Originally posted by Mharr:

It almost certainly is metric because these are European programmers. You don't code a physics engine using feet and inches if you can avoid it.

I doubt that European programmers would use metric units or avoirdupois units in coding within the physics engine. They probably use hexadecimal units like every other programmer the world over.

The weight units displayed in the user interface are most certainly not metric. A viking warrior's maximum weight limit, the maximum weight he can carry while walking, or running, or chopping trees, or planting seeds, or any of the myriad other activities one can undertake in Valheim almost certainly cannot be 300 kilograms. The current world record in world championship weightlifting is 227 kilograms in the snatch event. The snatch event involves lifting weight off the floor, lifting it above one's head in a continuous motion, and holding it there for a few seconds.

If the weight units displayed in the user interface are kilograms, then why is that maximum weight not 227? Has the strength of humans deteriorated so much in the last 900+ years that a current world champion weight lifter can be beaten by a Viking to the tune of 73 kilograms?

Not that it really matters. The weight limit in Valheim is 300 units barring possession of a magic belt, be those units pounds or kilograms or taels.