If you find a swamp with no crypts, grab the big two-handed hammer. Smashing the ground you'll get notice if it hits underground iron, that you can dig up. Works for silver too if you don't have the Bonemass lucky bone yet.
@@Childishh_Brandino Stagbreaker or the Iron Sledge and the new Mistlands hammer that pounds ground work. You still get "too hard" from the indestructible large trees.
Great minds think alike, lol. I found my first swamp a few days ago and I instintively did the portal/workbench/chest on top of the crypt before finding your video. I was also doing your muddy scrap pile attack strategy as well; as long as there's a decent-sized chunk blocking the walkway it trips up the enemy AI, which leads to safe kills. I end up putting cart materials in the chest too, so once the crypt is cleared and all the iron is found I build the cart, transfer all the ore, then hightail it out of there, lol. Thanks for the info about the turnip plants, and I'll definitely set up a fire at the crypt entrance from now on. This is my first two weeks playing the game and it's been a blast.
I've started recently on iron age. When clearing muddy scrap piles, I've been smashing a couple times with Stagbreaker (does area-of-effect damage) -- listening and watching the damage numbers to try to figure out if there's something on the other side that means me harm.
The short answer is Yes, nothing too extreme, Drauger, Blobs etc some being Elite, the way to move forward is to mine the Iron on another server, this way you can mine, leave, go back to your camp on your server saving you time and stress of travelling distance with ore, once you have collected enough ore, make your first Iron build a Sledge Hammer, this then kills the enemy on the other side of the mud piles, hope it helps. I should also point out there are good Iron seeds to use, here's one I used and it yielded around 3000 Iron klW6PHmPNj
You should make the new weapon Iron Sledge as soon as possible. It's an improved version of the stagbreaker that deals more damage. It's at least useful to have on hand for the Bonemass fight since it takes care of his adds quickly and efficiently.
My go to first iron is hands-down the longboat. being able to move your iron faster back home is a huge win for only 10 iron investment and also is guaranteed escapes from the serpent. Skipping iron armor for silver is pretty good too.
Good advice on the portals. I do the same. Its a real crap shoot with the maps. My first playthrough I had strips of swamp too. It also only found the shop relatively late in the game because of its position. It was in some far flung corner, on this really busy little area where plains meets Black Forest. Basically the mobs just seem to aggro each other and converge right by the vendor so it was a little warzone and really hard trying to build a base and portal there. The current playthrough (probably with greatly enhanced and well polished map seeds...) literally the first time I set off exploring I found the vendor on the next island, and the island next to that was a huge swamp island. It also had a little area of plains on the back end.... which had the perfect little island off the coast so I could set up a portal off shore... and snipe lox. My map experience this time has been the exact opposite of my first ever game. Thanks btw. i didn't realise you could build on the crypt roof.
you should consider farming crypts with the antler pickaxe, you plop down a workbench on the side wall of the crypt make two 26 degree roof tile facing toward you above it and maybe two walls on each side and can repair the antler pickaxe right there without having to sit through the port animation all the time when you have to repair p.s. you should build the spice rack (cauldron improvement) and pick up blood bags from the leeches so you can unlock the black soup which is another swamp tier hp food which the second highest hp yielding food after sausages
Hey man. Good video. I'm on day 400 and this is literally the love will I'm at. I finally found a crypt and now I have like 1200 lbs of iron to haul somehow lol Boat time!
i use honey for like, exploring, building, digging trenches, wcing - just simple stuff where i'd like some stamina, but don't want to use good food. i got way lucky on my seed, i had like 12 beehives by 100 game-days lol no regerts
@@Claudanne2 It is actually possible to find Silver veins sticking out of the side of mountains, but these are rare. I did defeat Bonemass, and used a Wishbone, I just never made Iron armour. Fully upgraded Bronze armour was enough for me to get by.
