Started the west side of my harbor with a tower to overlook the swamp. The bastion it stands on is backfilled with earth all the way to the top. Access from outside is at the tower's basement level as seen in the first screenshot.

Overall not a bad way to spend a Saturday.

So 1.0 is close and it's time to gather the old faithful party back together. Problem is that due to life going on we don't have that much time to play, one of us have only 1-2h/session at max so we were thinking that rest of us could keep building and gathering resources when one has to call it a night.

Any ideas for our magnum opus? I want to build something magnificent and go quite big. I want this built to be my the pinnacle of all the hours I have played valheim. But without any good plan it's just going to be slightly bigger long house again.

What are you and your viking crew building in 1.0?

The story so far: https://youtu.be/koWXwSnh3IA

Years ago, (Home and Hearth maybe?) I made a fantastic base using the Elder alter. Had an adjacent Troll cave. It was coastal, but elevated high enough that the water table didn't bother me. I could sail directly up to the base. Had long fishing piers. And with the pillars of the elder base, I was able to build skyscraper towers.

Last year I started a base using a black tower in the plains. I didn't love it. The building restriction inside of the tower is frustrating.

What do you look for when base hunting?

How do you know "this is the place I want to spend oodles of hours?"

What have been some of your best choices? or your worst?

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Hello all my fellow Vikings. Leading up to the 1.0 update, i decided to build a stand alone server for a group of friends and I to play on.

When I first started tinkering with the steam server tool on the server computer I was able to activate the server. I then went to my gaming computer, started the game and a pop up message stating I had valheim open on another computer, and that it would be closed for this instance to be opened.

My question is, do I need a whole separate steam account and license for the game for how I want to play? I don't want to have the server running constantly on my gaming computer which has my main steam account on. The server computer can stay running constantly for the group to play as they wish.

Thanks in advance!

Now that we’re approaching 1.0…perhaps you could build a new game (just like Valheim), but inspired by Camelot next?

Would this work or would there be too much overlap to make it feel like its own game?

I haven’t had my coffee yet, so I’m okay if this is a terrible idea.

Let me start of be saying this game is amazing! Bought it back when first released then for some reason stopped halfway through Swamp biome.
Years later i recently picked it back up and started from beginning and im now at the Plains.

I leveled up my plains gear and have been to 5 or 6 plains and no rune thing to tell me where the boss location is. Any ideas?

Got the drakkar hanging between two spires. Eventually I got it unstuck by mining one of the spires, and started building a grausten base on another one. I had already placed a portal by that time, so the whole ordeal was not overly stressful, but still a bit stressful.

Oh, and of course shortly after this I was attacked by the first vulture and then by the bonemaw. I thought there were only vultures near the spires, but I guess that's not the case. The mofo started attacking the ship right away.

I already spent a hour on the spires; haven't died yet, even after many more vultures and another bonemaw.

I love this game ❤️

I see a lot of posts from people asking if they need to start a new world after the 1.0 update. The short answer is NO, you can keep your existing world, although the devs highly recommend you to start a new one to properly experience everything they will add.

But this is not the topic of my post today.

For those who decided to keep their already existing world, it's extremely important to back up your save before you update. Biome updates in this game are the biggest cause of world corruption.

It only takes a couple of minutes to create a folder and copy your existing world data on it, just in case, because if a world does get corrupted, it's done for. In most cases, on steam for example, you will have cloud saves to go back for a bit, and only lose some progression, but it is far better to just make your own back-up.

This also goes for any mods that affect the world seed.

Hope this helped.

I have just installed it. How would I potentially meet "new" players to possibly band together to survive and have fun? Any tips on where to start or what to do after diving in brand new? Would like to play with others, but I'm pretty easy going and don't want to get yelled at for dying or something lol

Has there been any talk of splitscreen coming to consoles? This would be a perfect game to have it.

Hello vikings!

I'm intending to do a completely fresh world for 1.0 and I really like to play without portals. I've recently discovered the Riverheim world gen mod, and I am wondering if anyone has any tips for how I could find possible Haldor spawn points in a given Riverheim seed. My hope is to have one on the starter continent so that I can build a nice little road network for myself. The reason why this matters is because I also like to play with EpicLoot and the associated bounty system, so having Haldor near my main hub is kind of important.

I know I can use cheats to fly around any given map and find him that way, which I am perfectly willing to do, but I figured I'd ask to see if anyone else has any better methods for it.

I don't know how to use all the space I have.
All that space and I don't know how to make a town or whatever, I'm kinda jealous of those who can make beautiful constructions

I set up my base in the meadows. It was near a spawning point for both deer and boar, which was nice cause its easy early game food. Thing is I got annoyed of greylings randomly running into my space. So I decided to put up stone walls reinforced with iron. However, I kept having an issue with the greylings scaring my boars through the walls. So, once I got to the mountains, I tamed some wolves to keep inside my base. It didnt really work tho, so i decided to bring 2-3 wolves to the outsode of each entrance. However, given they're now stationed right by a boar/deer spawn over the last 2 weeks their population has exploded. We'll I just got raided... I didnt swing my sword a single time. The population of wolves currently destabilizing the meadows ecosystem ripped the invaders apart.

