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>>1678630 (OP)
Well shit, I was gonna drop a link in the last thread, but it archived as soon as I posted this one. Whoops.

I remember a couple days after i finished the swamp, i got the drakes raid and it was raining
Hot damn they killed me like 4 times. Good thing it happened in a port/outpost of mine so my pigs and base were safe.

>>1678885
Yeah the airborne raids are brutal. Sometimes I'll skip killing bonemass so I don't have to deal with those

How do you find good modded servers

>>1678636
Heh, you actually saved my "study". Something I forgot to add for this image is that the default circle in the middle with the 2 meter log side, has a radius of 5 meters. The next step for a bigger circle is the semicircle which will need a radius of 7.5 meters. To get the half meter needed for everything to clip nicely, I used the wooden door trick with the 3 clipping points. Later I will post a proper screenshot with my attempt to make a lighthouse, but so far it's disappointing. Not necessarily on how it looks, but more about how it works. The trees behind the lighthouse render before the lighthouse, and the flame renders last so it kinda beats its purpose of existence other than design...

>>1678885
I lost my 2 star pig stable during a bat raid, I didn't know these were a thing and I assumed they were safe from dragon raids since I put a roof. Bats flew through the tiny gaps around the roof and slaughtered them all. Now my one star pig stable is vacuum sealed.

>>1678630 (OP)
The shit in the OP pic looks even more basic than what we built right off the start in Valheim.

>>1679361
>The next step for a bigger circle is the semicircle which will need a radius of 7.5 meters. To get the half meter needed for everything to clip nicely, I used the wooden door trick with the 3 clipping points.
Could you circle which bit needs the door trick?

>spears can autoattack
idk why I never put it together that they could, I just assumed they couldn't

>>1680130
This one, and the small red circle is where the half meter is added. Now, if the 7.5m radius circle is your base structure, you don't have to mess with the decimal radius, and just do a 15m diameter and start clipping stuff from there. But if you want to add a circular balcony on a smaller circular base structure, it's better if you do it with the radius just to be safe.

He's what I'd say about the Ashlands having done just about everything besides the boss.

Good
>Initial voyage and making landfall
It's a tense nonstop onslaught of enemies likely to overwhelm anybody who does it for their first time. Once you actually establish a foothold it feels like a mighty accomplishment.
>Flametal Mining and Basalt Bombs
It's also tense, requires coordination and preparation. Probably the least egregious progression material to aquire besides black metal.
>Enemy Design and Atmostphere
It feels like hell. I really like that the Askvins are fully grown Necks.
>New Gear
All of the new weapons armor and magic are awesome, my only criticism is that they restrict Dyrnwyn to 1 per server. Why?
>Grausten
The new build peices are awesome. It's nice grausten is available in such abundance.

Dissapointing
>Enemy Spawm Mechanics
The ways in which enemies spawn in are really transparent and immersion breaking. If you wade into the water Voltures and a Bonemaw will spawn out of thin air in front of you. If you walk back onto land suddenly a big wave of charred enemies will spawn and converge on you. It's clear there is a shoreline threshold there to always keep you under pressure no matter what you do, especially when you make landfall. Also why do charred enemies run away so often? It's also annoying.
>Fortresses
Compared to the initial landing, fortresses are a bit of a joke. Being able to use the battering ram and catapult is cool. But the catapult feels like a total novelty considering you get it only after you take on your first fortress and its more effective to launch your bros over the walls than it is to use the payloads they give you to break them. I'm also surprised there is no ward in the center of the fortress that stops people from simply building up and over the walls. Kind of defeats the purpose of the equipmeny beyond needing to break down the door in the central tower.

Hopefully the boss isn't a total pushover like the rest of them.

>>1680985
>they restrict Dyrnwyn to 1 per server. Why?
funny legendary sword (it's actually shit)

>>1680985
>Hopefully the boss isn't a total pushover like the rest of them.
I went solo melee and it was hell. Not impossible, but hard hard

Guys... if I have "passive enemies" turned on, but I'm trying to level up my blood magic skellies... can I achieve that AFK? Like I tried to burn the dragrs with campfires to aggro them, but they would just walk around the fires... pufferfish? or would that instakill them? ... or maybe I just go into a different world with active enemies and the spawner turned on and just lvl there, I guess. Anyways, let me know if I'm not thinking of something.

>>1682487
>f I have "passive enemies" turned on, but I'm trying to level up my blood magic skellies... can I achieve that AFK?
I don't think so? Idk if your skellies are aggroing on the passive enemies in the first place since I've never used them, but if not, then you might be screwed. Draugrs are immune to poison dmg in any case, so idk if the pufferfish would even work - they might grab aggro but do no dmg? I'd go test it in a solo world with dev commands.

Honestly if you were just gonna afk grind the skill, you might as well give yourself xp with commands. At most I'd get it to like lvl 30 so it's not busted, but you'll still be doing 50% more dmg than at lvl 0.

>playing first time in 3 years
>every mountain I see is surrounded by plains on all sides
>finally find one I can actually approach
>even has a moder waypoint
>sail there
>has mistlands all around it
What the fuck do I do now? Did I just get unlucky with the seed?

>>1683379
Happened to some folks i know
If you dont mind turning on the metals thru portals, just run for it and pray.Be smart with portals and you may make it.
Otherwise just look at the map generator and find there a better mountain

>>1682816
Ehhh just decided to make a zombie spawner killbox on a separate world with enemies active. I went from 20 to 35 with a lot of micromanagement, so I'll need to go in and fix it up later. Once it's AFK-able, it's so nice, bros. I got my last character up to blood magic lvl 80s this way.

>>1683379
mislands is pretty far away from the center so just go in another direction, but also yeah you may have gotten a shit seed

>>1683379
post seed

I really like the mistlands. I like the crazy terrain. I like the glowy trees and shrooms. I like how it introduces magic and really makes a good case for it, since you can use stamina for jumping around the terrain and switch to eitr for fighting stuff, maintaining a nice balance of either one refilling while the other one is being drained. I like the angler fish!!!!! I like the creepy dungeons with secret doors and multiple levels. I like the hunt for the sealbreaker fragments. I like mining giant skulls.
Thanks for reading my blog.

I haven't played in a while. Plains was the farthest i made it but never did the boss. Would really like a small group to start fresh with.

>>1683379
honestly that's not that bad
you can 1-shot the mosquitoes with a bow, lure the goblins into fighting stuff like wolves and greydwarves, and lox are easily avoided

>>1684314
I'd enjoy a comfy /vm/ playthrough too, but I wouldn't be able to take part cuz I broke my hand lol

>>1684324
Ouch what happened anon?

>>1684328
replacing a few worn out shingles on my roof and I cracked my hand with the hammer
luckily it was the last one, so at least I won't have to worry about going back up there

>>1684177
XQanEl5D2D
Moder mountain actually had sea access, so I got her.

I don't care how much people are praising root armor, or say they have to swap to padded once they reach plains. I'm still not gonna drop the Fenris. It looks good, movement speed is the best stat to have, cheap as fuck to upgrade, and looks good above all else.

>>1684599
I'm doing much the same, but I plan on switching to carapace + eitr robe

>>1684576
There was a moder mountain with black forest + meadows bordering it to the southwest of spawn, but you'd have to sail around a continent, and a mountain that didn't have moder directly west of the elder. If you don't mind spoilers, plug your seed into the map viewer in the OP

>>1684599
I wear Fenris until I absolutly have to switch when combat is necessary, even in the ashlands. The voltures can't even keep up with you.

>fuling camp
>doggo by my side
>huntsman bow for stealth kills
>scouting the camp, searching for the shamans and taking them out silently, circling the camp and thinning their numbers with stealth kills
>popping bonemass buff when shit hits the fan
>parrying and almost oneshotting the berserks with one lunge attack of the sword
Yea, it's kino time.

>nearing the end of the content, just need to grind out a few more mats so people can get their upgrades
>could summon the eternal flame whenever we can "rally the troops"
>everybody stops signing on
>halls which were once filled with bros are now empty
>torches and hearths have gone dark
>I am alone in this world of death
Feels sad man. We never killed the queen when the mistlands update came out either.

>>1684867
I wish we could craft armor for the wolves so they weren't so squishy, or special food to boost their health.
Or at the very least make them retreat when low on health instead of doing a suicide charge against a berserker. I really want to bring my wolf along with me when exploring but they just die too easily.

Why did they nerf mosquitos so hard?

>>1685295
Wolves were designed to be expendable, and probably why they will never get some armor. They are glass cannons, easily dishing out 200s and 400s of damage without stagger boost, for me to pull these numbers off I can only do that with a secondary attack after a parry. Not to mention that nothing stops you from having a full pack of them with you.
>I really want to bring my wolf along with me when exploring but they just die too easily.
My first 2star that I tamed still sits safely in his own dungeon. His children on the other hand have populated the nearby islands. I grab one every time I leave the base and I grab a couple when I move to a next island and want to establish a small base. Having a dawg nearby to oneshot everything from greylings to fulings when I'm out harvesting mats is pretty nice without having rocks thrown at me and knockbacking me all the time.

>>1684973
Have any screenshots?
>>1685325
Elaborate

GREYDWARFS WANTED SOME INITIATIVE, SET FIRE TO THEIR ENTIRE BIOME
I'M MOVIN' LIKE YAGLUTH

>>1685325
Did they actually nerf them or are we all traumatized as newbies wearing half upgraded troll armors and getting clapped due to that? They still do around 30 damage each if you let them hit you but most of the times I'm aware of them and either raise my shield, or tap them with my weapon, snipe them from afar with a bow, or at worst case scenario do a roll.

>>1685325
>>1685835
cursory research says they used to do 85 dmg, got nerfed to 75, then buffed up to 90 currently
people died to them from what I assume to be under-preparedness and lack of quality food options that we now have today

>>1686522
them in the plains was never a problem for me, it's them wandering into swamps and ass raping you when you're just try to get iron

>>1685835
>or are we all traumatized as newbies wearing half upgraded troll armors and getting clapped due to that?
>"Woah look at that big rock pillar over there"
>"let's race, last one to touch it is a faggot"
>"oh shit there's a bug coming I wonder wha--ACK"
>*OH SHIT OH FU--ACK*
I will never forget that. I was just sitting on our brand new longboat watching disaster happening and wondering how we were gonna get their shit back and praying it didn't fly over and kill me.

