Originally posted by Bilstar:

I'd like to cross-play with a friend of mine and while I did very much enjoy my time in Valheim the first time around in Feb-April '21, I was wondering if any extra biomes have been added and/or whether there are any more bosses to kill/extra "trophies" to take to the boss shrine thing when you kill them, or would my progression toward the end be the same? I see they added the Hearth Home update thingy, which is nice, but I'm more interested in differences in the game as you progress toward the end.

I did skim through the updates but most of them are small patches and nothing seemed to stand out as extra content. But it's been almost 2 years though so maybe I missed something? There seem to be so many to skim through, I thought it was just easier to ask.

Would my playthrough be the same?

I understand that you likely enjoy defeating the bosses in Valheim, mostly.

For a while, I was like you. I played like 34 hours solo, and may be 60 hours duo. I loved just defeating the bosses and running through the game as quickly as my skills would let me

It wasn't until I changed my playstyle with my friend, and we hunted for a good seed filled to the brim with islands (It's literally almost all tiny islands, separated enough so that enemies can't run through the sea to get to us). We enabled dev commands, found the perfect island to build a massive base on, and we farmed the materials needed for it.

The reason being why we enabled devcommands, was because we were trying to find a better island using the raft. The "Ocean" logo didn't even appear on the HUD before a serpent came up on us and murked us. This was after searching for a suitable island for about an hour on the raft, on a completely different seed. So, we did a hybrid "cheat"

We dev command gave ourselves our supplies that we had lost, and flew out to a perfect island that wouldn't be unreasonably difficult to completely terraform (think of like a city once we're done). Then we switched it back to survival mode and built a dock, then started building our base. It's massive now. We've got a perfect location to play the rest of the game from, and we've got a base that we can work on, rework, over and over again. It's minecraft but with physics and Viking themed. I don't see how people don't easily sink hundreds if not thousands of hours in this game just building, because I'll probably end up going that route.

We're on an island that has a tiny beachhead with a small bit of plains on it (we're avoiding that right now, and I deforested enough of the trees between them and us, that they can't reasonably find pathing to us). This makes hunting deer and boar super easy though We have islands near us with black forest and swamp, and there's a mountain nearby, as well as a very large island mass labeled mistlands, and then ashlands and then the snowy farlands very closeby as well. If you looked on a map where we are, we essentially are close to the outer edge of the circle. We dev command gave us portals and some defensive spikes and strong walls with a portal near the first boss / spawn point and then one at our base.

Our plan is, we are going to keep building our base bigger and bigger, adorning it with more and more decorations and flair (like 'x' beams, adding dimension to the base with 26deg and 45deg posts, overlapping beams, etc). This is definitely the seed we plan to play to the endgame with. Essentially, we're most interested in doing a "build of the month" than realistically beat the entire game on this seed, because that would take a while of waiting.

It's the perfect seed for when Mistlands drops, and it should be interesting, because we actually only made it through the meadows, black forest, and swamp. Getting endlessly murdered on the mountains or in plains wasn't interesting, when we were trying to speedrun the bosses with troll armor and lox capes, and...not the best food.

We play maybe twice a week since we have opposite schedules, for maybe 6-8 hours total. It's the perfect amount of time to slow play the first zones, so we don't over-extend ourselves

They've added new structural components, more food items, better food combos, mountain caves (which I have yet to explore), and they'll be done with the mistlands, I am guessing "worst case" January 2023.