As the title says, all this beauty should be illegal.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605494

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605115

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605785

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406610540

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406610807

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406612062

Originally posted by CGA:

yep i personally dont get why some complain about the graphics. i think it looks awesome. nice pictures thx for sharing

Right? It's an amazing looking game. Maybe people expect strict photorealism on everything these days...

Anyways, I'm glad you liked the pictures.

Lovely thread, I hope to contribute and learn! Thanks! :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414978332
*tragedy

My WIP, and first build. Alot of wood so far.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414982688
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414982543

The process
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372821
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372527
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372132

Nice

Great screencaps.

Epic screenshots, good job buddy. Yeah this game is breathtaking, spend irl hours just sitting and watching :D.

Originally posted by CGA:

yep i personally dont get why some complain about the graphics. i think it looks awesome. nice pictures thx for sharing

Right? It's an amazing looking game. Maybe people expect strict photorealism on everything these days...

Anyways, I'm glad you liked the pictures.

Nice

Great screencaps.

Originally posted by CGA:

yep i personally dont get why some complain about the graphics. i think it looks awesome. nice pictures thx for sharing

"But the texture resolution isn't 4K like I bought overpriced hardware for".... or something.

I mean, I exagerate but honestly I love how this game bucks the trend of graphics direction that see prettier graphics sometimes purely in terms of "higher resolution/polycount/etc support than X" to the point of sometimes forgeting.... like, art direction. Again of an exageration but gosh it feels such sometimes.

Honestly, I like how this game manage to not only have this low texture resolution/low polycount models approach for lower requirements but also *rolls with it*. Because in truth, it's a very modern game; you see it in the lighting engine, the water, the use of normal mapping.

It's just that it understood that "having access to modern tech" doesn't mean you're always absolutely have to constantly go "push hardware to the max because that's the only standard of pretty for some" and instead decided to scale back to a MUCH more approachable hardware requirement that, thanks to wonderful art direction and other aspects it's more forgiving graphics allows... make for an utterly gorgeous experience.

Amusingly the only other game I can think of pulling a similar "lo-fi but GORGEOUS" might be the Octopath Traveller folks with how they simply made a world of simple 3D with literally 16bits pixel textures and 2D character sprites but then overlaid the whole with beautiful lighting and other effects like gorgeous water and it just... work?? Like "I sometimes feel like I'm staring at wonderful papercraft diorama" work.

Back to Valheim, I sometimes I have to even pinch myself when wandering it's forests and grassy fields because they are so much more immersive than other more "advanced" games despite all the pixelated textures. But then when I pause I end up realizing it's likely *because* more advanced games can't even "afford" forest that lush and packed with so much tree and detail without performance taking a massive hits so much they've pushed things which forces people to either have massive overpriced hardware to run things at full detail or cut down in detail until everything is but an incomplete picture of what it should be like an incomplete canvas.

But because Valheim has such forgiving requirement thanks to it's approach, it's able to not only give but *procedurally generate* complete canvas from the get-go, amazing us with the fullness of it's environment.
No Man's Sky, and that's with years of improvement(and improved it has! I still play it once in a while and stops only because of unergonomic controls to my sensitive carpal tunnel or else I'd play it more) and optimization to both it's graphics and procedural engine still feels lightyear away from generating anything that actually come close to feeling like as "complete" a forest to walk into and wander through the way Valheim already does in it's first year.

And Valheim does that by procedurally generating it's environment itself as well rather than being handcrafted environments like ARK or Conan Exiles who HAD to be handcrafted to optimize their absurd requirements.

And the fact that Valheim, unlike these handcrafted later titles, weights only 1gb instead of 100gb also again make it all the more accessible.

I've only just started playing a few days ago and I keep being amazed by just how much this title does RIGHT straight off the bat without even having left early access yet(I'm not even getting into the gameplay nuances that it pulls off that were so critically needed by the genre since so long)


TL:DR : just like Octopath Traveller's own art direction, Valheim is a game that keep me thinking about that one Nintendo quote relating to their console design philosophy being based on "Lateral Thinking with Withered (“Weathered”) Technology".

By this I mean that their decision to purposefully make the graphics "lower"(but then thinking on WHAT to do with these graphics) they made a game that almost everybody can afford, almost everybody can afford to install on their computer and which nobody will have to wonder if they even have enough hard disk space to install it.

Case in point:

An actual port of ARK was attempted for Switch. It runs as well as you can expect it: barely and only after butchering it all to hell with "optimization".

... meanwhile I'm fairly certain Valheim, should a port happen for that console, would run on it with extremely very little sacrifices and remains as gorgeous on it than it is now for the average player.

Like, perhaps without meaning to, the devs likely very much made the "massive sandbox survival game that could run on a Switch where every others couldn't".

Whats amazing, is that it looks that good AND its low poly... like wha.....

My base (WIP). Three story house.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415663174
Every placement is pixel perfect. This is key to making every part symetrically placed.
I highly recommend making a plan for your building before starting to build as i've had to fiddle around alot with terraforming as an afterthought.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415663256
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415663316
Placing chests from the sides makes it easy to build a "drawer like" system. Minimizing space.

We already have such a place. It's called Reddit. You should Google it.

Lovely thread, I hope to contribute and learn! Thanks! :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414978332
*tragedy

My WIP, and first build. Alot of wood so far.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414982688
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414982543

The process
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372821
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372527
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372132

I had the same idea, but you beat me to it. I'm sure there are a lot of people like me who could use some advice or inspiration on building more advanced designs.

Originally posted by DarkEternal:

We already have such a place. It's called Reddit. You should Google it.

You should go back there.

Originally posted by BGratz:

I think we need such a Thread. A place people that focus much on the building side of the game.
...

Tell me your opinion: There are now mods that allow people to deactivate core features of the game's building system, specifically, the structural-integrity calculations and the terrain restrictions. This enables the building of structures that should be impossible, often blatantly so. I wholeheartedly believe it's your game, do what you enjoy, however there are people doing this and then claiming their buildings are legit. My question (to anyone); do you feel that these "fake builders" unfairly take away from legit builders due to the viewing audience not knowing that they are comparing/judging people who circumvent the game's rules against people who stay within those rules?

Originally posted by vadeN:

...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415663256...

I made a waterfront base too...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2412131701
...but I like how you went down instead of up. Looks nice.

trying to build a house that doesnt fall on my head, like most

I wish I could see your build. I love stealing ideas. Ive been currently working on a woodlot that I ended up making look more like an unfinished town bigger than our servers biggest town. I uhhh.... probably shouldnt have shored up all those areas with stone walls...

KInd of just wanted the trees not to escape. The troll gate may have been a bit overkill too, though theres always something special about inviting a troll to lumberjack for you that I love.

As the title says, all this beauty should be illegal.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605494

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605115

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605785

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406610540

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406610807

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406612062

yep i personally dont get why some complain about the graphics. i think it looks awesome. nice pictures thx for sharing

yep i personally dont get why some complain about the graphics. i think it looks awesome. nice pictures thx for sharing

As the title says, all this beauty should be illegal.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605494

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605115

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605785

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406610540

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406610807

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406612062

Epic screenshots, good job buddy. Yeah this game is breathtaking, spend irl hours just sitting and watching :D.

Originally posted by CGA:

yep i personally dont get why some complain about the graphics. i think it looks awesome. nice pictures thx for sharing

Right? It's an amazing looking game. Maybe people expect strict photorealism on everything these days...

Anyways, I'm glad you liked the pictures.

Nice

Whats amazing, is that it looks that good AND its low poly... like wha.....

We already have such a place. It's called Reddit. You should Google it.

Originally posted by CGA:

yep i personally dont get why some complain about the graphics. i think it looks awesome. nice pictures thx for sharing

"But the texture resolution isn't 4K like I bought overpriced hardware for".... or something.

I mean, I exagerate but honestly I love how this game bucks the trend of graphics direction that see prettier graphics sometimes purely in terms of "higher resolution/polycount/etc support than X" to the point of sometimes forgeting.... like, art direction. Again of an exageration but gosh it feels such sometimes.

