Creatures

A Greyling, an aggressive creature found in Meadows.

Creatures are non-player characters which are found throughout Valheim. They can be split to four categories:

• Passive creatures provide resources when killed (or harvested). They will never attack players.
• Aggressive creatures will attack players when alerted. They also drop loot when killed.
• Bosses are powerful aggressive creatures that must be summoned. Killing them unlocks Forsaken powers, increases world difficulty and provides loot to progress in the game.
• NPCs are friendly creatures/characters that can't be killed and may provide some service or help to the player.

Passive Creatures

Passive creatures do not attack the player or other creatures.

Picture	Name	Primary Spawn	Base HP	Notes
	Crow	Black Forest	1	Flies away when approached
	Deer	Meadows, Black Forests	10	Flees when approached
	Fish	Oceans	0	Can be picked up when above water
	Gull	Meadows, Black Forests, Plains	1	Flies away when approached
	Leviathan	Oceans	0	40 HP per Abyssal barnacle

Aggressive Creatures

Aggressive creatures can have stars representing their level. One-star creatures have double the health and deal 150% damage, while two-stars have triple the health and deal double damage.

Behavior

• Creatures will give up chasing after unable to attack for 60 seconds or unable to detect the target for 30 seconds.
• Some creatures have a max chase range. After chasing that far they will give up if unable to detect the target for 1 seconds.
• After unable to attack for 15 seconds, creatures will focus structures for 15 seconds if they can't reach the target.
• Creatures only attack walls and doors if they aren't able to reach the target player.
• Some creatures are afraid of fire and will flee from it.
• Some creatures try to avoid fire and will be passive near it.
• Some creatures circulate around the target while waiting to attack.
• Swimming creatures try to flee towards water if forced on ground.
• Creatures passively regenerate 1.67% of their max health every minute (100% over 60 minutes).
• Creatures gain +30% more effective health per each additional player in the area. E.g. 3 players = +60% effective health.
• Creatures gain +4% more damage per each additional player in the area. E.g. 3 players = +8% damage.

