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It takes me far too long to harvest wood in this game, because I find it endlessly entertaining to push logs around until they roll down the hill squashing greylings or greydwarves. Sadly the occasional pig or deer gets in the way also, but oh well, tasty meat!
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Lozareth posted:[Golems] have the best trophy though. I thought they were supposedly nerfing the passive spawn-camping of surtlings at some point?
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# ? May 17, 2021 17:12 |
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The Locator posted:It takes me far too long to harvest wood in this game, because I find it endlessly entertaining to push logs around until they roll down the hill squashing greylings or greydwarves. Sadly the occasional pig or deer gets in the way also, but oh well, tasty meat! Lumberjacking is pretty fun.
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# ? May 17, 2021 17:29 |
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Do wolves eat cooked meat? Two just kind of airdropped onto my base into an enclosed area from a ledge up top so I managed to tame them pretty easily with some sausages, but I have a ton of cooked meat from earlier in the game I wish I'd saved as raw meat (for sausages and turnip stew!) and could use it for that easily enough.
Ravenfood fucked around with this message at 21:10 on May 17, 2021 |
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What is the point of taming wolves in the game? Can they follow you around and help with fights? I understand that taming pigs is for breeding/slaughtering them, although I've never done that. So far the only wolves I've seen were by mistake when I got too close to a mountain biome when exploring and they promptly snacked upon me.
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# ? May 17, 2021 21:28 |
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The Locator posted:What is the point of taming wolves in the game? Can they follow you around and help with fights? Mostly I wanted to for fun and to see if I could. When I finish with this mountain area I am planning in building both a waystation halfway up in a black forest and a little port at the bottom of the mountain in some meadows and I'll move a breeding pair to both areas. I'm going to see if I can manage to get them on a boat too. I don't know where my next base is going to be but I wouldn't mind some friends when I go! E: you can breed them like boar too. I have two 0-star wolves so I don't know how Valheim genetic stock works but if I can snag some higher-star wolves I'll try and figure it out. Ravenfood fucked around with this message at 21:55 on May 17, 2021 |
# ? May 17, 2021 21:53 |
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The Locator posted:Can they follow you around The Locator posted:and help with fights?
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# ? May 17, 2021 21:54 |
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Valheim "genetics" are a 50/50 chance of either parent's star level. Breed two 2-stars and your guaranteed a 2-star baby.
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# ? May 17, 2021 22:11 |
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bird food bathtub posted:Valheim "genetics" are a 50/50 chance of either parent's star level. Breed two 2-stars and your guaranteed a 2-star baby. So as long as you don't think about it too hard all you need to do is capture/tame one 2 star and breed with whatever until you get another 2 star and then start culling. Well that's kind of hosed up, but whatever.
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# ? May 17, 2021 22:36 |
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Pretty much. Complicating factor for this is that two star wolves only spawn at night when fenrings are also running around so have fun with that.
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# ? May 17, 2021 23:44 |
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How hard are graydwarf nests, hp-wise? I've got a corpse right next to the 'ooh, what that purple glowy thing?' and they keep kicking my arse.
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# ? May 17, 2021 23:46 |
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bird food bathtub posted:Pretty much. Complicating factor for this is that two star wolves only spawn at night when fenrings are also running around so have fun with that. Still haven't seen one of those and I've spent a few nights out so far. Weird. Oh well! I also have never seen a sea serpent despite hours of sailing around large ocean biomes.
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# ? May 17, 2021 23:50 |
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Ravenfood posted:Do wolves eat cooked meat? Two just kind of airdropped onto my base into an enclosed area from a ledge up top so I managed to tame them pretty easily with some sausages, but I have a ton of cooked meat from earlier in the game I wish I'd saved as raw meat (for sausages and turnip stew!) and could use it for that easily enough. Only raw meat, and specifically raw meat, they won't even eat raw neck tails or fish. Unkempt posted:How hard are graydwarf nests, hp-wise? I've got a corpse right next to the 'ooh, what that purple glowy thing?' and they keep kicking my arse. Not too tough unless a Brute spawns, and they're not an easy roll even at early Bronze, but you can take down the nest with fire arrows from range and kite the remainder for long enough to recover your stuff. Ravenfood posted:Still haven't seen one of those and I've spent a few nights out so far. Weird. Oh well! Have you done it at night or in the rain because they don't spawn any other time.
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# ? May 17, 2021 23:52 |
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A flint spear can take out a grey dwarf spawner out fairly easily. Draw them away then run back and hit until dead. But if your corpse has all your stuff if nothing else you can down some food, run in, grab your stuff, and get out again.
