How safe do you feel in your Valheim base? Walls secure, trenches dug out, windows sealed? Even with all these precautions in place, you may still not be safe from Valheim’s new enemies. With the introduction of the Mistlands update comes a new type of raid – and this one is wreaking havoc on established player bases. Rather devastatingly, some players are losing homes that took them hundreds of hours to make.
The new event, called “they sought you out”, unleashes hordes of insects on your player base – and worse still, they can fly. Seekers and seeker soldiers are capable of hopping over ditches, then mulching stone walls like they’re made of papier maché. The event can occur at any time after you’ve defeated the Plains boss Yagluth, so anyone who has completed Valheim’s biomes is vulnerable to these attacks. And sure enough, it’s taking a lot of players by surprise.
“When we got raided we got caught off-guard and lost our three-story base which took us hundreds of hours,” said one Reddit user. “It was protected with walls, trenches, and most upgraded gates – it didn’t slow the seekers down at all… We all rage quit after surviving the raid, but after looking around at the aftermath, we realised any amount of rebuilding wouldn’t matter because we lost seasonal item buffs for comfort level and we could not survive another raid like that.”
