Originally posted by Gladi8er65:

Originally posted by GrinfilledCelt:

... or you can do that. Just remember to build a portal near where you intend to die beforehand.

It's not about placing a portal "near where you intend to die"... It's about keeping portal materials on your person whenever you go out exploring, especially if going to be a long distance from home, or crossing any ocean and Placing that portal (with suitable connection at base), FIRST, before exploring any new area...

It's not about reading the future, it's about being prepared for the inevitable future, where something is going to kill you. especially if exploring areas you are not meant to be in yet.

Well yeah, this should be common sense to any seasoned player of Valheim. It's often quite easy to build a portal where you have explored that is enough distance from your nearest outpost to justify putting one down, especially in a new area. Then name it something familiar and teleport back, place down another, link them, go explore. If you intend to get your body back I would use troll armor with sneak active, so all four pieces, eat a bunch of stamina food, (queens jam, honey, and a yellow shroom are good). Then activate the deer god power to boost stamina and sneak to your corpse.