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# ? May 17, 2021 23:52 |
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I'm 90% sure wolves eat raw neck and raw lox
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# ? May 17, 2021 23:58 |
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I think a flint axe might be better damage due to resist? I'm not sure, and wiki doesn't list resists for the nest... Either way, it's pretty quick to smash one, yeah, but if you're not expecting it it'll catch you out.
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# ? May 17, 2021 23:58 |
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thespaceinvader posted:Have you done it at night or in the rain because they don't spawn any other time. This isn't true, they're just twice as likely to spawn at night or during storms. Predictably, they're four times as likely (almost but not quite guaranteed) during night storms.
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# ? May 18, 2021 00:07 |
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thespaceinvader posted:Not too tough unless a Brute spawns, and they're not an easy roll even at early Bronze, but you can take down the nest with fire arrows from range and kite the remainder for long enough to recover your stuff. With a fine bow that's max quality, basic fire arrows will pop the purple spawn points in a single shot. My first adventure into the mountain biome went well. Killed a few wolves and got enough pelts to make a dragon bed, killed a couple of drakes with fire arrows (two shot them), killed my first stone golem by just blocking and mashing him with a mace, found a bit of obsidian and then my first silver vein. Is there more obsidian below the obsidian outcropping I found? I'm a moron and didn't think to try to dig down there when I got it, and since I popped the outcropping I'll never find it again, but would be good to know for the future.
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# ? May 18, 2021 00:44 |
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mastershakeman posted:I'm 90% sure wolves eat raw neck and raw lox They do. I've tested both. The Locator posted:Is there more obsidian below the obsidian outcropping I found? I'm a moron and didn't think to try to dig down there when I got it, and since I popped the outcropping I'll never find it again, but would be good to know for the future. Obsidian is like tin - lots of small deposits on the surface only. Lozareth fucked around with this message at 01:02 on May 18, 2021 |
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I don't think on my entire server we ever tried raw lox meat on wolves, it's too valuable in vikings. Has anyone ever tried Serpent meat on them?
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# ? May 18, 2021 09:30 |
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thespaceinvader posted:I don't think on my entire server we ever tried raw lox meat on wolves, it's too valuable in vikings. I will if I can ever find a serpent. I think the Lox or linen cape should prevent wet, or at least the Wet created by rain. Not sure how you'd make that make sense, but it'd be nice. As-is I can't see not wearing a wolf cape forever.
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# ? May 19, 2021 21:23 |
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Ravenfood posted:
Yeah, the fact that Vikings can't seem to invent a rain coat kinda irks me. But as a game mechanic changes unravel quickly. My new want is a house Dwarf to do rudimentary tasks like keep all my light sources topped off. "Sir, we're running low on resin, would you mind terribly murdering sever dozen of my kin as to replenish supplies?"
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# ? May 20, 2021 00:29 |
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If you're playing with the epic loot mod, you can get an enchantment on your cloak that gives waterproof to rain. It's pretty sweet to have for the swamp.
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# ? May 20, 2021 01:17 |
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IMO it would be perfect if the linen cape prevented wet from rain. It would give a reason to use it, and then you'd have to choose cold resistance or rain resistance.
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# ? May 20, 2021 02:04 |
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Goons keep posting about being able to dodge trolls by rolling, but I can't figure it out. Is there some way to roll while not in stealth mode? Staying in stealth mode while fighting murders my stamina, and then, when I'm out of stamina, whatever I'm fighting murders me.
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# ? May 20, 2021 02:44 |
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There’s a dodge button, it doesn’t have anything to do with stealth mode. You hold block and then hit the dodge button. It still takes a chunk of stamina though.
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# ? May 20, 2021 02:48 |
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LLSix posted:Goons keep posting about being able to dodge trolls by rolling, but I can't figure it out. Is there some way to roll while not in stealth mode? Staying in stealth mode while fighting murders my stamina, and then, when I'm out of stamina, whatever I'm fighting murders me. While you're blocking, jump becomes dodge.
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# ? May 20, 2021 04:46 |
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Floppychop posted:IMO it would be perfect if the linen cape prevented wet from rain. It would give a reason to use it, and then you'd have to choose cold resistance or rain resistance. Especially if you removed cold resistance from the wolf chest so you couldn't get both (or somehow prevented both from activating at once). But yeah I'm mostly thinking about how you have to go back to the swamps in the blackmetal era, which mostly plays out as before except you have armor and weapons that trivialize the combat, leaving only the environmental impact. You can negate the mountain's impact, why not the swamp's? (Even if only on the return). Visually the trollhide cape probably works best as a poncho but I don't think having it available before the first swamp is a good idea. So, linen/lox it is!
