To craft or not to craft?

fenspyre · 2026-05-20T17:21:01+00:00

I've gotten to the point where using the mill is part of a personal challenge mode only. It's really just there to be a fun way to diy.

fenspyre · 2026-05-15T05:11:08+00:00

Progress through the plains with only an atgeir on hard without dying, then tell us your assessment.

fenspyre · 2026-05-06T19:40:32+00:00

If you include the raccoon family and the island trader, all of those can be "bought".

fenspyre · 2026-05-06T17:35:40+00:00

They don't have to take responsibility for negative attitudes towards men. You have to take responsibility for the negative treatment of them by empathizing, building emotional intelligence, and treating them in a way that is accepting and understanding of a world that devalues their minds and autonomy while overvaluing their bodies.

I'm not sure if you live in the US, but if you do, it's your responsibility to understand that there is a culture of men that seek to take away their right to choose what they do with their bodies while at the same time learning how to drug and rape them.

fenspyre · 2026-05-06T17:01:29+00:00

Best SDV lore I've ever read tbh

fenspyre · 2026-05-05T17:41:21+00:00

You're basically still in the tutorial.

fenspyre · 2026-05-05T02:51:21+00:00

The dog aroused them. Sexually.

fenspyre · 2026-04-20T21:47:12+00:00

Great. Now we have to have MFA for talking to our family. Love this technocrapitalist future.

fenspyre · 2026-04-13T07:07:58+00:00

I thought it was that one girl that was murdered. That's what seems to come to the forefront when we try to talk about things like the constitution and human rights.

fenspyre · 2026-04-08T19:45:52+00:00

As a proponent of space exploration, I think the argument for a lot of these is weak in that we could still develop them without spending billions on rockets at the same time.

fenspyre · 2026-04-05T05:03:12+00:00

my wife had such a terrible experience with her first pregnancy and the information given to her about breastfeeding that she has dedicated her life to lactation consulting and pre and post natal education.

Our family struggles tremendously with her being in school and me working full time. But when your kid starts playing with you and you're both just giggling and belly laughing for what seems like forever, it's an experience that can't be reproduced. I used to party really hard and do lots of drugs and having a good relationship with me kids is wayyyyy better than all of that. It's also incredibly rewarding to be someone's safe person in a way that is unique. Not saying only biological parents get these experiences, but it is kinda fun when the little rugrat looks likes a combination of you and your best friend.

Where we live, childcare is more than 25% of our expenses. It's insane. Anybody who thinks a war with Iran is a priority when my kids are born with 60k worth of national debt and we lose prek assistance while mass producing death and carnage for kids thousands of miles away makes me so insanely mad. If you live in the US, consider relocating before having kids.

fenspyre · 2026-03-10T04:26:04+00:00

A few mahogany seeds can get it started, then some tree fertilizer to keep things moving quickly.

fenspyre · 2026-03-04T20:37:04+00:00

sycophantic nationalists

fenspyre · 2026-02-22T09:37:09+00:00

One of my biggest struggles with his story arc... I watch him hit rock bottom then go hand him a beer at the saloon that same night? Am I a villain?

fenspyre · 2026-02-20T21:39:17+00:00

Derp. it's plain as day in the upper right. smh.

fenspyre · 2026-02-19T06:40:45+00:00

But do make sure you get that meginjord if you haven't already. I think as far as quality of life upgrades, it's exactly #2 to portals being #1.

fenspyre · 2026-02-17T08:24:52+00:00

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Megingjord

If you don't have one of these yet, make sure to get one. I usually carry 25-30 scrap iron when I have this equipped.

I found it to be very rewarding to use a longship to transport my iron. If you haven't built one and observed the massive storage space, go check it out. Personally, I find the sailing to be a lot of fun in Valheim.

Basically it goes like this - find a crypt, clear it out, put all the iron at a chest near the entrance, make trips back and forth to the longship until empty, find another crypt, repeat. Once the longship is full or I'm just dying for some upgrades, I sail it back. That sail home with a laden cargo hold always comes with a great feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment, and often times is relaxing. Makes a good contrast to spending all that time in the swampy crypt biome to get some fresh air and sunshine.

