Never Die in Valheim EVER Again! Simple Tips ANYONE Can Use 

Most of the tips can be applied in other biomes as well. Although to your point, its certainly easiest to survive in the meadows of course

The Draugr Village near my base: 👁️👄👁️

@@iojishin NOT GOOD hahaha

And don't kill any bosses so raids will stay friendly :)

@@chtyldubreux5950 thats a really good tip! Ill keep that in my back pocket

hahhaha shots fired

Right!! I mean who wants deer rugs anyway pshh lame asses. 🤣

I did that as well. Showed my noob friend around, and went just a few steps into the snow to show the freezing penalty. His last words: Oh look, a wolf. My last words; What?! Where?!

hahahahha@@takkieterror5152

I just killed Elder with my 20 wolfs in troll armor 😂

Agree, dodging is the way! But does require a bit of skill and practice. Appreciate you Stubby!

It ain't an ultra instinct feeling, cause dodges are so broken it's hard not to get a perfect dodge. But yeah most people don't know how broken dodging is.

@@MartialArtsNk yeah, for few ennemis dodge is the only way (exept if you have 80 in blocking skill with the carapace buckler, best shield in the game even in ashlands) and dodge have very huge amount of I-frame so its not that hard

Smart. Unfortunately, I panic all the time!

Running away should be reserved for fights that are absolutely hopeless for you, i.e. getting too close to the plains when in a swamp and getting a stray deathsquito or fuling coming after you when you are in late bronze or early iron gear. Tough but manageable fights you should always stand you ground for, and be prepared for those fights to happen with good foods and having meads as a backup. When you run away from tough but manageable fights, i.e. an abomination in the swamps when you're in bronze or early iron gear, you run the risk of pulling a whole bunch of other mobs on top of you. Now you have the situation where the abomination, a bunch of draugr, oozes, and leeches are all on top of you, and one wrong move leaves you with a corpse surrounded by an army. It's very easy in those panic situations to run into a rock or a tree that you didn't see, or accidentally go into deeper water. Also, you are incredibly likely to run out of stamina and be unable to defend yourself when you do get backed into a corner and have to fight. When encountering a tough monster, and you want to go further, use a bow to bring it to you rather than trying to run past it or fight it wherever it is. This makes it less likely you'll have to deal with wandering mobs at the same time as the tough monster. Preparedness and situational awareness are key. Even if you are in late game gear, don't get complacent and wander through the black forest with no or little foods, as a troll can still take you out if you aren't ready for it. Or a 2 star draugr archer in the swamps, a pack of wolves with a 1 or 2 star alpha in the mountains, a 2 star fuling or a group of growths in the plains, etc. I also don't hang out at base without eating anything. At base, I eat either early game foods I have leftover, or foods that are easily made from entirely farmable crops/meat like bread. That way you aren't caught with your pants down during a raid.

also you can easily dodge big enemies, usually even without sprinting. With trolls you just barely get out of range when you just walk straight away when they attack (with walking Its not consistent because 1) they can have a log and 2) they sometimes also move a bit forward when they attack so they get just enough distance to hit you/they get pushed forward by something else). I use trolls to chop wood I cant obtain / mine copper for me, I just come to them, let them start the attack, sprint away and repeat, I rarely get hit. But it also depends on the terrain, sometimes you cant do stuff like this, then you have to just run away. Best thing to do is walk away, when the troll swings sprint a bit and then again walk, you dont lose much stamina and usually you regain every point (if youre rested/eiktyr).

That's my secret Cap... I'm always panicking

SAME! Im reckless and impatient!

@@SpazzyjonesGaming it’s not even that I’m impatient I just love the chaos of not making a plan.

@@simplycinclair8979 a great way to play!

It's easy to do isn't it. Just a bit more. What's over this hill. I am doing well I can scout more. Just big open plains I can see for miles, just be cautious. Suddenly it's night, you're in a swamp being chased by two wraiths and 4 draugrs, you're wet and unrested, run into a plains with a squad of fullings and a couple of deathsquitos and on the other side is another swamp when you meet your demise. Far from a shore. Far from a portal. LOL. Took a while to recover that body. But skirting mobs in the plains and having a basic bow for the few deathsquitos (after the try with finewood bow) made it an adventure. . . 🤣

hahaah nO! Next tip: Don't play valheim while watching Valheim

Could not agree more!

