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Two more trolls have been claimed by Trollkill Tower and its extended defensive line, and I finally have a decent amount of core wood. Alas, this seems to be about the end of my homeland's land islands, so I must scour the world so I can find some more friggin' cores and start getting further along.
There are still copper and tin resources to be mined, and the troll den I found is sure to house a couple more threats, but the lack of cores is really limiting things right now. I could also use some bones so I can finish out my troll suit, and while there may be some more back at the old stone towers I want to start branching out already.
I apparently got strangely lucky/unlucky with my word seed because I haven't even fully revealed my starting continent yet, its crazily massive. I've found every biome on its interconnected landmass.
This is good because I can walk/run to basically anywhere.
This is bad, because walk/running is slow compared to sailing, and the last attempt at mapping the coastline ended in deathsquito air assault.
Also bad because I haven't even been able to reach the Bonemass yet, because so far away.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
My starting zone is 90% meadows with a hint of black forest here and there at the edges. It's makes for a very relaxing home based but it means that rafting is *required* to get anywhere in the game.
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Rear Admiral ChocoI wanna be an owl, Jerry!Owl York CityRegistered Userregular
Our starter is an enormous meadow/black forest mix with 1 tiny swamp and 3 small mountains.
Still haven't found that fucking merchant.
When I set out to find my map's merchant, we circumnavigated our central island and then kept moving out to find any landmass in eight directions around it
I've heard there's a bias towards the centre but I've also heard of spawns far out as possible and some seeds with no spawn at all - my compromise was I refused to cheese the guaranteed seed near spawn until I at least looked at every landmass closest to the central island
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ThegreatcowLord of All BaconsWashington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered Userregular
We finally found ours last night after about 3 days of dedicated searching. The understanding seems to be that the Trader will always spawn within a fixed radius of the starting Altar in the Black Forest biome but I don't know what that radius exactly is. But that it will be within a potential distance of that and won't be located at something like the ass end of the map or something. Pretty much you have to get relatively close to it, but once you do, a coinpurse will appear on your map indicating his location.
I'm so glad we focused on that because we were working on the swamp biome a ways from our base and something similar happened like
Our world has a single swamp that we've pulled over 1000 iron out of. It has 15 crypts in it.
Holy shit
Spool's world. Found a swamp with like 9 crypts that netted us about 20 stacks of Iron in total. Let me tell you, at 10lbs per iron scrap, you really appreciate that extra 150lbs of carrying capacity the trader belt gets you when you plop it on. Plus that glowing mining helmet makes crypt spleunking much much more manageable.
Apparently, there's a bug in the game where if birds land on a boat, they can take control of it and fly off with it. There's video footage of the bug here:
In the last few days I have fortified Trollkill Tower with a bridged gorge out front. The trolls only ever come from that direction, so I now have quite a few ways to kite them back into Trollkill's deadly embrace.
That established, I found a good spot to throw a quick dock together and did a bit more scouting. I discovered mountains! I am not going anywhere near them!
I took my boat and set sail to start filling my map and found myself quite at odds with the wind, and ended up spending most of the day waiting out a storm in the tiniest ocean once could imagine. But finally I got through and... hit a sand bar? It turns out that there is not-quite-a-land-bridge near my main base, which leads to a quite stately black forest with tall pines calling for my axe.
I have begun the task of making a foot bridge out of this sandbar, from which I can invade all the way across the waters. Once there I can begin my raids, and perhaps build Trollkill Tower a robust and thorny sister once I've cleared enough land.
I've almost leveled the entire meadow where my main base is going to be built. More importantly I've leveled the spot where I plan to build my portal house which I want to make a four level circular tower that has all of the outer walls lined with portals.
So I set about deforesting the Black Forest west of my current base so that I can get enough core wood in order to at least plan out the foundation.
I just gave it a go and realized that ok, making a circular tower is not going to be trivial and the footprint I was planning on was far too ambitious. But that's probably ok because some napkin math would have netted a building that housed probably 100+ portals which seems, uh, excessive :P
I've almost leveled the entire meadow where my main base is going to be built. More importantly I've leveled the spot where I plan to build my portal house which I want to make a four level circular tower that has all of the outer walls lined with portals.
So I set about deforesting the Black Forest west of my current base so that I can get enough core wood in order to at least plan out the foundation.
I just gave it a go and realized that ok, making a circular tower is not going to be trivial and the footprint I was planning on was far too ambitious. But that's probably ok because some napkin math would have netted a building that housed probably 100+ portals which seems, uh, excessive :P
We've got like...20 or so portals built so far and more to come so I think 100+ portals is maybe almost enough
The good news is that actually no I can't use logs to build a five story tower.