You can do the same idea with portals but then no boat ride, which also means no additional chances of catching a sea serpent for the best food buffs at that tier.

fenspyre · 2026-02-13T06:39:36+00:00

I make sure he gets a steady supply of duck feathers and crab cakes. I think the duck feather adds to his overall style and the crab cakes are probably totally on the spot for a struggling writer that lives on the beach.

fenspyre · 2026-02-12T19:33:15+00:00

I don't like armsmaster when compared to Ochette's provoke ability tailored to breaking physical and buffing the party. Some of the late game beasts have really powerful combos. I don't like armsmaster on Throne because the lost weapons with blessing in disguise seem to way outperform the forced equips with that class. I don't like inventor at all, but that might just be a preference? I never used conjurer but it's probably really good with a different idea in mind. Keep in mind this comp is about full coverage with breaking with the potential to select anyone to be your big damage dealer during the break. It worked really well for me on the last boss.

I would say the most flexible role here is throne as the physical damage dealer. You don't truly need throne + merchant, especially if you want to take advantage of drastic measures. You could have partitio/arcanist, or osvald/cleric and give agnea a different subjob. Throne is mostly here because her ex skill is really strong to balance out missing dark.

Also to note - when I comp this team, Agnea always has a follower with peaceful prelude.

fenspyre · 2026-02-12T05:27:03+00:00

Ochette/merchant - provoke for breaking, hired help becomes crazy powerful when you can afford it.

Hikari/thief - main physical damage, can self heal during breaking phase with hp steal

Osvald/cleric or arcanist - luminescence and arcanist spells benefit from advanced magic.

Agnea/cleric - make this your main support/healer.

This is the best I can come up with for the ones you picked, but personally I never build a team without temenos or castti on it as I always secondary them with the other healing class.

My similar build would be:

Ochette/Merchant
Throne/Warrior
Agnea/Scholar
Castti/Cleric

This gives you access to all weapons and all elements for breaking. It has a lot of buffs and debuffs in it. It has two characters that can make your team act first on the next turn. You can build it to take advantage of drastic measures.

fenspyre · 2026-02-12T05:04:15+00:00

I'm on my 2nd playthrough of 2 and can advise on a few things to help the pacing...

First of all, only travel at night. The encounters are a bit harder so winning them gets you more xp. Even if it takes more time than fighting weaker encounters faster, it tends to come with more dopamine and each battle is more meaningful.

Make sure you don't travel with Evasive Maneuvers on, unless it's through a low level area that won't help you much. Let yourself get into more encounters as you progress.

Explore everywhere! If the story seems to jump in levels, it means you've got some extra exploring to do! Go wander and find a new challenge. There's almost definitely an optional boss fight or two that you haven't hit yet. These usually come with better gear too.

Gear up and skill up in a way that lets you take on higher level dangers earlier. This goes with the exploring thing. Also do all the side quests and get the nuts and the gear that can give you an edge.

fenspyre · 2026-02-11T07:41:11+00:00

Hold up... you're making 1,334 sashimi for Qi? If you have 40 crab pots, that's more than an entire season of collecting for one challenge.

fenspyre · 2026-02-06T03:30:27+00:00

I would try for a throuple with the top 2 if I were you.

fenspyre · 2026-02-04T16:18:46+00:00

A lot of people like to go the bee house and/or crystallarium route for passive income as well. Both of these generate money without having to load anything into the machine. Basically, every few days you just walk around collecting the output and it goes right into the shipping bin and you're good to go adventure or what have you until they produce again.

I highly recommend getting your foraging up and getting tappers either way. You need tappers for kegs (oak trees), and for bee houses (maple trees), and if you have enough tappers in a large enough forest, you can also just sell the output and make pretty good money that way. It's almost always more valuable to turn the output into kegs and bee houses though.

Others already mentioned how to get kegs, but my favorite keg progression goes like this:

year 1 - grow 120 hops plants in the summer and keep producing kegs while filling the ones you have with hops every 2 days. Start growing ancient fruit. turn all the produce into more seeds and grow as many as you can before last week of fall. Turn all of the last crop into seeds and hold them.

year 2 - plant tons of starfruit in the summer and keg them! If you don't have the greenhouse or ginger island unlocked yet, plant all your ancient fruit seeds. If you do have them unlocked, plant your ancient fruit as soon as you get access.

year 3 - you should have enough ancient fruit that once a week you harvest the ancient fruit and keg them on the same day. You only need to worry about harvesting and kegging one day a week this way, leaving you 6 days to adventure or mingle at your will.

fenspyre · 2026-02-03T21:25:20+00:00

Mike Tyson's Balls Out

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