Broken Cog posted:

Well, I beat the third boss, honestly wasn't that bad when I came properly prepared. Now to go suffer in some nicer looking terrain.

KingKapalone posted:

Finally found the runestone that showed us the second boss. The rune was in an area we didn't think could be Forest and the boss was on another big land mass which we didn't know existed north of the starting stone ring.

I just found some Meadows across since water South of the recently discovered Swamp too. Things sure aren't continuous.

Saw the forward base talk. Seems like our first base in the middle of Meadows should never have any metal at it. We built a mining camp but scorched everything around it so we made another far away. Should probably get all the metal from that first camp and sail it down to the new one. No reason to have 2 bronze bars in one area and 3 in another since you can't make anything that way.

Broken Cog posted:

The silver grind in the mountains is definitely real (at least for gear, doesn't seem to be required as much for building materials or tools), but it's way more fun running around there than in the swamp, so I don't really mind.

xzzy posted:

Do kilns and smelters need to be indoors? I had a kiln poof once when it was outdoors and I've built them inside ever since, but now it's limiting the beauty of my base building and I want that stuff outdoors again.

So curious if the kiln disappearing was a weird bug or part of the plan.

Xerophyte posted:

Today in viking moronity:

After finding a waystone for the elder I got the nasty news that he was literally half the world away. So I've been working my way through bronze, upgrading weapons, getting ready for The Expedition. I set out this morning, slowly taking my Karve through the ocean with the wind constantly in the Worst Direction. I discover interesting new biomes, spot nasty new critters, almost get eaten by a sea serpent but finally make it to the forest next to the 2nd boss and start building a modest house near the border to the meadow.

2 minutes into building I get murdered by 2 angry goblins, because the biome border wasn't to the meadow: it was to the plains. I haven't set up a portal or a bed, so I respawn back home.

My map now looks like this:


I have 6 bronze and 2 fine wood at home so I can't really make anything current. I can build a raft to sail back, which sounds horrible. I can hope there's a land connection and try to run back, which sounds even worse. I can of course also restart from the antler stage, build up to a bronze axe and 80 nails again, harvest some fine wood and build a new Karve.

Or I can do what I actually did, which was aggro a troll, have him smash about 6 birch trees to splinters, and use them to build my new replacement boat.

Now sailing naked through the storms to recover my lost equipment and ... not so much avenge myself as run away screaming from the goblins and rebuild a forward house somewhere safer.

Omi no Kami posted:

I've got level 3 iron gear and a finewood bow, but I'm really ready to be done with the swamp... is that enough to handle the bonemass, or do I really want to be making a point to max out my current zone gear before challenging each boss?

Xerophyte posted:

Oh, I died like 3 times recruiting trolls to lumberjack fine wood for me while naked. I have a marker for where I parked my now lost boat and my corpse is 5 meters from it so I'm not worried about that part.

Bardeh posted:

There are some insanely good builds on the subreddit. Meanwhile, my brother and I are more focused on progression and every base we make is a basic rear end shack just big enough for beds and comfort items, with crafting stations placed haphazardly outside. It's a testament to the game's design that both of these playstyles are really well catered for.

Broken Cog posted:

If you want to use those bars for upgrading, you gotta bring them to a high level forge somehow.

xzzy posted:

Our first server, we kind of wandered around the spawn point until we found water and built next to it thinking it would be useful in the future when we made boats. Turns out it was just a pond in a much larger island.



So now I'm debating whether to pull up stakes and move the main base or just live with a 2-3 minute run every time we want to use a boat.

KingKapalone posted:

We're working through the swamp right now and need to find more of it. What's everyone's go to excursion prep/packing list at this stage?

Going to hop in the boat with my full bronze set, fine wood bow, mace/buckler, wood/fire/flint arrows, sausage/carrot soup/carrots, poison resist and healing mead. Should also build a portal and bring mats for another. That's pretty much my whole inventory...

Moltke posted:

Just got this game because it's exploding and many of my friends are playing. Tried it out and was pretty quickly bored by the mechanics. The construction system is as terrible as Ark's, and I can't stand endlessly farming materials (stone, wood, food) just to be able to do anything at all. It seems like that I spend 90% of my time searching for stone or cutting down trees.