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# ? May 20, 2021 10:45 |
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Just bring campfires and set yourself on fire constantly, can't be wet if you're on fire
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# ? May 20, 2021 11:50 |
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Ravenfood posted:Visually the trollhide cape probably works best as a poncho but I don't think having it available before the first swamp is a good idea. So, linen/lox it is! I don't see why this would be an issue, a waterproof cape would only protect you from rain, not swimming in swamp water which you inevitably have to do in the swamp.
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# ? May 20, 2021 17:23 |
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Sounds like someone doesn't have the hoe as their primary swamp weapon!
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# ? May 20, 2021 17:38 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fUpZLsmh6U This boar farm was so easy to construct and work with. It took me maybe an hour to set it up and an hour later I had a hundred raw meat. For my pig farm, I found that using a spear is the best way to cull them since it's a forward attack, not an arc. Since the bottom pen will have tons of piglets, the spear lets you kill the adults, maximizing your meat output. In other news, the gang and I attempted Yagluth and it went very poorly. For starters, we didn't have any fire resist pots. Second, only one guy had frost arrows. Then, two deathsquitos spawned and murdered us. After that, a fuling patrol. including a 1 star spear thrower, wandered into the fight and chased us during our corpse runs. But we're learning from our mistakes: 1. clearing the plains out from a huge area surrounding the fight. 2. dropping torches all over the area to prevent deathsquito spawning. 3. going to build a large fence around the area to prevent any fuling spawns from wandering in 4. building a small rest area underneath Yagluth's altar. 5. making an additional "oh poo poo" portal 6. better food and arrows Is there anything else we're forgetting? Would it even be worth it to construct small stone walls spread out like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyenKCEJ8i4 We used that strategy for Moder's aerial phase to great success.
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# ? May 20, 2021 18:01 |
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Tetrabor posted:I don't see why this would be an issue, a waterproof cape would only protect you from rain, not swimming in swamp water which you inevitably have to do in the swamp. I pretty rarely needed to swim while in the swamps. I just leveled the ground or made roads.
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# ? May 20, 2021 18:07 |
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GlyphGryph posted:Sounds like someone doesn't have the hoe as their primary swamp weapon! Ravenfood posted:I pretty rarely needed to swim while in the swamps. I just leveled the ground or made roads. That seems like a lot of work and rock when you could just drop a fire in areas of interest. I was only in the swamp for about two hours though, and that was primarily pickaxing sludge for enough iron to move on.
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# ? May 20, 2021 18:18 |
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Tetrabor posted:That seems like a lot of work and rock when you could just drop a fire in areas of interest. Level Ground works on most of the swamp and uses no stone. Certainly a lot of work, but to at least have pathways it's worth it
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# ? May 20, 2021 18:21 |
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I just hoe as I go as needed honestly, I tend to move pretty slowly in the swamp so I don't get ambushed by draugr archers, surprise slimes or ghosts. You don't need to actually make roads to avoid the water, just a click or two will get you across most wet areas without going in the water and being targetable by leeches.
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# ? May 20, 2021 18:22 |
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Using a hoe to level ground and "make roads" takes no rock at all and isn't much slower than just moving around, especially if you're making multiple trips.
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# ? May 20, 2021 18:45 |
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AmbientParadox posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fUpZLsmh6U Yagluth's beam attack will chew through rocks with ease, and I assume walls as well. The pillars around his spawner collapsed during our fight. I don't think it works on ground though so maybe raising up chunks of ground with a hoe will work? Get good food. Really good food. Lox pie blood pudding and fish wraps was my combo for the fight. Then the fire resist and medium stamina/healing potions. Possibly better equipment? A deathsquito shouldn't be much of a threat if you're fighting the boss of the plains. If they ambush you and get in a bite they can do some damage, sure, but shouldn't be murderous amounts. As soon as you hear them buzzing in hold block and point towards the sound. First attack will bounce off your shield, then they stand around for a second or two, whack them and they should die in one shot. Fulings, yeah they're gonna suck no real way around how hard those assholes hit. Maybe even more raised ground around the arena to make a wall? a large fence is just going to get obliterated between the beam attack and meteors.
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# ? May 20, 2021 19:25 |
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Ravenfood posted:Using a hoe to level ground and "make roads" takes no rock at all and isn't much slower than just moving around, especially if you're making multiple trips.
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bird food bathtub posted:Fulings, yeah they're gonna suck no real way around how hard those assholes hit. Maybe even more raised ground around the arena to make a wall? a large fence is just going to get obliterated between the beam attack and meteors. I'm a fan of trenches for keeping mobs out generally. Once you've dug the hole to the depth you want, it only takes one or two swings to extend it in any direction and requires no resources.
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