Patrat posted:Nine cores, I should not complain, but the sheer level of RNG there is crazy. Also now I need to haul back all of the tin and copper I stockpiled at my mini-base near the dungeon and that stuff is heavy. I wish there was a wheelbarrow or sled or something to let you drag heavy loads when not exploring. There is indeed a cart you can drag heavy loads in.
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:I’ve deconstructed wood piles after repairing them and gotten 1 wood back. They’re basically a gamble atm, just make a chest instead, they take up way less space anyway. Smash them with an axe, always seems to give back a full stack, no matter the health. Though putting it in a chest will always be more space efficient. Patrat posted:I am still early game, finished the first boss and just starting to forge metal. And... Wow was getting there a pain. I spent hours wandering through the woods to find dungeons and the first one had a grant total of one (1) core inside of it. I failed to find any more dungeons in that entire patch of black forest but eventually found more on the far side of my starting island. Make some bronze nails and you might just get your wish.
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Feb 17, 2021 09:31
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Omi no Kami posted:Is Fishing worth it? I saved up my funbucks and already bought the other merchant stuff, so stuffing my pockets with bait is no big deal, but there's so much to do that I dunno if I should be prioritizing it or not. There is an endgame fish recipe that makes them very much worth it, but even then you can catch as needed so there's no real reason to vibe out for an hour fishing unless that's just what you feel like doing.
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Feb 17, 2021 09:32
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Zerilan posted:There is indeed a cart you can drag heavy loads in. I always found the cart impossible to navigate through thick forests while every critter around wants nothing more than to smack your cart. Ideally I guess you'd pave a road in there to speed things up, but I got enough to make a Karve (2nd boat) and sailed it next to a deposit and hauled it via waterways. I also found the fishing impossible while a friend reels in fish by the dozens and tells me fish are just constantly swimming to his bait. I can't see any fish even approaching it. Do I need to turn some graphic setting off or is it just a matter of being a bad fisherman?
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Feb 17, 2021 09:47
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The cart is a land boat. We have a big-ish continent that our central base is on so roads make more sense for us. Road building is a fun activity as well and if nothing else it makes forestry easier as you need more wood. Just take a cart down the road and work your way back killing the wood piles you made while building it.
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Feb 17, 2021 09:59
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Is there a black forest boss? I've done a whole poo poo ton of black forest exploration and have only found 3 deer-boss alters. I have only killed the deer boss. I've got a bronze pickaxe too, not sure what to aim for next.
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Feb 17, 2021 10:14
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There is absolutely a wheelbarrow but you need a bit of metal to build it. E:F/B
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Feb 17, 2021 10:15
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Otacon posted:Most people stack wood piles outside, in the elements. You'll need to hit them with your hammer before deconstructing them, or store them under a roof. Everything should give back 100% resources when deconstructed with a hammer. It's a confirmed defect when they dont
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Feb 17, 2021 10:36
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redreader posted:Is there a black forest boss? I've done a whole poo poo ton of black forest exploration and have only found 3 deer-boss alters. I have only killed the deer boss. I've got a bronze pickaxe too, not sure what to aim for next. Go investigate some Burial Chambers in a Black Forest. Also, get a bow if you haven't already. The basic one is pretty bad, but the next one is good and easy to craft.
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Feb 17, 2021 11:04
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Quill posted:Go investigate some Burial Chambers in a Black Forest. Also, get a bow if you haven't already. The basic one is pretty bad, but the next one is good and easy to craft. I've found like three already, which is how I made the bronze pickaxe. Do they also have a boss in them?
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redreader posted:I've found like three already, which is how I made the bronze pickaxe. Do they also have a boss in them? Some have a runestone that points you toward the next boss. You might also find them inside a ruined stone structure in the Black Forest.
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Awesome, thanks! I haven't seen anything like that but I might as well go back and look again in each dungeon.
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Feb 17, 2021 11:32
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Man, how low is the Drake Trophy drop rate? I have like 70 Frost Glands now, and still only 1 trophy.
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Feb 17, 2021 12:35
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Broken Cog posted:Man, how low is the Drake Trophy drop rate? I have like 70 Frost Glands now, and still only 1 trophy. Pretty low from my experience, the wiki says 15% but I have no idea where that number is from.
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Feb 17, 2021 13:03
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Yeah, I always take wiki information on recently released games with a grain of salt. People have a tendency to straight make poo poo up just to be early contributors.
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It seems pretty low. In all my time I've got 4, enough to make a helmet for myself and then another 2 when people already moved on to next tier helmet.
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Omi no Kami posted:Is Fishing worth it? I saved up my funbucks and already bought the other merchant stuff, so stuffing my pockets with bait is no big deal, but there's so much to do that I dunno if I should be prioritizing it or not. At first no it's not but eventually yes definitely
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Feb 17, 2021 13:18
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Fart Car '97 posted:At first no it's not but eventually yes definitely Fishing is worth it almost immediately. Fish are equivalent to cooked meat and take almost no time to catch. Later on they're used to make better food but they're straight up the best third food available at the time you get access to them.
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Feb 17, 2021 13:48
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Spanish Matlock posted:Fishing is worth it almost immediately. Fish are equivalent to cooked meat and take almost no time to catch. Later on they're used to make better food but they're straight up the best third food available at the time you get access to them. We have had very different experiences fishing. I could never get the drat things to bite and when I did they broke off almost immediately. Also it took about 20 hours to find the vendor so it wasn't exactly fast times getting a pole.
