WoolieVersus – Castle Super Beast Clips: Valheim – “So Minecraft?”

The early access survival co-op procedurally generated village building viking simulator valheim which if you have been listening to me for many years you would probably be confused because i hate all of those things well not necessarily vikings but vikings yeah no okay yeah what no it’s like i hate the minecraft

I hate it i hate the survival game i hate it uh this one’s pretty good um because of its focus at a glance i would assume this was minecraft like but at a glance you wouldn’t and the minecraft the the minecraft part of it is literally just go out hit trees

Make a house monsters are trying to [ __ ] you up as you try and build your house yeah i’m seeing comments um so i rated uh i rated uh jenna lynn last week gentlemen meowrie and she was playing uh valheim she’s like hey man you should you should

Play valheim it’s dope i’m like i think i hate this game but i’ll think about it and then the other night i couldn’t sleep so i came downstairs and uh every single friend that i have in my personal discord was hanging out in a valheim server like every single goddamn one had the

Little discord thing that says valheim okay and i loaded it in and uh like jim’s arguing i need wood for the boats i need the boats you guys got the the boat for the woods nah man i’m getting out iron oh i got to get deer heads for this thing etc

And i’m like yeah i don’t know i don’t know [ __ ] it it’s 20 bucks so i picked it up and i loaded in and the first impression it gives you in this particular scenario is fantastic because when you load into a server it does not tell the people in that server that you

Have loaded into the server and you do not appear on their map until you toggle i would like to appear to other players on map so i went uh and found my pal strident and stood behind him as he chopped wood for like two minutes until he turned around and was like what

The [ __ ] okay hey man hey pat okay and i was like hey hey i’m doing this now um you so you got to play it co-op with with people yeah i played it i played it no actually i played a co-op with people for about an hour

And they had built they had built a little uh a little settlement and helped me figure out how to make some leather clothes and whatnot uh but then uh the our friend who is the person whose pc the [ __ ] server runs off of went to sleep because it was seven in

The morning i went oh okay and then i went and played single player myself and got to discover the like like basically playing by myself like okay is this good do i actually like this the answer is yeah there’s a reason it has an overwhelmingly positive review score on steam right now

Um it is it dumps you in a procedurally generated world mostly forest yeah but then there’s the different biomes and the very first thing it does is say hey dude there’s a boss out there to kill you’re gonna kill it but before that build up a little house build get a

Spear get a get a sword learn how to chop wood et cetera and the creation of that clear goal helps the second thing is that it doesn’t have the i don’t know how to describe it have you played minecraft no but i was about to ask if you’ve played

Minecraft because maybe you’d have fun with it i played about 10 minutes of minecraft and my biggest main problem with minecraft is minecraft all right i’ll tell you i i will tell you right now why i don’t love minecraft there’s two reasons one i i don’t like the aesthetic i

It it’s i find it revolting uh two i hate the crafting system in minecraft which considering minecraft is a crafting game that’s an issue because minecraft has that thing where you put uh you put like a workbench down and then you [ __ ] do a recipe and like a symbol to do a thing

I hate that i hate it in valheim i kill a deer i pick up some deer guts and it says hey dude you just learned how to make a deer cape you need some bones though like okay i can go get some bones etc

It uh it kind of plays like a like a low rent dark souls like control wise so and fight fighting is bad but okay so the placement of the ingredients then is the issue as opposed to just having them on a list uh it’s not just that it’s like you’re not

In this game you’re not compared to the average survival game you’re not eating food to not die you’re eating food to buff yourself just all these little things um probably the thing i think is the most impressive is the uh housing system where uh you can you first have to even up the

Ground with a hoe and then you want to lay down a foundation and then each piece that you snap into place will show you via color coding how structurally sound it is and if you just start building straight up it’ll eventually turn red and your [ __ ] house will completely fall apart

And so i was building like a a small house and i was experimenting with what angle of thatched roof houses i can get away with or uh what uh if if cross beams would help it’s not quite physics but it is like a rule set based on

How far you are from the ground how flat the ground is what the supports you have uh put in uh and the best oh sorry after you sounds like it would be fun with friends but a lot more dry on your own yeah it depends what you’re looking for because

