I've been following development for this game for 2 years and I'm so happy it has lived up to and honestly surpassed any expectations I had. Me too, haven't loved a game this much in ages, maybe except for Bannerlord
Im about 6 hours in this game feels like Elderscrolls, Runescape, Zelda, and Ark forged together on Thors anvil Edit: 40 hours in and still having a blast currently building my first huge mead hall Let me just edit this again: 150 hours in Please help me, my free time has been consumed by my devotion the the gods
@@peterblack7464 can't wait until they add some more lore, love all the little poems,riddles, and background pieces of lore you can discover on rune stones
Secondary hint regarding rain damage: The "weather damage" only goes to 50%... so rain won't eventually destroy your walls and stuff outright, only weaken them. ;)
Early easy defense. Build near large body of water. Once you get pickaxe dig a trench surrounding your settlement. As you hit water level the trench will fill up becoming a moat. Leave a small strip of land to your door and focus building defenses on that strip. Enemys will fall into your moat forcing them to swim, making them easy targets for your bow.
side tip about swimming - if you stay still in the water your stamina will not go down. So in multiplayer worlds you can get a boat rescue, provided you aren't near enemies.
@@spacejamerino this is a great way to survive in solo play. Collect your ship parts and swim until your about to take damage. Relog, and do it again until you reach land. Build a bench and remake your boat.
I love how you can transfer your gear between worlds. This was the one problem I had with other survival games. Now I feel like I’m actually playing to build a super powerful character and hop in friends worlds to help them
@@abhishekab1 i think a lot of this quality comes from proper prioritising. Just look at the graphics for instance. At first glance they're bad, Ps1 graphics that would make your world look like it's made out of cardboard. Most devs would make sure to have high quality graphics in every aspect from the start, but you don't need to worry about improving them because that effort was put into lighting, proper voxel generation and realistic shrubbery which makes everything look beautiful and saves up Gigabytes upon gigabytes of game data. Another example is how they didn't emphasize on let's say just building, or just survival (which is a reason DayZ has such differing opinions on what the game should be about ) And they made just enough of everything. With this proper prioritising they gave us 1.6GB of unfinished game that leaves you with hours put into it. That's a huge success.
This is a Norse ship burial. They are a real thing in real life where important people were buried in ship-shaped standing stones. And yes, they were buried with their grave goods and treasure. The idea of the ship shape is because ships were so important to their culture and it was thought that you'd need one to sail to the afterlife.
You're almost right, they were in many cases actually buried with an actual ship. Sometimes their horse were killed and layed next to them. In some cases a woman could sacrifice herself to go with this man in the eternal afterlife and be granted access to Valhalla through that sacrifice :)
@@bt70a9 I'm not "almost" right, I am right. I never discluded actual longships from being in the burial. It came down to the wealth of the burial usually. Usually the woman who sacrificed herself was a thrall, a type of slave. Sometimes she could be family but that was more rare. Nor was it to seek entry into Valhöll, but to continue to serve the important individual. It's important to remember that going to Valhöll wasn't the afterlife that most Norse people expected to go to. That was reserved for only the upper best of warriors slain in battle. And even half of those would go to Freyja. Most were destined for Helheim. An old King who died naturally probably wouldn't expect to become Einherjar.
@@bt70a9 The idea of important vikings getting buried with their ships has been subject of a lot of scrutiny lately though, and nowadays archeologists generally don't think that happened in any real capacity. The ships were simply too costly and time-consuming to build.
@@Aaron-mj9ie this guy gets it. Rushed games become buggy, buggy games lose interest fast. The gameplay is solid so far and I can only see it getting better.
Dude this game gonna be the best big thing 100k player online 4 days after the realse stick to it keep the video rolling and you'll grow like crazy good luck
Buried treasure should be more rare and actually drop useful stuff like high level weapons and armor. 40 gold, 6 arrows, and a ruby are not worth ruining the landscape.
Useful video ! Another pro tip : When you go on to explore remote new lands, build a spare portal at your main base, and keep in your backpack the resources to build a portal whenever you feel so !
You don't even need to use trolls to get finewood. Just roll logs into trees multiple times and it'll do enough damage to break them. I got a finewood bow super early by doing this.
I’ve got a very good trick for all players. So if you didn’t know, when you die in water your loot sinks making it impossible to get back. So to prevent this what you want to do is make a new side world and literally make a small hut with a bed and 5 chests. If you are about to die at sea, leave that world and join the side world, put all gear in the chests, go back to your main world with nothing and die, once you respawn back at your bed, go back to the side world, get all gear and join the main again. This works as whatever you have in your inventory on your character can be taken between servers
6:40 It's very much worth mentioning that birds land during the night-- and have a *much* harder time seeing you. If you want feathers, just walk along and hunt birds at night for a SUPER easy stack of feathers.
To my knowledge, rain only damages structures to 50%hp then stops. It weakens the structure not totally decays it, least every test i did the walls and gate never broke they always stopped at half
If you enjoy the building try to make a point to restore all the abandoned villages and build roads and portals to them. I've restored whole farms and entire settlements which can be useful traveling to and from places for resources within the same seed.
Another way to break down hardwood trees: Chop down other trees onto it until it falls. Then, use your character to roll regular logs into the hardwood logs until they break down further. Once you have at least 2 hardwood logs, you should roll them into each other instead of using softwood logs. Its helpful if you can position 1 log at the button of a small hill, then push the other log up and just move out of the way so it will roll dow and hit the static log. It works, and is safer than using a troll.
