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This is an educational tutorial on what I believe to be Skyrim's most difficult vanilla challenge. Survival, Legendary, Permadeath - starting at level 1, without ever leaving the dangerous island of Solstheim. Join our friends Tom, Bear Grylls, and Turkey Stick as they attempt to complete this entire DLC from impossible conditions.
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0:00 - Intro
1:04 - Tom
8:26 - Bear Grylls
15:20 - Turkey Stick
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pls Can't leave Markarth
yo Televangelaporting? is not a word
What region are you locked to in this challenge? City? Roads? Dungeons? I watched all of it and am still confused
Be careful about doing too many of these sponsored videos. Each one debuffs your reputation stat.
Nice use of space pirates during Turkey Stick's run.
I took ten followers to Solstiem at an early level and only I, a dark elf, and Jenassa survived. (Even when I died she kept going.) Being a Dunmer is the true secret here.
It's actually a really fun workaround to quietly providing Dark Elves a massive advantage in their native Ashlands region. Building most of those early Solstheim enemies as fire based, played well into the already existing passive bonus that Dark Elves had in the original Skyrim release
Also Jenassa is essential
@@lordedmundblackadder9321 No she isn't. On 360 she got absolutely WRECKED by a giant on one of my saves. I reloaded right after and decided to go around the giant camp instead
What mod?
@Ian She's not essential, she's protected. She can be killed by the player. YOU killed her.
I would never have believed stealth archer was the play style for this! A totally fresh approach to Skyrim!
What do you mean, it's not a stealth archer play style! He says so in the video
Yeah it is clearly a conjuration mage playthrough 🤣
Nah he stood up that one time, totally not stealth 😂
Let's be honest, 'stealth archer' is the play style for almost every situation in Skyrim. When I'm roleplaying in game, I have to actively correct myself sometimes from slowly becoming one each time, because it's so darn effective.
@@DragonsRUs1414 My last save (vanilla) was a Mage that happened to hit 100 archery before hitting 100 in any of the magic trees lol
Legendary difficulty be like: the hero of Skyrim, the Last Dragonborn, peerless master of Destruction magic cast Sparks, 1 damage. Random el bandito casts Sparks, 50 damage.
I don't get why people play legendary not for a challange not for content just like play legandary like why it isn't "hard" it just makes it extremely annoying and unfair EDIT: I gave legendary an honest try and I'm playing legendary exclusively now
@@hutki_shiraSame. I like challenge but I don't like the nonsense multiplication of damage approach to challenge. I prefer mods, SPID to give los banditos more assets, AI improvements, outright rebalancing to either make enemies stronger, scale better or make combat overall deadlier etc.
@@hutki_shiraI usually use adept in early game, then as I level up and become more powerful, I up the difficulty to Master to keep the game interesting. Usually around lvl 45-50 I’ll consider going up to legendary to keep combat interesting. If you have the right perks and gear the game is pretty easy at lvl 45 on anything below master
I have inferiority complex and if I don't play in legendary difficulty, whispers in my head will drive me insane.@@hutki_shira
Ideally I want the average early game bandit as strong as the average early game player, with the difference just being in equipment and player skill. And for that sort of comparison to scale into the rest of the game.
Joov: “bringing a follower is cowardly” Also joov 10 seconds later: *runs to a town so they can fight his enemies for him*
Also summons Atronachs enough times that he pretty much never fights a battle by himself. He even gave then names!
Not a stealth archer
Do it again, but melee only. Your suffering will be immense, but if you pull it off you'll be a legend
I did the same permadeath challenge and found out there is a random chance when taking the lift to top of mushroom Kingdom that Neloth will nail you with a lightning spell that kills you before he can apologize to your corpse. That was the end of my last run
What I’ve never seen that happen
Yep, its a very rare event. @@sackettandres9457
To say it with the words of SsethTzeentach: "If you can't levitate like a normal person..."
I found that you can somehow "miss" the levitation beam and fall to your death when trying to leave his house.
With Joov calling the Skaal Villlage "Santa's Village", I wonder if he ever found the real Santa cave, Frossel. It's located up near the northeast corner of the map.
Normal map or solstheim?