So this will be limited to a mere 35 portals once I get the roof figured out.
Unless I get creative.
So I'm shooting for 80 portals on two floors.
Just, like, watch your step.
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valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
I set out with the materials to build a portal and despite running into plains four more times I finally found swamp!
And then my boat got stuck as I was trying to find a decent place to land and build which no biggie except something jumped in my karve. And then I died to poison because despite having 8 full stacks of poison resist mead I didn't bring any of them with me.
...
But now I know where what appears to be a large area of swamp is!
I just have to build a new karve and I'm home free.
Except that means mining more copper.
...stupid nails.
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ThegreatcowLord of All BaconsWashington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered Userregular
So we've finally nailed down how many people can successfully strip the barnacles off those kraken islands that spawn in the ocean. It looks like 3 folks strategically spread out and get all of the Abyssal Chitin off the head before it sinks so that's handy to know. Looks like each island will give you between 60-80 Chitin if you manage to get all the Barnacle spawns. I think we have enough to make 3 abyssal spears now!
Also holy hell Abyssal spear, I freaking WISH I had you when I first started the swamp biome. Being able to completely neutralize those goddamn leeches would have been welcome 20+ odd hours of playtime ago.
So we've finally nailed down how many people can successfully strip the barnacles off those kraken islands that spawn in the ocean. It looks like 3 folks strategically spread out and get all of the Abyssal Chitin off the head before it sinks so that's handy to know. Looks like each island will give you between 60-80 Chitin if you manage to get all the Barnacle spawns. I think we have enough to make 3 abyssal spears now!
Also holy hell Abyssal spear, I freaking WISH I had you when I first started the swamp biome. Being able to completely neutralize those goddamn leeches would have been welcome 20+ odd hours of playtime ago.
How does the Abyssal Spear work when you don't have a team of people backing you?
From what my friend said who was testing it out with the leeches, the strategy is to spear the leech, drag it out of the water and then quickly swap to another weapon to finish it off. When you un-hook it from the spear, the AI of the leech will 100% commit it to fleeing back into the water before it starts attacking you again, giving you time to whack away at it with your other weapon. For boars, he found they immediately revert to their manic running around and occasionally goring you when they get back in range.
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I spent a few minutes putting up a shitty hovel and realized the construction system is way more involved than I was anticipating and I may need to look up some resources on it so I don’t live under a crumbling roof the whole time
psn tooaware, friend code SW-4760-0062-3248 it me
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ThegreatcowLord of All BaconsWashington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered Userregular
So we've finally nailed down how many people can successfully strip the barnacles off those kraken islands that spawn in the ocean. It looks like 3 folks strategically spread out and get all of the Abyssal Chitin off the head before it sinks so that's handy to know. Looks like each island will give you between 60-80 Chitin if you manage to get all the Barnacle spawns. I think we have enough to make 3 abyssal spears now!
Also holy hell Abyssal spear, I freaking WISH I had you when I first started the swamp biome. Being able to completely neutralize those goddamn leeches would have been welcome 20+ odd hours of playtime ago.
How does the Abyssal Spear work when you don't have a team of people backing you?
From what my friend said who was testing it out with the leeches, the strategy is to spear the leech, drag it out of the water and then quickly swap to another weapon to finish it off. When you un-hook it from the spear, the AI of the leech will 100% commit it to fleeing back into the water before it starts attacking you again, giving you time to whack away at it with your other weapon. For boars, he found they immediately revert to their manic running around and occasionally goring you when they get back in range.
So it sounds like solo <spoiler> hunting is right out then.
Yeah it definitely shines in groups, but from what I heard and as Peas said, it works on damn near EVERYTHING. It's how we finally killed our first
serpent
too. You spear the
serpent
while on the boat, then hightail it as fast as you can to a shoreline and you basically just drag it ashore to dispatch it at your leisure with melee weapons. The mats make a fantastic shield too, on the level of Iron, and one of them drops enough for a Shield with one to spare along with meat which also gives impressive stats as well.
I spent a few minutes putting up a shitty hovel and realized the construction system is way more involved than I was anticipating and I may need to look up some resources on it so I don’t live under a crumbling roof the whole time
Yeah I sunk several hours trying to construct my first home yesterday. One of the biggest surprises when laying support pillars was that you have to make sure your ground is perfectly level when setting the pillar. I found that out after laying the 2nd floor and wondering why my support pillars were already yellow/orange by the 2nd story and found my base pillars were basically on floating floorboards and already stressed. Cut to me frantically ripping up the floorboards like a maniac and then raising/leveling the ground over and over again to make them steady for about an hour and got it fixed.
