Valheim Ashlands is BRUTAL! (First Playthrough 10 hours)
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- The public test version of the new Valheim Ashlands update is finally here!
This is the playthrough of roughly the first 10-15 hours of my time preparing for, travelling to, and exploring the Ashlands biome. In this video, I tell the story of how my friends and I made our way to this hellish place, died a fair few times, checked out some of the new enemies, and started to figure out some of the mechanics. We went in pretty much spoiler-free.
Part 2 is here: • Valheim Ashlands Almos...
Note: As mentioned in the video, this gameplay was recorded on the initial release of the public test version of the Ashlands update. There have been some bug fixes and balancing changes since. As of writing, I haven't checked it out yet, but apparently the enemy spam has been reduced!
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Music:
All music is by me, but none of the songs have names :(
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World seed: 1 (Yes, just the number 1)
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro & Background
1:42 Unlocking new items
2:50 The journey to the Ashlands
6:46 Fighting for our lives
9:06 Meeting the new enemies
13:42 Search for the green light
16:41 First Ashlands Raid
17:18 ExplOREing
19:05 Chaos erupts
20:39 Bonemaw Serpent up close
22:20 New Ashlands equipment
22:58 First impressions and thoughts
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Special thanks:
Yes - Hry
By popular demand, here is part 2: czcams.com/video/Nl5gWE1jLZY/video.html
Nothing like a New Biome in Valheim with returning players how haven’t played in a good long while to remind you with that Biome, you aren’t prepared. However, really great video.
Haha cheers mate, that's part of the fun! (sometimes)
More playthroughs please! Love your narration
Cheers!
More please!
Hopefully we'll continue this weekend and I'll be sure to record it
I didn't learn anything new, but loved the way you presented your discoveries! I wish I would have found this when I was struggling to get this far. Keep it going, brother!
It's good to watch a small guide that can at least a little protect us from death and the irritation that we lost the best equipment and can't get it back. Especially since I'm going to Ashlands alone.
Yeah, me and my companion didn't realize the Feather cape had added fire weakness until we had stuff for the Ashen cape. That was very fun to discover
Ah yes, that pioneer journey into a new unexplored Biome is the most frustrating, and yet most fun moment in Valheim.
That struggle of dying, coming back, trying to get your stuff back, dying while taking your stuff, looping until you eventually clear enough of the enemies to set up a safe area around the portal.
Starting that first base area in the new biome, that is when the exploration of the biome can properly begin. Gathering of new materials, fighting new enemies. What fun it is to adventure around the world of Valheim.
Very poetic! It's always the most fun and difficult when the biome is new
Always enjoy your vids mate. Looking forward to more adventuring and mishaps.
Thank you!
Stumbled upon this video. Would love to see more of this playthrough!
Thanks mate, will hopefully play again and record more soon
Loved this! A series on the Ashlands would be awesome
Thanks :)
two votes! This was great!!
Great video, new sub. Good humor, love that you're with a team, and playing legit. I hope you turn it into a series.
Thanks mate!
Great video, as always. I've been playing some on my first character when I have some time, and I've absolutely died more here then anywhere else, even early Mistlands. Still think there are too many mobs swarming at once after the two patches, but I'm also doing it solo (which is probably much more difficult than in a group).
REALLY fun biome though, between corpse runs... I absolutely love all the new structures. And Morgen is a beautiful nightmare.
Yeah one advantage of playing in a group is 4 is you can keep Bonemass running 24/7 which definitely helps a lot haha. I still need to try it out post-patch and see what I think. Glad you're enjoying it and hope you're doing well!
That was such a cool video! Good lenght and so much info and fun
Thanks!! You're too kind
yeah this was enjoyable to watch. Perfect pacing, great narration and good editing. Would love to see a follow-up, especially after the hotfixes.
Aww cheers mate. I think I will record more when we play soon.
Holy shit dude! It really is brutal! Thankfully it's still in beta so they can tweak everything before the full release. Some friends and I just started a fresh save to prepare for the full release! Good luck out there! Can't wait to see more from you!
Cheers Kitchen Cat, good to hear from ya again!
Man, you came out of no where with such good content! I wish there was more!
Thanks mate! If you haven't seen any of my other stuff I'd recommend the building only challenge. I am working on a really long video and I think I will make a follow up to this :)
@@BigBrianGameplay oh I made sure to check out all the challenges you have done! Amazing job!
