Tips for navigating The Swamp?

[Nwah]

Finally found myself a swamp biome. I have a key so I know I'm looking for something locked, but traversing the swamps are rough.

Between fighting the Draugr, blobs, skeletons and leeches and doing it all soaked to the bone, I've burned through a lot of consumables.

Any tips from some viking vets?

To be clear, I'm not complaining that the game is too difficult. I love the challenge.

[Salt Strider]

Depends on where you are in the game itself in terms of armor, weapons, consumables, etc. The Swamps are unforgiving, but you're looking for crypts to unlock when you're in the Swamps (these crypts are full of Blobs, Draugr, skeletons also and in more compact spaces; be prepared for this special hell). All I can really tell you is to adopt a more stealthy approach when in the Swamps. Do not go out of your way to fight every single enemy you come across, save your strength, health and items for the crypts.

[Mharr]

I bring a cart and stonecutter, and just build a 2x2 stone panel highway across the whole thing, eating skeleton towers for extra materials. Those blocks snap to each other pretty easily just above ground level, with the occasional 1x1 support needed to cross deeper pools.

[John Lennon #NHH]

No

[Mharr]

Also once you have the iron for a pick you can break sequence a bit and go hunting silver in the mountains. Silver weapons annihilate the swamp beasties.

[Megahurts]

Bring a hoe, use it to flatten terrain to help avoid leeches and makes paths for easier navigation.
Don't go in at night and enter slow, picking off as many baddies as you can with your bow.
Use trees for cover from archers.
Keep an eye in the waters for scuba skeleton archers.
Fall back when you need to.
Blobs aren't that bad...they can only hurt you when withing a meter or two.
Blunt weapons are good for most swamp baddies.
Keep poison resist potions up.
The locked things you're looking for will have a green torch burning out front.
Not all swamps will have these locked things so don't spend a lot of effort to build an outpost until you find some.
If you can, scout first from the sea or higher ground of the biome next door where your visibility is not impeded by the swamps gloom.

[Cross]

Everyone has been there, you will need minimum troll armor set fully upgraded. I suggest bringing arrows for killing blobs, must have poison resistance med. Farm your irons and lvl your iron armor first (you don't really need the weapon first but that's just my opinion since all you need to do is mine alot inside sunken crypts). And if you still don't know that you can eat 3 food. eat a fruit, cooked meat and if you are going to enter a battle use honey.
Goodluck ^^
-Solo player that needs a mature fun friend xD

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by Nwah:

Finally found myself a swamp biome. I have a key so I know I'm looking for something locked, but traversing the swamps are rough.

Between fighting the Draugr, blobs, skeletons and leeches and doing it all soaked to the bone, I've burned through a lot of consumables.

Any tips from some viking vets?

To be clear, I'm not complaining that the game is too difficult. I love the challenge.

When traversing water - look for cattails. Cattails only grow in shallow water. Shallow water means no leeches, and no stamina damage/slowdown.

It is practical to destroy spawns between your ship and the crypt, or Bonemasses altar and your portal and around the altar as well. You won't like meeting the spawnee when your situation is already at the brink of total failure, especially if it is a 2 star Elite Draugr.

[jonnin]

take the toxin mead the first trip or two. Use it to learn to fight blobs. The timing on their attack lets you melee kill them without getting bombed but it takes practice. Heal mead won't be a bad plan either first trip or two.

use the hoe to make paths that leeches cannot get onto and ignore leeches for now. Later when you can oneshot them with bow you can farm them.

Skeletons are weak, low priority target.

Find a crypt, mark it .. you will likely need multiple visits. Mark untouched, in progress, and empty with different symbols so you don't get frustrated finding more iron.

wraith chains are 'required' (shield, brazier, forge upgrade), try to find at least 20 of them. Unfortunately this is a pain.

your first run, find turnip seeds if you can. Turnip stew is a staple you will use for a long time.

many swamps have no crypts. Move on if you do not find one relatively quickly.

