It is always fun to find new thing in Valheim when returning.

I was up at the trader to sell off some of the plunder from the crypts out in the swamp that had been collecting back at base when I noticed her had a Thunder stone for sale… cheap.  I couldn’t remember what a Thunderston did or if it was new or had been around.

For sale now though

So I bought one, wondering if it would unlock a new recipie.  And it did.  It unlocked something called the Obliterator, which I dearly hoped was what I thought it was.  I headed right back to base to see what it did.

With the Thunder stone I had all the ingredients to hand, so I started looking around as to where I could build it.  I ran all over the inside of our main base looking for a location, but it seemed to be a tall item, so eventually I headed outside.

The second place I ended up building it was out in a clear patch of land next to our main base building, where a generated structure had been when the world was first generated.

The Obliterator it a container with copper pipes running all around it and what appears to be a tall copper mast antenna sticking up into the sky, which is what kept me from building it inside.  You can open it up and put things in it, then there is a lever on the side you can pull when you have closed it up again.

Pull lever to make things happen

And when you pull the lever, thunder booms and lightning descends and strikes the mast, covering it with electric power, and a message shows up saying that the items were obliterated.

What happened? Items obliterated!

Now, this actually solves a problem in Valheim, which is what to do with stuff you no longer want.  You can decontruct building materials, but things like armor or weapons, they just hang around taking up chest space.  And they don’t even stack, so it is annoying, and once you upgrade your armor a couple of times you are never going to go back to the cloth rags again.

So being able to get rid of stuff is a good thing.  Enter the Obliterator.  Better than sailing out to the ocean and dumping stuff overboard… and dumping stuff overboard didn’t always work because some items float and you can end up picking them up by accident later.

And, if you put enough stuff in the Obliterator, Odin gives you something.

What is Odin’s bounty?

It is just coal, but coal is always useful.  The ration of coal to items is pretty bad, according to the wiki, so you wouldn’t want to give up your kiln in favor of the Obliterator.  But getting a bit of coal for a pile of garbage isn’t bad.  I didn’t mind just being able to destroy thing.

You will notice that I am standing back from the Obliterator because when the lightning hits it does some AOE damage to things with its immediate vicinity.

And that was how we ended up with a hole in the side of the base, because the FIRST place I built it was right next to the wall.

Well, that can be mended

I suppose I should be glad that I didn’t find a place inside where the ceiling was high enough to build it.

It is always fun to find new thing in Valheim when returning.

I was up at the trader to sell off some of the plunder from the crypts out in the swamp that had been collecting back at base when I noticed her had a Thunder stone for sale… cheap.  I couldn’t remember what a Thunderston did or if it was new or had been around.

For sale now though

So I bought one, wondering if it would unlock a new recipie.  And it did.  It unlocked something called the Obliterator, which I dearly hoped was what I thought it was.  I headed right back to base to see what it did.

With the Thunder stone I had all the ingredients to hand, so I started looking around as to where I could build it.  I ran all over the inside of our main base looking for a location, but it seemed to be a tall item, so eventually I headed outside.

The second place I ended up building it was out in a clear patch of land next to our main base building, where a generated structure had been when the world was first generated.

The Obliterator it a container with copper pipes running all around it and what appears to be a tall copper mast antenna sticking up into the sky, which is what kept me from building it inside.  You can open it up and put things in it, then there is a lever on the side you can pull when you have closed it up again.

Pull lever to make things happen

And when you pull the lever, thunder booms and lightning descends and strikes the mast, covering it with electric power, and a message shows up saying that the items were obliterated.

What happened? Items obliterated!

Now, this actually solves a problem in Valheim, which is what to do with stuff you no longer want.  You can decontruct building materials, but things like armor or weapons, they just hang around taking up chest space.  And they don’t even stack, so it is annoying, and once you upgrade your armor a couple of times you are never going to go back to the cloth rags again.

So being able to get rid of stuff is a good thing.  Enter the Obliterator.  Better than sailing out to the ocean and dumping stuff overboard… and dumping stuff overboard didn’t always work because some items float and you can end up picking them up by accident later.

And, if you put enough stuff in the Obliterator, Odin gives you something.

What is Odin’s bounty?

It is just coal, but coal is always useful.  The ration of coal to items is pretty bad, according to the wiki, so you wouldn’t want to give up your kiln in favor of the Obliterator.  But getting a bit of coal for a pile of garbage isn’t bad.  I didn’t mind just being able to destroy thing.

You will notice that I am standing back from the Obliterator because when the lightning hits it does some AOE damage to things with its immediate vicinity.

And that was how we ended up with a hole in the side of the base, because the FIRST place I built it was right next to the wall.

