Finished mining all the iron out of this swamp location, so spent the day working on Swamp Base.
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Valheim Early Access [OT] Nord Man's Sky
- Thread starter CountAntonio
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The building system is pretty intuitive and the parts all fit together really well so it's kinda straight forward to build at least something viking looking.
Very nice hub, I love the style!
The start of my settlement near a swamp, there's a river between the swamp and me and it's doing a great job at keeping stuff away from me. That building back there took a lot more work than I anticipated.
Work in progress, almost empty with a bed just placed there. :P
Loving the game, I and a couple of friends are going to rent a server tomorrow, the game is just too good. Now to build this fucking building on the server as well, at least I learned through trial and error how to keep this thing up...
This bow shot made me way too hyped haha:
(Are twitch clips no longer working on Era?)
So, I got all Leather armor... Once I make a shield should I just go and fight the boss? Unsure if there's anything else I should do before. Maybe some fire arrows?
So, I got all Leather armor... Once I make a shield should I just go and fight the boss? Unsure if there's anything else I should do before. Maybe some fire arrows?
I used leather armor and the crude bow with regular arrows. Was cake, barely took any damage.
I hear ya :) I am mostly just faux-jealous. (Also, I stole some ideas from the pics in this thread.)
This bow shot made me way too hyped haha:
(Are twitch clips no longer working on Era?)
So, I got all Leather armor... Once I make a shield should I just go and fight the boss? Unsure if there's anything else I should do before. Maybe some fire arrows?
First boss? He's actually easy. Lvl2 gear, spear and small shield worked fine. He's melee attack is easily blockable even at no stamina. Get max food buffs and circle strafe him down.
man, I was shouting from the rooftops about this game for the first few days but I've hit a point where I've really soured on it.
There's a certain point in this game where imo with the way things are tuned right now the consequences for the risks you have to take far outweigh any potential reward. Once you've made it to the point where you can build longships and have access to broader metalworking options, doing just about anything feels barely worth it, because things can snowball so badly for you if you slip up. The first time I died on a boat journey, I laughed it off; it was my fault, building a new karve and donning my old leather armor for an emergency trip back to where I died before I had a chance to make a portal was exciting. The second time, I was mildly annoyed, but came back later and slogged through it again. The third time--this time immediately getting chased by an army of draugrs that emerged from beyond the draw distance before I even had a chance to set up defenses, and smashed my ship to pieces--I was feeling pretty done. Today I began the process of trying to start from essentially zero with a couple of bronze tools and some spare old bronze gear, died to a two star greydwarf brute who spawned just as I was finishing taking out a nest next to the last copper deposit within a reasonable distance to my forge base, and then lost that corpse run because a troll threw a rock at me from off screen, in the rain and fog, as I was running up to my totem in the last spare gear I had. At this point I'm feeling pretty done with the whole thing.
It just keeps poking and prodding at you in ways that, thanks to the hugely accelerating stakes the more you gain access to, feels more annoying than challenging. The potential to lose lots of items and progress is what makes survival games work because it creates tension, but if you get rocked by a creeper in minecraft you don't need to spend an hour mining copper, carefully carting or sailing it back to base, and repeating ad nauseum to get back on your feet. In most survival games the further you get and the higher the stakes become, the more things you can put in place to help you get back on your feet; abundant supplies, quicker travel, moving items around automatically, etc. Making a backup karve in valheim, for example, as insurance against losing your first karve (or heaven forbid, longship) at sea is just as dangerous and time-consuming as building the first one, and the same goes for any backup gear that requires metal.
It's early goings obviously since it's early access, but I hope the curve gets tweaked a little bit. I loved the risk/reward push and and pull initially. but the risk eclipses the reward imo after a while, and it feels less like a grand adventure and more like a chore.
There's a certain point in this game where imo with the way things are tuned right now the consequences for the risks you have to take far outweigh any potential reward. Once you've made it to the point where you can build longships and have access to broader metalworking options, doing just about anything feels barely worth it, because things can snowball so badly for you if you slip up. The first time I died on a boat journey, I laughed it off; it was my fault, building a new karve and donning my old leather armor for an emergency trip back to where I died before I had a chance to make a portal was exciting. The second time, I was mildly annoyed, but came back later and slogged through it again. The third time--this time immediately getting chased by an army of draugrs that emerged from beyond the draw distance before I even had a chance to set up defenses, and smashed my ship to pieces--I was feeling pretty done. Today I began the process of trying to start from essentially zero with a couple of bronze tools and some spare old bronze gear, died to a two star greydwarf brute who spawned just as I was finishing taking out a nest next to the last copper deposit within a reasonable distance to my forge base, and then lost that corpse run because a troll threw a rock at me from off screen, in the rain and fog, as I was running up to my totem in the last spare gear I had. At this point I'm feeling pretty done with the whole thing.
