Originally posted by NiceGuy:

So you do know how the hoe works? The hoe ALWAYS tries to level the ground you aim at, to the same level you STAND on. It's indicated by a small yellow/white vertical line on your cursor how much the terrain difference is.

Odd. It's not working. I can burn my entire stamina bar trying to level a single location without moving the cursor at all, and it bounces from being below my standing height to above, never actually meeting it.

especially look at minute 3+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy6Wwqlz7Lw

Cart is your best friend when hauling Silver off the mountain.

That said, it's easier to travel with the materials for a Cart, when you know you're going to need it.. like, on the Mountains! When I was hauling Silver, I just filled the cart with nothing but Silver and yeeted it off the mountainside.

It was sturdy enough to survive, though it did need repairs.. so I also had a partial stack of Wood on hand to build a makeshift repair hut for a Workbench, to repair the Cart and my Hammer if need be.

Worst part, though, was dragging the thing by foot across terrain. I ended up having to drag it near a shore, drop a Workbench to prevent spawns, run out of rendering range towards my base, jump in the ol' Longboat, and make a trip out there to transfer the Silver to the boat, break down the Cart, and head back.

Kinda annoying, but it is what it is sometimes. At least I snagged a Serpent on that trip.

The cart is useless. I've made very long fairly level roads, plus bridges, which takes forever, and the cart can still barely get over it. To get silver down from a mountain, I make a stairway all the way up... and the cart just goes off the path and crashes down randomly somewhere that is hard to recover.

You are best off making a chest every 100 feet. Overload yourself fully - walk to the next chest - unload - wait for stamina to regen - and reload.

It is nice to have a super long flat road with bridges to follow, so it's not a wasted effort. But carts are still useless. Either load yourself to the max, or overload yourself fully; either way will by faster than using a cart.

How are yall making flat roads? ♥♥♥♥ man I spent 1 1/2 hours just trying to level a 14m x 14m square to set my house on, and it's still a pile of trash. I even made sure to very slowly change position like I'm leveling cement and that still didn't prevent it from looking like a lumpy mud pit.

I ended up building all my buildings some distance off the ground so I can have a flat plane to work with.

The hoe is your friend when leveling; it handles all the fine details, while only the gross details need the pickaxe.

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:

The hoe is your friend when leveling; it handles all the fine details, while only the gross details need the pickaxe.

It... really, REALLY doesn't. I don't have the pickaxe, but rocks aren't my problem. I went through that time with the hoe using the 'leveling' mode. Usually using it 4 or 5 times in 1 place before moving the crosshair maybe a millimeter before doing it again. 1 1/2 hours for a 7x7 housing plan, and NONE of it was level.

Originally posted by Terratrox:

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:

The hoe is your friend when leveling; it handles all the fine details, while only the gross details need the pickaxe.

It... really, REALLY doesn't. I don't have the pickaxe, but rocks aren't my problem. I went through that time with the hoe using the 'leveling' mode. Usually using it 4 or 5 times in 1 place before moving the crosshair maybe a millimeter before doing it again. 1 1/2 hours for a 7x7 housing plan, and NONE of it was level.

The hoe only levels the terrain within 1 hight level. So if there is a hole or hill which does not get leveled to the surrounding terrain it is below/above the surrounding hight level.
1. Hole, needs to be filled up and than level it.
2. Hill, pickaxe it once and than level it.
1+2 repeat until all is within the same hight level.

Oh is it 'level' to where like... if you raise the ground with the hoe, you're raising it 1 level? Because I meant like... like minecraft level. A more or less perfect plane. Because if I build directly on the ground, some of the floor tiles either connect under the ground or can't be placed at all. But it's not as big a difference as raising the ground level is.

Originally posted by Terratrox:

Oh is it 'level' to where like... if you raise the ground with the hoe, you're raising it 1 level? Because I meant like... like minecraft level. A more or less perfect plane. Because if I build directly on the ground, some of the floor tiles either connect under the ground or can't be placed at all. But it's not as big a difference as raising the ground level is.

Yes you can imagine it like the minecraft levels. Only difference is in valheim you can raise the land soft within on level. So you don't have the stairs like look as in minecraft. The hoe is only to do the soft terrain level between 2 main hight levels (the minecraft levels). To get one main level lower you need the pickaxe or to get higher you need to fill it up.
You won't get an absolutely flat ground like in mindcraft, but it gets flat enough to built a floor on the ground. It the is terrain visible at some spots just lower it a bit with the hoe.

So you do know how the hoe works? The hoe ALWAYS tries to level the ground you aim at, to the same level you STAND on. It's indicated by a small yellow/white vertical line on your cursor how much the terrain difference is.

I made a road. Its not perfect but all rocks cleared and its fairly even. There is a small dip over the bridge and I had the cart fall to pieces there. Learned to click on it after each trip and repair. I build a shed where I mine to store the cart or critters start attacking it over me sometimes. I just got used to the cart maintenance routine.

I place some around my base just to make it look like I am ambitious when really I am just lazy as hec.

I have no problem with the cart. Sometimes you should fix it. Maybe I was lucky with the structure of the land, but a friend of mine sometimes lost the cart, it rolled down the mountain, fell into the water, and it was hard to get the cart out of the water ... but it went along none of these accidents broken.

Cart gets a lot of hate, never had any unreasonable problems. I mean hauling 2k in iron or stone in a wooden cart is never really going to be a walk in the park right? Hell have you ever used a wheelbarrow? Much less fun than the cart in Valheim , and usually the best option available.

Sometimes the cart has it's issues, but what doesn't? Maybe they should have "upgrades" to the cart to make it better, more sturdy, etc. Maybe attach a "pet" to it to pull it for you.