Valheim has inspired players to make some incredible builds, recreating popular cultural icons like the Millennium Falcon, but tasks like these take time, resources, and a mastery of the building process. It also takes a lot of time transporting resources around the map to get everything players need to make these impressive creations.

Portals, which can be made from fine wood and connected together to allow players to fast travel, are a great way to move resources around the map rapidly. Sometimes, players will get a message telling them that an item is preventing them from teleporting when using portals. This is not a bug and is actually a feature of portals and how they work. When a player has something in their inventory that cannot pass through the portal, the message will appear on the screen, and the items will need to be removed before the game will allow the portal to function.

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Valheim's portals have a list of restricted items that cannot be moved through them, and this is why players will be prevented from teleporting sometimes. Players should check their inventories for these items before attempting to use a portal, or else they will be unable to do so. The vast majority of items that cannot pass through portals are hard to find resources like metals and ores. The full list of restricted items are as follows:

  • Bronze
  • Black Metal
  • Black Metal Scrap
  • Copper
  • Copper Ore
  • Iron
  • Scrap Iron
  • Tin
  • Tin Ore
  • Silver
  • Silver Ore
  • Dragon Eggs

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Players will need to decide for themselves if they wish to play along with the spirit of the game or use a mod to remove the portal restrictions. The Unrestricted Portals mod, available for download from Nexus Mods, will remove any and all restrictions from portals. The mod can even be tweaked to only allow a certain percentage of the items through the portal, allowing players to balance their own experience should they wish.

While many of the problems caused by the portal restrictions can be mitigated by where players build their base, this is certainly an issue that has been met with confusion by the Valheim community. Whether it changes or not as the game goes through development remains to be seen. Still, to many players, it is an unnecessary aspect of difficulty when metal weapons and armor can pass through portals without issue. For now, all players can do is abide by the rules of use the mod to work around them, freeing up their portal networks to transport any items they wish.

Valheim is available in Steam Early Access on PC.

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