Better method than this is do the same thing with ladders and a wooden floor but put the wooden floor on top of one of the big stones near the summon alter. Surround yourself with mini walls. He cant destroy the stone, his melee attacks cant hit the wood, and the lightning damage to wood is negligible. Your goal is to have a single wooden floor square on top of the tallest stone next to his summon alter surrounded by short walls. If he destroys the stairs, doesn't matter. Just stay up there. He can't destroy the stone.
This. I see a lot of comments talking about using a bow when all you need is a shield to take 0 damage and bash him in between attacks. I use shield+spear and it's amazing.
Craft leather armor with deer hides, a flint axe and cooked meat. Eat berries, mushroom and cooked meat then summon him. Battle doesn't take long and if you get low health just hide among the rocks until you heal up. Loved your quick start guide, Really helpful videos FS. nice work
I did this in the middle of the night during thunder and lightning, got two adds immediately, health went below 20, so I booked it and ran. Just so you know, there is no tether on this mob, so it chased me through the woods, and all the way back to my main base. I ran inside, closed the door, and that sucker destroyed the place trying to get to me. Luckily, it didn't just knock down one wall, it just kept running around and attacking the entire structure, making holes everywhere, which gave me a way to shoot arrows at it, and kill it. Took me a few hours to rebuild the structure, what a mess.
I gave it a try and he just obliterated the little fortress. Maybe he's a tad smarter after the update or whatever. Anyway, since then, I just go grab 30 flint and make a level 2 spear, a wooden shield, and whatever armor I can get. Rest, eat some food, and go kill him. Learn to block his attacks and you'll heal that damage right back up. You can also get about 5-10 free shots as he appears when summoned. The rest is a bit of running around, throw the spear while keeping your distance. You have to keep an eye on your spear or else you can lose it. Also, don't have a full inventory or you might not be able to pick it up after picking up some trash. Occassionally, go in for a few melee attacks with the spear. The worst starting run I've had, I was able to kill him in under 50 minutes play time - less than 3 game days (no sleeping).
@@higgy8030 I've played the starting boss enough over the past few weeks and feel like I've become an expert at it - three game-days max, easy defeat, not much skill needed, but blocking does help move it along faster. Head towards water and grab about 30-40 flint. Build a small base with a level 2 or 3 workbench. Craft items in this general order: Flint spear/knife, leather armor up to level 2, a deer hide cape, and a wooden shield. A bow is useful too, but not required if you don't get enough leather scraps. Collect raspberries, mushrooms, and deer meat, and keep all three foods active. If you're in non-metallic armor and carrying only a dagger, you have no movement penalty and can outrun most deer and slide-strike them (keep running when you swing, you'll see what I mean by "slide-strike"). A spear is both a melee weapon and a ranged weapon and is also great for hunting deer. Just keep track of where you throw it. They can go quite a distance and are easy to lose if you're not paying attention. Spear hunting is my favorite, but it does require practice to get good at it. Knife-hunting is just awesome fun. Both spears and knives use very little stamina, so you can keep swinging for a while. Once you have at least a full set of level 1 leather armor (made from deer hide, not leather scraps, a level 2 spear or knife, and a shield, you can easily take on Eikthyr. Watch your health and stamina. You can block all of his attacks, even the electric ones, and take a lot less damage - easily healed if you have recently eaten and are rested. Eikthyr will often head-butt attack right after an electric attack, so don't let your guard down after an electric attack. It takes him a moment to charge up an electric attack, so you can always see them coming. The rest is just melee. You can get about 5-7 early strikes as soon as Eikthyr is summoned and before he gets to his feet and can react. Look where the sparklies are going, and go there. If you get low on health or stamina, use the standing stone and altar to hide from Eikthyr for a few moments while you catch your breath. If you are using a spear, you can range attack, run around a stone with Eikthyr following you, then circle around and pick up the spear. Note: Be careful not to have a full inventory. If you pick something else up before the spear, the slot might get filled, and tossing items away is tough while in combat. You can easily survive at least two direct hits from Eikthyr, even if you don't block, with that armor layout and full health from the foods listed. You might even be able to survive a third hit, but Eikthyr doesn't have three chain attacks, only two. I've done this method at least five times and have never died from that fight (or even indirectly during the fight).