I feel kinda lucky as I have the first 3 bosses on my starter island. Unlucky is the swamp is an hourish sail each way. Saves way more time being able to teleport with the materials for a boat and going to town on the crypts
i liked the video as soon as you said “what the fuck he hit me from all the way over there” whenever that skeleton hit you when the video first cut into the swamp 😂
I'm just getting to the iron age. Got room for a hoarder in your server? I pick-up and gather everything. In Skyrim and Elder Scrolls I was labeled a pack rat.
Correct but it is only one scrap pile. You have to swap out your belt for the Wishbone and you have to deal with surface spawn. I don't consider this a viable option if I have crypts available. I would only use the wishbone if I had no other choice for iron. For these reasons I did not mention it.
ok so something I need to address straight up, no, you should not wait to get iron pickaxe because upgraded bronze pick is better, you should not even make a bronze pick in the first place, the extra time it takes to mine with antler is much less then the time needed to get the bronze for useless pick and time spent going back to repair it (you can repair antler on the spot saving time), iron is the second pick you should be making as, unlike bronze, you actually need iron tier pick to mine specific resources
True, but the antler pickaxe takes longer to mine a single node of rock than the bronze. The bronze can also be upgraded to almost triple the durability of the antler pickaxe. I think it's worth it and with smart use of portals, as I outline in the video, your trips home should be no issue. There are certain circumstances where the antler pick is better, but I can mitigate those conditions with smart play. I also don't think the time needed to mine and refine the bronze for the bronze pick is that prohibitive, but the antler is an interesting options. I did test it and I personally prefer the bronze option. I don't think it is as clear-cut as you make it out to be.
@@diomed011 it may be my own bias, but I usually mine a single node of copper if any in the bronze age, usually having the elder mine one for me and or abusing a troll, the 50-80 copper needed for upgraded bronze pick is time that I could have spent getting iron already and skipping the use of bronze for everything but ship, necessary workbench upgrades and an axe, maybe coming back with an iron pick to finish upgrades and get some spares for cart or spears
I don't know if root helm was present then, but it is very effective against poison, blobs almost do no damage. I stopped carrying poison resist meads.
Root helm is great, but I bring poison resist anyway because it's stronger. I can pop it if I have to fight a starred leech or something with harder hitting poison.
Different weapons are "better" against different enemies. When fighting skeletons and Draugur in the Swamp biome, a mace is MUCH better than a sword. When fighting other enemies, a sword is better. It may even matter what kind of a specific enemy you are fighting, what type of weapon you want to use. For example, when I am fighting the Fulings in the Plains, I find that some are best engaged with a mace and shield, while others are weak to the Atgeir (pike).
I just processed around 300 bars of iron in less than 4 hours of play, how? It's very simple really, don't look for the Bonemass swamp on your server, instead go and create other servers or use known seeds, this way you can make a bee line for the nearest sunken crypt and when it's time to go home, log out and log back in to your own server, unload the ore and go back, rinse and repeat, you still have to do all the work getting there but it's nice to know that getting back is a sure thing
That isn't an exploit my man. That's playing the game how you want. Honestly, I don't think I'd have done any different. Absolutely, bring a portable portal. That's what i call mine, but I shorten it to pp. Don't laugh. Then run your iron back to one central crypts' chests, fill a cart, make a run to the nearest beach. I take time to cut down brush in a straight line. I've considered building a raised road. I used a tree once and built a 4 tile wide, covered bridge over a gorge to get my copper back. Funny enough, trolls gather at the bridge.
@@diomed011 this video was helpful though either way I appreciate it lol. The largest swamp on my seed is surrounded by the plains lol. I didn't even know turnips existed lol! I have all the ingredients to make sausage but don't have the option to make it. Edit: I figured it out i need to find turnips to unlock the spice rack then make a spice rack to level up my cauldron. Thanks again!
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I'm just bringing up the fact that it is a sin to use windowed mode, great video though
Lol
I was weak. I will find my hair shirt and do penance for 30 days. 🤠
Let’s him know that he’s playing a game. Easy to get lost with the near life graphics
If you find a swamp with no crypts, grab the big two-handed hammer. Smashing the ground you'll get notice if it hits underground iron, that you can dig up. Works for silver too if you don't have the Bonemass lucky bone yet.
