valheim-help

[sinful anchor]

There weren't any skeletons nearby, I had checked all the surrounding area

Even then a skeleton archer wouldn't have done that much damage twice back to back

[marble pagoda]

it could also be a spawned 2* rock thrower

[noble charm]

im assuming they were all zero stars Cat?

[sinful anchor]

Still, twice back to back?

[sinful anchor]

Yes unless something spawned that I somehow didn't notice, but I took two massive hits within 2 seconds

[marble pagoda]

things will spawn in your face all the time so its the most likely possibility
it could also be that your armor broke from many small hits

[tired root]

No other biome nearby, lets say swamp for example?

[sinful anchor]

Pretty sure I had only taken like 5 hits before the massive hits

And no the swamp was a good 5 chunks away

Mountain was also like 3 chunks away

Lol I just gotta start recording while I play so I can show yall exactly what happened

[marble pagoda]

yeah just by process of elimination that's what's left
steam has a really good clipping system if that interests you, look up steam game recording

[noble charm]

yeah im perplexed, 3 playthroughs i cant say ive seen dmg vary that wildy from the same mob

[sinful anchor]

But yeah I can confirm my armor didnt break because when I went back to get my stuff my armor was all intact

[marble pagoda]

👍
probably random heavy hitter that showed up mid-fight then

[tawny solar]

Were there any trolls around?

[sinful anchor]

No trolls, definitely would have heard or seen that. Also a troll would have one shot me at that point

Unless they threw a rock, but I DEFINITELY would have seen a rock hit me

[noble charm]

shiiit its hard to miss a troll too, all the stomping

[sinful anchor]

Yeah

[tawny solar]

True statement

[lapis terrace]

alot of the stutter is from the game engine, and we are activly working with unity to fix those issues

[noble charm]

ngl that restores alot of my faith, seeing 3-4 year old threads with the same issue had me feeling like it was a lost cause.

I apolgize for such harsh words ❤️

[lapis terrace]

alot of stuttering comes from chunk loading in multiplayer

alot of issues in ashlands is due to massive loading and unloading chunks and instances

we continiously try to solve those issues and report it to unity for them to resolve

[noble charm]

Seems like if the instance count changes at all, solo or multiplayer, even a few hundred, it induces the frame spike and stutter, sometimes so minor you dont notice, sometimes you’ll get a few back to back spikes and that causes micro stuttering. 😔

[marble pagoda]

just out of curiousity is the chunking system built into unity or something you guys rolled yourselves?

[fallow lantern]

How would one find out why I was chat banned

I tried to post a simple looking for players and then lost permission to post server invites

[plush pier]

That channel has certain rules about your posts
If you put certain characters or formating in then itll put you in timeout

You can usually find the rules in the pinned comments of the channel

[unique saddle]

Thank you for the feedback, yes it looks to be a Unity thing. This game does the same thing minecraft does, it loads chucks of 64 x 64 areas around the player. You can easily see the chunk lines in the Plains, not so much in Black forest or meadows where most people build bases. When you cross the chunk lines the game loads the next chunk a couple ahead of the player and removes the assets a couple behind the player. Some people dont notice micro stutters....I do. It can actually be more noticeable if you have higher end cards and have steady fps. Top of line SSD and DDR5 lessen the stutter but it can't be eliminated. I have a newer M.2 SSD but not top of line and my Mobo is still AM4 so DDR 4. In the current ram apocalypse, no way I'm spending that much to upgrade to lessen the stutter so I guess I'll just have to get used to it and move my base to be in the center of one of those chunks

[plush pier]

Theres a mod called ESP by Jere Kuusela that allows you to see Zone Corners. Its very useful.
If you build a base on a zone corner, then it reduces the stutter when you load the base, because the base is split into 4 zones instead of 1

From my pov the best place for a base in Valheim is on a zone corner

[pallid glacier]

In every setting I get mikro lags and I dont know why because its only in this gasme

[marble pagoda]

yep, unavoidable in this game regardless of your hardware

[pallid glacier]

How can I fix that

[stone epoch]

Can someone give me a brief explanation of why terrain changes no longer affect performance? I know it was fixed years ago but I don't remember what the fix was

[marble pagoda]

you can't
maybe irongate or Unity will improve it in the future

[pallid glacier]

Oh okay thanks

[marble pagoda]

terrain edits used to be individual instances
i suspect this means the edits were stored one by one and then essentially replayed on the original terrain to generate the edited terrain, every time you loaded the area
i believe now they get merged into one big edit so not as demanding anymore
could be wrong I'm not a dev

[proper shadow]

sorry I have a sort of newb question: I haven't reached stone portals yet, but I want to future proof my base a bit and make my portal room big enough to accomodate the stone version. is 3 walls high and 2 foundations wide enough for one stone portal?

[tacit breach]

I don't think so. The things are pretty massive.

[proper shadow]

I looked through all the images I could find and at the wiki, but I finally was able to see a video, and I think the real answer is 3 wide and 4 tall, roughly

[tacit breach]

Sounds better. My only one is on a server I can no longer sign on to, otherwise I'd check for you. Maybe one day they will finally send me the game files.

[proper shadow]

rip

[tacit breach]

Naw, I'll get the files eventually.

[humble crescent]

yeah, they are pretty big. if you wanted to box them in fully

8m wide?

4m deep, 7m tall

[next flume]

anyone got a good greydwarf next farm design? im not far into the game so i would need one that doesn require hard stuff

[proper shadow]

most I've seen involve those hanging lamps which come later, but I assume you could use normal fires in some clever way?

[last osprey]

bee hives on a wall cause poison to enemies on the other side. Probably your earliest option that doesn't require constant repairing.
Though you can probably set up something with the blob bombs too once you find the witch though i haven't tried yet.

[echo sparrow]

FRANKLY this is not the sort of game like Minecraft that both (A) actively facilitates and (B) really needs, whatsoever any sort of automated farming of resources setup

with only perhaps the POSSIBLE exception of automating your 'farming' of blood magic skill level, if you are a blood magic enjoyer

I get wanting to just for the pleasure of it though

i'd just say you shouldn't worry at all like you HAVE to, IF you were

[last osprey]

If you want to build big with vanilla build costs you'll need a lot of wood and even more stone.

[echo sparrow]

for SURE

at the "standard" settings any large or intricate (using varied and/or late game resources) building is quite grindy--but the resource rate slider, and no build cost, give a lot of flexibility there

[vernal dock]

how do I file a ticket with the mods I forgot

figured it out

[orchid scarab]

Does the hanging brazier keep chicken eggs warm?
a la: #screenshots message

The Hanging brazier has all the same functions as a Campfire and is a base structure.

Seems like it?

[abstract eagle]

It should, it keeps me warm. Didn't know you had to keep chickens "safe" mine just roam around base sometimes.

[orchid scarab]

Just considering an auto-breeding setup.

[abstract eagle]

I have a very simple version of it. Two couples of chickens in metal cages with holes under and no space to move .. basically those inhumane chicken cages

Oh, for breeding though, yes. Large area.

[echo sparrow]

any where you, player, get that "fire" effect (in the radius of the various things considered a source for it) should warm eggs

[hallow plaza]

auto breeding doesnt work anymore

eating is tied to pathfinding

[orchid scarab]

Since when? Seeing relatively recent videos of auto-breeders working fine.

[hallow plaza]

Dunno
wasnt working last week

[hallow plaza]

I do chicken coops of 5 hens

they need to "breed" for eggs

and the area limit is 5 chickens

so I just throw 5 seeds in and collect yesterdays eggs

[marble roost]

I don't really breed any animals, but pretty sure the area limit on chicken breeding is 10. If it was 5, 5 chickens wouldn't be able to make any more eggs

[thorn spire]

It is. 10 within 10m

[orchid scarab]

Which is why chicken breeders are towers that roll eggs away, hatch them, grow them, and slaughter them, all automated.

[thorn spire]

I do all the same, except the slaughtering.

[orchid scarab]

Going to see if I can prove you wrong, friendily.

[abstract eagle]

Would be a bit difficult to slaughter them with something like puffer fish as it will kill chickens and not grown hens. Egg tower works well, haven't had a need for vast amounts of chicken meat and feathers, but I do play with mods that require bunch of eggs so maybe why.

[marble roost]

Even then the tower wouldn't work if you're at cap, would it? I assume the whole point is that eggs contribute to the cap and eggs can't be laid if you're at cap

[orchid scarab]

So don't hit cap. Say, 6 chickens lay eggs perpetually which get rolled away

[marble roost]

Tell Arch, not me

[hallow plaza]

I didnt mess with chickens too much, when boars didnt work I assumed they were all borked

[austere goblet]

Yo I have a question, so me and my buddy both just got back into the game and installed it through the Microsoft store but anytime either of us try to join eachother he "failed to connect" and I get "failed to resolve join code" We have restarted PC's, uninstalled and reinstalled, hosted from each of our PC's, hosted from a dedicated server on my PC. I'm genuinely running out of ideas on how to fix it

[abstract eagle]

Sounds like this is a common issue. Something with network - xbox networking, teredo, xbox services, firewall, VPN, no crossplay enabled, etc.

[austere goblet]

any fix for it yet?

[abstract eagle]

Install it through steam. What i mentioned is what you need to fix or both PCs in your case. Check all above

[orchid scarab]

#screenshots message

So what about auto-breeding doesn't work, exactly?

[austere goblet]

issue is neither of us have it on steam

[orchid scarab]

As an aside, why buy it on the Windows Store rather than Steam?

[austere goblet]

Wasn't necessarily a choice I made intentionally for a long time me and my friend only had Xbox so we bought it there but eventually we got pcs and just remembered we could install it there

[orchid scarab]

Every single time, without fail, that I've had to use the windows game store, it's been an awful experience.

[spare cargo]

Why would I not see the Flesh Rippers in the Forge if I have all the materials?

[orchid scarab]

Forge isn't level 3, perhaps

[spare cargo]

Level 7

I have the fenris hair, claws, and silver

[orchid scarab]

Other common issues:

• You don't have all the materials or you're skipping over it in the list.
• You console commanded in the mats.

[spare cargo]

I looked it up on the wiki and I have all of the materials in my inventory

[austere goblet]

Damn so there really isn't a good fix its just a gamble

[spare cargo]

I didn't cheat the mats in lol

[orchid scarab]

Did you think that was an accusation? Ease up.

[tight yarrow]

Could someone help me and friend figure out roof for our house? We are beginners

[orchid scarab]

??

[tight yarrow]

whats up

[orchid scarab]

Your problem is unclear.

[tight yarrow]

we need to put a roof on our new base but we cant figure out how to place the roof. It keeps breaking,etc

Dont understand whole support system to well

[orchid scarab]

You understand that everything needs support, and things get weaker the further out you extend it, yeah?

Started typing that before your second message there

[tight yarrow]

I was thinking someone could get in call with us or join our game and walk us through beginning

[spare cargo]

If you're building with wood, you can only do about 4-5 roof pieces width-wise before it breaks

[orchid scarab]

Regular wood is not going to be able to support too far. It's mostly about "number of items on the path to the foundation" kind of deal.

Once you get access to stoneworking, you can create stone walls and then use wood. Wood will treat stone structures like foundation.

[tight yarrow]

so put stone wall on top of house and build roof off of that?

[orchid scarab]

Well, you can't build stone on wood.

[wind leaf]

How can I hide the BepInEx window?

So it won't show in my alt+tab

[orchid scarab]

@tight yarrow You'll need a couple iron bars to make a stonecutter.

Iron Location Spoiler
||• Swamp Progression, after you you do the Elder Boss (Black Forest Progression). By design, Elder drops a key which you can use to access Swamp Crypts where iron is locate.
• Also drops from the BIG oozes, at a 33% rate. Pretty uncommon enemy, poison resist or high health going to be necessary)
• Also can be found buried in the swamp, rarely, if you know how to prospect it (not recommended for newbies)||

[tight yarrow]

Yeah I just created the stonecutter and have taht unlocked now.

[orchid scarab]

Great.

