Originally posted by Nokturnal:

I highly recommend Valheim Plus if you want to alter certain aspects of the game for better quality of life features.

If you're first starting out, it's fine to go with the vanilla settings but once you get the hang of the game, there's a lot of things you can change with it that can improve the quality of life to your liking.

Like for instance, Workbenches, they're a common thing you need to create to build in an Area of Effect around it. They also prevent enemies from spawning within it's radius, the default radius is so tiny, you have to create a ton around your base. (and surround them with walls to prevent them from being attacked) It gets rather tedious, so there's a setting in Valheim plus to increase the radius of workbenches so you don't have to build so many for the same effect.

https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/4

You can even automate smelting and creating coal from wood so less micromanagement is necessary.