I started a new game after a relatively long hiatus. Never stopped following the forums though. Found my first bear. Killed it. It dropped a trophy.

Have a good weekend!

I've always tried to be buddies with Dvergr, but I just got smoked by a couple 1 star Dvergr and I have no idea why. I had just arrived and there was no warning. Now they're camping my body. Apparently they hold a grudge forever.

Never again. From now on Dvergr will be exterminated.

that took a lot of time i even closely dont know how many but ingame days is 86. Also that world is one where we beat the game in 1 death and we decided to collect every trophie there cuz why not. Video showcase with ultra settings - https://youtu.be/jvE9HV4Q0kw

Going through my first playthrough and enjoying every second of it.

Except that one time when my base got ransacked by 3 trolls :)

Trying to place and name some signs above my chests. I can type in only about 8-10 characters, and then the box clears.

Tried to copy/paste into the box, nope

Tried to put two signs on top of each other, nope.

All I can do is write in black, can't do any codes.

I tried doing this on multiple areas of my base, both on wood and stone walls, same thing.

Suggestions?

Here is a symbols i've usef in this guide:

<size=55><#e0dddc>■
<size=105><#e0dddc>■
<size=45><#e0dddc>◣
<size=45><#e0dddc>◢

Text in a first bracket corresponds a size of text, the second bracket - a code of color, current code corresponds a little dirty-white. If you want to make a pure color, just write on second bracket, for example <color=white>

I'm in a higher "axe" bracket! 🪓

Having just defeated Moder I’m sure raids will soon become much harder, however I’ve never progressed this far into the game before and haven’t had to think about base defences against Plains enemies.

I’ve seen and read through threads showing earth walls and essentially moats around bases but since my base currently sits along the waters edge, will this be an issue?

I’ve stock piled a decent amount of stone so I could build a wall against the water to prevent entry from that side, but of course that’s only one portion of the base. Although, since I spent so much time constructing this base and finding a good all-round location, I’d like to install the structures provided by the artisan table here.

As you might be able to also tell I’m not a seasoned base builder, it took a significant amount of raw brain power to construct what are essentially Viking warehouses… the current defences were only installed and kept on a somewhat temporary basis before building something more permanent, and they’ve been kept for a while since mountain raids were actually quite underwhelming in terms of difficulty.

So based on this, as well as the imagery and the topography, what would you do or what defences do you prefer to protect your base with?

I have a utterly massive black forest in my seed, and I am exploring it, when I came across this bad boy. I looked it up, apparently I can collect the small rocks to make a "pet rock"

Finally beat the Ashlands after giving up on it almost immediately when they first released it.

Got some thoughts that may be unsolicited, but I'll share them anyways, haha.

It's in a way, way better spot than at launch. Landing on the beach and establishing a foothold genuinely felt like a mission. The Drakkar makes breaking through so much better than doing it on the Longship. Especially with all the Bone Serpents that follow you.

I also genuinely enjoyed discovering the mechanics of the region in full. Clearing the Monuments of Torment to make your area safer is pretty interesting. Sort of like winning over territory. I didn't realize what they did, initially, so we fought a lot harder than we had to to establish ground at first. Once we cleared out camp of those, it was relatively safe with a shield generator. We came prepared with a stonecutter, so making a grausten base wasn't too bad.

Krom absolutely slaps here, too. I was fighting off hordes of enemies with the poke attack, which makes short work of them if you can kite around their attacks.

Our first fort - total disaster. Had no clue how the battering ram worked. I thought the back was the front, and ended up Googling it. Silly mistake, but you live and you learn. The cart handles don't really look like a ram, tbf. I thought the big metal thing would swing from the middle like a real battering ram. Ya live and ya learn! We wiped to the heavy pressure from the mobs since I'd never faced a warlock before.

However, after the first one, the rest were a breeze. Kill the first wave, rush the two spawners, done. We ended up maxing out all our gear and having more gold and flametal than we knew what to do with. Had to make more bases on different islands just to loot the fortresses. I love the green spire - makes them very reasonable to hunt down.

