Valheim - Get your survival fix with this low fantasy game of the year candidate.

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RomanesEuntDomus said:
Do trolls get attracted by loud noises? I have a troll spawn some distance to my main area of mining copper and he usually minds his own business, but the moment I start mining copper, that assholes strolls right up to me.
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Whenever you are making noise by doing something you are going to draw nearby creatures to you. Mining and lumberjacking seems to piss off the locals the most since they also teraform the area. At night creatures spawn more actively as well so making a lot of noise then will have them traipsing out to slap the taste out of your mouth. In my experience trolls wander a good distance from whatever lair is spawning them, so if they hear something suspicious they'll waddle over.

It's worth killing off any trolls in the area before getting to work because they'll find you eventually.
 
Agarathium1066 said:
Whenever you are making noise by doing something you are going to draw nearby creatures to you. Mining and lumberjacking seems to piss off the locals the most since they also teraform the area. At night creatures spawn more actively as well so making a lot of noise then will have them traipsing out to slap the taste out of your mouth. In my experience trolls wander a good distance from whatever lair is spawning them, so if they hear something suspicious they'll waddle over.

It's worth killing off any trolls in the area before getting to work because they'll find you eventually.
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The game's AI is smarter than I anticipated, that's kinda cool. Unfortunately, the troll seems to respawn after some time, but I got an improved bow and soon, there will be copper arrows to go along with it, so trolls should not be a huge issue in the future.

I love how dopey, outright cute, they look, yet when they come towards you swinging that club, you still shit your pants.
 
Agarathium1066 said:
Whenever you are making noise by doing something you are going to draw nearby creatures to you. Mining and lumberjacking seems to piss off the locals the most since they also teraform the area. At night creatures spawn more actively as well so making a lot of noise then will have them traipsing out to slap the taste out of your mouth. In my experience trolls wander a good distance from whatever lair is spawning them, so if they hear something suspicious they'll waddle over.

It's worth killing off any trolls in the area before getting to work because they'll find you eventually.
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No kidding. Dealing with 15 graydwarfs, a troll, a couple brutes and a healer sucks. And just because they didn't want you farming their copper. The real shitter is when a nest is nearby too.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
Do trolls get attracted by loud noises? I have a troll spawn some distance to my main area of mining copper and he usually minds his own business, but the moment I start mining copper, that assholes strolls right up to me.

Can't really test it out, though, there's some issue with my harddrive and it might be related to the game. When I try to boot it, it spazzes out and my harddrive goes nuts, but I don't know what's the cause and what's the effect. Shit sucks.
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spazzing by 100 percent usage or spazzing by not recognizing things when loading? i have the latter and it's bad sectors from a dying HDD (seagate barracuda) while the former is valheim being valheim
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
The game's AI is smarter than I anticipated, that's kinda cool. Unfortunately, the troll seems to respawn after some time, but I got an improved bow and soon, there will be copper arrows to go along with it, so trolls should not be a huge issue in the future.

I love how dopey, outright cute, they look, yet when they come towards you swinging that club, you still shit your pants.
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So long as a troll lair isn't built near they'll continue to spawn and I've personally never been huge on trying to utterly depopulate the map so I just make sure to have some arrows or a polearm on hand to deal with them.

Absolutely agree they're kind've puggish in appearance, almost a shame you can't make peace with them.
 
TVStactic said:
spazzing by 100 percent usage or spazzing by not recognizing things when loading? i have the latter and it's bad sectors from a dying HDD (seagate barracuda) while the former is valheim being valheim
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Spazzing by 100% activity, but low, (if any) data transfer going on, which happened independent of playing the game. It slows down windows to a ridiculous level, where even opening up the start-menu takes forever to load. Like, I legit had to wait for 5 minutes for it to recognize that I had even clicked the button.

I've run the checkdisk thingy in the command file, it said that the "volumebitmap" or something like that was "wrong". I ran the repair command on all disks and rebooted the system to make that go. Hope that finding and isolating the broken parts of the disk will solve the issue.
I've got an SSD for Windows and important stuff, which seems to run fine and another regular HDD with some games (like Valheim) on it, that seems to be the issue.
Guess I'll get a new HDD ASAP and make a clone of my old HDD.
 
Alright I got the weekend coming up and will fell the Elder tonight hopefully. Haven't had much chance to play this week just mostly worked on my base. I got a couldron now and a bunch of bronze gear, I think it's time to build this boat and make the journey. According to my map it's like 5x further away than I've ran the entire time I've been playing this seed (like 15 hours) so yea, it's going to be a journey.
 
Now this is just ridiculous.
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Vlinny-kun said:
I'll bite. Seed:p7kiqKB5tN
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muh world seed: qliTQJs80t

it's a okayish world, there's a hut southeast from the starting point but it's somewhat packed with trees and berriers on the starter area. bretty good.

the micromanagement motherfuckery is kind of annoying but it's still decent, running at fair 30's and definitely won't try higher because 1- Unity, 2 - Game is EA.

leveling the skills oblivion style was surely something that did work on back in the day when oblivion was fun and wasn't because of that. course the OCD fellers might enjoy that but...
 
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Picked it up a few days ago, put about 30 hours in so far. Mostly exploring and prepping, any advice for delves? First delve I’ve entered, surrounded by three towers, a troll cave, and a Greydwarf spawner.

Two of the towers had Greydwarfs and the other was skeletons. Thankfully, Greydwarfs are easy to kite with fire arrows + Spear combo. Skeleton tower got raided by the silly rock chickens and was whittled down to two easily manageable Skeletons. Troll Cave was empty and I didn’t see a spawner. First step into the delve I went right and the room was tight, had three spawners and three skeletons. Died before I could even really register what to do.

EDIT : I already beat Eikthyr, first time I ever used his power. Didn’t realize you posed like a jackass for three seconds, which caused my death. I already did my death run to get my stuff back (took two stressful trips).
 
Sable said:
Yeah the goblins send groups of raiding parties if they hear tree felling IIRC.
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always use the starter area trees and plant shit, maybe even get a boar since they can be tamed.
Corn Flakes said:
I love how everybody gets one of those. I haven't seen mosquitos that hardcore since the Zangarmarsh in World of Warcraft.
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SHIELDS, these mosquitos are a bit of a skill ceiling for many players but if you have good blocking skill that hopefully you farmed on the starter areas then you'll do somewhat fine, then learn to time your attacks on them.

one thing valheim gets players for their carelessness is the equipment degradation, if you don't bring spares then you are in for a hard time.
 
I picked this up at a friend's recommendation, and while it can be unforgiving if you poke your nose in the wrong place, it's... oddly kind in other ways.

Like, getting killed knocks your skills back a bit, but you get a temporary 10 minute buff that prevents further skill loss, AND if you manage to grab your shit, you get a buff called 'corpse run' which gives you considerable resistance to physical damage and reduces stamina costs for running and jumping, which lets you run the fuck away.

So if Mr. Troll pastes you a few times when you're trying to get your stuff, you won't suffer further skill reductions and once you get your gear, you can nope the fuck out.

The tutorial system could use some fine tuning, and I agree that inventory management is a HUGE hassle. Weight or slots, guys, but both is a fucking chore. Stockpiles need to DO something besides sit there, and splitting inventory is annoying as fuck.
 
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