Valheim 2

Those sick bastards. They wanted a round 2.

Day 1

And so our journey began. Big John, Beibhinn, Fluffchundigus and Thiccboi. What a crew.

I got to work gathering wood and dying to boars, the other guys did similar. Matt scouted our house location. And like a fine-oiled machine, we built our base of operations by the end of our first session and killed the first boss. Not a bad start.

With the first boss killed I was gifted the o’ gracious pick, a tool for the humble collector of rocks and stones.

Day 2

When I logged on I expected to be solo farming, instead I found Matt still playing through the night. The base of operations was looking sick and he leveled the ground so we were sitting on a fortress. One way in, a couple out.

We built a bridge to an area that would prove unfruitful, though the bridge may come in use later.

I was also gifted a bronze axe on arrival, got to swinging at some fine wood and increased productivity on regular tree chopping by a good bundle.

We did a little mining, then I logged back on later to mine some more. Overall 3 copper nodes were mined before the night, equating about 3000+lb’s of ore. I then went and gathered tin, but after that I was rather bushed and left.

Logging in later that day I found Ryax building a bridge to the ol’ area we had built a bridge to earlier, though his did look better. We got to work, me cutting tree’s for core wood and him prepping for the boss fight and farming resources.

As the night progressed we all were online and got to grinding even more. Tools were made, gifts exchanged, crypts plundered. Then we fought the boss. Or tried, as a 1 star troll showed up and wiped all but Ryax out. We weren’t detered, after all Ry and I danced around that boss for 10m before the troll showed up.

Setting up a spawn base we got to work, though it proved we didn’t even need the spawn base as there were no deaths this fight.

The boss defeated we all obtained our keys for the swamp. The dreaded swamp. Sickness and so much farming await it’s depths.

Day 3

More farming this morning. More farming in the evening.

The boys went out and setup a base near a swamp and went spelunking. They came back with some iron.

Later I would go into the swamp as well and found a crypt, emptied it out, then Ry and I hauled it back to base.

Day 4

More farming, but I ended up building another base near another swamp eastward. This took most of my day, but I was very happy with it. I put up some funny little signs.

After this, I cleared out the nearby forest and built a stone wall as a simple cut between the swamp and the base. There is a black forest nearby, but it should hold against such small threats.

I had a blast building this base and really enjoyed how it turned out.

Day 5

Made an iron set of armor, very nice. Also got myself an iron shield and axe. After I made this gear I went out to the swamp and did some mining.

A lot of mining actually. Matt headed out and found a new area to exploit and that’s where I went to do my work, as Site 01 didn’t actually have anything useful past the 1 crypt. Unfortunate. That’s ok though because I just used matt’s base for staging and whatnot today.

On one of my return trips through the ocean, a storm brewed and caused a lot of damage to my ship. It was just breaking apart against the waves. So I made my way near land and just in time to, for before I even hit the shore the ship broke to pieces and capsized.

I swam to shore but took some health damage on the way; got halfway to drowning. Returned with another ship once the waves died down and resecured the iron and brought it back to the Longhouse.

Went out and chopped some trees too just so we had more stock. With that, I’d say I left everything better than I found it and headed off.

Day 6

Decided we needed some copper to make more bronze. Did that, though with the ratios and how fucked they are we still have more tin than bronze.

After this, I wanted a road that led from the Longhouse to the south, destroyed a bunch of trees and rocks, and got a decent road going. Not finished but it’s good. Get’s you close at least, as well as it’s just kinda cool. Absolutely decimated the forest to make this thing.

After that Ryax showed me the base he and Matt put together. We setup a small roadway heading to the bonemass boss and we laid down some ground so that we could fight there without too much hassle. Delved some crypts and logged off.

Day 7

Ryax crunched the numbers. I got to work.

So that’s literally all I did this day. Notable events: dying in the swamp water and not being able to retrieve it because there were 2 Draugr archers, 3 Draugr fighters, some skeletons, and an abomination guarding my corpse. Spent too much time getting it back.

Ultimately I got the resources we needed and then some.

Matt made me a poison resist helmet which has proved useful for swamp crawling.

What can I say? I probably have 70hrs logged in the swamp alone. It is still not fun. There should be an item of water walking, or not being wet, just something to help negate the awful effects of the swamp. Too many debuffs, it should be similar to the mountains where you can build items to fully negate the effects of its world.

Finished the day by foraging a little.

Day 9

Fought Bonemass with the boys. Took 30m of prepping, 15m of fighting. Overall a good fight.

Running into the mountains now I feel the dread of playing. The mountains are consistently unfair. Blocking doesn’t feel fun, I suck at archery, and these two things combined make fighting in the mountains an absolute trash experience.

Days spread apart as the flame dies

Euroswamp simulator.

I gather more iron. This much I know to be true.

The trek through the swamps and ocean are always relaxing and yet can become a bore. At least I have this long ship so fewer treks are required.

An additional 450+ iron added to the forge. May it forever hunger.

I’ve performed great acts of violence against forest kind. The tree’s I’ve cut, the resources I’ve gathered. It’s actually ridiculous. With all of this new wood added I might make my own building soon. Could be fun and interesting.

Months have passed with no one touching the game. Until Ryax relit the candle. We’ve put in over 24 man hours in the last few days. He’s setting up a base near Modor and I built a stairway that leads all the way to the top of the mountain.

After this we went to the plains to fight some lox and commit genocide against some of the goblins. We managed to find some barley, which will be turned into flour once Modor is killed.

Built a farm in the plains and have begun production on mass producing Barley. Then I went out and plundered some more goblins and found some flax. I’ve spent most of my day idling to let the resources grow to ludicrous amounts; exponential growth and all.

I say this as if it were an easy thing. The village that had the flax was heavily guarded. Most of the bastards are dead. But about five more remain. I’ll come back for them later.

Finally after roughly farming with Ryax for about 48 hours total we have all we need to fight the Moder Boss. So we reached out and got Ry and Matt in the server. We did some additional preparation like Matt and Ry getting silver armor and we crafted some arrows. Then we met at the top of Moders shrine.

The fight was much easier than the first time. Some of the guys focused on boss DPS while I mostly maintained ad control when Rock Goliaths showed up. While I wish I could say there were no deaths I unfortunately was felled right at the end of the fight. That’s fine though, we still obtained all of our loot.

We made our way to spawn and mounted the head of the dragon upon the wall. This should make sailing supplies around much easier.

Of course this means there will be literal farming in the coming days. Both in terms of raw iron that needs to be obtained as well as just regular farming of crops.

I look forward to finally fighting the plains boss for the first time.

The farm is nearly complete. It really has all the sites that are required. It has windmills to turn Barley into flour, it has spinning wheels to turn Flax into thread. Who could ask for anything more?

And so I have the latest and fully upgraded armor set. I forgot how incredible it is. Now I should be able to farm the remaining resources required for fighting the next bastard without fear of dying as much. Say for poison in the swamp… always poison in the swamp…

And so it goes. The Lighthouse/Bonedaddy sector has been completely combed over for tombs and exploited. Took a little while but this puts us in a position to produce every a set of advanced iron armor I believe. If they want it.

The other thing that I did was put the server in a docker container for 2 reasons. 1 It’s easier to move around, instead of having to navigate to ~/.config/unity3d/blah/blah/blah I can just copy and paste my folder with all the valheim server data as the good Lord intended.

The second is it’s kinda cool to see number go up.

And as you can see here from about two hours of playing I produced about 650mb of bandwidth, so about 325mb an hour per person playing. Which isn’t a problem, it’s just a lot more than I was expecting.