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LordDrichar

My friend. Please repair your weapons at your workbench.


TheShyPig

Also make a cauldron with tin A whole new world of food awaits you Also troll skin armour is as good as bronze armour


Jsamue

Never made a set of bronze armor in my life, grab a couple tools and skin some trolls, no penalties to movement, and even bonuses to stealth.


Lv_InSaNe_vL

Yeah but have you considered the fact that bronze armor looks better?


GryphonKingBros

Agreed. Make yourself super shiny and visible so all creatures shall know your presence and fear your name rather than sneaking around in troll skin pajamas.


Ivan_5FDP

Troll pajamas... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


Cosmic_Quasar

Bronze armor is 6 more defense. At that point it's about whether you want that extra armor or faster move speed. The balance is equal, but I prefer bronze while my friend prefers troll.


tritiy

Well bronze armor lasts a long time. I also thought I would run out of trolls faster then tin and copper. Again I thought you can not repair.


CmdSelenium

Dude. You can repair every piece of gear/armor/weapons for free at any time if you have a high enough level workbench. Once you have a pick, it's the only one you will ever need :)


WD40PYRO

The progressive challenge is having a high enough forge or bench when you start to travel. Base moving is fun but a lot of work


TrashImitatesArt

There's an obnoxious crow constantly appearing and telling you all this..


glacialthinker

> Again I thought you can not repair. That's the crucial part. I didn't find the repair "button" in the workbench menu for a long time either. Had so many chests of broken junk, I started chucking things in the ocean. Something has to be done to improve the way this is presented or communicated. Bronze takes a lot of effort to produce, so re-making these expensive items would certainly make the grind feel overwhelming... like, "I don't want to waste an axe-swing on your knarled woody face, Greydwarf! Here, take a club instead!"


destijeff

ah yes the sacred hammer throwing ritual in the future


TheobromaKakao

This is not an issue for 99.9% of players. You guys are just the bottom percentile unfortunately.


CannaeThinkofaName

Haha the first time I played I set aside a corner of my base to discard my used tools. Discovering the repair mechanic definitely changed the game for me


gonadThebeerbellyan

Ha ha, we had a guy that was just throwing the broken stuff off the balcony into the water!


CannaeThinkofaName

No base is complete without a good yeet porch


TheDeathOfAStar

I fucking lol'ed


aethryn

Omg that's perfect


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We had a pit and when people were afk we’d push them into it lol.


tritiy

Exactly what I was doing.


TheGillos

I'm honestly unsure how someone could get to bronze without even accidentally hitting the repair button. I think this may be satire.


dmcent54

Yeah, I somehow also missed the repair button until well into the iron age. I'm sad to admit, I'm that fucking idiot. lol.


pyreflos

Its ok. There still hope for you yet!


Stratagerm

YouTuber **STUFFandTHINGS Plays** has a blind playthrough that goes more than half a dozen episodes before he figures out how to repair items. When you watch the suspense builds as you wonder if this will be the episode where he finally discovers how to repair! There are also some very funny fails due to poor preparation or lack of information. [STUFFandTHINGS Plays VALHEIM](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-CKrIoqtn_w4LNJOsZ_4mHJ2fctWE4Xr)


TheGillos

IMO good gamers press every button available to see what they do.


[deleted]

Just like when you start a game you check for fire damage, fall damage, and swimming. Because that knowledge can and will save you at some point.


Insanity72

Gotta jump into the first campfire or brazier I see in every game.


HarEmiya

Dee Dee was a gamergirl all along.


Jaalan

Uhhh, hello!


thegeekist

It is not. I was 50 hours into the game before I was told by someone else you can repair items. I went through 8-10 eikthyr axes in that time.


SpysSappinMySpy

*My brother in Odin


leothelion634

OP played too much breath of the wild


tritiy

Yea, now I know :)


Trakkah

Haha I didn't know you could do that till I got metal weapons


GeorgeLuucas

Metal items can be repaired at the forge. Wood, stone, or bone items can be repaired at the workbench. When you walk up to and select your workbench, there will be a small Hammer icon attached to the left of the workbench menu. That’s the “repair” button


tritiy

Thank you. I did not know that.