The reading I did about the more interesting aspects of the game (boss fights and exploration) were what interested me, so my question to folks who have put time into this game - will the things that I do not enjoy go away as I progress, or should I expect those to be major parts of the game? Put differently, does the game break away from being different Minecraft with a bad UI at any point, or am I just supposed to enjoy the zen of collecting things and building an autism temple?

GruntyThrst posted:

THE WHAT

Broken Cog posted:

Mine wasn't far north-east of spawn, just one quick boat trip away. Showed up almost immediately when I started exploring in that direction.

He always seems to spawn in Black Forests, so I figure he usually won't be that far out.

ClassH posted:

He was decently far for us, not on the main island at all. Didn't find him till after we started looking for swamp biomes to find crypts.

explosivo posted:

Hey so uh I was boating around and had to turn around because I started going down what I thought was a river but closed up, and as I was backing up I looked over on the shore and saw the Grim Reaper? It was raining and I hadn't seen it before so needless to say it was extremely eerie. I kept looking to see if it was going to disappear but as I sailed away it stood there completely still the entire time.

Broken Cog posted:

I think I was pretty lucky with where my trader was. You can basically see on the map where I noticed the tag and turned left.

Also, I almost want to kill Moder again for her trophy, but she's such a pain to summon solo. Decisions, decisions...

Woden posted:

Can I just skip the swamp?

I've got enough iron for tier 3 iron armour but I still don't know where the boss is and am getting kind of tired of swamps.

Took some frost potions to the mountains and found 2 mountain boss locations but no silver, sniped some plains monsters but can't refine the ores. Am I locked out of higher tier gear until I find the swamp boss?

zeldadude posted:

Just built a raft for the first time and hopped on to test it out, didn't realize how the wind worked. Got like 50 feet out when I decided to turn back but of course the wind was against me. Sailed all throughout the cold, storming night in pitch black with the wind until I landed in a black forest near the 2nd boss. Still being the middle of the night I was immediately ambushed by two 2 star greydwarves, a brute, a shaman, and like 4 normal ones

I'm still in leather gear so I have no idea how I managed to survive but.... jesus christ

zeldadude posted:

Think I'm gonna just turn on cheats and fly back to my main base because I didn't even put a portal down

redreader posted:

I just did the second boss after getting a l3 fine bow from a friend. He took a lot of hits to kill but overall he was a chump. a 1-star troll attacked at the same time so we killed that first, it did more damage to us by far. The boss did so little I swapped to a spear and did melee for the last part. Are other bosses harder?

Broken Cog posted:

Just mine the barnacles first, they have a tendency to prevent building for some reason.

drat Dirty Ape posted:

Any advice on the best silver tier items to start aside from the bow? I'm thinking its time to finally replace my troll hide armor with the wolf stuff. The silver sword is really tempting too, though I have no current skill in swords.

Weirdly enough at the moment I have easier access to silver than I do iron to my main base so I might just skip iron until the silver runs out.

Gort posted:

Turns out this game has healing and stamina potions I probably should've been using to beat the third boss.

This feels like one of those, "So trivial nobody mentioned it", things.

Khanstant posted:

I'm waiting for my buddy to progress, so I was just farming up stuff and hunting on the main island to build up resources. I loved finally figuring out how to nail Deer, for so long kept trying to sneak and chase and only kill when they get stuck on a rock or the water. The spear chuck is really nice once you learn it's range.

Gort posted:

I meant "Minor stamina mead" but that tasty mead sounds worth checking out

CRAYON posted:

This is one of the coolest things I've seen done with the item mounts, via reddit:

esquilax posted:

TBH I think bronze is a lot easier to come by than iron when you take into account that the bronze recipes are cheaper - bronze helmet is 5 bronze but iron helmet is 20 iron. Iron requires you to find a new swamp with a crypt, or wishbone an annoyingly small amount of it. Copper and tin are everywhere.

I think all my early game problems with the copper & tin grind were because I chose to walk to a faraway node and schlep it back, instead of just making a boat, sailing along the coast of a forest, looking for convenient nodes to mine, and setting up a portal for repairs/resting.

Jinnigan posted:

my server killed Bonemass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBzeQ2qpylY

the funniest part to me is epic viking soundtrack while a bunch of us putter about with hoes, flattening out the arena before the fight

pik_d posted:

*removed map screenshot*

wjs5 posted: