Originally posted by Honorable_D:

Ores/ingots are Valheim's primary means of progression, so the devs don't want mining to be a trivial matter. Filling up inventory and just portaling right back to base to unload and then portaling right back to the ore vein would be braindead easy.

It also ties nicely into the ship sailing mechanic by making sailing an important thing you do throughout the whole game.

Although i can't entirely disagree, for me and i'm sure others we'd rather be playing and progressing not grinding the whole time, I think that's the issue I mainly have is the tedious grind involved in it. Had metals and ores come from actual fighting creatures I think i'd have more fun doing it. I'm ok with grinding chains and iron scraps because their is more fighting and exploration involved. As it is now ore deposits aren't hard to find but the transport of these items is a pita. I've use portals to teleport metals back and for to my main base and i'm still in Iron Age, it's more a matter of how quickly you choose to progress, i'm not really using it to get a lightning speed jump thru progression, just faster than endless grinding.

Originally posted by Jitatha:

Its part of the game that's weird, you can wear armour made from the metal, carry a weapon made of metal, can carry gold coins, can carry iron nails, but can not carry an ingot or ore through. Reasons.

yah i think its just more of an artificial limitation they chose to impose...which is fine if its not your cup of tea, mods can fix that.

yep, there has been a mod to fix this for quite some time, although I rather like not being able to take ingots through the portals. It adds some challenge. Simply use the mod if you don't like it, but in my opinion it is turning on easy mode. Getting that loot back to base without dying takes some skill and some luck. Many gamers these days like easy mode. Chew up the game as fast as possible, spit it out, then on to the next title.

Originally posted by Faitheal:

yep, there has been a mod to fix this for quite some time, although I rather like not being able to take ingots through the portals. It adds some challenge. Simply use the mod if you don't like it, but in my opinion it is turning on easy mode. Getting that loot back to base without dying takes some skill and some luck. Many gamers these days like easy mode. Chew up the game as fast as possible, spit it out, then on to the next title.

idk man really at the end of the day if you find 2-3 good swamps, longboat all the ore out in full boats. u got all the iron you need for quite a while unless you build a lot. but its like if i reach end game, and i want some stuff from my other base to build or something and ive got like 4 bases with the resources i need, it would be nice to be able to just jump over and grab it. you cant think of the people who rush the game and move on, its not for them. focus on people like me who will put 500 more hours in if you give me more content and some minor improvements , and make it optional server by server on how the portals work. ez pz no problems. i personally love how 7 days to die did it you can customize soo much about your server.

I have the mod that allows me to portal with it. I don't always use it, but I don't always have hours of sit down time to play either. A boat trip can suck up play time real fast, and your doing nothing while sailing 99% of time.

i get that it encourages you to sail, but its sailing back to where i just came from, most likely the most direct route i can take so ill just be travelling the same area again not exploring new places. that said id like to see dungeons that aren't exact clones of each other. at least then i wouldn't be sailing the same path to go do the same dungeon again. dont get me wrong i love this game, but after a full play thru each zone seems to lack enemy and dungeon variety and the tedium of sailing oceans i have just come across. id rather have less minerals available and be able to teleport them, this would encourage you to dungeon dive more instead of sailing empty seas for 30 min to get home and smelt. which would be more fun if they weren't all the same.

So ask yourself, what's the point of portals? To traverse great distances in far less time than it takes by boat or walking. Adding a limitation to this especially with something just as time consuming as collecting other resources makes zero sense imo. So you would rather drag out your progress over potentially hours rather than minutes. Ok that's all you if you have the time, patience and actually get satisfaction out of it. To me the devs can make their game far more drawn out with better things to do than resource collecting which gets monotonous after awhile. I can spend 4 hours resource collecting metals or actually progressing further in the game, I choose to use mods, remove said limitation and actually feel like it doesn't take eons to progress. For some it's their cup of tea, for others not so much. All I can say is thank god for mods... Also the encouragement to sail comes from actual exploration, seeings how its the only way to make it to new islands, traveling back and forth by boat to the same place over and over becomes very monotonous over time, but again if that's what your into, by all means enjoy. I'll spend my time playing the game doing better things like building awesome bases, fighting monsters, etc...

Ores/ingots are Valheim's primary means of progression, so the devs don't want mining to be a trivial matter. Filling up inventory and just portaling right back to base to unload and then portaling right back to the ore vein would be braindead easy.

It also ties nicely into the ship sailing mechanic by making sailing an important thing you do throughout the whole game.

Originally posted by Honorable_D:

Ores/ingots are Valheim's primary means of progression, so the devs don't want mining to be a trivial matter. Filling up inventory and just portaling right back to base to unload and then portaling right back to the ore vein would be braindead easy.

It also ties nicely into the ship sailing mechanic by making sailing an important thing you do throughout the whole game.

how is sailing difficult?

Its part of the game that's weird, you can wear armour made from the metal, carry a weapon made of metal, can carry gold coins, can carry iron nails, but can not carry an ingot or ore through. Reasons.

I kind of like it, makes you think and plan ahead. But I would like it if you could portal the smelted ingots. This would get people to make a working outpost to smelt in the swamps ect
Currently it is an all or nothing type thing, rather than build a full base people are just boating it back to main base or using mods.
This subject has been talked over and over again and it will not be changed.

There'll be mods for that soon I bet. I don't have a problem with it as it makes the game feel bigger and actual travel and planning is needed with this mechanic.

It is part of the games mechanics. This encourages more use of ships and/or exploring to find logistically correct placement of bases around resources. Personally I think we would lose a lot of depth to the game by removing the restriction.

The devs seem to have expressed a desire to not change it. So if it bothers you then you can play around it by world hopping, using the console or using mods.. or you can just play another game that works better for you.

It doesn't bother me so much as it seems artificially limited. Specially iron which is in a hilariously way, almost ironic, pun intended. Btw. But seriously. They could have had other items needed instead of like ore, with restrictions embedded into the same blueprints.

I mean, an iron mace weighs 2kg, but the iron ingots needed is 200kg or something.

Me and a group of people found it fun to build roads from our base to the resources so we could take carts of ore too and throw