I am in Bronze armour, just starting the swamp. The smell of the swamp happened at my main base. I died. Despite my corpse and gear being 50 meters from my spawn point, having to be naked against draugrs and skeletons means I am dying in one hit over and over, inches from my corpse.

Meanwhile, I can do nothing to stop on onslaught against the base I have so meticulously set up. I probably died a dozen times, never once reaching my gear. The raid stopped, the enemies remained, still destroying everything I just set up literally minutes before. Hours of work, under attack, and I can't stop it because of the poorly thought-through, poorly balanced gimmicks. I rage quit. I won't play again for a long time.

Every few months, I will play this game and have a great time, then I hit this exact wall, every time, and uninstall out of rage. Being naked and getting one hit by enemies that attack by the dozen, right outside your spawn point, is not good game design. It is an exercise in rage control. Challenging is fun. Just plain hard is not.

I am not wanting to play a super punishing, mega hard game. I want a chilll but challenging survival/crafting experience, mostly just to make cool bases and Valheim has the best building mechanics going.

I just wish there was a way to stop those stupid enemy raids. Give me an option to disable them. Make that option turn off achievements, if it's not your intention to make a chill game. The game would be way more fun for a lot more people.