valheim-help

[next spear]

also why do seekers deal more dmg than seeker soldiers

[true steeple]

Probably because seeker soldier attacks are much larger, and their aoe attack hits twice.

[fast burrow]

I can’t see any community servers.

[tacit breach]

#1024264966712340510

[fast burrow]

No, as in my game doesn’t show any servers ready to join.

[frosty frost]

So the comunity list is empty?

[fast burrow]

Yes

[tacit breach]

You on Steam with a PC, or another platform?

[fast burrow]

Xbox

[wicked sierra]

how good is the Krom?

ive been looking at this for a lil while but holy its expensive

[frosty frost]

You will have to learn how to use it, since its the first weapon of its type, but once you get that it is quite good 🙂

[wicked sierra]

I don't know if spending all my iron on it is a good idea tho...

[tacit breach]

You have selected crossplay?

[fast burrow]

Yes

[frosty frost]

120 iron total for all 4 levels, and you cant get lvl4 untill ashlands anyway so 75 iron, that is one-two trips to a crypt pretty much 😄

[wicked sierra]

I really don't want to go back to the swamp

[tacit breach]

Or break down one or two of the big bridges in the Mistlands.

[wicked sierra]

wait what

[frosty frost]

True that, I dont do that often so i dont have some average iron gain from that in my head 😄

[tacit breach]

I use a stone cutter and my pick to break down the big bridges in the Mistlands. You get iron bars out of them, so no coal.

[frosty frost]

Did you encounter the semi destroyed black marble bridges in mistlands?

[wicked sierra]

yeah ive seen one

[tacit breach]

You can also do the old armor, but those need to be processed.

[frosty frost]

Those have iron cages in them that drop already smelted iron 🙂

[wicked sierra]

oh damn

[tacit breach]

Your problem is beyond my knowledge. Hopefully someone who knows will come along.

[frosty frost]

And the armor drops bronze copper and iron scrap

[tacit breach]

Is it bronze? Thought it was just copper scraps.

Been a long time since I have done those, I just go for the bridges.

[frosty frost]

Wait... it could be copper, let me check

Yeah, its copper, my bad

[tacit breach]

You get copper out of the bridges too, just not much.

Lots of black marble, though.

Yeah, only bronze I recall is in the mountain caves. I forget which item you have to destroy for those.

[frosty frost]

😶 will not tell, but there is a place where you can get bronze scraps. 😄

[tacit breach]

In Mistlands? I can guess, but I don't destroy those.

[frosty frost]

Nope 😄

[lapis terrace]

@mystic cloak only write in english mate

[mystic cloak]

i formatted my computer after a long time. i didn't worry because i thought i had a backup on valheim xbox. but now when i open the game there is no game save that should be from yesterday and there is a 5 months old game save. how do i restore my game save. i just played online with a friend yesterday. how can i fix

[tacit breach]

If you formatted your hard drive, you erased everything. So unless you saved your files to a USB or equivalent, its gone. Pretty sure an X box file does not work on a PC.

[ornate finch]

Sounds like you might have moved your saves from Cloud to Local at some point

[ornate finch]

Nobody can see them on Xbox, due to a bug (gets solved on next patch).
Why do you need to see them anyway? You anyway wouldn't be able to connect to any server. All are password protected.
If you have a specific server you wanna join, join it via join code or IP address.

[fast burrow]

I didn’t know if I had a issue that would affect joining other servers

Such as my one year Nitrado server I just made and didn’t work at all and they only do credit refunds

[fast burrow]

(Not necessarily info just pissed atm)

[tacit breach]

Understandable

[ornate finch]

The fact that you can't see servers in the community tab is unrelated to you not being able to join your Nitrado server

[fast burrow]

Yeah

[ornate finch]

Did you attempt to join your Nitrado server via IP or Join code?

[fast burrow]

I’m aware

It’s already said and done with

[neon harness]

Does a bossfight entity despawn?

[frosty frost]

Nope bosses do not despawn

[neon harness]

oh great so im stuck with the Elder

[frosty frost]

You can kill him 😄

[neon harness]

Im not ready tho, he deals alot of damage and i need more stamina because of his long ranged attack

i have no clue whats it called

[frosty frost]

You can shoot fire arrows at him while taking cover from ranged attacks behind the pillars of his altar 🙂

[neon harness]

oh, and pair that with the roots and those greydwarfs

actually its my bad considering how i forgot to activate the ability from the first boss

[frosty frost]

There shouldnt be that many greydwarfs around if there arent any spawners 🤔

[neon harness]

i did destroy mostly all of them around but they keep coming out of nowhere

[tacit breach]

A lot can show up if you fight at night.

[frosty frost]

True that, dont fight bosses at night

[tacit breach]

My wife lays down a lot of camp fires just to be sure of no other spawns. 😄

[frosty frost]

For later bosses that may be quite a wise policy 😄

[tacit breach]

Yeah, I think she does it for all of them, until the Queen.

[neon harness]

Fair point

[fast burrow]

Ok

Why isn’t this working?

@ornate finch

[ornate finch]

Works for me, are you getting to the password prompt?

[fast burrow]

It doesnt work for me

What are you typing exactly???

[ornate finch]

Add server to favorite tab in Valheim by copy pasting: 95.156.238.2:10000

[fast burrow]

I can’t copy and paste on Xbox

[jade rapids]

Use your controller to navigate the virtual keyboard.

[jade rapids]

Xbox users can only connect to worlds WITH crossplay enabled

[fast burrow]

That is on

[ornate finch]

Then type it manually. If it doesn't work, do a NAT type test located in Xbox network settings.

[fast burrow]

It keeps switching between moderate and open

[trail flint]

need help trying to get my game server working, using No-IP and just lost.. all the ports are open and I even have the game working through radminVPN, but can't do it through a DDNS server

hell i can't even connect directly with IP

[cloud oar]

Do you think its worth purchasing this game on Steam Deck?

[lilac coyote]

If that's your gaming platform of choice then absolutely.

[cloud oar]

Alright

[lilac coyote]

But then you aren't going to get many people in here NOT recommending the game.

[cloud oar]

Yea, it is going to be more of a biased source, however its better to have people know what they are talking about (usually)

[cinder timber]

i couldn't find any swamp on my island, i only found it here and i'm being surrounded by draugrs and 1 star archer, also abomination, placed a portal to escape 😭 wtf do i do

i only got bronze and this is my first world

[drowsy crane]

Go prepared, with a bow, and work at making your foothold near your base as safe as can be

[pure mango]

Swamp generally doesnt spawn on the 1st island, to force you to explore further out on a boat. Did you land directly onto the Swamp? You should set up a portal in a neighbouring meadows or black forest, this will make it much easier to retreat back to.

Some Swamps can be really small but that means they wont contain any dungeons. These are probably not worth stopping at, apart from needing the crypts for iron, they can be useful to retreat back to if you get overwhelmed, since mobs cant follow you in.

[frosty frost]

What Heathspliff said, it may be good idea to advance from adjacent BF or Meadows and maybe make a rudimentary house with portal and workbench there 🙂 that way you can slowly learn about the enemies in swamp with safe space to retreat to if needed.

[cinder timber]

i checked the seed and saw this

[frosty frost]

That seems like it could have few crypts 😄 + one of the traders as bonus

[pure mango]

That looks like a tiny bit of meadows or black forrest near the bottom right? that could be a good place to land, some mobs will likely still venture in, but it will be safer

[cinder timber]

yep, we landed there

[frosty frost]

Yep that is black forest by the looks of it

[cinder timber]

hope it works

its a black forest

[frosty frost]

Look for green lights in the swamps, if you see 2 next to each other try to go there 😉

[cinder timber]

sure

[fading topaz]

sure

[lapis terrace]

looks like Italy 😄

[frosty frost]

To the boot

[spring frigate]

whats the easiest and space efficient way to stack iron chests?

noticed they are not exactl 0,25m so i wonder how to do this ot look and work neatly?

[frosty frost]

Most space efficient way is like this, just with iron chests. 🙂

If you mean stacking on top of each other then you will have to free-hand it since the iron chests are not exactly 1m/half-wall tall

[spring frigate]

so eye ball'in it?
meh >.>

[frosty frost]

Pretty much 😄 thats the price if we want to be most space efficient.

