Valheim

The 8 boss-gated biomes in the order you clear them: what summons each boss, the power its trophy grants and the materials the kill unlocks.

1. 1Tier 1Meadows

   Open grass and the only ground in Valheim that is not actively trying to kill you. Everything you build first goes here, and the reason to leave is copper.

   Eikthyr500 health

   Summon with

   • Deer Trophy

   Unlocks

   • Copper
   • Tin
   • Bronze
   • Corewood

   Forsaken powerRunning stamina -60% · Jump stamina -60%
2. 2Tier 2Black Forest

   Dark enough that you will not see what is following you. It holds the copper and tin that end the stone age, and Greydwarves arrive in threes.

   The Elder2,500 health

   Summon with

   • Greydwarf Brute Trophy

   Unlocks

   • Iron
   • Ancient Bark
   • Guck

   Forsaken powerHealth regeneration +30% · +60% Chop, Pickaxe damage
3. 3Tier 3Swamp

   Wet, poisonous and permanently dark, with iron locked inside crypts that need a key. The biome that teaches you to bring poison resistance rather than more armour.

   Bonemass5,000 health

   Summon with

   • Withered Bone

   Unlocks

   • Silver
   • Wolf Pelt
   • Obsidian

   Forsaken powerBlock stamina -100% · Blunt, Slash, Pierce: Slightly resistant
4. 4Tier 4Mountain

   Cold enough to kill you on its own, before anything with teeth reaches you. Silver is under the snow and wolves hunt in packs across it.

   Moder7,500 health

   Summon with

   • Dragon Egg

   Unlocks

   • Black Metal
   • Flax
   • Barley
   • Tar

   Forsaken powerFrost: Resistant · Carry weight +300
5. 5Tier 5Plains

   Deceptively open. Fulings travel in war parties, deathsquitos cross a field faster than you can turn, and the black metal is worth both.

   Yagluth10,000 health

   Summon with

   • Fuling Totem

   Unlocks

   • Black Marble
   • Refined Eitr
   • Yggdrasil Wood

   Forsaken powerFarming +25 · +10% Chop, Fire, Blunt, Frost, Slash, Pierce, Poison, Spirit, Pickaxe, Lightning damage
6. 6Tier 6Mistlands

   A fog you cannot see through, over terrain that drops away without warning. Bring a wisp light, and expect the Seekers to find you first.

   The Queen12,500 health

   Summon with

   • Sealbreaker Fragment

   Unlocks

   • Flametal
   • Asksvin Bladder
   • Charred Bone

   Forsaken powerEitr regeneration +100% · Sneak stamina -100%
7. 7Tier 7Ashlands

   Lava, ash and a coastline that shoots back. Everything here is on fire or about to be, and the gear that survives it is made from what does.

   Fader25,000 health

   Summon with

   • Morgen Heart

   Forsaken powerFire: Resistant · Stagger taken -50%
8. 8Tier 8Deep North

   The last biome and the newest: Valheim 1.0 filled it in with Kall Fimbulbringer, a three-phase fight worth 47,000 health, and gave it a building set, armour and food of its own. The only altar that asks for no offering, and the only boss that grants no Forsaken power.

   ☠Kall Fimbulbringer47,000 health · 3 phases

   Summon with

   No offering

   Forsaken powerNo Forsaken power

Weapons, armour and food ranked from the game files rather than opinion: average damage across the whole bestiary, armour at max quality, and health plus stamina per minute. Lightning Strike leads the weapons at 363 dmg.

What to carry into each biome, limited to what you can actually have by then. Open a biome for the full lists and for what first appears there.

BiomesWeaponsArmorFood

MeadowsTier 1Abyssal RazorLeather HelmetCooked Serpent Meat

Black ForestTier 2Bronze AtgeirBronze HelmetCooked Serpent Meat

SwampTier 3BattleaxeIron GreavesCooked Serpent Meat

MountainTier 4Crystal BattleaxeDrake HelmetCooked Serpent Meat

PlainsTier 5Crystal BattleaxeDrake HelmetCooked Serpent Meat

MistlandsTier 6Staff of EmbersCarapace BreastplateCooked Hare Meat

AshlandsTier 7Staff of EmbersCarapace BreastplateCooked Bonemaw Meat

Deep NorthTier 8Staff of EmbersHood of the VanguardLingonberry Juice

Calculators and checklists on the same data: rank every weapon against one target, plan three foods, tick off trophies, and see exactly what each boss kill changes in the world.

• Weapon vs CreaturePick a target and see every weapon ranked by the damage it really deals.
• Meal PlannerPick three dishes and see the totals, plus when to eat again.
• After Each BossKilling a boss changes the world. Here is exactly what starts appearing.
• Raids and EventsWhich boss kill unlocks each raid, what it sends and when it stops.
• SkillsEvery skill and what raises it
• Set BonusesSet bonuses for sneaking, bows, melee and farming
• Status EffectsBuffs, debuffs and Forsaken powers
• MeadsMeads, potions and fermenting times
• Taming & BreedingWhat each creature eats, how long taming takes, and how breeding works.
• Farming PlannerWhat each seed becomes, how long it takes and what you get back.
• FishingEvery fish, the bait that catches it and what else that bait pulls up.
• Trophy ChecklistAll trophies, their source and drop chance. Tick them off as you collect.
• AchievementsAll 53 achievements with the exact conditions behind them, plus a checklist.
• Dungeons and CampsHow each dungeon and camp is generated, how big it gets and how many per world.
• LocationsWhere every point of interest can generate, and how far out.
• LoreEvery runestone, collected and readable in one place

Longer reads for the questions a table cannot answer on its own: the boss order, what to build first, and what to bring.

• Valheim Food Guide: Three Slots, 97 Dishes, One BuildFood is the entire stat line in Valheim. The real ceilings, why only 18 dishes carry eitr, and why the raw data lists food you can never eat.
• Valheim Base Building Guide: Support, Materials and DecayThe two numbers behind every collapse, read from the game’s own files: what each material carries, how fast it loses it, and why stone can never span.
• Valheim Deep North Survival Guide: Cold, Gold and KallThe last biome, added in Valheim 1.0. What lives there, the two-stage foundry that makes its gear, and the 47,000-health fight at the end of it.
• Valheim Ashlands Survival Guide: The Landing and AfterThe Ashlands kill your ship before they kill you. How to land, what to build first, and how to fight Charred Warriors, Morgen and Asksvin on ground that is always burning.