For the gates just put a half wall above each one and then attach a roof to both sides, and you can add pillars to the ends of the roofs if you want to make it look nice
One thing I have noticed whilst using the pickaxe to clear areas is that the gradual upwards slope that builds is made of dirt, you can use the hoe to level it out faster than hitting with the pickaxe again and you can clear more space on each trip since your pickaxe lasts longer
I was doing over 100 damage consistently with my Crude Bow on Day 2 or 3 and never thought it was a terrible weapon. Man I can’t wait to get a Fine Bow now.
@@Firespark81 Still a good guide either way, they are probably just testing out decay right now allowing people to really enjoy the game and not worry too much about losing their bases
You can use other trees or tree logs to destroy fine trees too, either by making them fall into each other or rolling them into one another with your character
this, I've seen literally no one else mention this. some of my base defense is a small little cage that hold logs and made it where If I remove a pole it rolls down a hills and builds up the damage to kill things
To add on the water thing, if your playing with friends and you fall out of the boat or a similar situation just stay put and wait for the boat to come back. You can stay still and tread water infinitely as long as you don’t use up your stamina.
5:52 farm them for the eyes they drop. You will need them for portals so you can fast travel. And yes, focus on bows they op... you can kill anything with them wothozt taking dmg. Also be careful... there are monsters in the ocean.
Just fyi, all that stuff can only lose 50% health; they don't actually break from the rain. Most of that stuff like log piles would not even care about covering.
update: not exactly sure if a bug or what but I smashed some log piles and only recieved 1 log from my mates server. I chest my logs just as a precaution now as chests don't deteriorate at all as far as I can tell?
I use other trees to get finewood early, a lot more tedious than using a troll but it works and is safer. Just knock a tree down and push the log into a birch tree until it falls after you can push the birch logs into other trees/logs
Something some people are overlooking right now is the upgrading system, if you are dreading running out of content consider slowing your progress down a bit and upgrade each piece of armor to its max might give you more time till improvements and more content come out
@@gerardodeloera7330 yeah I found that out by accident. I also caught myself running around unprepared so I slowed down and started getting more established. Lot of fun. Enjoying it more than Ark for some reason
Tip: to solo raise your shield skill quickly, use Necks. The hit fast but very weak. Find area with several Necks. Dig a trench that is just over your head. Do not smooth the edges of the trench. You want it too steep for the necks to escape. Have wood hand for a stake wall. Go agro the necks and pull them into your training trench. Drop the stake wall to close the Necks with you. Stand at the deep end of the trench and let the Necks beat on your shield. Swap in new shields as needed. The Necks do not hit hard but do hit hard enough for you to burn some stamina which will count for training. When done with the session just jump out. Tip: Build up earth walls very high. Mobs cannot hurt earth walls. Put your gate half way up the wall and use a stair to give you a landing to jump to in front of your gate. Mobs do not jump. You can shoot down trolls from the top of your earthen wall. Tip: If you are having trouble with trolls attacking your gate, plant trees in a dragons teeth formation like a fence in front of your gate. put about a cart and a half width between the trees. you can go easily through them but the trolls cannot. They will not attack trees.
Man this sounds like some very cheesy global elite strats XD You would need tons of stone to raise walls that high and all around your base. And why do you need the stake walls for the trench, if its too steep for the necks to escape? Otherwise, thanks for the tips.
Try it. You will find it takes less stone than you think. start a nigh point using stone and stand on top. Use the level function to pull up the ground to your height for free. You only make one or two stake wall sections to close the open end of the trench once you are in the trench with the Necks. keeps them inside while you can easily jump out of the trench when needed.
@@alancrandall3863 Level will only get you so far. Once you have the ground on one section the height you want it, target the vertical side of that section to raise the next section to the same height for only 4 stone. I like the trees idea, and you could actually make a tree-lined boulevard up to your gate that would look pretty good.
im pretty sure rain wont damage wood below half durability so as long as your base isnt getting attacked and you dont mind some green wood it isnt that bad. Edit: this is only true in the meadows biome i think. made a base in the black forest and it definitely went below half durability. meadows is the safe zone biome lol.
Yessss. Just watched the first vid. I am crazy about this game. I have never been this excited about a survival crafting game. This is my first real hook after I played Ark for a little
Pro tip, use a lot of stone to raise the ground and build a base on top of it, it's very survivable and you can do the same by digging a hole and putting a roof over it. Elderwood altars are giant slabs of stone suspended on soil, so dig under it and you have a base. If you want to be particular about using fire in your home, you can use core log beams and put campfire and other props that requires 'ground' to it. You essentially can suspend a campfire mid air this way.
U can find a Trader, who Trades a belt giving You 150 more space, but it costs 950 coins. When U are 2kms around him, U See a little icon being in the near of him
Tip 1: If you're trying to get finewood for the finewood bow before getting a kiln and smelter, all you have to do is cut down the regular trees and roll them into the birch trees until the birch trees break from taking damage. You usually need to break the regular trees into the two halves in order to be able to move them effectively, and yes it will take a solid 10 -15 minutes per birch tree, but it does work and this is how I got my finewood bow. Be careful, you may take damage if the log hits or rolls over you, but usually it's not a lot. Sometimes the game registers massive damage from a tiny scratch, but if that's the case, just respawn and run back to your body. Tip 2: If you find those barrels by the castle looking monuments, smash them, they have loot inside!
Weathering effects on wood only degrade it to 50 percent. Also you don't need a roof on it but something on it. For example, I have 4 floors, two have beehives on them and only the two without beehives degrade in the rain.
Tip on tech jumping, you only need another log felled (any time seems to work), that you can push around. If you repeatedly push it into the better trees, eventually they will fall over too. (also great for if your axe breaks and you don't want to have to run back to your base to repair it)
You're 100% right. It is weird that my valheim world with no NPCs, other than the trader, feels more alive to me than AC Valhalla did with a plethora of NPCs.
