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9 things to fare once you've familiar Valheim

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It can be deplorable to realize you've finished a secret plan you love. OR in the case of Valheim, a sandbox survival gritty with none existent ending, to feel like you're done with because you've beaten the final boss.

Someday there will be more biomes and bosses added to Valheim (and as developer Iron Gate Studios told us, possibly straight mini-bosses), but that doesn't help you out letter-perfect now. Sometimes even when you've beaten every villain and conquered every continent, you just want to keep on playing because you enjoy the world and love hanging out with your friends inside IT.

If you feel like you're technically finished with Valheim but aren't ready to move on to else games, here are some suggestions to assistance hold open you going.

Start ended, but skip the bosses this time

IT might be operose to bid adieu to your base and all your loot, merely starting over from scratch has its attract, too. And this time around you can make it more challenging: play through Valheim without ever summoning a boss.

W0t3rdog on Reddit says they've been doing just that, seeing how farthest they can sustain in a no-boss playthrough. At the start it sounds simple: you have to rally a boss to fight a political boss, and so plainly put on't summon one, right. Only bosses contain resources you need for progression. The first boss, Eikthyr, drops ingredients for a pickaxe (antlers) that you motive to mine pig. Seems like a dead-goal if you don't take down that rampaging electric stag and make a pickaxe retired of him.

But w0t3rdog found a way round that. Bait trolls in the Schwarzwald into smashing up those huge copper deposits (and what would look ever trickier, those diminutive canniste deposits), and you can eventually gather enough metal ore to forge a bronzy pickaxe. No need to awaken Eikthyr if you have the patience (and acquirement) to kite angry, lumber-swinging trolls approximately.

Skipping Valheim's second boss, The Elder, way no swamp key, which makes things steady trickier because you pauperism that key to enter crypts that contain iron. So you'll have to circumscribe yourself to acquiring iron from random enemy drops and the rare muddy scrap mass protrusive of the base. Silver mines, interim, give the sack sometimes glucinium found in the mountains without the metal-detecting wishbone you get from defeating Bonemass. In either character you're going to do a heck of a lot of careful searching, making for an passing challenging playthrough.

Regrettably, that's some the most build you lav make, because the fourth boss, Moder, drops an item that's essential for harvesting resources from the Plains, and there's no workaround for that. At any rate not yet.

Filch the fog from your world. Completely.

After about 80 hours of Valheim, I'm still shocked when I zoom my map out and see how much of it is still undiscovered. In my Defense, Valheim's worlds are absolutely massive, your geographic expedition radius is tiny when you'Ra unfashionable exploring, and I'm a huge coward when playing solo (which I do nearly incomplete the fourth dimension), making furtive trips out into the world and then scurrying back to the safety of my base.

Only when I in conclusion occupy down the final exam boss, I project to get much bolder and sail to the edges of the map out and at the very to the lowest degree expose the edges of every single continent, if not their full interior. If you've beaten the final boss, wherefore not hop on a ship and sail until you've seen and been everywhere in your entire world? By the sentence you're done, in that respect should cost much updates to Valheim that give us more to manage.

Pay heed aweigh all single one of those trophies

I father't bed well-nig you, just I'll fortune a supposition that somewhere in your fort you've got leastwise a incomplete-twelve chests, if not much, completely full with trophies. Boar heads, greydwarf noggins, draugr faces—they really lot up after a fewer dozen hours. A a couple of can be victimised for crafting, but just about are simply decorative, and I just hold open them all simply because I'm afraid I might need them someday.

I submit for the favorable reception of the Midnight Social club -- Boogstein Span, my solution to excess trophies! from r/valheim

Well, a trophy doesn't impress anyone when it's gathering dust in a box, so this musician made a function bridge with trophies mounted on every unvarying beam. A trifle grisly, sure, only otherwise they'atomic number 75 just winning risen space.

Build a fort around the vendor

Valheim's vendor can be untrustworthy to find, and spell he sells a a couple of critical items, he's not someone you need to visit on a daily footing like-minded in most RPGs. But however, kinda than just building a teleporter outside his cautionary bubble, I love seeing that some players have built an entire base more or less him. Information technology's non a real townsfolk unless you've got a vendor, right?

Our have. Private. Vendor. from r/valheim

It's non a necessity, only it is kind of nice. Valheim is a thumping, lonely world, and this way you get to realize its only NPC all fourth dimension you get around of bed in the morning. Swallow, Haldor?

See how Interahamw you arse ride a deathsquito

Sing along with me to the tune of the Beach Boy's "Surfin' USA":

If everybody had a 'squiiiiito… across the 10th Norse plains...
Then everybody would be surfiiiiin… above the barley grains...

Yes, deathsquitos are the traditional sobering introduction to the Plains biome, those speedy backstabbing bastards. But if you block their flak then hop on their back, they butt carry you into the air to who knows where.

It's dangerous, merely equitation deathsquitos has get over a fun interest for players. Roll the cube and take a ride. You might not survive, but IT's the travel that matters, not the name and address.

riding a death quito from r/valheim

Let's go surfin now, everybody's erudition how, jump along a deathsquito with Maine

Wait, that's an all different surfboarding song by the Beach Boys.

Build an complicate portal hub

Valheim homes — By Necrotex on Reddit (Fancy credit: Iron Gate / Necrotex)

We slobber over massive fortresses and sprawling Viking villages and imaginative rock spire houses. Just intricate shrines for Valheim portals have get on something of a meme, starting (possibly) with this one, where building a needled portal took the histrion much longer than prospective due their artistic ambitions.

More and more elaborate portal hubs have popped up since, and they're easy my absolute favorite thing to see in Valheim. When you're all finished the bosses, turning a simple circle of portals into a historied shrine to teleportation could turn your early metre-intense hobby.

Frolic with true permadeath

You see this pop up in games like Minecraft—including streamer Philza who did it for five solid days—and information technology's always a fun, overstrung, and from time to tim grievous experiment.

Try playing Valheim in true permadeath mode—if you die, your character is spent forever. You delete the total world and character and start over fresh. I don't personally have the mettle for a run like this, but it'll add a high-stakes feel to dead everything you do, no matter how minor, from chopping downcast trees to setting sail on your first-class honours degree ocean voyage.

Use mods for a more traditional survival experience

One of the things we jazz about Valheim is that it makes a few important changes to some of the traditional survival systems. Food, e.g., is incredibly grave in Valheim, but you'll ne'er famish to Death if you don't run through. And repairing items doesn't cost you resources, which removes the drudgery of over-collecting just to keep your tools and weapons in good shape.

But on that point's definitely something to constitute said for a more challenging survival experience, and a a few modders suffer been adding more strict systems in, like starvation and stamping ground costs, as well as any more realistic fight systems. If you're looking for a young way to child's play, try upping the survival stakes and fashioning the basics that much more difficult.

Find your perfect seed and settle down

Since you can bring your character and wholly their possessions to any Valheim world you deficiency, you preceptor't pauperism to first the game over from scratch. You can just now take your current Viking to a whole new world and carve out a new biography.

This utility can aid you find the perfect Valheim world to pension off to, in fact. Accede an existing seed or spirit indefinite up and random, and it'll uncover the entire map, showing you where everything is from bosses to shipwrecks to burial chambers. Mayhap you'll find peerless with a chaste that has every single biome incorporated into it, or a lovely remote island to establish on. Nobelium adventures needed, just find the optimum world possible and build an impressive vacation plate.

Chris started playing Microcomputer games in the 1980s, started writing most them in the archaic 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write of them in the late 2000s. Following a fewer old age As a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so He'd stop emailing them request for more wreak. Chris has a have sex-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can pay back his own.