>>1685525
Give 'em hell, bro

>>1686663
KEK
Also watching clips of reactions like these is always fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj_7dPezjls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAUvpSeu-GY

>>1686902
love this one too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PycE-BxG4Cc

>different fish has different recipes now
Amazing.

>>1686663
>>1685835
>newbies wearing half upgraded troll armors
I admit this was my first encounter.
>wandering through black forest
>see pretty fields
>PLAINS
>bzzzzz You Died...

so, whatcha think is gonna be in the great north?

>>1687942
snow, ice and maybe some water

>>1687942
Frost giants for sure

>>1687942
More of those ice golem that hits hard

>>1687942
I hope it will be more than just another mountain.

>>1687942
Hopefully some cool animals like polar bears or mammoths

Raising animals for food falls off too quick, it should last at least 2 biomes not just 1

>>1689216
raising pigs lets you make mincemeat sauce, turnip stews, sausages, etc. which can last you all the way up to mountains
wolf skewers can last you through the
mistlands, and this is also the tier when feasts start becoming viable

lox meat is wanting in terms of recipes tho I will admit, but at least the pies are basically sustainable, if inefficient serpent stews

Server when?

Mistlands gave me cancer, ngl...

>>1690025
Thanks for the warning. About to go there for the first time.

>>1690025
The ashlands will give you aids

Unexpectedly stink bombs are the best weapon for killing rabbits.

>>1690025
Just wait until you make landfall in the Ashlands lol
Hope you brought portal materials and have spare armor and weapons at home

>>1691021
Frost staff is good for rabbit hunting!

>>1691021
as is laying down spikes in areas you often see rabbits in

The hellbomb backpack is the best thing they have added to the game.

>post in wrong tab
>delete post
>something went wrong
>wait a minute
>something went wrong
Fix your fucking website Hiro.

>>1693992
>>1693996
it's close enough to something that could be in valheim that i looked to see what it was

>>1694100
>Fader's boss drop allows you to build the fantasy equivalent of a thermonuclear warhead that you strap to your back
>Detonating it is the only way to open the ice giants coming in the deep north update up to taken damage from your conventional weapons

do not search 'valheim hive boss' it makes mustard g

>nah.. I'd win

>>1695422
you got poop, you can win

>>1695456
Somebody left and ooze on my bed once and my first thought was "wtf there's shit in this game?" I had just never seen the ooze model outside of the swamp before.

>>1695422
Why is everything so blurry? Is that the work of AA, or are you trying to upscale the resolution?

>>1696148
I'm playing on a potato.

>>1696159
I am too, but mine's crystal clear and grainy instead of blurry. Pretty sure you can set the resolution to whatever's native for your monitor, and then lower the resolution scale for similar performance. Not trying to bash you, just trying to help out. Then again idk what works for your setup so

>>1678630 (OP)
https://youtu.be/K4DDLgIJyOs

>>1696248
I don't mind that they are taking their time. I've enjoyed the Mistlands and the Ashlands and the wait times are long enough that my friends have felt like replaying it multiple times.

I tried messing around with some conteny mods last week and most of them are missing a level of quality that the swedes end up achieving.

>>1696447
agreed for the most part, I just thought it was funny

>pack all my shit on a boat
>sail across the whole world to the queen
>out of nowhere gjal bombs the boat
>get to the shore and fight off seekers
>accidentally fall in the water
>drown

>>1696803
>not approaching the mistlands from a neighboring biome
you FOOL

Queen fight is pretty insane.

>>1678630 (OP)
Sealed Towers should have a guaranteed Yagluth Vegvisir at the top; yes/no?

So tired of looking for these 1/100 stone-henge structures.

>>1698900
It also can spawn at smaller structures. Like 3 stone gate, or those little stairs with a chest at the top.
But yes, it is too rare. Most of the time I stumble upon the altar itself before finding any vegvisir.

>>1699312
Oh I know it can spawn at the smaller structures, I'm asking if you guys think it should also spawn at the top of sealed towers

>>1696447
>install whatever the most popular weapon and armor mod is
>end up with base game stuff anyway

debating whether to cheat in the fishing hat, or try to get it legitimately ASAP in a playthrough. I imagine magmafish are going to be a gigantic pain due to needing to deal with
>voltures
>bonemaws
>boiling sea

Even with the release of the deep north, we won't get a server, will we

I am scared to go to Ashlands.

>>1701613
We will if you make one.

>>1701845
>I am scared to go to Ashlands.
Same, especially when I hear that the gear kind of sucks because lolgems

>>1701613
I'll probably play it with a small group of people I know, doesn't seem like it'd be good to play with strangers since resources don't respawn and are vital for progression.

>day 250
>finally sailing to ashlands
>get there by night
>storm
>bonemaw
>nope the fuck out of there
>return by morning
>kill a lonely marksman, place portal and shield
>huh, it's not so bad so far...
>suddenly a whole army shows up
>fight the never-ending battle
>realize there is some glowing pillar nearby and maybe landing here was a bad idea
Clearing out the spawner actually made things manageable.
And then 1* warrior walked up to my camp, one shot me, and broke the portal.

>>1704404
I employed the good old raised earth tactic to keep the portal out of range of the melee mobs.

If the devs haven't given the enemies any way to reasonably respond to that by now I don't think they ever will. And I didn't want to use it anymore but they ashlands had me resorting to it once again.

>>1704410
I built a raised earth wall around the camp for the first time ever. Because fuck that place.

Anyone try maining knives? Do they fall off in the ashlands? The last ones you get are skoll & hati in the mistlands, and the bonebois in the ashlands resist pierce

>>1701613
Ehh I pay for an always-online server, but I'm playing with some IRL frens on it. When they get bored, I guess I can wipe it and post a new world on here for anons. But I feel like we'd have to decide on world modifiers and whatnot together. I'm reticent to do mods b/c things breaking with updates is annoying. I always thought it would be fun to do a world where roles are broken up: miner, farmer, logger, etc, but that would require pretty consistent and dedicated people. Idk throw out some ideas.

>>1705452
i promise i won't do anything bad if you let me in

>>1705498
What, like now? It's on EZ mode cause these frens are n00bs and bad at combat (to be fair, one of them is legally blind/lacks lenses in his eyes).
Also, cross play is turned off b/c it lags it up if it's on, so: PC masterrace only

I thought fulings pawning in meadows was retarded, but now seekers too?!

>>1705452
I like the idea of roles but I would not be able to play consistently due to work, so my ore/crop/wood output would be unreliable.
If pvp wasn't so shit I'd suggest factions, but that works poorly in this game I think.
I like to use a bunch of client-side mods that let me do things like rotate any piece in any direction, plant anything, dedicated armor slots in my inventory, diving underwater and so on, which work fine without affecting other players or being installed on the server, but that might be too "cheaty" for a purely vanilla server.

>>1705452
That's very gracious of you anon
>we'd have to decide on world modifiers and whatnot together
I imagine jacking up the difficulty would help slow down people from individually progressing and outpacing everyone else, but it might also detract from the newbie experience if there were any fresh or casual players...
Having there be no map might also be interesting for slowing it all down and keeping everything communal, but that's just me
>I'm reticent to do mods b/c things breaking with updates is annoying
Sounds wise
>I always thought it would be fun to do a world where roles are broken up: miner, farmer, logger, etc, but that would require pretty consistent and dedicated people
Agreed, but at least the latter two jobs aren't too bad. Getting dedicated miners would be kind of a pain just because of how slow and lame it is imo

I also dunno how one would prevent people from joining with endgame characters other than the honor system, but that's a whole 'nother problem. I don't think it'd be much of an issue desu considering that everyone here seems pretty chill.
>>1705676
>one of them is legally blind/lacks lenses in his eyes
D:
>Also, cross play is turned off b/c it lags it up if it's on, so: PC masterrace only
Based, but only because I can't join crossplay servers due to missing windows redist files
>>1705930
Just wait until the Ashlands...
At least you can spawn-proof your base area by spamming workbenches: nothing can spawn within the building radius. Campfires work too, but you can't see their area of effect

>>1706102
>picked a random image
>it was shit
Whoops

>>1706100
I basically live a NEET lifestyle, but I do have a bunch of things coming up this summer. So I'm not sure how often I'll be able to play either.
I don't care if other people want to use mods or whatever--I'm just not going to install them on the server.

>>1706102
Free Build: is fun. But yeah it's kind of cheaty. Also you can skip a whole bunch of things b/c free. If we want to have an epic buildings server tho, we could go this way.
Passive enemies: I do this for the n00bs, but honestly.. it doesn't feel that great. And yeah that guy that is legally blind had glaucoma at birth; I guess back in the 80s their solution was to simply *remove the lenses from both eyes*, so this guy has been in bifocals for his entire life. On the plus side, his hearing is really great, and he has perfect pitch.
Resources: would people want that cranked up to make it less "grindy"?
Anyways, we can figure that out later when the server is ready to be wiped. Right now me and the frens are trying to find more sealbreaker fragments to fight the queen, and then do ashlands (which honestly is kind of nice with passive enemies..!), and then I can reset.

The server is being annoying right now with the steam update from the other day. Idk why, the last update went through just fine, and now this one is saying the server is offline and won't do the update reeeeeeeeeeee

>>1706102
ServerCharacter mod can help with restraining player powercurve somewhat, also encourages online play and progress, instead of cheating shit in singleplayer.

>>1706748
For the future: I've been playing with 1.5 resources solo and it's quite comfy, though sometimes it can seem excessive greydwarf drops, mostly. That said, I imagine 2x wouldn't be much different since some things seem to round up anyway. What you could do is have increased resource gain for the first few days/week/two weeks, until everyone's out of the bronze age, then drop it back down to 1x?

Good luck on the sealbreaker hunt and with getting server wizardry to behave!

