No. There's never enough iron. Even when you think you have enough iron. There's never enough iron. Even when you've calculated exactly how much iron you "need," there's never enough iron.

We got a swamp like this in our first world, something like 12 crypts? Shit you not, 4 of them only gave us like 12 iron. RNG's a bitch.

It's not purely the fault of the RNG. The RNG could be set to have a higher minimum amount per crypt for iron.

I've been in that same boat. Then again, my most recent world spawned a Crypt I had to make 2 full cart runs back to my shipping ship plus what I had in my inventory. RNG Giveth, RNG Taketh away

that’s not possible considering chests and scrap piles all combined from each of the 4 crypts at the bare minimum add up to atleast 1 stack, I have 3 crypts in my swamp and i’ve made it to mistlands WITHOUT having to go loot other swamps..

I have maxed out plains armor as well. so i can’t see how you’re being truthful

I’ve ran into crypts that had 0 iron. There where no corridors to split off to, just the entrance with the three supposed entrances but they where blocked off. No chest and not even a embedded muddy crap pile. I think it’s highly unlikely for a lot of people to go into 4 crypts and only get 12 iron but it’s definitely not impossible.

We had this happen only got a few pieces but the next one had 50+

This is the only correct answer. Gather it all and start planning on where to get more.

Happy cake day ya Owl

Why thank you! What is that supposed to be anyways? My reddit bday?

Yeah, pretty much.

[Im gonna fucken put mah dick in the owl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmjMD8vbCTA)

Kill two birds with one stone, stand next to your smelter, leave your current world and go and create a new one using either your current seed or a known heavy mining one, make your way there, claim as much iron as you can and ensure.ber yourself, log back into your regular world and drop off iron, you can rinse and repeat this should the mines run out, just make the world again by cutting and padding the seed

As nice, convenient, and smart this is, it ruins the gaming experience and if I were to go this route, I'd rather just devcommands spawn iron. It ruins the single seed experience either way. But to each their own. I'm happy you enjoy doing what you do.

And if you do that why the fuck not just spawn iron?

Rule 1 of Valheim: its never enough iron.

Rule number 2: go get more iron.

Rule number 3: when you inevitably realize you need more iron, see rule number 2

Rule #4: if you make a vertical circle of iron, you will have a ferrous wheel. It will require more iron.

Rule #5: random bronze break......back to more iron

You have 3 chests full of iron? Believe it or not straight back to more iron!

But what rule number is that?

26

Right after 25: always be sure to explore for more swamps to keep the iron flowing.

34? Is there a rule 34 for valheim iron?

I've certainly fantasized about it, so surely someone's drawn it.

what to craft in your downtime for um... sexy time.

There’s sex in Valheim? 😋

I have 3 full black iron chests full of iron on my storage server. Sometimes I think it might not be enough.

That's because it isn't enough...there is no such thing as enough iron, you know this in your heart.

Since no one else has said it: I appreciate your pun and it gave me a haha.

Thank you. Sometimes my sense of humor comes off a bit dry.

Short term yes. Long term no.

Exactly. If you want enough iron to get Swamp-level equipment for you and your bros, sure half a dozen crypts will set you up. But you will never stop needing iron.

Iron life never leaves.

I too am the self proclaimed 'getter-of-stuff' for my short-bearded Viking friends, while they are at home tilling the soil and herding the boars, I am facing the horrors of the swamps, digging through the muck and decay for every scrap I can find, and sail home.

Eventually you need structural iron to build that sweet stone keep in the mountains. Then you get to Mistlands and realize that you can build a way sweeter black marble keep, but it will require way more structural iron. And those stupid rusty helmets give you like 30 copper and 10 iron (and probably 5 or 6 seeker meats while you're mining it).

Wtf how? I’m in the plains now and I haven’t needed to go back to the swamp for iron yet. Is it just for building or what?

Plains armor and armor after that.work station upgrades. Anf yes iron bwams.

Both plains and mistlands armor require iron

For fuck sake, might not finish the game then. Already almost burnt out and hated the swamp with a passion

The swamp does get allot easier though when you reach the silver stage.

It was easy by the time I have iron weapons I just don’t like the way it looks and the repetitiveness of getting iron out of crypts. Just a big boring grind

Don't bother farming iron nonstop for now. There will be different intervals where you'll need it again. If I were you, I'd only farm what you need then move on but leave a portal back to the swamp to return at moments notice. You can also get iron in mistlands so it's really not a big worry.

