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Valheim - Get your survival fix with this low fantasy game of the year candidate.
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KF really needs a sticker for 'that's fucking hilarious'.
Speaking of the rested bonus, it derives from 'comfort', which is actually pretty easy to rack up once you've discovered several materials (fine wood is probably the most critical). Each level of comfort adds an additional minute to the base of 7 minutes. Having certain furniture and items adds on to your comfort (it needs to be within five 2x2 tiles, or 10 meters).
+2 from shelter (being under a roof -- you should see the little icon at the top of your screen).
+1 for being in range of a fire, or +2 if it's a hearth (only one applies)
+1 for being in range of your bed, or +2 if it's a dragon bed (again, only one applies)
+1 for any banner within range (multiple banners won't stack)
+3 for a raven throne within range
+1 for a table within range
+1 for rugs within range (one of each, deer, wolf, and lox, all apply, for a total of +3 if you have all three of them)
+1 for bench or stool within range, +2 for a chair (only one applies)
+1 for a hanging brazier
You also gain +1 for having a maypole within range, and +1 for a Christmas tree within range, but those cannot be built or moved and you have to build around them.
So effectively, your max bonus is 17, equaling a rested bonus of 24 minutes (+2 shelter, +2 hearth, +2 dragon bed, +1 banner, +3 raven throne, +1 table, +3 for three different rugs, +2 for chair, and +1 for a brazier). The big issue is the brazier, really; it generates smoke like a campfire will. Fortunately you can let it go out and it'll continue to give its bonus.
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Have about 60 hours in so far and am enjoying myself. Just sailed across a large river (Ocean I guess?) and am getting ready to fight the elder. I know I should be a lot further along than the second boss but I spent a lot of time building my house and collecting resources.
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Take your time. There's no clock on this shit. If you don't feel like you can wrangle the critters in a biome, fall back and work on getting new gear and upgrading it.
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You tell me. I decided to completely get rid of this big chunk of Black Forest biome right next to my home base. So I queued up some podcasts. Took me almost eight hours but that hill looks like a landscape from the fucking Lorax movie now. I've got so much core wood I built a to-scale viking longhouse out of logs, including the floor, just for fun.
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OK, that's funny. So I was experimenting to see if you could put food items on a table (mental note: suggest that to the devs at some point).
Well, you can, kinda... but you have to drop them from like 6-8 feet away to get it to land on the table. So it looked like I was yeeting a bowl of carrot soup from a ways off to neatly land on the tabletop.
Well, you can, kinda... but you have to drop them from like 6-8 feet away to get it to land on the table. So it looked like I was yeeting a bowl of carrot soup from a ways off to neatly land on the tabletop.
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I can't believe it took me this long to try it out, but if you have access to fermenters and you're upset about stamina regeneration downtime or being caught with your pants down, definitely give tasty mead a try.
Last night I was testing tasty mead (read: wasting it speeding up stamina regen while mining at night), felt the ground shaking, looked around and saw a troll making a beeline for me. Chug mead, run away for a second or two, and bam: full stamina, ready to take the troll to school. It doesn't seem like it would be much, but it really makes a difference when you need it right now, even more so when you have the cold or wet debuff on you. The stamina meads are also good, but I've been using tasty mead because I have a huge stash of blueberries from cutting down a whole chunk of Black Forest.
Last night I was testing tasty mead (read: wasting it speeding up stamina regen while mining at night), felt the ground shaking, looked around and saw a troll making a beeline for me. Chug mead, run away for a second or two, and bam: full stamina, ready to take the troll to school. It doesn't seem like it would be much, but it really makes a difference when you need it right now, even more so when you have the cold or wet debuff on you. The stamina meads are also good, but I've been using tasty mead because I have a huge stash of blueberries from cutting down a whole chunk of Black Forest.
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I just use the horizontal item stands. Even makes it look like the food is on a little plate.
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I started a new character and I'm having a pretty good time just trying out a different playstyle. G
Looks nice and cozy and with a nice deck for sunbathing. Dig a little moat around it before you beat the Elder so Trolls can't come and knock it down. They won't fall into the moat but if it's like 4 or so "tiles" wide they won't be able to damage your house. If you're paranoid you can put walls around the interior of the moat too. You don't have to have it fill with water, bedrock is fine. I dug down maybe 8-12 "tiles" I think that was overkill. It's so bad if I fall into it I take like 30-40 damage.