3:48 I don't know either but my guess is the game expects you to build even the simplest gate house for it... Solved my problem and honestly looks dope.
@@krokodilegrundee5101 I use those for outside gates all the time just place any size pole above the right and left side of the gate and attach a 45 degree roof top piece
Also, fear the ocean. The waves in storms can break your boat and there are sea monsters. Idk how hard they are to kill though. I was too terrified to try, so I booked it to the nearest island.
10:00 ish: I’ve had issues with my world and character saves not syncing properly, where I’ve used precious iron from my inventory to make things and they don’t save properly, but the iron deposits I got the iron from are still used up
For the gates, you can put the low angel center roofs on top of them to protect them from rain damage so you don't have to worry about needing to repair them all the time. It does the job and doesn't block the player from passing through the gate 😊
Here is a very subtle tip: When leveling the ground, if you hold SHIFT then left click it will raise the ground a very small amount. Good for fine tuning.
Hey Firespark and everyone else. The gates for whatever reason are treated like the other building pieces (walls, beams, etc). So the easiest way to protect them is to place a wood beam 26 or woodbeam 45 to make a archway over them. Looks decent and protects them as far as I can tell. 10 days after building and a few storms later and they're all good.
The crude bow is actually pretty powerful at the beginning of the game the drop off isn't a deterrent since many things don't do lots of damage so the drop off doesn't bother me
The little white bar underneath tells you how undetectable you are, which is affected by the sneak skill. if the eye is wide open, you are seen by something. If its half open, they sorta know your there if you get any closer they will see you. animals can be snuck up on quite easily but only from the back or side. enemies can see a LOT further and you have to be behind them or behind an object at all times. So just make sure the eye is closed and just looks like a flat line. sneak around animals to get your sneak level up so its easier. bows and knives have bonus sneak damage.
With the stacking of chests that you've shown, after placing the upper chest if you remove the single floor block that chest will drop down on top of the lower chest. Placing chests as close as possible to each other, then using the floor piece + chest + remove floor trick, you can get 9 chests within the area of a standard wall partition (3x3).
It appears this trick requires a backing or side wall making contact, else the chest pops. Tried removing the single floor piece without anything touching the upper chest and it disintegrates instead of sliding down.
When you hit something with a weapon your skill increases. Equip your bow (any of them), walk up to a rock, and click your mousebutton as fast as you can
As for the boat shaped burial grounds as long as you’re looking for just treasure and not bones too no need to dig stagbreaker hitting the ground brings treasure to the surface
You can also find rubies, amber, pearls, coins, and other treasures in the ground in the stone circles, outside of the chest. Which I have found up to 3 chests in one site.
i actually started playing 2 days ago. and found that i would easily get killed in dark forest and stopped exploring as i would lose all my inventory. so i started doing, eat 3 food and bring some back up, make a torch and with nothing else in the bag. then start running and explore until died
yeah those wood stacks are absolutely useless and a waste of space. We use them as decoration to make it look like the real deal but it has no practical use!
@@reinerhoch1357 I've found them to be very useful as I do not have to take up chest storage to store wood. Same for the pile of stones. When my son and I are playing together, he goes off and loads up, brings it all back, makes wood piles, and then I use it as I need to for building our base.
@@Khornishman What? A chest costs you 10 wood and holds 500 wood or in other words 10 piles of wood in one chest. one chest takes up less space than one pile of wood with just 50 pieces. The world is so big what is stopping you from making 10 chests and filling them with wood? 10 chests is 5k of wood or in other words 100 piles of wood. I can get 10 chests easy in one little shed but the room needed for 100 piles of wood is an unspeakable waste of space. If you are having fun that way fine but it makes no sense to work with wood piles just because you think your wasting space inside a chest.
@@reinerhoch1357 Your argument that the world is so big that there is plenty of space for chests counters your argument against the amount of space that a stack of wood takes up. Neither the wood stack nor pile of stones needs a workbench to be placed as both can be created and broken down without it. This makes both very handy when multiple people are working together on a large project, with a number gathering mats and others doing the building. So, not useless. YOU may elect to not utilize either in this manner, but that does not make them useless.
@@Khornishman What? omg dude yes the world is big enough wich means in my context that by god instead of making hundreds of wood piles just expanse your base so you can have a couple of more chests instead of telling me that making piles is better than wasting space in a chest. Just make more chests, its not rocket science you can have 2 chests in the same space where one pile fits so you can have 50 wood in on space or 1000. I didn´t think i had to explain that to a grown up. I have 6 chests only for wood that is 3000 wood when they are filled, stacked in an area 1x1 walls. You would have 60 piles sitting around just so you can save space in a chest and when you get them you need to walk an hour and a half to get the last one. USELESS After over 200 hours of playing time and 4 players in full black metal armory and weapons I am sure I can say I know what I am talking about while I guess you still run from away from trolls....?!?!
Thx mate for advice about bows. I'm just starting using bow and Crude Bow was terrible, but after understanding the bow's mechanic, this is my favourite weapon. If next bow is even better, I really can't wait!
Dude the finewood bow is so strong, wait till you try it. Also, if you hit enemies when they're facing away from you, you do "backstab" damage which is like a 2x or 3x multiplier. So stealth pays off. ofc headshots add a multiplier. My bows is level 48, and I can absolutely ream trolls. I don't kite, just aim + fire and they can't even get to me before they're dead.