Followed this to the T! Homie blew through my defenses like they were paper 😂, still got him down first try, while dodging him on the ground like a madman haha
Dude My Man Everything that could possibly go wrong with this strategy just did for me And now Eikthyr is wandering around somewhere in the bloody Black Forest at 3/4 health with an entire horde of greywalkers (or whatever they're called) chilling with him H E L P
idk why everyone is saying this boss is easy, i went into this game completely blind and was constantly out of stamina. without a guide like this it would probably take me multiple attempts.
Yeah i did all the work to build this tower and he spawned right on it lol! I just ran around like a crazy person and spammed arrows and eventually killed him :)
hahaha he spawned INSIDE my barricades, where he immediately proceeded to headbut everything to atoms. I also forgot to actually get the rested buff so I was running around using the headstones as cheese, firing a shot every now and then. Thanks for this tip, no way this would have been as hard or FUN if I just went in guns blazing lol
I just started Valheim again, well over a year since my first time when it was out new. This time I tried both your 'build a tower' plan here and also the typical' bow-and-fire-arrow'-kite-around' with a different character. Both worked but I was surprised to find the fire-arrow way proved actually easier for me. The big difference was that in the past I'd kited Eikthyr around his own Standing Stones and altar and got pretty beat up. However, your tip of pulling him over to the bunch of trees and weaving him around them was the clincher for me - eventually he got stuck in the trees and I could fire-arrow him easily for his final 90 seconds of life. Thanks FireSpark! I'll be following your range of videos re the new (to me) 'Hearth and Home' and other updates too.
I tried to do it this way today and he knocked my whole structure down pretty much in like two seconds. I was able to kite him around the rocks and took him out with a bow pretty easy.
Agreed - I had a big rock right near the altar - I was able to just run back and forth around the big rock - and he couldn't get to me. Was super easy fight.
This was a fun experience. My first encounter with this boss I didn't know that I summoned him and ran home only to die three times in a row dreading I might lose everything and rage quit but the gods showed mercy lol. Then once I built back up restored my home and finally got the mats for the bow I returned with 20 fire arrows 20 flint and 60 regular ones and shot jump and ran around until he died 🤣
How i killed him on day 2 in game. Day 1. Eat the mushroom/berries which grow near the spawn asap. Kill boars and neck while collecting wood and stones and food. Make bow(8 leather scraps is required so i kill all the boar i could find) make 100 arrows. Cook meat and neck's tail. sleep Day 2. Hunt deer for two deer trophies Built makeshift workbench near summoning site for repair if required Eat meat, tail and berries and summon boss. Kite.. you can slowly back away from his attack while regenerating stamina. No armour required.
I followed this tutorial, I probably did something wrong idk anyway the boss destroyed my fort pretty easily and then I had to fight him on the ground. I panicked so much lol I made it in the end but man I lost 10 years of my life
@@Firespark81 thought I was crushing it until the Elder yeeting me 1000m from my base.. 30 min walk to get my stuff. No idea how I'm gonna be that dude lol
so i know this video is 2 years old but i tried this method and the whole structure broke down so i just kited him with fire arrows and it was real easy, just had boar meat, deer meat and honey on and lv 1 crude bow with leather pants and leather tunic on so nothing great.
Sword and board facetanked it with cooked meat, cooked tail and honey, lv2 flint axe and a shield. Immediately got ambushed by 9 or 11 grey things and a grey warrior thing after I got back to base and made a pickaxe.
Before I saw your video I had built myself a square wooden tower with a stockade around it but the boss wrecked it. My stockade was too close to the tower. He didnt bug out on the fence either, he was running everywhere. It took me 23 Fire Arrows to down him.
2022 Update: Defeated this boss on Day 18 with this method. BE AWARE that the walls don t hold out anymore he will tear down your camp but you can use the remains in your favor and kite around them with a bow and it s gonna be easy!
I built my palisade a little too close, apparently. He smashed through but once he got up to the tower he just stood there anyhow. From there it was easy work. Thanks for the advice.
Been patched I guess. Tore up that base like nothing. But he didn’t even get my health to half. Ate meat, tail and honey instead for the quick heals. Wore all leather and used bow and flint arrows. Just tanked him since base was destroyed. Worked out well.
well, I did kill the boss and did the same what you did, but that boss didn't glitched to me in the base, instead he destroyed my whole camp. I had to run, my bow was broke and luckily I had my splint spear, with that I killed him..the funny thing is, where must I put that head of him?? Doesn't work on the altar and the runestone..im bit confused here..great vid btw and thnx for sharing the tips with us. Cheers!
