"Pro Tips for Surviving in Valheim"

[Twinkies]

As a seasoned player, I feel compelled to share some valuable advice. Here are a couple of my favorite tricks. Feel free to share your own tips!

Prioritize staying well-rested and avoid venturing out at night. While this may seem like common sense, many overlook its significance. Your demise often results from inadequate rest. Understanding the importance of being well-rested is like distinguishing between Superman and Luke Skywalker. Despite Luke's popularity and his companion R2D2, Superman is the clear victor.

A less apparent tip relates to patience. After months of playing Valheim, I've realized it's a game that rewards a slow pace. While constructing bases, walls, and roads is essential for survival at night, the trade-off is the risk of raids. Therefore, constructing a robust base is pivotal.

[umop-apisdn]

And don't forget to eat.

There are three food slots; you should keep at least 2 of them full at all times. Eat the same thing again well before the timer runs out, too, because the buff deteriorates over time; by the time it runs out, it was barely doing anything anyway.

[Twinkies]

Certainly, consuming nourishing meals holds great significance, especially for a viking who deserves nothing but the finest fare! This brings to mind a valuable piece of advice I hold dear. When engaging in gardening activities, it's crucial not to overlook the importance of cultivating the land. Valheim boasts ample expanses of land ripe for cultivation. The rationale behind this approach is that establishing an extensive farm ultimately translates to more efficient long-term farming, as opposed to managing multiple smaller farms.

[vinyblaster]

Groundbreaking tips right there...

[Mad Engineer Kikoumaru]

Here's my tip: Remember you automatically sheathe your weapons when you start swimming and you have to unsheathe them after. To many times I accidentally started punching people, or the air in the general direction of someone if I had a bow equipped, after exiting water.

[Frank Dunn]

Have a backup/emergency portal somewhere in your base, or least close by. I have 1 labeled "x" in case I just get too excited for adventure and forget to change my portal names before I sail off.

[bylandt11]

I only do zero death runs. My last three games were finished without dying once. Slow pace is indeed very good advice. Never be out when not rested or at night are rather obvious. My other tips:
1. Going from the black forest to the swamp is a rude transition. Constant protection against poison (better from the potions than the root mask) is necessary. Beyond that, the main killers are 1 and 2 star draughr. They will spawn from nests at high probability. Destroy the nests at a distance with bows or in the crypts, with an AOA sledgehammer.
2. Never be on the mountains or plains without Bonemass ability ready. "You are being hunted" is a killer.
3. Always have health and stamina potions in the quick bar.
4. Avoid raids. You can farm at undisturbed locations, away from your camp - only a portal is needed, avoid the 3 builds that trigger raids. Build your main base on an island before killing Moder. Build workbenches, torches all over the place to prevent raids. You really don't want Fuling or Seeker raids.
5. Frostner is your friend.

[Foxglovez]

When you get your antler pick make a nice big trench around your base, being sure to leave room for a few buildings, some fields for foods and other esthetic structures. Go directly to your base and make the trench. Right meow. Be sure everything is at least 3 tiles in from the edges. Trolls have a long reach.

When you upgrade to new fancy armor continue to upgrade your old armors to highest level for backups for the inevitable corpse runs. If you run out of room, turn all that troll hide into a second set. Just saying.

Don't rush through the first two biomes. Music is a cue, listen and learn. There are specific sounds that begin long before you are in danger. Spotify is not your friend.

Health is key. Your ability to block and parry, how hard you hit, how long you survive is all related to health, related to food. Quit eating the cheap stuff. Potions on the hot bar, always.

Learn to parry, learn to parry, learn to parry. Hone your bow skills. Run & jump, a lot.

If you die more than twice in the same place just get off for the night and come back when you are "well rested" and better able to make a plan, not just LeRoy Jenkins over and over.

[Twinkies]

Preserve raspberry, blueberry, and cloudberry bushes; they will help you in the long run. By constructing houses and roads leading to these areas, you not only save time on gathering but also enhance the quality of your village. Eventually, you'll lay the groundwork for a charming small town.

[Capnflag]

The Valheim fandom wiki is your friend. The sections about Events and about Zones are a couple good sections to read up on. Events covers how the raid mechanics work. The Zones provides some good insight into how the map is laid out underneath the terrain. Unexplored zones or zones that haven't been explored in a long time will be at or near max spawn limit for that particular zone configuration. Explains why when in unexplored areas it is possible to aggro the critters in two or more zones and get slammed.

Crude terraforming can be done early with the hoe. Downside is mistakes can't be fixed with a pick.

[Nerevar]

is this thread some form of jokepost i am not getting? i am really confused.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

is this thread some form of jokepost i am not getting? i am really confused.

I think it's an attempt to get ahead of the newbs who seem to have the same sort of problems; not sleeping, not eating, not gearing up, sprinting everywhere, rushing into areas they're not prepared for... and then they complain that they're getting slapped down by "entry level" mobs because they wandered into the swamp, unrested, at night, with no food.

In other words, it's more of a "hey noobie, this is how to not die to stubbing your toe in the black forest".

[bylandt11]

I forgot one tip: cancel all background noise when playing. Almost all creatures make a distinctive sound when approaching or attacking. Hearing it on time will save your life.

[Foxglovez]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

is this thread some form of jokepost i am not getting? i am really confused.

Nothing helpful to add? From your vast experience?

[Qbertos]

When defending, repeatedly hit the block key so you can stagger the enemy and kill him quickly. Very helpful when getting mobbed.
Quick kills save stamina, having 0 is never a good thing when blocking.

Skal!

[Darkbirt]

Build you're first base close to the water, it helps with transportation (boats) and gives protection, because their are no raids from the sea.
As soon as you can build a boat you can go venture in the sea. If you're lucky you find a small meadows or black forest island that is isolated. Those are perfect for building a base, when you occupy the whole island. It's no longer possible for land raids, because they don't have any spam points anymore. To bad the raids can come from the air too after the third boss.