Tower Defense?

[Pixxel Wizzard]

There were a couple of nights when the "forest comes alive" and stuff starts attacking my base. What's that all about? Is it akin to the 7th night horde in 7 Days to Die? Is this supposed to be a tower defense game, too?

[Mharr]

Broadly similar to the horde, yeah. The assaults become more dangerous as you progress through the forsaken bosses. They mostly only happen when you're present in a building the game recognises as 'a base'. https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Events

[Pixxel Wizzard]

Thanks for that info. Any way to disable this? I have no interest in building bases if they're just going to get smashed up on a regular basis.

[Tangoblue]

Then put up walls and dig a trench around your base. I get attacked all the time with little to no damage. Heck, sometimes I just ignore them.

[Clapped]

Fight the bosses on a differant seed. You still get the bonuses and there won't be any raids on your bases.

[()mega]

Just dig a trench all the way round your base and everything just stands there doing nothing. You'll get archers but they do minimal damage to walls. You're pretty safe until mountains when you start getting drakes attacking, but by that stage they are easy to take down anyway.

[deadshooter]

Originally posted by Clapped:

Fight the bosses on a differant seed. You still get the bonuses and there won't be any raids on your bases.

would boss powers be active across worlds?

[Mharr]

Powers stay with your character, raids are per world and activated by mounting trophies at the original spawn hub. You can progress on one save and use a different one for building, use the dev command resetkeys to remove all raids above the negligible boars and necks, build on an island to cover all possible spawn points, modify the settings with the Custom Raids mod https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/278 or live in a forest and fill it with tamed wolves which will hunt for food and maintain their own population.

[M.Red]

Originally posted by Pixxel Wizzard:

Thanks for that info. Any way to disable this? I have no interest in building bases if they're just going to get smashed up on a regular basis.

if done right nothing gets smashed

[Polonius Ulf]

I look forward to trolls raiding my bases. They get stuck in the moat and I can take them down with wood arrows, nerfing my shots to skill-up. The foul smell from the swamp is a source of Draugr guts and bones. I wish Abominations would join the fun.

So many posts here about how to stop raids. Why?

[Mharr]

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

So many posts here about how to stop raids. Why?

Because OP wanted that option and Valheim is a sandbox.

[Polonius Ulf]

Originally posted by Mharr:

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

So many posts here about how to stop raids. Why?

Because OP wanted that option and Valheim is a sandbox.

'nuff said.

[ciberzombie]

wait, is higher raids activated by mounting trophies on world or by actualy defeating bosses on world?,
cause i have not defeated any boss on my current world (ironisle) but have mounted tropies both in base and center stones there - only getting *** ralies creatures (boars&necks)
defeated lightning stag multiple times on my first world (sovengarde) - getting forest moves (greydrwarves mix)
and defeated first two boses (stag and elder) multiple times on (test1) - not yet got invasion, due to not staying at base