>>1707653
Hopefully we can make some progress this weekend on the mistlands.
And apparently the server host website doesn't like brave browser for steam updates :/

>>1704647
Skoll and Hati is fun. I just switched to magic when I hit mistlands tho--leveled that up for ashlands, where magic is NICE

how hard would it be for me to set up a dedicated server on my shitty extra computer

>>1707812
Thanks for the advice, I think I'll do that
>>1708320
Depends on if you know how to port forward

>>1708462
oh i know how to forward ports

>>1708496
.. you gonna share your server with us?

>>1708496
Then that's half the battle - I don't know the rest because I'm a luddite

>>1708553
i have to actually do it first

>>1707812
>for ashlands, where magic is NICE
What do you use? I assumed everything will be resistant to fire, so I packed ice for the landfall. But both staff of frost and staff of fracturing suck ass, so I'm back to throwing fireballs.

>>1708554
https://valheim.com/support/a-guide-to-dedicated-servers/

>>1709211
I guess the joke is that they aren't resistant to fire after all! Staff of frost is actually ok, but you have to put in the time to lvl elemental magic on a golem first anyway. I have a fortress in view now, so gonna try to get that later today and hopefully get the poison vine staff.

>>1709194
You got the whole weekend to figure it out, bro. I believe in you!

>>1709285
>they aren't resistant to fire after all!
they are, the staff of embers just does 50% blunt dmg and 50% fire dmg

>>1709888
oooohhhhhhhh

reminder that you only need about lvl 30 in a weapon skill to be doing 50% more dmg

>>1710087
High lvl blood magic is worth it tho. That bubble is nice padding.

>>1710108
oh no doubt, some people just get disenfranchised when they see how long it'll take to lvl something to like, 50 or 70 or so

When is deep north coming out? Also, what kind of creatures can we expect?

>>1711461
I'd say June-July at the earliest?
Currently, horned seals are confirmed
Maybe frost giants, maybe polar bears, who knows

I don't know what the fuck I am doing in this game and I like it

>>1711642
fun for fun's sake is always good to hear

>>1678630 (OP)
Someone compare the time between the first trailer drop for ashlands to the time it released, to the time the first deep north trailer dropped, so we have an idea of how long it'll be

>>1711726
Wow Mistlands dropped Dec of 2022... such a long time ago...

>>1711726
Jan 2023 - May 2024 between announcing Ashlands as the new biome and when the biome released...
Someone calculate when Deep North should come out then.

>>1712261
~3 months from now

Fuck Ashlands. The worst biome by far.

>>1713520
Go in as a group. It's do-able that way.

>>1713616
I am but one

>>1711461
Next year winter

>>1713520
Its fine, its mistland that's shit to explore

so, pet rock?

>>1718790
I prefer shotgun.

>>1719395
The pet rock is real tho

are the dlcs going to be free

>>1720724
>dlcs

>like 5 monsters
>1 boss
>a map that makes itself
>a dozen weapon models
>1, maybe 2 armor sets if we are lucky
>takes a whole year to develop

>>1720965
trvst the plan
in the meantime, somebody host pls

>>1721057
I have faith that it will be good, but damn does it really have to take so long?

How is ashlands boss compared to others? I upgraded everything I can, but still get wrecked by locals, and all my skills are basically gone.

>>1721935
it feels the most engaging and fair imo? queen would take this spot if not for it being a fight where you kinda fight adds between running away

>>1721935
Dunno about others but shit was hard as fuck with melee

>>1722096
i killed the queen by throwing shit at her and running around avoiding everything

Not too bad as a magic user. Poison staff takes him down pretty fast.
But I see how meeleing him would be a nightmare.

Seems like we made it through our darkest hour.

Anyway, knife anon here, and I'd just like to say: man, this sucks. No wonder nobody uses these damn things. I kinda shot myself in the foot by setting the difficulty to hard, but still, dealing with groups is awful. I'm sure it'll pick up once I can find a leviathan or two for the OP razor.

Not even two days back and the catalog is already being flooded by bots advertising dead as fuck anarchy minecraft servers

>>1678630 (OP)
Anyone find their pet rocks yet? Any tips?

>start with friends
>have an okay time until we need copper
>collective sigh and grumbling about the slow farming
>next play session never happens
Either our attention spans got fried over the years or the pace sucks. Maybe both.

>>1727278
I have two things I do to make the copper age much, MUCH more bearable. First, I math out how much copper I need for the bare minimum of stuff required for progression:
>cauldron: 10 tin
>forge: 6 copper
>cooler: 10 copper
>mead ketill: 4 tin, 6 copper
>anvils: 2 bronze
>bronze axe: 8 bronze
>cultivator: 5 bronze
>adze: 3 bronze
>fermenter: 5 bronze
>karve: 4 bronze
All told, that's 41 tin, 76 copper. That's about three copper nodes, if you only get the part exposed to the surface and don't go digging up the whole thing, and 14 tin nodes.
Add another 8 tin and 16 copper per person if each of you want a bronze weapon, 10 per if you each want a bronze buckler I recommend making at least one buckler for the guy drawing archer aggro, so it'll be something more like 49 tin, 92 copper. Still about three copper nodes.

Secondly, I do basically no physical mining myself. I'll run through the black forest during the day do not do any mining at night if you want to avoid being swarmed by greyfaggots, they are unironically attracted to the sound of mining/logging and mark the copper deposits I find on the map with the thor's hammer symbol. I keep running around until I find a troll, then I lure him to the three deposits and get him to smash each one. Once he's done with one, I'll place a campfire or two around so that all the ore and stone doesn't despawn, then move on to the next site. Once I'm done, I'll either kill him, or lure him to go break some finewood and do the campfire thing again, then kill him.

Thirdly, if I think the bronze age is really gonna gonna be the cause of burnout, I turn the resource gain up to 2x, then switch it back down to 1x as soon as I'm ready to go to the swamp.

>>1727591
>10 per
10 bronze per*

>>1727278
>friends love valheim
>i love valheim
>we're all busy with studies/work/gym/gfs
and the few times we got time to play together goes like this:
>make world, have fun, progress material, skilld, equipment, etc
>get to the point of taking a raft to another land (somewhere around boss 2 or boss 3, forgot their names; big tree & slime ball)
>all goes well until we land
>one guy gets killed instantly by a bee or some swamp monster, hard rages, makes a raft & gets here again (takes +1 hour)
>others of us die meanwhile
>i try to find a place to build temporary shit hut with beds so we respawn on our newly discovered land
>i die because im a shitter
>first friend who died arrives and dies again on his way to his corpse
>he ragequits
>we all give up

we repeat this cycle every 5-7 months, maybe during this summer it will be different...

>inb4 l2p shitter
Yes we're noobs and yes we're playing the game blindly without looking anything up, fuck you, doom anon

>>1727720
I highly suggest one of you bring the supplies for a portal with you when you go exploring
>rafts
I really hope one of you makes a karve

>>1727720
rafts? you guys never make it to the bronze age or smth?

>>1678630 (OP)
>still in early access
lmfao does it still make your pc toasty at 120fps?

>>1730883
>early access
>turns your pc into an oven
Doesn't this describe every game that's released in the past 10, 15 years? Also they just released a performance update a month or two ago, it seemed to help.

>>1727720
>>1727278
Both of these are literally skill issue.

Saw a neat automated boar farm for anyone interested
https://youtu.be/Zo_WW07BqXw
>>1737209
Nta but grinding copper doesn't take any skill

>always build on the beach because it's convenient
>always a pain in the ass once I start getting into later raids, because it's difficult to fortify, since enemies can just run around to the ocean side and swim around whatever wall or moat I make
>digging a moat near the water is also a giant pain in the ass because the water level is so close to the surface
>decide to build somewhere else for once
>eventually find a decent enough spot on a peninsula near a river, after an hour or two of searching
>can cut off the peninsula from the mainland with only one wall, and easily spawnproof the rest
>finally start to build a house
>lose all motivation
god just end it all

Server when?

>>1730883
Seriously, why does this ps2 era graphics so taxing on entry level gpus

>>1741352
Someone will probably host when the updates drops, but I don't think many people would mind if a serv was hosted earlier. That said, there'd have to be some kind of gentleman's agreement to not go to the Deep North, just in case the update drops while the server's being hosted, just to prevent terrain generation issues from happening.

I believe there was discussion earlier in the thread about ground rules a server should have; it shouldn't be too hard to find.
>>1741551
Likely because of everything that isn't the ps2 era graphics; it's only the models and textures really that are low fidelity. The lighting, shadows, particles effects, post-processing, et cetera, are all pretty modern.

Behind the scenes I think it's mostly CPU-bound like everything these days.... I think the game naturally only runs on one core, and you need to paste in a couple lines to an .ini to tweak these issues.
>https://old.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/1ad9916/valheim_performance_guide_as_of_12824/
Should have what you need. I ignored the bit about messing with windows and vulkan desu.

Is it worth making a new world if I generated mine way back at launch? I still haven't done anything with Mistlands or beyond content., and I kind of just feel like I don't want to keep building up my fortresses on an obsolete gen.

>>1742113
I think so long as you didn't generate the as-of-then incompleted zones, they should generate properly if you went to explore them... ? They might generate with weird terrain, kinda like those old minecraft chunk errors where two bordering biomes would be sliced up like a cake.

That being said, I am not sure, so it's probably better to be safe than sorry, and to generate a new world. You can always turn on free build/no cost (one's a world modifier, the other's a console command) to make yourself a base, with all the amenities you had up to that point. There's probably a way to grab your old builds with mods and blueprint them into a new world, but I don't know anything about that.


tl;dr Make a new world.

>>1742132
Yeah, I visited a mistland sometime after the content got patched in, and the terrain was really weird... almost unnavigable and steep in weird places. Didn't even occur to me that might have been a version issue. Guess I'll make a new world as soon as I'm done with my little mountaintop project. Or maybe I'll wait for the next biome.

>>1742144
>I visited a mistland sometime after the content got patched in, and the terrain was really weird... almost unnavigable and steep in weird places.
Nah, that actually sounds like how the mistlands usually are lmao. Got a screenshot or two for reference?

