How to find infested Mines? (I hate Mistlands)

[Megrim]

I understand some players needed kinda challenge, so building up mistlands like a labyrinth where you don´t see much and have to climb hills with Stamina issues and facing Gjalls that are hidden in Fog and bomb you to hell was a smart decission by developers. Ok, I can deal with that somehow, even if I´m not suited for that kind of gameplay,

What really bothers me are two things, first one is that you need the black cores to get better equipment and they only drop in the infested mines that are a challenge in itself. Narrow tunnels a dream for players that prefer ranged weapons..a nighmare, but nevermind, when I die I just know I didn ´t play good enough and I´ve to blame myself.

The real nuisance is, that I really have trouble to find these mines. I found one after hours by accident as it was on top of a hill. Superfluous to tell, that I got killed on top from seekers as I had no room to kite and they just kicked me of that hill but well, maybe I deserved that for killing millions of monsters with my Bow using coward gameplay from distance before in the other biomes.

My question is, are the mines always on top of the hills or can they be on ground too and does they always have blue dvergr lantern around them so they can be spotted a bit easier or is that just random?

P.S Mistlands are well designed but I don ´t like them at all as the vision there is so bad, the wisp light doesn ´t help much though. I try to get high ground for better view and move slowly but it´s not helping much most of time.

[RagnCharran]

There are two types to my knowledge.

The first is what you probably found on a hill - a round dverger building, abandoned and damaged, with the mine in the basement.

The second is a long staircase going up into a doorway in a mountain.

Key trick for me to finding them is regular (not soldier) seekers - if you find a pack of three, they're probably guarding a mine entrance.
So any time you fight a seeker, especially a starred one, take extra time to search the area and see if more are lurking about. If there are more, then really search and see that there isn't a mine there.

Lanterns are also a good clue, but those can just be on their own with no mine or other structure nearby.

[Megrim]

Originally posted by RagnCharran:

There are two types to my knowledge.

The first is what you probably found on a hill - a round dverger building, abandoned and damaged, with the mine in the basement.

The second is a long staircase going up into a doorway in a mountain.

Key trick for me to finding them is regular (not soldier) seekers - if you find a pack of three, they're probably guarding a mine entrance.
So any time you fight a seeker, especially a starred one, take extra time to search the area and see if more are lurking about. If there are more, then really search and see that there isn't a mine there.

Thank you for your reply, yes I found the first tpye you mentioned, so the second one is on ground yes? Are There any laterns around it or do I just need luck to find the entrance? Wish the wishbone would help to find these mines *sigh* but well, it could not be equipped as the Wisp light is using the slot. I will be happy when I ve collected the cores and never need to look for these mines again. ;-)

[vinyblaster]

Originally posted by Megrim:

Originally posted by RagnCharran:

There are two types to my knowledge.

The first is what you probably found on a hill - a round dverger building, abandoned and damaged, with the mine in the basement.

The second is a long staircase going up into a doorway in a mountain.

Key trick for me to finding them is regular (not soldier) seekers - if you find a pack of three, they're probably guarding a mine entrance.
So any time you fight a seeker, especially a starred one, take extra time to search the area and see if more are lurking about. If there are more, then really search and see that there isn't a mine there.

Thank you for your reply, yes I found the first tpye you mentioned, so the second one is on ground yes? Are There any laterns around it or do I just need luck to find the entrance? Wish the wishbone would help to find these mines *sigh* but well, it could not be equipped as the Wisp light is using the slot. I will be happy when I ve collected the cores and never need to look for these mines again. ;-)

The 2nd kind can be found at the base of big, "spiky" rock formations. And yes, the stairs have lanterns to help find them.

[Oakshield]

https://valheim-map.world/

Put your map seed in the right box, tick the box for Tomb / Crypt / Inf. Mine and you'll get all the locations you need.

Thorin

[Salty]

Using the Mapseed site isn't perfect. I have used it for Frost Caves when I needed Fenris Fur and it was wrong...A LOT. It was often correct about the number of caves in a Mountain area but not about the locations.
The worst part about Mistlands is that you can't know you aren't missing something. I end up being extra thorough in my clearing of areas because I can't be sure. I end up putting Wisp Torches every few feet just to know where I've been.

[Megrim]

Originally posted by Oakshield:

https://valheim-map.world/

Put your map seed in the right box, tick the box for Tomb / Crypt / Inf. Mine and you'll get all the locations you need.

Thorin

Hmm jah I was considering to do this but it feels somehow like cheating for me, but thx for the hint :-).

@All Thanks for your help guys, I see I´m not the only one suffering from mistlands :-)

[vinyblaster]

Originally posted by Megrim:

Originally posted by Oakshield:

https://valheim-map.world/

Put your map seed in the right box, tick the box for Tomb / Crypt / Inf. Mine and you'll get all the locations you need.

Thorin

Hmm jah I was considering to do this but it feels somehow like cheating for me, but thx for the hint :-).

@All Thanks for your help guys, I see I´m not the only one suffering from mistlands :-)

"feels somehow like". Well that's a nice dance around the bush :) I don't see how it is anything other than cheating.

[blprice61]

Originally posted by vinyblaster:

Originally posted by Megrim:

Hmm jah I was considering to do this but it feels somehow like cheating for me, but thx for the hint :-).

@All Thanks for your help guys, I see I´m not the only one suffering from mistlands :-)

"feels somehow like". Well that's a nice dance around the bush :) I don't see how it is anything other than cheating.

LOL :) Yeah it's cheating like 'cheating at solitaire' BUT.. it has selectable levels of cheat. You could look at it after hours of not finding Haldor, just to see where the spawn points are - that's a cheat, but more of a time-saver - and potentially reveals locations you would not have found otherwise because of having to travel too close to biomes you aren't ready for.

