7 Things I Wish I Knew When Starting Out In Valheim (2023)

[@IzPrebuilt]

I've been making nothing but 7dtd content on this channel for 2 years and i thought it was time to change it up. More Valheim content is on it's way. Along with more 7dtd content as well.

[@srturtle23]

Both games have been a lot of fun to play. Can't wait for more updates to Valheim and 7DTD A21.

[@frafred1]

good video! they're all good tips tbh. Just one thing to add to the taming process you spoke about, is that food won't despawn when you sleep or..ever! if you just have a crafting table near it. :P Also creatures might not continue the taming process if you're too far away, cause the game makes them "disappear" to save you computer from lagging too much.

[@DrkshdwG]

Can place a roof tile above the campfire to keep it lit even when it’s raining. Place a workbench near the boar pen to make sure the food doesn’t despawn as workbenches prevent items from despawmimg in its area of affect

[@Raven-Blackwing]

Slash weapons may not have the advantage in combat, but they sure as hell have an advantage in style.

[@GageMason]

Do not most slash weapons not have the multi target penalty that most other weapons have?

[@mrsmoothspaz8631]

The Crystal Battleaxe is phenomenal at dealing with Cultists, so long as you can tank the fire damage you’ll take.

[@pharaohthutmosis7803]

One thing that is hidden regarding the Rested buff, it also increased experience gain by 50% so always have it if you can

[@IzPrebuilt]

I forgot about that, great catch!

[@pharaohthutmosis7803]

@@IzPrebuilt It's easy to forget when the buff does not show it, i learned about it 3 months ago myself

[@magiv4205]

Today I learned... damn!

[@VRStuz]

If you dodge at the very last second you won't take damage from AOE attacks and the direction of the dodge doesn't matter

[@GageMason]

So dodges have i-frames?

[@VRStuz]

@@GageMason ye

[@GageMason]

@@VRStuz dope, didn't know that

[@HGMan8879]

My favorite way of getting honey/wood in the early game is just by making a workbench right next to structures and just destroying the houses that way. Saves you a lot of time before you have a good axe

[@215Days]

I have noticed that "Slash" damage is actually the Jack-of-all-Trades type, not many enemies are weak to it if any at all but neither many are resistant to it. This is especially relevant to the Abomination, an ugly four-legged trent, which has very high blunt resistance, medium pierce resistance yet NO resistance to Slash, making Axes and Swords best against it. Skeletons are not weak to Slash but they are not resistant either, can use a sword if a blunt is not available.

[@lostinthought5621]

This makes a lot of sense. Currently exploring the swamp and felt like my iron sword takes down skeletons and draugers pretty easily. Forcing myself to use iron mace though to level up the XP for bonemass.

[@LibertyDiver]

Abomination is weak to blunt.

[@jamesh7876]

Daggers are the best weapons. Fast, lethal.

[@m2rtenA]

I used to play valheim alot just 2 weeks after the release and it was amazing one of the best and addictive game to play but might get boring over time, definetely better with friends

[@dreamshakejunya]

I find it helps to play in waves.

[@tradeka4206]

I just started playing yesterday and so far I’ve managed to build a decent base, get some flint weapons and a bow, kill a troll, die to trees like 4 times, and overall have a great time. Super fun and intuitive game, this is literally the first video I’ve watched and I made so much progress on my own. I actually got lucky with the troll and used the right weapons against it without knowing. I used my bow and fire arrows until it broke and then I poked him with the spear until he was dead. Worked like a charm. I died like 5 times before I got him though. I like that you can always get your stuff back , unlike Minecraft where it disappears eventually. That’s nice and forgiving

[@OgreDLink]

A buddy and I have been sort of running around doing stuff blindly lol I needed a little direction and this helped. Next task after the warehouse is a potion setup thank you!!

[@ScarlettMay85]

Excellent video. Probably one of the better how-tos I've seen. Been playing since it came out and I still learned something new lol. Nice to see you dipping your toes in other areas! Also, boars won't breed unless they are loaded in, so it's good to make your boar pen near your base. But piglets will grow up without being loaded in.

