Valheim: 55 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Playing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video I cover 55 tips and tricks to help you get started playing Valheim. Don't worry there aren't any major spoilers in this video as you'll encounter all of these things in the first few hours of playing.
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0:00 Intro
0:11 General Tips
1:48 Resource Gathering
2:52 Building and Crafting
5:54 Cooking and Farming
7:03 Combat and Hunting
9:17 Exploration
10:25 Outro - เกม
Just started the game today. Started my first base, killed greylings every 30 seconds, fell into my chimney, and burned to death. My new favorite game.
wait until you die by a fallen tree lmao
Bro that's not bad. I started the game, and killed 2 deers right away and spawned the first boss that kept killing me with me having literally a club only. 10/10
@@ohsillybeansaww you shouldn’t spoil that tbh, that was one of the funniest ways to accidentally die in this game lol
@@RamyHaramyduuuude. I cannot even explain how frustrating that was for me because I did the exact same thing. I was screwed. First, I didn't expect the deer to just instantly spawn as soon as I activated it. I thought it was lead up to it a bit more or something. All's I had was a flint axe. I died. I thought no biggie. I respawned. My base was probably about 300-400 meters away from the boss spawn. I didn't think the boss would be still hanging around. I ran to the area and I received my gear. I thought I could run away and recover a bit. So I ran to my base. Big mistake, the damn thing followed me all the way there. Started wrecking my base. Killed me again. boop, respawned RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT. It was an endless cycle. I couldn't even get away quick enough. My stamina was too low, even if managed to get my gear I literally had no time to equip anything! I tried reloading a save from my last play a couple days ago but it just wouldn't work for whatever reason. So I had literally had to find a way to win. I managed to get it away from my base and I got to a big rock and I had it chasing my round and round. I had to bait it into an attack so I could get a hit or two off and then run again. I noticed whenever it did either of the two shock attacks it wouldnt attack a second time in a row so that was my window. So running around a rock and hitting it once or twice every now and again. If it hit my once, my health would drop so low I would have to stop attacking and run around the rock until it slowly went back up which took forever. I finally won in the end. Probably took a solid 15 mins.
Honestly the game is good but when it comes to dying it's so brutal. The fact that you lose an ability is stupid too. It's way to punishing.
@@spaghetti5038you really need help and a hobby, never seen someone write that much for a random comment
Big tip you missed - you can quickly identify if a food is stamina, health, or balanced by the color of the fork on the food's icon. Yellow = Stamina. Red = Health. White = Balanced. The fork under your food bar will tell you which stat your food combination favors
Now THIS is the type of tip I've been needing
OMG I did not know that, lol. Thank you!
The hoe is the most underrated item in the game. Use it instead of the pickaxe to free copperore and find treasure chests. Just stand on the lowest point of ground and flatten away. Use it to raise ground and make easy walkable paths in the swamp. Use it tu undermine structures and rocks for easy deconstruction. Use it to raise a dirthill underneath you for quick safety in a tight spot. Use it to flatten out an elevated area to better combat certain mobs. Use it to expand small islands or even create artificial onces to build your base on to avoid most raids and events. the hoe is a tier 6 item that you can make with wood and stone from lvl 1 - learn how to use it and all its tricks and features.
Unfortunately a large amount of terraforming causes lag in said area from what I’ve heard. So while you are 100% correct, that is one apparent drawback.
World’s oldest job some say
@@Panzottero Valheim - "boats and hoes"
@@AParticularlyPointySoldier not anymore, they fixed it a while ago. Was a beginning bug which is gone by now
@@Bjoern_Weber oh really? Glad to hear that.
If you repair the structures you find before deconstructing them you get more resources
As far as I know this is not true.
E.g. a ship that is slowly killed by greylings drops all build ressources
@@Bjoern_Weberits not if its destroyed by creatures, im pretty sure he means things like natural damage, where deconstructing it while its low health would drop less. im not 100% sure about this though.
if this ever was a feature it no longer is
Number 1 tip for this game is your resting bonus, build the comforts so you get the max possible and when it runs out make sure to rest and get it again, it improves everything and the 50% ex bonus will make you tougher, faster, stronger alot quicker.
for the burried chest, don't bother digging. Just hit the ground with the stagbreaker and repeat when you see some damages. U'll destroy the chest and the items will be dragged on the surface. it save some time !
