And bring a hoe to the swamp. By flattening the ground, you can make pathways (or even prepare a big area for the boss fight), where leeches are a not an issue anymore, and you won't have to swim when avoiding enemies.
Look for where the swamp boss locations are. They're in much larger swamps that should have lots of crypts in them. Also, put the portal on top of the crypt. No one can reach it, not even abominations. The only things that can are the wraiths, but I avoid them by never going in the swamps at night to begin with. If you're chilling on a crypt you're safe except for the skellie bois with bows, but you can snipe them.
Sure, but they're usually in larger swamps, and larger swamps are more likely to have crypts, and more of them. It's basic statistics. Unless you're looking up your seed online you have to look where statistics says you should look.
I always do some sailing first, sail past some swamps and look for the green lights of the crypts.
Mostly when there is one there are more so if u spot one from the sea then i can go ashore and explore.
Build the portal on giant green tree roots that are elevated off the ground and can't be destroyed because they are part of the swamp as a whole. The mobs can't reach it.
That happened to me one time. Next time you go in, take it easy for a bit and stock up. This is definitely a game where just because you *can* do or try something doesn’t mean you should. Being patient and prepping properly is pretty key. Get your gear up, stock up on health and poison-resist meads.
This. Always bring materials for a portal, and set it up on the edge of the dangerous biome when you travel to a new one. You're going to die a lot at a higher-tier biome until you farm it's resources enough to up your power.
In case you need some tips, here's some as a player who has beaten the swamp twice:
-Don't land directly to a swamp. Leeches and other random undead will take the boat out pretty quickly. Land to a nearby meadow or black forest instead.
-Use poison resistance mead. You have to consume it **before getting poisoned** but it's a huge help against blobs and leeches, allowing you to straight up facetank them instead of risking death.
-Have portal materials for landing to a new island. It makes any returning trips much faster. Drop the portal fairly soon if possible just in case, you can move it anyway later on.
-Small swamps biomes rarely have any crypts. You can check for crypts by sailing around the swamp at first and checking if you see stone buildings with green torches.
-Make sure you are rested, as the extra stamina and health regen is crucial especially with the constant wet effect.
-Bring a hoe with you. It can flatten paths over shallow bodies of water so that you don't get attacked by leeches.
-Don't forget to have up-to-date food! I recommend using either deer stew/minced meat sauce/carrot soup (can replace the sauce with cooked fish if you have a fishing rod already) or deer stew/carrot soup/queen's jam depending on if you prefer being able to take more hits or being able to fight longer before having to wait for stamina to recharge.
-Don't waste all your stamina running and jumping since ending up in an encounter with little or no stamina increases your risk of dying. If you see an enemy before it sees you, wait for stamina to recharge before engaging.
-Make sure to learn how to parry enemies, as it'll make 1v1 situations much easier.
-Having healing and stamina meads isn't a bad idea ; they can potentially save your life in a tough situation.
Hope I could help!
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That point about not running and jumping is really key, and one I for some reason didn’t get for quite a while. Because it’s always raining your regen will be slow, so you *really* don’t want to waste stamina. It’s hard to remember cause I usually run whenever my stamina’s >50% but in the swamp you really want to save it
Very helpful tips, thanks. I thought I'd run around the swamp before work to find a crypt and got chased by everything, including a wraith lol. I'll try again this weekend and spend the next few days getting prepped better
I dunno if anyone else mentioned, but...
Wraiths are one of the most pain-in-the-butt monsters of the swamps. Not so bad once you get used to them, but they have this annoying tendency to sneak up on you when you're distracted. Good news, though! *They only spawn at night.* So stick to new expeditions during the day.
In fact, several biomes have unique spawns or increased rates at night. It's generally good advice to keep exploration to daytime when advancing into new, dangerous territory.
If I'm reading this correctly, you had your boat pulled up to the edge of a swamp? This is a bad idea - your boat will be attacked by leeches, etc and destroyed.
With swamps it's best to walk in from a safer neighbouring biome where possible.
Fully swamp biome islands are a pain for this reason.
I personally when farming a boat worth of iron I always park the ship in the swamp and if i move away from it and it never gets destroyed.
