Originally posted by Augoeides:

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Yep, they fixed something that wasn't intended in the first place. There's never been a need for excessive terraforming anyway.

90% of the time I spend playing these games is building elaborate structures I can be proud of, whether they're practical or not. I like to have a place that attaches me to the game, and excites me to come home to after exploring, plus the drive to advance the game, so I can make more elaborate additions to my home.

To me, making the game needlessly grindy for what your both describing as "excessive" and pointless, is only more confusing, because if the terraforming has such little effect on progression and gameplay, then there was no need to remove it in the first place. Plenty of mechanics in other games started out as "bugs" that were eventually accepted as features. The combo system that is featured in pretty much every fighting game to date, is the result of a "bug" in the original Street Fighter, that allowed people to land multiple hits in succession.

Anyway, if I'm going to dump 100+ hours into building a castle, I don't see any reason to make me mine stone or whatever for hundreds more hours than I have to, for no reason. Making a game more tedious doesn't make it more fun or immersive. Worse yet, I have OCD and perfectionism, so I frequently tear down walls or entire structures, if the symmetry is wrong or "weird", which means more grinding.

The only reason to fix the "bug", would be game balance in multiplayer, except Valheim isn't a PvP-oriented game, it's a sandbox. And last I checked, building is what you do in a sandbox.

Okay, well it's just as easy to argue that there was no need for the original method of terraforming to have exsited in the first place. It has zero bearing on progression or really anything else other than making terrain that can pretty much stop all enemies in their tracks - which was not intended and most of us consider an exploit.

The game is a work in progress. Terrain modification didn't quite function as intended, and now it's fixed and it's just fine the way it is. You can still do a lot of terraforming, you just can't exploit it to the same extent anymore. It really doesn't seem to take that much longer than it used to and there's no need to excessively raise or lower terrain anyway, you can often use building pieces instead. If you really don't like it just cheat or mod to have the experience you want and stop complaining about them fixing something that was broken.