Ranking Valheim Biomes from Worst to Best

In this video, we look at the Valheim biomes and rank them from worst to best in my opinion.
If you disagree with my opinions, please feel free to leave a comment explaining why. I'm always open to differing opinions.
P.s to anyone commenting about the poison resistance mead being great. You are wrong. Kinda. It is somewhat effective but it doesn't completely negate the poison debuff. That is my problem with it.
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Music used
Valheim themes for the respective biomes
Alexander the great peace from Civ V
Footage of Gordon Ramsay critiquing food is from Hells Kitchen season 1
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[@M1KEPH0EN1X]

Oh my goodness I did not expect this kind of response! Thanks for the likes! I just wanted to point out that I'm not a Valheim expert and I may have made some amateur mistakes lol! Make sure to let me know about them please! I really want to finish this game! Also I apologize if your comments aren't showing up! I'll approve them all and respond in due time!

[@natey1257]

Im close to reaching the plains but currently the swamp is actually my second favorite behind the mountains. Im not sure why but it may be because my friend hyped it up so much that when we actually got there it was a challenge i expected.

[@joshsegg2814]

Lol your good but with that title.....

[@vantedful]

Why are you not using any capes?

[@capatheist]

Oh! Creators can review comments and not allow now? That explains a lot… I’ve got a bunch of channels I need to unsubscribe from now

[@BrimSt0ne28]

Play modded. Makes the game much more enjoyable on subsequent playthroughs. EpicLoot, TeleportEverything, craftycarts, craftwithcontainers. Just a few of the like 30 I run with right now. Lots of quality of life improvements.

[@terp5579]

You should always have the RESTED buff up when away from base especially in the swamp. It gives you something like 100% stamina regen! I believe it’s designed this way to give you an incentive and reason to build a “comfy” house. Cool game design if you asks me.

[@karatewarrior702]

RESTED buff is so OP I always make sure to have it by returning home or just building a campfire and sitting next to it. Also getting the best food you can is also a huge game changer. It gives you more stamina and health. With more health you can parry stronger enemies.

[@sutarn7246]

@@karatewarrior702 It gives 100% faster Health, Stamina, Eitr regen bonus and can last up to 23 minutes (excluding maypole and Yuletree)

[@fromdarknesscomeslight6894]

Just pop a campfire in any crypt or cave - ez 3 comfort for a 10 minute rested buff. Excellent for extended stays.

[@ccs5998]

And you need! Poison resistant meed!

[@dylanneilson1293]

He was also using the most basic food in the game for the bone mass fight

[@BrimSt0ne28]

My first experience with the plains was accidently sailing too close in the early game and getting one shot by one of Satan's winged bastards straight from hell.

[@arcedge6456]

In the french translation, meadows = prairies and plains = plaines. Since prairies is so close to plaines, imagine my reaction when I sailed off to what I thought was a meadow in order not to blindly go for the first time into a swamp, just to get absolutely destroyed by a mosquito. Needless to say I found another swamp to go to.

[@TheJeppejokeri]

Laughed my ass off at the description, but definitely a fitting alternative for mosquitoes.

[@aregesafechier]

Mistlands is technically the new final biome as you need an item from the plain boss to be able to efficiently navigate the mistlands. For the mountain, make yourself a cape and you won't need the meads ever again :P

[@Lorifel0]

I didn't get the item from the Plain boss yet but I've already explored a lot of Mistland and got most of the materials and items there.

[@aregesafechier]

@@Lorifel0 impressive to have done all that while not seeing crap in the biome! the plain boss item allow you to get wisps which one of them allow you to see farther in the mistlands

[@darwinarmado4654]

there still deep north and ashland yes mistland is a freaking Parkour biome

[@aregesafechier]

@@darwinarmado4654 yeah i'm eager to see what they will do with it, lot of potential i think!

[@davidlocke9051]

Isnt the cape useless though if your wet? Like in a snow storm? Correct if im wrong

[@baldesion]

The swamp slander! I won't stand for it! I get legit excited every time I come across a new swamp. But I like entrails, ooze, and bloodbags. I like cooking and those are so useful. Not to mention the possibility of a core farm. The only thing I'd change about the swamp is the constant raining. Go in there with good food, some poison resist, and you're good. I've only ran into one abomination though so I'm bummed about that.

[@avenger7800]

Abominations are very easy to kill all you have to do is stand above a crypt the will get stuck on you but they cant damage you and then you can just hit them with a sword or an axe to death

[@leeviw7267]

Try and fight the abomination at night with full bronze armor you won't like the abomination that much anymore

[@Random_Banshee]

You can mark the abomination spot and the next time you will arrive there, the game will grace you with another! ANOTHEEEER! HAHAHAHA

[@Pndmnum-bj7rj]

@@leeviw7267 then theres me, in troll hide regularly chopping abominations down to size.... buckler and axe is all you need ;)

[@dekippiesip]

@Leevi W run away and kite it with fire arrows, or just simply run away. That's what I did in that stage of the game. Actually I didn't even run as that would aggro to much other mobs. I just walked away from aboms and was completely fine.

[@katejenkins9925]

I discovered the other day that TICKS CAN COME THROUGH THE PORTAL WITH YOU. My friends and I were helping a mate get her stuff back from her body in the Mistlands. We got overrun by enemies so she returned to our base through a portal as she was basically defenceless. The blood-curdling screams I heard when the tick on her head detached itself and began chasing her around the base. I didn't believe her at first as no enemy had come through a portal before, but sure enough there was tick crawling over our beds.

[@idealaccent5110]

You forgot to mention the wolf fur cape, which negates all frost effects in the mountain biome.

[@Bullminator]

Its easier to kill a lox with bow and make that cape instead tho....

[@justawake4641]

@@Bullminator wolf cape looks better

[@Petra999]

​@@justawake4641 true

[@pierceklinke13]

Couple tips: In the swamp you can use the hoe to level the ground, this create easily walkable paths you can use to travel through the biome and makes it much more manageable. In the mountains, hop on top of the head of stone golems and then hit them with your pickaxe to quickly subdue them. Now after having played the mistlands update a bunch, I would say 1) Mistlands 2) Plains 3) Mountains. Although the mistlands don't become fun until you get the feather cape.