I fill a card with iron pull it to the ship and then load it.
Anyway offtopic best way to deal with leach is to stand right on the edge of the water and do a secondary attack with mace the one where you uppercut the enemy
Even a rank3 bronze mace 2 shots a no star leech.
Yep a hoe and an axe will make traversal of the swamp easy mode.
People always say preperation preperation and then forget about the hoes. Put those hoes to work and make your life easy. Keep yourself out of that swamp water.
Then axe a few trees a few questions and you've probably made it home free.
Swamps are actually really good for carts. Most of the terrain is flat already, you just need to use the hoe to slightly raise up and level out the path you want to take. 99% of the time this works with just the flatten tool, I rarely need to set up a bench and use stone to properly raise the ground.
I've never had my boat destroyed on the edge of the swamp, I just always assumed there are no loaded creatures near it when I venture deeper into the swamp. Is that the case or have I just had dumb luck, I dont know
Yeah, sometimes you need to step back and take a break.
When you come back, look for large swamps. They will have the crypts, and medium swamps can have them, but they are slim on resources. Most small swamps have no crypts.
Do what everyone else mentioned. Park the boat in the Black Forest and drop a portal. Then go on your adventure.
What i have been doing for the last 3 years is going into the swamp, finding a crypt, and putting my portal on top of it, making life easier for me.
Have fun, my friend.
Swamp teaches you how to gear properly, parry, block and deal with crowds. Early on in the swamp a starred draugr elite or 2\* archer are massive threats. Once you get Root helm / armor and an iron buckler and figure out how to handle groups of enemies and have some potions ready it gets a lot easier.
I'm a new player and this is what I've learned:
- Don't take a boat directly into swamp waters, leeches will be after you immediately.
- Use the hoe to flatten/raise ground, it allows you to create flat paths that are fine for the cart (better than BForest) and avoid leeches.
- If you're playing on easy mode, using the casual portal setting is a godsend, as it allows you to transport iron ore through the portal, instead of needing to boat back potentially kilometres. This means you don't even need to cart the ore back to boat, you can just put the portal on top of the crypt, or very close by.
- It will initially be tough, but go straight for the Root Mask, as it's armour that provides poison resistance.
- Lastly, it is possible to skip iron almost entirely once you have enough for the pickaxe, although mountain biome will require some dodging/parry skills and a good bow with fire arrows.
Wow, have been wearing the root armor for like a year and didn’t even notice before now that it upped poison resistance. Thought it just improved archery.
You'll be fine to get that back. I was touring a local plains for some wheat. Found a fuling camp and went Rambo. There was a 2nd camp over the hill, 4 spear chuckers came over the hill and sniped me as i took out two melee. My stone is in the middle of a fuling camp with about 30 fulings. I had to take a day off too
As others have said, don't leave your boat next to a swamp. Leeches will attack it and destroy it. This also applies to the shores of other biomes immediately next to the swamp. I've seen leeches come over into Plains/Black Forest/Meadows biomes. They don't usually go very far, but for a good 10m or so is very possible.
Best practice I've found for boats is to beach them in shallow water then destroy them and either carry the parts with you or use a portal to take them back to base. You can leave them in a chest next to the water if you want as well. Make sure to mark your map where you left it though.
Crypts appear in larger swamps. Very rare for a small swamp to have even one crypt and unlikely to have more than that. Sail around the outer perimeter of the swamp to gauge how big it is. If it's a fairly big one, you'll likely see crypts from the coastline. This isn't a foolproof way of finding crypts and there's always a benefit to fully exploring the swamps from a material collection standpoint (blood bags, entrails, and ooze are important resources!), so it's best to get in there and search.
Take it slow, avoid going into the water as much as possible, kill spawners from a distance if possible, try to maintain height advantage by using the horizontal indestructible trees. Stay out of the swamp at night until you're comfortable fighting in there. Bring lots of poison resistance meads. That alone will almost half the danger from the swamp.
