Boat landing in Swamp (hunting Bonemass)

[MyUrp1]

Everyone always says, "land in a friendlier biome" when you're sailing off to find a Bonemass spawning spot. But what if every spot is a nothing but swamp island, or worse, a swamp with nothing but Plains adjacent?

I've learned a technique that works beautifully well. It's called "Run Forrest Run!"

Sail your Karve straight into the swamp at high speed, ignoring the leeches and blobs that jump on it. Jump off and just start running. And running. You did bring lots of stamina food, right? Eikthyr is a good bonus to use too.

Keep running until you've outrun all the initial spawn madness. Note that you won't be able to make it a decent distance on a single stamina bar. You have to know how to pace yourself. Run till it's 2/3rds depleted, then walk for a bit until it fills up (with the occasional brief sprint to avoid a Draugr axe in the back), then run some more.

Find your way back to the edge of the swamp so there's plenty of leeches spawning in the water and not much else. Now find a safe small hill, hoe it till you can make a 6-square mini hut, pack a workbench, fire, bed, and portal in, and teleport back home to gear up properly.

Now you can get to killing everything around your hut, then head over to Bonemass and pummel him too!

Is there a good place to post advice like this? Was thinking there should be a library somewhere of useful Valheim tips.

[MyUrp1]

Oh, right, quickie diagram of how to build a teeny hut on 6 squares that has everything you need:

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|WB.BED|
|F.GATE.[]
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Door is on the lower right, gate parellel to the back wall facing the bed, fire to the left, work bench and bed on top. Add a shelf with a box above the workbench if you feel the need to store stuff here.

[PghDave420]

i build a quick tree house.just take some basic wood and make a few stairs around the gunk trees .then a quick platform for bed,portal and couple chests

[Zep Tepi]

Sounds like it could work as long as you don't die before putting up the portal. Maybe you'd get back the boat nails and maybe not, but the swamp tends to be shallow.

But your tiny shack can attract raids. Remember the rule of three, and you've got four there. You don't need to sleep there if you already have a portal. Just a portal, workbench and storage would work.

If you want a mini base and put it up in a tree that might work, but then you'd have to figure out where to put the fire. Once you get some iron going you'd have access to stone though.

[Wagor]

Swamp isnt such a difficult biome, just parry+kill whoever trying to get close to your ship and place a portal

[The Last Starfighter]

Originally posted by Wagor:

Swamp isnt such a difficult biome, just parry+kill whoever trying to get close to your ship and place a portal

That's what I do, but I also take poison resistance mead.

[n4t]

I just find a good spot to land with at least some clear ground. Bring 2 stacks of rock with you.

Land and kill everything. Use the rock to enlarge the beach head with the hoe and then I make a pier into the water. Raise and flatten the end of the pier until you can put a WB and a Portal with a couple chests. Mobs can't climb into your little raised base and no raids. And make a nice place to park your boat where it will be left alone on the water-side of your base.

[Rhapsody]

Any place you can easily embark and disembark on is suitable. If there's a structure like tower or large trees nearby, that's usually a plus. Leeches should ignore ships if players are not on board, as far as I've seen.

[shiny_dirk]

yea, leeches dont care about ships once unmanned. other than that, poison resist is a good pick for the swamp. best to just land, clear whats around, make a small shack for the portal. expand into the swamp from there.

[Zep Tepi]

Originally posted by captainamaziiing:

Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

Sounds like it could work as long as you don't die before putting up the portal. Maybe you'd get back the boat nails and maybe not, but the swamp tends to be shallow.

But your tiny shack can attract raids. Remember the rule of three, and you've got four there. You don't need to sleep there if you already have a portal. Just a portal, workbench and storage would work.

If you want a mini base and put it up in a tree that might work, but then you'd have to figure out where to put the fire. Once you get some iron going you'd have access to stone though.

What is the 'rule of three?' I've had raid events while I'm out in the wilderness, or just boating along.

If you're talking about wolves, they don't need a base, only plains or mountain biomes, even if it's just a tiny spit of an island in the middle of the water.

But for base raids, three base items close enough to each other will allow them to trigger, which are crafting stations, beds, portals, wards, fires and torches.

[vikingtool]

Ive been looking for people to team up with to beat Bonemass on vanilla, any takers?

[MyUrp1]

When I sail, I always assume I'm going to sink and die, so I don't travel with quality gear capable of supporting killing swamp critters at landing. Leather armor, flint spear, wooden shield, small bow, etc. Sufficient for a proper beachhead in the Black Forest, but not the Swamp.

Good point about the bed / fire, if I'm dropping a portal I don't really need anything else besides the workbench.

Also, I'm not planning on using this base long enough for base raids to be relevant. It's just a strikepoint to kill Bonemass. Which I achieved; healing and mana potions are really helpful, as is just standing back and waiting for him to swipe and miss, then charging in and triple slugging him while he's throwing armpit cheese and barfing poison.

Time to head into wolf land!

[Honor Guard]

I just pack a good bit of wood, land on a nice corner island, hoe it flat real fast & than put up wood stake walls & setup a small port after I get some security I am not going to eat a axe to my back or a arrow to my head without it facing me