Valheim - How To Find + Explore Swamp Biome SAFELY!

[@Kysen]

Here's some videos you may find useful, they are all mentioned in this video at different points :) - Valheim - How To Sail Boats in The Ocean! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioephJl9nap9gLs - Valheim - How To Solo The Sea Serpent! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaOoZnqjja9okM0 - Valheim - How To Find + Kill a Troll! EASY! kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6XOe6J3fKhme8k - Valheim - How To Get Bronze! kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5fMkHuJh6eGqLM

[@davidk7529]

Waaaaaay too long and overdone, and the resulting information is stuff anyone could figure out by just playing the game and seeing what works. The fastest swamp raid method is to take some wood for a workbench and bed and a few stones for a fire and reposess abandoned structures just outside the border then set up a portal inside. The safest way in and out from there is always made with a hoe. The flimsier and poisonous swamp enemies are much easier to handle with an upgraded sledge-type weapon, namely the Stagbreaker if you don't have iron yet, since it is the only weapon that deals AoE damage and can knock back multiple nearby enemies while safely vaporizing blobs and skeletons. When you raid a crypt it's easier if you set up a chest in front to hold excess iron, and you can build a fire inside the entrance to quickly restore health if things get dangerous. It's more efficient to enter the crypt closer to night time so you can spend the night raiding and have plenty of daylight to get out and trasport iron afterwards. If you have the crypt location marked and have a clear path from a safe bed/portal at the swamp edge, you can run back naked on an empty stomach with little difficulty after dying inside the crypt, where an empty bag also allows for the massively helpful Corpse Run buff for when you have to reclaim your inventory near enemies. Essentially you missed a _lot_ more of the important points than you covered, as most of what you mentioned can easily be learned from the initial trip or two into a swamp and doesn't really help that much in practice, much less reassure a player that they can explore "safely". A better title would be "very basic intro to the Swamp for people who are still scared to go into it."

[@eugenec1733]

@B Koz you can slow down the vid in the settings

[@jimfrostpreaches]

@B Koz I agree, he talks like he's on speed or a hyper child.

[@SadPotato888]

So nice of the mobs to attack you one by one, when I go to the swamp I get swarmed by 5-6 mobs at once.

[@donald12998]

My first swamp expedition went as bad as it could go. Got swarmed before I could get a portal down. Realised I was in over my head and tried to flee, only for the leaches to eat my boat.

[@toxinjin2402]

lol only 5-6? i couldnt see the ground, sky, or tress anymore. Counting the mobs was something I'd need god to do for me

[@rogersowden2369]

I just had my first swamp yesterday: 8 draugr, 7 leaches, 2 slimes, 6 skeletons, a pack of 5 grey dwarfs and a troll. All within 10 minutes

[@Mavmack]

When u drink anti poison mixture there are around 60% less swarms in water. I thinki it is less, I once didnt see single one. It is also important to get health potion to heal faster when u need to run a bit and good food like roasted fish, sausages. Meet gives a lot of health.

[@RaTrooper458]

I thought I was prepared. I got to shore after a 20 minute sail, got inmediatley killed by 2 draugr. All my stuff, inclusief boat with portal equipment still at the swamp shore. My avatar building a boat in his underwear and started sailing again. On the way across the ocean I heard something wich reminded me of my first encounter with a Leviathan in Subnautica....a Sea Serpent. I got to escape with the wind in my sail to find my stuff on land. After equiping it I took my other boat to a small island and fought of 4 draugr, 9 leeches and 1 blob. After that I could finally set up a portal.

[@RodHigo]

When first entering a crypt, drop down a Campfire at the entrance and rest a moment to remove the 'Wet' debuff. While mining in the crypt, return to the campfire whenever you need to reset your 'Rested' buff. Being Rested and not Wet really helps with your stamina when mining

[@xx_nzgamer_xx3783]

Oh nice one, i was trying to put down standing torches but you cant even put down a work bench in the dudgeon...

[@atlantic_love]

@@xx_nzgamer_xx3783 It's too bad that we can't build a settlement down there. Maybe they'll allow that at some point.

[@dark_familiarity]

rested is pretty much mandatory in this game since you get +50% exp for all skills with it, not just regens.

[@gage824]

