Need a bow to hunt deer*, and also sneaking while upwind will make it easier to shoot them. Hunting boars is no problem because they just run right at you


*This is for your typical new player. Yes I know you can sneak up on a deer and knife it to death, but if OP could do that they wouldn't be here posting this thread.

Originally posted by Sythalin:

Kill the sexual harassers?

Somebody hasn't read the Greydwarf runestone. ;) It describes them as molesters and murderers.

I can't wait until you come up to your first Brute or even Skeleton if you're whining like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ already lol

Originally posted by Straker:

I can't wait until you come up to your first Brute or even Skeleton if you're whining like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ already lol

Personally, I want to be a fly on the Dorito bag in his basement when he first encounters a Deathsquito.

Originally posted by Sythalin:

Originally posted by Straker:

I can't wait until you come up to your first Brute or even Skeleton if you're whining like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ already lol

Personally, I want to be a fly on the Dorito bag in his basement when he first encounters a Deathsquito.

Now THAT will be brutal viewing :P

I think the real issue is balancing your foods early on, you can usually find berries and mushrooms near the spawn point, those are a great start.

If Valheim is too difficult of a survival game for you I wonder which survival games you enjoy. In my experience Valheim is actually very forgiving. You don't really need to sleep, or eat or anything. Resources are plentiful.

Hey guys, I know the OP sounded a bit complain-ish, but let's try to help them instead of insulting them. :)

Its fun hey! staying alive is more important than racking up kills.. death costs you that "hit trees for 5 hours" experience.. and yes im solo vanilla at 1000+ in game days with quite a few deaths early on.. but work within your abilities. work on food!! bees! mushies! berries! and might i suggest bow and arrow .Stick with it, it is its own solo reward

U can actualy sneak up on a deer even early game,U gotta stop here and there to get stamina back and if u aproach them from back ,They dont realy see you.But My advice is get a bow as quick as u can,It makes life alot easier.Get some flint and make it.It takes not much.

In the beginning, you just try to stay alive. You can't starve, you can't die of thirst. You can easily kill boars to get meat and leather, because they will attack you. Forget deer for now until you have a bow or learn how to sneak. It's actually a lot of fun.

Especially once you got the abyssal knife and can one-shot trolls from behind. ;)

Get berries, get mushrooms, get neck tails for meat.

Build a small shelter! Very important.

The first few dozen deer I kill, I just use a Flint Knife. Easy to craft. Learn how to sneak properly; approach them from behind (sneak doesn't make you invisible). Pause to recover your stamina when it's low.

That being said, single-player can and will be harsh. Your exploratory voyages will often have to be cut short since you can't share inventory space with your buddies. All mobs will be focusing on you, so on and so forth, and it's just plain more fun to game with friends.

Maybe you could check out the "Looking for group" forum and join someone's game until you get a hang for how things work.

No way the game is as hard on stamina as you make it. I mean...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiEYkWfDkHE

^No mods, full vanilla, eating the basic foods, and killed the first boss with a crude bow on Day 5. Skip to 4:00 for the tips.

It's like you've never heard of a bow and arrow.

Originally posted by Vegeta_petit:

Wtf is this? sneaking drain stamina, attacks drains A LOT of stamina, can't even kill a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ deer because he's running way too fast for me? what am i supposed to do? hit trees for 5 hours then praying to kill a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ deer or a boar? i mean, i like survival games, but this is way too much, even with a ♥♥♥♥ axe it takes me like 3 stamina bars to kill the sexual harassers we see in the beggining, how am i supposed to do to play alone????

Kill the sexual harassers?

So rather than actually learn the mechanics and the game, you immediately turn to crying in the forums seeking validation and sympathy? Sorry kid, you're not gonna find it here, especially with that kind of ♥♥♥♥ attitude.

100% honesty here, no sarcasm, no vitriol - If you are this frustrated within the first few minutes of the game, just do yourself a favor and refund. You are clearly easily agitated by what are arguably the easiest parts of the game; It's only going to get harder.