Most of the silver is needed just for the gear so making and upgrading it on the spot will save you a LOT of trips. For comparison: lvl4 forge + stonecutter: 6 copper + 2 bronze + 2 iron; one maxed Wolf armor set: 166 silver. The rest of the materials can be brought using a portal so it does not matter. Efficiency of this decision further multiplies with each additional player. Survey the mountain first. If you were able to find at least three silver veins, build a small outpost with a forge and a portal on the mountain. After all the silver is mined out, you can always salvage the forge, abandon the base and go locust the next place.
If you host/play solo: Set slider to Portal items and you can avoid the hassle. It also makes sense lore wise since you can portal yourself dressed head-to-toe in metal armor but you can't portal with a bunch of ore in your bag. Valheim is inconvenient and unfun once your resource runs last for like an hour. It shouldn't be a walking simulator.
Im going to add: You can easily mine out a mini base in the large boulders. I’ll place a crafting bench, walls/door, fire, and portal. The Fenring don’t drop hair so they really aren’t hunting. 2 star wolves are really rare in a single player game. And the wolf event while in the mountains, it’s really a great source of pelts, but run down the mountain and defeat the wolves sequentially instead of all at once.
Why do Stone Golems attack Wolves and Drakes? It's because, like the Growths in Plains, they are displaced monsters which are not in their natural biome. It's a no-brainer to guess that Growths are at home in the Swamp, due to their similarity to Blobs and Oozers. But can you guess where Stone Golems call home? It's the Black Forest. Lure a Stone Golem off the Mountain and down into a Black Forest, and it will not attack Trolls or Greydwarves. That is the key which indicates that Stone Golems are native to Black Forest, not the Mountain where you will always find them. I'm always up on the Mountain early, as I skip Bonemass and head for Mountain the moment I have a full set of Iron armour and weapons/implements, even though none are upgraded. I would strongly recommend against using Campfires on the Mountain. While it does counter Freezing, you will quickly discover how deadly Drakes are when you don't have Freezing resistance. The only relatively advanced ingredient needed for Frost meads is Bloodbags. If you have an Iron pick, you have spent time in the Swamp and should have Bloodbags too. Use those to craft Frost meads and protect yourself against both Freezing and the Drakes. In terms of gear for Mountain, I rely heavily on the Atgeir against Wolves. A pair of Wolves can often overcome my limited Blocking ability from Banded Shield and low-level Block skill. Then I get staggered and die. With the Atgeir's special attack, the 360-degree sweep, I stagger any Wolves around me. That pause while they're staggered is usually enough to get in another special attack, chain-staggering the Wolves until they die.
I went into the mountains while I had frost resistance meads fermenting (due to impatience) and thankfully survived and got some silver, but those drakes are definitely scary without the resistance! Good tip on the atgeir! That 360 attack is nice, one of my favorite tools against Fuling too!
@@quicksandriggs I've learned to bring a craft table and a hoe. If I see them. I build dirt pillars for cover. Works great until wolves ambush me lol. 2 years playing and finally made it to the mountains
I’ve always gone and dug out silver before killing Bonemass, usually by digging in straight lines, then turning left or right and digging more, essentially digging a grid a little smaller than the size of a silver deposit. Less useful now that you can’t buy the components to craft Frostmir before killing Bonemass. Also, you can often find little fingers of silver deposits sticking out of the steep mountain edges just by running around and looking for them. I’ll definitely have to try pinging with the hammers though, never thought to try that before, so you earned a like for that tip!
Melee fight wolves with an Atgeir. The special attack stuns multiple in an AoE with reach, and the stabbing motion basic attack is very fast letting you finish them off before they eat your face. Also, while mining a node, I dump some of that stone into a pillar just outside so I can jump on top of it if the wolves start hunting me.
I'm enjoying the series so far. Awesome tips, and can't wait for the next biomes. Btw, if you have a hard time jumping on a golem, you can just parry a golem, then switch to pickaxe to get a better hit on it. It's similar to the 1:1 parry-attack ratio using an iron mace's secondary attack after a parry, except that the pickaxe works just as well. You get both the extra stagger damage, plus pickaxe weakness damage
+1 tip: you can regain your rested buff in the Frost Caves. You can place down a camp fire or use one of the standing braziers (although you have to stay _really_ close).
Get the Draugr Fang and upgrade it ASAP, even before you craft the mountain armor. Combined with fire arrows, it can take down all mountain enemies really quickly. Except for the golems of course. Never shoot at golems 😂
Just a Quick fact even though the video is a year old; the iron mace is far more dangerous for the golem than the iron Pick. A level 4 iron mace Can demolish a golem in 1 attack animation - it’s far more effective than struggling with hitting holes in the Ground and stuff or trying to get on top of the golem - and if you Perry them they die even quicker!
Yeah so right after I posted this I got my first “you are being hunted”…. It’s hell guys, I did not have enough stamina to keep using the atgeir against like 20 wolves hahaha… I got two right after the other and they both mauled me
are you playing with friends in these clips or random servers? i just started playing and none of my friends are and i don't really know where i would start looking for chill servers to play on except for discord or reddit
Playing with friends. I’m about to finish this play through, but you are welcome to join my Discord and I’ll post in there the next time I play Valheim, so you can join if you are still looking for a server.
These are good tips but I prefer more inventory space rather than a second pick and a porcupine can be more effective in the long game than a simple pick. Other than those, I support this message
I haven’t had many struggles finding them, sorry. I’m not sure they spawn unless the mountain is large enough, so maybe skip the small mountain sections.
They are hard to spot. I would say that a large mountain biom will have 3-5 of them. They seem to spawn mostly on the mountainsides above certain height. Don't look for the entrance itself, look for the modified terrain. Cave entrances create a little platform in front of them. You won't see it from above but from the side/below it looks like 85 degrees smooth slope protruding from the side of the mountain. The slope smoothness and angle (not the texture) is what distinguishes it from the regular boulders.