[@gregoryf4186]

I honestly like the addition of the abomination, in my latest playthrough I build a swamp base and it made the swamp much more enjoyable, plus I already know all of the enemies so the combat wasn’t too bad, after re-playing the games a couple times the swamp becomes more enjoyable. Also, you’re using shitty food so that’s why you’re having such a hard time.

[@ezekil3355]

abomination also gave us an alternate armor set which i think all biomes should have.

[@gregoryf4186]

@@ezekil3355 yeah, I personally like having a choice with armor, helps replay ability

[@TobyDK91]

The swamp may be a nuisance. But it is very big part of why the game is engaging, that the difficultly level drops as much as it does from biome to biome. The swamp does it especially well i think, it's a pretty big challenge the first time around.

[@InfernosReaper]

@@ezekil3355 I mean, they kinda do, currently, *except* Plains(hopefully that'll change) Meadows - Rags vs Leather(more of an upgrade than an alternative, but still 2 things) Black Forest - Troll vs Bronze Swamp - Root vs Iron Mountain - Furry vs Silver Plains - only Padded, sadly(not sure what would be good here) Mistlands - Eityr vs Carapace The funny thing about the Root armor is mixed sets using 1 of those components are actually pretty good in the later game. The piercing damage resistance is nice in the Plains and Mistlands, while the poison damage resistance is great in the Mistlands and Swamp. I still haven't really tested mixing the furry set to see how useful that is beyond the Mountain, though.

[@ezekil3355]

@@InfernosReaper I never said that the other biomes didn't have alternate armor sets.....

[@kylemutz6180]

“I haven’t beat the final boss…” My brother in christ, please finish all the bosses if you’re going to use them as rating criteria…

[@InfernosReaper]

Yeah, this video felt a bit half-hearted, to put it politely. "I haven't really done much in the Mistlands and haven't beaten the Plains boss, but I'm gonna do a video about all the biomes and rate them best to worst"

[@c.smidgeon2847]

fighting the bonemass for the first time was a lot of fun because i really enjoyed suddenly realizing that I was the only one out of my group of 3 that could do anything resembling damage to him because of his insane resistance to every damage type except blunt

[@RushE-zo3qd]

He’s weak to frost as well as blunt bro, so frostnir would really help when you go to fight him again

[@timklafke4712]

@@RushE-zo3qd That needs silver though, which is technically possible without wishbone but kind of cancer to find a vein without it. So for newcomers that’s definitely not a likely option.

[@RushE-zo3qd]

@@timklafke4712 if you already beat bonemass before you had frostnir, you can fight bonemass again using frostnir as a {time to clap the mass} plan

[@InfernosReaper]

@@timklafke4712 Hilariously, just the other day, I accidentally dug into silver while just trying to build an exploration base in the mountains. The hammer method isn't bad, especially if you have crew to watch your back.

[@aaronrobinson8394]

When I first fought bone mass with my friend he said “remember the campfire cheese for the first boss?” *literally 100’s of campfires later. He sacrifices himself in honour for drops

[@CeliaNightstep]

I personally absolutely love the dark forest the most. Specially when its sunny, because the feeling of running through it is exactly the same as running through Norwegian forests in fall looking for mushrooms or berries irl.

[@SuperVoidBoyz]

Yeah The Dark Forests, Mountains and Meadows are my 3 favorite biomes so far. I've only really made it to mountain level in this game.

[@Niobesnuppa]

Same, I insisted on settling there already at the start of the game, because I love how atmospheric and beautiful it is, and how much it reminds me of Norwegian forests. Granted, not the easiest place for a starting home, but I built it on an island, so it's gone alright so far.

[@Sentraman4]

Mike: complains about the swamp being difficult Also Mike: has shit food, not rested, no poison resist mead

[@NotQuiteGuru]

Wow I'm really surprised at your list. I think Mistlands and the Swamp are my favorite biomes. They're the only ones that actually gave me a sense of fear and danger. Other biomes had their challenges, but they were too familiar to me, and therefore I felt more comfortable.

[@xalaeth2119]

Honestly i kinda like the swamp. It's not better than most of the other biomes, though. It could look better but it fits the description, "swamp". Gloomy. Wraithes are a pain in the ass and I hate Bonemass. An iron buckler is the first thing I always get because its cheap and I can block literally anything from the swamp with it.

[@codylane5565]

That’s poison resist potion is totally worth it in my opinion

[@xzguy3826]

My favorite biome is the Meadows. The meadows are a good biome to build your base in. Because there is no mobs that are strong 💪 enough to destroy your base. Except if a raid starts. Also it’s a safe biome so you won’t die at base. The music, mobs, scenery and the boss are really great 😊. But it’s not a good biome to explore, the mountains are. Overall the meadows is the best biome in Valheim 9.5/10

[@aaronbrandon2321]

I really think sea caves that could be sailed into would be cool, or an Ocean boss that requires a ship.

[@eicbanq6623]

exactly !!!!!!

[@chucheeness7817]

I think I have a hate-love thing with the swamp. As horrible as all the other things are, building an elevated treetop settlement with smithies, lodging and all other aesthetic stuff makes me like it as a base of operations than the other biomes

[@edwing72]

Yagluth is my favorite boss in the game. The music was fantastic, his design is well made, and I felt challenged by the fight.

[@xzguy3826]

Yagluth is also my favorite boss because of the music, design, attacks, and difficulty. But also when you are fighting the boss it feels like your fighting with something from space because Yagluth has power over meteors. Overall Yagluth is the best boss in the game 11/10. Edit: One day I will update this comment because I haven’t fought the boss in the mistlands.

[@edwing72]

@@xzguy3826 Mistlands is my second least favorite biome, right next to swamps. Not a big fan of the tint/mist mechanic. Makes the game too tedious imo. Sucks because the actual biome is so good looking(unlike the ugly ass swamp, but they are swamps tbf🤣).

