10+ Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Valheim

I started Valheim knowing almost nothing about the game (other than it looked awesome) and it was pretty hard to get up to speed. Looking back, I wouldn’t have wanted to know everything, but some Valheim beginner tips and tricks would have been handy.
I made this list of things I wish I would have known about Valheim for all my fellow noobs and new Xbox players out there that want to get started your Valheim gameplay on the right foot.
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[@Vasilio1000]

As a quite experienced solo player (>1400 hrs) I can say that almost all of these are good tips. I slightly disagree on building multiple beds wherever you go because I learned the opposite the hard way: what happens when you have the last claimed bed somewhere-nowhere and die on nearly the opposite side of the map after a long sea journey and before making a portal. I definitely prefer to have a single permanent bed in my fortified base, where it is always safe to re-spawn, and where I have all the necessary food, spare armor, weapons, resources, portals and even spare ships for emergencies. Portals are much better than beds if you use them correctly. A bed outside the main base is ok when you spend a longer time somewhere, but you must always remember to claim a new one or re-claim your main base bed, which I find too risky - at least playing solo (in multiplayer I guess someone can resque you when you get stuck, but it is still annoying). About fire - I always prefer to build a little fireplace with a roofed chimney inside the house (even in the existing shacks that I temporarily use). It takes almost no time to build, and that way I can cook my food and sort the inventory at the same time getting the rested buff, and rain does not affect the fire too. The first boss is actually quite easy, that is why Hugin does not specify the means how to kill it. You can do it with any weapon, just take your time before you go there and make a better armor (troll-hide or upgraded leather one) or learn how to dodge and/or parry. And lastly, building a base near the biome border is absolutely recommendable, because meadows biome is just a tutorial biome, the real game starts in the Black Forest and "higher" biomes. I always stay either on the very edge of the forest, or make an underground base (cave under a stone or copper deposit)) in the Black Forest itself until I get all the bronze weapons I need. I usually start building my main base only in the "iron age" when I can use stone for building, and have explored more biomes looking for a suitable place.

[@DrLootCrate]

Awesome tips and thanks for commenting. I wasn’t kidding that I had recently started playing. I hadn’t even unlocked portals yet when I made this. I could definitely the two bed problem biting as you get farther and farther away. In my latest video, I definitely recommend being close to the Black Forest. You definitely want to be close for bronze production.

[@phyxios74]

I won't lie the first time I played valheim I crafted over 15 stone axes because I didn't know you could repair them

[@DrLootCrate]

Lol I think I only got to 5 axes 🪓

[@Sinistah665]

I feel this comment

[@superninja4526]

My friends and I come back to valheim from time to time and always have a blast

[@DrLootCrate]

Awesome! I am definitely liking it and so are my friends. We will probably come back to it a bunch. Now to figure out how to smelt this tin….

[@KapinKrunch]

Yeah I just downloaded this game on my xbox this video is going to be so helpful to me thank you.

[@DrLootCrate]

Awesome! Glad you liked it Aaron

[@ronvanpelt8196]

Great video! I would add that the one OP thing you can do for yourself in the early game Meadows and Black Forest is carry a TORCH. You can make it without a Crafting bench and the Dwarfs and most animals FEAR FIRE. A mob is much easier/safer to deal with holding a Torch and club. Once you level up a bit and gain Troll Armor and early shields it still is needed to tackle Crypts searching for Surtling cores and loot. You will die a lot less early on with a torch handy at all times.

[@DrLootCrate]

Great shout Ron! It wasn't until after I made this video that I found out that Greydwarves are scared of my torch. Since then I always have one handy just in case.

[@cwuerp2486]

Good suggestions! I was lucky enough to have my daughter and son in law (who’ve played for a few years) help me to get started. We recently started a family server and I enjoy learning the game so much more! (Minecrafter here! Lol) Good luck and keep on playing!

[@DrLootCrate]

We are are playing an 8 person family server at the moment and we are having a blast. It is really fun to run around as a pack and work together. My wife doesn’t normally like combat games, but she is really into the crafting and building side. Something for everyone

[@MrXaule]

Caught the Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference!

[@DrLootCrate]

Glad somebody did! I think that every time I see some big baddie that I don’t want to fight yet

[@jesuselskermig]

Thanks ❤ please make more of this 😊

[@nathanburgett1599]

My first time playing, I died the first time day 64 from a falling tree that proved it didn't believe in physics. The second time was day 98 while mining copper too close to a mountain, and staying too late. I heard a screech and a drake, that I never saw, decided to 2 shot me with frost balls. 🤦‍♂️

[@DrLootCrate]

Not dying until day 64 is impressive! It always seems to be a surprise

[@nathanburgett1599]

@@DrLootCrate thanks. I'm good at these type of games, but to be fair I haven't made it very far either. I've just explored the main spawn island, and gotten really lucky with copper deposits in really safe areas. I also knew a little about the game,, like to dig a pit around my base. I didnt know there were hords that attack, and I lost my poor boars when they came out of nowhere 😆. Gearing up now to fight the elder for the first time.

[@DrLootCrate]

@@nathanburgett1599 bummer on the boars, but sounds like you are making good progress!

[@codyt8541]

Great video, playing for the first time on Xbox

[@DrLootCrate]

Thanks Cody. You were the target audience, so I am glad that you liked it

[@deepspacenation76]

You can’t rent a server from nitrado?

[@SirGreenDay]

Lol. This isn't a survival game. It's a kiddies game. You can't die. You don't get hungry or thirsty. Tools are repaired for free. Can't control resource rates or say/night cycles etc. Your bases are even untouchable by other players! WTF?? The list goes on. I've always heard how great this game is. Now that I know how it plays, it's laughable. Wow.

[@DrLootCrate]

Interesting take. There are definitely more punishing games out there if that is what you are in too, which it sounds like you are

[@chargerboy411]

So it's a soft survival game? Not like conan exiles?

[@DrLootCrate]

@@chargerboy411 I haven’t played Conan Exiles, but in this game. If you don’t eat food, you don’t die. You just have super low health and stamina. If you die in this game, you lose 5% of your skill points in each skill (not good). You can get all of your stuff back from your death crate, but the guy that killed you will still be standing there

[@jordanrock3494]

Yeah they stripped away the annoying aspects of the genre and actually made it fun. Who gets all high and mighty because there's different games and not 100% clones?

[@bp4861]

You're laughable lol