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puppets freak me out posted:While we're talking QoL improvements, I'd love it if harvesting carrots wasn't a pixel hunt (unless there's a way to mass harvest I haven't figured out). Also it'd be cool if we could see the radius around planted crops so we don't have to guess where to plant. Either one would be good, really. Build the low fence around your farm area and eyeball the verticals for crop spacing, works great. When you harvest, just hold e and strafe down each row then move up for the next. 
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OwlFancier posted:Because copper has about twice the atomic mass of silicon, which is what rocks are made of normally. Copper is heavier than rocks. This is true, but it's also true that you are putting one ore in for one bar out, and the bar magically weighs more. Scoss fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Mar 6, 2021 05:43
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xzzy posted:The swamp has a good source of surtling cores too. I already had more cores than I know what to do with, but while I was running around clearing some crypts, I dug out a couple surtling deathtraps around my outpost just for funsies. And honestly, I feel like this was definitely worth it just for all that coal. Gonna save me a loving ton of wood when I can just quickly pop over through the portal and grab a good few dozen lumps in half a minute.
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Mar 6, 2021 06:05
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what can you place in braziers? always see an option to place an item... but nothing will work?
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Mar 6, 2021 06:05
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The hanging braziers burn coal.
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Mar 6, 2021 06:06
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Scoss posted:This is true, but it's also true that you are putting one ore in for one bar out, and the bar magically weighs more. You're also putting in coal. Coal weighs 2, so you're putting in almost 14 weight and getting out 12. I'm pretty sure this is how fire works.
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Mar 6, 2021 06:46
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Khanstant posted:The axe works on the globs just fine, I was asking if there was a more elegant way to get to the high ones without building your own weird scaffolding to it. Oh my bad. No there isn't that I'm aware of.
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Mar 6, 2021 06:47
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Taffer posted:Problem is this sucks, not only are those about as rare as silver veins, but each has about ~5 iron ore in it compared to about ~75 for each silver vein, and it is often literally impossible to mine them out fully due to them nearly always being below the water level. They're barely even worth bothering with, and its a painful chore to harvest them when you do just need that little extra bit of iron. There should just be infrequent-but-large veins of real iron ore in the swamps that is above the water level, similar to copper in the dark forest. I've had good luck mining in the swamp transitions to other biomes, especially as it goes into mountains it gains a lot of height before it's not swamp anymore and you can find some through that raised area a lot of the time. Still a pain in the rear end but it's an option.
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Mar 6, 2021 07:11
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Anyone have any tips for building a stone bridge over a river? Right now I'm running into issues with having to build bottom up. It seems like you have to kind of guestimate distances instead of just snapping things into place, and if you are building bottom up from a river you have to make sure that the river is the perfect depth or stuff won't line up height wise.
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Mar 6, 2021 07:18
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Demon_Corsair posted:Anyone have any tips for building a stone bridge over a river? Right now I'm running into issues with having to build bottom up. It seems like you have to kind of guestimate distances instead of just snapping things into place, and if you are building bottom up from a river you have to make sure that the river is the perfect depth or stuff won't line up height wise. You could build up a grid of stone pillars and horizontal wood beams across the bottom and build it up so you have the spacing correct, then go in later and delete what you don't need for structural support.
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Demon_Corsair posted:Anyone have any tips for building a stone bridge over a river? Right now I'm running into issues with having to build bottom up. It seems like you have to kind of guestimate distances instead of just snapping things into place, and if you are building bottom up from a river you have to make sure that the river is the perfect depth or stuff won't line up height wise. One important thing to remember is that pieces don't have to snap to give support. This means you can put the small wooden logs along the side and then free place a large one on the bottom and as long as it intersects with the small one (even phased through) you'll still get ground support.
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Mar 6, 2021 08:16
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 Ugh. So I went clockwise. Realized I clearly went the wrong way to get to Bonemass when it hooked around so awkwardly. Surely counter-clockwise would have been better. Dropped a portal. Back in the boat to head home. Yeah, coastline is curving north. Clearly should have gone the other way. NOPE, gently caress me. Balloons out west. gently caress this continent.
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Mar 6, 2021 08:55
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Did you look for rivers in that middle bit?
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Mar 6, 2021 09:08
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Another bite on the other side that would have been frustrating had I gone counter-clockwise instead.
