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Y’all building big hubs aren’t thinkin’ with portals.
Each “out in the world” portal doesn’t have to be paired/connected at all times. You can re-tag them at will.
You plop a portal out anywhere you need, but back home you have 2-3 that you can connect to any other portal for the needs of the moment. Tag your map locations with the portal names, and connect a home portal as needed.
One thing I’ve noticed though is that when switching connections, you want to completely un-tag the portal before connecting to a new one. Otherwise it doesn’t always make the switch.
Y’all building big hubs aren’t thinkin’ with portals.
Each “out in the world” portal doesn’t have to be paired/connected at all times. You can re-tag them at will.
You plop a portal out anywhere you need, but back home you have 2-3 that you can connect to any other portal for the needs of the moment. Tag your map locations with the portal names, and connect a home portal as needed.
One thing I’ve noticed though is that when switching connections, you want to completely un-tag the portal before connecting to a new one. Otherwise it doesn’t always make the switch.
before your swamp explorations uncover (swamp spoilers!)
a fire spout
this is an extremely good method!
Afterwards I think it's OK to go dedicated and aim for the dramatic!
Picked this on sunday on a whim.
Now i have 30 hours played, i'm wearing full troll set, and desperately seeking more rocks to raise the ground level around my longhall to put up a proper elevated wall.
Also got my first bronze item (axe, though it seems kinda flimsy compared to flint axe so will use it only when i need to go get fine wood) done and a cart, though as i seem to live on an island (i think, there's a land bridge i have not explored yet that might lead to a mainland) the cart is not that useful (good thing i built a bridge earlier to another island where most of the copper and tin i have found is).
Should probably build a boat and start exploring wider, walking around is getting bit tedious.
Though i did build a raft, that i never used, which went missing on its own, so kinda worried of loosing a boat while travelling, probably should bring enough building materials for a second boat with me just in case.
If there is a complaint i have of this game, it is how i have to put every crafting thing into close proximity of each other.
work bench, forge, upgrade thingies to work bench and forge (thankfully charcoal kiln and smelter can be on their own), i don't have room for another buidling for all of that (have forge in 3x3 building and a workbench in the mainhall at the moment), i guess i'll have to see if i can get them to work on the pier (too exposed the game says, guess just roof and some pillars are not enough).
Also got my first bronze item (axe, though it seems kinda flimsy compared to flint axe so will use it only when i need to go get fine wood)
I'm guessing your flint axe is upgraded and your bronze axe isn't?
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Should probably build a boat and start exploring wider, walking around is getting bit tedious.
Though i did build a raft, that i never used, which went missing on its own, so kinda worried of loosing a boat while travelling, probably should bring enough building materials for a second boat with me just in case.
Boats are much faster than walking. And bringing mats for a second boat is a good idea. You never know when a boar will decide to go ham on your boat while you're off doing something else and you come back to a wrecked boat.
That was a long walk back to base, but at least it was possible...
If you always make sure to leave it somewhere shallow, you should get all your materials back from a wrecked boat. The nails can sink, that’s why beach it.
Or... bring portal mats. Break down boat at your destination, portal the mats back to safety, go exploring.
Also got my first bronze item (axe, though it seems kinda flimsy compared to flint axe so will use it only when i need to go get fine wood)
I'm guessing your flint axe is upgraded and your bronze axe isn't?
Yeah I find the initial jump to the next material tier after fully upgrading the previous tier isn't all that big of a jump until you start upgrading that next tier. What you're mainly getting is increased durability than damage I've found once you start upgrading.
kbam. I can't imagine building more complex stuff without a mouse.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
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.
Yeah, a single hearth covers a ton of space.
I've got like a 12 x 14 house and it covers basically all of it. Even the 2nd floor!
Should probably build a boat and start exploring wider, walking around is getting bit tedious.
Though i did build a raft, that i never used, which went missing on its own, so kinda worried of loosing a boat while travelling, probably should bring enough building materials for a second boat with me just in case.
Boats are much faster than walking. And bringing mats for a second boat is a good idea. You never know when a boar will decide to go ham on your boat while you're off doing something else and you come back to a wrecked boat.
That was a long walk back to base, but at least it was possible...
If you always make sure to leave it somewhere shallow, you should get all your materials back from a wrecked boat. The nails can sink, that’s why beach it.
Or... bring portal mats. Break down boat at your destination, portal the mats back to safety, go exploring.
If you build a small camp near where you're landing - workshop, campfire, chest, enough walls/roofing for those to work - that seems to be enough that mobs won't spawn within aggro range of it unless you're also close to it.