Also good god, you must have a beefy pc to not have your performance die from a megaproject like that.

>>1742236
Nah, I usually forget I have a screencap button unless I'm in my base and realize I have nothing to show for all my work. The PC is decent enough I suppose. Certainly not bleeding edge or anything.

>>1742242
Well if you ever stop by the mistlands again, be sure to snap a few screencaps for reference. I'm sure it'd be interesting to compare and contrast them.

Nice bote! I weep for the water damaged floorboards though, but I suppose it can't be helped. IIRC, if you build in the mountains, you don't have to deal with rain damaging uncovered builds; food for thought.

I kinda wanna play valheim, i havent touched the game in like 2-3 y ears (i honestly dont remember how long but at least a year and a half) but i remember back when i played it took so long to get resources to make 1 tiny shack and sailing around was also super slow, at least in single player, has this changed? i dont have friends to play with

>>1743047
You can increase resource drops in world settings at any time.

>>1743047
Like the other anon said, you can change the resource drop rate. You can also lure a troll to chop all the wood you need, if you go running around the black forest looking for one. Once you're done with the troll, you can just lure him back into the black forest and lose him by weaving through trees, aggro him on skeletons guarding a crypt, or try to kill him.

Also skip making a raft, unless you're making a one-way trip across a small channel to a new landmass you plan to build a base on. Any longer of a journey, or making back and forth trips, and you'll wanna kys.

I remember a big hurdle in the beginning was not knowing about different types of wood existing.

My new village. Instead of building an usual huge warehouse for all my crafting, I'm having a separate hut for every station.

>>1743768
cozycore, would live in

Does this have magic yet?

>>1744705
Yeah, magic was added back when Mistlands released, and was expanded upon in the Ashlands update. Unfortunately, it's only available once you reach the two last biomes, but I believe an anon worked out a compromise last thread. Based on the amount of progression he had achieved, he'd allow himself to spawn in a piece or two of magic gear, so that it wasn't stuck all the way at the end of the game.
https://arch.b4k.dev/vm/thread/1452421/#1491804

What is it with this game though? Even the most basic setup is so comfy, I can't think of another game that can replicate it. Started a new game in single since no host, roided it up with a bunch of mod 'cause base game is ass, might share some screens later

>>1747532
>I can't think of another game that can replicate it.
I think Notch-era minecraft had that feel, or at least the same type of feel. It's inherently cozy though. I almost wish you couldn't skip nights by sleeping, huddling up by the fire and cooking and organizing your stuff after a long day is comfycore.

If/when you share your screenshots, could you list all your mods and what they do?

>>1748234
I never played with ValheimRaft so I am fiddling with it, I want to build a mothership, I am no shipwright but its fun so far, beside that I tried to be light on extra content mods, and focused on stuff that compliments the main game. For extra equipment I use Therzie's Armory and Warfare + ValheimArmory and Dragooncapes, for building stuff I added Buildpieces and balrond_constr. I added OreMines to ease up mining and because the concept looked fun, and lastly Rune_Magic, which I always use, 'cause its one of the most organic and authenthic mod out there which easily could be the part of the main game. For player progression I added ImpactfulSkills which looked reasonable and VikingsDoSwim ofc, 'cause the base swimming system is dogshit. I round all this up with valheim plus, with a somewhat conservative settings on all mods, so I am not a half-god just when I start out and I play on hard.

>>1748392
I made the soapbox longer and the base of it now somewhat complete, I am totally blind here, I have not looked at any tutorial for the mod or actual ship photos for ideas, curious If I can build something decent or just a swimming garbage. Also to complete the modlist, I have 3 more to mention: slope_combat_assistance, which is a must, PlantEasily 'cause I like the neatness of it and lastly MistBeGone because hiding one of the game's best looking biome under thick mist is not only retarded, its also incredibly frustrating to deal with. I am also considering increasing the diff. even more later on, I don't mind a challange.

think I'm gonna pick my knives only playthrough back up and add spears into the mix so I can cope that it's actually a fisherman playthrough

>>1748446
Completed a basic setup for now, it might look like the ugliest vehicle ever to be conceived by man, but it works. Also the custom sails from the mod look awful for me, so I opted to use regulars, but I could only build 2 karve mast, shit needs troll hide. The barge can move now, albeit very slowly even with back-wind. I can finally relocate near a blackforest and make some actual progress

>>1748728

>>1748736

>>1748728
>>1748736
reminds me of those old steamboats they used to use on the mississippi

>>1748742
much to my distaste, I had to swap to custom sails, the karve sails were just too weak to move this fat whale, it looks silly, but now I can move at a decent speed

>>1749135
found a copper mine and Haldir near the Elder boss arena, hopefully I didn't burn away my good luck on this for the rest of the play

>>1749152
its "Haldor" , I just morphed his name together with his sister lol

>>1749152
What's the inside of the copper mine look like?

>>1741352
I feel like it would only work with a small group of friends, since metals don't respawn.

>>1749500
all the metal is plentiful, and the world is pretty large
you might have to go on an expedition for some of it, but I can't see it being that much of an issue, especially since the playercount here would be like what, 6 people at most?

>get ready for a boss fight
>food, rest, weapons, armor, potions, condoms - all set
>get to altar
>forgot the summoning items
Every fucking time.

>>1749770
Only an issue if you also forgot to bring along a portal, but I do the same thing and it drives me nuts

>>1749487
Its just a bunch of tunnel with resource nodes, and enemies to guard it, in the case of copper and tin, skeletons. I found some minor annoyance with the ValheimRaft mod, fires and stuff that needs it, for example a cauldron keeps desyincing from each other causing the said apparatus telling me there is no lit fire beneath it(meaning I can't cook for shit), when clearly there is, If I portal away and back it becomes more stabile but I really need to climb into the mod settings, maybe I can find a solution. Elder was a clean fight, it time to park my barge next to a swamp.

>>1749859
>Its just a bunch of tunnel with resource nodes
Huh, neat. Did they shrink the copper node down so it'd fit into the mine, or make their own node model? Or something else?

>>1750049
It has its own model, its like a bunch of small copper-colored rock lumped together, forming a vein like structure. Couldn't find a decent swamp so far, I am really curious how good the iron mines will be

>>1750049
>>1750062
Forgot pic

found some swamp, and looks like I got lucky again, that is most likely an iron mine, so far I found 1 copper and 1 tin mine beside this, time to hit iron age and prepare for Bonemass

almost died down here as soon as I entered 2 Draugr tried to fuck me up, I am in full bronze but on hard they carve right through it, I have invest in blocking skill, I cannot tank these hits just by armor

>>1750062
>>1750065
Ah I see. I think that's actually something that exists in the game already, but remains unused. IIRC that's what flamental used to look like before the Ashlands officially released (but with a different texture of course), and it was guarded by surtlings in the barren wasteland that was beta Ashlands.

Looks neat, keep us apprised.

got sidetracked by a training area project, lets see if I can fill it up with helpers

>>1750243
and the first worker have arrived

>>1750891
*sprays windex on your screen*
srsly anon turn down ur resolution scale, not ur resolution. it'll be jaggy but it won't look like you have vaseline smeared all over ur screen

>>1750891
Nice. I am still lost in this place, looking for Bonemass, I need to kill it several more times too, as its trophy is used in crafting recipes

also fuck increasing diff, looks like on hard, everything already hits like a truck, so this will be good as it is, I just reached a point where I can 1v1 an abomination, when I first got here it almost one-shotted me trough block, I am already terrified of wolves in the mountain, those fuckers are will gang rape me as soon as I get there

>>1751143
lucky find
>>1751149
clever design to level blocking

and done, should make my life a little bit easier on the long run

bonemass down, several times, gona craft some boss weapon out of his silly head

>>1751139
Don't know what to tell you. These have been my settings from the start.

>>1751459
>fists that low
ngmi

>>1751541
Huh, it's probably anti-aliasing doing that then. If you're looking to increase performance, turn AA off. Other options I'd recommend are;
>veg quality - low (kind of a resource hog and it makes stuff like mushrooms harder to see)
>DD/LoD - medium/high (whatever you can manage w/o lag)
>particle lights - low (I believe this effects how many particles things like fire and torches throw off, i.e. embers. fyi, light sources are a major contributor to lag, so try to be conservative with them)
>shadow quality - low (whatever you can manage w/o lag. notable resource hog)
>active point lights - low/medium (how many light sources can actually light up an area. to explain it better, imagine you have a big house with 4+ torches in it, spaced evenly apart. at the lowest APL setting, these torches will only illuminate the area around them if you're in close proximity. otherwise, the house will appear dark until you approach the next closest torch. sorry if i explained this poorly)
>active point light shadows - low (pretty self explanatory. like shadows, also a resource hog)
>bottom category - bloom should be fine but is up to personal preference (thought you might like it since you have sun shafts enabled), AA is also personal pref but honestly it just makes everything blurry while also dropping FPS, tessellation is ok but i don't notice it being disabled desu, and SSAO actually makes a decent difference while not being too resource intensive.

play around with these settings a little bit, but if you take anyway anything from this, drop AA. you could probably bump the render scale up to like 65% and get the same performance as 50% with it on, but the game will not only look better, but also be more crisp.

a pack of wolves gang raped me, just as I predicted, but I got back up and massacred all, my reward, a silver mine

>>1751644
A tip for fighting wolves: they are basically muscle cars - fast in a straight line, but they're bad at turning. Try to always be circling around them, and sprint in short bursts to conserve stamina and maintain distance

Moder ate my yellow snow. Unlocked a bunch of frost damage themed weapons, like this one for example, filthy bugs in mistland got the next thing coming, gona make a hard Klendathu drop on the queen and its cunts

>>1753188
gah damn

>>1754281
turned out meh, its a greatbow, meaning it shoots really really slow, compared to a regular bow, which is just stupid, the whole point of the bow is to level the skill up and shoot like a machine gun with it, maybe this can be used like a crossbow, for sneak-sniping stuff, but crossbows roll higher damages so idk, of to the plains now, planning to anchor my barge nearby and make a giant plains farm

found a fantastic little island at almost the edge of the map, I really want to build something on it

>>1754835
Can you build a platform over the edge?