Absolutely

Overconfidence is the biggest killer for me too as I am a gamer most of my life and a souls veteran and I can beat this game on normal difficulty with almost no damage, but hardest difficulty and mods that make mobs stronger is where I get over confident and say yolo this is easy and then get rekt! 😂😂

@@MSeroga YEP!

I'll add accidents to my list of main death causes. Though I suppose that can be a form of complacency. Not quite judging the reach of the pointy fist golem and getting yeeted off the mountain. Backing into bushes moving away from a Troll. Darn slopes sucking my stamina bar in 1 second flat. Getting dogpiled by greydwarves who hold you in place for big blue and his club. . . LOL. 🤣

completely understandable

Ohh - I've done that too. . . Worst I had was out sailing to collect ship load of ore. on return decided to go around the back of the Island to chart it and connect on the southern side. Turned out to be a very large continent, found a river but that led to inland sea, got out and further round no end in sight, decided to collect a convenient cloudberry patch. Squito got me. Even with what I had mapped, it would take at least 30 mins of sailing. Once I mined more copper, tin, smelted and built a new boat let alone gear. . . LOL. But that's some of the fun of Valheim. Where what seemed to be a shortcut turns into a nightmare slog that after 1 hour you decide to sail back the way you came because it might be faster than proceeding. Even when I mod - I tend to never use the teleport items to remove the need to sail.

yeah! as long as you have 100 health you will always survive the fall. Good point about bonemass. I bet many people think bonemass will reduce fall damage but it doesn't!

That is a good one. It s much easier if you have a pal

You should just get an irl buddy for that. You know what they say, you don't need to run faster than the wolf, you just need to run faster than your friend.

Might need a dedicated video on how not to die in the Ashlands hahaa

@@SpazzyjonesGaming That would probably be useful for people, especially once the PTB is over.

@@admiralspandy agreed. Ill keep that in mind

Good tip. Daggers are so good when you get that backstab bonus!

overconfidence is definitely my nemesis

Goddamn...Thats tough to read Just got into Mistlands and i think i did good to respect those lads. I always try to aggro seekers near outdoor dvergr crates and it works half of the time i would say.

@@christopherbelanger4220 The most important thing is to not let your guard down. I respected them too, but i just got cocky and greedy. Never again. If you want to take a dvergr tower, proceed VEEEERY carefully, deal with them one at the time to the best of your abilities. Bonemass power and fire resistance potion (or Fenris set) will help you tremendously

@@Vasiliy9hells Thanks for the wise words, i'll keep your story in mind each time i think silly.

@@christopherbelanger4220 true

very good advice

its definitely my preference! nice! Show your bf who is boss haha

absolutely tank!

Absolutely

haha yeah. trees are really only a threat when you're just straight up not paying attention. Really good point to save your stamina when you really need it. Underrated tip!

You just having played it enough. 😋 For me I find they don't always go in the opposite direction from the cut, so I try to leave enough stamina for after the final blow doing a little jump into the tree to 'push' it in the direction I want it to fall. Angled trees not withstanding as they often are already falling by that point. So I like to plant my trees where I can cascade them easily and work around the grove pushing towards the centre. Saves some axe work.

@@sociallyferal4237 See? We're both doing what it takes to never die to trees. Which I still haven't, by the way.

@@therealbahamut Sadly - That is not a claim I can make. LOL. It doesn't tend to happen much anymore, but trees have killed me more than some of the bosses.

I had the craziest domino effect happen to me yesterday while chopping down trees. I couldn't even tell you what happened exactly, but a tree got me from a random direction. When I came back to get my stuff I swear at least 20 trees were knocked down from this. Never seen that before.

Thanks Seadog! Definitely a video geared towards beginner players. Appreciate the kind words!

you're a brave man

Smart man!