They despite being literally the same game it is communally completely different right like as a solo player it’s you chilling out in the wilderness and making it your own as a multiplayer it’s like you you build fast you build fast as [ __ ] because it’s not because travel time is a serious

Consideration it’s not uh like say you got five people you’re not going five times faster you’re going like 15 times faster because you’d no longer have to include travel time with any tasks um so probably the best example of what the game has going on that i think is really neat

Is in order to sleep you need a fire which is pretty standard but putting a fire in your house and sealing your house up kills you because the smoke will pool up in your ceiling and make you die and so you have to leave at least a hole

Out for your your little house but then if you just leave a hole in your roof it’ll rain on your fire so then you have to perf you have to like do thatching in like a corner or reverse structure so the smoke actually goes out and so the rain doesn’t fall in

So you essentially build like a [ __ ] like a like a thatched chimney so once you build a house and get resources what do you do all right so basically the my morning was spent chopping down trees building a house getting armor getting a spear getting a shield cooking food

Et cetera while also trying to care now what yes and also now equipped with kill kill items i then go and figure out how do i actually summon the boss and apparently i need two deer heads that i throw on their altar then i fight the boss upon defeating the

Boss i will learn how to make new tools new tools will open up new types of you know uh terraforming scavenging mining etc which i will then use to upgrade my house upgrade myself then go kill boss you’re right okay it is so that’s monster hunter with

Way more time spent on the prep and survival is a part of outside of boss fighting yeah yeah okay so my friends who play these games a lot more than i do the comparison is apparently a lot closer to terraria than it is to minecraft okay so you said earlier that the combat

Was functional but not great yeah it’s weird monster hunter combat is obviously exceptional the goal being to go fight the boss that you build up towards how is that experience i’ll let you know tomorrow okay um but it’s definitely better than the other like i don’t i don’t like terraria’s controls or combat

I don’t like minecraft controls or combat i don’t like you know it’s just one of those things this one it’s not the best but it’s it’s good because if the goal is to do all of that to eventually build up to finding the boss and then restarting the loop with

All the loot you get um if the boss fight is really fun then that’s a golden loop you know yeah i was told uh i had an idea which was hey guys would it be smart to build my house near where the boss gets summoned

Because if i die i want to be able to go fight the boss much more quickly and then they said don’t do that because the boss will wreck your house oh so i i put my house like a couple hundred feet away um and hopefully that’s far enough i

Also fight it together oh yeah totally as a group and you do the okay yeah it’s a one to ten people okay um i learned earlier today i posted a screenshot of my house and was told that i found like a stonehenge looking series of rocks and i

Was like oh cool i can build a house in the middle and it’ll look nice and then i can put like a fence around the rocks um and was later told upon after spending five hours building my relatively good looking house that uh those rocks denote some kind of treasure location

That you have to excavate which means that whole thing will have to come down at some point the whole thing the whole [ __ ] thing yeah um i i guess uh my since you know me i’m i’m someone who like tends to like not get breadcrumbed that

Efficiently i feel no you nee you need it now you need it and usually with style as well i mean i if if it did work on me i would enjoy things a lot more than i do but because a lot of the times it doesn’t i would be

Fixated on like okay so this boss though what’s going on here you know like that and it’s like dude but the journey over there is supposed to be part of the enjoyment so you’re you’re missing the forest for the trees you know well also there are literally

Five bosses in the game right now and like 99 of your game time yeah okay is uh environmental let’s say right never mind i missed oh there’s seven now cool i mistook how many um how frequently that would occur i thought that was a um you know a lot of them probably

The weirdest part about the game and well you could probably look at a video and see this yourself it has a wildly inconsistent series of art priorities which actually work really really well the texture quality on this game might be like it’s like a 2000s game it looks like quake

In terms of in terms of texture quality i’m going to send you a screenshot that shows it off really well i’m looking there’s like writing i’m looking at the backgrounds of it i can see i can see the the uh the aesthetic choices for what they are right what it does

