Valheim Tips
Want to become a better Valheim player? Look no further than this guide! Learn all the tips and tricks you need to hit the ground running and get the most out of the game.
#1 – Craft a Hammer.
#2 – Open your Valheim compendium. You will see all your Hugins and you can also access your skills.
#3 – You can scroll in and out of your map, and double click to set a waypoint.
#4 – You can type in a name on the icon, so feel free to add titles to them.
#5 – Use the middle mouse wheel to scroll in and out.
#6 – Press the Control key to remove the heads-up display (HUD).
#7 – When walking around, you can select your hammer and open up a menu and set yourself up a campfire.
#8 – If you go near your campfire and click to rest, you do not need a bed to rest up. You may need a shelter if it’s raining.
#9 – Press 3 and 5 hotkeys to equip your shield and armour quickly. When walking around, press “R” so you can run around a little faster. If you encounter an enemy, press “R” again to quickly equip your spear.
#10 – You can swim, so be careful with your stamina as it will drain and can kill you.
#11 – You can punch trees before you have an axe to get wood. They must be the smaller trees.
#12 – Once you have an axe, you’ll be able to left-click on trees to collect wood. Be careful. Trees can fall down on you.
#13 – When you see deer, you’ll want to hit Control to sneak up on them. You can get pretty close before you attack them.
#14 – Once you get two deer trophies, you will spawn in the first big boss. Note: Deer and boars continue to respawn, so kill as many as you want.
#15 – You can make a hoe, and while holding it, you can right-click on the ground and you get a few options. Path, raise ground, and level ground.
#16 – Level ground so you can make a floor on it.
#17 – Your bed needs to be undercover and also near a fireplace. In order to do this, place the fire on the dirt outside of the house as it can’t be made on the floor.
#18 – Make sure your cabin has proper venting for your fire or it will fill with smoke and you will die.
#19 – While holding your hammer, you will be able to see a variety of things that you can craft. You can left-click on items to repair items that have been left outside.
#20 – When you have collected 50 wood, you can right-click and select “wood stack”. Stack and store your wood without putting them in chests.
#21 – Hold down Shift to transfer more than one item or a specific amount.
#22 – Once you have a bow, there are a variety arrows you can use. To select a specific arrow, right-click and it will turn blue. This is the arrow you’ll be shooting.
#23 – Chests are a great way to store items. To stack chests, simply put a 1×1 wood floor piece on top of a chest, and then you can stack them.
#24 – To cook food, you will need to create a cooking station near a fire pit. Note: you can overcook/burn your food, turning it into coal.
#25 – The spear can be used as a melee weapon as well as a thrown weapon. Throwing spears is an effective method of attack.
#26 – The Stag breaker hammer is a very powerful weapon you can make early in the game. It also can be used to hit the structures to create wood.
#27 – Once you have a pickaxe, you can easily find buried treasure or bones. Look for a stone arrangement to find treasure.
#28 – A cart allows you store a lot more in it.
#29 – Once you have a charcoal kiln and a smelter, you may want to put things in them before you go to sleep.
#30 – Make sure to wear as much good armour as possible, especially before exploring as things can be very dangerous, particularly the black forest.
Black Forest
#31 – Carrot seeds: use these to farm food for yourself or to feed boars.
#32 – Pine trees are worth cutitng down as pinewood is useful and will unlock some new recipes.
#33 – Copper and Tin can also be found. When you see copper, use your pickaxe. Tin is generally found near water.
#34 – Burial Chambers: you will find a lot of mobs in the chambers, but you will also find lots of great stuff like rubies, gold, etc.
#35 – On the minimap, use the comma and period keys to zoom in and out.
#36 – Stamina is important when you are in battle. Running out of stamina when in battle means you will not be able to attack.
#37 – Once you have a forge, you can use it to make many things including a Cultivator. When you equip your cultivator, you can make grass, cultivate land, and plant things on cultivated land.
#38 – Collect some deer hide and then use your hammer on it to make a nice deer rug.
#39 – Having a bow and arrow when you are exploring is nice, but it is really useful against beehives. Shoot it with your arrows.
#40 – Now go get drops from the beehive. You can also get a queen bee (sometimes) which unlocks the recipe for a beehive.
#41 – Make a beehive and they can make honey for you (up to four per hive).
#42 – When you are using your workbench, you can click the style button to make some nice-looking gear.
#43 – Use the forge to repair things you made with the forge.
#44 – Repairing does not cost anything, so repair your items as often as possible.
#45 – When you create a sign, the side with the three dots is the side you can place the text.
#46 – When near the sign, press “E” to edit the sign.
Credits
| Author | Curtis Pyke |
| YouTuber | Kysen |
| Program | Freedom! Scholarship |
| Publisher | MGN TV |
| Game | Valheim |