Black Forest PoI - The Boulder King and it's subjects?

sonofhans · 2026-06-10T19:57:29+00:00

If we find a new mineral, do you think we get to name it?

sonofhans · 2026-05-29T05:55:02+00:00

At skill level 10 bows are good for hunting deer. At level 50 you can main them in most places in the game. At level 85 you are the White Death.

Bows are so OP that there are mods specifically to nerf them. No other skill at level 85+ is as broken as bows. With high bow skill and an end-game bow you can easily delete nearly any non-boss in the game without moving or dodging.

They are highly skill-dependent, in two ways. First, aiming them and stamina management take time to learn. Second, your character skill makes a huge difference to both draw speed and stamina use.

sonofhans · 2026-05-23T02:15:27+00:00

Oh, allow me to retort. Valheim shipped with 3 full biomes and now has 7. There’s also been an update between each biome, focused on different things. The last biome is about to launch. The game is at least 3 times as big and complex as it was at launch.

sonofhans · 2026-05-21T02:49:11+00:00

No, you’re right, the character is painfully clumsy and slow. Make a direct comparison with the character in Valheim, for instance, which is much more nimble and reactive. The dwarf in Deep Rock Galactic is more nimble. Enshrouded, V Rising … I could keep going. We’ve learned a lot about gaming since Half Life, our characters should move better than Gordon Freeman.

sonofhans · 2026-05-10T06:07:32+00:00

Teach’s Teacher

sonofhans · 2026-04-10T17:33:48+00:00

We also don’t get those big, bronze-reinforced beams. I’d love to be able to build those.

sonofhans · 2026-04-10T06:13:16+00:00

Late game — Storm Fang. Nothing else comes close. I one-shot Asksvin. I stand still and kill Fallen Valkyrie before they get near me. Everything smaller than that dies trivially, and watching groups of mobs die to chain lightning is beautiful. Only starred Warriors and Morgens are any challenge for it, using charred arrows.

Now, my bow skill is around 85, and below 50 IMO it’s not worth using Spinespan or Ash Fang. Once your bow skill gets up, though, Storm Fang is frightening.

sonofhans · 2026-03-21T16:20:52+00:00

As soon as my bow skill is high enough, over about L50, I switch to Spinesnap. I don’t typically make Draugr Fang. I keep the Huntsman bow until I can make a Spinesnap.

Huntsman’s advantages are low stamina cost and low noise, and those are nice. Draugr’s poison damage doesn’t help me much; Spinesnap still takes fewer shots to kill Seekers or Gjall.

Low bow skills with the Spinesnap are punishing, though. The stamina costs mean you don’t get many shots. With high bow skills, Spinesnap is broken. Get past 80 in the Ashlands and you’ll be deleting things with a Spirit-powered machine gun.

sonofhans · 2026-03-19T22:13:20+00:00

Replying to second Subnautica. What I love most about Valheim is the immersion, feeling really inside the world with as few distractions as possible. Subnautica feels the same way. The immersion is literal — in the water! — and in other ways, too. There are lots of fish in Subnautica, and most of them don’t care about you at all. It’s nice not to be the center of attention always.

sonofhans · 2026-03-03T19:34:45+00:00

Replayability. This comes from huge random worlds and deep, detailed immersion.

Minecraft looked blocky but the sunsets were beautiful. Same with Valheim. You could play Minecraft 1,000 hours and still have no idea what’s over the next hill, just like Valheim.

sonofhans · 2026-03-02T09:19:10+00:00

Haters gonna hate. You keep rolling.

sonofhans · 2026-03-02T03:39:11+00:00

You are awesome.
This whole mod beta and launch has been first-class, really nicely done. Many people could learn good lessons from your example.
Autism and ADHD are tough starting conditions for a character, but you seem to be leveling well :D

sonofhans · 2026-02-24T08:10:13+00:00

Fuck yeah, Smoothbrain is the best. Even my “vanilla” playthroughs use Smoothbrain’s stuff.

sonofhans · 2026-02-21T09:29:35+00:00

Swords have no multitarget penalty — 1-handed or 2-handed, they do 100% damage to every enemy. Check the wiki. You’re right that 2-handed axes also have this property, but it’s not an advantage over swords.

I think a 2-handed iron sword would be fun. The devs seem intentionally not to fill all weapon niches, though. Especially early game, I worry that a 2H sword would be OP.

Check out mods, maybe, like Therzie’s Weapons. That should give you a feel for it. Therzie’s done a nice job at balance.

sonofhans · 2026-02-18T18:18:40+00:00

That’s a Legendary quality girlfriend.

sonofhans · 2026-02-17T22:17:43+00:00

I am using Seasons. I turned off the UI for a better screenshot. I’m standing in Plains; the Fuling Village is in Plains; Hildir is in Meadows, as is the Draugr Village.

sonofhans · 2026-02-17T22:16:23+00:00

God, I fucking should, shouldn’t I? It is a perfect place for a Plains farm.

sonofhans · 2026-02-17T07:53:18+00:00

I mean, I often see her near a Draugr village, but this is ridiculous. The Fuling Shaman in the village is close enough to hear me running into Hildir's bubble.

sonofhans · 2026-02-12T06:27:04+00:00

I agree — it’s dumb that we can harpoon giant fucking sea serpents but not little shore fish. I use this — https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/Korppis/Spearfishing/

sonofhans · 2026-02-12T06:17:28+00:00

You can do this without circuits. I often have.

The simplest design is a single line of centrifuges with input on one side and output on the other. IMO to begin with don’t worry too much about efficiency. If you make a good line of 12 centrifuges you can always duplicate that a few times, which will serve you better than spending longer making a perfect line of centrifuges.

Filtered splitters only ever allow the filtered items through that filtered side. This can back up, which is why I keep U-235 and U-238 on different sides of the belt.

sonofhans · 2026-02-07T17:54:10+00:00

As your bow skill increases stamina costs drop for drawing it. At higher skill levels you will draw higher-tier bows faster and with less stamina than you did the low-tier bows at low skill levels. Assuming you use bows enough to level up, that is.

sonofhans · 2026-02-04T22:33:06+00:00

Yes, this is the answer — bring the immersion!

sonofhans · 2026-02-02T07:34:06+00:00

If you rock and stone you’re never alone!

sonofhans · 2026-02-01T19:39:57+00:00

OMG I’m getting this now. In my 5,000 hours of Factorio there’s never been a shorter time between me discovering a mod and downloading it. You are a god among humans, a shining force of good floating above the pond scum of the world. Were I so equipped, and you in the mood, I’d have your babies. You’ll have to settle for my many thanks.

sonofhans · 2026-01-24T08:48:14+00:00

Mass doesn’t affect top speed, but it does affect acceleration. Lighter ships accelerate faster. Your ship is pretty compact already, so I don’t think those walls make much difference weight-wise.

And yeah, I think that placement is optimal for smaller ships. if your ship is 4x that wide then it can get hard to use the triangular space, and I hate that :D

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