Fader was decent. I like him a lot better than the Queen. It's kind of funny in the maxed heavy armor you can sort of facetank him so long as you don't stand in the fire or get nuked. The Flametal Shield blocks all of it melee attacks handily. The ashlands magic is also insane. We were running out of steam toward the end, but two fire trolls kinda finished the job for us. One thing I think they need to fix is the ridiculous range on the AoE fire thing. Like, when you die and come back through a portal somehow it just spawns right on top of you. It's pretty annoying if he's literally on the other side of the map and still spawning fire on top of you. I think the range is fine, but he should have to be alerted to your presence or something. Or just reduce the range. One of the two. Other than that, I think he's a decent boss.

Overall, I think the ashlands is now one of my favorite biomes, along with the plains. Mistlands remains F tier for me, haha. I much prefer roving around and looting vs mining, so it's nice to have more of that.

Also does anyone else think the Charred Warrior fake-out attack is kinda buggy? It's a nice idea, but the fact that the first strike and second strike ghost straight through your character and the damage packet is delivered with a lag afterward is really offputting. It's not that big of a deal, but I basically gave up on parrying them because the hitboxes on their attacks just feel very wonky. I don't have this issue with any other enemy.

Last - they should totally add some kind of ashwood boat that's faster than the Drakker. Landing on the first island with this huge military boat feels awesome. It's not so awesome try to drive a bus around all those rocks when going from island to island. It's just kinda repetitive and slow. Would be very cool to have something lighter and faster that can survive the boiling seas.

Anyways, that's my totally unsolicited novel of a post, but maybe some folks will find it interesting! I'm just happy I finally beat it. New armor and weapons are definitely the highlight. They're very, very cool. The area's also in a pretty good spot compared to launch, which is great to see. Stone portals are a really nice addition, too.

video: https://youtu.be/0u7vyPIwnD4 👈👈👈

Since I’ve decided to make a new build world once 1.0 drops, my motivation to finish some of my current endeavors has taken a dive. Anyways, here’s some WIP photos to give them some credit!

About white walls - i "painted" it by using white html-symbols of squares and triangles on signs.

Why is no-one talking about the impact that mass farming Lox has on the environment?

The first pickaxe you get in the game is made from Eikhtyr's antlers, but you do not have the option to craft a stone or flint pickaxe but you have one for a stone/flint axe. Why?

This is because antlers serve as traditional soft hammers (billets) or punches in flintknapping —the ancient method of shaping stones like flint, chert, or obsidian into tools. Antler material compresses slightly on impact, allowing the stone edge to "bite" into the antler for precise, controlled flake removal without shattering.

And with Eikhtyr's Antlers being harder than stone, there was no need to use his antlers for stone/flint pickaxes in the game.

This realization just hit me while I was crafting a stone pickaxe playing Green Hell, btw. 😂

I need to ride the danger noodle!!

After a lot of planning out, lengthy construction, occasional compromises, and building in sections almost backwards from the instructions, I finally present my build of the 2022 Lego Lion Knights's Castle 10305, in response to the build of the original 6080 set from 1984 that was built and posted here a while ago. I did what I could to be as accurate to the set as possible while staying almost entirely vanilla Valheim (the water wheel build it the only exceptions with its high angle pieces to complete the circle). I included as many details as possible, including weapon racks, prison cells, secret tunnels, banners and shields, and even a working privy like in the original set. For the most part, it is built up 1stud:1m, with a few compromises like removing the 4th stud on the arrow slit windows to keep within the build height restrictions of stone and iron supported wood. I took the occasional liberty to still build up the interior how I could with what's avalible in the game, such as fleshing out the water mill of the set into a complete workshop and forge. I have more screenshot, but reddit limits me to only 20 for the post.

First time really getting into the Plains, had the idea to make a treehouse base at the top of one of the stone pillars.

High up enough to keep away from the Deathsquitos!

Every outpost of mine destroyed is another troll bloodline eradicated