Valheim - Valhallall, Meadhallall, Shieldwallall

Oh, we just shot the serpent to death with arrows. Should we harpoon it, shoot it some, drag it to land, then have everyone kill it on land?
Or maybe just have someone jump on it while in the water RIGHT before we kill it to hopefully pick up the scales?

There was a moment last night where I was stealthing up to a troll, ready to ambush him with a flaming arrow to the head (seems to be a pretty good head shot bonus plus stealth bonus) and I thought "DAMN it, I'm a stealth archer AGAIN."

If you have the gear for it, you can also drag a harpooned Sea Serpent onto land and drag it though a gauntlet of spike walls that will damage it pretty well, too.

Be sure the head is on land when you land the killing blow, as the meat will float, but the scales will sink to the bottom of the ocean.

Does the Ranalin server have a portal to the merchant?

Mr Crinkle wrote:

Does the Ranalin server have a portal to the merchant?

Ran1 has one near Kazar’s house

ranalin wrote:

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Good grief! I still look like a hobo!

staygold wrote:
Mr Crinkle wrote:

Does the Ranalin server have a portal to the merchant?

Ran1 has one near Kazar’s house

We need to move it to the community center. I will do that today. My house is currently warded.

server2 also has a portal to the merchant from Zeb's base in the southern peninsula.

Zebulon wrote:
ranalin wrote:

So after learning that you have to take the serpent to shore to be able to collect it's sales i went and tracked another one down to do just that and now have this awesome looking shield!

Dude! I want one. Any tips on how to find sea serpents? I've seen a couple but they are quite rare.

Go sailing with me. Last Sunday over about an hour and change, I died three times to serpents.

I have set myself the stupidest possible quest in Valheim.

See how far you can move tamed boars.

I would say the difficulty is medium-high, the time invested vs. benefit in very low.

And yet...

Spoiler:

I have no idea why I am spoilering this. The best method I've found is making a long, narrow corral and then switching back and forth between frightening them with a torch, and putting fence down behind them as they run away. It's taken me so long that 4 piglets were born.

Anywho, I have no intention of moving past the Bronze Age until I have a crazily complex house, giant open-faced barn/fenced area stocked with pigs, huge garden/bee/work area...

I decided to summon The Elder last night. Had upgraded bronze and upgraded fine bow along with sausages and other meat, but only had built my first beehive and zero mead as of yet. The first 90% of the fight went well by hiding behind pillars and plinking away with fire arrows. Then it got dark and adds ruined everything. The Elder killed me fast after making one mistake.

So, with my stupid face on full steam ahead I ran back naked and was promptly one-shotted by the partially healed-up Elder that was camping my corpse.

Then began a montage of donning troll leather, making more fire arrows, raiding my food storage, and grabbing my old crappy bow. I ran back thus equipped, and smugly pinged the angry green giant from atop a cliff a ways from his altar... until a troll walked up behind me and I simultaneously discovered The Elder's vines were able to reach my perch and began knocking down the trees surrounding me.

This started a chase sequence during which I lost the troll while trees fell all around. I gibbered, scampered, and jumped until I found a spot behind a ruined tower on the other side of The Elder's camping grounds. It seemed distracted by a couple of local deer for a bit, but quickly set its sights on me and started to launch vines again. My arrow stash dwindling, I aimed high with my crappy bow and made each shot count while praying the walls of the tower held long enough to kill the damn thing. It worked!

Mead would've helped. A lot. Unfortunately I hadn't made bees a priority and got impatient. Still... it made the battle a lot more epic.

LouZiffer wrote:

I decided to summon The Elder last night. Had upgraded bronze and upgraded fine bow along with sausages and other meat, but only had built my first beehive and zero mead as of yet. The first 90% of the fight went well by hiding behind pillars and plinking away with fire arrows. Then it got dark and adds ruined everything. The Elder killed me fast after making one mistake.

So, with my stupid face on full steam ahead I ran back naked and was promptly one-shotted by the partially healed-up Elder that was camping my corpse.

