Originally posted by Ren:

I think I might lose interest doing that, to be honest. I played my first 50 hours solo and began feeling like I was playing Viking Stardew Valley with occasional draugr. A few aspects, like mining stone and building, felt tedious to me without a group or console commands. I hate building. I want my creations to spring fully formed from my head a la Athena, I have no patience to craft them myself. Kudos to you on your patience and perseverance!

I build for utility not beauty .. my shacks just expand with the more space I need for stations, bigger bed and more and more storage!
I have started working on museums (or just hallways) to display all the trophies. Takes a lot of fine wood though.