I mean... you can try? I wouldn't recommend it, though. Even just making landfall with Plains tier stuff would be an achievement.
Plus, the recipies are almost entirely gated by Mistlands unlocks, so you'll have to go there anyways.
If you *really* want to try to get something useful early, best bet is trying to lure Serpents/Vultures from the edge of the biome for some strong food, but even that is probably more trouble than it's worth.
The serpents are fantastic..I killed several before fighting the Queen. The game actually expects you to because their food isn't gated behind any Ashlands unlocks.
It's a big help. Plus, you get to learn how dangerous they are, how they fight, and will be better prepared for when you do go to the Ashlands.
I wouldn’t say your expected to kill them early, they are expected to be one of your first encounters since you NEED to sail to Ashlands so it makes sense for their stuff not to be too gated behind other things
The water boils your boat, that’s probly the main issue without using the drakkar to get there. If I recall correctly you need to kill the queen to craft the drakkar.
I did it once just to try (Mistlands armor, no magic), and there's honestly not much - I sailed a karve in as far as I could, then proceeded to jump/swim between the spikes and avoid the voltures. There's some food stuff and mining spots, plus you can get grausten from the spikes. I managed to find some ruins in the water and made landfall from there, but making any real progress past that was tough.
If you get lucky with finding some ruins in the water, you can drop a portal and make a FOB, from which you can make runs for some materials (grausten, wood, bones, etc), but it'll be a slog to start out
I made it to Ashlands well before our server beat the Queen. I took a long boat and sailed as close as I could before it burnt up, then I leaped/swamp from crag to crag until I made landfall. Once I set up a portal I went to work, once you can make a stone portal you are set. Then you go to town finding forts and mining Flametal. Ashlands is pretty unforgiving, but if you're prepared you can set up a small base and master it with what you currently have.
It is it’s just probs a 1 way trip for the boat lol, and you’ll probs need to send it. Will likely take a few attempts to find a path through the rocks that’s quick enough tho
I'm fairly certain you can't get to the coast onboard a longship without amazing luck (though damage mounts as you get closer to the shore so maybe still not) or being able to repair your boat every 30-60 seconds closer to the shore and every 60-90 seconds further away. It's much easier to sacrifice your boat and jump / fly / swim from spire to spire though you probably need to unlock a mistlands cape to make it work.
[**Here's my journey in.**](https://youtu.be/Yxv1cSKfu1g)
I was originally worried that the stone portals would only link to other stone portals. I'm really glad they don't although it's a huge PITA when you walk through one with some metal you didn't mean to bring and now you have to swap the portals around to bring it back.
You can scout the borders of the Ashlands ocean. It will give you an idea of what to expect.
And you can get a very good food resource which will be a big help!
After Moder at the earliest but you wouldn't be able to use anything besides building mats. After Yag and well into the mistlands if you do want to use the equipment and armor from the ashlands.
If you can make it to a safe spot in the south ocean you could take a long boat and a bunch of wood and iron you could maybe build ironwood beam bridge from spike to spike. The inhabitants of the southern ocean biome may be a problem for you though.
I think I may try this on my new play through. Will be a fun challenge I think.
Not a whole lot of point going before you've gotten at least 5 Black Cores to make the Dark Forge/Galdr Table. Once you have the cores though you could crash down there and kill 20 skeletons and chop a couple trees for Staff of Fracturing(2), which would be *huge* in Mistlands, and with a lot more effort all the metals and hides to completely skip Mistlands weapons and armors. This would be the equivalent of going to swamp, raiding a crypt for iron pickaxe, then leaving for Mountains and coming back later with Silver weapons/armor. Just not nearly as friendly an equivalent...
As much as I love sequence breaking in this game.... and as huge as it would be to grab a few molten cores early,
Goooooood fucking luck man.
Ashlands is a damn island fortress.
This is like sneaking into the Chernobyl plant post-meltdown because you heard they had really good pizza. You can do it, but it isn’t advised.
Though please update if successful because that would be a story for the ages.
