50 Steps to STARTING A NEW VALHEIM WORLD PROPERLY!

[@tb45g]

Protip: forgo the club for burial chambers, just use your torch. It does bludgeoning damage as well as fire damage, both of which are effective against skeletons, and it provieds light both from the torch itself and the skeletons which are lit on fire. ALSO: I always plant a campfire in the entry room of a burial chamber, it provides light, the rested buff, allows you to cook food, and helps you heal faster.

[@hewhoisme4343]

Another good way of dealing with skeletons in burial chambers is to stand behind a closed door and use a Stagbreaker, as its area of effect isn't stopped by doors.

[@SkyThat1Guy]

Thank you 😊

[@Gijs9114]

that 2nd one was a really good tip. thanks

[@hewhoisme4343]

Oh yeah, also use campfires in sunken crypts in the swamp

[@hessian144]

i was wondering about that while watching this video. i kill everything with the axe or bow but i often have a torch on me

[@MidgardGamesTV]

Couple things to add: -There is always a raspberry bush and a couple of mushrooms behind the forsaken stones. Grab them when you spawn for instant food -I typically rush towards the coast and start gathering flint right away so I can completely bypass the stone axe and craft a dagger. -You can use your club to knock down saplings quicker than your fists. Same goes for the greyling you found at the start. You can use your torch to kill him quickly as it is a club. Source: I've completed 5 complete playthroughs so I'm constantly trying to find more efficient ways to progress.

[@TheJunnutin]

Also, IMO those buried boat treasures aren't worth the time and effort. Although, I'm far from efficient 😅 My 1st playthrough, getting really close to day 400 and I just killed Bonemass last Sunday. Spent ~4hours yesterday just trying out things with wood iron and stone for the first time =)

[@MidgardGamesTV]

@@TheJunnutin that’s the beauty of this game. You can enjoy it the way you want to and progress at the pace you want. Some people like to take it slow and tinker on their base. I like pushing myself to the limits of how far I can go quickly. Most recently I killed both Eikthyr and The Elder wearing just the starting rags you spawn with.

[@Leon_Aldrich]

@@MidgardGamesTV -- starter rags? Don't you mean "Glorious Coverings of Greatness?'

[@TheJunnutin]

@@MidgardGamesTV Yes definitely one of the games strong points is that total freedom to do or not to do whatever you want. It's the first survival game I'm actually getting into.

[@vadimblin]

I wouldn't recommend building a club. Just go straight for the axe. Cause all mobs in Meadows and Black Forest actually take more dmg from the axe... only exception are the skeletons. I actually didn't use the mace until late game. Frosted and the Porcupine are the only club type weapons I used. To be fair I farmed silver for the Frostner before I got the wishbone and used the lvl1 Frostner to kill the Bonemass Searching for water and instantly building the flint axe is the best way.

[@RationalOrc]

One point to consider. If you rush down the first boss, you'll never get raided by an army of meadows creatures. I'm serious having 20 boars attack your base can give you some pretty useful mats early in the game. The faster you can get boar leather the faster you can get an lvl 3 workbench and the faster you can get lvl 3 items and then the game gets so much easier for you.

[@tarron3237]

Hint: for resin, just chop down small trees. You get tons of resin, so no need to kill dwarves for that

[@nateiverson8681]

Also author doesn't distinguish between grey dwarves and greylings. Greylings also have resin so no need to go to the forest.

[@craigslitzer4857]

If you don't have an axe yet, the torch will harvest those small trees quicker than punching them.

[@DWalter.27]

And you can easily melee the deer boss, let alone wood arrows, so you don't even need fire arrows

[@shadowkhan422]

@@DWalter.27 WIth wooden shield its a cakewalk

[@jamesreynolds9909]

True but it’s so satisfying sniping greydwarf and shamans and brutes with only wooden arrows

[@porous9]

When you start mining Copper and are still too weak to take on Greydwarf packs comfortably, explore along the divides between Meadows and Black Forest. These are often lengthy and straight, and you will very often find Copper deposits that are literally just a few feet away from Meadows. When you mine, the sound of your pickaxe radiates out in a 360-degree circle. If you're mining deeper in the Black Forest, the sound can attract Greydwarves from several different directions which can be perilous. If you're mining a deposit right on the border of Meadows, half of your pick sound will be radiating into Meadows which, at worst, will attract Greylings which are much easier to handle. Also, if you are overwhelmed and have to to flee while mining deeper in Black Forest, you can run straight into more packs of Greydwarves or even a Troll. If you're on the border of Meadows, you can flee into Meadows which is much safer. If you're exploring in Black Forest and you spot a Burial Chambers (with attendant Skellies) close to a 'pink fire' Greydwarf spawner, it's worth running close to one to aggro the monsters around it, then run to the other. Greydwarves and Skellies hate each other so passionately they'll usually break off attacking you to fight each other. You can stand by watching, dealing with the already-damaged stragglers once the massed fight is over, then pick up all the loot while having to do very little fighting for it. Or, if the Skellies win (which they usually do), you can lead the survivors to the nearby Greydwarf spawner. As the Skellies engage whichever Greydwarves have spawned in the interim, you can destroy the spawner and claim the Ancient Seed it drops. Again, mop up the stragglers and collect the loot with minimal fighting.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

I always build a wood fence around the copper deposit so I don't have to deal with the greydwarves while I mine. I also build a temp campsite with a workbench and a forge so I don't have to constantly leave to repair my pickax. I've weathered "forest is moving" events without even popping my head outside the fence. I just go around and repair the walls every now and then. They've never gotten close to getting through. Trolls are a different matter ofc. Gotta deal with a troll.

[@lastxp]

Dig under and mine from underneath. Or get troll to hit and mine it for me.

