Wait until you get the Draugr. You can 2/3 hit trolls and it’s only a few hits for Eikthyr. That was with 2 players on the map so they are harder to kill.
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I'm still getting splattered by trolls. A troll by itself is a problem, but they usually come with half a dozen graydwarfs that get in the way and get some non-trivial hits in. I've just started mining bronze and tin ore, but I can't smelt it yet. I only have 3 surtling cores from the one dungeon I found. I just found another dungeon, but I'm busy mining some ore first. It's a long job due to the weight of the ore and the distance from my home. Also, the only tin deposits I've found are some small rocks near the coast. I also need about a bazillion stone for my planned home. I didn't realise how much stone was used in raising land and I intend to build a fortress which will require raising a large area and then levelling the top of it before I even start building.
Maybe I should start carrying fire arrows for trolls. That would make sense.
Hmm...I was intending to use maces or hammers. Blunt force weapons are more versatile as their damage is less reduced by armour. Am I being too realistic? Are swords better than other weapons in Valheim because of the fantasy staple that swords are the best of all weapons, always?
On the subject of realism, using the same axe as a woodcutting tool and a weapon niggles at me. In reality, wood axes and weapon axes are quite different. You can use one as the other, but it won't be very good for it (and a weapon axe won't last long if you try to cut down a tree with it). Both being the same is realistic enough with stone axes because of the limitations of the blade material, but it's wrong with metal axes. Also, I've just looked it up and found that Valheim bronze is made with 2 parts copper to 1 part tin. That wouldn't work at all well. The recipe is just plain wrong, by a lot.
I use the porcupine and that is pretty brutal.
The trick with trolls is to fire arrows until they start getting close then just keep walking, turn fire, walk, turn fire. If some grey dwarfs start getting involved then only deal with them if the troll is not close. You may want to move really far away from everything to reassess. Don’t use up lots of stamina, so minimise pulling the bow and don’t run/jump unless you need to move out the way quickly. Increasing the bow skill will mean you get to full power much quicker.
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Ugh, it happened again! Quick 10 minute session and now Steam is telling I was on for another hour and a half.
Going to be tough to restrain myself from getting too far in before the kids join me...
Going to be tough to restrain myself from getting too far in before the kids join me...
I think its been said maces are best in this game & swords are worst, personally I use 1h mace n shield, stuns mobs pretty often so u get a free swing, even on some of the big ones, & the blocking saves u taking loads of damage provided your shield is the right sort for the zone, i.e. bronze for swamps, iron for mountains.
I'm now mining in the black forest and I'm using a L1 1h bronze mace. It's fine against anything other than trolls, deer and birds. I have a shield, but I'm not using it. I don't need it against anything other than trolls and it's not effective enough against trolls.
Something I didn't know and other newbies might not know, so I'll post it here:
Ore deposits are not only on the surface. When you've broken up the ore-bearing rock on the surface, that might well not be all of it or even most of it. Try pickaxing the earth in the area below and around the surface ore-bearing rock. You might well find more. Just take care about digging down without a way out in case your pickaxe breaks while you're down there and you can't get out. I've carried 3 pickaxes to a single copper ore deposit and I've had to repair them each 3 times so far. I'm still not sure I've got all of it. Fortunately it's not far from my home in the meadows because I've taken about 1000 weight of stuff from it. Mainly stone, but a useful amount of copper ore and some assorted other stuff. Resin, greydwarf eyes, wood. We could use a lorry and some good roads in this game
On the subject of digging big holes, is there a way of digging a ramp so you can walk out easily enough? If you get stuck, can you get out or is it game over?
Trolls have a weak spot at the armpits, aim there.
The digging is a little bugged but you can make that work for you. If you walk right up to a sheer face and use the pickaxe it will (mostly) raise the ground up a little as you mine away the rock face. Rinse and repeat and you'll eventually have a makeshift ramp. Or build a workbench and take a little wood down with you to build a ladder out.
The digging is a little bugged but you can make that work for you. If you walk right up to a sheer face and use the pickaxe it will (mostly) raise the ground up a little as you mine away the rock face. Rinse and repeat and you'll eventually have a makeshift ramp. Or build a workbench and take a little wood down with you to build a ladder out.