@@baTonkaTruck Wow! Nice! I didn't really expect that lvling abilities can give so much. I though that diffrences are slightly, but still are. And about backstabbing, I'm trying use it to hunt 2 stars deers (yeah, I played just few hours, and I'm new in this kind of games), but didn't know that headshot works in this game, that monsters have some kind of hit boxes. Great thanks for tips!
I don't know if you've already talked about that, I've actually learned it on a thombstone, but if you pop your torch into your hands, weaker monster will stop to attack you. For example, pigs and neck will run away. Greydwarf and such will run toward you, but then see your fire and run away. They can still throw rock at you but at least won't directly attack :)
@@sixpaths7271 unfortunately no, the biggest enemies like the brute and the shamans won't run, but the 1 star (the red ones) and the 2 stars (the blue ones) will tho !
I can't get enough of this game to be honest. Haven't loved a game this much in years.
I've been following development for this game for 2 years and I'm so happy it has lived up to and honestly surpassed any expectations I had. Me too, haven't loved a game this much in ages, maybe except for Bannerlord
Could not agree more this is exactly what I needed. A solid game to sink heaps of hours into
Same
Same
20 hours into it...in 1 weekend day hahaha. I have a problem.
I think the main selling point is that the game tells you Good morning and cares for you when no one else would
Mood
Do we need to talk about this chief?
AND 'Boar loves you' when no one else does 😂
Also the bees are always happy. They are our zen masters
And then the game hits you with "the ground is shaking" and a heard of trolls make a b-line to your base
Im about 6 hours in this game feels like Elderscrolls, Runescape, Zelda, and Ark forged together on Thors anvil
Edit: 40 hours in and still having a blast currently building my first huge mead hall
Let me just edit this again: 150 hours in
Please help me, my free time has been consumed by my devotion the the gods
I know what you mean. Feels more like a rpg sometimes. Loving it
@@peterblack7464 can't wait until they add some more lore, love all the little poems,riddles, and background pieces of lore you can discover on rune stones
It's the most beautiful ugly game i've ever played
@Patient 0 i wonder if we will ever get introduced to any of the gods in the future that would be epic even as a boss fight
@Patient 0 your right i just think it would be an interesting concept to earn your place by defeating a God
Secondary hint regarding rain damage: The "weather damage" only goes to 50%... so rain won't eventually destroy your walls and stuff outright, only weaken them. ;)
You still should repeir them, they always degrade over time. And they look pretty bad after rain
Nope I had a portal outside that was destroyed by rain
@@themanhimself436 no it was half destroyed by rain and half by time
@@eveljin6805 time doesnt destroy buildings past 50%. Otherwise there would be no computer build structures around after some time
Early easy defense.
Build near large body of water. Once you get pickaxe dig a trench surrounding your settlement. As you hit water level the trench will fill up becoming a moat. Leave a small strip of land to your door and focus building defenses on that strip. Enemys will fall into your moat forcing them to swim, making them easy targets for your bow.
I love this game.
Even works if you don’t have water. It’s much more cool with the water however
After my first base attack, i turned my lone viking hut into goddamn Whiterun.
side tip about swimming - if you stay still in the water your stamina will not go down. So in multiplayer worlds you can get a boat rescue, provided you aren't near enemies.
If you logout and reconnect your stamina will be full again... slow but painful but it’s an option 😅
@@spacejamerino this is a great way to survive in solo play. Collect your ship parts and swim until your about to take damage. Relog, and do it again until you reach land. Build a bench and remake your boat.
I may have tried this once or twice 😎
I love how you can transfer your gear between worlds. This was the one problem I had with other survival games. Now I feel like I’m actually playing to build a super powerful character and hop in friends worlds to help them
Terraria wss the same
I've been using this to cheat the portals
the northern tip of the "stone ship" has the treasure. the southern tip has the remains. no need to dig a trench all the way through
Is there always treasure? I've dug up the whole thing and couldn't find the treasure
@@JJJCCCjc1 yes always. Dig down about 3 times
Thanks for the info
I've found multiple remains in one, one at the tip and one in the center.
grave robbing at its finest 🤣👍
This game will take over your life.
Correct
Yes. Should come with a warning.
Indeed
digicrack
Can confirm
The depth of this game is amazing, you would never guess that by taking one look at it.
Very true, underrated comment. What s more amazing is that it's just a team of 5. Compare it to the BS we get from AAA studios
@@abhishekab1 i think a lot of this quality comes from proper prioritising.
Just look at the graphics for instance. At first glance they're bad, Ps1 graphics that would make your world look like it's made out of cardboard. Most devs would make sure to have high quality graphics in every aspect from the start, but you don't need to worry about improving them because that effort was put into lighting, proper voxel generation and realistic shrubbery which makes everything look beautiful and saves up Gigabytes upon gigabytes of game data.
Another example is how they didn't emphasize on let's say just building, or just survival (which is a reason DayZ has such differing opinions on what the game should be about )
And they made just enough of everything.
With this proper prioritising they gave us 1.6GB of unfinished game that leaves you with hours put into it. That's a huge success.
This is a Norse ship burial. They are a real thing in real life where important people were buried in ship-shaped standing stones. And yes, they were buried with their grave goods and treasure. The idea of the ship shape is because ships were so important to their culture and it was thought that you'd need one to sail to the afterlife.
You're almost right, they were in many cases actually buried with an actual ship. Sometimes their horse were killed and layed next to them. In some cases a woman could sacrifice herself to go with this man in the eternal afterlife and be granted access to Valhalla through that sacrifice :)
@@bt70a9 I'm not "almost" right, I am right. I never discluded actual longships from being in the burial. It came down to the wealth of the burial usually.
