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Rieverre
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"We sail to VALHALLA ... eventually ... (Valheim)"
 
   I'm not huge survival fan ... in fact, in most cases games like that bore me. That said, Valheim is really just as much about the travel and the adventure, with some pretty decent if simple combat.

You're an Einherjar, dropped into the Tenth World which apparently has gotten quite rowdy because Odin's dumped some of the beings on his Most Wanted list there ... so now he gets a giant crow to dump you there to take care of it, by doing what you're best at. Drinking and murder.

... and I guess building barns ...

It's not much, but it's home?

You'll note the textures are very deliberately simplistic, but the lighting effects can be really gorgeous.

Then there's the travel aspect ...

Um. Okay, mistakes were made ...

On the whole, a really fun adventure, naturally better with friends. Especially as the worlds are procedurally generated, your characters are persistent, and you can jump between said worlds without any penalty.

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The non-believers climbed for days to confront the master in the mountains. "Where do you get your so-called faith?" they asked.
"You brought it," the master replied. "You've all climbed so high." - The Book of Cataclysm


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  RE: We sail to VALHALLA ... eventually ... (Valheim) Verbena Mar-06-21 1
     RE: We sail to VALHALLA ... eventually ... (Valheim) DaemeonX Mar-10-21 2
  RE: We sail to VALHALLA ... eventually ... (Valheim) Rieverre Mar-21-21 3
  RE: We sail to VALHALLA ... eventually ... (Valheim) Rieverre Mar-26-21 4

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Verbena
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1. "RE: We sail to VALHALLA ... eventually ... (Valheim)"
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   All I'll say is my friends and I just hit the swamps for the first time and I'm discovering one bronze pick is not enough for those crypts. Looking forward to my first iron axe or mace. =)


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Authors of our fates
Orchestrate our fall from grace
Poorest players on the stage
Our defiance drives us straight to the edge


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DaemeonX
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2. "RE: We sail to VALHALLA ... eventually ... (Valheim)"
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   >All I'll say is my friends and I just hit the swamps for the first
>time and I'm discovering one bronze pick is not enough for those
>crypts. Looking forward to my first iron axe or mace. =)
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> Authors of our fates
> Orchestrate our fall from grace
> Poorest players on the stage
> Our defiance drives us straight to the edge


Swamps worse biome in the game, hands down. I prefer going into the plains to deal with sneaky deathsquitoes than to deal with the stamina drain. If I remember I will post pictures of the village site that some friends and I are working on. Docks/Mead hall/portal room are complete. I'm working on a keep up the hill and another friend is working on an inn of some sort. I find the game to be much relaxing and can't wait for more content.

DaemeonX


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Rieverre
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Mar-21-21, 06:04 PM (EDT)
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3. "RE: We sail to VALHALLA ... eventually ... (Valheim)"
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   Well, I've redecorated ...

in between building a portal hub that has slowly sprawled into an actual hub to keep my stuff in ...

If the framing of that last image seems ripe with relief, it's because I've just fininshed haulind a boatload of iron ore from raiding a couple of crypts, taking the long way around because a troll with a tree for a club has set up shop along the natural canal that would have let me take the short one.

... two in-game days after setting off, blessedly without incident, I finally managed to make my way home.

I don't mind the swamp too much, after figuring out how to deal with them. I think they're supposed to teach you to deal with stamina debuffs by making you use the Rested buff. Between that and realizing you can plop a workbench outside of a crypt, and a campfire inside to dry you off, things become far more manageable.

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The non-believers climbed for days to confront the master in the mountains. "Where do you get your so-called faith?" they asked.
"You brought it," the master replied. "You've all climbed so high." - The Book of Cataclysm


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4. "RE: We sail to VALHALLA ... eventually ... (Valheim)"
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   Fun bits about doing business in the swamp ...

... with 14 wood, you can plop down a workbench right ouside a crypt, and cover it with 2 pieces of roofing.

... you can plop down a campfire inside a crypt, and make sure you have a rested buff in there.

Those two things make getting iron so much easier I'm kicking myself for not realizing it. Pop out to repair your antler pickaxe. Spend 20s to get a rested buff when inside, after the one you have runs out.

Find a chest near the exit, dump scrap iron into it. Then once you've mined the crypt out, run what you have (usually 4 full stacks for the boat, one full or partial for your own inventory) to a Karve. Sail home.

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The non-believers climbed for days to confront the master in the mountains. "Where do you get your so-called faith?" they asked.
"You brought it," the master replied. "You've all climbed so high." - The Book of Cataclysm


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