This week in Valheim, we discover a greater strategy to construct your base, a livid cost of offended Fulings, and what could be the worst storage system design we have ever seen.
There’s no large Valheim information this week, however the neighborhood remains to be cooking up all types of cool buildings, fan artwork, mods, and extra. We’ve collected among the finest issues we have seen over the past week—let’s test it out!
This Week in Valheim Community Creations
Valheim’s neighborhood makes stunning fan artwork, loopy contraptions, and all kinds of different oddities—this is among the neater issues we noticed this week!
Yeeting a Boat Down a Mountain in Style
/u/okayshima_ on Reddit confirmed off a creation from a devoted server he performs on: an enormous luge course you can trip on a Raft. While it is not fairly at spectacular as taking a Karve or Longboat by means of the Mountains, this specific course has some very nice aesthetic touches. Valheim gamers will probably proceed to launch boats down more and more complicated ramps for a while, I’m certain.
Valheim Fan Art Continues to Impress
We’ve seen some really spectacular Valheim fanart in the previous few weeks and two artists we have beforehand coated have some new items. /u/mrmng on Reddit continues his quest to attract each creature in the sport; we have beforehand coated his work on April 10 and April 17, 2021.
That’s not all that is new, although! Artist Lisa Ayre has drawn one other Valheim biome; Ayre was featured in this collection back in March. This time, her new piece on Reddit covers the Meadows biome. Make certain to take a look at each of these respective Reddit threads to see the photographs in greater decision—there’s a formidable quantity of element in each!
The World’s Worst (or Best?) Storage System
Anyone who has performed Valheim for sufficient time will accumulate an ever-growing pile of junk. Sometimes, you would possibly find yourself chucking one thing on the bottom or in the ocean to eliminate it. Well, /u/Ghoststriker on Reddit took that concept to its pure conclusion with an “progressive” storage system that makes my mind damage.
You see, gadgets dropped on the bottom will ultimately disappear, identical to many different comparable video games. That is, until, the merchandise is inside a “secure zone” coated by a Workbench or Campfire. /u/Ghoststriker determined to dig a bunch of pits, label them, and simply throw all of his stuff into these pits like some sort of animal. He even created a rather amusing commercial on YouTube that extolls the virtues of this new strategy to retailer your gadgets—and I’m scared to confess that he is very convincing.
This Week in Valheim Mods
The mods we have highlighted this week are very utilitarian, particularly should you like to build things in Valheim!
NameYourShip Mod Lets You… Name Your Ship
The Valheim NameYourShip mod is strictly what it says on the tin: It enables you to give a reputation to your Raft, Karve, or Longboat. Font, font dimension, textual content shade, textual content place, and extra can all be configured to your style. You can get this mod on Nexus and Thunderstore.
The Valheim PlanBuild Mod Makes Building Easy
Building a giant mission in Valheim generally is a problem, particularly as a result of there actually is not a strategy to make blueprints in the sport. That’s the place the PlanBuild mod comes in—it enables you to place “ghosts” of constructing items to make it simpler than ever to get the whole lot lined up good.
You can get PlanBuild on Nexus and Thunderstore, however that is not the top of issues! You may also get PlanBuild BuildShare Integration (Nexus, Thunderstore) to make it work with the BuildShare mod (Nexus) and you may get PlanBuild BuildCamera Integration (Nexus, Thunderstore) to let it work with the Build Camera mod (Nexus).
ValheimExpanded is the New Core Mod on the Block
Our last mod of the week is ValheimExpanded v0.3.3 on Thunderstore. This mod guarantees so as to add a good quantity of content material to the sport, however it’s nonetheless very a lot in improvement—preserve in thoughts that technical points can emerge as improvement progresses! Its creator intends for this to change into a core mod that will likely be used to help future modules.
Valheim Must-See Moments: April 24–May 1, 2021
Open-world video games are rife with alternatives for one thing wild to occur—listed here are among the craziest and funniest issues we have seen this week!
Attacking in the Other Direction
The Plains is a severe issue spike for some gamers. Even should you’re geared up with the perfect gear in the sport, you may nonetheless get your butt kicked as we noticed in last week’s edition of this collection.
How unhealthy can it’s, actually? Well, it seems like a gaggle of gamers tried their best to kite as many Fulings as attainable in direction of a fortification. Suffice it to say, these guys have written a examine that they’d a very hard time cashing.
The Dangers of Harpoons
The Harpoon is among the most helpful gadgets in the sport, largely as a result of you should use it to reel in terrifying Sea Serpents and drag them onto land. The kicker, although, is that you should use a Harpoon to latch onto just about each single creature in the sport.
As you may see in the above picture, a pair of curious gamers determined to do a drive-by on a wandering Troll with their Harpoon. Suffice it to say, it did not go well for them.
Revenge of the Trees
As your Valheim playtime will increase, the possibility of getting killed by a falling tree approaches 100%. Trees are in all probability probably the most vindictive factor in the sport, readily falling by means of the roof of your house or proper on high of your head. Sometimes, they make it easier to out by smooshing an annoying Greydwarf; different instances, nonetheless, they’ve a fairly horrible sense of irony and smash the very thing you’re trying to repair.
We’re all completed with This Week in Valheim for now, however we’ll be again subsequent week! In the meantime, why not improve your information of the sport by studying a few of our in-depth guides?
Don Parsons contributed to this text.