I hate to mention this, but you could just use necromancy on a bandit body after removing all items from the body, then just beat him until he starts attacking you to increase armour levels
That's a great idea! Never thought of it like that
I love solsthiem so much! My husband introduced me to Skyrim three years ago, and I was as hooked! He thought it was hilarious that I was entirely uninterested in following the main quest, and spent several real world months exploring solsthiem. I thought it was the most fascinating region Skyrim had to offer and I didn’t want to leave! Skyrim was the first video game I played in my whole life (age 22 😅) and will always be special to me ❤
Never too late to join the party! Thanks for sharing :)
You might like Morrowind then. Once you get past its badly dated gameplay, it’s got great world building and good writing. Neloth and his quests are a good representation of Morrowind’s tone and atmosphere.
play new vegas
Good news! There's an ENTIRE GAME with this exact aesthetic.
@@King.-Arthur that's if you're ok with how terrifying the netches (idk the fast travel jellyfish) are because those things are a low poly monsters
I'm glad I caught some of these streams and watched all of these VODs. We all went through Turkey Stick's journey together and the trauma bonding when he tragically passed was intense. This run inspired me to do a Legendary Survival No-Crime run and I'll never be the same. This is definitely the best video you've ever done.
It's been a couple months since this run ended, but watching it back the feeling of disappointment hit like a truck again. Turkey Stick 2 will not fail. We train Heavy Armor, patiently clear our objectives. Easy win.
@@Joov I have the utmost confidence in you.
@@Joov I really hope I can catch some of those live. Will the new character be called... Beef Spatula? ...Sorry
Televangeleporting is such an amazing play on words, and is probably the most accurate description of what's happening too 😂
I am beginning to think that Meridia's Beacon is not a random spawn, but actually spawns in the first chest you search that has the ability to contain it. Every time I go to the giant camp near whiterun, it's in that chest, so either I get really lucky(?), or it's not random.
Technically it is a radiant spawn, and it only spawns in once you hit the level requirement for the quest. However meridias beacon is notorious for just interrupting lmao
My first was bleakfall. Scared me shitless 😅
It's when you get to a certain level you must get to that part about the same time every time
If I’m correct it’s the first boss chest you come across after a certain level (13 I think)
I kid you not, I literally just subscribed and turned on notifications after watching the last Solstheim video hoping for another one, and not 30 minutes later you upload this. You are a freaking wizard.
Oh no not the skill resets video D:
@@Joov Oooh yes, the skill resets video lol
@@Joov That video was so cursed I killed my father and married my mother
@@Joov fwiw, the video was fun regardless of the skill reset
@@hoagie911Oedipus, is that you?
Solstiem is my favorite part of the Skyrim game. Thank you so much for this I have been waiting so long.
I hate being a grammar Nazi but you missed an H in Solsthiem
@@ItsBroTato a grammar n'wah
@@ItsBroTatothat’s not grammar that’s spelling
@@dakotareid1566 close enough
why
The energy of this and the most recent Point Lookout video have felt like a great bump in both energy and quality. Not to say your prior work wasn't also excellent, but these most recent 2 really feel a step above from the editing and enjoyment aspect!
Thanks for watching! I had SO much fun with the Point Lookout video, this as well but I was pretty far removed from the footage (most was recorded in November 2022) so it's always hard to tell. I appreciate that!
The disappearing spriggan was so damn paranoia inducing
Solstheim. A difficult location to stay permanently on, but it is a beautiful location everywhere you go. Thank you for doing this, this is the best location in all of Elder Scrolls, and seeing you survive on the island. Especially when you kept being sent to the different stones every time you slept.
I did this years ago it's not hard at all it's actually fun and can make your character extremely op for the rest of the game.
I made a ridiculously busted enchanter region locked to solstheim Got really fantastic speech and smithing, in addition to maxed out enchanting. Hunted around the island for east empire pendants to give to the general merchant in exchange for grand soul gems for big projects, or petty soul gems for putting waterbreathing on random jewelry and selling at a huge profit. Eventually kitted the guy out in some really powerful light armor/daggers, and unleashed him into the rest of the game at level 60. I think this was in Oldrim as well, a cd copy I bought for my laptop about ten years ago. Ah memories
Watching you suffer through the hell that is Solstheim at low levels made me feel brave enough to survive in my favorite area in Skyrim. Was so hyped for this for a long time, it's so great to see you get this far!
Wow that got me really emotionally invested. I can't wait to see Turkey Stick Jr on his adventure to avenge his father by retracing his footsteps more efficiently
2:55 was such a melodic transition. Big ups to the editor
You should consider illusion magic for such challenges - it's really strong for survival and dealing with multiple enemies, imo the best magic school on higher difficulties without abusing the boring and broken crafting system / exploits. On top of that, it gives you invisibility and muffle ... and most importantly, it's really a lot of fun
Agreed, but requires high illusion too
@@darkpaw1522In the vanilla game at least that’s not an issue, because you get XP for casting muffle near non hostile NPCs.
