Frost Caves

[caulkman7]

I have played Valheim for about 2500 hours now. I did join in the Frost Cave testing. I have created a new world to explore. I'm finding it very time consuming to find mountain regions. When I find a Frost Cave after hours of search I find very little in the Caves. Even after thoroughly searching I feel disappointment in how little I do find. Seems like a lot of work for very little reward.

[jonnin]

I think people wanted light armor alternates. So we gots light armor alternates.
As for finding a mountain, if your draw distance is maxed you can see them from very far off in your boat. They have a giant long distance skyline. Finding a cave is another story.

[[EcG-S] Devidion Capper]

caulkman7, you could always start a new seed and just go for materials in it.

[Terra]

thats the quality we get when the community wants more and more stuff and devs feel like they have to push some updates out. the whole EA release was so perfect but all the updates seems rushed and not fitting into the well thought out game.

dark wood locked behind the endgame content with horrible mechanics, digging out tar. which you need to dig 2 days to get all out the tar which is maximum 30-80 if lucky.
forst cave loot is 1-3 fur and you need 20 to craft one setitem.
i looted 6 frostcaves and got 8fur total. so you need to grind all frostcaves in the seed to craft and upgrade the new set to max.

another example how community ruins the vision of a game because they want new stuff now because people cant wait. yes even if its more than one year.

[Polaris]

Originally posted by Terra:

thats the quality we get when the community wants more and more stuff and devs feel like they have to push some updates out. the whole EA release was so perfect but all the updates seems rushed and not fitting into the well thought out game.

dark wood locked behind the endgame content with horrible mechanics, digging out tar. which you need to dig 2 days to get all out the tar which is maximum 30-80 if lucky.
forst cave loot is 1-3 fur and you need 20 to craft one setitem.
i looted 6 frostcaves and got 8fur total. so you need to grind all frostcaves in the seed to craft and upgrade the new set to max.

another example how community ruins the vision of a game because they want new stuff now because people cant wait. yes even if its more than one year.

Keep looking, one of the smaller caves I found only had 5 fur, but I had another fairly small one with 16, and a massive one with over 20, it's RNG :)

[Mr. X]

My loot from 2 mountains, 8 caves:

138x fenris hair
55x red jute
27x fenris claws
2x cultist trophy
8x iron bar
27x bronze bar

The amount of loot is ok but could be a bit better, I am sure they adjust it in the future.

[sallyprue]

Some of the caves are huge. I died and then got thoroughly lost in one cave as I tried to retrieve my body. Probably took an hour to find it then get out, with tons of loot. I have made the full set of armour, the claws, and laid red jute carpet all over my floors, with still lots of loot left over. Though I have done 7-8 caves now.

[MezTheDanger]

Originally posted by Terra:

thats the quality we get when the community wants more and more stuff and devs feel like they have to push some updates out. the whole EA release was so perfect but all the updates seems rushed and not fitting into the well thought out game.

dark wood locked behind the endgame content with horrible mechanics, digging out tar. which you need to dig 2 days to get all out the tar which is maximum 30-80 if lucky.
forst cave loot is 1-3 fur and you need 20 to craft one setitem.
i looted 6 frostcaves and got 8fur total. so you need to grind all frostcaves in the seed to craft and upgrade the new set to max.

another example how community ruins the vision of a game because they want new stuff now because people cant wait. yes even if its more than one year.

Tbf this game had odd mechanics from the beggining, like the fact that you cannot teleport metals and such. It's all about grind in the end, and you have to grind for everything is gonna be added. If it was easier to get the things you wanted the game would be 10 hours long top. Is not a story driven game, it's a survival open world, and if you want something you must grind for it.

[Terra]

Originally posted by MezTheDanger:

Tbf this game had odd mechanics from the beggining, like the fact that you cannot teleport metals and such. It's all about grind in the end, and you have to grind for everything is gonna be added. If it was easier to get the things you wanted the game would be 10 hours long top. Is not a story driven game, it's a survival open world, and if you want something you must grind for it.

i agree with you, personally thats why i like valheim, its the well thought out progress locked behind grind and planning.
but the difference between the "old" resources and tthe new tar and frost cave quantity loot is from my experience a lot less than old resources. either i just got extremly unlucky but i dont want to grind 50 frost cave to craft the whole new set.
these new resources are just too rare to get compared to the usual grind.
my explaining sucks i think. just so far i experienced a lot less loot for what i have to do.

[AugustusKron]

Originally posted by Mr. X:

My loot from 2 mountains, 8 caves:

138x fenris hair
55x red jute
27x fenris claws
2x cultist trophy
8x iron bar
27x bronze bar

The amount of loot is ok but could be a bit better, I am sure they adjust it in the future.

you got all that from just 2 mountains? wow that's pretty good

[PakaNoHida]

Originally posted by caulkman7:

I did join in the Frost Cave testing. I have created a new world to explore. I'm finding it very time consuming to find mountain regions. When I find a Frost Cave after hours of search I find very little in the Caves. Even after thoroughly searching I feel disappointment in how little I do find. Seems like a lot of work for very little reward.

First mistake is JOINING PTR... the caves were released.
Caves are only above the Obsidian line, if you don't see that rock, you are not high enough (giggle).
Swamp crypts are up to 64 m cubed... but cave systems are 128m cubed. There are walls to break through in the cave systems that open them up more.

As for the lack of caves, you are right, there just is not enough of them.

[6h0$t942]

Will frost caves spawn on old seeds or only new

[Madd Llama]

These sound fun but I just truly want to be able to dig out my own sprawling mountain cave/dungeon/lair/fortress.

[Marksman Max]

Originally posted by Terra:

dark wood locked behind the endgame content with horrible mechanics, digging out tar. which you need to dig 2 days to get all out the tar which is maximum 30-80 if lucky. =

...Two days? That takes me like, five minutes to do. Draining a tar pit is easy.

[6h0$t942]

Originally posted by Danson:

Originally posted by xx:

Will frost caves spawn on old seeds or only new

They'll spawn on old seeds as long as you haven't gotten close to the mountains they're on.

thanks

[Mr. X]

Originally posted by AugustusKron:

Originally posted by Mr. X:

My loot from 2 mountains, 8 caves:

138x fenris hair
55x red jute
27x fenris claws
2x cultist trophy
8x iron bar
27x bronze bar

The amount of loot is ok but could be a bit better, I am sure they adjust it in the future.

you got all that from just 2 mountains? wow that's pretty good

I am not sure if it was good. My next 2 caves gave me:
71 fenris hair (!)
33 red jute
11 fenris claws
no iron bars
17 bronze bars
and what i forgot to mention.. most important for my treasure chamber.. you find a lot of silver necklaces to build treasure chests! :)
but no cultist trophies..

The trophies are a real pain to find. Cultist maybe should drop them with 10% chance instead of current 5%.