I just started playing Valheim and this is still the best info I've received so far regarding Bronze age. I had no idea the copper veins went down so deep. I was wasting time just mining the above ground boulder.
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Regardless of the node type, if you remove all earth that is touching the node, the entire node will explode and drop its entire contents on the floor. You can do this with Copper nodes by starting the excavation as showcased in this video, then once you reach the bottom, mine out the entire underside of the node. When you have completed, there will be a huge FPS spike or freeze, then the Copper node explodes. This, like normal Copper mining, still takes a long time, but it's worth it. When you're in the Plains biome, you can rack up large amounts of stone by going to those very tall stone spires that are everywhere, do the same exact thing, and collect hundreds of stone in only a few minutes. All you do is cut directly through the spire or under it, then the spire will explode. You can also do this to silver but it's more challenging because of the difficulty of wildlife that's around you in that area, and because you're quite literally tearing a hole into a mountain to achieve this.
@@SlightEcho yes, just be careful to ensure you get all the connecting earth or you may be stuck searching the whole deposit for that one pesky bit holding the whole thing up
you could also farm with a troll, which will take you a fraction of the time to harvest tin, copper and finewood, all three without a pickaxe or bronze axe. By triangulating different copper ores found with a nearby troll, and building your forge on spot rather than hauling the metal back, you build your bronze age gear without delay, you get your (probably necessary) karve and get to iron faster. This way gave me by far the most efficient run I had in multiple new seed/new character speedruns of the bronze age.
In the past I've made bronze armor but it seems with the new hearth and home upgrading your troll armor is probably just as good as long as you have better shields.
@@brodriguez11000 Troll armor is good enough to service as bronze unless you don't stop blocking entirely, you can even bleed iron level out of it, but once you get to silver/black iron, your base sneak should be high enough and you should be rolling heavy stuff, Goblins don't fuck around, and if you miss a parry it really hurts.
I guess most people aren't crazy like me and like to build a whole ass mining camp for every copper deposit. I actually like bronze age the most because it feels the most balanced. No wolves or mosquitos that just run up and instantly delete you if you don't already have the best gear for that zone, no slimes to 1 shot poison you from around a tree because you didn't happen to have a poison resist potion going. It's just like... chillin', mining copper, fightin' some tree dudes.
When it's not your first copper deposit and you already have some fine wood, take portal materials with you for easy access to your base. That way, you can actually bring the Surtling Cores from your base and start smelting while you're mining. You can even build a forge with a few of the copper bars you have smelted and combine with some tin. Bronze is much more easily carried than copper ore and tin ore! Also, dig down around the deposit first, and create a cavern under the deposit. There you can build a fire, a workbench, and even a bed to get the rested buff WHILE YOU'RE WORKING. Stamina regenerates much quicker when you're working in the RESTING state. You'll also be sheltered from the rain, and you can sleep right there to avoid the nightly greydwarf raids.
this comment is more useful than the video heh. Smelting while mining is the way to go, smelters also work great on top of crypts in the swamp where you have all the free cores and coal.
@@skittlescopes4832 5 stacks is 150 copper. -16 for a forge and cooler, makes 67 bronze. Take away 12 for adze, anvils, fermenter and cartographer, you're left with 55. Split that between your boys, each of which probably needs an axe for fine wood (8) and a cultivator (5) and some actual equipment like helmets and weapons. You'll need to hit a lot of bronze to just scrape off the top to keep you happy. Fully upgraded bronze gear for one player takes almost 300 bronze, that's 600 copper (granted, not everyone will want the bronze armor).
Bronze age is one of my faves and i think its because we always build roads. 1. Pick good location between black forest and meadows. 2. Get enougu supplies for a few days away from your main home and run through the blqck forest marking copper, caves and other resources on your map. 3. Build outposts every few copper veins you scout. 4. Connect the outposts/scouted locations to your main home with roads. Find a good intersection between all the points and spam the hoe. Super fun building roads. You would be surprised how much easier it makes pulling your cart through the black forest plus you end up with other resources from clearing the roads :)
Agreed, I enjoy building roads in this game for cart hauling. I've built them in almost every biome, it's fun discovering overgrown ones you forgot you made once you're far into the game. I built one road down a mountain so I could bring silver to my ship, and a few roads through swamps to make it easier to traverse. The Hoe is an underrated tool in Valheim.
If you disconnect the orebody from the ground, it will collapse, however the "hitbox" for detecting groundedness is much bigger than visuals suggest, so you generally need to destroy all the copper close to the ground, and all the ground down to bedrock in a wide area. It takes a lot of prep work, but it's highly satisfying to see it all crumble at once.
Actually a better way for shelter/repairs is to just dig down and then immediatelly below the copper. Once you dig out a small hole, standing beneath the copper deposit gives you shelter, so you can slap down a workbench there, campfire and you're completely safe, cause mobs usually don't fall in. And even if greydwarves do fall in, they just run around because of the campfire you put down.
@@vurzoh981no, you continue mining until the pickaxe runs out of durability then spend the rest of your life in the pit. Make sure to not have any building materials.
Tip to mining copper. Use a hoe to flatten the land around the copper forst. Start but coming from downhill so you get max flatten as you move up and around the node. Go up half way around then repeat on the other side. Much easier and best you rod any trees around the node. Use them to build workstation and small shack. Enjoy.
you can mine copper deposits from beneath and it will all break eventually. you may have to pillar up once in a couple places, but keep chipping at the bottom and it will give
I wonder if this actually drops copper tho, something tells me cheesing mining in this way was thought of beforehand by devs so ores broken by gravity don’t drop anything.
@@KenGames45 still works, ive been doing that technique for the past few weeks now and it's hella satisfying to do that final chip from the side to see the whole copper roof crumble
For those many comment, it ABSOLUTELY works for copper. If your copper vein hasnt fallen you havent cleared enough space between it and the nearest ground.
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I loved this video! You can fast-forward to the Bronze Age a bit by bypassing Eikthyr. Just load up on decent stamina foods (honey/boar meat/yellow mushrooms) and kite a troll around the copper deposits. He'll only get the surface stuff, but one deposit gives enough copper for a pickaxe. Then kite your blue friend to the beach and load up on tin. Then as fast as possible, make that bronze axe and get some fine wood to make a portal and build the other end at your troll-started copper mine. You can do this all without any real skill or armor - but I like to keep a bow with fire-arrows to kill the adds while I'm kiting the troll. You'll have your bronze armor in no time. Bonus: Don't sweat the "sweet spot" for mining because you want the experience anyhow. The more you swing, the better you get. In the long run, you'll be glad of the experience.