Honestly, I like how this game manage to not only have this low texture resolution/low polycount models approach for lower requirements but also *rolls with it*. Because in truth, it's a very modern game; you see it in the lighting engine, the water, the use of normal mapping.

It's just that it understood that "having access to modern tech" doesn't mean you're always absolutely have to constantly go "push hardware to the max because that's the only standard of pretty for some" and instead decided to scale back to a MUCH more approachable hardware requirement that, thanks to wonderful art direction and other aspects it's more forgiving graphics allows... make for an utterly gorgeous experience.

Amusingly the only other game I can think of pulling a similar "lo-fi but GORGEOUS" might be the Octopath Traveller folks with how they simply made a world of simple 3D with literally 16bits pixel textures and 2D character sprites but then overlaid the whole with beautiful lighting and other effects like gorgeous water and it just... work?? Like "I sometimes feel like I'm staring at wonderful papercraft diorama" work.

Back to Valheim, I sometimes I have to even pinch myself when wandering it's forests and grassy fields because they are so much more immersive than other more "advanced" games despite all the pixelated textures. But then when I pause I end up realizing it's likely *because* more advanced games can't even "afford" forest that lush and packed with so much tree and detail without performance taking a massive hits so much they've pushed things which forces people to either have massive overpriced hardware to run things at full detail or cut down in detail until everything is but an incomplete picture of what it should be like an incomplete canvas.

But because Valheim has such forgiving requirement thanks to it's approach, it's able to not only give but *procedurally generate* complete canvas from the get-go, amazing us with the fullness of it's environment.
No Man's Sky, and that's with years of improvement(and improved it has! I still play it once in a while and stops only because of unergonomic controls to my sensitive carpal tunnel or else I'd play it more) and optimization to both it's graphics and procedural engine still feels lightyear away from generating anything that actually come close to feeling like as "complete" a forest to walk into and wander through the way Valheim already does in it's first year.

And Valheim does that by procedurally generating it's environment itself as well rather than being handcrafted environments like ARK or Conan Exiles who HAD to be handcrafted to optimize their absurd requirements.

And the fact that Valheim, unlike these handcrafted later titles, weights only 1gb instead of 100gb also again make it all the more accessible.

I've only just started playing a few days ago and I keep being amazed by just how much this title does RIGHT straight off the bat without even having left early access yet(I'm not even getting into the gameplay nuances that it pulls off that were so critically needed by the genre since so long)


TL:DR : just like Octopath Traveller's own art direction, Valheim is a game that keep me thinking about that one Nintendo quote relating to their console design philosophy being based on "Lateral Thinking with Withered (“Weathered”) Technology".

By this I mean that their decision to purposefully make the graphics "lower"(but then thinking on WHAT to do with these graphics) they made a game that almost everybody can afford, almost everybody can afford to install on their computer and which nobody will have to wonder if they even have enough hard disk space to install it.

Case in point:

An actual port of ARK was attempted for Switch. It runs as well as you can expect it: barely and only after butchering it all to hell with "optimization".

... meanwhile I'm fairly certain Valheim, should a port happen for that console, would run on it with extremely very little sacrifices and remains as gorgeous on it than it is now for the average player.

Like, perhaps without meaning to, the devs likely very much made the "massive sandbox survival game that could run on a Switch where every others couldn't".

Originally posted by DarkEternal:

We already have such a place. It's called Reddit. You should Google it.

You should go back there.

Originally posted by BGratz:

I think we need such a Thread. A place people that focus much on the building side of the game.
...

Tell me your opinion: There are now mods that allow people to deactivate core features of the game's building system, specifically, the structural-integrity calculations and the terrain restrictions. This enables the building of structures that should be impossible, often blatantly so. I wholeheartedly believe it's your game, do what you enjoy, however there are people doing this and then claiming their buildings are legit. My question (to anyone); do you feel that these "fake builders" unfairly take away from legit builders due to the viewing audience not knowing that they are comparing/judging people who circumvent the game's rules against people who stay within those rules?