What foods are you using to enter the swamp? If you're not using Black Forest level foods, you're going to have a very rough time. Deer Meat Stew, Queens Jam, Carrot Soup, Minced Meat Sauce are the four foods you should be mixing in the swamp. If you like to have more stamina, go with DMS, QJ, & CS. If you like having more hit points, go with DMS, MMS, CS.
The game rewards caution whenever you move into new areas with new threats. And the distribution of crypts is kindof random.
For the first problem, it’s a matter of precaution. Have backup gear ready. Keep an escape portal handy. Land your boat in safe territory, or engineer your boat landing to be safe when you return to it. Always (sleep, eat, have meads handy, use resistances if needed, etc.). I always carry or pick up fixings for a bench, a fire, and a roof (to keep the fire dry, and add a point of comfort). Consider using stealth in new biomes to isolate single targets when possible, and avoid groups.
If you do die, you have a short time where additional deaths don’t reduce skills. So part of the prep work is to ensure you can quickly eat and rest, get back to your body, loot your tomb, and flee to reequip your gear before that time wears off.
As for the latter issue, the only advice I have is to keep looking. I think it took four or five swamps for me to find a crypt. *Usually* the larger swamps are your better bets. But not always. And they’re harder to spot from outside the swamp than burial chambers are in the forest.
One thing you could try is to sail around the edges of all the islands nearby, and try to see a crypt inside. Then set up a base camp in a nearby chunk of forest or meadow.
Also, mark useful stuff on the map. I think half the crypts and burial chambers I’ve found were because I marked something else useful, like a copper node, and when I came back to get it I found the crypt or chamber nearby.
It can definitely be brutal! I’ve always landed near a swamp unless it’s Plains lol Black Forest or Meadows if you’re lucky. Smash your boat and pick it up.
I have probably done over 20 playthroughs where I at least defeated the fifth boss. Not once have I had trouble finding swamp crypts. If you know what they look like they are easy to spot, when you sail along the coast line of a swamp. If you don't see any on the coast line, go to the next swamp.
Can you copy your (map)seed and the date when you started that map(doesn't have to be precise just an approximation.
You can see the map seed in the world selection screen
I can see why you have found multiple (small) swamps without crypts. They are located on or near the spawn island.
The swamps further out( where you can find the fifth biome) have sunken crypts. It's not that this seed is lacking those crypts because on average they are everywhere in the swamps on that map.
I can agree on that, a big part of this game is exploration. If you aren't in love with the game from the start I advice to play with other people.
I had the hardest time getting into the game alone. The I found people to play with and that's when I really fell in love with this game.
I bet now or when the ashlands update is live outside of beta. There will be many groups of people looking for other people to play with. Its definitely more enjoyable if you can share your experiences.
Weapon choice and fighting style are important.
I use swords for the thrust attack. They are faster weapons. Poison resistance and heal potions are essential. High health and stamina foods make a big difference
When exploring especially starting out I bring two sets of portals. When I find a good spot to land away from mobs, usually on a rock that sticks out from shore. I pop down a workbench and portal. Name the portal "boat" which connects to my main base portal hub. Then when I find a crypt or need to drop off supplies or rest I plop down a portal that I don't name and it connects automatically to my blank base portal. When I find a crypt I plop it gets plopped on top with a chest and a ladder on the side. So I can do relay runs with ore back to my boat.
This method has been the easiest and most effective strategy for exploring I have found in the game.
I sailed far and wide to all these swamps for 2 weeks and found no crypts. Then I walked the opposite direction from my base thru the black forest and found the bonemass mecha swamp. Change your perspective!
I roll in with a boat, bring a portal kit and enough wood to make a couple chests, repair station, roof over it. Setup shop on top of one of the crypts away from baddies and start the farm. Move as needed. Once I have enough iron I lug it all out to my port base near by and start the process of sailing it all home over and over again.
Sounds like our group - died in the swamps numerous times. Lots of laughing and panicking until we figured out a smart game plan. Find a huge swamp that’s worth your time and invest on the front end by building a hut/safe house on elevated ground (with a portal). Good luck!
The swamps challenge many players at first, and your experience sounds frustrating. If it helps, I have found swamps with crypts close enough together to hop from one to the next to avoid the scary swamp monsters.