Let me show you an example. I'll PM it to you (as soon as the sun rises here)

Alternatively, you can try using corewood beams as support. They can extend pretty high. Sent you an example of that as well.

@tight yarrow Yep. If you go super wide open room like what you sent me, you're going to have issues with a roof because the pieces in the middle are going to be many many objects away from foundation. Support beams in the middle of the room can help.

[tired root]

People in https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202934289898151966 might help better.

[next flume]

Yo I'm kinda stuck after defeating the elder tree and now raids appear. I'm on abyssal razer with troll armor but the swamp guys still 2-3 shot me 😭 what can I do and can someone give me a good base design or something cus mine ain't gonna last long with 3 trolls coming when I'm not prepared

[compact heath]

pickaxe and make a trench around your base, far enough away so troll can't swing at your base if they fall in, or raise a small earth wll around with a hoe is a great expert raid defense

also if you have problems with getting swarmed in raids, make atgeir weapon and middle mouse click special attack helps a ton

[quiet trout]

is the blackmetal sword better than the silver sword? At least for yagluth and mistlands?

[next flume]

Yh. Do you have like a road map idea of what I should grind for next or smth?

[compact heath]

In swamp or Black Forest

[compact heath]

Silver sword best weapon in the game for yag

[quiet trout]

But after yag, should I go ahead and switch to bm sword?

[compact heath]

Yes and in Mistlands there is a good upgrade new 1h sword

[next flume]

I kinda need to go in the swamp now but I might've missed some stuff in the black forest. Swamp ig?

[compact heath]

Have you got carrots, bronze, cores and core wood from the forest ?

[next flume]

Yes. Tho I didn't really get into cultivating yet.

[quiet trout]

It’s very worth getting into cultivating at this stage of the game. Most importantly are carrots and turnips. Carrots can be found in the Black Forest and turnips are in the swamp. You can make some really good foods in the cauldron with carrots, turnips, and other stuff later. Deer stew and black soup/pudding (I forgot the name) are your best food options for this stage. Deer stew needs carrots, and the black whatever it’s called needs the turnips.

[next flume]

Ok

[compact heath]

Food is pwerful there is also a new seed in swamp

[hallow plaza]

Oh, chickens can pathfinder on roofs, neat, boars cant

[hallow plaza]

Knives are very challenging for a new player.
I'd reccomend swapping to a different weapon class.
I hated this game when I played with knives my first run

[hallow plaza]

Grind out a ton of corewood for spikes.
Go tame some wolves.
Dig a trench around your base.
Find a small island and build your base there. (Reccomended)
Spawn proof the area.
Fight off the trolls faster
Disable raids

[next flume]

Well I got abyssal razor early so I gotta use it cus it does good damage. If you know any tips for knives you can give me so I'll get better with them

[hallow plaza]

My reccomendation is don't use knives

[next flume]

Wait I can disable raids?

[hallow plaza]

Fists are like knives but better
They have insane parry ability

Yeah, in world settings
You can also double loot and reduce death penalty

[hallow plaza]

Max a bronze buckler, level your block a small bit and then learn to parry

[next flume]

Well I'm playing with a buddy I'll talk with him about that

[hallow plaza]

Also, make better food.
Food is more important than armor.

[hallow plaza]

Personally I find double loot is great for mining, but a bit much for loot drops.
But minimal death penalty let's you keep armor and equipped weapon for corpse runs, infinitely more enjoyable

[hallow plaza]

Make sausages asap.
And look at the wiki for other strong foods for your tier

It takes some initial iron, but serpent stew is ridiculously powerful, nearly twice as good as your current tier food, parrying is also based on max hp

Also, never explore without the rested bonus, the rwgens it gives are so impactful

[next flume]

can you gimme some tips on how to get iron, how to counter crypt mobs. swamp overall tbh

[steep tusk]

Food is the most important stat in the game.

[marble pagoda]

root chest, Elder power to speed up mining
and yes make some decent food sausages are peak

[west bough]

To add to this, you can build campfires in the crepts to get rid of wetness debuff and gain rested buff

[tired root]

Knives are really nice. They're fast hitters and you can use shield/buckler with them (except ||dual wielded||).

[next flume]

I wanna get good with them but idk really how. What's a good shield for it

[tired root]

Depends where you are at now. If you have bronze but no iron, bronze buckler is good.

[marble pagoda]

imo if you're using a knife maybe practice rolling
that way you keep the full speed bonus

[tired root]

Both dodge and parry are viable with knives.

[next flume]

ok

the bronze one gives 2.5x more damage while the enemy is blocked so that might be a good choice

[marble pagoda]

no that's a multiplier to the block armor, which is how much you can block before getting staggered

[steep tusk]

*part of

[marble pagoda]

bucklers can parry stronger attacks than round shields, but they can't block as much

[tired root]

It multiplies the block armor to block stronger attacks easier, staggered enemy takes always 2x damage.

[hallow plaza]

Dungeon grinding, Parry, poison resist mead, and generally, kill stuff fast so you dont get mobbed (by parrying)

[proper shadow]

I used to sleep on parrying until stone golems forced me to git gud

[steep tusk]

It's also free now for some unknowable reason.

[marble pagoda]

golem attack design is fuckin fantastic
i do dislike the bait parry window, where they can immediately attack out of stagger
but maybe its readable and im just missing it

[fallen flare]

Edit: moving to proper channel

[marble pagoda]

i have seen discord bots that relay shoutchat to discord (one-way)
never the other way around though, you'd need a client in the game to speak for you which seems very hard
#mods-discussion will have better experts than me

[fallen flare]

thanks! I'll wait a bit before cross posting unless that sort of thing is acceptable here

[marble pagoda]

should be fine, redirecting mod discussion there is routine

[fresh basin]

does anyone have any tips for fighting the elder I wanna get prepared but don’t know what o should bring/craft

[proper shadow]

cheese or no?

but I mean, fire for one

[fresh basin]

I’d preferably like to do no cheese but just in case I’d like to know that method along with the normal one

[proper shadow]

I'm not a TheElderologist or anything, but I think kiting him and using fire arrows where possible is a fine strategy. If you're good at dodging you might try melee, but he's not particular weak to any of that, and is wierdly immune to chop, which seems like a missed opportunity to me

you really have to ready to run and dodge a lot though. Get as much stamina as possible

[fallen flare]

There's a distance away that lets you hit him with fire arrows while keeping you out of range of.... Well I don't want to spoil anything but that would count as cheese I think. Good to have that ready if you're being overwhelmed

[fresh basin]

how do I unlock fire arrows? I don’t think I have them unlocked yet for some silly reason

[steep tusk]

I'm not a gamer, but anything that kills the boss is a fine strategy. 💛

[proper shadow]

feathers is probably what you're missing?

[hallow plaza]

feathers resin or wood?

[proper shadow]

kill birds, find them in chests in ruins or burial chambers

oh also sometimes when chopping down big trees

[hallow plaza]

before you do the elder, grind a few more burial chambers

ectoplasm is very useful for making twigs

the training dummy you can level weapon skill and block on

[proper shadow]

yeah that's a good point

I used a twig to buff up my shield/blocking when I hit that stone golem bottleneck

[hallow plaza]

you can do it later, but you can also stockpile things like red muchrooms, blueberries, thistles and other useful components

while looking for black forest crypts

[proper shadow]

yeah you probably want that stuff

[hallow plaza]

could also be a great time to locate haldor

to answer his original question though
finewood bow, max upgraded, a stack or 2 of fire arrows, and some good food is enough for elder

[true steeple]

Any bronze melee weapon works very well too

[proper shadow]

yeah that one is fairly chill if you go in pressed like that. Bonemass, on the other hand... buh

[steep tusk]

Beating Elder to death with Torches is so satisfying.

[hallow plaza]

Fire arrows are probably safest and easiest for a new player who doesnt know attack patterns, parrying or dodging very well though

[steep tusk]

He has patterns? Plural?
I thought he was just "stomp animation that always takes the same amount of time"?

[next flume]

yeah my friend rushed to go to the sunken crypt and died due to poison from a red slime and i was on 3 hp lol. he came back and we got iron and stuff. tho our inventory was full so we didnt loot the entire thing yet. there are like 4 crypts near eachother

[hallow plaza]

just get like, a stack of iron

go home, make a weapon each, and nails for a boat

[next flume]

we did get 40 something scrap

[hallow plaza]

boat most important

send me a screenshot of your map
more likely than not, youre boating back

[next flume]

well the swamp is far away from spawn so we did use a boat to get there before hand

[next flume]

we used a portal

[hallow plaza]

oh youre portalling metals

[next flume]

oh yeah..

[hallow plaza]

if youre down to cheat
theres a strat to skip the elder and get silver

[next flume]

my friend dont got that much time to play so we enabled that cus its such a waste of time to boat

[hallow plaza]

dig down in the mountain

[next flume]

damn ur calling me dirty now 😭 YGuklwQlq2

[hallow plaza]

place a log chair clipping into the wall

[steep tusk]

It's a waste of time to do one of the most calming parts of the game?

[hallow plaza]

sit in the chair, look under the map geometry

and you can see the silver nodes

[next flume]

sorry but my friend dont got much time to play so we enabled that i apoligize for using such methods.

[hallow plaza]

dig there with a pick, and youve effectively tierskipped iron, all you need is an iron pick to harvest the silver

[steep tusk]

Don't apologize.
Enjoy the game the way you want to.

[hallow plaza]

ima be real bro, you picked a bad game if you have limitted time

[marble pagoda]

this is also true

[next flume]

i dont, my friend has

[hallow plaza]

even with the cheats
this game is time hungry

"cheats"

[next flume]

yeah... it takes a lot of time to make progress depending on if you know what you're doing, which we dont really

[marble pagoda]

this game likes to suck you in and spit you back out 2 weeks later, unshowered and sleep deprived

[next flume]

lmao

[hallow plaza]

I'd honestly consider shelving the game till he has more time, if you lose your mojo by not playing for a few days

you get stuck corpserunning, dying to easy attacks, etc

its kinda like dark souls, you need to lock in

[next flume]

we do play everyday for like 4 hours tho so its alright

i feel like thats not bad

[hallow plaza]

you and I have very different interpretations of "limitted time"

[next flume]

😭

[steep tusk]

4 hours a day is not limited at alllllll 😄

[stoic trench]

Valheim is not the game for instant gratification 🤔

[next flume]

well...

[steep tusk]

And yet people keep trying to make it such 😭

[next flume]

yeah..

[hallow plaza]

Speaking of

Im hating grinding soft tissue in mistllands

anyone have a strat to find more skulls?

[next flume]

is that for magic or

[hallow plaza]

ive found 2 in 6 hours
yes

[steep tusk]

Most everything needs eitr, which needs tissue.
Not just magic.

[hallow plaza]

if you wanna do magic I reccomend going claws
the claw weapons run out right when the magic ones show up

[proper shadow]

I hate the swamp a lot. Feels oppressive. They did a great job on it, it really feels like a huge mire and dangerous slog

[true steeple]

They did a good job but you hate it

[proper shadow]

yes. I correctly hate the place the dev expertly made hateable

10/10 Would Hate Again

[subtle parrot]

I mean i hated the swamp my first playthrough, after that it wasn't so bad. Ashlands on the other hand.. lol

[steep tusk]

Ash used to be good. Is now boring.

[proper shadow]

is there a mod that could let me adjust the comfort level of beds? I have a kind of fancy double bed build I want to do with the ashwood bed, but I don't want to lose out on the dragon bed comfort

maybe I can just bury the dragon bed in the floor or something and still get it?

ah, a lmgtfy moment: https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/Smoothbrain/ComfortTweaks/

[marble roost]

Easiest / most popular way to fight him I'd say is grabbing a nice finewood bow and a couple stacks of fire arrows

Though grabbing any melee weapon and going in close is very nice too. I do recommend brewing some health and stamina potions too

Damn I didn't realize that message was 2 hours ago

[sullen yarrow]

Yo everyone,
me and 2 friends are having massive problems in the Ashlands right now.