Better yet, use that same strategy to go to the mountains and take out some wolves, then use your stagbreaker to find "too hard" spots in the ground and get silver so you can skip bronze -- except for the pickaxe that you'll need to mine it. The silver will also save precious time in the swamps.
Just started playing Valheim and I know this video is about a year old and tbh I knew all of this stuff going into this video but I just wanna say this video was still one of the most entertaining Valheim videos I've ever watched. Thank you!
For those who struggle to bring copper or any other ore from one side of the map to another,you can create another world and put some chests.You'll store the ores you collected from your main world to your 2nd world.Then you can go to your main world ,in your base either by teleporting or offing yourself and then take the ores from your 2nd world to your main world.This is a cheesy way but I am sick of having to recollect my ores and items after dying thousands of times,especially in plains or swamps
If you're cheesing the game like that you may as well use devcommands to teleport. Cheating like that ruins the fun of the game in my opinion. Why bother doing anything if there's no risk involved? At that point just play in creative and build whatever with unlimited resources. Or you could y'know.. build a forge on site, craft your bars and take one big trip with a cart like a big brain lmao
That's even a hard way.. I farm on a different map from my main base. When I'm full I just spawn at my base unload and spawn right back at the node. I repair when I drop of metal 😂 and if you find a decent seed like mine I hit burrows hit metal then delete map and restart and farm em again
Great video. Even though I'm well into the silver age I go back to this every once in a while to see what tips I can re-learn from it. That fermenter setup at 5:06 is nice, I might have to steal it.
Very good, concise and extremely helpful video. This is what a tips&tricks video should look like. A lot of Info delivered in an easy and entertaining way, with visual examples. Learning can be fun! :)
Don't dig around copper mines. The knowledge that the rest is underneath or toward the edge of it is enough, digging around it takes 2 to 3 times as long. Also note that antler pickaxes can't be upgraded, but if you play alone you'll get 3 antlers for killing Eikthyr. Make 3 pickaxes as antlers can't be used for anything else, saves you repairing so much 😁 Edit: Just realised they added physics for copper, so if you mine underneath it will explode... Sometimes. 😂
I noticed that copper floated when I cleared out the bottom part of the copper node without touching the top (not the underground part), so I never bothered trying to use copper physics
@@romad6963 Yeah to make it explode you must mine around and below the entire node and separate it from the earth, you can’t mine through it and cut it in half and make the top fall etc
if you want to skip through the bronze age easily , max out bronze mace and sheild but only use the troll armor to kill the next boss and go straight to iron armor ( also need the bronze axe)
You can probably just skip the bronze mace in favor of the upgraded club to hold you over until iron. On some quick run playthroughs(before mistlands), I'd do 1 copper mine and some tin to get the essentials(butcher knife, some nails, cauldron, cultivator, bronze axe, and the upgrades to crafting stations) with as few dungeons as possible before moving on. It helps that only 9 cores are needed initially(5 for a single kiln/smelter at a time and 4 for a set of portals) Getting troll armor, flint axe, club, knife, spear, and the bone shield as high as possible let me skip bronze weapons and armor going into the swamp. As an added bonus, I didn't have to mess with the crude bow or even finewood bow, so my first bow is pretty good, which is important because throwing spears are worthless in the mountains because you always will lose them.
I planted rows of trees to act like a fence that kept wandering trolls away. They didn’t attack the trees and couldn’t pass between them. I put up an iron gate that I could pass through as needed.
Actually funny without being cringe and quality info, keep up the good work my man...just got into this game myself had it since it came out but i figured id give it time for some updates
I had really good time in bronze age living in a dark forest tree house, no need to rush this game, the content is done pretty quick if you are not a crazy builder
Great video! Much to the point. Another way to deal with transportation is to spawn a cart on top of a karve ship. Makes it easy to move from seaside various copper and tin nodes without running back to the base.
I went as far as digging a trench from one deposit to another, that part of the forest looked like the grand canyon...lol, there were so many deposits close to each other, went from one to the other nonstop. I built cart ramps out of the pits and I put gates up so I didn't get bugged by greydwarfs, I also had fires in the pits and workbenches as well for perpetual rested buff and easy repair, early on the deposit served as shelter till I smacked the last bit of ore covering the work bench, I mined for a week straight game time without having to sleep. I never mined so much ore, I never used it all...lol. I just dragged a cart along the shore for the tin while making a path with the hoe. One cart load of tin was enough to get me through bronze age, I used burial ch. for shelter to get my rested buff along the way, again non stop mining till the cart was full. As soon as I was able to make bronze pickaxes I switched from the antler ones for faster mining. All in all I think I created an efficient way to mine copper.
Basic idea is same as mine, but there is some point to improve. > 1. At first start dig around, and then make workbench inside the hole, just behind the wall, so you need make only 2 roofs to make it work. 2. dig copper from down side. After you take all bottom parts, all copper from up will collapse, so you dont have to dig all parts { this work prefectly with silver vains too}. :D Bonus point: if you have more copper around, make smelter around, like little blacksmith outpost., smelt it, make forge there and make all you need, and after that, just broke forge and other things, and move to you base only bronze you made.
One pro tip is: don't make bronze armor. I make troll hide armor and upgrade it to lvl 4. you're more agile and the armor difference is not that huge. Then again, I'm more of a ranger. If you don't make bronze armour at all, it's really not that tedious era.
@@MrGhostTheBigRoast Bronze won't help much in the mountains, but you should have iron by then. In the meantime, a good shield is worth more than the bronze armor
Bronze is the Farmer with a Fox, a Hen, and Grain problem. If you are haulting tin to your base, you're doing it wrong. If you are making bronze at your base, you're doing it wrong. Haul the components for a force to your copper mine, and take your tin there. Chances are your tin is no closer to your base than it is your copper mine (likely much further) so taking it there is inefficient. And it makes sense to carry 1/2 the number of Bronze bars back as it does carrying back copper. Taking the materials for a forge to the mine saves many trips carrying copper. It also allows repair of a Bronze pickaxe once you've made one, without having to travel back.
A more efficient way is to mine enough copper for a forge, axe, and a cart. Then even out a road through black forest up to the copper from your base. Place a teleporter in both locations and once you are completely done with the node just drag it all back in one go with your cart. The road doubles for core wood collecting if your base isnt in the forest. Its also fairly fast to make if you are any good at evening out ground.
Bronze age could be bearable, or even nice, if only I had some breathing space between raids when mining, and if metal requirements for crafting were about 50% lower. Now I just tend to stay with troll armor and wooden club until Bonemass fight. And only devs can fix it.
