Originally posted by intorpere:

It got dark while I was out there, and that's how I died again. Would be nice if we had some way to tell what time it is. With the weather system and other lighting variables, it can be impossible to tell, and then suddenly it's night.

I normally start a corpse run at daybreak. If I respawn after midday, I will get the armor, weapons, food, and meads I need for a corpse run and then sleep. I have discovered that food timers and the corpse run timer do not run while one is sleeping. Mead timers are a lot shorter so I take a few seconds close to the biome edge to drink meads.

This technique may not work if one's corpse is more than a quarter day's travel (five real time minutes) from one's bed. In such a case, I will set up a forward base close to the biome with a portal connected to the base that has my bed.

I always try to eat one food with a duration of 20 minutes. Since Valheim daylight is 20 minutes long, a glance at that food's countdown timer will tell me how much daylight I have to work with.