Since we entered that biome, the game is basically unplayable for us.
We’re getting extreme lag spikes all the time, and it feels like there are WAY too many enemies spawning at once. Like… this can’t be normal anymore.

FPS drops hard, desync everywhere, combat turns into a slideshow.
Before Ashlands everything was fine, but now it’s just pain 🥲

Anyone else experiencing this?
Is this a known issue or are we doing something wrong?

Any tips or fixes would be appreciated 🙏

[finite goblet]

Maybe try mods to remove the ashlands dust and rain, that can cuase performance problems sometimes

The amount of enemies is probably intended

[humble crescent]

the main times we noticed lag spikes is when people were portaling while we were doing important things like combat. maybe when the host portals.

[drowsy crane]

Are there lots of items and broken trees laying about?

[tacit breach]

Have you all lowered the various graphics settings? Also, don't forget "Chunk masters". So if you let the person with the worst system lead, the server experience will just be that bad. They set the performance for all of you.

[hallow plaza]

To clear dropped items on the ground in Valheim, activate the developer console by pressing F5, type devcommands to enable cheats, and then use the command removedrops. This command removes all player-dropped items in the immediate vicinity.
Steps to Clear Items
Enable Console: If not already enabled, add -console to your Steam launch options for Valheim.
Open Console: Press F5 in-game.
Enable Cheats: Type devcommands and press Enter.

[orchid scarab]

I've been thinking about the shortest path to 100 crafting and cooking.

With cooking, it seems like Onions are the way to go. Just need a big enough field and a bit of effort. And then a long wait in front of a cauldron. Probably the minimal amount of work there.

But what about crafting? Something more passive than building/destroying. What can I craft tens of thousands of that is relatively not too bad to collect the mats for.

[tacit breach]

It all just gets overly tedious. Fortunately I played this game a lot before we even had those skills, so its easy for me to keep not caring about them now. Its just nice to get an occasional freebie.

[earnest oracle]

Wooden clubs for crafting? Boar or chicken auto breeder -> cooked meat -> coal for cooking.
Doing it sounds terribly unfun to me, but theory crafting it on the other hand

[marble roost]

Onions/carrots would double dip to get farming skill too tho

[earnest oracle]

Building/destroying also doesn't super work, right? There's some sort of cool down effect?

True, boar double dips knife skills. Farming is probably better for this scenario?

[tacit breach]

Harvesting also works on... farming, I think. So you could just constantly wander the meadows and forest to increase that skill.

[tacit breach]

Boar, wolves, Lox, Chickens.

[orchid scarab]

Thanks for contributing "I don't care."

[tacit breach]

Your very welcome.

[orchid scarab]

Farming is trivially easy and not even a consideration. 100 Farming, 20 cooking.

[tacit breach]

Farming is also much more necessary. Like I bet the people who do all the massive building, like I used to do, get pretty high on their crafting skill. Just all that building is far from necessary, its just fun in its own right.

[orchid scarab]

Clubs are 6 wood each and take up a lot of inventory space, which increases the amount of clicks on the crafting alone, even if I had all the wood.

Even if you say you're starting from a reasonable 40 crafting, that's 36k XP to 100. 0.25 XP per craft, that's 145,548 clubs made from 873,288 wood. 17,465 stacks of wood.

[tacit breach]

Yeah, crazy tedious. I'd just go back to doing all the massive building I used to do. At least that is fun.

[orchid scarab]

Yes, you've told me multiple times you don't care. You can just not reply. It's cool.

[tacit breach]

Not to mention rewarding.

[tacit breach]

I do care, just not enough to bore myself to death.

[earnest oracle]

As far as inventory space, chuck em as you go then obliterate them all when you need a break?

Wood is an easily unlimited renewable resource with planting and elder power. Most craftables are going to be limited by respawning collectables, right?

The number of XP is the same regardless of what you craft, though, right? So yeah, it's a ludicrous number of things to craft in part because it's a crazy idea to attempt, lol.

I guess if you assume a greydwarf spawner farm you could add in resin, stone, and wood. Torches still have your inventory problem, but 2 input instead of 6, so that's actually a pretty big improvement.

[orchid scarab]

How fast do you collect wood? Do the math on 870k+ wood, even with a multiple greydwarf spawners setup. Then add in crafting time, and all the disruptions to crafting to need to junk the clubs. Long time, and very active work still. I think wood is a no-go.

What's the word for that. Non-starter?

[tacit breach]

Tedious?

[orchid scarab]

Can you take a hint, dude?

[earnest oracle]

Sure, but the whole premise is basically impossible. I dunno, you haven't actually given any answers to your own question.

The real answer is that the "shortest path" is dev commands, and anything else will take absolutely forever.

[tacit breach]

I can. Question is, do I want to. 😄

[earnest oracle]

Okay, last attempt:

Apparently repair gives a tiny amount of XP. I guess you could stand next to twig with high enough armor values and an auto clicker on the repair button as long as he can't quite reach the workbench.

[orchid scarab]

Cheating is an implied restriction.

[tacit breach]

I'm satisfied. Even you admit its too tedious, even if you refuse to use the word.

Later! Have fun!

[orchid scarab]

I don't understand why you would be bothered by something tedious when you absolutely embody the concept.

A Tedium Elemental.

[orchid scarab]

Might be something there with the repairing. Kind of depends on how fast you can get the XP gain going to make the clicks worth the effort. (auto-clicker being in the cheating category, why not just console command at that point)

[earnest oracle]

Auto clicker, auto breeder, and greydwarf farm are all in the same category to me 🤷

[orchid scarab]

Auto-clicker is an outside program. The rest is just being clever.

[marble pagoda]

peak gameplay
the skills system is so well designed!

[orchid scarab]

Definitely needs value adjusting.

Crossbow only levels per hit. 1 xp per hit. Arbalest has 3.5 sec reload time.

lvl 75 is 9,943 xp. So getting to lvl 75, assuming zero time between reloads, would be almost 10 hours of constant firing.
lvl 100 is 20,300 xp. Almost 20 hours of constant firing.

Just silly.

You hope it's all a placeholder before 1.0

[marble pagoda]

i have leveled crossbow to 100
great use of electricity on my second pc
the only good thing i can say is I did it during winter so the heat did not go entirely to waste

[marble roost]

Bet you're getting some nice sneak attacks with that 100 crossbow skill

[marble pagoda]

it's alright
i think the only real application is oneshotting lox/gjalls
valks are okay too but I'd rather have inventory space in ashlands
would be way nicer if you could store it loaded

[marble roost]

I like it in Ashlands

I find it hard to get sneak attacks off with other weapons when there's a lot of spawns all over the place

[tacit breach]

Very true. Even though I usually get one off vs the Valkyrie with a bow.

[marble roost]

Bow doesn't have that great sneak attack damage tho, does it?

Maybe if you have high enough skill to lead into a continous stagger it can be pretty nice

[tacit breach]

No, not in comparison to the crossbows.

I usually do have a high bow skill, just not high enough to stagger a Valkyrie.

Maybe if I was closer to a 90 skill...

[marble pagoda]

its funny rooting them midair
though valks are mostly staff of fracturing victims for me

[raw atlas]

Hello, I need help recovering 150 iron ore I mined in the swamp. An abomination attacked one of my carts and killed me. When I returned, the mined material was gone, which was very frustrating. What can I do?

[tacit breach]

I stay pure melee. I didn't take a liking to the magic. Plus I just don't want to abandon all my high skills.

I put a heck of a lot of time and effort into getting them.

[marble pagoda]

I think high skill bow is just about as good and I do use it fairly often (not a big magic fan either)

often when I fight a valk I'm usually trying to be somewhere so I'd rather use the stam to keep moving lol

[marble roost]

Reload a backup (can do that from the main menu), or activate devcommands to spawn stuff back in

Or persevere like a true viking. Reloading backups / enabling cheats can be a slippery slope

[raw atlas]

how i can do that? thanks

[marble roost]

Loading a backup just go to main menu, find your world, and you should be able to look at "saves" or something like that. See if there is a save from shortly before you died

Or, to spawn it back in, look up how to enable "devcommands" on google

[raw atlas]

thanks softsnail

[abstract eagle]

Keep firing, assholes

[velvet latch]

Idk if this is right place but it said help im having a technical issue with Mac and controllers if someone might be able to help I sent the full message to the Mac support chat

[wheat breach]

currently building with wood and im annoyed of rain damage and having to repair all my wood after the rain, is there any sort of command to reverse or to turn off rain damage? if thats not possible are there any mods that fix this?

[orchid scarab]

I use AzuWearNTearPatches

[wheat breach]

ok thank you

[open lake]

This the right chat to ask for tips? J wanna double check

[orchid scarab]

Sure.

[open lake]

Currently playing through the game - died in a frozen crypt after killing off bonemass... At a point where ive just been stuck in a cycle of "run in to the crypt, get instantly killed by an ulv, lose levels, repeat" trying to get my stuff. Any tips?

had that problem in the swamp kinda too but to a lesser extent, was able to just brute force it

im kind of bleeding frost mead in this situation though, running low lol

[orchid scarab]

• You don't need frost mead. Put a portal outside.
• Eat your food and heal up before going to retrieve stuff.
• Grab stuff, leave, regroup, don't stick around until you've pulled yourself together.
• Dodge.

[open lake]

duly noted

that immediately worked very nice

[open lake]

been on the hunt for silver and havent encountered any on the ranges ive hit. Any specific tips or just keep hunting

with the wishbone ofc

[marble roost]

Needs to be pretty high up. Find yourself a tall mountain

[open lake]

just sail around and look for a big one probably the best shot I have?

[marble roost]

If you see ||stone golems|| spawning you should be high enough up

[open lake]

alright yeah. I encountered that thing you spoilered, no silver there but atleast I know what to look for.

[spare cargo]

If I delete my structure, does my instance count go down?

Trying to manage lag

[tacit breach]

Instance count shouldn't be a factor until you have around 30,000 of them.

[quiet trout]

Seriously, how the hell are you suppose to fight growths? They’re the most unfair enemy in the game imo. They move a lot faster than blobs or oozers, especially when they jump, they cover a TON of ground when they jump. Pair this with the double status effect, poison+tar, which slows you. The attack where they shoot tar at you knocks you back well out of melee range, and obviously applies the slowed effect to your character which disallows you to melee them. By the time you slowly walk back into melee range, their attack is already off cooldown. Arrows don’t do a lot of damage either, even fire arrows. How do people fight these bastards? Also, when I press e the collectible lumps of tar in the tar pits, it says it’s stuck, so how do I collect these?

[marble pagoda]

they are one of the most lethal yes

spot them far away and use frost arrows

[quiet trout]

They gotta do something about that enemy. Way over-tuned.

[subtle parrot]

Dodging their shots is really easy, move in close and bonk them 2 or 3 times, rinse repeat

[subtle parrot]

To collect tar, you'll need to dig a trench away from the tar pit and let the tar drain away from the pit

[quiet trout]

Ahh clever, ty

[marble roost]

Slow attack that hits like a truck

How to counter? Don't get hit. That's really all you can do, so just practice dodges or sprinting sideways. If you do end up getting hit it gets real tough, so its always just about avoiding that

Some good notes is that they usually jump towards you, then immediately fire. So you know when they will shoot.
Additionally, they have a "front" side, and they can only shoot from that side. If you're behind them they'll have to turn around before shooting.
And of course they have a cooldown after shooting, so wait for them to shoot, then go kill them

[plush pier]

If you see the growth first, make sure to move in a circle around the growth
You can stay close to them as long as they are grouped together and you circle around them properly 😉
Theyre very strong, you get hit once your likely to die because they slow you down and hit a few times each

I find fighting easier if I first practice staying alive around a monster. Then after I can do that, try to fight it

[open lake]

how am i supposed to get my things with deathsquitos in the area? they move faster than me, and one tap me even with high health

probably the most unenjoyable part about this game is dying once then having to spend 40 minutes trying to get my things because im not in the meadows anymore and all the prior prep I did is buried behind 70 layers of things that oneshot me or status effects that kill me without getting the right gear (that getting spares of or re-obtaining would take hours to do)

[open lake]

figured it out. just roll.