Good quick guide overall. Pickaxe should be the first bronze tool you make at the forge, to make all the subsequent ore mining go faster. I find that just digging out 80% of a copper deposit the normal way (top down) and then moving on to the next one is more time-efficient than trying to get 100% of the ore by digging around and collapsing it. If you really find bronze mining and hauling tedious you can also just temporarily change the world modifiers to allow ores through portals or increase the resource rate, and then change the settings back when you're ready to move on to swamps. It's your game, do whatever keeps it fun.
I... love the bronze grind. I find it kinda therapeutic. Workbench shelter? Why? Plopp down a portal and some chests. Drop ores in the chests and go through the portal back home with other items and drop them back home, repair and refill rested buffs. Then go back. Rinse and repeat until the full ore deposit is mined, fill your inventory with ore, run back home, empty inventory, go through portal back to the chests. Fill, run, empty, portal, repeat.
You might’ve missed out the part where you get unlucky at your camp and get spawn trapped by a 2 star troll for 30 minutes but still a very helpful guide
Most important thing for me is to have a portal at whichever deposit I'm mining, this way I can do easy stone runs back to base and quickly repair any pickaxe at the forge. I work back from the closest vein from my base, store all mined ore at the nearest coastal location then sail back making numerous stops to pick it all up along the way. The only bronze items I bother with are the mace, buckler, cultivator, pickaxe and axe.
I don't even see a point in the bronze pickaxe unless you skipped Mr Deer. It's far faster to just plop down a workbench and repair the crappy and oddly impossible to upgrade antler pickaxe than futz about with fixing the bronze one, even if bronze does have better durability
@@InfernosReaper it's quite a bit faster than the antler pickaxe when you're mining which makes copper and iron much less of a chore. The antler pick has a mining stat of just 18 and can't be upgraded, bronze has a base of 25 and fully upgraded has 37, only 1 less than a level 2 iron pickaxe. It carves through those huge copper deposits in no time at all whereas you'll still be there chopping away at them with antler.
@@MegaTerryNutkins The added costs of getting and upgrading it, plus *requiring* the forge to repair it just makes it too hard of a sell. I've tried both and it really just doesn't seem like the bronze pickaxe is a worthwhile expenditure of resources to justify not just skipping it for the iron one.
@@InfernosReaper you can skip bronze armour so you don't actually need much bronze at all, just max out axe, pick and whatever shield/weapon you need. Once you have the max bronze pick you can smash through iron much quicker as well. You don't need to repair it on site as you should have a portal next to the ore vein anyway
@@MegaTerryNutkins Ideally, but if you're just doing one copper mine to do the minimum to speed into iron, it's hard to justify doing much with the portal for mining in bronze age. By iron, sure portals are great, but then you can just get an iron pick as your first iron item, so at that point, you don't really need the bronze pickaxe. Meanwhile, the bronze axe is worth upgrading to be competitive in the swamps, though the Stagbreaker can be what carries you through crypts
3:42 Not only should you strike the rock from above for more damage, I recommend adjusting where you strike a little bit until you start seeing two or three numbers. That means that you're striking more than one section of the rock, and the sum of all of the damage numbers is always higher than the number you would get striking one section. I figure that in the long run, you're dealing more damage per strike. After 1000's of hours in Valheim, I still debate whether it makes sense to make the bronze pickaxe for faster mining. Sure it's faster, but you use a ton of bronze in the process of making the pickaxe. You could just mine slower, save the bronze, and be done faster. Iron pickaxe will be available soon...
One thing id like to add, is that one pickaxe swing can hit multiple sections of the copper ore at once. I tend to mine from the side of the ore to accomplish this
I usally mine the copper underneath the vein and let gravity have at it for anything that's on top. I also make a base in the black forest and do all the smelting there.
When you get to the copper edge, just mine straight down and place a fire. Mine under the copper and place your workbench and 2 chests. Place a wall in front of the fire so any greydorks that fall in are consumed by the fire. Then mine around the perimeter as recommended.
I would say the Iron age is the worst as it doesn't seem to end, I wonder if it's possible to make that easier... The use for iron extends well past it's initial age and many, many structures and equipment require a heap of it to get quality results. Copper can easily be popped or mined via troll; tin seems limitless sometimes especially if you do some 'coastal raids' on Black Forest structures from time to time. You can also last with Bronze through the mountain biome(minus pick) if you have the skill, food and potions. Iron is a tedious game of, "Will this chest/crypt even have anything worthwhile in it?" Hint: No. Great video nonetheless appreciate the content!
3:20 this "mecanic" is not only for mining, it just split the damage into all hitbox so even if you see only one damage pop up and its low is beacause you hit the ground too but the game wont let you break it at the same time as the ore for obvious reasons. same apply to three, if your axe hit the ground your damage will be significantly lower.
Move your base to the black forest and set up shop there. Also just stand on top of the copper ore and start mining, digging around the ore wastes time you could be spent on mining ore.
I do what you do except I put my workstation inside the pit. Less walking back and forth. Also, you can put roof pieces right on the exterior wall of the quarry.
one thing I like to do is kinda play it cheap till I get till the iron age and skip most of bronze, it depends on the seed. I also skip out on bronze pick and armor because the antler will still be good till the iron age and skip out on making armor as well, if im doing a cetian class i might make a bronze version of that but if im not sure I just stick with the axe till I hit the swamp. I think the only time I hate the bronze age is when I play with people because everyone has different needs and you need to gather more. Also some might want bronze armor or even max it out meaning more time spend gathering armor. However when im on my own I dont need bronze as much and I can get away with skipping or getting some bronze stuff at my own time Good video on how to mine copper better tho, I only knew about the troll strat but this is another thing I can use whenever I tho this again awesome
Yep, I call it Elden Ring Mode and just play naked with a tier 1 bronze atgeir. I mine just enough to make an axe, cultivator, and the mats needed for fermenter, forge upgrades, etc. Last playthrough the first armor I got was fenris stuff from the mountains, heh.
Hey man just watching this now and great tip. You should switch the title around and put beginner guide etc first then getting through copper age last. These are all amazing tips.
Valheim is one of those games where I recommend you do your first playthrough blind, it was very enjoyable for us that way! Might try it before you spoil too much (unless it's too late, haha).
Didnt play for months.. now back at it in the bronze age. This game is by far one of the most enjoyable survival games. And that all by playing solo. I can only imagine the fun with a group of friends haha
i usually get find a troll that is carrying a log and kit him around it to smash it up, its much faster one swing can break up 1-2 chunks. that way you dont need to worry about building a shelter to constantly repair your pick just bring a cart if you able or just make a couple runs it should despawn by the time you get back
no. bring the smelter+kiln+forge to the copper deposit. only transport tin (to the copper deposit) because it only weighs 8. craft everything on site. much faster than transporting heavy copper ore.
pro tip, make minimal bronze gear and just skip straight to iron with troll hide armour then you wont waste hours making shit you will almost immediately replace
I've gotten to the point in my playthroughs where I just completely skip the bronze age save for making a bronze axe, sword and pick, i'll just use troll gear till Iron.
