Unlucky Valheim Player Killed by Windmill

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Survival games like Valheim can teach players harsh lessons quickly. In the challenging world in which players are dropped, each biome hosts its own array of difficult enemies. But players needn’t even leave their own base in order to discover the challenging nature of the game. In the latest example of this, one Valheim player met their death at the blades of their own windmill.

Valheim was released in February 2021 and is a survival and sandbox game with an enormous open world. Developed by Iron Gate Studio, the game takes place in a world where warriors need to earn themselves a spot in the halls of Valhalla.

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The unfortunate player in this clip is u/Burlycop2057, and it features a tough moment for them. It opens with this player on one of the stone walls they have erected around their base. Situated on the edge of Valheim’s dangerous Plains biome, this player is already putting themselves at risk by not wearing much for armor. Instead of resolving this equipment issue, they throw on a Lox Cape and begin walking around their walls. They get closer and closer to the windmill, which just reaches over the top of the walls, and get struck by its blades. This initial impact reduces the player’s health from 25 to 8 and knocks them off the wall, where they die from the remaining fall damage.

It is difficult to say whether this clip serves as instruction on what not to do or if it is actually a mental mistake made by a player, but either way, it shows just how deadlyValheim can be. Those players that enter biomes they aren’t prepared for, forget to keep their character’s health high, or mistakenly attack too many enemies will quickly be punished. Even those who forget that windmills can deal