

That hasn't stopped some folks on Reddit from finding a few tricks to optimize performance, though, so follow along with those hints if you're experiencing abysmal performance. If your computer is running Valheim poorly, don't fret, as the game is still in very early access and is not yet optimized. This poor performance is often noticed even on the best gaming PCs because those systems normally run games exceedingly well. Valheim might have debuted on Steam Early Access in February, but it can run slower than molasses in January on some systems. Try selecting Vulkan when you start Valheim and see if it improves performance for you, and check out all the other ways to improve Valheim performance if you're having trouble running the game smoothly. Valheim version 0.146.8 (update) introduced Vulkan support, which provides a significant performance increase over the original renderer. This happens in both shallow and deep waters, but no particular conclusion for the cause of the bug seems to have been reached yet. Typically, this manifests at 10-damage tick intervals and is often accompanied by crashing and splashing sounds. Given that a boat is supposed to transport players through the water, taking damage from the very liquid they sail through isn't all that helpful. Several players have reported that their boats begin to take damage for no reason at all in the water. Either way, this causes the UI to be nigh unusable. Other players have run into issues with a flickering UI when trying to run the game on a virtual machine or in some other abnormal configuration. This often happens when trying to use a controller and a mouse/keyboard simultaneously, confusing the game and continually flickering button prompts over various UI elements. Make yourself a gap and a jump, enemies cannot jump.Valheim's user interface - the collection of text and other icons on-screen - will sometimes get corrupted.Continue doing this till one stair off the ground.Run stairs down the size, every 3rd stair put a horizontal support beam into the raise ground.Try to find one that is pretty level already (this is important). It is probably the safest and most event proof build you could do. You can essentially raise up the land and then put your structures on that land to get it off the ground. Granted it costs a bit of stone farming to be able to do this, but not much. Put a horizontal or vertical support beam and start building.This is a good starter base, pretty easy to setup, simply make yourself stairs going up to it and leave a gap at the bottom of the stairs that requires you to jump. The method works on plain land too, you don’t need water, you can just build an empty moat. The goal is to make the terrain not able to be climbed, meaning you would be swimming in the water. Finally in the center of your build area, raise up the terrain 1 or 2 times and level it out.

Dig down until you start to swim then move forward and repeat until the moat is complete. Start digging out an area and move in one direction.It is best to find a location that is near a small pond or lake as well next to the swamp biome.Find an ideal location, near water level.These leeches will kill anything from the other biomes/events that dare come into the water. Essentially you dig a moat deep enough enemies cannot stand, and connect it to a deep part of the swamp biome and it will fill with leeches. My favorite method is to build on the edge of a swamp biome into either a plains or meadows biome. I recommend finding a tree that cannot be chopped down as well.

I recommend finding a swamp or Mistlands biome next to a meadows/plains biome so you can build off the tree into empty space and not more trees.