[spring frigate]

oh well.. thanks tho! ^w^/

[timber palm]

help with boar farm, just built this from yt and its supposed to "flush" the baby boars out. is this normal and just gonna take a while to let boars out?

dk if it makes a difference about the size

since he made it for 2 star boars

[wicked sierra]

yeah they won't be instantly pushed out

[timber palm]

alright, thanks

[tired root]

You can stack them inside the same space as wooden chests, but you have to start building them iron chests from top to bottom order.

^ FYI @spring frigate

[frosty frost]

True, tho some of them will be a bit hard to reach i think 😄 (or more like, less comfortable to target)

[tired root]

I can show some pics of my iron chest shelves at some point when I get to my PC again.

You can fit 5 chests in 2x4 area.

[deep pebble]

does the trlls (no log) ground slam attack do more damage than the swing?

[tacit breach]

You could check the wiki for accurate info on that.

[deep pebble]

also whats the bare minimum atgeir to stunlock a troll 100%

[tacit breach]

Again, the wiki might have accurate info on that.

[true steeple]

Yes, 70 blunt melee hitbox + 50 blunt aoe instance

[deep pebble]

ah so more direct=more damage?

[true steeple]

The melee hitbox will always deal 70 damage, some aoes scale with distance but not all so I’ll check this one now

Actually that’s 70 base damage, it will be slightly lower because of damage variance, down to around 86.6% depending on rng

[deep pebble]

whats the max, bc i got one shot on full health with lvl 2 troll armour

i had 75 health roughly

[tacit breach]

If your back was to them, they may have also got the backstab multiplier.

[deep pebble]

no i was in direct combat

[true steeple]

Players don’t take backstabs

And backstabs have nothing to do with being hit in the back anyway

[true steeple]

If I’m doing the math right the max should be 72 damage if the troll gets perfect luck with damage variance and you were in the centre of the aoe

[tacit breach]

Tell that to the game. I have been insta killed too many times when I should not have been.

[true steeple]

It wouldn’t be because of backstabs

[tacit breach]

Well, something gives them a heck of a mulitiplier, I have just figured what was most likely.

[deep pebble]

it depends on so many things

but anyways thanks

[tacit breach]

Sure feels that way a lot of the time. The numbers haven't told the whole story, for sure.

[true steeple]

Any examples of what killed you instantly and what else might have caused it?

Were these attacks you tried to block, maybe not realising your stagger bar wasn't empty?

[tacit breach]

My back was to them. It has ranged from wolves, to golems, to fulings. I don't think it has happened with Mistlands or Ashlands enemies yet. I don't have nearly as many hours playing in those biomes as I do the original 5.

[deep elbow]

Do items that grant skill bonuses allow to exceed the maximum of 100? If not, those items are useless once you reach the level 100.

Apparently, not:
#valheim-chat message

[frosty frost]

Considering how rare it is to actually get to a skill level 100, they are plenty usefull 😄

[deep elbow]

I'm trying to max out every skill, already 11 of them 🤓

[frosty frost]

Nice 😄

[wicked sierra]

How the fu

[tacit breach]

Dang. I only ever bother with the skills I use. Getting all of them to 100 will take a lot of time. Its enough of a pain with just the skills I use, but I am also still fighting and getting killed. If I were to do what you are doing, I'd stay in only the safe biomes. 😄

[wicked sierra]

Yeah

[deep elbow]

Not to mention the fact that I have died several times in the process

[tacit breach]

Yeah, its so hard to earn enough XP to level as you approach 100. I'd never do it for a full play through. Afterwards, sure, but not when I am still facing dying.

Can't you turn off the death penalty now?

[tired root]

You can reduce it to 1% from world modifiers.

[frosty frost]

With world modifiers you can reduce it to 1%, with devcommands you can turn it off.

[tacit breach]

I'd at least do that if I had his goal.

[light solar]

do deathsquitos kill chickens?

i live in a plains biome but i have a giant wall around to keep fulings out

[frosty frost]

Yep

[tired root]

If not protected by walls and roof then they can kill them.

[light solar]

this is the chicken coop

[tired root]

Seems safe.

[light solar]

idk i was wondering if the fence around the outside would keep them safe but idk

[tired root]

Well, at least it prevents them running across your base if you forget to close the door.

[jade rapids]

Naa... those buggers just fly over the walls

[tired root]

Yeah but they cannot fly inside the coop if it's enclosed.

[light solar]

btw how do i get a screenshot over my base without building a tower

[jade rapids]

using devcommands

[bold lynx]

Im thinking about starting a new run when the deep north comes out since If I start one soon I dont want to feel like I have to start again so soon. Unless it isnt coming soon? Let me know

What is the best biome to make a base? I want to make a really nice house with different buildings around and just a nice base but all the cool resources are late game. Honestly side quesiton but how do you ship all the stuff you need back and forth?

[tired root]

Deep North isn't coming anytime soon, most likely not this year.

[frosty frost]

Deep north is almost certainly not gonna come this year i think.

[bold lynx]

Hmmmm

[tired root]

But yeah, meadows is safest biome, but some prefer plains since you can grow all crops except mistlands ones there.

[bold lynx]

The only problem then is the valheim addiction so soon

[frosty frost]

I personally really like meadows for the peaceful vibe, however you could argue that other biomes are way cooler 🙂

And for transporting stuff, mostly portals, and ship any metal you need by longship

[bold lynx]

the plains are cool I just feel sad leaving my old base stuff behind and it looks meh

[tired root]

One could always start new run when DN arrives, or continue old world since the update will add the biome content to old worlds too (except in already explored areas).

[tacit breach]

Yeah, I'd have to count, but I think it is safe to say I have played dozens of characters in dozens of new worlds by now. The randomness makes the worlds interesting to explore and figure out how to set up transport routes, etc...

[twin trail]

I didnt think your portals could get destroyed - how can you protect them?

[tired root]

Build them behind walls or other cover.

[twin trail]

Well it was on an outer wall of a place and the troll demolished everything

[tired root]

Not necessarily too close to the wall tho.

[twin trail]

So if he sees it he will destroy it

[tired root]

Enemy AI usually targets the player as first priority, but if it's unable to get to the player it targets nearby buildings.

[echo sparrow]

furthermore, there are a few buildings they'll target in line of sight with or without player--just automatically hostile to

and off memory I WANT to say portal is one of those

[tired root]

Workbench is another one.

[echo sparrow]

the rest of buildable objects they also attack, but first need a player to have "aggro'd" them nearby recently enough--then, if they cannot pathfind to a player, they will attack the nearest object (though I think here if one of those "always hostile" objects is in range, they will prioritize that)

I don't know if it's EXACT overlap, but the set "objects that block spawns" and the set "objects mobs are always hostile to if in line of sight" seem to LARGELY overlap

an important special exception is the campfire--which blocks spawn but is NOT automatically always targeted--and therefore combined with cost makes it commonly considered one of the best spawn blocking objects in game currently

[sand yew]

literally got to the ashlands with my buddys and immediately died we lost everything could someone be soooo kind and drop some late game armor they dont care about plzzzzzzzz

[tired root]

Why asking others when you could resort to console commands and spawn items by yourself? Not recommendable tho if you tend to lose control on those things, it can ruin gameplay.

[sand yew]

100% agree

[tacit breach]

Aren't using those commands risky?

IE could crash your game, or some such problem?

[frosty frost]

If you know what you are doing then not really.

[tired root]

In case of ruining the joy of gameplay, yes. Otherwise I haven't encountered any problems.

[tacit breach]

Well, I use them sparingly, because I don't feel that I know what I am doing. 😄

[frosty frost]

Dont try to spawn hundreds/thousands of items at once and you are pretty much fine with crashing issues 🙂

[tacit breach]

I'll keep that in mind.

[frosty frost]

Also some stuff you cant get rid of if you spawn it, so that is another danger
(usually physical objects/structures)

[tacit breach]

I've seen the statues, for one. 😄

[tired root]

I have my oldest world where I allow myself test things with commands, but not in other worlds.

[frosty frost]

I do have few worlds just dedicated to using devcommands, so when i need to test something i go there and dont risk ruining my normal play worlds.

[tacit breach]

If they want to be safe with their game world, could they command it in on another world, then transfer it?

[frosty frost]

Yep

[tacit breach]

OK, so they can do that, to be safe.

[bold lynx]

Since the deep north coincides with the 1.0 full release (I think?) wont it also have pre-deep north content? I sure hope so

[tired root]

Not sure if I 100% understood your question but old worlds stay the same, just gets the new content in unexplored areas.