>>1754894
I have no idea, never done so

>>1754894
you technically can, but he's far away enough from the edge that he'd have to raise the ocean floor from the island with an obscene amount of stone to even have structural support
>>1754926
I wouldn't even attempt it, especially since there's a strong current near the edge that will drag you and/or your boat over the edge to certain doom

>>1755492
Within the ValheimRaft mod, there are build pieces that helps to build on deep water, when you place it down, it connects to the bottom no matter the depth, I could also make a land-bridge out from the little island but thats more labor for sure

I didn't know this was possible, I thought bees were exclusive to meadows

>>1756222
It can happen very rarely iirc

oh yeah, the currents are pretty strong close to the edge, I was barely able to swim back, even with the swimming mod on

>>1756276
>getting anywhere near the edge with anything other than an empty inventory
absolutely CRAZY

>>1756347
Well, I had fun building this without cheats, I built some emergency ladders that I could grab onto when a wave picked me up away, but I am considering building another level, so the waves cannot touch you at the top. Maybe I build a little house on it somewhere, would make a nice location. I also just learnt how to make webms, as I mostly share screens on this basket forum, the bitrate came out on the lower side, I am still learning.

>>1756426
absolutely BASED

>>1756426
Amazing anon, very cool
As an aside, here's a tip I saved years ago about .webms (not that yours looks bad at all desu)

the working conditions are somewhat questionable

>>1756564
Thank you for this, what a nice guide, exactly what I needed

I can clench my ass so hard I can defy nature itself.

>>1756739
do not challenge this man to a fight he will rip your arms off with his cheeks

I just realized I unlocked the rune a while back that btfo-s WATER, popped this this fucker right here, now building is much easier, water can't touch me

>>1756942
>anon btfos nature with mystic arts
truly he is a master of the arcane

and done, It took me entirely to much time to build this kitchen at the end of the world, now all I need is to move all my food and mead supplies here and start to make some quality food

edge of the world pie does surely will taste better now

>>1758669
Make the bridge longer.

>>1758669
>>1758821
gomfy

Mystery niggas.

>We’re also working on a smaller update, which will be released before the Deep North, that focuses on improving Valheim’s combat mechanics. And yes, that includes at last fixing slope fighting!

>>1760705
Nice. I am still waiting for enough flax to grow.

>>1760757
Can't wait for this biome to finally release, I fucking love building in comfy snow areas. Here's hoping there will be some calm areas and not a repeat of the clusterfuck that was the Ashlands.
Mountains are kino and all but holy shit does it get tiring fending off drakes all day and rebuilding a wall because some dipshit golem decided to break it for fun while you went for a piss.

>>1760705
Well done
>>1760757
Oh boy grylas and krampi

Is there an estimate for when deep north is releasing?

>>1761887
2 more months, trvst the plan

Pool party with the bros.

Without the shitty mist, you can actually encounter really picturesque scenes.
>>1762711
Also, fuck tar. That stuff is so annoying to gather, in big quantity

>>1762711
where the gobbos belong
>>1762717
pretty
also yeah it sucks, but a trick I saw was to make a cart and swim it through the tar, and whatever freefloating tar items there are get caught by the cart like a net, and you can drag them onto land. you still gotta drain the pit to get the nodes on the bottom, but this method conveniently gets the stuff stuck on the top layer

Progressing somewhat, I cleaned out a buglair too, got killed once by a 2 star tick, those little fuckers can suck you dry faster than a taiwanese escort. I can imagine how stressful it is cleaning out a lair in harcore. The difficulty is all over by now in my game, even with all the mods I have on, either they kill me in 2 tap or I do, its a reflex game at this point. The most I can mitigate are the annoying debuffs, the more I play the more I realize movement speed and dodging all day is the key to success.

>>1764630
Every time I see these mistland clearing I want to come back and build a comfy fort again.

I wish I could build nice...

I kinda can make something simple and a little comfy, but if I'm playing with friends, they start packing it full of storage and it feels like a cramped walmart

>>1766249
What am I even looking at here

>>1766268
I am sorry.

how do you keep playing this game when it's never updated?

I have put my refinery in a deep pit, but radiation still obliterates everything around.

>>1767557
I didn't recognize the gjall, that's my bad
>>1767584
believe it or not that's how games used to be. people used to play video games because they found them fun, not because there was new content to be consumed every month

>>1767726
black marble is immune to it, get some proper shielding.

>>1767726
post screenshot of your rmbk reactor

>>1766249
nothing more terrifying than that raid triggering near your only Mistlands outpost

>>1767959
Thanks, so much better now.

>>1768796
It's just a marble box now.

>>1769886
didn't look like much of a deep pit

Look at him go.

>>1774092
poor pupper

Did I fuck up?

>>1774701
I'm inclined to say yes

>>1774727
It got fixed on a reload.

>>1760757
Idk if I should be happy or sad at the nonexistent hype surrounding these teasers. On the one hand, no normies. On the other, no frens.

>>1774747
Glad to hear it. What were the boons it granted besides stealth?

I think I'm gonna do a run with x2 resources just so I can beat the game the game for once without getting burned out

Are there any mods that let you enchant weapons/add NPCs that can travel with you?

realistically speaking, what is preventing us from agreeing to colonize one of the few dozen public valheim serbs that exist in the server browser

>>1776844
Lack of political will.

>>1776844
They presumably have an owner that could kick down our sandcastle at any moment.

>>1778107
they're usually empty, simply go where no-one will explore

>>1776844
Out of morbid curiosity, I did do a lookaround. I am a eurofag, so I checked servers from this side. It was not a good run. The ingame server browser is practically useless, as I cannot filter servers by password protection(as I need one without it). Next I tried the steam server browser, which is much better, and Is able to filter. I tried to join the first 20 server that was withing 50-100ms connection range, had no player and no password. Either it said invalid version when I tried to connect(they probably didn't update the server for a long time), or just straight up didnt connect. I found 1, thats ONE Russian server that I was actually able to connect with a vanilla client, but it was obviously played thoroughly as it had a newbie room setup and portal system built out. Everything was labeled by cyrillic letters so I couldn't understand where I was heading so I just left.

>>1779905
thank for your service anon
that is very saddening to hear

Anyone know what the other combat changes are besides the slope fighting? Its been my one major peeve is the shit combat

>>1781824
I don't think anyone knows, no. Maybe the shills who are buddy-buddy with the devs who will get to play Deep North early, but otherwise nobody knows for certain. I'm HOPING that tower shields get some kind of nice buff so that they're actually worth using, but other than that I have no idea. Maybe greataxes will get buffed too, who knows.

>>1781824
Shotgun.

>been playing on a dedicated server for a while
>server was gonna shutdown i so downloaded the world files as backup
>load them into my worlds folder to play them offline
>login, world has been reset except for my map still showing all my progress and symbols and stuff
what did i do wrong, bros??

How much of this game is grinding?

>>1782164
sounds like you didn't dl the latest world file, something was set to readonly, or maybe something to do with cloud saves
>>1783099
depends on how wide your definition of "grind" is. i'd say it's as grindy as terraria, but without the 0.01% drops. that said, the early game wood grind can be kinda dull if you try and build beyond your means, and the copper grind can be where a lot of people start to burn out. desu i'd set the resource gain to x2 until you're out of the bronze age

What is the problem with copper?
Find 3-4 nodes close to the base, fill a cart with ore, and it will last you till the endgame.

>inb4 bronze armor
lol

>>1756911
That just reminded me that it's pride month.

>>1783406
>What is the problem with copper?
Mining those 3-4 nodes; each one has 138 parts, each with 50hp.
An avg. pickaxe swing will do 7-11 dmg, but let's just say it does 10 to make things simple.
>138 x 50 = 6900
>6900 / 10 = 690
You have to hit a copper deposit almost 700 times to fully destroy it, and then do that 3-4 more times, so roughly 2070-2760 swings.

This isn't even taking into account the time spent excavating the deposit itself out of the ground. Now, I hear you saying
>"You can just mine out the ground around the copper deposit and break it all in one piece"
This is still very time consuming, and it assumes the ore is going to cooperate in the first place by
>A. Spawning high enough to not be embedded below the minimum world height
>B. There isn't some invisible collision with the surrounding terrain you have to spent additional time troubleshooting
Even assuming that all this is twice as fast, that's still 345 swings per deposit, times 3-4, so 1035-1380 swings. All that without also taking into account time spent repairing picks, resting, fending off greydwarves, rain, etc.

tl;dr mining copper SUCKS

>>1678630 (OP)
Anyone feel like posting their starter houses? Is there a go-to design you usually build just to have a place to lay your head and store your garbage, that isn't a lean-to?

>>1789019

I would originally do this round yurt, or a youtube starter home build that was pretty comfy but realized once I got over copper I barely had room to function especially since now it's me and my son playing. Eventually I settled on doing just a viking longhouse. just find one that suits your style. Put an interior section with a roof immediately so you can still rest while you work. I really do suggest mixing up your 45s and 26s to make the roof less A-frame and have more flare. The build can be downsized if you dont want it so long. The longhouse will last a while even as long term storage while you build whatever "forever" home/castle you want

any idea when the minor combat patch is gonna be out?

>>1795698
>
No, but I want to know if we're gonna have a server at that point. Alternatively, the question remains, what if someone infiltrated a password protected server hosted by like r/valheim and dropped the info here

>>1795698
Not Anytime Soon (as of late May)

bald

Apparently devs did an interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zs2dJ976cw

2:40 Q. Will there still be updates big or small after 1.0 release. A. Most likely.
8:04 Q. There will be more seasonal items added what do you want. A. I am a big Halloween type of guy.
7:24 - 7:54 Q. Reworking the boss powers? A. Yes, asking for input from players on twitter.
8:26 Q. Will there be more clothing, will there be more female armor. A. Yes, already working on it.
9:30 Q. Any work/improvements to oceans. A. Maybe.

Extra cool in my opinion:
8:32 Q. Any type of interactable fence, door, drawbridge, trap. A. Yes.
17:37 A. At every like 10 skill points in a weapon you would get a bonus type alternate attack.
18:31 - 19:07 - Changing how death effects skill points. Really cool ideas in this section!