Parry blocks more damage than regular blocking does and you deal 2x to 6x more damage per hit depending on the weapon and shield. I can parry a lox with a bronze buckler and 30 block skill. If you find a sea serpent mark the map. You can farm them although they don't always spawn so go look for another spawn and when you sail back it might be there. Sea serpents are weak to blunt and frost. Bring any blunt weapon to the swamp all the enemies but wraith and drauger are weak to it. Blobs are very weak to blunt and frost and can be frozen solid. Use troll armor legs all the time, speed debuffs stack up quick and troll legs don't reduce speed, neither does the Dagger. The Dagger uses 3 times less stamina than other weapons, has no speed debuff, swings faster weighs less and does the most bonus parry damage. Use with a bronze buckler for 6x bonus damage on parry. Or sneak attack a lox for 1200 damage with the 10x modifier. Find a group of 3 rocks you can hit with 1 swing, build a house over it with a fire. Train your weapons there. Never let yourself starve. If your hungry (25hp) you do not regenerate lost hp and can die very easily to a small hill because you jumped or fall off a tiny roof or run too fast over a small rock. Or a tree kills you. Boats stop completely if all player characters jump off the boat no matter how fast its going. Enjoy sick power slides up to the shore now. Save your drowning friends in the ocean by jumping into the water with them. Stamina potions will stop you from drowning. Stop moving and your stamina will stop draining. Drink a stam potion when the cool down is over. Your stam does not regen in the water if your run out of stam and your stamina is on CD your dead. Deathsquitos are easily parried. Stand still and raise your shield before they ram into you. They only have 20 hp. Use ooze bombs against goblin packs. The bomb ticks for 5 damage for about 20 seconds dealing lots of damage usually about half hp to regular goblins. If you are playing with friends please use weapons with low knock back. It makes it very hard to fight together when mobs are getting tossed around. The knock back can get your friends killed when they are trying to help fight but you keep smacking the enemy away from him. Or worse. Into him. I have about 200 hours in game. Solo and with friends. This is some of the best advice I can give.

[@Carl-yn7vt]

Damn u put a lot of effort into that comment lmao. Thanks for the advice(s) though.. very useful information for someone like me who doesn't have as many hours into the game yet.

[@ZeusRL]

Thank you

[@ryuuacross2329]

Thanks so much

[@Wespa64]

the real mvp is as always in the comments

[@werewolf4358]

Thanks. Super useful advice.

[@davidmsmith268]

One thing that I learned today. Drinking Poison resistance mead AFTER getting poisoned doesn't remove or limit the damage. You gotta take it before you get hit.

[@TeslaRifle]

I learned this the hard way as well

[@Nehji_Hann]

Thank you for making it so that I don't have to learn the hard way.

[@oldkid820]

That's a stupid game limitation, of course that's what everyone is going to do.

[@Zenkai76]

I did this for the boss battle in the swamp, I used the hoe all around his area so I could kite without having to get into water.

[@noobarta]

you can also log out the poison debuff disappears. Another thing I do sometimes is create a new world where I'm at home, if I'm low I logout and switch worlds to recover then switch back.

[@SHARKNADO_2006]

I replayed this game for the millionth time with all my experience on the hardest difficulty, and landing on the swamp was like d-day

[@MrLarsgren]

those fire beasts. pickaxe around the flame and make it all below water surface. this way they die after they spawn and just leave a pile of cores and coal for you to pickup

[@eternalmiasma5586]

I always have my karve stocked with 10 greydwarf eyes, two cores and 20 fine wood for the portal and a full stack of wood to start a forward base as soon as I land

[@benpeterson1405]

Another tip for anyone exploring the swamp, particularly if you come across the crypts. Setup a campfire right at the entrance (inside) of the crypt, it gives you a comfort 3 rest point where you may rebuff once rested expires. The crypts can be helpful quick shelters.

[@brodriguez11000]

Build homes on top of them.

[@atlantic_love]

@@brodriguez11000 On top of the crypts? LMAO, NO! :D

[@laurentarchambault5154]

Little tip for the crypts, bring a stagbreaker. When exploring the crypt, mine the scrap piles but not all the way when it's adjacent to another room with mobs. Take out your stagbreaker and hit the ground the AoE should hit through the last bits of scrap pile but the mobs won't be able to hit you trough it. Also for the geysers that spawn surtling, good trick is to use a pickaxe and dig a hole deep and wide enough that they will spawn in the water and instantly die, which gives you a coal/core farm.

[@christopherchancey1368]

Dig a hole where? Just beside it?

[@laurentarchambault5154]

@@christopherchancey1368 usually all around the geyser, roughly a 3-4 meter radius should suffice. It might take some trial and error but the idea is for the surtiling to spawn in the water, they'll immediately take damage from the water and die droping coal, and cores at the bottom.

[@christopherchancey1368]

@@laurentarchambault5154 thanks for the reply man helps alot.

[@stevegoodson9022]

My method of starting out in the swamp was a little different - first swamp I found was tiny and had no crypts I could find, so I sailed around until I found a big one. Massive black forest all around it, with loads of trolls and greydwarf nests, didn't like my chances of setting up a base tbere so I found a little patch of meadow to set up a portal in, and started digging a trench through the black forest, deep and narrow enough that nothing could get to me. Dug out an area just before the swamp, surrounded it with land walls and built a little hut in the pit for another portal. Took forever, but the feeling of tunneling into the swamp biome safe and unnoticed was excellent. Still not sure if this was a genius plan or the harebrained scheme of a stubborn half-wit with terrible combat skills.

[@nateiverson8681]

Just because it was a harebrained scheme doesn't mean it wasn't also a genius plan ;)

[@TheVampireFreddo]

If it looks stupid, but works, it ain’t stupid.

[@merindahthornton5080]

I *love* that idea. I’m going to try it!

[@sophiareese79]

Very good idea!

[@atlantic_love]

I love your sense of humor :)

[@25xxfrostxx]

Standard use of the 4 cargo slots in the Karve when exploring: 50 wood and enough materials to build at least 1 portal. Make sure you have an unused portal with a name you remember at home ready to go.