Still trying to work out cross-braces and support beams though. That's some witchcraft right there.
I spent a few minutes putting up a shitty hovel and realized the construction system is way more involved than I was anticipating and I may need to look up some resources on it so I don’t live under a crumbling roof the whole time
Look back a few pages, I wrote a First House build guide that will get you started.
So we've finally nailed down how many people can successfully strip the barnacles off those kraken islands that spawn in the ocean. It looks like 3 folks strategically spread out and get all of the Abyssal Chitin off the head before it sinks so that's handy to know. Looks like each island will give you between 60-80 Chitin if you manage to get all the Barnacle spawns. I think we have enough to make 3 abyssal spears now!
Also holy hell Abyssal spear, I freaking WISH I had you when I first started the swamp biome. Being able to completely neutralize those goddamn leeches would have been welcome 20+ odd hours of playtime ago.
How does the Abyssal Spear work when you don't have a team of people backing you?
From what my friend said who was testing it out with the leeches, the strategy is to spear the leech, drag it out of the water and then quickly swap to another weapon to finish it off. When you un-hook it from the spear, the AI of the leech will 100% commit it to fleeing back into the water before it starts attacking you again, giving you time to whack away at it with your other weapon. For boars, he found they immediately revert to their manic running around and occasionally goring you when they get back in range.
So it sounds like solo <spoiler> hunting is right out then.
Yeah it definitely shines in groups, but from what I heard and as Peas said, it works on damn near EVERYTHING. It's how we finally killed our first
serpent
too. You spear the
serpent
while on the boat, then hightail it as fast as you can to a shoreline and you basically just drag it ashore to dispatch it at your leisure with melee weapons. The mats make a fantastic shield too, on the level of Iron, and one of them drops enough for a Shield with one to spare along with meat which also gives impressive stats as well.
Wait what.
I’ve never drug one on shore.... just killed from the boat and recovered the meat by jumping in......
I spent a few minutes putting up a shitty hovel and realized the construction system is way more involved than I was anticipating and I may need to look up some resources on it so I don’t live under a crumbling roof the whole time
Yeah I sunk several hours trying to construct my first home yesterday. One of the biggest surprises when laying support pillars was that you have to make sure your ground is perfectly level when setting the pillar. I found that out after laying the 2nd floor and wondering why my support pillars were already yellow/orange by the 2nd story and found my base pillars were basically on floating floorboards and already stressed. Cut to me frantically ripping up the floorboards like a maniac and then raising/leveling the ground over and over again to make them steady for about an hour and got it fixed.
Still trying to work out cross-braces and support beams though. That's some witchcraft right there.
Ya. My current house is "ok" but it still has some cold spots in it. I am needing to rebuild it with better stuff, its just normal wood and I have core and fine wood stuff now. Not sure if I want to just wait til stone tech though. I not sure if ready for second boss though. I got a lvl 3 bronze spear and shield, lvl 3 fine bow with bronze head arrows, and a full set of lvl 3 troll leather set.
"If nothing is impossible, than would it not be impossible to find something that you could not do?" - Me
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ThegreatcowLord of All BaconsWashington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered Userregular
So we've finally nailed down how many people can successfully strip the barnacles off those kraken islands that spawn in the ocean. It looks like 3 folks strategically spread out and get all of the Abyssal Chitin off the head before it sinks so that's handy to know. Looks like each island will give you between 60-80 Chitin if you manage to get all the Barnacle spawns. I think we have enough to make 3 abyssal spears now!
Also holy hell Abyssal spear, I freaking WISH I had you when I first started the swamp biome. Being able to completely neutralize those goddamn leeches would have been welcome 20+ odd hours of playtime ago.
How does the Abyssal Spear work when you don't have a team of people backing you?
From what my friend said who was testing it out with the leeches, the strategy is to spear the leech, drag it out of the water and then quickly swap to another weapon to finish it off. When you un-hook it from the spear, the AI of the leech will 100% commit it to fleeing back into the water before it starts attacking you again, giving you time to whack away at it with your other weapon. For boars, he found they immediately revert to their manic running around and occasionally goring you when they get back in range.
So it sounds like solo <spoiler> hunting is right out then.