Have however despite like the texture quality and even the model quality being really low it is throwing every graphical option wait ever not vacant what’s it called valheim valheim i’ve typed valkenheim and that’s that’s guilty character that’s for honor that’s no that’s that’s falconheim is the sorry the blazblue character blazblue character yes

Also it’s it’s it’s a it’s a for honor uh thing yeah but valheim so the game will the game’s like a single gig like or 600 megabytes like it’s really small and that’s clearly part of the reason so the textures are super low quality the it like kind of looks like a ps1

Game um but better than that that’s a pretty that’s a that’s an overall exaggeration so you remember i heard you uh me describing like the smoke in your house yeah the smoke is like high-end super super high-end particle physics that pool in the roof of your house

And like are affected properly by the wind the sun shafts are as high quality as it can get the rain and weather effects i saw trees being bent to like a 45 degree angle from the wind which i’ve never seen in a game ever um so it looks like the

Like it’s fictional oh the screenshot traveler yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly because like the screenshots are deliberately these are this is a low poly character these are like low poly um environments but their high tech but the texture quality is and the texture quality is also it’s not

It’s crisp but it’s also deliberately pixelated so it is like yeah it’s an intentionally like uh retro look to some things the characters are are the most noticeable with the with the style that they’re going for and i guess that’s to kind of make it somewhat minecrafty in their in the

I don’t know it’s it runs on ever almost anything and it’s a tiny game that you can put on anything um but also it’s it’s the game’s really weird looking like the water physics the wind physics the light physics i guess you would call it like every every special effect a game

Can have is turned up to the maximum and it’s being rendered on what is essentially like a open a giant open world ps1 game so it really does look like a like like whereas octopath traveler was for super like super nintendo games this would be like the octopath traveler of like a ps1

Game yeah like some of the environments some of the buildings do look like um like firewatch level though you know uh but seeing the people themselves and like this staircase up close and like the actual like yeah the the deliberately uh pixelated textures on some of these surfaces it’s it’s

It’s interesting yeah yeah uh it does cool little things associated with the super super gigantic size of like this type of procedural world i was talking to my friends and they said they had discovered one dungeon in a 47 in-game days just by accident they literally like tripped over it

Um and uh they were spending most of the time that i was hanging out with them they were trying to find a merchant because one merchant shows up in a single biome and you you just got to go find him and that could be like you know a 10 by

10 kilometer [ __ ] area of deep forest like yeah you wanna you wanna buy a fancy helmet go buy it you go find the [ __ ] merchant so if you start go get your friends and go get them if you start a game on someone’s uh specific pc server can you

Um do like minecraft and kind of like create your own like world geography and and rules or is it yeah just um iterating the map it seems to be just iterating the man game but uh like what happened was when i loaded in a brand new character and then

Showed up in my friend’s thing i still had to fight the first boss like they had all killed the first boss but i still had to fight it to complete my progression but they could help me with that um and uh when i discovered their little town i also discovered

That they had [ __ ] deforested what looked like a two square kilometer area just to build like a a four or five building town which that seems realistic i guess but like i got to the area i’m like i don’t think it used to look like this or

Like no it wasn’t it was trees all the way to the [ __ ] river we want to make sure there’s not any more yeah um probably the last thing that i’d like to mention because it’s it’s the it’s one of the games like little twists is that it has a level

System and the level system is oblivion’s level system did you ever play that walls uh no but i mean i know what it is so oblivions was dude did you jump you get a little points to your jump skill did you use a shield you get a little points to your uh

Your block skill right uh and that is sailing jumping running mind uh mining wood cutting blocking hitting with clubs hitting with axes hitting with spears et cetera et cetera et cetera right um but the interesting thing about it is zero leveling i’m not actually familiar but let’s just

Say yeah do the action build the number yeah yeah but the interesting thing about it is that your character’s progression is saved to your character regardless of where they are so i’m running my little pristine world where i just made a single little house if my buddy strydon came by

His wood cutting is high enough that he can chop down trees in like two swings it’s taking me like 10 swings to chop down a tree and what it means is is that even if you were to join a new person’s game or everybody hey let’s all do a new