Usually the woman who sacrificed herself was a thrall, a type of slave. Sometimes she could be family but that was more rare. Nor was it to seek entry into Valhöll, but to continue to serve the important individual. It's important to remember that going to Valhöll wasn't the afterlife that most Norse people expected to go to. That was reserved for only the upper best of warriors slain in battle. And even half of those would go to Freyja. Most were destined for Helheim.
An old King who died naturally probably wouldn't expect to become Einherjar.
@@bt70a9 The idea of important vikings getting buried with their ships has been subject of a lot of scrutiny lately though, and nowadays archeologists generally don't think that happened in any real capacity. The ships were simply too costly and time-consuming to build.
I slept at 2am yesterday night...
Just to build my first shitshack....
I love this game... I hope for a faster full release....
With the exception of performance this game already feels completed I'm excited to see what comes next.
No, no... Let them take their time. The game already has a ridiculous amount of content, and there's rumors of crazier things to come in the future.
@@Aaron-mj9ie this guy gets it. Rushed games become buggy, buggy games lose interest fast. The gameplay is solid so far and I can only see it getting better.
I played 13 hours yesterday, damm it was good. You can extinct the blue trolls
Yeah this game is amazing and has plenty of content, right now I'm in need of some optimization, I'm getting around 15fps when I'm at my base.
Hunting birds , do after dusk into night , they land /roost and stay put for long periods of time
Dude this game gonna be the best big thing 100k player online 4 days after the realse stick to it keep the video rolling and you'll grow like crazy good luck
Over 3 million copies sold now.
Just build a little roof over your gates. It looks nice and protects them from rain.
The rain damage from exposed structure halts at 50%, you can safely ignore it if its not something you expect to get attacked.
Thank you!I have been repairing my dock so often to make sure it doesn’t break and now I don’t have to
Pro tip build roof over gates then the won’t decay.
Yes, two small wood beams plus two 45° center roof and you never will have to worry about that gate decay
And if you don’t like the way that looks you can do the core wood beams snapped on top to avoid damage
Buried treasure should be more rare and actually drop useful stuff like high level weapons and armor. 40 gold, 6 arrows, and a ruby are not worth ruining the landscape.
First tip can be summed up as:
If you see a viking ship burial mound, grave rob that asap.
Useful video ! Another pro tip : When you go on to explore remote new lands, build a spare portal at your main base, and keep in your backpack the resources to build a portal whenever you feel so !
You don't even need to use trolls to get finewood. Just roll logs into trees multiple times and it'll do enough damage to break them. I got a finewood bow super early by doing this.
I’ve got a very good trick for all players. So if you didn’t know, when you die in water your loot sinks making it impossible to get back. So to prevent this what you want to do is make a new side world and literally make a small hut with a bed and 5 chests. If you are about to die at sea, leave that world and join the side world, put all gear in the chests, go back to your main world with nothing and die, once you respawn back at your bed, go back to the side world, get all gear and join the main again. This works as whatever you have in your inventory on your character can be taken between servers
Wut. My gravestone floats in water.
Good tip. Going to use that to farm metal
Just fill up a ship with metal
6:40
It's very much worth mentioning that birds land during the night-- and have a *much* harder time seeing you. If you want feathers, just walk along and hunt birds at night for a SUPER easy stack of feathers.
To my knowledge, rain only damages structures to 50%hp then stops. It weakens the structure not totally decays it, least every test i did the walls and gate never broke they always stopped at half
I love this game, is the perfect blend of Skyrim/Minecraft... For me the game with more potentiak in years!!
Hype is real
Bought the game 4 days ago and ive got 45.6h already. Such an amazing game.
I gotta say, 2 bone fragments and some gold coins does not all seem worth the effort
Some will give you quite a bit, all useful for the trader (if you can find him)
Firespark81 I dont know what you get paid but you most certainly need a raise! Thank you for all the professional quality videos!!
If you enjoy the building try to make a point to restore all the abandoned villages and build roads and portals to them. I've restored whole farms and entire settlements which can be useful traveling to and from places for resources within the same seed.
Another way to break down hardwood trees: Chop down other trees onto it until it falls. Then, use your character to roll regular logs into the hardwood logs until they break down further. Once you have at least 2 hardwood logs, you should roll them into each other instead of using softwood logs. Its helpful if you can position 1 log at the button of a small hill, then push the other log up and just move out of the way so it will roll dow and hit the static log. It works, and is safer than using a troll.
Starts off video with some grave robbing, like a boss.
For the gates just put a half wall above each one and then attach a roof to both sides, and you can add pillars to the ends of the roofs if you want to make it look nice
One thing I have noticed whilst using the pickaxe to clear areas is that the gradual upwards slope that builds is made of dirt, you can use the hoe to level it out faster than hitting with the pickaxe again and you can clear more space on each trip since your pickaxe lasts longer
I was doing over 100 damage consistently with my Crude Bow on Day 2 or 3 and never thought it was a terrible weapon. Man I can’t wait to get a Fine Bow now.
It's a beautiful weapon go get those pine trees boy and treat yourself
@@DarkDo7 Pine trees? Doesn't pine trees drop core wood? I thought birch trees drop fine wood (which requires a bronze axe), or am I wrong?
@@fu928 Yeah birch trees for fine wood.
Funny I had no issues with the crude bow. I killed tons of deer, boar, birds, trolls and grey dwarves.
I have work in 5 hrs 😢I wanted to stop at 10pm. It's now 2am
i feel you hahaha, got college in 5 hours 😅 definitely didn't plan on playing this late
Relate to this so much
Been there.
I literally built my base right next to one of those rock formations, thx for the tip. earned another subscriber.