[@heyoka8708]

yeah I kinda agree. first time I defeat him, I spend almost 2 hour but it is depressingly fun

[@mromg8282]

In the mistland update me and 3 of my friends fought him for the very first time. The battle lasted over 2 in game days, caused many deaths, and depleated us of our food supply and potions. We almost failed the whole thing too - our weapons literally had less than 20 durability(2 bows actually broke) after the fight, and my mace alone had 6 hits left. It was super hard, but felt extra satisfying. Top boss so far.

[@alimansour2323]

Bro did you never learn that wolf and lox capes negate the freezing dubuff in the mountains 😂 you don’t need frost meads the whole time

[@InfernosReaper]

It's kinda hard not to get the impression that this dude hadn't really played that game as much as someone declaring that spending a hundred hours in the Meadows should have to be making a ranking video. After all, how does one talk about how great the mountains is without touching on how useful the wolf cape is? It kinda makes me wonder if he's just parroting facts he learned from some other video. I don't know if I care enough to check the rest of his content to figure out one way or another, though

[@arthurv9811]

@@InfernosReaper Nah he definitely doesn't know much about valheim, by the way his inventory looks, by the food choices and by the weapon choices, he didn't play much

[@kimballspeakthreetheater3318]

Technically, the Ocean Biome isn't finished either. The Devs have said there's more to come with it, including better Sailing mechanics, but my guess is it'll be after the Deep North and the Ashlands. My list is: 1 Plains 2 Mistlands 3 Meadows 4 Mountain 5 Black Forest 6 Deep North (yeah I know it's not finished) 7 Ashlands 8 Ocean 0 Swamp

[@goofyguy1232]

swamp?

[@kimballspeakthreetheater3318]

@@goofyguy1232 HA! Yeah, it's dead last for me.

[@chiggins10]

Mountains are my fave! I love the vibe and music and caves. I built a lovely log cabin resort in the mountains bc I loved the atmosphere so much. I think mistlands may rank higher for you after playing more imo. It opens up a lot of gameplay options.

[@M1KEPH0EN1X]

Yeah they are awesome! But I just like the plains more cause of the Greek vibes. I wish I built more cabins with the core wood in mountains cause I love how the snow comes onto the wood.

[@thorveim1174]

pros of the mistlands: -only biome with friendly (until attacked) mobs that actually fight other creatures of their biome -fancy-ass rocks and grass, added to the ruins it can be a sigh to behold. More than any biome, it tells a story of ancient wars against long-dead giants and a dvergr empire that fell due to the bugs, with only pockets of survivors remaining. -Only biome to my knowledge that sports metal from earlier biomes; you wont need to keep hauling iron there. -The local metal equivalent, refined eitr, can be teleported freely. -Unlocks access to magic staves and food allowing you to use said magic, effectively creating a subclass with completely different gear Cons: -The friggin mist. The biome is real fancy as I said, too bad the game will hide the vast majority of it from you, with you sometimes not even being able to see past the front of your character if the mist-dispelling wisp lags behind! That thing NEEDS a bigger radius, or areas of the mistlands without mist need to be more common. -the terrain is REALLy Rough to navigate, eating your stamina like a fat man eats candy. Made worse by the above issue making it real easy to take fall damage just because you couldnt see you were going towards a cliff

[@booyaah82]

Mistlands is pretty unique. I think traversing the jagged terrain with the fog is one of the more annoying things to get used to initially, especially when you first start fighting insects and Gjalls. I would definitely craft and upgrade a black metal Ategir before going hard into Mistlands, the aoe spin attack is great for killing ticks. I ended up dropping probably hundreds of wisp torches all throughout the island just to mark my paths before I got done. Progression is initially pretty slow since you need the new cores to build the new crafting stations and it can be really hard to find the dungeons (the bile bombs work great inside here). Once you finally get a mistland base up with the new food and some of the new weapons and magic stuff it gets a lot more manageable. The final Queen boss is definitely a big step up in difficulty compared to the plains boss. Using melee and parrying does not work out too good with her knockbacks and she gives you little time to get damage in, you need to rely on dodge rolling mainly and use a 2her for more damage. It's definitely easier to just use ranged fire magic and kite her around instead. This is the first boss where I felt like I needed to spend a decent amount of time training weapon skills in order to beat the boss.

[@Snowxiv_]

Overprepping for swamp actually made it easy for me. I put up treehouseson top of crypts to make a base that the abomination cant reach. And plank them next to the trees which act like ground and serve as a foundation for wood floors. I killed bonesmass first try with full iron armor and buckler and mace + poison pots + rested buff. It took a while yes but it was worth it because it was soooo easy. I enjoyed playing in the mountain biome too. I love this game to death

[@CHRIS_GMG]

another underrated content creator keep it up man

[@ezekil3355]

Mate please use eiktyr and the rested buff, they both buff stamina which makes the game so much more enjoyable.

[@krusty4651]

My man just needed to get the groot mask. Made the swamp significantly easier for me in the update

[@luckul2255]

Hugely underrated the mistlands, the introduction of magic into the game is great and all the weapons are pretty unique.

[@lvl99paint]

Definitely agree with you about the mountain biome, easily my favourite. I think the mistlands might grow on you a bit as you explore them, there's so much cool stuff to make and the dungeons are really awesome

[@henrylarson6970]

I hate the Swamp as well, but it did serve as a very good wake up call with how much my group struggled with Bonemass, and if there was some way to avoid rain giving you wetness then it would be perfectly cope-able, maybe the surtlings could drop something to make a heat cloak that counteracts wet, idk

[@qwerty222999]

I think the game just needs a cape acting as a cloak that keeps you dry in rainy weather and the swamp, so long you don't go bathing in water. Much like how the wolf and lox cape keep you warm in mountains.

[@mromg8282]

You can always lure the boss outside of it's biome to avoid the constant wetness of the swamp.