Server if you were to keep the same characters you would be able to build up back to where you were way faster like way faster because just the amount of time that you have to spend on gathering materials or killing enemies would be like nil compared to what you started with

Um which makes me actually think about oh maybe i will go and hang out in other people’s servers and help them build a thing because my character will improve your yeah all of your all of your like every action you do adds to to ticks up the numbers no

Matter what right yeah and my uh and your inventory stays on your character like you’re you’re whatever’s on your backpack essentially you can take with you which means if i were to look at my little house now and completely demolish it and manage to fit every single piece of wood

Into my inventory i could literally go to anybody else’s server and just completely recreate the whole [ __ ] thing from scratch using the same materials and learning how to build that house was more than half of the process of building that house like getting wood was another 30

Like actually having all the wood i need and just going okay i know how to build the the thatched roof i know how to build the miner wall i know how to build the crossbeam just that would take me now maybe 45 minutes you don’t just play lego with it you do

Play lego but because you’re having to deal with so for example um when i built my house originally i did not fully level the ground and so parts of my house were farther above the ground than being flat on it which meant that when i was building on the right side of

My house and i got up to the third level of thatched roofs they all started to fall apart because i wasn’t working on a strong enough foundation so literally learning how the like not physics but how the rules of what you can build on top of what in terms of

Structure internalizing those means i can build the [ __ ] next one super fast okay and uh my buddy creepy porpoise was in the middle of building this gigantic [ __ ] cross cross beam longhouse the last i saw her and i don’t know how the [ __ ] cross beams even work but they’re probably good for something

In turn keeping your [ __ ] roof from falling down okay uh it’s cool it’s really cool it’s neat i think it’s neat so that’s valheim that’s right this is the name of the game yeah i’m gonna think of falconheim every time that’s just yeah probably it’s gonna auto complete

Probably the weirdest thing that i have uh just saw today was that the devs were like congrats everybody we hit two million sold whoo big big success right uh and their fun fact was like uh the the game’s population is now uh multiples of magnitude larger than any amount of

Vikings in all of history like there was a there was a theoretical like maximum cap on the viking community that was about 500 000 people at its peak so there are four times as many people playing valheim as there ever were vikings which is i don’t it’s weird right that’s

Just one of those scale things that’s difficult to understand but it’s also the population of the planet at the time you know it was like what like like two million [ __ ] or whatever the [ __ ] it was it’s one of these things where these these games there’s a lot of these types of games

Right there’s a lot of good ones terraria is maybe the best game that i own that i hate i hate terraria i [ __ ] hate everything about terraria i hate the way terraria looks i hate the way it controls i think the way the bosses work is stupid i don’t like the nonsense

With the upgrade [ __ ] and i look at that and i go oh i hate it i hate it so much what an incredible game that i [ __ ] hate i hate that i hate terraria and it’s it’s just like the way this is done the way this is done the way this is done

Are the way are the opposite of the way that i would want right and same thing with minecraft same thing with rust same thing with all these types of games but valheim finally i’m like oh i actually like the way this thing does the things that it does

And building up a little settlement myself like brick by brick is appealing hmm uh as you’re just that that point on the on the vikings reminds me of something i forget what i was listening to but i heard something recently about how uh in real life knights

Were not as much of this big noble gallant group of people that were you know sworn to their lords and doing all these things and there was a bunch of them that were really just bastard sons of nobility that couldn’t really inherit anything oh yeah and they kind of just

Went and hung out in the forest and were like big like ripping friends and just would just bro up and they kind of were [ __ ] until the concept of jousting was was brought about as a thing for them to do because these douchey bastard no non-noble noble types were just hanging around

Terrorizing people there’s a there’s a long long series of classes throughout history where it’s like you got a feudal system you have an entire underclass of people who are nobles or noble adjacent that will not inherit [ __ ] and they will become a weird warrior underclass which is like like the which is the

Exact same thing as the samurai and then that warrior underclass is going to tell you actually we are like the ballsiest super magic heroes ever we are protecting the everything we are the best but they’re just [ __ ] sitting around but they’re just like well my older brother got the castle

Yeah yeah yeah so and i have no skills but i’m rich