[@leonidmolochnikov4147]

Nice guide. I have a couple of additions to it, especially for the early game: 1. Pick a spot near the spawn point for early base - you will need to return here for the rest of the game anyhow to mount the boss heads 2. After picking up 6 wood by either picking branches or bare-fisting suplings - make a club, and harvest the first batch of wood with a club - this way you clear the area, get wood and train clubs at the same time. 3. Shoot the first scores of arrows at a stone/tree near your base. At bow level 20 - you will use it quite better 4. Early copper is attainable by baiting a troll to hit a copper deposit (which is fairly easy) and early bronze - by leading a troll to the water and baiting it to hit a tin deposit (quite harder, but doable) - making Eikthir optional, and leading to the next 5. By sparing Eikthir - instead of pesky gray dwarfs - you will get nightly food deliveries to your doorstep by his courtesy, in form of neks and bores throughout the bronze age... 6. After finding 10 surtling cores instead of going to home base - fill you pockets with tin, and after getting a full stack - find a copper spot. Unload all resources into chests, dig around the copper node as deep as it goes, and please the smelter inside the pit and load it with the tin - it will worm buff you during the copper mining, you will have tin ready as soon as the copper is mined, and the 30 tin batch will enable bringing 30 bronze home, instead of 60 copper, while being safe in the mining pit

[@InfernosReaper]

I don't get why do the club first when the stone axe isn't too much more on resources, even if it is going into the dumpster when the flint axe is obtained(if it can be gained before then, even better) Being able to cut down trees seems more important early on for getting bases situated quickly. That said, I do personally tend to use the club until the swamps, skipping the bronze mace entirely,

[@Touay.]

in burial chambers, you can usually ensure you find everything by always turning in the same direction. if you always turn left at every junction, you will do a ful big loop through the chamber. this works as the chambers do not often have multiple routes.

[@Touay.]

@Kevin Jackson I have found only one. it was a room with two exits to the same corridor ... so it was easy to spot and still follow the 'left turn only' trick.

[@tippyc2]

I always go right. I'm pretty sure IRL mine and cave explorers prefer going right. You're basically guaranteed to get back to where you started if you choose one direction to turn and then _always_ turn that direction. Every once in a while, they spawn passages in a circle and that can throw this method off.

[@paulwilliamson8200]

Always use this method myself, makes navigation easy

[@dedmanzombie]

Always go left, the DM expects you to go right since most of the world's predominantly right handed most actions are to the right side just by nature

[@Lekjih]

Go left so you have more room to swing weaponry if righthanded. Go right so you have more room to swing weaponry if lefthanded.

[@Snagletooth1100]

Just as a note the Stagbreaker works through closed doors so if you can actually kill skeletons and ghosts that are on the other side with it and they usually die before the door breaks, and if the bone pile is close enough to a door it'll destroy it as well

[@davidevans7477]

Same for swamp cyrpts

[@vadimblin]

That's the reason why I didn't use clubs/maces until I got the Frostner. Which I got before killing the Bonemass. I used the stagebreaker to search for silver

[@RadekMacha]

I abused the heck out of this in Swamp Crypts. It's super useful for the Draugr Corpse Piles.

[@stanleyclark923]

Hoes are one of the most insanely broken items in the game. Level terrain can make swamp adventures trivial and raise terrain can make mountain adventures safe. Leaches lurk in shallow puddles (you know the ones that always slow you down when fleeing from draugher elites and get you killed). Just hoe-as-you-go and keep a level path to safety nearby. When I find an area in the mountains that I want to spend time at (like by a silver vein), I raise terrain a few times and make a small area to retreat to when the sun sets and the 2 star wolves prowl in packs.

[@littlepotato2741]

I've also seen people actually use the hoe to find silver... they lower the ground until some silver sticks out. Much faster than digging around if you are looking to find some silver just below the ground.

[@randombailey1166]

One tip: Lure the trolls to break down the Pine trees for early core wood, and Birch trees for early fine wood. It is possible to get a fine wood bow before first boss, big improvement over crude bow and not that hard if you can kite them with a little patience. You can also just cut other trees to fall on the harder trees (pine and birch) but that's a bit harder to pull off.

[@djnorth2020]

That's how I mostly mine copper, lure trolls (one preferably) to smash the deposit for me, saves mining time. Though there's always lots more ore underneath hidden.

[@marksemple297]

how do you shake them off, got chased by one for ages other day.

[@randombailey1166]

@@marksemple297 just gotta keep running then find a place to hide. If you have barely any stamina then good luck though, they’re surprisingly fast. Also helps to distract them by building a table near them and running away, gives you an extra second or two

[@LuaanTi]

You don't even need the trolls for pine trees - unlike birch and oak, pine doesn't actually require a good axe to cut. Of course, I still _do_ use trolls for woodcutting and mining, it's a quick and easy way :D

[@HabitualMilkDeliverer]

started doing this last night, fucking idiots have no idea they aid me in the domination of their land lmfao

[@paulmoulton7248]

Neat Trick: Fell Beech trees onto Birch trees to being them down, then push the logs to smash into each other to get fine wood. Skip over to the Dark forest during the day and drop a few pines for core wood. This will get you the Fine Wood bow early.

[@lord6617]

Also you can train trolls around, they aren't really dangerous unless you try to do it in the rain or with a bunch of other mobs around. Same for copper and tin, though those are a bit harder.

[@speedy01247]

my stupid ass got to bronze before I randomly chopped a pine down. (was confused at why there was no bronze pick or better bow until that happened) didn't even know it existed.

[@Shadow77999]

Daaang. 1000IQ

[@RW77777777]

once you get a bronze axe your Fine Wood bow gets super upgraded because all you need is wood and a high level bench your damage output doubles so early in the game

[@MichaelGlitzos]

A good tip for the copper is to dig below where the ore is. They go deeper than you would think. Also, gray dwarves won't follow you into the hole, so what I do is build a temporary base with smelter and kiln to process the materials faster

[@lithrininit]

also if you dig around it to expose the whole vein before you start mining it helps you not miss too much ore.

