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I'd add keeping a Rested Buff up as much as possible. You can even drop a fire in the middle of nowhere (if it's raining build a little shelter) and sit down to gain a 1 comfort and an 8 minute rested buff. The rested buff is honestly one of the best buffs in the game and I'm shocked how many people don't prioritize keeping it up.

I would add always remember to put your portal names on the map.

Big tip for any new players, do not go into the plains, the deathsquito is a name that should be feared by all

The first hing you should do when making landfall on a new island should be to put down a new portal. And always carry a temp portal in your inventory. Boats should only be for exploring and hauling resources back home. If you have boats standing around, or sail both ways for supply runs... you are doing it wrong. A tip for the bronze tier grind: find a troll cave on the coast somewhere, with atleast 3 chests inside and plenty of copper and tin sources nearby. The chests inside are safe. You can put down a workbench and portal just outside the cave, go out mining, drop off the ores in the cave chests, and go though the portal for repairs. When you feel done with mining, you can portal back home, get the materials for a ship, build it at the cave, load it up with ore and sail back home. If you need multiple trips, just break the boat at home, portal back and repeat the one-way-journey.

When mining copper, put the small fence around the mine area to keep greydwafs from bothering you. They will swipe at the fence a few times and grumble. You can then dig out the area overnight. Just drop a camp fire in work zone to keep warm. Most deposit areas will be around 70-90 copper.

I always leave my ship unattended. Just mark where it is on your map so you can find it again and make sure there is nothing nearby, then leave. Nothing can attack it when the area is unloaded.

Mistake everyone makes at some point. Standing under a falling tree 🌲

I see a lot of people not eating if they are just doing stuff around the base. So then they are running around with 25 health when they get raided and end up running around waiting for the health to kick in, or they just forget to eat in the excitement and then complain that stamina is a problem. One of my personal rules is "always stay full". Granted I don't eat the "good" stuff when base building, but it's enough to take care of raids if they happen.

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I'd add: Being overly reluctant about establishing outposts. Considering that ores and metals cannot be teleported and it's quite possible that their associated biomes are far away from where you decided to build your first big base, you typically have two options: 1: Hauling it all back home with your ship (that is, if that is even the quickest route home) which can take quite a while, especially since you don't unlock the Longboat until you have iron and you first need to bring the iron home to start processing it. 2: Building another base. Nothing fancy, just some basic defenses, a crafting station, a forge... whatever you need just to survive out there and actually process your new ores rightaway. In many cases I'd argue that the second option is more efficient, for the following reasons: a) You get to upgrade your gear as you go, thus making the actual farming easier. This is most relevant with silver ore since you need silver to make the wolf armour and parts of the wolf armour come with freezing resistance. If you don't process your silver locally but haul it all back to a distant base first, you are much more reliant on making sufficient amounts of mead and might even have to stop mining if you run out. b) Time efficiency. You don't have a long mining phase, a long hauling phase and then a long smelting phase. Just fill up your inventory with ore, get it back to your local base and start smelting it whilst you go out again. c) Safety. OK, let's assume you've just spent several hours getting a full longship storage worth of iron ore. 18 slots times 30 ore per stack is 540. Now, the ship is full and you are headed home again. All of the sudden: Bang! A bug destroys your ship and you lose all that ore because it sinks to the ground, all that work for nothing. Or a storm sinks you. Or you fall victim to a serpent attack and are all out of arrows. If you have to haul all of your ore across large distances, you have to haul large quantities in order for it to be efficient. But if you haul large quantities, you also risk losing large quantities.

"not have to deal with carrying all of this" Man you should see me trying to pull a full cart of copper and stone back

IF You pres Ctrl Left-Click you can quickly transfer an item from a chest to your inventory and the other way around

I found the best way to mine copper is to mine around the node until it is pretty much clear, then just go back and forth stripping off layers until you have it all.

I absolutely love this game, haven´t had this much fun with a game in years! Also the potencial that this game has to become even better is insane.