GGwp
oh thats a great tip
personally, I think discovering a lot of this yourself is what makes it such a good game
Agreed. TH-cam sucks for these things. I just want to learn how to shut the deer up ...if there is any hope. I love everything about it but those dam deer are the most annoying things in any game I have played in the last 35yrs.
I dont. people are different. I like to know the basics instead of wasting my time. some like to discover, some dont
@@sanjayw9878I get that, which is why I said it was my personal thought...I've had too many instances where I play with friends that just no-life a game more than I care too with an adult life, and I come back to just learn everything by mouth without ever experiencing it myself.
I know others like to know everything they can asap, but to me and I'm sure some others, experiencing it yourself randomly is far more immersive
@@sanjayw9878 (2) that said, I still watch these kind of videos long after playing a game just to see if I missed anything that may interest me. But I would still tell completely new players to avoid these kinds of vids until at least an hour or 2 into the game first. But ya, everyone is different
Btw over at those buried chest locations, there's typically skeletal remains and sometimes amber randomly buried around as well
One of my favorite things about this game is that nothing you repair will cost you anything additional and items don't get destroyed out of your inventory. One of my least favorite things about this game are the Greylings/Greydwarfs/Shamens/and Brutes SPECIFICALLY how they are coded to fight you. The Greylings seem to run away if you just look their direction, and always want to hit you from behind which is aggravating when you're mining or gathering rss around the world. Brutes can be fought easily enough with a good shield, but the accompaniment of a Shamen means that every enemy near it will heal on repeat making what looks like a small fight take longer than it needs to.
Started playing yesterday on Xbox and I love this game! Thank you!
Caves - The fire inside the entrance is a great tip, but OUTSIDE you can put a Workbench in the ENTRANCE of the cave. Caves make great quick early game homes, the rock is indestructible, just make strong walls ands a door. I also put portals there later on, fast jump to an area.
Portals - One silly trick to keep them safe is put them on a roof and some stairs up outside the house. Weird, but it works, LOL.
Thank you these will help me I’ve been really excited to play Valhiem ever since I watched you play it
Learned a few things even though I watch your streams often! Thanks for the knowledge Milton!!
Also, if you cut a tree, you can repeatedly push it into trees too hard for you to chop, and knock them down that way. Similarly you can get the tree and it's stump to turn into wood by smashing them into rocks, trees and other logs or stumps. It's handy for getting rid of birch or oak trees near your building zone during early game.
just had to do that for Fine Wood the other day since I wasn't at the Bronze stage yet. Great tip.
I also utilize troll assistance for early tree removal.
i spent too much time getting finewood like that 💀
I found this video very helpful. I've been playing for several hours now, and I had no clue about most of the things that you mentioned.
I do not understand some of these negative comments, you made an excellent video and your tips were very useful. Thank you!
I've been playing since the game came out and tbh I never even noticed the raft/boat stopping when you jumped off! xD This is a great video! Especially the rolling. *Queue darksouls flashbacks*
On #44, I suggest you try out the flint spear. It can be thrown for hunting deer and birds. This allows to fully skip the first bow. The spear also has low stamina usage, a fast attack, and good damage, especially when upgraded to level 3
It's my go to weapon for the meadows, it deals with Greydwarfs when transitioning to the Black Forest exceptionally well.
@@spaceitself flint spear can be used all the way into the swamp if its fully upgraded. First thing I do in any world is gather 65 flint for all the workbench upgrades and a level 4 spear. My weapon progression for maximum tryhard/efficiency is flint spear > get Stagbreaker > Iron Mace > Fang Spear then I go whichever direction I want with silver/black metal
Spears are just alot harder to hit enemies whit. Especially when there is a bit of heigt difference.