[blankitosonic]

Try to mine first irons to build a longboat , its more efficient transport that the "hoe n cart " because almost all swamps have sea shores
For food until u get turnips and sausages : carrot soup , cooked meat and cooked neck tail , BUT if u re lucky to kill sea serpents : carrot soup , cooked serpet meat and serpent stew
Best weapon to manage all swamp mobs are the bronze/iron mace ,use anti poison me/ads and healing/stamina/tasty me/ads , try to make full iron armor and weapon tier before bonemass fight , become an easy fight if u do that

[Sinandur]

Originally posted by Nwah:

Finally found myself a swamp biome. I have a key so I know I'm looking for something locked, but traversing the swamps are rough.

Between fighting the Draugr, blobs, skeletons and leeches and doing it all soaked to the bone, I've burned through a lot of consumables.

Any tips from some viking vets?

To be clear, I'm not complaining that the game is too difficult. I love the challenge.

Here's a breakdown. The four sections are Priority, Foods, Weapons and Armour. Read whichever bits you fancy.

Priority:

-> Longship (10 Iron Nails); it's fast, tough and has a massive cargo hold for Scrap Iron
-> Iron armour
-> Iron Mace (swap this with the Huntsman Bow if you're primarily an archer)
-> Huntsman Bow
-> Iron Shield (this is assuming you have a Bronze Buckler and are somewhat skilled at parrying, since the BB has a fantastic parry bonus)
-> The rest (this comes down to weapon preferences and if you really want extra comfort from Iron furnishings; if you want a Raven Throne, etc ASAP, re-order this list)

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Foods:

Pre-Swamp (haven't found Haldor): Cooked Meat / Grilled Neck Tails / Honey
Pre-Swamp (have found Haldor): Cooked Meat / Cooked Fish / Honey

Early Swamp: Cooked Meat / Sausages / Honey

Later Swamp: Turnip Stew / Sausages / Honey

Honey is good all the way through since it has excellent synergy with the Poison Resistance Mead, reducing any remaining poison damage to very low levels.

Serpent Meat and Serpent Stew:

Pros:
-> Gives high HP and stamina
-> Lasts a long time

Cons:
-> Hard to sustain production (unless you sail a lot at night and during storms)
-> Overkill for the Swamp (this is conditional on your armour choice, though)

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Weapons:

-> Maces (one-handed for small fights and two-handed for fighting groups)

Why? They do full damage or bonus damage to every enemy in the Swamp and are devastating against the boss.

-> Bows

Why? They're a deadly stealth weapon against Draugr and Draugr Elites, the most dangerous regular enemies in the Swamp (assuming you're using Poison Resistance Mead when you should be).

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Armours:

Troll armour:

Pros:
-> Full mobility; advantageous for a dodge / run playstyle, easy to make and upgrade

Cons:
-> The low armour class is dangerous; if you get hit hard, only high HP food will save you
-> The close quarters of the dungeons will somewhat nullify its advantages

Bronze armour:

Pros:
-> High armour class makes you well-suited to close quarters and gives you more leeway in your food choices

Cons:
-> Reduced mobility
-> Time-consuming to make and upgrade

Iron armour:

Pros:
-> Very high armour class; only two star Draugr, Draugr Elites and the boss are threats
-> You can find the materials for it in dungeon chests if the RNG is in your favour

Cons:
-> Same movement penalty as Bronze
-> More dangerous to attain than Bronze
-> Arguably more tedious to make and upgrade, though this depends on your mining preferences (the dungeons are quite different to working in the Great Outdoors) and how lucky you are*

* How much Iron Scrap you're getting from each pile, how many dungeons there are, how big they are and whether there's Scrap Iron chests in them.

[blankitosonic]

Originally posted by Sinandur:

Originally posted by Nwah:

Finally found myself a swamp biome. I have a key so I know I'm looking for something locked, but traversing the swamps are rough.

Between fighting the Draugr, blobs, skeletons and leeches and doing it all soaked to the bone, I've burned through a lot of consumables.

Any tips from some viking vets?

To be clear, I'm not complaining that the game is too difficult. I love the challenge.

