I try to avoid item progression spoiler, only one item made me give up and googling it.

[AFM]

Freaking Soft Tissue, I accidentally picked one up, probably dropped from dead Dverger Rogue, otherwise I wouldn't even know this item exist, and it stay at one until I need more and need to googling it because I didn't accidentally find it like other item. "It still fizzes softly with ancient memories" as a hint? I didn't even recognize there's the head part of the freaking "Petrified Bone". Why not named it something like "Giant Remains" or "Petrified Giant Remains" or some easier ♥♥♥♥. Even then I wouldn't even think about mining the head part until I exposed the inside because there's not much use for the Black Marble at all. I mined one piece of ribs and that's it for the rest of the biome because the recipe is still lock behind some convoluted hoop for me to jump through before I can unlock some of recipe with it, and even when you unlocked it, you'd only need like what, 20? 30? at most. That's only about 2-3 piece of ribs, unless you're a base builder you're not gonna exhaust the resource and exposed the soft tissue inside. Maybe remove the ribs and leave only the head part, so people can accidentally discover it easier, or make it spawn already exposed, or change the whole name and hint thing, if you want people to figuring out word puzzle in a this kind of game.

[Bragdras]

The bird literally tells you to pick their brain

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Originally posted by Bragdras:

The bird literally tells you to pick their brain

Giant remains
Munin: Giant remains Shadow of ancient age. The Jotunn once ruled the 10th world, until their time ran out and they were ousted by some other power.
Hugin: Kraa! Pick their bones and break their domes!
I see domes, which can means a lot of thing including the ribs that form the dome shape, I don't see brain though.

[Nascarman]

Originally posted by Micscope:

Originally posted by Bragdras:

The bird literally tells you to pick their brain

Giant remains
Munin: Giant remains Shadow of ancient age. The Jotunn once ruled the 10th world, until their time ran out and they were ousted by some other power.
Hugin: Kraa! Pick their bones and break their domes!
I see domes, which can means a lot of thing including the ribs that form the dome shape, I don't see brain though.

dome is a slang term for head, so when he says break their domes, he means break into their heads

[AFM]

Originally posted by Nascarman:

Originally posted by Micscope:

Giant remains
Munin: Giant remains Shadow of ancient age. The Jotunn once ruled the 10th world, until their time ran out and they were ousted by some other power.
Hugin: Kraa! Pick their bones and break their domes!
I see domes, which can means a lot of thing including the ribs that form the dome shape, I don't see brain though.

dome is a slang term for head, so when he says break their domes, he means break into their heads

Hope you know what slang means so it can explain itself.

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And yeah, there's a crate in the Dverger encampment. That's probably better source to accidentally stumble on while finding the extractor. I'm just mad about the brain thing.

[Tangoblue]

Careful, if you anger the Dverger's by destroying/attacking anything they will attack you. They aren't easy to kill and very unforgiving.

[AFM]

Originally posted by Tangoblue:

Careful, if you anger the Dverger's by destroying/attacking anything they will attack you. They aren't easy to kill and very unforgiving.

Yeah, that's why I didn't stumble on the soft tissue, I just picked up my extractor from Seeker Soldier attacking the base by chance.

[Zathabar]

Originally posted by Micscope:

Originally posted by Bragdras:

The bird literally tells you to pick their brain

Giant remains
Munin: Giant remains Shadow of ancient age. The Jotunn once ruled the 10th world, until their time ran out and they were ousted by some other power.

"Some other power" Is that the fist cryptic clue of Valheims endgame I wonder? Jotunn by the lore live in the deep north of the worl do if by any slim chance still living one(s) are anywhere it is their and that would make an interesting prelude to the ultimate ValBoss.

But yes spoilers no the Devs have made it perfectly clear they want each drop to have a purpose. Collect everything unless its a neck trophy it has a purpose thus far...

[FissionChips]

Originally posted by Zathabar:

Originally posted by Micscope:

Giant remains
Munin: Giant remains Shadow of ancient age. The Jotunn once ruled the 10th world, until their time ran out and they were ousted by some other power.

"Some other power" Is that the fist cryptic clue of Valheims endgame I wonder? Jotunn by the lore live in the deep north of the worl do if by any slim chance still living one(s) are anywhere it is their and that would make an interesting prelude to the ultimate ValBoss.

But yes spoilers no the Devs have made it perfectly clear they want each drop to have a purpose. Collect everything unless its a neck trophy it has a purpose thus far...

What's the purpose of amber/amber marbles?

[Tanyon]

This isn't 1999 where games have no guides (Edit: Wikis) and you HAVE to stumble blind through them Google exists for a reason.. when I play games I immediately save the Wiki.. I don't even care how specific the bird was or was not.. just look stuff up... sorry what YOU interpreted wasn't good enough. Just google it.. You will still get hundreds of hours out of this game.. save yourself some headache and just google ♥♥♥♥.

[FissionChips]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

This isn't 1999 where games have no guides and you HAVE to stumble blind through them Google exists for a reason.. when I play games I immediately save the Wiki.. I don't even care how specific the bird was or was not.. just look stuff up... sorry what YOU interpreted wasn't good enough. Just google it.. You will still get hundreds of hours out of this game.. save yourself some headache and just google ♥♥♥♥.

No. I mean, I do all the time, but it does break the experience and people really really shouldn't have to. Explanations in this game are lacking, the bird especially is a poor communicator - often sitting somewhere inaccessible or buggering off randomly or interrupting combat/sneaking. Then suddenly when get a snooty second bird with cryptic crap and the first bird goes all meth head.

Also in the 90s we had these things called magazines, or you could even buy stand alone game walkthroughs - for those who didn't have the internet, which already existed...

[Lil brekky]

could it be the "devs' vision" that every player has the wiki open on 2nd display at all times...?

absolutely no excuse for that. some would even consider it cheating. wouldn't be complicated to have immersive telegraphing and information in-game. Odin giving you clues, or the crow circling in the sky above some point of interest.

there is some fun in the surprise of not knowing what exists or what it's used for until you pick it up. but mistlands exemplifies why this discovery process is confusing and frustrating. smashing rotten bloody brains out of giant skulls? to make magic turquoise marbles? what? that's not just unprecedented in Valheim, that's unprecedented anywhere ever. and this item which is in fact smashed brains is euphemistically called "soft tissue". it doesn't even make sense. and the crow's only clue to this pants-on-head progression path is "chrome their domes" or something, like placeholder text? the game kind of sneers at the immersed player in a lotta ways.

[BingusDingus]

I only found out that they had a head cause birds spawned in the hill the first time i found one so i dug to where they were only to find them on top of a bunch of bones that were hidden inside the giant rocks, if i didn't do that i probably still wouldn't know about it.