[@thomasr7129]

I start copper mining with a WB on top in middle, and placing fences and campfires around it - further out than the ore. Then dig around the ore, and under it - then place campfire and workbench there, to repair pickaxe and have rested buff all the time. Deposit stones as stacks of 50 piles. Those can be made without a workbench up! :) Helps keep things tidy. Come back later for the stone, if u need... Oh, and flatten ground around hole when done, to remove falling hazard of a deep hole. Maybe re-use it as greydwarf trap or troll kiting arena. ;)

[@ardentdfender4116]

Great starter tips and tips that if most of us knew ahead of time would also have saved a lot of time as well. A few more. 1. Pick up everything you come across. It will have a use if later if not immediately. 2. When going into any Burial Chambers or Crypts ALWAYS take 5 Stones and 1-3 pieces of Wood to make a Camp Fire 🔥. You can drop it anywhere in common area inside dungeon so you can get Health & Stamina Regen buff. 3. Learn in the beginning how to make and properly setup your Trunks for Storage and in the that bigger house you make. You will thank yourself later way down the road for storage inventory management. You can set more Trunks in a row with the short side facing you side by side by side vs the long side next to the wall. It’s a huge space saver. 4. When Mining Copper, put down a Campfire 🔥 in the middle of area to stay warm and rested buffed.

[@stanleyclark923]

The camp fire trick works great in swamp crypts too. Also the camp fire while mining copper will help keep the dwarves away since they hate fire. I usually put up several, especially at night.

[@shadowkhan422]

@@stanleyclark923 This . Finished the game and never figured that out (even though it was explained in the start lol). I always placed 1 campfire to get "rested" buff but its just not enough and they can come from another side

[@josephgood2704]

Also stack storage trunks on top of each other by putting one piece of floor on top of the trunk. After stacking the trunks you can just delete the wood floors in between.

[@vadimblin]

5. Always dig around copper and silver! So you can see all the resources. There's a lot more underground! Can't believe how much people don't do that....

[@ChuckHickl]

Almost at 300 hours and am still in the Meadows building a village but do intend to play through the game at some point. Good reminders here. Keep 'em coming!

[@Leon_Aldrich]

Yes, but I bet you are a professional builder by now.

[@greglyhoblit]

Lol me too, 160 hours in and ive only killed the first two bosses, ive built a compound in the meadows and a temple village in the black forest

[@MarrisaPlays]

i am in the same position almost i swear i have far to much fun just creating bases

[@MarrisaPlays]

@dev null im trying so hard to do more than "boxes" I have an adorable little farm house in the works right now I have still not even touched the plains outlside of a wrong turn lol

[@MarrisaPlays]

@dev null yeah i had to tear down a whole building because of that and the roofs fit different depending on how you set stone and where on the edges you attatch the roof. my newest trick to roofs is plasing a 1x1 floor all along the top edge of the walls gives a little overhang instead of a sheer face to the walls

[@lord6617]

If you drop a few campfires around eigthyr I think you'll recover stamina a bit faster, stamina is the only issue I've ever had fighting him - not a worry about dying, just it takes longer. If you get multiple hard deer antlers, make multiple pick axes. They don't have much durability. Also, sunken ships on the shorelines of the black forest can be destroyed for fine wood, as can the benches that you noted at the elder rune. That can be a quick way to jump a few days ahead on a finewood bow, etc. There is a 3rd burial chamber type - some are built into low mounds like a barrow. Listen for crows in the forest, they are an indication of a burial chamber or an elder rune. Also if you explore at night, you'll often hear skeletons and other creatures fighting each other to give you cues to where burial chambers are. If you can get extra surtling cores, once you start exploring you'll want 1-2 portals set up in your base with an easy to remember name (I usually just do E1 & E2). When you are exploring you carry 2 cores and 20 fine wood in your pack, and whenever you get full up or get to a stopping place put up a portal and head home.

[@tjsidd6981]

Another one for you - if you want to do big builds, click 'F2' and check how many 'instances' there are. As you build it adds instances, and the more you have the harder it is on your CPU.

[@jeffreyspinner5437]

Sweet spot is supposibly, 10k, but ppl with better than roasted potatoes can run 14k and still have reasonable fps... a little cheaty is to use the F2 screen as an fps spawn enemy detecting "radar," because I can be running over 100 fps, and then if something spawns in, voila, 60 fps, I look around...

[@tjsidd6981]

@@jeffreyspinner5437 Yeah - I have settings maxes on a Ryzen 5 3600 / Radeon 5700 XT (so not top of the line... but pretty good kit) and I dip below 30FPS around 11k instances. Also.. terraforming does affect this. So I wonder if the notorious 'dont terraform on server' comes because its really easy to warp the ground a ton, add a bunch of instances and tank everyone.

[@jeffreyspinner5437]

@@tjsidd6981 I'm still agnostic about the terraforming does it, because I've heard it too often. It seems like what's done in Manufacturing Consent. When I see, hear or read everyone "tweeting" like parrots identical phrases, my red flag detector peaks... So far, I'm good, so Idc what the reason is, I'll just ensure I don't build up an area passed my 10k soft limit, and then go a draw distance away, and have at it again... Works for Dyson Sphere Program too... Probably some issue with the Unity Engine, idk, I use UE4 for machinima and love it. Thanks for the feedback, cause this way I can adjust my soft limit and not suffer the consequences...