@@thebigyes8482 True. But is that skill book available on Solthsteim?
I agree, Invisiblity saved me more times than I care to mention, especially at higher levels.
@@thebigyes8482 I don't know which is more efficient, but I grind illusion on a horker with calm because the spell is actually useful outside levelling
God Turkey Stick had a great run, was never able to make the streams but as a VoD channel Giga Chad I was able to see the journey of our boy and it was wonderful
These VODs were what prompted me to play Skyrim on survival for the first time, which has been a lot of fun and forced me to try some different playstyles from my usual defaults! (Still stealth archer-ing though, can't be helped.) Turkey Stick, your legacy lives on and I can't wait for Turkey Stick 2.
Watching all this go down live was absolutely legendary. I can't believe you fit all that into one video, great job on the editing!
I was genuinely upset when turkey stick passed. So many things raced through my mind as I tried to process what happened, but was left speechless. It happened so fast!! Watching Joov delete the saves hurt my heart, but it was the right thing to do. R.I.P. Turkey Stick, gone but not forgotten. Keep being you Joov, your personality and energy are enough to have gotten me to become emotionally invested in a video game character so very deeply and I love that. Here’s to the future!
as you often do in these region locks, you did a great job of showing the quality of Dragonborn vs the rest of the game. Great DLC and great vid
I really enjoyed the Solstheim VODS and watched the entire series at least twice. It was really fun to watch you survive, chop wood, fish endlessly and running back from shrines that you were teleported to. Idk how to really write it, but I could tell that you enjoyed the challenge and that made it even more entertaining I guess. So when the notification finally popped up that you uploaded I got really excited! I was really upset when Turkey Stick died, but his legacy will live on! The video is great as always, and I can't wait for the next one!
I watched all the VODs already but man this was perfect. Your editing and humor is just chefs kiss. Keep being you Joov! ❤
The Nino Kuni music during Bear Grylls run was perfect, and if I’m right and that’s the same music that plays when you get stuck on an island then that is some serious attention to detail on your part! Very impressive, and I hope your next run goes better now that you know what to look out for
another thing that makes thebound bow great is the arrows shimmer and leave a nice highly visible arc so you can correct your aim more accurate for the next shot and it lets you study arrow trajectories easier to become generally better at it.
Been waiting for this one. My friend told me about Turkey Stick, and I decided to watch the vods. Was not disappointed, was very entertaining. Instantly started looking for more vids. Love the vods, and love the content!
This video has become one of the select few comfort background videos i listen to when i need sound, either when gaming, sleeping, or just needing to hear another human voice. Something about your voice, particularly when explaining the strategies, is so soothing while also being super funny when i pay attention
The Legend of Turkey Stick!!!! Yall in for a treat!
A man of such legend, he even has his own emote
YES THE SOLSTHEIM AT LEVEL 1 CHALLENGE IS FINALLY BACK BUT BETTER WOOOOOO. Also your production has improved like CRAZY Joov wow idk what u did but PROPS man
Im so happy to see this vid finally up!! I followed the journey and was absolutely devastated when it ended
Top tier editing and commentary as always, keep up the good work Joov! I really gotta explore more of solstheim myself
I feel like I say this with every one of your videos, but this is absolutely the best vid you've yet released and I'm so excited for the next one
I think this is one of your best region locks yet! Makes me wanna challenge myself with a region lock just for the fun of it
please keep making skyrim videos like these. genuinely cannot get enough of them
First video of yours that I’ve seen.. great editing and commentary. Cool challenge to undertake too. I especially like the way you chose your character’s name. You are a great entertainer, editor, director and producer! I am a subscriber now. I look forward to seeing another run thru..
Thanks for watching! Welcome!
I was not expecting all the Waterflame music, wow. As someone who used to talk to and listen to him back when he was just on Newgrounds, before even his Castle Crashers deal, this was a blast from the past!
I’ve been binge watching your videos since I found your channel and just can’t get enough. Keep up the excellent work Joov
I'm proud of you for taking on this challenge, it makes the videos more interesting and tense.
Love your videos. What microphone do you use out of interest? Your voice always sounds so much clearer and higher-quality than other KZheadrs
Did anyone else do these kinda challenges casually because they were playing too much unmodded Skyrim and decided to do stuff like this to keep it exciting? These videos are nostalgic for me tbh :3
Awesome video man! Happy to finally see the finished product from you and I’m honestly glad that you stuck with it!! What a ride. The ending is always sad, but it’s the journey we enjoy. Good vibes and all bruh.