[@diegovallejo3448]

I think that if you go to the bonemass fight with some basic cooked meat and some jam it's absolutely your fault if you hate it. Valheim is a game about preparing yourself for fights and it's obvious you'll hate it if you go in naked

[@thariousfenrir4430]

I’d say I agree with almost everything about the swamp except the abomination I think it’s really cool to add more troll like mobs where they feel like a mini boss fight when u first encounter them kinda like the gjall in mistlands I’d love to see them add more tbh

[@aurenian8247]

If it wasn't for the deathskitos I would rank the plains higher. Not even from a threat perspective once you have good food and armour. Just because they often just come out of nowhere and stab you. I can't fully chill at my plains farm because of them. My favourite biome is actually meadows because I like to just hang out and build a grand manor that keeps out all raids and wandering mobs. Valheim is great for building a super cosy house. I use that as my main base and venture out to the dangerous places of the world from there.

[@Micholex]

For yagluth fight you can use silver sword instead of the black metal one, hitting him with the special attack as he spawns in will deal massive spirit damage, much larger than with normal hits, after that you need to constantly hit him with basic attacks to refill that debuff. Make sure that the first attack that lands on yagluth is your special attack from a sword.

[@stevenmiklasinski3705]

Abominations are pretty easy, just look out for an elevated point like a crypt or fallen indestructible tree, jump up there and kill it with melee. its attacks are on ground level so it won't hit you but it's big enough that you will hit it. It's not that the swamp is my favourite, but i think it has its pros, i like the swamp for its materials you can get there, and with the indestructible trees you can build some nice treehouses.

[@periberry7345]

Nice video! Glad you're getting a little algorithm blessing with it. But. It's very clear you lack experience and knowledge. Which isn't bad, everyone starts from somewhere but it's not something you'd expect from someone making a tirt list out of the biomes! For example being in the mistlands with iron gear or in the swap with no mead/potions and plain cooked food instead of a combination of meals with a stamina focus was just preparing for failure. (also you mention the plains being the last biome bit mistlands at the moment comes after it, you had them out of order in progression) Though this does open up the path for you to someday revisit this with more experience or when more updates come out. Ps. I'm greek and appreciate all you had to say, I love the plains too. ps ps. I also don't fucking get why swamps rain 24/7, with mountains you could have fires everywhere to counter the cold, in mistlands torches to get rid of the mist But in the swamp you just are wet and can't do anything about it. Unless some alpha chad replies with "Build a roof over everything"

[@InfernosReaper]

Honestly, building roofs over an entire Swamp sounds both tedious and comedic. Still, one would think that the Swamp would have time when it didn't rain. Otherwise, how is it not just Ocean at that point, right?

[@InfernosReaper]

I hate how the Poison Resistance Mead does not work on existing poison(last I checked) only poison that happens *after* you drink it At that point, I'd rather just fight the Abomination to get the armor piece that cuts down poison damage. When one of my groups decided to restart to build up to the Mistlands, I was like "can we *please* just skip the swamp?"

[@biloute6207]

It depends what you re looking for. Me I prefer biomes with more interactions and lifes inside and if biome seems like what it deserves by his name. 7- Ocean : it's not made yet by dev. It's really annoying. 6- Meadows : it's beautiful but to calm. Nothing to do in there. Mobs are shit and not enough species in there. But good to build a house. 5- Plains : this biome is just nonsense. It's sight of land is poor. It' s only yellow with big stones. And mob in there are nonsense. Why gobelins live in plains? Why mosquitos in plains? Why the boss is a giant skeleton? Everything in this biome is the less thinking. 4- Mistlands : I don't understand why we can't see nothing in a game. We can't watch land and it's too difficult to move inside. I don't understand meaning of insects in this biome but I loved dvergers people. And story about giants is cool but not enough explained. 3- Mountain : this biome is really beautiful and mobs have good interactions. It's just a little bit poor looking. But moder is too good! 2- Swamp : it's exactly what look like a swamp. It's nasty and mobs inside are really cool and good thinking. A lot of interactions inside. Love it! 1- Black forest : best looking biome. A fairy biome I love. Everything is good thinking. Mobs are really cool and boss too. I love everything in there. I don't play a game to looking for easy way to play it but to travel inside and watch beauty of creation.

[@M1KEPH0EN1X]

Yeah it's a matter of opinion. I should have expressed that more clearly but respect for sharing your opinion.

[@tadek1842]

Your problems with Bonemass' minion spawns might be due to your weapon choice. You got 3 weapons with you and none are 2 handed. It's not really a necessity but if you're already using the slots for weapons some AoE might help, especially if you're solo

[@almason37]

Speaking of the Varangian guard, the padded set seems to be loosely based off of their armor.

[@gustavohenriquezollnermunh969]

Dude the five Boss is insane... Was so hard to defeat by me and my friend but that makes the experiênce even better and the mist lands when you found the flying mob(dont remember the name) is so scare...

[@Pumciusz]

You need to roll more, rolling into enemies can avoid their attacks and still place you in a situation where you can stab your enemy. Atgeir's middle mouse attack is great at croud controll. Having a shield is the best choice to 1v1 a strong oponent like a goblin or troll, you 1-2 parry and attack as they are staggered till they die(not the berserker tho). You can parry range attacks, such as arrows shot from draugrs and skeletons. Deathsquitos are always scary if they suprise you, but shooting them from a bow when they are charging at you straight on is easy. Plains boss is really cool, idk about Mistlands, I'm playing other games as well and I started my Valheim playthrough from the beggining when the updated dropped. As other comments said, you missed out on a cape: cool look, more armor and frozen debug nagating tool in one. And rested buff which you get more of the more comfortable your home is(decorations, good beds, good fireplaces, I think stone buildings), is a must. And you, as me and my friends on our first playthrough didn't use the Stagbreaker. You can use it in crypts to fight off hordes of skeletons. You can also tame animals, and I think wolfs can assist you in fights.

[@chargedattack3559]

I honestly opened this video to here you dunk on the swamp. Thank you so much. Liked and subbed. 😂

[@taylorguenthner1458]

Building a portal on top of the crypts makes for the swamp play through not bad at all. (You can also kill the abomination without taking damage)

[@joeispurple5835]

The plains and swamp to me feel extremely incomplete, and I really hope they are finished before they move on to the Ashlands.

[@M1KEPH0EN1X]

I do kinda understand that. Would love them to have an update where they just focus on diversifying the biomes such as plains and swamp.

