Originally posted by bobman22285:

They should put iron nodes in the mountains or plains. I play single player but me and my bro play the same world and it was hard just finding enough iron for us both to upgrade our weapons and armor (that was an old world pre mistlands) Some swamps have many crypts, while others have none. Mining iron nodes barried in the swamp is a pita because of the water.

Post your seed?

Originally posted by optOut:

I guess some of us get good seeds and don't see a problem, while the rest of us get bad seeds and end up exploring 6 different islands with swamp biomes only to find a total of 2 crypts among them.

I think the pendulum has swung too far and needs some adjusting the other direction (spawn a bit more crypts in swamp biomes please).

Agreed, especially if your are playing on a server. The iron grind was bad enough as it was with 4 people. Ok in SP so far for me at least.

Originally posted by bobman22285:

They should put iron nodes in the mountains or plains. I play single player but me and my bro play the same world and it was hard just finding enough iron for us both to upgrade our weapons and armor (that was an old world pre mistlands) Some swamps have many crypts, while others have none. Mining iron nodes barried in the swamp is a pita because of the water.

Agreed, there needs to be a better way.

I think they need more stuff from the swamp on that drop scrap iron. Not a lot so you cannot just skip ahead. Enough to where early in the game you can at least build stone walls for trolls yet hard enough to grind that you may as well find crypts. Then later on be a bit more bountiful in other biomes so we are not scouring the world for iron when we are on a server with friends and not enough to go around.

depends what you use the iron for. if you want to build a fancy base with fancy iron stuff... then i guess you can take your character to a new seed and farm iron and then bring it back to your main world.

Originally posted by Hafrikken:

we searched all day, and found no swamps that generated Iron... Like, no swamp was big enough to have crypts

Post your seed ID and/or

https://valheim-map.world

Put in your seed and tick crypts to help you find them.

Just RNG my viking

I just started a new world and found 2 swamps and a couple mountain near my starting area, the first smaller swamp was void of Crypts so got some green globs from a tree and headed to the other swamp and 5 Crypts so for and only on the smaller part of it, with a really big area uncovered still.

Friendly tip when you do find them build a Fire inside

In the 2 new worlds I've played on since mistlands came out, I've had no issue with crypt spawn rates or obtaining iron.

We cleared half a swamp in a group of 4 and got a full longship worth of iron. Wasn't even a big swamp biome by comparison to our previous game.

I guess some of us get good seeds and don't see a problem, while the rest of us get bad seeds and end up exploring 6 different islands with swamp biomes only to find a total of 2 crypts among them.

I think the pendulum has swung too far and needs some adjusting the other direction (spawn a bit more crypts in swamp biomes please).

They should put iron nodes in the mountains or plains. I play single player but me and my bro play the same world and it was hard just finding enough iron for us both to upgrade our weapons and armor (that was an old world pre mistlands) Some swamps have many crypts, while others have none. Mining iron nodes barried in the swamp is a pita because of the water.

we searched all day, and found no swamps that generated Iron... Like, no swamp was big enough to have crypts

You need, VERY roughly, 500 iron per person through to the end of Plains, plus a further 100 or so for the server itself, assuming a single combined base for the players if the base doesnt need iron supports. Thats 6-8 crypts per person depending on luck, so you can do maths accordingly on how much impact the 175 limit may be.
Mistlands itself has sources of iron which should be sufficient for your mistlands needs, although transport may be tedious.

Yeah, the whole minimum size to have crypts thing does concern me. We'll just have to see if they remembered to account for that in their changes.

Seems fine so far on my seed, hit 4 crypts relatively close to each other in one of the medium sized swamps I found and have pulled out ~300 iron so far

Its plenty on a single player game (probably) but its just no where near enough on a server with more than a single group playing.

Um every swamp I have come into has at least 6 crypts each dropping a minimum of a stack of iron. Feels alright to me. Plus you really don't use that much iron TBH unless you are trying to build some massive castle entirely from stone.

It seemed fine on my new world I started. But now that I'm in the Mistlands I don't even bother going back. You can break the ancient weapons and armor there for Iron Scrap, and just smelt it in your nearest base.