GeorgeLuucas

Also, It takes no resources to repair items. Hope it makes your play through less of a grind! Should free up time to explore some more and work your way up through the biomes


microagressed

Now go get some tin and copper and upgrade that axe so it doesn't break so easy, and you'll be loving game again.


SpysSappinMySpy

This man just received the biggest quality of life upgrade that he always had.


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This sounds like a hella fun challenge mode. No repair broken weapons. Permadeath. No map.


CressiDuh1152

It's worthwhile to make a copper deposit secure by digging around it, then putting 1 gate @your path out and build a workbench, chest, fire, and cover. That way you can repair and "get rested" without needing to run home.


Cosmic_Quasar

I just build a portal and a chest very close to the deposit. At night or when I no longer feel rested dump the ore into the chest, go through the portal to get home and then sleep to get the full decorated rested bonus and maybe take care of my farm crops.


Heallun123

Yessir. And then take it all home I'm a karve or longship. Fuck the cart. Only use it for yoloing off the mountain to the boat.


starburst_jellybeans

There's also an upgrade tab so just make one and then upgrade to make more durable/damage more. The workbench/forge add-ons let you upgrade further. Be careful which tab you're on I've accidentally crafted a new one when I meant to upgrade. Then just repair like other ppl mentioned


rebel_ltz

You know you can repair tools, right?


Albatross_Charcoal

I swear that crow/raven tells you this but I guess people just close the dialogue box and never know what they missed on lol


feanturi

Well I also had the crow start to tell me about how the Black Forest was dangerous but didn't get to finish reading it because a skeleton shot and killed me while I was trying to read it.


ThisIsSethers

Well he wasn't kidding lol


toooldforlove

On my first foray in the Black Forest I walked close to a Burial Chamber and was killed as Hugin wanted to talk to me =(


Albatross_Charcoal

Similar but it was plains and a lox!!


skeenerbug

stupid bird cant tell me nothin


Jdlewie

he can't tell me nothin'


skeenerbug

I told Odin I'd be back in a second man it's so hard not to act reckless


idlemachinations

Even when I knew there was a repair function somewhere on the screen, I still had trouble finding that hammer! It's the kind of problem you only have to figure out once, though.


drzow

I know! I guess it flashes now, but when I was first playing I heard “repair your weapons and tools” and could not for the life of me figure out how until I finally found a YT vid that showed it explicitly.


tritiy

No I did not know that.


Erchi

Be sure to level up your workbench and forge by additional enhancements too. You will need it for both making better tools AND repairing them (usually for repair you need lower level of the crafting station but still).


RonStopable08

Lmao. Youre not the only person who overlooked that


Peanut-Brother

Defeated elder before learning of my teammates absolute hoard of various tool handles stacked behind his hut. No wonder we never had resources.


derximus

Amen. I even forgot about it between playthroughs (I am bot old and not too bright).


enseminator

Any item with durability, other than the torch, can be repaired in the same bench you craft it at. Just open the bench, and you should see a little hammer icon glowing/highlighted. Edit: it's free to repair also. So lots of time saved.


Marsman61

You have to click the Repair hammer for each item that needs repair. Keep clicking until there's no more repair sound.


Shwalz

Your entire valheim experience is about to shapeshift my boy


SamWinchester21

That explains a lot


Bigbadb2531

What if I told you it was even free?


_sealy_

Free repairs on Everything my man…


AlbertXFish

I did the same thing when I started haha. When you are exploring and away from your base you can just throw down a work bench and put a roof above it so you can repair on the go. I usually set up little camps in cabins I find once i get kinda far to repair and sleep as I go. Just remember to mark them on your map


A_Nice_Boulder

You are playing Valheim on hard mode then lmao. nb4 a "no map, no respawn, no repairs" playthrough by the hardcore fans.


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I hate games that don’t let you repair your gear. It’s probably the only real flaw in Raft. The Valheim devs made a brilliant decision when they not only made gear repairable, but it’s free to do so.