Don't forget you can use the stagbreaker to find silver in the mountains. If it says there is something that is too hard you have found silver
Wishbone easier tho
Not really. The stagbreaker is easier to get and easier to understand. The wishbone can be annoying plus it takes up space and all you need is a mejingjord
To use a workbench, in addition to a roof it also needs to be sheltered from the wind, or you you will get a message that it's too exposed. Once you've successfully used it once it no longer matters which way the wind is blowing though.
Copper Nodes. I was playing for quite a while before I figured out that by mining down, you could place down a fire and get Sheltered at the same time if you did it right. Since Sheltered also lets Workbench work, you really didn't have to leave until just before the node disintegrated. Also found out that fires also disperse that annoying fog that shows up when digging in the Black Forest.
New xbox player! Playing on Series X and this was the video needed such a newbie 🤣 thankyou!
I just started this game and I have to say it’s really good so far. The building and everything has been so intuitive that I was able to get really far into a base build without having to look anything up. I’m at the point now where I’m trying to get some tips but overall this game is really well designed because you can figure it out and have a good time playing almost completely blind
Thanks for the helpful tips :)
Great video. Played for 200 hours and still learned few things
2:45 'single hit'? :O
also #54 - loot like mushrooms do respawn in dungeons - tresures do not
A quick couple more tips for the food.
You can eat the same food after half its duration has passed and the hud will indicate this as the food will start flashing.
I respectfully disagree with #49. Upgrade your primary equipment as much as you can afford.
I am noob. Why would you upgrade certain things if you can make better ones later? Can u explain?
@@PredatorChin because you need decent gear to get the resources to make the better ones!
@@PredatorChin also, the upgrade increases the durability and damage dealt.
@@nelsonhemstreet3568 ok thx will keep that in mind
@@PredatorChin really easy to repair a level 3 flint axe or antler pickaxe when you're out and about as well. Just drop a bench and put a roof over like in the video. If you have bronze stuff, you need a forge to repair.
Omg I didn’t realize there was a repair option… I’ve been building so many new tools constantly 🙈
Happens to all of us! Lol I realized that too about 15 hours into my 1st playthrough. Still have my extra tools thrown in my 1st small cabin build :)
10:13 Loot does respawn in dungeons, it just takes a very long time (24 real hours).
Ima test this
Yellow mushrooms respawn - and other items in mistlands - but not loot not crypt monsters.
Loot does not respawn, only the yellow mushrooms
8:54 wait what really??? That’s a very cool mechanic!
not sure why it was included… it’s a myth, deer only detect on line of sight just like any other mob
im not sure about this one^^
@@MikeGrau0hr I'm just too thick to use it haha :D
Funny how I used to watch your Grounded shorts. I though valhiem seemed weird or dumb. Now that I've played it, I'm hooked. Here I am again lol
Harvesting Trees - @Krystopher Johnson is right, rolling trees into each other is a fast way to get wood, but there's a couple other tricks -
Cut a tree at the top of an incline too gain speed, the momentum increases the hit amount. Then and roll it back up the incline as far as possible and release. You can clear a pretty large area like that. Also - use a Fine Wood tree as the logger, it lasts longer, so do one 1st.
I feel like most of the magic from playing valheim came from the fact that I didn't know anything about it and discovered it myself. great video tho
56. You can put a pin with the name of your portal to remember them and where they go. 57. You can have a single portal at your base, and just rename it to link to your portals in the field. 58. Trolls are easy if you have a bow and good stanima. Fire arrows a plus. 59. You can move metal through a portal by having a second world with your spawn point by a chest. Gather metal, leave game, enter server 2, put metal in chest,. Go back to server 1, go through portal to base. Leave to server 2 and retrieve metal. Return to server 1. BAM!
58 Atgier will stun lock them. 59 that ruins the experience.
The metal through portal thing is genius but damn that's a lot of hopping on and off
I very much dislike the metal world hopping. Directly against the game design. I prefer to play the game the way it was intended, setting up forward mining bases and working for it. Makes the reward and the pay off much more rewarding.
But to each their own.
@@MediocreMilton actually I already had 58 and 59. That would be 60 and an opinion not a tip.
