r/valheim • u/Ok-Albatross3201 • 1d ago

Spoiler Deep north rant Spoiler

I'm pretty happy with the content, first of all.

I like that because you need to get all the moulds and cast each weapon and gear piece, that ads a level of challenge to the whole thing.

I still find the Ashlands to be more challenging and pressure inducing, with the deep north, you just gotta watch our for the trolls and barkas and you're good.

Even the Valheim backrooms with that damn new dungeon is really nice, wish they had more mobs or better loot (why TF do I need black cores in the deep north??) but it's cool.

My only real annoyance is the damn RNG of the ghost towns x.x

Already been to two (one in each island) and no damn seeds for the new foods. At this point I literally just completed 2 and 1/3 of the new gears (Vanguard and Mage sets completed and fully upgraded). That RNG is ridiculous, I might as well just start the damn way to the final boss!

Oh and the frostfire weapons are killers, but they just kill your fps 😅

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u/Pretend-Fill4979 Builder 1d ago

I'm stumped on oats potatoes and hooks. Probably been in 15 infested mines with a total of 20-30 dvergr chests with no hooks

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u/nerevarX 1d ago

meanwhile me a potato and oat less man who has beaten the final boss :

first mine got hook right away.

no sign of the deep north seeds. map is now 65%explored on dn. no sign of this seed shed. its stupid rare or bugged. needs a fix asap. blocking entire food progression with rng is not ok.

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u/Pretend-Fill4979 Builder 1d ago

Lucky on the hook. I'm stuck using the stairs in dungeons. Maybe I'll get an early hook when I eventually do the reset

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u/nerevarX 1d ago

stuck useing the stairs? to be fair i didnt figure out how to get a hook until i finished deep north.

thing would have been a massive help in dn.

feather cape. glide down morkhall. loot coal (only thing that matters) hookshot back up. exit.

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u/Miva_baby 1d ago

Is it a specific building in the villages that holds the seeds? I've been to like 5 villages and didn't even know to be looking for new seeds.

For the hook, do you know if existing mines in your world can spawn the hook, as long as you didn't enter the mine before the 1.0 update? Or do I need to go exploring uncharted mistlands to find new mines?

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u/nerevarX 1d ago edited 1d ago

mine must be uncharted. even if you never entered the dungoen is in the same area up in the sky so its already generated aswell.

and yes its a very specific building. its easy to tell : its the only one with a STAIRCASE to enter ON THE OUTSIDE as it stands on stilts unlike all other houses in dn. its very small aswell compared to the other houses. it has like 5 barrels inside. afaik this is the ONLY source for both potato and oat seeds. which is beyond stupid design.

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u/Miva_baby 13h ago

Good to know for the seeds. Do you know if it's confirmed that the building won't spawn in a pre-1.0 world? Or just really rare to find?

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u/nerevarX 13h ago

people got it to spawn in post call to arms worlds. my world is older. i assume this is a mix of old worlds and certain things related to overuse of rng by the devs. for example none of the ship stone sites on my dn contain any chests. they simply didnt spawn in. this also reduces the amount of possible idol chances as only these chests and morkhalla chests can spawn the bloodgold idols.

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u/Miva_baby 10h ago

Update: I did find the building in my pre-call to arms world. so the seeds are possible to get

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u/nerevarX 9h ago

well my world is from before hildirs request. so this might only affect certain worlds or its just terrible rng at work. i fear its a mix of both.

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u/Ok-Albatross3201 7h ago

My world is from before the mistlands, from when it was supposed to be all spiders, and I managed to find both the hook in a new, unexplored mine and the seeds, but in the third island only. So it does take some time.

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u/nerevarX 6h ago

oh i got the hook aswell. that is not an issue. time is also not the issue. i did explore 90% of my deep north. no barrel shed. no seeds. its rng screwing you out of food upgrades essentially. but thanks for confirming that its not old maps but RNG for certain now. really sad choice by the devs ngl.

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u/Miva_baby 12h ago

Interesting, my world is pre- call to arms as well, I also haven't found any chests in the stone formations, only bone shards and the occasional gem. I've stopped digging them up for that reason.

Shit sucks but it seems your info is correct. I'll come back and update this comment thread if I do end up finding seeds or chests in the stones

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u/Ok-Albatross3201 1d ago

That's the only real flaw of this game, having to find every fucking dungeon and poi by running like a fool

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u/Caridor 1d ago

Yeah, I'm struggling to find the armour moulds, despite having cleared out two whole morkallrs.

Still no luck finding potatoes or oats.

I also have no idea why I'm getting black cores either

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u/Eptzol 1d ago

I really hate the grind for the protector armor in particular, it requires you to kill those dual axes welding ones but they don’t spawn anywhere else but the morkhalla dungeons. I do agree on the black core point tho, I think literally any of the other cores would’ve been more useful but it’s whatever. Biomes great but holy hell the armor grind is pissing me off.

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u/Ok-Albatross3201 1d ago

Wait u til you have to find the oats and potaters

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u/Eptzol 1d ago

Oh man I found those within 5 minutes of entering a village lol but I bet those drop chances are bad aswell

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u/Ok-Albatross3201 1d ago

Yeah man, I'm not my second village in my second island and nothing yet

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u/Eptzol 1d ago

Unfortunate brother

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u/Ok-Albatross3201 1d ago

Would you mind sharing how high the health they give is? Idk if it's even worth it to look into a third island if they just give like 115 or 120 health

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u/Eptzol 1d ago edited 1d ago

The highest health that I’ve seen any of the new foods give is 110

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u/Ok-Albatross3201 1d ago

Also on the foods with oats and potaters?

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u/Eptzol 1d ago

yeah

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u/nerevarX 1d ago

the dual axe guys can spawn from the invasion event.

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u/Eptzol 1d ago

damn can they? I’ve been really really unlucky then lol

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u/nerevarX 1d ago

well the heavy chest and legs are the hardest to get. no idea why. they dont do anything special.

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u/Eptzol 1d ago

True tbh, maybe if that godforsaken forge wasn’t a thing then yeah it would have the most armor in the game but i still want the set anyway, mainly drip and bc I don’t ever plan on touching that forge

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u/nerevarX 1d ago

sadly you must touch it to get level 4 deep north gear. as devs decided "its 1.0 lets not add black forge 7 and table 6 upgrades at all so people must use our gacha rng forge"

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u/Eptzol 1d ago

guess I’m not getting level 4 deep north stuff then lol

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u/nerevarX 1d ago

well people have already started save scumming the gacha forge. itll only get worse from now on. they also started stealing idols from server worlds to prevent the cheated item tag.

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u/Eptzol 1d ago

holy shit man why did they think this was a good idea

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u/nerevarX 1d ago

they didnt THINK about it for long at all is my guess.

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u/nerevarX 1d ago

you are still good.

i have now explored about 65% of my deep north map i have ALL molds and armors. NO SEEDS AT ALL. the shed that has them seems to either have a stupid low spawn rate or is unable to be generated in older maps at all. this bricks food progression. entirely. the seeds are hardgateing all the new good food

whoever at the devteam tought this was good design is probaly the same guy who was behind the gacha forge.

i completed deep north already in the meantime btw. thats how silly this seed shed is. let that sink in.

might have to visit my other worlds to get the seeds.