[@oneill6291]

Agreed, especially the plains. They really need to add a bunch of content to that place.

[@WolfSpartan7]

i agree

[@tadek1842]

I get why plains, but swamp? I don't think it lacks anything: a dungeon type, huge building upgrade, new weapon type (2h axe), the "oh shit a troll" enemy - abomination, a light armor, like 4 types of small enemies, and I think it all works together very well to create the dank "I won't go there unless I must" place that swamps are intended to be

[@joeispurple5835]

@@tadek1842 It's chaotic and loosely put together in my opinion. Its niche is being wet, blunt damage weapons, and poison resistance, and it is chaotic as all. However, on top of that, there is the sunken crypts, which in comparison to the 3 other dungeons in the game, is disappointing as hell.

[@lesgrossman6332]

I just feel like the swamp has way too many enemies. I hadn’t used dev commands until the swamp only because I have to swim to get anywhere and the enemies stack on me and then the abomination comes up and I’m like “okay I’m done” *presses K*

[@Patrick_The_Pure]

5:56 You know, i should have seen it coming i i looked at the minimap, but that on beat "fwomp" got a good laugh out of me.

[@M1KEPH0EN1X]

Yeah had the idea for it a while into making the video. Thought it would be funny.

[@Vision-lz4ru]

So underrated, great video!

[@Old_School_293]

I love the plains. I spent most of the game stubbornly using the bow as my primary weapon. When I got to the plains, my skill was so high I took out whole villages of Fulings with just arrows. Yes arrows. Mostly, you snipe to aggro (or just one shot) a fuling. Hit him and he’s staggered and quickly finish him off with another arrow. Archers dominate the plains.

[@fatalexception1269]

I'd be very interested in seeing the code for the sailing wind mechanics. I'm close to 1k hours in this game and around the 500 hour mark i started to notice that, even though head wind only represents 20% of your wind circle, it seemed that 50 to 60% of the time any wind change would result in a change to head wind. There'd be times you're sailing on the leeway, kind of right on the boundary of wind and no wind, and the wind would adjust like 5 degrees to force you to tack. Eventually i found this frustrating and getting in the way of fun, so at about the 800 hr i installed a permanent Moder power mod, and it made me realise the wind mini-game is just designed to piss you off (to make sailing seem like it's hard). I just want to get from A to B with minimum fuss thank you very much.

[@wind_traveler]

I’ll never forget the first time my buddy and I encountered a troll. We had just finished setting up our first base in the black forest and “fortifying” it against greydwarf attacks so we thought we were pretty dug in. We were in the base cooking stuff, sorting items, repairing gear, …etc then the ground started shaking. We weren’t sure what was going on, and the next thing we knew a tree trunk bashed down one of the walls of our “fortified” structure, and that giant blue boy was staring down at us. Looking up at that guy and scrambling for weapons was one of the most immersive events I’ve ever experienced while playing a video game. Looking back with a better understanding of Valheim’s mechanics, it seems kinda silly. Of course a hostile mobs can destroy structures and an agroed troll would obviously destroy the wall to get to us, but before that moment, we had know idea something like that could happen, and it was the last thing we expected from a game we’d thought was just a Minecraft clone with Vikings.

[@ketnetty]

Funny enough the abomination it's my fav creature. Love it. And I love the armor set

[@M1KEPH0EN1X]

Yeah it's not the worst. I'm just not a big fan of the fact it has so much health. I'm not really familiar with the armor set so I would love to know what the buffs are from it.

[@ebonhawken574]

I love the swamp and if your able to build a tree house it can be kinda cozy. Mountains are my other favorite and built a huge log cabin where I can do all my cooking.

[@sleepyice6422]

Why didn’t you make a wolf cape in the mountains instead of using the mead

[@schribbler1592]

Decent editing, quality and humor. For your first real gaming video (peeked the channel before subbing) this was well done. You earned an instant sub. Edit: Made the comment before finishing the video. When you got the 'its the wrong shade of blue' I laughed my ass off. Partially because I made a similar joke to my sister tonight when we started out first Minecraft Realm. I stated I found the ocean, which at the time, had been a bitch to find and was about 600-700 blocks away from spawn, and through forest. She asked "Was it everything you wanted it to be?" I said, "Nah, the shade of blue just doesn't match my armor. Its just not fashionable." She laughed and said "What shade then?" I said "Cyan, it matches my eyes." Then it devolved into some good ol stupidity about colors and shades for a bit. Either way, great timing to hit me with that joke. If that hadnt happened tonight, I wouldnt be rambling about it. Awesome coincidence.

[@fochjr4223]

for the mistlands were you using the whips light? Also, it looked like you were still using iron stuff. I'm not sure if those were the items that you used for the actual gameplay but being under leveled makes that biome a living hell. and after a few items traversing the mistlands becomes much more fun and less time consuming.

[@fochjr4223]

after finsihing the video yea. You kinda need to beat the plains boss if you want to have any chance at surviving in the mistlands

[@zirilan3398]

@@fochjr4223 One addition that I would have liked for the Mistlands are Whisp-Arrows, that deal almost no damage but disperse the Mist for like 20 secs or so at the point of impact when fired into terrain, so kinda like shortlived whisp-lanterns

[@fochjr4223]

@@zirilan3398 That does sound neat. I just wish that the mobs didnt attack the wisp lanterns because it makes me sad not being able to see

[@zirilan3398]

@@fochjr4223 If you place whisp-light and place a vertikal wood beam directly at it and another vertical wood beam on the other side of the whisp light, blocking all line of sight directly to the whisp light the seekers won't attack them anymore because they aggro on sight, making them last way longer since Gjall and Seekers Soldiers got rarer with the last update

[@fochjr4223]

@Ziri lan that's a cool tip thanks for letting me know! Have any tips for finding those trees?

[@ZarHakkar]

Fighting Bonemass with meadow-tier food though? Might be having such a rough time in the swamps because you should be eating sausages and turnip stew. I actually really liked the swamps before the abominations were added. They initially present as dreadful and terrifying, but became practically a safe zone with mastery. However the spawn rate of abominations is high enough that they're now just annoying.