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Feb 17, 2021 13:57
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Was intent for awhile on finding the merchant in my world without using the 42069lolxd seed but have given in. Have explored a decent radius in all directions, have amassed like 1200 coins + several stacks of gems. Apparently some worlds have had him as far out as like the last ring of islands before the world's edge so kinda done pushing my luck solo for it. I want to fish!
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Bussamove posted:We have had very different experiences fishing. I could never get the drat things to bite and when I did they broke off almost immediately. Yeah this was our experience. It was time consuming for very little return. Broken Cog posted:Yeah, I always take wiki information on recently released games with a grain of salt. People have a tendency to straight make poo poo up just to be early contributors. There is also a lot of dated info from the game's incomplete release a few years ago Fart Car '97 fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Feb 17, 2021 14:27
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To people wondering about cart logistics: it’s usually less effort and time to just build a small outpost near your mine and smelt / craft everything you need there. Once you have portals this becomes even easier. Also mark us down as a server that still hasn’t found the merchant. There’s sometimes ten of us all exploring in different directions and we still haven’t stumbled on him.
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Yeah, carts should probably be a little easier to pull even at high weights. Right now I just use them as cheaper iron chests 
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PIZZA.BAT posted:To people wondering about cart logistics: it’s usually less effort and time to just build a small outpost near your mine and smelt / craft everything you need there. Once you have portals this becomes even easier. If you want to use those bars for upgrading, you gotta bring them to a high level forge somehow.
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Fishing is so worth it the moment you get the fishing rod. You have to learn the mechanics of it, but making sure you have enough stamina and hitting E to pick up the fish when the line gets it close (not sure if this is necessary but I do it anyway) is really all you need to know. Not sure if the fish you get is tied to how big the one is you caught or not but I was getting 4 uncooked fish per 1 fish caught so I spent maybe 10 minutes fishing and came out with a whole stack of them to cook. They give slightly more stats than cooked meat does too, so they're great to have around.
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Broken Cog posted:If you want to use those bars for upgrading, you gotta bring them to a high level forge somehow. Yeah we just build the upgraded forge on-site. It's more cost and time upfront but it's way more efficient once you have everything up and running
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Do they post patch notes anywhere? Update this morning and it feels like deer have changed, they basically pose for my arrows now. edit - google wins https://www.dualshockers.com/valheim-update-february-17/ xzzy fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Feb 17, 2021 15:36
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PIZZA.BAT posted:Yeah we just build the upgraded forge on-site. It's more cost and time upfront but it's way more efficient once you have everything up and running I mean, that's one way of doing it, you're still gonna have to ferry materials one way or another. Up to preference, really.
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xzzy posted:Do they post patch notes anywhere? Update this morning and it feels like deer have changed, they basically pose for my arrows now. For future reference, it looks like they post the notes in the Steam community hub. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/892970/view/3059603718045184990
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Once you have mining operations going portals should also be within your reach. It really comes down to your situation on the ground with what resources are provided to you though. With us we had access to plenty of surtling cores so setting up a network of portals was pretty straight forward
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PIZZA.BAT posted:Once you have mining operations going portals should also be within your reach. It really comes down to your situation on the ground with what resources are provided to you though. With us we had access to plenty of surtling cores so setting up a network of portals was pretty straight forward The bars needed for setting up advanced forge equipment can't be teleported.
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Right you'll still need to do at least one run by foot. Any time one of us is scouting out a position to build a new outpost we'll bring the materials needed for a portal and some advanced upgrades.
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The sultring core RNG really is insane. The first three dungeons I cleared had 1-2 cores. The fourth one had thirteen.
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The Longboat is incredible, I played for an hour or two last night with my friend clearing out crypts and putting the iron in the longboat. There were lots of complaints about the iron tier being grindy, it definitely gets there but that boat trip home with ~200 pieces of iron in the hull is really satisfying. If your main base isn't on the shoreline where you can easily dock a boat I would consider moving or at least making a forward outpost where you do your smelting because I have a feeling from here on out moving this stuff by boat is the best option you have.
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Feb 17, 2021 15:57
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Sailing is my favorite thing in the whole game.
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Feb 17, 2021 16:01
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I discovered that you can right click tools and stuff in your non-hotbar inventory to equip them. No need to fiddle with the hotbar every time you want to plant some seeds or flatten ground.
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Also, if you are plucking stuff like berries or mushrooms, they pop out and then sit on the ground. You don't need to hit E on them again. You'll vacuum them up if you're close enough. Took me about two hours to figure that one out!!!!!
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Hopefully this can save someone a lot of time. It seems that you cannot dig to water anywhere you please because at some point you will reach ground the pick can't break through. This prevented me from making a canal system through my island, which unfortunately I didn't discover until I had spent a couple hours planning and digging. It seems like it could be based on the initial height of the generated land, so if you need to build a canal you could probably find the highest point you need to dig through to check if you can get to water there before going gun-ho with the whole project. Kind of a bummer, my starting island has no rivers and is pretty awkward to sail around.
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explosivo posted:If your main base isn't on the shoreline where you can easily dock a boat I would consider moving or at least making a forward outpost where you do your smelting because I have a feeling from here on out moving this stuff by boat is the best option you have. Our first server, we kind of wandered around the spawn point until we found water and built next to it thinking it would be useful in the future when we made boats. Turns out it was just a pond in a much larger island.   So now I'm debating whether to pull up stakes and move the main base or just live with a 2-3 minute run every time we want to use a boat.
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CRAYON posted:It seems like it could be based on the initial height of the generated land It is. Copper rocks also can extend below the max depth, although the hoe leveling function can allow mining fragments that would otherwise be inaccessible. It can drop the terrain an extra half meter or so.
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