11:48 the sudden appearance of the wolves again and the matching cult text below! chefs kiss 🤌
Without the permadeath restriction, this could honestly be a really fun way to tackle a dlc area in any game. The Dark Arisen section of Dragon's Dogma comes to mind, it's rough but there are tricks and enough weak-ish dudes around to maybe get you started.
"Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer." -The Ancestor
This video is great! Easily my favorite region lock challenge so far. Good job!
As always, you make those runs even more amazing when you edit them
This video was how I found out that skyrim has fishing in it, and I spent years addicted to this game
i loved solstheim so much when i was playing skyrim. morrowind is forever my number 1 game (together with gothic 1&2 and oblivion),so nostalgia was strong.
Still never gets old hearing the TES3 soundtrack playing in this DLC with the Silt Strider mooing in the background.
Honestly love this setting and video idea. Would be great to see you finish it!
I know you posted this video a while ago but I keep coming back to it for a good laugh, this challenge looks like a nightmare but you made it very entertaining and it makes me wish I could pop in for your livestreams if my work didn't keep me from bad timing.
JOOV! Well done, I started watching the VOD channel because of Turkey stick! May he rest in peace! Please do another legendary Survival Permadeath with a combat mage!
new Joov video just in time for lunch, it's like you read my mind
Im so excited if there truly will be a part 2
would love to see something like this for the siera madre, or big mountain. this, and other videos where you build a narrative from the game's jank, is the amazing content i love your channel for.
I tried a much easier version of this challenge one time many years ago, where I tried to roleplay as someone who just came to Solstheim with nothing to their name, and it was so. So. Hard. And long. And insanely boring. So I’m excited to see how you deal with this challenge!
It's so Nice seeing our boy joov finally getting famous It makes me really happy
We NEED a part 2 to this challenge!! Such an amazing video Joov!!!
Hey joov, I haven’t been watching your channel for too long, but you have given me a lot of joy. I’m sure it doesn’t matter all that much to you, but you are one of the best KZheadrs I’ve seen in a while. Great content man, keep up the great work!
24:47 that goblin scaring you is the best part 😂
Accidentally did something similar. Took the Another Life mod that shipwrecked me off the west coast of Solstheim. Was quite the grind, and I rage quit because I spawned right in the middle of 3 werewolves
The Sims: Bustin Out music sent me on the best nostalgic adventure I’ve been on in a couple years. Much appreciated
Your best videos are when you have a very hard challenge like this, the humor is great and necessary but pairing it with something like this or the glowing sea video is 10/10
what are the names of the song that starts at 16:16 and 22:57? i remember that i heard them a long time ago, while i was playing a very famous (i think it was very famous, at least at the time) flash game, but i dont remember the name of the games, or the name of the songs. please help me out to answer these questions
first one mentioned is music from castle crashers
Did you guys know that this is the hardest challenge joov has ever done
I'd love a region lock to anywhere but civilization! I.e: no crossing roads, going into towns, using carriages. You'd have to live in the forest like a hermit or a sasquatch, only surviving off what you find and hunt/gather
Absolutely disrespectful, how Dwayne keeps dissapearing almost immediately if Joov gets finishing kill, but when Dwayne gets a kill, he stands there for longer😂
Another banger coming straight from the man himself 😮
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I absolutely love the fact you used waterflame music in this. Was a big surprise.
i remember this series on your other channel! i loved it and hope to see more stuff like this, try conan exsils and stay in the jungel, build the best possible kingdom and beat back every purge and counquer :D
One of my favorite things about this guy's videos is listening to the background music from other games he adds in and seeing how many I recognize.
have you considered doing a region locked challenge in the forgotten vale (in skyrim)? it has just enough content to be interesting, might be good for a shorter video though I'm not sure if it would cause any issues with quests, since you're supposed to be there with serana to confront a snow elf
I ❤ TURKEY STICK
One of the options on the mod 'Live Another Life' drops you on Solstheim at Level 1 with nothing. I found this out the hard way one playthrough. It even drops you at the opposite side of the island from the boat back to Skyrim, but the dock location isn't discovered so you can't fast-travel - a lot like the way you're playing this challenge (aside from the survival and permadeath elements.)
