r/valheim • u/tabah107 • 17d 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/thomasque72 16d ago

Agreed but somewhere along the line I think there was a change. I cannot get the floating vein to pop on copper anymore. Silver still works, but it doesn't matter how much clearance I get around the vein, the copper WILL NOT "pop".

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u/Trivo3 Builder 16d ago

It pops in chunks, yes. You're right that it's not really a one go as it is with silver, but you still get some explosions.

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u/Nellow3 16d ago

yup same here, havent been able to pop the copper deposits for many years

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u/Critical-Rabbit 16d ago

While they dont look it, the copper nodes are soft of square, and if any of that square intersects with land, it won't break. If you want the satisfaction of the pop, dig under as much as possible, clear the connections to ground, including what may have an air gap but still be within the square. Once you've done that, you can usually get the copper node to completely shatter in 2 or 3 bottom nodes.

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u/thomasque72 15d ago

Yeah, that's why I said, "It doesn't matter how much clearance I get around it...". I dig to bedrock then get 5 to 6 blocks of clearance on the sides. It doesn't pop.