tips that boost your mastery of the game

i've just finished making a new storage world (now designed for all biomes instead of just the ones that are finished so far) and it got me thinking that i lean on at least 1 tip i'd never have learned if i didn't look up valheim stuff online.

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so let's hear it, what's your #1 tip that you never would have learned from just playing the game and exploring it without the internet?

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for me, it's building storage/portal space under the elder platforms – completely invulnerable to all enemies. never would have thought to dig under it and place a portal down, then have a second character close up the edges with raise ground (hoe) unless i heard about someone doing it in lieu of being able to "dig caves" for environment-protection. something i will now do in every valheim map i ever play.