Iron Gate
- Crafted at
- Forge
- Health
- 2,000
- Material
- Iron
- Methodology
- Data Methodology
- Author
- Dakota Chinnick
A very important gate. Iron Gate is a Stone Building piece in Valheim. It costs Iron ×4.
Iron ×4Durability and weathering
Iron Gate has 2,000 health as a structure. What wears it down: snow.
- Supports other pieces built on it.
- Immune to rain — no roof needed.
- Never loses health from poor support.
- Fireproof.
- Resists the Ashlands ash rain.
Iron Gate belongs to the Stone Building category and costs Iron ×4. Valheim never states the rules that decide whether a piece will place, so they are read from the game files here: the surface it needs, the water it cannot touch, and whether it must have something above it. Those are what turn a red ghost back to blue.
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How to build Iron Gate
What do you need to build Iron Gate in Valheim?
Iron ×4. Materials have to be inside the build radius of the station, not just in your inventory, which is the usual reason a piece stays greyed out with everything apparently to hand.
What station does Iron Gate need?
A Forge, and you have to be standing inside its build radius. Moving the station or adding another one is what extends where you can build, not upgrading it.
How much health does Iron Gate have?
2,000. That is structural health, separate from any durability an item has — it is what a raid, a fire or your own hammer has to chew through.
Where is Iron Gate in the build menu?
Under Stone Building, on Forge. Build pieces are unlocked by picking up their materials rather than by finding a plan, so if it is missing from your hammer the answer is always a resource you have not carried home yet.
Does Iron Gate hold up a structure in Valheim?
It does — this piece carries support, so anything attached to it inherits a share of what it has. That share shrinks with every connection and shrinks faster sideways than upwards, which is why a long horizontal run fails where the same number of pieces stacked vertically would not.