Valheim – Guide For Viking Life

Lore of the Realm

 
 
World Lore { No spoilers } 
Long ago, the all father Odin united the worlds. He threw down his foes and cast them into the tenth world, then split the boughs that held their prison to the world-tree, and left it to drift unanchored, a place of exile… 
 
For centuries, this world slumbered uneasily. But it did not die… As glacial ages passed, kingdoms rose and fell out of sight of the gods. 
 
When Odin heard his enemies were growing once again in strength, he looked to Midgard and sent his Valkyries to scour the battlefields for the greatest of their warriors. Dead to the world, they would be born again… 
 
In order to prove your worth you have been sent to the 10th Norse world – Valheim. Only by surviving and fighting in a harsh environment with many mythical monsters and beasts will you prove your worth to the gods. For those who don’t prove their worth though, the only place they will find is Hel – The underworld, where their soul will be tormented for centuries. Or maybe you will be one of the strong warriors who will prove their worth and earn the favor of the gods, then your place will be in Valhalla – a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, and by your side Odin. 
 
When you first spawn into this world you will be carried here by Hugin whom will lead you on your journey by giving you tips as you remember more and unlock greater things. He will appear, pay heed to his words for they will guide you on your journey 
 
Lore On The Stones  
 
 
Through out the different lands you will find stones that have runes on them, if you choose to read them they have stories as well as some handy tips on them as well. 
 
Eikthyr 
Found within the meadows 
Hold, traveler, and bear witness to my warning. We are many who have come before you, carried by Odin’s will to do his work. The path ahead is hard and the dangers great. If you hold your life dear, keep to these meadows and make your dwelling away from the trees. Fear the Horned One and spare his kin. 
 
Found on several stones, this is one warns you of Eikthyr as well as gives you the tip to build away from the tress so you are further from the monsters of the land. 
 
Boar 
This land is hard and wild but we who are brought here are harder still. Take comfort, traveler, in the gifts before you, the good wood and stone, the fruits and flowers of the forest. 
 
Look also to the wild boar who roam these lands. They fear fire and the hand of man but they can be taught to obey it. Go quietly to them and let them eat of your stock. Roots of the ground are their pleasure. 
 
Found on several rune stones as well, this one is giving you a tip that if you are clever, and have the means to feed them that you can tame a boar for a ready food source. 
 
Ulf 
Heed these words of Ulf, a poor settler in a strange land. You will find here good stone and wood, all you need to build a house. You will need to craft a roof to keep out the rain. Then you will need walls to stop the roof from falling down. Finally, you must have a door or it will be much harder to go in and out. 
 
These things Ulf has learned for himself. now he writes them on this stone to help others. Pray to Odin for his soul. 
 
Astrid 
I was Astrid, a shieldmaiden of the forest. I know nothing of my life before I came here but my arm remembers the sword and my eyes see the course of the arrows. 
 
Now the raven guides me and I fight the great beasts in Odin’s name. 
 
 
 
 
 

Day One A Few Basic Tips

 
 
When you first land in this realm you will be carried here by Hugin, a great crow about the size of an elephant or so it feels. 
Hugin will drop you on a shrine that you will have five tall stones that have hooks on them as well as one small glowing red stone that Hugin is sitting on. 
You will go talk to the bird than click on the red glowing stone, this will reveal the location of the first boss… you are not ready to fight them but you need to know where they are. 
 
Now we will get into some tips that you can do in order to survive 
 
First step is to start to explore a bit, you want a location close to the spawn in shrine as well as close to WATER as possible. If you get to where you have wondered for a bit and not found water go back to the shrine and head the opposite way so that hopefully you will find some as close as possible. 
 
As you explore pick up wood, stone, berries and as you are able to make your self a few tools. As soon as you are able to make the things Hugin tells you to do so, this will give you tips as well as unlock new things for you. 
 
You can easily build a shelter out that will allow up to two people to sleep as well as a work bench, and later a forge if needed that is only three by two. Three tiles long by two tiles high. go small at first you can easily change builds in this game and you need shelter NOW. 
 
Very first step is flatten a very tiny spot of land, at least a small circle to make it easier to build. 
Next you will need a spawn point. 
First you will have to place a workbench to build. Do this by equipping the hammer go to your craft menu than you select the work bench. After you place it you will go behind the bench and begin placing your walls. They will need to be two high by three long. Place walls at both ends at least one high so that you semi enclose it and can place beds down. You will need flooring where you want the beds to lay down, but the whole “building” can be covered with three tiles. 
Next you will need a roof, do this by placing pointing up off the top of the walls you placed behind the workbench than another piece connected to that pointing down. 
Place a campfire outside of it against the outer wall with a piece of roof pointing up away from it to cover it from the rain. 
 
