Valheim: 55 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Playing

In this video I cover 55 tips and tricks to help you get started playing Valheim. Don't worry there aren't any major spoilers in this video as you'll encounter all of these things in the first few hours of playing.

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0:00 Intro
0:11 General Tips
1:48 Resource Gathering
2:52 Building and Crafting
5:54 Cooking and Farming
7:03 Combat and Hunting
9:17 Exploration
10:25 Outro

[lord_kinbote]

Just started the game today. Started my first base, killed greylings every 30 seconds, fell into my chimney, and burned to death. My new favorite game.

[melma]

The hoe is the most underrated item in the game. Use it instead of the pickaxe to free copperore and find treasure chests. Just stand on the lowest point of ground and flatten away. Use it to raise ground and make easy walkable paths in the swamp. Use it tu undermine structures and rocks for easy deconstruction. Use it to raise a dirthill underneath you for quick safety in a tight spot. Use it to flatten out an elevated area to better combat certain mobs. Use it to expand small islands or even create artificial onces to build your base on to avoid most raids and events. the hoe is a tier 6 item that you can make with wood and stone from lvl 1 - learn how to use it and all its tricks and features.

[bobetjobe]

Big tip you missed - you can quickly identify if a food is stamina, health, or balanced by the color of the fork on the food's icon. Yellow = Stamina. Red = Health. White = Balanced. The fork under your food bar will tell you which stat your food combination favors

[marievincent]

for the burried chest, don't bother digging. Just hit the ground with the stagbreaker and repeat when you see some damages. U'll destroy the chest and the items will be dragged on the surface. it save some time !

[ptb]

Number 1 tip for this game is your resting bonus, build the comforts so you get the max possible and when it runs out make sure to rest and get it again, it improves everything and the 50% ex bonus will make you tougher, faster, stronger alot quicker.

[noahdavis]

Started playing yesterday on Xbox and I love this game! Thank you!

[krystopherjohnson]

Also, if you cut a tree, you can repeatedly push it into trees too hard for you to chop, and knock them down that way. Similarly you can get the tree and it's stump to turn into wood by smashing them into rocks, trees and other logs or stumps. It's handy for getting rid of birch or oak trees near your building zone during early game.

[mmouse]

Caves - The fire inside the entrance is a great tip, but OUTSIDE you can put a Workbench in the ENTRANCE of the cave. Caves make great quick early game homes, the rock is indestructible, just make strong walls ands a door. I also put portals there later on, fast jump to an area.

Portals - One silly trick to keep them safe is put them on a roof and some stairs up outside the house. Weird, but it works, LOL.

[James]

If you repair the structures you find before deconstructing them you get more resources

[ScarryHarry]

personally, I think discovering a lot of this yourself is what makes it such a good game

[HolyReality]

I found this video very helpful. I've been playing for several hours now, and I had no clue about most of the things that you mentioned.
I do not understand some of these negative comments, you made an excellent video and your tips were very useful. Thank you!

[montajo]

On #44, I suggest you try out the flint spear. It can be thrown for hunting deer and birds. This allows to fully skip the first bow. The spear also has low stamina usage, a fast attack, and good damage, especially when upgraded to level 3

[BallisticAero]

One of my favorite things about this game is that nothing you repair will cost you anything additional and items don't get destroyed out of your inventory. One of my least favorite things about this game are the Brutes SPECIFICALLY how they are coded to fight you. The Greylings seem to run away if you just look their direction, and always want to hit you from behind which is aggravating when you're mining or gathering rss around the world. Brutes can be fought easily enough with a good shield, but the accompaniment of a Shamen means that every enemy near it will heal on repeat making what looks like a small fight take longer than it needs to.

[tamarackgaming]

Copper Nodes. I was playing for quite a while before I figured out that by mining down, you could place down a fire and get Sheltered at the same time if you did it right. Since Sheltered also lets Workbench work, you really didn't have to leave until just before the node disintegrated. Also found out that fires also disperse that annoying fog that shows up when digging in the Black Forest.

[samspinney]

Thank you these will help me I’ve been really excited to play Valhiem ever since I watched you play it

[famelcose]

The ding after every tip is so annoying

[esiuolgirl]

I've been playing since the game came out and tbh I never even noticed the raft/boat stopping when you jumped off! xD This is a great video! Especially the rolling. *Queue darksouls flashbacks*

[shutupshaun]

Don't forget you can use the stagbreaker to find silver in the mountains. If it says there is something that is too hard you have found silver

[nathanburgett]

56. You can put a pin with the name of your portal to remember them and where they go. 57. You can have a single portal at your base, and just rename it to link to your portals in the field. 58. Trolls are easy if you have a bow and good stanima. Fire arrows a plus. 59. You can move metal through a portal by having a second world with your spawn point by a chest. Gather metal, leave game, enter server 2, put metal in chest, . Go back to server 1, go through portal to base. Leave to server 2 and retrieve metal. Return to server 1. BAM!

[tradeka]

I just started this game and I have to say it’s really good so far. The building and everything has been so intuitive that I was able to get really far into a base build without having to look anything up. I’m at the point now where I’m trying to get some tips but overall this game is really well designed because you can figure it out and have a good time playing almost completely blind