While you’ll be able to clear most of the trees surrounding your first settlement from more or less the beginning of the game, Birch trees require a special tool you won’t have access to until later.

Early in the game, Core Wood is the most feasible material available to create structurally sound buildings. Sharp stakes can also be created with Core Wood to deter enemies near a player's campsite.

Valheim received an "overwhelmingly positive" review on Steam within a week of the game's release. The game presents players with a sandbox-survival experience with multiple mechanics and elements to ...

Dark Wood is one of the new materials in Valheim's Hearth and Home update that was recently released. Though it's called wood, that doesn't mean Dark Wood can be chopped down and harvested in the same ...

Valheim’s world is big, and lugging your resources from place to place can get exhausting — even with boats like karves and longships. Luckily, Valheim allows you to build portals and link two ...

Exploration lies at the heart of Valheim, the survival RPG that tasks you with cleaning up Viking purgatory for the glory of Odin. The world of Valheim is a sprawling archipelago composed of many ...

This page is part of IGN's Valheim Wiki guide and details everything you need to know about the Wood Arrow including its stats and the resources needed in order to craft the recipe. Listed below is ...

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