[@remkometkrullen]

"I've got here sw" me: Ah, a portal to somewhere South West of his base "That obviously stands for swamp" ...

[@Shadow77999]

Same! Lmfao

[@TheVampireFreddo]

Yeah same here. I was thinking ah cool his swamp is to the southwest.

[@anashassan1]

i struggled a lot last time when i reached swamp.. but after i started bringing my hoe, everything is so easy. i literally build a highway in that area - no more leeches problem. going from crypt to crypt with my cart in tow.. btw, my go to weapon for swamp is the copper mace. it can one-hit a blob using the strong attack (mid mouse button) and highly effective against the pesky skeletons.

[@Ishantjudge]

Thank you! The hoe and mace is definitely coming with. Do you need to bring some stone or do you find enough of it in the swamp to not matter that much?

[@sharonj5574]

@@IshantjudgeAre you building the ground up to stay out of the water? I brought mine but I think I was using leveling and I was still in the water

[@anashassan1]

@@Ishantjudge you don't need stone. the hoe is to level the ground only. just enough to keep the leeches away and to make the ground flat enough to pull your cart.

[@michealnelsonauthor]

@@sharonj5574 start from a spot above the water and extend that as you go…

[@sharonj5574]

@@michealnelsonauthor Will do, thank so much for the help

[@Turonaa]

Stagbreaker is king in Swamp against skellies, blobs and leeches. It's also amazing at hitting enemies behind walls inside the crypts.

[@calebutterback8528]

You should make the sledge hammer lol

[@Turonaa]

@@calebutterback8528 by the time you make that, you're already comfortable in the swamps ;)

[@claytonreed5153]

Oh yeah, me and my friend both trade slams in turns so we never get touched lol

[@atlantic_love]

I tried usin gthe Stagbreaker against a dragur. No dice.

[@matulandaa]

Thanks for the video man. My first experience with the swamp, was getting my ship destroyed, swarmed by 6-7 draugr and skeletons, and ALSO one abomination. One hell of a ride.

[@Occidentally]

A key tip is getting sneak attack bonus with bow. If you upgraded your bow and have decent skill you can one shot some enemies from distance before they know you're there. Their friends will only become alarmed if they are very close by when the arrow hits.

[@Kysen]

Thanks for this tip! :)

[@Occidentally]

This doesn't apply if playing with several friends, I think mob health is scaled. Works great solo playing.

[@McKannon]

TL:DL 1. Prep with your best gear and food. Make a portal. 2. Make sure you use a bow (pretty much the entire game, as kiting mobs is always less dangerous that fighting them with melee.) 3. Profit.

[@clovenbeast5183]

I didn't even realize how to do repairs at first I made so many stone and flint axes lol

[@joelbaker9366]

Turnip seeds are available in the swamp, and there's one mob that drops iron scrap as a rare drop (don't remember which one. Carrot soup is another good food to take, and is easy enough to make by this time as well.

[@TheWorldWarrior]

valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Oozer Oozers drop iron scrap

[@joelbaker9366]

That's the one I thought it was, couldn't remember the name.

[@atlantic_love]

I tried growing carrots, and though I had them far enough apart. My settlement got attacked afterwards. I don't know if the carrots didn't grow because of spacing, or if the mobs took them out. It really BUGS me.

[@cytoc6131]

Take stag hammer or iron sledge nearly everything in swamp is weak to it and the knockback can save you sometimes. Also using the hoe to create paths to your base from crypts will help with iron runs and using the cart.

[@WardenWolf]

Thanks for this. Just defeated the Elder and looking to venture into the swamp. Glad to see I'm not actually underequipped, still rocking level 3 troll armor and with level 3 bronze weapons. I also strongly recommend Carrot Soup. Carrots are easy to farm and their soup is one of the longest-lasting and potent foods in the game.

[@GlassDeviant]

My first character and map, I had a great location: A tiny spot of meadow in a corner adjacent to ocean, plains and swamp biomes. This let me raid the 7 (!) good sunken crypts in that swamp and be able to set up a farm for barley and flax all in one mini base with both portal and boat access.

[@sinisa2365]

whats the seed

[@hyperion9793]

Gib seed

[@GlassDeviant]

Ah, sorry Sinisa, didn't get a reply notice for some reason. The seed is Jenny's phone number (8675309).

[@atlantic_love]

@@GlassDeviant I get a lot of laughs at work, using that phone number :)

[@Cifer77]

If you get in the water after chasing a leech away, they will come back to you. Easy to finish them off with a single melee strike before they hit you, if you've got them down to 1/3 health.

[@Zenkai76]

or just use a bow

[@colacola5674]

If you hit one of the jackpot seeds, you dont need to sail for swamps. I set up base in meadows on the main island (approx 3 min run from spawn). infront of me is ocean, 30 Seconds run to my right of base is swamp, 30 seconds run left of me is black forrest. Behind me (spawn direction) is also black forest, about a minute from trader.

[@XtremeGamerps4]

What is your seed?

[@colacola5674]

@@XtremeGamerps4 nkkFzfrNPu

[@driiifter]

i have one of those seeds. the trader is literally on an island across from the starting zone and Elder, Bonemass and Eikthyr were all in the center of the map, I literally found their runes by accident.