I'd love to hear more about the technical things that shouldn't be done on a server environment (leaving trees, terraforming all the bad stuff that make the game run worse)

The portal named "Exploration" in my base has allowed me to probably skip 20 hours of needless traveling so far. It is always in my base. Inactive. An d when I go out at sea. I always have on my boat what's needed to build a portal and a workbench. If I find something cool. I can just plop down the portal. Name it Exploration. Go back to base. Get more materials. And build a more permanent portal pair. Listen to that tip in the video. Save yourself a lot of time and a lot of tediousness. Have an exploration portal always ready to be paired up.

Mark thistle, mushroom, and berry markers to map. Fencing also helps, and clearing trees.

I think tip #3 is something that more people need to grasp. Some people, me included, want to rush things and be able to progress at their own pace but valheim isn't really a game you can do that. I learned that very quickly and had to adapt, then I realized that spending a little extra time in the beginning of each stage to prepare for the next makes the ending that much easier and even more enjoyable.

yoooo, most importan tipp is missing: USE UR MAP, mark everything u find, use every icon etc. ull thank me later :D

Just keep your ship some ways away from shore and it'll be fine. Chances of sea serpent coming along near the shoreline are literally none, so keeping it a short swim away will keep it safe. And this way it'll be always there when you need to make a hasty getaway.

I always have a blank portal at base and keep some portal mats on me or on my boat. You never know what you'll run into and if you need a quick way back to base to clear your inventory or repair, just plop a portal down, repair/dropoff items and continue exploring

Good video but there is really no need to destroy your ship. Yes it can get attacked but if you park it close to shore you will be able to recover all the resources and if nothing happens then you save yourself having to carry it around in your slots. The only drawback is that you have to go back to it. Just be sure to put a mark on the map so you can definitely find it.

I swear if I ever see berries or thistles while returning from an exploration you can bet I'm throwing out even a freaking ores to get them

Mistake 6B: not putting a Cart ON your Karve! Seriously, i felt like freaking Einstein when i built flooring over the boat, moved the cart on to it then deleted the flooring so it fell directly into the boat and wedges it agains tthe mast. Transporting large amounts of ore and other items was so easy at that point. Just had to make sur you didnt go into the Ocean biome...

the first time I stepped into the plains, I saw one fuling and thought "I'll kill this lilttle guy, ez pz" then 3 seconds later, he one shotted me

I have a unique hate for the slowness of the cart: it's quicker to run through the swamp multiple times with a belt then getting a cart through it for iron, take a travel portal for stone/wood, it's ok for copper but that's not often far from your starting point so running again is mostly quicker & if you dare put a worth while amount of metal in there good luck getting across anything over a half stair high! I just watch my friends struggle and use carts for larger storage systems instead!!

Not only do I build near the ocean, if it's not literally right up against the shore, I'll dig up a little port leading right up to a dock connected to my base.

Very useful tips, I didn’t know you can mine that deep of a copper node and I’ve already defeated the 5th boss. Note on #8, if you are far away from your ship, the entity actually unloads so it’s perfectly safe. So the best thing to protect your ship is to run away from it as fast as possible (of course you still need to kill anything that’s already attacking your ship first)

I don’t even have a computer and I found these tips helpful.

Nice video. I once came to beautiful spot, and was in love. Peaceful spot next to water, i was so high i decided this will be my base number 2. Later i found it was lake.

'' copper is not only on the surface'' holy sh** i don't wanna know how many copper i just miss. xD

I made the first mistake of making a large base away from the water, so I dug out a road to the ocean and built a dock on the edge of the coast. Now I have an easy access road with a cart I can take back and forth so I don’t make so many trips with items I collect from elsewhere. Gotta say it’s not as easy as being right next to the ocean...but that road I spent a couple hours on looks so good.

Yes, reason no.1 is what bothered the crap out of me when playing in my friends world. I think thistles can multiply if you leave 1 there to respawn more and trolls helps you get fine wood early when you haven't got bronze yet.