I think the only place I've lost a boat to mobs was on the first swamp base a bunch of us built on the server, but that place was basically Viking Iwo Jima given how thick the resistance was, and half of the spawns were leeches...
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......
Keep in mind once on shore if the line breaks it basically super slides back into the water as quickly as possible. I haven't experimented a lot but it appears that trying to drag it too far onto land will break the line.
So I mapped my starting islands entire coastline and the island seems kinda big, all meadow and black forest too. There is another island to the south fairly close but too far to swim. Need to explore that, think that is the island with the Elder icon on it it seems. Also it seems a decent channel so might put a house there and make it my main with my first boat. Haven't needed a boat due to my islands size.
RightfulSin on
"If nothing is impossible, than would it not be impossible to find something that you could not do?" - Me
After you get a hoe you make a flat place to build a hut.
Before you get a hoe you just worry about function. Since removing stuff gets all the resources back there is no penalty to tearing down your first uglies.
P.S: Now I have to build a Hutt (a Jabba the Hutt) statue in Valheim at some point.
Fiendishrabbit on
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Should probably build a boat and start exploring wider, walking around is getting bit tedious.
Though i did build a raft, that i never used, which went missing on its own, so kinda worried of loosing a boat while travelling, probably should bring enough building materials for a second boat with me just in case.
Boats are much faster than walking. And bringing mats for a second boat is a good idea. You never know when a boar will decide to go ham on your boat while you're off doing something else and you come back to a wrecked boat.
That was a long walk back to base, but at least it was possible...
If you always make sure to leave it somewhere shallow, you should get all your materials back from a wrecked boat. The nails can sink, that’s why beach it.
Or... bring portal mats. Break down boat at your destination, portal the mats back to safety, go exploring.
Portals are the preferred solution once you have enough excess materials. If you’re in early bronze though you probably don’t have enough for more than one or two destinations
Wat? Each burial chamber you clear (and Black Forest is riddled with them) is good for at least one pair of portals, probably 3, sometimes even 4. They’re pretty easy with just any shield.
Should probably build a boat and start exploring wider, walking around is getting bit tedious.
Though i did build a raft, that i never used, which went missing on its own, so kinda worried of loosing a boat while travelling, probably should bring enough building materials for a second boat with me just in case.
Boats are much faster than walking. And bringing mats for a second boat is a good idea. You never know when a boar will decide to go ham on your boat while you're off doing something else and you come back to a wrecked boat.
That was a long walk back to base, but at least it was possible...
If you always make sure to leave it somewhere shallow, you should get all your materials back from a wrecked boat. The nails can sink, that’s why beach it.
Or... bring portal mats. Break down boat at your destination, portal the mats back to safety, go exploring.
Portals are the preferred solution once you have enough excess materials. If you’re in early bronze though you probably don’t have enough for more than one or two destinations
Wat? Each burial chamber you clear (and Black Forest is riddled with them) is good for at least one pair of portals, probably 3, sometimes even 4. They’re pretty easy with just any shield.
I think there's a serious need for being able to build with prefab templates so you can drop, like, a 4x4 area with a wall and floor down in one go.
Building is fun, it's the leveling ground that will kill you.
At least if you're doing absurd things like leveling an entire meadows.
n... not that I know anyone doing that or anything
If you have a fuckton of stone, there is an absolute maximum above sea level that they will let you raise terrain with a hoe. You can make a very tall perfect level plateau.
Incidentally, I make tiny lighthouses on shores with this method, because you can’t place bonfires on anything but natural ground. Just a maxed out column of raised terrain with a hoe.
My first house (now dismantled to build my current longhall) was built on pillars on top of a large rock on the shore.
Mistake there, no place for a fire because built it too high.
Made another smaller building for cooking beside it and got it barely close enough to place a bed for sleeping in range.
Really like the terrain altering in here, though i wish flattening was more, well, flattening, and i that could make smoothing inclines for roads.
Does the flattened ground start growing grass again? Or is my starter island going to have flat brown spots on it forever more?
Also got my first bronze item (axe, though it seems kinda flimsy compared to flint axe so will use it only when i need to go get fine wood)
I'm guessing your flint axe is upgraded and your bronze axe isn't?
Yeah, but i now have upgraded the bronze axe as well, and it still feels like more flimsy.
Does birch just cause more durability loss than beech?
Also harder to repair on the move, maybe i should build a sword for fighting.
Or a spear, though i find hitting things with a spear bit clumsy, i keep missing things unless i am practically standing on them.
