[BOSS] Bonemass is easy.

[Riitoken]

So truthfully, Bonemass can be easily defeated with melee, as long as you're properly prepared, and you've learned the fight. You need all the following:

Full set of iron armor (upgraded to max)
Tower shield (upgraded to max)
Iron mace (upgraded to max)
3 high-health food (I had 165 health, and good regen)
1 poison resist potion (used before summon)
1 Eikthyr power (used before summon)
2 healing potions (1 used early, 1 used late)
1 stamina potion (used midway)

I had 25 points in Clubs skill and 15 points in Blocking skill.

Playing on normal difficulty, he goes down easy, but only if you learn the fight, only if you learn how to read him.

The core skill is shield-blocking his big punches. So, you gotta plan your stance and stamina as such.

The second core skill is to turn early and chase toward the thrown summon globs and knock them down quickly with mace.

The third core skill is to run out of radius from the vomit attacks.

You never run back to Bonemass, but rather you stand there, to where you ran, and wait for him to close the gap. You use that time to quaff potions and recover stamina.

He has a very long rest between actions. That's where you hit him 3-5 times always ready to block or run immediately.

Bone mass has 4 major actions:

Vomit puke ( you just run out of range as best you can )
Thrown glob for adds ( you run toward where it lands and kill the adds fast )
A right hook and a left hook ( you stand there and block )

You'll only quaff 3 potions the whole fight: an Early healing potion, to start the cooldown, and a late healing potion. And a stamina potion ... usually midway or later.

You're guaranteed to get poisoned. You can lessen this by avoiding the vomit.

SUGGESTION:

Start a new world.
Find a nice open field.
Prepare everything as described.
Eat all your food and be fully healed.
Open the console and do the following:

> god
> addstatus rested
> heal
> summon bonemass

rinse repeat until your mind says "self, this is very easy now that I know the fight."

For those who do not like skill loss from death, you can cheat your 2 main melee skills with:

> raiseskill clubs 100
> raiseskill blocking 100

For me, this feels a bit too much like cheating the devs design. I chose to beat Bonemass with the skills I actually had.

Hope this helps.

[Foxglovez]

Your first skill is getting a sledge and when he starts to puke, interrupt that, when the skeles spawn, give them the sledge if you missed the tell he is going to spawn them, meander around with your sledge so not in front of him and occasionally take the mace and whack him a time or two. Learning the fight and interrupting his very obvious signals is the way to go. No need to have skills past 30, which is about what the game expects of you at this point. Keep up your poison potions but you really should be wearing root armor in my opinion so no need for them, but more important, and not mentioned is cleaning out and leveling off your alter area and all around it, having a base moderately near in case things go south, not jumping around and chasing things, keeping stamina high, using best foods. The light root armor is very helpful, heavy not so much. Actual preparation is key and of course learning the fight. You always want to be at his side, never in front of him so he can't puke on you. But that's just me. It's not a hard fight.

[chris23162]

Originally posted by Riitoken:

So truthfully, Bonemass can be easily defeated with melee, as long as you're properly prepared, and you've learned the fight. You need all the following:

Full set of iron armor (upgraded to max)
Tower shield (upgraded to max)
Iron mace (upgraded to max)
3 high-health food (I had 165 health, and good regen)
1 poison resist potion (used before summon)
1 Eikthyr power (used before summon)
2 healing potions (1 used early, 1 used late)
1 stamina potion (used midway)

I had 25 points in Clubs skill and 15 points in Blocking skill.

Playing on normal difficulty, he goes down easy, but only if you learn the fight, only if you learn how to read him.

The core skill is shield-blocking his big punches. So, you gotta plan your stance and stamina as such.

The second core skill is to turn early and chase toward the thrown summon globs and knock them down quickly with mace.

The third core skill is to run out of radius from the vomit attacks.

You never run back to Bonemass, but rather you stand there, to where you ran, and wait for him to close the gap. You use that time to quaff potions and recover stamina.

He has a very long rest between actions. That's where you hit him 3-5 times always ready to block or run immediately.

Bone mass has 4 major actions:

Vomit puke ( you just run out of range as best you can )
Thrown glob for adds ( you run toward where it lands and kill the adds fast )
A right hook and a left hook ( you stand there and block )

You'll only quaff 3 potions the whole fight: an Early healing potion, to start the cooldown, and a late healing potion. And a stamina potion ... usually midway or later.

