Valheim – Rune of Knowledge

Biomes

You start off in the basic of biomes in the center of the map, the farther away you get from the center the more resources you will find and other biomes will become found. I will talk about each of them in the order that I believe they are available for you or you "should" explore them. 
 

1. Meadow 
 
The meadow is where you start off at and is the best place to build your first base to start off with, here you will find raspberries, necks, boars, deer, rocks, beech, birch, and oak. Meadows can be considered a safe area in any area of the map unless they boarder a more dangerous area. 
 
2. Black Forest 
 
A bit more dangerous you will find boars, deer, higher level greydwarves, skeletons, trolls, and ghost in some of the dungeons. Where you begin to find the basic ores and woods for the second level of equipment, here you will find pine, basic trees, blueberries, copper, and tin. Also dungeons that have surtling core which are used for portals. 
 
3. Swamp 
 
Dangerous for the main reason mobs do not seem to ever stop spawning near you and poison is huge here due to blobs, oozers, and leeches. Mobs found here are blobs, oozers, leeches, skeletons, draugr, wraiths, and surtlings (fire people same as the cores you find in dungeons). Useful resources here are ancient wood and muddy scrap piles that have iron (in crypts more on this later). 
 
4. Mountain 
 
Dangerous first and foremost, you will freeze as soon as you walk in the area without warm cloths or making a fire. Wolves will almost one shot you if you’re not wearing iron armor and blocking. Drakes spawn here as well and will spit frost at you that freeze you in place. You will also find Rock Golems (I forget the name I’ll edit this later) that will do massive damage if you let them get close and slam you. Here is where you can find uncovered silver, but it is rare due to it being mostly buried underground. The best method is to kill the 3rd boss and use the wishbone to find silver. Also you will find obsidian and basic trees here for the most part. 
 
5. Plains 
 
I have not been too far into the plains due to how dangerous it is, what you can find here are Lox, Deathsquitos, and fulings. Almost all of these will almost one shot you if do not block and would not recommend anything under iron armor. (I will update this later) 
 
6. Mist 
 
This has not been completed in the game yet 
 
7. Ocean 
 
I will throw this here for now as I am pretty sure it is not done yet. you can find a serpent in the Ocean and there is what seems to be a rock formation with barncles on them which you can mine, it will begin shaking and screaming after awhile so be warned it is a monster of some sort. I left before finding out too much more. (more later) 
 
 
 

Crafting Benches/Recipes

Alright here is the main portion I wanted to create to help new players and myself due to the lack of any updated information on wiki’s. Again best source of information is always the Discord, people are wonderful on there passing along information. This is all the recipes that I have currently unlocked, there are more and I will update this as I find them. 
 
You find new recipes by picking up the required materials to make the item and having the correct level of bench needed. 
 
***Workbench***  
 
(level 1) 
Tools 
Flint Axe – 6 flint, 4 wood 
Hoe – 2 stone, 5 wood 
Antler Pickaxe – 1 hard antler, 10 wood 
kill the first boss 
 
Armor  
Almost all armor has three pieces other than rags tunic, pants, and helmet. 
(level 1) 
Rags – 5 leather scraps (10 total) 
(level 2) 
Leather – 6 deer hides (18 total) 
Deer Hide Cape – 4 deer hide, 5 bone fragments 
Wolf Fur Cape – 6 wolf pelt, 4 silver, 1 wolf trophy 
(level 3) 
Troll – 5 troll hide 3 bone fragments (15 hide 3 bone total) 
bone is from skeletons 
Troll Hide Cape – 10 troll hide, 10 bone fragments 
 
Bows/Arrows 
Arrows are made in batches of 20 at a time 
(level 1) 
Crude Bow – 10 wood, 8 leather scraps 
Fine Wood Bow – 10 fine wood, 10 core wood, 2 deer hide 
fine wood is form birch and oak in meadows, core is from pines in the BF 
Wood Arrow – 8 wood 
(level 2) 
Flint Head Arrow – 8 wood, 2 flint, 2 feathers 
resin is from greydwarves and some trees, feathers from birds and trees 
Fire Arrow – 8 wood, 8 resin, 2 feathers 
(level 3) 
Poison Arrow – 8 wood, 4 obsidian, 2 feathers, 2 ooze 
obsidian can be found in chest and mined in the mountains requires iron pickaxe 
ooze is from blobs in the swamp 
Obsidian Arrow – 8 wood, 4 obsidian, 2 feathers 
(level 4) 
Frost Arrow – 8 wood, 4 obsidian, 2 feathers, 1 freeze gland 
freeze gland from drakes in the mountain 
Needle Arrow – 4 needles, 2 feathers 
needles form deathquitio in the plains 
 
