the cheap auto deaths break this game

[Padds]

Actually found a 2 star boar first ive ever seen! kited it home built an enclosure around it built a big proper spiked wall pallisade for it. tame it move it to the fortified area. breed it feed it , get a second 2 star eventually kill off the 1 stars breed a big pack of 2 star boars hours of feeding scavenging hunting.

then two trolls are spawned on my base one has a tree in its hand agroes every boar and then one shots them through the spikes through the big wall , entire pack wiped out.

/tableflip

just had my 5th "you are being hunted" in the last 2 days its stupid , what are you supposed to do? theres no time to get anywhere defensible , no way to defend against it you cant get sta fast enough its just a your dead haha moment . last one i must of killed 15 or so wolves half a dozen drakes but the wolves keep coming then the golem racks up and its just over. the amount of time this game makes you waste for things you cant control is just not fun every 20-40 mins the game just murders you wasting another 10-15 mins on a corpse run. which the path back usually gets plastered with spawns so good luck only dieng the once.


im done.

it was fun to start with but thats over im a go play something else.

[sarteck]

Trolls with clubs attacking your base is never fun, but even less so now that they go straight for your tamed animals. Totally sympathize there. Even when you go out there to beat on the trolls, they still ignore you and decide to wreck your breeding pens.

"You are being hunted" are also four words I hate to see in the game. Thankfully, it only happens in the Mountains and in the Plains. If you're lucky, there will be a big rock you can jump up that the wolves can't. My friend and I also lucked out just recently in the plains, and had cleared out one of those stone Fuling towers; we used it as a choke point to only handle a few wolves at a time and could defend ourselves. If Big Rocks and chokepoints are not an option, the only thing you can do really is run as far away from the raid radius as quickly as you can, or pull out a stagbraker/sledge/Demolisher and hope you have enough stamina to keep them off of you.

And yeah, Mountain corpse runs are never fun, either. Hate dying there more than any other biome for the most part, with the possible exception of Mistlands.

[dirktoot]

Originally posted by sarteck:

Trolls with clubs attacking your base is never fun, but even less so now that they go straight for your tamed animals. Totally sympathize there. Even when you go out there to beat on the trolls, they still ignore you and decide to wreck your breeding pens.

"You are being hunted" are also four words I hate to see in the game. Thankfully, it only happens in the Mountains and in the Plains. If you're lucky, there will be a big rock you can jump up that the wolves can't. My friend and I also lucked out just recently in the plains, and had cleared out one of those stone Fuling towers; we used it as a choke point to only handle a few wolves at a time and could defend ourselves. If Big Rocks and chokepoints are not an option, the only thing you can do really is run as far away from the raid radius as quickly as you can, or pull out a stagbraker/sledge/Demolisher and hope you have enough stamina to keep them off of you.

And yeah, Mountain corpse runs are never fun, either. Hate dying there more than any other biome for the most part, with the possible exception of Mistlands.

Plains is pretty nasty too, with the deathsquito's on your naked butt. I have old backup gear making everything more easy. Like a wolf cape for mountains, root gear for plains and an extra wisplight(cheap to make anyway) for ML.

You still are vulnerable to death, but you have much better chances. It will be hard if you just entered a biome and don't have viable older gear to use on a corpse run.

[Automaton Spy]

Build 2, 3 layers of fortifications.
Never leave animals outside.
Once you get a stonecutter, ALWAYS build a stone wall around the base if not using a moat.
Remember that raids always target YOU first, and structures and animals second if they can't see them.
If you got to the mountains, you should have an iron shield. You can parry trolls with that.
Eikthyr is the best power for corpse runs.
Being hunted sucks until you realize you can swing your iron sword 2 times and kill a wolf, and swords have cleave intrinsic.

Deathsquitos will forever suck. Can't do anything about that.

[sarteck]

Originally posted by Kzar:

Remember that raids always target YOU first, and structures and animals second if they can't see them.

Tell that to the trolls I was actively pounding on who insisted on going after my boars instead. I don't think this was always the case, because they did seem to try to get to me first when I first started playing, but ever since they reworked how raid mobs target players, this seems to have changed. They consistently go after my tames first, which makes me guess they go after whatever they're closest to in terms of aggro.

[Automaton Spy]

Originally posted by sarteck:

Tell that to the trolls I was actively pounding on who insisted on going after my boars instead. I don't think this was always the case, because they did seem to try to get to me first when I first started playing, but ever since they reworked how raid mobs target players, this seems to have changed. They consistently go after my tames first, which makes me guess they go after whatever they're closest to in terms of aggro.

They switch targets AFTER they actually see them. It's why you should always build a stable and keep them inside.
In my castle, they pound on the wall to get to me, but never go for anything else after i actually go out there and fight them.

Is your wall just a palisade? It needs to be at least 8 meters to keep a troll out.

[sarteck]

Originally posted by Kzar:

They switch targets AFTER they actually see them.

They were hitting on my boars even as I was hitting on them, so.... yeah.

[EDIT] And this isn't a one-off thing, either. It's happened on multiple recent playthroughs.

[EDIT 2] Also, it's happened on more than one occasion, when I had an earthen wall for defense, they would stand there looking towards the boars while I was OUTSIDE the base, plucking them with arrows or walloping them with a mace.

[BaseWall]

yeah sry mate but dont blame the game, you made many mistakes sry to say.
There are many Youtube vids on securing and digging moths/bases.
Best tip i can give is digg from N to S, or E to W...always along these lines to get perfectly strait lines.
And always keep your pets+foods far away from compound walls and moths(minimum of 20m ill sasy).
If your building in mistlands forget my tips:)

[sarteck]

Originally posted by BaseWall:

[insert base advice]

"You are being Hunted" happens anywhere in Plains or Mountains. No base structures needed.

[EDIT] Meant "Mountains" not "Mistlands." Edited.

[FissionChips]

Oh, Irongate messed up agro priority again? Is it another Tuesday?

Do they still stop chasing you to go attack non-player built wooden doors?

[iamoffline1]

Whenever I'm in the mountains, I'll usually build a few platforms on the boulders. Hate reading those 4 words. The plains is another story...

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Padds:

im done.

Welcome in the club. I can understand you very well. I´m also so done with this games sick balancing and the lack of customization options.

[Rhapsody]

https://twitter.com/Valheimgame/status/1647969178362556418

[iamoffline1]

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

https://twitter.com/Valheimgame/status/1647969178362556418

Oh that looks great! Thank you for sharing!

[Zelph]

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

https://twitter.com/Valheimgame/status/1647969178362556418

Seeing how little damage a club was doing to greydwarfs makes very hard seem like utter garbage. Adding hp doesn't make things harder, just boring. Same reason why skyrim on master mode is one of the worst game experiences out there.

[MF]

Raids happen no matter where you are. The type depends on which boss you've downed. I get raided by draugr all the time, but I get trolls more often than not. I made sure I have a very deep moat on 4 sides. My buildings and anything smashable are 8m away from the edge. And now I just laugh at them. They can't touch me. Took me a lot of time to build such a huge platform, but it was worth it.

The reason I'm putting so much time into it is that my base is my base for good. I'm in the Meadows, close but not in a Black Forest. As I defeat successive bosses, the raids will change and get more dangerous. It doesn't matter where you are - I'm nowhere near a swamp biome and yet I get regular visits from draugr.

The wolves event is evidently different in that it requires you to be AWAY from your base. There's lots of good advice in the forums and on YT as to how to handle them.