raid rng

[hunter]

I found hildr early on and killed brena before elder but now it seems like every raid is 'she's hot on your tail' . Three in a row now. Do the hildr raids have a higher chance of happening?

[Gisbert]

Originally posted by hunter:

I found hildr early on and killed brena before elder but now it seems like every raid is 'she's hot on your tail' . Three in a row now. Do the hildr raids have a higher chance of happening?

I had the same feeling that they would have a higher priority, but then I didn't have any Hildir raids at all.

The same with bats. But I think that's a fallacy.

It's just a coincidence.

[Tuxedo]

Have a look at this, this should answer all your Questions.

As for the Raids from Hildir, just defeat the Boss but keep the Chest/Reward in
your Base, and bring it to her when you think you are ready for these Raids.

In specific for Zil and Thungr.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TNK9S2Q_yY

[Exodite-Dragon]

I think if you haven't killed the Elder yet, but have defeated Brenna, your only two raid possibilities are "The Forest is Moving..." and "She's Hot on Your Tail," so you're probably just having bad luck with the coin flip.

[knighttemplar1960]

Valheim uses PRNG so you don't get true random numbers. One of the issues with PRNGs is you can get strings of repeating numbers more often than you would for something like physically rolling dice or flipping coins. Because of that you will get the same result more often with a computer program. If you get a string of easy raids you won't remember but if you get a string of hard ones you will.

[BIT Bear]

I'm not certain about this but Yes I think the raids regarding the mini bosses get a higher priority over other raids. At least from my experience. The Zil and Thungr one is especially annoying, not necessarily because of the boss(es), but rather the 1 star berserkers and fulings that come with it.

Edit: The other bosses are kinda meh and easy to defeat.

[Booneblaster]

the raids are something i'd like them to smooth over. as an end gamer, i feel the skeleton surprise raid is just way too common. After defeating zil thunger, we stopped getting regular fuling raids altogether. too bad. we used to get swamp blob raids over and over and over. why? but now they are rare. brena also used to come back again and again, but i guess she got tired. We defeated the dragon boss, but still no new raids. I would like to see snow dragons raids, maybe some askavin raids, drauger raids... but i guess those arent implemented. i think there used to be a deathsquito raid. i'm pretty sure we had just one.

i wish raids of all types happened equally, even when you progress thru the game.
abomination raids would be epic. or at least include some with drauger. - you know, maybe after you beat moder or yagluth, spice up swamp raids with abominations.

but yeah, so far, raids are confusing and the raid pool from which the game draws at any point in your progression is small. but we always get skellies. why the skellies.

[Booneblaster]

Looking at the linked list, we can see that half the raids are disabled by defeating the boss of the related biome. To be honest, I think some of these raids never even occurred for me before defeating the said bosses- such as mistland based raids. We MAY have gotten ONE of those raids - memory is fuzzy. But 1 is kinda sad. OR it was NONE. I am in no way a speed gamer. I'm a SLOW valheim gamer. Take my time with everything.

I understand, raid cancelation shows defeat of the forsaken boss - a lore mechanic - but i wish they wouldn't!! Those creatures are still out there and getting killed all the time. It's equally lore friendly to keep those raids going. PLUS, it makes the raid mechanic way better to have that larger pool.

I could see a chance weight being in favor the player-based current biomes/progression. But not removing a raid entirely. And when all bosses are defeated - just make all raids have the same chance.

[rubinho]

hello,
on my actual run i did not defeated any boss, but defeated sealed tower (twice) for iron, and got 3 different raids. 1. forest is moving 4x, they where bros 2x and last one eikthyr creatures (something like this) but did not gave chest to hildir. i expected two raids, troll (ground is shaking) and eikthyr creature but now i am not sure did i made something wrong or rules changed?
thank you for reading and have fun playing valheim

[knighttemplar1960]

Each raid has a 20% chance of happening every 46 minutes. If you aren't in a place where a raid can happen when the raid chance triggers, no raid occurs. If you keep track of time you can cheese this mechanic. You can also cheese raids completely by having 2 different main bases. There can only be one raid on the map at a time. If all players leave the raid circle the raid pauses and nothing happens while its paused. If you portal to a 2nd base and operate out of there, when a new random roll happens you can portal out of base 2 and back to base one because the raid at base one despawns to allow the raid at base 2.

Raids have specific triggers to start having them and some also have specific triggers that stop them, others are permanent. The first permanent raid is the troll raid once its unlocked since it is permanent you may experience more troll raids than any other through out a game because it is unlocked earlier. This may make you feel the troll raids happen more often. When the troll raid starts the only other raid that is available is the foul smell raid so there is only a choice of 2. As you play longer you add more possible raids to the permanent list and the chance that one specific raid will occur decreases as there are more raids to choose from.

In answer to other questions the wolf raid can only happen in the mountains and the plains and its the only raid that doesn't require you to be in a base with 3 or more base items. (Second option to cheese: you can build a livestock pen in the meadows by dropping 2 work benches each 1/2 work bench radius from the other and then fence in the ellipse. Since you only have 2 base items, and are not in the plains or mountains, no raids can occur here. You can lure 2 boars here and tame them and as long as you are only here during the day you will only have to deal with greylings outside the fence. You can also do your farming here. Feed the boars when you arrive and while you harvest and plant they will breed. Once your boars are tame you can replace the 2nd work bench with a portal. If you need to make repairs on the portal side of the pen, drop a workbench when you are there, make the repairs, and pick up the extra workbench when done).

Drake raids are in the game. They start when you have killed Bonemass and end when you have killed Moder.

Bat raids are also in the game. They start when you have killed Bonemass and a bat and are always in the possible raid list after.

Bats and drakes fly and can enter your base through windows without crystal or grates and through chimneys. You can cheese the smoke mechanic by making your chimney 8 meters higher than the fire and just roofing it with thatch that matches the rest of your roof and doesn't leave a gap. The smoke dissipates on its own at 8 meters even if there is no open air above it.

[pipo.p]

Originally posted by rubinho:

but did not gave chest to hildir. i expected two raids, troll (ground is shaking) and eikthyr creature but now i am not sure did i made something wrong or rules changed?

Check out the wiki! Since the new worlds settings, there are two sets of raids: world-based and player-based.
World-based raids are default ones and mostly depend on whether bosses and/or minibosses have been killed once in current world.
Player-baised raids must be enable in settings and mostly depend on any given player's holdings, such as forsaken powers and/or trophies/drops in inventory or in base (I'm not sure).
This allows for setting for more peaceful worlds for new players in MP, for example.

In your case, there's apparently a Brenna raid if you keep her chest (player-based raid), and another raid if you give the chest back to Hildir (world-based raid). It is not clear whether those raids are exactly the same or not.