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My gf and I were looking at a mountain house art piece in the sub (I can't find it now please lmk if you know which one I'm talking about) and she said "yea but what if there's an avalanche? It would get destroyed"

What if avalanches were implemented in Valheim? It would only make sense… Below is some way they could work:

1. If you use bombs or if a stone golem smashes onto the ground in certain areas, an avalanche would happen
2. The Plains and the Meadows biomes that are adjacent to the mountain biomes can experience avalanches every once in a while. It also happens to the Swamp, BF, and ML, but because of obstacles the avalanche has no effect on those biomes.
3. Once inside the avalanche, your stamina and health will behave as if you're in water and moving. If you try to go up, your stamina goes down even faster.
4. Hiding behind trees protects you in the affected biomes.
5. buildings in the path of the avalanche are heavily damaged. 95% damage on wooden structures and 50% on stone and marble structures. (95% so anything that isn't at full health gets destroyed.)
6. wolves and fenrings can survive avalanches, but drakes, if caught, will die of exhaustion (not cold)
7. Drake blasts don't cause avalanches because they counter the kinetic energy with the absence of heat.

This has one further implication and its the fact that "snow" needs to exist very similarly to water (instead of just rain). This can only be a good thing since now we walk more slowly in snow piles (like in puddles) and freeze instead of getting wet (when we don't have warm clothes). Maybe even have snowball fights.

I understand how annoying it was to go through puddles in the Swamp, I'm guessing the devs had thought about something like this before and because wolves are so fast, decided not to move forward with it. I leave it to you to find an optimal way to functionally implement snow and avalanches.

Regardless, it would only add to the "brutal" in the brutal survival, and also make it more realistic.