Originally posted by Wundsaltz:

You neither need a lot of silver nor black metal. I'm pretty sure 20 stacks of silver is more than you'll ever actually use. In my opinion only iron is needed in excessive quantities - especially if you want to build something fancy.

That being said Valheim is very grindy overall. Personally, I occasionally dupe some items to ease the grind, because clearing yet another field or crypt isn't fun for me. I've heard there are mods to reduce the crafting costs as well. I'd look into those in case I'll ever go for another Valheim playthrough.

Literally only one piece of armor is 20 silver. And weapons range from 2? for spear to 30 on sword.
How can you only use 20 silver? You wont survive the other biomes without the gear. They 1 shot you.
Just to get your starter silver gear and no upgrades you need about 150 silver.