*Correction:* 2 Things I need to correct/clarify in the video. It looks like you can no longer dig below the center part of a fortress. You can however use a battering ram to destroy the lower part of it and it will still float. The other thing is apparently I was unclear with my words about resistance and gave people the idea that there were none, at least for the charred. As many people have pointed out on the comments the charred are resistant to pierece. I apologize for not speaking more clearly and causing some confusion.
Yes, you still can but you need to dig though the wall. My black metal pickaxe able to destroy some part of the inner wall( but not every part tho). Not sure dev will change this later.
The Charred are also weak to spirit damage as they are undead. They seem slightly weak to blunt I guess since they are skeletons. And I get the full damage of the Frost and Spirit damage when using Frostner against them.
Using the dodge roll at the correct time makes you avoid taking damage from the fire blobs. Pretty useful actually if you're getting swarmed as it will damage everything else.
I'm hyping myself back up to give the ashlands another shot. I just rage quit because I spent 40 minutes getting to the ashlands only to find all the beaches were swarming with enemies, so I spent another 30 minutes traversing the rocks trying to find a good place to set up a quick base, then I found a structure in the water I was going to use as fob until I fell in the water, got stuck and burnt to death
Yeah we couldn’t get a foothold on land from the boat either. The enemies just infinitely spawn even if you’re staying in one area; they’ll just keeping walking in from around you. It was too hard to build with that happening. We ended up finding a series of pillars in the ocean that were close to land, docking the boat at the back of them, climbing them, and building an outpost on them. The pillars count as ground for structural stability’s sake. After we set up a shield generator I made a path down to the shore using stone pieces (I brought a stonecutter) and then wood. Once I got to the shore I raised ground using the hoe from the beach so we had an area we could run across and jump onto the platforms from. Enemies can’t jump across the gap. I noticed sometimes enemies would walk across the seafloor and up the pillars so I raised ground at the back of the pillars until it was steep enough that they couldn’t.
They're not surtling cores, they're molten cores and they're inside of the fortresses. The KROM sword is very useful. The game devs should make the skeletons you can summon as powerful as the charred warriors and marksmen.
If you power level your blood magic they are stronger then the charred. Summon 3-4 then use the protection bubble and they will kill everything. It trivializes the whole biome
In my opinion the shield generator is a throw away. 1. It's field is so in your face that at times it's hard to see 2. It's so apparent it's an eyesore - they should have made it very translucent till barely noticeable unless struck and then have glow or something. 3. Return on investment is incredibly lame - enemies can walk right through and if you tick off one of the big guys that jump smashes or fire blobs they walk in and simply do mass damage. The materials for building it and the constant bone feed make it annoying. At least put the bones on a timer and they count down like a torch but using bones for every strike? A joke. They insist they don't want a tower defense game but include tower defense concepts and in order to balance them they are gimped or impractical to the point of nullifying their necessity. Take their turrets that shoot both enemies and you. They break their own rules when Ashland castles have turrets that only target you but nobody else.
@@datzfatz2368 can you turn off friendly fire? If you can't then it doesn't follow their game rules. "because" is a great excuse for Tod Howard but a game needs to abide its own rules. If a turret on an enemy fortress can target only enemies then player turrets shouldn't suddenly lose the ability "because" Because at that point it starts to unravel. The turret doesn't need to manned but fires all by itself. So if it's smart enough to pick out targets, smart enough to fire itself, smart enough to target only enemies UNLESS it belongs to the player is bad planning on the devs part. Feel free to white knight for them since "or are you just mad" brings nothing to the table.
@@EruRoraitoX It's the concept of they want their cake and eat it too. They don't want you to have solid defenses on your structure but they want turret defenses. Well then it's useless or doesn't belong in the game. The way I look at it is simple. Getting black metal isn't that hard but it certainly takes work to keep a turret loaded. Several turrets will take a great deal of work but it would be nice to deal with basic annoying adds. You just want to lay down and go to sleep but there's always that one add that wants to show up and keep you from sleeping till you wander your fortress and find where the enemy is. They are no longer a threat nor do they add anything. Now they are in essence just trolling you. Or the plains. I just want to farm or wander my castle without the ceaseless deathsquitoes that at that point just harass the player. Turrets add to quality of life if they just worked better. The devs purposefully make it target players and it's ridiculous. Take em out or make em useful.