Nonetheless, old worlds have always been playable after getting new content updates to the extend, unless they were too much explored to add the new content correctly.

[bold lynx]

Would the new items and enemies be added?

Also isnt deep north also the full release/exit from early access? (so there will will be content for biomes before deep north too?)

[tired root]

Yes, they count as the "new content" so old worlds get all of that.

[tired root]

There is upcoming smaller update before DN, which improves things related to combat.

And yes, DN will be 1.0.

[bold lynx]

Nice

[tacit breach]

Plus a few new pieces of gear.

[frosty frost]

I assume there will be a lot new pieces in Deep North 😄

[tired root]

I assume Robert meant Combat update.

[tacit breach]

Yes.

[tired root]

In case you want to read more about the upcoming updates look no further than https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202150165449035816.

[twin trail]

I didnt think Trolls spawned in the Meadows

[tired root]

They can during the raid, or it happened to just spawn in neighboring black forest and wandered to meadows.

[tacit breach]

Yeah, they love to spawn right on the border between the two. Jerks.

[twin trail]

There was no Black Forest near and there was a Troll cave there as well

[tacit breach]

Oh, one of those. Nice.

Basically, an anomoly. Like finding Guck trees in the middle of another biome.

[tired root]

Troll cave in Meadows? Possible, but very rare. The seed basically chose its placement in very small patch of black forest.

[fathom storm]

My game is telling me i need to purchase it when i bought it two years ago and have played 180 hours

[tacit breach]

Or swamp crypts in the middle of another biome. Or Surtling Geysers, I've ran into all those.

[twin trail]

It was there although it was empty

[tacit breach]

Others have had this issue today, apparently restarting your machine should fix it.

[frosty frost]

Try just steam first 😄 but yeah then whole machine

[tacit breach]

I don't leave my machine on at night. Guess one of the benefits are I don't run into issues like this one.

[frosty frost]

The issue apparently just appeared in last few minutes/hour 🙂

[tacit breach]

So likely a different country from mine as well. Time zones, etc...

[fathom storm]

Restarting the computer did in fact work. Thanks

[lapis terrace]

more people have reported that just a few minutes ago

probably have something to do with steam servers restarting around this time

[tacit breach]

It certainly appears to be the cause.

[frail cave]

I need help

How does 1 turn on cheat mode on a pre existing world, we wanna clear all the random items on the ground across our world

[frosty frost]

If the items are not in range of a player base object then they will disappear by themselves after 1 irl hour 🙂

[frail cave]

Oh

[frosty frost]

But if you really want to then here is a guide on how to enable commands https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Developer_console

[frail cave]

Ty

[twin trail]

spawn command doesnt appear to work

I guess thats because Im using the Steam Dedicated server

[frosty frost]

Yes, you cant use cheat commands on dedicated servers

[twin trail]

Unless you want to get into using a mod

[smoky acorn]

If I have Lavaiathans landing in the ocean near the edge of Mistlands, is it because my world was upgraded with that area already explored nearby?

[lapis terrace]

no. it's just spawn radius non-limitation

the world is larger than the physical ground.

and the leviathans don't have any kind of spawning limits

[smoky acorn]

What about lavaiathans?

[lapis terrace]

limited to ashlands only

[smoky acorn]

Sure, but normal in the ocean? I'll see them floating before they sink.

[tired root]

Might be the locations of old flametal nodes rendered pre-Ashlands that turned into singular new flametal node when update came.

[smoky acorn]

I'm betting that's it

[tired root]

Yes, I've witnessed the same in some of my old worlds that I had visited the border close enough.

[smoky acorn]

Do you think those pre-Ashlands floaters count against the total it tries to place during the Ashlands world upgrade?

[tired root]

Not sure.

[smoky acorn]

Hm, I think you're right about them being the old spires. They don't look like proper lavaiathans with a spire on their back. So maybe they won't count against new placements. Thanks!

[tired root]

Since they are just singular flametal nodes turned from old flametal meteors they shouldn't count as flametal spires.
One way to make sure would be using devcommands by typing find LeviathanLava 100 and see if it counts all/most of them. It also marks them on your map temporarily. Maximum of them is 100 per world.

[formal sentinel]

How does the game calculate if you get bonus harvest

Lemme rephrase a lil how does farming skill effect chances to get more yield

[tired root]

Don't remember the chances in lower levels, but IIRC it's up to 25% chance (at lvl 100).

[light solar]

why does the biome just cut off?

[true steeple]

It's just the way the world generated, I don't think there's anything specifically designed to cause this shape.

[lilac coyote]

My guess is different game version world gen.

[neon harness]

Do the mead base stacks with food items? Cause you can only eat 3 foods

[true steeple]

Meads aren't food, they apply status effects
And you don't consume the mead base directly

[neon harness]

So they shouldnt stack right?

[true steeple]

You can have three foods and many different meads active at the same time

[neon harness]

ah that clears out things, Thank you

[light solar]

it's all the same version

[tired root]

DereK might have asked that is the world created before or after Mistlands update, since the update changed world gen in way to generate larger areas of Mistlands in new worlds.

[light solar]

it was created in the bog witch update

or the most recent i assume

[tired root]

Then it's post-Mistlands world gen.

[faint osprey]

whats the easiest/best way to spawn proof ashlands?

[lapis terrace]

Hm..

personally I build spawnproof out in the buildings out in the water

[faint osprey]

I already build a base on land and a terrain wall around it but there are a ton of mobs outside not leting me sleep + blobs sometimes jump over the wall

[lapis terrace]

😄

spawn proof as normal

workbenches and stuff

[faint osprey]

workbenches burn and mobs attack them

[tired root]

Campfires. Mobs don't target them and they provide same spawnproof area as workbenches.

[lapis terrace]

you need the shield

[frail cave]

nothing ever changed to add or prevent straight cutoffs like this.
most likely this is the threshold at which mistlands can start generating, straight north from the world's center

[frosty frost]

Yep, saw few of these on current seeds when i was looking on the world generator 🙂

[frail cave]

Any reasons why valheim might be crashing even after hard resetting said pc and only downloading nvidia drivers steam discord and valheim lmfao

Wifi pc are all 1000% capable to run the game

[pulsar tiger]

Are you trying to enter a world with thousands of items on the ground ?

[frail cave]

Already deleted the items

With command

[pulsar tiger]

That was my only idea, idk how to solve that. Maybe load a previous world save if you have them and if you're certain that one specific world is causing crashes

[frail cave]

Yep already tested it its only the 1 world

[pulsar tiger]

You have enough disk space

[frail cave]

Especially anytime I go near base

[small nest]

campfires

[frail cave]

Yep, as I said i hard reset the pc and only downloaded steam discord nvidia driver updates then valheim and it still happens

Got rid of everything else and it still wont run right

Oh and its a non modded world even

[tired glacier]

Is there a way to not have to carry hundreds of wood in my inventory to build things?

[lilac coyote]

You could make a cart?

[tired glacier]

Haven't unlocked that yet. Does that allow you to use things straight out of it for building or do you still have to place it in your character inventory?

[frail cave]

Still have to place in inventory

[tired glacier]

Ah.. that's not what I am looking for then. A lot of survival games allow you to somehow or someway use materials you stashed in a storage container for building instead of lugging around all manner of things. Valheim doesn't have any such mechanic at all?

[frail cave]

Idk what game lets u do that without mods lmao

[tacit breach]

I don't know of any either. I'm going to have to look those up.

[pulsar tiger]

10 min timeout for seemingly no reason lmao, what was that about

[frail cave]

Sad I thought u abandoned me

[pulsar tiger]

I got punished :'), Idk how to help you though, good luck

[tired glacier]

Quite a few. Dune Awakening, NMS, etc etc. Largely irrelevant but yeah. Well, if there's no such mwchanic in Valheim, thats fine. I can work with that.

[frail cave]

Thanks, it freaking sucks, I was able to play till we got to mistlands since then I just crash every 10 mins, I dont even lag its ridiculous

[lapis terrace]

well. you wrote non-english characters 😄

[frail cave]

If i go near base i crash within seconds

We even killed 23 of our 28 2* wolves and didnt help

[lapis terrace]

did someone spawn something big?

[frail cave]

No

And I'm negl the world isnt all that explored yet for being at mistlands arc

[lapis terrace]

game is made so you shouldn't be possible to break it like that unless someone does something bad with spawning

[frail cave]

No items on the ground

[frail cave]

Other 2 ppl on the world are fine my brother who made it and his friend but I get screwed

I cant do anything in it anymore

I can survive about a half hour without crashing if I'm not near main base

[lapis terrace]

do you have nvidia graphics card?

