electricdawn replied to Going for my first 'No Bosses' run; Share your tips and tricks! July 10, 2022 @ 11:37:46 am PDT

Trolls for copper, tin.
Stagbreaker for that elusive iron. I only farmed enough iron to make a iron pickaxe, lvl 5 tool bench upgrade, and the silver sword. Some left over.
Stagbreaker also for silver in the mountains. MUCH easier to find than iron.

My "no portals - no bosses" char Gudrun is fully decked out in lvl 3 Wolf armor, lvl 3 silver shield and lvl 2 silver sword. Also lvl 4 bronze atgeir. Works still like a champ in the mountains and plains.

Found a third silver vein for the upgrade of the silver sword to lvl 3.

My goal is to visit the altars of all bosses. Problem will be Bonemass, but we'll see about that. Got as far as the Elder, but the seed I'm playing on "Valheim" has large continents, so I've explored only two continents so far, and not even those fully.

I'm going to take my time. Good thing now is I can go everywhere and will hopefully not encounter major problems. I've been roaming the plains already. Stayed away from lox and tar pits. Would like to try tar pits, but I need a good mace for that and I'm hesitant about the bronze mace, if it's good enough.

Edit: Swamps is fine with lvl 3 troll gear and lvl 3 bronze buckler. Get the root armor mask ASAP for poison protection. Once you got the full root armor, you can sort of tank Abominations. You can block some of the attacks, but not all of them. You would need the iron banded shield for that. But iron is too precious, you should spend it on the pick axe.

Edit2: Yes, I know about Frostner, but haven't found the trader yet. That shifty dwarf is elusive as hell.
8:13 pm, July 10, 2022
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