Great tip! Thanks I’ll try that out.
Will a stagbreaker work?
@@Childishh_Brandino Stagbreaker or the Iron Sledge and the new Mistlands hammer that pounds ground work. You still get "too hard" from the indestructible large trees.
Just hit anywhere?
Great minds think alike, lol. I found my first swamp a few days ago and I instintively did the portal/workbench/chest on top of the crypt before finding your video. I was also doing your muddy scrap pile attack strategy as well; as long as there's a decent-sized chunk blocking the walkway it trips up the enemy AI, which leads to safe kills. I end up putting cart materials in the chest too, so once the crypt is cleared and all the iron is found I build the cart, transfer all the ore, then hightail it out of there, lol.
Thanks for the info about the turnip plants, and I'll definitely set up a fire at the crypt entrance from now on. This is my first two weeks playing the game and it's been a blast.
Good tip on the car! Thanks for visiting the channel. Cheers!
Great video. Just the kind of info I need when it comes to prioritizing iron use when you first get to that stage.
Thank you! Glad I could help.
my second swamp is having currently three crypts, my first one was very small so just helped to get used to the danger level and environment.
Turn down vegetation settings to help find the seeds. Lol I thought they were dandelion at first. Great video thank you!!
Good idea thanks!
I've started recently on iron age. When clearing muddy scrap piles, I've been smashing a couple times with Stagbreaker (does area-of-effect damage) -- listening and watching the damage numbers to try to figure out if there's something on the other side that means me harm.
The short answer is Yes, nothing too extreme, Drauger, Blobs etc some being Elite, the way to move forward is to mine the Iron on another server, this way you can mine, leave, go back to your camp on your server saving you time and stress of travelling distance with ore, once you have collected enough ore, make your first Iron build a Sledge Hammer, this then kills the enemy on the other side of the mud piles, hope it helps.
I should also point out there are good Iron seeds to use, here's one I used and it yielded around 3000 Iron klW6PHmPNj
You should make the new weapon Iron Sledge as soon as possible. It's an improved version of the stagbreaker that deals more damage. It's at least useful to have on hand for the Bonemass fight since it takes care of his adds quickly and efficiently.
@@LCDDeath seed still work? I just started playin again since it came out on Xbox. I use a good seed that was for pc so maybe this will work too
@@gho5tspartan26yt I just looked it up on World Generator and it looks awesome
My go to first iron is hands-down the longboat. being able to move your iron faster back home is a huge win for only 10 iron investment and also is guaranteed escapes from the serpent. Skipping iron armor for silver is pretty good too.
Good advice on the portals. I do the same.
Its a real crap shoot with the maps.
My first playthrough I had strips of swamp too. It also only found the shop relatively late in the game because of its position.
It was in some far flung corner, on this really busy little area where plains meets Black Forest. Basically the mobs just seem to aggro each other and converge right by the vendor so it was a little warzone and really hard trying to build a base and portal there.
The current playthrough (probably with greatly enhanced and well polished map seeds...) literally the first time I set off exploring I found the vendor on the next island, and the island next to that was a huge swamp island. It also had a little area of plains on the back end.... which had the perfect little island off the coast so I could set up a portal off shore... and snipe lox.
My map experience this time has been the exact opposite of my first ever game.
Thanks btw. i didn't realise you could build on the crypt roof.
Thanks for watching
you should consider farming crypts with the antler pickaxe, you plop down a workbench on the side wall of the crypt make two 26 degree roof tile facing toward you above it and maybe two walls on each side and can repair the antler pickaxe right there without having to sit through the port animation all the time when you have to repair
p.s. you should build the spice rack (cauldron improvement) and pick up blood bags from the leeches so you can unlock the black soup which is another swamp tier hp food which the second highest hp yielding food after sausages
how do u upgrade cauldron ? what do i need to unlock it / learn blueprint
Really useful video! Thanks man!!! Love you content, I’ll definitely look at you other series!