[@Yuki_Ika7]

I am playing on a laptop from 2015, 2.6GHz Intel i7 cpu and gtx 970, it's old but I still love it, once I get my basement renovated in am going to build a desktop, I already have 2 gtx 1080's I bought a while back to use for it and I will upgrade to a rtx 3000 series once things calm down more

[@flowerpower6619]

If you dont have a bow when you find a hive, just drop a crafting bench and decon the house, this way the bees dont get mad and you get extra wood

[@stevengoodman3985]

A better way to fight mobs in a dungeon is to lead them back to the entrance and fight them there. Mobs can't go up the ramp going out so it's a safe place just take out the archers 1st and you can take out the rest as you see fit just stay on the ramp leading out and you can't be hit by melee attacks 👍

[@monarkev]

Skeletons can be easily safespotted by attacking twice and then running back while they attack, works with spears swords etc

[@EQOAnostalgia]

@@monarkev Seems most mobs use the ole 2 tap and retreat method.

[@FerencHartmann]

Great Video! Please let me suggest 2 tips from my experience: 1.) In the starting circle there is always some stone and wood, and behind the forsaken trophy holder stones there are some berries and mushrooms. I found them always. So basically just at the starting location you can find some food, stone and wood. 2.) I found it useful to practise with the weapons. Any kind of weapon worth some practice. I usually do it at night inside my hut. Just put down a wall piese and hit it with the weapon, sometimes repair it. It is especially important at the beginning when you have very low skills.

[@darrenperry5697]

Only just started playing, I’m on day 33 and have virtually none of this stuff, this video for me is gold, thank you 🙏

[@Kysen]

You're welcome 🙂 my new series, the Valheim guide, may help you too 🙂

[@brodriguez11000]

I believe destroying some of the decrepit Viking buildings will occasionally snag a new building element.

[@seaymnoitpecrep6239]

build campfire inside, at entrance of a burial chamber, gives 3 comfort, to extend resting buff. Use the stagg breaker to hit mobs and ghosts behind a closed door, watch out the door might break at a point, but usually it works fine.

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

Personal early favorites, Flint Axe and Flint Knife. Flint is usually plenty around any water, including little rivers.

[@pontusvongeijer1240]

Something I like to do when mining copper is to dig in under the node, (they reach quite deep into the ground), mine it from underneath and place a campfire nearby and make sure the smoke doesnt hurt you. The benifit of this is that once you are underneath the copper node you get the "shelter" buff. With the shelter buff and a fire nearby you will get the "resting" status while mining and that will give a huge bonus to stamina regen. Also some campfires nearby can help keep nosey grey dwarves away so you can focus on mining.

[@TheTangyapple]

this is actually the most useful tip in the entire comment section.

[@londonspade5896]

I did this yesterday, it also means that trolls can't get down to you because they're too big

[@_V1LKA5_]

One thing that's really important that you forgot to mention is sometimes in the black forest you will come across what look like dungeons with bone piles at the entrance. I believe those are troll caves. Do not go in them as there's usually a troll waiting for you within.

[@Kysen]

That's a good point, thank you for this :)

[@_V1LKA5_]

@@Kysen No probs I found this out the hard way and had a mini heart attack when I entered one 🤣

[@Kysen]

@@_V1LKA5_ haha awesome! You won't do that again 😋

[@_V1LKA5_]

@@Kysen Nope that's for sure

[@Dead25m]

And troll caves are usually more rounded and natural looking, whilst dungeons are more square and seem more manmade (and is usually guarded by 1-2 skeletons)

[@Kaj1gga]

You can make a Finewood Bow very early. To get the Core Wood go to the Black Forest and fell 3 pines. You only need 1 but 3 will yield enough wood for two upgrades for the bow. To get the Fine Wood: fell trees next to Birch or Oak trees and roll logs into their trunks until they fall. Then roll thier logs into other trees or logs until they break. You need to add a Chopping Block in your base to make it. If you have the wood and also add a Drying Rack you can even upgrade the bow to level 3. This makes the first boss trivial and makes Troll kiting much faster. For Burial Chambers: you can use the Stagbreaker through closed doors due to its AOE. Open a door, whack the floor with Stagbreaker to aggro mobs. Step back out, then shut door in front of you as they rush to it. Use Stagbreaker right by the door until the mobs behind are dead.

[@sohan5049]

Well if you are very lucky, you can find some camps with Core Wood used for the buildings in the meadows. So you can have that bow without even going to the black forest with enough luck

[@burdoml]

or you can make troll chop down fine wood for you

[@Pecomica]

Nice video and some very good tips. A few things I found to be helpful as well. 1. Eikthyr and trolls are great at deforesting. If kiting them, they will help clear out some of the trees in the area. Even the tough ones you can't cut down with the stone axe, like the birch. 2. When in a dungeon, to avoid getting lost and make sure you explore everywhere, use the rule of right (or left). Basically only make right or left turns as you will explore the entire dungeon eventually this way. 3. Sap can be found by cutting down some trees and bushes. Keep it up. It's a fun game with loads of possibilities and exploration options.

[@ObscuriaDragunAed]

If you can, I highly advise trying to get the timing down to block archers as they will get staggered the same as melee units if you time it right which can help you close the gap and end things before a death situation arises.

[@marinskii79]

And another one tip from me - almost every young Beech tree have Resin so you can do two rabbits with one shot - get an easy logs and Resin in same time :)

[@indigOwO]

“if you guys wanna see me get things wrong on a regular basis” subbed and will be joining chat once i feel im at a decent point where too much won’t be spoiled, as im a new player

[@Pumkin932]

You gotta name your Viking "BuiltFjordTough" And if you're too lazy/stubborn like me to turn settings down to see shrooms, if you keep looking ahead of you, while running around, you see the render distance in front of you and can spot shrooms before the grass pops in.