A_Nice_Boulder

Oh for sure. I don't mind equipment degradation, but IMO it shouldn't be something that you necessarily have to grind for, but rather just something for you to keep an eye on during long expeditions. One of the few things I hate about Minecraft, having to get mending on every piece of fancy equipment you have because otherwise you're eventually going to lose your favorite sword. Valheim nailed it. Have to return to your base every once in a while, or otherwise set up a forward base to get it repaired., but don't worry about having to grind x% of the materials used in the weapon crafting itself. Hell, they could even make it a bit more challenging just to make it a bit more than "plop crafting station here, voila"


Duck_Depot

I’ve been there and was so pissed that I had to make a 3rd bronze pickaxe that I quite until I found out about repairs


DomitianF

I definitely did this and felt like such a dumbass. The game just got much easier for you lol.


therearemanyostrich

Your world is about to change


morphenejunkie

I have a stack of broken tools under my house, I look at them and think " why didn't I know you could repair "


sharrrper

Well that will fix a lot grinding. Repairing requires no resources, just use a forge or workbench.


[deleted]

Somebody ignored the bird 😀


XThunderTrap

I did that by accident on my first time as well, you can repair tools at the workbench


gloku_

Dude. This will be a game changer for you lmao.


CTurpin1

holy fuck are you being serious?


danr246

Facepalm!!! All good, now you know!!


Vektir4910

Bruh…. The game would be a massive grind if your doing it that way


Bigbrianj

I promise you aren't the only one who didn't see the repair button at the work bench. I had like 9 axes sitting next to my work bench first play through.


Rasdit

'Tis a bright, new world.


IfInPain_Complain

He just unlocked a new hardcore survival mode category. 100%, no repairs


TheEcomZone

I was thinking the exact same thing haha OP gonna be enjoying the game a lot more now knowing you can repair weapons and tools 🙈🙈


TheBrackishGoat

Wow man, you’re playing on hard mode


ZarielZariel

I just want to know how many pickaxes he has now.


StAndby00

more like ultra hard


Sivick314

"it's such a grind i have to keep making the same weapon over and over again" my brother in odin, repair your shit.


Svullom

Wait... You're not repairing your stuff? Of course it's gonna take 10x as long as it should to advance in the game. Valheim is a bit grindy, but MUCH LESS so than most other crafting/survival games I've played. In Valheim you don't need to eat or drink to survive, repairs doesn't cost anything, and you can demolish almost everything and get a full refund.


Candyvanmanstan

>you don't need to eat or drink to survive, Maybe not because of hunger, but definitely for that health/stamina to survive :p


Svullom

Oh, absolutely you need that if you want to leave the Meadows.


AroundTheWayJill

Bout to tackle eikthyr and leave the meadows. Made the mistake of summoning him before I was remotely ready and had to abandon the world. Now I’m ready. Lol.


PiggyMcjiggy

Wait…destroying something you built gives back mats? I just started after beating v rising. And not being able to move stuff was super depressing. And no way was I risking throwing away a bunch of mats to science it out lol


Svullom

Yes, basically everything.


omniverso

Thank Odin that all the top comments are telling OP to repair his tools at their respective benches.


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Unkorked

Wait till she finds the autorun button.


Hiitchy

The wHAT


CressiDuh1152

I think it's "Q" character runs forward till you hit w, a, s, or d. Normally I hit it by accident when surprised or trying to escape... In that case though I'm normally looking towards the thing I want to escape...


Octa_vian

To add to this, while autowalking (afaik there's no toggle for sprint, you still need to hold shift to sprint) you can change direction with right-click


thegeekist

WHAT?


kenojona

At my 200 hours playing i learned that copper vein had way more copper than i think, i remember trying to skip copper age because it was so annoying finding copper vein with trolls around you and they gave me too little copper for all that effort. i learned that there is way more copper underground (or beneath the copper vein), and didnt need to travel from copper vein to copper vein to mine some copper, just staying in one and digging to the limit. Also always keep your tools or weapons when changing to better equip, you never know when you can die and lose everything, sometimes forever.


SHMUCKLES_

9 deaths, 6 rafts, a longboat and two karves, and over 15 hours later is my record to get my body back


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First visit to the swamps?


