Originally posted by Shadowdragon:

I'm just looking for ways to reduce the insane amount of grind and dead time there is in the game. Are mods the only way to do this?

Not like V Rising, you can't adjust damage/hp/resources in game/server files.

Best we have in Valheim is console commands, there are a lot more available in Valheim than V Rising. A quick web search should yield all the command lines, including how to enable it.