Here's a breakdown. The four sections are Priority, Foods, Weapons and Armour. Read whichever bits you fancy.

Priority:

-> Longship (10 Iron Nails); it's fast, tough and has a massive cargo hold for Scrap Iron
-> Iron armour
-> Iron Mace (swap this with the Huntsman Bow if you're primarily an archer)
-> Huntsman Bow
-> Iron Shield (this is assuming you have a Bronze Buckler and are somewhat skilled at parrying, since the BB has a fantastic parry bonus)
-> The rest (this comes down to weapon preferences and if you really want extra comfort from Iron furnishings; if you want a Raven Throne, etc ASAP, re-order this list)

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Foods:

Pre-Swamp (haven't found Haldor): Cooked Meat / Grilled Neck Tails / Honey
Pre-Swamp (have found Haldor): Cooked Meat / Cooked Fish / Honey

Early Swamp: Cooked Meat / Sausages / Honey

Later Swamp: Turnip Stew / Sausages / Honey

Honey is good all the way through since it has excellent synergy with the Poison Resistance Mead, reducing any remaining poison damage to very low levels.

Serpent Meat and Serpent Stew:

Pros:
-> Gives high HP and stamina
-> Lasts a long time

Cons:
-> Hard to sustain production (unless you sail a lot at night and during storms)
-> Overkill for the Swamp (this is conditional on your armour choice, though)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Weapons:

-> Maces (one-handed for small fights and two-handed for fighting groups)

Why? They do full damage or bonus damage to every enemy in the Swamp and are devastating against the boss.

-> Bows

Why? They're a deadly stealth weapon against Draugr, the most dangerous enemies in the Swamp (assuming you're using Poison Resistance Mead when you should be).

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Armours:

Troll armour:

Pros:
-> Full mobility; advantageous for a dodge / run playstyle, easy to make and upgrade

Cons:
-> The low armour class is dangerous; if you get hit hard, only high HP food will save you
-> The close quarters of Sunken Crypts somewhat nullify its advantages

Bronze armour:

Pros:
-> High armour class makes you well-suited to close quarters and gives you more leeway in your food choices

Cons:
-> Reduced mobility
-> Time-consuming to make and upgrade

Iron armour:

Pros:
-> Very high armour class; only two star Draugr, Draugr Elites and the boss are threats
-> You can find the materials for it in Sunken Crypt chests if the RNG is in your favour

Cons:
-> Same movement penalty as Bronze
-> More dangerous to attain than Bronze
-> More or less tedious to make and upgrade, depending on your mining preferences and how lucky you are (how many Crypts there are, how big they are and whether there's Scrap Iron chests in them)

Agree with everything less honey over carrot soup in pre and in swamp , if u already have rested bonus and anti poison me/ad u dont really need that +3 healing bonus over +40 stamina of the soup , u have to evade or kill faster these blobs to prevent their farts ( bows + mace do the job ) so countering poison only with me/ad is enought , the soup helps u a lot fighting or moving there

[Rothgar57]

Just bring a few potion of poison resist. Stamina potions are also good. Always have your rested bonus active. Once your rested bonus is almost gone its time to leave and rest up. Eat good food. have a nearby portal. good measure if you die or to go get your resting bonus.

[Redemption]

try not to fight too many enemy at a time
watch your stamina and eat as much as you can until you leave the swamp
then fill only one food slot with something that will keep you alive when falling or something
when you fight something easy get your health at at least 50
bring a hoe with yu in swamp so you can navigate quickly

[Husker_85]

Most important tip I think for the swamp (besides the above and coming prepped with the right food and mead) is the KEEP MOVING. When you're in the swamps you want to always be moving so you don't get bogged down by enemies. Your goal is the find the cypts and get inside quickly because it's actually safer in there. Oh, and the stagbreaker works wonders against blobs. If you go for the iron slegde it's even better, often one-shotting blobs.

[Hei Gui]

i like to build a 3x4 shack next to the crypt im about to raid so i can deposit loot and get a nice rested bonus.