It just keeps poking and prodding at you in ways that, thanks to the hugely accelerating stakes the more you gain access to, feels more annoying than challenging. The potential to lose lots of items and progress is what makes survival games work because it creates tension, but if you get rocked by a creeper in minecraft you don't need to spend an hour mining copper, carefully carting or sailing it back to base, and repeating ad nauseum to get back on your feet. In most survival games the further you get and the higher the stakes become, the more things you can put in place to help you get back on your feet; abundant supplies, quicker travel, moving items around automatically, etc. Making a backup karve in valheim, for example, as insurance against losing your first karve (or heaven forbid, longship) at sea is just as dangerous and time-consuming as building the first one, and the same goes for any backup gear that requires metal.
It's early goings obviously since it's early access, but I hope the curve gets tweaked a little bit. I loved the risk/reward push and and pull initially. but the risk eclipses the reward imo after a while, and it feels less like a grand adventure and more like a chore.
Has anyone had this game uninstall itself from their Steam Library? Such a weird thing...
Was loving the game, had about 7 hours into it. Went to go play it like I always do through my Steam library and instead of the launch icon saying "Play" Steam says "install". Only I never uninstalled the game, so weird and disappointing since I have seemed to have lost my progress/save.
To make matters even weirder, when I navigate to Steam apps. the game is there but the last modified date is yesterday around 8:30pm, which is when I installed the game for the first time. When I launch from Steam apps, none of my settings are saved and my save progress is lost.
Any ideas what could have caused this? I know I did not uninstall the game myself.
Update:
So, I really don't think this was a Valheim error. Since a couple other games in my Steam Library are doing similar things when I go to launch them. For whatever reason though, I lost the local save for Valheim and not the rest of my games. For whatever reason, I have my cloud saves shut off as well, ugh!
Anyways, looking at my event viewer, my PC was restarting instead of turning off when I selected shut down from the start menu. I've narrowed this down to an issue with "Fast Startup", which I have since disabled. Basically my PC was crashing when being commanded to shut down, I suspect this issue with Fast Startup caused an error with Steam. I'd recommend disabling Fast Startup if you have a SSD. Might save you a headache or two down the road. :)
Was loving the game, had about 7 hours into it. Went to go play it like I always do through my Steam library and instead of the launch icon saying "Play" Steam says "install". Only I never uninstalled the game, so weird and disappointing since I have seemed to have lost my progress/save.
To make matters even weirder, when I navigate to Steam apps. the game is there but the last modified date is yesterday around 8:30pm, which is when I installed the game for the first time. When I launch from Steam apps, none of my settings are saved and my save progress is lost.
Any ideas what could have caused this? I know I did not uninstall the game myself.
Update:
So, I really don't think this was a Valheim error. Since a couple other games in my Steam Library are doing similar things when I go to launch them. For whatever reason though, I lost the local save for Valheim and not the rest of my games. For whatever reason, I have my cloud saves shut off as well, ugh!
Anyways, looking at my event viewer, my PC was restarting instead of turning off when I selected shut down from the start menu. I've narrowed this down to an issue with "Fast Startup", which I have since disabled. Basically my PC was crashing when being commanded to shut down, I suspect this issue with Fast Startup caused an error with Steam. I'd recommend disabling Fast Startup if you have a SSD. Might save you a headache or two down the road. :)
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Anyone have any cheap, dedicated server hosting recommendations? Anything cheaper than like $15/month? I've never tried this before.
G-portal is what we've been using for our 10-person server (lowest they have, I think). Has been working great. It's right at that $15/month cost though.
I'm about 40 hours in so far, and have finished the second boss and having a great time. The game is so difficult to put down, there is always one more thing. That said, my biggest disappointment so far
is with how difficult it is to get iron. I really like mining copper and tin, but really dislike how difficult the iron is to get in swamps. The ramp in difficulty is just too much for me to enjoy right now. I'm using level 2 troll armor and level 3 bronze axe, etc. The poison from the blobs is brutal, and you can just get 'swamped' by monsters in the swamp in no time at all trying to find a crypt.
Personally I never gear up for corpse runs, only eat some food beforehand and maybe invoke Eikthyr (also sleep if it's night). Dash past all hazards and run for the gravestone, once I pick that up I keep walking as I equip my armor and weapons again and maybe eat food for the slots I have open, then I have the Corpse Run buff that makes me almost unkillable. When using a boat I disembark nearby instead of straight near the stone so I have more control over my approach, my long term ship parking is always like 20 meters out from the coast and swimming the rest to keep enemies from attacking the boat.
