Valheim

vredesbyrd · 17 February 2021 11:40

Since a handful of you guys are on this as well I thought I’d setup a new thread. For those who haven’t seen the game:

So far: I’ve got myself a high-walled compound, a hut, I’m currently building a dock area and I’ve just reached the point where I can start on metal stuff.

Screenie!

The dock I’m setting up is the beginning of a canal project that I’m going to dig through from coast to coast so I can (hopefully, if its deep enough) raft from one end to the other and eventually set up larger docks with a longship on either end.

What you guys up to?

BlackRaven · 17 February 2021 14:27

We have been getting iron. Need to upgrade the kit then do the bone boss.
Also we had a great bug with an carrot that would not despawn when picked up. We took full advantage:

vredesbyrd · 17 February 2021 14:47

I’ve not gotten around to farming yet, I’ve just been foraging, hunting and building:

I actually love how you have to build the support beams inside the buildings to stop them falling down or being easily destroyed. I went full defensive wall after the second massed attack but I’m not sure it’ll stand up to more than one troll at a time.

vredesbyrd · 17 February 2021 19:57

Progress:

Digging it deep enough while floating in just the right place is a bitch.

BlackRaven · 18 February 2021 09:26

A little bit bigger boat.

fl3xxxo · 19 February 2021 08:33

Building shit is the most addictive.

vredesbyrd · 20 February 2021 11:40

You working from references? Thats awesome!

Most of my time has been spent digging the canal out:

Fully dug to the lage and managed to sale the raft along it without bottoming out. Decided to take a break from that and setup metals and build something:

fl3xxxo · 20 February 2021 12:43

I did look at some pictures of viking longhouses but there has been many revision since the beginning. Mostly because you get new material and things to build and then you run out of space. I bet your pickaxe skills have leveled up nicely. I like how you made the dirt wall part of your defences.

vredesbyrd · 20 February 2021 21:53

Two wolf heads?! Christ, it took me three respawns to kill the only wolf I’ve come across!

Finished the building but I really don’t like it and its barely standing up. Its going to stay up for now but I’ll likely rip it down and do something else:

fl3xxxo · 20 February 2021 23:12

Once you get your gear upgraded with iron, wolfs are not so bad.

I constantly want to change or tare it down, especially after you see what other gamers have come up with. Some are very creative. Something I lack badly.

vredesbyrd · 23 February 2021 21:28

Discovered that you can’t teleport with ores or ingots…wtf?

(spoilering the most ‘ranty’ bit)

Googling around, supposedly it is to “stop the game from being easy” or to “stop boats/carts from being pointless”…those sound like excuses for smelly game design decisions. If you have to cripple the abilities of an item like a teleporter - an item they put in the game - to make it so that your other design decisions work, you’ve fucked up.

Either:

Have a teleporter that lets you teleport anything but costs a lot more or needs to be ‘powered/fueled’
Have no teleporters

Got full blown ‘Forest Whittaker eye’ reading the people claiming its to ‘prevent the game from being finished too quickly’ (Soooo artificial game lengthening?) or to ‘prevent carts and boats from being pointless’ (Remove them or implement complimentary/opposing systems with more thought) or to ‘prevent the game being too easy’ (yeah because not having a 40 round trip makes the game ‘easy’) - Its fucking weird.

Meh, obvious easy solution is to just move smelters and crafting bench to mining area, but that just feels like a forced choice designed to push you to have to setup multiple bases across the world in some poorly thought out attempt to get you to explore.

Here’s a novel idea: Reward progress while making the world interesting enough to explore in its own right.

/rant