[@TastyRacecar]

Never watched your videos before this one. Gotta say, before the end, I thought you were a waaaaay higher sub count channel. This video was perfect length and depth. Thank you!

[@nickjohnson9640]

You’re a fire geezer

[@Nehji_Hann]

It's pronounced "old person"

[@Plisko1]

I went to the swamp once and a fire Geezer yelled at me to get off his lawn. It was embarrassing.

[@Nuktahl]

A nice little guide to the swamp. I think you forgot to mention the green goop trees, and that you can find turnips.

[@drag0n01]

What do the green goop trees do???

[@Nuktahl]

@@drag0n01 You can mine the green goop, which is a crafting material.

[@JaycobSirduke]

Hey! Awesome guide as always mate. Hope you keep it up. On another note, swamps don’t really require venturing on a boat. That depends on your procedural seed. My friend started another world and he ended up being on a huge island with swamps and plains all on the same island. So that really just depends on your seed

[@budabead]

love this channel, its so underrated! nice bit change of pace for when i need to give my middle finger a rest from the endless tracking - feels as if though I'm still exploring the game alongside Kysen! keep up the good werk

[@tex1337]

16:06 Dragurs can also spawn as elite Dragurs, if you see a elite dragurs with 2 star, just run and range it down, it deal tons of dmg and i bet you will take dmg from them even if you block the dmg. Dragurs can also spawn from some body piles (most of the time there are 2 of those pile and 1 skelet pile at 1 spot), if you can, leave it for later (mark it) this will be your "go to" spot to farm those food stuff from them. 18:26 Look behind Kysen, you see those green blobs in the tree?, those are used to craft the best range weapon in the game (after you have found your first silver from a mountain (frost place), but, can only be found once you have killed boss nr 3, anyway, to get the blob down, you can either hit it with a range attack (think the arrow have to deal elemental dmg, not sure, you cant with the normal arrow at least). If the arrow thing doesn't work (i only heard it from someone else) you have to build a workbench at the lower part, then build a staircase up to them, then hit them with a weapon like a axe or so, after 2-3 hit they exploid and you can then loot the guth or whatever its called and safe it for later (the bow). 14:15 A small tip if people really wanna do the crypt before Kysen make the clip, once you mine those piles, leave a little room before you remove it all, if you see enemies behind it, attack them from range with your bow, the mobs cant get to you if the door is still sealed for them, they have to be able to move to get to you, so, deal with the blobs before destroying it all. The crypts also have a chance to give you the location of boss nr 3.

[@Kysen]

Thanks for such an awesome comment of useful, detailed tips 🙂

[@tex1337]

@@Kysen Np, just starting to get into this game (well, at end game stuff atm, just need to kill nr 5 boss and i am done, still looking for his location tho). So, my youtube recommendations are basically everything with Valheim atm XD. So, its always nice to forward some info to help other out with ^^.

[@williamskogen9895]

I find Stagbreaker very useful in the swamp. Smashes skeleton hordes, and you can learn to time your attacks against blobs and leeches to not get poisoned.

[@josephphelps5213]

"Fire Geezer" made me unreasonably happy.

[@michaellillis9897]

My mate harpoons the serpents while doing iron runs from the swamp, and he towes it back to base where Im waiting in shallow water ready to chop it up. Makes amazing soup. We also wanted to try and harpoon a troll and bring it to fight bonemass for us, but being in the water near trolls is dangerous lol. so many deaths before we got all our gear back.

[@OldGamerzNeverDie]

Loved this video! Very helpful and showed me some things I was doing absolutely wrong (ie fire arrows not being as effective in the swamp... seems intuitive, but I was thinking more along the lines of flames vs undead) That and the tip on the bronze mace made my last solo trip into the swamp MUCH easier!

[@gamernick1533]

Second run through on the game and as soon as I had found a swamp I got a fully setup base going; house, smelter, perimeter wall, the works... explored the swamp and it turned out to be a thin strip that ran down my entire first continent with zero points of interest, no keyed dungeon to collect iron from, nada. Whoops.

[@nfal445]

Yep same here.

[@werewolf4358]

Maybe just some very basic fobs to start with. Palisade, house, bench and bed. Make sure it's actually worth further investment before settling in.

[@nfal445]

@@werewolf4358 yep, once I figured it out I was golden. That's what makes the game fun. Discovery and process learning.

[@Blondejesus7]

Hahah man I just got this on Xbox and I’ve been watching your videos back to back keep up the good work man

[@kellyhickey4923]

Also, it's best to use the right weapon on a mob. For instance, the skellys, blobs and I believe leeches are weakest to blunt force weapons, so I always use the mace on them, but switch to axe for drauger. The drauger actually has flesh to slice, while the blob it will just go through like jello. The skellys are just bones so piercing (arrows, spear) and axe don't work as well. I'm constantly switching weapons depending on the mob.

[@kellyhickey4923]

PS the freeze arrows are the best for slowing down the drauger..... once you can manage the mountains, that is..lol

[@Odious83]

How to travel safe eat well run like hell and parkour.

