Valheim: 25 More Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Playing

[@shade4108]

Do not block a cleared cave because they can be a safehouse in an emergency, enemies won't follow you inside, easy access to mushrooms, you can build inside and your shelter from the weather

[@cho2969]

The yellow mushrooms inside the burial crypts DO respawn, however - and they are a far better food item than red 'shrooms. Also previously cleared bc's make a good bolt hole, if you get caught in a bad situation; giving you a place to heal up, and prepare. So, mark them on the map, but don't block the entrance.

[@Darkkfated]

Yellow Shrooms inside of Troll Caves also respawn. Takes about 2-3 in-game days for them to come back after you take them.

[@-user_redacted-]

When you clear a dungeon it's a great idea to leave it marked by cross it off. That way you can see from the mini map that it's safe there.

[@PacersPushinP]

I was ready to write this comment almost exact lol. Might i add placing a fire in there will charge your rested bonus as well if too far from home.

[@InfernosReaper]

@@PacersPushinP and sitting logs(2 core wood) can be placed in dungeons as well to get the comfort up higher for a longer rested bonus

[@moosechuckle]

Downloaded valheim the day it came to Xbox. At first I thought, “well, graphics aren’t the best, so I don’t know if I’ll be that into it.” It’s the only thing I think about now. All the tasks I have in life are done just so I can get back to my base. I’m completely obsessed with it.

[@jawless7616]

Level 4 copper mace is the same damage as a level 1 iron mace. Stopping at level 2 is not a good idea. Why does it seem like the comments have better info than the video?

[@MediocreMilton]

In the time spent upgrading a bronze weapon to level 4 you could’ve mined enough iron to make an iron weapon and upgraded it to level 2. You can completely skip bronze and many people go straight to iron.

[@StrItsSelf]

@@MediocreMilton considering how rare crypts can be, & how annoying exploring the swamps can be, I'd rather get the bronze than just hope to find iron.

[@StrItsSelf]

@@MediocreMilton especially on top of the fact that you need the Elder killed for the keys to actually start farming iron which = harder leveled raids on top of that.

[@jeannewallace8967]

The yellow mushrooms respawn and you need them for stamina potions

[@riteasrain]

2:30 I feel rather dumb, been chopping these core wood structures manually 🙄🤣

[@krustykrabpizza7853]

hey there nice content. for the atgeir to stunlock trolls, you can actually keep them stunlocked forever if you want for the stun animation to end, you can just heavy attack them and do it again. if you get the timing right, you wont lose any health

[@cho2969]

You know, I went out, and made an atgeir. I don't know if my skill with it was too low, or my timing was off - but that troll just kicked my butt! 🤣😂🤣 But ouch! First death in a very long time. And 2nd, & 3rd... 😭

[@anthonyzullo]

A good tip is to never take out the mob spawners in the crypts unless absolutely necessary as you can essentially farm bones later.

[@nelsonhemstreet3568]

True, but I am getting more than enough bones without this.

[@Caige-]

One tip I wish ANYONE told me. If you’re on console, there’s a chance (idk how large) that when the game goes to “auto-save”, it crashes and backs you out. And when ya rejoin, your entire world is gone. Still have map progress, still have my character and inventory. But lost about 70 hours of grinding and apparently NOTHING can be done except cheating at this point.

[@claytonmcdorman6057]

idk how well console is at accessing backups, but I was able to recover up until my last autosave thru cloud backups on PC, may be worth checking into! 30 minutes lost is certainly better than 70 hours

[@Caige-]

@@claytonmcdorman6057 I’m on pc, it was my homie on console who was the host and lost everything. And trust…we tried the backups :/ still nothing. Restarted game, his console, and even tried waiting it out. On PC I can see my old saves but not on his world since it was a community server and I wasn’t the host :c really just sucks…looks like it’s been a known problem for over 2 years now as well

[@grim5851]

When that happens turn your Xbox off immediately. After you restart the console clear the memory files for the game under 'manage game'. The three line button when game is selected. Try launching the game again and that should fix it. If you just try to restart the game without clearing console memory it will corrupt all of your backups.

