Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

I have almost convinced myself that time does not pass for my boars unless I am present. I moved all of my farming operations, including tree farming, to the boar farm, built elaborate defenses around the farm, and so on.

If it turns out that I need to sleep with my boars, I am going to rename the farm to "Dogpatch."

Well since time doesn't pass when you are not present, you may want to push yourself over the edge of convincing yourself.

What I have observed so far is that food isn't eaten and piggies don't get born unless I am on the farm. All my boars are in one moderately large pen to simplify feeding, but this does not simplify counting. :) So to clinch it I am going to cull the herd to two and leave them alone with plenty of food for several "days."

If you duck through a portal with enemies in hot pursuit, whenever you return they will still be there. Time doesn't seem to pass for mobs if the player is not present.

Obviously, mobs cannot live out their lives when the player is not in the vicinity, that would take too much processing. The game's Dungeon Master must calculate what they might have done in your absence, such as eating food and having piggies, or wandering off, or destroying the gate, and so-forth and I think the DM in Valheim (assuming it's structured that way) isn't yet finished.