I actually didn't know this. Excellent tip. Thank you!

smart man

These are good ones too! Maybe will have to include in a future updated video!

I find trying to move the animals about to get them to the right base is too much of a hassle. Perhaps if they updated so 'follow me' works on portaling. Though perhaps the devs really don't want people to boss fight with their 60+ beastie friends. 😂

@@sociallyferal4237 wolves can follow you, and lox can be rode on! That can help! But my suggestion was for base defense

@@loffel1700 Yup - I understand your point. I didn't enjoy riding the lox as much. Felt more troubling than just running about to me. It's just the games where you don't have any good spots near mountains for bases and having to harpoon drag or slow follow me paddle to where you do have a base. Once there - a wolf pack is delightful. Just wish that in follow mode and you use a portal, they'd follow through it also.

@@sociallyferal4237 true. It would be nice if animals could be leashed to then be brought through portals, I agree.

You're not the first person to mention this so i think you might be correct. I couldn't find anything definitive online but did test lower tier armors and couldn't see any noticable difference in damage. However, like I said, a few people have mentioned as you have

Great tips! You're not the first to mention the tree damage not being pure so I believe i have made a mistake with that. The poison/fire is different though I believe. My understanding is that say a blob hits you with a poison attack that deals 20 damage without armor, rather than do 20 dmg right away it does 10 tick of 2. If you then wear iron armor it then may reduce it to 10 damage dealing 1 tick over 10 seconds. But if you take the damage and then retroactively put the armor on, the ticks won't be reduced since the armor wasn't on for the initial hit. Wow! Word vomit there. I hope that makes sense.

I did not know that. Thanks for the tip

@@SpazzyjonesGaming absolutely, its a big food and time saver, eat food to prep for aboss and drink a potion, wait for it to heal to its fullest and logout then drink another to get full hp without having to wait the 2 minute cooldown. Saves you like 3 to 5 minutes of food effectively.

My understanding is yes! But maybe you'll have to try it out and See! Good luck 🤞

Smart! I need to give health pots another look

Did I call you out :P haha I do try to respond to all comments. Glad I earned your sub!

You can mine out a cave too, as long as you got a roof (even rock roof) above your head it will only be counted as cold, not as freezing.

I can't argue with that

You brave soul! Im currently doing a perma run on stream every saturday. On hardcore to boot!

i die due to impatience ALL the time!

Similar to me. I'm always too overconfident and if gets me into trouble. I have found the Ashlands has forced me to become a much more conservative player

Noooo I embrace it! Wowwow, thats an old video but holds up today!

@@SpazzyjonesGaming see you on saturday and ye its crazy that the building has stayed same for 3 years...

@@tememaster17 yeah it has for the most part. only real change I can think of is the cycle snapping you can do now

Glad you learned something!

@@SpazzyjonesGaming Every days a school day. Lots of useful information on your works. 🙂 New subscription from me.

@@sillyshazzie Lovely! glad to hear I earned your sub!

haha they sure are

Agreed with all. I agree, being smart, patient, and prepared is the key

Bull$hit, the never turn your back to your enemy part, the rest is good. Blocking takes a lot of stamina, sometimes it's just better to turn your back, run, roll and recover your stamina. Don't forget to sheath your weapon and shield while doing it as they drastically decrease your movement speed. And this is even better if you're wearing light armor which beats heavy armor in most scenarios. Choose when to block and parry, and keep in mind dodging (rolling) is way easier and safer than parrying, parrying is an offensive skill, not defensive.

And rest up in your lvl 15 or more comfort hut so you can run even faster and get less tired as well as faster stamina regen

Food is essential

Agreed. Max rested is a must

I agree. Definitely not how the game was intended IMO

I definitely sleep on sneaking. good tip!

That's the $tupidest thing I ever heard.. Literally do not leave sneak... Best way to take 1000 years to finish the meadows. Just sneak when you're a bit behind the creatures, and use a dagger or spear for easy sneak kills. Bows from distance even easier. You literally don't need to sneak ever to avoid combat, you can just run away. And sneaking is pointless if there aren't mobs around to sneak past them and level up sneaking.

