These tips are things I personally try to do on my play throughs that have been the biggest helps or things that other experienced players I’ve met didn’t know that was a big help. Hoping they can help any fellow Vikings.

1. This is a survival game. Find enjoyment in the struggle and the challenges it brings.

2. Always be rested. If you can’t go home, 5 stone and 2 wood is always nearby in every biome. Build a fire. Sit for 20 sec.

3. Don’t be afraid to abuse your ability to manipulate the world. Build walls around copper nodes, build tree stands to have a safe place to retreat to etc

4. Always have a unconnected backup portal at home for emergencies.

5. Bring a forge (min 6 cooper bars) with you on your first swamp journey for iron so you can craft the longship and sail back more than 4 stacks of iron scraps. You can bring smelter materials (5 surtling cores and 20 stone) through a portal and start forging iron on site. Then use your forge you brought to craft 100 iron nails and the rest of the materials can be brought through a portal.

6. A moat around your base > almost all base events.

7. Build your first meadows base next to resources. Having a raspberry patch and a red mushroom patch on your property will keep you stocked well into the late game if you regularly harvest them. Bonus points if you can also get your base on the edge of Black Forest with a blueberry patch and thistle as well.

8. Plant a tree farm at the starting area where you can easily switch to the elders tree cutting forsaken power.

9. Making chests for each biome makes it easy to empty a full inventory mid adventure.

10. Before big fights, toggle off auto pickup. This will ensure your corpse stone can be picked up without any issues if you die and have to run back into the thick of the fight.

11. Always have backup food at home to make the most of the no skill drain buff after a death.

Hotkey tips: Crtl-click items to move items between your inventory and chests and to throw items on the ground without dragging and dropping. When shift-clicking a stack of items to split the stack, you can type the number of items you want instead of sliding the slider. You can hold the Use button (default is e key) while harvesting crops/berries/mushrooms instead of pressing it for each one.