anyone tried raising one with the hoe, though? Some stuff does raise ... trees, berry bushes, even spawners for flint/wood all raise up. Ive got about 10 cloudberries in my lofted plains farm and 2 pieces of flint at my lofted home every few days. Have not tried to move a mudball.

no their height is set from sea level, not ground level, just like the large rocks and copper

i just found one that was mostly inside a large tree, only able to mine a few chunks of it

they do rarely pop out of the ground a tiny bit,but thats 1 out of 100's .

Originally posted by Mr B.:

No, without going into boring detail, a huge amount of work would have to be done to move the static (bar waves) water level.

I've seen those sprial stairs, but also seen one in the mountains. It's cool, but only had a chest with boring stuff in. Nothing more than just that staircase structure wise.

It would have to lead to another 'area', like going into a dungeon or crypt.

And that work would take away from other tasks of the developers' current focus. Not exactly what I was hoping to hear, but I accept that is the way it is. I'd rather see cool new content (hearth and home is great so far) anyways; maybe a new boss to beat down.

i found a few near the mountain side of swamp, easy to dig out, but a bunch have also been under water in the swamp, not so easy to mine below waist deep water

Originally posted by Zed Wolfword:

Is there no way to separate the ground water level and sea level currently? I ask this because I have seen occasional turret like structures with spiral stairs descending into the swamps and wonder if they will be some future content within the swamp (some kind of buried castle-like dungeon maybe?)

I am aware that a lot of valheim's map is procedural generation; in the swamp I often see small pieces of land that look like mounds. Would it be possible that mudpiles would more likely be spawned under those than other lower landmasses?

I am hoping to keep this as a pleasant chat about possibilities and ideas (which is my intention here).

These structures appear randomly in some biomes, such as swamps and mountains, and I believe the ones in the swamp, are filled with water and that's just the way it is ( can't use them below the water line ) I have used them (in the swamp) as a nice solid stone platform, by covering the hole with stone blocks and then building a circular building on top of it, which was conveniently close to a sertling spawner... It made a nice shelter to put a portal and some chests.

As far as muddy scrap piles go, there are SOME, fairly hidden, and sunk into the swamp landscape, and finding one now and then is a nice bonus, but the MAIN way to harvest muddy piles is inside crypts (as intended) and I seriously doubt the devs are ever going to make them easier to get, or increase the amount found, by altering the landscape or raising up the piles etc... If you want to harvest Iron in a reliable way, then go into the crypts and get it the way the devs designed it.

If you are gathering iron by digging in the swamp, due to skipping bosses (and therefore can't enter crypts) then you simply have to accept that you aren't going to find very much or very fast... They aren't going to change it to cater to people who skip progression.

There is only one waterlevel

Originally posted by Zed Wolfword:

Is there no way to separate the ground water level and sea level currently? I ask this because I have seen occasional turret like structures with spiral stairs descending into the swamps and wonder if they will be some future content within the swamp (some kind of buried castle-like dungeon maybe?)

I am aware that a lot of valheim's map is procedural generation; in the swamp I often see small pieces of land that look like mounds. Would it be possible that mudpiles would more likely be spawned under those than other lower landmasses?

I am hoping to keep this as a pleasant chat about possibilities and ideas (which is my intention here).

No, without going into boring detail, a huge amount of work would have to be done to move the static (bar waves) water level.

I've seen those sprial stairs, but also seen one in the mountains. It's cool, but only had a chest with boring stuff in. Nothing more than just that staircase structure wise.

It would have to lead to another 'area', like going into a dungeon or crypt.

lowering ground water would mean lowering sea level. Not really a solution.

Raising the mudpiles would make a lot of them stick out of the ground, that messes with the progression system.

I know of no way to raise them, but vast majority of them can still be mined, tho you will often be waist-deep in water and it's really annoying, and dangerous as it's not easy to get out of those pits. Add an indestructible tree, very poor visibility, wet debuff and the fact that you can drown in your own little dug pit makes it mildly interesting :)

Is there no way to separate the ground water level and sea level currently? I ask this because I have seen occasional turret like structures with spiral stairs descending into the swamps and wonder if they will be some future content within the swamp (some kind of buried castle-like dungeon maybe?)

I am aware that a lot of valheim's map is procedural generation; in the swamp I often see small pieces of land that look like mounds. Would it be possible that mudpiles would more likely be spawned under those than other lower landmasses?

I am hoping to keep this as a pleasant chat about possibilities and ideas (which is my intention here).