Weapons 
(level 1) 
Ooze Bomb x 5 – 5 leather scraps, 10 ooze, 3 resin 
Flint Knife – 2 wood, 4 flint, 2 leather scraps 
Flint Spear – 5 wood, 10 flint, 2 leather scraps 
(level 2) 
Abyssal Razor – 4 fine wood, 20 chitin, 2 leather scraps 
I found chitin on a floating rock in the Ocean that was a monster, looked like a barnacle 
Abyssal Harpoon – 8 fine wood, 30 chitin, 3 leather scraps 
Stag Breaker – 20 core wood, 5 deer trophy, 2 leather scraps 
 
***Forge*** 
To build the forge you need 4 stone, 4 coal, 10 wood, 6 copper. Also you will need a smelter and most likely a kiln to burn wood into charcoal. 
Smelter/Kiln – 20 stone, 5 surtling cores for each 
cores are found in dungeons and dropped by surtlings in the swamp 
Tools 
(level 1) 
Cultivator – 5 core wood, 5 bronze bars 
Bronze Nails x 20 – 1 bronze bar 
Iron Nails x 10 – 1 iron bar 
Bronze Pickaxe – 3 core wood, 10 bronze bars 
Bronze Axe – 4 wood, 8 bronze bars, 2 leather scraps 
(level 2) 
Iron Pickaxe – 3 core wood, 20 iron bars 
Iron Axe – 4 wood, 20 iron bars, 2 leather scraps 
 
Bows/Arrows 
(level 1) 
Huntsman Bow – 10 fine wood, 20 iron, 10 feathers, 2 deer hide 
Bronze Arrows – 8 wood, 1 bronze bar, 2 feathers 
(level 2) 
Iron Arrows – 8 wood, 1 iron bar, 2 feathers 
(level 3) 
Silver Arrows – 8 wood, 1 silver, 2 feathers 
 
Armor 
(level 1) 
Bronze – 5 bronze, 2 deer hide (15 bronze, 6 deer hide total) 
bronze is made with 2 copper and 1 tin in the forge 
(level 2) 
Iron – 20 iron, 2 deer hide (60 iron, 6 deer hides) 
(the helm is a level 1 forge item, rest is level 2) 
Wolf Armor – 20 silver, 1 chain, 4 wolf fangs (40 silver, 1 chain, 4 fangs total) 
there’s a helm I just don’t have it yet believe it’s two drake trophies looking into it 
 
Weapons/Shields 
(level 1) 
Bronze Sword – 2 wood, 8 bronze bars, 2 leather scraps 
Bronze Mace – 4 wood, 8 bronze bars, 3 leather scraps 
Bronze Spear – 5 wood, 6 bronze bars, 2 deer hide 
Bronze Atgeir – 10 wood, 8 bronze bars, 2 leather scraps 
Bronze Buckler – 10 bronze bars, 4 wood 
(level 2) 
Iron Sword – 2 wood, 20 iron bars, 3 leather scraps 
Iron Mace – 4 wood, 20 iron bars, 3 leather scraps 
Iron Atgeir – 10 wood, 10 iron bars, 2 leather scraps 
Battleaxe – 30 ancient bark, 35 iron, 4 leather scraps 
ancient wood is from the swamp 
Banded Shield – 10 fine wood, 8 iron 
Iron Tower Shield – 15 fine wood, 10 iron 
(level 3) 
Silver Sword – 2 wood, 40 silver, 3 leather scraps, 5 iron 
Fang Spear – 10 ancient bark, 4 wolf fangs, 2 leather scraps, 2 silver bars 
Ancient Bark Spear – 4 troll hide, 10 iron bars, 10 ancient bark 
Silver Shield – 10 fine wood, 8 silver bars 
 
***Stonecutter*** 
Building cost 10 wood, 2 iron, 4 stone 
This will allow you to make stone building components 
(level 1) 
Sharpening Stone – 5 stone 
 
 
 

Farming, Fermenting, and Food

Farming 
Generally I find it easier to use a hoe and flatten out a patch of land before using the cultivator to add cultivated land for farming. 
Currently I am working with two crops I am not sure if there are more at this time. Carrots and turnips are what I am using. You can find carrot seeds in the Black Forest and Turnips in the swamp. 
 
You can turn one carrot into a carrot seed by right-clicking with the cultivator equipped and plating a carrot seed. Same thing with turnips, you will get 3 seeds per seed plant you collect once it has grown. Which then can be planted into carrots or turnips. Currently these items are great to turn into soups which you can eat and they work better than just eating berries alone. 
 