[@zealousideal_code416]

A few tricks for the swamp: Use your hoe to raise water levels and run with it. Gives you nice area to work around, and also makes escape easier. Wraiths are easily parried and killed, same with Abomination. Allthough Abo can be tricky at start. But place yourself on it's right forefoot and you are kinda save. The the attack with the left foot and middle dont hit you there and you block/parry the right foot attack. Also, rested Buff is your friend. Farming in crypts is easy if you a. place a portal on top of the crypt, so it's save and b. place a fire in the entrance of the crypt. This way you get rid of the wet buff fast and get a rested bonus refresh. The hardest thing about first time swamp are the Draugrs using bows. Those suckers can bring you down hard. You don't go into swamp without poison resistance potions which are easily made from stuff you get in the BF. Then Blogs and Oozers are a piece of cake.

[@storera21]

For the record, I think its great that different people can have different opinions and experiences playing games. I wouldn't want to live in a world where all games were designed to appeal equally to all people. So, this isn't meant as an attack or anything. That being said, I disagree with you pretty strongly about the swamp, which I personally think is the best biome in terms of how fully realized and well-developed it is as a concept. To be clear here, when I say "best" I don't mean "most fun place to just hang out and vibe". I think the swamp is meant to be challenging and ramp up the difficulty of the game, after the black forest and meadows which are both very safe biomes, and the swamp does that job well. The swamp has several challenges, and the game gives you ways to overcome all of them. The process of learning how to use the tools and systems of the game to overcome these challenges is good gameplay, which makes the swamp a good biome. There are a few specific things I would point to in your gameplay footage out that might be worth taking a look at to improve your experience in the swamp: 1) You seem to have noticed that the swamp eats your stamina. The way to combat this is to use the tools the game gives you to manipulate the terrain. You can use the hoe to flatten paths through the swamp. Mark the path on your map with a series of dots. By having a path, you will no longer need to jump in order to maneuver in the swamp, and you will not get stuck walking through deep water. Jumping is the real enemy in this game, it consumes a lot of stamina, whereas sprinting is pretty efficient by comparison. By sprinting on flat ground, you are faster than all the enemies in the swamp. Keep eikthyr buff equipped and you can sprint through the swamp really fast to navigate or escape, and you can also use a cart very effectively to move iron around. Build portals on your road for easy access and quick escape. This is a great example of why I personally think metals should not be able to be teleported. Solving the problem of getting iron out of the swamp requires applying the systems and tools of the game to solve the challenge, which creates gameplay. If you could just teleport the iron out, it would make the game simpler, easier, and faster to play through, and I think that would be a bad thing, because I think playing the game is fun. 2) Craft tasty mead as soon as you can, and always keep some handy. Tasty mead is super powerful because it gives you a big boost to stamina regeneration and there's no cooldown on how frequently you can use it. If you find yourself in a tight spot, you can burn through a few tasty meads and basically double the amount of stamina available to you in that fight, which is well worth it to prevent a death. This is really useful in the swamp if you're struggling for stamina. 3) You should really be using a stagbreaker in the swamp. Because stagbreaker (and other sledges) do an AOE burst of damage and knockback, their range is better than other melee weapons, and the knockback means you can keep slower enemies ranged out and almost stun-locked. You can easily kill blobs with a stagbreaker with essentially 0% chance of them hitting you if you just practice a little. It trivializes them as enemies. Also great for clearing gangs of skeletons, or just in general for engaging large groups of enemies, and also great in crypts since you can hit enemies through walls or around corners with the AOE. 4) Just don't go into the swamp at night early on, and you won't see wraiths, since they always spawn at night. At night you're also more likely to encounter larger groups of enemies and also more difficult enemies in general. Across all biomes, you should avoid going out at night when possible (if you're trying to avoid dying) until you have mastered that biome and have started getting resources from the next biome after it. At a certain point in the game once you've mastered the mountains, you'll actually want to frequently go into the swamps at night because wraiths drop chains and those become pretty useful later for several things. Wraiths are really easy to kill with silver weapons because they deal spirit damage to undead. 5) I noticed you were fighting bonemass without a shield, and while eating cooked boar meat, cooked deer meat, and a queen's jam (early game food). So, while I will concede that bonemass is a harder boss than the elder or eikthyr, I really think that if you just take the time to prepare for the fight, bonemass is super simple. At this point in the game you should be able to craft and upgrade the iron shield, which will block bonemass perfectly well and is a great all-around shield to use in the swamps and mountains. You should also be able to hunt and kill serpents quite easily using your longship, a finewood bow, and poison arrows, and you should be able to farm turnips. This means your food for a boss fight should look more like serpent stew, sausages, and turnip soup. You can also craft the root armor, which is very good early game armor and the helmet gives you permanent poison resistance. If you do all of these things, there is no trick to fighting bonemass, you just....fight it. Keep your shield up and block him when he attacks, no need to take a risk by parrying. Then, after he attacks, hit him once or twice. Rinse and repeat. Craft some healing mead for if you make a mistake. If you get into trouble, just jump on top of his boss altar, it is indestructible and he can't hit you up there. Before the fight, you can raise ground to make a small footstep at the back of the altar if your jump skill isn't high enough to get up there in a single jump, but with high jump skill you can just jump right on top and be invincible. If mobs accumulate during the fight, it will usually be skeletons and blobs, clear them with a few quick hits from stagbreaker. Bonemass exists, IMO, to punish people for rushing through biome progression. Hard to fight when unprepared, but trivial to fight when fully prepared.

[@tadek1842]

When you're just chilling skimming through comments and then you click "show more" 💀

[@InfernosReaper]

I mean, hunting the serpent's not quite as much of a cakewalk as you make it out to be if one wants to make the most of it, but if one can, that shield is nice enough for early Plains when maxed out.

[@Alexyes132]

what I like the swamp it's a great biome definitely top tier you have to watch where you walk, be carful, it's dangerous, the crypt to get iron are amazing nice monsters. I just feels there is a lot going on in the swamp, it doesnt feel empty like the other biomes may feel sometime

[@earth7814]

I agree I feel it's like that stage of the game where the game really starts showing you that the world is dangerous and you better prepare for it.