Originally posted by vadeN:

...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415663256...

I made a waterfront base too...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2412131701
...but I like how you went down instead of up. Looks nice.

trying to build a house that doesnt fall on my head, like most

Great screencaps.

As the title says, all this beauty should be illegal.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605494

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605115

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406605785

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406610540

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406610807

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406612062

yep i personally dont get why some complain about the graphics. i think it looks awesome. nice pictures thx for sharing

Epic screenshots, good job buddy. Yeah this game is breathtaking, spend irl hours just sitting and watching :D.

Originally posted by CGA:

yep i personally dont get why some complain about the graphics. i think it looks awesome. nice pictures thx for sharing

Right? It's an amazing looking game. Maybe people expect strict photorealism on everything these days...

Anyways, I'm glad you liked the pictures.

Nice

Great screencaps.

Originally posted by CGA:

yep i personally dont get why some complain about the graphics. i think it looks awesome. nice pictures thx for sharing

"But the texture resolution isn't 4K like I bought overpriced hardware for".... or something.

I mean, I exagerate but honestly I love how this game bucks the trend of graphics direction that see prettier graphics sometimes purely in terms of "higher resolution/polycount/etc support than X" to the point of sometimes forgeting.... like, art direction. Again of an exageration but gosh it feels such sometimes.

Honestly, I like how this game manage to not only have this low texture resolution/low polycount models approach for lower requirements but also *rolls with it*. Because in truth, it's a very modern game; you see it in the lighting engine, the water, the use of normal mapping.

It's just that it understood that "having access to modern tech" doesn't mean you're always absolutely have to constantly go "push hardware to the max because that's the only standard of pretty for some" and instead decided to scale back to a MUCH more approachable hardware requirement that, thanks to wonderful art direction and other aspects it's more forgiving graphics allows... make for an utterly gorgeous experience.

Amusingly the only other game I can think of pulling a similar "lo-fi but GORGEOUS" might be the Octopath Traveller folks with how they simply made a world of simple 3D with literally 16bits pixel textures and 2D character sprites but then overlaid the whole with beautiful lighting and other effects like gorgeous water and it just... work?? Like "I sometimes feel like I'm staring at wonderful papercraft diorama" work.

Back to Valheim, I sometimes I have to even pinch myself when wandering it's forests and grassy fields because they are so much more immersive than other more "advanced" games despite all the pixelated textures. But then when I pause I end up realizing it's likely *because* more advanced games can't even "afford" forest that lush and packed with so much tree and detail without performance taking a massive hits so much they've pushed things which forces people to either have massive overpriced hardware to run things at full detail or cut down in detail until everything is but an incomplete picture of what it should be like an incomplete canvas.

But because Valheim has such forgiving requirement thanks to it's approach, it's able to not only give but *procedurally generate* complete canvas from the get-go, amazing us with the fullness of it's environment.
No Man's Sky, and that's with years of improvement(and improved it has! I still play it once in a while and stops only because of unergonomic controls to my sensitive carpal tunnel or else I'd play it more) and optimization to both it's graphics and procedural engine still feels lightyear away from generating anything that actually come close to feeling like as "complete" a forest to walk into and wander through the way Valheim already does in it's first year.

And Valheim does that by procedurally generating it's environment itself as well rather than being handcrafted environments like ARK or Conan Exiles who HAD to be handcrafted to optimize their absurd requirements.

And the fact that Valheim, unlike these handcrafted later titles, weights only 1gb instead of 100gb also again make it all the more accessible.

I've only just started playing a few days ago and I keep being amazed by just how much this title does RIGHT straight off the bat without even having left early access yet(I'm not even getting into the gameplay nuances that it pulls off that were so critically needed by the genre since so long)


TL:DR : just like Octopath Traveller's own art direction, Valheim is a game that keep me thinking about that one Nintendo quote relating to their console design philosophy being based on "Lateral Thinking with Withered (“Weathered”) Technology".

