I gotta agree with Bubix and disagree with Niels484 saying "not dying will give you the fastest time". Dying - quite a lot actually - is by far the best option in Valheim as every death gives you the equivalent of a Mario Bros star with almost infinite armor and stam buff for 50 seconds. This can be mutiplied at will, with no cost to great effect, allowing for HUGE skips (running through the hardest zones naked, even with constant environmental damage, for example). A no death category would be the only one I would personnally be interested in attempting or watching. I do understand some categories of speedrunning are really meant to show the game bare in all the glory of its abused mechanics and that's cool. But I prefer the categories where the run still somewhat resembles the "actual" game (how its played by everyone except specialized speedrunners). In Valheim, death being allowed or not is a complete game changer - probably tripling or so the run's total time when it's not allowed. I believe the two categories are sufficiently distinct to justify creating a different ranking. I would very much like for there to be a hardcore all boss category, with no death, and no voluntary logout (to dodge enemies, refresh stam, loose debuffs). It is just a matter of opinion, but to me, the coolest top tier run of a survival game would look more like a player avoiding death at all costs and not menu-skipping obstacles. Not gonna lie, I would also like for the category to somehow assure the bosses are not cheesed, but there is no way of doing that so I guess Valheim speedruns of all catgories are bound to see bosses die by toe smashing from a dude in a box over their foot or stuff like that XD Congrats to all runners btw!