You're guaranteed to get poisoned. You can lessen this by avoiding the vomit.

SUGGESTION:

Start a new world.
Find a nice open field.
Prepare everything as described.
Eat all your food and be fully healed.
Open the console and do the following:

> god
> addstatus rested
> heal
> summon bonemass

rinse repeat until your mind says "self, this is very easy now that I know the fight."

For those who do not like skill loss from death, you can cheat your 2 main melee skills with:

> raiseskill clubs 100
> raiseskill blocking 100

For me, this feels a bit too much like cheating the devs design. I chose to beat Bonemass with the skills I actually had.

Hope this helps.

killed him in root armour from a purpose built tree house next to his spawn in the canopy of one of the invulnerable trees with around 200 frost arrows and a fine wood bow. No enemies could get me and with a roof bed and hanging brazier and comfort items I was able to stay dry and get the rested buff. Took literally no damage, repair my bow and make more arrows using my work benches and chests of supplies if I needed it.

Why bother fighting in melee or even using cheats when he's totally unable to hurt you if you do it right, also his adds from the thrown sludge hit the underside of said tree house and fall to the ground so you don't even need to deal with the adds, if done correctly he will stand under the tree swinging madly and hitting nothing all while you just drop arrows on him and it's just a matter of time till he dies.

[Lorska]

Bosses are all an absolute joke.

Eikthyr: do you know what food is?
Elder: can you strafe slowly to the side?
Bonemass: do you have poison resist and a mace?
Moder: do you have a bow or can you walk in circles?
Yagluth: do you have fire resist and can you avoid the giant blue circle?
Queen: did you play the game until now?

Only on higher difficulties you have any kind of challenge, and then it's just: can you dodge roll?
That is if you don't completely cheese the fight using some kind of ranged abuse.

[Oakshield]

LOL!

First enableing God-mode with Dev-commands, adding maximum rested and make sure you got full health and then claiming a boss is easy.
Might as well have moved on to the Queen right away.

[Lorska]

Originally posted by Oakshield:

LOL!

First enableing God-mode with Dev-commands, adding maximum rested and make sure you got full health and then claiming a boss is easy.
Might as well have moved on to the Queen right away.

As absurd as it sounds, I believe the intention is to train to beat the boss on a different world, otherwise he might have just used the killall command.
Still, imagine practicing Valheim bosses LUL

[EtotheCthatsme]

I smacked the elder in lvl 3 troll gear & lvl 4 bow with fire arrows, lol....with all the strategies people have discovered, once you get semi good weapons it seems the fights get easier & easier, I was worried about bonemass, but not so much anymore

[Riitoken]

Originally posted by Oakshield:

LOL!

First enableing God-mode with Dev-commands, adding maximum rested and make sure you got full health and then claiming a boss is easy.
Might as well have moved on to the Queen right away.

Sure, as a matter of PRACTICE. I actually practiced fighting Bonemass for about 4 hours in the meadows. I kept at it until I learned the fight so well my health never dropped below 70%.

And then I fought him for real without any cheats.

[Foxglovez]

You do get to play the game the way you want/need to (within the game's parameters) but there are those that would say you missed out on the more common "YoLoooo, omg omg I'm gonna die covered in puke, again" heart palpitating excitement followed by the immediate high of "Damn, I did it. Next time I'll do better." Neither is an incorrect way to play, especially solo where there is no back up, no one to take the heat or puke off you.

That being said, there is no stopping you from now or in the future telling some poor random noob that the fight is easy and holding back on your uber level of preparation, going into what IG once labeled "Imacheater" mode, a level most would raise an eyebrow at. Just saying... Something to think about.

[Lorska]

Or you just... Chug a mead, eat some food and kill the boss in 3-5 min without all that practice...
Training for 4h is actually kind of crazy considering how easy that boss is...
You probably improve your win chance more by just farming a spawner for half an hour to grind up mace skill...

The game really isn't rocket science, I'd wager more people die to draugr archers than bonemass... by a very wide margin

[Riitoken]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

You do get to play the game the way you want/need to (within the game's parameters) but there are those that would say you missed out on the more common "YoLoooo, omg omg I'm gonna die covered in puke, again" heart palpitating excitement followed by the immediate high of "Damn, I did it. Next time I'll do better." Neither is an incorrect way to play, especially solo where there is no back up, no one to take the heat or puke off you.