I blocked with my round shield, then got two to three swings in with my flint axe. He’s pretty much a pushover. The campfire info is good. I just need to remember to use it more.
If you already summoned him, is there a way to get him off the map and summon him again? I want to build this but he’s in the area and wrecks me Everytime
Hi FireSpark81 like your vid's keep um coming :) I set up an attack post as in your vid but it got demolished :( so I had to run around tree's till I killed the boss lol (btw a lot of trees also got demolished lol )
all ya need is a tower shield and a flint axe. Use the shield to block all his attacks and the flint axe to do damage. Super early game items. The bow strat works its just a lot of preparing for a easy boss like this
just a btw i think mine glitched when i was shooting him up in my fort he ran away. but when i tryed to summon him again it summed one but then the other one spawned in again. so i just ran around and killed them both i dont think im sopose to have 2 heads but who really cares i just kept it in my chest.
I just dropped a large pile of trees close to the alter. Once summoned you just get on the far side of the felled trees. He can't path thru the chaos so he will circle around to you while you shoot him. Just jump to the far side again as he does, rinse and repeat. Easiest kill ever and no crafting required.
Ive only been playing this game for 2 days and That's what just happened to me. I was somewhat prepared, stocked up on quite a bit of inventory, a shield and bow/100 arrows. Died rather quickly, thanks to angry deer boss, and kept going back to where I died and kept dying trying to retrieve everything. So after about 10 attempts... I'm giving in and starting over.
Lol all you actually need is a shield block and cut em up I uses my flint axe. Hadn't unlocked the bow yet though I love this anyone could do it with this setup
You guys dont need to do all that. Just dodge and roll his attacks, if you do that; he wont hit you at all. Just get a bunch of arrows and eat before the fight. Easy fight.
They must have patched this almost immediately lol, was fighting him and got up high and since he couldn't get to me he just turned and ran. He would only aggro if I was on the ground for long enough to get his attention. Granted, with the deer hide armor his ranged attacks didn't feel like much, but I caught a good handful of them lol. At maybe 25% health he cracked my shell and started bucking like crazy. Thankfully his aoe push threw me to the farthest corner and I was able to hide behind what was left of the internal structure, to where he couldn't make the frame gaps and it just gave me an invisible cushion to keep him back.
@@bbdanny I actually love that they caught it so quickly, before we could even truly exploit it. I feel like this is a good sign, and the game is already insanely re-playable as it is. They're making a statement. This is going to blow up into a massive story, bigger than it is now. They're putting the game development industry on blast and setting a new bar.
Just in case, you can just tank all his damage if you have deer hide armor. If u have all 3 pieces and eat the 3 items you can just sit there and tank the tank as it will just tickle you. Easiest way to defeat him.
Thanks 4 a great help info video(tried to beat him w my flint knife=didnt go to well for me and same w a spear... Have tried to level up to level 4 workbench,but didnt understand untill now i need to beat this boss and get the antlers for pikaxe and so on alot of stuff i really had no idea of.. Had a hard time getting anywhere in this game"really love this game even dough i didnt get on in it" Now on workbench L-3 so alot of meats n arrowa(flint+fire+tree arrows so 100+ all together should kill this 1 if i dont mess up again! Great video n help for people like me that suck at games like this(but only started to play after 30 year break in gaming up to 2019 covid hit us all games was on ágain in my life so Thanks a 1000 times over...
You can simply build a cube of several walls (3-4) and kite him round the structure. All his lighting attacks were against the walls. I got 0 hit. Was also using a bow and just kited this guy round the building and killed him with arrows.
You don't need to do all this mess to kill this guy. Just stand still and stab him, then just block with the shield when he attacks. That's it. No need to build all of this
So cheesing means using the game's mechanics against it in a way the devs didn't think to protect against!? I just call that smart. It's not like you're shooting thru a glitched gap in a fence or something...! Once I can dig, can I make "man traps" for those big guys and just run them into a pit and shoot them like fish in a barrel? I'm gonna try that now that I have a freakin antler pick axe! Tyvm!