[frail cave]

Yes

[lapis terrace]

which one and what version do you have installed?

[frail cave]

And I turned all the settings in game down all the way

[tacit breach]

Definitely sounds like its related to the instances. IE number of items rendered. Are there a lot of new fires?

[frail cave]

I update my drivers every 2 days if theres an update to install so the latest one

[lapis terrace]

I bet it's the same issue that nvidia have been having since april

[frail cave]

Whats that

[lapis terrace]

which GPU is it you have?

nvidia drivers are unstable and they keep breaking for millions of players

[frail cave]

No not many fires and no new ones

[frail cave]

Well how do I fix this so I can play on that world again i cant just not finish a world i helped start and get to mistlands

What if we copy and pasted the world onto a new server is that possible

[lapis terrace]

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/245376/

[tacit breach]

Roll back to old drivers? And it is, I have done that on my servers, back when I ran them.

[lapis terrace]

^ yes

[frail cave]

Ok are there yt demos for it

[lapis terrace]

just install this

[frail cave]

Ok

[lapis terrace]

you could go into windows programs, uninstall nvidia, restart PC, and then download that file and install it

or just install it and see if you can force that one instead

[frail cave]

Ima just try installing it

Shes installing

Spent 3 hours last night doing crap to fix it before hard resetting pc and re downloading minimal stuff

Ok well it wasnt doing this yesterday so we are making progress

Yep still crashed

[tacit breach]

🙁

That reminds me, last night I noticed my wife was taking longer and longer and longer to go through portals. Anyone have any idea what that is about? Any pre emptive actions we can take to address that?

[frail cave]

No idea, I also have no idea how I can run a Minecraft server with 50+ mods but can't run valheim

[wicked sierra]

that doesn't track tf

[frail cave]

Ur telling me

I just wanna play mf valheim and I cant

But I can run cobblemon minecraft with 50-70 mods and be fine

Pisses me off

[wicked sierra]

maybe the mods are optimised to all hell

[sterile yew]

What's a good armor combination before heading into the Mistlands? I'd like to know both recommended armor types and any useful extra gear/weapons.

[frail cave]

Well valheim needs to do the same

[frail cave]

Iron padded

[wicked sierra]

I am a heavy armor lover so padded

and useful gear? like a black metal axe

[sterile yew]

OK, so no root harnesk nor fenris leggins?

[wicked sierra]

root def no

[frail cave]

Frostnir and a shield for weapon choice

[pulsar tiger]

Other people are playing that world just fine or everyone crashes around the base ?

[sterile yew]

Black metal sword or Frostner?

[frail cave]

And a good bow

[wicked sierra]

tbh I just black metal sword and tower shield mistlands

[frail cave]

Just me other 2 are fine. And ig I crash on my world too

[wicked sierra]

works well enough

[sterile yew]

Thanks!

[frail cave]

Sword doesn't do much in mistlands besides the one that cuts thru mist that also does more dmg then blackmetal sword ur better off with frosnir

[wicked sierra]

I meann I havent gotten shit yet soo

Just a black forge and the crossbow

Really want refined eitr but I can't find a root for the life of me

[tacit breach]

Thats how I start too, then get Mistwalker. The BM Tower shield lasts into Ashlands.

[tacit breach]

That is surprising. We are practically tripping over roots in our world.

[wicked sierra]

I wish...

[tacit breach]

I took over a Dvergr tower with 4 roots around it. Talk about easy harvesting.

[tired root]

Root Harnesk can be useful against some mobs there that deal mostly pierce damage. One enemy deals fire but you can use fire barley mead to override the weakness to fire of the Harnesk to gain resistance against it.
Fenris leggings add speed but less armor value, you can also use heavy greaves if it feels safer.

[tired root]

Both work, depending which you feel more comfortable with and if other has higher skill level.

[tacit breach]

Just get your run and jump skill as high as possible. Between that, and some choice meads, you can feel like your flying through the Mistlands, even going up.

That light foot mead alone, awesome!

[tired root]

Mm, but for Lightfoot mead you need some mats from Mistlands first.

[tacit breach]

One of the easier ones, not the sap.

Thats needed for the stamina mead.

Which I also love using.

[tired root]

Yeah, I like lingering and tasty mead combo for quick stamina recovery.

Although my current character has withdrawal from the lack of meads in my current run.

[tacit breach]

I just use lingering. My run and jump skills have gotten to the 90's now. So my stamina burn is low.

[potent hatch]

what happens when three portals share the same name?

[wicked sierra]

Its pretty fun, they work

[tired root]

Only 2 can connect. If you remove one connected it will reconnect with the free with same tag.

[potent hatch]

so if i already have 2 portals with the same name, the new portal with the same name just won't work?

[tired root]

It doesn't connect to the already connected ones. But you can name 4th portal the same and those 2 will then connect.

[wicked sierra]

Oh god infinite unnamed portals would go hard

[tacit breach]

😄 Never done that! Good to know.

[tired root]

Yeah, it's possible. But then you should be careful not to demolish already connected ones since they will then reconnect with the free ones again, messing up things.

[wicked sierra]

Roulette on where youll end up

[tired root]

Which is why naming portals is generally very good idea.

[tacit breach]

We end up using so many portals I have to put their names on my map to help me recall which is which, especially if any get destroyed.

[echo sparrow]

wait

you can duplicate named pairs of portals?

[wicked sierra]

I just mark the spots with the portal mark and name

[pulsar tiger]

Idk if it was fixed but if you had 2 portals with the same name and placed a third one with the same name, it would connect and send you to one of the 2 but then disconnect and leave you stranded.

[tired root]

Yeah, already connected ones stay connected but new ones with same tag connect with each other.

[echo sparrow]

oh that's (potential) utter chaos

[pulsar tiger]

I've had to create new characters just to place a portal to get home

[wicked sierra]

😭

I always js forget to bring a portal with mr

[tired root]

The delay of it has been fixed long ago. It was not intended feature from the start.

[pulsar tiger]

I'm sure it wasn't, still wish no-name portal mods was the default. Not that I don't love building a portal hub for the tenth time

[tired root]

I've seen what that mod can do, in rush moment when trying to escape through portal manually clicking from map which portal you want to connect can turn fatal mistake.

[pulsar tiger]

that 1-2 seconds extra can be fatal but a trade off I'd gladly take. That and craft from chest mods should be base game imo.

[echo sparrow]

actually you could really perfect this idea by hybridizing with the way it works now--I haven't tried this mod, gonna assume it opens the map when you pop through the portal then you click the portal it takes you to that portal--well, it could work like this, where you're either invisible or just "floating" in fall animation there in the portal frame, while you're in the map, BUT you're invulnerable the way you're invulnerable now 'as is' during the portal animation; that way, you're basically "home free" as soon as you can get in the map pops up and are not penalized for the extra "however many seconds" you spend looking at the map picking your portal

[pulsar tiger]

realistically if you're in that much danger, you just press any portal then from that safe place you chose where you actually want to go so it's not too bad at all and doesn't require any invincibility period imo

[echo sparrow]

that's a good point too, i just mean it could be easily implemented in a way similar to as it already is to avoid even that, if the devs did have that as a concern--they definitely seemed to care/think it'd be unfair for us to be killed during animation going through portal, as they gave us that brief invulnerability as is

[pulsar tiger]

It could but I'm not expecting portal mechanics to actually change.

The worst portal experience is dying trying to recover a grave and hearing the portal get destroyed before you can respawn

[echo sparrow]

lol for sure that's the worst, and I agree it's probably unlikely to change--though I do like that idea, if it were to change

[wicked sierra]

Nahhhh thats insane

[tacit breach]

Yeah, been a long time since I have had that happen. I am a lot "wiser" about choosing my portal locations now. 😄

[frail cave]

Yeah even after downloading an optimization tool I cant get valheim to run right

[tacit breach]

I presume you even tried the optimization video here in helps pinned area?

Your situation is so odd, I am not sure of what could even help.

[frail cave]

Yeah bro its crazy

Is there a valheim dev in here that can help me out cuz bro 😭

[light solar]

what is this place

[tacit breach]

Smiffe is the only one that usually interacts, and I am -pretty sure he is the one that shared a link with you earlier.