By this I mean that their decision to purposefully make the graphics "lower"(but then thinking on WHAT to do with these graphics) they made a game that almost everybody can afford, almost everybody can afford to install on their computer and which nobody will have to wonder if they even have enough hard disk space to install it.

Case in point:

An actual port of ARK was attempted for Switch. It runs as well as you can expect it: barely and only after butchering it all to hell with "optimization".

... meanwhile I'm fairly certain Valheim, should a port happen for that console, would run on it with extremely very little sacrifices and remains as gorgeous on it than it is now for the average player.

Like, perhaps without meaning to, the devs likely very much made the "massive sandbox survival game that could run on a Switch where every others couldn't".

Whats amazing, is that it looks that good AND its low poly... like wha.....

Steam is bugged with screenshots atm cant open them without using the url. So I'll wait till the Tuesdaymaintinence bugs get fixed Tuesday is yesterday for me some may not have got to Tuesday yet lol.

Making preparations for my first foray into the swamp, had to build a karve, and scout out extra islands, then when i found it i sailed back. Next came gathering enough copper and tin to upgrade my bronze gear, after that was making some poison resistant mead. Now i'm more or less ready to set sail again, the last thing i did was run a few troll caves and skeleton crypts, made enough money to buy head light and strength belt, when i get there gonna set up a small camp and make a portal on the other side so i have a quick route back to base.

Probably spent the better part of five to six hours just preparing for this trip, prolly get killed after about two mins.

I was thinking about getting bigger amounts of iron and then build a bigger house with stone floor between the trees in the mistlands. this could result in alot of work, but the result could be interesting.
I'm still a little concerned here, because of the future inhabitants of the biome, but as far as I got it, thats still far down the road.

I stepped back from my (and my friends) old plans of a big castle because of the performance issues caused by terraforming. Combined with the other requirements (access to multiple biomes close by, harbor) its difficult to find a fitting building spot.

Originally posted by Seishisha:

the last thing i did was run a when i get there gonna set up a small camp and make a portal on the other side so i have a quick route back to base.

Adventuring into any biome, I do the same. At the base I make 2 portals - Home and Swamp. I build a small 3x3 shack with a portal to Swamp - just in case there is an unexpected death. For the swamps specifically, I do a run in daytime and try to run and mark all the crypts and unlock them. Then I pick a crypt to start and build a second port to Home. That way I have a quick port back to unload non-metal stuff, repair my pickaxe and refresh the Rested buff. Port back and continue.

Recommendations - poison resist mead, decent armor, mace, bow/arrow and pickaxe. Mine the muddy piles just so you can see into the room. Shoot mobs with bow/arrow. Listen for flies - they are spawners. Make sure you take them out as well.

Enjoy your time in the swamps. I head back every now and then to some spawners I left active to gather their resources.

Steam is bugged with screenshots atm cant open them without using the url. So I'll wait till the Tuesdaymaintinence bugs get fixed Tuesday is yesterday for me some may not have got to Tuesday yet lol.

I'm currently trying to ride wagons down mountains.

Lovely thread, I hope to contribute and learn! Thanks! :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414978332
*tragedy

My WIP, and first build. Alot of wood so far.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414982688
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414982543

The process
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372821
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372527
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372132

My pride and joy so far, but my plans are bigger. I can mine copper now I guess?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414982543

My base (WIP). Three story house.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415663174
Every placement is pixel perfect. This is key to making every part symetrically placed.
I highly recommend making a plan for your building before starting to build as i've had to fiddle around alot with terraforming as an afterthought.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415663256
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415663316
Placing chests from the sides makes it easy to build a "drawer like" system. Minimizing space.

We already have such a place. It's called Reddit. You should Google it.

Lovely thread, I hope to contribute and learn! Thanks! :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414978332
*tragedy

My WIP, and first build. Alot of wood so far.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414982688
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414982543

The process
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372821
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372527
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415372132

I had the same idea, but you beat me to it. I'm sure there are a lot of people like me who could use some advice or inspiration on building more advanced designs.

Originally posted by DarkEternal:

We already have such a place. It's called Reddit. You should Google it.