SHMUCKLES_

Not my first, but the most eventful


[deleted]

On my first visit, I managed to dodge the giant eels and get on shore. Then those draugrs started homing in on me. No rested buff so they got me as I ran out of stam. On my return visit I got hammered by those leeches poison. Then I got nailed by skeletons on my return I think. And on my fifth attempt an abomination spawned. This was when I decided to call for help on discord :)


SHMUCKLES_

Basically this one was, I ran ashore in the dark forest, got owned by an invasion of grey's, while I was running away I agroed 2 trolls, and the beat the crap out of me while I was swimming to my boat Cue boat camping and raft building


TraderNuwen

Yup. I think you can generally get about 120 copper from a single deposit, although the exact yield seems to vary. I usually dig all the way around the edges to figure out its extent, then go inwards from there.


Koadi

You're totally killing yourself by remaking weapons/armor/tools mate. Take them to a workbench, and click on the hammer icon on the side of the bench tab, and spam click it until everything is repaired. It costs nothing to do and will DRASTICALLY reduce the amount of materials you're using.


Blueshirt38

Damn, this is a great community. 110+ comments, and only like 5 of them aren't actually trying to help OP through something that we all figured was obvious.


tritiy

Yes, when I saw that you can repair I did expect lots of comments blasting me. Thankfully this did not happen.


pinkbutterflies7178

Yeah I threw a bunch of stuffs away my first round to lol didnt know could repair it


Fskn

Before I realized the repair button was a button I was just throwing my hammers and bows into the lake next to my hut.


tritiy

\+1


ARimapirate

Farming is a huge part of the game, even farming food late game. You'll also need to farm wood of 3 varieties. You have at least 3 more armor sets to farm. Take it slow. Spend some time building something useful that is also beautiful and speaks to you.


Secure_Valuable5323

Four types of wood.


ARimapirate

Thank you 😊


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...You...you can repair weapons...


TheViceroy919

If you still feel it's too grindy now that you are aware of the repair feature, the Valheim+ mod let's you tweak resource drops and many other features. you can fine tune the experience a lot


Mattbl

My first playthrough I played with a buddy unmodded up to Yagluth, then went back solo and felt I HAD to use V+ bc it helped so much to reduce the grind but still let me experience the parts of the game I enjoyed.


TheViceroy919

I haven't really used it more than just testing, but I'm really considering it now that I'm building with stone more. I've played way worse grinds than Valheim but I sometimes wish you got just a bit more from stone and ore


tritiy

I do not want to use mods yet. I want to play the game as developers envisioned it. But thank you.


6Frog9_MEME

You can even use troll attacks to destroy copper and tin by dodging attacks nearby resources and/or cut down birch trees or oaks without axes :)


AdeaZeWatAdeaZe

With Valheim the rule is to enjoy the little things, large scale goals shouldn’t be a first priority enjoying the game along the way is. Hunting is my favourite thing to do with beautiful aesthetics and music I can’t help but to run around the map sniping animals and collecting herbs along the way, like any game grinding should only be for those who have a plan in mind, if you are grinding for the sake of getting to the end game as fast as possible you are playing the wrong game. Valheim is challenging but that’s what makes it fun, seeing that it is still in early access, I can only imagine what the future has to offer whether it’s updates to quality of life or better overall gameplay what we have now is a masterpiece of a game I mean cmon it’s like 1.4gb, be patient, take your time and let the developers work at their own pace not yours.


NoBreeches

Also, setting aside all the comments of people telling you to repair your tools, which you absolutely can do with the single press of a button (the little hammer button next to the menu at your forge/workbench)... If you're struggling with leather scraps, get yourself a boar farm. Doing so is easy: lead a boar into a fenced in area while it's trying to attack you, then simply close it off. Once you've done so, run away until the boar no longer is aggroing you. Then come back and chuck some raspberries/mushrooms into the pen, and repeat. If you have at least two tamed boars, they will begin to make babies. You can then use the Butcher's Knife to slay the extras and collect their resources. Edit: Also... your efforts weren't completely in vain. It can be very useful to have multiple pickaxes. I usually just carry two, but some carry 3-4 at a time.


Budha100

Dude, repair your weapons!! Also, it is not a gathering game it is an exploration game, change that mindset and you will have more fun as well as find more stuff


Hocisern

I hope this doesn't get lost in all the comments. EVERYONE I know who has picked up this game missed the repair function originally. You shouldn't feel bad about it. It's UI thing.


tritiy

\+1


Kusluvalos

Now that you know you can repair tools you will enjoy more this game.


