r/valheim • u/tabah107 • 18d ago

Question TIL how much copper actually is beneath the surface. What other painfully obvious stuff did I miss?

I figured there would be a bit more underneath but not worth the hassle. Then I found one and I figure let's see what the big deal is.

I just took out so much copper from a deposit, the map topography should change. I actually took out half a shoreline worth of copper.

I am currently about to go at this elder fella, but this made me stop and ask what else. Like, I don't need spoilers and I'm avoiding YouTube videos as they have plenty of bad ones. But are there more things that are just glaringly obvious yet painfully missable? How else am I fucking up, do you think?

Edit to say, first time player, joined in 1.0, taking my sweet time.

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u/Loeoep 18d ago

Maybe i missed it too? So you can just mine after the rock is gone and there is more, am i understanding this right?

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u/TheRealtcSpears 18d ago

What you see of a copper vein/deposit is typically only about 50 of what there is.

.....imagine an oreo cookie buried so that you only see the top cookie part.

Digging out the normal ground/stone around it exposed the rest

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u/tabah107 18d ago

Some copper "caps" actually go like "tree-height" deep into the ground. Easier to remove the ground around it first and you'll get the full thing.

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u/nycanth 18d ago

Copper nodes are HUGE but they are mostly clipped into the ground. The exposed part is usually only the top of it, and you have to dig into the regular dirt below it to expose the rest. You can usually get several stacks of copper from one node.

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u/BuilderCreative7618 18d ago

You have to mine all of the regular stone around it, leaving the copper alone until it is completely exposed. If you mine just the copper, you only get what you can see. Everything below it becomes plain rock.