[@PNW_Sportbike_Life]

This.

[@werewolf4358]

Hasn't failed me yet.

[@vitalepitts]

Was tracing the perimeter of the island that the swamp was on after FINALLY getting all my stuff back from first embarking and getting swarmed. Got too close to an abandoned building in a plains. Wraith came out and destroyed my boat and killed me lol

[@dalekkgames5430]

Lol I had died twice in the swamp...thank God my rest point was only 10 minutes away

[@Cross74879]

I find the spear and 1h mace the most OP weapons in exploring the swamps. The mace for skeletons/blobs while the spear for everything else especially farming leeches. Spear throwing OP. Thanks for the guides.

[@brodriguez11000]

The Atgeir seems to be a neglected weapon. A poke defense (left button), and a 360 AOE (middle button). I've use with sneak to bring down trolls. Level up block as well.

[@papadwarf6762]

You can jump on-top of crypt and place work bench + chest and portal . This gives you safety of not being caught outside at night in swamp which is dangerous. Also bring a Hoe to flatten land and get rid of water so leeches don’t get you. You can dig out fire 🔥 area so the mobs that spawn blow up

[@boofe7206]

oh shit these are super useful

[@Kysen]

Awesome! thanks for these tips man! :)

[@peter4210]

My first tactic was to built an outpost in a meadow far enough for swamp mobs to leave me alone, i actually got close enough for graydwarf to fight the swamp mobs and i get a lot of free loot. Make sure to build a dock and a lot of of chests to store iron. Also make sure to build the outpost on the closes side to the cryps.

[@uzenaklobasa8701]

thank you for this guide, we died w my friend like 5 mins ago when we went to swamp for the first time. we had option to go left a little to make some small base in black forest that was right next to the swamp, but we are dumb so you know how it went

[@xCandyQ]

Very helpful!! I lost one boat and died so many times trying to explore a swamp the first time so this is very handy info!!!

[@riptide1965]

Im about 34 hrs in and rdy to find the swamps! thanks for the vids!

[@Barnaby_Jones]

I like your content, very good and straight to the point. Subbed!

[@Kysen]

Thank you! :)

[@RaTrooper458]

The big hammer with the antlers.. is very usefull especially against Leeches

[@brodriguez11000]

Stagbreaker as well. rather underutilized weapon.

[@W1se0ldg33zer]

Your stamina takes a debuff when you're wet. You're always wet in the swamp.

[@seanwarren9357]

Path it? As I understand, a little teraforming goes a long way.

[@Elite02k]

@@seanwarren9357 its always raining in the swamp, meaning unless you are in a crypt or under roofs, you'll always be wet

[@garethbull5303]

10:01 I actually found myself using the hoe like mad. Cutting paths through the swams for when I need to avoid the waters in the swam. Also herds those leeches and boxes them in. I just really wanted to make that place safe and easy to traverse.

[@Asgardsteve1]

Mine around the fire spouts surround them by water then as soon as they spawn they kill themselves

[@MrKennefff]

It can be really frustrating to find iron. The first swamp I found was a massive one with no crypts

[@Elite02k]

It do be like that sometimes

[@RecklessGenesis]

Stupid system of the devs . Makes me wanne Quito

[@dark_familiarity]

In both my playtroughs I'm starving for iron, all the swamps are tiny and it takes ages to find a decent swamp. In my current playtrough I finally found one after I'm already settled in plains etc. Probably the best moment in the game when I got there and saw 10+ crypts. Devs really need to get rid of small swamp biomes with 0-2 crypts, bad worldgen design. Waste of time.

[@angrycupra8636]

Me and the wife have been playing for 30 hours, we've finally found a swamp biome, we have both got level 3 bronze armour and weapons + all the best food for our level and the swamp is still a challenge! so be carful! we haven't died yet but playing this SOLO would be insane!

[@Kysen]

haha yeah solo is tough, but fun! Glad you guys are having fun! :)

[@baTonkaTruck]

Yeah I’m playing it solo and just got into the swamps. Noticeable difficulty step up. I have to take it VERY slow, esp due to leeches. I have lvl 3 bronze armor + weaps. Food is Meat+Tails+(Honey or carrot soup). I engage with bow from distance (I have lvl 50 bows, flint arrows) no real trouble with most mobs, kite if you pull groups, DO NOT wait and get surrounded. Just make sure your retreat is clear. Hand to hand sometimes with Draugr and skels, parrying with shield and mace them down, Draugr are similar in str to Greydwarf Brutes (big ones w red eyes) but attack faster. Biggest issue is leeches for me, hard to see, and the poison HURTS man. Haven’t hit a wraith yet, plan is run my ass off lol.

[@aznfattass]

yup no kidding, I got cocky cause i cleared one swamp dungeon. was exploring in a boat for the next one, got stuck on a fallen log that you couldnt see. got swarmed and died. made the 15 min travel back with long ship cause i had no more material to build krave. tried to get my body, it was night time, swarmed by skeles, wraith, and everything in between. lost a few of my best stuff, 2 ships, and the will to play for the rest of the night. lollll

[@LuckySage]

Lol i've been playing like 15 Hours Solo and I've been doing pretty good but damn I just can't find a swamp Biome getting annoyed

[@baTonkaTruck]

@@LuckySage It was hard for me to find too. You have to sail pretty damn far out, farther than I expected. The key is, swamp biomes start showing up at a specific radius away from the center of the map. So find an island where the shoreline moves away from map center, keep going until you see the creepy, creepy trees. Dealing with wind direction changes, storms, fog, etc makes it all the harder.