Hard No:
10:57 A. There will be NO cavemaking in Valheim. Engine does not support.
11:21 A There will be NO blueprints for building. Use mods.
11:39 Q. Will there be any early magic options (before mistlands). A. No.

>>1809969
cheers newsanon
>boss power rework
neat
>more clothing
don't really see the point since it's all 1-defense stamina gear, but maybe there will be some more utility clothing with perhaps some defense?
>new type of door
neat
>new alt. atks + changing death penalty
actually cool
>no beginner magic pre-shitlands
D:

Reminder to future me:

use the small doorway offset to place pillars around big doors and windows for depth

add another wing onto the bread-box house so that it's shaped like a big T

come up with a halfway decent storage categorization system

add peekholes in the roof

give yourself 100 mining skill with the console

>>1678630 (OP)

Even more news

https://steamcommunity.com/games/892970/announcements/detail/508457312081417583?snr=2___

Thoughts?

>>1810869
Is that a wraith?

>>1810875
a very scary wraith

I'm a mathlet; how high does one have to crank up the rates for birch saplings, let alone pine saplings, to be renewable?

>>1811705
3x or higher

Allright. I am working on a server. It will be slightly modded. Server-side characters, somewhat normallish diff, hard diff really a hit and miss, I just generally do not think that getting one-shotted left and right is a fun gameplay mechanic. Double resources for sure. I payed for 3 months, 10 player slot. It was incredibly cheap, UK-based so fags from east-coast might be able to join and play too. I am actually curious how it wiill hold up. No ETA yet as I never done dedicated server before so I learn and try how to setup stuff correctly as I go. And please spare me with the setting/modrequests for now, I would just be happy IF I can get it running as I want it first

>>1811860
heroic, they will sing songs about this
be sure to disable crossplay since it's a lag generator

Looking for traders/a good swamp is always so tedious...

>>1811860
Perfect timing. I just did two playthroughs in a row and got totally sick of the game.

>>1812226
>trader
If I don't find one by the time I'm settling in the swamp, I just look it up. Fuck that noise.

Okay here it is. I encountered some problems regarding running ValheimPlus and ServerCharacters(incompatibility), so I ditched ValheimPlus. Which resulted in more mods, so it bacame a moderately modded server instead of a slightly. I was not really happy about it as I generally try to avoid too much bloat.It is what it is. I see how well the server holds up. There is a scheduled restart once every day at around 11:00AM UK-time.In theory it should not interfere with character saves and progression, as ServerCharacter makes backups and saves your char every 15 minutes. I tried to balance extra content that compliments the base game with QoL features. Nothing wild, I rather not strain the server yet. I strongly recommend to install r2modman, create a new profile, and download the mods there, quick and easy. No need to fiddle with configs the serverside sync will take care of that. If anyobody got questions regarding specific settings, ask here.
Here is the modlist: https://pastebin.com/cj5Cqmd1
Connection: 185.36.205.5:2596
Password: fatcatnap

Hopefully I did everything correctly. I have never done anything like this so I am not going to be the most perfect and proficient admin you ever seen. Some of you are most likely more knowledgable about this whole thing then me for sure. PS:Crossplay is disabled.

>>1812272
>If I don't find one by the time I'm settling in the swamp, I just look it up.
see I'm trying to get out of that habit so that I don't rely on it, since you can't do that on a multiplayer server without knowing the seed, which realistically nobody will know except the host

>>1812461
>modded
I wish you the best of luck and no technical difficulties hostman

>>1813748
Well, theoretically more people = more ground explored fast. So you'll be fine.

Is there anything wrong with this floorplan for a house? I'll take suggestions for moving stuff around, but I'd prefer to keep the fireplace where it is because the chimney's already set up.

>>1814268
Relying on other people to get things done can be kinda iffy. You know what they say,
>If you want a job done right, do it yourself

What're some things you're hoping to see from TDN? For me it's 2x2 glass windows, or honestly anything larger than 1x1s.

>>1814650
I want them to add yagluth vegvisirs on top of the sealed towers so that you actually have a reason to go there instead of beelining to the bottom floor.

Vegvisirs for the traders would also be appreciated, to avoid burnout. Dunno where you'd put them; maybe in some new abandoned structures?

A farming tool for planting things in a 2x2, 3x3, and 5x5 grid, in the same tier as the scythe.

>>1814355
Too small. You need shitton of space for all crafting stations and upgrades.

there was a free weekend of len's island that people said was like isometric valheim
i tried it but it was very uninspired, generic rock puncher
the combat was slightly more deep than a kiddie pool
how much better is valheim?
i kinda like vrising but only for the combat and don't really like rock punching or the base building or the we want the rust pvp audience stuff

>>1815172
Probably not what you're looking for. Gathering resources to build up your base is pretty big part of the game. But you can crank up the resource drops or even turn on no cost building.
There are combat improvements promised in the next update, but at this time I wouldn't call combat complex or super deep.

>>1815152
I usually place the upgrades on another floor

>black metal
>green

Has anyone tried this >>1812461 serb, or have they been avoiding it because they don't want to fuck w/ mods?

>>1747532
I think it helps that the game mechanics encourage making a cozy base. You have to have a roof for a lot of basic functions like setting spawn and workbench, you have to have fire to keep warm and dry off from rain, and the way that the rested bonus works encourages decorating. I think more base building games should incorporate mechanics like this, rather than only having buildings to defend from enemies.

>>1812461
What happens if you try to connect without downloading the mods?

>>1819705
You cannot, it's simply just wont connect ya.

>>1815196
Is the detection spherical or cylindrical?

>>1817929
I don't want to fuck with mods exclusively because they're too much work to set up. If it was through the Steam Workshop, I would. But anytime I need some third software I have to run, it sucks. Stardew Valley, Minecraft, the mods make everything into a huge ordeal just to start playing and half the time I don't even want to play by the time I get everything to load correctly.

>>1820053
I believe it's spherical, but the detection range is large enough that it's never been an issue

>>1820433
Be it far from me to shill r2modman, but it might be the most user frendly and easy to use mod manager I have ever used in my life. It literally works just like steam workshop. It takes me to join ANY kind of modded server(if I have the modlist what to get) about 1-4 minutes. A three-toed sloth with down syndrome could set it up. Now, if one does not like to fiddle with mods all the time, and update it and whatnot or have a third party softwhere(walking down this path,logically speaking, Steam Workshop too is a kind of third party software), I can understand that. But to say its too much set up is a stretch.

>>1820911
>walking down this path,logically speaking, Steam Workshop too is a kind of third party software
That's true, but I generally run my games from Steam even without workshop because I own a majority of my games through Steam and there's other featuresI use it for.

>>1812461
Able to join, valkerie sequence didn't play so I immediately fell into ocean and drowned. Let's see how this goes.

Nice meeting you serveranon, it's late here so I'm having to hop off. Great to see a server again.

>>1821087
Hey, have a good one anon, see you around

>>1814650
>world modifier: water damage on/off
so that we can build wooden things outside without them turning moldy

Not enough, that I am pissed, I can only find tin mines, even this half-eyed hobo is taking a piss on me. Peeping on me like a perv he is

Will slimes target my crops, and can they destroy them? Asking so that I can try and future-proof my farm before I kill the elder

>>1824022
Yes.

>>1824198
welp, time to place my spiked walls on top of regular walls then

>>1810041
finally got some free time again, and I can say this: oh my god it wasn't even worth it to mine out the copper with 100 skill, I should've just gotten a troll to smash the top of the node like I see people recommend

I made a canal, that connects my inland base with the sea. I love building shit like this

>>1824267
Absolute madlad. I can only imagine the headache of trying to mine out the canal deep enough without making it so deep that you start swimming; that ramp must've taken a minute too.
The craziest thing I've done is manually place a bunch of spiked walls so they follow the terrain, which cannot compare.

What's that rune in your 1st slot btw? And the plumb-bob in your 8th?

>>1824516
I am playing on modded, so the canal was not that hard to make, it was more time consuming than anything. On my first slot is a rune-focus, the main tool you use in the Rune-magic mod, and on the last slot is building hammer added by VALKEA mod, its an extra deco and buildpiece mod, and it got its own hammer so it wont bloat your base building hammer menu.

>>1824603
>I am playing on modded, so the canal was not that hard to make
is there like some sort of bulldozer thing that makes it easier than pickaxing out the whole canal and flattening it with a hoe?

>>1825968
Oh yes. Allow me to demonstrate with a short video and explain. There is a spell in Rune-magic called "Foundation Rune" which can be used to perfectly flatten terrain in a range, and the rune's central square governs at which level it flats. It is a powerful tool in Rune magic, capable of making holes and rise earthwalls alike, but it does not make the pickaxe or the hoe obsolate, as those can still be used for micro-terrain editing.

>>1826048
thanks for the demonstration, looks very efficient

I love the stagbreaker

>>1826264
same; I just wish it wasn't lazily covered with antlers

In the ashlands but i haven't really unlocked anything new. Me and a friend managed to take out one of those fortresses though which was insanely tough. Gonna try breeding an asksvin soon

>>1828228
gratz, the hard part is over
I recommend moving into the fort and spawnproofing it with crafting tables or campfires

>>1828228
You need to mine the metal and clear some morgen caves.

>>1828228
>Gonna try breeding an asksvin soon
bro... it's an animal...

Fishing should be able to reward you with more items, and more often than the low chance of something like 0.013% for a copper nugget from a trollfish

>>1828334
yeah the fortress makes a really nice base. we built a moat around our staircase too since the morgens just obliterated our first attempt

>>1828387
cleared some of the putrid holes but havent found any metal yet. im trying not to look up anything online so ill do some exploring today

>>1828415
he's so cute though...

>>1830078
let us know if lox breeding is worth it; I only ever really successfully got boar farming going. I tried to do the same with wolves, but never really saw the fruits of it since that requires either moving shop to the wolves, or boating them back to base.