@@tumtumhero1436 get a mod that allows teleport anything?
So addicting in a good way it’s a peaceful life and best game ever perhaps for me
Really great tips for newbies like me! 👍
The work bench preventing things from spawning is great to know!! Thank you
Good tips, ding sound per tip is a bit grating, please forego it next vid.
I had to stop playing Valheim for a bit it was wayyy to laggy on the one s but now I got the series s and I’m so happy that I can play Valheim again with no lag this time
hot damn, I had no idea you could pounce from stealth. How do you do that?
I've been trying to make stealth build work for ages 😅
Go to a group of trees, hit them all 3-4 times, then chop down the tree in the middle and watch as the forest cuts all the wood for you
Train hand to hand early for later use with the fleshrippers.
Thanks!!
The Stagbreaker can break buried chests from the surface, and their contents will pop up out of the ground
Absolutely love this game.
Copper nodes are super inconsistent to destroy in one hit. Ever since Hearth and Home, they’ve made it FAR more difficult to use this tactic.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't work anymore. It will just float sadly
@@Monkeyman-qt1sm Large sections of it will break, instead of the whole thing. But it still works for the most part with silver nodes
@@RandomNorwegianGuy. it most definitely does not work even in chunks, havnt tested silver but if copper is fixed I assume silver is the same
@@Monkeyman-qt1sm Yes it does. I literally did it just a week ago. And the silver one I did today. You can break a whole silver node if you expose the whole thing, but not copper nodes. You can only break large chunks at a time with the copper
@@RandomNorwegianGuy. not even small chunks of copper work for me. And honestly it takes longer to mine all the way around anyway, just hit the silver and move on to the next piece. I tried it like 2 days ago and can confirm it doesn’t work. And if it does it’s not for me and not worth the time trying
2:10 First repair the buildables before destroying to get all the materials, I'm told reduced health buildables give back less resources
Idk if anyone else said this already but you can parry ranged attacks and stun the enemy
I have also dug a massive trench around my house and fell into it and died, and once i think been ran over by my own cart. "Stupid deaths, stupid deaths, hope the next one isn't... Mine"
I think the best experience is to play the game blind and not look up things. Discovering makes games like this an amazing journey 😁
Yet here you are
@@chrisbt5508 randomly popped up, watched a min wrote the comment and left.
@@bojanmarkovic9914 fair
100% agree that’s why I kept it spoiler free beyond the first few hours.
until you realize you missed out on a ton of potential fun because you didn't figure something out as fast. It is not fun for me to discover an extremely useful tip late game that could have made early game more fun and made the journey to end game more efficient and enjoyable. I think you are correct. But I also don't agree. Look tips up after you have attempted a few hours of gameplay and are confused about some elements of the game and then the discovery of tips that weren't mentioned replace the fun of discovering tips you found out from a video while enjoying the game a lot more from the knowledge of the tips you looked up. Utilizing resources of the internet to fuel discovery is the most fun for me at least.
I just killed Eikthyr and still learning here, what did you say on #17, you dug all the way around a big copper deposit and then said something about getting it all at once? Thanks for the help
If you dig all the way around the copper deposit and it isn't touching anything you should be able to break the entire deposit in one hit with your pickaxe.
The 55 ding noises was a nauseating choice
I wish I knew I needed the cauldron before the fermenter.
Audibly gasped at teh fire smoking itself out. I thought it was a bug for the longest time.
I have heard multiple times now that items can despawn, but they never did that for me, regardless of where I left them
Oh, be careful. I threw dragon egg down from mountain, right besides skeleton burial chamber, than trough portal to base and than back to take egg but it was gone. Probably skeletons stolen it. Bastards!
@@7heavenfist572 Tbh, eggs aren't that important, I find 1-3 on every mountain I visit, everytime I go there, I don't even know what to do with so many eggs, besides deco
@@rtb42 That egg was meant for decoration. I was surprised that it disappeared so quickly. I had not left any workstation nearby.