Haha that definitely works

Yeah parrying is OP

@@SpazzyjonesGaming very souls-esque

@@TheGlovener1985 I love me some souls

This is a really great take! Dying is part of the game and part of the adventure!

It should show at the bottom of your screen when placing build pieces but I'm not sure if you can change the bind

I think the default is Q & E to cycle through (have to have hammer out and usually the build piece you are trying to place selected). Good for trying to build out a bridge, or keep a wall level / fill in lower blocks you can swing around to it snapping on something more convenient to place.

A veteran like yourself absolutely would be! totally agree. Many of my deaths are related to impatience in fights when i should just tame my time and recover my stamina and eat some food

Oh no! The serpent shield is one of the best shields in the game for that reason. Its still a tower shield though which isn't my fav but thats all you can do!

@@SpazzyjonesGaming Yeah I'm not gonna use it because I hate tower shields lol

@@excancerpoik you and I think a lot alike haha

yes thats a good one. They will run from you when you have a torch

I think that works on the Greydwarves also. Trolls and Skeletons - not so much.

yeah! it wasn't part of the original game but they added it in the hearth and home update I believe. There is also a different color for eitr foods... but the color escapes me at the moment

oh yeah your stamina regen is crazy in that instance

hahaha thats definitely a risky base location

That is a nasty one. The bats in particular reek havoc on your tamed creatures if you have them

Look forward to "Hi Gjall" then...

shhhh!

thats fair. Its certainly controversial but to your point also comes with a downside Glad you appreciated the dodge roll commentary! it can be tricky but does work great. I think you're right about the game being aware of your rested buff haha

The blobs do have an instant area of effect attack mate, trolls do too, dodge still works on it as long as you time it well. Rolling into them could get you hurt though as long as you got more than 1 blob, as the second one would hit you.

Very things will! You have to be very skilled in combat to overcome that

My first foray into the mistlands was entirely peaceful right up until the point I found my first infested mine. 4 regular seekers, a 1 star seeker, and a wandering gjall came at me the exact second I got close to it. The fighting drew in more wandering seekers. Then the other player and I got caught in the worst death loop I have ever experienced. It got so bad I was considering posting on reddit asking for some other viking to come and bail us out. Eventually, after many, many recoveries and deaths, we finally our gear closer to the edge of the mistlands, and I was able to sneak in, get my stuff back, and cover my friend while he got his stuff out, then we hightailed it out and questioned whether or not we wanted to continue progressing. We did stick with it, and subsequent runs were considerably less unlucky, but that was one hell of a first introduction.

Thank you sir!

they're just awful!

don't fall off your boat or you're done!

@@SpazzyjonesGaming Carry stamina meads while on boat, you can actually get stamina back while swimming that way.

@@MartialArtsNk good call

@@MartialArtsNk Depending on your swimming skill - it still might not save you. It didn't me. LOL. Leviathan is vast ocean stretch went under and destroyed my boat while doing so. I did manage to swim to within sight of land which made collecting my stuff easier. Still had to sail to retrieve my cargo of ore though.

they definitely will help!

Well, even in silver armor set I can barely feel falling trees, because the damage they do to me is too little to notice. I can't be this lucky all the time, right?

@@amplifier8435 Pretty sure its pure. I didn't test all armor but I tried no armor versus leather and took the same damage. I could be wrong though!

Next to extra armor/shield/weps should have a chest with stacks of food and then fill up before corpse run

@@StreetComp Definitely

@@SpazzyjonesGaming it is pure damage (meaning modifiers arnt applied by buffs or armour) But the trees do different amounts of damage depending on how heavy they are and how much momentum they have... Making it impossible to test like with like, without setting up an elaborate log drop machine... Wich has been done. And it confirmed tree damage is pure. As Is fall damage but fall is capped at 100. I'm not sure if individual tree hits are capped to 100. But even if they are with the way the physics work you could take several hits in a moment.

heck ya! More to come!

hahaha I knew there was someone out there!

Not stagbreaker to find silver?

