Valheim - Valhallall, Meadhallall, Shieldwallall

Ya, very impressive!

And here I'm all happy that I managed to build a house big enough to contain a bed, a chest, and a fire. Woohoo.

Damn Ranalin, that's impressive! How much do you charge to say... come over to another server and build a similar structure? Do you offer interior decorator services?

Looking forward to hopping on and checking out the longhouse. Looks freaking amazing!

Over in the New World, the situation is heating up a bit. All of a sudden we're experiencing intermittent troll raids in the meadows. Maybe this was triggered by taking down the Elder (boss 2). Propagandalf, Dakath, Karmajay and I stumbled into the swamps last night and immediately died. We ended up doing a few desperate ocean crossings by duct-taped raft to recover our gear. This game is crazy to me because I'm enjoying it almost precisely because it is grindy and dangerous in that EverQuest 1 kind of way. I spent like 5 hours mining copper and dodging stupid mobs at night only to have my handcart glitch out and end up doing the same corpse run 5x, and yet somehow, I'm enjoying myself a ton. The sense of scale here is great and there are surprises here and there.

The Everquest comparison is spot on. I think that's why my wife and I enjoy it so much as well. Brings back memories of that first low level Qeynos to Freeport run through the Karanas, both in terms of scale of distance and level of risk.

Looking at hopping in on this. Haven't played anything multiplayer like this in ages and ages, but it's been a long winter and I'm getting that itch.

The comparison to games like EQ1 is what nabbed me, and it's right. It's a cross between that style of fight/explore/level skills game, with survival building and crafting, and Minecraft like resource gathering. Good combat system - not hard but not completely simple either. Enemies are interesting. I've had some approach me, then scamper back when I pull out a torch. They can circle around you in a fight, too, which is very nice.

All in all, quite absorbing.

Happy Valheim's Day, everyone!

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So I've learned that if a log is in water and you push it towards shore, it's quite possible to push that log a little up the slope, and then it can roll down and squash you. Oops.

I'm 'Hjorolf' in game.

When is the GWJ server up and active? Haven't seen anyone in it all day (of course, I'm just beginning myself, so I probably won't be useful for a while, but I'm curious to see what's been built).

I picked up the game - would love to learn the ropes while playing on the GWJ server!

I'm learning on my own solo ground, and I've got a second character to play online with. I think that's how it works?

Your character (and inventory) travels between servers. So you can learn on your own solo realm, log out and then log into the server, and its the same you, with the same stuff and skills.

Edit: I think you can create a second character to use on other servers if you want, but you don't have to.

Got a spear now, a fire, cooking rack, some flint tools. Have been in plenty of fights with no danger; nearly died trying to swim across the lake lol...

"If you see something big in the water let me know"

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Anyone spotted the mysterious possible Allfather? I saw him twice today during a corpse run. Both times I was moving too fast to stop and try any kind of interaction, he bamfed.

Robear wrote:

When is the GWJ server up and active? Haven't seen anyone in it all day (of course, I'm just beginning myself, so I probably won't be useful for a while, but I'm curious to see what's been built).

Till last night and today the first server has had someone on it 24/7 minus server restarts.

Rag2 isn't as popular yet and not always full...

Introducing folks to the mountain biome and one of the new folks stumbles across a silver vein. Then on my way back with my final load of obsidian i jump over a mountain ridge and landed on another...

Hello next tier and no longer having to worry about being cold!

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I'm really enjoying this game, down in the muck tier, but ye gods it takes forever to collect leather scraps. I guess you can only get them on boars?

It's a little weird that you can't convert the higher quality leather from a deer hide into scraps. Deer are easy to find and kill, where boar seem really scarce. (and I've never yet seen a sow, so I guess pig farming is out?) I'm swimming in deer hide, but collecting 20 scraps to upgrade my workbench is taking forever.

edit: and wow, ranalin, that's a nice house.

Malor wrote:

I'm really enjoying this game, down in the muck tier, but ye gods it takes forever to collect leather scraps. I guess you can only get them on boars?

It's a little weird that you can't convert the higher quality leather from a deer hide into scraps. Deer are easy to find and kill, where boar seem really scarce. (and I've never yet seen a sow, so I guess pig farming is out?) I'm swimming in deer hide, but collecting 20 scraps to upgrade my workbench is taking forever.

edit: and wow, ranalin, that's a nice house.

I believe you can use food to tame them. First you need to lead them with the food to a pen, and then keep dropping food in there for them to eat, and eventually they will tame. I think any tamed boar can breed with any tamed boar, and will do so randomly after eating.

I have to go on third party accounts though, because somewhere I thought I had read that only carrots would work, and carrots are gated behind bronze, my need for boar products was pretty low on the priority list of things to do, so I still haven't actually setup a pig farm. It sounds like any harvested non-meat food can work though.

Got this with a few friends. And the first response is has been repeated utterances of this is really good/fun. Game is fantastic. We just hit the bronze age so to speak. One person is making our base so large it starting to cause lag.

Great stuff.

Malor wrote:

I'm really enjoying this game, down in the muck tier, but ye gods it takes forever to collect leather scraps. I guess you can only get them on boars?

It's a little weird that you can't convert the higher quality leather from a deer hide into scraps. Deer are easy to find and kill, where boar seem really scarce. (and I've never yet seen a sow, so I guess pig farming is out?) I'm swimming in deer hide, but collecting 20 scraps to upgrade my workbench is taking forever.

edit: and wow, ranalin, that's a nice house.

Had the opposite problem for a while on our EU server. Boar-galore, while Deer were fleeting. It did seem to balance out over time though, and The Meadows biomes are big enough that you just have to keep looking. It's only an issue for a short while though. You won't need that many scraps going forward.

omni wrote:

I have a server up, also, but it's EU based, same as my Ark cluster was.

Not trying to sway any people, but putting it out there in case it helps EU GWJers.

I would also like to receive the address.

creature spawns are primarily based on the terrain. You'll find boars in fields, and necks by water. Yes they can wander, but that's where they start.

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I think any tamed boar can breed with any tamed boar, and will do so randomly after eating.

Sometimes they do hot bacon threeways.

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Dirty bacon.

When you have one or more trapped you can approach them, holding a torch, and hover your pointer over them to see how tame they are. It took about four days for my first pig to go from attacking me to "Press "E" to pet."

Any piglets born in the pen are automatically tame.

My first night, I was bearing in mind a review that I read, where the reviewer failed to make a fire and died of the cold while, I guess, trying to rest? So as nightfall came, I went to build a fire, but didn't have enough stone. So I got cold, but I kept moving and gathering resources until, literally, dawn came. I finally had enough stuff for a fire, and a bed, so I started the fire, built a cooking frame over it and ate some good meat, and then had a kip.

The interesting thing is that moving around seemed to keep me from dying from the cold at night. Did it? Or would I have been okay just sitting around without a fire (in the starter area)? How deeply do they model hypothermia?

Help? I can’t sneak or sit.