Your base looks so functional too! Would be great to see a vid of how you kept everything organized! That was always my biggest issue with trying to upgrade/progress.
Maybe I can talk about it, but essentially we just start by splitting into categories like wood, stone, trophies etc, and then have biome specific ones for some of the weirder things you might only find in one place. Normally when one gets too full someone will either make a second chest for that specific thing, or find a way to split an existing one into two different chests, like one chest for iron and one for black metal. It's probably not the best way, but it does get the job done.
I enjoyed this video a lot, would be great to see more!
Cheers, am uploading the second part now!
@@BigBrianGameplay nice, I'm hyped
I subscribed, dont send those fallen Valkyries after me. Love this video, keep making more!
Cheers mate - sorry for the late reply, the 2nd part will be coming out soon!
That was amazing and I can't wait to play it soon, I look to the possibility of more episodes like this. Or challenges. Oh boy
Thanks!
Love your style and would watch however many of these you decide to put out in their entirety.
I played both before and after the enemy aggro fix thingie and personally I think it worked wonders! Still tough, still war, but now there's light at the end of the tunnel. I imagine you'll enjoy your next session even more
Thanks mate! I did see a tiny bit of the vod of your first stream - I think it 's the only Ashlands content I've seen. I watch it after we played for the first time and got owned, so I was glad to see we weren't the only ones to find it a bit excessive. Also, really good to hear that they've got the balance right, I was a bit worried they might nerf it too much.
Me and my cousin were playing this game since the mistland update and i am really happy to see both of us clear almost entire ashlands (only boss remains) without dying once.
It felt like a proper challenge and some fight with 2 stars looks like a sequence out of elden ring.
Best update yet
Wow! Nice work!!
Make some more! This was fun to watch!
I think we will. Cheers mate.
Definitely wanna see more, definitely make it a series
I'd love to see more!
was really interesting hopefully theres a part 2!
Cheers!
It's amazing that everyone has a similar experience :D. My party died after about 5 minutes in Ashlands. The second voyage to Ashland destroyed our ship before Ashland and we got boiled in the Ashland waters :D
That happened to us as we sailed the metals back to the ashlands haha
great video, hope for more..
Cheers mate it's on its way in an hour or so haha
Great stuff mate, hope ya do a follow up video to this 👌
Thanks mate!!
I've avoided all of the Ashlands vids from the usual suspects, because I didn't want spoilers. Couldn't avoid this one, though. Figured if I was going to get spoilers, I might as well have a good laugh at the same time, and you delivered. Prostitute powder, and its a.k.a was....... *chef's kiss* 🤣I'd happily watch more, if your friends don't mind you filming them while they die.
Thanks for such an awesome comment! Well I feel kinda bad that you've had a few spoilers now, but at least we were definitely missing a few things, so there's still a lot more to figure out.
Wait what’s the point of avoiding it all , won’t u know all the new stuff they add anyways cause of the patch notes and the trailer they dropped I’m confused ?
Maybe they didn't watch the trailer? At least for the patch notes, they normally keep the visible part spoiler-free and vague, and then have detailed patch notes with spoiler tags underneath.
@@noahmorales3768 Aye, I didn't watch the trailer, and don't look at patch notes. To be totally honest, I wasn't really hyped for Ashlands in the same way that I was for Mistlands, so figured I'd just find out what was new when I loaded it back up. But I love this channel, and decided it was worth the spoilers.
@BigBrian.......please don't feel bad. I loved it.
Great video
Just a heads up, if you drink fire resistance, it nullifies the weakness of the feather cape, so you can wear it just fine if you have resistance all the time.
I love the Ashlands. I somehow, amazingly, have not died once in this biome. At this point it’s become a roguelike in my head. My team is pretty well established at this point so I’m not that worried anymore. It was hard fought and well earned. I hope they don’t nerf it.
Nice! we're definitely not up to standard, but I wouldn't want them to nerf it I don't think
Definitely record it, these are great
Cheers mate, hopefully this weekend we will
"This was our last chance to put down a portal, just in case something went wrong."
"We didn't do it"
I laughed so hard at that, idk why. It was the delivery with your voice. Lmao
Lmlao cheers
I've been doing it solo since the beta started. It's been slow to progress, but it is my favorite biome by far.
Nice to hear!