[quiet trout]

I've learned that playing dark souls makes valheim a lot easier, since the 'just roll' idea is already ingrained into my brain, lol. Same thing with parrying

[plush pier]

Deathsquito punish running as well
If you take a bow and go slowly you can shoot them before they see you
usually people die fighting something else or running from it then a squito gets ya

[open lake]

yeah. Its kinda fun but its def not a game ill ever do a second playthrough of. Wayy too much time just spent basically getting punished for dying once with 30 minutes of repeat deaths because theres no real way to live where I was besides my gear 😅

[open lake]

yeah they die from one shot from a bow right?

[manic gyro]

Yes, from pretty much anything

Although I do believe they can survive one punch

[marble roost]

sadly yes. They have 10 hp

[remote condor]

I accidentaly placed A T.W.I.G. and I desperately need to get rid of it, idk why the force delete command won't work

nothing will destroy it

[stoic trench]

Middle mouse click doesn’t work?

[remote condor]

no

it's an entity

oh nvm

[stoic trench]

Could’ve sworn it could still be removed like a standard build object 🤔

Oh, did it work?

[remote condor]

yeah, I guess I just wasn't clicking the hitbox with the hammer right before

I feel kind of dumb for not seeing that, oh well 😅

[stoic trench]

No worries! Glad it got worked out!

[tacit breach]

'

I use a Tower Shield and poison meads. Zero damage and not slowed with a block. I have no idea how parry shields work against them, I never use them.

[true steeple]

stepping to the side is often enough to dodge the projectiles too

[tacit breach]

Yeah, I read all the responses. I only commented because no one mentioned the way I handle them.

I do the avoiding thing when I lead them to Lox or a fuling village, and have them fight it out.

[marble roost]

Love leading viles to growths

[tacit breach]

And I lead growths to them, instead of the other way around, because most of the time I already have more than enough tar for my play through building, so don't want to dig the tar pit out.

I just leave a work bench on them, in case I am wrong about having plenty of tar.

[open lake]

If I set my PCs clock to june 1 - 6 can I build a maypole?

[tacit breach]

I do believe June is the month in which the period starts. So yes.

[open lake]

Tried it, no dice

[tacit breach]

Its goes from the 1st to the 6th of the next month, IIRC.

[open lake]

Yeah thats what the wiki says

[tacit breach]

I guess they made sure the computer clock cannot fool it.

No idea why, since you can always just use dev commands.

[open lake]

yeah, the extra comfort would be nice but what can you do lol

oh, it did work. I had to interact with an item weirdly.

[tacit breach]

Its kind of too much once you have everything but the lava lamp.

[open lake]

yeah, the feng shuei is totally off but I get like 25 minutes without having to rest so ill take it

[tacit breach]

OK, that makes sense, then. Like I said, why try to make that not work, when dev commands do?

[upper rivet]

So I figured out I can play solo find but when I start a server without crossplay, it freezes within 5 min with and without someone else playing on the server at the same time. I dont have modes, I reinstalled the game, same issue. Dont see an exception in the player.log file. Not sure what to try. Dont have any other issues on this machine

[proper shadow]

normally you can deconstruct things in the world to get parts you might not otherwise have access to, but if you're using the world setting for free building ddeconstructing doesn't return anything. Is there anywway other than console commands to get parts from world buildings? Eg I'm standing by a wisp lamp and I want to "harvest" it

[wide lynx]

how do the parry bonuses work with shields? if i hav a shield and knife equiped, how does it calculate my parry bonus

[true steeple]

Parry bonus multiplies the block armor of the item you block with, so it will only take the parry bonus of the shield

staggered enemies always take 2x damage

[tacit breach]

There is a worksheet pinned in chat that gives the full break down of the numbers, HP needed, and probably more.

Its Sevrahns sheets.

[wide lynx]

woah... that is so usefull! thx

[steep tusk]

👋 It automatically updates the numbers based on what you type in for shield/skill/difficulty

[potent jacinth]

Hey i just downloaded Valheim today does anybody have some tipps im actually helpless

[hollow jackal]

Any tips for finding leviathans?
And is it normal that I cannot find sunken crypts in three different swamps?

[subtle parrot]

Read what Hugin has to say, pick up anything on the ground (rocks sticks etc), pick berry bushes, make a hammer in the menu asap, and don't try to rush, take your time to get a feel.

[potent jacinth]

thanks im just trying to get some deers with my bow how do I unlock new things

[subtle parrot]

Leviathan can be found in ocean biome as long as it has a full chunk inside the ocean iirc. 64mx64m i think. But it's not guaranteed. And depending on the size of the swamps, usually there aren't many if any crypts in smaller swamps. But it can just be bad rng during world generation.

[hollow jackal]

Okay ty. I hear the music of the ocean but my map says meadows, what is it then?

[subtle parrot]

Progress into other biomes and gather new materials, each new biome provides better materials for higher quality gear and items. Also don't forget to upgrade your workbenches as some items are tied to higher tier benches iirc.

[potent jacinth]

the next biome im seeing is a dark forest but it looks quite dangerous should i try to go in?

[subtle parrot]

If it says meadows on the map and it's not fully blue, like it's lighter and has squiggly lines you're in the shallows not actually the ocean

[subtle parrot]

If you have leather armor, for sure. But it can be difficult, watch out for skeletons and the big blue guys(trolls). You can use the trolls to gather materials if you tease them into attacking and dodge, they can break rocks and knock down trees and other materials.

[potent jacinth]

okay thank you that helps a lot

[wicked burrow]

Whats with all the servers being password protected? I see a handful advertising their discords but in general how are you meant to connect to others?

[subtle parrot]

You need to be friends with them and then get the password to play with them.

There are no public servers for valheim

[potent jacinth]

okay one last question how do I upgrade my working bench

[wicked burrow]

Sounds unintuitive ngl, just deters new players no?

[subtle parrot]

Use the hammer and check the build menu tab for crafting, and if you have the materials to upgrade unlocked it will show you the add-ons for upgrading the workbenches. If you haven't picked up flint yet, you may not have access to them, so check by the shoreline for a whiteish oblong rock called flint.

[potent jacinth]

okay thanks

[subtle parrot]

I'm not sure about that, from what i know the game is supposed to be played solo or played with friends. It isn't really meant to be a public game like mmos are. That's all i know.

[gusty onyx]

I'm not able to get close to land in Ashlands without running aground on some invisible underwater land for some reason

any way to move the ship with codes or something?

getting kidn of fed up with trying to get to the Ashlands at this point

[hollow jackal]

Ty
How useful is chitin really? It can only make harpoon and some knife? Harpoon might be good for farming serpent, but any other usecase?

[subtle parrot]

That's about it, the knife is good early game before mountains if you find it early on

[quasi vault]

Some knife?

You cannot dissrespect the razor like that!

[marble pagoda]

harpoon is arguably an endgame weapon

it is a one of a kind tool that lets you reposition any non-boss enemy for very little stamina

[true steeple]

not always very little, the cost increases with mass which is the same value for knockback resistance
TWIG has 15000 while most enemies have 10

[vapid brook]

What do folks mean when they say kiting a troll? Does this just mean running from it to keep it moving and not attacking?

[subtle parrot]

Kiting generally means keeping your distance and shooting from afar with a bow

[frosty frost]

Yes, but also dodging its attacks from time to time so it doesent loose agrro

[vapid brook]

Thank you both. I’m still pretty new to this game and still learning some of the lingo lol

[marble pagoda]

hey spending all my stamina to drag a lox 10 feet still feels pretty cheap i couldn't do that IRL

[potent jacinth]

should i use a flint knife or a flint steal?

[frosty frost]

Bot flint knife and spear are good options early game 🙂

[steep tusk]

What is a flint steal?

[orchid scarab]

I really like knives. Easy to craft. Light. Quick switch and swing.

[potent jacinth]

sorry i ment flint spear

[steep tusk]

Then spear all the way 💛

[open lake]

im getting to the point where im wrapping up the mountain biome, got all the silver ill ever need and now im hunting for ||moder||. This isnt a big deal but I thinought Id ask, with base settings, no mods or changes, is the best way to transport metals via boat?

[sullen yarrow]

what can i craft with drywyn fragments?

[steep tusk]

Yes.

[steep tusk]

Drywyn.

[sullen yarrow]

Dyrnwyn

[steep tusk]

Yes, that is what you craft with the fragments.

[stoic trench]

Durnwinn

[steep tusk]

Dundermyflin.

Dundyr Smiffelyn.

[open lake]

also, how should I get tamable creaturs like Lox back to my main base

I was thinking I could just like harpoon it and drag it through the ocean but that cant be the only way

[orchid scarab]

I believe that is the intended method.

Cheaty option includes: ||logging into a different server, dropping metal, logging back, teleporting home. Log to other server, collect metal, log back.||

But honestly I still do the boat ride. Feels better.

I was playing with BetterProgression mod which lets you teleport metal after defeating that biome's boss. But it was weirdly conflicting with a more important mod.

[proper orbit]

Nothing wrong with that method, especially if you have been playing 2k+ hour's, a lot of people want to get straight into the end game

[orchid scarab]

You should play however you want. It's fine.

[proper orbit]

It's not really cheating, if you harvested those resources yourself, all you really do is transferring your hard work

[orchid scarab]

No, I'd call it cheating. It's clearly unintended otherwise whats the point of the restriction. But you can do whatever you want. Its your game.

[proper orbit]

I've done this method before

[open lake]

ehhh, atp id just make em teleportable.

[orchid scarab]

If you're going to cheat like this anyway, yeah

We had to remove BetterProgression, but we're finishing up the plains anyway, so we just made all metal teleportable as a replacement

[open lake]

I do love my longboat rides and I am a pretty lucky person, I encountered 3 leviathans last boat ride

[plush pier]

Rested bonus is your friend ❤️
Admire the views 🏞️

[orchid scarab]

I need those trophies myself. Been fishing.

Oh Serpents, that is. Not leviathans

[open lake]

never encountered a serpent actually

Ive encountered like 1 - 2 leviathans every single boat ride though, some crazy luck

[orchid scarab]

Only need a couple leviathans. Really underutilized resource

[open lake]

I mean what are they good for beyond the harpoon?

[orchid scarab]

A dagger. Better than copper, worse than Silver.

[humble crescent]

I usually skip chitten

[plush pier]

I love that dagger!
And all the horrible deaths I experience sailing to find Levis

Personally I enjoy the weapons that have some kind of different experience to getting their material. Chitin is very unique in that way

[somber mason]

Is this the place to post crash logs? I keep crashing on my Vanilla Steam Valheim on startup. I’ve reinstalled and restarted. Ensured drivers were updated. I’m just confused how to fix my game.

[quiet trout]

Is the Krom weapon a good upgrade to prioritize when you first get the black forge?

[marble pagoda]

its expensive as balls so I don't like upgrading it
but doesn't require hard to get biome mats to craft

[frosty frost]

Have you ever used mods before?

[somber mason]

I figured it out. I guess just uninstalling it didn’t make it a “clean install” I tried to use thunderstore but it didn’t work and then even while vanilla I was having issues. It was because the leftover files from Bepin still remained. It just appears that the Bepin mod plugin just isn’t working. Makes it kinda confusing on how I’m supposed to mod the game. Oh well

[frosty frost]

Yeah, i thought you might have not done a "clean" uninstall. you just need to remove everything from the valheim folder that is not vanilla. Since steam doesent touch things it didnt put there by itself as i understand it 🙂

[echo flint]

im hosting a server whit a few mods, my map table has a option to change pins to public so you share them. everytime i log off or die, all thoose pins dissapear untill i use the map table again. any idea how to fix this?

[gusty onyx]

anyone else getting micro stutters in the sound when in Ashlands?

the game feels fine otherwise, but the music and sound get these tiny stutters in them

[frosty frost]

Folks in #mods-issues might be able to help 🙂

[frosty frost]

Sadly a known issue atm 🙁

[gusty onyx]

ahh ok

[lunar ginkgo]

yo guys what cape should i get as the same level as bronze armor

cuz i got bronze full but only deer cape

[steep tusk]

No capes!