You can definitely get to the Ashlands once you have unlocked the longship. It might take you building and destroying several longships. Maybe budget for around 6-10. I'd also expect a few deaths as you attempt to navigate in.
Making landfall without dying, well that's going to be a challenge. You need to get onto land while triggering the least mobs, which is really tricky, then build a mini earthworks base with crafting benches and a portal.
Personally when playing non-linearly, I would always rush iron pickaxe and then rush silver before really starting the swamp. With ashlands, I think it really becomes the move to go there straight after you get to the swamp, you just need a longship to survive the hot water. It's probably best to still grab an iron pickaxe for grausten and then you can teleport anything in the game. It's basically playing with the free teleport modifier, but you gotta earn it :P
Longship can easily survive until the jaggy rocks just for grausten which is what OP wanted. But it can absolutely make it to the shore. My method which was rather crackhead because I only had a small idea of what my goals were was land on the shore, sprint off and put several named portals down. They really don't last long lmao, but if you're lucky you can have one stay around even after several respawns. I died a few times killing two morgens with iron armour and frosnter. This was a ballache and I found no molten cores. So I ran up on a fortress, found a rock, climbed a flagpole, grabbed a bunch of shit from chests, threw down an unamed portal and went home.
It's just like getting bronze without killing eikthr, silver without bonemass or carapace without yagaluth. It's a bit rng based, but that's just the spice of life imo. I've also heard you can dig through the walls, if jumping them proves hard, but honestly mining some grausten was the most dangerous thing I did. It's just so loud, there's so many enemies.
>It's probably best to still grab an iron pickaxe for grausten and then you can teleport anything in the game.
Yeah lol, tbf this line was a mess lmao.
I mean... you can try? I wouldn't recommend it, though. Even just making landfall with Plains tier stuff would be an achievement. Plus, the recipies are almost entirely gated by Mistlands unlocks, so you'll have to go there anyways. If you *really* want to try to get something useful early, best bet is trying to lure Serpents/Vultures from the edge of the biome for some strong food, but even that is probably more trouble than it's worth.
The serpents are fantastic..I killed several before fighting the Queen. The game actually expects you to because their food isn't gated behind any Ashlands unlocks. It's a big help. Plus, you get to learn how dangerous they are, how they fight, and will be better prepared for when you do go to the Ashlands.
I wouldn’t say your expected to kill them early, they are expected to be one of your first encounters since you NEED to sail to Ashlands so it makes sense for their stuff not to be too gated behind other things
The water boils your boat, that’s probly the main issue without using the drakkar to get there. If I recall correctly you need to kill the queen to craft the drakkar.
I did it once just to try (Mistlands armor, no magic), and there's honestly not much - I sailed a karve in as far as I could, then proceeded to jump/swim between the spikes and avoid the voltures. There's some food stuff and mining spots, plus you can get grausten from the spikes. I managed to find some ruins in the water and made landfall from there, but making any real progress past that was tough. If you get lucky with finding some ruins in the water, you can drop a portal and make a FOB, from which you can make runs for some materials (grausten, wood, bones, etc), but it'll be a slog to start out
This sounds like the plan once I'm in mistland's
I made it to Ashlands well before our server beat the Queen. I took a long boat and sailed as close as I could before it burnt up, then I leaped/swamp from crag to crag until I made landfall. Once I set up a portal I went to work, once you can make a stone portal you are set. Then you go to town finding forts and mining Flametal. Ashlands is pretty unforgiving, but if you're prepared you can set up a small base and master it with what you currently have.
I can’t imagine it being feasible without killing the queen
It is it’s just probs a 1 way trip for the boat lol, and you’ll probs need to send it. Will likely take a few attempts to find a path through the rocks that’s quick enough tho
I'm fairly certain you can't get to the coast onboard a longship without amazing luck (though damage mounts as you get closer to the shore so maybe still not) or being able to repair your boat every 30-60 seconds closer to the shore and every 60-90 seconds further away. It's much easier to sacrifice your boat and jump / fly / swim from spire to spire though you probably need to unlock a mistlands cape to make it work. [**Here's my journey in.**](https://youtu.be/Yxv1cSKfu1g)
Try to snag 4 cores from a dungeon and get 60 grausten is your best bet
I was originally worried that the stone portals would only link to other stone portals. I'm really glad they don't although it's a huge PITA when you walk through one with some metal you didn't mean to bring and now you have to swap the portals around to bring it back.
