How long does it take to explore the whole world?

[Pugzilla83]

I just found out that the game 314 square kilometers (almost 16 times bigger then SKyrim lol) and was wondering if anyone ever explored the whole world and how long it would take. I have roughly over 120 hours of game play and roughly explored i would say around 1% - 2% of it. I would say about 40 hours of that time was harvesting materials from other worlds. I also used https://valheim-map.world/ as a guide to find the bosses and the trader

[Veseljko]

It would be great to have information on map saying how much did you explore.
I did a lot of exploration. I would say between 30% and 35% of the map and i spent somewhere around 500 hours in that world (1400 ingame days).

[Tangoblue]

On 1 world I spent 1606 game days before declaring it completely explored.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2720278523

The only areas I did not walk through completely were:
- Deep North : quiet, beautiful and picturesque
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2663922268
- Ashland; lots of Surtlings. If you want to increase your bow skills, great place. Troll armor and wooden arrows will do (also mined Flametal)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2699638836

-Mistland: Dark and very depressing (can't wait for this to be added). Not even worthy of a screenshot yet.

[Veseljko]

Originally posted by TangoBlue:

On 1 world I spent 1606 game days.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2720278523

Man, you added so much POI.
We cant see the map at all :)

[Tangoblue]

Yeah, I marked every Burial Chamber, Sunken Crypts, Tar Pits, towers and Fuling Villages I found. I went on a very successful crusade to wipe out all the Villages. I hate those giggling psychotic little snotlings. Oh, vanilla, no mods.

[Science Dog]

It took me approximately 800 in-game days to explore the entire map. That includes time spent building bases as well, so you could probably do it in less time if you were truly dedicated to the task.

That being said, I'd recommend against doing this as it will affect where things can spawn on your server as new content is being introduced. I've been told that mountain caves won't appear in already-explored mountains and other similar assets (this doesn't included monster spawns) that are added later will also not show up in these areas that have already been revealed.

Basically, I screwed myself and my server by exploring the entire thing. Maybe this will change in the future, but that's just a hope I have for now. There's mods that're supposed to fix this, but I haven't been able to verify that they work.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[Tangoblue]

Yeah, I plan to use the explored world as a giant warehouse. I'll go back and mine some ores from crypts I've marked. I've also started another character on a new seed and will wait until the Mountain Caves drop before doing anything in the mountains.

All in all, it was fun exploring.