u/Hitman1O1

Tl;DR: Would somebody look at our world map give us some hints? We are a bit stuck but I don't want to spoil it for myself.

Me and friends are playing a world together. The thing is we seem a little unlucky in our world seed:

• With our first boat we accidentally launched into a lake, which confused us a lot
• It took forever to find enough copper to get us through the early-early game, we couldn't find deposits
• It took even longer to get a meaningful amount of iron, because all the swamp we could find was so small they wouldn't have any crypts
• We haven't found the trader or any merchant yet
• And then it took an age to find Moder

A map to our world is below. I generated the link without looking at the result, because I don't want to spoil anything about it.
https://valheim-map.world/?seed=tejrUmq3Ms&ver=0.221.10&offset=0%2C0&zoom=0.6

Would somebody take a look at this and the map we have discovered so far and give us hints for the following:

• Where is a the closest swamp with a significant number of crypts? We are still behind on iron.
• Where is the closest possible trader location?

It would be fantastic if I could get a hint similar to "just head dead west on the north-most point of the starting island and ...".

Thanks a lot!

I wanted to try my hand at taming a volcano, with efficient power generation. Meaning I want to prevent heating my steam room beyond 200°C.

For me the tricky part is making something to extract the solidified igneous rock, while keeping the steam room separate to control its temperature.

I drew up the following (literally, excuse the quality, I couldn't find any grid paper :p )
There is the room with the volcano, with a machanized airlock at the end to limit the outflow of magma.
Next is a vertical shaft where some magma is dripped into. The bottom is made from steel tiles to conduct heat.
Left of that is another mechanized airlock (to turn heat conduction on or off), followed by metal tiles that extend all the way underneath a steam room.
Above that are the steam turbines (cooled through an AT loop).
The shaft has an auto-sweeper to pick up formed debris, which will be sent into a loader and into a belt chain looping through the steam room to cool the rock down from 1000+°C to 200°C, after which it will be cooled further with a cold bath.

Automation: the steam conduction door will close when the steam temperature falls below 200°. And a conveyor shutoffs to let debris leave the steam room when it's sufficiently cooled.

As far as I can tell the hot igneous rock won't harm my sweeper, loader or rail, just tiles around it. I will need to cool the auto-sweeper because it sits in vacuum.

My last remaining question is how to control the magma-drip door. Will a hydro sensor at the bottom of the shaft work for magma? Or a liquid element sensor? Or maybe also just by temperature?

Thanks!