That being said, there is no stopping you from now or in the future telling some poor random noob that the fight is easy and holding back on your uber level of preparation, going into what IG once labeled "Imacheater" mode, a level most would raise an eyebrow at. Just saying... Something to think about.

So you gotta learn how to beat Bonemass. You can learn it the very slow way or the fast way. My time is very precious to me. I did what was necessary to learn the boss as fast as I could. I then killed him without cheats and it was easy because I learned the fight - which is the act of learning how to avoid death long enough to kill the boss.

I spent at least 20 minutes just standing there and training my muscle memory how to block his punches. That's the main key to the fight - to radically reduce all his punch damage.

The rest was/is just learning to read his body language to know what is coming next.

[MercenaryGrok]

i found a way to easily kill him, get poison resistance and a really good mace and keep smacking him

[Nerevar]

i dont get the purpose of this thread. i really dont. there is so many ways to learn or fight or cheese bosses in this game and they arent very difficult fights to begin with compared to many other games out there. and none of these ways require cheating for hours first either.

you can beat bonemass with just useing poisen mead root armor and an iron mace. you never need 3 hp foods for meleeing ANY boss in this game. you also dont need health potions. they are only for when you mess up somewhere.

also a shield? what for? you cannot parry bosses and tower shields cannot even parry. you can OUTWALK all of its attacks for free without effort.

like this is a really strange guide overall and shows that the maker isnt actually good at the game nor the boss in question. and it even tells people to CHEAT to learn a boss fight. like what kind of advice is that please? you never need to cheat to learn any boss in valheim just fine.

[Riitoken]

Originally posted by Lorska:

Originally posted by Oakshield:

LOL!

First enableing God-mode with Dev-commands, adding maximum rested and make sure you got full health and then claiming a boss is easy.
Might as well have moved on to the Queen right away.

As absurd as it sounds, I believe the intention is to train to beat the boss on a different world, otherwise he might have just used the killall command.
Still, imagine practicing Valheim bosses LUL

Yep, it was just a test world.

Valheim is designed to punish the player for not having all the muscle memory (and gear) needed to survive.

Inside the actual default mechanics of the game, you can waste 2 weeks of your real life with repeated dying and recovering while you train your mind what to do.

Or you can protect your real life by using the commands to practice train your mind very fast.

I'm not sacrificing 2 weeks of my life.

[Lorska]

Originally posted by Riitoken:

Yep, it was just a test world.

Valheim is designed to punish the player for not having all the muscle memory (and gear) needed to survive.

Inside the actual default mechanics of the game, you can waste 2 weeks of your real life with repeated dying and recovering while you train your mind what to do.

Or you can protect your real life by using the commands to practice train your mind very fast.

I'm not sacrificing 2 weeks of my life.

Who the hell is so bad they keep dying for two weeks to bonemass of all things???
Maybe you can argue that you may die once to a boss because you don't know about something specific (like that you need a mace or that you need a poison mead in a poison swamp).
I think I'd rather protect my real life by saving these 4 hours of practice.

[Riitoken]

Originally posted by Lorska:

Originally posted by Riitoken:

Yep, it was just a test world.

Valheim is designed to punish the player for not having all the muscle memory (and gear) needed to survive.

Inside the actual default mechanics of the game, you can waste 2 weeks of your real life with repeated dying and recovering while you train your mind what to do.

Or you can protect your real life by using the commands to practice train your mind very fast.

I'm not sacrificing 2 weeks of my life.

Who the hell is so bad they keep dying for two weeks to bonemass of all things???
Maybe you can argue that you may die once to a boss because you don't know about something specific (like that you need a mace or that you need a poison mead in a poison swamp).
I think I'd rather protect my real life by saving these 4 hours of practice.

I'd say 2 weeks is an estimate. I did not have a 2nd set of gear. So, a single death means what? Can't exactly run back and get gear with Bonemass camping my ankh.

Now what? Rebuild an entire set of iron gear from scratch. That is not something you do quickly. Dying to Bonemass means you go backwards and start the swamp biome all over again.

To beat Bonemass with melee requires muscle-memory and gear. Gotta have both.

The 4-hours of general muscle-memory practice was definitely worth it.

Also, did I mention that I spent an entire day just leveling the ground around Bonemass altar, so that I could avoid water friction.

Grats to you if your muscle memory was already trained for Bonemass. Mine was not.