Greetings. I just started the game on pve conflict official. I’ve got about 80hrs in so far. I think I’m ready to try and head north for star metal , ice and hardened steel ingredients. I can make Vanir armor but the cold still seems to prevent me from going north. What else do I need to do to progress further ?
Thank you , I look forward to more time in Exiles. After 5000 hours in official pvp Ark it was time for a change.
Thank you, I will try that. The bridge tip is helpful as thats how I’ve tried to access area . I will gear up and give it another go. I do have upto to reduction of weather effects in survival and plenty of vitality…
ok . I play on PS4 but some things are the same . To go north you have to do some simple preparations.
1st . food , you will need to own any recipe that will allow you to have any spiced food . To fix spices all you need is to put fiber in the grinder or seeds.
2nd .water , when you go cold you loose humidity faster because you eat spiced food to warm up and your humidity is going down faster ,so the solution is berry pulp . Berry pulp is restoring humidity without cooling you down . To fix berry pulp is very easy ,you just put berries in the fluid press .
3rd . Armor , on PS4 we need different armors for cold and heat ,in pc all the armors give both of the temperature protection . If however you play on PS4 , you give your thrall to whear the opposite armor 
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4rth . Vitality , your vitality must have at least 2 perks .
5th , Go North from Sepermeru . Head to Sepermeru city and then go North , pass carefully the Savannah of Sepermeru , go to the mount of dead ,take the obelisk and the brewing recipe , then find the western entrance of the village , go north it has a path with a ghost , move carefully there and look to find a mountain that seems to have a path , when you find it take this mountain path , at the end of this path you will find a giant that will learn you the Ymir religion . After this it’s easy follow the road from the mountain peaks and you will find your self to the frost keep , an easy path with goats , star metal , black ice etc … no great opponents .
6th . how to break the meteorites ?
(a)orb way , it takes 5 oil orbs ,1 explosion orb and 1 gas orb .
(b)explosion arrows
© explosion jar .
(b) way is the best , then the orb way and finally the explosion jar way ,your call .
Good luck and have fun m8 .
I never had to use that much to break open the meteorite. One demon-fire orb is enough. You need an alchemist to make these orbs. If it doesn’t break at first, I stand right on it and aim downwards.
This is the route you want. There is black ice at two locations and the cold is minimal. It literally encompasses D12, running SW to NE. Bring fire arrows as you may see meteorites also.
You can access the ridge from the top NE corner of 11C, follow the path to the left first going into 12C and you will come to black Ice. Then follow the ridge back NE all the way up into the corner of 12E and you will see more black Ice.
Make sure you look at the cliff faces along the way, as meteorites may be imbedded in them also.
Depends on how long they have been on the ground. I have had to use up to 3 fire arrows to break one open sometimes.
Thank you for all of the information. Very helpful…
Sometimes it takes one orb sometimes it takes 10 and never break 
. The system with these amounts I gave has 95% success . Imagine our friend to go up there with 3 demon fire orbs and won’t made it ? I have to guide him the best possible , the gas orb at the end will secure a great blast and vanish the fire almost instantly so he can farm fast . Still explosive arrows is the best way but sometimes it takes just one and others twenty are not enough , so if he doesn’t have the recipe unlocked orbs is a really secure way to do it .
True…
Play with your stats in survival and vitality and you can run around large parts of the north totally naked without freezing. Just be careful drinking water, as another person pointed out.
Another thing to be aware of when playing with clothes for temperature, if you die you’ll be running back into the temperature to get your stuff. So it is a good idea to throw up a small camp in the Cimmerian region (that super dreary depressing place with the trees and the glowing sh*tbags) and have extra clothes, especially when you haven’t found the obelisk yet. I’ve had confidence in my bedroll before but forgot that my naked ■■■ couldn’t make it back across the snow for my body.
I wouldn’t recommend trying to fight anything up there, though, especially not at first. Even if you can kill some things, sabretooth and wolf numbers up there are massive and annoying af. Fight one thing and you’ll get 10 more walking up on you, and they all just suck. And if you see the demon wolf, don’t stop running until your feet hit that sweet, sweet desert.
By the way you can get a very easy “warming” recipe in the oasis near Mitra religious teacher. Just go up the scaffolding around the statue there and you’ll find a journal with Specialist cooking.
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One gas orb an one demon-fire orb my tactics.
And the meteorites can be stuck under mesh… I regularly meet meteorites that can’t be cracked open even with 50+50 orbs so I ghosted under the ground (single player) and voilá, 1+1 orb did the trick.
Thank you everyone for the tips , I was able to gather some black ice. I’ll return for star metal …it was an adventure but was successful after covering the mountain with fresh corpses ( mine ) n the end I got home with 600 black ice…
Something no one has mentioned here yet is that you don’t actually have to be in the Mounds of the Dead area to hear meteors strike ground. I do not know how far away you can be but the Crevice and River’s End area’s just to the east of the Mounds will keep you safe from meteor strikes and allow you to hear them.
Awesome thank you !
I am using a mod that can make 4 followers follow me. If I mount a horse/rhino, the number is 5 
Two thralls, two Turanian rhinos from DLC) and a horse will make everything easier.
The north is full of sabretooth, and they are very annoyed. Thralls are used to kill them. and rhinos will store the star metal ore/coal/black ice.
Fighter 2s have a mace and a shield, so double the action!
You can run naked in the north with just absinthe or firewater on your bar.
The same for volcano, naked eating ice.
2nd vitality perk gives you more temp resistance.
So true . Still he must know very well the path because sabers ,wolf’s , mammoths and bears do not forgive mistakes . Still you are very right in this one 
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I drink firewater and speed run the giants cave for black ice.
Ofc I keep solspeil shield(frost resist) on bar in case i get hit.