You can build this around the work bench easily and with very little materials or time have a spot to sleep through the night. 
Place a box or two off to the side for storage and set your spawn point. 
 
Once you place the work bench if you need to move it so you better fit it in the tiny hut after you get it place you can easily do so by equipping the hammer than click the middle mouse. You will get the supplies back so you can replace it. Make sure to set your spawn point to your bed as well as to test it before dark so you can sleep at night since more monsters attack at night. 
 
Now that you have a basic shelter built, with your spawn point and a few boxes you need to go out and start gathering/hunting. Make sure to grab flint so you can make some cooking racks, hunt you a few boars, pick up all the mushrooms and berries you find and as the sun starts to set head back to spawn point, if you are out at night you will have small hordes of monsters attack you and this is never a good idea on day one with a wooden stick for a weapon. 
 
By the end of the first day you should easily be able to have this shelter built, with a small campfire as well as a cooking rack. 
 
 
 

Starter Foods

These are foods that you will be able to easily get on the first day, that you will need to save your life. 
We will go into a detailed guide on all foods and know that everything in the game does get used but some things you will need to focus on at certain times. Food being important at all times but in various stages you will be eating different types. 
Let us get started with the basic and work our way up from there in later chapters shall we. 
 
First you can only eat 3 different types of food at one time. So one meat, one neck and one berry for example. 
All food will have certain hp/stam it gives you as well as an amount of time it keeps you fed. Of course as you further in the game you will learn how to make better foods that last you for awhile, as well as pick and choose some bonuses but for now we will just eat the berries raw and learn what to do in order to just survive 
 
When you first spawn in you will go through the Day one guide and get you a small base built. It is very important that you find WATER, there are more animals there as well as Necks and buddy we need those in our life. 
 
You will spawn in the Meadows which as several types of food that you can forage as well as the two types of meat that you can cook 
 
Meadow Food Types 
1. Mushrooms ~ little red caps on the ground, can be eaten raw 
2. Raspberries~ found on bushes throughout the Meadows, can be eaten raw 
3. Cooked Meat~ obtained by killing deer, boar or fish (fishing is much later in game unless you get lucky and catch ones with your hands) . You will get raw meat that you will have to cook on an active campfire with a cooking rack placed on it 
4. Cooked Neck~ obtained by killing Necks found in the Meadows along the WATERS EDGE. Has to be cooked the same way meat is and can be eaten along side meat 
5. Honey ~ obtained by finding a home in the Meadows that has a bee hive in it. You will shoot the hive and a Queen Bee will fall out. Take her home, make sure to build her a home inside your protected garden or fenced in area with an open area above them. They have to be happy and outside to produce honey. 
6. Dandelion~ can not be eaten raw you will save them for when you unlock the cauldron 
 
The foods listed above 1~4 will be what you will be surviving on for a bit, unless you get lucky and find a Bee and use the honey to live off of. 
You will need to spend part of the day hunting meat, gathering berries, shrooms, as well as trying to make sure you have a little time left over to work on your base. 
The sooner you can get to the Black Forest, find some carrot seeds, a smelting core and get a cauldron the better. However you can live very well off of foraging and hunting for a long time. 
Trust me on this I like to take my time in games and lived on basic foods for about 50 in game days on one world because I needed time to flatten my plot of land, as I was in no rush to build. 
 
Make sure to always have three food types eaten, if that box isn’t full fill it up, that is your health and stamina points. You can’t hunt, build, or build a ship if you have no energy 
 
Remember that you will unlock better foods later, that they will all be used for cooking things like carrot soup, Queen’s Jam, health potions, ect. 
However you need to live now and you need to make sure that you keep all three food type boxes full at all times just don’t eat any produce that you need for your farm.. long term not short term is the goal here 
 
 
 

Farming Basics

You will unlock the ability to farm and cultivate the land after you can make a cultivator. There will be a chapter on that as well but on this one we will focus only important info to get us started with farming. 
 
You will need a small plot of land, you might want to flatten it as well as put a fence around it or the deer as well as any other animal in the area will eat your crops. 
 
First step is to prep the land and place it either within your walls or place it outside of them with one of the small fences around them. After you do that you will get your cultivator equip it and if you have the proper materials you can start farming. 
You will first choose cultivate the land which will change it from a tan colored dirt to a blackened dirt, that area is now ready to have seeds placed in it. 
 