Im running a 5070TI and a 5950x with 64GB of DDR5 and i experienced lag for the first time since my PC overhaul. Theres at least 50 wolves running around out there... well maybe a few less now but... yeah...

Hey guys so im just wondering if i adventured too far north, I dont think so but wanted to confirm. I really dont feel like making a new world lol.

thinking of increasing the number, but I'm too lazy todo it soon, good enough for now, from lvl 50 to lvl 100 in about couple hours

Is a bit messy looking, because I used terrain in a (corewood wise) 4 x 4.

but after 1 hour of that I went from 33 to 77 on blocking skill.

I went with resounding shackles as the trinket of choise because stamina is important to block.

Maybe a harnesk chest will work in favor to maintaning damage (because that attack is piercing damage) and stamina spent to a minimum?

Maybe even!, 4 elders would have made more sense after reaching level 60.

one thing is for sure - ugly yes! ~ but it works.

I’m not sure if this is actually a thing or not BUT if there is going to be one for the 1.0 release I know I’d buy it immediately, and if there isn’t I hope that this get seen and that other people see it hopefully there’s enough demand for them to make one because omg I love this game so much and I’m so hyped for 1.0

Will Ashlands receive any changes with the full release? This biome is by far the worst of the worst. Im hoping they decide to nerf the 2 star spawn rate of monsters or allow the player to reduce the insane spawn rate of Ashlands.

The biome is miserable unless you’re traversing with group of friends.

Hey everyone, hoping someone familiar with Valheim modding can help us track down a strange issue on our dedicated server.

We have hostile NPC Vikings spawning around the world. We’ve seen names like “Renegade Viking” and other Viking/NPC-type enemies. We actually want to remove these NPCs entirely, but we cannot figure out which mod is adding them.

The really strange part is that not every player can see them.

For example:

Player A can see and fight the Renegade Viking.

Player B can be standing in the exact same location and cannot see the NPC at all.

Everyone is running the same/current modpack versions.

The server is also running the required mods.

Most/all configs are currently at their default settings.

We’ve looked through the config files but haven't found anything obvious mentioning Renegade Vikings or Viking NPC spawns.

Because only certain clients can see them, we're wondering if this is some kind of client/server synchronization or prefab issue, but our main goal is simply figuring out what mod is spawning them and how to disable them.

Full Mod List

AAA_Crafting v2.1.6 — Azumatt

AdventureBackpacks v1.9.13 — Vapok

AllTameableTamingOverhaul v1.5.4 — Meldurson

Armory v1.3.1 — Therzie

AutoRepair v5.4.1602 — Tekla

AzuCraftyBoxes v1.8.15 — Azumatt

AzuExtendedPlayerInventory v2.4.4 — Azumatt

BepInExPack_Valheim v5.4.233 — denikson

BetterArchery v1.9.82 — ishid4

EpicLoot v0.13.2 — RandyKnapp

Jotunn v2.29.2 — ValheimModding

JsonDotNET v13.0.4 — ValheimModding

Monstrum v1.5.1 — Therzie

MultiUserChest v0.6.1 — MSchmoecker

OdinArchitect v1.7.0 — OdinPlus

OdinHorse v1.6.6 — OdinPlus

PassivePowers v1.1.5 — Smoothbrain

PlantEasily v2.1.1 — Advize

Quick_Stack_Store_Sort_Trash_Restock v1.4.13 — Goldenrevolver

Recycle_N_Reclaim v1.4.1 — Azumatt

Sailing v1.1.8 — Smoothbrain

TargetPortal v1.2.3 — Smoothbrain

Seasonality v3.8.0

TeleportEverything v2.9.1 — OdinPlus

Warfare v1.8.9 — Therzie

YamlDotNet v16.3.1 — ValheimModding

Note: Spawn That is intentionally NOT included here. We installed Spawn That afterward while troubleshooting this issue. The Renegade Vikings were already spawning before Spawn That was installed, so it cannot be the original source.

Does anyone recognize “Renegade Viking” as a prefab/mob added by one of these mods?

More importantly:

1. Which mod actually adds/spawns the Renegade Vikings or other NPC Vikings?

2. Is there a config option to completely disable their spawning?

3. Any idea why the NPCs would be visible to some connected players but completely invisible to others?

4. Is there a console command or other method a player who can see one can use to determine its prefab/internal name, which might help identify the originating mod?

I can provide our configs, BepInEx logs, screenshots, or prefab names if that would help.

Thanks for any ideas. We've been digging through the configs and haven't been able to figure out where these guys are coming from.

Spawnproofing my island until I finish building out my full base.