[hallow plaza]

Deer cape u till wolf cape if you don't go troll armor

[frosty frost]

Either deer or troll if you want cape 🙂

[steep tusk]

-# NO CAPES!

[subtle parrot]

Lol Edna Sevrahn Mode

[ruby oar]

-# (and wolf isn't necessary either if you plan to make ||wolf|| or ||fenris|| armor at that stage anyway - both of those cover the frost resistance, which doesn't stack, so the wolf cape ends up being immediately obsolete and imo kind of a waste of silver.)

[steep tusk]

Lox cape is fwuffy and warm.
If I still wore capes, I would use that one.

Also @ruby oar you have 4 cats to catch up on.

[ruby oar]

holy shit what, have i been that out of it

[steep tusk]

It would appear so 😂

[ruby oar]

i have, oh my god, i'm sorry, it's been a week™

[marble roost]

Personally I'd say 2 handed swords are in a bit of an unfortunate spot. They're not terrible, but a 1h sword is honestly gonna do pretty much the same just better

Or a battleaxe potentially

[drowsy crane]

I think 2h swords are beastly, just lacking a bit in attack speed, but that seems reasonable to me. It's just going to require more careful attacks, but the payoff is gigantic damage.

[marble roost]

The secondary is pretty nice for jump attack engages

Less dps on regular attacks than a 1h sword though, and you're locked into those animations for longer which can be dangerous

[drowsy crane]

DPS is of less concern when one combo chain causes enough stagger to end enemies straight away.

[sinful anchor]

This is gonna make me sound stupid but I've never used a sword before. I notice the bronze sword has less damage than the bronze axe, does it have faster attack speed or something to make it worth using?

They both do slash damage so I really don't see the benefit

[marble pagoda]

check ur skills, you probably have much higher axe skill

per hit it's up to 2.25x different on top of stamina bonus

[sinful anchor]

I'm talking about base damage, the sword does less than the axe

[marble pagoda]

that's possible too
I know the swing timings are slightly different and spamming secondary is actually highest dps for swords (albeit impractical)

I expect the numbers on the stat card to be roughly comparable tho, most of the difference is in ergonomic stuff rather than nominal damage

[ruby oar]

it's faster and has more reach, one-handed axes as weapons are unfortunately treated a bit unfairly by the game's balancing, especially later on.

[true steeple]

Also sword secondary is 3x damage but 1h axe secondary is 1.5x damage

[steep tusk]

Because fairness and balance 😛

@sinful anchor 1h Sword is also bugged and currently the only 1h weapon in the game that has no multi-target damage penalty.

[true steeple]

It’s not a bug

[ruby oar]

i wish it was

[steep tusk]

You will not convince me of that until you get a purple name to say "We intentionally want 1h swords to be the sole 1h weapon with no mtp, because balance is not our concern."

[ruby oar]

still pretty convinced that it originally was a bug but it seems they embraced it when it was called out

[marble pagoda]

I used to believe axes had a utility penalty since they chop trees and save you mats but then they dropped berserkirs so idk anymore

[steep tusk]

Doesn't stop it from being a bug 😉 Just makes it a bug they won't ever fix.

[marble pagoda]

those are called features

[steep tusk]

Nope.

[marble pagoda]

I do think it's reasonable to have a mtp-focused 1h weapon since that's missing, and it seems like slash is not really a favored dmg type ever (no enemy is weak to slash and only a few are neutral to only slash)
so if it were this long-lived of a bug, it's likely that much of the game has been designed around it and would be affected by any change
hence, feature

but most of that is moot after picking up gemmed weapons

[steep tusk]

Nope.

[ruby oar]

-# i'll take that as my cue to stop looking at this cursed server for another while

[marble pagoda]

hell yeah
I'm here for the deep north tidbits

[tired root]

Sigh "Another week, another 1h sword MTP convo."

[marble roost]

I’d say thats a short sighted assessment of slash

Pierce is by most seen as the worst damage type as it is often resisted and rarely enemies are weak to it (though this seems to be to compensate the fact that most pierce weapons are kinda OP)

But slash and blunt are both equally good imo. Slash works against basically any enemy, with very rare occasions of resistance (other than enemies that resist all physical damage anywyas).
Blunt gets quite a few enemies that are weak to it, but thats balanced out by enemies that are resistant against it too

[steep tusk]

-# Also the fact 1h weapons do not ever need a multi-target option, because that is the entirety of what 2h weapons exist for.

[marble pagoda]

pierce was deliberately nuked from yag onwards due to dominance of bows pre-mistlands i think
i did an unweighted average of every enemy resistance profile in the game (meaning deer were counted equally as Yag), and slash was neutral, blunt was about 10% higher, pierce 10% lower.
there's enough blobs and skellies in the game that Blunt is almost as good as Lightning.

In practice pierce is probably worse bc you can't use it on any of the later Forsaken.
I think slash is just fine, but not good enough for swords to compete with maces if you were to give it MTP.

The Silver sword and Mistwalker are strong not because they're swords, but bc they dual scale with levels and do spirit/frost

i think the big difference is there's enemies that favor blunt but not slash
but only bears and abom favor slash but not blunt, and you definitely want a mace at that stage of the game for blobs/skellies/Bonemass. Prime time to pick up a sword is mistwalker and that quickly gets crept by gem weapons.

[frosty frost]

I would say that good time for swords is mountains already 🙂 i would put mistwalker and frostner at the same level pretty much (appart from entering mistlands, frostner wins there no doubt)

[solid spire]

cant paste an image but does anyone know why when i build i cant put walls into walls and make it even if that makes sense? they always seem to be built a bit higher than the last or not in line, ive tried snapping and free placing

[frosty frost]

Could send a pic in #building-tips 🙂

[solid spire]

okay just did thanks! 👍

[marble pagoda]

yea silver sword should be real good for frost caves
i haven't tried in awhile so that's a fair point
its just competing with the damn frostner (and iron mace for golems) so i feel like it deserves a little extra

[frosty frost]

Its also expensive as heck xD

[quasi vault]

Takes 2 whole silver nodes to make a sword!

[livid mortar]

Been a while since I fought a golem with a mace. I typically pickaxe them to death.

[marble roost]

Doubtful

Maybe to fully upgrade it though

[frosty frost]

That is what we meant, yes 🙂

[hallow plaza]

Kinda wish processing metal made it lighter

[steep tusk]

Don't we all 😭

[marble roost]

Some processing does. Chest plate feels a lot lighter than the metals used to make it

Smelting doesn’t seem to follow that theme though

[hallow plaza]

youd think removing all the slag would make a lighter ingot

[true steeple]

maybe the devs want players smelting metal at their base instead of where they mine it

[frosty frost]

We add in the weight of our hard work that went into getting the metal in the first place 😄

[silver sequoia]

i got a quick question if okay. i was just playing on a world and i slept, and the game crashed, going back in the game i see "Missing DB" and i cant backup any files. is there a way to prevent this for future worlds thanks

[scenic perch]

Does anyone know an efficient way of farming sap? All videos are outdated from prior patches, and the behaviour of roots seems to have changed. From what I know extractors only work and roots only recharge when within render distance, so placing loads of extractors across the biome doenst seem to work for me, and placing several on the same root also isnt very efficient. Is there a solutions to this or am I mistaken about anything?

[drowsy crane]

Mine have recharged outside of render countless times recently, it does just take a while.

[scenic perch]

Do your extractors also continue to work out of render? for me it doesnt seem to work if im not close by

[abstract eagle]

I honestly resorted to mods for sap. Such a niche resource and my need is quite a lot, so mods it is. Otherwise just lots of portals to the roots all over the map just like any other farm, spend some time there hunting hares, chopping ygdrassil

[crystal kiln]

they should work outside your render distance but the root recovers very very slowly, less than one extractor can harvest iirc

[drowsy crane]

Yes that's what I was saying. 😛

[tacit breach]

They recharge all on their own, whether your there or not. I do fine on 3 to 4 extractors, but I usually eventually have 7 or more. Sure, early on I still have to switch the extractors to new roots, but once I have hundreds of Eitir I focus on other things, so the roots I am using recharge fully by the time I even go back. That said, I don't do magic, so its easy for me to accumulate hundreds of Eitir. So I am gathering sap mostly for the stamina mead and bile bombs.

[barren elbow]

hey so my friend was trying to give me his valheim world bc he doesnt play as much but me and my friend do so in the process somehow the db file is just gone

[manic gyro]

As the others said, normally they recharge even out of render distance. But sometimes they bug out and stop recharging until visited again.

[oblique coyote]

hey yall, I want to host an already existing world, which files am I supposed to download and to which directory exactly? the .db or .fwl?

[marble roost]

Sure you're just not being impatient?

Anyways best thing is just to have a few locations with like 3-4 roots. set up an extractor in each root, come back later to collect and move them to another set. Once you extract the other set, move them back to the first set

[frosty frost]

Get him to re-send it then? 🤔

[barren elbow]

i shouldve specified, HES missing the db file too lmao

[frosty frost]

Ah... Now that is a problem, maybe he could look if there isnt previous cloud save that he could send you instead?

[barren elbow]

ok that may be a good idea, ill ask him when he gets home

[oblique coyote]

https://prnt.sc/BLw8lR2SDTvA : )

[frosty frost]

Both .db and .fwl with the name of the world you want 🙂

[oblique coyote]

to world_local or worlds?

[frosty frost]

If you have it saved locally then worlds_local

[oblique coyote]

it was on a dedicated server, i want to host it locally

[frosty frost]

I sadly have veryx little to no experience with dedicated servers, but folks in #dedicated-server might be able to help i think 🙂

[tacit breach]

World local should put it in your computer files. You should see it when you start up your game just like any other world file. If you want it in cloud, you can move it later.

[frosty frost]

Oh, wait... I didnt read the message properly, it says "to..." 🤦‍♂️
It is indeed as Robert says 🙂

[tacit breach]

I only know because I did the same just a few days ago. So its rather fresh in my mind.

I had to look up how to do it.

[frosty frost]

I missread the question as if they were copying it from their pc to somewhere else, hence i didnt know where to put it xD

[tacit breach]

Its kind of amazing how you can just do a search on your problem, and find an old thread describing how to solve your problem on a Steam thread, reddit, etc...

[frosty frost]

Indeed 😄 tho lot of times the way used in older threads no longer works. But oftentimes in the same thread you find a link to updated way to do it.

[tacit breach]

Yeah, you do have to look at how recent the dates are.

[barren canopy]

what is this option while making a word called ,,community server'' what does it do?

[frosty frost]

It make the server visible on the in game server list

[orchid scarab]

Do fish persist forever? Can I make an isolated fishing training lake, fill it with perch, and they'll stay even if I don't visit for a while?

[tacit breach]

IF you fill it? No. You have to keep filling it. You would have to create an actual spawn location.

[orchid scarab]

That's not what I'm asking.

[tacit breach]

OK, then if your asking if the fish you put there, will stay there, yes, they do. At least they did on the servers I played on, where the owner filled locations with fish.

I would recommend not doing what he did, though.

Which was spawn in a thousand fish. It caused serious lag issues. Do maybe 100.

[barren elbow]

so i have a backup from b4 the file got deleted, and when i put hust that in it says missing meta file, when i put in the fwl file, THEN it says missing db file, which we dont have

so is our world officially gone 😭

[abstract eagle]

Yes, I have that. Catch and release. Gets your fishing skill up and you don't have to chase fish. But youl also get your skill up by just casting and reeling it in.

[wide siren]

is there a way to get rid of air shadow in settings? i posted a pic in screenshots

[orchid scarab]

Trying to make a setup where I can instantly hook a perch and get double the XP. Minus time for setting the fish back up

[compact heath]

It does work if not close by, I normally build a path with wooden floors between 4-6 roots, with misttorches along the way and then sprint along to collect every now and then, only 1 extractor per root.

