Should You Play Valheim in 2024? My Answer | Valheim True Beginner's View

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People on my Steam list saw me playing Valheim and demanded to know this answer. Seems like many people are on the fence about trying this one. Should you give it a go or pass it? Find out what I think.
00:00 Start
00:41 Pace of Technology
02:03 The Graphics
02:45 Better with Friends
02:59 Singing Starts (Sorry)
03:15 Singing Ends (Sorry again)
03:16 Better with Friends Continued
5:10 The Combat
06:14 Conclusion and Recommendation

[@cottonybuffalo5685]

Genuinely probably the best game I’ve ever played

[@athacusgaming]

Definitely one of those *looks at clock* "IT'S WHAT TIME???"

[@forcedge2302]

@@athacusgaming 900+ hours into this game and i get you bro

[@athacusgaming]

@@forcedge2302 I'm just about to cross 60 hours now. Any game that sticks with me past 20 hours is going to be a long-term investment.

[@capatheist]

1700, only the last 100 or so in multi

[@athacusgaming]

@@capatheist Woaaaaah! That is dedication. How were you spending your time? Building? Exploring? Trying different mods or seed variants?

[@BlunderBuns]

My favorite thing is trying to cause the largest possible tree felling chain reaction.

[@athacusgaming]

It's like dominos but with lives at stake.

[@MrYossarianuk]

its a way of getting fine wood early in the game..

[@Kappi__]

Valheim is awesome. Its one of the only games i didnt look up anything because its so fun to discover everything. But i think its a really hard game to play alone. Best to bring friends to play like you said

[@athacusgaming]

I'm trying to stay as spoiler free as I can as I progress in my first playthrough which is what the video's contents were generated from. I think in my next see, I'll metagame a bit more but for now, I'm staying as pure as driven snow.

[@jrsimeon02]

I like the option to choose the progressively challenging biomes as well as the option to choose to lay back in the meadows and wipe out graylings like mosquitoes.

[@athacusgaming]

Self-determined gameplay is just what the doctor ordered sometimes.

[@KarelGeerts_NAC]

The freedom of building and exploration is unreal. I love this game.

[@athacusgaming]

I am currently building a road up a mountain to expedite running silver ore in bulk to our smelter. If you had told 20 year old me that I would voluntarily be doing the kind of work I went to university to avoid in A GAME I would have called you a liar.

[@KarelGeerts_NAC]

@@athacusgaming Yeah but didn't wow have grinding? In many games there is a level of that.

[@athacusgaming]

@@KarelGeerts_NAC oh for sure it did. I remember saying something similar about the Pandaren farms. Upon reflection , I suppose I did it in games like Harvest Moon and even Breath of Fire 2 when I was a kid. I would say that building a mountain road does have a bit more heroic vigor to it so far at least.

[@ryanwitham8600]

I bounced off it the first time around. Playing with friends really changed the game for me. You have to gather more resources to kit everyone out, but it's much more fun roaming and exploring as part of a group and splitting some tasks.

[@athacusgaming]

Friends change everything.

[@GregoryRyan115]

Valheim is a great game and the first time I played it with friends back when it came into early access we were blown away. But I think it has a few glaring issues that you didn't get far enough into the game to see. First off the game starts to borderline on tedium at many points so be ready to spend HOURS of time mining/searching for RNG dungeons and sailing that stuff back. The sailing is really cool at first but becomes more of a chore and loses its charm. Plus there is really nothing to do in the ocean after a certain point. The quality of life need major improvements. There is quick stack but no stack to nearby chest or craft from chest feature. Your armor, food, and equipment take up most of your inventory space leaving little room to pick up other items. Late game especially your inventory feels like its always full and cluttered. The worst part of the game for me is the AI. They seem to be programmed to attack and then do a frustrating long flank circle on you while you get swarmed by other creatures who do the same thing. The bosses are cool but many of them are damage sponges that have resistance to certain types of attacks, so if you want to play as a specific class you cant and are forced to craft different items to get by. At times the game feels unfairly punishing, if you die you drop everything and if your portal breaks you need to craft a new boat and sail back to your body. This can actually take hours of time and at points makes you wonder if its worth it. If you want to keep your sanity PLAY WITH QOL MODS and change your world settings to fit your playstyle. It makes the game more tolerable and fun imo. Only reason for this rant is I think the game need to be improved by the actual devs since its been out for almost 4 years now.