You should go back there.

Originally posted by BGratz:

I think we need such a Thread. A place people that focus much on the building side of the game.
...

Tell me your opinion: There are now mods that allow people to deactivate core features of the game's building system, specifically, the structural-integrity calculations and the terrain restrictions. This enables the building of structures that should be impossible, often blatantly so. I wholeheartedly believe it's your game, do what you enjoy, however there are people doing this and then claiming their buildings are legit. My question (to anyone); do you feel that these "fake builders" unfairly take away from legit builders due to the viewing audience not knowing that they are comparing/judging people who circumvent the game's rules against people who stay within those rules?

Originally posted by vadeN:

...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2415663256...

I made a waterfront base too...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2412131701
...but I like how you went down instead of up. Looks nice.

trying to build a house that doesnt fall on my head, like most

I wish I could see your build. I love stealing ideas. Ive been currently working on a woodlot that I ended up making look more like an unfinished town bigger than our servers biggest town. I uhhh.... probably shouldnt have shored up all those areas with stone walls...

KInd of just wanted the trees not to escape. The troll gate may have been a bit overkill too, though theres always something special about inviting a troll to lumberjack for you that I love.

I'm currently trying to ride wagons down mountains.

Making preparations for my first foray into the swamp, had to build a karve, and scout out extra islands, then when i found it i sailed back. Next came gathering enough copper and tin to upgrade my bronze gear, after that was making some poison resistant mead. Now i'm more or less ready to set sail again, the last thing i did was run a few troll caves and skeleton crypts, made enough money to buy head light and strength belt, when i get there gonna set up a small camp and make a portal on the other side so i have a quick route back to base.

Probably spent the better part of five to six hours just preparing for this trip, prolly get killed after about two mins.

Originally posted by Seishisha:

the last thing i did was run a when i get there gonna set up a small camp and make a portal on the other side so i have a quick route back to base.

Adventuring into any biome, I do the same. At the base I make 2 portals - Home and Swamp. I build a small 3x3 shack with a portal to Swamp - just in case there is an unexpected death. For the swamps specifically, I do a run in daytime and try to run and mark all the crypts and unlock them. Then I pick a crypt to start and build a second port to Home. That way I have a quick port back to unload non-metal stuff, repair my pickaxe and refresh the Rested buff. Port back and continue.

Recommendations - poison resist mead, decent armor, mace, bow/arrow and pickaxe. Mine the muddy piles just so you can see into the room. Shoot mobs with bow/arrow. Listen for flies - they are spawners. Make sure you take them out as well.

Enjoy your time in the swamps. I head back every now and then to some spawners I left active to gather their resources.

Started a new Permadeath Expert Mode run. This time, no shields or bow (aside from pulling mobs).

Building wise, not much, though.

My pride and joy so far, but my plans are bigger. I can mine copper now I guess?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414982543

I was thinking about getting bigger amounts of iron and then build a bigger house with stone floor between the trees in the mistlands. this could result in alot of work, but the result could be interesting.
I'm still a little concerned here, because of the future inhabitants of the biome, but as far as I got it, thats still far down the road.

I stepped back from my (and my friends) old plans of a big castle because of the performance issues caused by terraforming. Combined with the other requirements (access to multiple biomes close by, harbor) its difficult to find a fitting building spot.

Cooking Lox meat

Steam is bugged with screenshots atm cant open them without using the url. So I'll wait till the Tuesdaymaintinence bugs get fixed Tuesday is yesterday for me some may not have got to Tuesday yet lol.

same screenshots buggy af atm

Sailing the world, looking for my Goldilocks, late game base site.

Building, building, falling from the roof and dying, continue building ....