[@jcfin1316]

So while the buckler vs shield topic is valuable info, it should be noted that buckler parries, when timed correctly, will actually block more damage than guarding with a shield. This is because most bucklers have a high parry bonus, which increases how much damage you can block without breaking poise. So for example, a shield may block 100 incoming damage and a buckler may block 50. But if that buckler has a parry bonus of x4, you can actually block 200 damage if you time it right

[@Damiana_Swan]

Re: taming - I like to set up walls outside the fence to block the boars' view of me, so they'll calm TF down, and also make them less likely to break out. My best tip, though, is that as soon as you have a pick, dig a nice deep moat around your base, then use your hoe and the stone you got from digging the moat to make raised earth walls just inside the moat. Raised earth walls *cannot be destroyed*, and the moat will help keep trolls with clubs from destroying your buildings (or killing your boars - base attacks do seem to target tames before players).

[@IzPrebuilt]

good tips!

[@ScarlettMay85]

This is my go to base defense. And then they had to add flying buggers. Bat attacks suck.

[@axious9613]

I'd love to add that pigs with stars will breed pigs with stars, starred creatures give more of their resource when killed, do math

[@clueless6842]

Another tip for gathering berries, mushrooms, thistle, etc; The first time you come across a decently big amount of berry bushes, mushroom or thistle, mark them and name them on the map so that you can come back to that same spot later on to gather it again.

[@TheHamerer]

Glad to see valheim content, just started again recently for the mistlands update.

[@Fossilsnake]

5:28 As a person who has close to a thousand hours in 7D2D, I couldn't agree more. Great video, and thanks for the tips.

[@BonusDuckie]

Your hogs keep running off when you want to catch a new one? Use the double door system. Place one door (entrance) and then, create a second pen with a door connecting both. Then, keep the boar on one pen and the middle door closed. Enter to the secondary pen with the boar, close the door and just open the middle door so the boar joins his buddies.

[@CP-ll6qg]

An airlock for boars! Such a good idea ty.

[@TaylorBayPowerRP]

Just like Minecraft lol double doors save time.

[@leafpelt15]

thank you for these tips i hope you can enjoy getting into, or back into it

[@SilvX610]

I am always very anxious when i have to sail. I always leave at the break of dawn on sunny days, but you never know when rain is gonna start so i'm always a bit nervous

[@MrGaz1988]

Great timing! Just started playing for the first time last week on my steam deck. Some good tips thanks. Also neebs gaming are amazing :)

[@thisismyname001]

A great tip for early game berries is to mark the areas you find them on the map. Then when you run out just do a run by the marked spots collecting from all of the bushes. If you have marked enough then you will have enough to make what you need. Run out again? Run your circuit again. Tip for maling later game easier. Mark mushrooms and thistles as well.

[@bbear0_o]

Thnak you man!! Me and my brothers just power thrus 3 bosses. Bonemass, we have a lot death there. I think it took 30 or 40 mins before we took that thing down. We will definitely prep for the next one.

[@curtmayer1070]

Bonemass is hella easy if you do one thing: build an earth wall around the skull and a platform on top. Summon the bonemass, climb the ladder, stand on the skull and shoot arrows. BadaBing!

[@PapaStel25]

The Aetgir is probably the best for trolls imo. Spin attack stuns them, and you can spam them with poke attacks. With the iron one it takes 1 spin and 4-5 pokes. Pretty effective.

[@robertlindsay420]

Outstanding tips. I suck at this game but I'll suck slightly less now 🙂

[@WillFarshore]

Happy to see you pick up a great game and hope to see more insight on the game mechanics for example "Does the power stab with a sword count as pierce damage?"

[@Branwhin]

Valheim is SO much fun, I love it, from its quirky artstyle (and yet STUNNING environments) to its gameplay and building. But yeah with tip #1, one of my Vikings must have listened to too many stories of Jormungandr, he did NOT fancy sailing when there might be serpents about. Also, I believe axes do Slash damage, which means that Abominations are weak against that.

[@suspicioussquid9744]

There are so many raspberries in the meadows, and they are the very early stam food. I use them all the time. If you want to really over do it, mark all the berry spawns on your map (at least a little harvest area) then do route when you need berries for potions.

[@alexw5316]

You've got the best voice for voice overs ever. I'm late to the game so this was helpful

[@jansmith3613]

Valheim is a great game. Be aware that serpents can and do spawn during the daytime and in clear weather although it is very rare. They only spawn in the ocean biome so check your mini-map in the upper right corner of your screen. It will tell you the biome you are in. Though serpents only spawn in ocean they will follow a player if they are aggro'd on them and will go into shallow water which you will need to do if you wish to get the drops of the scales and potential trophy. Only the meat from the serpent will float, all other drops will sink.