@@shadowscion To keep things in? :P Seriously, though, I agree. While others are correct that you can fight in the open and didge like a madman, I say one of the the first rules of combat applies: Only idiots who want to get dead don't fire from cover.
I just want to say this work better for me then in the video the boss broke 2 walls with one of the aoe attacks but the AI had stopped caring about me by then and it was just running around aimlessly (I did add a roof since it was raining but that was the only difference)
me : day 65 and still afraid to fight the boss
Same.
I'm just enjoying the early game and in no rush to do the boss.
Same
@@light487 same but gonna take em on tomorrow probably need a pickaxe
@@shania-mayward8686 you need his drops for a pickaxe
Everyone said first boss was easy so I walk in with 20 arrows....now I have to start over lol ! Thanks for the tips!
He is easy but you need more than 20 arrows
He is so very easy but yeas definitely need more then 20
Lmao same🤣
He is easy but you need more than 20 arrows
Yea same far from very easy!
Better method than this is do the same thing with ladders and a wooden floor but put the wooden floor on top of one of the big stones near the summon alter. Surround yourself with mini walls. He cant destroy the stone, his melee attacks cant hit the wood, and the lightning damage to wood is negligible.
Your goal is to have a single wooden floor square on top of the tallest stone next to his summon alter surrounded by short walls. If he destroys the stairs, doesn't matter. Just stay up there. He can't destroy the stone.
Build a Shield. Block his attacks. hit him between. Make sure your well fed.
The shield blocked all the damage from all his attacks.
This. I see a lot of comments talking about using a bow when all you need is a shield to take 0 damage and bash him in between attacks. I use shield+spear and it's amazing.
Yup. Video is just pathetic.
@@Tinnesa
Does shield still block all damage?
I'm getting the feeling this boss has been updated since launch, due to it's seeming ease to defeat.
@@decimusrex92 Don't know if he was updated, I would be happy if they made him twice as hard to kill.
@@decimusrex92 Nah you've just gotten better.
"It's over Eikthyr, i have the high ground"
Thanks a lot for the guide
Craft leather armor with deer hides, a flint axe and cooked meat. Eat berries, mushroom and cooked meat then summon him.
Battle doesn't take long and if you get low health just hide among the rocks until you heal up.
Loved your quick start guide, Really helpful videos FS. nice work
It took you longer to build this thing than it took me to kill him normally.
Same
I looked up a video to show my 5 year old the first boss and I was floored by the amount of effort this guy was taking
@@gennakale Good to know, Karen. Thanks for the great info.
I did this in the middle of the night during thunder and lightning, got two adds immediately, health went below 20, so I booked it and ran. Just so you know, there is no tether on this mob, so it chased me through the woods, and all the way back to my main base. I ran inside, closed the door, and that sucker destroyed the place trying to get to me. Luckily, it didn't just knock down one wall, it just kept running around and attacking the entire structure, making holes everywhere, which gave me a way to shoot arrows at it, and kill it. Took me a few hours to rebuild the structure, what a mess.
BRUH how did you not just kill him with a spear
2 years later and I'm laughing at this
And then I proceeded to expand the little archery tower into a fully stocked outpost.
Fr
lol i ended up with a tree "fortress" spanning 30 tree tops on dirt columns by Eikthyr, the ground one wasn't enough for me
I just punched him repeatedly and panic ran in circles after accidentally summoning him after looking for my loot after a troll killed me
Lmao
😂
The troll always gets me
I actually killed him with just a spear. No need to build a fort:D
Yeah, the spear is much better. I don't like co-players who tell me we all need to shoot him with arrows.
I built the fort and ended up using a spear and shield which I gotta say was probably more fun
I gave it a try and he just obliterated the little fortress. Maybe he's a tad smarter after the update or whatever. Anyway, since then, I just go grab 30 flint and make a level 2 spear, a wooden shield, and whatever armor I can get. Rest, eat some food, and go kill him. Learn to block his attacks and you'll heal that damage right back up. You can also get about 5-10 free shots as he appears when summoned. The rest is a bit of running around, throw the spear while keeping your distance. You have to keep an eye on your spear or else you can lose it. Also, don't have a full inventory or you might not be able to pick it up after picking up some trash. Occassionally, go in for a few melee attacks with the spear. The worst starting run I've had, I was able to kill him in under 50 minutes play time - less than 3 game days (no sleeping).