- Charred does not seem to be weak to anything, possibly spirit dmg but Frostner dosnt hold up anymore unfortunately. But i found the Mistwalker sword is absolutely a banger VS any Charred. You can even keep the pesky warrior as a sweet spot where u can hit with both light and heavy attack without them be able to attack back. - Fortresses can be build on side to enter them without a battering Ram (alltho i recommend using one cuse its just too awsome) And the middle room inside u can dig underneath to access the inside and final loot. - If you have decent block and a sword (once again i recommend the Mistwalker sword) you can make quick work of the Morgens, do the perfect parry and quickly into the heavy attack will kill it in around 5-6. U do need ashlands food cus it will take a good amount of stamina. - Bonemass buff has save me time and time again in Ashlands as MOST enemies deals physical damage and you can litterly just stand there and tank all the damage with the buff up. (I run the light armor. Asksvin) - The green upgrade for weapons that gives a chance to root enemies does NOT work on flying enemies such as the Fallen Valkyrie, works wonders on any land enemy tho as i have a Root Ripper that i love. - If you run the dual axes, always have a secondary melee weapon on hand, they break FAST. Sure they deal insane damage but they do have one of the lowest durabilities i have seen. - The Ashwood spike wall are cheap and extremely effective defensive structure if you do not have or want to set up a base in a cleared Fortress. The cost is 6x ashwood and will snap to foundations, walls, pillars etc. - I would recommend crafting both Ashlands capes and always carry both of them as one is great for combat and the Asksvin cape just gets you from A to B to much quicker and you can easily outrun any enemy even running 90* to the wind and only recieve half the speed buff. I would also recommend having feathercape on you in case u will need to fall from a height or do some lava hopping for Flametal farm(If u do hit the lava aint no gear or potions that will save you anyway, so why not fall slower and jump higher) - The Ashlands caves will always spawn one Morgen when u have looted and head torwards the exit/entrance again. It's not a random spawn and it always spawns near the exit. - Fallen valkyries are easily defeated with a crossbow. If you get a hit in before they detect you, you can delete half or 1/3 of their bar in that one shot. - Ashland storm is not really that dangerous and u can still be outside of a shield bubble. It's kinda like the mountain Blizzard, it just reduces visibility.
I think the range mages have just give so many advantages in this game. Not that melee is bad or anything cause you can actually get very tanky. But then that comes with it's own set of issues.
Sequence break tip...you can reach ashlands with just long boat u can easily reach those spike structures and then swim from structure to structure amd rwach land
Charred are resistant to pierce damage, theyre damage numbers when hit with pierce weapons are grey'd out rather than yellow or white like frost on vultures and lightning on morgens
Played Ashland with my friend. Our experience is that magic is completly busted over there, while melee is pain and suffering, even with the best items and food. Magic deffinatly needs a solid nerf, the boss needs to be patched to react to certain magic and the normal enemies need to have their damage lowered a little and spawn rated reduced drasticly lol! It felt like they were hyperspawning constantly.
i tried to siege the fortress without a battering ram , all was good until i got inside and started to dig out the middle part. there are walls now that go deep in the ground making it impossible to dig around and go inside. had to use battering ram in the end, to break the door.
My first visit in ashlands I was immediately in a 5v1 and as I was fighting, it turned into a double digit fight even though I was hugging the shore. I didn’t even know it at the time but I was near a dverger camp which got instantly destroyed by a morgan so it went from 1v20 to 7v20 to 1v15 and then I decided to run back to my boat only to get shipwrecked and burn in the water after the stone I climbed was destroyed by something
we have had some consistent damage on a fort base from the fallen Valkyrie fire, the shield bubble helps but if she gets inside she will wreck the place
1 hour into ashlands I ran into a fallen valkarie. Had an epic 10 minute battle with her and 6 or 7 charred swarming me. She killed me when I had one more hit to get her. How do you deal with them? I'm still using mistranslation gear because I haven't found flametal yet and my magic skills are at like lvl 10. I just feel like I'm stuck
Charred are weak to spirit damage, like other undead. Silver arrows, arrows fired from SpineSnap, Frostner, Crystal Battleaxe, and Mistwalker will burn them for spirit damage. Silver sword as well, but Mistwalker is better.
Charred are weak to spirit damage, so if you need to go the melee route, the Mistwalker has a nice combination of slashing, frost, and spirit damage; making it take flat damage from everything with the spirit damage doing extra.
the tick damage doesnt show the yellow damage, only the main hit will show it, for exaple when hitting a greyling with a torch, the hit will show yellow damage, but the actual tick damage shows normal damage.@@Firespark81
Magic truly is king in the ashlands, got magic staffs only now on my bar, no mele weapons apart from a axe for chopping wood and a pickaxe for mining. I am running around having a really fun time going full magic. Someone i watch on twitch struggle like crazy with mele and the ripper.
Explained what. White is normal damage. Weak to something means yellow numbers. You can not tell if they are weak to it unless you do a ton of math and even them it's hard to be sure.
Frostner is actually still a God tier weapon. It is my main weapon in the Ashlands as the Charred are weak to Spirit and still get slowed, plus them seem like they are weak to both Frostner's blunt and frost damage
yup, never underestimate fighting from the high ground!
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Hi FireSpark81! I was wondering if we could mine Flametal using the Lava Blob explosion and if it would trigger the sinking of it. Have you tried? Love your work BTW, very useful! Big Valheim fan here!
I built a ladder over the wall like that after my siegeengine rolled backwards into the lava and burned to ashes when I placed it in front of the door.
Is wood to coal really that big of an advantage? This just seems like a quality of life upgrade or a consolation prize when your structure burns down... Is it because of early game stuff? I already don't use a kiln thanks to surtling spawners. I guess it would save me from having to destroy rebuild kiln/smelter if I only had one surtling core. Is it because you always build a grey dwarf farm and have more wood than you know what to do with? Is it because you can set wood structures on fire to damage bosses - like the speed run campfire strategy? What am I missing/forgetting that would make this broken enough to need a patch?
