Mountain Biome

[10000 Angry Bees]

I don't know what anybody elses mountain biome looks like, but all of mine are terrible. Despite being extremely tiny, they're also clownishly packed full of wolves and drakes. Making the experience less than entertaining. Then to top it off, it's extremely difficult to navigate in any meaningful way as I am constantly sprinting against the sliding mechanic to make my way higher into the biome.
All in all, if this is common for the mountain regions then it leaves much to be desired from a developmental standpoint. It's already artificially walled off and inaccessible without the correct mead but to compound that with the fact that the terrain is such a pain in the ass to traverse is a bad look. It'd be one thing if I didn't HAVE to go there... but I NEED to go there. Then I'm forced to start playing goat simulator and fight an absurd amount of wolves and drakes along the way. That's genuinely bad gameplay and bad game design. IDK maybe it's just my world. Anybody else have decent mountain biomes that aren't absurd?

PS. Why does a 1 star wolf hit even harder than Fenring AND deal 100% stagger even if parried?

[Crom]

Yes, mountain bioms are extremly ultra small :(( Never seen good large mountain area.

[Crimson]

They're mountains. If they were flat they wouldn't be mountains. Find a silver vein (You can use a sledge if you don't have the boss reward yet that helps you and you can make a wolf cape. No more mead needed. Build a base up near the top so you don't have to keep running up. It gets trivially easy once you level up higher but its meant to be hard.

[Brew]

Yeah, it's mountain goat simulator. I had expected some kind of warm armor that would let me survive the cold indefinitely; disappointing that you have to rely on timed potions, so you can never relax, always having to watch the clock. When I got the eyescream recipe though, I actually wanted the drakes for their freeze glands. That plus the obsidian is the main reason I still go there.

After gearing up some from plains, I got a bit cocky and let night fall while I was in the mountains... a 2-star wolf killed me in three hits. Ugh... tried a nighttime sojourn again, and this time seemingly a whole pack of like five wolves jumped me, plus a fenring. I held it off for a short while, but constant shield blocking means you never have stamina, so nothing much I could do. Died again. Mountains at night is still no joke!

[Chronicle]

Eye scream and wolf kebab farm i guess

[10000 Angry Bees]

Originally posted by Crimson:

They're mountains. If they were flat they wouldn't be mountains.

They're also required for progression. This isn't minecraft; we can't climb sheer faces by jumping from block to block. There's no excuse for why the mountains are so sheer and difficult to access. I spend most of the time fighting the mechanic that slides the player down hill. That's not good gameplay.

[Herbalogist]

Originally posted by ÆAsphyxia:

Originally posted by Crimson:

They're mountains. If they were flat they wouldn't be mountains.

They're also required for progression. This isn't minecraft; we can't climb sheer faces by jumping from block to block. There's no excuse for why the mountains are so sheer and difficult to access. I spend most of the time fighting the mechanic that slides the player down hill. That's not good gameplay.

get better food for better stamina, look for spots that are areas where you can regain your stamina and do burst jumps. you can usually find a foothold if you look for it

[Husker_85]

Originally posted by ÆAsphyxia:

They're also required for progression. This isn't minecraft; we can't climb sheer faces by jumping from block to block. There's no excuse for why the mountains are so sheer and difficult to access. I spend most of the time fighting the mechanic that slides the player down hill. That's not good gameplay.

...You have a pick. Sprint/jump up the mountain till your stamina drops to 20, then swing the pick to create a foothold. Repeat until you reach the summit. Also last I checked silver armor still blocks the cold? Just make sure you're dry before you start climbing.

[Requimatic]

Take a Hoe, use it to make footholds.. easy as that.

Use Swamp-tier foods, Health/Health/Stamina setup until you can make Mountain-tier foods (Wolf Skewer, Sausages, and Eyescream). Don't bother with Onion Soup, it's both inferior to Eyescream and requires 3 times the amount of Onions to sustain.

Only problem with Eyescream is that it requires 3 Greydwarf Eyes and 1 Freeze Gland.. both items having alternate purposes that are rather important. (Portals and Frost Arrows respectively.)

[Sabaithal]

Valhiem logic: Wolves are more dangerous than super buff zombies packing full armor and weapons.

Probably best not to overthink things too much.

[Trakehner]

Take time to look for the path of least resistance. Then rock hop your way to the top.

Take a few moments to let your stamina fill back up between rocks. It's really not that bad. Just like everything else in Valheim, it just takes thinking/planning/ patience/ execution.

[Jade]

Originally posted by Brew:

I had expected some kind of warm armor that would let me survive the cold indefinitely

I find that even worse, actually. It's the same problem I have with Starbound, among a number of issues. Entire planets are gated by what's essentially a boolean telling you whether you can go there, and once you get there, it's not terribly different than any other planet. The mountain biome is much the same. According to the developers, they are looking into improving the mountains.

[iamoffline1]

Originally posted by Brew:

I had expected some kind of warm armor that would let me survive the cold indefinitely

You mean like the wolf / lox-capes?

[TooTall1]

Originally posted by Requimatic:

Don't bother with Onion Soup, it's both inferior to Eyescream and requires 3 times the amount of Onions to sustain.

Only problem with Eyescream is that it requires 3 Greydwarf Eyes and 1 Freeze Gland.. both items having alternate purposes that are rather important. (Portals and Frost Arrows respectively.)

Quite correct on all counts. But if you have gamed the system as I have, and gotten onion seeds about the same time as carrot by taking a little lucky covert trip to the mountains, you will have onions shooting out your ears.

And with there being only 1 health point and 5 stamina points difference onion soup is not that "inferior" to Eyescream, and farming glands is not that hard, but a bit tiresome...

[Tangoblue]

Originally posted by TooTall1:

...and farming glands is not that hard, but a bit tiresome...

Yeah, too bad I've only got the "A cold wind blows from the mountains" raid once. Wouldn't mind it hitting more often to collect glands. But it's disabled once Moder is killed.

[thomas-froehling]

>Sigh< I find mountains a bit exhausting to explore, too, if I just try to run/jump up there; but using an iron pick to build foot holds (or even whole walk way up) works pretty good. And once you're on top of it, you can simply build a portal (preferably in one of the abandoned stone constructions) to come back and forth fast and easy afterwards.