Swamp

Swamp

Flooded, poisonous and raining without pause.
Tier	3
Distance	2,000 to 6,000 m
Boss	Bonemass
Metal	Iron
Dungeon	Sunken Crypt
Weather	Rain, always
Threat	Wet, cold and poison
Travel	Karve

The Swamp is a flooded sheet of black water and sodden soil under bare ancient trees. It rains there one hundred per cent of the time, whatever the weather is doing anywhere else, and every creature in it is hostile. It is the wall the game puts in front of you, and iron is on the other side.

Locations

The Swamp spawns from 2,000 m out to 6,000 m, and only on ground within about 20 m of sea level, which is why it is always flat and half flooded. A Swamp rarely appears on your starting continent, so it is usually the first biome you have to sail to.

Location	Image	What's Inside
Sunken Crypt		The iron dungeon, locked until The Elder drops the swamp key. Muddy scrap piles, draugr, blobs and a Bonemass vegvisir.
Geyser		A fire vent with three surtling spawns. Flood it and it becomes a coal and core farm.
Abandoned Hut		A ruined stilt house. A chest usually means a wraith is waiting with it.
Swamp Runestone Tower		A ruined tower with a body pile, draugr and a 30% Bonemass vegvisir.
Swamp Grave		Six great stones around a chest, guarded by two body piles and a bone pile.
Bonemass' Altar		The boiling death altar. Ten withered bones summon him.
The Bog Witch's Hut		A hut under a shimmering dome, three to eight kilometres out. The Bog Witch trades here.

Boss

Bonemass is summoned at the boiling death altar with 10 Withered Bones, which you mine out of Muddy Scrap Piles. He has 5,000 health, is weak to blunt and frost and immune to poison, and he drops a poison cloud you cannot block or dodge.

He drops the Wishbone, which finds buried Silver, buried scrap and buried treasure, and that is your gate into the silver tier. His power cuts physical damage taken by a quarter and makes blocking cost no stamina at all.

Creatures

Creature	Health	Drops
Abomination	800	abomination trophy, guck, root (item)
Blob	50	ooze, blob trophy
Bonemass	5000	bonemass trophy, wishbone, bonemass power
Draugr	100	draugr trophy, entrails
Draugr Elite	200	draugr elite trophy, entrails
Kvastur	700	resin, wood, kvastur trophy
Leech	60	bloodbag, leech trophy
Oozer	150	ooze, scrap iron
Surtling	20	surtling core, coal, surtling trophy
Wraith	100	chain, wraith trophy

Resources

Material	Image	Kind
Ancient Bark		Materials
Bloodbag		Materials
Candle Wick		Materials
Chain		Materials
Corked Vial		Materials
Cured Squirrel Hamstring		Materials
Entrails		Materials
Fiery Spice Powder		Food
Fragrant Bundle		Food
Fresh Seaweed		Food
Giant Herring		Fish
Grasslands Herbalist Harvest		Food
Guck		Materials
Iron		Metals & Ores
Iron Nails		Materials
Iron Ore		Metals & Ores
Iron Protection Idol		Materials
Ivy Seeds		Crops & Farming
Ooze		Materials
Powdered Dragon Eggshells		Materials
Pungent Pebbles		Materials
Root		Materials
Scrap Iron		Metals & Ores
Scythe Handle		Materials
Seafarer's Herbs		Food
Serving Tray		Materials
Sharpening Stone		Materials
Surtling Core		Materials
Toadstool		Food
Turnip		Crops & Farming
Turnip Seeds		Crops & Farming
Withered Bone		Materials
Woodland Herb Blend		Food

Hazards

The rain never stops, so you are wet the whole time: health, stamina and eitr regeneration all drop until you get under a roof.
At night, cold stacks on top of wet.
Poison is the biome's signature, from Leeches, Blobs, Oozers and Bonemass himself. While it ticks, poison stops health regeneration.
Leeches attack while you swim, and swimming drains stamina.
Draugr can spawn inside a Muddy Scrap Pile and hit you from within it.
Surtlings throw fire from a distance and will set your buildings alight.

Lore

The stones here are about what the Swamp hides. One will not even name Bonemass: "the thing I will not name stirs below the surface, a bitter mass of bone and sin". Another is just three lines long: "Below the mist and murk / Bone speaks to bone / Remembering flesh".

The Draugr get the longest one. They were a proud civilisation that challenged the gods and lost, and they return "as Draugr, unholy walkers in ancient armour, creatures of rust and despair. Break them, bury them, let them know they are dead." A gentler stone calls it a mercy.

Notes

A Sunken Crypt counts as sheltered, so a Campfire inside gives you Rested and clears Wet at the same time.
The Stagbreaker and Iron Sledge pass damage through Muddy Scrap Piles without destroying them, which is how you kill a Body Pile in a sealed room.
Scrap Iron cannot go through a wood portal, so a forward base with a Smelter is standard.
Gucksacks never regrow, so Abominations are the renewable way to farm Guck.
Thistle is easiest to find at night, by its blue glow.

All Biomes

Biome	Where	Boss	Materials
Meadows	0 to 5,100 m from the centre. Your world starts here.	Eikthyr	Wood Flint Raspberries Leather scraps Deer hide Honey
Black Forest	500 to 8,000 m out, the ring just past the Meadows.	The Elder	Copper Tin Core wood Surtling cores Thistle Carrot seeds
Swamp	2,000 to 6,000 m out, low and flooded.	Bonemass	Iron Ancient bark Guck Roots Turnip seeds Chains
Mountain	Any ground above 50 m, from 600 m out.	Moder	Silver Obsidian Wolf pelt Dragon eggs Crystal Onion seeds
Plains	2,900 to 8,000 m out, open golden grass.	Yagluth	Black metal Barley Flax Tar Lox meat Needles
Mistlands	5,900 to 10,000 m out, the last ring before the edge.	The Queen	Black marble Soft tissue Sap Yggdrasil wood Magecaps Jotun puffs
Ashlands	A crescent island at the far south, past boiling water.	Fader	Flametal Grausten Ashwood Sulfur Asksvin hide Iolite Bloodstone Jade
Deep North	The far north, against the world edge.	Kall Fimbulbringer	Bloodgold Petrified tissue Ice Timberwood Moose hide Seal pelt
Ocean	Anything below 26 m of water, between every landmass.	-	Chitin Serpent scale Serpent meat Tuna Coral cod

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