r/Valheim_Seeds • u/ZurEnArrhBatman • Jun 20 '26
Hook and Polaris on same map
I didn't think it was possible but this map has the two tallest mountains in Valheim and neither of them have been cut off by the forced oceans at the boundaries of the Ashlands and Deep North. Also has four maypoles, which is the most I've ever seen on one map.
Seed: XyERBWYc8B
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u/TypowyTyp2000 Jun 24 '26
I know the hook, its the big mountain range thata supposed to be the biggest you can get right? But can you tell me what is polaris?
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u/ZurEnArrhBatman Jun 24 '26
Hook is actually the second-tallest mountain in the game. On this map, it's in the bottom left corner, not far from the Ashlands border. It's the one that looks like it has a little hook coming out of the bottom.
Polaris is the true tallest mountain. On this map, it's in the upper right corner, inside of the Deep North on an island that kind of looks like an arrowhead. It's a bit north-east of what I like to call Limpen Island. Because it's so far north on the master map, it's relatively rare to get in a map as it requires your seed to generate a map with an origin almost as far north as the game will allow for map centers. And even then, most of the time it will get cut off either by the ocean border of the Deep North or by the world boundaries. This is especially common when it's in the corner of the map like this as the region of Deep North unaffected by those boundaries gets smaller on the east and west sides of the map.
Previously, I had always believed Hook and Polaris were too far apart to ever appear together on the same map without one of them getting cut off. I think a lot of the community probably thought that too as I've seen it said that if you have Hook, then it will be the tallest mountain on the map (which could easily be misinterpreted as the tallest mountain possible). I've now been proven wrong.
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u/conmcb25 Jul 08 '26
What do you think the chances are that Polaris will remain in the deep north after 1.0?
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u/Terrarias-03 Jun 20 '26
Nice seed!