Black Forest
- Bestiary
- 12
- Resources
- 16
- Author
- Dakota Chinnick
- Methodology
- Data Methodology
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. Black Forest is tier 2 of Valheim progression, home to 12 creatures and 16 gatherable resources. Defeat: The Elder. Everything below is read from the game files: what spawns here, what you can harvest, and the structures that generate in the biome.
Locations
| Location | Per world |
|---|---|
| Bear Cave | 50 |
| Big Rock Clearing | 10 |
| Crypt (variant 2) | 200 |
| Crypt (variant 3) | 200 |
| Crypt (variant 4) | 200 |
| Dolmen (variant 1) | 100 |
| Dolmen (variant 2) | 100 |
| Dolmen (variant 3) | 50 |
| Greydwarf Camp (variant 1) | 300 |
| Haldor the Trader | 10 |
| Hildir Crypt | 3 |
| Ruin (variant 1) | 200 |
| Ruin (variant 2) | 200 |
| Runestone Black Forest | 50 |
| Runestone Greydwarfs | 25 |
| Ship Wreck (variant 1) | 25 |
| Ship Wreck (variant 2) | 25 |
| Ship Wreck (variant 3) | 25 |
| Ship Wreck (variant 4) | 25 |
| Stone House (variant 3) | 200 |
| Stone House (variant 4) | 200 |
| Stone Tower Ruins (variant 3) | 80 |
| Stone Tower Ruins (variant 7) | 80 |
| Stone Tower Ruins (variant 8) | 80 |
| Stone Tower Ruins (variant 9) | 80 |
| Stone Tower Ruins (variant 10) | 80 |
| Stone Tower Ruins Sunk (variant 7) | 10 |
| Stone Tower Ruins Sunk (variant 8) | 10 |
| Stone Tower Ruins Sunk (variant 9) | 10 |
| Stone Tower Ruins Sunk (variant 10) | 10 |
| The Elder’s Altar | 4 |
| Troll Cave (variant 2) | 200 |
The Black Forest is tier 2 in Valheim, home to 12 creatures and 16 distinct resources. Defeat: The Elder.
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Black Forest FAQ
What creatures live in the Black Forest in Valheim?
12 creatures spawn here. Each has its own resistances, so what you bring matters as much as your gear tier.
What resources are in the Black Forest in Valheim?
16 distinct resources generate here. Worlds are seed-generated, so the biome and altitude are fixed but the exact positions are not.
What do you need before entering the Black Forest?
The gear tier from the biome before it, fully upgraded rather than freshly crafted, and the resistance the biome tests. A fully upgraded set of the current tier beats the first unupgraded piece of the next one, every time.
What can you gather in the Black Forest?
16 distinct resources spawn here. They are what the next crafting tier is built from, which is why a biome is usually visited for materials long before its boss is attempted.
How many creatures live in the Black Forest?
12 of them, counted from the spawn rules that are not gated behind a boss kill. That distinction matters: several late-game creatures start appearing in early biomes once the world changes, and those are not natives.