[@Caige-]

@@grim5851 can’t even test that because he for sure exit and restarted the game, and afterwards reset his console and tried again. same thing :/ mostly just wanted to warn new players like myself. This game is REALLY fun but the devs must not care much to have a problem this massive span over 2 years…

[@Omgbbqhaxlolol]

@@Caige- It's not so easy as that. From my understanding, they had the problem initially on launch, it happened to me, but I had backups thankfully. Since that, which was probably a year and a half ago, I've seen in the notes for the updates that it was fixed for PC. Since it just released on console, and they never really had time to test the cross play compatibility, I'd assume this is a new thing again. If you really are a new player, I'll inform you that when they make these kinds of updates they often put them out on the public test branch for at least a week, usually 2 before they make it go live, this they weren't able to do that with. Just logically speaking how do you opt in for the test branch of a game, on console, that isn't on the console's store for you to look at to get the test branch? Often times for PC the crash was caused by some old mods or outdated drivers, but some of them were completely random and couldn't be fixed, such as what happened to us. The other thing is, everyone up until recently has been on PC, where it's easy to make backups and cheat things in if you need, so there hasn't REALLY been a big need to fix this. Though as far as I was aware, that issue was fixed, and it looks like it's resurfacing again.

[@vvbazilvv362]

I wish i knew about save file corruption before i started playing.

[@Kadath_Gaming]

The Serpent Scale Shield is a strong tower shield with pierce resistance, which stacks with the Root Harnesk pierce resistance, and it is a much lighter weight and has the lowest movement reduction of any tower shield in the game currently. I still use it in Mistlands with the Root Harnesk for max pierce resistance in combination with Fenris armour components (hot swapping the chest for increased movement) and a Padded Armour Helmet which doesn't reduce movement speed. You can even hot swap the Fenris helm and chest to gain the full set bonuses for fire resistance and movement speed with 2 hot key presses. The combination of these items makes handling the Mistlands far easier than in fully upgraded padded armour and black metal tower shield, the serpent scale shield is the only tower shield I would consider using pretty much anywhere.

[@anthonyzullo]

Pro tip, mod the game after you've run through it on vanilla. I got to mistlands and decided to Mos. Been a blast so far. I'm playing solo but could only imagine the fun with friends.

[@cho2969]

I meant to say this yesterday in my first comment; great video, sir! How I wish someone had been reminding me about #5 (upgrade your workbench) on regular intervals.

[@grimrevan4660]

When a raid starts I begin playing Dynasty Warriors.

[@brettness1416]

One of my all time favorite games. Havnt played since like Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires I think, on the ps2 lol

[@parabolicpawn]

I'm a 80s 90s gamer. I just figure it out. Worse that happened was I had Some extra hammers.

[@inspectorsteve2287]

So i made a raft for the first time and as i was sailing a big thud noise happened. I looked up and there is a huge tree looking thing with shinny green lines in it. Is it a spoiler to tell me why thats there? Or why it only happened while i was rafting

[@kerra7386]

Super helpful, thank you for making this!😊

[@TheRealRubikscube777]

I went into the dev controls and maxed out my fps lol

[@OriginalRyan]

These are the tips that I'm looking for. Simple, quick, & effective. Great video!

[@slipperysteev]

I'm 5 days in Valheim. Most of these I knew, but you certainly shed some light on the ones I didn't, and I'm glad you took the time to make this video for newbs like me :)

[@patient_6925]

Grounded feature board updatex and now says something about mutations loadout. Know anything about it?

[@MediocreMilton]

Apparently they are adding 4 mutation loadouts. I guess it's a nice to have for new players but so far there is no news on any real content coming in the future.

[@patient_6925]

@@MediocreMilton well if 7 days to die has shown us anything, its that you an release a game, sell physical copies in stores and still call your game alpha in development. Grounded can waste all the time the time they on pointless cosmetics and load outs, but none of that will draw us back

[@MediocreMilton]

Funny thing is some people think this tiny change is actual content. 🤣 If they drop a major content update I'll check it out but right now I have no desire to ever play the game again.