[silver sequoia]

could someone help me with something? (ping me here if you are willing to hear my question please)

[orchid scarab]

Buddy, just ask

[silver sequoia]

i did before and got no reply thats why i asked. cuz i was just playing on a world and i slept, and the game crashed, going back in the game i see "Missing DB" and i cant backup any files. is there a way to prevent this for future worlds

[orchid scarab]

You're not being ignored. if people don't know the answer, they aren't going to... you know, answer you. And that's not a common problem to have.

Did you try searching the server for keywords? Like "missing db"?

[silver sequoia]

well i play on xbox and i dont seem to be able to check for that sort of stuff on the server, unless im missing something 😭

[compact heath]

if you do it with giant herring and fully reel fish in from the training pond instead of grabbing them from line, you get bonus loot which in this case can be iron 🙂

[orchid scarab]

Yes, that is part of the setup.

[abstract eagle]

maybe try dropping them into tetra ponds, not sure about instantly

[subtle parrot]

Sounds like a question for macarbre, i can't remember his tz, but he's probably asleep already. You might try asking in #xbox-bugs-discussion as well may be more folks in there as knowledgeable

[silver sequoia]

ah will do, it wouldnt hurt getting extra help if it exists and maybe a possible solution thanks🙇‍♂️

[orchid scarab]

No. It's time reeled. Not fish caught.

[abstract eagle]

I mean if your are going for extra item once you caught it, not sure if items reset if you drop it back in. For time reeling I think the max cast distance is 25 m so dig a trench that's that long

[orchid scarab]

No, the setup has two sides. One side is the reeling XP, the other is the fish bonus item farm.

[open lake]

is there a way to have cosmetic armor without mods?

[subtle parrot]

There's no armor style change feature in vanilla

[glad current]

Without mods? Unfortunately no

[open lake]

That should be criminal.

made my favorite armor looks wise only mountain tier

If I was looking for some specific mods, could I ask for recommendations here?

[glad current]

Here or #mods-discussion

[open lake]

Alright. If I wanted more map pin types and cosmetic armors, is there a specfic mod people generally use

(not necessarily new armors for cosmetics, just the ability to wear cosmetic armor*)

[summer skiff]

is there an in game fps counter?

oh its F2 okay

[open coyote]

Based on sap extractor wiki, it sounds like if I only hit my extractors every 4000 seconds, they should stay full forever, is that right? I feel like that's not how it works, and they don't recover while being extracted from or somethign

[urban quest]

when mining copper ore with my black metal pickaxe, it wont drop the ore, anyone know why?

[compact heath]

I know I should also post this in #dedicated-server but is there a command to force update a server if you're online have devcommands / admin?

[silent flicker]

We have a server on G Portal and Valheim just updated which bricked the possibility to join.

I've tried reverting back to the old version on Steam...
I've tried changing language...

I'm at a loss. Can anybody please help us?

[jade rapids]

Posting the same thing in multiple channels are so fun. Ask Gportal, you're paying them money for a service that they got for free from the devs.

[silent flicker]

Trying my luck here as well while waiting hours to get an answer on the ticket. 🙂

[jade rapids]

Good luck. You get what you pay for.

[silent flicker]

I like your optimistic attitude buddy! 🥳

[karmic urchin]

hello just new to the game and currently running into a bug atm where I cant rotate fence ,walls and other building structures using scroll wheel. was able to use it just fine before the update.

[compact heath]

you need to wait for their cluster to update before it updates individual servers, from experience it can take 20-70 minutes sometimes

[ornate finch]

On which platform are you playing? Using mouse or controller? using mods?

[karmic urchin]

im playing on steam and using M&Kb

[ornate finch]

Were you using mods before?

[pure mango]

Have we worked out where the axe heads are found yet?

Will they only appear on a new world?

[karmic urchin]

im playing without mods

[ornate finch]

On which OS are you playing? (windows, mac, linux)

[karmic urchin]

windows10

already tried creating a new character and generating a new world + verify integrity of files. no luck so far

[ornate finch]

Me too, so there shouldn't be no issues.
Try to reset controls in the settings menu, and if that doesn't fix it, try to verify game files on steam library.
Test if you mouse scroll works properly in the online test https://cpstest.org/mouse-test/ (buttons should light up on the web app)

[karmic urchin]

tried resetting controls and verify integrity of files on steam also tested mouse scroll wheel and seems like there's no issue on that part. also add to the issue it seems scroll wheel is disabled not just on building structure but also zooming out of both map and camera

[ornate finch]

Try this then:

1. Click on Windows start and type ⁨regedit⁩ or ⁨registry editor⁩.
2. Manually navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\IronGate\Valheim.
3. Delete this Valheim folder in the left panel of registry editor: https://i.imgur.com/pJ90jaP.jpg
4. Launch the game.

This will reset all the settings.

[karmic urchin]

still nothing, gonna go ahead and try a reinstall of the game see if that works.

[ornate finch]

Will send you a DM

[silent flicker]

The mods is the problem AFAIK

[calm pelican]

Hello. Anyone else having problems with the game after update? Our server keeps disconnecting every 5 mins

[tired root]

If you use mods, then they're the culprit.

[calm pelican]

We have no mods unfortunately

[tired root]

Is it dedicated server? If so then it might be possible it hasn't been updated to newest version.

[calm pelican]

Not a dedicated server. After we updated, that was also the last time the world has saved in the local save file.

[ornate finch]

Everyone except host gets disconnected?

[calm pelican]

everyone gets disconnected

[proper shadow]

Yes, hi there, hello. I have a stupid quest I'd like help with. I am currently right at the beginning of Mistlands, but I want to build with ashwood. "Console" I hear you say. And yet, I for some reason want to smuggle myself into ashlands illegally to retrieve the wood.

I have already unlocked grausten by sailing to the spikes and mining for like 5 seconds before getting smoked by a bone thing.

I don't know what else I can do, maybe bridges between spikes, but how the hell do I protect my bridges from all the creatures? Looking for ideas here

[ripe pebble]

I love the energy, but Ashlands doesn't play. You'll be better off just beating Mistlands and getting your ashwood naturally.

[proper shadow]

I expect to get annihilated, yes. I just don't know how to make landfall at all in order to be annhilated

prior to wisps, I also did several YOLO runs into the mist

[ornate finch]

That doesn't make sense if it's not a dedicated server.

Who is hosting the game? Is the host's game crashing?

[stable nebula]

Any way to force client to update? Wanted to see if an unity/amd issue was resolved with the update to unity version.

[quasi vault]

I did go into the ashland without the drakkar a couple times, I just sailed along the border to find the closest landmass and sent it. First time it was so close I reached it before the boat was even destroyed. The second time I wasn't as lucky but I just climbed a spire, jumped from the top to the closest ones, swam there and a couple spire later I was on the ground

[last osprey]

enemies don't attack structures outside of crafting stations, portals and fire sources unless they're both aggroed on you and said structure is either in their way or they can't reach you and just smash stuff.
Creatures only aggro on you when they see you. So build walls around your bridge.

[merry vector]

they will openly attack chests as well ...

[last osprey]

Right. And one or two other things iirc? Can't really remember, "fire sources and crafting stations" is kinda my mental shorthand.

[proper shadow]

ok so... closed in outpost on a spire, boxed in bridge

also get as close as I can before this

[last osprey]

You could also do a few Moder kills and build (boxed-in) Artisan Tables along your bridge for spawn prevention since they have a natural 40m radius instead of 20m like most other things.

[proper shadow]

oh fun

[open coyote]

This is a dumb take. You're paying Gportal etc. for the hosting service

[waxen field]

Can anyone explain why my chicken refuse to eat barley?

[thorn spire]

My guess is that it's a pathfinding issue. Usually is when they won't eat. I just fed mine barley, so they should.

[waxen field]

Maybe it's the hitbox

It's right in front of it... they just don't touch it

let me try different food

They won't eat anything

They're all hungry but don't touch it

Oh, what, it was the 1x1 floor tile on top of their head?

[echo sparrow]

they eat seeds

[glad current]

They eat barley too; but yeah they might have wanted more headroom!

[rose sentinel]

They need space and not too many of them in an area.

[last osprey]

I've got mine in 1x1 cages. And too many just stops them from making eggs, they'll still eat.
They're just a little finicky about where they'll eat from so your best bet with any farm design that isn't just flat ground is just throwing seeds all over the place and watch which ones they'll eat.

[echo sparrow]

oh shoot i knew seeds & dandelion, but did not know barley was in there too!

[rose sentinel]

Barley is great because you can farm it in huge quantities.

[waxen field]

Also put them in 1x1 squares, kept the egg drops 10m away from them, even 12m

[steep tusk]

Can you not farm... everything in huge quantities?

[rose sentinel]

Well, yes. But barley just feels so... compact. I dunno!

[waxen field]

maybe because of the space

I just rebuild the entire farm and will try again later

[jade rapids]

Well. You can save the money, and host it your self for free. On and 10 year old potato laptop. Why pay money to someone for a fraction of power, network and hardware, that doesn't help you when there is a issue?

[waxen field]

It worked once, chicken managed to escape somehow, tried doing it again, they stopped eating, so I just let them roam around free for now

[steep tusk]

I would say barely looks like it takes less space because the plant itself is larger. But the spacing between center points is the same as it is for other plantables.

[open coyote]

Some people don't have spare 10 year old laptops, the knowledge to maintain the dedicated server, want to deal with keepnig the laptop on 24/7, etc. Like apply critical thinking here

like how are you at the very beginning of the "are dedicated servers worth it as a concept or not" discussion still

[jade rapids]

True. But then they get what they pay for.

[open coyote]

What are you insinuating with that, since you know they're paying like $15/month for it

[jade rapids]

Exactly

[open coyote]

No, not 'exactly', your response is not congruent with the question

[jade rapids]

They pay for a service, they receive a service. If not, take it with the company you pay the money to.

[open coyote]

Yes, as you know, everyone already knows that. How does that connect with any of the points here

[jade rapids]

15$ for each game server, for a year. Lets say for 3 games. That get you up in money really fast. Especially if you know that there is no magic trick behind hosting, other then scale.

[dusk prawn]

Did the Hotkey "T" have a use before the patch?

[steep tusk]

Pls don't spam multiple channels..

[dusk prawn]

nobody noticed me at first 🤷🏽‍♂️

[uneven dome]

I posted in the steam-bugs channel, but wasn't sure if that's the right place.
I didn't see any other comments on this in the server. I can't seem to de-construct the new Fey Lights. They don't highlight to de-construct them and they aren't taking damage from weapons. Is this a user error, or is this how they're designed?

SOLVED: nvm, they just have a small target area at the ends where they're attached.

[cerulean acorn]

How the get the materials for the new axes?

[thorn spire]

I haven't found them yet either, but I'm guessing inside meadows chests.

[tired root]

Certain wooden buildings.

[desert dock]

Is it me or why hasn't the 5th anniversary patch come out to steam yet. Am i the only one who's having issues?

[tired root]

||WoodHouse2|| and ||WoodHouse6||, to be specific. Remember searching from unexplored areas.

[desert dock]

Nevermind it worked. Just had it on public test.

[quasi vault]

It wasn't updating for me until I left public test

[twilit hawk]

Hey, I'm playing valheim with no mods at all. I have a dedicated server running on debian and with steamcmd, I made an update; but it updates only to 0.221.6. When trying to connect, i get an incompatible version since locally i have 0.221.10. What am I doing wrong?

[odd wren]

Am I supposed to find the other bosses on my own? I killed ekythir and theres no set location for the next boss at the sacrifical stones

[marble roost]

There's other stones with that red mark on them that will show you the location of new bosses, but they will be in different areas.

Eikthyr was the meadows boss, next you need to kill the Black Forest boss. To find his location, you need to find one of the marked stones at either a stone tower in the black forest or in a burial chamber in the black forest (all rng if one will be there or not, keep searching new locations until you find one)

[odd wren]

Thank you so much!