Thanks! Welcome to the channel.
Hey man. Good video. I'm on day 400 and this is literally the love will I'm at. I finally found a crypt and now I have like 1200 lbs of iron to haul somehow lol
Boat time!
Thanks for watching
I found the trader before the elder on accident and when sailing for a swamp I found 3 barnacle islands next to each other
@@Meaty22222 nice
My second play through I got unlucky with my elder spawn, but I guess it was good cause I found a shit ton of swamps on the way to fight it.
It’s nice when a bit of bad luck can have a positive side-effect
@@diomed011 yes, i got a relatively close bonemass spawn and swamp with a good amount of crypts, pretty good luck
@@gregoryf4186 nice!
i use honey for like, exploring, building, digging trenches, wcing - just simple stuff where i'd like some stamina, but don't want to use good food.
i got way lucky on my seed, i had like 12 beehives by 100 game-days lol
no regerts
Nice!
I somehow managed to skip iron armour completely, and went straight to Silver from Bronze.
But I did make Iron weapons, of course!
How do you get Silver without a Wishbone?
@@Claudanne2 It is actually possible to find Silver veins sticking out of the side of mountains, but these are rare.
I did defeat Bonemass, and used a Wishbone, I just never made Iron armour.
Fully upgraded Bronze armour was enough for me to get by.
Oh. Well in that case. Same.
I feel kinda lucky as I have the first 3 bosses on my starter island. Unlucky is the swamp is an hourish sail each way. Saves way more time being able to teleport with the materials for a boat and going to town on the crypts
Wow! You did get lucky.
i liked the video as soon as you said “what the fuck he hit me from all the way over there” whenever that skeleton hit you when the video first cut into the swamp 😂
😁😁😁😁😁
I got extremely lucky the first time I found a swamp, there was a turnip plant growing right on the edge that I grabbed and ran.
I loved it. Love support and appreciation pal. Peace
Thank you!
8:35 most relatable valheim moment ever
Stagbreaker for the crypts? Clearing the half opened rooms with the SB is so easy
Very helpful! I’m subscribing! If you need someone to play with, me and my buddy are looking for more people to join his dedicated server.
Thanks for the support and welcome! If I need some multiplayer Valheim I will come a knockin. Thank you for the invite. :)
@@diomed011 sweet! Thanks for the helpful video. Didn’t know you could beat up rocks to level melee
I'm just getting to the iron age. Got room for a hoarder in your server? I pick-up and gather everything. In Skyrim and Elder Scrolls I was labeled a pack rat.
iron is not only in crypts, its in the ground aswell. use a wishbone:)
Correct but it is only one scrap pile. You have to swap out your belt for the Wishbone and you have to deal with surface spawn. I don't consider this a viable option if I have crypts available. I would only use the wishbone if I had no other choice for iron. For these reasons I did not mention it.
ok so something I need to address straight up, no, you should not wait to get iron pickaxe because upgraded bronze pick is better, you should not even make a bronze pick in the first place, the extra time it takes to mine with antler is much less then the time needed to get the bronze for useless pick and time spent going back to repair it (you can repair antler on the spot saving time), iron is the second pick you should be making as, unlike bronze, you actually need iron tier pick to mine specific resources
True, but the antler pickaxe takes longer to mine a single node of rock than the bronze. The bronze can also be upgraded to almost triple the durability of the antler pickaxe. I think it's worth it and with smart use of portals, as I outline in the video, your trips home should be no issue. There are certain circumstances where the antler pick is better, but I can mitigate those conditions with smart play. I also don't think the time needed to mine and refine the bronze for the bronze pick is that prohibitive, but the antler is an interesting options. I did test it and I personally prefer the bronze option. I don't think it is as clear-cut as you make it out to be.