He just obliterated me and I thought my fort was far enough away but I guess not. Time to try again I guess. I don't know what to do .
@@higgy8030 I've played the starting boss enough over the past few weeks and feel like I've become an expert at it - three game-days max, easy defeat, not much skill needed, but blocking does help move it along faster.
Head towards water and grab about 30-40 flint. Build a small base with a level 2 or 3 workbench. Craft items in this general order: Flint spear/knife, leather armor up to level 2, a deer hide cape, and a wooden shield. A bow is useful too, but not required if you don't get enough leather scraps. Collect raspberries, mushrooms, and deer meat, and keep all three foods active. If you're in non-metallic armor and carrying only a dagger, you have no movement penalty and can outrun most deer and slide-strike them (keep running when you swing, you'll see what I mean by "slide-strike"). A spear is both a melee weapon and a ranged weapon and is also great for hunting deer. Just keep track of where you throw it. They can go quite a distance and are easy to lose if you're not paying attention. Spear hunting is my favorite, but it does require practice to get good at it. Knife-hunting is just awesome fun. Both spears and knives use very little stamina, so you can keep swinging for a while.
Once you have at least a full set of level 1 leather armor (made from deer hide, not leather scraps, a level 2 spear or knife, and a shield, you can easily take on Eikthyr. Watch your health and stamina. You can block all of his attacks, even the electric ones, and take a lot less damage - easily healed if you have recently eaten and are rested. Eikthyr will often head-butt attack right after an electric attack, so don't let your guard down after an electric attack. It takes him a moment to charge up an electric attack, so you can always see them coming. The rest is just melee. You can get about 5-7 early strikes as soon as Eikthyr is summoned and before he gets to his feet and can react. Look where the sparklies are going, and go there. If you get low on health or stamina, use the standing stone and altar to hide from Eikthyr for a few moments while you catch your breath. If you are using a spear, you can range attack, run around a stone with Eikthyr following you, then circle around and pick up the spear. Note: Be careful not to have a full inventory. If you pick something else up before the spear, the slot might get filled, and tossing items away is tough while in combat.
You can easily survive at least two direct hits from Eikthyr, even if you don't block, with that armor layout and full health from the foods listed. You might even be able to survive a third hit, but Eikthyr doesn't have three chain attacks, only two. I've done this method at least five times and have never died from that fight (or even indirectly during the fight).
Followed this to the T! Homie blew through my defenses like they were paper 😂, still got him down first try, while dodging him on the ground like a madman haha
Dude
My Man
Everything that could possibly go wrong with this strategy just did for me
And now Eikthyr is wandering around somewhere in the bloody Black Forest at 3/4 health with an entire horde of greywalkers (or whatever they're called) chilling with him
H E L P
😂
How in the world is he in the black forest?!
Anyone who thinks this is an easy fight obviously never had their altar appear in dense forest.
idk why everyone is saying this boss is easy, i went into this game completely blind and was constantly out of stamina. without a guide like this it would probably take me multiple attempts.
The metal music on this boss makes it so much more intense
Yeah i did all the work to build this tower and he spawned right on it lol! I just ran around like a crazy person and spammed arrows and eventually killed him :)
wow a bunch of haters in the comments. He can do what he wants and how he wants.
My man built a deer stand to fight a boss. LoL.
"If everything goes as planned..." is what I am going to have engraved on my tombstone.
lmao
He looked at me on the platform, tried to get to me, then just absolutely wrecked my walls to get to me.
hahaha he spawned INSIDE my barricades, where he immediately proceeded to headbut everything to atoms. I also forgot to actually get the rested buff so I was running around using the headstones as cheese, firing a shot every now and then. Thanks for this tip, no way this would have been as hard or FUN if I just went in guns blazing lol
Fight him during a storm its awesome to have that extra danger factor thanks to the rain
I used a shield and a flint axe level 3 both. It was done in less than 3min. Block aoe and block attack. The shield reflects damage.
So my first time playing I accidentally summoned this guy and beat him with a club 😑 got a heart attack but atleast I beat him
Well atleast you killed him
I see that you did not kill any named thralls for once.