My favorite hauling method is the bumper world method. Mine a bunch of stuff, fill your inventory, logout, log into bumper world, empty inventory, go back to main world and teleport back to your base. Logout, retrieve lot from bumper world, repeat. Is it cheating? Certainly not. Might cheapen the gameplay a bit but 🤷
i actually like to do dig around the copper, then dig it out from below... the entire thing collapses, nothing is lost, and have found it's *overall faster*. even if it is insanely boring until the collapse. (also side note, that forest you plant, put it on a hill... hit every tree a couple times as you climb the hill, and then chop the tree's at the top of the hill :D #dominoes)
I wish they would change the way the copper nodes work, my friends and i thought the top of the node was the only part and left the other 3/4ths underground. Thank god one of us looked for a video and found out why we were slowly trudging through bronze age. Not very clear for new players lol
I recomend making a bronze pick asap it is much faster than the antler one at getting copper. Make an bronze axe also so you can just make a portal near by to repair.
@@ricoooooooo : I have the forge next to the portal, as well as smelter and kiln. Even better it's right next to the trader gaining the benefit of the "forcefield" around his location.
The bit about standing on top of copper was my only takeaway from this, I’d rather just make a big ole road through the Black Forest chopping every tree, breaking every stone and mining every ore I see along the way to put it in my cart This is my second play through and the Bronze Age is one of my favs
just stop after 6 copper (forge) 10 tin (cauldron) 25 bronze (50 copper+25 tin) for: bronze axe, bronze nails x80(for Karve), Cultivator, Adze, Fermenter and 6 more copper bars if you don't feel lucky enough to find a Black Forest next to your Swamp crypts 3 stacks of ore; but the 35 tin is really fast
Math out how much of each you need, build base at copper to smelt and craft. Can put a cart on the carve if you need extra storage, or just cheese the teleport system.
I haven't actually tested it myself, but I DO know for a fact it works on Silver - if you dig fully under/around the ores you can cause the vein to collapse and instantly mine the entire thing. Supposedly.
Thanks for this video. I just got to this section of the game and I spent almost two hours dragging a cart through the woods looking for ore. It worked, but it definitely felt like I was doing something wrong. This still looks tedious as hell, but much better than what I was doing.
Having dug a few craters in my time to gear up a trio in the Bronze Age. My best advice is this: For the love of Odin, just get the bronze pickaxe and start mining iron in the Swamp as soon as possible. Rush the Iron Age and skip the Bronze Age equipment wherever possible.
I just replayed and Troll Armor took me comfortably all the way deep into the plains, also kill some abominations and get the branch mask, no need for poison potions.
Oh yeah. If you're confident, the Troll Armour will carry you all the way to the Plains and you can just make Padded Armour. The mosquitos can be sniped before they get you, and Fulings can be outran.
How I fix it is dig around and as far down as possible (to the bedrock), then pick straight through the copper to the other end. Eventually I'll get a floating copper deposit. I then begin to break the floating deposit which may break apart piece by piece or if you're lucky to break a larger piece.
@@slipsloptv It does work, but you have to find the right spot. Best outcome I've had is probably 33% of the floating deposit collapsing. It was LOUD and scared me because it was at night and unexpected.
I just started playing Valheim and this is still the best info I've received so far regarding Bronze age. I had no idea the copper veins went down so deep. I was wasting time just mining the above ground boulder.
Thanks man! Glad you found some useful tips out if it! ;D
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@@PleaseStandby888 TH-cam has this awesome feature called a "search bar." You can use it to look up gameplay videos, even if you're just starting out. It's entirely possible to have just begun playing a game, watch an hour or two of tips and tricks, and be able to come to the conclusion that one out of the others provided the best information. Now that you've been educated, hopefully you're aware of how stupid your comment looks.
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Regardless of the node type, if you remove all earth that is touching the node, the entire node will explode and drop its entire contents on the floor. You can do this with Copper nodes by starting the excavation as showcased in this video, then once you reach the bottom, mine out the entire underside of the node. When you have completed, there will be a huge FPS spike or freeze, then the Copper node explodes. This, like normal Copper mining, still takes a long time, but it's worth it.
When you're in the Plains biome, you can rack up large amounts of stone by going to those very tall stone spires that are everywhere, do the same exact thing, and collect hundreds of stone in only a few minutes. All you do is cut directly through the spire or under it, then the spire will explode.
You can also do this to silver but it's more challenging because of the difficulty of wildlife that's around you in that area, and because you're quite literally tearing a hole into a mountain to achieve this.
Ima try this
Thanks, fellow viking. I tired of the work because I didnt use Odin's gift. That is, my brain.
Does this actually work?
@@SlightEcho yes, just be careful to ensure you get all the connecting earth or you may be stuck searching the whole deposit for that one pesky bit holding the whole thing up
@@rendedspace5606 i tried this and the node was just floating mid air with nothing connecting it to the ground
you could also farm with a troll, which will take you a fraction of the time to harvest tin, copper and finewood, all three without a pickaxe or bronze axe. By triangulating different copper ores found with a nearby troll, and building your forge on spot rather than hauling the metal back, you build your bronze age gear without delay, you get your (probably necessary) karve and get to iron faster. This way gave me by far the most efficient run I had in multiple new seed/new character speedruns of the bronze age.
In the past I've made bronze armor but it seems with the new hearth and home upgrading your troll armor is probably just as good as long as you have better shields.
@@Leon_Aldrich : I've been wondering that as well, plus the 15 sneak bonus is nice.
@@brodriguez11000 Troll armor is good enough to service as bronze unless you don't stop blocking entirely, you can even bleed iron level out of it, but once you get to silver/black iron, your base sneak should be high enough and you should be rolling heavy stuff, Goblins don't fuck around, and if you miss a parry it really hurts.
@@brodriguez11000 The lack of movement speed penalties are even better imo
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I guess most people aren't crazy like me and like to build a whole ass mining camp for every copper deposit. I actually like bronze age the most because it feels the most balanced. No wolves or mosquitos that just run up and instantly delete you if you don't already have the best gear for that zone, no slimes to 1 shot poison you from around a tree because you didn't happen to have a poison resist potion going. It's just like... chillin', mining copper, fightin' some tree dudes.
Yeah chilling around mining and then get smacked in the head by big ass troll. Don’t ask me how I know it …
@@bezdras I'll pour a tasty mead out for you, bröther
@@Tokorai Thanks, bröther!
