Originally posted by Gladi8er65:

Originally posted by Fenris:

I'm starting to get the scope of this game... and i'm seeing myself playing like a viking version of the trucking simulator games. I have a absolutely giant map and I want to make an epic base at my starting location, but i have to sail like 5+ minutes each way. Is this seriously the only way in vanilla valheim to get metal to my base?

Making multiple trips back and forth to transport metals may SEEM like the way to do it, since you spent time building a base (presumably in the Meadows), and setting up a workshop there, but.... That's actually the long way...

Exactly.

I don't understand where all these players get the "One Base to Rule them All" and think you've got to travel back and forth to/from it all the time for everything. I play mostly with no portals at all anymore, or at the very least house rules that limit placement/number/etc. [The main use for portals for me is to change forsaken powers.]