Quick answer
Quick reminder as G Portal partner I can give you a nice discount on Valheim or any other game servers. Once you found it, I very much recommend you to slap down a portal so you have very quick access to it. Enemies won’t be able to damage you and therefore it makes for the perfect spot to place a portal and establish your base. But, before you set off, make sure you bring some portal materials with you.
I imagine these are incredibly rare, but considering how many players complain about not being able to plant mushrooms and berries, finding these and placing a portal there would basically solve their problems. AM I [laughter] DUDE, I WENT THROUGH THE WRONG PORTAL AND I got insta one shot by Drake. This would become a little safe oasis for the main town, where you come back to many times throughout your adventure through portals that you connect yourself inside the other towns. (01:05) When you do arrive in the Ashlands, I also recommend looking for some rock on the beach and placing your portal on the beach, on the rock, away from all enemies.
Inside you can build a portal or any kind of base structure you want in complete safety. And finally, it's important, of course, to place down a portal. That leads us straight to this beautiful portal for which I already made an ultimate guide for the final boss, which you can find in the top right of the screen, by the way. I've got a farmhouse with the portal as well as um uh a cooking like a kitchen sort of area, like a big, you know, cooking area.
Building basics
But portals beat walking every time, which is where teleport everything comes in. Unfortunately, they can't follow you through portals, but with a little creativity, you may be able to take them on your travels anyway. After building and with copper smelting, I decided that it might not be a bad idea to go put down a portal next to Elder, even if I wasn't ready to fight it quite yet. Rather than build them near home, I suggest another dedicated location accessible by portal.
I always set up a few checkpoint bases on these rocks throughout the mountains with a ladder leading to a small structure with a portal and chest inside. And then here we're going to create and place a portal. For final touches, you can now remove the temporary ramp from before, place a roof over the boar to prevent water damage to the pen, and install a portal for easy access in the future. So, we got to find solid land and place the portal down there.
Before embarking on your drakkar to the ashlands ensure you bring with you copper, iron, black cores and greydwarf eyes to facilitate the crafting of a stonecutter, shield generator, and eventually a stone portal. Valheim and castles are a perfect match. I knew you guys couldn't stay away after the fun we had in the last video committing arsonist war crimes, weaponizing deforestation, and summoning the might of Thor. Fortunately, you can avoid the damage over time by engaging cutscenes by entering a dungeon or portal.
How to build it
(02:57) Try to create lots of portals and place them in safe locations, as it will be very, very difficult to get your stuff back in this region if you end up dying in bad places. But hey, maybe you want to try an alternative method of travel than portals or boats? And you want to go with a stone portal if you can, just because it will allow you to teleport more items through it. Well, right next to that, you will also find Mine of Gee Portal.
All that's required is you get your portal, you unlock that, and then you can start traveling to and from this base from your main base. What this mod does is enables the portaling of not only metals, but tamed creatures and other things like carts as well. And uh now we're just going to get the stuff for portals ready. Another bad habit is building massive portal hubs which are a massive waste of resources in my opinion.
Set up a portal, a little wall for protection. I like to sign on my portals. That is why today I am building castles for all seven Valheim biomes currently in the game. Well, we're going to keep it going with the mid-game biomes: swamp, mountains, and plains.
Best layouts
Also, bring wood for a small base and materials for a portal. (07:16) I would definitely recommend that you try to slowly make your way, climb, and create portals wherever you can find safe spots to make it much safer to move around this region. Now, I'd suggest the first time you come here, you want to make your portal right here on this ice. If you still need a server for Valheim, as Gee Portal partner, I can give you a nice discount on their servers.
If you are new to Valheim, it's worth noting as well, you cannot use the portal if you've got ore on you, like iron, cuz it would just make the game too easy. Ensure they are following you and interact with the portal and they too will be teleported. We need to go get the stuff for portals once these are tamed. As an alternative, I choose to leave a nameless portal at my base and take the materials for a second portal with my on my adventures.
I don't normally store my portal under there as it gets destroyed. I think especially if you're playing like a bigger group, having more portals linked to this location is definitely really nice. We're talking fresh designs, new ideas, and months of building and planning, all compressed into one video for your enjoyment. Starting off with the swamp, we've got the Ignis Aeternus, which apparently means really hot fire that will burn your skin.
Common mistakes
And don't forget to name the portal at your base before you head out looking for a swamp. So first you will have to find the boss region and also build a portal. So, if the first time you go there, you're just placing down a portal, bringing the snow shovel really doesn't need to happen. Once found, make sure to set up a portal and purchase a fishing rod and some bait.
However, the best part of this one is that it captures each of your portal, boat, and cart locations on your map automatically for you. And I was eventually able to get a decent amount of cores, at least enough for a portal set or two. When ready to return home, I place the portal and will immediately reconnect to the nameless in my base. I like to set up a portal a bit away from the boss arena so if I die, I can easily return.
Once you're done placing in all of the portals in the exact same methods we used on the outside of the structure, it should look something like this. I'll take you through my process behind each project, but you got to promise you'll comment your favorite build down below. Anyways, when you think of the swamp, what comes to mind? Then on top of the ladders, make a small structure with a workbench, portal, and chest.
Tips
Be careful where you build the portal near this boss region. This is the uh portal to the new boss. No more losing your boat location or forgetting a portal name. And hopefully one day we'll have an actual portal hub.
Going forward I can continue to use my nameless portal for adventuring and can simply rename my home portal Haldor for a quick trip to the vendor. As always, this build file will be made available for download on the Smitty Survival Patreon page. Dark, wet, miserable, filled with muddy piles everywhere you go? So I would definitely place the portal, you know, a little further away than where you might think you'd be safe, just to make sure the boss doesn't accidentally destroy your portal.
Hopefully, you get lucky and have a portal somewhere nearby. But with the portal placed at base, I'm going to plant some food to grow while I'm gone. And a huge thank you to those who continue to support the content. Yeah, it's basically nature's way of telling you that you shouldn't be here.