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Yeah, deer hunting is pretty fun. I don't know if raising the bow skill gives more aim assist or I just got better at predicting the arc but I am a deer sniping rear end in a top hat. Now if only the dwarves and necks would leave me the gently caress alone while I'm creeping around.
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I like that deer and boar pop like water balloons even with wooden arrows instead of making us chase them for 20 minutes to get a scrap of leather.
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Broken Cog posted:Hopefully the success of this game dispels the notion that survival game needs to have PvP to be successful. It seems a lot of people were waiting for one that didn't have that as a focus. That is why I haven't bothered with rust or conan or ark or any of that stuff, I don't play multiplayer games and I doubly don't play PVP grindy survival games multiplayer. Echophonic posted:Yeah, this game threw a ton of red flags that normally stop me from buying games, but it hits so hard on the stuff that works that I have very few complaints that aren't just UX stuff like building snapping and the uneven difficulty. But it seems like UX is a priority for the devs, so I'm not too worried about it. I really like the combination of low res textures but high quality lighting and animations/particles. Stuff like raytraced minecraft shows it off too but there is so much you can do with modern lighting tech that the lo-fi model and texture work just makes things blend together and fit well with the lighting painting the majority of the scene. I hope that the low res textures might make modding in more building parts and monsters/terrain more viable. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Mar 3, 2021 18:48
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Inzombiac posted:Can someone confirm that saplings in the wild will grow in to trees? I'm not sure I've seen any trees grow that I didn't plant myself
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Mar 3, 2021 18:52
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I think forest terrain will grow bushes back in over time, but I haven't seen any full size trees grow.
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Mar 3, 2021 18:53
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Unless I am mistaken the saplings you plant look exactly like the saplings that are all over the forest. Would be pretty weird if only the ones you planted grew.
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Mar 3, 2021 18:54
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If they grow they grow so slowly as to be useless. The saplings I plant become full trees in like two days I've de-forested half the drat map to make coal for smelting for the 8 of us
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Mar 3, 2021 18:56
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meat isnt bad to get, but i'm going to have to spend a while just hunting raspberries, blueberries, and thistle. thistle is absolutely the biggest chokepoint on what i'm getting right now , i'm drowning in entrails and finally got to make some sausage i tried some mountain biome - didn't think to pop a health potion and got brutally owned by wolves. what shoudl i be looking for in mountains if i haven't beaten the third boss? there's just a ltitle section of one on my starting island and i have yet to find anything of note in it
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Mar 3, 2021 18:59
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mastershakeman posted:meat isnt bad to get, but i'm going to have to spend a while just hunting raspberries, blueberries, and thistle. thistle is absolutely the biggest chokepoint on what i'm getting right now , i'm drowning in entrails and finally got to make some sausage There's some new materials, but you need an iron pick to get most of it. It's also intensely helpful to beat the third boss before you can reliably find one of the new ones. I'd say you're better off focusing on beating Bonemass first. It'll make your early forays into the mountains easier, too, if you have better gear.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:04
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Is there something obvious I'm missing with the fermentor? I suppose I need to get into farming before it becomes useful?
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Mar 3, 2021 19:08
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genericnick posted:Is there something obvious I'm missing with the fermentor? I suppose I need to get into farming before it becomes useful? Make the cauldron, it lets you make mead bases that you put in the fermenter.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:10
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genericnick posted:Is there something obvious I'm missing with the fermentor? I suppose I need to get into farming before it becomes useful? I don't think you need farmed stuff for mead. My guess is you haven't reenacted Nic Cages role in the Wicker Man yet
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CRAYON posted:Make the cauldron, it lets you make mead bases that you put in the fermenter. Ah, somehow I completely missed when that one popped up. Makes sense.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:14
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Man just sneaking into the margins of the plains to poach Lox is so so worth it. Even the meat by itself rules.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Azhais posted:My guess is you haven't reenacted Nic Cages role in the Wicker Man yet Alright, I got the first goal for my new server
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Mar 3, 2021 19:20
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My buddy and I have been enjoying the hell out of this. But I had a sad moment when I realized we were the bad guys in the story, strip mining and smelting our way across the forest to build a Walmart super center while a grey dwarf looks on with a single tear rolling down its face.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:22
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I mean, according to the backstory we are basically pest control.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:24
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I can't find bees anywhere. I've checked 5-10 abandoned villages, I've run all over multiple black forests and meadows. Are they just not on this seed?