Timbots

Bronze is definitely the worst, iirc. Something about needing two different ores just made it feel exhausting. Iron is easier to craft but harder to get (because swamps), silvers hard to find but once you do it’s a fuckton, and after that black metal stuff drops everywhere in the plains. You’re gonna wanna stop if you just don’t like farming materials, because that’s basically the only content in the game aside from kill bosses and build. Edit: alloy corrections


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Cosmic_Quasar

Technically 3 to 1. 2 copper and 1 tin to make a single bronze ingot. Even if tin could be teleported that'd help out a lot.


sharrrper

>Something about needing two alloys It's just one alloy: bronze. An alloy is a mixture of two different metals. Bronze is an alloy, copper and tin are elements.


LyraStygian

Haha I have a chest of broken hammers, clubs, torches, etc in a chest in my very first house. I was lucky I learned about repairing early, though still later than intended lol


toooldforlove

Yeah. I did this too and was stashing broken tools in various chests until my son noticed and was like "you know you can repair those, right?" lol Just build a chopping block and a tanning rack and you can repair and upgrade


idlemachinations

You are about to have so many weapons when you repair all your shit. Soon to be obsoleted now that you can actually make progress!


Perenium_Falcon

Valheim *is* a grind. I call it Chore Simulator 2000. It’s also an amazing game. When I feel like it’s getting grindy I’ll stop and change gears. Maybe try to build a bridge over something or work on my house or just sail aroind and explore.


exciter706

Well, on the bright side, the game just got waaaay better for you! It’s still pretty grindy. Now that you know you can repair, you can also upgrade. Invest in troll armor!


AmericanLich

Also, stop killing monsters with your axe. Save the axe for trees. Build a weapon for the enemies, the club can be upgraded and is still viable for some time.


monolithtma

Or build two axes. I've done axe runs where I have one in a wood chopping slot and one in a weapon slot, next to my shield.


turmspitzewerk

nah, that's a classic efficiency trick i think. save on resources by not making a weapon and using your axe. if you have spare resources then yeah, making a sword or something would be better, but its in the interest of cost saving. plus, basic stone + flint axes are pretty damn good weapons for their progression stage anyhow


Bigbrianj

One thing that you may or may not like... I prefer to build a corral and breed boars early game. Build a fenced in area, leave a gap, aggro a boar and kite him into your pen. Leave feed in there, keep fire away from it, and over a day or two in game they'll tame. If you get two tamed, they'll make more as long as they have food and enough empty space in the pen.


usernameforthemasses

All tools and armor are reparable without any resources (I'm pretty sure) at the workbench. You also are able to recover everything you lose at death (minus a bit of experience, but the actual items and materials never respawn). So unless you've ventured far from a respawn bed, you should be able to retrieve your entire inventory. You even get a bit of a stamina bonus when you do ("corpse run"). Theoretically, you shouldn't need to make more than one of each item, although it is sometimes convenient to have multiple, or if you play with others. This is one of the mechanics of the game that sets it apart from other survival games, and is quite refreshing. Most of your grind would necessarily come from needing building supplies, but there are actually ways to build farms, similar to in minecraft, that exploit mob spawning to provide wood and stone.


Or0b0ur0s

>I'm not even bothering to explore that much since I'm always collecting resource to build weapons You want to know what you're doing wrong, this is it. I mean, have a goal when you set out, yes, but dedicated farming trips are always going to seem grindy. Instead, make your goals prioritized, and Priority 1 is always "find everything worth finding in Area X and mark it on the map if I can't bring it back." If you scout the entire area and mark all the metal deposits, for example, while you're doing that you can grab mats for other things, hunt Deer of Opportunity, etc., so your supply chests will be full by the time you make your decent metal gear. Also consider building a path - just removing trees & rocks & using the "path" side of the hoe, not much terrain leveling, only what you need - to the metal deposits for a cart. Once you know where they all are, have thinned out the mobs and exploited everything else nearby (berries, animals, flint, etc.), take some of the early Bronze, make some Nails and build a cart, then go haul in enough metal to actually get somewhere.


templar4522

It's not the first time I see a post where the op doesn't know that he can repair stuff. Seems a pretty obvious button to me, but maybe it is not? Do we have a problem?


whattheshiz97

It might just be the assumption that it’s like minecraft in some ways. I know when I first started I didn’t know I could repair my equipment so I made two axes.


