Originally posted by KingKickAss:

Originally posted by loppantorkel:

It's a good challenge imo. It wouldn't be much of a game if they removed them.

I'm all for the challenge in Valheim, but I feel like this is heavily reliant on luck. Like, they already have to be caught during certain weather and a certain time of day, but you also have to be lucky enough for one to spawn near shore too? I suppose the challenge could just be that the game deprives you of half your loot on this fairly elusive enemy.

True, but I believe the scales isn't required to progress. It's more of a bonus thing which you could try and get when the opportunity presents itself.

You make a harpoon, pull the snake ashore, kill it.that's all.It is only for this that the harpoon was invented in Valheim.

It's a good challenge imo. It wouldn't be much of a game if they removed them.

Originally posted by albrexow:

You make a harpoon, pull the snake ashore, kill it.that's all.It is only for this that the harpoon was invented in Valheim.

Okay but like I already said in the OP, if the Serpent doesn't spawn close to shore, you can't really do that and will lose out on some of it's drops.

Originally posted by loppantorkel:

It's a good challenge imo. It wouldn't be much of a game if they removed them.

I'm all for the challenge in Valheim, but I feel like this is heavily reliant on luck. Like, they already have to be caught during certain weather and a certain time of day, but you also have to be lucky enough for one to spawn near shore too? I suppose the challenge could just be that the game deprives you of half your loot on this fairly elusive enemy.

I use a mod to make all drops float on top of the water.

The meat floats, the scales sink. Makes sense. If you want the scales, pull it to shore.

Go all in with stamina food. Not really needed but can help. If you checking the stamina you will soon discover that it does not always drain stamina when sailing in to shore.

OR, you could jump off your boat and kill it with a sword as your final blow and youll grab everything, thats what we do

them scales basically an easter egg and only good for decoration anyway.

First of all, you don't need to keep it harpooned all the way, just let it follow the ship. It has to be able to hit the ship once per minute though or it will lose interest so slow down occasionally.
You can also do damage to it on the way, just make sure not to kill it accidentally.
Once on the shore, quickly drag it onto the beach and finish it off. It doesn't attack while beached so stamina food may be preferable for this.

I jumped out of the boat close to shore then swam ashore. The serpent continued to attack the boat while I attacked with arrows. Everything was close enough that I had no issue recovering materials.

Originally posted by renlish:

The meat floats, the scales sink. Makes sense. If you want the scales, pull it to shore.

That part makes sense in isolation, but combined with their spawn conditions, behaviour and habit of evaporating like fairy gold at dawn the whole process of hunting for scales becomes wildly impractical.

It also makes no sense that dead creatures explode into dust and drop all their parts as neatly separated objects. If we're talking realism the scales should float because they're attached to a big ol' snake corpse.

Yeah, its hard to pull them to shore with the change to food. What I have been doing now is to get them chasing the boat, they will follow it all the way to shore, I slow down when needed. Then once I've beached the boat I harpoon it and pull it up onto shore to kill it.

"all the way" isnt quite right there. You have to let it hit the boat otherwise it will lose interest. Thats why I mostly dont bother.

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

"all the way" isnt quite right there. You have to let it hit the boat otherwise it will lose interest. Thats why I mostly dont bother.

The serpent in question was practically eating my boat before it just turned and left. Then the sun came up and it despawned.