Just got back from checking out several burial chambers that I had cleared pre-H&H. They all now had a single skeleton guard. Make no bones about it, the devs changed this :-)

Burial chambers can be easy to miss sometimes so it's possible to have guards come up and attack you. I've had a number of instances of trees or bushes obscuring the view of the entrance.

I dunno if it's not the way it used to work, but skeletons 100% respawn at burial chamber entrances. I see them all the time and the remains left from them fighting with greydwarves.

Which, honestly, seems like a good thing to me, since bones would be hard to come across otherwise, I think, and skeletons are not really threatening.

I have not played since HnH but prior to that burial chamber guards did not respawn. There are a number of different spawn mechanics at play and they are explained here...

https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/n3pn4g/enemy_spawning_explained/

Whether or not this has changed I can't say but it certainly was how things behaved earlier in the year.

I just had it happen again at that copper node before I started mining but this time I saw the skeleton go chasing after a dwarf that was near the burial chamber. I decided to really scour the area again and I did find an active tower with 3 skeletons but it seemed pretty far for random wandering skeletons. I finished them off and was thinking 3 skeletons was all I've ever seen at a single tower (and those and the burial chamber external guards have never respawned in my 1000 game days in this same play through). As I went back toward my base I got near another burial chamber I had previously cleared - and who should run up for some sword play? Another skeleton guard.

So I'm thinking at least one of the external guards for burial chambers now respawn - not enough evidence yet for the tower guards.

since h&h i've noticed one will respawn near the burial chambers after killing the original 3.

Idk wether it's because of the update or not but skeletons respawn in the Black Forest biome for sure. I have a whole chest full of bones to verify this.

Yeah I never noticed them respawn before but now it seems they are or atleast they've been given more places to spawn at

https://youtu.be/f5FxRGhUv30

Originally posted by Grandaddypurple:

Hmm really? I'm pretty sure to notice they didn't respawn
Hitting copper nodes attract mobs from very far away (and I know that for a fact as I had a mining area a couple hundreds meters away from a swamp, and would get swamp mobs checking the area).
If I'm not wrong and guarding skeletons don't respawn, what most likely happened is that it attracted skeletons from another area, e.g another burial chamber or a ruined tower

I have never seen burial chamber or tower skeletons respawn. I think you're right, it's more likely that they wandered in from somewhere else.

I'm with hazelrah & Fzanco (post H&H) on this one and Manwith Noname for pre-H&H. A big part of my opinion on this is from hanging out on the starter island of my seed for +1000 Game Days (remember I'm still Bronze Age). I'm repetitively harvesting yellow burial mushrooms and otherwise retracing my paths multiple times across the local Black Forests. This has given me a good view of how a particular POI behaves over a long time. The burial chambers with the seemingly respawning skeletons are in areas I have not explored prior to the update so I'll be checking out my older haunts to see if they behave in the same way.

Thanks for everyone's input and be on the watch for other 'unannounced' changes our devious (in a good way) devs have blessed us with this update.

i have had multiple skele respawns at a burial spot next to a home. i leave the bones and they disappear after the skele pops up. takes about 2 IG days for it to happen

I am not so sure that the external guards of Dungeons dont respawn. So more i think about this i mean they do.

the ones inside do not, unless there is a spawner, which you can break and then they are done.
outside, is like any monster, they come back.

Hmm really? I'm pretty sure to notice they didn't respawn
Hitting copper nodes attract mobs from very far away (and I know that for a fact as I had a mining area a couple hundreds meters away from a swamp, and would get swamp mobs checking the area).
If I'm not wrong and guarding skeletons don't respawn, what most likely happened is that it attracted skeletons from another area, e.g another burial chamber or a ruined tower