Valheim – Full Basic Guide For Beginners

Craft system:

There are four ways to craft items in this game:

• Basic crafts from your TAB menu.
• Crafting from a workbench or forge.
• Placing structures using the hammer.
• Processed items from smelter, charcoal kiln, cooking station.

How to unlock new recipes:

To unlock different recipes or structures you have to get at least one of the necessary items to make the craft. For example, if you want to get the recipe to craft a flint axe you need to find flint and wood first.

There are at least tree ships in the game:
– Raft: Small slow basic boat.

– Karve: Larger and faster that raft. You can unlock it when you gather Fine Wood from birchs.

– Longship: I’ve no info yet.

The raft is the boat you are going to be using until you unlock the Longship.

You use W to increase speed and S to decrease speed in the rudder indicator.
You use A or D to turn the rudder left or right.

There are two indicators in our UI which will help us to sail.

1. Rudder indicator:

• Shows rudder direction. You can turn left or right 90º.
• Shows your speed indicator.

2. Wind indicator:

• Shows wind direction and if the wind is moving your ship. If the wind icon is white and is hitting the gold part of the circle the ship is getting enough wind to move. Gray wind and hitting the black part of the circle your ship will be not able to move using the sail.
• Shows your speed indicator.

Speed indicator info:
1. Small arrows in the wheel icon:

• One arrow up: Rowing speed forward.
• Two arrow up: Low sail speed.
• Three arrow up: Full sail speed.
• One arrow down: Rowing speed backward.

2. Icon above the wind circle:

• Oar: Rowing speed.
• Raised sail: Low sail speed.
• Lowered sail: Full sail speed.

List of different bosses in the game, where you can find them and which items you need to summon it:

 

The Elder Temple:

There are more bosses in the game but I didn’t fight or find them yet. I will update this section when I find more information.

Surtling core are very important in early game as they allow you to craft the Smelter and the Charcoal kiln which allows you to melt ores and craft cooper, iron and other better weapons and tools.

You need 10 Surtling core. 5 to craft the Smelter and 5 to craft the Charcoal kiln. I recommend to craft the Smelter first as you can get some coal from cooking station burning food.

You can find this item in:
– Random chest: This has very low drop since I didn’t find any in a chest yet.
– Inside dungeons. Aroung 0-9 In just one dungeon. There are some dungeons which are empty and there are large dungeons with a lot of them.
– Surtling mob drop: Fire mobs which drop it.

If you break one of those building you will get your 5 Surtling Core back, so don’t worry about it.

You can get a Swamp key after defeat The Elder boss. This key allow you to open a Swamp temples that you can find in the swamp biomes.

You can use 1x Swam Key to unlock one of these temples.

You can add 5 different markers in your map. This markers are local so if you are playing with some friends they won’t be able to see them.

To select one marker you have to left click on it, you can find the markers on the bottom right corner of the map.

To place a new marker double left click on the map, write the name of the marker and press enter.
To remove a marker right click on it.

List of different biomes you can find in the game:

• Starting area.
• Full of trees, stone, deers…
• Not very dangerous.

 

• Second area you will explore.
• Full of pines, stones, mushrooms, Greydwarfs and Trolls.
• More dangerous than Meadows. Have care with Trolls.
• You can find copper and tin here.

 

• Permanent blizzards make you freeze (damage over time debuff).
• You need close to a firepit or wear warm clothes.
• Full of wolfs. They are very dangerous so be ready.
• You can find iron here.

 

• Full of slimes, skeletons, draugrs and dangerous creatures.
• More dangerous than Black Forest.
• You can be poisoned.
• You can find iron here.

 

Information coming soon.

• Not much info about it.
• If you sail far away from the coast you will move into it.

 

Information coming soon.

Information coming soon.

You can find a traveler merchant in the Black Forest. The spawn location is random but when you are close you will be able to see a bag icon in your map.

You can buy and sell some items to this merchant.

 

Coming soon.

Coming soon.

Coming soon.

List of differents items available for crafting:

Reminder: Most of the crafts which needs a Hammer also needs a nearby Workbench to be able to place them.

You can use CTRL+F to search for an item on this list.

Basic items:

Ships:

Tools:

Weapons:

Armor:

 

To hide UI press CTRL+F3.

To open the game console press F5 and type “help” to show all available commands.