Rain decay will only take things down to 50% HP, it won’t actually break the items I believe
This is correct, and underwater decay too, the wood poles I've used to build docks also have decayed to 50%
I will need to do more testing on this. Testing that takes much time.
@@Firespark81 Still a good guide either way, they are probably just testing out decay right now allowing people to really enjoy the game and not worry too much about losing their bases
if you stay still in the water you slowly regain stamina.
You can use other trees or tree logs to destroy fine trees too, either by making them fall into each other or rolling them into one another with your character
this, I've seen literally no one else mention this. some of my base defense is a small little cage that hold logs and made it where If I remove a pole it rolls down a hills and builds up the damage to kill things
To add on the water thing, if your playing with friends and you fall out of the boat or a similar situation just stay put and wait for the boat to come back. You can stay still and tread water infinitely as long as you don’t use up your stamina.
You’re killing it right now man! Keep it up!
5:52 farm them for the eyes they drop. You will need them for portals so you can fast travel.
And yes, focus on bows they op... you can kill anything with them wothozt taking dmg.
Also be careful... there are monsters in the ocean.
I played the game 12 hours yesterday, and 15 hours today....love it!
Get some help man...
I'm just glad to be playing a game you cover again, I learned a lot in Conan from you. Thanks my dude.
Glad I could help!
Same same
Just fyi, all that stuff can only lose 50% health; they don't actually break from the rain. Most of that stuff like log piles would not even care about covering.
update: not exactly sure if a bug or what but I smashed some log piles and only recieved 1 log from my mates server. I chest my logs just as a precaution now as chests don't deteriorate at all as far as I can tell?
@@Amakka88 I also hit this bug multiple times , don’t make any log or stone piles anymore
the dmg from weather will stop at 50%
you can use trolls to farm but the easyest way to get fine wood early is finding stranded boats on the coast
I use other trees to get finewood early, a lot more tedious than using a troll but it works and is safer.
Just knock a tree down and push the log into a birch tree until it falls after you can push the birch logs into other trees/logs
With the crude bow I just instinctively adjusted aim for drop and hit my target every time with stealth dammage
7:40 i actually got used to the crude bow at the beginning and then i started missing lots since of using the finewood bow, kinda funny
This game is fantastic. It’s so good I’m dreading running out of content.
Something some people are overlooking right now is the upgrading system, if you are dreading running out of content consider slowing your progress down a bit and upgrade each piece of armor to its max might give you more time till improvements and more content come out
Good thing it’s early access
@@alang8071 yep. Hopefully since it is so popular they will expand quickly.
@@gerardodeloera7330 yeah I found that out by accident. I also caught myself running around unprepared so I slowed down and started getting more established. Lot of fun. Enjoying it more than Ark for some reason
The longship treasure sites also have amber and rubies scattered throughout.
The usual haul is: 2x skeletal, 2x gems, 1x chest.
The stones on the caves shows you the "boss" who is closer to you
OMFG I THOUGHT THE WEIRD ROCK FORMATIONS WERE PURELY AESTHETIC THANKS SO MUCH XD
Tip: to solo raise your shield skill quickly, use Necks. The hit fast but very weak. Find area with several Necks. Dig a trench that is just over your head. Do not smooth the edges of the trench. You want it too steep for the necks to escape. Have wood hand for a stake wall. Go agro the necks and pull them into your training trench. Drop the stake wall to close the Necks with you. Stand at the deep end of the trench and let the Necks beat on your shield. Swap in new shields as needed. The Necks do not hit hard but do hit hard enough for you to burn some stamina which will count for training. When done with the session just jump out.
Tip: Build up earth walls very high. Mobs cannot hurt earth walls. Put your gate half way up the wall and use a stair to give you a landing to jump to in front of your gate. Mobs do not jump. You can shoot down trolls from the top of your earthen wall.
Tip: If you are having trouble with trolls attacking your gate, plant trees in a dragons teeth formation like a fence in front of your gate. put about a cart and a half width between the trees. you can go easily through them but the trolls cannot. They will not attack trees.
Man this sounds like some very cheesy global elite strats XD
You would need tons of stone to raise walls that high and all around your base.
And why do you need the stake walls for the trench, if its too steep for the necks to escape?
Otherwise, thanks for the tips.
Try it. You will find it takes less stone than you think. start a nigh point using stone and stand on top. Use the level function to pull up the ground to your height for free.
You only make one or two stake wall sections to close the open end of the trench once you are in the trench with the Necks. keeps them inside while you can easily jump out of the trench when needed.
@@alancrandall3863 AAh yes true, you can use level ground and raise the ground for free, i forgot about that, nice idea .
@@alancrandall3863 Level will only get you so far. Once you have the ground on one section the height you want it, target the vertical side of that section to raise the next section to the same height for only 4 stone. I like the trees idea, and you could actually make a tree-lined boulevard up to your gate that would look pretty good.
im pretty sure rain wont damage wood below half durability so as long as your base isnt getting attacked and you dont mind some green wood it isnt that bad.
Edit: this is only true in the meadows biome i think. made a base in the black forest and it definitely went below half durability. meadows is the safe zone biome lol.
Yessss. Just watched the first vid. I am crazy about this game.
I have never been this excited about a survival crafting game. This is my first real hook after I played Ark for a little
Pro tip, use a lot of stone to raise the ground and build a base on top of it, it's very survivable and you can do the same by digging a hole and putting a roof over it.
Elderwood altars are giant slabs of stone suspended on soil, so dig under it and you have a base.
If you want to be particular about using fire in your home, you can use core log beams and put campfire and other props that requires 'ground' to it. You essentially can suspend a campfire mid air this way.