[@athacusgaming]

So, I have seen some of your points since this video went live. We are just into the mountains now after about 50 hours of play while the video went live after about 20 hours of play. 20 hours is the line where I look at any game to see how much enjoyment I'm getting out of it and either drop it or carry on. Valheim passed the 20 hour test with flying colours despite already being able to see some of the issues you've mentioned. In fairness, those issues should have gone into the video but I am quite new at this so I'll have to beg your forbearance. I will be making a second video to discuss these drawbacks since there are quite a few and they deserve addressing. If you're still reading at this point, here is my response to each of the pain points you raised. 1. The grind is real. No doubt about that. As an MMO vet though, that's not necessarily an issue for me but I can understand why some people would find it an slog. This one is down to individual tolerance I feel. 2. Sailing is a split between me and my crew actually. I adore it and have spent hours sailing around mapping out coastlines and potential forward base locations. I even fish from my boat frequently. My crew on the other hand loathe the boats and always want to minimize time spent in them. I'm obviously in the minority. In my last stream, I did agree that the Ocean biome really deserves more love. There's heaps of room for it in the lore and I would be shocked if Iron Gate doesn't visit the Ocean biome again for another pass prior to EA ending. If I don't get to fight a spawn of the Girdle of the Realm, Jormungandr or something similar, I'm going to be quite sad. 3. QoL you're going to get big agreement for me. The interface is very bare bones, almost inexcusably so. I was quite surprised to find out how old school the UI was when I installed the game. It would not look out of place on the Win 95 era games I grew up playing. That's not a compliment. This needs to be addressed. 4. Inventory is a pain but that's an intentional choice I feel on their part. They want players to feel like they need to streamline their kit and plan ahead for encumbrance. Here again, I know my age is showing, but it hearkens back to the old style CRPGs and even games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R where weight was a serious consideration and you often couldn't bring your whole kit along, just the most essential bits. 5. AI needs work in general. Some of the behaviours I've seen have varied from Terminator to C3-P0. Either viciously deadly or utterly inept and getting stuck everywhere. Bosses are really nothing, just speedbumps to get some piece of loot to open up the next biome generally. I agree with you right up until you talk about damage types. I think this is why the game is very clearly without classes. They want solo players to explore the full range while group players are freer to adopt more focused roles. This is definitely going to be a problem for a lot of people. 6. Unfairly punishing is a matter of perspective and can be accounted for in the game's settings but I can see your point. No big disagreement here. 7. I'll be playing with mods in our next playthrough and I'm going to scour the internet to narrow down what will help the most. Some helpful posters here have already suggested some. Another agreement. Thanks for the comment here. I can feel the energy you put into it. I hope the issues you have are addressed sooner rather than later.

[@MoistChickenLegs]

Honestly if there is a time to play it, it's now. The Mistlands and Ashlands biomes have really rounded out the late game and provided lots of good reasons to build anew with new materials, it used to feel a bit pointless to rebuild in the lategame but not anymore. With the final biome on it's way, now is the best time to have a couple playthroughs and some build experience under your belt. Will only increase the quality of your play, and there's even ways to update/regenerate sections of your world for new updates.

[@athacusgaming]

So, I'm not at the Mistlands yet but we're on our way now. The goal my crew and I have is to get at least two solid playthroughs in, one vanilla, one modded. After that, we're going to take stock and see what is next. I'm deeply interested in the Mistlands personally since there is such a chasm in opinions in the playerbase about it. Still, the game is an easy recommend in my 60 hours with it even without lategame content. There's so much to do.

[@bluefinix]

I am 45 and i spent my gaming years on rts games and mostly starcraft. I stopped playing games for many years and occasionally i played a short adventure game and maybe not finish it even. I discovered Valheim about 6 months ago and something felt warm inside me when i saw the gameplay on a yt video. Now i can honestly say that Valheim is the love of my life when it comes to gaming. I cant say all the reasons but every bit of it is perfect. I even enjoy just walking in its majestic wolrd and gaze at the beauty of it. I never liked a game so much.

[@athacusgaming]

That's where I am still! I'm happy that you're still getting so much pleasure out the game!

[@noangelhonestly]

I love the freedom it gives..

[@athacusgaming]

Yes! Choose your direction, choose your goals, choose your weapons, it is all up to you. So refreshing and easy to do whatever strikes your fancy without any pressure.

[@nidhugg4904]

The only thing I hate with the game, are that I wil nerver get to play it for the first time again. Jellus for the new players. But I love it!

[@athacusgaming]

Aye, the shine goes a bit when the systems become more obvious but it is still so easy to love the game.

