Originally posted by jonnin:

doh, copper & iron are easy in the ML, only a little black metal is needed, unless you plan to make a large home with everything. Most ML are near plains so you can usually just portal a smelter over and get going from that in short order. Smelter lets you drop a stonecutter and fix the place. If its a main base, yea, haul stuff over.
the ruins/towers/etc are not big enough for a full base. You may prefer a clearing.

yea, i found a nice spot with plains nearby and a really big mistlands island, also i will not settle down directly on the main insland, i found a small mistlands island right in front of the big island.

I will build an ocean island base, the biome is still mistlands there and it is big enough for a full base, and by ship i will explore the nearby big-mistland-island and plains to get black metal.

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If someone wants to look at my new base location on valheim map world->

Seed: Vikingane
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