 
 
Fermenting 
You will need to learn how to make a decent mead if you want to have an easier time. 
Fermenter – 30 fine wood, 5 bronze bars, 10 resin 
Beehive – 10 wood, 1 queen bee (I found a lot in abandon buildings just knock the walls or trees down around them and pick up the queen bee. 
Cauldron – 10 tin, use this over a fire to ferment, then place in the fermenter 
Step-by-Step Make a fire, add a caudron, collect the items required, make the mead base, add the mead base to the fermenter which has to be covered like any other workbench and wait 45 minutes. 
 
Mead Based Items: 
How long they last is 10 minutes per flask you drink. 
 
Frost Resistance x 6 – 10 honey, 5 thistle, 2 bloodbags, 1 greydwarf eye 
Medium Healing x 6 – 10 honey, 4 bloodbags, 10 raspberries, 1 dandelion (75 hp over time) 
Minor Healing x 6 – 10 honey, 5 blueberries, 10 raspberries, 1 dandelion (50 hp over time) 
Poison Resistance x 6 – 10 honey, 5 thistle, 1 neck tail, 10 coal 
Medium Stamina x 6- 10 honey, 10 cloudberries, 10 yellow mushrooms 
Minor Stamina x 6- 10 honey, 10 raspberries, 10 yellow mushrooms 
Tasty x 6- 10 honey, 10 raspberries, 5 blueberries (lowers health and stamina regeneration -50% health regen, 300% stamina regen) 
 
how to find ingredients thistles are found in the Black Forest they have a white head and glow at night, bloodbags are from leeches in the swamp that in the water, cloudberries I found while running across the plains for my life, yellow mushrooms come form dungeons that are in Black Forest and crypts in the Swamp. 
 
Food 
Currently I will go over food that is not a berry or base meat, if you are not familiar with health and stamina each food you eat has a set amount it will boost your stat by, duration, and healing amount per tick I will add that information to this items. 
 
Carrot Soup – 1 mushroom, 3 carrots (HP 20, ST 60, Dur 1500s, 2 hp/tick) 
Queens Jam x 4 – 8 raspberries, 8 blueberries (HP 30, ST 40, Dur 1200s, 2hp/tick) 
Sausages x 4 – 2 entrails, 1 raw meat, 4 thistles (HP 60, ST 40, Dur 1600s, 3hp/tick) 
Turnip Stew – 1 raw meat, 3 turnips (HP 50, ST 50, Dur 1600s, 2hp/tick) 
 
how to find ingredients entrails drop from draugr in the swamp. 
 
 
 

Ore & Wood

You will need a smelter to make ores into bars and a kiln to make charcoal 
Smelter/Kiln – 20 stone, 5 surtling cores 
 
***Ores/Woods*** 
Tin & Copper – tin is found along the shore/rivers of the Black Forest, copper is in the Black Forest itself looks like the grey/moss rocks with green veins through it 
Pictures 
 
 
 
 
Iron – Iron is found in crypts which you need to kill the 2nd boss to get a swamp key that will open them. They are in the swamp you just need to look for the green lights that should lead to a locked crypt door which you can open, then mine away the muddy scrap piles/loot the chest. 
Silver – Kill the 3rd boss grab the wishbone and head off to the mountains (take frost resistance potions with you) the wishbone acts like a metal detector and will make more light as you get closer. You have to be pretty close for it to go off to begin with so don’t stress too much, it is also buried so you will have to dig, unless you get lucky and find a vein above ground. 
Wood – Almost any tree honestly 
Core Wood – pine tress in the Black Forest will drop these, only way I have found stone anf flint work on this tree 
Fine Wood – can be found in oak trees and birch trees (white ones) in the meadow, will need bronze or better axe 
Ancient Bark – comes form ancient trees in the Swamp will need a bronze or better axe 
 
There is other ores as well, black metal scraps which I believe require a blast furnace which I do not have yet. More later. 
 
 
 

Hints and Tips

Tips 
1. As you upgrade your gear remember that it will take a higher level of bench to repair your new gear. 
2. Smelters seem to use almost a 2 to 1 ratio to make ore into bars, for example 2 coal to make one iron bar. Haven’t thoroughly tested this, but seems to be pretty accurate. 
3. Swimming with no stamania will start draining your health so if you fall out of a boat you’re in a bad way, stay in the boat! 
4. The more furnicature you have in your home the higher your rested bonus will be, rugs help a lot with this. 
5. If something falls into the water and you can’t grab it, try jumping off of something into the water you will dip down a bit or raise the ground using a hoe and stone. 
6. Make a cart to carry massive amounts of wood and stone, trust me you will save yourself many trips. 20 wood, 10 bronze nails 
 
I would like to encourage you to head over to the Valheim Discord if you need further help or information. Can message me or leave comments on here if you wish, thanks for reading and hopefully some of this helps you out! 
 

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