Beginner - never have enough bones. Trying mods but headache.

[༒ǝꞁf⚣٩๏̯͡๏)۶]

Tried adding a mod that let the regular creatures drop bones. That sounds simple but it needs another mod. I couldn't get it to work. Mods are confusing in Valheim. They require this overlord mod called BepInEx. Then it need BepInEx Manager. Then the mod you get needs other support mod.

All the while not a single mod page or youtube vidder tells you WHERE TO PUT THE MOD IN YOUR FOLDER. That should have been repeated instructions on each mod. Instead they keep promoting Mod Managers. Which is fine but unless I know how to do it manually I can't check the manager's work. And guess what, the manager is not putting the mods in the folders right.

To top that the second mod you must have the BepInEx Manager is made by someone who is angry at Nexus over their TOS. So they refused to update on Nexus but only on Thunderstore which has a mod manager that does not put the mods in the correct folders. So you have the option to manually do it but no one tells you what folder they go in.

NO ONE TELLS YOU SQUAT AROUND HERE LIKE THEY ALL ASSUME YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY LIKE THEY ASSUME WE ALL WENT TO COMPUTER SCHOOL I'M OLD I DID NOT GO TO COMPUTER SCHOOL

I started putting everything in the plugin folder that is the only info I got put it in the BepInEx plugin folder.

OMG there are only a hundred versions of BepInEx itself all over why are these obsolete versions available for download???????????????????? W H Y

I just want more bones. I can't harvest nuff bones to make and fix my beginner gear. Someone said go in black forest but there is a crow guide telling me get out of the black forest. I'm like I saw nothing there that was scary so idk seems like the game maker just wants me to kill the big beginner deer boss.

BUT I NEED BONES TO FIX MY STUFF NOW

[Suzaku]

Repairing things costs nothing in this game.

Bones are from skeletons and piles of bones, often found in the burial chambers found in the black forest. The bird guide tells you not to go there because it wants to you kill the first boss to prove you've at least got the basics down.

Also, there are world modifiers that you can change before loading up your save file. You can increase loot drops from that without the need of mods.

[electricdawn]

Skeletons drop bones. These are mostly found outside of the Meadows. Also, you do NOT need bones to REPAIR your gear. You only UPGRADE it with bones (and other stuff). I usually find enough bones to get me going, so I suggest you go exploring a bit more.

If you think you can handle Black Forest, by any means, start exploring there. Just don't be angry if you get killed, and have to run there to pick up your corpse again.

There's a reason the crow tells you to kill the Meadows boss (Eikthyr) FIRST before you enter the Black Forest. You will see, when you actually do that.

Additionally you can change the World Modifiers for your world to up the drop chance and quantity of resources. There's absolutely no need to use mods for that.

[Mr. September]

For mod needs, just use r2modman. You basically just have to 1-click to install the mods you want, and they are installed with their requirements too.

About the Bone Fragments, it's a common drop from skeletons. You can find them even in Meadows, if you manage to find abandoned structures that are guarded by them. Burial Chambers in Black Forest biome also contain nothing but Skeletons and Rancid Remains, both of which drop Bone Fragments.

TL;DR: Upgrade as much as you could in Meadows and hit the Black Forest for the dungeons. Take out the spooky bois for the fragments. Return alive (optional).

PS: Forgot to mention Eikthyr. Take it out for the antler pickaxe so you can mine copper and tin in Black Forest.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by ༒ǝꞁf⚣٩๏̯͡๏)۶:

Beginner - never have enough bones. Trying mods but headache.

You do not need a mod for this at all. Others have told you where to get more bone fragments and have made you aware that you don't need any bone fragments to repair anything, they are only needed only for crafting and item or upgrading it. To repair items you access the appropriate crafting bench for your damaged items and then repeatedly click the little hammer icon until everything is fixed. The hammer icon is located to the left of the list of items you can craft while accessing the bench.

Now I will tell you how to get as many bone fragments as you want.

Find a burial chamber in the Black Forest that has at least one evil bone pile in it. This may take a while but you will eventually find one. While looking for an evil bone pile you may end up collecting more bone fragments than you need and if so - problem solved. When you find one that has an evil bone pile in it DO NOT destroy the bone pile. It will not stop summoning skeletons so it's an infinite supply of bone fragments. Mark those burial chambers on your map so you can return there whenever you need more bone fragments.

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_bone_pile

[Hicks_206]

Originally posted by ༒ǝꞁf⚣٩๏̯͡๏)۶:

I just want more bones. I can't harvest nuff bones to make and fix my beginner gear.
BUT I NEED BONES TO FIX MY STUFF NOW

Repairing does not cost resources in Valheim. You need nothing to repair your gear, or your base.

[Oceanstorm]

Chill dude...people ARE trying to help you, getting pissy isn't going to help your cause and no one is going to judge you for using mods as a lot us do use them for different reasons.

I'm a starting player to this game myself and loving it so far.
While I can't really help with the bones situation, I can't recommend r2modman enough.
Simple program, easy to look up mods with it, no login required and when you download a mod through the program, all of the needed dependencies are downloaded with it.
Easy to use, simply toggle mods on or off and you can easily start with or without mods.

Good luck with 'dem bones

[knighttemplar1960]

If you are wandering around the meadows you can occasional find a Dolmen (its 3 standing stones with a stone roof). They will sometimes have 1 or 2 bones inside. If you mark that spot and go back at night about 25% of the time a single skeleton will spawn.