Does the flattened ground start growing grass again? Or is my starter island going to have flat brown spots on it forever more?
You can change texture with the hoe. That includes grass.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I have successfully crossed the Tiny Ocean (a lake with a dot of Ocean in the middle) by way of the Broken Sandbar using a rickity footbridge and have made landfall across the waters.
There I found a diamond of meadow that jutted forth from a mighty and deadly black forest, and so there I have built and am now fortifying Thornsister, a precarious foothold in the strange new world. With the sea to the north, west, and east, and the black forest immediately in view to the south, Thornsister must be heavily fortified, for there is only the frail but bold footbridge to escape to should the trolls seek to halt my advance.
"Ok finally ready to get my corpse from the swamp!"
*hops in boat and begins sailing*
"Hmm... the wind changed to the wrong direction and it's getting dark anyways... I'll wait until morning."
*looks around*
"You know this would be a good place for a shorehouse as it's about halfway between the one I launched from and the swamp also there's plenty of fir and pine trees on this little island chain..."
*spends two hours building a relatively pointless shorehouse*
"Wait! I shouldn't sleep here. If I do I'm going to be screwed if things go south and I spawn here."
*sails back to the home base to get portal materials*
"Why is it after midnight I don't even have my corpse yet!"
The wolves fuck up in the cages there, pop out a cub, which slides down the ramp into the smoke box. They don't die until they mature into adults, because their heads don't reach the smoke yet when they are smol.
Who ever came up with that will either become a serialkiller or a middle-manager in the meatpacking industry.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I have my corpse (mostly) and a portal placed in an incredibly silly spot but I'm out of stone, don't have a pickaxe on me, and don't feel like wandering the swamp trying to find loose stones to pick up is going to be a productive use of time or end well.
Oh well, once I get home link up a portal to this one it's gonna be smooth sailing from there! (he said knowing he'll be explaining how he got his dumb ass killed doing something stupid in the swamp in the near future)
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The patch broke the ability for my friends to connect to my dedicated server, I troubleshot it all evening to no avail, but it was definitely working for a couple weeks before the patch. I hope that gets fixed soon, but this kinda hiccup is expected with early access.
Besides that I'm really enjoying the building aspect of the game. We only just got to Stone Cutting and I don't think we're in any rush to get to the next bosses, as we're all very much interested in designing a couple of bases.
The wolves fuck up in the cages there, pop out a cub, which slides down the ramp into the smoke box. They don't die until they mature into adults, because their heads don't reach the smoke yet when they are smol.
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Each “out in the world” portal doesn’t have to be paired/connected at all times. You can re-tag them at will.
You plop a portal out anywhere you need, but back home you have 2-3 that you can connect to any other portal for the needs of the moment. Tag your map locations with the portal names, and connect a home portal as needed.
One thing I’ve noticed though is that when switching connections, you want to completely un-tag the portal before connecting to a new one. Otherwise it doesn’t always make the switch.
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
before your swamp explorations uncover (swamp spoilers!)
Afterwards I think it's OK to go dedicated and aim for the dramatic!
Now i have 30 hours played, i'm wearing full troll set, and desperately seeking more rocks to raise the ground level around my longhall to put up a proper elevated wall.
Also got my first bronze item (axe, though it seems kinda flimsy compared to flint axe so will use it only when i need to go get fine wood) done and a cart, though as i seem to live on an island (i think, there's a land bridge i have not explored yet that might lead to a mainland) the cart is not that useful (good thing i built a bridge earlier to another island where most of the copper and tin i have found is).
Should probably build a boat and start exploring wider, walking around is getting bit tedious.
Though i did build a raft, that i never used, which went missing on its own, so kinda worried of loosing a boat while travelling, probably should bring enough building materials for a second boat with me just in case.
If there is a complaint i have of this game, it is how i have to put every crafting thing into close proximity of each other.
work bench, forge, upgrade thingies to work bench and forge (thankfully charcoal kiln and smelter can be on their own), i don't have room for another buidling for all of that (have forge in 3x3 building and a workbench in the mainhall at the moment), i guess i'll have to see if i can get them to work on the pier (too exposed the game says, guess just roof and some pillars are not enough).
I'm guessing your flint axe is upgraded and your bronze axe isn't?
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
If you always make sure to leave it somewhere shallow, you should get all your materials back from a wrecked boat. The nails can sink, that’s why beach it.
Or... bring portal mats. Break down boat at your destination, portal the mats back to safety, go exploring.
