teleporting ores

[aresthesavage7]

i have got iron from my swamp and i try to teleport it dosnt work and it takes a long time sailing across the oceon so please game can chang that you can teleporn anything please thanks

[Lexor]

It won't be changed hopefully. If you bother with this mechanic, just fill up you inventory above the max weight, log out, log in to another world. drop the ore to a chest. log in to your main world again. travel home through portal. log in to the other world again. take your ore and log in to your main world again. Booom. Ores transported in no time.

Edit: You also can use a mod which enables you to teleport ore. There is one already..

[NoShotz]

It's specifically designed so that you need to use the boats to transport the ore.

[Mononymouse]

Originally posted by NoShotz:

It's specifically designed so that you need to use the boats to transport the ore.

You can also build crafting outposts, near each zone.

[morph113]

You can also just gather the iron until you have like a few hundred or whatever and then do one boat trip and have all the iron you will ever need and all it takes is one boat trip.

[Vault Traveler]

Build an outpost and make stuff you want directly, use boat, use cheats, use another world as middleman, use a mod that allows you to use portals with ore.

[Eternal President Uncle Slam]

Its just not consistent. Metal cannot be teleported and yet we can go through portals with metal weapons and armor. So I assume their is no lore reason why we can't go through portals with metal or there wouldn't be this inconsistency. That would mean the mechanic exists solely to inconvenience the player. The terminator franchise has a similar teleportation gimmick where metal ♥♥♥♥♥ the time machine up, but they work it into the story. A big metal terminator needs to be covered in skin to time travel. Valheim needs to be consistent with its teleportation mechanics and give a reason why some metal goes through and others do not or else its just a "♥♥♥♥ you" mechanic.

Maybe give us a box that can be brought through portals because it has runes on it that stop the metal from ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the portal. Make it so metal armor and weapons need to go into the box before using a portal so there is consistency with the no metal rule. Maybe have runes that you place directly on the weapon/armor to make it TP safe. Or make it so bringing metal through portals makes it less accurate and you can get tp'ed into a location far away from where it should. As it stands its inconsistently implemented and a major time sink.

[Dis Lexic]

Actually, there is a fairly logical reason why you cant teleport bars or ore that would be lore friendly. Valheim is supposed to be a test for the player, created by Odin, which means that any magic used logically comes from Odin, including the teleport portals. Considering that, its logical that he would allow weapons and armour through, but not raw material because that would make it to easy for his little lab rat. The other metal items like nails also make sense because, again, you've already got the ore back home and refined it. I suppose an argument could then be made that the ingots should be allowed, but its not that much of a stretch.

[Ravenlute]

Originally posted by Eternal President Uncle Slam:

Its just not consistent. Metal cannot be teleported and yet we can go through portals with metal weapons and armor. So I assume their is no lore reason why we can't go through portals with metal or there wouldn't be this inconsistency. That would mean the mechanic exists solely to inconvenience the player. The terminator franchise has a similar teleportation gimmick where metal ♥♥♥♥♥ the time machine up, but they work it into the story. A big metal terminator needs to be covered in skin to time travel. Valheim needs to be consistent with its teleportation mechanics and give a reason why some metal goes through and others do not or else its just a "♥♥♥♥ you" mechanic.

Maybe give us a box that can be brought through portals because it has runes on it that stop the metal from ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the portal. Make it so metal armor and weapons need to go into the box before using a portal so there is consistency with the no metal rule. Maybe have runes that you place directly on the weapon/armor to make it TP safe. Or make it so bringing metal through portals makes it less accurate and you can get tp'ed into a location far away from where it should. As it stands its inconsistently implemented and a major time sink.

Or it's a game and doesn't need your lore rules to justify mechanics.

[Zugs]

Sooner or later you have to move away from the center of the map. This is part of the game.

