New to Valheim and found my first single player unable to even defeat the Elder boss so was ready to give up and try something less intense. Pity since I love survival games with the rich biome diversity as developed so well in Valheim. Then I recalled a post - apologies since I can't recall the reference - about multi character play. I had heard about single player and multi player but never single player using multiple characters to cooperate through a survival game. I gave it a try and developed a family of four - 3 brothers and their sister - and started them in a new seed (gJWVCj6rg4). While unable to see each other their shared construction and collection efforts plus the cartography table was intriguing. Wasteful of resources? Absolutely. But their coordination was able to absolve so many of my noob mistakes that I kept going. And not surprisingly as I did so the magic of Valheim that I had read about from experienced players was now happening in my world as well. The family quickly moved past where my single character had stalled and to my total shock their coordinated play was able to survive the current set of Forsaken with not a single death among them. Experienced players can regularly speed play in perma death but this multi character approach almost made that possible for a new player as well. I had read so many posts from new players complaining about how hard Valheim is and in my first character I was right there as well. But single player/multi character is a dimension that the developers have made possible with their game mechanics and if you are a new player perhaps consider this style before giving up. It worked for me. It might for you as well.

Enjoy