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Mar 6, 2021 09:15
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toasterwarrior posted:Swamps needing to have crypts (which then have a variable amount of iron in them) to even be worth delving into is the issue, IMO. Most Black Forest biomes I've seen are very generous with copper and tin; I can't say the same for swamps and that's not good when iron is probably the most widely used metal in the game. Like I mentioned before, it's probably best to have like guaranteed iron veins or whatever in the mountains so that you can have multiple reliable sources to consider. I think this is my big problem with it. The Black Forest feels like it takes a while to conquer and has lots to offer - trolls, burial chambers, ores, tons of good stuff to forage. There are lots of reasons to be in the biome and there’s pretty distinct progression there. Then you get to the swamps, and it feels like it’s literally just iron. And so many of the generated zones don’t have crypts. Sure there’s some other good stuff to craft with, but you kind of end up with piles of it from clearing crypts anyways. There’s a lot that the swamps do right, and I really enjoy the oppressive atmosphere and biome design, but it feels like it needs a second material for weapons/armor or something. Some changes to the overall generation leading to larger swamps with more crypts would help too. Ravenfood posted:Where the gently caress can I find more burial crypts for Surtling cores? There seem to be none at all in several of these black forest biomes. Look around anywhere you see skeletons that isn’t one of those stone tower spawns - sometimes they are hard to spot if they’re the low/small cave ones, but I think that is the only other spawn source of skeletons in the forest.
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Mar 6, 2021 09:26
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I'm getting a version mismatch /can't see my friends game. We're on ein the same version
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Mar 6, 2021 09:31
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the swamps would be better if they had more diverse plant life, different types of herbs and stuff used in meads but I don't want mead making to be any more complicated. maybe the makings of a nice viking salad? ancient bark is pretty underwhelming as a crafting material too, but this all sounds like stuff they've put on the roadmap.
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Mar 6, 2021 09:31
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boo boo bear posted:the swamps would be better if they had more diverse plant life, different types of herbs and stuff used in meads but I don't want mead making to be any more complicated. 5 of the 8 mead recipes require something that drops in the swamp. The swamp also has 2 great food recipes associated with it, 3 if you include the farmable one. Not all of them are exclusive but that's a good thing.
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Mar 6, 2021 09:42
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So as I'm trying to do a build that's more than just a poo poo-shack with the necessary benches/chests in it, I'm noticing one main thing. This game is too loving dark all the time. Basically the only time with functional light is when the sun is directly overhead +/- like 15°
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Mar 6, 2021 09:55
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The iron grind before/after 3rd boss is a bit much. It's about 200 bars for a solo player? Finished Bonemass tonight.
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Warbird posted:Check my post history for the thread. Feel free to ask any questions you have or offer points to improve on. Just skip the gcp portions and/or reference the docs I’m talking about directly. I’d also suggest looking into Docker if you’re down to play with containers. I'm going to give setting up a server a go, as even though there are 3 or 4 of us I've never done anything like this before and it seems fun and interesting. One question, if anyone can answer - if I do the whole Google Cloud VM thing, is there any way I can import the local world that we've been building on so far and use that for the dedicated server?
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Mar 6, 2021 11:18
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My best iron advice: find the merchant first and go there with about 700 bucks
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Mar 6, 2021 11:23
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The Grumbles posted:I'm going to give setting up a server a go, as even though there are 3 or 4 of us I've never done anything like this before and it seems fun and interesting. One question, if anyone can answer - if I do the whole Google Cloud VM thing, is there any way I can import the local world that we've been building on so far and use that for the dedicated server? I'd be very surprised if not, it definitely works for other ways of running a dedicated server. Just need to figure out where to drop the files I guess.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:58
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Vanadium posted:I'd be very surprised if not, it definitely works for other ways of running a dedicated server. Just need to figure out where to drop the files I guess. Thanks - I found a way via Google Cloud to upload the files. They've uploaded into my /home/$USER directory. Would anyone be able to suggest how to replace the map the server is using with the world I've just uploaded? I'm not a programmer (although finding setting up a server cool and interesting!). Edit: I've figured out how to move files around. But I can't for the life of me figure out where to move them to on this VM. Do I need to start the server up first so it creates a world that I can then replace? The Grumbles fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Mar 6, 2021 12:12
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jesus christ, i just died twice in a row to what im pretty sure is the same wolf ive got troll hide shirt/pants, a helmet, and a rectangular shield do i just need to get better at blocking? i keep forgetting how fast they are
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Well I tamed another one-star wolf, which was actually really easy to do since I made a stone enclosure and just watched videos for an hour or whatever as the required time past. Then, as I let it out of the cage during the daytime, the AI just ran back over the hill I got it from and despawned itself  While I have another idea cooked up for one last attempt, this is 100% not worth the effort and time until further notice.
