If you liked Valheim and thought, "You know what this game needs? Way more mind numbing tedium." You've come to the right place.

You constantly need to micromanage your villagers because for some asinine reason they will only search within a very small gathering radius. This isn't too bad for things like woodcutters because there are plenty of trees, but it feels like every 5 minutes they're begging me for more gathering spots or stone mining spots because they ran out so quickly and you require huge amounts of stone, food and fibre for basically anything.

Fibres at least are something you can eventually farm after tedious pre-requisite after tedious pre-requisite... However, if your farmers aren't feeling sufficiently protected (on a clear, friendly open plain with no danger in sight mind you), they will simply stand around and refuse to do anything. Aren't these people meant to be vikings? They also seem to get stressed out by their work if they don't have enough fertiliser for their crops, which as far as I can tell does nothing except maybe makes them grow faster. Again, these are meant to be vikings? Really?

Meanwhile you run around babysitting them as they weep about starving because food was right outside their gathering circle and they refuse to work their farms. I did sort those things out, but I shouldn't have to, and it makes the whole experience incredibly tedious.

Crafting is another nightmare. You need about a dozen 'add-on' buildings, but each crafting station only seems to be able to support two, so you need a huge number of them, each of which requires about 4 steps in the building process and enough supplies that you'd think you were building a palace, not somewhere you can turn leather into a leather cap. Durability of items is also crap, so you need someone working full time just to replace the things you alone use on the rare occasions the village seems fine and you can go hunt some animals or enemies or something.

All in all this was a pretty miserable experience and I regret buying it, even on sale. Hopefully they iron out the many tedious issues plaguing this game and make it something worth playing.

Since ASKA doesn’t tell you that resources don’t respawn—a feature common in almost every survival game I’ve played—and fails to guide you effectively to survive your first winter, here’s a workaround to fix resource depletion and still enjoy the game.

This solution has been tested in single-player and server games. You can even copy saves between the server and single-player modes for testing.


Locate your save game folder here:

`C:\Users\(YOUR USER NAME)\AppData\LocalLow\Sand Sailor Studio\Aska\data`

To quickly navigate:

• Open File Explorer.
  
• In the address bar, type `%appdata%` and press Enter.
  
• Navigate up one directory to LocalLow, then find the ASKA folder.

Use the same seed as your current game and ensure the settings match exactly.

Close ASKA and open the folder for your new game. Copy the following files into your old save’s folder:

• biomePopulations
  
• Invasions
  
• vegetationAvailability

This restores hunting populations and vegetation.


For trees, rocks, and other harvested resources, locate files in the save folder that start with numbers (these represent the grid areas of your island). Copy these files from the new game to your old save.

Note: Doing this resets the terrain entirely, meaning your village will be surrounded by foliage again. You’ll need to use your hoe to flatten and clear the area.


Using this method, we managed to save our game during the holidays and continue playing. However, this process highlights a significant issue with ASKA’s design.

This fix is a temporary workaround, but it shows that ASKA has potential if these issues are addressed. Until then, players will need to rely on creative solutions like this to keep the experience fun.


You’ve clearly tested and played the game enough to understand what’s needed to survive winters, invasions, and resource management. Why not teach these mechanics to players instead of expecting them to figure it out through trial and error?

Also, winter length should have its own dedicated setting for better customization.

Was going to give the game a 10 out of 10. Then I met the range combat, So i felt well that really blows...my villagers will remain vegitarians for the first few months 7/10. Then i met the wolves and the death mechanic, and its so terrible that i was like 3/10 at beast. Deleting items is one thing but deleting days of progress..nah you can keep all that ill move on.