Make sure you have the seeds you want to plant carrot or turnip in your inventory. You will than click open the cultivator tool again and choose the option carrot. You place them by clicking on your mouse bottom on the blackened ground that you just tilled. 
 
In order to keep your farm always turning out food you will need to make sure that you have an area for replanting the crop as well as the area for the crop. 
 
Once the carrots are grown you will be tempted to eat them all, DON’T take at least 1/3 of them and replant them back in the ground. You will have the option carrot seed now, click on that and plant those seeds so that you can get you a farm going. 
 
This will need to be doneevery timeyou grow or you will NOT HAVE SEEDS FOR FUTURE CROPS. 
 
You will get three seeds for each one carrot plant. So it will to go you find seeds and have three plant the 3, once they are grown to carrots you will replant them all 9 of them as carrot seeds, harvest them as carrots giving you 27 carrots, again you re- plant ALL OF THEM as seeds after this till you will have 81 carrots when you harvest. Keep half of the carrots to eat 40 and plant 40 as seeds. 
 

Your farm will be up and running so long as you remember to always take part of the harvested product and replant it as seeds.

Taming of the Boars

In order to eat a decent food supply going you will need to tame you some Boars, sounds harder than it is. 
 
First make sure you have a small area that is fenced in with on it, you can use the little wooden fences you don’t have to use the tall outer walls. You will want to make sure to put a door on here that you can get in and out of. 
 
You will go engage a Boar, don’t hit it let just get where it wants to attack you. 
 
RUN… run into your cage with the door open. The Boar will follow you inside you shut the gate and jump out over the small fence. Do not go out the door the Boar will follow, jump over the fence and leave the boar in there and do so Before it kills you 
 
On the outside of the fence if you want to make it easier to feed them place a step leading up the side of the fenced in area with a floor piece attached to the stairs and off to the side of the Boar pen. You will climb up there and throw in some food. 
 
They do not like meat.. give them mushrooms, berries, if you have them carrots ect. 
 
Another way to do this is simply let the Boar chase you make sure you got wood in your inventory. Get a work bench put down or in the area of one and start trapping it by building the fence around it. 
Either way works the planned one goes smoother though. 
Make sure with both ways that you REPAIR THE FENCE AND THE BOAR HAS NO ESCAPE OUT, REMEMBER THEY CAN CLIMB STAIRS THAT TOUCH THE GROUND. 
 
If you get two of them in there, keep them fed up so they are not hungry and they have room they will start to have babies and lots of them. 
 
You have to have 2 in order to breed them. 
 
Tip if you are struggling with food make sure that you don’t feed the Boars till after you kill them and get there numbers down to two but never lower than two. That way you are not feeding them just to turn around and butcher them for meat. Waste of resources. If you go outside and have four Boar butcher two of them, and feed the other two in the am you will have another baby piglet or two. 
 
They do prefer certain types of food over others but just make sure they are fed to begin with and as you get more food supplies than you can feed them the grown vegetables and mushrooms they love 
 
 
 

Basic of Building

First it is easier to build anything on flattened land, any game I have ever played with building in it this always holds true. That being said you can build quick and easy if you need a place to stay over night a two by three base on non flattened ground will suffice, guide on it is in the first day chapter. 
 
Anything not covered by a roof that gets rain on it will take damage and decay over time. When you place your building you will notice that there are colors to each block as you place it, those tell you how strong the blocks are, or how weak. 
1. Blue = strongest block fully supported 
2. Green = still supported and can be built on 
3. Yellow = caution you are starting to get weak 
4. Orange= you better support that thing it might fall 
5. Redish Orange== I am telling you this is going to fall any moment 
6. Red == it falls and breaks 
 
When you are building you will need to keep in mind that you have to have a roof over your building, as well as if you want your fire inside a chimney with a cover of it that has a gap for smoke to escape or you will die from smoke damage. 
 
The support beams will help you once you start building bigger bases. I would start small and learn from there. Make sure that if your blocks start turning red and you want your roof higher to look and see if you can use angled supports that touch a support beam that touches the ground, add some beams in and look at the color of it from that point with the hammer in hand to see if you changed it. 
 
You have to have a hammer in hand, within the range of a work bench. Than you will click your mouse to go to the crafting menu where you will see several tabs from where you will choose the item you want to build by using your mouse to highlight the item and click on it. 
Once you do that you can use the other click button to place the item and if you don’t like where it is or it doesn’t snap into place right use your middle mouse button to break it. 
 
Framing out your bases will help, remember that you get all the resources back when you destroy things so don’t be afraid to experiment and see what builds you like the best.