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
Yeah I find the initial jump to the next material tier after fully upgrading the previous tier isn't all that big of a jump until you start upgrading that next tier. What you're mainly getting is increased durability than damage I've found once you start upgrading.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
Should I play with kbam or a gamepad
kbam. I can't imagine building more complex stuff without a mouse.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Yeah, a single hearth covers a ton of space.
I've got like a 12 x 14 house and it covers basically all of it. Even the 2nd floor!
If you build a small camp near where you're landing - workshop, campfire, chest, enough walls/roofing for those to work - that seems to be enough that mobs won't spawn within aggro range of it unless you're also close to it.
I think the only place I've lost a boat to mobs was on the first swamp base a bunch of us built on the server, but that place was basically Viking Iwo Jima given how thick the resistance was, and half of the spawns were leeches...
Keep in mind once on shore if the line breaks it basically super slides back into the water as quickly as possible. I haven't experimented a lot but it appears that trying to drag it too far onto land will break the line.
It's not too bad, just takes awhile.
I think there's a serious need for being able to build with prefab templates so you can drop, like, a 4x4 area with a wall and floor down in one go.
After you get a hoe you make a flat place to build a hut.
Before you get a hoe you just worry about function. Since removing stuff gets all the resources back there is no penalty to tearing down your first uglies.
P.S: Now I have to build a Hutt (a Jabba the Hutt) statue in Valheim at some point.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Wat? Each burial chamber you clear (and Black Forest is riddled with them) is good for at least one pair of portals, probably 3, sometimes even 4. They’re pretty easy with just any shield.
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
? I only got 3 cores with the one I found.
Building is fun, it's the leveling ground that will kill you.
At least if you're doing absurd things like leveling an entire meadows.
n... not that I know anyone doing that or anything
If you have a fuckton of stone, there is an absolute maximum above sea level that they will let you raise terrain with a hoe. You can make a very tall perfect level plateau.
Incidentally, I make tiny lighthouses on shores with this method, because you can’t place bonfires on anything but natural ground. Just a maxed out column of raised terrain with a hoe.
Mistake there, no place for a fire because built it too high.
Made another smaller building for cooking beside it and got it barely close enough to place a bed for sleeping in range.
Really like the terrain altering in here, though i wish flattening was more, well, flattening, and i that could make smoothing inclines for roads.
Does the flattened ground start growing grass again? Or is my starter island going to have flat brown spots on it forever more?
Yeah, but i now have upgraded the bronze axe as well, and it still feels like more flimsy.
Does birch just cause more durability loss than beech?
Also harder to repair on the move, maybe i should build a sword for fighting.
Or a spear, though i find hitting things with a spear bit clumsy, i keep missing things unless i am practically standing on them.
You can change texture with the hoe. That includes grass.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
There I found a diamond of meadow that jutted forth from a mighty and deadly black forest, and so there I have built and am now fortifying Thornsister, a precarious foothold in the strange new world. With the sea to the north, west, and east, and the black forest immediately in view to the south, Thornsister must be heavily fortified, for there is only the frail but bold footbridge to escape to should the trolls seek to halt my advance.
*hops in boat and begins sailing*
"Hmm... the wind changed to the wrong direction and it's getting dark anyways... I'll wait until morning."
*looks around*
"You know this would be a good place for a shorehouse as it's about halfway between the one I launched from and the swamp also there's plenty of fir and pine trees on this little island chain..."
*spends two hours building a relatively pointless shorehouse*
"Wait! I shouldn't sleep here. If I do I'm going to be screwed if things go south and I spawn here."
*sails back to the home base to get portal materials*
"Why is it after midnight I don't even have my corpse yet!"
https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/lwm1ui/fully_afkable_meat_farming_machine/
The wolves fuck up in the cages there, pop out a cub, which slides down the ramp into the smoke box. They don't die until they mature into adults, because their heads don't reach the smoke yet when they are smol.
The Elder sucks!
Who ever came up with that will either become a serialkiller or a middle-manager in the meatpacking industry.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
That is amazing.
And also horrifying.
Mostly the horrifying thing though tbh.
Oh well, once I get home link up a portal to this one it's gonna be smooth sailing from there! (he said knowing he'll be explaining how he got his dumb ass killed doing something stupid in the swamp in the near future)
He really did not care for you!
I never did find the spear I threw at him. So much bronze.
Besides that I'm really enjoying the building aspect of the game. We only just got to Stone Cutting and I don't think we're in any rush to get to the next bosses, as we're all very much interested in designing a couple of bases.
Aside from that you can grow grass once you get access to the cultivator
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Aside from that you can grow grass once you get access to the cultivator
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Clearly the work of a Minecraft player.