Yeah it definitely shines in groups, but from what I heard and as Peas said, it works on damn near EVERYTHING. It's how we finally killed our first
serpent
too. You spear the
serpent
while on the boat, then hightail it as fast as you can to a shoreline and you basically just drag it ashore to dispatch it at your leisure with melee weapons. The mats make a fantastic shield too, on the level of Iron, and one of them drops enough for a Shield with one to spare along with meat which also gives impressive stats as well.
Wait what.
I’ve never drug one on shore.... just killed from the boat and recovered the meat by jumping in......
Oh yeah it's fantastic. As long as you remain on the boat, it'll remain "latched" onto you and then you simply pull up to a coastline, and you can literally drag the entire thing ashore. I haven't tested it solo but at least while it was harpooned, once ashore it was completely docile and you could whack it to death with simple melee weapons. Made collecting the goodies a lot easier!
Major downside is that you have to move somewhat quickly as while it's harpooned, it will periodically bite the backside of your ship as you're towing it along. Seemed to be hitting for about 30-40 damage a bit so you'll have to mosey. Typically what we did was soften it up with Arrows first, and then once it got down to 25% health we'd harpoon it and drag it ashore for finishing.
I spent a few minutes putting up a shitty hovel and realized the construction system is way more involved than I was anticipating and I may need to look up some resources on it so I don’t live under a crumbling roof the whole time
Yeah I sunk several hours trying to construct my first home yesterday. One of the biggest surprises when laying support pillars was that you have to make sure your ground is perfectly level when setting the pillar. I found that out after laying the 2nd floor and wondering why my support pillars were already yellow/orange by the 2nd story and found my base pillars were basically on floating floorboards and already stressed. Cut to me frantically ripping up the floorboards like a maniac and then raising/leveling the ground over and over again to make them steady for about an hour and got it fixed.
Still trying to work out cross-braces and support beams though. That's some witchcraft right there.
Ya. My current house is "ok" but it still has some cold spots in it. I am needing to rebuild it with better stuff, its just normal wood and I have core and fine wood stuff now. Not sure if I want to just wait til stone tech though. I not sure if ready for second boss though. I got a lvl 3 bronze spear and shield, lvl 3 fine bow with bronze head arrows, and a full set of lvl 3 troll leather set.
I'm having the same problem with my larger house. It seems like the regular fires can only support a warmth radius of about 2-3 floor panels before dissipating so there are definite "cold spots" in my house that I have to figure out. My guess is it probably won't be resolved until I unlock stone and upgrade to a full hearth or something.
I spent a few minutes putting up a shitty hovel and realized the construction system is way more involved than I was anticipating and I may need to look up some resources on it so I don’t live under a crumbling roof the whole time
Look back a few pages, I wrote a First House build guide that will get you started.
Oh yeah that will be incredibly useful, thank you!
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Holy shit
I'm in the process of exploring every landmass next to my starting island/continent.
So far it's nothing but Black Forest or, in a near pants-shitting episode, Plains.
That was after playing Valheim for half an hour.
The moment when you are at the edge of the forest and everything starts dying for some reason
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
This is good because I can walk/run to basically anywhere.
This is bad, because walk/running is slow compared to sailing, and the last attempt at mapping the coastline ended in deathsquito air assault.
Also bad because I haven't even been able to reach the Bonemass yet, because so far away.
Still haven't found that fucking merchant.
When I set out to find my map's merchant, we circumnavigated our central island and then kept moving out to find any landmass in eight directions around it
I've heard there's a bias towards the centre but I've also heard of spawns far out as possible and some seeds with no spawn at all - my compromise was I refused to cheese the guaranteed seed near spawn until I at least looked at every landmass closest to the central island
I'm so glad we focused on that because we were working on the swamp biome a ways from our base and something similar happened like
Spool's world. Found a swamp with like 9 crypts that netted us about 20 stacks of Iron in total. Let me tell you, at 10lbs per iron scrap, you really appreciate that extra 150lbs of carrying capacity the trader belt gets you when you plop it on. Plus that glowing mining helmet makes crypt spleunking much much more manageable.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
what the fffffff
it's fine
It was more "Hmm, that's pretty flat, and there's not much for trees maybe this is what the swamp looks like?"
*minimap label changes to Plains*
*Cranks the wheel 100% to port while muttering "ohfuckohfuckohfuckgofasterohfuckohfuckohfuck"*
*Angry buzzing intensifies...rapidly getting closer*
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
Apparently, there's a bug in the game where if birds land on a boat, they can take control of it and fly off with it. There's video footage of the bug here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/lis71o/the_flying_dutchman_an_absolute_staple_of_norse/
In the last few days I have fortified Trollkill Tower with a bridged gorge out front. The trolls only ever come from that direction, so I now have quite a few ways to kite them back into Trollkill's deadly embrace.