I actually quite often start my games in solstheim because I enjoy the challenge of being a normal dude for the first few levels and having to deal with the stones is just enough pain for me to love it. Getting the first set of armour and weapon usually the bonemold armour and bloodskaal blade also feels so good compared to a normal run. Permadeath though is just another level
Rewatched the vods and its inspired me to try out legendary and survival for the 1st time ever for either (only ever played on regular adept). Not going for the permadeath cos i literally couldn't get to solstheim without dying lol (on console, no commands available) and i do not have it in me to delete a character on my 1st experience of legendary or survival. I love your content dude, but gotta say i hate you a little bit right now for inspiring me to willingly go into this hellish situation 😭😭😭. Kudos to you for doing this for people's entertainment cos this thing is torture... For the heavy armour training, i have since discovered that theres a heavy armour trainer amoung the nords of Thirsk Hall or their original camp. I haven't been able to get the option to come up yet, but maybe its something to look into if you ever attempt this challenge again. Ive also found an excruciatingly slow method (but i dont die) by using the lowest level of draugr at close range and letting them hit once or twice (no other enemies aggroed). Couple with the restoration perk regeneration to heal for more, and a couple healing and magica potions, its worked slowly. It also works with the lowest level reever archers when you get them to switch to a dagger at close range, they do significantly less damage and hit more frequently. Planning on getting the recovery perk as well to make my life a little bit easier and get my mag back a bit faster. Hope this helps if you attempt this challenge again... RIP Turkey Stick
You can get a rekiling pet if you side with them and you can get dwemer pets like a sphere if you collect the unique crystals.
What I always see a lack of in skyrim videos about low level survival is venison stew. It's an absolutely overpowered item. What it does, is restore 1 health and 1 stamina every second for twelve minutes. This allows you to infinitely power attack in this time. What some people do not know however, is that those babies stack. Chugging down five bowls of stew gives you a very long, regeneration of both stamina and health for more than twice as long as regeneration potions. It's relatively easy to make, only needing a salt pile, a potato, a leek and some venison. Venison is the hardest to get by, but even then rather easy. You can clear entire dungeons on just ten bowls, it's pretty great.
I'm so glad you did this when you did! I just started my 89837434th playthrough and was looking for a challenge, so I started the Alternate Start 'dunmer refugee on solstheim' option. I did the same grind of chopping wood, smithing, making potions, and had a nice time just kind of...being an NPC and roleplaying getting to know the villagers and staying at the inn and such? I eventually gave up and went to the mainland because it got to the point where it was more challenging than fun, and besides a lot of the good stuff on Solstheim doesn't start until you do stuff on the mainland. Now my dark elf girl has a modest house in the gray quarter (thanks mods) and is amassing power to return to her beast to be slain, the island of Solstheim.
Definitely enjoying the Age of War remix you got going on there during Turkey Stick's daring adventures.
I loved watching the streams on diet joov!! it was heartbreaking to see turkeystick go. i hope you end up comimg back and streaming more solstheim soon!!
This is perhaps my favorite of your videos, its longer, it just has that old Joov charm that made us fall in love, keep up the phantastic wok!
There is a room in Ralis quest where a Draugr with a bow is in an elevated platform and can only attack you via arrows. I used it to farm both block and heavy armor in one of my playthroughs. It's risky, though.
pls more vids like this!! ive just binged all your skyrim vids and i love the solsthiem vids!!
Skyrim, the game where putting someone’s stuff in your pocket is a death sentence, but carrying it away in your hands then pocketing it behind a tent is just fine.
Heya Joov! Super entertaining to see this one! I used to love this island except for all the damn ash hoppers :'( Also that mic I asked about so long ago? Got one myself and it's GREAT!
It's crazy how survival mode turns this DLC into an absolute nightmare. Basically fall asleep and roll the dice as to where you get to wake up.
WOW, I do not understand how your channel has not been recommended to me before, I'm only 1 minute and 17 seconds in and already am blown away by the quality of the video & editing. This is going to be an amazing video, I already know, lemme grab the popcorn!
Dude I Loved this! It's always a highlight when you upload
The final build for this reminds me of my first ever Skyrim playthrough, I found out about the Conjuration level method of spamming Soul Trap and did that on my character but then became a stealth archer using a bound bow
Next time not sure if you did but playing as a Breton and leveling Alteration will increase your Magic Resist then add gear with magic resist and fire resist. With the cap of 85% in both Magic resist and resist to fire/shock/frost you'll have 97.75% resist.
the fishing stream part was surprisingly calming.
I’m consistently excited for Joov vids , my fave Skyrim/fallout player
Love the image-sound synchronisation at 2:40
10/10 Video. Music was absolutely on point, so many childhood classics.