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

[Agarathium1066]

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.

Its also kind enough to not continually drain your resources for repairs, so long as you have the stations built up you can do a full repair on everything for nothing more than a click. I really hope that is not changed, it helps reduce constant supply drain.

 

[TVStactic]

Server when? We could use the valheim+ mod (its available on github if you hate the mod nexus)

nexus has a 12-length password, according to the guys in there it's because "its the trend" in some systems.

totally ignoring the standard 2FA and 1 upper case, 1 special char and 1 number 6-length type of password... quoting myself because i used a password generator: whoever came up with that requirement is a fucking idiot.

anyways, i got me some mods to curb the gaeness and found out a couple of things after starting a playthru with only the armor and cape combo:
1 - i shoulda have ate dinner 5 hours ago
2 - i shoulda have drank water 4:30 hours ago
3 - i shoulda have slept 4 hours ago

with mods curbing the annoying things of the game it becomes highly addictive, i'll share the modlist later.

 

[Corn Flakes]

nexus has a 12-length password, according to the guys in there it's because "its the trend" in some systems.

totally ignoring the standard 2FA and 1 upper case, 1 special char and 1 number 6-length type of password... quoting myself because i used a password generator: whoever came up with that requirement is a fucking idiot.

anyways, i got me some mods to curb the gaeness and found out a couple of things after starting a playthru with only the armor and cape combo:
1 - i shoulda have ate dinner 5 hours ago
2 - i shoulda have drank water 4:30 hours ago
3 - i shoulda have slept 4 hours ago

with mods curbing the annoying things of the game it becomes highly addictive, i'll share the modlist later.

No, thank you. I've already wasted three digit hours on this stupid game, if it becomes any more addictive I'm going to lose my fucking job.

 

[TVStactic]

No, thank you. I've already wasted three digit hours on this stupid game, if it becomes any more addictive I'm going to lose my fucking job.

that's why i freelance.

give em a try anyway, they better up the game so much.

modlist:
BepinExPack
Berry Planting
Custom Container Sizes
Fast Ferment
Floating Items
Guardian Power Time
Instant Monster Loot Drop
Item Stacks
Im No Masochist
Map Fog Of War Explore Radius
Night Spawn Taming Fix
Not So Needy Crafting Station
Silent Deers
Simple Recycling
Skillful
Teleporting Wolves
Unrestricted Portals

may allah forgive me, but i installed the haram Val-Nude mod due to sheer curiosity, since walking nude = death i barely even remembered this mod was installed.

and i has some ideas for mods in the Kiwiheim:
Bigger Item Stack
Emote Keys
More Slots
No Edge of the World Death
Paddle Power
Valheim+, obviously
Surtling Boat
Show my position by default

and ones that seemed okay from me modlist with the requirements added.

 

[Peasant]

I think I'll definitely use that bigger discovery radius mod, since I spend a lot of time filling out the map. It will probably save quite a few hours of my life.

 

[KonradCruise]

that's why i freelance.

give em a try anyway, they better up the game so much.

modlist:
BepinExPack
Berry Planting
Bigger Minimap Discovery Radius
Custom Container Sizes
Fast Ferment
Floating Items
Guardian Power Time
Instant Monster Loot Drop
Item Stacks
Im No Masochist
Night Spawn Taming Fix
Not So Needy Crafting Station
Silent Deers
Simple Recycling
Skillful
Teleporting Wolves
Unrestricted Portals

may allah forgive me, but i installed the haram Val-Nude mod due to sheer curiosity, since walking nude = death i barely even remembered this mod was installed.

and i has some ideas for mods in the Kiwiheim:
Bigger Item Stack
Emote Keys
More Slots
No Edge of the World Death
Paddle Power
Valheim+, obviously
Surtling Boat
Show my position by default

and ones that seemed okay from me modlist with the requirements added.

Valheim+ does several of these things already. I'd say valheim+ and berry planting would be the definitive kiwi edition

 

[TVStactic]

I think I'll definitely use that bigger discovery radius mod, since I spend a lot of time filling out the map. It will probably save quite a few hours of my life.

try Map Fog Of War Explore Radius, you can customize the size with a config file unlike the previous one where it has set values.

