

Lock the Boars in and then chuck Mushrooms and other food items inside to tame them. Head into the nearby woods and get some piggies to chase you, then lead them back home to a wooden enclosure with a gate. You’re also going to want a Boar pen to farm meat and Leather Scraps, one of the more difficult resources to keep your crew flush with. This will automate some of the more boring resource collections in Valheim. This means you can create a reliable source of wood and food by planting Carrots, Turnips, Cones and more at an on-site farm.

Hit Bronze, and you can craft a Cultivator which will till the land for seed-planting. Once you’ve got your smoke vent, your Workbench and all the creature comforts, the next thing to do is start turning your home into a farm. At this point, throw the stack of heavy resources out of your inventory, run forward, pick it up and repeat to cheese it. If you’re over-encumbered, you will quickly run out of stamina and stop moving altogether, which can be annoying. However, if you can’t find or afford the above, the best thing to do is trick the carry weight system by juggling your heavy resources. You can sell the Coins, Amber, Amber Pearls and Rubies you find in Black Forest crypts to Haldor for a wearable item called Megingjord, which, for 950 coins, increases the amount you can carry by 150. May the odds be in your favor that he is close to your spawn point. Haldor appears at a random location in the Black Forest biome. You also want to find Haldor the trader as soon as possible. The best thing to do is double-click areas on the map when you find an ore vein to create a marker you can refer to when doing repeat resource runs. It can be a long way home, and you won’t be able to take enough on-foot. First up, consider crafting a Cart when you reach Bronze to carry your valuables if you’re embarking on a long-winded mining expedition. There are a few ways you can mitigate this issue. Managing your inventory in Valheim can be annoying, as many of the game’s most essential resources like Iron are very cumbersome. Maybe it’s the type of weapon you’re using, and you could swap it out for another that will make short work of them. Learning what works against enemies and what doesn’t is half the fun, but do take mental notes when you realise you aren’t dealing any damage to a mob. Swamp boss Bonemass is similarly vulnerable to blunt attacks. The game’s second boss is a gigantic tree elder who can’t deal with fire arrows. The final thing to note is that enemies and bosses are vulnerable to different kinds of weapon damage, so read the statistics associated with each weapon to understand where they excel.

Troll hide armour and knives buff your stealth capabilities if this playstyle grips you. Tap CTRL to start skulking and hit an unaware enemy from behind to take a modest chunk out of their health bar. You can even parry troll attacks if you think you’re hard enough.Īlso, consider the stealthy approach. This is a profoundly versatile, life-saving move. First off, you can block by right-clicking with your weapon or shield, and if you right-click just as an attack lands, you’ll parry an enemy and leave them open to visceral attacks which deal so much more damage. Valheim’s combat system seems simple at first, but there’s a lot of nuance to it that can sail over new player’s heads.
