Originally posted by Honorable_D:

It does have grind, but it kind a good grind ya know? It hides it well. You do a lot of exploring in new biomes to find new resources and then load them up on a boat or pullcart and head back to base to turn them into ingots and then gear.

Valheim's most popular mod "Valheim PLUS" lets you easily tweak drop rates for ores and other resources so you can basically make the grind intensity a matter of choice.

I think if you're looking forward to what's beyond the first 3 bosses, then it's a good grind. Personally, the meadows and black forest is it for me. So, for me it's become a bad grind lol. I really wish there were more to do in the first two meadows aside from building, and making a boat.