When it's not your first copper deposit and you already have some fine wood, take portal materials with you for easy access to your base. That way, you can actually bring the Surtling Cores from your base and start smelting while you're mining. You can even build a forge with a few of the copper bars you have smelted and combine with some tin. Bronze is much more easily carried than copper ore and tin ore!
Also, dig down around the deposit first, and create a cavern under the deposit. There you can build a fire, a workbench, and even a bed to get the rested buff WHILE YOU'RE WORKING. Stamina regenerates much quicker when you're working in the RESTING state. You'll also be sheltered from the rain, and you can sleep right there to avoid the nightly greydwarf raids.
I love all these genius ideas. Thanks!
this comment is more useful than the video heh. Smelting while mining is the way to go, smelters also work great on top of crypts in the swamp where you have all the free cores and coal.
That’s brilliant!
me and my boys just mine the top part that has shiny on it we got 5 stacks in like 20 minutes
@@skittlescopes4832 5 stacks is 150 copper. -16 for a forge and cooler, makes 67 bronze. Take away 12 for adze, anvils, fermenter and cartographer, you're left with 55. Split that between your boys, each of which probably needs an axe for fine wood (8) and a cultivator (5) and some actual equipment like helmets and weapons. You'll need to hit a lot of bronze to just scrape off the top to keep you happy. Fully upgraded bronze gear for one player takes almost 300 bronze, that's 600 copper (granted, not everyone will want the bronze armor).
Bronze age is one of my faves and i think its because we always build roads.
1. Pick good location between black forest and meadows.
2. Get enougu supplies for a few days away from your main home and run through the blqck forest marking copper, caves and other resources on your map.
3. Build outposts every few copper veins you scout.
4. Connect the outposts/scouted locations to your main home with roads. Find a good intersection between all the points and spam the hoe.
Super fun building roads. You would be surprised how much easier it makes pulling your cart through the black forest plus you end up with other resources from clearing the roads :)
Agreed, I enjoy building roads in this game for cart hauling. I've built them in almost every biome, it's fun discovering overgrown ones you forgot you made once you're far into the game. I built one road down a mountain so I could bring silver to my ship, and a few roads through swamps to make it easier to traverse. The Hoe is an underrated tool in Valheim.
If you disconnect the orebody from the ground, it will collapse, however the "hitbox" for detecting groundedness is much bigger than visuals suggest, so you generally need to destroy all the copper close to the ground, and all the ground down to bedrock in a wide area. It takes a lot of prep work, but it's highly satisfying to see it all crumble at once.
soon as I found that out, ive never mined ore one by one again. I swear you get more from felling a whole ore vein than regular mining.
Actually a better way for shelter/repairs is to just dig down and then immediatelly below the copper. Once you dig out a small hole, standing beneath the copper deposit gives you shelter, so you can slap down a workbench there, campfire and you're completely safe, cause mobs usually don't fall in. And even if greydwarves do fall in, they just run around because of the campfire you put down.
New here. What do y’all do to get out ? I’m on xbx
@@charlesmjohnston use the pickaxe to get out
@@vurzoh981no, you continue mining until the pickaxe runs out of durability then spend the rest of your life in the pit. Make sure to not have any building materials.
@@charlesmjohnstondig? With your pic or use a hoe maybe
Tip to mining copper. Use a hoe to flatten the land around the copper forst. Start but coming from downhill so you get max flatten as you move up and around the node. Go up half way around then repeat on the other side. Much easier and best you rod any trees around the node. Use them to build workstation and small shack. Enjoy.
you can mine copper deposits from beneath and it will all break eventually. you may have to pillar up once in a couple places, but keep chipping at the bottom and it will give
Nice! Thanks for the tip, I didn't know that. ;]
I wonder if this actually drops copper tho, something tells me cheesing mining in this way was thought of beforehand by devs so ores broken by gravity don’t drop anything.
@@KenGames45 still works, ive been doing that technique for the past few weeks now and it's hella satisfying to do that final chip from the side to see the whole copper roof crumble
Never got that to work for copper, but it sure works perfectly for silver.
For those many comment, it ABSOLUTELY works for copper. If your copper vein hasnt fallen you havent cleared enough space between it and the nearest ground.
0:48 Best description of steps I've ever heard. Truly godlike
Bro!!! I NEVER hit the “Like” and “Subscribe” buttons on TH-cam vids (cause I’m lazy) but your content was SO good that I had to!! Keep it up! You’re going places!
Great video, straight to the point, no annoying loud sounds... Mate it's criminal you only have 640 subs!!
Appreciate you! We're growing fast, so we'll be up there in no time. ;P
Update: Now he has almost 4000! /confetti
Your videos are top notch!! Seriously, good quality information , clever editing, and fun to watch. You are doing good things on this platform. I’ve literally watched every video you have made. 💯💯
Wow, thank you! Means a lot. ;D
@@slipsloptv banana
I loved this video!
You can fast-forward to the Bronze Age a bit by bypassing Eikthyr. Just load up on decent stamina foods (honey/boar meat/yellow mushrooms) and kite a troll around the copper deposits. He'll only get the surface stuff, but one deposit gives enough copper for a pickaxe. Then kite your blue friend to the beach and load up on tin. Then as fast as possible, make that bronze axe and get some fine wood to make a portal and build the other end at your troll-started copper mine. You can do this all without any real skill or armor - but I like to keep a bow with fire-arrows to kill the adds while I'm kiting the troll.
You'll have your bronze armor in no time.
Bonus: Don't sweat the "sweet spot" for mining because you want the experience anyhow. The more you swing, the better you get. In the long run, you'll be glad of the experience.
Better yet, use that same strategy to go to the mountains and take out some wolves, then use your stagbreaker to find "too hard" spots in the ground and get silver so you can skip bronze -- except for the pickaxe that you'll need to mine it. The silver will also save precious time in the swamps.
I'll just stick to duplicating, thanks.
Just started playing Valheim and I know this video is about a year old and tbh I knew all of this stuff going into this video but I just wanna say this video was still one of the most entertaining Valheim videos I've ever watched. Thank you!
haha my little bro sucked me in valheim now im also learning the game mechanics
For those who struggle to bring copper or any other ore from one side of the map to another,you can create another world and put some chests.You'll store the ores you collected from your main world to your 2nd world.Then you can go to your main world ,in your base either by teleporting or offing yourself and then take the ores from your 2nd world to your main world.This is a cheesy way but I am sick of having to recollect my ores and items after dying thousands of times,especially in plains or swamps
If you're well prepared and know when to back off you'll die at most 5 times in this game
big brain
Very good tip!