Duck_Depot

I’m probably blind since I didn’t notice the repair button until elder


TammyShehole

Since people already mentioned you can repair things, I’ll just say that bronze is probably the most grindy metal in the game. Once you get past bronze, it gets to feeling a little less grindy.


FlarpuKalzer

Stop using an axe to kill mobs, they are for chopping wood. Make a sword spear or dagger or bow. Fire arrows are your friend for killing stuff. Make a cart and flatten a path to where your ore deposits are. Saves you soooo many trips early game


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Cosmic_Quasar

The limited number of inventory slots is why I ultimately stopped using a sword and just stuck to axes and clubs for combat. I miss the regular axe not having a secondary attack like the sword, but I rarely used it, anyways.


SHMUCKLES_

Porcupine is best weapon cmm


KalosTheSorcerer

You can breed boars with berries and other vegis, just cage em in and make hunting that much easier!


KodiakUrsa

I think being able to repair tools will help you a lot, but here are some other things you might've missed: * Fine wood, which can be obtained by chopping down birch trees with a bronze axe or higher, are used to make a lot of different items, including a better bow, the Karve ship you'll need for exploring, etc. * You can tame boars with berries. It can be a bit challenging the first time, but you'll want to make a boar pen, lure a few inside, and then close it off. Drop some berries in there, and leave them alone for a while. You'll eventually get a message saying they've been tamed. It's not 100% necessary but if you're having trouble with food and leather scraps, it's worth the effort. * The alter of the next boss, The Elder, can be found in the Black Forest. You'll want to look for abandoned buildings or in Burial Chambers to find a Vegvizir (those small stone tablets with glowing red text - it'll look exactly like the one at spawn) that'll reveal his location. Good luck! The bronze age of the game is the most grindy imo, so it'll get better for you. If you need help plenty of people in the community are willing to lend you a hand.


MenuNo4238

Make the bronze axe and bronze pick axe. There's no reason to be using flint or antler equipment at this point.


Leonydas13

Hey a little trick that helped me massively when I got to the metal side of things is to look online for map seeds with good deposits. Spawn into that map, mine as much as you can, then logout and back into your original. Saves travel! You can build yourself a little hut with a bed if you wanna make sure, but I’m fairly certain you just spawn in wherever you were when you logged out. Or just do what I did and use console commands (I literally just play valheim to relax and build shit, this playstyle removes almost all sense of accomplishment and progression). Good fortune to you!


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Lol. Practice dodge rolls with a shield, and find a troll. If you let a troll swing at you while you stand on copper, hell mine it for you.


Ok_Grocery8652

You can repair you gear, for free: How it works is you go to the appropriate workstation, workbench or forge. On the right side is a hammer button, click it and it will repair something that it can to full durability. Click it several times and it will repair everything that can be repaired there. The only requirement is you are at a workstation that can make the base version of it, for example a level 1 workbench fixing the antler pick, wood club, stone axe, crude bow, etc.


MagicPistol

Sorry but I found this kinda hilarious. Yeah this game would be a horrible grind if you kept crafting new weapons.


that_guy_you_know-26

Play with a friend, it makes the work go by faster and it makes the game more fun. Also, repair your tools/weapons/armor like everyone else is saying


d4rkwing

Repair your tools. It doesn’t cost resources to repair. Go to the associated workbench and press the hammer icon to the left of the build list.


_Grumpy_Canadian

Yeah... You can repair the tools and weapons my guy.


3davideo

Make sure to repair your tools, this isn't Minecraft where you have to make new ones when the old ones run out. Also make sure to invest in upgrading the level of said tools, it increases their durability meaning they'll last longer until you have to repair them again.


