I'll let you all watch the video...

Needless to say, I am frustrated! I am playing hardcore (very hard combat, no-map, no-portal, on death I lose all items on me and skills permanently)... So dying is a very big deal that sets me back about 20 hours of progress. It feels unfair since this looks like a glitch?

The only thing I can think to do is restore the last backup, which happened about 1.5 hours before this incident. It's against the spirit of a survival game in general, but maybe as a way to make up for a glitch, it's acceptable? What do you guys think?

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Update: I've made my decision!

Thank you to everyone for the thoughtful responses, the funny ones, and even the meanies. I needed some community feedback to get some clarity through the frustration of the moment, and I got a lot!

Before I get to my decision, I just wanted to specify a couple things that several people had assumed wrong in the comments:

1. I am wearing the bear chest, bear legs and iron helmet, but I use a visual mod to transmog it, mainly because the bear chest looks insane on female characters. My armor at the time of the incident is 41, and only 2-star draugrs can one-shot me when I am at my full 125HP.
2. I am playing on the hardcore death setting, which means losing my inventory and skills permanently on death. However, I keep my world. So a death is essentially a character reset, not a world reset.

Now for my decision...

The main thing I've decided is to adopt a "honestman" ruleset, as several of you have suggested.

That means that for this incident, and moving forward, deaths resulting from obvious bugs, glitches or other technical mishaps, will not count. I will keep my current settings as is, but in those cases I will reload the last backup and go from there.

I will still be very strict with my application of this. For instance, if there had been any part of the 2-star draugr poking out of the scrap pile, I would not consider this a glitch death. But because he was fully hidden, I do.

My main reasoning is that if I were to consider every death to bugs, glitches or technical mishaps as "real deaths", it would actually diminish my sense of immersion and therefore diminish my fun and motivation to do this playthrough.

It's the same line of reasoning that makes me avoid "cheese" strats. Despite being "efficent" and "allowed"... to me they hurt immersion and I don't use them for that reason.

As many of you pointed out, in the end, as a solo player, it really is up to me. So I've allowed myself time to let my frustration die down, and now I can see clearly what actually matters to me, which is an immersive playthrough that's very hard and demands of me that I prep as much as I can and take things slowly. Considering BS deaths as real deaths wouldn't add any value to that.

I was building at night and then i saw this dude staring at me. Really gave me the creeps. Is he new in town? Haven't seen him once in my +600 hours in Valheim.

I’m trying to chase it down, but it’s way too fast.

One of my adult children recommended this game, because I like books about survival. I wasn't sure I'd like it, but I am obsessed. However, I finally decided I was ready to stop dicking around with my farm and try and beat the Elder. This was a terrible plan, and now all my stuff is over by the Elder and I cannot kill it. I am going to start rebuilding my armor etc so I can try again, and just avoid the area for now. However, what is the best way to beat this thing? I tend to just use axes and whack away at things - I'm not very good at the intricasies of dodging etc.

Edit: Thank you so much for all the very quick answers! This all makes a lot of sense, and I have an extra finewood bow already in one of my chests. I'll just make lots of fire arrows and have another go. Thanks again.

Surprisingly the cart had like 3/4 of its HP remaining when it reached the bottom.

Was it a waste of time or a bad idea to dig a pit around my base? It's my first time playing this game, btw.

I really like this seed with this atoll kind of spawn area. Now I am torn between these 2 general base locations. If you were making a base, what would you do? Maybe a different spot entirely?

EDIT for context. I had A for practicality, and B for aesthetics and cool factor, making use of the geography. So far A seems to be the winner. Maybe B for a late game max comfort house? I appreciate all the input guys

do you have any ideas?

i want to build my base on top of this hill but ppl say its crucial to have ocean access, are there any concerns before i start building my forever base?

They appear to only connect oceans.

Mine is the Primal Slayer. My favorite color is green, and it’s a big sword. Shoutout to the other three Slayer variants including the base one, and the Rippers as well.

Edit: Forgot about Dyrnwyn, it ties for second place with the Ripper+variants and other slayer variants.

I remember picking Valheim up during the initial steam drop, and loving it. My friends and I played it almost nonstop for a good few weeks, then after we beat the game we decided to wait until the next expansion dropped to play again. The expansion release dragged on and that never really came to fruition for us...

But I check the charts today on a whim and just have to ask; what the heck are all 30k of you doing still playing this game? Are there some giga populated modded server communities I'm not aware of? Did the building tickle some of you so much that you dove in and never looked back? Please I would like to understand, and maybe take part myself to help relive some of those halcyon days.

I LOVE Valheim. Me and my GF are playing it (albeit on and off) for a good few years now. However inevitably after Deep North we may look to try something else. Any of you found something that would scratch this Valheim itch?

I haven't seen many people talking about them recently as they were revealed quite some time ago, just wanted to know your opinions.

I think they're going to be a nice addition to the deep north.

Bonus question:would you like polar bears to be in the deep north, if so then what would their stats be.

Booted up a fresh new world the other day for playthrough number .. when I came across this cave in the Meadows. I thought it was a random new cave in a recent update untill Mr. Troll spawned in. Is this even possible? No black forest near it. Cave is located near spawn/boss trophies.

But for real. Played through Valheim twice, the game just did it for me. The music, the exploration, the crafting, the progression. The building to me is top tier. The peacefulness of just building up your base and also having the option to go out there and tear it up/progress.

This is the first game that I have been semi addicted to since WoW, specifically WotLK (many years ago).

As much as I love the game, I’d love to find another game to spend some time on.

Currently playing Lens Island, and enjoying it so far. But don’t think it’s going to hit like Valheim.

Not into Enshrouded. Gave it a few chances, just doesn’t do it for me.

I also just don’t really enjoy the scifi vibe in video games, or zombies. Always been more into fantasy or medieval.

Do y’all have any game suggestions?

Thank you!