Valheim - 30 Tips and Tricks for New Players! 

Chopping two trees at the same time does have its benefits: 1. Less overkill: hitting two trees at the same time will indeed spread your damage. Therefore, the damage on one tree is lower compared to if you were just chopping one tree. This is beneficial since with lower damage, you are less likely to do way too much damage on a tree, while it would have also been felled with less damage. So hitting two trees at the same time is in fact better or at least just as good as hitting every tree by itself. 2. Axe durability: Every axe has a certain amount of hits in them before they need to be repaired. For this, the game simply checks if the swing hit anything, and if it did, it will count as a hit. For durability sake, it does not check how many targets were hit. So if you always hit two trees at the same time, you can collect double the wood per repair of your axe.

@@chtyldubreux5950 Your second point is incorrect. If I hit 1 tree 5 times to fell it, or if I hit 2 trees 10 times to fell them, the end result is 2 trees felled for 10 swings total. You're not saving anything on repair or durability. And whether you hit for 1 point or 50 points, a hit is a hit generating a repair. Both of your points are invalid.

According to the wiki for Valheim's damage mechanics, if a player hits two targets with the same swing, each target takes 66.7% of the rolled damage. This would mean that it would take slightly less than twice as long since you're not halving the damage, you're only reducing it by 1 third against each tree. Let's say you deal an average of 20 damage per swing against a single tree and a tree has 100 hit points. This means it will take 5 swings to fell it on its own. Now, let's say you are swinging at two at once. You now deal an average of 13.34 damage to each tree (20 x 0.667), meaning you need to swing 7-8 times depending on your damage rolls (100 divided by 13.34 is approximately 7.5), which is certainly less than 10. It's not a huge reduction, but it is worth it stamina-wise and durability-wise since you only lose durability on a hit (not PER hit, but when you hit) and you only lose stamina per swing. TL;DR, you always get more TOTAL damage from hitting multiple targets, trees included, so you save time and effort hitting more things with the same swing.

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Sleeping doesn't add xp bonus. The rested buff gives an xp-gain bonus! Sleeping is just one way to get the rested buff, nothing more.

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