@@7heavenfist572Ah, yes decoration is important, I have one in my room in my base too, also I tried the workbench thing and items can really disappear, that's 'interesting'
@@rtb42 yes, things outside your base disappear after a few hours, things close to workbenches always stay :)
seeing that massive bit of ore just completely blew my mind? is copper like that too?
yes
Tip 54 clarification - mushrooms regenerate in dungeons or caves, the rest - no.
Yellow mushrooms do respawn in burial chambers and iron caves.
started playing Valheim once i got my steamdeck (it runs pretty well at medium locked 40fps)
use a bow aggro a troll to fight skeletons, the troll will leave you alone to fight the bone bois
bonus if you find a stone encampment you can where the troll cant reach you
#28 is unecessary, because all you ever need is eikthyr in the start, and bonemass for the rest of the game
This is the best game i played in a long time
Upwind? You mean down wind... so the wind blowing towards you from the direction of the deer. xD
like + comment, just started with my partner, thank you, nice video !
1:15 💀the map
OML! 😂
Did not know about the deer thing with the wind, I thought the AI was just really dopey.
Building and connecting the walls, floors and roofs is hard on consoles
Thanks, Hugin
I didn't know you could repair items! I played for probably 10 hrs before i realized it, and just made new tools and weapons when the durability ran out... turns out im an idiot lmao
1:58 I did that with my friend now there is no more trees in a Black Forest
What I learned about the Workbenches you place around to widen your base building area and prevent enemy spawning:
Don't leave them unsheltered... they will wear and tear. It's enough to build walls 2 long and 1 wide, covered by (my preference, to target it if I need fast repairs!) the 45 degree ridge. This shelters the Workbench from the weather AND allows repairs.
i prefer diggin a hole in the ground to put them in, use the hoe to raise the land, you can leave a lil bit of workbench sticking out and it won't destory, cultivate to make the grass appear on top of it and you got a uninhibited land radius to build upon with mob spawn preventing, i typically do this under the foundation of my home so i dont see 5-6 diff workbenches, and just leave 1 main one with the addons in the base
@@sneekyshot1 I've noticed in recent patches with Valheim... things move up and down as you mine down or raise the ground. So I believe doing this wouldn't work as efficently anymore.
@@raevmanigotnoskills5837 works pretty well currently on the test realm, never had a problem with them being destroyed after being placed unless a troll smashes the ground, or lox smash.
This game is a banger
OoooooooooooooooooMmmmmmmmmmmmmmGggggggg I didn't know about the corpse run details or the ore trick
about the deers... there is no smell ingame, its all about a certain range of detection / aggro and also while sneaking they will only see you in like a 90-120 degree angle in front of them.
Thank you for sharing 😊🎉❤
1 thing I wish I know before watching this video
1- Change playback speed to 0.75
XD Thanks for the video
you can 1 hit a copper node by digging it out of the ground? i will have to try that.
Yes. But many of the ones I have dug won't let me dig below them.
@@nelsonhemstreet3568 I have literally same problem. I haven't found any copper ore that would let me to dig under it to disconnect it from the ground.
@@krystiaff maybe mine copper from bottom tier of node?
I tried that too.
Don't worry, it doesn't work. My friends and I mined around and below a copper node until it was floating mid-air, and it never crumbled by itself.
yellow mushrooms do respawn in bc's
1:14 that's some pretty suss exploration so far....
Question, do skeletons keep respawning in burial caves? I feel like i keep killing them and they are coming back. Just a never ending wave of skeletons.
only if there's a spawner;
it's a purple sparkly campfire,
which is good if you want to farm bones for upgraded leather/cape
if you find there's too many, you can destroy the spawner from ranged with a bow
@@RW77777777 thank you. Yes I found that out once I went deeper. I have another question for you. I'm on iron age some I'm messing about in the swamps. Whenever I start doing lots of damage to an abomination he runs away. Is that normal? I'm playing on Xbox which isn't very powerful so things load a little slow sometimes. Because of that when he runs away and I chase him he gets away. I'll do loops around the area and only find Abominations with full health. So besides traping on in a pit I'm not sure how to kill them.
Good video but man that bell you use is almost as bad as having background music.