[@matticonroy3884]

Don't go into new areas and loot things unless you're ready to have the enemies from that biome attack your base. I accidently picked up a dragon egg relatively early on by accident, and I had Drakes attacking my house before I'd even been to the Swamp, meaning I didn't have Iron or any decent arrows.

[@Keiuran]

The raids are based on which boss you've killed. Drake raids don't start until you kill Bonemass.

[@darknessmohag6181]

I am currently in Mistlands and fighting, and gathering supplies.. and right now I can parry an Seeker Soldier which is right now one of if not the heaviest enemy you can run into, and I am using chain armor and an black metal buckler.. and I don't have too much problem parry those attacks, its a bit hard to find the timing but over all its fine right now. I don't know if there is any 1stars of the Seeker soldier.. maybe but as so far seeker soldier is fine to parry even take one or two its. though.. the terrain does make it hard to fight them as most of the terrain in mistlands are cliffs and hills.. annoying stiff hills that drains your stamina.

[@AverageBrodie]

Incredibly imformative as always. It's good to see you branching out mate.

[@dimatetruev5153]

Started to watch your 7days to die videos (like it much by the way) and was super happy to find out you playing valheim , so keep it going , really sad that this is not popular ( kind of same with 7DtD ) , so again , looking forward to see more valheim videos ( at least one person will wait for it )

[@CrayZtwin1]

Just found your Chanel and Valheim. Smashed that sub immediately when you dropped that AoE reference. Great material! Had some good laughs too

[@blaisey9649]

Never liked videos or commented on them I just like to watch I am even resilient on subscribing, but I am very happy you’ve picked up valheim.

[@James2210]

You can actually escape a sea serpent on a karve with full tailwind and max speed. It'll eventually swim away and despawn.

[@williamstriemer180]

I actually managed to kite a serpent long enough with a full karve of iron to have the serpent despawn. ( the next time I tried it I got melted).

[@RW77777777]

frost arrows work on sea serpents

[@eliclark1207]

great to see you expand and grow....

[@cookiemonsterdayz]

Ahhh. You making Valheim stuff too. That's good to know. After binging through your 7DTD stuff I need something new.

[@ohdencii9226]

When breeding use sneak to check up on or to feed without agro

[@im_a_potato_guy]

A dandelion, must be the last one of the season!

[@abcdefghij337]

Beehives work well with the Obliterator. Honey is a burnable resource and requires literally nothing but time to collect. An Obliterator full of Honey makes a little over 100 coal. Great for small smelting batches if you don’t want to waste wood.

[@Ulvehunden1970]

in that case, i think its abit easier to make some surtletraps in the swamps (just chop away the earth around the "flamethrowers", so theres only water around them (and doesnt have to be deep either), that way the surtlings are spawned into water and dies instantly, giving you lots of coal and surtling-cores (and surtling-trophies for bait and light-source)

[@agustinvaira6100]

P.D. the 6th section does not apply for world moddifier in the hardest difficulty, even with tower shields on swamps graugr one shoot you every single time, even if you parry the arrows!

[@BallisticAero]

Alright, you dropped an AOE2 reference and that alone earns the sub

[@ashenone3883]

Ayyy Vallheim. Didnt know you played this.

[@ASHole71]

Atgeir(sp) is the OP weapon with middle mouse stun works on most

[@craigfulco7470]

I could be wrong about this, however I was also told sea serpents only spawn AFTER you beat the second boss (The Elder) I haven't tested this out myself yet though

[@DingerPiddles]

In my current world I haven’t beaten The Elder but I ran into a serpent last time I played. Maybe the spawn chance is lower though since I’ve only seen one despite doing a lot of sailing.

[@RW77777777]

not true; I had 1 spawn 10 minutes into a fresh play through when I knocked a tree into the lake/ocean and I turned around and it had crawled up the shoreline an inch from my face

[@richard6440]

Parry block and dodge . Or, arrows. Lots of arrows. If its still alive when it reaches you , a porcupine to the face usually convinces it that attacking you was its first and last mistake :)

[@richard6440]

Good tips actually , well done :)

[@BartanTirix]