@@Bullminator you can do that if you want

killed trolls with tree! wow, I've killed greylings but never a troll!

@SpazzyjonesGaming it's more about boxing the trolls in so they glitch out on the trees. Once that happens, use a bow to take them out from range. Also, if you lure them to a hill and set off a chain reaction from the top of said hill as they come up, that can cause heavy damage to them as well Messing with their auto pathimg a good tactic. In our games, we often chop down trees around our bases as a way to slow things down.

@@jameshadland3217 smart! yeah you can really cheese them pretty easy if you know their autopathing well. Good tips!

hilarious!

I agree with you. its a bit cheaty! Thanks for the kind words!

I never use health pots! Definitely should. And yeha, I think its kind of cheating too

nah you're right. Death is inevitable in this game. just some strategies to hopefully minimize them

You certainly could do that! I've never kept a backup like that

gotta use the devcommands to shoot videos faster

@@SpazzyjonesGaming Oh no sir, your videos are fine. My comment was intended as a funny answer to the question how not to die. You know, god, godmode, invulnerability... maybe it did not kick ^^

@@Voeluspa45 Oh i gotchu! yeah F5 saves the day! haha

i don't blame you. very annoying. Ever lose all your chickens to bats? AWFUL

@@SpazzyjonesGaming ah yeah, most of 'em. That specific event is a cruel joke by devs. Also it doesn't make sense why tf we would get invaded by bats. Cauldron really is the worst one.

Yeah I can see that. Definitely something to work on as I'm recording my scripts. Appreciate the feedback 💪

I actually didn't mention health potions suprisingly. I had considered it but part of me thought it was too obvious maybe. Definitely should have included it! DoH!

@@SpazzyjonesGaming I like your channel and its energy, your energy, your vibe! I also don't think logging out is cheating. There are people that make a separate server just for mining iron - so you don't have to sail anywhere or anything like that. Its just switch from main to mining back to main. So eh

@@loffel1700 Appreciate you loffel! You are welcome here anytime! Everyone seems to have their own opinion on the logging out tip! the jury is out!

@@SpazzyjonesGaming I think the other aspect of choosing your foods that people overlook is the health regen per tick. Especially if you are heading somewhere dangerous.

@@sociallyferal4237 very good point. Its definitely a stat many players (including myself) don't always pay attention to

excellent tip

You're right. Sometimes I make mistakes. I'm very confident it's 99% correct

for real!? i figured everyone had been there

@SpazzyjonesGaming I guess like deathsquitos, I was over warned about it so I've just been hyper vigilant

Except you have to die to get it!

@@SpazzyjonesGaming Yes but when talking about the best buff you should compare their effects. "The misthare surpreme is the best health food" is true, even though it might be hard to cook it.

@@chtyldubreux5950 thats fair

I agree. It's not something I like to do

@@SpazzyjonesGaming you are the first person who agrees with me about this

@@Ivar_bones Weird! Yeah its not the end of the world if you die in Valheim so just embrace it. I can see being okay with it if you were doing a deathless run or something but apart from that nahhh

@@SpazzyjonesGaming I agree

Thanks dog!

dangerous they are

lol you can use the strategy to transport silver ore to the base of the mountain quickly by placing it inside the ship and then sending it down the hill

@@SpazzyjonesGaming I just build a cart and throw it down the cliff. 😁 But I might have to try the sailing ship delivery if I can find a good spot that it'll flow right into the ocean.

@@sociallyferal4237 yes! I have done that before as well

Are you sure its not on your end? Nobody other than yourself has mentioned this. The footage often isn't captured on max settings so it probably doesn't look optimal. To me the lighting doesn't look really different than any other Valheim videos out there

YOOO I wanted to reach out to you and apologize cause you're SOO RIGHT. I figured out the issue. I had enabled HDR on my display and apparently Valheim doesn't support HDR and was therefore draining the color from the game when I captured the footage. I have fixed this and should improve my videos going forward. Just wanted to reach out and say THANK YOU for pointing it out. I wouldn't have investigated it further. YOU A REAL ONE

hahah its a silly one for sure. Whatever works!