Picture	Name	Primary Spawn	Base HP	Base Damage	Notes	Weakness	Resistance	Immune
	Boar	Meadows	10	10 Blunt	Afraid of fire			Spirit
	Neck	Meadows	5	6 Slash	Afraid of fire	Fire	Poison	Spirit
	Greyling	Meadows	20	5 Slash	Avoids fire	Fire	Poison	Spirit
	Greydwarf	Black Forests	40	14 Slash, 10 Blunt	Avoids fire	Fire	Poison	Spirit
	Greydwarf brute	Black Forests	150	30 Slash		Fire	Poison	Spirit
	Greydwarf shaman	Black Forests	60	14 Slash, 30 Poison	Heals allies for 20 hp over 4 seconds	Fire	Poison	Spirit
	Troll	Black Forests	600	60, 70, 50 Blunt	Can destroy all trees, stone, and ores	Pierce	Blunt	Spirit
	Ghost	Burial Chambers	60	25 Slash	No drops	Spirit	Blunt, Pierce, Slash	Poison
	Skeleton	Black Forests	40	25 Slash, 20 Pierce	Spawns with a melee or ranged weapon	Blunt, Fire	Pierce, Poison	Poison
	Rancid remains	Burial Chambers	100	20 Blunt + 30 Poison		Blunt, Fire	Pierce, Poison	Poison
	Root	The Elder	20	55 Blunt		Fire	Frost	Poison, Stagger
	Abomination	Swamps	800	60, 80, 80 Blunt	Can destroy all trees, stone, and ores	Fire	Blunt, Pierce	Frost, Poison, Spirit
	Blob	Swamps	50	90 Poison	Able to jump	Blunt, Frost, Lightning	Pierce	Poison, Stagger
	Oozer	Swamps	150	115 Poison	Able to jump, splits into 2 Blobs when killed	Blunt, Frost, Lightning	Fire, Pierce, Slash	Poison, Stagger
	Draugr	Meadows, Swamps	100	48 Slash, 48 Pierce	Spawns with a melee or ranged weapon		Fire	Poison
	Draugr elite	Swamps	200	58 Slash			Fire	Poison
	Leech	Swamps	60	20 Pierce + 70 Poison	Swims		Poison	Fire, Spirit, Stagger
	Surtling	Ashlands, Swamps	20	10 Poison + 40 Fire		Frost		Fire, Spirit
	Wraith	Swamps	100	60 Slash	Flies, only spawns at night or inside abandoned houses	Fire, Spirit	Blunt, Pierce, Slash	Frost, Poison
	Wolf	Mountains	80	70 Slash	Moves fast, spawns with stars only at night			Spirit
	Drake	Mountains	100	90 Frost	Shoots 3 ice spears	Fire		Frost, Spirit, Stagger
	Fenring	Mountains	300	85, 95 Slash	Only spawns at night	Fire
	Stone Golem	Mountains	800	110 Blunt, 110 Pierce	Can destroy trees and stone	Pickaxe	Pierce, Slash	Fire, Frost, Poison, Spirit
	Bat	Mountains	10	20 Slash	Flies, moves very fast	Fire, Spirit	Blunt, Slash, Pierce	Frost, Poison
	Ulv	Mountains	50	70 Slash	Only spawns inside Frost Caves	Poison	Fire
	Cultist	Mountains	200	50 Fire, 75 Slash	Only spawns inside Frost Caves	Poison	Fire
	Deathsquito	Plains	20	90 Pierce	Flies, moves very fast			Spirit, Stagger
	Lox	Plains	1000	130 Slash, 120 Blunt	Can destroy trees and stone	Fire	Blunt, Frost, Slash	Spirit
	Fuling	Plains	175	85 Blunt / Pierce / Slash, 45 Blunt + 45 Fire	Spawns with a melee or ranged weapon			Spirit
	Fuling Berserker	Plains	800	130 Blunt	Can destroy trees and stone			Spirit
	Fuling shaman	Plains	100	100 Blunt, 20 Blunt + 100 Fire	Can cast a protective shield over allies in an area.			Spirit
	Growth	Plains	100	45 Blunt + 50 Poison	Slows down player with Tarred.	Blunt, Fire	Frost, Pierce, Slash	Poison, Stagger
	Serpent	Oceans	400	70 Slash	Swims, only spawns at night or bad weather	Frost	Poison	Fire, Spirit, Stagger

Bosses

Also known as the Forsaken, bosses can be summoned by offering specific items (hinted by the Runestones) at their specific spawn site. They have increased HP and special attacks.

A boss site is automatically marked on the player's map by reading the runestone in the specific biomes. There are multiple spawn locations for every boss.

Killing any given boss will reward the ability to use Forsaken powers.

Picture	Name	Summoning	Items to Summon	Base HP	Base Damage	Forsaken Power	Weakness	Resistance	Immunity
	Eikthyr	3 locations in Meadows	2 Deer trophies	500	20 Pierce, 15 Lightning	Your ability to run and jump is improved. (-60%)			Stagger
	The Elder	4 locations in Black Forest	3 Ancient seeds	2500	35 Pierce, 60 Blunt	Faster wood cutting (+60%).	Fire		Poison, Spirit, Stagger
	Bonemass	5 locations in Swamp	10 Withered bones	5000	80 Blunt + 50 Poison, 130 Poison	Resistance VS physical damage. (Blunt, Slash and Pierce)	Blunt, Frost	Fire, Pierce, Slash	Poison, Stagger
	Moder	3 locations Mountain	3 Dragon eggs	7500	30 Pierce + 200 Frost, 110 Slash, 200 Frost	Always tailwind when sailing.	Fire		Frost, Spirit, Stagger
	Yagluth	4 locations Plains	5 Fuling totems	10000	65 Fire + 65 Lightning, 100 Fire, 40 Fire + 20 Lightning, 40 Blunt + 120 Fire	Resistance VS magic damage and lightning damage. (Fire, Frost and Lightning)		Fire, Pierce	Poison, Stagger

NPCs

NPCs are friendly character that do not take or deal damage.

	Name	Location
	Valkyrie	Appears when entering a world as a new character.
	Hugin	Anywhere within Valheim. Spawns close to players.
	Haldor	Select locations within Black Forests.
	Halstein	Select locations beside Haldor within Black Forests.
	Odin	Anywhere within Valheim. Spawns at a distance from players.