I just started Valheim again, well over a year since my first time when it was out new. This time I tried both your 'build a tower' plan here and also the typical' bow-and-fire-arrow'-kite-around' with a different character. Both worked but I was surprised to find the fire-arrow way proved actually easier for me. The big difference was that in the past I'd kited Eikthyr around his own Standing Stones and altar and got pretty beat up. However, your tip of pulling him over to the bunch of trees and weaving him around them was the clincher for me - eventually he got stuck in the trees and I could fire-arrow him easily for his final 90 seconds of life. Thanks FireSpark!
I'll be following your range of videos re the new (to me) 'Hearth and Home' and other updates too.
for me the tower method like in the video doesnt work anymore
They must have updated this because he just went right throught my walls and took out the entire base. still killed him thou, im da real o'g
Same. He looked at me and was like “nope...” and just barreled through my walls.
I did the build and then the admin of my server banned me for cheating?
@@jakegraham7265 he is a loser
I tried to do it this way today and he knocked my whole structure down pretty much in like two seconds. I was able to kite him around the rocks and took him out with a bow pretty easy.
Agreed - I had a big rock right near the altar - I was able to just run back and forth around the big rock - and he couldn't get to me. Was super easy fight.
Same. The structure was no help at all.
This was a fun experience. My first encounter with this boss I didn't know that I summoned him and ran home only to die three times in a row dreading I might lose everything and rage quit but the gods showed mercy lol. Then once I built back up restored my home and finally got the mats for the bow I returned with 20 fire arrows 20 flint and 60 regular ones and shot jump and ran around until he died 🤣
😂😂
Did you actually lead him to your home and he destroyed it all? :D :D
Well I over prepared :) thanks for this I feel more at ease
Nice work. Time to farm up some Eck-Theer antlers.
It doesn't work anymore, the boss attacks the walls around platform straight away
How i killed him on day 2 in game.
Day 1. Eat the mushroom/berries which grow near the spawn asap.
Kill boars and neck while collecting wood and stones and food.
Make bow(8 leather scraps is required so i kill all the boar i could find) make 100 arrows.
Cook meat and neck's tail. sleep
Day 2. Hunt deer for two deer trophies
Built makeshift workbench near summoning site for repair if required
Eat meat, tail and berries and summon boss.
Kite.. you can slowly back away from his attack while regenerating stamina. No armour required.
I followed this tutorial, I probably did something wrong idk anyway the boss destroyed my fort pretty easily and then I had to fight him on the ground. I panicked so much lol I made it in the end but man I lost 10 years of my life
Man I'm about to try this! Haven't attempted this yet cause I don't have anything yet.
He tore down my fence.. i was able to killing him using flame arrows and hiding behind the large boulders in the field
Same here. They must of patched it and now he easily breaks down my fences and uses lightening to knock me out.
I just got a PC, and am learning keyboard and mouse. I already love this game, so yeah I’m here...
Thanks for the video! Going to try this strat!
Btw never came back with my feedback so here I am! Totally works and beat it pretty easily. Thanks for the pinned comment aswell!
Hey great video! Subbed because I really dig your conversational style.
I downloaded this game today and summoned him with a flint spear and just a cloth chest it went by pretty quickly
Thank you, I think this was a really good explanation! Now I can try again!
I've found the easiest way is bow and fire arrows and just kite him around i imagine his AI will be updated eventually too make him more difficult
For people on Xbox if you have a rock near the summon you can move around the rock and shot arrows
Boi after your first vid I’m already decked out in all bronze, 6 dungeons, my third house, and slaying the bosses. Appreciate the tips ;)
Dang you move fast lol.
@@Firespark81 thought I was crushing it until the Elder yeeting me 1000m from my base.. 30 min walk to get my stuff. No idea how I'm gonna be that dude lol
Its hilarious that the Deer boss is defeated by using a glorified deer stand
so i know this video is 2 years old but i tried this method and the whole structure broke down so i just kited him with fire arrows and it was real easy, just had boar meat, deer meat and honey on and lv 1 crude bow with leather pants and leather tunic on so nothing great.
Sword and board facetanked it with cooked meat, cooked tail and honey, lv2 flint axe and a shield.
Immediately got ambushed by 9 or 11 grey things and a grey warrior thing after I got back to base and made a pickaxe.
Before I saw your video I had built myself a square wooden tower with a stockade around it but the boss wrecked it. My stockade was too close to the tower. He didnt bug out on the fence either, he was running everywhere. It took me 23 Fire Arrows to down him.
Worked for me! Thanks
Your vids are always good.