Aaand done. The server's first block-training camp is ready, now in winter theme, 'cause fuck summer. All is left to seal it completely with earthwalls, so golems, dogs and other asshats wont find their way in.

>>1678630 (OP)
Is messing with LODbias in the console and draw distance in settings the same thing? Trying to tweak things purely vanilla for some fps

How do you get tamed boars from one location to another? Or rather, what's the best method? I have a bunch of boards I want to move from one base to another that's a few hundred meters or so apart, but I'm not sure how to do it.

Fire doesn't scare the tamed ones and I don't seem to be able to harpoon them. I read that the best way is to make a fence tunnel of sorts and vigorously push them along, but that seems like it would take forever given the distance.

Should I just search for more 2-star boars (the one's I want to move are 2-star)

>>1831027
How do you prevent them from despawning? Mods or console commands?

>>1832086
They do not despawn, ever. No mod or console command needed.

>>1832093
Wait what? How?

>>1832082
>I have a bunch of boards I want to move from one base to another that's a few hundred meters or so apart
>I read that the best way is to make a fence tunnel of sorts and vigorously push them along
This is unfortunately one of only two ways that I am aware of, the other being:
>I don't seem to be able to harpoon them
When you open the crafting menu, there should be a couple of paired swords in the upper right hand corner of the UI. Toggle that to turn on friendly fire, which will now allow you to harpoon your tamed pigs. I will warn you though, harpooning them will count as a sneak attack, so it'll end up doing a surprising amount of damage and may even outright kill them if your spear skill is high enough. If you're able, try and lure a greyling or something into the pen so that the boars are "in combat", as that may stop them from receiving sneak attack dmg from your harpoon.

Assuming all that doesn't work, you are gonna be stuck doing the wooden chute method with fences, in which case I recommend only bringing two along to your new base. Once you get them breeding and have a sustainable amount, you can simply kill the rest of your original flock instead of trying to push all of them over, or simply leave them in case your new flock perishes due to an act of god.
>>1832093
>They do not despawn, ever. No mod or console command needed.
NTA, but why and/or how? Enemies generally despawn when they're out of render distance.

>>1832120
Thanks for the tips anon. I'll give that a try and see how far I get.

>>1832111
>>1832129
I really don't know what to tell you guys. This is not the first time I made a block-trainer, and the skeletons never despawned for me before. You lure them away from a skele-spawner(for a few hundred meters at least), archers only, obviously, push them into the hole and profit. I have done so in my single player worlds multiple times. They never disappeared. Now, granted, I am doing this on the dedicated server I am hosting now, but even after I logged out for 3-4 hour, and then logged back in, the skeletons are there. There is a daily restart for the server, that might despawns them, but I doubt it. ALSO, this is my new favorite toy, rolling around at night sneak-shotting stuff is fun

>>1832154
It could be that spawner-origin enemies don't despawn, which would solve the mystery

>>1832120
>>1832129
So it turns out all I really needed to do was turn friendly fire on and harpoon them (thanks for the heads up on how to do that by the way). Luckily there wasn't any sneak attack damage and it only took out a small sliver of health. I now have 2 (two) moved boars where I need them to be and now I just have to make them a proper pen now.

Finally, in the 4th cave, in its deepest point

what do i even do with all this iron

>>1834399
save it, you'll need it later

>first time playing
>spawn in
>take 20 minutes to find sticks/rocks while this stupid bird yells at me
>chop some trees
>"you must build a workbench"
>can't build a house without workbench
>have to build on ground
>can't repair my broken axe without a roof
Am I stupid or is this just ass backwards for a crafting game. INGMI

>>1836118
it's a little confusing at first but you get used to it quickly

>>1836118
1. place a workbench
2. build walls on 3 sides
3. add roof
4. ???
5. profit

>>1836118
There are plenty of ruined huts and houses scattered over the meadows and you can disassemble anything in range of a workbench with the hammer using middle click, including the workbench itself.

Just find an old house, place the workbench under a roofed area and disassemble the house for the wood or use it as a temporary base.

>>1836935
Thank you! I had to fight off a bunch of bees but managed to find houses and loot them.

>>1836969
Bees are super important.

>>1836971
I have a beehive but it just gives me honey?

Also I have pet pigs this is the best game ever.

>>1837304
the honey is a good-to-great early game stamina food that's easily farmed, plus it becomes useful in the next stage of the game
glad you have some pigfrens, be sure to take care of them and give them lots of love :)

Happy 4th to all burgers

>friends and i go cave diving
>burial grounds
>troll cave
>die a bunch but have a blast destroying baddies
This game is fun af. Can't wait to fight our first boss tomorrow!

>>1839769
>he was never heard from again...

Got the game today
Is there a reason why the music changes every time I get near an abandoned house?

>>1842484
Several POI-s and biomes got their own OST, and the game likes to switch to it immediately. The OST is decent but after hearing it all, I generally just turn it off and put on a Danheim mix on yt

>>1842484
like the other anon said
but also, the music actually exists due to an invisible node in the world, so you can actually get rid of it with console commands, specifically the "entity/structure delete within x meters" command iirc

>>1842496
>>1842537
Thanks, got an interesting idea of marking them all on the map and later on doing some restoration work and connecting all of it by road

>>1842010
Okay update!
>beat the first boss
>dominate trolls and Black Forest
>some vets venture out and die a bunch
>rest of us newbies die at base a bunch
>discovered 3rd area (swamp!!!) and didn't die
>planning to fight 2nd boss this weekend

This game is addicting. We got a server of 10ish players and are grinding trolls to get us buffed up.

>>1843211
>discovered 3rd area (swamp!!!) and didn't die
Good for you.

>be me
>wander to the edge of swamp for the first time
>meet a blob
>get poisoned
>die in seconds

>>1843362
You have to act like a complete coward, this has helped me survive many things such as: swamp, trolls, skeles, pigs!

>>1843211
sounds very fun anon

>get a few friends together for Valheim
>host the server myself, no mods for maximum ease
>start a world right after the Mistlands update
>play a couple hours a night for a while
>we make progress at a good pace because we divide up the grindy parts
>after the plains boss people start to lose interest
>by the time we have the gear for Mistlands I'm the only one still playing
>world corrupts after a power outage
>quietly shut the server down and no one notices
Rinse repeat a couple times between then and now. Solo Valheim isn't bad, though it is a fair bit more difficult in places. But I'd rather play survival craft autism games with friends

>>1844017
>>world corrupts after a power outage
>>quietly shut the server down and no one notices
life is pain
>Solo Valheim isn't bad ... But I'd rather play survival craft autism games with friends
i know that feel all too well. at this point, i'd settle for anons preferably ones who haven't played the game to death, and are still interested in the journey more than the destination

Greetings and a mighty fine day to everyone. Hostanon here. The modded server got some minor updates. XPortal mod got ditched in favor of TargetPortal, which provide more utility as portals can be separated to private and public, so anyone can still enjoy a modded playtrough without the distraction of the TargetPortal's shared portal system. DragoonCapes got a minor update, which is now live on the server too. There is still about 2 and a half month left of this server rent, so there is plenty of time still to goof around(I will probably extend this when Deep North drops). The last 3 boss is still alive. Here is the refreshed modlist: https://pastebin.com/AbcjkXu5

Connection Info
185.36.205.5:2596
Password
fatcatnap

>>1844188
Sidenote. I just realised that the DeathTweak mod is client side only, as it got no serversync setting. So if you do not want to lose skill, or you want to specify how much skill you want to lose after your inevitable demise, you can modify it in the mod's own setting cfg

I was not expecting to get one shot
"It is just a wolf, no way it is that dangerous" - me, seconds before dying

>>1845583
it is kind of fucked up how mountains can spawn so close to the world center, while appearing to be the next biome after black forests

>>1843211
I rented a server with about 4 other friends.
It was fun as hell. It's still my favorite game ever. Thing is, after a couple months, a fucking neet of a guy had put in more than 200 hrs on the serv, while the rest of us with actual jobs could only play in oir spare time.
It got boring when he simply gave us advanced armor and weapons, and the thing got out of whack. We also were transporting materials from our own local servers, essentially cheating.
We eventually stopped playing and I ended up paying for the damn server for 3 more months.
:(
Sucks ass. It's a truly great game. I tried to pull a couple of the others into a public server Jotunheim, which doesnt allow that kinda cheating. But nobody wanted to join, and I just don't like playing this game alone.
Sucks anus, brehs.

>>1783406
>what is the problem with copper?
>and don't say the thing that consumes the most copper
Sharing those nodes with multiple people spreads things thin fast. It is difficult to supply tools and weapons to a group of 3 or more, at least far harder than it is to prepare food and clothing anyway.

>>1843211
let us innn, we're faeries

>>1846817
I'm playing with a bunch of normies while pretending to be a normie but will make one for these threads next time.

>>1846917
we can contain our power level, right guise? ;_;

anyone use the Battleaxe?

>>1848462
I beat the game twice using it. It is a good weapon.
>wide swing with no multi-hit penalty
>alt attack with a huge reach, good for staggering any single target
Just time your attacks better to account for slowness.
Movement speed penalty only applies when holding it, so put it away when running around.
Extra inventory space is a bonus (no shield, no separate axe for chopping wood).
Blackmetal and flametal battleaxes when.

Is there a reason a forge turns itself on and off

Stealth attempt

>>1849082
it has a smokestack on top, so if the exhaust can't dissipate, it'll choke the fire inside and put it out until the air clears
it sounds like you put the forge either indoors or directly under a shallow roof

>>1849884
>HNNNG ODIN, I AM TRYING TO PROWL AROUND, BUT THE THUNDERCLAP OF MY BUTTOCKS KEEPS ALERTING THE FOREST TROLLS

>>1849884
Why would that one shot you? The numbers in this game are wack.

>>1850038
he's wearing deer armor, has only eaten one dedicated hp food, and the troll hit him with a strong attack

>>1850038
>"Why would a 5 meter tall troll kill a guy who wasn't even blocking?"
I wonder

>>1850242
>is wearing armor
>has eaten a hp buffing food
>still gets one shot
That simply should not happen in these circumstances.
>>1850376
>you should have to block every attack or explode into a pile of gibs
Then all the previously mentioned precautions are meaningless.