I found a coastal area that still counts as meadows so I built there, the actual black forest is like 50 meters away.
Finally got my Wolf Armor set. The Frost Resistance potions are absolutely required for that. Finding silver took me too damn long, but luckily the second biome I looked into was large and had multiple silver deposits and the boss altar. Got two of the eggs placed at the altar and I know where the third is, so once I get a closer portal placed I'll give that a shot.
Also thankfully only two pieces of armor is needed for immunity from environmental freezing. Got the cape for good measure though. Still haven't taken down one of the golems yet lol
Also thankfully only two pieces of armor is needed for immunity from environmental freezing. Got the cape for good measure though. Still haven't taken down one of the golems yet lol
Having to place a workbench where you want to build is one thing. But needing another forge nearby when I just want to place an iron gate for example seems kinda silly. I really hope they change that.
So I missed a day in the 'diary' so here's a quick catch-up:
Found swamp on Island with the Elder. Meadow between Dark Forest & Swamp - not biggest swamp ever but contained at least 5 crypts which is solid, got iron from almost all if not all of them. Meadow based connected to home base meant new forge, smelters, etc had to be built; that had been done after much tiresome bronze-getting. Had to get Forge to level 3 but without lots of iron OR bronze, only 2 was doabale so that was more tiresome.
Made our Specialist a new Shield, realized I forgot to style it Green and did another with Green this time, gave to him. Made a Spear & Shield for our Spear-jack-of-all-trades (later upgraded 4x, it's so nice having a spear user, they're really good for parry capitalization & just general poise breaks). Decided that out of my 2h arsenal, since the Hammer required special materials maybe it's special - sorta yes, it has big knockback, radius, and poise damage, but compensates by having weaker damage output, which makes sense. Also could make at level 2 forge so I actually made this before the spear which needed level 3. With all of this done, armor priority went to me due to being our light source via headlamp which only has 2 defence. Got both body and pants set up, set to work upgrading my 2h Arsenal. Unfortunately all my Bronze weapons are upgraded to a point where, aside from Stagvreaker -> iron hammer, value gained was 1-2 damage points. Oh well, made Bow as inevitably I would need it.
Capped things off with... The Battleaxe! The earliest available one too, and whoooo it's cool. Extremely extremely slow as expected, making the 2h Arsenal basically Slow AOE blunt, fast & Slow high-output Slash, medium direct & AoE Pierce, and ranged Pierce. Realizing now I never checked the second move for the Hammer but the Axe has a top-notch second move; almost like a handle-stab that costs like 1/3rd the stamina of a single swing (which is tremendously high), very fast, solid damage, and easy to connect with in comparison to the main cleave combo which is just really slow to start. It does pretty good poise damage so the strat is poise break -> cleave combo.
THE JOURNEY:
On the final Iron journey stumbled across a spawn point circle thing with a chest - many skeletons and many draugr spawned, multiple 1-2 star archer draugr almost completely wiping us; hid in crypt. Subsequently split up with me heading to base, 1 offline, and 1 north up the swamp coast. Jack (of all trades, not name) wanted me to sail up and pick him up, wasn't sure but did so with the longboat. Was at a canal to another open water area & towards the bone pile so we decided to scout, pass by, and head towards Paco. Paco being Taco with a letter P, the northern 'outpost' where I built a portable after going to the other side of the main continent.
Everything goes wrong. Wind not helpful, land layout not helpful. The subsequent post details this journey, including a map with labels.
Found swamp on Island with the Elder. Meadow between Dark Forest & Swamp - not biggest swamp ever but contained at least 5 crypts which is solid, got iron from almost all if not all of them. Meadow based connected to home base meant new forge, smelters, etc had to be built; that had been done after much tiresome bronze-getting. Had to get Forge to level 3 but without lots of iron OR bronze, only 2 was doabale so that was more tiresome.
Made our Specialist a new Shield, realized I forgot to style it Green and did another with Green this time, gave to him. Made a Spear & Shield for our Spear-jack-of-all-trades (later upgraded 4x, it's so nice having a spear user, they're really good for parry capitalization & just general poise breaks). Decided that out of my 2h arsenal, since the Hammer required special materials maybe it's special - sorta yes, it has big knockback, radius, and poise damage, but compensates by having weaker damage output, which makes sense. Also could make at level 2 forge so I actually made this before the spear which needed level 3. With all of this done, armor priority went to me due to being our light source via headlamp which only has 2 defence. Got both body and pants set up, set to work upgrading my 2h Arsenal. Unfortunately all my Bronze weapons are upgraded to a point where, aside from Stagvreaker -> iron hammer, value gained was 1-2 damage points. Oh well, made Bow as inevitably I would need it.