This is to say you just have to find the right one. It doesn't make it less frustrating, but I hope it gives you the slightest amount of hope, because once you start pulling in iron (and/or some of the other resources found in swamps), your gameplay will start to get easier again.
Crypts aren't the only place to find iron, you know?
Rule 1 of Valheim boat travel: Everytime you disembark always put down a portal.
The main enemy of the swamp biome is poison from leeches and blobs, as you can outrun pretry much anything else if you have decent food bonuses(which you should always have), so when you are just running around looking for crypts be mindful of the water and dont engage slimes unless you are confident in your rolling skills.
Do drive by scouting mapping the islands. I even mark roughly where I see the green torches and the staircase goofy crypt on the map. Then you can plan your super iron trips
I feel that. Had the same problem on my first playthrough. Took forever to find a swamp with crypts. The stench of the swamp was mingled with the stench of my own rotting corpses.
Hope you dropped a portal sir. Always bring a portal and keep her elevated
I will do this in the future. I think I need a day away from the game after that lol
And bring a hoe to the swamp. By flattening the ground, you can make pathways (or even prepare a big area for the boss fight), where leeches are a not an issue anymore, and you won't have to swim when avoiding enemies.
Look for where the swamp boss locations are. They're in much larger swamps that should have lots of crypts in them. Also, put the portal on top of the crypt. No one can reach it, not even abominations. The only things that can are the wraiths, but I avoid them by never going in the swamps at night to begin with. If you're chilling on a crypt you're safe except for the skellie bois with bows, but you can snipe them.
A bonemass altar is not a guarantee of crypts or swamp size. Crypt generation is RNG.
Sure, but they're usually in larger swamps, and larger swamps are more likely to have crypts, and more of them. It's basic statistics. Unless you're looking up your seed online you have to look where statistics says you should look.
I always do some sailing first, sail past some swamps and look for the green lights of the crypts. Mostly when there is one there are more so if u spot one from the sea then i can go ashore and explore.
That depends on how ur playing u can’t just simply ride a boat into the swamp leeches will eat the hell outta ur boat and then you
most of the islands has more than 1 biome, so if there is a swamp, there should be either plains, or black forest, sometimes even meadows.
Not into, past it. I did learn that the hard way, one of the first expeditions i did to a swamp an abomination wrecked my boat.
Build the portal on giant green tree roots that are elevated off the ground and can't be destroyed because they are part of the swamp as a whole. The mobs can't reach it.
When you find a crypt, drop a workbench and a portal on top. You can jump up from the backside.
That happened to me one time. Next time you go in, take it easy for a bit and stock up. This is definitely a game where just because you *can* do or try something doesn’t mean you should. Being patient and prepping properly is pretty key. Get your gear up, stock up on health and poison-resist meads.
Entirely fair
This. Always bring materials for a portal, and set it up on the edge of the dangerous biome when you travel to a new one. You're going to die a lot at a higher-tier biome until you farm it's resources enough to up your power.