No it is literally just trash. I honestly haven't seen him do a surtling farm, so I wonder if he doesn't know that is a thing for the most overpowered free source of coal.
I don't think it is a big balance issue but it does make the Kiln an entirely useless structure. If the game was not in "Open Beta" for 17 years or whatever they are doing, and instead it was released all at once, there is no way they would have both the ability to burn wood over a camp fire, and also require a Sertling Core to build a Kiln that does the same thing.
If you try to build a ramp up to the wall, the Charred Warlocks just dump a poison/fire bomb on top of you while the Archers pick you off. Yes, if everyone is on the ground inside and you have all the time in the world to nuke them from a distance, yes, Fortresses can be built into "relatively easily", but you have to clear the walls. But then, everyone on the walls will just jump down and kill you on the ground. So, yeah, -if- you can get on the walls solo, -and- you can clear them without dying, then yes, you can build a ladder to kill off everything inside.
don't melee lava blobs they are suicider units that explode when you get in range dealing enough damage to insta kill a player from full hp in carapace armor and 95% of a stone walls hp.
@@paulstjean6687 thx for the advice. But why would you think i am trying to melee it? Staff of ember do a lot of blunt dmg... although they are immune to fire dmg, it remind a very viable option. One thing about lava blobs may worth Investigating....fm my exp, if a lava blob's explosion destroyed structures/Terrain, it tend to make a lot of noise which attract tones of enemy. But, if it dun, it wouldn't make any noise.
@@blo5980 yea wasn't thinking about the blunt on the staff just thought since everything is resistant to fire my brain defaulted to like mace or demolisher lol.
This is strange cause I generated a new map for this and I did not have this issue. Granted that was before release patch. But only right before. So I guess it got patched out on release
@@Firespark81 I have seen this too. I tried to dig and reached the dig limi. But i think it depends on the fortress as I was able to dig a small gap on one corner to go inside. Maybe I just got lucky.
I just made a new map and checked a few and it looks like it varies but you are all correct. Most of the time it does go very deep. Do note that you can still use a battering ramp to remove the lower part and it still floats.
i've taken over a fortress and it seems like it isn't indestructible the charred twitchers and morgen are hitting the walls every so often and there are damage numbers popping up mixed in with the too hard and one of the doorways seems to be missing chunks on the outside theres actaully a small gap i can see through to the outside now after about a day of twitchers throwing rocks at the wall. it looks like they are slowly chipping away at the wall.
The footage you see in the video is from the release version of the game. So unless it's somehow map specific then nope. But I'll test it later to be sure.
You can make the best stamina food from them, roasted crust pie (also requires vineberry cluster that you can collect, grows on walls, and barley flour). Lv6 cauldron, need upgrade "rolling pins and cutting boards", which requires ashwood, fine wood and flametal.
How did you let the Bonemaw destroy that ship, it takes nearly 10-15 minutes for bonemaws to destroy a fully repaired Drakkar because it has so much health. Z And thats more than enough time for you to dispatch the Bonemaws than repair your ship by placing a workbench on the spires.
i once stuck inside the tower because i thought i can escape even if i dont destroy the spikes... ended up using devcommands to fly, making tunnel didnt cross my mind at all.
i used magic in the plains, the mistlands, against all the bosses including the queen no problem but id be dammed if i can last more than a few minutes in the ashlands with it
@@Firespark81 thats exactly what i was rocken, i might of just landed in a bad spot, i noticed your only fighting a few enemy's at a time, there were like 15 coming at me all at once
@@harlyquin I had the same issue. No matter how many I slaughtered, they just kept coming. I was lucky enough to make it to shore and build a tp on some high ground but no matter what I use, I'm always slowly overrun by the enemy and have to retreat. It seems like the Ashlands forces you to co-op to advance.
So, my first charred fortress, I storm the place and kill everyone and jump on top of that square tower in the center, the one that you pointed out you can dig underneath it and make a floating base or whatever, I jumped on the grate on top of that tower and fell through to some loot and a door I can't open or destroy and the only way I know to get out is to dig, but if I dig too far down, I won't be able to jump back up. If the tower floats, then you would think at some point I would get to place where there is no tower wall and I can dig laterally.
Attacking a fortress without siegue weapons is super difficult! I do not recommend that way for a solo run. The valkyria spawning near the fortress and the charr attackng you while you building the strcture make this extremly difficult. On your first fortress it can be usefull, but in the latter ones, just use a catapult, they are op agains walls
It's not. I've done it. Multiple times actually and not in admin or anything just to see how viable it would be for my ultimate guide. If you are a mage it's pretty simple. You just have to take your time.
And if you arent a mage, rush those spawners down and get back out. Make sure to kill the things around the fort before engaging it to closely. And try and take out those mages quick so you dont get overrun by their summons.
@@Firespark81 surtling gyssers exist in the swamp. Literally just did the ground below them so the spawn in the water and die. Infinite coal. I just recently upgraded to a zone with three gyssers in close area and have more coal then I know what to do with. Before I was just using one and only slightly running out at time. If you just pop by it every so often you'll just build a steady supply of coal for free.
@@Antixandros correct! so try not to fight them near your raised ground walls and you should be fine. I try to lure them to ashwood trees and grousten rocks so I get resources without having to harvest them.
