Originally posted by Zed Wolfword:

Is there no way to separate the ground water level and sea level currently? I ask this because I have seen occasional turret like structures with spiral stairs descending into the swamps and wonder if they will be some future content within the swamp (some kind of buried castle-like dungeon maybe?)

I am aware that a lot of valheim's map is procedural generation; in the swamp I often see small pieces of land that look like mounds. Would it be possible that mudpiles would more likely be spawned under those than other lower landmasses?

I am hoping to keep this as a pleasant chat about possibilities and ideas (which is my intention here).

These structures appear randomly in some biomes, such as swamps and mountains, and I believe the ones in the swamp, are filled with water and that's just the way it is ( can't use them below the water line ) I have used them (in the swamp) as a nice solid stone platform, by covering the hole with stone blocks and then building a circular building on top of it, which was conveniently close to a sertling spawner... It made a nice shelter to put a portal and some chests.

As far as muddy scrap piles go, there are SOME, fairly hidden, and sunk into the swamp landscape, and finding one now and then is a nice bonus, but the MAIN way to harvest muddy piles is inside crypts (as intended) and I seriously doubt the devs are ever going to make them easier to get, or increase the amount found, by altering the landscape or raising up the piles etc... If you want to harvest Iron in a reliable way, then go into the crypts and get it the way the devs designed it.

If you are gathering iron by digging in the swamp, due to skipping bosses (and therefore can't enter crypts) then you simply have to accept that you aren't going to find very much or very fast... They aren't going to change it to cater to people who skip progression.