Valheim: Ultimate Guide to the Black Forest After Ichthyr Boss

in this video i'm going to show you what you're supposed to do after you have defeated the first boss

the ichthyr boss in valheim so the first thing you want to do is head to the black forest the

black forest is the new best biome that you're going to be spending all your time in

and you've got to find a dungeon a dungeon will usually look like a kind of like a rock cave or something

like just above ground and you'll be able to kind of walk into it be careful though it is

usually guarded by about three skeletons or some other monsters and you just kill them go

inside the cave and make sure you kill the skeletons play it safe take a shield

take a axe i usually use those weapons they work best for me and then just make sure you block

attacks from skeletons so that you don't take damage so it's instead on your shield which is

perfect and then just hit them when you like right after you block an attack so block hits and then just keep going

through this whole like kind of maze like cave dungeon thing it's really not that

confusing i just stick to the left and i just take every single lift that i can and that's how you kind of find your way

throughout this whole thing your main thing that you're looking for here are circling cores they look like

these kind of like raid tesseracts kind of thing so i kind of like this red glowing cube

that you'll find that's almost used as a torch in most locations and you can just pick

that up there's also some treasures and stuff lying around there's the yellow mushrooms that you're

actually able to eat as well they kind of act like you're like raspberries and blueberries so you

can actually eat them and get an extra food buff if you don't have one but apart from that the main reason why

you're here is you're looking for a special kind of stone and when you find the stone it

will actually reveal the location of the next boss the elder so once you've got that you can actually start

preparing for your your next boss fight and to prepare for your next boss fight you can use the answers that you got

from defeating the igther boss to create a pickaxe and start mining copper and tin in order to craft

bronze to make bronze items now once you've collected some good bronze items it's a good time to actually go back to

the black forest and collect some activation resource materials

so that you can start or activate the next boss fight the elder using these special items

called the ancient seeds which you need three of to start the fight the best way to get these

ancient seeds is to find a monster spawner in the black forest with the grey doors

it's kind of like this pink looking like thing just glowing and stuff you really can't miss it

it looks so ominous and like really sticks out and all you have to do is wait until the grey dwarf brutes

spawn they'll be like the biggest ones like the big bulky looking scary dudes they usually spawn like every so often

like every 10 kind of grey dwarf spawns and all you have to do is kill them and sometimes

they will drop an ancient seed it's not guaranteed but usually they will

and if they are a higher star level or like you know special star rank level they sometimes drop more

ancient seats so when you're ready for the boss fight you can bring your best upgraded weapons

your best armor some fire arrows is recommended stone if you want to make it a bit easier for

yourself which i'll tell you about in a second some stone if you want to make it a bit

easier for yourself so that you can actually start making some extra pillars to hide behind when the boss shoots his

special tendrils at you it costs four stone to raise the ground one level

so place down a workbench next to the boss location area there so you can actually use your hoe and

you're gonna use your hoe to raise the ground now this costs four stone every single

time you raise the ground and you can just stand point down directly at the floor and

then just raise the ground like 10 times and you can make a pillar of this size and you can just bring like like a few

stacks of stone like maybe two or three just to make some pillars around there so that you can hide around during the

fight when you're ready to start the fight all you have to do is put those three

ancient seeds in your hot bar and press the number that it's in while looking at the altar to start the fight

the boss appears at the golden sparks in the air so hide at the opposite end of where he's about to appear

it's also best to fight this boss with a fine wood bow fire arrows or bronze arrows for the

best damage this boss mainly does two moves when you're fighting him in a ranged

circumstance the first move that he'll do is he'll reach his hand out and he'll shoot these tendrils at you these wooden

tendrils it's kind of scary it does a lot of damage and you want to make sure you

hide behind something solid like a pillar or like one of those ground pillars that

we made that are around the arena there the second move he will do will summon small vines at your location

all around you and they will try slam on you if you're nearby them so run to another pillar when this

happens but beware because he usually does his tendrils attack right after summoning the vines so as

you're moving away from your defense he kind of like whacks you with the tendrils and he does a lot of damage so

you got to actually kind of be careful you kind of got to stay behind a pillar protect yourself and also avoid the

tangles and the vines at the same time so you want to spend most of the time trying to hide behind a pillar so that

you're as safe as possible so you don't get hit by those tendrils and that makes this the trickiest part of the fight

so something that might help you deal damage while you're doing all this running and hiding

are fire arrows because fire arrows when you shoot them at the altar he will take burning damage for a few

takes after you've shot him with the arrow and you can also start running around

and avoiding all of the other things while still doing damage to him while like in the form of him burning and

that's generally the strategy that i used so just keep running from pillar to pillar

hiding from the tendrils as much as you can and shooting him with fire arrows or normal arrows just to bring him down

the quickest way possible once you've defeated him he will drop a swamp key as well as a trophy we'll talk more

about the swamp key in my next video on what to do after the elder boss i hope this guide

was helpful in directing you for where you should go what you should do and how you should do

it and i hope you guys enjoyed thank you so much for watching you