[@nidhugg4904]

Oh yea! And the thing I do. Is that I do not check out YT before a new biome. I love the suprise aspect of the game, the "holy shit" moments. I really hope the keep the magick of the game how it is. And just add more stuff. Oh and the mod community are sweet as well.

[@athacusgaming]

@@nidhugg4904 this is so important! Lots more exciting stuff to come, I am sure.

[@itsgryme1081]

I agree..experiencing this game for the first time was unlike any other game I've played. It felt like my life was on the line, fully immersed into the world. This game is amazing. Like a lot of people I didn't give it a fair shake at first, but I came back to it a year later and put 400 hours into it. Defeated the queen with my nephew! Great times.

[@nidhugg4904]

@@itsgryme1081 haha thats how it's suposed to be played. I mean , I love to play the game. But it really shine when you play togheter with other players. Sometimes its a bit empty in the world, so hopfully they will add more stuff. There is a buildingstreamer thst have made a huge oroject with other streamers. Like a more rpg game withe towns etc in valheim. Its crazy, would love to try it out.

[@SM-yq9ig]

Started in EA now 1200+ hours later …. Still playing! And on PC the Mods are amazing

[@athacusgaming]

What mod is the most impactful for you?

[@emerynorthrup5220]

after playing the game till the end a few times i found out how easy it was to mod and how that changed the game for me

[@athacusgaming]

It seems like a lot of folks feel that way. Can’t wait to try them out.

[@itranscendencei7964]

Favorite part is easily the combat, how open ended it feels and the things you can accomplish with multiple people. Been a couple years now since I've had someone to play with, but solo is still fun. Will always be better with friends though.

[@athacusgaming]

I’m deeper into the game now than I was when I made this video. The combat continues to please as new enemies appear but the fundamental core of the combat remains the same. Better with friends, but great no matter what.

[@marklentz1095]

Just a small quibble: Iron Gate is the dev team--Coffee Stain is the publisher. Dev team responsible for the combat system. That being said, agree with pretty much all your takes.

[@athacusgaming]

I only noticed that mistake once I had released the video. I was kicking myself hard. I’m glad to hear that you agreed with the takes I had. I’m mulling over some ideas for a few more Valheim vids now.

[@cottonybuffalo5685]

One thing I really like about it is that the characters in worlds are separate and both have different saves so if you die to glitch or something, but you don’t wanna change your world at all you can just revert your character to before the save and have the world not be affected Vice versa

[@athacusgaming]

This is an excellent point! It was a great feature to add.

[@raynman9574]

I absolutely adore Valheim. What I never see spoken about is just how well the tiered progression through each stage is brilliantly balanced. You can stay at one level for as long as you like and prosper, but if you take the step to challenge yourself against Trolls, Draugher, Fullings, or Seekers then you are rewarded across all aspects of the game - gear, visuals, and build opportunities

[@athacusgaming]

So I didn’t articulate this very well in the video but this was the point of my Pace of Technology portion. You can gear up in each tier and do something fulfilling there. You said it better than I did.

[@davezubie]

I have 350 hours in game (solo), and I've just gotten to the mountains. I spend wayyyyyy too much time building. I'm working on a full village :)

[@athacusgaming]

Nothing wrong with that at all. A village sounds super cool. Have you thought about repurposing a draugr village?

[@srignacio]

solid video, you know I'm something of a Valheim enjoyer myself

[@athacusgaming]

You are clearly a person of taste and culture then! Well met and thank you for the compliment.

[@MrYossarianuk]

Yes, the most fun in gaming since the Amiga days

[@athacusgaming]

That is a big statement but it's hard to disagree. I feel like both Valheim, and the genre itself, is so fresh. I'm more enthused about logging in to play than I have been about any game in years.

[@Ching91919]

played both vanilla and modded. This game needs to be modded. Makes it 10x better. The season mod makes the game more dynamic and interresting to play. Monstrum mod makes the game more challenging, there are several mods that makes this game hella strong. The basic vanilla game in it self tends to be a bit to repetative, but with some mods u get QOL (Quality of life) and more building materials that makes building and setteling mroe fun. My advice is to test a play trough without mods first, and then after you elarn the game you can mdo it for a more fun experiecne.

[@athacusgaming]

Thank you so much for calling out specific mods. That is very helpful. I’m really intrigued by a seasonal mod. That is something that is oddly missing in vanilla. My crew and I are doing a vanilla playthrough now. There are a couple stream records up while I get my ducks in order for additional content if you’re curious to see how we are doing. To Valhalla!

