Follow up to my Bridge/Wall Design post last week
After lots of debating, building, demolision, relocations, I have settled for the Mistlands bordering a Black Forest

Iv'e stripped the area of trees, building into the natual terrain and rocks, building the area back up with swamp trees and other "spooky eerie" looking things, layering lighting, rubble, vfx's etc

I always build "pretty" then break it, as it gives me a perfect structure to repair and roll back changes too for future builds 😉

Still letting the ideas pour and flow from me until it feels right
Think Gothic, Abandoned, Dark and Eerie, Vampire etc

3 days left until the building comes to an end, and I get the server ready for touring and exploring!

I established a foothold in a connected Black Forest and found a keep at the edge of the swamp. Now, I’ve walled off the entire swamp. I know it ain’t much, but it’ll help protect me from Draugr arrows when I’m fleeing the swamp, giving me enough time to retreat to the portal inside the keep that is connected to the Main Base. I’ll only venture inside when I’m ready, just like in The Maze Runner and not come in like a soldier in Normandy.

Edit: YES I PUT WORKBENCHES BEHIND THE WALL SO NO SWAMP PEOPLE SPAWNS INSIDE.

Thank you, guys, for your advice and ideas! for CONTEXT: https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/1xe2g3r/comment/19rktj6rhe1t0/?screen_view_count=1

First time in the swamp, I kept trying to establish a base here, but the swamp keeps spawning all kinds of stupid enemies, even though I just killed some draugrs, leeches, and skeletons. It even destroyed my portal, so I had to keep coming back by boat. How does one survive here?

Additonal context: I was just looking for Iron for the stonecutter so I can build a stone kingdom near the worldspawn, I thought with the gear I have I could just get in the swamp and get it.

Killed a bear and then he started doing this........ dance?

I need a lot of banners for my builds okay?! And watching the babies slide down the ramps is oddly satisfying.

I just want some silver :<

I know Valheim isn't that kind of game but like, it would make sense if I could trade with these dvergrs too, no? I don't wanna break their wards just to steal from them.

They dvergrs already understand the concept of monetary value since Haldor and Hildir exist, and they already carry money on themselves that they drop when they die. Why not trade food for money since they're clearly in isolated pockets, then buy certain things like the extractor for a price? Of course, you can still choose to sneak them or outright massacre them, but it would be nice if there were options other than "you have to betray em"

Idk, it just doesn't sit right with me that I have to betray the first combat-capable creature that didn't immediately try to kill me.

It's probably more likely I was too tunnel-visioned on the troll cave up ahead. Still, I seem to have the worst time spotting these things until I'm right on top of them. Gives me a heart attack like this every time, haha.

Also, yes, I see now that I missed a thing of thistle. Sue me. :<

Just curious what you guys think? The rest of the wall is gonna be filled in for a clean look

Died right next to the portal... He's merged with it, and it looks damn cool...

The Ontallion Conclave is a passion project I've been working on for the last 1500 ingame hours. It started of as a small underground cave base in my vanilla survival world and slowly grew into a vast (mostly) underground community.

From the very start my wish was to live as a hobbit in this game. When I came across 5 connected boulders in the Plains I knew what I had to do. This became the base from which I adventured for a while. The 5 connected boulders actually ended up being 7 boulders when I was exploring the boundary or my base. Here my drive to expand began.

The current base is built under 50 boulders, 38 of those are naturally occurring and 12 are modded in. I've already dug out the area under another 9 boulders which I still have to build(Luminea Bazaar). Freefly helped a lot because you can scout from under the ground. Theres plenty of rocks right under the surface. On one of my plains islands I've scouted 4 spots with 8-10 boulders.

I tried making the sections distinct in architecture and atmosphere. Some times that just happened naturally other times it took some effort. This way I ended up with 6 different underground communities and a castle which I always wanted to build. There's continuous work being done in several different areas like revising old stuff and adding new elements with new build techniques. I find there's a lot of charm in the old vanilla areas but a mod as simple as Gizmo opens up so many possibilities.

The current area I am working on is the castle. It is nice focussing on the exterior for a change. And I love building in the mountains. Hoping there's enough instances left to build some external infrastructure. 55.000 instances and counting. Whole place could so with some nice roads, fields and gardens. Also been thinking about a story that connects all the different communities. Rogue factions from different cultures and races working together to carve out a place to call home.

My personal favorites in the build are the greenhouse, underground lake and the castle village.

Theres a tour of Elkroot Hollow and the vanilla build(What is now called Ethelgarde) on my youtube.

Hope you enjoy!

Mods used:

Gizmo

More vanilla build prefabs

Infinity hammer

Heightmap Unlimited(set at double the digging depth(16))

Plant everything

Total noob error. Not long found magic. Was trying out the raise dead spell, was great, nice little skeleton, then used trollstav in my house 🤦‍♂️fuck. Dumbass!

I know what im doing this afternoon, rebuilding the house. Lol

K-I-S-S-I HATE FULINGS.

I love this trinket/build so much. Feel like I get a litttle bit of everything... dont mind my poor arrow management D:

It's a VERY strong toilet. The roof needs repair after each flush.

I'd just killed Yagluth and went to check out the edge of a Mistlands biome nearby when I saw the lights of the campfire through the mist. Looked pretty cool. Now I want to find some seekers to get them to fight the Fuling village.

Not much more to say than that. The building is about 60m x 16m and the Portal Stones are a clue of its future.

The struggle for me was that it is actually on top of a much tinier building. So it's 2 levels but resembles more of a blimp-shape than a 2 story box. Still on my first playthrough and just hit the Ashlands and unlocked the portal stones, so needed to get very serious about managing my portals (Already at 65 + a few special-use portals).

Now comes a decision... migrate my other Hall of 40 Portals into this one... or just start fresh for the remainder of the playthrough... So many things to explore.

I feel rage whenever I fight the krigen. Their armor is so badass. With some modifications, it could have been a perfect heavy armor for deepnorth. What do we get instead? This mishmash of colors that in no way feels like heavy armor.

I get it, Vikings wore colorful clothing, this is the final armor so it should feel grand etc, but both heavy and medium armor just feel like clothing. I guess it might look cool if you are sitting on a throne drinking mead, but this definitely doesn't feel like what you would wear to a byattlefield.

I wish they added a krigen like armor as heavy or medium. What we have now could be clothing you could either craft or purchase.

Anyways, any mod that gives me an option to craft krigen armor?

I used to have a ~12ft high box to enclose all crafting stations and storage chests to make a sort of “armory” but the black marble got kinda old. I decided to let more air in around the castle and grow my own oak tree as a centerpiece, with the crafting stations dressed as sorta marketplace shops 😁 never tried it but I might make a treehouse too!

All the extra stuff - building a trap pit with removable floor, harpoon, etc. - isn't really needed if you've found a wooden battleaxe. Damage is weak but knock back is still strong. Just dig a pit and knock them in. I prefer the special attack, it's like pushing them in with a stick.

I kept trying to do it with other weapons, but would often accidentally kill the wolf if I wasn't accurate enough. Try as many times as you like with wooden weapons.

I found this mountain biome by my starter island it had the forge, 2 star wolves during the day (which was kind of annoying but I ended up filling 2 iron chests with meat from the constant onslaught) and a mega load of resources. I got 3180 silver well over 4000 obsidian I just gave up collecting it after a certain point. Tons of frost caves too, got all the trophies for that biome there. Also as a bonus I got 1000 iron from the two neighboring swamps. This was my first real mountain I did a few baby ones with like 2 nodes before this. I think I spent like 4 days here irl.