Can Winter be a thing in Valheim? Or four season for that matter.

[Leffe-(SWE)]

Thinking skiing, snow shoes, walking on ice, avalanches in the mountains and sleigh with storage pulled by 10 tamed wolfs.

[esbenmf]

Mountains is winter.

[Leffe-(SWE)]

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Mountains is winter.

So you mean just becuase it's snow there it's winter? I think more like it's based on hight and not the time of the year.
Since if you build high enough in the plains on top of a rock pillar you will have snow on your roof top. And you can't really say plains is winter.

[Emrys of Ailliau]

Winter
snow everywhere
significantly less animal spawn
crops wont grow
higher tier enemy spawns more common

perhaps ash lands and possible desert bio-me might become more hospitable during the winter

[dakkahammer]

I tihnk it was mentioned somewhere there won't be seasons precisely because the different biomes already correspond to them and it'd make agriculture too complicated.

Raising the question of why one of Ulf's runestones mentions being on Valheim for three summers.

[Shealladh]

Początkowo opublikowane przez dakkahammer:

Raising the question of why one of Ulf's runestones mentions being on Valheim for three summers.

I would reckon something similar to the way they used to refer a year, as each summer.

ie. Kid referred to as 6 summers old

So here that would mean been here for three years

[dakkahammer]

Yes, but they used that in the absence of precise calendars, why would he use summer if there hasn't been the normal progression of seasons?

Granted, Ulf isn't the sharpest sword in the scabbard, maybe he means he's been to three different plains biomes.

[ostlandr]

That's an idea. Have the occasional snowstorm/sleetstorm in the Meadows and Black Forest. No crop damage or snow on the ground, but the Cold debuff is applied during daylight also when it's snowing. Or even the Cold debuff during daylight and the Freezing effect at night, so the player has to find warm shelter. That totally makes sense.

Seasons would be doable. Just have more sunny weather in "Summer", more cloudy weather and the above snowfall in Winter, and more windy weather in Spring and Autumn.

If you wanted to have crops fail in Winter, just use the current "no open sky" mechanic. Players would need to stockpile veggie based foods (and more importantly seeds) and rely on hunting and fishing in Winter. Maybe let Haldor and Hildir sell seeds?

The Devs could have so much fun with this. For example, make fish easier to catch and more plentiful in Spring. Give the Cold debuff if you get wet in cool weather.

I can foresee some issues, like if you base the seasons on the character's in-game days and then jump characters between different worlds. And a rework of the visuals to provide seasonal foliage changes would be a HUGE lift I presume. Maybe save that for Valheim 2.