[@cassioschneider922]

This is a great guide, i tried to help but couldn't finish it. cheers TL;DW 0:38 register Eikthyr location 1:00 set vegetation settings on low 1:25 explore around Eikthyr location 1:42 explore the path that the Raven already cleared for you 2:07 Use "," and "." to zoom in and out of minimap 2:23 Craft Club 2:39 Kill boars, necks and deers 3:03 Check abandoned structures for loot and bee hives 3:21 If you find many resourses in one place, mark it on map for harvesting later, they respawn 4:12 If you find stones outlining the shape of a boat, mark on map (treasure there, but need pickaxe) 4:41 Read runestones ou find along the way (?) 4:48 Build bases very near ocean 5:02 Build bases near blackforest, but not too near, to be safe 5:27 Try to have many trees nearby your base 5:32 Mark your base on your map 5:47 Craft a Hammer, workbench and build or finish a exising house 6:34 focus on building a bed 6:44 be carefull for falling trees when chopping them. 7:02 If you choose existing structure for base, repair it 7:41 destroy old beds in existing structures (they are not repairable) and make your own and set as spawn 7:53 place campfire outside structure, but near bed 8:25 kill lots of boar to craft bow

[@Goodday639]

??? profit

[@vadimblin]

I actually wouldn't recommend the club. Go straight for the axe, cause all the mobs in Meadows and Dark Forests take more dmg from it. Only exception are the skeletons. I recommend building the stage breaker for them cause it deals dmg trough walls and doors and can be used to search for silver. So you can have silver weapons before killing the Bonemass. Which helps a lot! So, instead of building a club... build an axe. If you're near water and have flint, go directly for the flint axe!

[@Julia-zz1gq]

thanks

[@lord6617]

"Be next to a black forest biome but not too close" "how annoying could it be?" *40 days later, standing upon quite LITERALLY a mountain of troll skulls*

[@Yuki_Ika7]

I want to get a bunch of troll trophies and make wooden post stick figure things with troll heads mounted on where the head would go and name all of them different names, perhaps try to clip a troll trophy and a deer boss trophy then mount a stagbreaker on the end of one arm and name that one "stagelager (like galager, the comedian who is famous for smashing watermelons open with a wooden mallet)", others I might name Igor, Jerry, Eugene and Becky

[@blueclaws9894]

My base was good for the first 2 biomes and mountains. Had to sail a good way for a swamp with multiple crypts.

[@tippyc2]

Sounds like easy access to fully upgraded troll hide armor.

[@marksemple297]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!

[@chizoke]

@@blueclaws9894 i

[@DrakojanOne]

A little over a year later and the advice is still good, even through all the patches that have happened since then.

[@scottbowers6016]

Interesting note for exploring burial chambers, Using a shield and Torch turns the torch into a club that also lights skeletons on fire.

[@SupraNSkyline]

Pro-tip: I’ve only killed the first 2 boss’s so far but, it seems the pillars/rocks at the mystical altars block their attacks so you can use that heavily to your advantage.

[@MrKalidascopeEyes]

Shield works great the boss is not at all hard.

[@Aeliuz]

You can use your starter torch as a weapon, many early game mobs are scared of and/or weak to fire.

[@hzebruh1443]

I never turn down my vegetation settings because I would rather my game look beautiful then being meta.

[@Voldemorts_Mom]

Lol i was gonna make this exact comment. It looks hideous on low vegetation

[@willhuggins8016]

HINT: At the start use your torch to keep greydwarf's at bay while fighting them.

[@alexparris7769]

I will add that you should always create a small house by the starting point stones for fast returns and to eventually set up a portal so friends that join you don’t necessarily have to trek long distances to meet up

[@InfernosReaper]

God yes to that. I've hated having to trek long distances to get to the base of friends early on. I don't know how they feel about me sneaking in portal materials and wood, but I do so anyway to just to build a spawn portal shack. Plus, it helps when a rest point is destroyed and then you're killed before you can reset your spawn and get stuck back at the start point.

[@donbush9238]

If you have a surplus of uncooked meat and you're short on sirtling cores, a couple of campfires with 4 or 5 cooking spits each makes for a fine coal production plant. Many, many necks have perished to support my bronze ambitions.

[@Sysiu]

to live in black forest, you must draw a moat to live in swam bio, you must build tree house. to live in snow moutain bio, you must dig a hole to live in plain bio, you must find a mini island

[@patheddles4004]

I do have a tree house in the swamp, but stone building on the ground is much better imo.

[@jure994]

Living the best life in plains with a house on top of one of those huge monoliths.

[@pilotdawn1661]

Just bought this game. Started wondering if this was for me. This video was tremendously helpful, not only for the tips but as a preview of how fun it can be. So I"m keeping the game and looking forward to it. THANKS!

[@martinsdicis4000]

Reducing the grass setting to 0 feels almost like wallhack! Really nice to get all of the resources so much easier!

[@ChiodosBlowsDogs]

I think I'm just gonna turn my down a little because, while that is handy I really enjoy the aesthetics of it

[@jamesreynolds9909]

It’s also worth noting that the club can be upgraded using bone fragments

[@Captain828]

Great guide! I was surprised to see you didn't prioritize the flint axe over the club or stone axe. Was there a reason for that? It's the best option for both chopping and single melee damage in the early game. I would personally skip over the no-star boars and would just mention looking out for 1 and 2-star boars for breeding. The no-star boars are just not worth it IMO compared to how easy it is to get meat by hunting deer with a bow in the early game. They are also hardly worth the trouble of the 20 raspberries you had to pick up for them to tame and didn't even finish taming by the time you were done with the guide. I would instead mention prioritizing to get a finewood bow as early as possible as this can greatly speed up hunting and killing mobs safely. After you get the crude bow you only need to hunt one deer, take down one or two birch trees, and a single pine tree. Taking down birch trees can be easily done using trolls or fallen beech trees at this stage. The finewood bow is also flatter shooting than the crude bow which helps a lot with hunting at long range and for bird hunting. I would also better clarify that for the fire arrows, to get enough resin quickly, you should chop down the small beech saplings or farm greydwarves. I also think more focus should have been placed on the rested buff.

