]

@tired root so the map will update then. I was assuming my map version wouldn't update. For instance my map would be version .99 whatever and new map would be 1.01 so my map wouldn't work. But that is not correct? If I am understanding right

[tired root]

When new content is added your world will automatically generate the new content when you open it. So yes, your old map will get updated.

[harsh hinge]

@tired root thank you. That is awesome

[tired root]

In process it will also rearrange POIs like unfound boss altars in other locations.

[jade rapids]

What you might be thinking of, is that a few times during the EA, IronGate have done some huge work on the map generation, like height mapping. Last time they did it was with release of Ashland. But at the same time they also did it to Deep North. So according to Dev's, the map you have played on after release of Ashland, will work for next update. If you do like Joel said, and don't explore the Deep North, so the new content will spawn in correctly.