Capped things off with... The Battleaxe! The earliest available one too, and whoooo it's cool. Extremely extremely slow as expected, making the 2h Arsenal basically Slow AOE blunt, fast & Slow high-output Slash, medium direct & AoE Pierce, and ranged Pierce. Realizing now I never checked the second move for the Hammer but the Axe has a top-notch second move; almost like a handle-stab that costs like 1/3rd the stamina of a single swing (which is tremendously high), very fast, solid damage, and easy to connect with in comparison to the main cleave combo which is just really slow to start. It does pretty good poise damage so the strat is poise break -> cleave combo.
THE JOURNEY:
On the final Iron journey stumbled across a spawn point circle thing with a chest - many skeletons and many draugr spawned, multiple 1-2 star archer draugr almost completely wiping us; hid in crypt. Subsequently split up with me heading to base, 1 offline, and 1 north up the swamp coast. Jack (of all trades, not name) wanted me to sail up and pick him up, wasn't sure but did so with the longboat. Was at a canal to another open water area & towards the bone pile so we decided to scout, pass by, and head towards Paco. Paco being Taco with a letter P, the northern 'outpost' where I built a portable after going to the other side of the main continent.
Everything goes wrong. Wind not helpful, land layout not helpful. The subsequent post details this journey, including a map with labels.
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Are there some tricks to placing bricks under other bricks (or poles for that matter)? I always struggle with that when I want to close some holes that inevitable occur because of uneven ground.
Event 1: The Fog & the Wind (lack thereof)
Just constant fog weather moving along our course limiting our ability to gauge what was or wasn't an island vs river vs continent. for a solid 2 days in-game.
Event 2: The Serpent
Rather self explanatory, a serpent threatened our Longboat, but I had Poison Arrows and wanted it dead. Kited it poorly as I had to explain driving to Jack, and when we started we got too far and it left. Had it down to 1 shot left, alas.
Event 3: The Draugr Village
A random small island with 4-5 houses, a large hall, and even an outpost filled with evil draugr archers. Upon arrival attempted to pillage but the sheer quantity & body piles made us leave but not before destroying the tower from underneath the archers and exploding their bodies. Decided to repair boat just in case, to our surprise and terror it had 20% health... that set the tone for our expectations along with our forced abandonment mid-night of our only potential safe bedding area - lack of rocks meant no access to a fire to sleep by. Unprepared is the term. Oh and we discovered the 3rd boat has storage! Yay!
Did I mention this took place during Event 2's fog? Sucked. Shortly after we passed the coastal Bonepile, going to be hard to set a base up there. Doable but hard.
Event 4: The River
After sailing a long distance we are very very close to Paco, and the easiest way was a River, so we slowly sailed our shiny boat down it... and hit a Mountain biome and simply had to turn back. Reverse back. A lot. That boat is so unwieldy it just wasn't meant for rivers, many repairs along the way needed for peace of mind. So we decided to find simply sail around towards Paco as originally intended.
Event 5: The Continental Pr
Basically the continent, starting one specifically, just had a huge extension north that was very thin but tremendously long, so much so that with poor winds and a seemingly never-ending continent filled with dangerous swamp river and unknown mountain-lurking Black Forest rivers, we simply had to turn back with a hunch that in the fog we had missed a River (boat went so fast at times we simply couldn't stick close to the shore due to rock croppings, also what a sentence this is!). At one point we even found an inland sea, down a River. Anyway, turning back was a boon, and a mistake.
Event 6: The Storm
On our return trip we struck a massive massive storm that threatened the boat's, and ours of course, very health bars! The waves were so big (oncoming) and the wind pushing us so fast that it kept taking damage and at times threatened to flip the boat! And it's a big boat, the Karve let alone a wimpy raft could not have survived, period. Since the wind was pushing us AND the storm we just couldn't escape and every large wave had us holding our breath - we had to slow down in hopes of the storm outpacing us. Eventually the wind flipped, slowing us down AND pushing the storm back to us, making our earlier slowdown pointless. We genuinely had to stop at a Black Forest coast to repair but the flux of the incredible torrential water kept slamming the boat down onto the coast, which kept causing damage extra. We managed to get away from the coast and make slow progress. By this time we'd basically been in perpetual darkness for days now, that's how long the storm lasted. A solid 2 days of horrifying storms + earlier days of fog really left us with maybe half a day of visibility.
We were freed at last! This was probably the most amazing and terrifying time of all so far.
Event 7: The River Deluxe + Maps Fury
As we passed down back toward the original river, seeking out other options to get to Paco, the idea of simply taking a River straight to our base appeared - ours is on a prong of a 4-way river crossing, so we could actually River hop home!