I can’t stop playing this game
Hey, I live in Bum F Egypt! Thank you for mentioning our little slice of heaven :D
Ah yes, I knew I wasn't the only one using trolls to do my woodcutting
There is something about this game that is really appealing to people, so I'm interested to see how it will grow in the future.
I haven't fought the first boss all I've been doing is hunting for leather for gear. Even that's addicting lol
Build a beam across the gate, use the 26 /|\ roof
More character inventory space... for the love of god.
I feel ya!
They're going to have inventory expansion sometime this year (you can look up their "Road to 2021 updates")
U can find a Trader, who Trades a belt giving You 150 more space, but it costs 950 coins.
When U are 2kms around him, U See a little icon being in the near of him
@@schekelberg6187 Wait.. There is NPC in this game? I started this week and I thought we was alone with monsters and others players
@@MaMa-qo9wr i didnt find him yet but Just Played about 20h but i saw it in some Roleplay of a UA-camr
So the sleeping to pass the time thing, it doesn't work that way for food. If you sleep with fresh food cooking you *won't* wake up to it burnt.
Tip 1: If you're trying to get finewood for the finewood bow before getting a kiln and smelter, all you have to do is cut down the regular trees and roll them into the birch trees until the birch trees break from taking damage. You usually need to break the regular trees into the two halves in order to be able to move them effectively, and yes it will take a solid 10 -15 minutes per birch tree, but it does work and this is how I got my finewood bow. Be careful, you may take damage if the log hits or rolls over you, but usually it's not a lot. Sometimes the game registers massive damage from a tiny scratch, but if that's the case, just respawn and run back to your body.
Tip 2: If you find those barrels by the castle looking monuments, smash them, they have loot inside!
good tips, thanks!
You can put the small triangle roof over your gate to keep it safe from rain
Weathering effects on wood only degrade it to 50 percent. Also you don't need a roof on it but something on it. For example, I have 4 floors, two have beehives on them and only the two without beehives degrade in the rain.
Tip on tech jumping, you only need another log felled (any time seems to work), that you can push around. If you repeatedly push it into the better trees, eventually they will fall over too. (also great for if your axe breaks and you don't want to have to run back to your base to repair it)
Valhiem is proof that a game doesn't have to have amazing graphics to be amazing itself.
You're 100% right. It is weird that my valheim world with no NPCs, other than the trader, feels more alive to me than AC Valhalla did with a plethora of NPCs.
It's an incredible looking game to be fair. What you on about. It's pretty much hthere with Ark and Day Z
Great game, playing with 2 friends and having a fun time.
where do i find the merchant in the black forest?
You can also use Beech Trees as they're falling to break up Birch Trees. That's what I ended up doing prior to getting the bronze axe.
3:48 I don't know either but my guess is the game expects you to build even the simplest gate house for it... Solved my problem and honestly looks dope.
They are inside doors, for great halls, he's just mistaken.
@@krokodilegrundee5101 I use those for outside gates all the time just place any size pole above the right and left side of the gate and attach a 45 degree roof top piece
@@krokodilegrundee5101 Indeed, but like I said, I too use them for outside walls, but I build gatehouses around them, it looks badass.
how do i quick move items from my inventory to a chest or the opposite
hit ctrl on the keyboard and click the item/s
@@exiledshinigami4070 GOAT
The ship shape is an old norse way of burying people. That's prly why you fund treasure in it :)
Also, fear the ocean. The waves in storms can break your boat and there are sea monsters. Idk how hard they are to kill though. I was too terrified to try, so I booked it to the nearest island.
I'm not sure how to kill the serpent, we outsailed him but 2nd time he almost turned the boat over. almost had an heartattack ngl
@@Valerinaisback Seeing it was like the first time seeing the Megalodon in Sea of Thieves.
The Karve and Longship can both tank a serpent while you pelt it with arrows. Really good meat on those things.
I like it. I'm a Kenshi guy. Can't resist.
Pro tip: beware the ocean biome.
+1 dont want to spoil, but i just wanna say i pooped my pants going in there
@@Valerinaisback yeah... I had quite a lot of good gear. I'm scared! Jaja
Something I wish I knew on my tiny rafts maiden voyage.
10:00 ish: I’ve had issues with my world and character saves not syncing properly, where I’ve used precious iron from my inventory to make things and they don’t save properly, but the iron deposits I got the iron from are still used up
For the gates, you can put the low angel center roofs on top of them to protect them from rain damage so you don't have to worry about needing to repair them all the time. It does the job and doesn't block the player from passing through the gate 😊
Here is a very subtle tip: When leveling the ground, if you hold SHIFT then left click it will raise the ground a very small amount. Good for fine tuning.
but i want it to go down not up
i was on my boat, i logged off and when i came back i was in the water miles from land. ill never do that again.
ouch
My story: Rode on a boat, answered phone call IRL, came back to game. Getting bitten by a giant red Gyarados. Died. Ill never ride a boat again.
I got fine wood from chopping down other softer trees around it and let the logs roll onto the other, harder trees. They do damage to each other.
That's how I clear stuff too lol
Hey Firespark and everyone else. The gates for whatever reason are treated like the other building pieces (walls, beams, etc). So the easiest way to protect them is to place a wood beam 26 or woodbeam 45 to make a archway over them. Looks decent and protects them as far as I can tell. 10 days after building and a few storms later and they're all good.
The crude bow is actually pretty powerful at the beginning of the game the drop off isn't a deterrent since many things don't do lots of damage so the drop off doesn't bother me
Just wondering; How does the stealth icon in center of screen tells you how you are doing in sneaking on to a prey? It's confusing me :(
The little white bar underneath tells you how undetectable you are, which is affected by the sneak skill. if the eye is wide open, you are seen by something. If its half open, they sorta know your there if you get any closer they will see you. animals can be snuck up on quite easily but only from the back or side. enemies can see a LOT further and you have to be behind them or behind an object at all times. So just make sure the eye is closed and just looks like a flat line. sneak around animals to get your sneak level up so its easier. bows and knives have bonus sneak damage.