Valheim+ does several of these things already. I'd say valheim+ and berry planting would be the definitive kiwi edition

more precise configurations, valheim+ is meant mostly for servers while i picked more customization mods due to singleplayer/coop focus.

Features
All of these features can be adjusted by a configuration file. This also allows you to only enable very specific featues.


Player

• Modification of stamina usage and regeneration
• Modification of stamina usage of all tools and weaponry
• Modification of carry weight
• Modification of food duration
• Modification of Unarmed Damage
• Modification of auto pickup range
• Option to force remove all screen shakes
• Modify the base amount of Unarmed damage multiplied by your unarmed skill level

Fermenter, Beehive, Kiln and Furnace

• Modify Fermenter speed
• Modify Fermenter output amount
• Modify Beehive honey production speed
• Modify Beehive maximum honey
• Modify Furnace processing speed
• Modify Furnace maximum coal/ore
• Modify Kiln processing speed
• Modify Kiln maximum wood
• Show the amount of time left until the Fermenter is done.
• Auto Deposit system for Furnace and Kiln to deposit items to the closest nearby chest.

Workbench and Ward

• Modify Workbench radius
• Modify Ward radius

Torches and Fireplaces

• Disable torches running out of fuel
• Disable fireplaces running out of fuel

Time and Day Manipulation

• Modify total time of a day and night cycle
• Modify the speed of the time passing at night

Disabled until we have fixed the issues with this system

Structural Integrity

• Modify the structural integrity of the following materials by a modifier
  • Wood
  • Stone
  • Iron
  • Hardwood
• Disable structural integrity entirely, allowing you to place objects in free air.
• Disable all damage to player built structures/objects.

Player Hud

• Show the experience you gained for a skill in the top left corner
• Show the amount of items you have in your inventory when crafting or building a object.
• Show your actual stamina values below your stamina bar.
• Modify your inventory sizes of player inventory, chests, boats and else.
• Disable the red flash on screen when damage is received
• Display a warning message when you try to place crops to close to another crop

Inventory

• Modify the amount of rows and columns in each inventory of the game
  • Extend player inventory up to 20 x 8
  • Extend chest inventory (wood up to 10 x 8, iron up to 20 x 8
• Includes automatically added scrollbars when container sizes exceed a certain limit
• Modify the inventory behavior so that items will be placed in the first slot rather than the last available slot

Item Durability

• Modify the item durability of each item type separately

Item Armor Rating

• Modify the amount of armor received from armor pieces

Gathering

• Modify the amount of resources dropped on destruction of objects.
  • 
    This includes all types of wood (inc. elderbark), stone, iron/bronze/tin/silver/copper and chitin.
• Modify the drop chance of resources from destroyed objects.

Game Difficulty

• Modify the game difficulty multipliers applied to health and damage of enemies based on the amount of connected players.
• Change the range of where the game considers other players to be nearby.
• Add a additional amount of Players to the player count for the difficulty calculation.
• Set the difficulty calculation to a specific player count.
• Option to disable the use of portals

Skill Experience

• Modify each skill's experience gain separately by percent.

Camera

• Change your FOV
• Change the maximum zoom out distance
• Change the maximum zoom out distance when in a boat

Wagon

• Modify the physical weight of the Wagon received by items inside
• Modify the base physical weight

Items

• Remove Item teleport prevention from all items
• Reduce Item weight of all items by %
• Modify maximum item stack size by %

Server

• Remove Password requirement for server
• Modify maximum Players on a server
• Modify auto save interval
• Modify server data rate in kilobyte
• Change the default of 3600 seconds until items de-spawn on the server

Map

• Activate shared position on map automatically
• Setting to force other people to share their position with you
• Remove death marker on the map on collecting your tombstone

Shared map system
Allows you to see the explored areas on the map of other players on the server if they have their position on the map shared ingame. You currently only receive exploration when you are online.


Player visibility - (Might cause issues in 0.8.5, we suggest leaving it off.)
Allows you to be visible on the server map by default when joining.

Prevent player from turning off visibility - (Might cause issues in 0.8.5, we suggest leaving it off.)
Prevents players on the server from making themselves invisible on the map.