Taking pot shots at some wild lox from across the river into a plains biome and then running away to kite them to get their fur for a new rug, while being careful not to kill them in the deep part of the river, and not to get killed by anything else in the process. Was fun until I got chased by 2 little green dudes & ran for my life. Came back, killed the green things & got their stuff, unlocked black metal before I even saw iron yet, lol. Good times. Currently sailing around & searching for runes to kill bone mass.

making the biggest longhouse i am capable of

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1830150457241969681/54B3CE91D2A56989275E8D1669D1288AE18B8A2E/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

:)

I'll start.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2716498109

then ill go second - an older build
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2680407105

EDIT:
i ll add some shots from the cursed Forest build
backside of the build (integrated dug up tomb)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2680620897

the inside
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2678463707

one of the cursed pillars
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2678487244

what it looks like before i build there
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2676584691

I was asked for close up shots so here they are...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717200479

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717200150

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717200269

Originally posted by M.Red:

then ill go second - an older build

Looking good Red!

A New World

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717025236

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717025539

An older World

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2692747237

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2692747275

A mountain village with some friends

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2681941605

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2681941590

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2681941621

Noice Lonewolf

indeed, a clean and well made builds

Thank you very much, you both. :-)

My first World and first buildings. not finished yet. day 675


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717395486
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717395712
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717395811
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717395899

entrace to the longhouse
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717402127
portals are in the basement, boss portals are in the 2nd basement floor
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717402412

in the plains
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717402949
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717403100

hunting lodge
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717504686

intermediate port
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717505186
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717505373

updated my house

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717864866
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717864998

Awesome!

This is the current state of my base in Valheim. Built by myself in Survival, no cheats. Most of it was built before I installed mods, I don't run any cheat mods either. My brother is the only one who joined the world, all he did was build that dock and make claim a bed.

https://youtu.be/FyBCoh21LJg

derboern, iKyriousi those look great!

Started a new world on a server after Hearth and Home released :

Mountains

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717493699 steps

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717493526 inside (tame shack)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717493455 boatcoaster


Ocean

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717493898 sealab

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717493961 sealab 2

Plains

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2707217671

Swamp

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2650605752

Meadows

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717502299

Nice stuff Ryz :D

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1830150457241977659/7152D1CC18384597FD18346ED7A41276727E04B2/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1830150457241974435/83FD794909A8A544FD4585019CDE769F14F9F083/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

:)

I'll start.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2716498109

then ill go second - an older build
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2680407105

EDIT:
i ll add some shots from the cursed Forest build
backside of the build (integrated dug up tomb)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2680620897

the inside
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2678463707

one of the cursed pillars
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2678487244

what it looks like before i build there
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2676584691

I was asked for close up shots so here they are...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717200479

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717200150

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717200269

Originally posted by M.Red:

then ill go second - an older build

Looking good Red!

A New World

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717025236

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717025539

An older World

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2692747237

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2692747275

A mountain village with some friends

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2681941605

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2681941590

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2681941621

Noice Lonewolf

indeed, a clean and well made builds

Thank you very much, you both. :-)

My first World and first buildings. not finished yet. day 675


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717395486
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717395712
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717395811
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717395899

entrace to the longhouse
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717402127
portals are in the basement, boss portals are in the 2nd basement floor
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717402412

in the plains
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717402949
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717403100

hunting lodge
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717504686

intermediate port
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717505186
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717505373

updated my house

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717864866
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717864998

Awesome!

This is the current state of my base in Valheim. Built by myself in Survival, no cheats. Most of it was built before I installed mods, I don't run any cheat mods either. My brother is the only one who joined the world, all he did was build that dock and make claim a bed.

https://youtu.be/FyBCoh21LJg

derboern, iKyriousi those look great!

Started a new world on a server after Hearth and Home released :

Mountains

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717493699 steps

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717493526 inside (tame shack)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717493455 boatcoaster


Ocean

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717493898 sealab

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717493961 sealab 2

Plains

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2707217671

Swamp

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2650605752

Meadows

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717502299

Nice stuff Ryz :D

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1830150457241977659/7152D1CC18384597FD18346ED7A41276727E04B2/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1830150457241974435/83FD794909A8A544FD4585019CDE769F14F9F083/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1830150457241974435/83FD794909A8A544FD4585019CDE769F14F9F083/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1830150457241974435/83FD794909A8A544FD4585019CDE769F14F9F083/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false