So having played a kabillion hours of Valheim, I've been experimenting with different, self imposed rules to add some challenge/life to the game.

For the past couple weeks I've been playing strict hardcore, deleting character and world upon death. I've not gotten past day 100 and bronze (lol).

I've thought up of a few ideas...

1) Bow only (starting out with root armor). Player cannot use axe for anything but chopping wood and must rely bow for all offense.

2) "Soft" Hardcore, When you die, character is deleted, but world is not. A new character is created and Corpse of the previous fallen must remain unlooted.

3) "1 life per boss". You get 1 life to give per boss you kill. So if you manage to kill Eikthyr without dying then you have banked 1 life, if you kill elder you've banked 2 etc. If you die without a banked life, game over.

4) No portals.

5) 1 pair portals only.


Any of you played with a self imposed ruleset?

Curious to see other ideas.