#Difficult Recipes For Portals, Boats and Map Only /w Cartography Table. PORTALS WILL BE RARE! HARD

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brave meteor
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I have a dedicated PC in my house that will host this server, and that will be its sole purpose (I have a separate PC to actually play on it). Items that assist with traversal will be exceedingly difficult to obtain. For instance, portals will require significant resources from the Swamp and Mountains, including Iron & Dragon Eggs. World Map is over double the area of vanilla with a 50% larger radius (15,000 meters). Progression will be SLOW! Portals will feel EARNED, and creating infrastructure such as bridges and paths / roads, will be necessary. Difficulty will be HARDEST, which will make Ashland's an absolutely monumental effort.

I have been working on creating this world for the past several weeks, and have a preliminary test build up and running, with several modified recipes as a proof of concept. I am looking to find 5-10 dedicated players who are interested in this concept. It would be even better if you are seeking to offer input into the server's world build as I'm seeking consensus from participants before finalizing the concept and taking the server live (ideally within 1 to 2 weeks).

-Difficult: Very Hard
-Portals: Much more difficult to acquire than vanilla recipes
-No Map, except for with cartography table
-50% larger world radius
-Boats: Much more difficult to acquire than vanilla recipes
-Fresh Characters Required (bringing in items from another server will result in instant ban)
-Player-Based Raids
-Shared Progression (no rushing Boss Fights)
-Resources: 1x
-No Exploits (namely the swamp dungeon chair trick)
-Go it Alone or Join the Group (as long as you don't rush progression).
-Other Item recipes may be changed, such as certain crafting tables or upgrades.

Also feel free to join our discord channel to discuss and contribute to the exact execution of this concept before it goes live! https://discord.gg/S7GPfc5Y

sleek berry
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What would the time frame for bossing look like?

brave meteor
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Hey

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I think there would basically be no rush. Obviously we could do eikthyr relatively quickly. If I had to guess, the timeline would be a week to the Elder, just everyone getting situated. Maybe another week or two for bone mass, and just play it by ear from there

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But a lot of the gameplay will be gathering rare items and trophies to establish portals. I want getting a portal to feel like a super power. I really love playing no map no portal worlds, so I still want that type of gameplay to be prominent, even if we can eventually cobble together the resources for a portal

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It would represent a substantial effort to do so. Something like, 50 Iron, 2 dragon eggs, rare trophies etc. And just based on the materials required to make one, doing so would be prevented until at least the swamp / mountain biomes. So setting up infrastructure would be crucial. We would have to do a lot of the early game on foot, carry our supplies in wagons etc. And I do intend to make boats significantly more expensive to produce as well

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The goal is to make Valheim more like an MMO, while maintaining most of the core gameplay. The items are still the items, the enemies are still the enemies (but on very hard mode), but instead of questing for experience or equipment, we'd quest for things that would allow us to progress further, such as crafting tables, or progress quicker, such as portals

sleek berry
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I like this concept a lot. I do have a few questions though

  1. Does over progressing pertain only to bosses, or does it also mean no digging random holes for iron, no going into mountains to tame, or hunt wolves, no trophy hunting for early portals, etc?

  2. Will portals allow transferring of normally banned items? (dragon eggs, metals, etc)

  3. Will there be other content besides more challenging recipes? As in some either questing, armor, weapons, architecture, or general gameplay mods to stop from tunnel visioning?

  4. Will it be PVE, no stealing, no raiding, etc?

Some extra questions cause I am not too familiar with valheim modding as I haven't played really any modded dedicated servers.

What are player based raids?
what is shared in shared progression? Or is it just a term to express the desired gameplay

brave meteor
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I've also done this exact type of server setup before, and it was very promising. I learned a lot and I think this is going to be even better

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  1. Just boss progression, everything else is on the table. 2. Normal portal rules, no transporting metal. 3. I haven't really considered this, but I don't think so. It just breaks the vanilla gameplay vibe too much. Also, if I change recipes for equipment, that's a slippery slope to having to readjust every single recipe in the game
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that's a lot of balancing I'm not prepared to do. So I'm limiting it to a certain class of items, IE portals, boats, and crafting tables and upgrades, that I think will serve sufficiently to slow down the pace of the game and make it more MMO like. 4. Yes, no stealing, though that can be hard to moderate, so I would recommend using totems if you want to make absolute sure. But you're free to corporate or go it alone as much as you'd like. BRB in a few minutes to answer the rest of your questions

sleek berry
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I'm interested, I only have two other questions I can think of. You mentioned a live launch, as well as the current search for 5-10 players. Is this separate? Will it eventually be open to public or is the "live server" going to be the private 5-10 players?