@@chrisrubin6445 I have some time still until I get to ashlands. I got as far as mistlands last playthrough and in this playthrough I'm going to beat moder tomorrow. I started a new character in a new map because last map was from the day the game released.
@@Antixandros Oh dang! Congratulations! I just beat the Queen and reached ashlands for the first time, was stuck on Yagluth for a while, but finally beat him by being wet the whole time!
A real lack of content so the dev said let's just mob everyone and push out two months of work. The gamers will think we worked really hard on the update. lol, we'll fool them.
We are all over looking how broken the stamina issue is. Even with the rested bonus it's almost unplayable of when you're doing dungeons or combat. This community needs to stop being so nice because you're ruining a game
The game is built on the stamina mechanic, they’d need to rebalance half of the weapons and all of the enemies in order to get rid of stamina without making the game a cakewalk
What do you mean, I literally do not have issue with my stamina. In the rare case that I run out I use a potion and it is right back to it. However the rested bonus is something you are stuck to. All dungeons you can build campfires in to reset your rested buff. Stop sprinting 24/7, put your weapons away while you run, and space out your attacks while properly moving back and forth to get into attack range then out of enemy attack range. Basically, get better at the game, the stamina system isn't broken, it is just a mechanic you have to properly take control of yourself.
@@Jalbesbe do not, I repeat, do not put your weapons away in Ashlands. You are just asking for 42 charred to suddenly appear from behind a tree, followed by blobs.
*Correction:* 2 Things I need to correct/clarify in the video. It looks like you can no longer dig below the center part of a fortress. You can however use a battering ram to destroy the lower part of it and it will still float. The other thing is apparently I was unclear with my words about resistance and gave people the idea that there were none, at least for the charred. As many people have pointed out on the comments the charred are resistant to pierece. I apologize for not speaking more clearly and causing some confusion.
Yes, you still can but you need to dig though the wall. My black metal pickaxe able to destroy some part of the inner wall( but not every part tho). Not sure dev will change this later.
The Charred are also weak to spirit damage as they are undead. They seem slightly weak to blunt I guess since they are skeletons. And I get the full damage of the Frost and Spirit damage when using Frostner against them.
Most Emmys are weak to spirit in the ashlands
Yeah both the charred and the vultures seem to take spirit damage
Also, surtlings do still spawn in the Ashlands. They are found standing next to flametal deposits found on the shores, on land.
Using the dodge roll at the correct time makes you avoid taking damage from the fire blobs. Pretty useful actually if you're getting swarmed as it will damage everything else.
I'm hyping myself back up to give the ashlands another shot. I just rage quit because I spent 40 minutes getting to the ashlands only to find all the beaches were swarming with enemies, so I spent another 30 minutes traversing the rocks trying to find a good place to set up a quick base, then I found a structure in the water I was going to use as fob until I fell in the water, got stuck and burnt to death
That's when you use dev commands and forget it ever happened😂. I would recommend using bone mass and instantly breaking spawners with it. Good luck
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No.
We don't ever use dev commands.
Not a single time.
Say no to drugs, i mean dev commands.
I set up a portal with some walls on the beach, im still stuck on that beach because of the huge amounts of enemy spawns.
Yeah we couldn’t get a foothold on land from the boat either. The enemies just infinitely spawn even if you’re staying in one area; they’ll just keeping walking in from around you. It was too hard to build with that happening.
We ended up finding a series of pillars in the ocean that were close to land, docking the boat at the back of them, climbing them, and building an outpost on them. The pillars count as ground for structural stability’s sake.
After we set up a shield generator I made a path down to the shore using stone pieces (I brought a stonecutter) and then wood. Once I got to the shore I raised ground using the hoe from the beach so we had an area we could run across and jump onto the platforms from. Enemies can’t jump across the gap.
I noticed sometimes enemies would walk across the seafloor and up the pillars so I raised ground at the back of the pillars until it was steep enough that they couldn’t.
First time I sailed right into a dwarf tower on the shore. Pretty good lottery.
Love the video brother! my only problem was it was too short!
Also this one didnt have any robotic voice sounding sections which was great!
They're not surtling cores, they're molten cores and they're inside of the fortresses. The KROM sword is very useful. The game devs should make the skeletons you can summon as powerful as the charred warriors and marksmen.
If you power level your blood magic they are stronger then the charred. Summon 3-4 then use the protection bubble and they will kill everything. It trivializes the whole biome
In my opinion the shield generator is a throw away.
1. It's field is so in your face that at times it's hard to see
2. It's so apparent it's an eyesore - they should have made it very translucent till barely noticeable unless struck and then have glow or something.
3. Return on investment is incredibly lame - enemies can walk right through and if you tick off one of the big guys that jump smashes or fire blobs they walk in and simply do mass damage.
The materials for building it and the constant bone feed make it annoying. At least put the bones on a timer and they count down like a torch but using bones for every strike? A joke.
They insist they don't want a tower defense game but include tower defense concepts and in order to balance them they are gimped or impractical to the point of nullifying
their necessity. Take their turrets that shoot both enemies and you. They break their own rules when Ashland castles have turrets that only target you but nobody else.
once the game comes out as v1.0 I will mod it to my heart content, tired of some BS mechanics in the game.
they said they wanted to keep the game simple, lol.