Creative. I like it!
2022 Update: Defeated this boss on Day 18 with this method. BE AWARE that the walls don t hold out anymore he will tear down your camp but you can use the remains in your favor and kite around them with a bow and it s gonna be easy!
i summoned him but he just physically didn’t spawn... lol now it just plays intense music and has his health bar when i get close
update: found him, he spawned in a tree. easy kill cause he couldnt get down
@@ethanmondelli2976 thats a kind of bug i guess
@@ethanmondelli2976 lol he's stuck in w tree
Bow
50 Explosive Arrows
Spear
Circle Shield
Full Leather Armor
100 Health Max
Success 🥇
Thanks bro, also the good thing is I get everything back after the fight as far as what I spent for the build.
I built my palisade a little too close, apparently. He smashed through but once he got up to the tower he just stood there anyhow. From there it was easy work. Thanks for the advice.
this seems like a lot of overkill. like building a restaurant to make a pb + j sandwich
I die so easily in the beginner stages of games. So this is wonderful.
Just kite him with fire arrows. Takes less than a minute with the fire DoT burning him to a crisp.
W comment
Been patched I guess. Tore up that base like nothing. But he didn’t even get my health to half. Ate meat, tail and honey instead for the quick heals. Wore all leather and used bow and flint arrows. Just tanked him since base was destroyed. Worked out well.
Also you can just make the bow level 2 and use a few fire arrows and he dies so fast
well, I did kill the boss and did the same what you did, but that boss didn't glitched to me in the base, instead he destroyed my whole camp. I had to run, my bow was broke and luckily I had my splint spear, with that I killed him..the funny thing is, where must I put that head of him?? Doesn't work on the altar and the runestone..im bit confused here..great vid btw and thnx for sharing the tips with us. Cheers!
Incase others are looking for the answer, you have to click on the hook on the runestone
I blocked with my round shield, then got two to three swings in with my flint axe. He’s pretty much a pushover.
The campfire info is good. I just need to remember to use it more.
Lol yeah i just had a shield and an axe and handled him just fine😂 this isn't necessary but also props for the cool idea
It took me longer to build it than to actually kill him lmao
thanks! helped playing by myself and sucking to dodge him.
If you already summoned him, is there a way to get him off the map and summon him again? I want to build this but he’s in the area and wrecks me Everytime
might just have to build it outside of where he is, grab his attention and then draw him over
DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE, HE JUST DESTROYS THE WHOLE THING WITH AN EXPLOSION ATTACK
I just did it, he does get thru but it takes about 3 hits
Wife and I just did this.
i just ran around the sacrafice stone and killed him no problem. i started it by accident and it worked fine
Hi FireSpark81 like your vid's keep um coming :)
I set up an attack post as in your vid but it got demolished :(
so I had to run around tree's till I killed the boss lol (btw a lot of trees also got demolished lol )
Thanks for the Nice Video Abo is up
you can just run circles around the stone pillars next to his altar and cheese the boss with arrows. None of this is even needed lol
all ya need is a tower shield and a flint axe. Use the shield to block all his attacks and the flint axe to do damage. Super early game items. The bow strat works its just a lot of preparing for a easy boss like this
Yep just nailed him with the same setup.
just a btw i think mine glitched when i was shooting him up in my fort he ran away. but when i tryed to summon him again it summed one but then the other one spawned in again. so i just ran around and killed them both i dont think im sopose to have 2 heads but who really cares i just kept it in my chest.
You can kill him as many times as you like, get them antlers...
I just dropped a large pile of trees close to the alter. Once summoned you just get on the far side of the felled trees. He can't path thru the chaos so he will circle around to you while you shoot him. Just jump to the far side again as he does, rinse and repeat. Easiest kill ever and no crafting required.
I accidentally started the boss fight before I had much of anything, should I just restart my game ?
Ive only been playing this game for 2 days and That's what just happened to me. I was somewhat prepared, stocked up on quite a bit of inventory, a shield and bow/100 arrows. Died rather quickly, thanks to angry deer boss, and kept going back to where I died and kept dying trying to retrieve everything. So after about 10 attempts... I'm giving in and starting over.