2:13 exactly that "aaaah, I pick it up next time" , with the same exact voice too, I loled up😂 Got a like there mate

Here's my PSA. Bronze nails sink to the bottom of the water when you destroy your ship. I learned that the hard way when the water was too deep for me to retrieve the nails after I destroyed my ship.

I'd add dandelions to the list of "things to always grab". Lots of the meads require them

lots of good tips here without giving away spoilers. Good job. I'll be recommending this video to new players.

These tips are good to follow. one thing that I do with the copper deposit is i dig as far down as possible then frame the deposit and then just mine it all, resulting in leaving huge square chunks of where deposits were. Might be long to do it but the grind is real.

"Nobody likes to take more time to complete a task than necessary" Well, unless you enjoy the time it takes.... But yes these are all good tips lol On leaving the ship unattended though, if you just let it stay out in the water maybe 10 feet away from the shore, if it's deep enough nothing swimming can attack it.

cool tips! My main technique when dealing with trolls (having just reached bronze age) is just to stay out of reach hitting them with fire arrows, and sprinting away only when they are close and about to attack (to keep the stamina bar relatively high). Usually works pretty well (except sometimes when you get stuck in the damn terrain by a small bush or a tiny rock), but your technique will certainly be useful if I run out of arrows or if I find a Troll cave (last time I kept leaving to catch a break and going back in the cave to fire a few more arrows, but it's time consuming). Another beginner tip I never saw mentioned anywhere: make sure you've explored the whole area before building your new base. This happened to me after I defeated the first boss, and the crow told me to begin exploring the Black Forest biome. I actually though these were "zones" similar to an MMORPG game, so when I found the Black Forest, I found a nice spot near the ocean to build my house, believing this was a huge area just like the starting Meadows. Unfortunately, I soon found out it was only a small stretch of Black Forest, and it was in the far bottom of the island. So, to explore the rest of the island, I have to walk a lot, usually getting to a spot I'd like to explore by sunset (and having to fight all the annoying Greydwarves). Thankfully, since I built it near the ocean, now that I have the boat I can explore nearby . I think my next step will be to build a dock for my boat.

Leaving ships unattended is okay as long as you park them away from the shore so things can't walk up and hit them. Swamps are an exception since leeches swim. Just make sure you clear your landing zone before you wander off and your ship will usually be fine.

This is actually good. I also did many mistakes on this video before on my first playthrough.

Not even a player yet, but these are great tips! Thanks for the advice and I hope that I'll make totally different mistakes while I play ;)

A fantastic video my good sir, after 100 hours it’s still good get some pointers. Excellent job 👍🏻

A video about mistakes that we should stop doing and then only a minute into it, we see portals left unfenced outside his base

7:51 re, unattended ships You don't need to destroy a boat to keep it safe. Just park it in water deep enough that the enemies are fully swimming. If they're swimming, they can't damage it, even if they try to attack it. The exceptions are the swamp, where leaches can attack from water and the draugr and skelis do the Pirates of the Caribbean underwater walk. They can attack, at least the archers for sure, and do damage. In the plains, the skeeters can attack from air, but if you're off the shore a bit, you'd need a really unlucky spawn or something else from a nearby biome kite it near the boat for it to get in target/attack range.

Thanks for the tips dude, really helped out! :D

1 - Did that, only to discover I built it in a huge lake. 2 - Never did this because I'm a kleptomaniac. 3 - I do this on purpose I use the enemy difficulty to practice dodges/parries etc. 4 - I'm always thinking with Portals; got a portal labelled "Raid" for the one I keep on my person/long boat. 5 - See Hulk appearance in Thor: Ragnarök. 6 - I'd say skip the Raft entirely if you've got black forest on you starting island (which you will) and just move straight to the Karve. 7 - This one I didn't know until I beat the (current) last boss, though I sorta half-discovered this when I found that all the silver veins we found had a lot more in them than previously thought. 8 - To avoid having your boat destroyed... destroy your boat. :D 9 - I have the opposite problem; I bring too much food. 10 - "And here is where I keep my two-stars. IF I HAD ANY!"