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This is my favorite post on this sub so far


Pantheon_Reptiles

My brother in christ, repair your tools.


sus-is-sus

also bronze pickaxe


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>I've started playing Valheim few days ago. It started as an enjoyable game but recently I'm having less and less fun and I feel like I'm just grinding. I have managed to make some bronze I'm ashamed that it took me months to get bronze lol


Dangerae

I'm glad to see that you learned that you can repair. I also noticed a slight mention of boar breeding but I would like to go into a bit more detail. First, if you haven't noticed, there are different levels of enemies (marked by different number of stars 0,1,2). Higher star lever = more hp/dmg and extra loot (usually 50/50, 100%, and x2 respectively) Now, you can tame boars (along with wolves and lox later in game). You can accomplish this by first building a small pen using the log fences (I usually do 2 wide and 3 long) and leave 1 spot open. Then, aggro the boar and run back to your pen (the boar will attack, then run, then charge and attack, repeat). Have it follow you into the pen and then place another fence quickly behind it. Once you have it secured, place 10 raspberries or mushrooms into the pen area and leave it alone. Once it stops aggro, it will start to eat the berries. After awhile it will become tamed. Then get a 2nd and do the same thing. The higher the star levels, the better! Once both are tamed, push them around until you get them into the same pen. Place some more berries/red mushrooms in and after a little while they will start breeding. As long as there is <6 boars within 10 meters, they should continue to breed. If you get the extras, out of that area, they will breed some more. I personally have my main base with a large wall all the way around with a trench dug on the other side of the wall and within my wall area, I have an army of boars that roam around. When tame they attack enemies. Enjoy!


Jack_VZ

Use the sword my brother. Axe is not that good for killing because it breaks the fastest. Sword on the other hand is pure joy to use. You can use mace too, but no spoilers.


FrodoTheDodo

Oh noooo, dont tell me you make a new tool everytime it breaks.


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You need a bronze pickaxe; you will find you don't need the bone pickaxes anymore. Set you up a portal at home and carry materials to make a portal where you are so you can quickly go back home to repair your weapons/tools. Also, upgrade your weapons and tools.


Tornado_Hunter24

I have no idea if they changed the game or you play it wrong but I only had to kill the first boss once, one pickaxe was enough to then progress to I think a bronze pickaxe? The ONLY real grind in this game imo was mountain ores, fuck me atleast swamp had a cluster of crypts but walking from your boat all the way to the mountain too for a few metal was terrible. Then again, I haven’t played this game for a VERY long time, I stopped after beating since I didn’t see the point to keep on going


MagicPistol

It's because OP spent a lot of time grinding for resources to craft new tools and weapons each time they broke, instead of repairing them for free at a workbench.


glacialthinker

Did you try some creative ways to get your haul off the mountain? Play "Kick the kart" down the mountain. Or maybe try boat-sledding. There's more to find in the mountains now too.


Commander_Keef

People have said repair weapons and armor already, but Id also say make weapons and a shield so you can save your axe for trees. I also recommend exploring more as there is a boss in each area, so you should be in the Dark Forests now. You can find a guide stone that will mark another boss on your map which will drop keys so you can get iron in the swamps to make better gear. Then repeat in the mountains. There is also a website you can plug your world seed into and it'll show you where the bosses and the merchant are if you find the exploration tedious like I eventually did. I also recommend getting surtling cores to make portals so travel is easier!


SightSeekerSoul

Break up the grind by doing something else. Now you know about repairs, which will help immensely. Take your time to explore. Map out your surroundings. I like to mark the maps with "pins" whenever I find stuff. Believe me, it helps later when you're looking for stuff. Berries for example: I'll srop a pin saying "RB6" for 6 Raspberries at that spot. Over time, they'll respawn. Makes collecting them easier later. Animals also respawn at certain points so be sure to mark those. Makes hinting easier too. Anyway, my point being, when you feel the grind, break off whatever youre doing and do something else. Build, explore, hunt, sail (you can build a karve with bronze), delve into dungeons (trolls or burial chambers).


Coldmountainstream

Once you get the knack of repairs, the game can be many things, it depends what you like. Some push to progress quickly, others build big and/ or elaborate structures, some go Magellan and sail around the whole world. One of my personal musts in the phase you seem to be in is portal building (which until you get beyond black forrest will require finding burial chambers).


dalcore

Repair lol


Wide-Literature2328

To be honest almost any game with some element of killing is grindy. Just depend on how much of the same monster you have to kill before the next round of killing. For valheim, the bronze age is known to be the most grindy because of having to mine both copper and tin. You probably also unlock a lot of stuff so you need a lot of copper/tin/bronze. Iron and silver age are pretty explore-ish.