[@Ching91919]

@@athacusgaming Nice one ! Will go and check them out. yes, seasonal mod is a gamechanger. Actually made me come back to the game. prob played 20 hours the last 3 days because the game looks and feels better. And for the new players -> Test vanilla first, and if you are looking to spice it up, do mod by mod and test them out on ur local machine before uploading them to ur friends public server. We rented a server to play on for the fun of it. Mods are based on my personal preffrence. Have 34 mods installed. Armory v1.2.1 by Therzie BepInExPack_Valheim v5.4.2202 by denikson Better_Blast_Furnaces v1.0.0 by joryjuky_team BetterArchery v1.9.7 by ishid4 BetterSounds v0.31.0 by Wianda BetterUI_ForeverMaintained v2.5.6 by BetterUI_ForeverMaintained Bounties v3.0.17 by Digitalroot CoreWoodExtras v1.2.2 by MagicMike CreatureLevelAndLootControl v4.6.1 by Smoothbrain DropMoreLoot v1.2.2 by TastyChickenLegs Dryzlers_Mass_Pickup v1.0.1 by dryzler EpicLoot v0.10.1 by RandyKnapp EquipmentAndQuickSlots v2.1.13 by RandyKnapp ExploreTogether v1.3.0 by Rolo Farmyard_Animals v0.4.7 by Horem FloatingItems v1.0.0 by castix ItemStacksandWeight v1.0.0 by TheHomesteaders Jotunn v2.20.1 by ValheimModding MagicPlugin v2.0.5 by blacks7ar Mining v1.1.5 by Smoothbrain MissingPieces v2.2.0 by BentoG Monstrum v1.4.2 by Therzie OdinsSteelworks v0.1.25 by OdinPlus PlantEverything v1.18.1 by Advize Quick_Stack_Store_Sort_Trash_Restock v1.4.7 by Goldenrevolver Sailing v1.1.7 by Smoothbrain SeaAnimals v0.2.6 by Marlthon Seasonality v3.3.7 by RustyMods Seasonality_HD_Texture_Pack v0.0.7 by RustyMods SeasonalityTextures v1.0.0 by RustyMods SeedBed v1.2.2 by blacks7ar Spawn_That v1.2.14 by ASharpPen TeleportEverything v2.6.1 by OdinPlus Warfare v1.7.5 by Therzie For those who are looking for a QOL and a more challenging experience, u can copy pasta the text into thunderstore or Nexus. FYI : The mining mod is marked to not be working, but i cant find any issues with it. had one incident where the copper mine was empty, and then i got back out the copper veins was laying aroung the mine. this has only accourd 1 out of 15 mines.

[@athacusgaming]

@@Ching91919 I’m going to dump this into a txt file. Thank you so much for that detailed list! One of the biggest challenges when modding a new game is where to start. This will save lots of time. I appreciate it!

[@markcole5108]

I just started playing a month ago and it is my favorite game

[@athacusgaming]

Just before I did! What have you enjoyed the most so far?

[@papadrake442]

One of my Favs

[@athacusgaming]

Yeah, I’ve been playing every day since I picked it up. Perfect solo or when my friends are on as a group.

[@rtificial8292]

Just sad I'll never get to play this game for the first time again. This game is incredible for 1gb. No other game has such fun mechanics, animations or building like Valhiem.

[@athacusgaming]

Sometimes simple is best and the creators seem to get that.

[@hernusczyz2093]

Valheim is awesome the biggest plus in this game is world generation

[@athacusgaming]

The procedural generation is a plus, I agree. It makes each seed feel fresh.

[@gordelmol431]

raft mod and vr mod makes it even better

[@athacusgaming]

I'm doing this first playthrough mod-free but I plan to include some in the next one. I'd love to hear about what you consider to be core mods.

[@victoriasrandomstuff]

I love building. Been playing since the beginning.

[@athacusgaming]

I wish I had installed right away. You chose wisely.

[@Lasombra366]

Indie games like this are the new AAA games

[@athacusgaming]

I feel like this is the correct take. AAA studios have their priorities in the wrong places now. I know that's a generalization and exceptions like Larian do exist but they are just that, exceptions. Smaller studios have the ability to follow their own projects and interests without having to worry about pleasing a faceless suit who only cares about short term growth.

[@2070paradigmshift]

I play solo or with one friend most of the time. My biggest complaint is the inventory system being too small. You will fill your inventory up within a minute of fighting or gathering resources.