[@germanfury]

I will say this, I set my swamp base up next to a plains and pulled the mobs from the plains into the swamp to farm the larger mobs and it honestly worked quite well. It was difficult to get it started but its satisfying lol

[@jenniferneaves3892]

I set the portal up right at the start of the swamp because it was next to the plains or the mountains snow land or something

[@Financere425]

ITS A GOOD GUIDE RATHER LONG WHICH ANNOYED ME BUT HIS VOICE IS NOT ANNOYING SO ITS GOOD. HES NOT ANNOYING THUMPS UP.

[@McGeistly]

That's a good tip to find the edge of the swamps and build in either a black forest or meadows adjacent to it. I plan on bringing enough to build a portal and lean to and then I will set up an ironworks there as I get more of the resources I need. Hopefully I can find a swamp soon. I was given some iron gear by people I plan on playing with who have put in more time than me. I need to upgrade it all the way and get to work on crafting a porcupine.

[@ShinForgotPassxXx]

What killed me was that the swamps spawned next to the plains. Trying to find and map out where the swamps are without dieng by mosquitos is the real challenge.

[@Anna-zi7sx]

Yes. I _hate_ plains and mosquitoes

[@martinarscott3524]

same here, our starter island has meadows, black forest, plains and swamp, but getting to the swamp which is at the bottom end proved to be a bit challenging!

[@surgicalglitch3265]

I was in a total state of panic when I was trying to travel to the swap lands yesterday. I made it on my first trip, but I was attacked by the serpent who almost took down my ship, yet I ALMOST killed her thanks to my Finewood bow level 3 bow and stamina regen potion with level 3 bronze axe, she ended up running off. It was terrifying because not only was I fighting her but the bloody sea as well! She was pissed! And the waves were smashing the boat so hard it was almost turning the ship anywhere from 40 to 80 degrees each time because I had no control of the rudder at the time. It was one of the craziest exciting times I have ever experienced in a game since about 98' when I played Vigilante 8 with my cousin. Bloody top game!

[@surgicalglitch3265]

Oh, I also made it to the Island in one trip, my piece of advice is to stay on the main island for as long as possible and collect as many ore resources as you can. Stock up on your ore, get some beehives and get things going. You want to at least be prepped with good bronze armour or upgraded troll armour (stealth, if that's your thing) and potions. You don't need many potions to go out, I didn't even take any health potions with me, just 2 stamina and I only used 1. But I stocked up on 12 of each potion and carrot stew and Royal Jam before I made any moves off the island. Also, take Wood and rock in your hull with some stock to make a small camp as soon as you get off the boat. You want to immediately start once you get your Tool table set up with your portal to defend it all. I mean as soon as I jumped off my boat I was attacked by Leech's right away that started to hit my boat! The Swamp is no joke.

[@miqotesoulia8620]

thanks, good guide. Needed that powerful motivation after dying to some mobs. Gotta pace myself and expect the unexpected.

[@SilvX610]

I always keep the troll armour up until the point i gotta explore the mountains. I feel like the choice of weapon is far more important. For swamp i always take a bronze mace and a buckler. Blunt damage is great and learning how to block is helpful. Most enemies are easy to block, even abominations

[@quantumstring7359]

Well I only just started this game a month ago. And there is a Swiss army knife here: use local storage and not cloud storage, backup your character(s) and world(s) - assuming you are playing solo and not on a server - and if something goes south, restore said backup. Less work on retrieving your tombstone. Less stress. And when I say "git" good I literally mean use Git as in the SCM tool. Best of luck to ya's all!

[@hansdampf640]

Be careful not to set up your base in the plains (under armor50-60) like i did... the plains shore looks very similar to meadows.... Bronze-armor is a waste of resouces and time. Look for turnip seeds in the swamp asap and start growing turnip,it takes a few days until you made enough seeds,but the turnip stew is worth it Sausage,Turnip stew and carrot soup are three foods you want have in your backpack while running through the swamp make potions asap (stamina,health and anti-poison) the anti-poison buff last 10 min,when active the poisoning of the leeches and blobs are nearly harmless take material for a campfire with you and set one up inside the crypt at the exit Don´t waste a slot for an torch if you carry firearrows with you,fire arrows are very good for enlighten the crypt and also for make some light farther away that is all i have to say about the swamp :) (maybe one more... the way to get ironscrap is painful and pleases me not xD )

[@TronTuborg]

One addendum I would suggest: Where's the Fire? AKA conserve your stamina. The amount of times I've been eaten by Draugr/Skellys/Oozes because I didn't have the stamina to even fight properly, let alone run away...

[@tarika1727]

So you reccomend to skip bronze armor and go to?