If you're cheesing the game like that you may as well use devcommands to teleport. Cheating like that ruins the fun of the game in my opinion. Why bother doing anything if there's no risk involved? At that point just play in creative and build whatever with unlimited resources. Or you could y'know.. build a forge on site, craft your bars and take one big trip with a cart like a big brain lmao
That's even a hard way.. I farm on a different map from my main base. When I'm full I just spawn at my base unload and spawn right back at the node. I repair when I drop of metal 😂 and if you find a decent seed like mine I hit burrows hit metal then delete map and restart and farm em again
I love the idea of dropping fires around your mine site to thwart attacks.
Great video. Even though I'm well into the silver age I go back to this every once in a while to see what tips I can re-learn from it. That fermenter setup at 5:06 is nice, I might have to steal it.
The explanation of how to make Bronze is a work of art.
Very good, concise and extremely helpful video. This is what a tips&tricks video should look like.
A lot of Info delivered in an easy and entertaining way, with visual examples.
Learning can be fun! :)
The comedy in this video is spot on! Made the bronze age seem.... fun. Even though it's not.
Best mining video on TH-cam. You just saved me so much time lol I have been hitting the copper mines like a true zero for 50+ hours.
I just started playing, beat the first boss and got stuck.
I found this video and 0:46 is exactly what I needed to hear LOL
Thank you!
Don't dig around copper mines. The knowledge that the rest is underneath or toward the edge of it is enough, digging around it takes 2 to 3 times as long. Also note that antler pickaxes can't be upgraded, but if you play alone you'll get 3 antlers for killing Eikthyr. Make 3 pickaxes as antlers can't be used for anything else, saves you repairing so much 😁
Edit: Just realised they added physics for copper, so if you mine underneath it will explode... Sometimes. 😂
I noticed that copper floated when I cleared out the bottom part of the copper node without touching the top (not the underground part), so I never bothered trying to use copper physics
@@romad6963 Yeah to make it explode you must mine around and below the entire node and separate it from the earth, you can’t mine through it and cut it in half and make the top fall etc
@@romad6963 If it floats, just start hacking at the lowest parts first and the upper layers will explode soon enough.
if you want to skip through the bronze age easily , max out bronze mace and sheild but only use the troll armor to kill the next boss and go straight to iron armor ( also need the bronze axe)
You can probably just skip the bronze mace in favor of the upgraded club to hold you over until iron. On some quick run playthroughs(before mistlands), I'd do 1 copper mine and some tin to get the essentials(butcher knife, some nails, cauldron, cultivator, bronze axe, and the upgrades to crafting stations) with as few dungeons as possible before moving on.
It helps that only 9 cores are needed initially(5 for a single kiln/smelter at a time and 4 for a set of portals)
Getting troll armor, flint axe, club, knife, spear, and the bone shield as high as possible let me skip bronze weapons and armor going into the swamp. As an added bonus, I didn't have to mess with the crude bow or even finewood bow, so my first bow is pretty good, which is important because throwing spears are worthless in the mountains because you always will lose them.
I planted rows of trees to act like a fence that kept wandering trolls away. They didn’t attack the trees and couldn’t pass between them. I put up an iron gate that I could pass through as needed.
Just started playing this game. Masterpiece is an understatement. Maybe the best game I've ever played.
Keep the shorts coming! Great to the point info!
Actually funny without being cringe and quality info, keep up the good work my man...just got into this game myself had it since it came out but i figured id give it time for some updates
I had really good time in bronze age living in a dark forest tree house, no need to rush this game, the content is done pretty quick if you are not a crazy builder
Great video! Much to the point. Another way to deal with transportation is to spawn a cart on top of a karve ship. Makes it easy to move from seaside various copper and tin nodes without running back to the base.
I went as far as digging a trench from one deposit to another, that part of the forest looked like the grand canyon...lol, there were so many deposits close to each other, went from one to the other nonstop. I built cart ramps out of the pits and I put gates up so I didn't get bugged by greydwarfs, I also had fires in the pits and workbenches as well for perpetual rested buff and easy repair, early on the deposit served as shelter till I smacked the last bit of ore covering the work bench, I mined for a week straight game time without having to sleep. I never mined so much ore, I never used it all...lol. I just dragged a cart along the shore for the tin while making a path with the hoe. One cart load of tin was enough to get me through bronze age, I used burial ch. for shelter to get my rested buff along the way, again non stop mining till the cart was full. As soon as I was able to make bronze pickaxes I switched from the antler ones for faster mining. All in all I think I created an efficient way to mine copper.
Basic idea is same as mine, but there is some point to improve. > 1. At first start dig around, and then make workbench inside the hole, just behind the wall, so you need make only 2 roofs to make it work. 2. dig copper from down side. After you take all bottom parts, all copper from up will collapse, so you dont have to dig all parts { this work prefectly with silver vains too}. :D Bonus point: if you have more copper around, make smelter around, like little blacksmith outpost., smelt it, make forge there and make all you need, and after that, just broke forge and other things, and move to you base only bronze you made.
Half of this is filler but the actual information is genuinely helpful
One pro tip is: don't make bronze armor. I make troll hide armor and upgrade it to lvl 4. you're more agile and the armor difference is not that huge. Then again, I'm more of a ranger.
If you don't make bronze armour at all, it's really not that tedious era.
This is how I usually play and can confirm is some of the most efficient ways.
well fuck i thought i needed the maxed bronze to survive the swamp and the mountain, those drauger archers and wolves hit so hard
troll chest & legs + upgrades
leather hat replaced by iron helmet
then full silver in 6hrs
@@MrGhostTheBigRoast Bronze won't help much in the mountains, but you should have iron by then. In the meantime, a good shield is worth more than the bronze armor
Bronze is the Farmer with a Fox, a Hen, and Grain problem.
If you are haulting tin to your base, you're doing it wrong.
If you are making bronze at your base, you're doing it wrong.
Haul the components for a force to your copper mine, and take your tin there.
Chances are your tin is no closer to your base than it is your copper mine (likely much further) so taking it there is inefficient.
And it makes sense to carry 1/2 the number of Bronze bars back as it does carrying back copper.
Taking the materials for a forge to the mine saves many trips carrying copper. It also allows repair of a Bronze pickaxe once you've made one, without having to travel back.
First ever playthrough, playing on Xbox, I'm enjoying the bronze age honestly, thanks for the video!
A more efficient way is to mine enough copper for a forge, axe, and a cart. Then even out a road through black forest up to the copper from your base. Place a teleporter in both locations and once you are completely done with the node just drag it all back in one go with your cart. The road doubles for core wood collecting if your base isnt in the forest. Its also fairly fast to make if you are any good at evening out ground.
if you want efficiency then setting up smelters next to ore nodes is by far the fastest way
i’ve always loved the black forest time. mining ores, hunting trolls to make armour, getting finewood, its all super fun to me
yeah the video i was looking for, and not a runtime over 29 minutes🤜🏼💥 subbed👌🏼
Bronze age could be bearable, or even nice, if only I had some breathing space between raids when mining, and if metal requirements for crafting were about 50% lower. Now I just tend to stay with troll armor and wooden club until Bonemass fight. And only devs can fix it.