[@athacusgaming]

If I made this video again, I think I’d mention the inventory, and the connectivity issues to counterbalance the four things I think make the game worthwhile for a beginner to check out. I think the game is amazing but the drawbacks like the inventory (both space and organizational) and the sometimes wonky ui deserve to be discussed.

[@capnsmashy5718]

AzuExtendedPlayerInventory you pick how many slots you want. works wonders for that what to throw away scenario

[@athacusgaming]

@@capnsmashy5718 great recommendation, thank you! I’ll look into it for playthrough 2!

[@gcextol8129]

Yes

[@athacusgaming]

Yes.

[@ExtroLurkerhaz]

Is it worth it? i mean yes, i spent 500 hrs in it. Is mistlands and ashlands good? not really. Mistlands never was fun, and felt a bit broken, the enemies were annoying and you just wanted to get it over with. A lot of the stuff felt unfinished, like the dwarves, so much opportunity to make something interesting. And in the end you had to kill em aswell as everything else in this game. Ashlands was a pain and another biome i just wanted to get over with.

[@athacusgaming]

So, I keep seeing really divided opinions over those two additions in particular. Did you find that the rewards you could get out of the biome not worth the effort or was it that that mechanically the biomes were just not to your taste?

[@user-dn1cl5de4d]

👍👍👍👍

[@thejaybird64]

Great game, and QOL mods make it even better!

[@athacusgaming]

The crew and I are working through the first playthrough now without mods. I'm excited to see what they add to the game. There are definitely some pain points like inventory management that feel like a mod would help a lot.

[@Thund3rr]

Love this.

[@athacusgaming]

Thanks man!

[@yhwach1845]

I love this game from the deep of my heart but I have an issue that makes me upset, whenever I try to join my friends server ( non-dedicated ) a Failed to connect appears every time even though I have tried every possible solution ( PC )

[@athacusgaming]

I am so sorry to hear that you’re having this issue. The game does indeed have some bizarre connection issues. I’m sure you’ve tried common fixes like unchecking cross play and making sure that you’re both showing as online on Steam. Are they able to connect to you if you host? If you can’t connect to them but they can connect to you it would immediately eliminate a possible source and let you and your friend narrow down the root issue. I hope that you’re able to solve the problem and venture together in the tenth realm in the near future!

[@Shelfen]

Root issue is some pinging problem with the game, a VPN usually fixes it somehow, some friends had the same issue, once you start having connection issues your only way is to VPN somewhere

[@athacusgaming]

That’s really odd. That sounds like a port issue somewhere that the VPN is obscuring somehow.

[@Shelfen]

@@athacusgaming likely is, but it seems it came with the Mistlands update from what sources you can find online, and VPN usually fixes the problem faster than waiting for a fix for this, sounds like an obscure bug and usually haunts lower end PCs more than higher end based on comments around online forums/helplines

[@athacusgaming]

@@Shelfen I had some issues getting my dedicated server going too. It seems like connectivity is one of the game’s big pain points.

[@m1galla]

Superb game

[@athacusgaming]

Absolutely. It has its flaws but the things it does well absolutely outshine them.

[@athacusgaming]

It was hard to narrow this down to four points but I did my best. Let me know what you think about Valheim.

[@ianhamilton7317]

Fantastic game.

[@athacusgaming]

I wholeheartedly agree. I wish I’d installed it when I first bought it.

[@Iceslanger]

Tldr: yes!

[@athacusgaming]

Yeah, it’s a pretty easy recommendation!

[@Iceslanger]

Video still great tho! Never stop never stopping.

[@athacusgaming]

Roger that! More content coming while I’m still having fun. We took down the Elder and made our first foray into the swamp last night.

[@capatheist]

Great voice... You should be doing voice work of some kind

[@athacusgaming]

I really appreciate that, thank you. I think I would quite enjoy doing voice work. I wonder if it’s hard to get started on? Something to look into!

[@mariospanna8389]

Awful combat where you have to be on the same level as enemy or hit is not counted, too many people praise a game that can't even do basics right...standards in gaming have dropped so far people don't even know where they are.

[@athacusgaming]

I get where you're coming from on the level issue in combat. It has caused me grief too. I hope they take steps to address it.

[@mariospanna8389]

@@athacusgaming they wont, the fact the enemy can hit you at any level but not vice versa says it all. Its literally coded that way, the game has charm for sure but i will not praise a game that has so many fundemental flaws...

