I wanted to finish the game for the 5th time but with some twist. I played with teleporting metal and without. I wanted something new. Vikings have portals, why not trains?
Thunderstore: https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/VladasZ/Railroads/
Title says it all. As I was sailing to the Deep North, I found a Black Forest with many pine trees. Having struggled with getting wood, especially core wood, throughout my entire run, my instincts took over: I whipped out my axes and committed to the scalping of the Black Forest.
Phase 1:
Cut down every fir and pine tree in the biome. I used a mix of Skull Splittur and Thundering Bersirker Axes for the cutting, Thundering keeping mobs away as it procs lightning on tree hits. Asksvin armor set and Ashen cape for reduced stamina cost and also armor during nighttime.
In total, I cut down around 2000~ trees according to my statistics during this phase.
Phase 2:
Moving on to chopping every single log and stump, I also prepare a central location for storing all the wood, though I don't start the pickup process yet, as that will be faster in the final phase.
Phase 3:
For the final phase, it was time to harvest all the lumber. I used Moder's power here alongside Troll's Endurance and Ratatoskr mead for maximum weight capacity and quick movement for dropping off wood. Throughout the entire project, my Run skill went from level 90 to level 100; a testament to how much running around I did. In the end, I was left with the following amount of wood.
Around 148~ stacks of Core wood, totaling to 7400 Core wood.
Around 201~ stacks of normal wood, totaling to over 10050 wood.
And 2 bear trophies...I killed every bear I encountered (around 3 dozen total)
This entire project took around 15 hours total from start to finish. Now I can finally build!
As I prepared to pack my stuff, a thought occurred to me. A Plains biome bordered the Black Forest, and it had quite a lot of Birch trees...I probably need Fine Wood, too.
Edit 2:
see my comment for my results of testing if tacking is faster or slower than rowing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/1x3hryz/comment/pfclhqw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Edit 3: lastly. i want i want to clarify something. this image is a guide for how to sail into the wind. not "how to get from point A to point B the fastest possible way." because if that were the case, there are several ways to move extremely fast in this game. and as you progress, you will continue to unlock faster methods of travel. but the purpose of tacking is to engage in the games sailing mechanics because thats fun. as compared to just setting your boat to move in a straight line for 20 minutes while you doom scroll lmao.
Edit: I'm seeing a lot of people say paddling is faster*.* which might be true in very very specific scenarios. But I'm referring to early game, and navigating in the Karve. Which has a better turn speed, and can tack in a much tighter line than the longship can. (Also, as someone who has briefly been a beginners sailing instructor, and as someone who has put about 750 hours into this game, I can guarantee that if you do it correctly, tacking in the Karve is much faster than paddling)
I've seen a lot of people complain about sailing into the wind over the years. But even more so now that there are a lot of new players.
So i made this diagram to demonstrate a real sailing technique called "tacking" which allows you to pretty easily sail directly into the wind.
hopefully it helps some folks who are struggling with the early game sailing.
Good hunting, Vikings. see you in Valhalla. 🫡
I haven't played Valheim since 2022 or something like that, and when we (my gf and I) came back, we found this "Forge of potential" thing. For now, we are going to kill Yagluth, but we have a lot of artifacts and haven't upgraded anything beyond the regular limit yet. Tbh, we are a little bit scared of losing something expensive like a Draugr Fang trying to upgrade it, but we think it's a waste of artifacts to use them on things like axes or pickaxes that will eventually get obsolete. So, what is worth gambling for? On what things do you guys use your artifacts, and at what points in the game?, maybe is worth come back and waste a little bit upgrading frostner or fenris set.
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THIS IS MEANT FOR A QUICK LAUGH AND MOVE ON, I KNOW MY FOOD ISN’T RIGHT, I KNOW MY PORTAL SHOULD BE IN WALLS, I KNOW MY BASE SHOULD BE DEFENDED.
I WAS IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING A BRAND NEW BASE AND I GOT DUNKED ON FOR BEING CARELESS. I DON’T NEED A LECTURE OR DM’S FROM ANGRY VALHEIM PROS.
My custom Blood Magic 'Gun Range' AFK levelling spawner. Enjoy and AMA!
Dishin it out but he can’t take it
My friend and I were sailing to a >!Jotun invasion!< and came across this mountain area that went right on down to the coast.
And so it begins ^^
Hello there,
Let me introduce Valheim World Editor, a standalone 3D editor for Valheim worlds, similar to MCEdit/WorldPainter for Minecraft. It's at a point where I think it's worth sharing (outside of the Mod website)
It reads the textures, models, and terrain straight from your Valheim install, so what you see matches the game. You can edit a saved world offline, or connect to your game or a dedicated server and watch the changes show up live.
What it does right now:
- Terrain: sculpt and paint brushes, plus roads, rivers, and caves. You can also go past the ±8 m height limit (mountains, canyons) without needing a mod, so it even works for console crossplay players. Preview a seed before the world exists: the start, boss altars, and traders. Or search for a seed by what's near spawn
- Building: a Workshop plot with every piece in the game, snapping and stability like the hammer. Blueprints are Homestead-compatible, and you can paste them into any world
- Dungeons: add or remove rooms in crypts, Frost Caves, and so on
- New worlds: preview a seed (boss altars, traders, start) before creating it, or search for a seed by what's near spawn
- Admin: inspect and edit chests and signs, search the world for items, restore one area from a backup, full undo history
- And more. Please see the documentation
It runs on Windows and Linux with no install, and it's open source. Live editing uses a small BepInEx plugin, but players joining your world don't need anything.
Links:
- Github
· Nexsus
· Hexium
It's still actively developed, so bug reports and feature ideas are very welcome. I'm using Linux so I've only tested the Windows build in Wine, I would appreciate more Windows user to try it and report any issues.
Github Issues is the best place for them, but I'll happily take them on any mod site (Nexus, Thunderstore, Hexium).
I thought I was clever in creating a high hide in this area. There were two Lox herds close together and it was against a swamp so I could watch the wars or hunt whenever. However, the Lox turned the tables. One of the Lox I shot ran off into the distance so figured I was safe to start on the next one...
There are so many wood types, yet we only have 2 wood roof types(Thatch and Shingle) As well as the grausten roof. Why don't we have ashwood roofs or timberwood roofs? I think this could be such a simple addition that would improve so many of my own builds visually. Shingle roofs get boring to build with after a while, and I hate the logistics of supporting grausten roofs, and imo they don't look that great. Petition for more roof types!
I swear i've never had a wave inside my base like this before.
Hi there! There's a discussion going on in another part of the subreddit that got me curious about this.
Do you use the in game feature, or a mod, to allow portals to transport metals. If you reply YES, NO, SOMETIMES, case sensitive, I'll search through this comments to see what people prefer and edit the poll with the answers. YES, is I allow metals to pass through portals.
Poll Results ~3 hours in:
YES: 123 - 52.1%
NO: 83 - 35.2%
SOMETIMES: 30 - 12.7%
Total: 236 - Within a rounding error 100%
(I'll update at random times, but I didn't expect this many responses.)
