Good job not giving up, go get those bastards. Items never despawn, the draugr will probably not completely destroy your base and the raid won't go on forever, no. When you're out of range enough they won't even be loaded in to do any damage, I think.

Originally posted by HMS ADHD:

Good job not giving up, go get those bastards. Items never despawn, the draugr will probably not completely destroy your base and the raid won't go on forever, no. When you're out of range enough they won't even be loaded in to do any damage, I think.

About this. I thought that items dropped away from workbench vicinity would despawn in a few game days.

"About this. I thought that items dropped away from workbench vicinity would despawn in a few game days."

You are correct.

Originally posted by GeoForce:

About this. I thought that items dropped away from workbench vicinity would despawn in a few game days.

Never realised this, thought you just had to hoard a trillion greyling eyes in pits or boxes as part of the game loop

In my experience, when I had a Swamp attack at my small forward Sea Base, I portaled out to my Main Base, and I haven't returned to the sea base.
That attack has been locked in place for in-game months.
It was supposed to be just a quick stopover to grab something for a corpse run, when the attack occurred.

I haven't seen an attack at my Main Base since that time.

From: https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Events

For an event to end, a player must stay in the red circle for a time. Leaving the red circle will put the event timer on pause until a player returns.

Also, yes confirming that items despawn in a few days if outside the area of a crafting table.

EDIT: Shortened the wiki quote.

Raids don't end until you last the specified amount of time within the area of the raid. That's why I usually wait until the raid ends to kill stuff unless I'm trying to collect their drops. Just kite stuff around until the raid ends, then you can lead them away or kill them in small groups.

Nothing is gonna be moving around until you get back in range to load them in. If they didn't destroy your workbench before you died anything in range should still be there when you get back.

Originally posted by Teotwawki:

In my experience, when I had a Swamp attack at my small forward Sea Base, I portaled out to my Main Base, and I haven't returned to the sea base.
That attack has been locked in place for in-game months.
It was supposed to be just a quick stopover to grab something for a corpse run, when the attack occurred.

I haven't seen an attack at my Main Base since that time.

From: https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Events

There are a number of random events that can occur in Valheim. Most events are a hostile attack on players, announced with the event's message at the top of the screen and a red circle on the mini map, followed by lots of spawned enemies closing in to the players location. For an event to end, a player must stay in the red circle for a time. Leaving the red circle will put the event timer on pause until a player returns.

Also, yes confirming that items despawn in a few days if outside the area of a crafting table.

Does that mean that, theoretically, you could make a throwaway base somewhere that no one would likely go again, camp their until you get a raid, jump through the portal, and never have another raid?

"We're gonna build back better"

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

Originally posted by Teotwawki:

-SNIP-

Does that mean that, theoretically, you could make a throwaway base somewhere that no one would likely go again, camp their until you get a raid, jump through the portal, and never have another raid?

That does seem to be the case.

I had planned to use a ship to go get my gear, (and a backup ship LMAO) it would take longer than a resting buff. I slept at the sea base, which I guess may be why it triggered there.

It might need an owned bed to count for Raid spawning? Not sure.

my understanding of this is that unless you are close enough to an area, nothing will happen. so, assuming you portaled far enough away, the raid is paused, but so are the mobs, and they will not destroy anything further. if your workbench is still up then you should be good.

Gonna take me a while to get back over there. On a different island. Besides, I'm gonna have to get to at least leather 3 and ranked up club to go there and I'm running around in my skivvies right now.

I recently took a very long boat voyage to the far extreme of the map to find final boss location, brought all my best gear, built a portal and started to build a base their. Then, I was attacked by a hunting party who I watched obliterate my portal after I was killed... I am fairly demoralized right now, as I don't think I can recover quickly enough to get minimally geared up, build another boat and get back to that location before stuff disappears. I almost thought that mobs would damage portals "a little" then stop, but this time that was not the case and is forcing me to reconsider risk in this game.

Originally posted by GeoForce:

Two questions.

Since I obviously LEFT the are while the raid was ongoing will it keep on forever?
Will all the materials disappear as they probably destroyed the workbench also?

Question One. Raids are timed events. They last only a specific time. As you know, the timer stops when you leave the area of the raid. It will not start again until you return to the area of the base where the raid occurred. If you never go back, the timer will never restart.

Look at your map. There should be a red-tinted circle around the base where the raid occurred. You must enter that circle to restart the timer.

Question Two. If your workbench was destroyed, the resources remaining from smashed structures will despawn in a few game days. Resources contained in damaged or intact chests will not, nor will damaged or intact structures.

You can't tell from the map. You must return to the base to find out. Consider this though, whatever draughrs and skeletons had not destroyed before you last died still exists. When you reenter the red circle, the raid will restart. Enemies that cannot see you will go back to attacking your structures.

I would go back into the base, attract my enemy's attention, and run back out of the base. Let them chase me instead of smashing stuff. I would ensure I stayed within the red circle to keep the timer going. Once the raid timer expires, I could choose to fight the remaining enemies or lose them in the forest. Once a raid ends, the raiding enemies will wander off to their home biome once they can no longer see you.

An afterthought. Workbenches are not resource-intensive. Perhaps hiding one or two under the floor or behind false walls would preserve resources in the future.

Originally posted by Teotwawki:

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

Does that mean that, theoretically, you could make a throwaway base somewhere that no one would likely go again, camp their until you get a raid, jump through the portal, and never have another raid?

That does seem to be the case.

I had planned to use a ship to go get my gear, (and a backup ship LMAO) it would take longer than a resting buff. I slept at the sea base, which I guess may be why it triggered there.

It might need an owned bed to count for Raid spawning? Not sure.

Doesn't need a bed to activate a raid. I had one spawn where I had only built a workbench and portal outside of a crypt. I did have a bridge nearby, but there wasn't a bed on that continent at all.

Originally posted by Damnion:

Originally posted by Teotwawki:

That does seem to be the case.

I had planned to use a ship to go get my gear, (and a backup ship LMAO) it would take longer than a resting buff. I slept at the sea base, which I guess may be why it triggered there.

It might need an owned bed to count for Raid spawning? Not sure.

Doesn't need a bed to activate a raid. I had one spawn where I had only built a workbench and portal outside of a crypt. I did have a bridge nearby, but there wasn't a bed on that continent at all.

I've had the same experience. I've had 2-3 raids on a base that I have been building in the mountains, and all I have there are the workbenches and a portal.

I'll have to build a throwaway base somewhere and try it out.