Crops don't grow when the zone is unloaded. However, unloaded zones have time stamps. So when you revisit the zone, they'll time skip to the present, and the crops will POOF fully grown.

While being away works for crops, it does not work for tamed animals and they'll be frozen in stasis until your return.

Originally posted by blprice61:

Different playstyles progress at vastly different rates. Even for zoomers, it might not be a horrible thing to stop progression after Moder and before Yag until Mistlands pops - there could well be some changes to events there.

You don't even need to kill Bonemass or Moder. If you are not going to kill Yag until mistlands drops, you really don't need padded just for the villages. Padded from previous biome experience should be the transition to Mistlands level armor anyway.

With experience you don't need the wishbone to find silver.. so all you really need to raid villages and get tokens is the Elder for the iron key. Use the iron to get wolf and that is all you need to enter the plains safely.

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

I have never seen "The horde is attacking" either, but it's a limited duration event, so, unless you spend alot of time between defeating moder and defeating yagluth, you should not see it.

That's why I wonder why people build earthen barrier so much. The only non-limited duration event that can do anything to a plain stone wall is trolls, and those are easily defeated, or you can just run around repairing the walls for a few minutes if you're worried about it.

That's wolves and fulings do bust through stone walls. I've had an attack in a mountain fort and they got through a few blocks. It's a bit of a pain.

Different playstyles progress at vastly different rates. Even for zoomers, it might not be a horrible thing to stop progression after Moder and before Yag until Mistlands pops - there could well be some changes to events there.

Boars are pretty freaky, they like it when you watch.

In my experience, if you leave them enough food, boars will breed in your absence.

Originally posted by magilla666:

In my experience, if you leave them enough food, boars will breed in your absence.

Welp its wrong
If you are very far away ( at the poing of use a portal ) them will not breed but will ate all the food you leave there , only will do it if you are in a 64m range ...

I noticed my crops don't mature all the way until I am actually there. Animals don't seem to breed unless I am there too.

They do, just takes a while, like 2 or 3 days, but I am unsure at the moment, oh and things like Deer and Boar to respawn over time, but they do not breed.

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

Crops grow, but boars do not reproduce. There should be something like a dungeon master that is responsible for calculating what plausibly happened while you were away. When Valheim is finished, the calculations it does will become more sophisticated. If the plants can grow, the pigs should reproduce.

I think it is an intended mechanic to keep you chained to them in order to reap the benefits from them....

For me it is enough so that I don't even bother anymore... the few times I did tame it was never worth the time investment or loss from attack etc.

If they bred normally and tamed when absent I would probably use them, the only possible use now I can fathom is if you are feeding an army or role playing as a farmer or something.

I don't think the mechanic is intentional. I keep boars and wolves together in the dry moat surrounding my inland base and grow carrots for the boars. When they are ripe, it is sufficient just to pull them up.

Down the hill a couple of ks, my port is completely open, defended only by wolves. The boars have their own pen in that base. (I turned a few boars loose to see what would happen and they just wandered off and forgot where their food was.)

You can drag tamed boars with a harpoon to get a breeding pair to your main base. Better is to get the wild ones to chase you there.

"The horde is attacking" has not struck either of my bases.

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

"The horde is attacking" has not struck either of my bases.

I have never seen "The horde is attacking" either, but it's a limited duration event, so, unless you spend alot of time between defeating moder and defeating yagluth, you should not see it.

That's why I wonder why people build earthen barrier so much. The only non-limited duration event that can do anything to a plain stone wall is trolls, and those are easily defeated, or you can just run around repairing the walls for a few minutes if you're worried about it.

On my main world, every night like clockwork, if I'm awake, I get a fuling raid of 4-5 fuling. It doesn't matter where I'm at. I can be at one of my bases, or in the middle of any biome. They'll come around the middle of the night. I don't see that mentioned in the events. Does anyone else get that? Is that a normal event at end game?

They do.

Crops can be totally ignored. Even left in the ground fully grown they will not rot or anything. The only danger is if you are around and something is attacking it and you don't notice.

Crops grow, but boars do not reproduce. There should be something like a dungeon master that is responsible for calculating what plausibly happened while you were away. When Valheim is finished, the calculations it does will become more sophisticated. If the plants can grow, the pigs should reproduce.

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

Crops grow, but boars do not reproduce. There should be something like a dungeon master that is responsible for calculating what plausibly happened while you were away. When Valheim is finished, the calculations it does will become more sophisticated. If the plants can grow, the pigs should reproduce.

I think it is an intended mechanic to keep you chained to them in order to reap the benefits from them....

For me it is enough so that I don't even bother anymore... the few times I did tame it was never worth the time investment or loss from attack etc.

If they bred normally and tamed when absent I would probably use them, the only possible use now I can fathom is if you are feeding an army or role playing as a farmer or something.