[@melma2753]

Where is your shield mate? No shield in hand in any of the clips. I see a buckler in inventory, but never used. Love the Black forest and swamps for all the new materials they give, and the general early to midgame vibe. Absolutely hate the mountains and mistlands do to navigation.

[@MasterOfYoda]

As a 2handed axe wielder I LOVE the swamp. Abomination is 6 shots with a battleaxe or 4 with a crystal one if you rush it as it comes out of the ground. And blobs are easily pushed away with a secondary attack so they can't poison you. Mountains are good too and probably my favorite to farm midgame but the swamp is the early and late game favorite.

[@georginenov6779]

I almost agree with you. Personally my favorite biome is the Mountain, followed by the Plains. One more thing -- Bonemass is the easiest boss compared to the biome. In single player it takes about 40 seconds to kill it and in multi our record at 3 people was 6 seconds.

[@SubLime88]

Should try wearing a cape in the snow :) negates the freezing effect

[@tbhc415]

i always thought that the stamina system is abit silly at times, but i think not being able to transport metals through portals is quite good, makes going for them much more challenging imo

[@lachbo9740]

Wasn't expecting the carlton blues logo lol

[@davidberry742]

great video quality keep it up

[@davesskillet9235]

Tried to add mods to Mistlands and failed so do I like the new update no and that has nothing to do with the mods not working

[@mikhailsnelson693]

I hate the swamp for most of the same reasons besides the abomanations which with the root armor you can tank quite a few deathsquitos

[@M1KEPH0EN1X]

Yeah it's so gloomy. Wish they could make it abit more like the swamp from shrek aesthetically. It also shouldn't always rain. Yes there should be rain more often, just not all the time.

[@zirilan3398]

@@M1KEPH0EN1X Still waiting on that Sea Serpent-Scale-set with a piecebonus of "you swim faster" (like the Fenrir-set) and a full setbonus of you can`t get wet. It would also make sense in the progression since the Serpent-Scale-Towershield is between bronze- and iron-age and would make the swamp much nicer to traverse

[@OrionP4]

Like you have a lot to learn young patiwan!

[@TheSulzon]

I judge zones based on difficulty and the order you progress through them in the stage of the game, plains for an end game zone is just that plain and boring with almost nothing going on at all. My order is Ocean-Plains-Meadows-Black Forest-Mountain-Swamp-Mists. I feel the swamp and mists are a reality check for players and are the most difficult and frustrating for when you first enter them but without them the game has no difficulty at all.

[@stevebreedlove9760]

Im on my first playthru and the swamp was absolutely a wake up call. I think my friend and I had three deaths each before clearing the dungeons in our first swamp.

[@RabidJohn]

Currently the Mistlands is my least favourite biome. The terrain, mobs and resources are fine, but the 'mist' is ridiculous. Why did they think removing the visuals from a video game was a good idea?

[@justonoacco3488]

you need to kill the plains boss to get a material to have a good vision there

[@RabidJohn]

@@justonoacco3488 I've killed Yagluth many times and I have the wisplight. It's crap, so are the wisp torches. I just don't like not being able to see properly in a video game. The mist you get on the ocean and plains early morning is great, limiting vision but not totally blocking it. The purple and green stuff in the Mistlands looks awful and totally takes the fun out of the game, IMO.

[@justonoacco3488]

@@RabidJohn like you say, IMO looks so good for me and really like the idea of easly getting lost

[@edwing72]

@@RabidJohn fr though, When you can actually see the terrain its a beautiful biome😂

[@InfernosReaper]

I get the gimmick, but the ranges of vision with and without the wisps *both* need to increase some. As it is now, it just makes it hard to appreciate the setting because we can't see it and it makes it too hard to find things naturally, since again, we can't see further than someone can take a piss.

[@skylerstokman2869]

The plains is my favourite, followed by the swamp. Plains has a nice aesthetic, and swamp is a big difficulty jump from the BF, giving the game that true sense of danger, and having access to iron is when the game really opens up. You can build heaps of new stuff, and therefore access essentially every biome in the game.

[@dawnforrer261]

Very well done

[@driiifter]

I'm playing with this mod called Agility by Blackstar. I highly recommend that. It makes the game go from EEK to Holy crap this is fun. It adds another skill you can level, it increases run speed, attack speed, walk speed and jump force, so basically Haste. It makes Mistlands the best biome for me BY FAR, because with that + Featherfall you can just leap from peak to peak, completely exploring from the sky as if you were the Hulk or something. I actually found the pre-update Mistlands more eerie. The landscape was definitely more eerie, it was blackened and had giant spider webs everywhere and the mist was very unsettling, but you could see somewhat. What makes the new Mistlands scary are just the creatures and sounds, the land its self just looks like something out of Lord of the Rings, it looks great, but it's not eerie on it's own. Without the mist, it would look like black forest with marble spires, nothing special. What's scary is the possibility of falling into the ocean via spire hopping. That would be terrifying because it's a death sentence and it would be hard to recover in water that isn't accessible by boat in the Mistlands.

[@cfwtalks]

Mountain biome is easily the best, and its even better now with the feather cape and crossbow, Flying through the air sniping a wolf or drake as you glide to your destination. Mistlands though is growing on me, love gliding around the peaks and its gives you a kind of buzz gliding into the mist not knowing what's there.

[@walterwallace8784]

As a player with over 3200 hours of game time, you are doing it wrong. No rested buff, low level foods, poor blocking technique.

[@tromar5758]

If you could teleport metals, it would make every other form of transport worthless.