I like to keep a feather cape with me for them boat jumps, my jump level is 97 lol i love it. I been maining the asksvin cape or whatever one looks like a v from the ashlands. USE IT WITH MODER's ability for speed if it helps, havent really got to try it yet. We are getting itt
I think I started after the aggro range change, because while I did have moments of “what is this shit“ I could stay in one spot and kill everything. I accomplished about as much solo as this episode has, but definitely died a lot. I went there with my big boat completely loaded in a variety of metal bars anticipating a new ore smelt and didn’t want to ship it halfway across the world. It felt kind of crazy having that entire boat filled with supplies like I was bringing my whole save file into God knows what. First thing I did Was immediately billed a portal and bridge to the boat. Found out that the water does in fact kill you. I am enjoying it too, but it does seem a little bit excessive on number of enemies. It’s not so bad but when you have a morgen and fallen Valkyrie and army of skeleton people there’s just not enough stamina in the world.
Yeah I wish we brought the metals with us the first time because we ended up doing that afterwards anyway!
@@BigBrianGameplay i did also go like you with a normal boat and just burn and boil in the water lol. but since im a gamer i had portal materials on me and managed to jump on a pointy rock and build a portal home. i just got the staff of the wild and take back not being able to fight lots of big enemies, that staff is incredible. i EASILY killed two 1 star asksvins at once today. i was underwhelmed by the new axe attack animations, the second swing has so much vulnerable after-swing time, and i tried the new mace, its just so hard to capitalize on a parry with a mace that knocks them so far back, idk i think im just sticking with magic again
Nice video bro. They fix the mobs number problem. and you need to use Bow bro. or someone there. I kill almost all the mobs of 3, 4 or 5 arrows (frost arrows)
Iron Gate have really leveled up their animations. The Morgen moves around like nothing else in this game
woyuld love to see more
The second part is coming out pretty soon, uploading it now!
SPOILER the feather cape doesnt really do anything to me in the ashlands. the lava is an instant kill no matter what, the lava blobs are easy to get away from, an none of the other mobs use fire as their source of damage.
15:25 LOL ! :D
Couldn't imagine not using the feather cape in the ashlands. Makes escaping soooo much easier by climbing up and away from mobs of enemies. Of course, I always have a fire resistance mead going though.
I'm not against trying it out but I often forget to replenish my barley wine when one runs out haha
Have you played the Ashlands update? Do you know how to pronounce "Asksvin"? Let me know.
asksvin means "Ash pig/swine" in swedish
That's really cool! I thought the creature in the game was a reptile haha
@@rassesoderberg7149wait doesn't one of the drops say it's the final life stage of a Neck?
Ask vin
Really!? I didn't read the descriptions of its drops now that I think about it.
Great vidéo :) I wish my friends played valheim with me it is so hard alone to survive in Ashland + I have found 0 Flamme métal yet
Yeah I haven't tried out solo yet but I reckon it would be tough!! Have you tried it since they rebalanced the spawns a day or two ago?
@@BigBrianGameplay Yeah it's easier but still really hard ^^
You’re pronouncing Asksvin correctly! Great video.
Wow! Didn't expect that haha
IN the 16:00 something mark where you said it felt like a failure as you went back but had something to aim for means it's not a failure. Part of discovering new biomes means even finding an objective is a reward, especialyl if no one died on the way.
That's definitely true, I think it felt like a failure at the time because it had taken us a few attempts just to make it that far and we came back empty-handed. You're right though, it wasn't actually a failure, especially since we had unlocked the catapult payloads beforehand so it made it clear we needed to build something to break in to the fortress.
Didn't think when the devs said they are adding 13 new enemies that we will be fighting all at the same time😂
Haha true!!
I despise the Mistlands. i am so happy to see some ground to easily walk on again and actually see...I don't know how the Mistlands got passed testing! lol
I think if the wisplight did more it would help so much
My character in Valheim is pre strong, runa and jump are both 100 swords its 85 axes is 78 , my chrystal axe has like 130 slash and high blowback and my armor is 150 ( all upgraded 7 times, mods ). I sailed to the ashlands, came across a 1 star black skeleton guy, activated bonemass ability, took out my crystal axe, activated the enrage mode that it has with epic loot ability ( gives me 10 seconds of double damage and faster swings ) i swung at the guy and he fully blocked it and hit me once and took almost 125 damage from me. Guy hitting harder than 5th boss. Not sure if the game still scaling with difficulty cause i had a buddy with me, or maybe the mods messed with the difficulty
I was watching firespark81 do this update in a live stream and someone said that Asksvin = Ash Hog in Icelandic. I hope that helps. As for more of a series I always enjoy people doing narrative things with video games that is why I enjoy Let's game it out so much.
