Survival in Valheim is a routine. Eat, shelter, scout, repeat. The creatures below are the ones the routine keeps bringing you back to.
Overview
Food and water come first, always. A full stomach lets you do everything else, and the creatures near water are usually the safest to learn.
How Creatures shape your runs
Build small and often. A quick roof beats a grand plan you never finish because the night arrived first.
Notable Creatures
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Greydwarf (Creatures): Greydwarfs are aggressive creatures found in Black Forests.
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Greydwarf Brute (Creatures): Greydwarf Brutes are aggressive creatures found in Black Forests.
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Draugr (Creatures): Draugr are aggressive creatures found in Swamps or in Draugr Villages, Sunken Crypts, and sometimes towers in the Mountain.
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Greydwarf Shaman (Creatures): Greydwarf Shamans are aggressive creatures found in Black Forests.
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Boar (Creatures): Boars are wild creatures found throughout Valheim, known for their aggressive behavior when approached.
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Greyling (Creatures): Greylings are aggressive creatures found in Meadows.
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Blob (Creatures): Blobs are aggressive creatures found in the Swamps.
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Drake (Creatures): Drakes are aggressive creatures found in the Mountains.
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Fuling (Creatures): Fulings are aggressive creatures found in Plains, especially within Fuling Villages.
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Fuling Berserker (Creatures): Fuling Berserkers are aggressive creatures found in Plains guarding Fuling Villages and Stonehenges.
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Fuling Shaman (Creatures): Fuling shamans are aggressive creatures found in Plains occupying Fuling Villages.
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Ghost (Creatures): Ghosts are aggressive creatures found in Black Forests within Burial Chambers, and as part of “You feel a chill down your spine…” raid event.
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Deathsquito (Creatures): Deathsquitos are aggressive creatures found in Plains.
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Fenring (Creatures): Fenrings are aggressive creatures found in the Mountains during the night.
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Draugr Elite (Creatures): Draugr Elite are aggressive creatures found in the Swamps.
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Creature Level (Creatures): alt=|180x180px|A level 3 (⭐⭐) variant of a Greyling found in Meadows.
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Factions (Creatures): Factions determine which creatures are hostile to each other.
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Growth (Creatures): Growths are aggressive creatures found in Plains, specifically in Tar Pits.
Where to focus
Track the creatures you depend on. When a source runs dry, you should already know the next one, not discover it mid-crisis.
Weapons worth knowing
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Banded shield (Weapons): Banded with hoops of iron, a true warrior’s companion.
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Bronze axe (Weapons): A bright and burnished blade, curved like a smile.
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Abyssal razor (Weapons): A knife from the deep.
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Abyssal Harpoon (Weapons): The ocean’s wrath.
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Bronze pickaxe (Weapons): A good bronze pick.
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Bronze mace (Weapons): A headache on a stick.
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Bronze atgeir (Weapons): A true warrior’s tool.
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Bronze buckler (Weapons): A shield of burnished bronze, good to turn a blade or two.
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Bronze Spear (Weapons): A sturdy spear with a head of burnished bronze.
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Antler pickaxe (Weapons): This tool is hard enough to crack even the most stubborn rocks.
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Black metal atgeir (Weapons): A vicious hewing-axe of almost unbreakable black metal.
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Black metal axe (Weapons): A perfectly-balanced axe forged from dark metal with an emerald sheen.
Related guides
- Valheim hub — all guides for this game.
- Advanced Valheim tactics.
- Valheim base building guide.