Ugh... Just heard number 1 and I'm already feeling for you. Large bodies of water/"Oceans" in games give me the absolute willies. Same with sunken and ghost ships, they make my hair stand on end >>;; I'm just thankful you don't have to dive underwater in Valheim (unlike some other survival crafting game that theme specifically around dinosaurs), I don't know how long I persisted on making either land bridges or desperately searching my first 'continent' for a Swamp Biome just to avoid the darn ocean. I do have a bit of a question though about the sea serpents: the meat tends to float on the water, but I find that the scales sink. How would you go about collecting those? Just harpoon the "Danger Noodle" (hah) and drag it to shore? Number 2: when I personally seen the damage types, I immediately thought of a quote from Diablo 1: "You can Cut the flesh, but you must Crush the Bone." It pretty much works for most games that have a physical damage type, but a handy little saying to have ^^ 3: I... I think it's pronounced "Ee-Terr"? At least that's what I've heard. But my silly brain wants to pronounce it as "Et [as it the 'ET' in Yet]-er" :x But "Magic" works fine 5: Maybe I'm just too darn used to Ark, but the sheer fact that you can't get boars to even follow you is a bit irritating. Wolves do, Lox you can literally ride via saddle, but boars? Oi... Regardless, if you can get yourself the harpoon, I heard that can work too (never tested it myself) 7: YES. Meads change everything, and its like the game attempts to tell you that (especially for the Mountain areas). I do wish you had more inventory slots in general for your gear, but you make due with what you can. Great tips though! A+ material as always mate~

[@dim_reapa8977]

@Bartan Tirix There is a neat trick if you can kill the serpent in shallows. Whilst you swim on the surface, when you fall or jump into the water you will go under the water briefly. There's a cool feature of that - the higher you are when you jump, the deeper you go. So, from the shore, throw down a workbench and build wooden ladders over the area with sunken debris, climb the top and drop in. You should automatically pick them up but you'll also have a little time to manually grab them. This is really useful for retrieving nails from broken boats and ores (or scales) that always sink.

[@miirich7090]

being rested also gives you 50% more xp as well, so its really nice to be rested at all times

[@alexallard4519]

Tip for serpents: their scales sink, so make sure to draw them to shore before you kill them

[@kbs1337x]

Sea serpents do spawn during the day tho, spawn rate is much higher during night and even higher during storm

[@SolearGnG]

Yeah about those serpents: If they have spawned it doesn't matter if it's day or night they are there. I run into 3 in broad daylight when I was transporting wolves the other day.. Honey is great but another good thing to note, that the hives are defensive structures. If you put the around you entrance, the graylings attack them, and the bees fight back, most of the times killing the graylings in the process.

[@IzPrebuilt]

It shouldn't be possible to encounter them during the day unless it's raining because the night time ones despawn in the morning. So it's most likely that they stayed around after rain or you didn't notice the rain lol. valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Serpent

[@SolearGnG]

@@IzPrebuilt I'd notice the rain :D I was actually transporting wolves from the other end of the map so there was all kinds of daylight rain no rain everything, Serpents were ALWAYS there. Not sure if that's because of a bug or something else, but I do have serpents every time on my server (vanilla)

[@StreetComp]

Thanks for these very helpful tips, though I’ve only played two hours so have a question if anyone can help: i have a little shack with basic necessities very close to start point - is it worth it to build a proper house and leave room for all this later game stuff near the starting area? If not, where should I build? Thanks

[@darthbinks5987]

Yeah, Spartan mode activated going with a knife and spear after a mountain troll!

[@dzoni4110]

Damn, learned so much, great vid

[@KamramBehzad]

Excellent points I had not seen in other guides and did not know about. Well done. Only found one thing funny. Spent so much effort to separate the pigs then just slaughtered them. I just slaughter the extra ones to make room.

[@somnorila9913]

You didn't say anything about punching, is it good or should i make weapons? I wanted to not care about a weapon and just using punched, also seen that it should be possible to craft fist weapons too. Is this approach a good one or should i go for the general club/axe/sword types?

[@anelpasic5232]

If you look directly down and zoom in while sailing in your boat, a sea serpent will not spawn no matter if it's raining or night time.

[@esqueletronesgomes1265]

Just saying for the begginers. The danger gap betwin Black Forest and Swamp is giant. Make sure your have all yours wepons and armor full level before get into that.

[@electricdawn2258]

Some sea serpents spawn during day, as visible in your video. I would definitely change that.

[@lucasholcombe3358]

Your neebs reference got my sub bro

[@michaelknightmustdie]

Very well done. I'm looking forward to finally checking out the Mistlands update.

[@violetteplague3043]

I should play some Valheim again. I haven't seen the mistlands yet.