I foolishly took the wrong River which would've taken us back to... the Elder... which wasn't where we started but again thanks to the stupid central continent meant a massive journey regardless. Reversing down rivers is easy now... with a light to look out for rocks at least. What a brutal map.
Event 8: The Resolution
We finally got to the right River which took us almost straight home, though it involved tearing a bridge down partially, but we made it. We also learned that even the Karve has a small storage hatch, can't carry much but it's something. An unforgettable and unfortunate journey but it was so so so so good. We loved it. The sailing music alone is fantastic, let alone the rest!
Guide to map:
-Zoomed out a lot, sorry for icon overlap...
-Started at Far Right Red, followed green arrow to Blue (canal).
-White circles are Fog 1-2, it was mostly consistent throughout the entire green section minus the River. Note event 1-3 take place exclusively within the first fog circle, hence the weird square shape.
-Yellow circle was the River we had to turn back at, following orange back through more fog and up the continents coast.
-Tried to go around and tacked off to the east and then followed burgundy through the massive storm notes by Yellow squiggly area
-Down dark orange to green circle, turning back of River - the arrow there shows where it leads. The not-filled-in parts are coast separating areas, it's a big issue displaying here. Could make more legible later?
-Then the straightforward purple path back to home!
Rough outline of main continent (at moment that reality became clear, can also see how painfully close we got to Paco and it's portal):
Just constant fog weather moving along our course limiting our ability to gauge what was or wasn't an island vs river vs continent. for a solid 2 days in-game.
Event 2: The Serpent
Rather self explanatory, a serpent threatened our Longboat, but I had Poison Arrows and wanted it dead. Kited it poorly as I had to explain driving to Jack, and when we started we got too far and it left. Had it down to 1 shot left, alas.
Event 3: The Draugr Village
A random small island with 4-5 houses, a large hall, and even an outpost filled with evil draugr archers. Upon arrival attempted to pillage but the sheer quantity & body piles made us leave but not before destroying the tower from underneath the archers and exploding their bodies. Decided to repair boat just in case, to our surprise and terror it had 20% health... that set the tone for our expectations along with our forced abandonment mid-night of our only potential safe bedding area - lack of rocks meant no access to a fire to sleep by. Unprepared is the term. Oh and we discovered the 3rd boat has storage! Yay!
Did I mention this took place during Event 2's fog? Sucked. Shortly after we passed the coastal Bonepile, going to be hard to set a base up there. Doable but hard.
Event 4: The River
After sailing a long distance we are very very close to Paco, and the easiest way was a River, so we slowly sailed our shiny boat down it... and hit a Mountain biome and simply had to turn back. Reverse back. A lot. That boat is so unwieldy it just wasn't meant for rivers, many repairs along the way needed for peace of mind. So we decided to find simply sail around towards Paco as originally intended.
Event 5: The Continental Pr
Basically the continent, starting one specifically, just had a huge extension north that was very thin but tremendously long, so much so that with poor winds and a seemingly never-ending continent filled with dangerous swamp river and unknown mountain-lurking Black Forest rivers, we simply had to turn back with a hunch that in the fog we had missed a River (boat went so fast at times we simply couldn't stick close to the shore due to rock croppings, also what a sentence this is!). At one point we even found an inland sea, down a River. Anyway, turning back was a boon, and a mistake.
Event 6: The Storm
On our return trip we struck a massive massive storm that threatened the boat's, and ours of course, very health bars! The waves were so big (oncoming) and the wind pushing us so fast that it kept taking damage and at times threatened to flip the boat! And it's a big boat, the Karve let alone a wimpy raft could not have survived, period. Since the wind was pushing us AND the storm we just couldn't escape and every large wave had us holding our breath - we had to slow down in hopes of the storm outpacing us. Eventually the wind flipped, slowing us down AND pushing the storm back to us, making our earlier slowdown pointless. We genuinely had to stop at a Black Forest coast to repair but the flux of the incredible torrential water kept slamming the boat down onto the coast, which kept causing damage extra. We managed to get away from the coast and make slow progress. By this time we'd basically been in perpetual darkness for days now, that's how long the storm lasted. A solid 2 days of horrifying storms + earlier days of fog really left us with maybe half a day of visibility.
We were freed at last! This was probably the most amazing and terrifying time of all so far.
Event 7: The River Deluxe + Maps Fury
As we passed down back toward the original river, seeking out other options to get to Paco, the idea of simply taking a River straight to our base appeared - ours is on a prong of a 4-way river crossing, so we could actually River hop home!
I foolishly took the wrong River which would've taken us back to... the Elder... which wasn't where we started but again thanks to the stupid central continent meant a massive journey regardless. Reversing down rivers is easy now... with a light to look out for rocks at least. What a brutal map.