[@lewiqe]

@2:18, how did you know there will be a chest?

[@TheCharliedean]

The stones around it mark a viking burial site. When you unlock the wishbone you can also find treasures with it.

[@scarypineapple8608]

1:23 why do you recommend not upgrading gear past level 2??

[@MediocreMilton]

Because the amount of resources it costs isn't worth the small stat increase.

[@InfernosReaper]

@@MediocreMilton later on that does change a bit. the real waste of resources is bronze armor and weapons. just max out the flint spear, stagbreaker troll armor, and go to the ocean to get an abyssal razor to handle the swamps until enough iron is secured. Bonus points if you find a good sea serpent spawn that's near enough to short to make dragging them there to kill a cakewalk, because the Serpent Tower Shield can carry one into the plains(arguably Mistlands, depending on what you're fighting there)

[@TheFatherWoo]

How do you do forage on console??

[@riteasrain]

Do you mean forage, or make the forge?

[@TheFatherWoo]

@@riteasrain forage. He said you can turn it down but I wonder if you can do that on console because I didn’t see it!

[@destroyerofnirn3537]

​@@TheFatherWoo foliage

[@TheFatherWoo]

@@destroyerofnirn3537 haha yes sorry!

[@Firftr145]

Unfortunately, we can't turn down the foliage on console. Maybe that feature is coming, but at the moment, we're stuck in the deep grass.

[@demonicsydneh]

Do the 25 least helpful tips next! 😂😂

[@shinrapresident7010]

1. Fine wood can also be used to make charcoal in a kiln.

[@demonicsydneh]

@@shinrapresident7010 😂😂 LOVE IT!!

[@joshhiroti]

Earthworks are better than any walls you can build

[@StrItsSelf]

they also cause lag & crashes though.

[@IShallCallHimTaders]

Didn't this game come out 2 years ago? The hell is going on

[@MediocreMilton]

Just came to Xbox a few weeks ago

[@Puffens_Adventures]

Cuz the console version is a bit different from PC

[@savagestea7435]

Really? The console Version should be exactly the same as stated by the devs

[@dracula2749]

They are exactly the same what do you mean. I play pc and my brother is on xbox and were on the same server. Nothing at all is different except the control scheme

[@Telesgoooo]

a loss of a metric ton of the graphic settings in comparison to pc I get there's supposed to be less but like 4 settings....? We can't even turn foliage off if we wanted to rofl, and quick question does the pc version freeze super hard every save? It's beyond annoying ngl 😂

[@savagestea7435]

@@Telesgoooo Yeah it freezes on PC too everytime it saves for a second or two

[@nathanburgett1599]

Raising land bridges makes sailing even harder. Also, i need a forge to repair my ship.

[@raindancer77]

No ships require a forge to repair in vanilla Valheim. Are you playing with modded boats?

[@nathanburgett1599]

@@raindancer77 nope. If there isn't a forge nearby it doesn't let me repair my ship. Its the same for most other things as well. Like, you cant repair walls without workbench nearby

[@raindancer77]

@@nathanburgett1599 Right, you need a workbench for any repairs, but I've never needed a forge to repair my ship. That's so weird!

[@joemalone6994]

i love the vids but please include in game audio, it sounds weird without it

[@jarredlucas4000]

A U T I S M

[@Sreyz]

Are you playing on a toaster? Game looks like clay

[@drugsarebad97]

He prob turned graphics settings down to boost fps

[@anthonyzullo]

Valheim vanilla looked like dog shit even on my high end PC at max graphics, I had to download a mod to make this bitch look presentable. Multiple mods, excuse me lmao. Now the sea looks better, oh shit, a fucking capybara! Clubbed*

[@dracula2749]

Was wondering the same. It looks 1000x better on my end lol

[@yousiftareq8694]

Not t

[@yousiftareq8694]

Not too helpful...

[@Puffens_Adventures]

Can u do a Xbox version

[@dedmanzombie]

Actually it's not, it's has parity with the PC and will get the updates the same time

[@africanwarlord4283]

for now the ocean is safe at daytime if there is no storm