Find and mark a few Dolmen and run from one to the next at night and in just a few game days you'll have all the bones you need without setting foot in the blackforest.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

If you are wandering around the meadows you can occasional find a Dolmen (its 3 standing stones with a stone roof). They will sometimes have 1 or 2 bones inside. If you mark that spot and go back at night about 25% of the time a single skeleton will spawn.

Find and mark a few Dolmen and run from one to the next at night and in just a few game days you'll have all the bones you need without setting foot in the blackforest.

That sounds like a very slow method of getting a small number of bones to me, but if a player isn't ready for the Black Forest it may be their best option.

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

If you are wandering around the meadows you can occasional find a Dolmen (its 3 standing stones with a stone roof). They will sometimes have 1 or 2 bones inside. If you mark that spot and go back at night about 25% of the time a single skeleton will spawn.

Find and mark a few Dolmen and run from one to the next at night and in just a few game days you'll have all the bones you need without setting foot in the blackforest.

That sounds like a very slow method of getting a small number of bones to me, but if a player isn't ready for the Black Forest it may be their best option.

You only need 5 bones to craft the cape. All the other parts only need bones for upgrades but level 1 deer hide armor is fine for taking out the first boss even on a first time play through. Once you have the antler pick you go to the black forest looking for tin and copper. Lots more skeles and what you want to do is start killing trolls. You only need to kill 5 trolls to complete the troll hide set which is double the armor of the deer hide set. Once you have that black forest is a cake walk and its easy to get bones and more troll hide for more upgrades.

[Mr. September]

Originally posted by ༒ǝꞁf⚣٩๏̯͡๏)۶:

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Let me make it even easier for you, since you really seem like you could use some help.

1. Download r2modman from Thunderstore (hint: use your favorite search engine to find it)
2. After downloading, you should have a compressed archive that is roughly 193 MB (with the name "ebkr-r2modman-3.1.49", version may vary in the future). Extract it with WinRAR, WinZip or 7zip to your Desktop. Your browser might place the file in its own Downloads folder. In that case, find it first.
3. Launch r2modman-Setup-3.1.49.exe in the extracted files. Give it admin permissions if it asks for it.
3a. (Optional) Change the destination folder. Default should be fine, however.
4. Hit "Install" and wait for it to finish. You may launch it right after the install is done via the checkbox. If not, uncheck it and Finish the install.

Now, for the mods part:

1. Launch r2modman
2. In the search bar, type "Valheim". Click the game's image when it's on your screen.
3. It will ask for what platform you are on. Select "Steam". Wait a little for it to load.
4. While selecting a profile, either select Default or optionally create your own profile (with a different name).
5. You should be looking at a window that has different tabs on the left now. Select "Online" to see mods on Thunderstore.
6. In the search bar, type in the name of the mod you want to install. You might want to browse Thunderstore first. It also lets you install with launcher automatically with the click of a button, in the site itself.
7. Install whatever mods you want and click "Start modded" at top-left corner.
8. Play however you like.

PS: Mods will install along their requirements. You don't need to do any tinkering. At all.

[Zatarra]

and my problem is that I have way too many bones. I kept collecting them for no reason, because you only need a handful of them, after that, they're only good for an obliterator.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

You only need 5 bones to craft the cape. All the other parts only need bones for upgrades but level 1 deer hide armor is fine for taking out the first boss even on a first time play through. Once you have the antler pick you go to the black forest looking for tin and copper. Lots more skeles and what you want to do is start killing trolls. You only need to kill 5 trolls to complete the troll hide set which is double the armor of the deer hide set. Once you have that black forest is a cake walk and its easy to get bones and more troll hide for more upgrades.

Exactly, and you don't even need armour to take out the first boss. A melee weapon, the basic bow, 100 wood arrows, and the rag tunic you start with are sufficient. It runs around so much and telegraphs its attacks so early that it's not hard to avoid being hit.

I don't even bother making regular leather armour anymore, I just jump straight to troll leather and then skip bronze armour because it's too much of a time sink.

[༒ǝꞁf⚣٩๏̯͡๏)۶]

All bones disappeared from my single player game nothing skell or bones anywhere.

What is a .yml and where is it suppose to go?

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by ༒ǝꞁf⚣٩๏̯͡๏)۶:

All bones disappeared from my single player game nothing skell or bones anywhere.

What is a .yml and where is it suppose to go?

Well, you probably messed something up when you were trying to install mods that you don't need... or you're just looking in the wrong places. Have you gone into the Black Forest yet? Found any burial chambers yet? Located any troll caves? If not - go do that. You'll find skeletons and bones.

A .yml is a file extension, often used for data.
From a quick Google search:

What is a YML file?
A YML file is a text document that contains data formatted using YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language), a human-readable data format used for data serialization. It is used for reading and writing data independent of a specific programming language. Because YAML syntax is language-agnostic, YML files can be incorporated into programs written in most popular programming languages, including C/C++, Ruby, Python, Java, Perl, C#, PHP, and others.

I have no idea what specific file you're talking about or what it's for so I can't tell you where it's supposed to go.

[electricdawn]

Dude.
You don't understand game mechanics.
You don't understand world modifiers,
You don't understand mods.
You don't understand mod managers.

You try to overcome all these ineptitudes by relentlessly tinkering with the game and accomplishing nothing. Instead you are making it worse.

And on top of that, you insult all the people posting here that are genuinely trying to help you.

Do I need to say more?