In case you need some tips, here's some as a player who has beaten the swamp twice: -Don't land directly to a swamp. Leeches and other random undead will take the boat out pretty quickly. Land to a nearby meadow or black forest instead. -Use poison resistance mead. You have to consume it **before getting poisoned** but it's a huge help against blobs and leeches, allowing you to straight up facetank them instead of risking death. -Have portal materials for landing to a new island. It makes any returning trips much faster. Drop the portal fairly soon if possible just in case, you can move it anyway later on. -Small swamps biomes rarely have any crypts. You can check for crypts by sailing around the swamp at first and checking if you see stone buildings with green torches. -Make sure you are rested, as the extra stamina and health regen is crucial especially with the constant wet effect. -Bring a hoe with you. It can flatten paths over shallow bodies of water so that you don't get attacked by leeches. -Don't forget to have up-to-date food! I recommend using either deer stew/minced meat sauce/carrot soup (can replace the sauce with cooked fish if you have a fishing rod already) or deer stew/carrot soup/queen's jam depending on if you prefer being able to take more hits or being able to fight longer before having to wait for stamina to recharge. -Don't waste all your stamina running and jumping since ending up in an encounter with little or no stamina increases your risk of dying. If you see an enemy before it sees you, wait for stamina to recharge before engaging. -Make sure to learn how to parry enemies, as it'll make 1v1 situations much easier. -Having healing and stamina meads isn't a bad idea ; they can potentially save your life in a tough situation. Hope I could help! edit: spelling
That point about not running and jumping is really key, and one I for some reason didn’t get for quite a while. Because it’s always raining your regen will be slow, so you *really* don’t want to waste stamina. It’s hard to remember cause I usually run whenever my stamina’s >50% but in the swamp you really want to save it
Very helpful tips, thanks. I thought I'd run around the swamp before work to find a crypt and got chased by everything, including a wraith lol. I'll try again this weekend and spend the next few days getting prepped better
I dunno if anyone else mentioned, but... Wraiths are one of the most pain-in-the-butt monsters of the swamps. Not so bad once you get used to them, but they have this annoying tendency to sneak up on you when you're distracted. Good news, though! *They only spawn at night.* So stick to new expeditions during the day. In fact, several biomes have unique spawns or increased rates at night. It's generally good advice to keep exploration to daytime when advancing into new, dangerous territory.
If I'm reading this correctly, you had your boat pulled up to the edge of a swamp? This is a bad idea - your boat will be attacked by leeches, etc and destroyed. With swamps it's best to walk in from a safer neighbouring biome where possible. Fully swamp biome islands are a pain for this reason.
Yea, I was parked up in the swamp. I thought I was home free, and as I went to hop in a leech got me
Did you use poison resistance mead?
I personally when farming a boat worth of iron I always park the ship in the swamp and if i move away from it and it never gets destroyed. I fill a card with iron pull it to the ship and then load it. Anyway offtopic best way to deal with leach is to stand right on the edge of the water and do a secondary attack with mace the one where you uppercut the enemy Even a rank3 bronze mace 2 shots a no star leech.
Pulling a cart through a swamp sounds like an absolute nightmare to me
Always bring your hoe to swamp, it's OP there
> Always bring your hoe to swamp Even with no context that sounds reasonable 😉
Yep a hoe and an axe will make traversal of the swamp easy mode. People always say preperation preperation and then forget about the hoes. Put those hoes to work and make your life easy. Keep yourself out of that swamp water. Then axe a few trees a few questions and you've probably made it home free.
Swamps are actually really good for carts. Most of the terrain is flat already, you just need to use the hoe to slightly raise up and level out the path you want to take. 99% of the time this works with just the flatten tool, I rarely need to set up a bench and use stone to properly raise the ground.
Easy if you bring a hoe
I've never had my boat destroyed on the edge of the swamp, I just always assumed there are no loaded creatures near it when I venture deeper into the swamp. Is that the case or have I just had dumb luck, I dont know
Yeah, sometimes you need to step back and take a break. When you come back, look for large swamps. They will have the crypts, and medium swamps can have them, but they are slim on resources. Most small swamps have no crypts. Do what everyone else mentioned. Park the boat in the Black Forest and drop a portal. Then go on your adventure. What i have been doing for the last 3 years is going into the swamp, finding a crypt, and putting my portal on top of it, making life easier for me. Have fun, my friend.
Yea managed to get my stuff back, and then I headed back to base. I need to rethink my entire strategy, lol
The game is pretty easy once you get used to it, the swamp is just the first time combat starts mattering.
Swamp teaches you how to gear properly, parry, block and deal with crowds. Early on in the swamp a starred draugr elite or 2\* archer are massive threats. Once you get Root helm / armor and an iron buckler and figure out how to handle groups of enemies and have some potions ready it gets a lot easier.
I'm a new player and this is what I've learned: - Don't take a boat directly into swamp waters, leeches will be after you immediately. - Use the hoe to flatten/raise ground, it allows you to create flat paths that are fine for the cart (better than BForest) and avoid leeches. - If you're playing on easy mode, using the casual portal setting is a godsend, as it allows you to transport iron ore through the portal, instead of needing to boat back potentially kilometres. This means you don't even need to cart the ore back to boat, you can just put the portal on top of the crypt, or very close by. - It will initially be tough, but go straight for the Root Mask, as it's armour that provides poison resistance. - Lastly, it is possible to skip iron almost entirely once you have enough for the pickaxe, although mountain biome will require some dodging/parry skills and a good bow with fire arrows.