[clever crane]

Is there a way to access my character still if I swap to the old version of the game? This one is breaking mods. When I swapped to the older version of the game in Steam, it doesn't let me choose my existing character

[compact heath]

Your character was updated and is now not backwards compatible, if you use a local character save, do this: copy all these character saves into a different folder so they are safe, then downgrade Valheim to stable_old or whatever version is called before the patch, then only keep a character backup from before the patch in the game character save folder, boot up Valheim and should be there

[hallow plaza]

youre probably best off using mods to cheat the skills and items back on a new character

[hallow plaza]

explore the next biome, do dungeons/ poi's, thats how you locate all bosses

[twilit hawk]

Found the solution in #dedicated-server ; had to do an update of steamcmd itself

[opaque sapphire]

Does anyone know anything about modding valhiem? im having issues that i wasnt having last night when i got off

I have a pic of the error if anyone needs it

[crystal kiln]

recent patch bricked most mods, may be caused by that

[opaque sapphire]

damn was the patch today?

How can i rollback before the patch

[golden remnant]

In Steam, you should be able to right click on the game in your library and hit properties, then under Game Versions & Betas you should see the previous stable version

[crystal kiln]

may not revert saves tho

[opaque sapphire]

I got it! Thanks alot

[opaque sapphire]

Okay

would that cause issues?

[crystal kiln]

could mean your save isnt useable without some tinkering until the mods are updated

[opaque sapphire]

Okay ill see

[true steeple]

#mods-discussion

[quiet plover]

mb wrong server

[tame plank]

I can’t update the game, me and my friend are both on Xbox, he managed to update the game but I can’t, the update isn’t even appearing

[subtle parrot]

Are you by chance connected to the PTB?

[tame plank]

Yes and I can’t disconnect because my account isn’t an adult one and the account that is won’t let me disconnect because I bought the game on my main account

[hollow jackal]

i cant find the incinerator on the valheim wiki, was it removed=

[subtle parrot]

Hmm I'm not sure how to solve that, but if you can fix that, then disconnect from PTB and it should be able to update then.

[subtle parrot]

Obliterator

[hollow jackal]

ahh thanks!

[jolly steeple]

Am I bad person if I gift this game to my friend? He's always asking me if I want to play some modded DayZ, so I want to gift this game to him as a reminder for the next time he asks me.

[rose sentinel]

No, I think that makes you a good person.

[hollow jackal]

what is better against a bear, a battleaxe or iron sword=

[marble roost]

I'd say probably the sword? Battleaxe is best for if you wanna stagger, but bears are kinda hard to stagger other than with parries

[west bough]

Hmmm Id say sword for being easier to maneuver

BA is slow and needs some practice to use, not to mention the stamina management

[marble roost]

Personally I honestly think I'd rather have bear paws than an iron sword. Those things are pretty nasty, managed to get a bear to 25% hp before it could react. And that was on hard which has a -15% damage penalty

[west bough]

He has to kill the bear first lmao

[marble roost]

(I don't personally know Tom, I don't know if he's killed bears yet or not)

[west bough]

(im just assuming he hasn't)

[weary ginkgo]

whats the best weapon for killing bears? im at bronze age. finewood fire arrows bow is meh

[marble roost]

Bronze sword. Really just anything with slash damage, so bronze axe would work as well

[weary ginkgo]

thankyou homie

[hollow jackal]

yeah i have, im already in swamp

maybe best to ask what is better for swamp and further lol

I have 100 iron bars, but dont know where to use it on. Got lv3 iron mace and lv3 iron buckler, and a lv2 battleaxe now, the rest is bronze lv3

and wearing full bear armor

[marble roost]

Make sure you have a longship and forge/workbench upgrades too, but otherwise it's fine to save iron. It's good later

[hollow jackal]

Also, I tried to stagger an abomination with it, but that didnt work )both first attack as second attack didnt), did i do something wrong?

[hollow jackal]

Why a longship if i may ask?

[marble roost]

A bit faster, doesn't get rocked off course when it's stormy, tankier, and has more storage. Only costs 10 iron

[subtle parrot]

Bear paws are good until mountains, then you can upgrade to the next fist weapon. Or you could switch to the iron mace and then upgrade to frostner. Or even iron sword and upgrade to silver sword.

[marble roost]

With iron buckler? Should work fine. Probably just miss timed it. Gotta block within 0.25 seconds of the attack hitting you

A parry can fail (just won't work and you take full damage, don't even get to block), but that's only against enemies that do real high damage and you're using something that's bad at parrying or have very low health. Doesn't sound like that's the case here

[hollow jackal]

nah with battleaxe

there was a video showing a guy permastunning abomination with a battleaxe, but i cant copy it lol

but maybe he used mods or something

[marble roost]

Likely not mods

Just depends on axe skill and how upgraded battleaxe is. If you really wanna stun abomination the secondary is probably best, though you need to hit it several times

If you start off with the first attakc being a sneak attack, it should be real easy

[hollow jackal]

Can you even sneak up on them? Seems like they always detect you

[full mesa]

The person in the video likely had HHS diet aka 2x health food and 1x stamina, do note higher health = can parry hard hitting enemies

And upgraded battleaxe

The block force goes up each upgrade

[marble roost]

They will always "unearth" when you're nearby, but they're still somehow unaware of you. So a quick attack can still get sneak damage

[full mesa]

If you can manage to get the first sneaky attack on them with any iron weapon with their special attacks its almost guaranteed a stagger

[hollow jackal]

Okay will try

For some reason the most i encountered were already unearthed and walking around for some reason

[full mesa]

You probably triggered them earlier and didnt notice

Whilst running around in the swamp frantically looking for crypts lol

[hollow jackal]

This could very wel be true lole

[full mesa]

The hunger for iron is crazy

[hollow jackal]

What would be the best food combo in your opinion?
Serpent stew, turnip stew and sausage?

[full mesa]

Honestly for a balance diet its HHS, I'd use serpent stew only when needed like fighting bosses and exploring dangerous biomes early on

Going full HHH is "doable" but you need good stamina management

Oh and fyi
H = Health food
S = Stamina food

For me I opt to go for HSS

Since I'm a bit of a speedy and combat boi

[cinder pumice]

Hi, Using a control, how do I configure it to bend over with a single click?

[full mesa]

Thats above my paycheck aka me not having a controller

But just wait a bit and someone might explain and help

If no one has responded try asking in #valheim-chat

[tawny solar]

My friend said that his character and his world got deleted, he tried restoring backups but it didn’t work. How could he get his character and world back?

[subtle parrot]

I'm trying to figure that out too, it used to be just a click, but now i have to hold it down for a second to crouch.

[soft stag]

Hi guys, my game keep crashing, i tried everything but nothing works...Where can i put the log? thanks...

[fathom badge]

When is it crashing, and do you have any mods installed (or have you ever had them at any point)?

[wide lynx]

Hey yall! Do you know if you can find the early axe heads on a world that was created before the update as long as we look in places not loaded before????

[soft stag]

never put mod on the game and crash after 5/10 min usually

i put the log on steam-bugs-discussion

[untold forge]

so I rent a server on Dathost and since the update today my game version shows 0.221.10 and dedicated server shows 1-0.221.10 and cant figure out what to do here.im not a tech person at all just host for buddys to play on can anyone help me figure this out?

[fathom badge]

Gotcha... yeah, just looked through that log and it doesn't show any kinds of errors in the logs. If it crashes after an unpredictable amount of time and not after a specific action that is typically looking more like a hardware or driver issue. Can you reset the graphics mode to low and see if that changes anything?

[fathom badge]

That is more of a dathost question, not sure why their version is reporting differently. Perhaps it has mods or something installed? Might also ask in #dedicated-server

[subtle parrot]

Yes

[wide lynx]

[gusty onyx]

how do people farm flametal ore?

seem kind of messy and it is so heavy you can only carry like 30 or so

[subtle parrot]

I bring a portal a shield core bubble and a bunch of basalt bombs and set up a small camp near a few pillars

[gusty onyx]

takes a lot of stuff to do all of that and protect it

I guess graustein is everywhere so you dont really need to bring it

[subtle parrot]

A few walls to block line of sight on them is good

And plenty of bones for fuel around

[gusty onyx]

but thats 10 wood, 7 iron, 5 copper and core

well plus the two molten cores for the portal

[subtle parrot]

Indeed, that's why i try to find a spot with multiple pillars

[rose sentinel]

I prefer to just knock over forts.

[subtle parrot]

Makes it more worth it, but still it's just what i do, it's not necessarily efficient though

[gusty onyx]

I need more metal to break into a fort 🙂

have to make the ram

[terse condor]

Is there a better way to transport a tamed boar instead of harpoon? we build a huge corridor and it wont move u_u ... a simple rope?

[plush pier]

I find it easier to transport them when they are aggressive still but that might be too late for you

[terse condor]

yeah... a bit too late.. its a 2 star and we tried when it was aggro but it kept going back... we were afraid it would despawn

[plush pier]

Theyll try to trot alllll the way home if you let them
But it wont happen because they cant travel further than the loaded zone around your character (they stop behaving)

The ones that despawn are from raids or night spawns

Maybe just night spawned? I dont remember if raid spawned mobs respawn

[terse condor]

no, it was found in day time

[plush pier]

Night spawning would be a wolf thing so not a problem with boar

Usually people have more issues with wolves despawning not boar
Just keep in mind you have to be near the boars general area for it to tame

[terse condor]

yeah, its tamed

[subtle parrot]

Have you tried pushing it and putting up walls behind you in the corridor as you move so it can't run back?

[plush pier]

Harpooning the boar into a Drakkar would be the most "surefire" way but that requires a Drakkar 😥

The mobs go out of the longship fairly easily

[terse condor]

yeas, im doing it that way, but it keeps running back

[gusty onyx]

hmm, do resistances get applied before the protection bubble?

[plush pier]

If you breed it with another boar then the new baby boar that is 2 star wont do that

[subtle parrot]

Would still have to move it though

[terse condor]

oooh ok

yeah, but the huge wall is already built

[compact heath]

Just bring the portal and portal it home, very easy imo, if the portal is a tiny bit protected its even better

[broken abyss]

so now that the new update is out does our world update with the changes, like can we find the axes and stuf

[gusty onyx]

is there some trick to mining the whole flametal rock before it sink?

[waxen field]

Is it possible to cultivate the marble looking soil found next to the towers in the mistlands?

[marble pagoda]

nope

[steep tusk]

Gotta find the grass.

[waxen field]

damn, ight, thanks you two

[subtle parrot]

In unexplored meadows yes

[tawny solar]

My friend said that his character and his world got deleted, he tried restoring backups but it didn’t work. How could he get his character and world back?

[pliant merlin]

Modded?

[compact heath]

if his world and char had been updated to newest version, and then he rolls back because of broken mod, both world and char will then not be backwards compatible

therefore disappear until the versions match again

[tawny solar]

Not modded, just normal character and world

[compact heath]

so he updated Valheim and both char and world were just gone? this should not happen, havent heard of it happening in that way

[pliant merlin]

C:\Users[Username]\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds_local and same with character, have a look there.

[gusty onyx]

mods?

[tawny solar]

It happened to me but it was with mods, worked just fine yesterday and now all my stuff is gone

[tawny solar]

Correct

[compact heath]

mods break things, if someone adds mods (modifactions) to their game

[pliant merlin]

Lots of mods are having issues after this patch, give it a day or two if its modded

[compact heath]

yeah was to be expected, new unity engine version

[tawny solar]

I’ll keep that in mind for my character, would doing stuff with files work for my friend’s character and world?

[compact heath]

I use so little in mods I hardly notice if one breaks, and often play with 0 mods because you need to for PTB

[compact heath]

possibly, if you have a char save and a world save and have valheim running on the same version it should work with backups

[pliant merlin]

Tell your friend to look in those files for missing worlds and characters, it should be there if theyre saved.

[tawny solar]

Will do, thanks

[compact heath]

also can try move saves from cloud to local etc and see what you can find and make copies of

[tawny solar]

I’ll tell him that to

[broken abyss]

thank you!!

[arctic current]

hey guys can anyone please join my world and help me get my stuff back?