[@apharys8921]

All the biomes are cake if you're sufficiently prepared. My least favorite is the ocean just because it's so slow and empty, I usually afk while sailing. Favorite would have to be the black forest; it's beautiful, varied, has good music, offers one of the biggest jumps in progression, and I just love forests. Plus the Elder is probably my favorite boss. 1. Black Forest 2. Meadows - Nice and cozy, a fresh start is my favorite part of most games. Nice to build in. 3. Swamp - Abominations are so cool, love the root armor and the twisted trees. Draugr archers are the real menace. 4. Mistlands - It's unique and cool but full of icky bugs and is convoluted compared to other biomes. 5. Mountain - Boring imo. Farming resources felt more like a chore here. Frost Cave music is amazing though. 6. Plains - Very bland, annoying enemies and boss, have to grow plains crops in the plains. 7. Ocean 5:55 rofl 😆

[@stevebreedlove9760]

I havent been to the plains yet but I love the farming/animal breeding part of the game and i think it is lame you have to grow the new food in the plains.

[@CopaCola42069]

wanderering to swamp without rested geimer right there

[@themagickalmagickman]

I hated the swamp. Then I met the mistlands...

[@TheBeatles0273]

I appreciate you reviewing the game's features and biomes, but honestly, you had terrible takes all over. You haven't even completed the game (Yagluth & The Queen) yet you use the biome's bosses as rating criteria? I also didn't see you utilize nearly enough of the games features in any of your snippets. No blocking, no rolling, no capes (freezing negate), & no cooking. Now I know this is a biome rank video, but these other features can make a world of difference in enjoyment for each setting. Cooking for example is a great way to increase stamina, but you ate cloud berries as your primary stamina source. Despite these points, I do believe you are an excellent video editor, and the personal connections you made to the biomes is a very nice touch. I hope to see more of your videos on my front page!

[@MRxAmazing]

I used to think that the Swamp was the worst biome... and maybe it still is. But the Mistlands fucking suck. You can't see shit without having your floating mist ball equipped (which replaces the belt that allows you to have more carry weight). You are constantly climbing up steep rocks, draining stamina endlessly hoping to figure out what the hell is going on and where you're going, just to accidentally end up jumping off the sheer side of a large rock and killing yourself or damn near. The only saving grace is a new cape that completely negates fall damage (but you have to get the resources in the Mistlands to craft it, first). Mistlands is probably the new worst biome and it's a shame because fans waited almost 2 years for it.

[@BliacTv]

To kill bonemass you just need 200 frost arrows

[@jonbas6]

Nice video, man! I have almost a thousand hours invested in this game and I LOVE exploring, building and gathering. Yeah, you can't teleport ingots, ore, and other stuff, but you SURELY can teleport with your equipment which you spent like two hundred ingots making... really annoying and non sense. I find swamp biome amazing - you just need to use a mace AND a shield, and mind bringing some potions, and you're set. As for the long awaited mistlands... i'm honestly hating it, and not even because you die in an absurd rate, but because you can't see shit, even with the bound whisp.

[@InfernosReaper]

Yeah, the bound wisp often doesn't do jack crap to improve visibility, for some reason. I guess they expect you to put down the wisp torches down periodically(which you don't even need the workbench to do, btw, so it's only of the few things you can build in a dungeon), but that seems really inefficient.

[@RationalOrc]

The problem with the abomination is that we just finished fighting a whole army of sentient trees, so it's kind of weird to find another one in the next biome after the Elder. i think they should have just made the Red Ooze bigger and scarier and more like a mini-boss mass to better prepare people for that upcoming fight.

[@dandare9055]

Hmm... plains for me as well but for possibly silly reason: I've built a base on those big pillars.

[@chiefreefer0420]

if u get poisoned just combat log and it goes away when u log back in

[@vegepoeka8874]

btw why didnt you use any capes or what where they were called

[@bencarey243]

What are you talking about with the poison not working? It makes you not even hardly take any poison dmg it makes blobs as harmless as necks.

[@M1KEPH0EN1X]

Well it doesn't completely negate poison damage which kinda makes me salty. But good point it does kinda help. I think it's because I'm used to the Bezoar in Terraria which makes poison not a factor.

[@percollen46]

The potion reduce the poison durarion by half = half the damage. And armor reduce poison damage

[@Acemans]

technically Moder is Wyvern.

[@ramonbezerra3334]

Bonemass is pretty easy to beat if you use some strategy. First, make some good amount of frost arrows. Then, build a tower close to it's spawn point. If you build it on top of a cript it will be better, as the skeletons won't be able to destroy the base. Around the tower, elevate some of the terrain so that skeletons will not be likely to enter the perimeter and bonemass won't destroy your tower either. And that's it. Climb the tower and shoot it from above with your frost arrows. It was actually very, very easy to beat this boss with this.

[@grazzhopper6799]

fun fact the plains arent the final biome, mistlkands is the furthest biome thats part of the progression currently aka either the farnorth and ashlands will most likely be the final biome. you havent defeated yagluth and yet you explore the mistlands? his drop is a wisp that dispels mist around you, think of the wisp in a bottle from terraria with the added benifit of clearing mist.

[@williamshope4400]

The poison resist mead makes poison do essentially no damage at all. Wdym it barely helps?

[@williamshope4400]

You were also in the swamp (tier 3 biome) with tier 1 and tier 2 foods without being rested, so no wonder stamina was an issue hahaha

[@chandler2814]

Well deathsquitos can be mitigated rather effectively with root chest piece from the swamp combo it with padded armour and you got mistlands ready gear along with black metal weapons until you can upgrade. I’d agree with the lineup sorta however I’d say you can swap mistlands and meadows placement, prefer building in meadows but exploring and fighting in the mistlands is way more rewarding and fun plus the added buildables and craftables are nice! Then swap ocean and swamp and you’re good to go ocean has nothing to do and for being a Viking themed gamed it’s a gimmick that gets old fast especially solo, swamp is at least fun to fight in and the boss gives a challenge at least.

[@leonr1985]

Was planning to build a treehouse near the swamp

[@TeakettleNetl]

your gunna be famous one day man. here before 1k

[@cr0ssley]

I can 100% agree on the swamps, that was a slog to get through, and I effectively spedran it my first playthrough, but I can't agree with the Mistlands, it seems like you where WAY underprepared for it, You need the Plains gear at least before you even set foot in there. Not to mention the "Mystical Woods" feel is pretty much exactly what it is, its a place where the veil between the world and magic are the thinnest, it IS the closest thing to the "End Game" we have right now.