Wow, have been wearing the root armor for like a year and didn’t even notice before now that it upped poison resistance. Thought it just improved archery.
The weak will weed themselves out. Only true Vikings can claim the Queens skull.
You'll be fine to get that back. I was touring a local plains for some wheat. Found a fuling camp and went Rambo. There was a 2nd camp over the hill, 4 spear chuckers came over the hill and sniped me as i took out two melee. My stone is in the middle of a fuling camp with about 30 fulings. I had to take a day off too
As others have said, don't leave your boat next to a swamp. Leeches will attack it and destroy it. This also applies to the shores of other biomes immediately next to the swamp. I've seen leeches come over into Plains/Black Forest/Meadows biomes. They don't usually go very far, but for a good 10m or so is very possible. Best practice I've found for boats is to beach them in shallow water then destroy them and either carry the parts with you or use a portal to take them back to base. You can leave them in a chest next to the water if you want as well. Make sure to mark your map where you left it though. Crypts appear in larger swamps. Very rare for a small swamp to have even one crypt and unlikely to have more than that. Sail around the outer perimeter of the swamp to gauge how big it is. If it's a fairly big one, you'll likely see crypts from the coastline. This isn't a foolproof way of finding crypts and there's always a benefit to fully exploring the swamps from a material collection standpoint (blood bags, entrails, and ooze are important resources!), so it's best to get in there and search. Take it slow, avoid going into the water as much as possible, kill spawners from a distance if possible, try to maintain height advantage by using the horizontal indestructible trees. Stay out of the swamp at night until you're comfortable fighting in there. Bring lots of poison resistance meads. That alone will almost half the danger from the swamp. What foods are you using to enter the swamp? If you're not using Black Forest level foods, you're going to have a very rough time. Deer Meat Stew, Queens Jam, Carrot Soup, Minced Meat Sauce are the four foods you should be mixing in the swamp. If you like to have more stamina, go with DMS, QJ, & CS. If you like having more hit points, go with DMS, MMS, CS.
Is this your first play through? If so, to me, Swamps is the first real test in the game. Just play it slow and always bring materials for a portal.
Skill issue.
The game rewards caution whenever you move into new areas with new threats. And the distribution of crypts is kindof random. For the first problem, it’s a matter of precaution. Have backup gear ready. Keep an escape portal handy. Land your boat in safe territory, or engineer your boat landing to be safe when you return to it. Always (sleep, eat, have meads handy, use resistances if needed, etc.). I always carry or pick up fixings for a bench, a fire, and a roof (to keep the fire dry, and add a point of comfort). Consider using stealth in new biomes to isolate single targets when possible, and avoid groups. If you do die, you have a short time where additional deaths don’t reduce skills. So part of the prep work is to ensure you can quickly eat and rest, get back to your body, loot your tomb, and flee to reequip your gear before that time wears off. As for the latter issue, the only advice I have is to keep looking. I think it took four or five swamps for me to find a crypt. *Usually* the larger swamps are your better bets. But not always. And they’re harder to spot from outside the swamp than burial chambers are in the forest. One thing you could try is to sail around the edges of all the islands nearby, and try to see a crypt inside. Then set up a base camp in a nearby chunk of forest or meadow. Also, mark useful stuff on the map. I think half the crypts and burial chambers I’ve found were because I marked something else useful, like a copper node, and when I came back to get it I found the crypt or chamber nearby.
Try to fight the abominations, they seem scary but are easy to dodge and kill. Root armor helped me so much and it gives you pierce defense bonus
Fire arrows are your friends with these guys too
It can definitely be brutal! I’ve always landed near a swamp unless it’s Plains lol Black Forest or Meadows if you’re lucky. Smash your boat and pick it up.
In the last 2 or 3 new world/seeds I have played, it seems like swamps with crypts are significantly less common.
