For new players of Valheim, this is a complete guide on Valheim. You can find useful information about Valheim and how it works. We'll see.
Basic guide to Valheim
Crafting system and how to unlock recipes
- Basic elaboration of your TAB menu.
- Elaboration from a workbench or a forge.
- Placement of structures using the hammer.
- Processed items of smelting furnace, coal furnace, cooking station.
How to unlock new recipes:
To unlock different recipes or structures you have to get at least one of the elements necessary to make the craft. For example, if you want to get the recipe to make a flint ax, you must first find flint and wood.
Navigation basics
- Raft: Small slow basic boat.
- Karve: Bigger and faster than the raft. You can unlock it
- Longship: I have no information yet.
The raft (raft) is the pot that you will use until you unlock the Karve.
Use W to increase speed and S to decrease speed on the helm gauge.
Use A or D to turn the rudder left or right.
There are two indicators in our user interface to help us navigate.
1. Rudder indicator:
- Shows the direction of the rudder. It can rotate 90º to the left or right.
- Show your speedometer.
2. Wind indicator:
- It shows the wind direction and if the wind is moving your boat. If the wind icon is white and hits 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 boat will not be able to move using the sail.
- Show your speedometer.
Speedometer information:
1. Small arrows on the wheel icon:
- One Up Arrow: Forward Rowing Speed.
- Two up arrows: low candle speed.
- Three up arrows: Maximum sail speed.
- One Down Arrow: Backward Rowing Speed.
2. Icon on the wind circle:
- Rowing: Rowing speed.
- Sail up: Low sail speed.
- Sail lowered: Maximum sail speed.
If you you fall from your boat you can go up again looking for the ladder at the backsera of the raft or left side of the Karve .
Bosses
The temple of the wise:
yagluth
Information coming soon.
There are more bosses in the game, but I haven't fought or found them yet. I will update this section when I find more information.
Surtling heart and how to get them.
The heart of Surtling is very important early in the game as it allows you to craft the Smelting Furnace and the Coal Furnace which allows you to melt minerals and craft copper, iron and other better weapons and tools.
You need 10 Hearts of Hearts. 5 to manufacture the smelting furnace and 5 to manufacture the coal furnace. I recommend making the cast oven first, as you can get some charcoal from the cooking station by burning your food.
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- Random Chest: It has a very low drop since todI still didn't find any in a chest.
- Inside the dungeons. Around 0-9 in a single dungeon. There are some dungeons that are empty and there are large dungeons with many of these.
- Supply: Kill these fire monsters to make them drop it.
If you break one of these buildings, you will get 5 Surtling hearts back, so don't worry.
Crypt Key
You can use 1x Crypt Key to unlock one of these temples.
How to add markers on the map
To select a marker you have to click with the left mouse button on it, you can find the markers in the lower right corner of the map.
For place a new marker double left click on the map , type the name of the bookmark and hit enter. In order to delete a bookmark, right click on it .
Biomes
- Start zone.
- Full of trees, stone, deer ...
- It's not very dangerous.
- Second area that you will explore.
- Full of pine trees, stones, mushrooms, dwarfs and trolls.
- More dangerous than Plains. Be careful with the trolls.
- You can find copper and tin here.
- Permanent blizzards freeze you (damage over time debuff).
- You need to be near a fire or wear warm clothing.
- Full of wolves. They are very dangerous, so be prepared.
- You can find little dragons, werewolves and an ice giant.
- You can find dragon eggs in this biome.
- You can find iron, obsidian, and silver here.
- Full of slimes, skeletons, draugrs, and dangerous creatures.
- More dangerous than the Black Forest.
- You can be poisoned.
- You can find iron here.
- There is not much information about it.
- If you sail far from the coast, you will enter it.
plains
- You can find the Fulings villages and the Fulings themselves here.
- Little doll in this area, be careful.
- You can get Black Metal Scraps from Fulings.
Misty land
- Here you can find giant trees and large skulls.
- Spiderwebs.
Information coming soon.
Information coming soon.
Merchant
You can buy and sell some items from this merchant.
Harvest
With this tool you can open a new menu where you can choose different options:
- Cultivate: Prepare the soil to be able to plant seeds.
- Herb: put grass on the ground.
- Carrot: Plant carrots. You need 1 carrot seed.
- Carrot seed: Plant carrot seeds. You need 1 carrot.
- Plant trees: you can plant 3 different types of trees. You need the right tree seed.
Cooking and potions
There are three main crafting elements that you can use to cook and make potions:
Cooking station:
- You need a fire underneath.
- You can place two in the same campfire.
- You can cook two pieces of meat, fish, and tail at each cooking station.
- You can create it with wood x2
Cauldron:
- You need a fire underneath.
- You can place a cauldron on a campfire.
- You can cook: Carrot soup, Queen's jam, sausage and malt to make potions.
- You need an empty space on top.
- You can use the malt obtained from the cauldron to obtain different potions:
- Cold resistance.
- Very healthy
- Healthy
- Poison resistance
- Bracing
- Very invigorating
- Tasty
- To use the fermenter, put the malt inside and wait until it ferments.
Fish
In order to fish you need a fishing rod and a fishing bait that you can buy at a merchant.
- Equip your fishing pole and have some bait in your inventory.
- Look for fish in the sea, lake or similar. Don't throw your hook into the sea at random.
- Left click with the fishing rod. The longer you hold the left click, the further the hook will go. You will spend a bait for each left click.
- Wait until a fish moves your hook, when the hook goes down press right click and keep it pressed until the fish is close enough to catch it by pressing E.
Tame
The following guide on how to tame animals is made by judaspriester . A special thanks to him:
Necessary material:
- Azada
- Wood (30 should be enough)
- Vegetables (berries, mushrooms, etc., preferably 20+)
Steps:
- Use the hoe to make a flat space for his pen.
- Build a pen with round post fences. It doesn't have to look fancy, but it shouldn't contain holes.
- Add a door to your pen to get in and out.
- Drop the vegetables into the pen.
- (The hard way) Find some boars and have them attack you (getting close enough usually bastar). Now run to your pen and make sure they follow you.
- Once they're inside, go outside and shut the door without them leaving.
- Wait, it'll take about an hour to tame them, but you can do other things in the meantime.
- Once they are tame, you can pet them to keep them happy. To keep feeding them, just drop the food on the ground.
Portals
Portals allow players to travel long distances instantly. You need two portals named with the same tag.
You need to have a Workbench in scope or the portal will not work.
- Tin ore
- Tin
- Copper ore
- Copper
- Bronze
- Silver ore
Crafting list
Reminder: Julius crafts that need a hammer also need a nearby workbench to set them up.
You can use CTRL + F to search for an item in this list.
Core items:
Ships:
Tools:
Weapons:
Armor:
Ressources
Console commands
To open the game console, press F5 and type “help” to display todthe available commands.
If you type "imacheater" in the console to enable / disable cheat mode and then "help", you will get another list of commands. Like teleport, freeview, godmode and more.
I highly recommend not using cheat commands so as not to ruin your in-game experience. These commands could be useful if you get stuck: use "pos" or "goto [x, z]" to teleport.