[WarWolf]

Originally posted by aresthesavage7:

i have got iron from my swamp and i try to teleport it dosnt work and it takes a long time sailing across the oceon so please game can chang that you can teleporn anything please thanks

you can take ore with you to other servers thats all im saying good luck

[Fuhrer]

Originally posted by Dis Lexic:

Actually, there is a fairly logical reason why you cant teleport bars or ore that would be lore friendly. Valheim is supposed to be a test for the player, created by Odin, which means that any magic used logically comes from Odin, including the teleport portals. Considering that, its logical that he would allow weapons and armour through, but not raw material because that would make it to easy for his little lab rat. The other metal items like nails also make sense because, again, you've already got the ore back home and refined it. I suppose an argument could then be made that the ingots should be allowed, but its not that much of a stretch.

Nah, that's a ridiculous. By that logic portals wouldn't even exist - hell, remove weapons while we're at it for extra challenge!

A more feasible ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ explanation they could give is that portals are fey in origin, and considering fey and iron are extremely opposed, the portal magic just doesn't mix with ore. As for crafted items being allowed through, maybe handwave that as magic rune inscription or some similar garbage during the crafting process - which would also slightly help in justifying the absurd crafting requirements later on.

Still requires some suspension of disbelief, particularly in pretending all metals are the same, but it's better than nothing.

[Vault Traveler]

Its a gameplay and design choice.

There is nothing to discuss without that limitation no one would use boats and carts.

[Eternal President Uncle Slam]

Originally posted by Dis Lexic:

Actually, there is a fairly logical reason why you cant teleport bars or ore that would be lore friendly. Valheim is supposed to be a test for the player, created by Odin, which means that any magic used logically comes from Odin, including the teleport portals. Considering that, its logical that he would allow weapons and armour through, but not raw material because that would make it to easy for his little lab rat. The other metal items like nails also make sense because, again, you've already got the ore back home and refined it. I suppose an argument could then be made that the ingots should be allowed, but its not that much of a stretch.

A nice theory, but if Odin wanted to challenge us he wouldn't let us use portals at all. I assume that the portals are powered by surtling cores and dwarf eyes, but who knows. It probably would have been better for this game to not have tps at all. Their existence makes us want to use them for everything rather then using boats/carts. If portals weren't in the game many would still complain that its a huge time sink, but their would be an understanding that it has to be that way. People don't want to cheat and hop worlds, so I think they instead want a legit way to move their metals that is fun and less time consuming.

The adventuring aspect is fun as hell, but once you have made the voyage to a new island you don't really want to make the same trip again. Its simply less fun the second time because you already know what is out there. Portals are good for that, but we still end up traveling the same bodies of water repeatedly for ore transport. Hopefully a good compromise can be found that encourages adventure and sailing, but doesn't force players to make repeat boat trips to locations they have already been to just to move metal. If i hop on that boat I want to do it because its fun and I get to find new lands/adventures, it shouldn't be a boring chore.

I think they should allow us to bring ingots through so we at the very least need to set up a base on location to refine the ore. Setting up bases in distant lands can be very fun and each biome has unique challenges for basing. Maybe a mechanic that increases enemy spawns while melting down ore/making coal. Players would have to stay and protect their 2nd base while making ingots or else monsters will break your base and ruin your production. That way their is still a challenge involved with moving metal, but it would involve combat instead of a repeat boating trip. The nice thing is if you like sailing you can still bring raw ores back to base by boat if you don't want to base on location.

[Prisoner 76561197992841073]

Originally posted by aresthesavage7:

i have got iron from my swamp and i try to teleport it dosnt work and it takes a long time sailing across the oceon so please game can chang that you can teleporn anything please thanks

teleporn? interesting... tell me more

[CellNav]

Originally posted by Eternal President Uncle Slam:

Its just not consistent. Metal cannot be teleported and yet we can go through portals with metal weapons and armor. So I assume their is no lore reason why we can't go through portals with metal or there wouldn't be this inconsistency. That would mean the mechanic exists solely to inconvenience the player ...

There is a lore ... It's either called "Separating the men from the boys", or "Weeding out the audience who actually can't play the game".

The lore has been around for thousands of years, yet the kid born under the sign of "MineCraft" can't wrap their head around anything but a squirrel gathering nuts as the primary goal of a game that does more than that.