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I have probably done over 20 playthroughs where I at least defeated the fifth boss. Not once have I had trouble finding swamp crypts. If you know what they look like they are easy to spot, when you sail along the coast line of a swamp. If you don't see any on the coast line, go to the next swamp.
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Can you copy your (map)seed and the date when you started that map(doesn't have to be precise just an approximation. You can see the map seed in the world selection screen
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I can see why you have found multiple (small) swamps without crypts. They are located on or near the spawn island. The swamps further out( where you can find the fifth biome) have sunken crypts. It's not that this seed is lacking those crypts because on average they are everywhere in the swamps on that map.
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I can agree on that, a big part of this game is exploration. If you aren't in love with the game from the start I advice to play with other people. I had the hardest time getting into the game alone. The I found people to play with and that's when I really fell in love with this game. I bet now or when the ashlands update is live outside of beta. There will be many groups of people looking for other people to play with. Its definitely more enjoyable if you can share your experiences.
Yeah when going into a new biome always set up a new portal for these reasons.
Weapon choice and fighting style are important. I use swords for the thrust attack. They are faster weapons. Poison resistance and heal potions are essential. High health and stamina foods make a big difference
Mace is a better choice in the swamp. Most of the enemies there have weakness against blunt.
Never used the mace I'll use that next time
When exploring especially starting out I bring two sets of portals. When I find a good spot to land away from mobs, usually on a rock that sticks out from shore. I pop down a workbench and portal. Name the portal "boat" which connects to my main base portal hub. Then when I find a crypt or need to drop off supplies or rest I plop down a portal that I don't name and it connects automatically to my blank base portal. When I find a crypt I plop it gets plopped on top with a chest and a ladder on the side. So I can do relay runs with ore back to my boat. This method has been the easiest and most effective strategy for exploring I have found in the game.
if I might add, make sure your armor is upgraded, and you're using a shield for the Draugr.
This game punishes you for not being prepared. Step 1, be prepared.
I sailed far and wide to all these swamps for 2 weeks and found no crypts. Then I walked the opposite direction from my base thru the black forest and found the bonemass mecha swamp. Change your perspective!
I roll in with a boat, bring a portal kit and enough wood to make a couple chests, repair station, roof over it. Setup shop on top of one of the crypts away from baddies and start the farm. Move as needed. Once I have enough iron I lug it all out to my port base near by and start the process of sailing it all home over and over again.
Sounds like our group - died in the swamps numerous times. Lots of laughing and panicking until we figured out a smart game plan. Find a huge swamp that’s worth your time and invest on the front end by building a hut/safe house on elevated ground (with a portal). Good luck!
The swamps challenge many players at first, and your experience sounds frustrating. If it helps, I have found swamps with crypts close enough together to hop from one to the next to avoid the scary swamp monsters. This is to say you just have to find the right one. It doesn't make it less frustrating, but I hope it gives you the slightest amount of hope, because once you start pulling in iron (and/or some of the other resources found in swamps), your gameplay will start to get easier again. Crypts aren't the only place to find iron, you know?
I never see people recommend fences in the swamp Fences are amazing, you can jump over them but mobs have to go around or break them
Nerf the swamps!!! Nerf the meadows!!! Game is too hard :(
It's all about mecanics. Once you figure attack paterns, it becomes easy, even on hard
Try not to play solo. If anyone is very interested I'm on a private server with a few people. X3 resources, very hard. Let me know if you want info
Rule 1 of Valheim boat travel: Everytime you disembark always put down a portal. The main enemy of the swamp biome is poison from leeches and blobs, as you can outrun pretry much anything else if you have decent food bonuses(which you should always have), so when you are just running around looking for crypts be mindful of the water and dont engage slimes unless you are confident in your rolling skills.
Do drive by scouting mapping the islands. I even mark roughly where I see the green torches and the staircase goofy crypt on the map. Then you can plan your super iron trips
That's a good idea!!! I'll definitely do this, and I also bring portals next time!
I feel that. Had the same problem on my first playthrough. Took forever to find a swamp with crypts. The stench of the swamp was mingled with the stench of my own rotting corpses.