[pulsar tiger]

Mistlands encampment, sometimes you'll find a skull or ribcage in the middle

sometimes with dvergrs, sometimes bugs

[tacit breach]

A dvergr mining site. Looks like the Seekers were already there.

[light solar]

finding anything in mistlands is torture

[tacit breach]

Heh, especially without a bound wisp.

[frail cave]

Well shit

[tacit breach]

Yeah, not good.

[frail cave]

This is dumb

[tacit breach]

Too bad you don't have another system to try and use.

[frail cave]

Yeah ik

[lapis terrace]

yes

I was having dinner and such.

[frail cave]

No worries I just dont know what else to do

Ive looked up everything I can online cant find anything that helps

[lapis terrace]

did you get the 576.28 installed?

[frail cave]

Yeah didnt help

[lapis terrace]

can you send me your player.log file?

[frail cave]

How i see that

[lapis terrace]

In this hidden folder in windows:
C:\Users\ <username> \AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim

[frail cave]

In windows c:?

[lapis terrace]

yes

[frail cave]

This is all I see

[tacit breach]

Put "moona" in the "username" part of the line he gave you.

It should take you directly to it.

[frail cave]

Says folder empty

[tacit breach]

Stranger and stranger...

[stoic trench]

Are your files hidden? Think you can check in ‘view’ or something 🤔

[frail cave]

this what folder it takes me too

but says empty

[tacit breach]

Thats not it.

It should take you into the Valheim folders.

[frail cave]

yeah i dont see any valhiem folders

[tacit breach]

Is that a Chromebook?

[frail cave]

Omen 16

[lapis terrace]

it's windows 🤔

[frail cave]

these are all my valheim files

[frail cave]

Correct

[lapis terrace]

no valheim executive files and where it stores your character and world locally are diffrent folders

[tacit breach]

So HP. Its appears to be acting very proprietary.

[frail cave]

Well it wasnt showing anything for what u had me search

[frail cave]

Yeah idk

[lapis terrace]

you need to enable "view hidden files"

[frail cave]

How do I do that

[tacit breach]

The second image appears to at least show you the IG folder.

[lapis terrace]

click the "view" option

[stoic trench]

That’s what I was trying to say, should be in the view tab somewhere

[frail cave]

Oh found it

[frail cave]

It says working on it

[tacit breach]

Fingers crossed.

[frail cave]

Yeah i cant find it

Only showing the same stuff

[lapis terrace]

you can't find 3 folders in your appdata folder?

Local
LocalLow
Roaming

are the usual folders in there

[frail cave]

I clicked view hidden and re searched what u said to and it says no items match

[lapis terrace]

don't search

just click those folders on the order

[frail cave]

Ah ok

[lapis terrace]

the file you want is player.log

[frail cave]

Oml each folder i search when it doesn't have it and I click out if it it takes 50 seconds to reload them all again

is this it??

[lapis terrace]

nope

wrong folder

that is appdata -> local
you want to be in appdata -> locallow

[frail cave]

Locallow doesn't have it and that there is what each local folder shows and I dont see a roaming

[light solar]

i came back and my chickens are all dead. thing is from what since they're in an enclosed space with no way in or out except for a door that is closed all the time

[frail cave]

this is the locallow folder

[lapis terrace]

there we go

player file!

[frail cave]

Ok this things huge

[light solar]

can deathsquitos kill chickens through walls?

[frosty frost]

Nope

[light solar]

then how are they dead?

[lapis terrace]

drag and drop the file to me in a DM

[light solar]

i'm pretty sure animals don't starve to death

in game

[frail cave]

Done

[lapis terrace]

they can't

[tacit breach]

They do not.

[light solar]

oh wait i think i know why

[lapis terrace]

I see the problem

[frail cave]

What is it!!!

[lapis terrace]

wouldn't you like to know 👀

j/k

[frail cave]

YES

[lapis terrace]

you need to install the BIG directX install

you have the light version

[light solar]

there are small vent holes that are supposed to clear smoke and i forgot that one of the holes lead directly into the chicken coop 🤦‍♂️

[frail cave]

Can u send link so Ik I'm downloading proper one

[light solar]

welp i gated it up

[frail cave]

Whats that even mean 😭

[lapis terrace]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

should be this one

[frail cave]

Bet

[lapis terrace]

usually when you install windows 10 or 11. it installs only directX 12 nowdays. valheim uses directX 11.

[frail cave]

Ohhhh

[lapis terrace]

usually you already have direct X 11 and backwards compatible if you play other games since they will install them automaticly for you

but valheim don't

[pure mango]

Poision effect does go through walls, usually its greydawarf shamans, but if youre not near a black forrest biome I guess it could have been the tar blob things.

[lapis terrace]

you could also try running valheim on "vulkan" after you you installed the pack I linked

your 3060 will probably like it a bit more

[frail cave]

Ok sweet

Bro I'm excited thank you

[lapis terrace]

np

XInput1_3.dll not found. Trying XInput9_1_0.dll instead...

this is what the "error" looked like

[light solar]

i have a giant wall (don't mind the other players name lol)

[tacit breach]

I bet that Direct X things is why my wife's laptop has been getting slower and slower when she portals.

[frail cave]

Oh wow, I woulda never been able to spot it lmfao

[lapis terrace]

poor runar been giving such a name

[light solar]

haha

[lapis terrace]

um. no

the missing DirectX files usually just result in random crashes about 10-30 minutes

[tacit breach]

Hmmm... OK. Its a Win 11, so I was hopeful for a second there. 😄

[frail cave]

What Vulkan do i download im seeing a few

[pure mango]

Hmm what a mystery. Are your chickens free range or do you keep them fenced off somewhere.

[frail cave]

I keep mine in a hole with a hut built on top of it fully enclosed

[lapis terrace]

vulkan can give you better FPS

[tacit breach]

Yeah, you should fully enclose your animals. Too many raids can kill them.

[lapis terrace]

it's a diffrent thing than DirectX

[frail cave]

Ah ok

[lapis terrace]

but you probably want the big DirectX installer anyways

it helps alot

[frail cave]

True

[pure mango]

Yeah I made a lil chicken hut with iron grids and those darkwood screens for animal welfare, also useful for peaking in.

[tacit breach]

Even my lox have been killed, so I fully enclose them as well.

[frail cave]

I downloaded the new dx file now I'm restarting pc before opening valheim

[lapis terrace]

you can open the logfile yourself with wordpad or a text editor

and scroll down and look for that line

[frail cave]

Interesting

[frail cave]

Hm

[tacit breach]

Your awesome Smiffe! Especially since these are your "off" hours.

[frail cave]

Ongod

[lapis terrace]

I usually take a longer lunch every day to compensate 😅

[frail cave]

W

[tacit breach]

Even then, I bet this can interfere with family/friend time, etc...

So your still awesome in my books.

[frail cave]

I'm in valheim doing test and Im sailing in a storm

So far so good

[tacit breach]

Lets hope 30 minutes come and goes with no problems.

[frail cave]

Frfr

5 mins in and crashed

[lapis terrace]

._.

send me the new player file

[frail cave]

Ok

[lapis terrace]

lets see what happend this time 😄

[frail cave]

I have hard reset this pc it has little to nothing on it

[frail cave]

Sent

By component do you mean like hardware

So like a chip in the pc

So I'm just screwed if thats the case then

[lilac coyote]

Probably best to rule out a software problem before jumping to hardware. Smiffe is on the case.

[frail cave]

Frfr

I believe in smiffe

[lapis terrace]

nothing wierd in the log this time

[frail cave]

😭

[lapis terrace]

there are more ways 😄

[frail cave]

Okok

[lapis terrace]

run the nvidia installer again, and choose "perform a clean install"

this option

and there are more things to check. windows logbook for example will tell exactly the issue

but we can try the easy ones first

you mean TPM ?

or GPU sag?

[frail cave]

Ok ima just un install all nvidia stuff and reinstall what u sent earlier then do that cuz I cant find anything I feel stupid

[lapis terrace]

Asmodeus Alice has a laptop from what it looks like

[lapis terrace]

remember to click the option in the picture above

[frail cave]

Ok

[lapis terrace]

so it removes the previous files and resets all settings

[frail cave]

Okok

Yes

Oh ik nothing got overheated

[lapis terrace]

overheating should probably show up windows logs if we dived into that

[frail cave]

Thats 1 thing ik for sure 1000000%

My pc stays at 30-50°c

[lapis terrace]

did you ever click in nvidia "optimize game" ?