I got to tip 15 before I had to stop the video. It's such a rough sound for some people, especially with the frequency of use for each tip, had 3-4 in a 10 second time and I felt like someone was ringing a bell directly in my ear.
I dig around the copper ores while collecting minerals. And I found it more work to do so rather than mining it with Trolls or itself. The ore can shape in weird ways once you start mining it. Thus, allowing you to localize it with every dig.
The ding after every tip is so annoying
I cleared all the terrain and it’s not breaking in a single hit. Is there a specific distance the terrain has to be away?
they changed it, but it will still take huge chunks off if its cleared like that.
Also, 2:46 - shown example is poor - you'll pretty much NEVER break a copper rock in one go because there's always going to be a terrain spike in the center that you can't reach by going under it. It's much easer with silver though
Pretty rad it launched on xbox. Ironically I started playing again this last week. Started a new character to re learn real quick. It still has a ton of untapped potential. They really need to maybe set up a side quest/daily quest vendor in game. Need more progression but iv loved this game from the start. If they can follow MineCraft and NoManSky this game will be so awesome. Needs caves and more points of interest like Minecraft caves. Needs hidden and discoverable technology, treasure, blueprints etc like No Mans Sky. But they also need a couple more layers of materials and in depth items that provide mechanics in the world.
You haven't played enough, it gets better.
Sounds like you want it to be more like no man's sky than vaheim
@Jeremy Carneal In the sense it needs more. Sure. You got a problem with that? You're pretty content with where the game is compared to where it could be? Cool
@Softnumnums funny, I didn't give my opinion on the game. How did you come up with me being content? Maybe...just maybe I actually realize it's not a finished game and it is constantly being worked on and improved. You do know it's not a finished game right? your examples of things while continously comparing it to no man's sky is silly. It's not no man's sky. The devs have done a lot with it and they will continue to do so. Idk about you but most gamers don't want a game to be just like another game. Seems moronic.
@@Jeremy9697 funny I didn't make a statement and asked a question. Well done. Comprehension-1👏
Biggest pushback I have is sitting has nothing to do with resting buff. You can stand, sit, even run and still get rested buff. Dunno bout console but that's how PC is
54 tips, the 55th has been patched out 😂
"...will provide a buff for 20 seconds". I think you mixed up things there.
Where is the tip about the trader?
they are not oval rock formations, they are viking ships!
Ima need the link to the house in the thumbnail
Midjourney.com it’s AI generated.
Downloaded on Xbox right before this video dropped lol
Update: currently struggling to kill deer because I suck at using the bow, even with the tips given in this video. Also have not discovered how to make a pickaxe or flint knife yet. Otherwise the game is fun. Had to use some junky methods to make my starter base before I could acquire the hoe. But it is functional to say the least
I haven’t played it yet myself but I believe you need to kill the first boss to get his antlers to get the pick axe. Could be wrong 😅
Flint spawns near water in the Meadows. It's oval shaped white rocks.
@@MediocreMilton I feel dumb, thank you kindly
@@brandonbarlow7773 helpful, thank you
@@brandonbarlow7773 correct
Pretty sure yellow mushrooms respawn now
Good advice. Except #49… that’s the worst advice possible. I took leather gear and bronze weapons into the swamp, because I upgraded. Find what you like and use it.
that's it folks, the guide for the average d4 player
7:37, the colour of what exactly?
little late i know but they meant the color of the damage text. white numbers is neutral, grey means your attacks arent effective and yellow means they are extra effective
Thing #1: You can repair your tools. You never have to make new tools.
Damn dude I thought this video was on 1.25X speed
You can't build at all in the burial chambers tried and it told me I needed a workbench that you cannot place
You can put down a fire without a workbench though, I just did it last night.
@@izallskilfoo This is true, you can always put campfires down, even without the workbench. Takes two wood and five stone per fire. Just need the hammer is all
@@izallskilfoo Also you can put cooking stations over campfire and prepare food and put down sitting log to get comfort level up (no need for workbench).
How do I level ground on Xbox?
With the hoe
with aim assist 💀just kidding