Rustic Drawbridge
- Crafted at
- Workbench
- Health
- 1,000
- Material
- Wood
- Methodology
- Data Methodology
- Author
- Dakota Chinnick
Convenient for crossing chasms, or for keeping enemies out. Rustic Drawbridge is a Wood Building piece in Valheim. It costs Silver ×2, Wolf Trophy ×2, Corewood ×10.
Silver ×2
Wolf Trophy ×2
Corewood ×10Durability and weathering
Rustic Drawbridge has 1,000 health as a structure. What wears it down: rain, fire, ash rain, snow.
- Supports other pieces built on it.
- Rots in the rain unless it is under a roof.
- Never loses health from poor support.
- Burns.
Rustic Drawbridge belongs to the Wood Building category and costs Silver ×2, Wolf Trophy ×2, Corewood ×10. 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 Rustic Drawbridge
What do you need to build Rustic Drawbridge in Valheim?
Silver ×2, Wolf Trophy ×2, Corewood ×10. 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 Rustic Drawbridge need?
A Workbench, 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 Rustic Drawbridge have?
1,000. 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.
Does Rustic Drawbridge decay or need a roof?
It is worn down by rain, fire, ash rain, snow. A piece under a roof and connected to the ground through supporting pieces keeps its full health; one left exposed loses health until it breaks.
Where is Rustic Drawbridge in the build menu?
Under Wood Building, on Workbench. 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 Rustic Drawbridge 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.