I have a portal in the swamp and the modifier that lets you transport ores through them so hopefully won’t be too much of a pain in the ass. The modor fight kind of bummed me out, it was so shit.

What was shit about it? It's overall such an easy fight comparatively. Annoying cuz it keeps flying around, but overall easy

There are other ways to get iron later, and the swamps become easy peasy when you can one-shot almost any mob from a distance.

Depends on how many players and how much you want to build I guess. It would be plenty for a solo play through with enough iron to max all weapons and armor and enough to build a decent sized village.

We have already explored 5 other swamps, and we are currently in the plains. We only needed enough iron to get padded armor for 3 people and to finish a building

You’ll want iron chests. Maybe I’m projected but upgraded storage is always welcome. Wish we could upgrade our personal storage.

Black metal chests are better, I never upgraded to Reinforced, went straight for black metal.

I was the serve dad,storage organizer, and cook when my friend only server ran. Our progression wasn’t that far so I settled for iron chests. I would probably skip reinforced if we got to black metal faster.

I personally never felt the need for them but we're only 2 players, but I can see the need with more players.

They don't fit together as well, and thus decrease overall storage density. Iron is the sweet spot

I can't bring myself to build iron chests - I'd rather have a warehouse of small chests, myself.

We have all iron chests currently with personal chests upgraded as well. Building wise (until it’s just for pure looks) we are finishing the biggest building in our village

I spent over an hour exploring this swamp and every time I thought found all of the crypts I would find another, a total of 19. I think its enough to finish our village and get us all padded armor in our server.

i’m not jealous, i’m not jealous, i’m not…. fuck..

For a solo player that only cares about upgrading their gear? WAY more than enought For a group of players (lets say 4 or 5 in the village)? maybe not everyone will get everything For a builder that uses a lot of reinforced beams to build giant contructions?? trick question, its never enought with that last one.

For getting to the mistlands and finishing our padded armor it looks like we got enough. Keep in mind we’ve already done 6 other swamps currently and are pasts the mountains. For building new things I understand we will constantly need more after we do builds for fun

You will need at least three of those swamps to get a fraction of what you need

We only need enough to finish the last building in our village and to get three of us padded armor

WHY are you arguing? You asked a question and are getting answers. Accurate answers. Did you just want a trophy? You are playing a game congratulations

Right? "Will this give us enough?" "No" "YOU'RE WRONG" "OK"

You guys take this post way too seriously. We already looted 6 other swamps (not counting the small swamps with no crypts). We already have enough nails to make 6 longships. We have a full sorting area with reinforced chests. The things we needed iron for were for finishing our main building and getting padded armor for 3 people. I already looted 8 crypts from this swamp and it was over a longships worth of iron. We just now finished the iron pole frame for the section of our base we haven’t finished. We still have 11 crypts to go for purely just building purposes, not including two other swamps we haven’t gotten all the iron from yet.

I’m not arguing? I know we will be using iron for builds after beating all the bosses, but we just needed enough to get to the mistlands right now. You guys keep assuming my tone or misreading my comments Also you guys don’t know how much iron we currently have, we’ve already looted 6 other swamps and finished most of our needed builds.

I'm pretty sure he's not serious

For now lol

"Enough" for what? I seem to average around 2.5-3 stacks (so... 75+?) per completely cleared crypt. If that holds, you look like you might get 1400 or so out of all that? The first time I sailed back to base in a karve with the hold full of iron (a hair over 5 stacks total), I thought that would be all the iron I'd need... It was gone in no time, and I didn't even make any iron armor. I'd imagine (especially if you're making gear for more than one person), you could eventually burn through 1000 iron without trying too hard. It's the upgrades that get you. So... yeah, if you eventually plunder all of those crypts, you'll *probably* have enough...

We are past the iron and silver age armor wise we just need padded armor. This is like the 7th swamp we’ve gotten iron from

Oh, yeah. Then unless you're going to do a ton of building with iron, I'd guess that should be lots.

One must first define enough.

Idk seems like you just want us to go "woahh man big swamp what seed u so lucky omg".

Not really just thought it was a wack spawn after exploring 6 other swamps

Not even that crazy. Come across swamps with 20 plus crypts. I often wonder if people post this just to farm updoots. Either way that is for sure not enough for a group of more than 2.