Event 8: The Resolution
We finally got to the right River which took us almost straight home, though it involved tearing a bridge down partially, but we made it. We also learned that even the Karve has a small storage hatch, can't carry much but it's something. An unforgettable and unfortunate journey but it was so so so so good. We loved it. The sailing music alone is fantastic, let alone the rest!
Guide to map:
-Zoomed out a lot, sorry for icon overlap...
-Started at Far Right Red, followed green arrow to Blue (canal).
-White circles are Fog 1-2, it was mostly consistent throughout the entire green section minus the River. Note event 1-3 take place exclusively within the first fog circle, hence the weird square shape.
-Yellow circle was the River we had to turn back at, following orange back through more fog and up the continents coast.
-Tried to go around and tacked off to the east and then followed burgundy through the massive storm notes by Yellow squiggly area
-Down dark orange to green circle, turning back of River - the arrow there shows where it leads. The not-filled-in parts are coast separating areas, it's a big issue displaying here. Could make more legible later?
-Then the straightforward purple path back to home!
Rough outline of main continent (at moment that reality became clear, can also see how painfully close we got to Paco and it's portal):
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I'm happy to say I've defeated all the bosses solo! Took me 88 hours total!
Now to wait for new content.
Now to wait for new content.
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Went into the black forest looking for carrot seeds, ended up uncovering the majority of the map to outline the water around my "starting area". I still haven't ventured onto the sea yet, that will be this week's task. Found a nice place I'm going to build my forward base and dock to sail from. This game!
I don't think there's any equipment available to fix that, better armor won't reduce the poison one bit. Look into making a cauldron and a fermenter and brew some mead. That'll give you uses for some of the materials you've been finding but not using.
Let me take you on a journey... a journey of excitement, adventure and tragedy.
I bought the game and got a dedicated server late last week/over the weekend. It was amazing to begin a new game of this scope and scale with friends and we built a place to call home as we geared up to face the first boss. Our first incursions of the Black Forest were tough but we slowly got the hang of it and it helped us get some core wood from Trees and the location of the second boss for once we beat the first. We worked up to Leather Armor by hunting Dear and Boar - which also got us a lot of meat! We also decided to break down our original settlement and make a small little house as we had grand plans for a huge construction project the next day.
We took down the first boss in a flurry of arrows and claimed our trophy! We made pickaxes to start mining and unlocked the first ability with the trophy from the boss. We had marked a ton of tin and copper in the Black Forest previously so we went to mining and then we realized we couldn't use the metals until we smelted it. So we started searching for Skeletons which usually would be around the entrances to dungeons in the Black Forest - this led us to Surtling Cores and we grinded and grinded until we could finally make a Smelter and a Kiln!
Not long after this, we started work on our Grand Hall, the center piece to our village and our home base. it was going to be huge and based on a Viking long house. I spent a ton of time in the rafters of the roof making it both work and look good. I had some assistance from friends too, I wasn't alone - we progressed from a wooden foundation to a huge building. While one of our friends was out cutting down what seemed like entire forests worth of wood for us to build with.
We logged off here for the night (Saturday) - eager to finish the building in the morning (Sunday).
DISASTER STRUCK.
I logged on Sunday morning and the world had reset to 0. It was the same seed but everything was back to day 1. I tried restarting the server, restoring backups... nothing. All progress was lost. The backups were empty and the ftp didn't let me access the world files to check. Needless to say, I was a little pissed after the 15 hours or so we had spent on that world. These images (above) are the only memories we have of the giant creation we were working on :(
Luckily, our characters kept our Bronze weapons/tools but we lost a ton of stuff in chests... not wanting to risk it with that server host again, I started a new server with G-Portal and so far... it has been amazing! We experienced some lag, rubberbanding and some level of weird jank with the first server host which we thought was just a part of the game. However, now we're on G-Portal, it is smooooooth! One big issue we ran into on the first sever was raft/boat damage. We would just place the boat down and it would start taking 10 damage every few seconds. Sailing meant constantly repairing it or it shattering into pieces in the middle of the ocean. On this new G-Portal server, there is none of that! Smooth as butter!
Now starting this new server yesterday (Sunday) meant rebuilding and I was NOT down to build the huge long house from scratch again. So instead I took a little more humble approach with our central crafting/forging/storage building. We'd also all build our own houses nearby and make a connected settlement of sorts... I'm yet to build mine as I spent so long on the main building. ANYWAY, We set sail on this new server after getting set up again and went in search of lands unknown. The Elder. A Swamp. Oh... we found it all. It was an insane trip - we also built our first portals... to have easy access a friendly Dwarf we met on our travels which was a surprise.