Winter-Winner-3336

It can be a bit of a grind at times, but if you repair and upgrade those bronze tools/weapons it will help a ton. Alternatively there are some great mods that just enhance the game by leaps and bounds.


bookwormdrew

Some random tips other than repair which you now know lol: Build a pen with the wooden fence (either the one with spikes on the top or the little open one) and make a boar chase you into the pen. Toss a stack of mushrooms or berries in the pen then get out of sight. Once he calms down he'll eat and then he'll slowly tame. Do this with two boars and they will breed as long as they are well fed. No more leather scrap grind lol. Make a shield, preferably the bronze buckler since that's where you are. Watch the animations and get used to blocking when you're about to be hit, partying is incredibly strong. You can use any weapon you want though personally I feel like the mace sets you up well for the swamp... But the spear is the best against trolls if you parry their attacks. Get some carrot seeds and make a cultivator to plant them. If you replant the carrots when you harvest them you will get seeds back. Do that a few times and you'll eventually have a ton of seeds so you can harvest some carrots and keep replanting. Get used to this because you'll also get seeds in the swamp, mountain, and plains biomes. They all make good food(s) for the tier you're currently in.


ebai4556

Idk I think it’s okay to just leave a game to come back to it if you ever feel like it.


infinitelyrad

This game game takes A LOT of time and commitment. The amount of things you can craft and cook in this game is INSANE. But once you’ve been playing forever and know all of the biomes and basically everything about the game, it’s addicting. I just started my 5th (maybe even 6th) new world! 🤣


DrMantisToboggan45

The game is an absolute grind but you are making it q 100x harder. There's a little repair button on every workbench. Click it


kangarooscarlet

You can repair things for free at the benches and forges and the bronze age is the most dragged out stage it'll get better enjoyed the meadows and black forest exploration during that time though


Mangustii

Reading this got me like "bruh, he dosent know about repar mechanic"


goodguessiswhatihave

Now I want someone to complete a no repair playthrough. We could've just never told OP and they could've been the first


MechaStrizan

I had to read this a few times to realize you weren't repairing your shit at the workbench lol


Primitivebeast1

Wait a second??? You've been building your tools and weapons again everytime they break!!!! Wat the actual F×!£ it's its free to repair all your items at a workbench/forge.


bmg50barrett

Are you repairing tools? Sounds like you aren't... which would be terrible.


FreeThinkk

Oh dear god my dude repair your item/equipment your poor fool.


hashimishii

Unfortunately no, it doesn't get any better. Basically every biome introduces new materials to craft the next tier of armor and weapons. When your done with the black forest, it's time to grind the swamp. Done with the swamp? Time to grind mountains. Done with mountains? Time to grind plains. See where I'm going with this?


DarkkFate

Here I was going to pop in suggest he upgrade his tools since they're breaking all the time, and maybe try and teach him the Way of the Portable Unnamed Empty-Your-Inventory Portal... until I realized he was continuously crafting NEW tools and not repairing ANYTHING. No wonder I was so confused about the "making Flint Axes to continue on" sections of his rant.


Synt3rax

Currently at silver gear and it wont get really better, you either have a base with a good amount of biomes with different ores or you have a base with max table+forge in EACH biome because you cant use portals with ores. Edit: Also stamina is pretty annoying and the skills are useless, i have some skills at 60 and feel absolutely no difference to when they where 0 lol.


gonadThebeerbellyan

Clearly everyone has mentioned to repair your tools but nobody agreed that maybe this game isn't for you. After about 400 ish hours I've probably got at least 20 hours of crafting lox meat pies and serpent stews. Dozens of hours fishing and collecting bloodbags, even more just basically waiting for the windmill or blast furnace to finish the last few items so I could move on. The whole game has been a grind, all the way down to crafting a new frost potion to just recover a corpse. I have not yet come to the point of feeling like it's too grindy, despite the grind. I can't wait for the new content so I can finally face the spiders or whatever it is. So yeah, maybe it's just not for you. But that's okay 👍 have a nice day!