Custom Keybinds

• Hotkey options for fowards and backwards roll.

bit of a sperg but check this autism: Repair Requires Materials, Starvation one of valheim's stronk points is not using that retarded mechanics and these morons do this shit. unfuckingbeliveable. one can say it's mod and thus its optional but it still does not excuse the fucking autism of these morons, if i wanted such retardedness i could play a good chunk of survival games to get this kind of crap, not having them is what makes valheim somewhat fun, the shitty enemy spawn where you'll face 7 trolls in a night or 20 gaydwarfs is something i found no mod to curb it, yet

 

[thejackal]

This game is a fucking grind but like Rust I'm embracing it. At least trolls won't offline raid me when I'm sleeping IRL.

Played for like 5 hours last night and I managed to smelt about 50 copper, 20 tin, sail to where I thought the Elder was (ended up blocked by the mountain biome, the fuck bruh), build a periphery base and portal there, sail some more rather pointlessly including in other huge storm that I thought was gonna break the boat apart, and then finally spent the last hour or so building out my moat more and more. It's like 10-12 tiles down now all away around and 3-4 tiles wide. I really want to kill the fucking Elder so I can start getting harder raids. I want it.

 

[TVStactic]

This game is a fucking grind but like Rust I'm embracing it. At least trolls won't offline raid me when I'm sleeping IRL.

Played for like 5 hours last night and I managed to smelt about 50 copper, 20 tin, sail to where I thought the Elder was (ended up blocked by the mountain biome, the fuck bruh), build a periphery base and portal there, sail some more rather pointlessly including in other huge storm that I thought was gonna break the boat apart, and then finally spent the last hour or so building out my moat more and more. It's like 10-12 tiles down now all away around and 3-4 tiles wide. I really want to kill the fucking Elder so I can start getting harder raids. I want it.

stock up on at least 4 finewood bows and go with either bronze or flinthead arrows. more than 400 and you'll be able to kite him around his pillars since they'll block his vine attacks, do it on daytime right after being awake so night won't cripple your stamina.

try picking up 2 star boars to use against him, have two to breed and pick the rest.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Bit the bullet and got the game. Any early tips?

 

[Agarathium1066]

Bit the bullet and got the game. Any early tips?

Don't get too hung up on building a big shelter or a safe spot until you've dealt with your first boss. Building or making a lot of racket at night will draw in enemies, in the meadows they're usually not too strong. Fires scare them enough they'll not want to get near.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Don't get too hung up on building a big shelter or a safe spot until you've dealt with your first boss. Building or making a lot of racket at night will draw in enemies, in the meadows they're usually not too strong. Fires scare them enough they'll not want to get near.

Addendum: if you really want some easy shelter, there are usually abandoned buildings close to the spawn point you can patch up and claim for yourself.

 

[TVStactic]

Bit the bullet and got the game. Any early tips?

become a masochist or pick your poison from the modlist/nexus

also remember to use eikthyr whenever possible to farm skills that you lost. he's the safest option.

 

[Mnutu]

Bit the bullet and got the game. Any early tips?

When aiming with the bow, factor in drop. When throwing a spear, aim higher because the drop is way more drastic.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

Use the wiki if you feel like you're stuck. Some recipes don't unlock unless you've found or crafted certain things.

Food is life. There's no food degradation mechanic in this game, so stockpile like you're a prepper. Each food item affects your max stamina, max HP, and HP/stamina regen rates. Before you take on a tough fight (a boss battle or clearing out a burial chamber), make sure you've eaten a full meal of three items. With that, unless your skills and gear are complete ass you can tank hits from two-star enemies and keep right on beating them in the face.

Speaking of which, yes, there is a variance of weapon damage in the game. Skeletons are weaker vs blunt attacks, for example.

Which brings me to the early-game best weapon: Stagbreaker. Holy fuck I am surprised this hasn't been nerfed, because it is hilarious. It has a slow windup, but the strike creates an AOE effect that knocks back pretty much any normal enemy and may stagger them. I went from hating greydwarf kill teams to laughing at them because even a half dozen dorfs + a shaman or brute have trouble when your ground-pound sends them flying like tenpins.