Good quick guide overall.
Pickaxe should be the first bronze tool you make at the forge, to make all the subsequent ore mining go faster. I find that just digging out 80% of a copper deposit the normal way (top down) and then moving on to the next one is more time-efficient than trying to get 100% of the ore by digging around and collapsing it.
If you really find bronze mining and hauling tedious you can also just temporarily change the world modifiers to allow ores through portals or increase the resource rate, and then change the settings back when you're ready to move on to swamps. It's your game, do whatever keeps it fun.
I... love the bronze grind. I find it kinda therapeutic.
Workbench shelter? Why? Plopp down a portal and some chests. Drop ores in the chests and go through the portal back home with other items and drop them back home, repair and refill rested buffs. Then go back. Rinse and repeat until the full ore deposit is mined, fill your inventory with ore, run back home, empty inventory, go through portal back to the chests. Fill, run, empty, portal, repeat.
You might’ve missed out the part where you get unlucky at your camp and get spawn trapped by a 2 star troll for 30 minutes but still a very helpful guide
saw this after i did the slowest way through the bronze age... Great
I've never heard about this game. Started playing the other day... wow, it's so good! Thanks for the video
Most important thing for me is to have a portal at whichever deposit I'm mining, this way I can do easy stone runs back to base and quickly repair any pickaxe at the forge. I work back from the closest vein from my base, store all mined ore at the nearest coastal location then sail back making numerous stops to pick it all up along the way.
The only bronze items I bother with are the mace, buckler, cultivator, pickaxe and axe.
I don't even see a point in the bronze pickaxe unless you skipped Mr Deer. It's far faster to just plop down a workbench and repair the crappy and oddly impossible to upgrade antler pickaxe than futz about with fixing the bronze one, even if bronze does have better durability
@@InfernosReaper it's quite a bit faster than the antler pickaxe when you're mining which makes copper and iron much less of a chore. The antler pick has a mining stat of just 18 and can't be upgraded, bronze has a base of 25 and fully upgraded has 37, only 1 less than a level 2 iron pickaxe.
It carves through those huge copper deposits in no time at all whereas you'll still be there chopping away at them with antler.
@@MegaTerryNutkins The added costs of getting and upgrading it, plus *requiring* the forge to repair it just makes it too hard of a sell.
I've tried both and it really just doesn't seem like the bronze pickaxe is a worthwhile expenditure of resources to justify not just skipping it for the iron one.
@@InfernosReaper you can skip bronze armour so you don't actually need much bronze at all, just max out axe, pick and whatever shield/weapon you need. Once you have the max bronze pick you can smash through iron much quicker as well.
You don't need to repair it on site as you should have a portal next to the ore vein anyway
@@MegaTerryNutkins Ideally, but if you're just doing one copper mine to do the minimum to speed into iron, it's hard to justify doing much with the portal for mining in bronze age.
By iron, sure portals are great, but then you can just get an iron pick as your first iron item, so at that point, you don't really need the bronze pickaxe.
Meanwhile, the bronze axe is worth upgrading to be competitive in the swamps, though the Stagbreaker can be what carries you through crypts
3:42 Not only should you strike the rock from above for more damage, I recommend adjusting where you strike a little bit until you start seeing two or three numbers. That means that you're striking more than one section of the rock, and the sum of all of the damage numbers is always higher than the number you would get striking one section. I figure that in the long run, you're dealing more damage per strike. After 1000's of hours in Valheim, I still debate whether it makes sense to make the bronze pickaxe for faster mining. Sure it's faster, but you use a ton of bronze in the process of making the pickaxe. You could just mine slower, save the bronze, and be done faster. Iron pickaxe will be available soon...
One thing id like to add, is that one pickaxe swing can hit multiple sections of the copper ore at once. I tend to mine from the side of the ore to accomplish this
it does less dmg to each section
@@MrGhostTheBigRoast Regardless it still is better to hit multiple sections since it does 33% more damage in total
You will also level mining faster when doing multi-hits. same goes for trees@@atedj0632
I usally mine the copper underneath the vein and let gravity have at it for anything that's on top. I also make a base in the black forest and do all the smelting there.
When you get to the copper edge, just mine straight down and place a fire. Mine under the copper and place your workbench and 2 chests. Place a wall in front of the fire so any greydorks that fall in are consumed by the fire. Then mine around the perimeter as recommended.
THERE IS MORE UNDERNEATHE?!?! OH GOD!!! Thank you for this info. I had no idea.
1:36 moment just made my evening xD
dude this is definitely underrated
I would say the Iron age is the worst as it doesn't seem to end, I wonder if it's possible to make that easier... The use for iron extends well past it's initial age and many, many structures and equipment require a heap of it to get quality results. Copper can easily be popped or mined via troll; tin seems limitless sometimes especially if you do some 'coastal raids' on Black Forest structures from time to time.
You can also last with Bronze through the mountain biome(minus pick) if you have the skill, food and potions.
Iron is a tedious game of, "Will this chest/crypt even have anything worthwhile in it?" Hint: No.
Great video nonetheless appreciate the content!
me and my friends just got valheim and we’re on the cusp of this bronze age. this video was very insightful. ill relay to information to my friends.
not gonna lie 1 min in and this vid goes hard...got yourself a new follower
Finally a good valheim guide
Thankyou for this man
Games been driving me nuts
3:20 this "mecanic" is not only for mining, it just split the damage into all hitbox so even if you see only one damage pop up and its low is beacause you hit the ground too but the game wont let you break it at the same time as the ore for obvious reasons. same apply to three, if your axe hit the ground your damage will be significantly lower.
Move your base to the black forest and set up shop there. Also just stand on top of the copper ore and start mining, digging around the ore wastes time you could be spent on mining ore.
How do you only have 180 subs. Your guides are better than most other guides
Thanks! My guess would be because I started making Valheim content 2 months after it released. But hey, we'll get there! ;D
I do what you do except I put my workstation inside the pit. Less walking back and forth. Also, you can put roof pieces right on the exterior wall of the quarry.
yeah, sounds about right. i've not been digging out the copper nodes, buuut....there's so MANY that it's not been too much of an issue.
one thing I like to do is kinda play it cheap till I get till the iron age and skip most of bronze, it depends on the seed. I also skip out on bronze pick and armor because the antler will still be good till the iron age and skip out on making armor as well, if im doing a cetian class i might make a bronze version of that but if im not sure I just stick with the axe till I hit the swamp.
