Originally posted by Wolfaz:

Rare on purpose to drag out the time needed to get to the boss or just no luck on my side? Been wondering around planes for ages, out of 4 camps and 3 structures I've managed to get a single totem.

If you use the valheim world seed generator website, you can see that totems tend to be sparsely spread out across the various plains biomes on a map. Some maps have lots others have not as much. Its just really rng. As for it intentionally being a challenge or not, I'd say for now yes.

Once Mistlands is done, they may make totems more common to change the progression but that's just speculation on my part.