Then began a montage of donning troll leather, making more fire arrows, raiding my food storage, and grabbing my old crappy bow. I ran back thus equipped, and smugly pinged the angry green giant from atop a cliff a ways from his altar... until a troll walked up behind me and I simultaneously discovered The Elder's vines were able to reach my perch and began knocking down the trees surrounding me.

This started a chase sequence during which I lost the troll while trees fell all around. I gibbered, scampered, and jumped until I found a spot behind a ruined tower on the other side of The Elder's camping grounds. It seemed distracted by a couple of local deer for a bit, but quickly set its sights on me and started to launch vines again. My arrow stash dwindling, I aimed high with my crappy bow and made each shot count while praying the walls of the tower held long enough to kill the damn thing. It worked!

Mead would've helped. A lot. Unfortunately I hadn't made bees a priority and got impatient. Still... it made the battle a lot more epic.

I soloed the Elder on the server like an idiot and everything went well till a Troll showed up. I also didn't realize the trick for that fight till i went splat the 2nd time. With a new supply of arrows it went much smoother.

Trick:

Spoiler:

His tendril attack can be blocked by the towers. So you can just strafe behind one and keep shooting till he throws the aoe root attack and just move to another corner and use a new tower to block the other attacks.

ranalin wrote:
Spoiler:

His tendril attack can be blocked by the towers. So you can just strafe behind one and keep shooting till he throws the aoe root attack and just move to another corner and use a new tower to block the other attacks.

That was how the first bit went, until the adds. I was never able to get close enough to do that afterward.

I caved to the hype last night and purchased the game and played a few hours. I have a few questions. Survival games aren't really my genre so I'm new to a lot of this.

Should I stay away from wikis? I don't want to spoil the fun of discovery but I also don't want to waste too much time or miss anything important.

I plan to play solo mainly. I generally prefer solo. Also with some games I will binge them early on and then fall off. I don't want to join a server and take up a spot if I fall off after a week or two. Plus I work fulltime and am in graduate school, so my game time can be very sporadic. However, is there any kind of match making for multiplayer? Like if I get to a boss I can't beat and need help are people able to jump in my game? Anyone else playing solo and how is it?

Any tips for a beginner?

IUMogg wrote:

I have a few questions. Survival games aren't really my genre so I'm new to a lot of this.

I've been generally avoiding wikis, and have been avoiding any videos that are for "tech levels" that I have not yet reached. I've definitely still been spoiled on some things even despite this (mostly because some videos leak info, or from posts in this thread, or on our Discord), but for the most part I'm enjoying getting surprised when picking up a new thing and seeing new recipes. In spite of this, I'd still probably recommend watching the 1 or 2 "beginner's guide" videos that were posted a page or two back, mostly to give you a bit of a leg up on understanding how Survival type games behave.

I've been playing solo in a local world, and it totally works fine. There's no matchmaking, but I believe you could, on a whim, temporarily open your world up for Steam friends to join, or for the general public to join as a community server (optionally with password, to weed out the riff-raff).

Tips for a beginner:
1) The Tab key opens your inventory/menu.
2) Trees can be deadly.

For me, I am mostly staying away from wikis and outside sources of information. I've found the game hits the sweetspot of interesting things to figure out in a reasonable amount of time. Nothing seems complicated enough to require going to an outside source, and discovery and exploration is a good chunk of the fun. YMMV.

Your character and its inventory are persistent between worlds, so you can jump between single and multiplayer pretty easily. The map is huge, so you probably don't have to worry about taking up space that someone else could use. There is no match-making, but its pretty easy to open your game to others, so you can bring in friends for a boss battle or anything else pretty easily.

I'd say avoid most beginner tips, as discovering things doesn't take a huge amount of time and is fun. I suspect if you do end up needing to look up things, it might be around the building. Its a bit finnicky and takes some getting used to, but can allow for some fairly nifty things once you are accustomed.

I've been bouncing back and forth between a single player world and a server I have up for some friends. The charm seems to be wearing off for those friends a bit, so it might soon be two single player worlds, but I've been enjoying both types of play.

It's set to be max 10 people per server, but you can go back and forth between soloing on your own, then teaming up on a populated server and carry gear on your person back and forth.

