Those “in the know” remember how much I’m struggling in Bloodborne and Elden Ring, even as I finish up the last of the main campaigns in Wildermyth. Those, though, are all primarily solo games. When I want to hang with friends, though, there’s only two choices: DCUO, and Valheim. And Team Spode mate Calrain made a whole new world and invited me in to go through the game a second time as we wait for Mistlands to re-appear. ...
The swamp biome was already Valheim’s deadliest, in my opinion. A new “stirring in the mist” just made it a little bit deadlier – but also brought some new rewards. The Valheim devs were coy about just what was new in the swamps after the latest update, but I’m here to spoil it for you. Start right with the feature image up top: That’s the new mob, the “Abomination”, a creature made of wood and spite – probably related in some way to the gray dwarfs, who are also mostly wood. ...
I resisted running mods for Valheim for so long… but I saw some folks talking about building their homes in New World, and I was all thinking “I already have Valheim” and then “but I could make it look better”. Also, I found out how to bring tar pits into biomes we have already explored. Valheim has been an on-again, off-again game for me, once we killed all the bosses and most of Team Spode drifted away from the game back to other pursuits. But my Twitter feed yesterday exploded with people showing off their home builds in Amazon’s “New World”, and that got me back in the building mood again. ...
Valheim’s first content expansion brings a little adventure together with a lot of new things to make and build. Is it going to be enough to bring the magic back? It’s not hard to tame a lox – the large, yak-like creatures that congregate in the Valheim plains biomes. All you really need is a few stacks of barley or cloudberries, and a place to hide nearby while they eat and gradually come to love you. This also works for wolves (who enjoy meat) and boars (who love mushrooms and berries). ...
When all the bosses are dead, building is all that’s left.
I probably should have waited one more day to blog about Valheim, as last night we took down the Goblin King, Yagluth, in an epic fight.
I don’t really play survival games. I liked Minecraft until an update broke my roller coaster. I spent a lot of time on that. I tried that Age of Conan one, but grew bored. I never thought I would play another tree puncher. But Team Spode got to talking about Valheim on one of our DCUO nights. It was blowing up – it still is – and we all very much liked the option of not having murder hobos crashing the server, killing everyone and blowing stuff up. ...