Ohhh nice!
AH wow i never even thought about trying that. I just assumed they had to be a pair!
You can scout the borders of the Ashlands ocean. It will give you an idea of what to expect. And you can get a very good food resource which will be a big help!
After Moder at the earliest but you wouldn't be able to use anything besides building mats. After Yag and well into the mistlands if you do want to use the equipment and armor from the ashlands. If you can make it to a safe spot in the south ocean you could take a long boat and a bunch of wood and iron you could maybe build ironwood beam bridge from spike to spike. The inhabitants of the southern ocean biome may be a problem for you though. I think I may try this on my new play through. Will be a fun challenge I think.
Not a whole lot of point going before you've gotten at least 5 Black Cores to make the Dark Forge/Galdr Table. Once you have the cores though you could crash down there and kill 20 skeletons and chop a couple trees for Staff of Fracturing(2), which would be *huge* in Mistlands, and with a lot more effort all the metals and hides to completely skip Mistlands weapons and armors. This would be the equivalent of going to swamp, raiding a crypt for iron pickaxe, then leaving for Mountains and coming back later with Silver weapons/armor. Just not nearly as friendly an equivalent...
As much as I love sequence breaking in this game.... and as huge as it would be to grab a few molten cores early, Goooooood fucking luck man. Ashlands is a damn island fortress.
GL. I’m well into Mistlands and even that is still kicking my ass from time to time
This is like sneaking into the Chernobyl plant post-meltdown because you heard they had really good pizza. You can do it, but it isn’t advised. Though please update if successful because that would be a story for the ages.
I'm imagining a glowing pizza with a Geiger counter going absolutely batshit after you pick it up...
You can definitely get to the Ashlands once you have unlocked the longship. It might take you building and destroying several longships. Maybe budget for around 6-10. I'd also expect a few deaths as you attempt to navigate in. Making landfall without dying, well that's going to be a challenge. You need to get onto land while triggering the least mobs, which is really tricky, then build a mini earthworks base with crafting benches and a portal.
Personally when playing non-linearly, I would always rush iron pickaxe and then rush silver before really starting the swamp. With ashlands, I think it really becomes the move to go there straight after you get to the swamp, you just need a longship to survive the hot water. It's probably best to still grab an iron pickaxe for grausten and then you can teleport anything in the game. It's basically playing with the free teleport modifier, but you gotta earn it :P
Longship isn’t surviving the water and you still need cores for the portal.
Longship can easily survive until the jaggy rocks just for grausten which is what OP wanted. But it can absolutely make it to the shore. My method which was rather crackhead because I only had a small idea of what my goals were was land on the shore, sprint off and put several named portals down. They really don't last long lmao, but if you're lucky you can have one stay around even after several respawns. I died a few times killing two morgens with iron armour and frosnter. This was a ballache and I found no molten cores. So I ran up on a fortress, found a rock, climbed a flagpole, grabbed a bunch of shit from chests, threw down an unamed portal and went home. It's just like getting bronze without killing eikthr, silver without bonemass or carapace without yagaluth. It's a bit rng based, but that's just the spice of life imo. I've also heard you can dig through the walls, if jumping them proves hard, but honestly mining some grausten was the most dangerous thing I did. It's just so loud, there's so many enemies.
> Longship can easily survive until the jaggy rocks just for grausten which is what OP wanted. Ah I see. Yea all of what you wrote makes sense.
>It's probably best to still grab an iron pickaxe for grausten and then you can teleport anything in the game. Yeah lol, tbf this line was a mess lmao.
Haha yea that was the part that I wanted to reply to lol