I DEFINITELY thought that the copper Deposits were just the big boulders above ground. THANKS FOR POINTING THAT OUT. I've got so much untapped resources near my base that I need to go mine.

I just started playin Valheim with my two brothers. So much fun. Discovering new areas random dungeons and tje first boss fight was cool.

Awesome little tips man i had no clue about the ore running so deep!

Also...not using the sheltering/rested system whenever you can. It is quite easy to get shelter and a fire going just about anywhere. Out in the wild? Not a problem. Just hop into a dungeon/troll cave/crypt and light a fire, wait a minute and then get your 10min buff. Or just dig a diagonal hole into the ground until you get some earth over your head, or even a simple tree/rock overhang. It makes a really big difference in your regen.

there is one thing you are forgetting about trolls they all ways have trash mobs that are with them or close to them so just to dodge will not work all the time even if you take out trash mobs there will be more of them sooner or later. when you turn to fight the trash mobs you will get hit by the troll.

Actually a dude made a post on reddit that terraphorming is not causing lag, but the fire, particles and that stuff. I've put some commands on the file "gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1 gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1" and worked really well to my castle base that was freezing, and now is solid 60

Some great tips here. Fortunately, I have not done many of these (I always grab berries, etc especially!) Thanks :D

I make a portal just for berries.

Thank you kindly for the network lag advice about logs and terraforming!

if you always carry 10 wood on you, you can pop down workbenches wherever you need to use the hammer and then you can much more quickly dismantle your ship for storage. this also works for fighting enemies in towers you can't climb, just slap down a workbench and dismantle the tower lol

To comment on the first one there is an easier was than boating back. Create a portal at your base and the place one after landing your boat. Then create another world and place a chest so you can swap worlds and use the portals to transport metal. This allows you to build your base in any part of any island. The video is still really cool though.

The best tip anyone can receive for this game is to learn how to use a shield. Learning how to parry attacks with a shield is a MUST! Timing your shield usage to parry an attack will stagger your opponent and you'll be able to get some strong hits in.

A tip I've not seen in any videos is keeping a spare set of armour and weapons at your respawn base. There's no need to do the corpse run in your skivvies if you plan ahead.

#1- I feel can be different if you have portals or a large build design. I tend to build bases somewhat near the ocean, yet, not always. I connect buildings as I go until I build a valid stronghold for a port. Order of building a homestead and a port, depends upon the location. You can also copy portals name via game in the textbox prior (Ctrl + C). I always recommend if you create a single portal, instantly go and create it's pathway, then return. Use signs to label their location, and continue onward. If not, keep a list of open portals and check off the ones you have cycled. It gets pretty hairy if your portals don't link up properly as you explore.

You can place firepits inside sunken crypts; this lets you remove the wet debuff from the swamps and even get 10 minutes of rested. Simply place a chest and a workshop under a roof outside the crypt and you can mine all the iron without long repair trips.

Not using powers often enough. I have Eikthyr normally but everytime I find myself in a situation where popping it would be convinient, I simply don´t because I might really need it pretty soon. Then I end up not using in for 3 hours.

I'd like to expand on the building next to ocean thing. You can have the best of both worlds, if you build next to a lake that is connected to the ocean via large rivers.

I can not stress the use of the wagon! Keep your wagon under 1300 and you can sprint over any bump (as required) or up stairs. 90 Silver Ore is 1260, plus what you can carry on your person without penalty. Use the wagon to deliver cargo to your ship to return to your base. A long ship can carry 18 slots so that's up to 540 Ore!. Today a buddy of mine and I found 7 silver spots almost side by side it was just shy of 600 silver ore. Full long ship and we were loaded. I dread to think of how long it would have taken to transport down the mountain and to the ship without a cart. As it was we consolidated the ore, and made a portal. Transported a load down, loaded ship, destroyed the wagon, and portaled back to top. Rinse repeat. I keep nails and portal materials on the boat for if I find a ton of goodies. Once you are done with the wagon take your weapon to it and recover the nails. Same with portals, always keep a open portal at base and portal materials on your ship. When you are done with the portal you can destroy it and place it again later at a new location.

awesome tips. Thanks for the into!