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Mar 3, 2021 19:27
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Azhais posted:I don't think you need farmed stuff for mead. My guess is you haven't reenacted Nic Cages role in the Wicker Man yet You mean when you leave your meat on the cooking station too long you just scream "Why is it burned!?" Over and over at the fire?
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Mar 3, 2021 19:38
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PittTheElder posted:Man just sneaking into the margins of the plains to poach Lox is so so worth it. Even the meat by itself rules. What biome can I find bagels to put it on though?
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Mar 3, 2021 19:41
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Untrustable posted:I can't find bees anywhere. I've checked 5-10 abandoned villages, I've run all over multiple black forests and meadows. Are they just not on this seed? Any abandoned building will do, doesn't need to be village. In fact I've only ever seen behives in buildings that are not part of villages. For me they've always been in meadows, always been isolated buildings, and the beehive is always inside.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:42
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Vikings were active in Poland so there's very good justification for having access to bagels. Who cares if the timelines don't match up.
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Once again went way overprepared to a boss. I think after we beat this I might try and solo rush and just try to get as far as I can as fast as I can without as many countless hours base-building and preparing while waiting for my buddy's hour of gameplay a night lol. I spent some time flattening the ground around the oogie boogie man. Also cleared out all the surtling spawns, even though I realized they're basically harmless in the swamp. I also built some random wooden palisades around the area, just in case it was helpful for projectile attacks or whatever, didn't know the boss yet. I think the mace is the single best swamp-beater. I switched to mace + shield and it's hilarious how many of the swamp enemies just die in one hit with that thing! My polearm is cooler, but the swamp just melts to the mace and so did the boss. We both only used one health potion in the fight, and both in the very start when we got smacked by a big swipe while trying to learn the telegraphs. We used none of the land around him I flattened out. Ring-around-rosie of his skull summoning altar was way more than enough space. I can see how the adds would be a problem in this fight, like, if he and I had tried it out still decked in bronze/troll, plus his sword and my polearm... the adds would've be stamina-draining hassles. Skellies and slimes just too resistant to our previous damage type. With the iron mace though... the adds were a joke as long as you remembered them. If one of us was close to where he hocked his mob-loogie, we could clear them in all in the same swipe. I hope there's a boss rush or mass-boss fight at some point, so far I can see these first three bosses being fun all at once, without them overlapping too much or just being utter chaos. We were sick of raiding tombs for iron after the boss and are clearly too stronk as it is, so we sailed the rest of our iron back home. We resolved to not waste any time gearing up this round, we know of two mountains connected to our mainbase superisland, we're just heading straight there and hoping we find the boss ASAP. This might be an rear end-kicking, but good, we want one. Of course, I will still make dawdling time to build up a new castle now that we got stone building! I already regret all the stone we wasted landscaping our temporary swamp and forge fort, which withstood a few troll attacks, plus a troll invasion, and a hilarious suicidal draugr invasion where they just killed themselves on our spikes. There was one skeleton smart/lucky enough to attack the not-pointy side-- almost had me interrupt my forge tending to go outside to deal with this lone badass, but he ran off shortly after. Don't blame em.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:50
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What is the best way / gear needed to kill lox? I accidentally ran into one on my first trip to the plains and it 1 shotted me, so I've been scared to try again lol
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Mar 3, 2021 19:58
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I've been doing obsidian arrows from a Dragur Fang, personally. Looks like they resist blunt, slash, and frost, so you're kinda stuck with bows, spears, or the Porcupine.
