

Coal comes from the charcoal kiln you built to smelt your copper and tin ore (and other places, but this is the easiest and fastest method).Necks spawn near water in the meadows biome and always drop at least one neck tail.Thistle is a glowing blue twig in the black forest biome.If you haven’t yet, make a beehive or five. Use those to start a beehive (10 wood, 1 queen bee) at your base. When you destroy them, you might pick up a queen bee. You’ll find them in the wild in meadows biome abandoned structures. You’ll also want a bunch of poison resistance meads (mead base: poison resistance in a fermenter).

The blobs and leaches living in swamp biomes will poison you, and that will kill you shockingly quickly. These portals serve two purposes: easy access to your base and supplies, and a quick way back to the swamp when you inevitably die. Build your second portal somewhere close (it doesn’t have to be in the swamp, just close enough to make travel convenient), and head back to your camp. You’re welcome to poke around a little, but swamps are nasty in general and deadly if you’re not prepared. If you haven’t yet, it’s definitely time to build a karve (30 fine wood, 10 deer hide, 20 resin, 80 bronze nails). Most likely, you’ll be doing some sailing to find one. Swamp biomes tend to generate a good distance away from your starting location.
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The weather changes, they’re full of mud and poisonous things, and they show up brown on your map. Swamps are pretty obvious when you find them. Image: Iron Gate Studio/Coffee Stain Publishing via Polygon Link them together to make traveling to and from swamps a lot easier. Make sure you load up your inventory with enough greydwarf eye, fine wood, and surtling cores to build another portal when you get to the swamp. This guide is about making sure you You do have to find one first.īuild a portal (10 greydwarf eye, 20 fine wood, 2 surtling cores) at your favorite base camp and give it a name like “Swamp” (just something you’ll remember). Sometimes within seconds.Ī lot of what follows is about preparing you to survive walking into a swamp. If you’re not prepared with extra health and poison resistance - stuff we’ll talk about a lot in this guide - you’re going to die.

It’s time to find a swamp biome.īefore we go any farther, let us say this: Swamps are deadly. The clue for where to go next comes from the item that The Elder drops - the swamp key.
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In the swamps, we’ll talk about sunken crypts and collecting scrap iron, crafting some iron weapons, and finding Bonemass’ summoning altar. We’ll spend a lot of time preparing - both for the boss fight with Bonemass, but also just to survive exploring the swamps.Īlong the way, we’ll find and explore swamp biomes, brew poison resistance potions, expand farming to include both carrots and turnips, learn some new recipes at cauldrons, learn about comfort and the rested effect, upgrade your workbench and forge, and crafting the best armor for the Bonemass fight. You’ll do a lot more work on your base(s), make a ton of meals and potions, and start farming. You’ll get a new metal - iron - and make some new tools. This Valheim walkthrough begins after defeating The Elder and ends at the next boss, Bonemass.īetween The Elder and Bonemass, you’ll expand infrastructure and prepare for what’s coming later. In Valheim, after defeating The Elder, you’ll pick up the swamp key, and that will set you down the path to exploring the swamp biome and crafting iron tools, weapons, and armor.