@4:34 WHAT is that soundbite of the troll the goofy sound? Cracks me up everytime 😂😂

On the ship thing, no need to break it down. Just leave it off shore about 50 feet or within easy swim distance. Most mobs won't bother it that far out and the hold remains available to store loot. Plus, gives you a opportunity to increase you swim skill. Unlike a real boat, you don't have to worry about it drifting or blowing away and I've never had one destroyed. The only worry might be leeches, so don't park it anywhere near a swamp. Leeches seem to attack boats a LOT less now so that might not be a worry anymore.

Hate me if I’m wrong but I found it way easier to fight water monsters on the raft than any other ship solo as I have 360 shooting ability but the other ships make me have to get far from the steering and run to points or risk hitting my own ship.

I recently started playing and I didn't even build the raft at first, and instead jumped straight to the Karve once I had the materials for it. Though I might just have been so lucky with my seed's map generation that I had lots of copper deposits on my starting island.

+1 for having Eddy Wally in there! ;)

#9... DESTROY YOUR SHIP.... yep. YEP I tried making a dock, sinking poles in the water behind the long ship so it can't drift off, even making the wood spike fences to keep the greyjoys away. This is just a lot of extra work. the wood keeps degrading just from tide damage, the ship gets damaged from storms and so you have to maintain it. Along with those walls and the dock. Nah, just turn it into scrap and make ship anywhere- so much better.

Friend actually told me about the copper thing so i didnt miss that, but the base location hurt me badly. I put it right next to the starting ring as thats where i started. I think I may just start another base and use the old one as an outpost to make dropping off heads easier.

Hey dudes, Just a Tip about improving the game performance: Download a mod called Custom Graphics Settings in Nexus, read the documentation, install the requirements. What this mod does it's allow you to manualy disable effects and the each efect quallity in a config file! I play in a 2200G, playing with SSAO + TAA + Vegetation medium 768p at 21~30ish fps, so I use this mod to disable all the shadows, but leaving SSAO working, since ambient oclusion in on, the game don't get too flat and washed, looks like nothing happens... but now my FPS is high up to 40~90fps.

Mistake 1: Make a road to the coast, and leave Carts there. Boom. Problem solved. It's a little extra effort, but not everyone wants a beach side view. Or simply set up a small outpost on the beach so you can deposit the ores and get on with your adventures.

Dude i've got 100 hours in this game and didn't know you can attach the cart to your player LOL. Thanks for that tip, gonna save me so much time going back and fourth to base lol.

have never seen a troll handled like that! nice moves.

I have access to portals, but I'm guilty with not using. Never been a fan of fast travel. I enjoy the scenery. But sooner or later, I will use them efficiently.

Good video. thanks

Thanks.Happy Hunting!

In fact if you are a solo player you only need two portals at your main base, one for going to other camps (which should not move) and the other for exploration purpose. When the exploration lead to somewhere you want to establish something the portal you build will become a camp portal that shouldn't move anymore (like the others) and when you go home you can remove the tag from the exploration portal. You can also rename by yourself two linked portal's tag with this configuration you will just need to build a temporary fourth portal on the targeted area (leaving your main base with only two portal as always).

Mistake nr 11: Dont underestimate rested buff, its really helpful, as in increase both your stamina and health reg, so, before you venture out on an adventure, make sure you get the best rested buff you can get. Not sure what the max is atm, but, more or less each furniture have a "1 stack" of confer (tho, building multi of the same does not stack!). I think max atm is around 16 to 17 (and thats around 23 to 24 min of more stamina / health reg!). Just know that been wet do reduce your stamina and health reg and the night (you are cold) reduce it even further! If you do run out of rested buff and you are far away from base, just build a camp fire, relax for a bit and i am sure you can get a small 7-8 min rested buff on you.