[@TronTuborg]

@@tarika1727 For the work you put in, Iron is the way to go imho, plus Iron is used to upgrade Padded armour (currently the top armour in game) and you can pull 2-3 stacks of scrap iron out of a crypt if you're thorough/lucky

[@hansdampf640]

@@tarika1727 i´ve crafted the whole set,i don´t wear it in the swamp because of the sneaky bonus the troll-set gave me and the troll-armor got more armor-points if you did all upgrades. no need to say where i went after i got the wishbone... i only can say i wasted a lot of copper and tin aaand iron as well... because i also crafted the iron amor (at least i was wearing the iron armor for 5-6 days :D ) after all i only can say the troll is your best friend until you meet the wolves ;)

[@tarika1727]

@@hansdampf640 oh well I have full maxed Iron now, time to kill bonemass then go to mountains.. also I saw a bit of plains, funny how I didnt die to those lil greens, but needed to hit em like 20x so they die xD

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

A little tidbit for food early on: if you find the trader, get the fishing rod and a lot of fish bait as soon as you can. Cooked fish is much better than neck tails, and you'll need those uncooked neck tails for poison resist mead for the Swamp biome as well.

[@InfestedChris]

Bronze armor level 3 is the same as Iron armor level 1. It is only until the iron armor is level 2 the stats increase. So bronze armor is pretty good at level 3. Also get a Fermenter to brew potions. Make poison resist potions incase you get poisoned. Another tip about the crypts is if you use Stagbreaker the AOE splash goes through walls, so you can safely kill enemies behind the muddy scrap piles.

[@JohnSmith-oz6lm]

That 2 handed bronze polearm is actually insanely good. Middle mouse button spins and stuns all enemies allowing you to crit on all them. Problem is it takes a lot of stamina so you need a decent retreat path.

[@bropellerjohnson919]

I’ve had this game now for three weeks. I have played at the 90 hours LOL

[@martinarscott3524]

We have swamps on our starting island, only problem is they're the other side of a plains area, which is proving nasty!!!

[@Igniferi]

@Qeycon ahh right, the deadly deers and angry boars. Nothing beats a good challenge in the meadows.

[@vaultdweller123]

@Qeycon get ur brains checked

[@IsntTheInternetGreat]

@Qeycon Lolwut?

[@TariffRisinger]

You forgot to address Abominations. And, it is a good idea to build your portal on top of a Sunken Crypt. Also, you do want your home take make a path and sink the land level slightly around fire geysers.

[@ciberzombiegaming8207]

poison resist mead, some health buffs, good armor (i prefear mobility so troll armor) , some parry-able shield and mace. and some axe if abomination spawns (tree moster) , but from 2 abomination drops you can make part of root set, i recomend helmet first cause it gets 50% poison resistance while wearing, so quite often diference between life and death when meleing blobs, oozers, and leeches and no longer need to rely on poison resist mead

[@Vnx]

@ 17:15 I have also been finding chains inside chests in swamp crypts.

[@pierrepellerin249]

Well, everything was calm and nice in my first swamp trip. Gathering ancient wood, killing the odd enemy, etc. Then an abomination showed up and all hell broke loose. There was at least 10 enemies around when I died. I never stood a chance. Took me 4 times, run in, grab my stuff, try to run out and die before finally getting away. The difficulty jump from black forest to swamp is insane...

[@princeofdarkness8037]

Well explained tips for the swamps, thanks for the vid as usual.

[@BallisticAero]

I've put some hours into this game.... portals are everything. Setting up efficient bases and investing in multiple crafting/forge utilities is EVERYTHING. It may seem grindy, but trust me you will speed up on progression if you invest some time into effective small FOB's near high resource places with portals. Obv metals can't be tellied, which is why you build up around the rss. I can't express how much time I save when I do this versus, try to ferry or hand cart your rss back to a main base; time lost, risk for loss of life and loss of loot is increased by more than you think (this game is glitchy to boot, I lost a 30 stack of silver ore trying to indian run back to a base because of the weight). I shall reiterate; FOBs, portals, workstations are worth the investment. (Later on in game as well if you die or lose things, whatever happens to set you hard back you will be so happy for the ability to get any rss (ReSourceS) you need to build back up, or if you suddenly discover something you want to focus on that is new, you'll be more available to rss farm for it altogether.) Happy Sailing, Serpents suck

[@BallisticAero]

Oh and the Bonemass boss is.... stupid hard for many reasons (invest in Frostner, and a fermenter for poison resistances)

[@ToddHoward3]

you remind me of the minecraft youtuber Mumbo Jumbo, but with a deeper voice Great content, keep it up!

[@Kysen]

Haha thanks! I'm a big fan of his 🙂

[@CreamyGoodness]

The surtlings are super easy to cheese/farm. When you find their spawn, simply dig with your pickaxe until the entire area is surrounded in water. They will continue to spawn in and will die upon spawning in the water

[@noobarta]

yesss, great way to get coal and surling cores before portaling back

[@MrGrovesde]

Great tips! Keep them coming!

[@Kysen]

Thanks! Will do! :)

[@fildrigar]

Keep up the content! It's great!