Are you aware that you can designate a target for your turrets? Or are you just mad that they can friendly fire you?
@@datzfatz2368 can you turn off friendly fire? If you can't then it doesn't follow their game rules. "because" is a great excuse for Tod Howard but a game needs to abide its own rules. If a turret on an enemy fortress can target only enemies then player turrets shouldn't suddenly lose the ability "because" Because at that point it starts to unravel. The turret doesn't need to manned but fires all by itself. So if it's smart enough to pick out targets, smart enough to fire itself, smart enough to target only enemies UNLESS it belongs to the player is bad planning on the devs part. Feel free to white knight for them since "or are you just mad" brings nothing to the table.
@@EruRoraitoX It's the concept of they want their cake and eat it too. They don't want you to have solid defenses on your structure but they want turret defenses. Well then it's useless or doesn't belong in the game.
The way I look at it is simple. Getting black metal isn't that hard but it certainly takes work to keep a turret loaded. Several turrets will take a great deal of work but it would be nice to deal with basic annoying adds. You just want to lay down and go to sleep but there's always that one add that wants to show up and keep you from sleeping till you wander your fortress and find where the enemy is. They are no longer a threat nor do they add anything. Now they are in essence just trolling you.
Or the plains. I just want to farm or wander my castle without the ceaseless deathsquitoes that at that point just harass the player. Turrets add to quality of life if they just worked better. The devs purposefully make it target players and it's ridiculous. Take em out or make em useful.
- Charred does not seem to be weak to anything, possibly spirit dmg but Frostner dosnt hold up anymore unfortunately. But i found the Mistwalker sword is absolutely a banger VS any Charred. You can even keep the pesky warrior as a sweet spot where u can hit with both light and heavy attack without them be able to attack back.
- Fortresses can be build on side to enter them without a battering Ram (alltho i recommend using one cuse its just too awsome) And the middle room inside u can dig underneath to access the inside and final loot.
- If you have decent block and a sword (once again i recommend the Mistwalker sword) you can make quick work of the Morgens, do the perfect parry and quickly into the heavy attack will kill it in around 5-6. U do need ashlands food cus it will take a good amount of stamina.
- Bonemass buff has save me time and time again in Ashlands as MOST enemies deals physical damage and you can litterly just stand there and tank all the damage with the buff up. (I run the light armor. Asksvin)
- The green upgrade for weapons that gives a chance to root enemies does NOT work on flying enemies such as the Fallen Valkyrie, works wonders on any land enemy tho as i have a Root Ripper that i love.
- If you run the dual axes, always have a secondary melee weapon on hand, they break FAST. Sure they deal insane damage but they do have one of the lowest durabilities i have seen.
- The Ashwood spike wall are cheap and extremely effective defensive structure if you do not have or want to set up a base in a cleared Fortress. The cost is 6x ashwood and will snap to foundations, walls, pillars etc.
- I would recommend crafting both Ashlands capes and always carry both of them as one is great for combat and the Asksvin cape just gets you from A to B to much quicker and you can easily outrun any enemy even running 90* to the wind and only recieve half the speed buff. I would also recommend having feathercape on you in case u will need to fall from a height or do some lava hopping for Flametal farm(If u do hit the lava aint no gear or potions that will save you anyway, so why not fall slower and jump higher)
- The Ashlands caves will always spawn one Morgen when u have looted and head torwards the exit/entrance again. It's not a random spawn and it always spawns near the exit.
- Fallen valkyries are easily defeated with a crossbow. If you get a hit in before they detect you, you can delete half or 1/3 of their bar in that one shot.
- Ashland storm is not really that dangerous and u can still be outside of a shield bubble. It's kinda like the mountain Blizzard, it just reduces visibility.
I like primal upgrade
Weird how everyone complains about going melee but the more I do it the more I seem to find weaknesses to exploit...huh...
I think the range mages have just give so many advantages in this game. Not that melee is bad or anything cause you can actually get very tanky. But then that comes with it's own set of issues.
can't wait to play valheim again, ash lands seems dope!
It's out now on console and pc
Sequence break tip...you can reach ashlands with just long boat u can easily reach those spike structures and then swim from structure to structure amd rwach land
Charred are resistant to pierce damage, theyre damage numbers when hit with pierce weapons are grey'd out rather than yellow or white like frost on vultures and lightning on morgens
The spawn rate for a 10 person server in the ash lands is ridiculous.
Played Ashland with my friend. Our experience is that magic is completly busted over there, while melee is pain and suffering, even with the best items and food. Magic deffinatly needs a solid nerf, the boss needs to be patched to react to certain magic and the normal enemies need to have their damage lowered a little and spawn rated reduced drasticly lol! It felt like they were hyperspawning constantly.
OMG YOU CAN CONNECT STONE PORTAL TO NORMAL PORTAL WHAAT😮 Huge game changer
I was thinking tho can they connect to each other but thanks to this video now i know🤗
i tried to siege the fortress without a battering ram , all was good until i got inside and started to dig out the middle part. there are walls now that go deep in the ground making it impossible to dig around and go inside. had to use battering ram in the end, to break the door.