Well, that can be mended

I suppose I should be glad that I didn’t find a place inside where the ceiling was high enough to build it.

It is always fun to find new thing in Valheim when returning.

I was up at the trader to sell off some of the plunder from the crypts out in the swamp that had been collecting back at base when I noticed her had a Thunder stone for sale… cheap.  I couldn’t remember what a Thunderston did or if it was new or had been around.

For sale now though

So I bought one, wondering if it would unlock a new recipie.  And it did.  It unlocked something called the Obliterator, which I dearly hoped was what I thought it was.  I headed right back to base to see what it did.

With the Thunder stone I had all the ingredients to hand, so I started looking around as to where I could build it.  I ran all over the inside of our main base looking for a location, but it seemed to be a tall item, so eventually I headed outside.

The second place I ended up building it was out in a clear patch of land next to our main base building, where a generated structure had been when the world was first generated.

The Obliterator it a container with copper pipes running all around it and what appears to be a tall copper mast antenna sticking up into the sky, which is what kept me from building it inside.  You can open it up and put things in it, then there is a lever on the side you can pull when you have closed it up again.

Pull lever to make things happen

And when you pull the lever, thunder booms and lightning descends and strikes the mast, covering it with electric power, and a message shows up saying that the items were obliterated.

What happened? Items obliterated!

Now, this actually solves a problem in Valheim, which is what to do with stuff you no longer want.  You can decontruct building materials, but things like armor or weapons, they just hang around taking up chest space.  And they don’t even stack, so it is annoying, and once you upgrade your armor a couple of times you are never going to go back to the cloth rags again.

So being able to get rid of stuff is a good thing.  Enter the Obliterator.  Better than sailing out to the ocean and dumping stuff overboard… and dumping stuff overboard didn’t always work because some items float and you can end up picking them up by accident later.

And, if you put enough stuff in the Obliterator, Odin gives you something.

What is Odin’s bounty?

It is just coal, but coal is always useful.  The ration of coal to items is pretty bad, according to the wiki, so you wouldn’t want to give up your kiln in favor of the Obliterator.  But getting a bit of coal for a pile of garbage isn’t bad.  I didn’t mind just being able to destroy thing.

You will notice that I am standing back from the Obliterator because when the lightning hits it does some AOE damage to things with its immediate vicinity.

And that was how we ended up with a hole in the side of the base, because the FIRST place I built it was right next to the wall.

Well, that can be mended

I suppose I should be glad that I didn’t find a place inside where the ceiling was high enough to build it.

It is always fun to find new thing in Valheim when returning.

I was up at the trader to sell off some of the plunder from the crypts out in the swamp that had been collecting back at base when I noticed her had a Thunder stone for sale… cheap.  I couldn’t remember what a Thunderston did or if it was new or had been around.

So I bought one, wondering if it would unlock a new recipie.  And it did.  It unlocked something called the Obliterator, which I dearly hoped was what I thought it was.  I headed right back to base to see what it did.

With the Thunder stone I had all the ingredients to hand, so I started looking around as to where I could build it.  I ran all over the inside of our main base looking for a location, but it seemed to be a tall item, so eventually I headed outside.

The second place I ended up building it was out in a clear patch of land next to our main base building, where a generated structure had been when the world was first generated.

The Obliterator it a container with copper pipes running all around it and what appears to be a tall copper mast antenna sticking up into the sky, which is what kept me from building it inside.  You can open it up and put things in it, then there is a lever on the side you can pull when you have closed it up again.

And when you pull the lever, thunder booms and lightning descends and strikes the mast, covering it with electric power, and a message shows up saying that the items were obliterated.

Now, this actually solves a problem in Valheim, which is what to do with stuff you no longer want.  You can decontruct building materials, but things like armor or weapons, they just hang around taking up chest space.  And they don’t even stack, so it is annoying, and once you upgrade your armor a couple of times you are never going to go back to the cloth rags again.

So being able to get rid of stuff is a good thing.  Enter the Obliterator.  Better than sailing out to the ocean and dumping stuff overboard… and dumping stuff overboard didn’t always work because some items float and you can end up picking them up by accident later.

And, if you put enough stuff in the Obliterator, Odin gives you something.

It is just coal, but coal is always useful.  The ration of coal to items is pretty bad, according to the wiki, so you wouldn’t want to give up your kiln in favor of the Obliterator.  But getting a bit of coal for a pile of garbage isn’t bad.  I didn’t mind just being able to destroy thing.

You will notice that I am standing back from the Obliterator because when the lightning hits it does some AOE damage to things with its immediate vicinity.

And that was how we ended up with a hole in the side of the base, because the FIRST place I built it was right next to the wall.

I suppose I should be glad that I didn’t find a place inside where the ceiling was high enough to build it.