>>1850573
Those precautions aren't meaningless because it helps deal with greynigs, the main enemy in the black forest. At that early stage trolls are minibosses that you should take seriously. Getting smacked by something that is the size of a small building should absolutely fuck you up when you're wearing low tier gear. You're supposed to avoid big attacks like that, not try to facetank them.

>>1850573
I certainly hope you aren't the guy from a couple threads ago who had a meltdown over rafts

>>1849884
Do those crosshair markers actually mean anything? They seem to be completely unrelated to me being spotted or not.

>>1849082
It's on only when you're using it or trying to build something forge related.

>>1850748
iirc the big eye means something's within range and can see you, the slit eye means something's within range and can't see you (or is searching), and the little meter is how visible you are iirc
the wiki has better info but I'm too lazy to check

Are iframes a thing or is just placebo and I look like a dweeb

>>1853667
Iframes are a thing, yes.

>>1853667
Yes. Its also incredibly forgiving, way more frames too than in any of the souls games for example.

>>1853667
Yes, you can avoid any attack with a roll.

>>1853667
get yourself a finewood bow asap, its drawspeed is so much better than the twiggy bow

>>1853856
I'm guessing I need to defeat The Elder for that?
I'm close to upgrading my bronze and troll gear to max before setting out on a voyage

>>1853866
You already have what you need for it. Go chop down some birch trees with a bronze axe to get some finewood. Then get some corewood from the black forest.

>>1853870
Have not obtained corewood before
I must have missed them soimehow

>>1853873
You get corewood from pine trees, they're the really tall trees in the black forest.

>>1853877
Never dawned on me to cut down pine trees

>>1853900
You'll miss out on a lot of recipes if you don't try harvesting every new resource you find. Be sure to chop down every new type of tree you find.

>>1853900
I'd say it also doesn't help that pines are rarer and look nearly identical to fir unless you get up close.

>>1854048
>pines look identical to fir at a distance

>>1854467
Admittedly I should've noticed the leaves and branch placement before, but I've only ever noticed the shape and texture. They're both fairly close in thickness, so the thing that stuck out to me was the bark texture. I guess I was really used to being able to tell beech/birch apart because they're so different. Same goes for oak since that's thick as fuck.

>>1853866
holy pins batman
I do the same thing

>>1854467
>>1854528
is this what they mean when they say someone misses the forest for the trees?

>>1855686
Perhaps, but I am just being retarded.

How do you guys like to organize your inventory?

>>1856379
left-hand column, from top to bottom:
>helm
>body
>legs
next column:
>mead
>cape
>belt
right-hand column:
>hp food
>balanced food/free choice food
>stamina food
everything else is random

>>1856379
1 is always hammer
2,3 - weapon and shield
4 - bow
5 - hp potion
bottom left - armor
bottom right - food
everything else is whatever

>>1854528
>>1855686
>>1855883
If you're not from somewhere where pines and fir dominate the forests, it's just not obvious to think they're different trees unless you compare the needles and cones.
I live just below the nordic circle and even I didn't cut down pines until I started wondering why I have so little recipes on my second run.

same as it ever was

alexa, play Varulven

>>1862111
this offends johan karlsson

>>1862505
we are going on crusade

>>1862111
nice wooden church anon, tower looks very comfy. here's another for the crusade

>>1863743
that is a fine graveyard

Recommended mods for a 2nd play through? Preferably minor changes without bloat.

Is there basically no way to make crops grow faster? No light mechanics, no water?

>>1866644
>speed
I believe fast forwarding time via sleeping does work, but you can only do it once the afternoon starts. I also recommend focusing on increasing your crop yield by turning most of your carrots into seeds first, before shifting into try to grow carrots as a food source. Try and shift into growing both at the same time once you reach your desired yield.
>mechanics
No, but some crops are biome exclusive; flax and barley can only grow in the plains, and the mushrooms can only grow in the mistlands, so I try to set up my final farm on a border between the two and have a portal nearby.

>>1866644
It takes 2 or 3 ingame days to grow, so you can just sleep.
Plants also grow while you're away exploring.

>>1866906
>>1867042
Well that sucks. Waiting on all the carrots to grow has been what's holding me back. Guess I'll go sail around or something in the meantime.

Thanks for the heads up on flax/barley/mushrooms. Didn't know that.

>>1867901
exploring is always a good expenditure of time; I recommend doing a bunch of burial chambers, since you never know if you're gonna need a bunch of cores

Building a castle seems to require an astronomical amount of stone
And will the Greydwarf spawner music ever go away? I am building on top of one

>>1868238
Absolute madman.

>>1868238
Yeah I built one of those with like 6 people helping back in Covid times. I don't think I could manage it solo, but that's me.

>>1868267
I was not aware that it's going to be THAT expensive
I thought having like 6 chests full of stone before being able to use it would set me for a good while

>>1868379
You should wait until mountain. Mining silver gives fuckton of stone.

Do you guys fit everything under one workbench range or do you place them around your perimeter?
I encircled my starter house around the radius of the workbench and now I don't want to move the workbench or it'll mess up my wall.
Hate having to rebuild just after needing to actually set up storage chests because now I have to move all this shit again.

>>1868238
>And will the Greydwarf spawner music ever go away?
No, it's there forever. You fucked up when you fucked your building spot.

>>1868644
Do you mean for making/upgrading/repairing equipment? Or do you mean for general construction/building work?

If it's the former then here's a pro-tip: make a ehole in the ground, place all the upgrades, then put a floor over the hole. Now you don't need to waste space in order to have a fully upgraded bench/forge/whatever.

If it's the latter, then just build what you need to and destroy the workbench when you're done. You don't need to leave it there.

>>1868238
>will the Greydwarf spawner music ever go away? I am building on top of one
see >>1842537
be careful though; set the delete radius too big and you'll accidentally delete parts of ur castle

>>1868379
It's even worse if you try to make it more detailed by using smaller pieces. I always alternate my stone blocks so that they're not perfectly stacked, but each layer is instead offset by 1 meter so that the lines between the blocks make a nicer pattern, and trying to do that with the large stone pieces just doesn't work well.

>>1868681
man it was almost the perfect spot, look at the minimap

>>1868644
Trying to build the whole house around one single workbench sounds extremely painful.

>>1868687
I know they work through walls because I have a couple of them outside under a little porch-like area, but a starter 3x4 hut can only fit so much inside. When it came time to place a forge, I knew I fucked up.
>>1868851
So where do you put your structural workbenches? Last time I played I had little minimalistic workbenches in boxes along my wall, and it looked fugly because nothing snaps to the wall pieces how I'd like. Same issue with making guard towers for raids, so I just run out into the thick of it and whittle them down while dying.

>>1869185
I just spam workbenches all over the area when I build, and once I'm finished I remove the ones that aren't part of my workshop. You don't need a bench inside every building. If your house is constantly getting damaged enough to warrant having a bench for repairs then you need to get better defenses for your base.
For walls I tend to build them thick enough to just hide the workbenches inside of them. Or if I don't have a stonecutter and am still using palisade walls, I add little towers along the wall that can hide the workbenches inside them.

How do you make the hoe actually smooth terrain instead of making steps? Clicking a mildly steep slope (not rock textured yet) just makes a step of flat dirt in the middle of it with rocky edges, literally worse than if I did nothing.
I like making roads to use the cart, but I unironically have more success using a the pickaxe than I do using the hoe.

>>1869456
Hold shift and it'll smooth out from where you're aiming instead of trying to level it to where you're standing.

>>1869470
So it says, but it still won't remove those steps nor will it even fill minor potholes.
Actually leveling even a flat stretch sucks ass and is a constant cycle of raising the ground to fill minor dents, pickaxing them back down to the actual ground level, and hoping the hoe will finally smooth things out.
Just making the short path from meadows to the black forest was a miserable experience.

>>1869482
Yeah terrain manipulation sucks ass since the hoe can only do a tiny bit of elevation on its own. Best way I've found to actually get shit properly flat is to place a floor on the ground, place your character on top of it, and then start flattening normally (without holding shift) so that it'll try to level it to where you're standing. And then just keep placing floors so that you never change your elevation at all.
I'd recommend looking at mods to help make it less frustrating. Can't remember the name of the one I used to have, but it let me change the radius and strength of the hoe, so if I set it to max strength I wouldn't have to click a gorillion times to fully flatten an area.

>>1869456
When I was making a slope I had to be very careful about picking where to use the hoe. It's a very, very delicate system of "averaging out" the terrain until it actually smoothes out, and it takes god damn forever.
>>1869470
I had no idea this was a thing. I'll have to give it a go next time. Is this something hidden in a tutorial somewhere or the wiki? Are there other tips and tricks we should all know about that aren't obvious?

>>1869558
>Is this something hidden in a tutorial somewhere or the wiki?
iirc, neither. maybe the wiki? all i know is that it's not common knowledge and not explained anywhere in-game.
>Are there other tips and tricks we should all know about that aren't obvious?
uhhh, these are some basic ones, but
>meadows
you can roll beech logs into birch/oak trees over and over to get finewood early
>black forest
you can (and should) use trolls to break the exposed tops of copper ore deposits, instead of trying to excavate the whole thing by hand with a pickaxe (you can also use trolls to break birch/oak trees). try and do mining and logging during the day, since there are more greydwarves at night, and they're attracted to the sound of logging/mining
>swamp
once you find 10 iron, take it back asap so that you can make a longship, which can carry much more iron than your karve. it's probably more efficient to fill all four slots in your karve with iron instead, but i'm impatient. using a cart to transport iron to your boat is also surprisingly not a bad idea, since most of the swamp is flat ground, you can still swim with it attached and it'll float, and it kinda acts like a shield that covers 180 degrees behind you, which helps deal with the throngs of archers
>mountains
a campfire can keep you from freezing to death if you run out of warm drank. wolves are faster than you in a straight line, but have trouble turning, so try and circle them if you're low on stamina. sprint in short bursts while doing so to let your stamina regen

that should cover you for a bit; i'm probably forgetting a few things, but i still hope this helps