You can also make a troll break it for you fyi
My first visit in ashlands I was immediately in a 5v1 and as I was fighting, it turned into a double digit fight even though I was hugging the shore. I didn’t even know it at the time but I was near a dverger camp which got instantly destroyed by a morgan so it went from 1v20 to 7v20 to 1v15 and then I decided to run back to my boat only to get shipwrecked and burn in the water after the stone I climbed was destroyed by something
we have had some consistent damage on a fort base from the fallen Valkyrie fire, the shield bubble helps but if she gets inside she will wreck the place
1 hour into ashlands I ran into a fallen valkarie. Had an epic 10 minute battle with her and 6 or 7 charred swarming me. She killed me when I had one more hit to get her. How do you deal with them? I'm still using mistranslation gear because I haven't found flametal yet and my magic skills are at like lvl 10. I just feel like I'm stuck
She has very low health, use the mistland biw and charred arrows, plus ice staff, for the extras, just tank them with the bonemass power
Charred are weak to spirit damage, like other undead. Silver arrows, arrows fired from SpineSnap, Frostner, Crystal Battleaxe, and Mistwalker will burn them for spirit damage. Silver sword as well, but Mistwalker is better.
I appreciate youtubers who actually do research by playing the game, and not using wikis.
Charred are weak to spirit damage, so if you need to go the melee route, the Mistwalker has a nice combination of slashing, frost, and spirit damage; making it take flat damage from everything with the spirit damage doing extra.
Dots don't show weakness colors so how do you know this?
@@Firespark81 check the wiki, its datamined and correct
@@Firespark81 Its pretty easy to see. If you shoot them with a silver arrow, your DOT will be well above what your max range. It hurts them badly
the tick damage doesnt show the yellow damage, only the main hit will show it, for exaple when hitting a greyling with a torch, the hit will show yellow damage, but the actual tick damage shows normal damage.@@Firespark81
Magic truly is king in the ashlands, got magic staffs only now on my bar, no mele weapons apart from a axe for chopping wood and a pickaxe for mining. I am running around having a really fun time going full magic. Someone i watch on twitch struggle like crazy with mele and the ripper.
Almost every enemy is weak to spirit damage in Ashlands, don't forget!
That is nice and all but playing melee is useless and wasting silver on arrows is also kinda a waste of resources and time.
@@Fermentos Use a Mistwalker, at max upgrades you kill most charred with one combo
How do you know this when dots only show up white?
@@Firespark81 You just explained it lol.
Explained what. White is normal damage. Weak to something means yellow numbers. You can not tell if they are weak to it unless you do a ton of math and even them it's hard to be sure.
Its kind of a more mid game weapons, but the silver frost hammer, i always thought would be amazing in the Ashlands
Frostner will always be a champ!
Frostner is actually still a God tier weapon. It is my main weapon in the Ashlands as the Charred are weak to Spirit and still get slowed, plus them seem like they are weak to both Frostner's blunt and frost damage
They patched the pillars, they go deep now and you can’t get under
Negative. I fell into one and had to dig my way out just today. The dev commands weren't working for me for some reason, so good thing I kept digging.
@@y0nd3r If you are using mods and use " craft from containers " mod by amka it will prevent dev commands from working.
My friends and I are playing on the easiest difficulty possible and the sheer spawn rates are enough to cause us endless trouble (and several deaths)
yup, never underestimate fighting from the high ground!
Hi FireSpark81!
I was wondering if we could mine Flametal using the Lava Blob explosion and if it would trigger the sinking of it.
Have you tried?
Love your work BTW, very useful! Big Valheim fan here!
I built a ladder over the wall like that after my siegeengine rolled backwards into the lava and burned to ashes when I placed it in front of the door.
You can still get surtling cores very easily in the swamps with a surtling farm. Or did you mean they’ll be rarer in the Ashlands?
Surtlings were abundant in the Ashlands pre-update. Get a boat there and farm hundreds of cores if need be. But now, not so much.
This^
imo the mob density is too high
Absolutly good 4 Late game
3:50 only massive damage if u use the feather fall..
The center area of the 2 fortresses that I dug next to went below the dig limit.
they have to turn down the spawn and detect ranges of the enemies its so annoying
Is wood to coal really that big of an advantage? This just seems like a quality of life upgrade or a consolation prize when your structure burns down...
Is it because of early game stuff? I already don't use a kiln thanks to surtling spawners. I guess it would save me from having to destroy rebuild kiln/smelter if I only had one surtling core.
Is it because you always build a grey dwarf farm and have more wood than you know what to do with?
Is it because you can set wood structures on fire to damage bosses - like the speed run campfire strategy?
What am I missing/forgetting that would make this broken enough to need a patch?
No it is literally just trash. I honestly haven't seen him do a surtling farm, so I wonder if he doesn't know that is a thing for the most overpowered free source of coal.
I don't think it is a big balance issue but it does make the Kiln an entirely useless structure. If the game was not in "Open Beta" for 17 years or whatever they are doing, and instead it was released all at once, there is no way they would have both the ability to burn wood over a camp fire, and also require a Sertling Core to build a Kiln that does the same thing.