[waxen field]

Chicken farm still didn't work, why the hell

[slate forge]

Does anyone know how to make the new frosted sweetbread?

[subtle parrot]

I think it's cloud berry, egg, flour, honey
On the prep table

[normal ingot]

Anyone know the console command for unlocking all research?

[slate forge]

awesome thanks!

[normal ingot]

trying to see everything that can be build

[subtle parrot]

Nocost

[normal ingot]

ty

[humble crescent]

did you get help? there is a body recovery club somewhere around here

[arctic current]

lol kinda, i just went alone on a raft it was awesome

[barren talon]

hi guys, can somebody help me? my world was erased, can anyone help me get it back?

[turbid meadow]

Thinking of making an Ashlands base above the waters, suspended above two crags. I'm concerned about Bonemaws shooting my base, especially the underside which will be especially annoying to repair. Will ballistae be a good countermeasure for bonemaws? Will they even aim fast enough to be able to reliably shoot them?

[coral swift]

Why can’t send pic ?

[last osprey]

Enemies don't attack bases (outside of certain player base structures like crafting stations, portals and most fire/light sources) unless they're already aggroed on you and can't reach you.
Since the Bonemaw has a ranged attack that just means it'll always shoot at you or not at all. So you may not need the ballista at all.

That said ballista should work - the attack animation for Bonemaws spit attack is more than long enough for a ballista to get off 2-3 shots easily and they're large, slow targets in the first place.

[late cape]

Which chat do I ask for help to find out why my friend in another state hasn't gotten the update yet

[true steeple]

Are they on the public test branch? This patch didn't go through public testing so it's only on the main branch.

[late cape]

I'm not sure what that means im not exactly tech savy

He lives in iowa

[true steeple]

Did he play Call to Arms during the public test or not?

[late cape]

No

He tried redownloading and clearing his cache but he hasn't gotten the update yet

We're both on xbox

[waxen field]

I can't get the chicken to eat, what the hell 😭 I rebuild the entire farm 4 damn times already, nothing works. they're not even eaten when the food it inside their cage

*Hen

May it be they patched it?

If anyone here has a working 1x1 Hen farm, could you send me a dm about how you built it or how it looks in game?

[warm karma]

Hey hey I was wondering if you're in a world hosted by a server (ex with gportal) and players progression events is enabled let's say we killed the eldar is it possible that a raid of goblin spawns In ??

[glacial oyster]

Can someone help me, we lost our servers .db file and the world is now corrupted(map progress gone, trees are in water weird floating stones and structures).
The server is hosted on a local machine running linux.

[marble roost]

Shouldn't no. Should only enable goblin raid if you touch Moder's trophy or drop. Or kill / touch the drops of the fuling miniboss

[proper orbit]

Most hosted servers have a backup, also if you have cloud storage enabled you can retrieve it that way if ur was under your steam account

[glacial oyster]

it was self hosted , the .fwl file is there but the .db file is missing

[proper orbit]

Since it was self hosted, just login to that steam account if you have access. When you goto play, browse the backup menu and see if you can retrieve via cloud storage if you have it enabled.

Since you said Linux, were you using native or compatibility Like Proton-10 etc

Reasons why I'm asking this because steam will have these files in the steam pfx folder

What I mean by native vs compatibility layer is Linux x64 binary or did you host under Windows like Wine/Proton

[glacial oyster]

native

[proper orbit]

Because you said you found the *.fwl I'm assuming you are in the right directory correct such as ~/.config/steam/userdata/[pfx id]/[steam game id: 892970]/remote/worlds/

Dunno if you have any backup software, like timeshift etc...

Could check those

Try the steam approach first, but it's also a good idea to chron job backups if you plan on hosting

[glacial oyster]

no backup sadly

[proper orbit]

Well know you know for future reference to secure future worlds

Also enable cloud storage, you get 10gb free

[glacial oyster]

whats pfx id?

[proper orbit]

Well this is id generated by steam, it's int32 integer (so far I've noticed) of your steam account instead of using the GUID (Int64)

[muted juniper]

So I have been playing valheim for years and have never had this issue before. But I can not get my game to update. When the 0.221.10 update patch came out my bisect hosted server updated but my game on my Xbox console is still the 0.221.4 update. When I try to join the server it says that I need to update the game and won't let me join. I have searched for the update but it is not showing up. I Have hard reset my Xbox, have uninstalled the game and reinstalled the game 5 times. But it will not update or even show me there is an update. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this.

[quasi vault]

Are you on the public test version if there's even one on xbox?

[muted juniper]

I am in the regular game preview version you buy in the Xbox store.

[quasi vault]

All I could think of, on steam you had to switch from PTB for it to update

[muted juniper]

Yeah, I dont think there is anything to switch on the Xbox. When I go into manage game it shows the game, my personal saved data, and reserved space. But all.i can do is delete them I can't alter them.

[manic gyro]

But you never joined the ptb (via the insider hub xbox app)?

[muted juniper]

Oh, I did on the app. But then I deleted the app.

Would i need to get the app back and leave the ptb?

[quasi vault]

May be worth a try at this point

[manic gyro]

Very likely, yes

[muted juniper]

After re-downloading the insider hub app and leaving the ptb. I Uninstalled valheim and reinstalled it. When I went to play it then said I needed to update and it started updating automatically. Thanks for the help!!

[coral swift]

I am magician form on mistland with my warrior friend should I use 2 eitr food 1 full max life or 3 eitr food ?

[frosty frost]

2 eitr 1 stam

[marble roost]

Depends on combat skills I suppose. If you find yourself dying sometimes having a hard time, I'd say 2 eitr, then either an hp, stamina, or feast.

3 eitr is probably the ideal setup because you can tank everything by spamming protection staff and dodging attacks, but that does require decent skills because a wrong move can land you dead

[marble pagoda]

3 eitr is cursed

[marble roost]

0.5 or 1 Eitr is my personal favorite

[bleak gust]

im a new player in a server wih my friend, and we are in black forest second map, how can we get brozne weapons? is there a easy way to farm those red cubes?

[marble roost]

Only way to get red cubes (that early at least) is to go in the burial chambers in the black forest, and hope you get lucky with it having a lot of them

Once you have the cubes you can build the things you need to smelt metals. To actually get the metals, you need to kill eikthyr, use its drop to make a pickaxe, then mine copper and tin in the black forest

[bleak gust]

ok, i alr got the pickaxe and 8 of the cubes

[proper orbit]

2 eitr , 1 stamina is what I go with. No need for health if you got staff of protection and healing pots etc

[marble roost]

Getting at least 10 cubes is ideal, but technically you could start smelting with just 5. It would be tedious though because you'd have to build the charcoal kiln, make coal, then deconstruct it to make the smelter

[merry crane]

you can get by with 5 to get started, you jut have to destroy your smelter/kiln and switch to whichever you need at the moment, then destroy and build the other to switch back

[bleak gust]

oh, so when i destroy one, i get the cubes back from it?

[merry crane]

Yeah

I just started a fresh run last night and got 5 cores in the first dungeon, so that's what I'm going to do tonight to get a cauldron going real quick and prepare a little better. No black forest on my small starting island

[tacit breach]

Personally I do about 150 coal, then switch to smelting. Not so tedious that way.

[merry crane]

Yes, you can stockpile coal then switch

I'm doing that while I cook like 100 deer meat then I'll head out for my tin lol

[tacit breach]

Yeah, now I know to go for cores first. So while I am using the kiln for coal, I go out and get the metals.

Some times I am even lucky, and get 10 before I worry about the metal ores.

[tall sleet]

Hey there y'all ... I hope this is the right channel for this.

I was on the Player Test Realm for a long while and the new patch dropped. I checked to see if it was on the PTR and it wasn't. So I switched back. I know I would lose a few things and I honestly wasn't worried about it. However ....

I use mods mostly for QOL things. One of them is Odins Food Barrels. It is no longer working. When I load the game I see error messages flash on the commandd prompt popup window going through the mod loading. Is anyone else finding this issue and have you solved for it yet?

[tacit breach]

Mods often break, and this time they broke because they also tweaked the engine.

[bleak gust]

but how do i get bronze? and from bronze, how do i turn it into swords.. armors...

[marble roost]

Updates break mods. Developers of mods will (probably) fix them evenetually

[orchid scarab]

I would highly recommend you put a little extra effort in and collect quite a few surtling cores before getting into smelting. They will not go to waste, I promise you.

Just need your bronze weapon real quick? Sure cool, do that with your initial 5 slowly. But 30 surtling cores gets you 3 smelting furnaces (which will do 1 stack of ore per go) and 3 charcoal kilns to match.

[tacit breach]

At your forge, when you have one.

[tall sleet]

And I noticed the mods channel after typing this one out ... apologies.

[marble roost]

Get copper (big green nodes in Black Forest)

Get Tin (Small silvery deposits near the beach in black forest)

Smelt them both

Make a Forge

Make bronze by combining copper and tin in forge

[bleak gust]

aight, thanks yall

[marble roost]

Once you get bronze, it's obvious how to make weapons with it

[tacit breach]

Also make nails.

[bleak gust]

we found a boss location on the dungeon, but on the way there, my friend died and got really frustrated with the game

[bleak gust]

what is it?

[tacit breach]

Nails. They allow you build other important things.

[marble roost]

Just focus on making bronze first. The rest, like what Robert mentions, will make sense later

[tacit breach]

The game videos do make a point of pointing out how often you can die in this game. So yeah, it can get frustrating.

[bleak gust]

i can make nails by using bronze only right?

[tacit breach]

Yes.

[bleak gust]

alright, tysm fellas!

[marble roost]

Also just general advice, really listen to what the crow (hugin) says. There's no tutorial, but that thing is most the guidance you need

[bleak gust]

about navigation, can i get faster boats? mine got stuck in shallow waters

[bleak gust]

oh, i do that everytime he appears

[marble roost]

The raft is very bad, most people don't even make it. Once you get bronze you can make a good one

It'll still get stuck in shallow water, but it'll be much faster

[tacit breach]

The raft got stuck? Pretty shallow water there.

[bleak gust]

YEAH, lol

[tacit breach]

Just break it down with an axe.

[bleak gust]

alright, thank u, very excited for the rest of the game, never saw anything related to it or its endgame

[marble roost]

Staying mostly spoiler free really adds to the experience, I wish you good luck!

[turbid bramble]

I have a question about the new weapon "Early Axes". I've been searching for the locations of the materials, but my map exploration is quite high, and I've almost completely cleared Abandoned House. What should I do? I've also repeatedly explored previous areas, spending several hours without any results. Please tell me what I should do.

[thorn spire]

I think you'll have to keep searching for meadows that haven't yet been generated.

[coral swift]

What is the best resist for queen ?

[turbid bramble]

Thank you for your reply... but I have almost no unexplored meadows left... this seems a bit troublesome.

[thorn spire]

You may have to resort to other means then. bring it in from a new world or use commands.

[quasi vault]

Poison and pierce for a couple of the attack that deal those

[marble roost]

Likely would have to go on a new world and explore for them, then go back to your old world

Best advice I have. There’s always gonna be some stuff that gets locked out from new updates if you’ve explored a lot

[unique sierra]

What if I haven't explored much and still have meadows area to explore, could I find the Early Axes head?

I generated my seed prior to the update

[subtle parrot]

Yes any unexplored areas will generate new content

[unique sierra]

Type shit nice thanks guys

[waxen field]

What's the best armor to prepare for the Ashlands?

I use Krom as my main and parry a lot

[marble roost]

Probably carapace. I guess a case could be made for maybe 1 piece of fenris or using root harnesk, but on normal difficulty and if you don't have a lot of experience with ashlands, I'd definitely go with the carapace

[waxen field]

Isn't root harness weak to fire?

Also the fenris cape

[marble roost]

Tiny spoiler alert: There's not a lot of ||fire damage|| in Ashlands

Fire weakness can also be fully ignored with barley wine fire resistance, while still giving you the full amount of resistance

But carapace is just simpler and not a big difference, especially if you don't know which attacks deal pierce