I've enjoyed the process of discovery with this game so much. Its weird to consider a game with no real story to have spoilers that hurt enjoyment of it, but I think that's what we have. Cautiously moving toward something new without knowing what to expect from it has been thrilling.

EXCEPT

When dying throws a huge cliff in front of you for getting back. Sailing to a distant island and kicking the bucket as you step off the boat to leave 2 friends stuck without you is rough. We've taken to traveling with Rift making gear to get around this. Get somewhere, throw a portal up, adventure. If you die, link the portal to one in your base and get right back to it.

I think this beats setting up a bed/house near your target everywhere.

Iron related spoilers ahead

Spoiler:

We were stuck on figuring out where to get Iron for a week. We tried the Mountains and had some success with frost resistance potions, but the metal there isnt iron and is too high level for our gear. The monsters were ok. Tough for sure but beatable.
We stumbled into plains and it just wrecked us
We finally started searching Swamps but weren't finding any of the required dungeons. We scoured 3 different swamps, no iron except a friend stumbled on some that was mostly buried. A lucky find. It was enough to unlock stonecutting at least. After real life days I finally looked it up and discovered that you need a dungeon type that we had never seen.

Finally I set out just any direction we hadnt been before. A creepy black forest river lead right into a new Swamp and I immediately saw 3 crypts. I set up a rift nearby, should be able to go check it out in the next day or so and graduate to the Iron age.

IUMogg, when you first start your game, there is a “server” toggle to the right of your world name. Click that and people can join you until you restart your session; it has to be manually enabled every time.

I’m sure any of us around here would be happy to help you with your boss fight(s) should you so desire. The quickest way to get someone would to jump in the GWJ Discord, but post here and I’m sure someone will respond to assist you in short order.

Note: at least the first two bosses are fairly reasonable to solo once you know the fight mechanics and have the proper gear.

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Just a reminder - please don't take things out of chests that have player's labels on them. Thanks

karmajay wrote:

Just a reminder - please don't take things out of chests that have player's labels on them. Thanks :)

To this point, my rule has been only to loot decrepit buildings - good rule? Or does the game sometimes create the intact buildings I sometimes find in the forest?
Second question - I encountered a few dungeons tonight which seem to have been emptied out - do the skeletons and loot not respawn?

crunchy wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Just a reminder - please don't take things out of chests that have player's labels on them. Thanks :)

To this point, my rule has been only to loot decrepit buildings - good rule? Or does the game sometimes create the intact buildings I sometimes find in the forest?
Second question - I encountered a few dungeons tonight which seem to have been emptied out - do the skeletons and loot not respawn?

Nothing in the game respawns. Plants will regrow on their own (berries, mushrooms, maybe trees), but ore and dungeons are all one-time only.

As for decrepit buildings, anything that does not have a roof over it will decay down to 50% health and look old and weathered even if someone is living there. If there is more than a single chest in a house it is almost certainly someone's living place.

Pig quest complete, including pig yard and barn (seen in background, right side).
Homestead complete (but maybe needs more external decoration...).
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Malkroth wrote:

Nothing in the game respawns. Plants will regrow on their own (berries, mushrooms, maybe trees), but ore and dungeons are all one-time only.

One exception is Tin, that will respawn

Question about Burial Chambers...

Spoiler:

I found one with 4 iron-looking shields on the wall.
Can you take these off the wall somehow??

Wishful thinking...

Roo wrote:

Question about Burial Chambers...

Spoiler:

I found one with 4 iron-looking shields on the wall.
Can you take these off the wall somehow??

Wishful thinking...

I found one with three. Seemed only decorative but for a second there my heart soared.

Today I am bound and determined to emerge from the stone age. This is a phrase I did not ever anticipate saying.

polypusher wrote:
Malkroth wrote:

Nothing in the game respawns. Plants will regrow on their own (berries, mushrooms, maybe trees), but ore and dungeons are all one-time only.

One exception is Tin, that will respawn

Everyone keeps saying this but I have checked spots I have mined tin before and it has not come back. Checked spots other people mined and there is no tin there. From everything we have seen on Rag1, tin does not respawn.