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If anyone is looking for a server to join other like minded folks, let me know. i have one setup and running.
We've just killed the 2nd boss and we have a nice cosey base of newcomers to the server in the starting area to get to know people .
We've just killed the 2nd boss and we have a nice cosey base of newcomers to the server in the starting area to get to know people .
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Pushed my luck around the mountains and got blown away by a Dragon thing that shoots ice balls or something 
Were you on the Karve or the Longship? if you were in the Karve then kudos!
It was a karve with one of my buddies sailing - I take it longships are a bit faster?
Honestly after 2 hours digging the iron out it was a rush when it suddenly appeared
It was a karve with one of my buddies sailing - I take it longships are a bit faster?
Honestly after 2 hours digging the iron out it was a rush when it suddenly appeared
The longships are a bit faster but much bigger so you can move about and shoot the serpents a lot easier, it also has a much bigger cargo hold meaning you can do less back and fourths
it's all good fun though!Talking of boats, I'm after some advice about building a dock. There doesn't seem to be any way to moor a boat, which is odd. At the very least, you'd tie a boat to something with a rope.
So I'll need to build out into the water, but I don't see a way of snapping an item to a side of another item that you can't point the cursor at. So I can't place items because the only way I can get an angle and distance allowing me to point the cursor at the appropriate surface puts me in water deep enough to be swimming and that disables building. Do I need to raise the land into a dock rather than building a dock? Or scrap the boat when I land and rebuild it when I want to use it again? Am I missing something?
So I'll need to build out into the water, but I don't see a way of snapping an item to a side of another item that you can't point the cursor at. So I can't place items because the only way I can get an angle and distance allowing me to point the cursor at the appropriate surface puts me in water deep enough to be swimming and that disables building. Do I need to raise the land into a dock rather than building a dock? Or scrap the boat when I land and rebuild it when I want to use it again? Am I missing something?
Me and a mate went exploring on a Karve. Filled up on Copper and Tin and headed back. Noted a swampy part to explore later but on the way back wes aw an island with some unusual formations so figured it was worth investigating. As we pulled up alongside, I said that if this thing starts moving them I'm screwed as my swim skills sucks.
In the name of find things out, I've spoilered the next bit.
Loving this game so far, our last session flew by in the swampy area we found constantly fighting draugr, leeches, blobs, greydwarfs, and skellingtons.
Also witnessed a fight between greydwarfs and skellingtons so avoided that until the numbers had thinned.
In the name of find things out, I've spoilered the next bit.
Managed to mine the abyssal things and got some chitin and then the whole thing started to shift. I was on the wrong side of it from the boat though and ended up in the water. Only just managed to get to the ladder all the while my mate was killing himself laughing. So now we know what a Leviathan is. Not found another once since but I have now increased my swim skill in preparation
Loving this game so far, our last session flew by in the swampy area we found constantly fighting draugr, leeches, blobs, greydwarfs, and skellingtons.
Also witnessed a fight between greydwarfs and skellingtons so avoided that until the numbers had thinned.
Raise the land to build a dock. Wet wood deteriorates as you have probably noticed in the rain although I'm not sure if anything actually collapses.
I'm hopping there is something as we advance that gets around this but I think thats wishful thinking.
The boat just floats where you leave it, not noticed any drifting even in storms.
It doesn't collapse. The wood weathers rather than rotting. I've had some wood outside for ~50 days now with frequent rain. It quickly deteriorated to about half and then stopped deteriorating. You can get around it in most circumstances by using a roof. It also depends on what you're building. For example, I have my initial house surrounded by a wooden pallisade of sharpened logs that has 3 wooden gates in it. The gates deteriorate when wet. The pallisade doesn't. I could construct a small roof over each gate to protect them, but it doesn't seem necessary. Besides, I'll probably be rebuilding a number of times. There's a better spot for a much larger house a little way along the coast, so I'll probably build a new place there when I get to be able to build in stone.
I've noticed currents and tides. I'm surprised a boat just floats where you leave it.
I've found its easier to jump in a boat just offshore and build a dock that way as you cant seem to build out from the sore easily.