Now you're pretty much caught up! We're now smelting up a ton of Copper and Tin to make more Bronze for Armor. We're going to tackle the Elder really soon and I just made myself some Troll Hide armor!
And that is our grand first weekend long story in Valheim! CountAntonius I have finally played after last week saying I hadn't even played yet when I designed the OT. I also have really enjoyed seeing everyone else post their journeys and experiences with the game so far. I'm really surprised by the sheer amount of content and polish the game has at this stage.
I bought the game and got a dedicated server late last week/over the weekend. It was amazing to begin a new game of this scope and scale with friends and we built a place to call home as we geared up to face the first boss. Our first incursions of the Black Forest were tough but we slowly got the hang of it and it helped us get some core wood from Trees and the location of the second boss for once we beat the first. We worked up to Leather Armor by hunting Dear and Boar - which also got us a lot of meat! We also decided to break down our original settlement and make a small little house as we had grand plans for a huge construction project the next day.
We took down the first boss in a flurry of arrows and claimed our trophy! We made pickaxes to start mining and unlocked the first ability with the trophy from the boss. We had marked a ton of tin and copper in the Black Forest previously so we went to mining and then we realized we couldn't use the metals until we smelted it. So we started searching for Skeletons which usually would be around the entrances to dungeons in the Black Forest - this led us to Surtling Cores and we grinded and grinded until we could finally make a Smelter and a Kiln!
Not long after this, we started work on our Grand Hall, the center piece to our village and our home base. it was going to be huge and based on a Viking long house. I spent a ton of time in the rafters of the roof making it both work and look good. I had some assistance from friends too, I wasn't alone - we progressed from a wooden foundation to a huge building. While one of our friends was out cutting down what seemed like entire forests worth of wood for us to build with.
We logged off here for the night (Saturday) - eager to finish the building in the morning (Sunday).
DISASTER STRUCK.
I logged on Sunday morning and the world had reset to 0. It was the same seed but everything was back to day 1. I tried restarting the server, restoring backups... nothing. All progress was lost. The backups were empty and the ftp didn't let me access the world files to check. Needless to say, I was a little pissed after the 15 hours or so we had spent on that world. These images (above) are the only memories we have of the giant creation we were working on :(
Luckily, our characters kept our Bronze weapons/tools but we lost a ton of stuff in chests... not wanting to risk it with that server host again, I started a new server with G-Portal and so far... it has been amazing! We experienced some lag, rubberbanding and some level of weird jank with the first server host which we thought was just a part of the game. However, now we're on G-Portal, it is smooooooth! One big issue we ran into on the first sever was raft/boat damage. We would just place the boat down and it would start taking 10 damage every few seconds. Sailing meant constantly repairing it or it shattering into pieces in the middle of the ocean. On this new G-Portal server, there is none of that! Smooth as butter!
Now starting this new server yesterday (Sunday) meant rebuilding and I was NOT down to build the huge long house from scratch again. So instead I took a little more humble approach with our central crafting/forging/storage building. We'd also all build our own houses nearby and make a connected settlement of sorts... I'm yet to build mine as I spent so long on the main building. ANYWAY, We set sail on this new server after getting set up again and went in search of lands unknown. The Elder. A Swamp. Oh... we found it all. It was an insane trip - we also built our first portals... to have easy access a friendly Dwarf we met on our travels which was a surprise.
Now you're pretty much caught up! We're now smelting up a ton of Copper and Tin to make more Bronze for Armor. We're going to tackle the Elder really soon and I just made myself some Troll Hide armor!
And that is our grand first weekend long story in Valheim! CountAntonius I have finally played after last week saying I hadn't even played yet when I designed the OT. I also have really enjoyed seeing everyone else post their journeys and experiences with the game so far. I'm really surprised by the sheer amount of content and polish the game has at this stage.
I love the cart as a physical object in the game so freaking much. It's so cool that you have to walk around with it to store objects in and it reacts physically correct to everything. So much fun.
Yes! Especially when it gets filled and starts getting heavier, making it harder to pull around. I couldn't get it through my gate at one point :D
How does VALHEIM compare to ARK in terms of having fun in a small group of 3 players?
ARK was very engaging at first, but then the endgame seems to be made for whole clans, endless breeding of high level dinos where the breeding takes days, grinding ingredients for the TECH tech level and boss battles you can hardly manage with 3 players.
ARK was very engaging at first, but then the endgame seems to be made for whole clans, endless breeding of high level dinos where the breeding takes days, grinding ingredients for the TECH tech level and boss battles you can hardly manage with 3 players.
