Biggest tip that took me way too long to figure out on my own: avoid falling into the habit of sprinting everywhere. It drains stamina and alerts enemies to your presence. A shot from a good bow against an unalerted enemy will often 1-shot them. A strong enemy attacking you when you have no stamina can easily result in death.
Also, honey has huge hp regen compared to other foods, and should always be one of your 3 foods. Three or four beehives should be enough to keep one viking fed at all times, with virtually no maintenance.
Although it drains stamina, and alerts enemies, it also earns running exp, which reduces stamina drain while running *and* makes you up to 25% faster. Jumping is up to 40% more jump *velocity* so I recommend running and jumping constantly to get those levels up.
This is where comfort comes in, as each level of comfort is a 10% bonus to exp gains, and you can cap that out at 16 or 17 I think with all the proper furniture items around your bed.
Still looking for some more to join us on the server. We have a pretty big pallisade fort, and now a community tower with kitchen facilities, forge, and stuff. Rebuilt the canal bridge so ships can actually go under it now instead of bumping. Need to work on a harbor area, as the starting island has no iron or silver, and we need to ship it in via ship. A few people went north and started a new main base in a giant bay, while others have been developing several small outposts on the island and connecting them via roads for cart travel.
Currently building a new community 'castle' style with a massive greathall and is going to have walls of chests for each item, each with a sign, etc. The amount of stone it is taking is staggering though, as just the greathall is a 16x8 stone slab base, with 6-8 meter thick walls around it that are hollow for storage, bedrooms, and whatnot.
Really need a shipment or two of iron so we can use iron beams to help support some of the blocks in a few places, though. Most people are still using bronze gear, too, but upgrading from bronze to silver directly might be better resource wise.
We still haven't fought the fourth boss, and I wish we could do that soon. I sailed a ship to his island and started a small outpost but its still far from his spawn.
Anyways, if anyone is still interested in joining, we could use more of any experience level. Even if you want to play off on your own and build your own base, etc. There will be great opportunities to connect up to the main 'civilization' network and work together to get resources, explore, etc.
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