Originally posted by GazimoEnthra:

Originally posted by Ataxio:

Effectively yes. There is so much ore on a single map that you in theory should never be able to exhaust it all. That being said, I do utilize other worlds and move it between them so as to not entirely strip mine my "active" world out.

is there a way to make getting resources for efficient? rn it takes FOREVER to run looking for them and carry them back.

There is an exploit/cheat you can use if you dont want to run or sail your metal home.

1). play valheim and find the metal and put as much as possible in your pocket.
2). logout
3). make a new game in the main menu ( dont delete the old one ) and build
a storage crate.
4). Now logout. Now change your character so that the player is the one who have the metal in his pockets.
5). login to the new game and put the metal in the storage box.
6). Logout
6). load he primary game and again use your primary character/player and travel home to your base via teleport, ship ect.
7). logout and go back to the new game and now pickup all the metal.
8). logout and go back to your primary game and your character will now have the metal in his pocket.

With other words change inbetween different games and you can use the logout function of the game and loading of other valheim worlds to "teleport" your metal from one game to the other and back. This way you can "teleport" the metal to another game and then back to your primary game.


Regarding how to find metal.
After the player defeat the boss bonemass you get a wishbone.
This wishbone can detect hidden tresures BUT ALSO are able to detect
scrap piles in the swamp area below the ground that have metal in it. So there are more metal than what you can find in the crypts in the swamp area, there are also some you can dig up outside.
And in the mountains with snow, you can with the wishbone find silver .

Super tip regarding copper ore. ( and other ores )
Often the copper ore deposit is ALLOT larger than what you can see and is actual a giant rock that goes deep below ground.
There is a super trick. If you instead of mining the rock dig around it all the way so it just hang loose in the air then you can destroy the entire coppper ore rock by hitting it 3-4 timess and it disentegrate into +100 pieces.
Yes you need to dig quite allot to make it 100% free and not touching anything, but you save allot of hard digging doing it this way. ;-)
it is especially usefull for metal deposits near the costal line where its easy to park your ship and carry metal to your ship.