@@diomed011 it may be my own bias, but I usually mine a single node of copper if any in the bronze age, usually having the elder mine one for me and or abusing a troll, the 50-80 copper needed for upgraded bronze pick is time that I could have spent getting iron already and skipping the use of bronze for everything but ship, necessary workbench upgrades and an axe, maybe coming back with an iron pick to finish upgrades and get some spares for cart or spears
Mark every Thissle plant on your map, they grow back.
I realised that I have every ingredient for the sausages but it doesn’t showed up for crafting, anyone know why and how can I fix it?
I think you need to make the spice rack and put it up above the cauldron mate.
thx for nice video now i maybe dont die all time on the swamp:)
THanks! I'm glad I could help.
My merchant was by The Elder as well. Check for the merchant and see if hes by The Elder 1st fellas.
Great video. Sad that they nerfed the turnip stew so hard.
Thanks for the kind words. Cheers!
I don't know if root helm was present then, but it is very effective against poison, blobs almost do no damage. I stopped carrying poison resist meads.
It was not available back then
Root helm is great, but I bring poison resist anyway because it's stronger. I can pop it if I have to fight a starred leech or something with harder hitting poison.
Just asking but how can u grow ur turnips so close and how does your coldron idk how to spell it but how does it have sausages at level one
I don't think I did anything special on the turnips. I made the video two years ago. I don't remember how or why I had sausages. Sorry
I found a swamp with 5 crypts within 500 meters of each other haha
Nice!
nice.
Thanks!
Im just getting i to the iron age. Getting tired of playing alone though. Any friendly servers I can join?
Sorry, I only played solo
Crips got the iron??
yup, you need to key to get in
That stone in the middle of your base is tough to look at.
It was there for training but they took that away from us
Is mace better than sword?
All things being equal, yes
Different weapons are "better" against different enemies.
When fighting skeletons and Draugur in the Swamp biome, a mace is MUCH better than a sword. When fighting other enemies, a sword is better. It may even matter what kind of a specific enemy you are fighting, what type of weapon you want to use. For example, when I am fighting the Fulings in the Plains, I find that some are best engaged with a mace and shield, while others are weak to the Atgeir (pike).
At this point in the game the mace is much better
Wait a minute swamp coming after elder? I find planes and swamps first XD
It doesn’t matter when you find the biomes, after defeating Elkthyr you are sent to find Biomass, the swamp boss
I just processed around 300 bars of iron in less than 4 hours of play, how? It's very simple really, don't look for the Bonemass swamp on your server, instead go and create other servers or use known seeds, this way you can make a bee line for the nearest sunken crypt and when it's time to go home, log out and log back in to your own server, unload the ore and go back, rinse and repeat, you still have to do all the work getting there but it's nice to know that getting back is a sure thing
boring af
Or... hear me out. Poison resistance mead.
You are not wrong. Thanks for watching
I hate the swamp. It has really put me off the game. It’s not a fun biome.
It is not my favorite either. The biomes after it are more fun.
bruh just make poison resistance potions
Bruh 17:15
@@diomed011 I only watched halfway through lul
You speak way to loud
That isn't an exploit my man. That's playing the game how you want. Honestly, I don't think I'd have done any different. Absolutely, bring a portable portal. That's what i call mine, but I shorten it to pp. Don't laugh. Then run your iron back to one central crypts' chests, fill a cart, make a run to the nearest beach. I take time to cut down brush in a straight line. I've considered building a raised road. I used a tree once and built a 4 tile wide, covered bridge over a gorge to get my copper back. Funny enough, trolls gather at the bridge.
Trolls under the bridge. LoL ! That’s awesome.
I have searched 23 crypts and never seen a rune to show me where bonemass is.
OUCH! Sorry to hear that.
@@diomed011 this video was helpful though either way I appreciate it lol. The largest swamp on my seed is surrounded by the plains lol. I didn't even know turnips existed lol! I have all the ingredients to make sausage but don't have the option to make it.
Edit: I figured it out i need to find turnips to unlock the spice rack then make a spice rack to level up my cauldron. Thanks again!