[frail cave]

It was something I tried yesterday before hard reset yeah

[lapis terrace]

ah..

that doesn't work to be honest

well. a cooling plate helps

I use to have a BIG one of those for my gaming laptop 😄

[frail cave]

Ok I re-download the graphics nvidia thing and it never showed the screen u sent and I cant find it anywhere

[lapis terrace]

Hm.. it should be there somewhere

"perform a clean install" or something like that

[frail cave]

I cant find it in the nvidia drivers app and I cant find the graphics app I downloaded either anywhere at all

[tacit breach]

You don't have a dedicated downloads folder?

[frail cave]

If i click it from there it asks if I wanna download it again

[tacit breach]

Again? It may not have DLed the actual files in the first place.

[frail cave]

Well I'll do it and see what happens

[tacit breach]

Shouldn't hurt. If they are there, it should ask to over write them.

[frail cave]

This is ridiculous 😒

Its re installing the 576.28 again tho

Its download i don't see the screen smiffe sent anywhere at all it doesn't show up

[tacit breach]

Despite marketing claims, they do not try to make the nuts and bolts of computer operations "easy".

[frail cave]

This screen is no where to be found

No matter what I do or where I go I dont see it

[tacit breach]

You see the file you DLed?

[lapis terrace]

I already looked. you have the correct version

[frail cave]

Doesnt matter what nvidia thing i click or download and un download and re download again nothing whatever screen that was i dont have it

[lapis terrace]

@ornate finch you are around mate?

lemme ask a friend 😄

[tacit breach]

Have you right clicked on that file? Seen what options it gives?

[lapis terrace]

the new nvidia app gives other options and other pictures

but there is no pictures of it online atm 🙁

[frail cave]

I'm dying inside, its been such a crap week and I cant even play valheim to chill out and nothing is getting better

I just wanna play valheim for 8 hours without crashing or thinking of bs irl

[tacit breach]

Pretty sure that is why most of us play games. 😄

[frail cave]

All hone does is let u turn stuff on or off

[lapis terrace]

oh?

I was thinking of nukeing the entire valheim folder in the windows registry 🤔

[frail cave]

I have nothing in my inventories on valheim so I don't risk losing anything

[lapis terrace]

have you had any mods installed before?

[frail cave]

Nope

[lapis terrace]

Hm.. ok

[frail cave]

Mhm

[lapis terrace]

imma ask MaCarBre if he got any ideas. it's getting close to midnight and I need to do a few things IRL :/

[frail cave]

Ok..

[ornate finch]

What CPU do you have? And what laptop model?

[frail cave]

Omen 16-b0013dx is the laptop model #

Idk what cpu i have. Intel and nvidia i think

[ornate finch]

Go to start → type and open system information → check CPU model

[frail cave]

What if it says this

[lapis terrace]

if you press CTRL+left-shift and Escape key. and then click performance tab, and CPU ?

[frail cave]

Its less shit if u click on it sorry

[ornate finch]

What kind of crashes are you experiencing? Blakc screen, laptop shutdowns, frame in Valheim freezes, Valheim app closes...

[frail cave]

This crap right here, within 2-10 minutes

And no the advice in that doesn't help at all

Always says valheim.exe isnt responding close or wait for app to respond

I cant play once human either, but I can run a modded Minecraft server with 50-70 mods on it

Once human will do the exact same thing

[ornate finch]

This type of crash specifically related to world generation, so not during gameplay

[frail cave]

Its both

Sometimes its within a minute or 2 of world gen and it happens after 2-10mins of gameplay

[ornate finch]

So you are playing, and in 2-10 min, Valheim and Once human stop responding, and you can still kill the app through task manager?

[frail cave]

Yes

Once out of maybe 40-80 crashes itll just simply kick me from the server without closing application

Once in every like 100 crashes itll crash the second I load world

[frail cave]

But this is the most common i deal with

[ornate finch]

You'll have to do some general stuff first..
Check the label on your laptop to which specific model it is ((SKU: 6L9H9U8 or 6P9J9U8 or SKU: 745R7U8)
Then go to support.hp.com, select your model, and download new BIOS drivers for it, and read the instruction how to update BIOS

After that I would recommend that you enter BIOS during your laptop startup (usually by pressing F2 or Del key during laptop boot) and disable iGPU there

[frail cave]

So u think the intel GPU is causing it?

Ik we went into my bios last night but my buddy didnt see what he was looking for

[ornate finch]

Laptops are generally a mess, it can be anything tbh, so first update everything, then disable stuff you don't need, disable fast boot, monitor MAX temps, then we go into picking drivers and what not

,

You can also DM rather, to avoid spamming the channel

[frail cave]

Yeah ima dm you, others probly been refraining from asking for help cuz of all this and I feel a Lil bad

[lilac coyote]

It's late and quiet and that's what this channel is for. You're all good.

[frail cave]

Fair enough, its only 5pm for me

[frosty frost]

Midnight here for example 😄

[potent hatch]

is there voice communication in valheim?

[frosty frost]

Nope, most people are using discord for that

[potent hatch]

does boss hp scale with the number of players?

[frosty frost]

Yes, up to 4 more players, so above 5 people it stops iirc.

[lilac coyote]

As with all mobs.

[frosty frost]

Creature damage is further increased by 4% and effective health is further increased by 30% for each additional player within 100 meters. These are also applied to tamed creatures. This scaling caps at 5 players.
https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Creature_Level

[potent hatch]

how does it behave in regards to coming and going of players?

is it fixed on creature spawn? or dynamic? like when somebody gives up on a boss and the rest stay in the fight

[frosty frost]

"Internally the effective health increase from additional players is implemented as a damage reduction so that it can be scaled dynamically."
When someone leaves there will be less dmg reduction.

[potent hatch]

oooh cool

[frail cave]

Its been a half hour on valheim with no crashing

Did i fix my issue

[stoic trench]

That’s progress!

[frail cave]

Been a couple hours now still good

[formal sentinel]

Do drakes do damage through walls I’m not sure how to defend against them other than a bow my boat pen is kind of a target for them

[tacit breach]

Put the boar in a full house like pen, and they will be fine versus the drakes. Close it up tight for other potential fliers.

[grim echo]

has anyone else been able to spawn "[item_newgameplusitem] 30" weapons? I was playing arround with devcommands and got a set of ashlands weapons that were 3k+ damage but I cant replicate it

how to spawn 3k weapon?

[lapis terrace]

still working?

[true steeple]

You can use the setkey command to change the world level before spawning the items but I thought there was a limit for level 10

It also affects armor

[frail cave]

Yep and just got off for the night

We almost rdy to kill queen and we almost done with new black marble castle

Its kicked me from server 3 times from 7pm-3:25am but didnt fully crash and kept all progress each time but otherwise it ran perfectly fine again

And honestly thats a long session

[lapis terrace]

nice nice

getting kicked off a server is mostly VPN / wifi issue

[frail cave]

Okok

I'm curious, for 3 ppl fighting queen does it matter if everyone carapace armor is maxed

[lapis terrace]

in what sence?

the queen fight will spawn enemies depending on the number of players 🤔

[frail cave]

Like we have 3 ppl on our server

[lapis terrace]

but only depending on the amount of players in the fight

[frail cave]

Who will be in the fight

[frail cave]

All 3 of us

[lapis terrace]

it will spawn a few more mobs 🤔

[frail cave]

I figured that

But does having all armor fully maxed really matter

[lapis terrace]

doesn't matter

nude character or maxed out gear don't matter

[frail cave]

What weapons are best

For that specific fight

[tired root]

Bosses are balanced to be taken comfortably with tier 1 gear of that biome.

Anything except pierce work well.

[lapis terrace]

best weapon is.. um.. whatever you like to use 🤔

[frail cave]

So its not weak to nun??

[tired root]

No weaknesses, normal damage from most sources.

[tired root]

Have you tried monk tho?

[frail cave]

Weird and no

[tired root]

-# I was just kidding.

[lapis terrace]

finnish dry humor 😄

[wicked sierra]

Dry as the air

[manic gyro]

But she will deal additional dmg in mp. While your less likely to get hit, the individual hit is going to hurt more. But I don't know how great the impact of an upgraded armor is.

[tired root]

Tbh better joke in English since most jokes don't work as well for Finnish lol.

[lapis terrace]

dodgerolling is a good thing

[frail cave]

I like shield and sword or sheild and frostnir but I like fire staff too

[lapis terrace]

firestaff is nice for DoT

[tired root]

Plus AoE.