[@TheTangyapple]

This is all good advice. But worth mentioning that you can only chop birch and oak (finewood) with a bronze axe or better, so finewood usually comes after bronze unless you use a troll

[@benjaminzanatta]

Could be a good thing to improve Club skill to prepare for Bonemass fight

[@michealnelsonauthor]

@@TheTangyapple might be a version issue? They changed firewood to require bronze axe or better at some stage in an update?

[@Yanikchan]

I honestly think beating Eikthyr with a bow is quite bothersome. You can just craft the wood shield and parry it for days. I didn't even see the lightning attacks cause I was always too close to it. Parrying is king in this game as it staggers enemies when timed correctly, so I recommend start practicing it as soon as you can (ie parry that greydwarf that spanws close to you with your bare fists!)

[@tillerphil4769]

First playthrough I ran around like an idiot with a spear 😂 I find the bow super easy to kill him with

[@JustinKenward]

Nah. Bows are king. I never even have to use anything more than wood arrows.

[@drummyt7166]

Spear is the way.

[@barrowwiththecanoon6655]

I personaly prefer dodging over parry, atgeirs are stamina hungry so I run on 3 stamina foods, i can't risk getting hit, even with parru

[@alexparris7769]

Also so far my best starter strategy includes making only one temporary base near water and black forest to start with and to serve as a starting point for scouting missions, then while scouting looking for, not abandoned houses to start my base, but abandoned villages. Often i find one or two small villages near the start but occasionally you find a larger one. If close to the beginning there’s less chance of it being occupied by draugr but if done right even early game you can kill some draugr be keeping range and using bow (run as fast as you can if there are draugr elites or archers!!) once cleansed (often i clear one house out place a workbench inside and close the door quick and place a fire and bed for respawn), you have a ready made village often with a fairly elaborate hall or larger longhouse to start with and plenty of materials nearby. Especially if you luck out and find one near water and black forest

[@chrissyboy1964]

Make all three antler pickaxes, saves constant repair breaks.

[@tielorstanger-lopez3888]

I'd like to add that the flint spear is actually a really good weapon for the early game. Solid damage output against hostile mobs, with practice you can consistently hit deer from range with it's secondary attack, and a level 2 flint spear can be used to kill trolls, as they are weak to piercing attacks. That way you don't have to kill as many deer, which can be a pain to hunt sometimes, and can start with decent armor for the early/mid game

[@ChiodosBlowsDogs]

Yo Thank you! I'll try this the next time I run into trolls on my new run I'm about to start

[@tielorstanger-lopez3888]

@@ChiodosBlowsDogs just make sure you get the dodge-roll timing down. You can roll, attack 3 times then immediately roll again and usually stay safe, if you roll towards their right arm. Just make sure you have the stamina to get away lol I've had to recover items many times because of running out of stamina

[@gary0044187]

really wish there was a setting to turn hugin off after so many plays...

[@Cipher_8]

I'm pretty sure there is. I remember turning him off. EDIT: I was wrong you can just turn off key hints from the screen. That tell you what each does.

[@craigslitzer4857]

I know lots of people don't like using mods, but there is a mod that will disable Hugin (but not the log entries he gives you) if you're so inclined.

[@aarondorado5233]

Using the same character on different worlds turns off hugin. I just remove all inventory gear and prevent resource sharing in diff worlds

[@DomixCZE]

i think the best strategy for crypts is just spaming the stagbreaker and if you are careful you can easily clear the whole thing. also you can do damage through doors with the stagbreaker.

[@kronthorson2665]

Yep. Pretty much. I had a leather armored club using character get a few bones in a crypt. Had a hard time of it. Built Stagbreaker and smashed my way to an Evil Bone Pile spawner. Farmed it for bones then easily upgraded the leather, club and Stagbreaker. Later used Stagbreaker to easily take out a group of skeletons that included a 2 star. Stagbreaker for the win through swamp crypts even.

[@tippyc2]

People actually sleep through the night? I thought it was just youtubers doing that so the vids aren't dark. My suggestion: Shoot every bird you see. The bird is a small target so it teaches you the aim point. That can be nice when you're fighting drakes in the mountains. But also, you want the feathers they drop. Everybody everywhere runs out of feathers in the late game.

[@djnorth2020]

Birds seem to require aiming higher than other creatures.

[@tippyc2]

@@djnorth2020 Because the others are bigger, an inaccurate shot still hits. Target shooting 101.

[@Apudurangdinya]

do not waste your time with stone/ship structure, just mark it and comeback after you have wishbone, some of it didn't have chest

[@toblakai1225]

you dont even have to open the door for the stagbreaker to pound inside the room-itll still pound 'through' it...even safer ;)

[@trpla976]

I found in burial chambers, if you jump up on the platform at the bottom of the entrance stairs, the skelys and even the ghost will gather around but can't get up and won't attack. Bring lots of arrows but it's basically a fish in a barrel type situation.

[@shaggysaurus]

Excellent guide. One of the best beginner guides I've seen for any game.

[@Kysen]

Thanks so much 🙂

[@SurrealEuphoria]

I definitely recommend using the tower shield for the first boss. He'll literally do no damage to you, so all you have to worry about is not wasting stamina. As long as you have stamina to block, you could fight him naked with your bare hands and the shield.

[@hewhoisme4343]

I also learned that the knockback from the kick attack pushes greydwarf brutes far enough that they'll miss their attack.