No big breeding timesinks to speak of. The few animals you can breed are just for small quality of life improvements. Bosses get harder as you go but they don't scale that dramatically with a small group. Most of the time spent will be on gathering resources, crafting, and exploring. For early access you're pretty much "done" with things once you beat the final available boss and craft the best gear. The endgame will mostly just be in designing bigger and better settlements, so far anyway.
It's all about having poison resist mead and healing mead at that point.
Basically after the second boss the game kinda shows you with the swamp: "you REALLY want to have been fermenting at this point."
So setting up bee hives and getting lots of berries and thistles and stuff is key. Then you carefully kill enemies in the swamp to get poison resist and such.
it's not as hard as you may think. also, remember that certain damage types do more damage to certain enemies. blobs for example get absolutely crushed (kek) by blunt damage. but even arrows work fine to take em down from afar.
So i am a little bit confused here. My friend and I want to jump in and have some fun over the next few weeks. We dont really undestand how the servers work. Do we have to "rent" a private server to play and keep progress of our play sessions or is this hosted on the Valheim servers?
If it's just the two of you and you only want to play at the same time, you can just have one of you be the host and have the other join. No need for dedicated server.
You can simply play together when whoever hosts the server is on. The dedicated servers are for people who want to have a persistent world that they can play without one host having to be on the whole time.
Thank you very much. So the "world" is stored locally on my pc and my friend can join when im online?
The world is just a savegame. You can have as many savegames as you like, each being a different world (unless you use the same seed for all).
So basically whoever you choose as host creates a new game that they open up for friends to join. And then your friend joins the game.
Characters and worlds are seperate so you can have characters hop around worlds however you want. They take inventory with them.
So technically, both you and your friend could have a "singleplayer world" that you play your characters on and then use those same characters to play on your "multiplayer world" together whenever you two are online at the same time. Or you just both only ever play on the same world. There's lots of ways to do it.
About inventory, I was playing on someone else's server and stored a bunch of items in a chest. Then I decided to play locally. The chest does not migrate to my local server right? Only what I have in my inventory?
Can someone explain me what sets this game apart from other "craft everything yourself" survival games? I've watched the Worth A Buy review and he praised the game as THE best game he ever played but his experience was only anecdotal and he referred to two stories/adventures he had with his people but I couldn't see exactly why it's so great because for me, as an outsider to this genre, it looks like many others apart from the setting.
But seeing the overwhelmingly positive reviews it must do something those other games like Forest, Fallout 76, Mist, Conan Exiles can't or won't do.
This is usually not my type of genre at all, but the reviews and attention have me intrigued and maybe someone could elaborate on why this game, in its genre or maybe even outside of its genre, is so great and positively received.
Is there a skill, level up, perk system? Can I compare it to common action-RPGs with crafting and survival? How does the game motivates to player to craft, to venture out, to meet up with people?
Thank you!
But seeing the overwhelmingly positive reviews it must do something those other games like Forest, Fallout 76, Mist, Conan Exiles can't or won't do.
This is usually not my type of genre at all, but the reviews and attention have me intrigued and maybe someone could elaborate on why this game, in its genre or maybe even outside of its genre, is so great and positively received.
Is there a skill, level up, perk system? Can I compare it to common action-RPGs with crafting and survival? How does the game motivates to player to craft, to venture out, to meet up with people?
Thank you!
Only what you have in your inventory moves with your character.
This btw also means you can heavily game the system if you want to.
For example, you normally can not use portals if you have ore or metal bars on you. But you can put them all in your inventory, log into another server, put them in a chest, log back into the previous servers and use the portal, then log out into the chest server, take the ore/bars and log back into the other server and tada you now have the metal where you wanted to teleport too.
This is how you game the system basically. Or if you are stuck in a nasty biome and low on health or whatever you can log out, go into another server and get items you need and then log back in and try and make your way out.
Note that this is absolutely destroying the spirit of the game and I feel bad for you if you do this 8)
How did you find it as a solo experience?I'm happy to say I've defeated all the bosses solo! Took me 88 hours total!
Now to wait for new content.
I'm trying to map out the outlines for my main starter island for at least 4 hours already to get a nice pic of my map. It's gigantic with half of it being Black Forest but with even some snow and swamp areas inside of it without even needing to go over water.
Hope I can finish that later to get a pic for you.
Take this instead for now.
Hope I can finish that later to get a pic for you.
Take this instead for now.
Lol that was going to be my next question.
But I see that aspect being patched in full release. Otherwise you will have fully geared viking warlords ready on day 0.
Don't see how/why they would patch it. There is no "winning" in this game outside of the co-op stuff and beating the bosses so if people want to use this method, let them, they aren't ruining the game for anyone.
ok cheers. might check this out during the summer then when it is a bit more matured!