[lapis terrace]

Bilebombs is also nice if you got a ton to keep the fire going

[frail cave]

Facts

Does anyone else find themselves building their main bases in meadows vs other biomes

Less reason to have to really defend it from many things

[tired root]

Meadows is the safest, but plains base allow you to farm all other crops except mistlands mushrooms.

[frail cave]

We just have farms in others biomes with a portal house lmfao

[wicked sierra]

Me

[frail cave]

We are about rdy to kill the queen

Building 1st black marble base

[frail cave]

W

[wicked sierra]

We changed base location exactly once

[frail cave]

On

Why?

If ur tb the gyall I already know it flies over top

[wicked sierra]

Gjall?

[frail cave]

Yeah

[wicked sierra]

Oh I truly can't want for the gjall raid

[frail cave]

Ohhh ok

So what we got to worry about

[wicked sierra]

Woo

[frail cave]

Ive seen plenty of videos on it

We havnt gone south yet

Not that far anyway

[wicked sierra]

Funny

[frail cave]

We went so far north we hit deep north tho

[wicked sierra]

Ive only gone south

[frail cave]

I have a deep north marked on my map

[lapis terrace]

I usually never move my base once I've placed it down 🤔

[frail cave]

Accidentally ran into it it was just ice chunks everywhere

[lapis terrace]

current deep north is just a placeholder

both

[frail cave]

We are moving it for the 1st time cuz we dont wanna tear down what we built

[lapis terrace]

I don't count the times I've played the entire game through and through 🤔

must be a few 100 times by now

[frail cave]

We like keeping our progress, only build we havnt kept is our house before stone house

[wicked sierra]

Bro we haven't removed anything we built

Thach roof everywhere no stone in sight

[frail cave]

We got rid of our wooden house it was horrid

It was rushed and just bad

[wicked sierra]

We never rush building

[frail cave]

Our wooden house was basically a storage shed with beds

[lapis terrace]

the classical style 😉

[frail cave]

So when we got stone cutter we tore it down and made a nice house

[frail cave]

Ong lmfao

[frail cave]

But since this we have kept everything we've done

@lapis terrace Maybe when new base is done and we defeat queen before we go to ashalnds I can call you on discord and stream and do a world tour of our server so far

[lapis terrace]

sure why not

[frail cave]

Yayy, I think you'll like it

[lapis terrace]

always fun to see how people tacle valheims building

[frail cave]

Right i agree

[tired root]

Just tested a fight against the Queen. Skol & Hati is actually good against her too.

[pure mango]

Is there a reduction in XP gain for shooting mobs you've "outlevelled" ala WoW?

shooting/slaying etc.

[true steeple]

No, it's always the same amount of xp per hit

You'll be able to hit stronger enemies more times before they die though

[lapis terrace]

nope

[cinder timber]

moder's spawn is always that far or i'm just unlucky?

[lapis terrace]

unlucky

there are atleast 3 moder spawns

[potent hatch]

with new releases, do i need new worlds?
say i had a developed world, when the bog witch released, did it show up on existing worlds' swamps?

[tired root]

Any new content will be added in old worlds too, but only in unexplored areas.

[potent hatch]

wait, but say i've explored all of the northen hemisphere of the map, for example.
when "deep north" releases. what happens?

[tired root]

You mean you've explored current Deep North a lot? Then it very likely will cause lot of the upcoming content not appearing there properly when Deep North is added to the game.

Small amount of generated area is mostly fine, but lot of generated areas limits how much of the new content will be available depending on the requirements of POIs taking places in specific locations.

[potent hatch]

understood. thanks for the clarification.

it was just a hypothetical question. i'm creating new worlds all the time.

[tired root]

New world is the safest bet, old worlds generate new content automatically when loaded after content update.

[potent hatch]

but wait. isn't exploration a per-character thing?
does the world file hold the information whether places have ever been explored by anybody at all?

[tired root]

No matter who explores areas, world will generate content around players' proximity.

The radius of world generating content around player is about 400-500m IIRC.

[potent hatch]

what i mean is:
so content is generated as players explore the areas?
is not everything already generated upon world creation?

[tired root]

Content generates around player proximity.
POIs have determined locations depending on world seed but they take place when player is close enough. For example, each trader have 10 possible spawn points and only one takes place when player gets close enough to generate the trader to set up in that location (and disable the rest of that trader's spawn points).

Already generated content will stay where they are generated and can't change. Ungenerated areas will very likely change POIs locations after content patches when the world generates the new content on the map.

[potent hatch]

awesome. thank you very much.

terrain never changes with patches does it?

i mean, i shouldn't expect an unnatural transition in terrain because of a patch to, say, world landscape generation

[tired root]

Terrain will likely change in unfinished biomes. Mistlands changed more jagged highs and downs after it was added and Ashlands formed land further south and forced ocean gap between it and other biomes (the gap appeared between DN and other biomes too). So terrain changes are not tied with the content generation.

It should be expected to happen in Deep North too, so building there might be bad idea.

[potent hatch]

understood

i guess the best scenario is a brand new world after big patches hit

[tired root]

Correct. It's recommendable, but it's also possible to continue old worlds as long as unfinished biomes are left mostly unexplored before the patch.

[plush lynx]

how do i turn on the dev console?

[lilac coyote]

Add -console in your Steam game settings and then press F5 ingame.

[spring frigate]

is there any reason to upgrade from bronze to iron buckler if i use it only to parry?

[true steeple]

Yes, the iron buckler has higher block armor so you’ll receive less stagger, allowing you to parry stronger attacks.

[potent hatch]

are there famously good seeds i could take a look?

i know there are different seeds for different purposes, but i was wondering if people kept a list somewhere

[true steeple]

have you tried looking in #1202740443352137838

[potent hatch]

hadn't! thanks!

[tired glacier]

Caught myself in a bit of a predicament.(keep in mind this is my first playthrough) I made it a point to map out my entire starter island. I found only 2 small-ish dark woods areas on my map. Went into those areas and certainly found the tin and copper and all of the spawners on the island. Couldnt find a dungeon for the cores I needed.

Frustrated, I went online to look at my seed and lo and behold there are dungeons.. Thing is... I am super separated from Elder. Looks like everything else too...

Would I be better off just hopping to another seed?

[echo sparrow]

eh, that's not that bad, you'll be traveling no matter what at some point, but it's a good time to jump now if you're gonna cuz it's early--i recommend PXX6gGWtbJ if you want an early game experience that will allow you have walk-able access to the first 5 biomes & bosses

[tired glacier]

Awesome. Thank you for that recommendation.

[echo sparrow]

np

[keen osprey]

Hello, I was wondering if it's normal for this to not show any recipes or is it a bug?

[wicked sierra]

Do you have any recipes?

You have honey?

[keen osprey]

In the wiki it says that all of them are unlocked at level 1 so that made me confused, maybe i didn't pick up any item for recipes to unlock

[cedar lodge]

could be normal, if you never picked up ingredients the recipes won't show, did you "touched" honey yet in that playthru for instance?

[wicked sierra]

I believe you need honey or barley to get recipes

[keen osprey]

did not come across honey nor barley

[wicked sierra]

Damn thats the reason

[frosty frost]

All recipes, for anything, not only mead, get unlocked once you pick up everything from that recipe at least once 🙂

[cedar lodge]

so that's explained, all early mead recipes needs honey

[wicked sierra]

Find abandoned houses and steal their beehives from breaking them

And then use the queen bees to build your own beehives

You really need honey for mead (and some foods)

Also the houses are only in the meadows

[tacit breach]

Some of the best foods at that.

[keen osprey]

ahhh got it, thanks, yeah i encountered some abandoned houses with beehives but didn't know they were important haha

[cedar lodge]

eheh, very important, if you can hoard at least 5ish

[tacit breach]

Best way to get them is throw down a workbench and tear down the house around the hive. You will need the wood anyways, so may as well stockpile that too.

5ish? I currently have 18 and wish I had more.

[cedar lodge]

eheh, yeh at least 5 (makes the 20 for the at least 2 fermenters to sustain early resistance meads) more is better ofc

[wicked sierra]

I wish I had my dif server emotes WHAT

[tacit breach]

Yeah, I would explain further, but it would be spoiler laden.