and when can we play?

edit: Also, is VC required?

brave meteor
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  1. I'll help you with modding. It's really not difficult. 6. Player based raids basically means raids happen proportionately to progression. So if you're a new player on a server and haven't killed any bosses yet, you're not going to get high level raids destroying your new base. Shared progression means, no one is going to go ahead of the larger group to kill bosses on their own. They can progress in any other way however. In valheim you can basically do just about everything without killing bosses, so it's not as much of a limit as you might think.
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The search for 5-10 players is leading up to the live launch. I'll need some more time to finalize the configuration, hopefully input from the people interested in playing. I'll also need more time to recruit people who are interested, as this is an incredibly niche type of server, it may not appeal to the largest audience

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VC is not required, any form of cooperation isn't required either. I'd like to see a mix of people going off to do their own thing and others grouping up to progress together. In terms of when we can play. I'm thinking the timeline right now is one to two weeks. Which should be enough time to recruit enough interested people, take their suggestions into consideration and reconfigure the server accordingly. I want to be flexible about it though if conditions change

sleek berry
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I'm 100% interested. Both in playing and maybe offering suggestions. I also might have an additional person interested, but waiting on his response. Do you have a separate discord or group chat for the server?

brave meteor
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No, though, I'll go ahead and make one now that you're mentioning it. Yeah, input would be very much appreciated. I do have what I think is a strong vision for this server, but the exact execution can vary somewhat. Like which ingredients are required for portals/boats/crafting stations. What should the world area be relative to vanilla? Should it be vanilla continent types or something more unique?

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I'm very much open to input on all of that. But the goal is to make progression slower and more rewarding. To make things like portals feel important and well earned, but also not to make sure they're not acquired too early, too easily or too often, so that many elements of a no map / no portal play style are preserved

sleek berry
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I'll think about some of that overtime, and hopefully can provide something for you. Please let me know when you get a discord set up, I'd like to be updated 🫡

brave meteor
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Well, glad to have you on board. I'll let you know as soon as I've configured the channel

sleek berry
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Joined 🫡

brave meteor
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good deal. Right now I have a spreadsheet on google sheets that holds various items and my initial idea for which materials they should require. So I can share that, or adjust it based off of input from people who participate like yourself

brave meteor
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Bump, we're having very productive conversations about the cost of certain items, join in and help shape this hard core server!

brave meteor
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Bump!

brave meteor
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New Day New Bump!

brave meteor
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New Day New Bump! Setup is going great! All mods are in place and several members are helping me explore the world to make sure the configuration is optimal. Server goes live on Friday, 2/13! Get in on the ground floor!

brave meteor
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New Day New Bump!

brave meteor
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Bump, come join our server. We start extensive testing this weekend and go live next Friday!

analog jetty
brave meteor
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Hmm?

brave meteor
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hmm

analog jetty
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Invite link is dead above

brave meteor
brave meteor
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Bump! Testing starts this weekend, we go live next Friday! Join our unique server and get in in the ground floor!

brave meteor
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Testing Starts Tomorrow! We Go Live Friday 2/13! Have 21 Players in Channel.

brave meteor
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Bump, we're testing tonight, come join and get setup before we go live on Friday 2/13!!!

brave meteor
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Bump, get connected before we go live on Friday 2/13! Get connected now to make sure you can be there at the very start Friday 2/13 7pm EST!

brave meteor
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Rare Portals Starting This Friday! Join Our Server and get Connected so You're Ready to hit the Ground Running!

gilded folio
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Hello i'm interested in this but i'n european Spanish, my english is OK. Can i still join?

trim pilot
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Hello, I'm interested

brave meteor
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Bump! Rare Portals is LIVE! Been live since Friday but we just killed Eikthyr! Come join the fun!

azure prairie
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im down

brave meteor
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hey passetto

brave meteor
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Bump! Server is going strong! We've been live about two weeks, and have progressed to Elder, with Bonemass planned for this Sunday at 8pm EST. Entire eastern half of the world is unexplored! Come Join the Fun! We'll help get you started!