#valheim can be the game of distractions. exploring, trying to hunt deer. find more bees, refurb a pre-placed hut as a little campsite, find enough deer, fill my inventory & back to base
need more wood for a beehive, end up building a bridge over this little stream by my base instead, then finally plant the hive & turn deer into armour
Replying to @patterfloof@meow.social
@patterfloof Just like, strap a deer on the front and back? I guess that could work... ;o
Replying to @mattsqu@chitter.xyz
@mattsqu *ouch* *ouch*
note for next time: antlers away from body
Replying to @patterfloof@meow.social
@patterfloof So it was you who hunted allll the deer out of my Meadows! There's, like, 3 spawn spots on the whole island.
Replying to @sahqon@beige.party
@sahqon if it's any consolation, I died quickly while discovering the black forest. Then another 5 deaths trying to get my gear back
Replying to @patterfloof@meow.social
@patterfloof Yeah, still managed to make the deer extinct tho! :D
I actually survived the forest on day three or so while stealing some corewood for my bow. Sometimes you get two nests of greydwarves, three bears and a tree wielding Troll within hearing distance. Sometimes you get your wood and nothing whatsoever attacks.
Though I wonder. The greylings are also sparse for me and I didn't much explore the Forest yet other than stealing wood because I was building, mostly. But could it be that they made everything more sparse?
Replying to @sahqon@beige.party
@sahqon there's some mechanism where some base structures, including workbenches prevent enemy spawns in a 20-30m radius
Replying to @patterfloof@meow.social
@patterfloof Yes and I tend to use that around the forest extensively (because of the stupid high spawn rate), but I've played this game a lot on beta, and this time somehow a lot less things seem to attack and there's no deer. And I don't have benches anywhere in the forest (yet).
Replying to @patterfloof@meow.social
@patterfloof@meow.social
I like the variety of things there are to do. I inevitably get sucked into restoring ruins, which requires materials, which requires oftimes visiting different biomes ... etc
I had one playthrough where trying to complete Plains and then Ashlands became a horrid grind due to key vegvisir not spawning correctly (or at all) and I had to spend real-time days just wading through the biomes in the hope of chancing on the POIs. Having a task hold me back from advancing the game at the pace I wanted made the gameplay very one dimensional, because while I could do other things there seemed to be little point, as I was a big fish in a small pond if you follow. It was most definitely not as enjoyable as having the time to smell the flowers.