I got bored with my first save and started a new character. This guy is more of a brawler as I'm trying to get into the parry and block system more. I rushed the 1st boss in like 2 hours and then I got lucky and the 1st crypt I explored had 10 cores so boom smelter and kiln already.
Looks nice and cozy and with a nice deck for sunbathing. Dig a little moat around it before you beat the Elder so Trolls can't come and knock it down. They won't fall into the moat but if it's like 4 or so "tiles" wide they won't be able to damage your house. If you're paranoid you can put walls around the interior of the moat too. You don't have to have it fill with water, bedrock is fine. I dug down maybe 8-12 "tiles" I think that was overkill. It's so bad if I fall into it I take like 30-40 damage.
I got bored with my first save and started a new character. This guy is more of a brawler as I'm trying to get into the parry and block system more. I rushed the 1st boss in like 2 hours and then I got lucky and the 1st crypt I explored had 10 cores so boom smelter and kiln already.
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Looks pretty good. Mine's kind of sprawled out untidily as I've built up attachments. Oddly, I've yet to add a moat/ditch -- mine's surrounded by a stakewall which keeps out the riffraff, and I typically go outside to face off any invasions (trolls are a lot less intimidating when you can tank their hits).
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Okay, I am glad I posted because I was wondering if the mobs that come out of the forest movements would eventually "upgrade" once I beat the Elder. I am glad I didn't rush it. I can barely kill trolls at the moment with fire arrow spam from a distance. I've mainly been focusing on gathering resources, and even have a road to a mining in the Dark forest to collect copper and tin. I am not sure how to use portals, and decided I'd leave it till I find more cores. I will definitely build a moat.
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The invasion events are dependent mostly on how many bosses and critters you've killed. But they do 'upgrade' based on that.
Portals can be finicky if you try to play games with their tags. Essentially, you build two portals, and 'associate' them with each other with a keyword. If you try to change the keyword you can have problems, as if you change the keyword, you need to walk AWAY from that portal till it deactivates (they activate based on your proximity), because otherwise you can easily strand yourself with a nonfunctioning portal.
Example: Let's say I have a portal set up in my home base, and portals set up in a mountain base, and a swamp base. Keywords for the latter are 'mountain' and 'swamp'. I walk in, with my home portal set to mountain, change the keyword to swamp, and step through, it'll send me to the mountain AND because the home portal keyword is changed, the mountain portal won't work. Make sense?
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I don't want to bug you if I don't fully get it. I think I do, but I don't know for sure. I will just be sure to look up guides on how to use them because I am a visual learner and a youtube video will probably make me understand better. Thanks for the information though, I will definitely not fuck with the tags. I am usually good at naming things anyways.
Another thing to add, is my map is a HUGE landmass. I mean, I didn't encounter an ocean till 30 hours in. It's a giant island, with a snow biome in the middle. and dark forest to the North and South. I'll share a screen shot when I get the chance.
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That is a huge starter island. Maybe you won't even have to sail to find the Elder. How many beehives have you found? Those are another random thing that is fairly important to get going early. Once you get like 6-7 hives you pretty much have an endless supply of honey and you need that for the potions.
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Honey is also a decent food for when you're out and about. Great health regen, even if the duration is terrible.
I've got 11 hives set up so far and I've got so much honey it's my standard "I don't want to be at 25HP while working around the house but I don't want to waste meat" food.
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Here is my map so far. Snow biome is all in the south, and I've slowly been going around it. Also, is it possible to delete pins off the map?
As for the Elder, I found the register for it in a crypt, and I haven't explored south enough to know if it is across the ocean. I have gotten the troll armor though, and thats saving me a lot of time scouting out the area.
Hives is something I had super early, I kept finding hives in the meadows just exploring. I have about 8 hives I think now?
As for the Elder, I found the register for it in a crypt, and I haven't explored south enough to know if it is across the ocean. I have gotten the troll armor though, and thats saving me a lot of time scouting out the area.
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Troll armor upgraded with deer cape upgraded is viable until Iron. I skipped most copper armor other then the helmet.
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No worries, man. I just wanted to make sure my explanation wasn't too incoherent or autistic.