Allow us to destroy items

[ThexRedxJester]

why can't we just simply have a discard option built into the game without mods or any crafted item to assist in that?

[knighttemplar1960]

Build an obliterator and thrown anything you don't want to keep inside. When you pull the lever it will go and you'll get some coal.

[ThexRedxJester]

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Build an obliterator and thrown anything you don't want to keep inside. When you pull the lever it will go and you'll get some coal.

Yeah I am not talking about that, I'm talking about a simple discard option, from the jump. Destroying items should not be gated behind content. Sure, keep the obliterator to get coal, bet...But if I want to just discard right then and their, why not?

[Humpenstilzchen]

Go to a place outside of your workbench or fireplace ranges and throw it out of your inventory. After two or three ingame days it despawns.

[Frozztastic]

I usually just toss my junk into a spot off a cliff - or in water, that I don't go to for any other reason. Then they will despawn.

It's like having your own garbage dump. You don't store it where you cook and sleep. You take it away from the base, dump it, and let nature (game code) do the rest.

[Yakumo_2020]

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Build an obliterator and thrown anything you don't want to keep inside. When you pull the lever it will go and you'll get some coal.

Problem with the Obliterator is that you need Iron to build it so players still have to deal with the junk they accumulate just getting to the Iron age.

As to why there isn't a "discard" option it was probably just that the Devs didn't think of it when coding the UI and game. Not having the items get destroyed when they leave your inventory lets you pass stuff to other players with out the Devs haveing to write a whole UI with associated coding to trade items between players. Maybe IG will add those features later.

I ended up building a stack of chests for the junk and when they were full I'd make a throw away character that I'd load up with the junk then log out and delete them. Fast and simple. Worked great until I had spare Iron to waste on an Obliterator.

[ThexRedxJester]

Thank you all for the advice, I mean I know what to do on how to get rid of items before the obliterator...I just wanted the option without modding it, to DISCARD. Yes yes, I know it despawns, I know you can throw it to some far corner of the earth, but i should not have to wait 3 days or how many days, go to the ocean, dig a hole, throw it in a junk chest, log in, log out, delete , create , Any of that. should simply be a discard option period is how I feel on it. The question itself was directed more so at the developers than the community

[i have 2026 vision fear me]

Much like how in terraria, you can just trash the stuff. You could also bring sell it for gold, like how the obliterator gives you coal, but the reward is inconsequential so you most likely won't. Yeah. The game needs a trash slot, someone will find a reason as to how it would impact the game or something and that it doesn't suit Valheim, but that's how it is.

[sora]

@ThexRedxJester
@developers

Hello

The reason why the developers didn't put discard in the system... I understand that this post is aimed at the developers, but I'm going to speculate as a player.

I think it's because if players could discard items in the menu, it would be too easy, unrealistic, and would bring about the same everyday feeling as deleting a file on a PC, which would ruin the immersion in the game world of Valheim.

They may also have thought that discarding by throwing the item on the spot is not a good way to do it, as there is a risk that the player will accidentally lose the item.

However, I think it's too late to not be able to make an obliterator until the player has iron. I think it would be better to remove iron from the items required for crafting and make it possible to make an obliterator with just copper and that stone.

I didn't know about the system where thrown items disappear, so I put items I no longer use in a chest, but I thought it was a specification I couldn't understand until the obliterator was introduced.

[Snooch]

Just build a obliterator OR throw the things you do not want in to the woods far from your base.

Why would you be able to make an item just vanish? That is not realistic.

And if you can't magically make things vanish you need to plan and think before you make 100 wooden hammers.

Basically just be better at the game.

[i have 2026 vision fear me]

Originally posted by Snooch:

Just build a obliterator OR throw the things you do not want in to the woods far from your base.

Why would you be able to make an item just vanish? That is not realistic.

And if you can't magically make things vanish you need to plan and think before you make 100 wooden hammers.

Basically just be better at the game.

"That is not realistic"

"throw the things you do not want in to the woods far from your base." Is it, by chance, to make them despawn ? Aka, Vanish ?

Why are people bringing realism into this game, which is not realistic at all.