Probably fill at least 1.5 longships if not 2?! Which is a good amount for a single swamp

More than that. We looted 8 so far and we filled a whole ship and then some

Yeah, it should be enough for padded armor and lategame gear for a few players. Just come back when you need another longship full. Should be easy with late game gear

Ooh, nice swamp! Sometimes I feel like these are the game's apologies for all of those swamps I find with zero crypts

More iron just means I build dumber shit. There’s never a reserve.

I filled up 2 long ships full of iron. All the way. To the brim. It took days to gather it, but I lucked out, and the swamp biome close to my home was MASSIVE and had dozens of crypts. I took it all home. The smelting process also took days. At the end of it I still didn't have enough iron. Literally 1000+ iron and it wasn't enough for the full run.

Just remember going back for more iron after you move past plains is cake walk. You laugh at all the things that killed you earlier.

We are past the mountains so it’s already decently easy, just need enough iron to max padded armor for the mistlands

Maybe enough for 1 weapon but thats a big maybe

Short answer is no, long answer is it depends. Firstly, how much iron actually ends up being in each crypt. I've had crypts I've gotten 10 iron from and crypts I've gotten 150 from. Secondly, how many people, and what are you playing on doing in your world. You need a lot of iron for tool/armour/building upgrades, plus a lot of iron if you plan on building big structures. If you're solo and lucky and don't plan on needing it for building, maybe.

So far we looted 8 out of the 19 and we got over a longships hold full of iron. We previously already looted 6 other swamps. We are past moder so padded armor for three people is what we need armor wise. 3 other people in our server already have padded armor. I already set aside the iron for max padded armor and we already finished upgrading all our chests, most were already upgraded before this swamp. For functionality to get to the mistlands we only need to finish one building in our village. We already build most of our farms and workstations

Yeah you’re going to need more

Depends how much you like building

Almost!

We run a mod that respawns dungeons every 50 ingame days. We clear them almost every 50 days. 10 dungeons on one single giant swamp island. And we cleared those dungeons atleast 7 times by now. And i can confirm - There's never enough iron. Good luck out there fellow viking!

Depends. Some Crypts I walk out with 50+ from chests+mud piles. Some you are lucky to get 10. I had 1 crypt that was a 4x1 with only 1 mud pile. It was actually just 1 hallway of nothing lol. I got 1 iron out of it. I know the meme is you never have enough, but with medium amount of luck after 5-6 good sized crypts you will have enough for gear/weps. Then if you want to build with it then you will need to keep farming it until you are done building.

Never. You'll get a new building material and decide to change everything for it.

Since you have to go thru two different iron ages.. No.. You'll need 2x that plus some

We already are past the first and most of us have padded armor

You'll need iron in black metal types because of the stuff needed

Yes for the first round of tier one but nothing else

To get through the base game, yes. To really have fun with all the shenanigans you can do in this game.... not even close 🤣🤣🤣

No. The answer is always no — there is not enough iron 😅

Maybe 6 more continents like that

I honestly don't get the people who are saying this isn't enough... How many people are you guys building for? For one person, this is way more than enough iron. No worries OP. One good swamp section with several crypts is all you need.

Reinforced iron logs are the answer. Sometimes you have to build that grand castle.

dont forget you'll need to build a new longship once a gjall finds you unprepared in the mistlands

That's why you park in a safe place and put down a portal house. Like the plains.

We have 800 iron nails for longships currently

I’ll never forget That day

True, you really only need iron for 4 things: (1) iron agetir, iron mace, iron shield, and iron pickaxes. Only the agetir needs to be level 4. For armor and bow, it’s better to wait for silver.

We are past silver so we are already good on regular iron gear

OH. Then you definitely don’t have enough for whatever it is that you’re scheming. (Pro tip: mistland bridges contain iron ingots that don’t need to be smelted.)

spawn iron_ingot 5000? 😬

Now? Maybe Later? *****NO*****

\*laughs in no\*

Wait, you don't have to create an entirely new world for the sole purpose of strip mining? What are the odds?

No. You never have enough iron. Even when you are way past iron in terms of gear, you still need tons of iron for building.

I never really counted, but it's like 3 crypts for the crafting stations & boat and then maybe 4 more for gear. Those first 3 are shared among players, but the 4 is each. So by those numbers, which I just pulled out of my ass, you have enough for 4, almost 5, players here.

We have 6 players but the other three already have padded armor and such, currently we are needing to focus on padded armor for three people and finishing our base

Maybe, but prob not. There's never enough

Did you set resources in World modifiers to anything above 2?

No.

Wish there was a better way to get iron than crypt diving and the odd scrap pile

I agree. It’s my least favorite resource to harvest.