[@Kysen]

Thanks, will do! :)

[@ritchiesimoens715]

exploring swamp right now with some friends, we using the hoe for flatning the ground so we have a full path back to our base. basicly trying this so we can use a cart once we found a crypt, so we can transfer more iron in 1 go. haven't tested this but should be fine if there no hills/trees in the way ^^

[@DrakeDeath7]

Super helpful! Perfect swamp video.

[@KIDALOO]

Great info on the swamp...very helpful!

[@alexandretempleux6912]

The oter day a oze jumped on me in my boat and yep...

[@eddiebernays514]

the swamp wasnt too bad, but getting into the swamp made me nearly quit. having to go through the plains to get to the nearest swamp was incredibly difficult. i got one tapped by everything many times.

[@Nightweaver1]

My first swamp experience was yesterday when I found a draugr spawner that spawned a one-star archer draugr that almost killed me, so I ran tf out of the swamp and not sure if I'm gonna go back.

[@mikebeattie2111]

Great starter video, thanks. It'd be good to include Abominations too

[@Kysen]

@@mikebeattie2111 they didn't exist when I made this video, but I did make a separate video about them 🙂

[@mikebeattie2111]

@@Kysen oh sorry, I am fairly new to the game and assumed they'd always been in it. Thanks again for the video

[@Kysen]

@@mikebeattie2111 no worries at all 🙂

[@VillaMasterSF]

i wish we had the ability to build or summon npc soldiers for resources to help especially as a singleplayer type of gamer...

[@seawardpie8648]

What’s the fun in the game then

[@WolfFireheart]

I just had a little rage quite trying to handle the swamp. I thought I was pretty tough shit. Bronze axe, shield and armor at lvl 2. Swamp does not give a single flying bird! Tried to run away, ran into the plains, got killed by a big flying bug as I ran off whimpering. Basically, a lot of death. Worse one, was dying to poison after kill a few enemys, just stood there, by myself, watching my health tic down, helplessly. Sorry Odin you wisdom seeking freak, you should have send a better man then I. Might try the troll armor strat, as I am desperately looking for iron. Also, if you do run away from the mobs, try not to run into a bigger group of them, tis not fun.... Very painful. Ah, this meaningless rant helped my frustration.

[@hjalmarzolachristensen8080]

Posion resistance is simply a most. I play with a mate which of course makes it so much easier! Yeah the game sure gets harder when you go from black forest to swamp:D

[@wilhelmscream6834]

Yep. Get poison resist potions and ferment them. I always carry a stack of 5 on me every time I go, and take the swamps slower until you've increased your iron armor a couple of times. I don't even use a mace but it's super helpful in the swamp. Made a level 3 bronze and it works okay until I can get an iron one.

[@jackreacher4297]

great vid mate. much appreciated

[@Breyeze]

You should do a video on how to explore the plains biome safety

[@TronTuborg]

From my experience in the Plains, that video will have to involve a M1 Abrams...

[@Kysen]

I will get to that when I can for sure :)

[@gage824]

Parry the deathsquitos and then jump on top of em for a free ride.

[@brittnicain5253]

I just found a swamp on my starting island while sailing the coastline to get to the elder. Very quickly noped out of there

[@Snuders]

Fire geezers. Hehe. Thanks - good video.

[@Kysen]

Thanks 🙂

[@taylorgay3257]

I got one next to a meadow's, but the kicker is the deer lead drauger from the swamp, too my camp... Or near it

[@Kysen]

ah yeah that's a tough one

[@Ausskip87]

Thank you... I stuck my head in the swamp for just a second.. Annnnd I got ruined. ..

[@Shadow77999]

U ok dude?

[@Nightweaver1]

Archer draugr, right?

[@metasamsara]

Thanks for this guide i'm scared of going there solo haha. I built a portal hub base on my server yesterday in a small black forest beach strip between a giant swamp and a giant plain lol. Should I avoid the plains until the swamp is dealt with? Also I'm a bit confused about the boss, is he inside crypts or are crypts just a place to explore and mine iron like burial chambers earlier?

[@noahb5482]

Just got to the swamps. Had not all my bast stuff but my good things. My good boat. I got destroyed. Black Forest to swamp was a shocker. Currently thinking about how I’m gonna get my stuff back. If I even can

[@Tomcatntbird]

No Dad jokes?! WTH? Fine, here's one for u. What should a sea lion that agrees with everyone be called? A seal of approval! LOL 😆

[@leonrobinson2053]

Brilliant 😂😂😂

[@julierollins1346]

Ha ha ha so funny!

[@donbush9238]

And I thought the answer was going to be "a yes-man-a-tee".

[@SkyReaperOne]

I disagree on how to handle the slimes. They resist piercing attacks, but are VERY weak to blunt damage. So just kite them till they jump, then as they land, go for the kill with a mace. It'll take you no more then two hits. Even the bigger oozes that spawn slimes on death. Those newer slimes will not spread poison the moment they spawn. Time it right and you'll never get poisoned.

[@Kysen]

Interesting, thanks for this :) I guess it depends on personal preference but I can definitely see what you're saying!

[@onmarsnow]

My valheim games music accidentally synced up to yours in the video. Nice.

[@rimmertf]

You can also find chains in the chests in the sunken crypts! Maybe usefull for your information