The big difficulty in crafting it is getting core wood. The good news is that you get that from pine trees, and those can be cut with a stone axe. Bad news? Gotta run to the Black Forest biome to get it. Try not to get stepped on by a troll.

 

[TVStactic]

Use the wiki if you feel like you're stuck. Some recipes don't unlock unless you've found or crafted certain things.

Food is life. There's no food degradation mechanic in this game, so stockpile like you're a prepper. Each food item affects your max stamina, max HP, and HP/stamina regen rates. Before you take on a tough fight (a boss battle or clearing out a burial chamber), make sure you've eaten a full meal of three items. With that, unless your skills and gear are complete ass you can tank hits from two-star enemies and keep right on beating them in the face.

Speaking of which, yes, there is a variance of weapon damage in the game. Skeletons are weaker vs blunt attacks, for example.

Which brings me to the early-game best weapon: Stagbreaker. Holy fuck I am surprised this hasn't been nerfed, because it is hilarious. It has a slow windup, but the strike creates an AOE effect that knocks back pretty much any normal enemy and may stagger them. I went from hating greydwarf kill teams to laughing at them because even a half dozen dorfs + a shaman or brute have trouble when your ground-pound sends them flying like tenpins.

The big difficulty in crafting it is getting core wood. The good news is that you get that from pine trees, and those can be cut with a stone axe. Bad news? Gotta run to the Black Forest biome to get it. Try not to get stepped on by a troll.

if you can make a bronze axe then you can cut oaks which drops fine and core wood along with normal wood too, birch also drops fine wood but at very small amounts.

and never forget to always put roof on stuff, if it rains structures without roof will be damaged, the crafteng stations also dun work without a roof too.

 

[thejackal]

God damnit I had to come to shore during a storm and I had a bunch of shit in the boat and I went AFK inside a shelter and I kept hearing cracking sounds as I made a sandwich. Turns out that was my boat getting torn to shreds and all my loot sinking to the bottom of the sea. RIP.

On a happier note I have sat bases with portals all over now. It's a little tedious, but this game REALLY wants you to put the time in to make little shelters and portals at various places. Having one "home base" is good, but make smaller ones at your mining outposts and other points of interest.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Made a tiny little cuck shed to sleep and store my crap in. Finding boars for the bow is remarkably annoying.
Edit: Made a beehive too. What can you do with that without fermenters?

 

[TVStactic]

Made a tiny little cuck shed to sleep and store my crap in. Finding boars for the bow is remarkably annoying.
Edit: Made a beehive too. What can you do with that without fermenters?

you mean honey? besides eating you'll use it on the fermenter for buff-giving things, including the reduce poison soup that you will need for once you get to swamp biome.

once you die you can keep dying in multiple places no problem, just mark your death locations because corpse run buff can have it's duration refreshed once you pick another tomb and that buff is basically this:

managed to kill alot of draugs and leeches with one buff and no armor

 

[thejackal]

Made a tiny little cuck shed to sleep and store my crap in. Finding boars for the bow is remarkably annoying.
Edit: Made a beehive too. What can you do with that without fermenters?

Start stockpiling food ASAP is something I recommend. It will seem like you have endless food but then you have to start making the meads and shit and it goes fast. Right now I have to spend like 30 minutes just hunting blueberries and raspberries every few in game days. Collect every queen bee you see and then make hives at your base for honey supply. They also will fuck with mobs that try and attack you as a side benefit.

Once you get a bow get fire arrows go to the forest (not at night) and try and kill a couple trolls. Troll armor will serve you well for a long time. Don't bother with a raft, wait until you can make the 2nd tier boat after you get access to bronze. The first boss is pretty easy to kill just make sure you bring enough arrows and food and try and be rested . When you're mining throw down a fire and maybe even a little shelter for the bonuses. Be careful especially at first because trolls and gaydwarfs will swarm you.

I finally killed the Elder last night. It was an epic journey on my boat to setup the portals and then the sat base and it took like 100 fucking arrows or some shit but he went down. Also, the stamina mead is fucking awesome. I know I'm supposed to be farming carrots or some shit at this point as well. Gotta figure out the food system a bit more.