[wicked sierra]

We have 6 and theyre always full coz we just don't use honey no more

[cedar lodge]

true, deconstructing is very safe, otherwise you can take em down with bow to avoid being stung and poisoned (not much damage but can be dangerous in super early game)

[tacit breach]

Even if I no longer used honey, I'd still use it to turn into coal.

[wicked sierra]

Lol

I use wood for coal never built the zap machine

[tacit breach]

We are in Mistlands, and 2 of our foods are honey users.

[wicked sierra]

I just spam feasts and non feast I got the Misthare supreme, bread and salad

[cedar lodge]

wait how you turn honey into coal? 🤔 ||obliteraror?||

[tacit breach]

Yeah, I used to do that a LOT when the plains was our highest biome.

Only one food at that time still needed honey. The one we get from the ocean.

[wicked sierra]

Some food using the big ahh fish or regural fish

[tacit breach]

I would not call that one a fish.

[wicked sierra]

I mean yeahh its not a fish

[tacit breach]

We still use it. Matches the Mistlands foods well enough, and we find it easier to get than say the very meat heavy platter.

[wicked sierra]

Yeah the meat heavy one seems like a waste

I like the veggie meat one better

[tacit breach]

Just more effort to get all of those ingredients, versus the ocean food. That isn't fish.

[wicked sierra]

Mhm

But I encounter it rarely enough that I can realistically only have the sea feast

[tacit breach]

We used it a lot when we first got into Mistlands, had chests of the ingredients stocked up. But now we have eaten all those, so...

[wicked sierra]

What stamina food do u use

[tacit breach]

Most often the salad. Easiest one for us to make tons of.

[wicked sierra]

Yeah

Its nice and cheap

(esp if you farm the ingredients like I do)

[tacit breach]

Especially since we were able to make a massive garden this play through, and the one we gather, is all over the place where we go to harvest our sap.

[wicked sierra]

Nice

[tacit breach]

IE we have like 5 roots along a certain border.

[wicked sierra]

Still have to find roots...

Pain

[tacit breach]

Has not been an issue this play through. Been tripping over them.

[wicked sierra]

Lucky

[tacit breach]

I think its more like we explore a lot, and we found a lot along the borders of our favorite biome and the Mistlands.

[wicked sierra]

Yeah

[tacit breach]

Some of them we even question which biome they are in, they are so far into the grass.

[wicked sierra]

Whaa

[tacit breach]

Yeah, its crazy how far NOT in the Mistlands a few of them are.

Now, we have found a few of our favorite towers with 4 or 5 of them practically outside the doors of, so those are just faster to harvest from. Now.

[spring frigate]

Which boss I need to beat to get access to ocean based feast? Also dumb question but do I need fishes for it?

[tacit breach]

I think its Yag.

You need both ocean food sources.

[viral cave]

Kill a serpent.

[tired root]

You need to kill serpent in your world.

[tacit breach]

Not for the feast.

[vagrant merlin]

George escaped the pen, how do i get him back 😭

[tired root]

And yes, it requires cooked fish.

[viral cave]

Butcher's knife

[vagrant merlin]

😭

[stoic trench]

Huh… I also have a boar named George…

[vagrant merlin]

its a good strong Boar name

[tacit breach]

If you have a harpoon, you can try literally dragging them back.

[vagrant merlin]

hmmmm not a bad idea. For now ig hes a free range fella

[tired root]

You tamed it, right? Those try to return to the location they spawned at. Their offsprings won't tho.

[vagrant merlin]

i opened the gate and he SPRINTED for his area

[tacit breach]

Yeah, do double gates for your first boar. Home bred won't run away.

[tired root]

Yeah, boars and deers are "anchored" in area they spawn in, which is why even as tamed the boars try to return to its original location.

[vagrant merlin]

i cant butcher my boy. Ill just wait till i get a harpoon

how do i unlock one

[true steeple]

Sail to find leviathans

[tired root]

Leviathan at ocean.

[vagrant merlin]

oh lord

[tired root]

They are quite rare tho.

[true steeple]

They look like small islands, and they have mineable resources on top

[tacit breach]

They are only rare if you do not sail around enough. Otherwise, you find plenty.

[vagrant merlin]

yea ive ran into one, trying to hide from a sea serpent

[true steeple]

How far have you progressed?

[vagrant merlin]

i just made a brand new server

[tacit breach]

IF you have a Karve, you have a fine bow. If you have a fine bow, you have a serpent in 6 or so shots.

[vagrant merlin]

i have a finewood bow

but its from a dif server

[viral cave]

You could theoretically sneak into a plains biome for needle arrows or a mountain for obsidian arrows if you really wanted to

[tacit breach]

Then just shoot the serpents. Their meat floats. Everything else sinks.

[vagrant merlin]

i have 150 fire arrows would that work or no cuz water

[viral cave]

They work. Flinthead arrows are better for it though.

[vagrant merlin]

which does more damage?

[tacit breach]

Flint arrows work a little better, I think. Been a while.

[tired root]

Flint does more damage than fire, as they resist fire because they're wet.

[viral cave]

Flinthead arrows. Serpents either resist or are immune to fire.

[tacit breach]

Should only take 6 to 8 hits to kill them.

[viral cave]

Yeah they're straight up immune to fire, just checked

[tired root]

Right, didn't remember the fire immunity.

[vagrant merlin]

I KINDA figured, cuz fire + water lol

[tired root]

Yeah, as both players and mobs can get wet and gain temporal fire resistance from it.

[vagrant merlin]

Also is there a way to make my build area bigger

[tacit breach]

The hoe.

[tired root]

Build higher? Better supports. Corewood poles are more stable than wood poles.

Once you get iron you can build even stronger supports.

[tacit breach]

They probably mean more flat area.

[viral cave]

With flinthead arrows, finewood bow, and low skills, you're looking at more like 10-15 hits.

[tired root]

Might be. Reread again.

[tacit breach]

Maybe. I go by memory, not the wiki, and my memory is shaky, on the best of days. 😄

[viral cave]

6-8 is pretty accurate for huntsman bow with ironhead arrows

And root set

[vagrant merlin]

the build circle

from the workbench

[tacit breach]

I get my bow skill pretty high, so by the time I am sailing, I am likely in the 30 range. Maybe higher.

[vagrant merlin]

like whats this Ward thing

[tacit breach]

A waste of time if your solo.

[vagrant merlin]

not solo

we have 5 people in the world so far

[tacit breach]

OK, if you do not trust who you play with, it helps keep them honest, lets say.

[tired root]

Upgrade your workbench.

[vagrant merlin]

oh that makes it bigger too? I knew it allowed me to up;grade and craft more things

[vagrant merlin]

ahhh gotcha

[true steeple]

In my first playthrough people were placing wards everywhere until we had to agree not to use them anymore. Don’t waste your time with them.

[tired root]

Yeah, it also increases the radius of the building area.

[tacit breach]

Yeah, the wards do not even guarantee honesty, just make it harder to not be an honest player.

[true steeple]

There’s not much worse than being locked in your own house

[wicked sierra]

Hehe placing a ward and locking somebody in is a great idea

[tacit breach]

When I ran my server, I just booted people

[vagrant merlin]

how do i unlock the proper ship again

[true steeple]

Bronze nails and finewood are probably what you’re missing, if you mean a karve

[vagrant merlin]

yea not the longship, the smaller one

[tacit breach]

Yeah, nails are often the last thing anyone makes. Yet one of the most important. 😄

[vagrant merlin]

finally got a smelter so im on my way

[strong cape]

where to you choose to spawn the traders on that seed?

[frail cave]

Ive had veg all the way down and havnt seen a rocky

Crazy work fr

[tired root]

Rocky is elusive little one. He likes to keep hiding. But once you find and adopt him in your base he will adapt and become content with the new life you offer to him.

[frail cave]

Ive searched and searched ive had veg all the way down since I got the game 😭

[tacit breach]

He seems kinda rare. We only found him due to picking up any rock we saw for building.

[frail cave]

True

[echo sparrow]

there's a few spots they cluster around the map, not that it really mostly matters with portals, but would make for easy early access--have to sail yes but about the shortest possible trip, ||north or east|| for the closest clusters I'd probably pick

[vagrant merlin]

my longhouse

[wicked sierra]

#building-screenshots but looks good

[tacit breach]

Works. It will be easy to add the hearth to, if you want.

[vagrant merlin]

exactly >:)

[frosty frost]

@frail cave Can you send a quick screenshot of when it does say "blocked" here?

[frail cave]

I left already sorry 😭

I put a ship down and dipped as fast as I could