Thanks mate, someone mentioned the Ash Hog thing, and I swear I see it as more of a reptile? haha
LGIO has some really good videos, I remember the Raft one was really fun.
I do mind having alot of spawns in an area, as it means building a base there is not going to do well unless you can stop them from spawning somehow.
Yeah I get ya. Maybe we'll have to build workbenches/campfires everywhere to the supress spawns.
Great vid, but the ballista slander is uncalled for. Very useful with the Trophy Triggers.
Haha maybe I'll try it out, I remember making it at one of our Plains bases and the ballista would even miss the Fulings
@@BigBrianGameplay It's good for flying enemies. But for ground enemies You need to be present to keep their aggro from zig-zagging. I personally tag them to only fight specific enemies like Gjall. My mistlands base takes care of itself.
I cant wait to play this with my friends once it's released
Hell yeah, doubt itll be too long until the proper release
Wonder when it will be out of test server and live.
I previously attempted to speedrun Valheim. I got punished. I do want to play this game again, with a friend, and I'm glad Ashlands came out. The Mistlands, honestly, I haven't done. I don't think I want to do that. The final boss queen is incredibly tanky
Great vid Bro. I tried solo Ashland and the most nightmarish thing is retrieving items from magma pool. The enemies and jumping fireball just shove me into the pool while I'm standing on a basalt plaform 😢
I feel like that's going to be us pretty soon haha
Asksvin ("ask-sveen", rhymes with bean) means ash pig in swedish
honestly fire resistance isnt bad at all with the feather cape, fire resistance potions will negate it and even with fire resistance youll die real fast touching the lava, the extra jump height and glide makes it a really good option with the large amount of mobs, askvins and traversing the land. imo its actually better, lets be honest when was the last time we went to the snow and theres still frost resitance mead so ya know its alot better now
Someone else said the same, I'll try it out but my worry is I'll forget to use another fire resistance potion when one runs out haha
I have a small recommendation: You can launch yourself with the catapult. If you equip the feather cape and put the catapult on a mountain it feels similar to the old harpoon glitch (and you look like superman)
Hell yeah! Will try it out when we make one
Because of me Contantly pressing F by mistake I changed it to G, It's right next to it, but I never pressed it by mistake again.
How do you take so little damage and never get staggered? My friends have mistlands melee gear but every time they're hit it seems like they lose like 100 or 70 HP. I've always gotta keep them bubbled.
Bonemass power.
Probably by using Bonemass, there were times where I did get hit like that, especially due to starred warriors, but because of editing a lot of stuff gets cut out.
Berzerkr axes or however they are spelled the new dual wield axes are very useful for farming materials in meadows and black forest at lvl 1 for the axes and pretty much any gear from the mistlands or before 🤷🏻♂️
Damage wise I had very little axe combat skills 😂 and I killed everything that came at me with ease
I have some ideas actually maybe 🤔 that's a short clip I could make
Interesting!
@@BigBrianGameplay no problem lol I'm hitting my grove and getting stuff "done" that I want to do 😂 that I totally haven't been procrastinating for a indeterminate amount of time 🫠 and I'm learning what I enjoy about gaming the most and embracing it 💪🏻😀 community is what I love most and im trying to start growing one i know im not for everyone and im ok with that but if I feel like my knowledge may be useful im gonna spill the beans 😂 sharing is caring except for STD 👀 🤣
Why did you try porcupine ? As once again Frostner is the best 1h mace until you get the new Flametal one.
I love the Frostner but I was literally borrowing the porcupine off my mate who kept disconnecting haha
Naaa I’m still rocking the feather cape, fall damage is my biggest enemy in valheim and I love the jump update it got
I won't lie I've jumped off of those ruins in the ashlands thinking I was wearing my feather cape haha
that new askvin, it can come in 1 star as seen in video, so maybe 2 star too? if so this is 100% better than lox's sines they cant spawn as star variants.
cant wait to make army of 2 star askvins :D
I reckon so, I think before Ashlands anything that had a 1-star variant also had a 2-star. It felt that starred variants were more common, but maybe that was just the fact there were so many creatures everywhere.
How much time should 2 players with a fresh start need to get this far?
