Originally posted by Lucidess:

After that run I can definitely say Portals ruin the "Valheim experience". Fast travel in any game can easily break immersion, and the concept of risk and reward based off distance is far more enjoyable than going from "A to D skipping B and C". It just saves time, maybe too much time.

I agree with this statement. Portals ruin immersion and make the game end too fast.

I just traveled back to my second black forest base from my third i have started near a swamp. I will likely stay here a while and collect some finewood and bronze to finalize the workbenches I have at the third base.

My next base move (to the elder altar area) will likely be my last move before the endgame base. That island has the trader, elder altar, and all 5 biomes of decent size available on it.

If I did not have to do the housework of setting up new bases and areas of operation, if I could just plop a portal back to my first base down, I would just be plowing through the content again a third time. Without the timesinks of building sustaining infrastructure the game is pretty fast.