You're Using Portals WRONG! - Do This Instead - Valheim Lifehacks

Portals are very useful in Valheim, but you're not using them to their full capabilities. Save yourself time and watch this video! I cover important tips for Portals, including the basics, as well as advanced tips for saving you hours during your play session. I mean, nobody likes to waste time, right? Let me know if you like these Portal tips, if you learned anything new, and comment the next topic you want lifehacks on! I hope to see you guys using pocket portals from now on, and remember, PUT A PORTAL AT YOUR SPAWN!! ;)

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Timestamps:
0:00 Anything Sound Familiar?

1:46 Portal Basics
2:25 The Solution - PP
3:16 REASONS YOU NEED PP
4:18 Juicy Tips for EXTRA LIFEHACKING

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[longstech]

No one:
Absolutely no one:
Me: HOW IS HE NOT WET IN THE SWAMP

[jonglas]

I was expecting some life haxxor but this is just basic common sense. Same with destroying ships to recover their craft components, hoofing it across some land, and rebuilding it on the other side instead of sailing around. You can 'pocket portal' ships too since iron nails don't prevent portal use.

[johnconcerto]

I prefer to make a portal room. Renaming portals is beyond my Valheim ADHD patience threshold.

[cyrusjerome]

I use the two portal method. You have two portals at home, one named “home” or whatever you want mine is “villa” for example. The home portal name NEVER changes. So when i drop down a pocket portal i call it home then i go straight home, the second portal at my base is the one i use to rename the pocket portal to the appropriate title. Plains for example, then you go back through the home portal and switch the name of the pocket portal to the new “Plains”. The home portal will disconnect and be ready for next time and the second portal will be connected to the pocket portal.

[nathanvienneau]

If I played alone I would have minimal portals, but as I play with a few others having a portal hub is much safer

[alitomix]

As a tip, I use some names for my exploration, for example if I'm exploring a mountain I use 'm1', 'm2', 'm3'... for plains 'p1', 'p2', etc, that way I can move to other locations without having to remember every name or having a portal hub

[Doublehobo]

lol good tip but i feel like anyone who has figured out how to make a portal figures this out in about 5 minutes at least me and my friends did.

[jodroboxes]

The way i deal with portals is pretty much the same. Instead i don't put up all the signs in my base. I mark the target portal location on my map with the portal icon and name them the same as the text input only using lower case letters. That way you can pick the destination by just looking at the map.

[zharkabat]

And also: destroy your ship, pick up the materials and teleport your boat. This save you one trip

[spook]

Even this isn't right... Should be labeling your portals and names on the map. Then you can get back whenever you like. I keep 4 portals at the main house, and can change the labels as required, and maintain default names at the hub to get back home at any time. 4 just gives some flexibility, do however many you need. Minimum would be two I suppose. I haven't built a portal "hub" in some time.

[marcus.thoren]

But... isn't this just common sense? Doesn't everyone do this already?

[DrakeBlackwell]

Nice to see I'm doing pocket portals correctly. I didn't even think about the single portal (no hubs) option. I have a HUGE hub and I just don't like how it looks of it. Would be nice to tear it down.

[duncant]

5 minutes for a pocket portal? Lifechanging... 🤯

[Rialean]

this only works if your playing alone right, if others are on with you and you change the portal name then they cant get back. or am i missing something?

[datastorm]

I'm not using portals wrong. I've done this from the outset.

[leonrobinson]

Nothing new here for seasoned player but invaluable for new players or those who tunnel vision, especially writing down your portal names.
I have Portal hub (for the Main Spawn, merchant, my farms (coal, boars, wolves, Lux etc) and the bosses (as I've built houses near them)), but I have one portal for travelling around and three backup portals called "A", "B" and "C" so i can explore. As a general rule, I place a portal on each island but if its a big island I do it compass style (one in the middle and then one North, South, etc)

[vantyto]

Tip 4:30 better to not use in multiplayer

[GenericInternetter]

I like having a portal hub, so i built it right next to the main spawn point. I also placed my cartography table in the portal hub so it can be updated and read easily.

[kalebd]

Sounds a little confusing if you make portal that have upper and lower case letters and your reading a sign thats all caps lol a portal hub would be huge and epic tho im building one at the altars so I can get the buffs when needed and then travel where I want

[dasboot]

I'd rather have 10 portals in my base instead of renaming one every time I want to use it. Just my personal take.
However I never thought about just leaving a blank name portal for a quick pocket portal escape. Good idea.