Still.. the real problem is, all those buttons on the side.. I wonder what this one does? Ah cool, how about this one? (Hour later) Meh can't play this map, no challenge, I know where everything is.

Slippery slope.

[Megrim]

Originally posted by blprice61:

Originally posted by vinyblaster:

"feels somehow like". Well that's a nice dance around the bush :) I don't see how it is anything other than cheating.

LOL :) Yeah it's cheating like 'cheating at solitaire' BUT.. it has selectable levels of cheat. You could look at it after hours of not finding Haldor, just to see where the spawn points are - that's a cheat, but more of a time-saver - and potentially reveals locations you would not have found otherwise because of having to travel too close to biomes you aren't ready for.

Still.. the real problem is, all those buttons on the side.. I wonder what this one does? Ah cool, how about this one? (Hour later) Meh can't play this map, no challenge, I know where everything is.

Slippery slope.

You got my point, maybe I wrote it a bit bad before, ofc it is some kind of cheat but for me using a cheat to find a location for time saving so you can clean a mine is something different then to spawn just black Cores for example. It´s similar like the option to disable building costs, is it still a cheat as it is avalaible as an option, or quality of live for ppl that just want to focus on building great cities as an artist and don ´t want to farm 30000 stones?

Anyway I think using cheats ruins the game fun normally, but I understand ppl use it in Valheim to save time like finding the traders on these big maps. Me and friend found them on our own but it took hours of wasted time. That being said the maps feel way too big in Valheim and they have too less content for that.

P.S I want to find these mines on my own, therefore I asked for some information, well, I guess that was cheating too somehow :-D. Anyway, have fun guys, I want too see your big beautiful buildings.

[Exodite-Dragon]

btw OP, when it comes to clearing infested mines once you DO find one, ooze bombs are going to be your best friend. you can throw them a decent distance, immediately killing clusters of seeker broodling eggs, and the poison clouds will pass through the doorways blocked by strings of seeker resin.

use that to your advantage. you can toss bombs while sneaking, and if enemies don't have line-of-sight to you they will take critical damage from the poison cloud, as well as the subsequent DoT. it make take three or four bombs to clear enemies clustered up against a doorway, and the only thing you really can't efficiently destroy like this are soldiers, but it will go a long way towards making trips into these dungeons a less-harrowing experience and speed you along towards getting sufficient black cores.

[Faceplant]

IMO, the easiest way to find mines is to just sail along the coast of the near infinite mistlands ring. Most of the coast tends to not be mist covered, and you can see very well (assuming there's no storm or fog) by sailing just outside of the boundary to mistlands.

You learn pretty quickly how to spot the mines with stairs, either by the blue lights, seeing the stairs, or, if you just out of range at which the stairs render in, seeing the flat part where the stairs will be if you sail a bit closer.

In my current game I've found several this way, as well as a couple of the tower mines mostly by accident, and I haven't even defeated Yagluth yet. I have over 15 cores, stack of bug parts, and even found the queens lair.

For me, the hardest part has always been finding the skulls. I've gotten quite a bit of soft tissue donated from the Dvergr, but have only seen a single skull-less rib cage.

[SertanDoom]

Was having problems finding them as well and almost all the blue lights were placed near dvergr. So How I finally found two infested mines was "Oh look another dvergr site" and walked up to it and got swarmed. Running back for a naked corpse run I jump into another infested mine. Yay two infested mines!

[Faceplant]

Originally posted by SertanDoom:

Was having problems finding them as well and almost all the blue lights were placed near dvergr. So How I finally found two infested mines was "Oh look another dvergr site" and walked up to it and got swarmed. Running back for a naked corpse run I jump into another infested mine. Yay two infested mines!

Nice!

Two infested mines and tombstones to store all your loot in. Triple bonus!

[Megrim]

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

IMO, the easiest way to find mines is to just sail along the coast of the near infinite mistlands ring. Most of the coast tends to not be mist covered, and you can see very well (assuming there's no storm or fog) by sailing just outside of the boundary to mistlands.

You learn pretty quickly how to spot the mines with stairs, either by the blue lights, seeing the stairs, or, if you just out of range at which the stairs render in, seeing the flat part where the stairs will be if you sail a bit closer.

In my current game I've found several this way, as well as a couple of the tower mines mostly by accident, and I haven't even defeated Yagluth yet. I have over 15 cores, stack of bug parts, and even found the queens lair.

For me, the hardest part has always been finding the skulls. I've gotten quite a bit of soft tissue donated from the Dvergr, but have only seen a single skull-less rib cage.

Thx for the hints guys, I already found two skulls, they seem to have these Tick monsters around them so that ´s a little hint a skull is near but it ´s right, they not so easy too see in the fog until you directly run into them, but they seem to be always on plain ground so you can look in the valleys and don ´t need to climb hills for them.

@Exodite-Dragon
The ooze bombs sound like a good tactic, I found out the seekers don ´t really care about the narrow tunnels and just enter them so the bow is not always a good choice to get rid of them,

Maybe I try another run today in mistlands, the problem is I need to go far deep now, when I die I will regret it, I guess I will take a portal with me and scout around it step by step slow modus, better safe then sorry. Good hunt guys,

[RagnCharran]

Yes, jotunn remains - whether just a ribcage, or a ribcage + skull - always have ticks (five, if I recall correctly).

So yes, if there are ticks and no gjall to have spawned them, there must be remains near by.

Only skulls have soft tissue though, so ticks might just mean some black marble if there's only a ribcage.