[@flamerollerx01]

Here's a super useful tip for troll caves, burial chambers and sunken crypts (in the swamp). You can place a fire and gain rested as well as the increased health regen from resting buff, not to be confused with rested buff, which is a weaker, longer lasting version of the resting buff that lasts longer based on the comfort level. Also, be aware that weight DOES have a negative effect on your cart's movement speed. Loading too much ore, stone, or other heavy things will eventually prevent you from moving the cart!

[@vadimblin]

U can overcome the cart issue if your playing with someone else. Let your buddy drag the cart and harpoon him with the abyssal harpoon.

[@jules3431]

i had 4 Stacks of Copper in my Cart + 2 Stacks of Stone and i could move it from Black Forest to my Base

[@flamerollerx01]

@@jules3431 Try 8 stacks of copper... You won't be moving much if at all.

[@Doss2k]

Been playing this game for a while now and had no idea about taming boars or ever noticed the style button, so some of these were useful even now haha thanks

[@verenov77]

I always build a fire in the main room of the skeleton crypts. Let's you get rested XP, lights up the room, and also works as a good navigation point letting you easily know that you've cleared a "wing" of the crypt.

[@mmouse648]

Another way to handle Bosses is to build a ring of campfires around the alters and THEN summon the Boss. Use arrows and lure them into the fire running around outside the fires. The campfires will help your health and and they'll keep stepping in them setting them on fire. Also you can tunnel under the alter for a quick hidie hole.

[@jemileedabear9630]

Binging Kysen valheim tips and tutorials, about to run out, then a new one comes out, Nice!

[@Kysen]

Glad you like them! More will come :)

[@GingerxWolfe]

Lol can literally say that about every creator with this is kind of content. It's how it goes.

[@lithrininit]

for getting wood quick you can run around densly packed trees and hit them 2 or 3 times, then chop a couple so they fall into the others and it can cascade into many trees being felled for you. later on if you plant trees in a designated area you can plant them closer together with this strat in mind.

[@CommanderM117]

just note queen bees have a chance to drop by arrow fire buuuut if you remove the block holding the hive up with hammer you will away get a queen bee

[@SadisticSenpai61]

They made the mushrooms much more visible through the vegetation in the new updates. I haven't needed to turn the vegetation down and I've got more mushrooms than I can eat rn. I always build a fence around a copper deposit and build a little temp base there - a workbench, forge, fire, and bed. That way, I don't need to constantly run back and forth to repair my stuff and I've got a spawn site right there. I'll often sleep through the nights cuz it gets too hard to see at times. The wooden fence is more than sufficient to keep the greydwarves from bothering me - I've withstood plenty of "forest is moving" events without stepping foot outside or doing anything to fend them off. They don't tend to stand up to trolls as well ofc. And I usually make roads freaking everywhere for my cart (and so I don't get lost - which does happen on new maps before you learn the area). I'm really hoping they add a new cart that lox can pull in a future update.

[@bryanc6142]

There was some thing so encapsulating about that Valheim music man...good vibes

[@leelane7437]

Am I crazy for liking the flint spear? Seems like no one talks about it. I like hunting with it...maybe even more than with a bow. It pairs perfectly with a shield, can be thrown if having trouble getting close to your target, takes down saplings, bee hives...great for fighting mobs and taking out nests...am I missing something?

[@justjeremy6450]

When it comes down to bow or spear, it’s mainly preference. In the video, he used a bow because it can shoot fire arrows, and there are no fire spears. In all, bows tend to be more flexible.

[@BiGMiAMiTV]

bro lets get together on valheim asap brother see you soon!! amazing tips

[@redleg1376]

You can get the bee hives without the bow by making a crafting bench and removing all the wood from the building. The bee hive will fall and you can harvest all the wood quickly.

[@stephenfraser280]

2 minutes in and I have tried to hit the like button multiple times. Played for about 30 hours and some of the opening tips are super useful still.

[@AdamRawlyk]

I can definitely see this channel blowing up soon, only found you yesterday but I wish I’d found ya sooner. Absolutely quality videos :)

[@clackymaracas2804]

This is probably the best and most informative valheim video I've watched, you get a like and subscribe

[@baronvoncavitous8395]

Burial Chamber tip - before opening doors, get right up to them and use your stagbreaker. The mobs on the other side including bone piles that spawn will die as long as they are in range. This trick also works in the swamp crypts. Use the stag/Iron sledge before completely mining the mud that lies between you and drauger/slimers.

[@Thitavares]

I started like this: Axe, wood wood wood wood, Workbench upgreade Flint Axe. After so much wood chopping, the skills are so high that the club is useless. Farm as many wood as you can, because when the metal comes charcoal won't be much of an issue. Shield and parry is a must. You will be almost unstoppable. Even with cheap weapons Great video. thanks for all the tips.

[@rz9888]

Those dad jokes at the end of the video were god tier. One of the things I do right when starting a map is check behind the sacrificial stones for mushrooms and raspberries. Gotta get that stamina for exploring.

[@Leon_Aldrich]

You can also find dad jokes at the starting spawn point.

[@oskiebadoskie]

0:59 you can parry and block with fists, and that will work great on greylings before you have weapons

[@dylanbennett958]

I know this might be a silly one but when I first started I didn’t know anything so I had to learn everything the hard way and a few HUGE tips that will save you a lot of heartache is just being prepared. Ok so when ever I find something to mine or I wanna start venturing out to the unknown. I’ll make sure what food I’m bringing is maxed out, I’ll bring 100 wood with me and yes it weighs you down but if you found a copper vein or you’ve gotten yourself far out and it’s going to be dark soon I just find a prefab house (the falling apart houses) slap a workbench down and first truing I do is put a door on. Then use the hammer to repair everything. Clear out the area decently and use whatever wood it takes to build a small pointed fence in a big square around the hut. THEN I’ll slightly expand the house so I can put a quick chimney in and start a fire and build a bed and a couple of crates and around the time you’ll see why I said to build the fence as a mob of everything and anything are now trying to smash down you’re fence. If you have that hammer thing made from bone I forget the name of it but it smashes on the ground and deals a lot of damage. Sometimes one shots skeletons. Anyway you can use it threw the fence on everything in the game pretty much. So keep the hammer beside that and go to work but be sure to occasionally pull out your hammer and quickly repair everything then go back to smashing.

