Alright, so the seed wasn't what I thought. Turns out it is...

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Spoiler screens below.

Zoomed out section
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2817550700
North of Island
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2817550750
Mid Section
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2817550731
South Section
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2817550714


Everything you see aside from the little bit of exploration near the merchant and beyond, is all one "connected" island. There's even more not yet revealed.

I'm defining "connected" here to mean any section separated by a body of water that is shallow enough to be built on or swap across using foods available in Meadows/Black Forest only. So there's a little island hopping here and there, but a ship or raft isn't required to cross between the islands.

There's some really cool places to build as well. We're currently holed up in an "underground" base built under rocks in a mountain area in the North.

I have a good but not OP seed that I enjoyed playing. There is a perfect island for a base NNE of the spawn island with all five active biomes plus trader, though you still need to travel for bosses. Yagluth is pretty far away so you'll need to look him up or go hunting.

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Originally posted by electricdawn:

I'd be very interested in that seed.

I’ll look into getting the specific seed then once I’m off work. Will also try to include a screenshot of the in-game map of what we’ve uncovered so far if you like as well. Might spoiler tag it in case players prefer to explore it themselves. It’s a very fun seed to play as you can pretty much progress through the tiers of the game just by moving North over time. Very enjoyable one to play on.

Originally posted by electricdawn:

I'd be very interested in that seed.

In my old one when I made this post?

I actually meant @Chaoslink, but I would be interested in yours as well. Thank you.

Darkhammer is any form gives some very nice seeds. For example:- DaRkHaMmEr, DarkHammer, darkHAMMER

I'd be very interested in that seed.

I'd have to confirm the seed with the host, but its something like Hurrrrrr or something, so the number of r in there is a little specific.

The seed itself has the most massive starting island I've ever seen. You get x4 mountains including a really narrow range in the north that separates two plains. The Elder AND Bonemass bosses are present on the island. You have a merchant just across the water and a second island close enough you can swim to it, enclosing a circular ocean with a second narrow channel, both connecting to each island. There's a tiny mountain for initial wolf farming/taming and a tiny Plains for doing similar things with plains mobs. The tiny plains is barely a longship or two across but lone enough to consistently get mob spawns. Two good swamps for Iron mining, one close to The Elder for quick transitions and another on the North end in the Plains where you might set up a new base. Moder is also just one or so islands away, possibly on the merchant's Island which offers convenient access if you've got a portal already there.

There's a decently large Meadows to start that has a nice little river passing through so you have a convenient channel to sail a boat through to the other side.

You could nearly progress to the endgame without ever leaving the starting island with the exception of the Moder spawn.

If anyone is interested, I'll check in with the host player and get the exact seed for sharing. I'm not usually one to pick specific seeds, but this one is something unique. The starting island literally extends so North that the northmost part is nearly 2/3 of the way to the edge. We're just about to have fully upgraded silver gear, day 150+ and we've still yet to fully explore the starting island. Its just so big.

a1 has a large start island with a lot of the biomes. I have not had time to go in and look through it personally. The ones that are off the main island don't seem to be too far of a boat ride either.

def go look at that seed generator.

I just started the seed "Valheim" and it looks really nice. Black Forest not too far away from the starting location and nice open meadows with a very nice southern coastline to boot.

Not sure about long term play, but I have a seed (I am not actually using it now) that has a maypole on an island in starter Meadows and also a mountain with wolves to tame right off starter Meadows. I had an alt with wolf pet taming starred boars at maypole area on day 7 of game.

Like I said, Not sure of long term play-ability, because I only used this random seed to kill Eikthyr and prove to myself I had actually learned to melee and parry.

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Pct2NspXkR is my main's seed. I personally like it. Give it a try.

Well it depends on your definition, but I used Fenris as the seed and its ok apart from finding the vendor and I have not looked for Yagluth yet. Go north from the portal about 5-10 minutes and you can set up a base close to iron, silver and copper. You will need a raft to get to Moder and Bonemass, though it was a little rough getting to the mountain to plant the portal for Moder.
Or try mPyru6uGGE that has the vendor visible when you start.

https://valheim-map.world is your friend! Load up this website and when you start a world, enter the seed into the dialog box for it on the site. Then you can choose what you want to show on that map to see if that's going to be a seed you like or not.

I'm convinced that many that say this game is "too hard" simply started on a "bad seed", and need to try again. You can choose to take your already skilled character (and items in your inventory) to the new seed, or choose to start a whole new char. It's up to you!

Happy Adventuring!

try this seed, its a series of islands, 1 is meadow and BF, 2nd is BF and some MT 3rd is swamp.

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Its what I am currently on, all bosses in a reasonable range, all content in a reasonable area.