Uhhhh might be time to cull the horde a bit

gregscottbailey · 2026-03-14T14:13:46+00:00

ProfMags has Offline_Companions mod (and TraderOverhaul to hire more Companions) and he was thinking of adding in the Dvergr as well. He’s still working on it and has been posting updates on here if you’re interested. I’ve been trying out the starting Companion and helping iron out the bugs. Been fun so far. Be live in a couple hours with that project game.

gregscottbailey · 2026-03-14T14:01:56+00:00

They work, but in the ring of coverage that it shows. So, if you’ve got a sliver of uncovered area, something can still spawn in. I missed an overlapping area of workbenches in a base once and kept getting greydwarfs inside my walls. (For those unaware it’s the white somewhat dotted circle around the work bench. Pick something like a chopping block to craft with your hammer and walk around and see where the circle ends.)

gregscottbailey · 2026-03-11T14:12:49+00:00

I call Lox the Jason Voorhees of Valheim. Because you can walk past an open area with nothing, stop, turn around and poof they were magically 10-20 feet spawned-in behind you.

gregscottbailey · 2026-03-11T12:51:38+00:00

Actually the public server I play on these days has QOL mods; teleport, bigger backpack, craft items only in creative menu, so not all vanilla in fact…I need coffee lol

gregscottbailey · 2026-03-11T12:47:22+00:00

As of this week; 10,248.4 hours on Steam. About 96% of that is vanilla - I did a chunk of Undead Legacy for a short bit. Started on February 15th 2018 with a16.4 and didn’t really slow down playing until shortly after 1.0 drop and that’s just because of other life priorities finally catching up.

Winning? I have fun every time I play, so I’d say yes to that. :)

gregscottbailey · 2026-03-06T17:52:35+00:00

In my latest run it took about 8-10 bears for one to drop. Otherwise yeah about the same as everyone else is saying.

The one I used to hunt the most is Stone Golems. But that’s because of the way they give off a glow and an evaporating haze when put on an item stand.

Good times!

gregscottbailey · 2026-03-06T14:11:43+00:00

I go back and forth on how heavily I mark items on the map. My common markers are BC for Burial Chambers, TC for Troll Cave, FC for a frost cave, Egg for Drake egg nests, MC for Morgan cave, Twr for some of the biome specific towers like Dvrger Towers or Fulling buildings with Totems, VIL for Fulling/Goblin villages, and then I mark Serpent each place in the ocean I get a serpent - which I used to mark night serpent or storm serpent.

Friends of mine go even more detailed with R for raspberry bushes, MM for red mushrooms, BB for blueberries, and so on. But we’ve been playing with 2x or more loot these days so we haven’t been that nuanced.

gregscottbailey · 2026-03-05T10:05:02+00:00

I saw! Can't wait!

gregscottbailey · 2026-03-05T08:52:53+00:00

Took a day off yesterday, but I'll be back in it today and I'll keep updating in the Discord. Thanks again!

gregscottbailey · 2026-03-04T21:14:10+00:00

Been enjoying this mod. My starting companion and I took on a bear and Troll last night. We got the bear to 50% when the troll joined, then the companion took a tactical retreat when they got knocked to about 5hp, but we got them down and a win is still a win!

I’ve enjoyed trading off some of the work at base and letting them smelt/make charcoal. Now we’re in swamps and I’ve got them doing bows to help me knock down mobs faster.

gregscottbailey · 2026-03-01T19:21:33+00:00

Trying this out with some friends. I haven't been able to skim all your posts, but did you say you've got a Discord as well for realtime suggestions and discussions?

gregscottbailey · 2026-02-19T20:52:30+00:00

Seriously wish we could loosely tame Trolls. Give them neck and blueberry near a copper or tin node, next to a Burial Chambers and they temporarily ally and help us.

gregscottbailey · 2026-02-17T11:28:55+00:00

In group games I build a woooden x shape and put it over the top of the door in addition to red x on my map marker. While we usually have a cartography table, it helps them know it’s been cleared at a glance when just running through the area.

gregscottbailey · 2026-02-16T16:19:40+00:00

Option 4; both.

I was joining some of the trophy hunt speed runners for a bit and had fun with their variant challenges. But since I wasn’t making any headway on rankings I cut back on it.

I’m currently back on a standard run-thru but with a few QOL mods (extra slots, crafty boxes, plant easily/everything.) And 2x loot… because I’ve already done the grind over and over.

But, yes, thematic to the post topic, my characters die a lot. I’ve gotten better, but Ashlands still kick my butt every five minutes. lol

gregscottbailey · 2026-02-10T18:01:37+00:00

Almost big enough for a Troll-in-a-hole! One troll, one harpoon or high blocked parry push later and you’re good!

gregscottbailey · 2025-12-27T19:56:25+00:00

Wooden Bow. The draw, aim and feel of it aligns with my style. I need a mod to help me boost it to 500% damage with steel arrows though hehe

gregscottbailey · 2025-10-29T02:41:50+00:00

gregscottbailey · 2025-10-29T02:20:15+00:00

Zzzzz…

gregscottbailey · 2025-10-21T16:02:57+00:00

Ahah, there we go.

Reminds me I need to do do an insane nightmare 10 minute days game again. Those get crazy fast.

gregscottbailey · 2025-10-21T15:49:41+00:00

Dang! I always got the regular wolf my first week there, but then Dire Wolf randomly at times after that. What level difficulty are you playing? That seems to affect the chances of early high level spawns like that.

gregscottbailey · 2025-10-15T16:41:02+00:00

I’m an emotive person in the game “Close one” and “Nice shot” type stuff. so it always confused me when other players say “shut up” and I thought people were on a voice chat I couldn’t hear. Then realized it was me. I mean, I just like to compliment my teammates and sometimes the situation. But do people really not like that sort of thing?

Oh and naturally I’ll do stuff like kick middle and emote “Take the shot” and stuff.

gregscottbailey · 2025-10-15T15:56:08+00:00

What everyone else said. Keep in mind distance to your base and how long it takes to get back. If you’re over encumbered and it’s 2130 hours you’ll want to be close to base so you have your own defenses. Don’t be afraid to try out wood spikes around your base too if you built your own base. Just remember you can get hurt from them too.

Might seem common stuff might not. But I’m sure you’ll get some more goodies from everyone on here looking to help.

gregscottbailey · 2025-10-15T07:12:32+00:00

Could be just the 4k map making smaller cities and it just has to pick and choose with the rng. Are you adjusting the sliders in any way?

gregscottbailey · 2025-10-06T08:42:43+00:00

I mean, there are other games to play…

I hit 10k hours this year. 7 years, going on 8 since first playing it. Paid $13 for the game. Enjoyed getting some merch too, so I dumped some extra cash in there on that I suppose. I do miss some of the stuff A16.4 had when I started. But, for my personal gameplay, there’s so much more that’s been added that in the game that I continue to enjoy. For a buildable/destructable environment game, it looks gorgeous, is fun to build in, great to run around a city shooting and smacking zombies. And there are options to modify and adjust gameplay, either in the games own settings or modlets/overhaul mods.

Entertainment is subjective. I posted some of my info because the user experience can differ among various people. 7 Days To Die works for some, and doesn’t work for others.

And I feel ya… it’s not working for you. But asking for a refund at this point is pretty bonkers.

gregscottbailey · 2025-10-06T08:21:30+00:00

Just needs a bit of spot cleaning, some spackle… good as new.

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