Originally posted by TehJumpingJawa:

Stamina should punish *mistakes* ONLY.
e.g. excessive jumping, excessive dodging, overly defensive combat, repeated missed attacks, etc.

... and excessive or perma sneaking, Perhaps add a timer?

Stamina should not get in the way of progression, nor should it get in the way of gameplay.

Yeah, like regenerative/potion-dependant stamina and mana systems, skills on cooldown, and action/spell points do in... virtually any other games.

TL;dR: LOL.

You should check out the Valheim Plus mod.

Removing crouch stamina drain (and in general rebalancing most other stamina drain) was the 1st thing I did.

I don't know what the devs are thinking with the current stamina balance.
It's like they have no respect for people's real-life time, and are balancing the game to play like an incredibly tedious mobile cow clicker, or freemium MMORPG.

There's one simple guiding rule on how to balance stamina:

Stamina should punish *mistakes* ONLY.
e.g. excessive jumping, excessive dodging, overly defensive combat, repeated missed attacks, etc.

Stamina should not get in the way of progression, nor should it get in the way of gameplay.
e.g. I should never be waiting for stamina to regenerate when I'm mining copper, chopping trees, exploring on foot, levelling ground, placing structures, etc etc.

I've only been playing Valheim a short time, and apparently stamina has only recently been nerfed into this atrocious state (though I've no idea how it was before the nerf).
Hopefully the devs realize their mistake, and take a different, more sensible approach to implementing stamina.

p.s.

There are tonnes of other QoL improvements in Valheim Plus, almost all of them enhance the game by alleviating the excessively tedious or repetitive aspects of the game.

Yeah duck walk through your house and tell me how much easier that is than walking

Quite right. Try that yourself for, say, a hundred meters and tell me how your legs feel after that. Better still, hold that position for an hour while you do a manual task; your knees are not allowed to touch the floor/ground, you must crouch or squat.

It's not a good time.

Originally posted by jesusthefetuseater:

Why in the ever loving hell would crouch walking take stamina . this is literally the only thing that made me stop and think what the actual ♥♥♥♥

crouch walking equals sneaking
but have you tryed walking that way without getting exhausted?

Lawyered

Originally posted by jesusthefetuseater:

...this is literally the only thing that made me stop and think what the actual ♥♥♥♥

OK jesus the fetus eater

Crouch walking is what gives you sneak xp to level up the sneak skill.
So of course they made it so you can not do it endlessly.

Reasons to quit: Crouching takes stamina.

lul.

Have fun crouching through your daily live and tell me how easy it was. Last but not least you are not crouching but rather sneaking and that gives you advantages. Sneaking all day would be some sort of easy mode.

Meanwhile: Why you are sneaking that much? I couldnt think of any moment where would sneak as much. Its kinda funny and sad at the same time what people come with to complain.

Cause unlimited sneakiness wouldn't make it as fun

My guess is the dev team decided to crouch walk. It's one of the reasons I like to make buff legged characters. Try crouch walking for as long as you can

Why? Man, try to walk like that yourself!

Indeed, try it in real life and see how long you can do it for... it certainly does take stamina.

the characters have as much leg strength as pomeranians

osteoporosis simulator

Crouch down and try walking and tell me if you feel you are using stamina.

bro holding ctrl and walking consumes stamina

try it sometimes in real life.