Well it depends how much you want to take your time and build a base and all that. For new players going through it fast maybe you could do it in 200 in game days which would be like 75-100 hours? I don't really know, i guess it also depends how much you learn about the game beforehand too. With 4 of us (not always all of us online, we shared the save so anyone could host) and taking our time to build a base and mess around the start of this video we were around 430 days in, so probably around 150-200 hours in total
I miss the Plains.
It's my favourite biome - well, haven't seen enough to decide where I'd rank Ashlands yet!
Ashlands is better balanced but still unbelievable in how many mobs you have to battle through to reach any destination.
Yeah it is insane how you just have to fight your way back and forth everywhere haha
Do be warned the Asksvin I think it was called is very resistant vs slash damage weak vs pierce and neutral vs blunt.
Good to know! I'm hoping we have a frostner lying around.
When's it actually coming out for xbox
Please make more. Pretty please.
Part 2 should be out in an hour or so!
I do that All the Time I press F instead of E i'm like Damn it WHY Lmfao
8:30 lol nothing has changed youre still overwhelmed af
It is a bit better than before but man it is just constant fighting
@@BigBrianGameplay yeah its super tough in the beginning for sure
Magic? Ice staff, skeletons and shield.
on what difficulty do you play?
Just regular settings, no world modifiers at all!
@@BigBrianGameplay ah ok cool ty!
good job and ty for not cheating like every ducking youtuber who does ashland video atm :D
Haha cheers. I think the only point of cheating would to try and be the first to see everything, but there won't be an update as large as this for a while so you gotta make it last!
it's big brian time
The biggest Brian in the business!!
when i went with my friend, the weather was stormy for a while and thor appeared in the sky and the music changed and the sea serpent attacked. all of this was ruined because my sound bugged lmao
Haha how did your sound bug out? Mine is always delayed in Valheim so every time I make a video I gotta resync it all
So they've basically made it diablo-alike cluster-fuck =)
Haha true
The spawn rates haven't fixed, me and my friends kill 5 another 10 spawn
i only got the part that said get drunk on fire wines
Lmao thats all that matters
Bro, that a fenomenal. Yes, moor play, pleas. Meyby you have so meny whele a goup? I wish you good luck.
Thanks mate! I think we will do more.
I'm bringing my upgrade KROM and arbalest to ashlands. my 2 friends are bringing 1h and shield and bows.
It'll be interesting to see how a two-handed weapon works with those enemy numbers. Definitely more diverse than our group where it seems like everyone made Mistwalkers and Spinesnap Bows when we were in the Mistlands so that's what we continued to use.
Fenris armor would of helped
If you need a 5th I'll sacrifice myself lol
We'll use you as bait to tame the Asksvin
Looks like an absolute nightmare for solo play.
Maybe haha, I do wanna try play solo to get a better idea
Чудове відео ❤
Thank you!
yeah put the big new sword in the thumbnail so peeps get spoiled on the new gear, thx men. day is done
That's a mistwalker in the thumbnail (you know, the one from an update over a year ago now) Literally none of the equipment in the thumbnail is new.
Womp womp you fuckin crybaby.
This is the 3rd play through I’ve seen and I still don’t see anyone using magic against these guys … that blood barrier could’ve worked wonders you know.
I think in our case it's because we only messed around with magic right before beating the Queen, which was when we stopped playing. Since everyone would have terrible skills in it, it would seem risky to try it out in a new biome straight away. Having said all that, I'm keen to give it a go, along with this new Staff of Fracturing that we unlocked. My skills are all low af anyway haha.
Until you beat the first fort and get the vines staff. Then it’s a joke.
I think that's what we just got up to now
Ask = ash, Svin = pig, boar, hog, so basicly Ashboar sounds the best, same with Fuling = Ugly one.
i miss ur video man :L
Haha thanks. I haven't been posting much for a couple of reasons, but one of them is because I've been spending a lot of time on a really big challenge video
Looks like.. you guys could have use a magic user
Looks like your comment will be in the next video
have mods?
No mods, my guess is that most mods would've broken for the new update as always haha
Why isn’t this on Xbox yet?
Well based on the time it took Mistlands to get from test version to release, it might only be a week or two now!
@@BigBrianGameplay can’t wait! Thanks!
is flametal even relevant to the ashlands
Sorry for the late reply - yeah it's used in most of the next tier of weapons and (heavy) armour, also for some of the other things you build too
It seems like Ashlands is almost impossible solo.
Yeah I wanna try out solo to get an idea, but not having 24/7 bonemass will for sure make things tougher
Great game but not solo
can i join your server and play together??