@@Jalbesbe The time to go gather coal vs doing something else (I have the same dilemma).
If you try to build a ramp up to the wall, the Charred Warlocks just dump a poison/fire bomb on top of you while the Archers pick you off. Yes, if everyone is on the ground inside and you have all the time in the world to nuke them from a distance, yes, Fortresses can be built into "relatively easily", but you have to clear the walls. But then, everyone on the walls will just jump down and kill you on the ground. So, yeah, -if- you can get on the walls solo, -and- you can clear them without dying, then yes, you can build a ladder to kill off everything inside.
No spirit damage against the charred?
All skeletons enemy in Ashlands are resistant to pieces dmg...and weak to spirit dmg
Lava blob are weak to blunt dmg.
don't melee lava blobs they are suicider units that explode when you get in range dealing enough damage to insta kill a player from full hp in carapace armor and 95% of a stone walls hp.
@@paulstjean6687 thx for the advice.
But why would you think i am trying to melee it?
Staff of ember do a lot of blunt dmg... although they are immune to fire dmg, it remind a very viable option.
One thing about lava blobs may worth Investigating....fm my exp, if a lava blob's explosion destroyed structures/Terrain, it tend to make a lot of noise which attract tones of enemy. But, if it dun, it wouldn't make any noise.
@@blo5980 yea wasn't thinking about the blunt on the staff just thought since everything is resistant to fire my brain defaulted to like mace or demolisher lol.
Charred are resistant to pierce, weak to spirit.
Yes. I'm finding myself still using my MistWalker sword there to great effect.
Digging belor fortress centre no longer works
heh yeah, tried that yesterday and i all i got was more wall xD
The charred are onto us! xD
This is strange cause I generated a new map for this and I did not have this issue. Granted that was before release patch. But only right before. So I guess it got patched out on release
@@Firespark81 I have seen this too. I tried to dig and reached the dig limi. But i think it depends on the fortress as I was able to dig a small gap on one corner to go inside. Maybe I just got lucky.
I just made a new map and checked a few and it looks like it varies but you are all correct. Most of the time it does go very deep. Do note that you can still use a battering ramp to remove the lower part and it still floats.
Ashlands is rough but exciting
good to know thanks firespark
i've taken over a fortress and it seems like it isn't indestructible the charred twitchers and morgen are hitting the walls every so often and there are damage numbers popping up mixed in with the too hard and one of the doorways seems to be missing chunks on the outside theres actaully a small gap i can see through to the outside now after about a day of twitchers throwing rocks at the wall. it looks like they are slowly chipping away at the wall.
How do I destroy turrets if I haven't built a ladder to the walls yet?
If you have magic, blast them with explosions. If you do not, shoot them with arrows.
Turrets are towers on the corners of buildings.
Destroy the ballistas on those corners.
Thanks Sparkie!
Fire protection potions should also help. Especially if you are mage. And do not wear the fire proof plate armor.
So wood turns into coal, witch is better the kiln or using the ashlands to make coal?
Edit: answered later.
Yea they will patch it I'm sure. It's really busted.
@@Firespark81they have fixed it , didn't they?
One of the previous patch has disabled fire dmg to turn wood into charcoal except "cinder fire".
The footage you see in the video is from the release version of the game. So unless it's somehow map specific then nope. But I'll test it later to be sure.
I just checked it on a new map on the release version and it still does the thing. You do have to turn fire spread on though it is not on by default.
what's the use for Vouture eggs? can't find a recipe for them yet
Potential hatch like the chickens? Potential flyer?
There is a cooking recipe for them, but you need other ingredients from the ashlands too.
You need to make the new cauldron upgrade that gets it to the next level. You need flametal
You can make the best stamina food from them, roasted crust pie (also requires vineberry cluster that you can collect, grows on walls, and barley flour). Lv6 cauldron, need upgrade "rolling pins and cutting boards", which requires ashwood, fine wood and flametal.
I just got fked. Brought the new ship to the ashlands but got destroyed by those new serpents and the nails sank to the bottom of sea and I’m stranded
How did you let the Bonemaw destroy that ship, it takes nearly 10-15 minutes for bonemaws to destroy a fully repaired Drakkar because it has so much health. Z
And thats more than enough time for you to dispatch the Bonemaws than repair your ship by placing a workbench on the spires.
@@itsssnek810it happened T.T luckily I was able to load a previous save so I will try again
I survived by stopping once in a while, plopping down a bench on a rock formation and repairing the boat on the way, pretty useful trick
Charcoaling wood piles got fixed already i heard
We have not has a patch since the release of ashlands. So that is a negative.
Blob also weak to lightning. Wet enemies weak to both frost and lightning
Is there a good way to cross lava
Taming askvins
Basalt Bombs
all charred are resistent against pierce and very resistent against fire so they do have resistences
i once stuck inside the tower because i thought i can escape even if i dont destroy the spikes... ended up using devcommands to fly, making tunnel didnt cross my mind at all.
use catapult to throw yourself inside fortress but use feather cape,ez
Hoe + portal mats + as much stone you can carry and 10 wood is your best friend for ashlands.
