It had so much hype when it was announced.

Yea, it's weird seeing the 1.0 announcement. Like cool but my hype for this game died a long time ago.

I think it helps that they had a relatively clear road map for 1.0. All the biomes, including Deep North, have spawned on the map since EA launch, and they simply wanted to populate them with content for 1.0.

It definitely was unfinished, and felt like it, for most of its life. They just took forever to update stuff and lost the mindshare it had in the endless sea of survival crafting games. It's been 5 years and they are finally finishing the last zone.

Bought it during COVID and it was AMAZING, even with just three biomes. But Im exhausted.

The updates weren't as impressive. Yes, there was a lot of new stuff. But they took a long time. A really long time. And it didn't feel like they improved on a lot of things, rather than expand on it.

After months after Valheim was released (in early access) V Rising and a bunch of other games also came out (also in early access).

Many of them shipped a 1.0 already, and improved on their early access version greatly.

Heck, Even games inspired by Valheim are nearing the finish line and have better features. Enshrouded is already light-years ahead.

This game is awesome. Solo as well as in a group with friends.

Just put workbenches down, spawning is prevented wherever they are. You can bury them under floors, make walls arpund your base, put spikes up, make a trench, or all of the above.

I love this game so much but after several playthroughs I now turn off the raids, I think they're the worst mechanic in the game

Couldn't agree more with this

By the time you are done with the swamp, greydwarves are so trivial it stops mattering and its just free resources. I was a bit sad when they patched out the greydwarf farming though.

I kinda liked how empty and barren the deep north was at the beginning. It felt truly lifeless, like the fimbulwinter thing from Witcher 3.

I definitely makes sense to return, but as far as I know they didn't nerf it much like they did Mistlands other than to tame down the crazy spawn rate a bit (which was all it really needed).

My friend and I started over about 6 months ago and played through everything and Ashlands felt a lot easier going into it knowing what to expect and what to aim for. Once you get the gear for the biome it gets a lot easier as well as you can imagine, though maxed out Mistlands gears is fine too.