7:46 Added note about ships, just put the raw ship material in a chest in your main base, then once you need to set sail to new place, get the materials out, build ship (but dont forget to make a portal first!), then once you land on a new place, build portal, destroy ship, have ship material at new base till you need to sail all the new found ore back to your base. If you then need to move more ore from that other isle, simple destroy your ship once again, take materials, move to portals, rebuild ship there, no need to sail back there! I bet the same is true with a cart, if they are destroyed, you can simple rebuild them: Bonus info for carts: Dismount cart fast by dodge roll! Importen note about ships: When destroying them, just remember that most of the material will sink, so, destroy them as close to or on land, or you will have a bad day, in other news, you can just build a bridge to the water, then drop unwanted tropies (heads) into the sea, that way, you can kinda destroy them, next time you log in, i am sure they are gone.

for number 1 you can always make a dock area for taking ships and carts then make a road to your base while using it with carts to move the ores.

First time I built and tried the raft, I decided that it's not possible to use it as transport. It's mostly good as a platform for building in the water imo.

A copper deposits is a big, round blob with stone on the inside (I dug around one once to determine its shape because when digging it up from the top deposits made no sense. So there is easily twice as much copper underground in a "rind" around a totally not juicy centre stone filling. The terraforming is something people simply don't know about and won't recognize as the problem when their fps go south. It seems that the original terrain is always retained by the game, and every terrain mesh changed -- every time it is changed -- is stored as an additional GameObject instance modifying what there was before. Which will add up super quickly because when terraforming surrounding meshes adjust as well and don't always do it in ways that allow easy consolidation of old and new changes. Valheim devs really need to come with an optimizing strategy for this because on a multiplayer server a minor settlement for 5 people who all wield their hoes to reshape the landscape will slow things down to 5 fps in no time. In the meantime I have started to build with the terrain intact as much as possible. Talk about mistakes to stop making...

Very helpful! Thank you

4:16 Personally I like to keep the emergency portal unnammed so I can instantly plop down a portal if I have to dodge -- let's say -- a deathsquito and don't even have the time to input a name without risking my viking dying at the border of a map. Portals without any input is still considered a linkable portal tag. Even any time you make a new portal it connects, just rename it to what it needs to be to reserve the unnamed portal slot.

Awesome tips! The world my husband and I are building just got a lot better😇

2:35 “eh I won’t need that shit!” New player and I’ve said this 🤣 Thanks for your video!

My buddies and I only sail to explore and to get barnacle and serpent stuff. We use other maps for metal ore and whatnot to save on time.

I'd add to Tip number 7 is to first mine around the Deposits, as finding the rest of it once you've mined the surface can be a bit of a problem because you'll be mining blindly.

Just have an away portal and a home portal at your main base, then you can rename the away gate any time you want to connect to another gate. Makes travel so easy.

For #9 make sure you are rested in a boss fight, its probably the most important thing :)

So this is a good tip for anyone playing Co-Op. If you don't want to make multiple trips carting ore then here's what you do. Take someone with you when mining the ore. Then when you load it up have that person stand in the boat. Now you just keep loading the boats inventory with ore as the 2nd (or 3rd person) starts filling up their inventory. I was able to bring back 10 stacks of copper this way in one go. After that you just cart it to your base. If you don't have friends or someone to play with this won't really work but it's been amazing for me and my friend playing.

i didn't know about the copper ore under ground thanks for the tip!!

Yeah you’re definitely Dutch, that comes from a fellow Dutchman. I know for sure now. But great video!

If you destroy your ship and then run out of inventory space, make sure you don't drop the materials you need to rebuild the ship! Build a cart or put the materials in a chest and mark it so you can retrieve them or something.