Sounds like you got there and forgot 2 iron for the cutter 😂
The floating part is untrue now. I mined around the middle of a dungeon and I couldn't get under it.
If you dig down as far as the game lets you next to the wall, you will have just enough space to fit under it.
i used magic in the plains, the mistlands, against all the bosses including the queen no problem but id be dammed if i can last more than a few minutes in the ashlands with it
Protection bubble and frost staff. Fully upgraded mage armor. You'll be golden.
@@Firespark81 thats exactly what i was rocken, i might of just landed in a bad spot, i noticed your only fighting a few enemy's at a time, there were like 15 coming at me all at once
@@harlyquin I had the same issue. No matter how many I slaughtered, they just kept coming. I was lucky enough to make it to shore and build a tp on some high ground but no matter what I use, I'm always slowly overrun by the enemy and have to retreat. It seems like the Ashlands forces you to co-op to advance.
@@spinz8 going the non magic way is ruff going also, its like they took this biome up a few notches, ive never died so much in my life
why you up so late
Insomnia!
charred are weak to spirit.
So, my first charred fortress, I storm the place and kill everyone and jump on top of that square tower in the center, the one that you pointed out you can dig underneath it and make a floating base or whatever, I jumped on the grate on top of that tower and fell through to some loot and a door I can't open or destroy and the only way I know to get out is to dig, but if I dig too far down, I won't be able to jump back up. If the tower floats, then you would think at some point I would get to place where there is no tower wall and I can dig laterally.
It is supposed to be the tough end game so nerfing both would make it too easy. I would nerf spawn rate OR detection distance of enemies but not both.
Attacking a fortress without siegue weapons is super difficult! I do not recommend that way for a solo run. The valkyria spawning near the fortress and the charr attackng you while you building the strcture make this extremly difficult. On your first fortress it can be usefull, but in the latter ones, just use a catapult, they are op agains walls
It's not. I've done it. Multiple times actually and not in admin or anything just to see how viable it would be for my ultimate guide. If you are a mage it's pretty simple. You just have to take your time.
And if you arent a mage, rush those spawners down and get back out.
Make sure to kill the things around the fort before engaging it to closely.
And try and take out those mages quick so you dont get overrun by their summons.
not sure how creating coal faster is 'OP'...its just coal ffs...
Because it makes a whole crafting station useless.
@@Firespark81 again, how is that OP? its not like crafting that station is difficult...its not like coal is a rare commodity...
@@Firespark81 surtling gyssers exist in the swamp. Literally just did the ground below them so the spawn in the water and die. Infinite coal. I just recently upgraded to a zone with three gyssers in close area and have more coal then I know what to do with. Before I was just using one and only slightly running out at time. If you just pop by it every so often you'll just build a steady supply of coal for free.
I heard that raised ground can be destroyed in ashlands is that true?
Yes, lava blobs can break them when they explode
@@chrisrubin6445 But they explode only when they are near you right? They don't explode on their own.
@@Antixandros correct! so try not to fight them near your raised ground walls and you should be fine. I try to lure them to ashwood trees and grousten rocks so I get resources without having to harvest them.
@@chrisrubin6445 I have some time still until I get to ashlands. I got as far as mistlands last playthrough and in this playthrough I'm going to beat moder tomorrow. I started a new character in a new map because last map was from the day the game released.
@@Antixandros Oh dang! Congratulations! I just beat the Queen and reached ashlands for the first time, was stuck on Yagluth for a while, but finally beat him by being wet the whole time!
That anime thumbnail is so off in comparison to the games artstyle. Absolutely ugly..
Honestly hope they make it so we cant build cheese the fortresses.
Just don't be a sheep, choose not to cheese it and siege the fortress with the ram and catapults as intended.
A real lack of content so the dev said let's just mob everyone and push out two months of work. The gamers will think we worked really hard on the update. lol, we'll fool them.
charred are weak to mace's
starts with the most cheesy strat cmon bruh
What is cheese about it. It's a wall with no top. In medieval times they used ladders to siege all the time. I'd call that just smart lol
You can cheese pretty much anything in Valheim, all bosses have allot of cheese strategies. Whether you cheese or not, it's a choice in the game.
Ever heard of talking a bit slower lol.
Yea you all lose attention lol
We are all over looking how broken the stamina issue is. Even with the rested bonus it's almost unplayable of when you're doing dungeons or combat. This community needs to stop being so nice because you're ruining a game
The game is built on the stamina mechanic, they’d need to rebalance half of the weapons and all of the enemies in order to get rid of stamina without making the game a cakewalk
just get the elden ring stamina mod. completely solves the problem
git gud
What do you mean, I literally do not have issue with my stamina. In the rare case that I run out I use a potion and it is right back to it. However the rested bonus is something you are stuck to.
All dungeons you can build campfires in to reset your rested buff.
Stop sprinting 24/7, put your weapons away while you run, and space out your attacks while properly moving back and forth to get into attack range then out of enemy attack range.
Basically, get better at the game, the stamina system isn't broken, it is just a mechanic you have to properly take control of yourself.
@@Jalbesbe do not, I repeat, do not put your weapons away in Ashlands. You are just asking for 42 charred to suddenly appear from behind a tree, followed by blobs.