[@atsz.]

#1 hint: always, and always, have your rest buff, you can get it easily by sitting in front of a fire for a little while, even better if there's shelter. Rested seems to double your skill advancement, which is a huge deal in the early game. Also it just might save you if you happen to be cold and wet at the same time 2: in the very beginning, use your club to break down baby trees, and every mob. Clubs skill will be incredibly useful later in the game 3: You can often dig up ship graves using just a hoe, leveling from the lowest spot. It's generally not too deep

[@mixmastermike2128]

13:26 all those little trees you are passing are full of resin, as you go to black forest to fight for it -its worth actively looking for: **FLINT (near water in meadows), WOOD, STONE FEATHERS and RESIN. to get better EQ immediately: lv2 bench. (11:48 ok i see you mention feathers here)

[@Mill_O]

Addition to the first step: if you die really early on your first character, don't worry. Skill loss is only a problem in later game!

[@JackPitmanNica]

I've been playing for 1000 hours and all my skills are like 20 cause they never get past that cause I do stupid stuff. I've basically played valheim as if the skill system does not even exist xD

[@philmccrakin9782]

A fast way to get wood is to throw down a workbench at an abandoned structure and dismantle everything

[@Fizzbann]

1st time I died cutting down one tree. It fell and did a chain reaction with 4 others. 5th falling tree bounced over and landed square on top of me. Haha Upside, most of the wood was chopped and ready when I returned.

[@Tentin.Quarantino]

Same happened to me, it was my very first tree as well. The plus side, I learned very quickly to try and aim trees at trees for efficient deforestation.

[@ParanoidCarrot]

pro tip for doing the burial chambers get yourself a Siege breaker and kill the enemies through doors, bait them so that they come at you close the door and then just beat the ground untill you know they are dead, its very easy to do, and the great hammer is effective weapon early on its just a pain to get upgraded

[@davidevans7477]

I got a very high risk reward style... once boat, find a plains biome.. fine bow, lots of wood arrows. Snipe deathquitos for days, put a bed nearby, death is likely. Needle arrows and then loax meat are the way to go. The needle is also good for murdering serpents.

[@TycoonMK]

nice video, speak quickly and clearly and concisely, ty ty ty

[@resilientrascal8279]

It's funny running into this today after starting a new character yesterday. Great job with the quick advance process! The only thing I'm doing different is farming wood for arrows until my bow skill is around 80 before fighting the first boss (at 73 now). Not because it's necessary, but just because at that point in bow skill it becomes much easier to kill things because the draw time is greatly reduced. I read a while back they're thinking of or planning to nerf the bows. I hope they don't. One thing they need to keep in mind is that using a bow consumes materials unlike other weapons. So yes, the damage is high from bows, but you have to constantly farm wood and other materials to make your arrows so it increases the grind quite a bit. That's a fair trade off in my opinion and I really hope they consider that before nerfing them.

[@thedude1282002]

Great tutorial! I've heard a lot about this game and now I've watched this... I'm gonna get it! Thanks again!

[@Kysen]

Thanks 😉

[@solosmoke7330]

In the structure in the black forest, with the barrel outside, there's a chest inside under the stairs.

[@vadimblin]

A tip for killing deers. U can sneak up to them pretty close if you pay attention. As long as you keep calm and sneak carefully you'll get the deer 4 out of 5 times.

[@TheTangyapple]

by far the coolest tip. I never thought about the damn wind, but such a cool feature

[@mmouse648]

There's a lot of discussion around the wind tip. Most people who have played hundreds of hours say it's not true, that SOUND and EYESIGHT is the issue. Just sayin' ... :)

[@vadimblin]

@@mmouse648 around 3000h now... wind really means nothing outside the ship. Also I'm starting with the finewood bow now, so getting deers is damn easy now

[@Genguts]

Something to really appreciate about this video, outside of all the wonderful tips, is the seed he used. Its a fantastic seed. I find the pacing of it perfect, light on the swamps, and no maypole. Just a Solid seed.

[@Hablo74]

Really good guide to beginner's start!

[@mrt4755]

if you chop a beeh tree u can run into the logs and roll them into birch trees to get fine wood early on

[@warfarin12]

I'm glad i watched this after beating boss 4 - this video really takes a lot of the discovery out of the game.. the vegetation setting change was a huge tip though

[@Claythargic]

Great starter guide, Well done. Ghosts dont care for the Stagbreaker either. Found this out when I got swarmed. the Ghost died without a single direct attack on it.

[@jaytee3557]

Also look for bees in the meadows, you can break the nests by shooting them with a bow or building a workbench and destroying the wall it's on with a hammer

[@Taima]

Simple things other than an accent that tell someone you're British without telling them: "give them a bit of a read" (standing runestones)

[@RealBeetle]

If you use a torch on any grelings or greydwarves, they run away. If you manage to hit them it does crazy damage due to their weakness to fire

[@exp-eri-mental]

Definitely don't turn the vegetation down. It's all about the immersion! For a relatively basic game graphically, it's a actually quite beautiful at times.

[@KissGeri97]

This video is so amazing i regret not having it before i started to play 😀 good job man

[@SirFency]

i wish i would have watched this a long time ago. I have struggled with every aspect of this game so far. I died about 25 times on that damn deer.