I think the only time I hate the bronze age is when I play with people because everyone has different needs and you need to gather more. Also some might want bronze armor or even max it out meaning more time spend gathering armor. However when im on my own I dont need bronze as much and I can get away with skipping or getting some bronze stuff at my own time
Good video on how to mine copper better tho, I only knew about the troll strat but this is another thing I can use whenever I tho this again awesome
Yep, I call it Elden Ring Mode and just play naked with a tier 1 bronze atgeir. I mine just enough to make an axe, cultivator, and the mats needed for fermenter, forge upgrades, etc. Last playthrough the first armor I got was fenris stuff from the mountains, heh.
Underrated youtuber your funny and helpful
Hey man just watching this now and great tip. You should switch the title around and put beginner guide etc first then getting through copper age last. These are all amazing tips.
I was about to stop playing because that's Bronze Age got really boring. But now I got motivated to make progress through it.
Thanks, I just got this game I’ve been searching for the right video to teach me
and this is it.
Valheim is one of those games where I recommend you do your first playthrough blind, it was very enjoyable for us that way! Might try it before you spoil too much (unless it's too late, haha).
Didnt play for months.. now back at it in the bronze age. This game is by far one of the most enjoyable survival games. And that all by playing solo. I can only imagine the fun with a group of friends haha
I subbed because of your explanation of bronze. its not like I didn't know how to make it, but it was golden
This Video is incredible and informative and efficient and amazing and definitely entertaining
my tip to mine the copper is I use Troll as a slave and doge all the attack so he can mine for me
i usually get find a troll that is carrying a log and kit him around it to smash it up, its much faster one swing can break up 1-2 chunks. that way you dont need to worry about building a shelter to constantly repair your pick just bring a cart if you able or just make a couple runs it should despawn by the time you get back
That was super helpful, thanks for the tips!
I get darkmain (he’s a league TH-camr) vibes from you and I love it
no. bring the smelter+kiln+forge to the copper deposit. only transport tin (to the copper deposit) because it only weighs 8. craft everything on site. much faster than transporting heavy copper ore.
This is easier than any tutorial I've seen
pro tip, make minimal bronze gear and just skip straight to iron with troll hide armour then you wont waste hours making shit you will almost immediately replace
I've gotten to the point in my playthroughs where I just completely skip the bronze age save for making a bronze axe, sword and pick, i'll just use troll gear till Iron.
Me too, Troll Armor, Bronze Axe, Pick and Mace and maybe a Buckler until Iron. :)
Yeah been that way since day 1. I dont think ive ever crafted full bronze set
Btw bronze dagger op not kidding
You can also skip sword and just use axe for fights
My favorite hauling method is the bumper world method.
Mine a bunch of stuff, fill your inventory, logout, log into bumper world, empty inventory, go back to main world and teleport back to your base. Logout, retrieve lot from bumper world, repeat. Is it cheating? Certainly not. Might cheapen the gameplay a bit but 🤷
i actually like to do dig around the copper, then dig it out from below... the entire thing collapses, nothing is lost, and have found it's *overall faster*. even if it is insanely boring until the collapse. (also side note, that forest you plant, put it on a hill... hit every tree a couple times as you climb the hill, and then chop the tree's at the top of the hill :D #dominoes)
I wish they would change the way the copper nodes work, my friends and i thought the top of the node was the only part and left the other 3/4ths underground. Thank god one of us looked for a video and found out why we were slowly trudging through bronze age. Not very clear for new players lol
I recomend making a bronze pick asap it is much faster than the antler one at getting copper. Make an bronze axe also so you can just make a portal near by to repair.
a bronze pick cant be repaired at a workbench, fyi.
@@audunms4780 that's why I said make a portal to repair, bronze pickaxe is at least twice as fast
@@ricoooooooo amen
@@ricoooooooo : I have the forge next to the portal, as well as smelter and kiln. Even better it's right next to the trader gaining the benefit of the "forcefield" around his location.
I truly love your channel. Keep doing the best work.
The bit about standing on top of copper was my only takeaway from this, I’d rather just make a big ole road through the Black Forest chopping every tree, breaking every stone and mining every ore I see along the way to put it in my cart
This is my second play through and the Bronze Age is one of my favs
just stop after
6 copper (forge)
10 tin (cauldron)
25 bronze (50 copper+25 tin) for:
bronze axe, bronze nails x80(for Karve), Cultivator, Adze, Fermenter
and 6 more copper bars if you don't feel lucky enough to find a Black Forest next to your Swamp crypts
3 stacks of ore; but the 35 tin is really fast
Math out how much of each you need, build base at copper to smelt and craft. Can put a cart on the carve if you need extra storage, or just cheese the teleport system.
Thanks for this I’m just working in the copper mine as of now. Sweet sweet coppa
I haven't actually tested it myself, but I DO know for a fact it works on Silver - if you dig fully under/around the ores you can cause the vein to collapse and instantly mine the entire thing. Supposedly.
This guys the best, perfect info.
Ooft, just hit the copper mines and it is a massive time killer. Thank you so much.
Thanks for this video. I just got to this section of the game and I spent almost two hours dragging a cart through the woods looking for ore. It worked, but it definitely felt like I was doing something wrong. This still looks tedious as hell, but much better than what I was doing.
you bring the materials to make the cart with you and make it only when you reach the ore
Now this is a big brain video thank you for your 270 hours 🙏
Having dug a few craters in my time to gear up a trio in the Bronze Age. My best advice is this:
For the love of Odin, just get the bronze pickaxe and start mining iron in the Swamp as soon as possible. Rush the Iron Age and skip the Bronze Age equipment wherever possible.
Yep bronze armor sucks
I just replayed and Troll Armor took me comfortably all the way deep into the plains, also kill some abominations and get the branch mask, no need for poison potions.
Oh yeah. If you're confident, the Troll Armour will carry you all the way to the Plains and you can just make Padded Armour. The mosquitos can be sniped before they get you, and Fulings can be outran.
Wicked pro tips, my dude
I have never played this game, but this is a pretty sweet guide.
How I fix it is dig around and as far down as possible (to the bedrock), then pick straight through the copper to the other end. Eventually I'll get a floating copper deposit. I then begin to break the floating deposit which may break apart piece by piece or if you're lucky to break a larger piece.
I've been meaning to test this out. Thanks for the suggestion! ;D
@@slipsloptv It does work, but you have to find the right spot. Best outcome I've had is probably 33% of the floating deposit collapsing. It was LOUD and scared me because it was at night and unexpected.
@@rumbleshakes Now I'm excited, lol. This is going to make mining a hell of a lot easier.
@@slipsloptv Copper will always be a pain.
@@rumbleshakes the only thing to fear is fear itself and when starting a new playthrough knowing that you have to mine copper.