[@IzPrebuilt]

it's quite misty

[@doctorstrangepants6706]

I feel like this was a mist opportunity for a pun.

[@Damiana_Swan]

You SHOULD! (We should ask Laney to maybe set up a second server with a fresh start, hmmm?)

[@PriMate]

Thanks for the info bro 👍

[@itstoopaz]

The only reason why i don't like the serpent scale shield is the fact that it can't parry. If it could I would definitely use it in the middle ages of Valheim.

[@Raiden_24]

Ive only died once so far and it was by a falling tree that my friend cut down about 75 seconds in our first ever playthrough which we are still on

[@heavyq]

As a fellow thalassophobian, I too hate the sea in this game.

[@clackymaracas2804]

If you make your boar pen out of palisades the pigs don't know if you're nearby and they'll tame even when you're nearby

[@lemon-ec]

rolling and dodging are so overrated, i found out i can parry literally anything in the game, if i find a new enemy and i don’t know if i can parry, let’s just say it’s a learning experience. it’s so much fun

[@Marxon1134]

I was gonna suggest taking a break from 7dtd. I'm definitely interested in valheim content!

[@episkopos3]

Serpents spawn just fine on normal weather condition and during day time.

[@superpantman]

Blunt damage is great just need to be aware what it won’t cover.

[@29peueseswei35]

The sea is already terrifying in valheim specially when strom, i hope there's mod that add more sea monster to make it more scary to sail in open sea 😂

[@ninnyhammer3739]

how to make crouch from toggle to hold?

[@HardGains]

Ironic that he only showed us the sea serpent when it was day and sunny 😂

[@TheKingOfSexyness]

This! Btw I've literally seen one yesterday on a sunny day.

[@peerhenry]

"A troll can be a player's first death", bro my first death was a boar.

[@iambiggus]

Thalassophobia is why I can't play a lot of games 😕. Stranded Deep, Subnatica, etc. Don't even talk to me about movies like Megalodon. Although it doesn't sound like I missed much.

[@richard6440]

Stockpile resources. As a hoarder, a friend asked if i had berries. How many would you like? 100 or so. I thought he said 1,000. so i gave him 2,000. Thats when he started yelling at me:) Where the **** do get so many berries from? Have you got any wood? WTF ! Where did you get 35k of wood? * i like stuff, my precious * :)

[@harlymeyer1073]

what does IZPREBUILT 2K23 mean? at 6:33 and thank you for the content. have a great day

[@navinavi1062]

Ngl sailing taught me the meaning of anxiety.

[@AJonYT]

I fuckin love Neebs Gaming!

[@Ghaleon]

2:39 this should be a codex ingame :/

[@MaQuGo119]

I kinda hate Read 'Em Ups, but this one is quite fun NGL

[@c4element1]

just started 2 days ago suck at souls games lol fire arrows! for everybody

[@Zeonm69]

It was not fine😂😂😂 you got a sub for that

[@Slug0864]

The dodging is really easing if you’ve ever played a souls game it’s pretty similar

[@FreelancerCZ]

I wish I could bind dodge to a different button. So annoyimg it's tied to the block.

[@lijhay2889]

Being an Elden Ring player sure helps me dodge enemies in Valheim lmao

[@ChristopherCilley]

Link to the wiki?

[@utseb1]

Trolls don't have a weak spot at the head

[@williamjohnson1217]

Not true serpents spawn in the middle of the day in calm weather I looked it up it says only night and storms but there's been more than a hand full of times I have seen them spawn in the middle of the day in sunny weather

[@BerserkTheBuldier]

Yeah valheim is the grestest game i've ever played it turned me into city developer. But every time I post another construction someone writte ground is shaking ... while i really like to get some free troll leathers 😂

[@Orcbrother13]

Lets help that algorithm

[@famijher]

But can Prebuilt figure out this game's Greartest Mystery? Who is Val Heim?

[@IzPrebuilt]

it's me, im val heim

[@richard6440]

Breed loads of pigs. Feed the boar meat to the wolves you have tamed. Take 7 or 8 wolves with you. Let the wolves kill things. Your are now a GOD ! :)

[@wesleykerr2617]

I like neebs too lol

[@doctorstrangepants6706]

Wooo Valheim!

[@thebbqbandito2868]

I just wish I had some friends to play with🥺

[@richard6440]

Real Life friends are better than online friends and the game is Hugely More Fun with RL friends. Good luck :)

[@BiNumLi]

No mention of spears. Not my favorite either.