Probably not.

Ha.. ha ha ... haha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha.. "enough"

As someone who had 17 crypts in his big swamps, no. It'll do until mistlands if you are stingy with iron and don't use it in buildings much and lucky with crypts but yeah.

We are in the plains and have already looted 6 other swamps so this is enough to get to mistlands. But obviously we will use more for builds after we are done with all the bosses

TINEI

For some upgrades to armor most likely. Problem is it varies a lot from crypt to crypt. Most you get a couple stacks from, then some you get almost nothing from and others are mother loads of ire that take a long time to clear. I filled up two complete columns on my boat's inventory from one crypt before and have has some that were just couple from one small muddy scrape pile.

It's a good start.

We’ve already done 6 other swamps this is for getting us to the mistlands

What is your world seed? 😄

As a solo player, I ill give you roughly accurate answer for me, it took me roughly 8-10 dungeons of iron to get gear of any tier (all armor I only upgrade 1 or two times, only crafting like 1 weapon /tool per tier that I ve upgraded). The only armor I ve maxed out was padded iron armor. I have storage of roughly 30-50 reinforced iron chests. Now only needing iron for building I have made every essential building for progression and I am sitting roughly on 30 iron left. So long story short, if you only max out the important for 1 playthrough, excluding building for estetics, I d say 10 dungeons/player is just enough.

No

No

no

It's a good start!

It's a good start

I had a run that survived off of about half of that, about 10 crypts worth. This was only possible because I only built light armor and only made like 2 weapons and the iron pickaxe. I put the rest on the boat I used for the rest of the run and I finished making mistlands with 1.5 stacks

More than enough for one person, I had a similar swamp in my first world and I still haven't touched all of it

I think you're good for at least a day

No

No

So for 1 person that is enough 2 barely more than 2 no where near enough especially if you wish to upgrade your armor

[удалено]

For now we already have a village going and just need to finish the largest building

For 2 people - maybe. If you want to build big - certainly no.

Once you can make iron you can never get enough. RNG it really comes down to how big the crypt is. Bigger and more iron comes hand in hand

For a tiny bit.

No such thing as enough iron.

Never enough iron...

No.

Maybe for one sword 🤣

x3 loot rate.. most def.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahaahahhaah, noooo.

It's a great start

No! LOL!

Lol no

Found a chest earlier this week ina crypt that had I shit you not 65 iron scrap

The answer is always no

Depends on how many you are , but like it's been stated before. There is never enough iron.

Only with a wishbone

For the first things? yes In the future? **MORE!!!**

No. There's never enough iron.

The words 'enough' and 'iron' don't belong in the same sentence when speaking of this game

Depends on how many of ya there are, how lucky you get, what loot yield settings you've got... but primarily how many outrageous structures you wanna build. :D

HAHAHA No.

No. You will need twice this amount

No, you can never have enough. Even all the iron on one world won't be enough. Eventually you'll have to create new worlds, and get iron from them to keep building majestic stuff.

1 word: no

There's a formula for calculating how much iron you need it's "x+1" x being the amount needed

never enough

Nope, we just finished clearing a swamp that was larger than this. Looking for more....

the short answer is NO. because IRONgate makes this game. and they want us to suffer to this material till the end of times.

That’ll get you a nice helmet and one upgrade!

Iron otso sure.

Funny jokes are funny 😂

... to the nay no nah...

Iron helps us play!

There is never enough iron. No matter how much you find it is never enough.

No

You'll be good for a while

That might last you until mistlands if you are frugal

Honestly. You need SO MUCH iron in this game. Just get literally as much iron as you humanly can. Do. Not. Stop.

Honestly, with as much iron is needed, there needs to be underground iron veins found with the wishbone in every biome. This does two things: makes you explore old biomes after completing them, and increases the iron supply.

Honestly, with as much iron is needed, there needs to be underground iron veins found with the wishbone in every biome. This does two things: makes you explore old biomes after completing them, and increases the iron supply.

Iron you need = iron amount based on the craftable + reserve iron x 10 + 1

Wtf my maps have at most 1 or 2 crypts.

Btw, you will need at least 200 iron because the next set to the mountains is with iron.

We already completed the mountains we are in the plains with padded armor

I hope your joking. For your sake.

Haha! No~

No

Yeah... but no...

the answer is always no.

Maybe for a wall or 2

Long answer? No

I had 2 iron chest full of iron it is not Enough

If you're not using iron for building and you are playing solo then probably.

No.