@@BraveCat9927 Thank you!
With the stacking of chests that you've shown, after placing the upper chest if you remove the single floor block that chest will drop down on top of the lower chest. Placing chests as close as possible to each other, then using the floor piece + chest + remove floor trick, you can get 9 chests within the area of a standard wall partition (3x3).
It appears this trick requires a backing or side wall making contact, else the chest pops. Tried removing the single floor piece without anything touching the upper chest and it disintegrates instead of sliding down.
When you hit something with a weapon your skill increases.
Equip your bow (any of them), walk up to a rock, and click your mousebutton as fast as you can
That was a tip in my first tips video lol
This lvls your bow?
yup shoot rock with bow = level
As for the boat shaped burial grounds as long as you’re looking for just treasure and not bones too no need to dig stagbreaker hitting the ground brings treasure to the surface
You can also find rubies, amber, pearls, coins, and other treasures in the ground in the stone circles, outside of the chest. Which I have found up to 3 chests in one site.
i actually started playing 2 days ago. and found that i would easily get killed in dark forest and stopped exploring as i would lose all my inventory.
so i started doing, eat 3 food and bring some back up, make a torch and with nothing else in the bag. then start running and explore until died
2 weeks later are you on the plains yet?
@@agesilausii7759 explored a few swap and still not found 1 sunken crypt... any hints?
@@bigfatjournal go to another swamp. Some are too small. And build a small base. People tend to die a lot in swamps.
For finewood a better tips is to farm sunken ships ashore. You can do it with a simple flint axe
Have not seen sunken ships. Will look into it. ty!
The crude bow definitely kept me away from bows.. on the other hand, my knife, blunt, and axe levels are through the roof. Lol thanks for the vid.
You honestly covered just about every question I had, good stuff man
If you put a chest under the roof awning thing.. you can store like 10 stacks of wood, in the same space.
yeah those wood stacks are absolutely useless and a waste of space. We use them as decoration to make it look like the real deal but it has no practical use!
@@reinerhoch1357 I've found them to be very useful as I do not have to take up chest storage to store wood. Same for the pile of stones. When my son and I are playing together, he goes off and loads up, brings it all back, makes wood piles, and then I use it as I need to for building our base.
@@Khornishman What? A chest costs you 10 wood and holds 500 wood or in other words 10 piles of wood in one chest. one chest takes up less space than one pile of wood with just 50 pieces. The world is so big what is stopping you from making 10 chests and filling them with wood? 10 chests is 5k of wood or in other words 100 piles of wood. I can get 10 chests easy in one little shed but the room needed for 100 piles of wood is an unspeakable waste of space. If you are having fun that way fine but it makes no sense to work with wood piles just because you think your wasting space inside a chest.
@@reinerhoch1357 Your argument that the world is so big that there is plenty of space for chests counters your argument against the amount of space that a stack of wood takes up.
Neither the wood stack nor pile of stones needs a workbench to be placed as both can be created and broken down without it. This makes both very handy when multiple people are working together on a large project, with a number gathering mats and others doing the building.
So, not useless. YOU may elect to not utilize either in this manner, but that does not make them useless.
@@Khornishman What? omg dude yes the world is big enough wich means in my context that by god instead of making hundreds of wood piles just expanse your base so you can have a couple of more chests instead of telling me that making piles is better than wasting space in a chest. Just make more chests, its not rocket science you can have 2 chests in the same space where one pile fits so you can have 50 wood in on space or 1000. I didn´t think i had to explain that to a grown up. I have 6 chests only for wood that is 3000 wood when they are filled, stacked in an area 1x1 walls. You would have 60 piles sitting around just so you can save space in a chest and when you get them you need to walk an hour and a half to get the last one. USELESS
After over 200 hours of playing time and 4 players in full black metal armory and weapons I am sure I can say I know what I am talking about while I guess you still run from away from trolls....?!?!
Thx mate for advice about bows. I'm just starting using bow and Crude Bow was terrible, but after understanding the bow's mechanic, this is my favourite weapon. If next bow is even better, I really can't wait!
Dude the finewood bow is so strong, wait till you try it. Also, if you hit enemies when they're facing away from you, you do "backstab" damage which is like a 2x or 3x multiplier. So stealth pays off. ofc headshots add a multiplier. My bows is level 48, and I can absolutely ream trolls. I don't kite, just aim + fire and they can't even get to me before they're dead.
@@baTonkaTruck Wow! Nice! I didn't really expect that lvling abilities can give so much. I though that diffrences are slightly, but still are. And about backstabbing, I'm trying use it to hunt 2 stars deers (yeah, I played just few hours, and I'm new in this kind of games), but didn't know that headshot works in this game, that monsters have some kind of hit boxes. Great thanks for tips!
Little tip, if you have the Karve boat and need more space, the cart will fit in there and stay
I don't know if you've already talked about that, I've actually learned it on a thombstone, but if you pop your torch into your hands, weaker monster will stop to attack you.
For example, pigs and neck will run away. Greydwarf and such will run toward you, but then see your fire and run away. They can still throw rock at you but at least won't directly attack :)
i didnt know ab the greydwarf part, will the brutes and shamans run away too?
@@sixpaths7271 unfortunately no, the biggest enemies like the brute and the shamans won't run, but the 1 star (the red ones) and the 2 stars (the blue ones) will tho !