Question about spawn rates for Crypts

[Shadow Delta]

So I wanted to preface this post by explaining that I've played this game previously, and made it to the plains biome where I ultimately got bored and lost interest. I knew this game has gotten a couple of updates since then, and so I started a new character/ world build. My experience with the swamp biome has been really frustrating. I've gone through 4 separate swamp biomes, they're all teeny tiny, with ZERO Crypts. I got frustrated to the point that I've been using the debugmode (I hate to cheat) and flew to a far end of the map where I FINALLY discovered two, TWO crypts in my whole discovered maps now chalking up to 6 different swamp biomes.

Seriously did they nerf the Crypt spawn rate? Or did I just get a crappy map seed?
My previous play through, sure I had to do some exploring, my first swamp biome was also small, and thus there were no Crypts there. But by the time I found my second biome, there were definitely a few Crypts as well as turnip seeds.

[Suzaku]

Just bad RNG with your search. I bet if you tossed your seed into a map generator, you'd find several large swamps with tons of crypts in them.

[whiteboa321]

they hard nerf swamp Biome . nerf it to the ground . they kinda want you to use the wishbone to find the thing in the ground that have iron in them . but ya . idk

[Suzaku]

Originally posted by whiteboa321:

they hard nerf swamp Biome . nerf it to the ground . they kinda want you to use the wishbone to find the thing in the ground that have iron in them . but ya . idk

They want you to use the item from the boss of the biome to find the main resource of that biome?

You're right. You don't know.

[DvondoR]

i was having issues too but i entered my seed in valheim world generator and there were a ton. kind if cheat but it helps a lot

[Tuxedo]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/0/600769605204483451/

[Saul Panzer]

Sounds like bad luck, I was on day 90 something before I found a swamp I could get actually get into alive and it contained a single dungeon.
Every other swamp meant running through a plains biome or sailing a raft into a sea of leeches and wraiths with pre-iron gear.

[Tuxedo]

Some more suggestions for the Threadstarter.

Here is the Seed i started after the Bog Witch patch and now the
4th time in a row.

If you follow the Coastline from the Spawn Stones all the way towards South,
you will come to an almost "flattish" and nice wide open spot inside the
Meadows, right next to the Black Forest.

I built my House there too, but not in this run this time.

Haldor is on the same Continent, if you keep following towards South, and
that small patch of Swamp right next to it contains 5 Crypts, where i gathered
enough Iron to get started with the Iron age.

Here is the Seed: eIFfiE3FXA

Another good Seed is one i have played by taken my very first Steps in the Game.
Today and after all these Game updates, and throwing it into the World Generator,
from the Starting Stones towards the West there you have a whole bunch
of Crypts, including Haldor, Hildir, the Bog Witch, and Bonemass.

Here is the Seed: KvnzinZCjE

So if the RNG luck is not your Cup of Tea, then be thankful for those people who
created those Tools for us, to avoid this situation.

Hope it helps you ...

[Shadow Delta]

Originally posted by Tuxedo:

Some more suggestions for the Threadstarter.

Here is the Seed i started after the Bog Witch patch and now the
4th time in a row.

If you follow the Coastline from the Spawn Stones all the way towards South,
you will come to an almost "flattish" and nice wide open spot inside the
Meadows, right next to the Black Forest.

I built my House there too, but not in this run this time.

Haldor is on the same Continent, if you keep following towards South, and
that small patch of Swamp right next to it contains 5 Crypts, where i gathered
enough Iron to get started with the Iron age.

Here is the Seed: eIFfiE3FXA

Another good Seed is one i have played by taken my very first Steps in the Game.
Today and after all these Game updates, and throwing it into the World Generator,
from the Starting Stones towards the West there you have a whole bunch
of Crypts, including Haldor, Hildir, the Bog Witch, and Bonemass.

Here is the Seed: KvnzinZCjE

So if the RNG luck is not your Cup of Tea, then be thankful for those people who
created those Tools for us, to avoid this situation.

Hope it helps you ...

Thank you for sharing this! I just started a new map seed which already seems to be a little more promising than my last seed. But I definitely want to try out the seed you shared and check it out for myself.

[Draconis]

As far as I know the number of crypts per world is a constant number, but these can be spread across swamps quite differently.

I remember a world on which I had to clear 3 swamps to get enough iron to make it through iron age and plains.
Shortly after I did the mistlands I found a swamp (actually closer to my base than the others, just another direction that I never sailed because I followed the boss stones that I found) that had 25 crypts.

[Anthreris]

The variation of rng can be weird. I used to play solo, harvested quite a bit of iron via the crypts and lucky vein on the hillside of my first swamp.

Then I started playing with a friend who had a previously established multiplayer map with his friends who don't play anymore. I joined and was the furthest one along, we traveled quite a bit and never found iron. So I ported over all of my iron and we managed to find silver by making a castle in the mountains. Eventually he made a new map very recently and we still can't find any crypts.

So to summarize I find iron when solo, when playing on my friends maps we never do. Not a multiplayer issue, but an rng issue. The same friend also seems to never be happy with his Minecraft seeds calling them unlucky. So did Valheim make crypts rarer or is it simply bad luck?

I'm more inclined towards bad luck, but the luck does contrast my initial experience vastly since I was able to get Iron before fighting the Elder from the swamp hillside. A fluke, probably, but there was no doubt I had all the iron a solo player could need,

[The Great Cornholio]

go farther out

[Draconis]

Originally posted by The Great Cornholio:

go farther out

That does not always work. You might end up having 25 Crypts in a swamp inside the nearer circle and have a hard time finding crypts further out.

[electricdawn]

@Saul Panzer
Why in Odin's name are you using a RAFT? You should be using a Karve by now, which makes exploration of the ocean soooo much easier.

[Saul Panzer]

Originally posted by electricdawn:

@Saul Panzer
Why in Odin's name are you using a RAFT? You should be using a Karve by now, which makes exploration of the ocean soooo much easier.

I was sick of losing the karves to random plains or swamp mobs, I still used one to actually find swamp biomes but approached land on rafts. It's easier to shoot from a raft than a karve to clear stuff on the way in.

[The Great Cornholio]

Originally posted by Saul Panzer:

Originally posted by electricdawn:

@Saul Panzer
Why in Odin's name are you using a RAFT? You should be using a Karve by now, which makes exploration of the ocean soooo much easier.

I was sick of losing the karves to random plains or swamp mobs, I still used one to actually find swamp biomes but approached land on rafts. It's easier to shoot from a raft than a karve to clear stuff on the way in.

Land in black forest or meadows. I've never lost a boat.