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I don't see the point of taming in general. Wolves are glass cannons, meat is easy to get so why bother with pigs, lox don't breed currently If I want to build stuff and tediously tame I'll just go back to ark, at least the dinosaurs are useful
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Mar 6, 2021 13:31
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boofhead posted:jesus christ, i just died twice in a row to what im pretty sure is the same wolf Are you using a tower shield? They're not as useful as regular shields because they don't allow parrying. Also wolves are a bit above your gear level.
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The Grumbles posted:Thanks - I found a way via Google Cloud to upload the files. They've uploaded into my /home/$USER directory. Would anyone be able to suggest how to replace the map the server is using with the world I've just uploaded? I'm not a programmer (although finding setting up a server cool and interesting!). Okay - so I've gone through Warbird's GoogleVM instructions to the letter, but whenever I try and start the server and check the details, it comes back as 'stopped', which is why I'm not sure it's working. The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is that none of the game binaries seem to exist - I can't find any file structure that's like Iron Gate/Valheim/ etc (which I was looking for so I could find somewhere to drop in a pre-existing world) - just a lot of stuff connected with vhserver. Am I missing something here? Sorry for what might be a stupid question. I'm not a programmer! edit: it's this ~/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim/worlds/ that doesn't seem to exist anywhere on the VM. edit: it's alive! for anyone wondering, the default Google VM might not be good enough - I had to bump up to 'standard' so it wouldn't crash on start. The Grumbles fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Kruller posted:Are you using a tower shield? They're not as useful as regular shields because they don't allow parrying. Also wolves are a bit above your gear level. yes sorry, i couldnt remember what theyre called. i have a tower shield, ill swap to a regular one ok, ill grab my poo poo and bail until later. i also keep forgetting that i can technically make bronze axes to chop down birch trees, i havent found tin yet so i forget that i technically have enough to use all that copper i mined
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There's piles of tin along the coast, that's one thing I've literally never been short.
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boofhead posted:yes sorry, i couldnt remember what theyre called. i have a tower shield, ill swap to a regular one Tin's everywhere along coasts, anecdotally especially in black forests. And if you can make a bronze axe you should, fine wood unlocks some nice stuff.
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Mar 6, 2021 13:46
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Like tables You can always take down birches by assaulting them with beech trees (or making the elder do your forestry)
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Azhais posted:My best iron advice: find the merchant first and go there with about 700 bucks I did this (on the 42069lolxd seed) after doing like 6 crypts and am kicking myself. It's a gigantic change and the trader should have been a guaranteed find on every world via runestones or something
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Saw someone posting about it, but really the nightly Greydwarf bare-knuckle Fight Club while waiting for ore to smelt was the only fun thing about farming iron.
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Azhais posted:I don't see the point of taming in general. Wolves are glass cannons, meat is easy to get so why bother with pigs, lox don't breed currently It's fun to me to have minions in battle, or to eat greylings as I chop trees. The breeding is because, as you noted, they're so fragile that you'll need to go back to base and refresh your squad probably rather frequently. Just another aspect of the sandbox to play with, or will be as the game develops I hope.
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mastershakeman posted:I did this (on the 42069lolxd seed) after doing like 6 crypts and am kicking myself. It's a gigantic change and the trader should have been a guaranteed find on every world via runestones or something Yeah, finding the trader would be more fun as an adventure with signposting to lead the way rather than just total RNG.
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The Grumbles posted:Okay - so I've gone through Warbird's GoogleVM instructions to the letter, but whenever I try and start the server and check the details, it comes back as 'stopped', which is why I'm not sure it's working. The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is that none of the game binaries seem to exist - I can't find any file structure that's like Iron Gate/Valheim/ etc (which I was looking for so I could find somewhere to drop in a pre-existing world) - just a lot of stuff connected with vhserver. Am I missing something here? I went the lazy route and rented a server from HostHavoc for 3 months ($43, well spent imo), so I can't really help with getting the server set up, BUT I can help a bit with getting the world seed swapped over! In your command line that runs the server, there's a section that sets the world name. You'll need to create your seed locally with the name you want to use (in my case, used 'mrxzzy' seed w/ the name 'Summerisle' code:Hope you can figure out the Google VM stuff, sorry I can't help there!
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