[@t7_br0k3n3]

“So many fundamental flaws” bro, you only mentioned the combat, and yeah that can be annoying but is not something to put down the game for

[@mariospanna8389]

@@t7_br0k3n3 then your not a real gamer, if you think combat is not a reason a game is flawed you are a sheep...

[@Silthanas]

I've got 2500 hours, and it was my favorite game for a while, but theyve been phoning it in. Game is less and less stable, and ashlands didn't deliver. Play soulmask, they care about their game.

[@athacusgaming]

I'll check out Soulmask for sure, thanks for the recommendation. After I've put a few hundred hours into Valheim it is Enshrouded and then Aloft after that if it has something more than a demo ready to go. If it doesn't I'll queue up Soulmask. I'm not sure why survival failed to grab me prior to this but the genre has its claws in now.

[@spiekertt]

Put on god-mode for the Queen fight (still a tough fight) or you will stop playing in the shitty Mistlands and you miss the awesome Ashlands.

[@Dracrek]

The Mistlands forces you to adapt, I love the queen fight, it makes you take all things into account, sword and board, demolisher and the staff of protection feel like the perfect combo, but full magic works really well too, fire staff for adds, ice for the queen, the important things are take your time, keep up rested buff and stay on top of the adds.

[@athacusgaming]

*trepidation rising*

[@athacusgaming]

I'm really excited to have a look at this now! We are just about to leave the Bronze Age in our first playthrough and we can't wait to see what's next. The Queen sounds amazing!

[@Dracrek]

@@athacusgaming that much hype and you're only in the bronze age?! You have so much fun ahead of you. The first playthrough is a magical experience, I'm excited for you and your group.

[@athacusgaming]

@@Dracrek I know! We started playing about ten days ago and this video is the less excited version. The three of us can’t stop talking about it to each other. I’m going to start posting our scheduled sessions and I promise to restrain myself a bit.

[@lurikravensblood5436]

Skal !!!

[@athacusgaming]

Skal!!! Odin sees you!

[@jresker]

Best game ive ever played. The progression is slow but rewarding. The risk of exploration and discovery drives you forward to fashion new equipment all throughout the game. The game loop is anything but boring!

[@athacusgaming]

I could not have put it more succinctly myself! Well said. The game does have its burrs and quirks but they are so miniscule compared to the joy of the loop that I rarely notice them.

[@tyraelpl]

3:10 that wasnt even that bad tbh. Valheim has one flaw for me: mistlands.

[@athacusgaming]

So, I’m working through the Iron Age now. The community seems super divided about Mistlands and I’m curious why. Without having seen it, it seems like, in terms of tone, a change from historical fantasy to high fantasy as well as being mechanically different.

[@tyraelpl]

​@@athacusgaming Well to me mistlands simply used a cheap trick to raise the "difficulty". We all agree that the game is beautiful but in the mistlands the mist obfiscates everything. You can put down things to disspell it but they have such a laughably low radius that you need tens if not hundreds around any settlement you make. There are sometimes a mist free valleys which only adds to this pain cos it shows you how pretty the landscape you're nearly never able to see really is. The terrain is slow AF to travel which when combined with the mist makes it tedious and annoying. Oh and if you go too fast or change direction swiftly the only thing that you have on you that lets you see anything cant keep up with you. Mistlands is a joke, a bad one, every anti-mist thing needs a buff of like 150-200%. The ashlands are truly more difficult and even tho they are much more hostile they are fair. I enjoyed my time there tho they are much more demanding. Why? cos they do that without cheap tricks and taking away my awareness. My advice to you is: make galdr table and craft a feather cape asap, as a top priority. The problem is you need either a lot of luck or you need to explore the mistlands a lot to a point where you might be halfway done with em. Just about anything with mistlands is wrong.

[@tyraelpl]

why "dear" yt you keep removing my comment? wth?

[@athacusgaming]

@@tyraelplI’ve gotten notifications that someone has commented but nothing is there. I don’t have any idea why YT is eating comments.

[@athacusgaming]

The comments are showing up now! I removed the oldest two so there was only one to reply to. I can definitely understand why people would find the Mistlands unpleasant. I’ll come back to this comment when I hit it and let you know how I’m doing. It sounds rough

[@cavjjunior]

Modded? Yes Vanilla? No

[@athacusgaming]

This seems to be a pretty popular sentiment.

[@puhbrox]

There are some really good mods out there

[@athacusgaming]

@@puhbrox Yeah, I'm going to play around with them and put up a video about the results. I'm curious to see what I wind up overlooking in the first pass.