@@xkandi2005x I just did this lol
Lol all you actually need is a shield block and cut em up I uses my flint axe. Hadn't unlocked the bow yet though I love this anyone could do it with this setup
You guys dont need to do all that. Just dodge and roll his attacks, if you do that; he wont hit you at all. Just get a bunch of arrows and eat before the fight. Easy fight.
For real, such a pushover.
can confirm
Great videos my friend ! Thank you . Im in love with this game .
They must have patched this almost immediately lol, was fighting him and got up high and since he couldn't get to me he just turned and ran. He would only aggro if I was on the ground for long enough to get his attention. Granted, with the deer hide armor his ranged attacks didn't feel like much, but I caught a good handful of them lol. At maybe 25% health he cracked my shell and started bucking like crazy. Thankfully his aoe push threw me to the farthest corner and I was able to hide behind what was left of the internal structure, to where he couldn't make the frame gaps and it just gave me an invisible cushion to keep him back.
yeah, it ran away when i tried this strat
@@bbdanny I actually love that they caught it so quickly, before we could even truly exploit it. I feel like this is a good sign, and the game is already insanely re-playable as it is. They're making a statement. This is going to blow up into a massive story, bigger than it is now. They're putting the game development industry on blast and setting a new bar.
Was there any benefits for killing the boss a second time?
Dying to this boss like, 90 times
Got him to half hp with leather armor and a flint axe
Its time to finish what I have started
they've improved the Bosses' AI since most of them could be cheesed like this
He broke the whole thing lol but i still managed to defeat him
Just in case, you can just tank all his damage if you have deer hide armor. If u have all 3 pieces and eat the 3 items you can just sit there and tank the tank as it will just tickle you. Easiest way to defeat him.
dude literally as soon as the fight starts everything you said wouldnt happen happens.
Thanks 4 a great help info video(tried to beat him w my flint knife=didnt go to well for me and same w a spear...
Have tried to level up to level 4 workbench,but didnt understand untill now i need to beat this boss and get the antlers for pikaxe and so on alot of stuff i really had no idea of..
Had a hard time getting anywhere in this game"really love this game even dough i didnt get on in it"
Now on workbench L-3 so alot of meats n arrowa(flint+fire+tree arrows so 100+ all together should kill this 1 if i dont mess up again!
Great video n help for people like me that suck at games like this(but only started to play after 30 year break in gaming up to 2019 covid hit us all games was on ágain in my life so Thanks a 1000 times over...
yeah he busted right thru mine thanks
You can simply build a cube of several walls (3-4) and kite him round the structure. All his lighting attacks were against the walls. I got 0 hit.
Was also using a bow and just kited this guy round the building and killed him with arrows.
Ight thank you now I can be prepared
i had just made some flint arrows and ran in a wise circle shooting full charge shots. pretty easy tbh
*The comments on every boss guide:* "It's easy lol I'm god tier at this game and you're all trash"
Wait, when they realise that most things can be killed with a little patience and some campfires, their "god tier" progression means nothing.
Really want to see more streams of this game.
I will. Gotta get these videos out first and I have not figured out how to stream and do the work I need to do for videos at the same time.
I stream it
yo, it got destroy sadge. I manage to beat it tough, thanks for the help
You don't need to do all this mess to kill this guy. Just stand still and stab him, then just block with the shield when he attacks. That's it. No need to build all of this
this guy just tryna get the 10 min mark for ad revenue
So cheesing means using the game's mechanics against it in a way the devs didn't think to protect against!? I just call that smart. It's not like you're shooting thru a glitched gap in a fence or something...!
Once I can dig, can I make "man traps" for those big guys and just run them into a pit and shoot them like fish in a barrel? I'm gonna try that now that I have a freakin antler pick axe! Tyvm!
Funny thing is it seems intended to me... what other purpose would a wall serve than to keep things out.
@@shadowscion To keep things in? :P Seriously, though, I agree. While others are correct that you can fight in the open and didge like a madman, I say one of the the first rules of combat applies: Only idiots who want to get dead don't fire from cover.
So to beat the deer boss, you make a deer blind haha ok
Lol thank you for saying this
Blind? No you decapitate them, two of them to be precise lolol
I just want to say this work better for me then in the video the boss broke 2 walls with one of the aoe attacks but the AI had stopped caring about me by then and it was just running around aimlessly (I did add a roof since it was raining but that was the only difference)
I built a crazy fort and he destroyed it and then i just ran up and wacked him to death with my flint axe...