That established, I found a good spot to throw a quick dock together and did a bit more scouting. I discovered mountains! I am not going anywhere near them!
I took my boat and set sail to start filling my map and found myself quite at odds with the wind, and ended up spending most of the day waiting out a storm in the tiniest ocean once could imagine. But finally I got through and... hit a sand bar? It turns out that there is not-quite-a-land-bridge near my main base, which leads to a quite stately black forest with tall pines calling for my axe.
I have begun the task of making a foot bridge out of this sandbar, from which I can invade all the way across the waters. Once there I can begin my raids, and perhaps build Trollkill Tower a robust and thorny sister once I've cleared enough land.
So I set about deforesting the Black Forest west of my current base so that I can get enough core wood in order to at least plan out the foundation.
I just gave it a go and realized that ok, making a circular tower is not going to be trivial and the footprint I was planning on was far too ambitious. But that's probably ok because some napkin math would have netted a building that housed probably 100+ portals which seems, uh, excessive :P
The good news is that actually no I can't use logs to build a five story tower.
So this will be limited to a mere 35 portals once I get the roof figured out.
Unless I get creative.
So I'm shooting for 80 portals on two floors.
Just, like, watch your step.
So that should be Thor in his chariot being pulled by his two goats.
And then my boat got stuck as I was trying to find a decent place to land and build which no biggie except something jumped in my karve. And then I died to poison because despite having 8 full stacks of poison resist mead I didn't bring any of them with me.
...
But now I know where what appears to be a large area of swamp is!
I just have to build a new karve and I'm home free.
Except that means mining more copper.
...stupid nails.
Also holy hell Abyssal spear, I freaking WISH I had you when I first started the swamp biome. Being able to completely neutralize those goddamn leeches would have been welcome 20+ odd hours of playtime ago.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
From what my friend said who was testing it out with the leeches, the strategy is to spear the leech, drag it out of the water and then quickly swap to another weapon to finish it off. When you un-hook it from the spear, the AI of the leech will 100% commit it to fleeing back into the water before it starts attacking you again, giving you time to whack away at it with your other weapon. For boars, he found they immediately revert to their manic running around and occasionally goring you when they get back in range.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Yeah it definitely shines in groups, but from what I heard and as Peas said, it works on damn near EVERYTHING. It's how we finally killed our first
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
Yeah I sunk several hours trying to construct my first home yesterday. One of the biggest surprises when laying support pillars was that you have to make sure your ground is perfectly level when setting the pillar. I found that out after laying the 2nd floor and wondering why my support pillars were already yellow/orange by the 2nd story and found my base pillars were basically on floating floorboards and already stressed. Cut to me frantically ripping up the floorboards like a maniac and then raising/leveling the ground over and over again to make them steady for about an hour and got it fixed.
Still trying to work out cross-braces and support beams though. That's some witchcraft right there.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
Look back a few pages, I wrote a First House build guide that will get you started.
Wait what.
I’ve never drug one on shore.... just killed from the boat and recovered the meat by jumping in......
Ya. My current house is "ok" but it still has some cold spots in it. I am needing to rebuild it with better stuff, its just normal wood and I have core and fine wood stuff now. Not sure if I want to just wait til stone tech though. I not sure if ready for second boss though. I got a lvl 3 bronze spear and shield, lvl 3 fine bow with bronze head arrows, and a full set of lvl 3 troll leather set.
Oh yeah it's fantastic. As long as you remain on the boat, it'll remain "latched" onto you and then you simply pull up to a coastline, and you can literally drag the entire thing ashore. I haven't tested it solo but at least while it was harpooned, once ashore it was completely docile and you could whack it to death with simple melee weapons. Made collecting the goodies a lot easier!
Major downside is that you have to move somewhat quickly as while it's harpooned, it will periodically bite the backside of your ship as you're towing it along. Seemed to be hitting for about 30-40 damage a bit so you'll have to mosey. Typically what we did was soften it up with Arrows first, and then once it got down to 25% health we'd harpoon it and drag it ashore for finishing.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
I'm having the same problem with my larger house. It seems like the regular fires can only support a warmth radius of about 2-3 floor panels before dissipating so there are definite "cold spots" in my house that I have to figure out. My guess is it probably won't be resolved until I unlock stone and upgrade to a full hearth or something.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!