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Safest way is running away and shooting it with arrows. You can parry it with the silver shield (i've seen a video with someone doing it with bronze even) but you're going to be hurting if you mess up the timing. I'm in fully upgraded plains tier armor and they still do pretty big damage when they hit me, like 30-50. Another option is backstabbing with a dagger if you're into that sort of thing. Comedy option is jumping on it's back and using the pickaxe, just jump when it does it's slam attack.
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Have a strong enough shield to parry its attacks (iron doesn't cut it i think), then just parry -> stab -> stab -> repeat until it dies. Someone on the Valheim discord was very enthusiastic about switching to an atgeir after parrying each time but it seems like a pain. Failing that, go stand on a rock or behind a moat and slowly arrow them to death.
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OwlFancier posted:That is why I haven't bothered with rust or conan or ark or any of that stuff, I don't play multiplayer games and I doubly don't play PVP grindy survival games multiplayer. The goon Conan servers disable most of the standard pain points of survival games, no pvp, no building decay, no loot drop on death. Still has some of the Survival aspects but its a more chill explore/build environment on those servers.
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Broken Cog posted:Hopefully the success of this game dispels the notion that survival game needs to have PvP to be successful. It seems a lot of people were waiting for one that didn't have that as a focus. this is exactly the game I was looking for. I love survival, what I don't love is having to be on 10 hours a day to survive. Or basically a recreation of this scene like all of my PubG and Rust fights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kr7KDCsIws&t=490s
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:What is the best way / gear needed to kill lox? I accidentally ran into one on my first trip to the plains and it 1 shotted me, so I've been scared to try again lol Like most things in the game, you can whittle them down with a bow. They're kind of fast but not light speed.
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xzzy posted:Like most things in the game, you can whittle them down with a bow. They're kind of fast but not light speed. Yeah pretty much fight them the same way you would Trolls early in the game.
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poo poo, if anything I'd have the dragon eggs be both unteleportable and only haulable through carts. A lot of the fun is carving your way through mountains, forests, and whatever in order to get X to Y.
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Once you get a silver shield & spear the Lox are easy to take down. They have only like 2 different attacks you need to parry. Just make sure you're fighting them 1v1 by firing an arrow at them from a distance away from their herd.
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I'm another person who never would have touched the game if it didn't strip out all the things I dislike about survival games. Not having to watch a bunch of bars that drain ridiculously fast and constantly stuffing your face to avoid starving in 5 minutes is great. Free repairs and full material refunds when deconstructing things is great. And not forcing PvP where anyone can come along and make your life miserable is great. I know some people love it, and they're welcome to it, but I've never liked PvP being bolted on to the side of essentially PvE games. It's always jarring when they cross. Like playing solitaire and then someone runs up, sets fire to your cards, and punches you out.
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for everyone i know playing it the moment they realised that you dont just die of starvation or exposure if you brb to the toilet was a revelation then you go into the water and drown immediately
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Taffer posted:Any abandoned building will do, doesn't need to be village. In fact I've only ever seen behives in buildings that are not part of villages. For me they've always been in meadows, always been isolated buildings, and the beehive is always inside. ive found 4 that way and one in one of a half dozen draugr infested houses. it really is random
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BobTheJanitor posted:I'm another person who never would have touched the game if it didn't strip out all the things I dislike about survival games. Not having to watch a bunch of bars that drain ridiculously fast and constantly stuffing your face to avoid starving in 5 minutes is great. Instead, you only need to stuff your face every 6-10 minutes to renew food buffs. And the buffs are optional (but they help a lot).
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mastershakeman posted:ive found 4 that way and one in one of a half dozen draugr infested houses. it really is random I've found a few in black forest stone structures, too. Meadows seems more common, though.
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It would be so nice if the portals were all networked and you could just pick your destination on the map.
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It would definitely make building a portal nexus easier instead of having to create a massive hall to contain every one we have active.
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