What do I do when I’m not doing stuff? I play some video games. In general, I’ve found quite a soft spot for survival crafting games, especially those with procedurally-generated worlds like Valheim here, which my wife likes to call “Viking Minecraft.”
I play in casual mode, quite unapologetically, since the things I love the most about these games are the building and exploring. Which doesn’t mean I don’t die on occasion, given that there’s a lot of stuff in the game that can only be gotten from big beasties, like the Lox that punched my ticket the other night, or in otherwise precarious situations (like scaling the side of a weird tower that can only be entered at the top level). So there are still quite frustrating moments, but they’re more manageable than otherwise playing on unforgivable mode.
Anyway, pictured is a base of sorts that I’ve been working on for quite a while now–probably about 200 in-game days or so. I envisioned it as a sheltered seaport, though the path to the open ocean is quite a ways south of there and I might have been smarter to build elsewhere. But once I sunk more than a few hours into the site it got to be too much of a hassle to move. And now that it’s done, I’ll no doubt be moving on to my next major building site. More screenshots surely to follow… someday.