Originally posted by DeMasked:

Originally posted by MistrBill:

Building the teleporter on top of the crypt was exactly my plan, and I eventually did. I literally didn't have a moment to build a workbench and stairs to get on top of the crypt. It took freaking forever to clear the area, and it was a near thing. If I'd been killed before setting up the teleporter, I'd have had to sail back there in my second best armor.

You only need to set up a workbench next to the back end of a crypt to be able to jump on top of it which makes it easy to deal with most any enemy except wraiths. Going into swamp you definitely need to make an aggressive landing as opposed to some other biomes which you usually can get away with by parking your boat near a shoreline boulder to set up a bench / portal for exploration or repairing.

I think somebody else echoed my thought here- going into the swamp by boat is the Valheim equivalent of storming the beaches at Normandy.