Damage

Damage in Valheim affects much of the core gameplay mechanics. Almost every entity, object, or structure utilizes this system in some way.

Damage Types

• Physical
  • Blunt
  • Pierce
  • Slash
• Elemental
  • Fire
  • Poison
  • Spirit
  • Lightning
• Terrain
  • Chop (Woodcutting)
  • Pickaxe (Mining)
• Pure

Resistances and Weaknesses (Tenacity)

Each Damage types is distinguished between levels of Resistances and Weaknesses for anything that takes damage. In combat, different creatures have different resistances and weaknesses so using the right weapon can make a big difference. Players can also acquire resistances and weaknesses against some damage types. See Resistance page for more information about the mechanics.

Below is a table for disambiguation. The Tenacity Tiers can be used as short hand to refer to these, if consistent wording or spacing is preferred. At the bottom of this page is a chart of creature Weaknesses,Resistances and Immunities.

Resist / Weak Tiers	Damage %	Damage x	Tenacity Tier
Very Weak	200%	$\times 2$	Tenacity 0
Weak	150%	$\times 1^{\tfrac {1}{2}}$	Tenacity 1
Neutral	100%	$\times 1$	Tenacity 2
Resistant	50%	$\times {\frac {1}{2}}$	Tenacity 3
Very Resistant	25%	$\times {\frac {1}{4}}$	Tenacity 4
Immune	0%	$\times 0$	Immune

Details on Damage Types

Physical

Physical damage can be blocked and is reduced by armor. Physical damage also causes staggering.

Blunt

Weak		Blob	Oozer	Skeleton	Rancid remains	Growth	Bonemass
Resistant	Player: Bonemass Power	Ghost	Troll	Abomination	Bat	Lox	Wraith

Damage Sources

• From Player: Clubs, Fists, Ooze bomb
• From Creatures: Abomination, Boar, Bonemass, Fuling (Club), Fuling (Torch), Fuling Berserker, Fuling shaman, Greydwarf, Growth, Lox, Root, Surtling, Stone Golem, The Elder, Troll, Yagluth

Pierce

Weak		Troll
Resistant	Player: Bonemass Power Root harnesk Serpent scale shield	Bat	Blob	Ghost	Growth	Oozer	Rancid remains	Skeleton	Stone Golem	Wraith
Very Resistant		Abomination	Bonemass	Yagluth

Damage Sources

• From Player: Arrows, Bows, Knives, Pickaxes, Polearms, Spears, Flesh rippers, Porcupine, Stagbreaker
• From Creatures: Deathsquito, Draugr (Bow), Eikthyr, Fuling (Spear), Leech, Moder, Skeleton (Bow), Stone Golem (Spike), The Elder

Slash

Resistant	Player: Bonemass Power	Bat	Blob	Ghost	Growth	Lox	Oozer	Stone Golem	Wraith	Bonemass

Damage Sources

• From Player: Axes, Swords, Knives
• From Creatures: Cultist, Bat, Draugr (Axe), Draugr elite, Fenring, Fuling (Sword), Greyling, Greydwarf, Greydwarf brute, Greydwarf shaman, Ghost, Lox, Moder, Neck, Serpent, Skeleton (Sword), Ulv, Wolf, Wraith

Elemental

Fire

Fire damage applies a Burning debuff instead of causing instant damage. The debuff lasts 5 seconds and ticks every second. Fire damage stacks by adding the new damage to the remaining debuff damage, and then recalculating the tick damage.

Fire damage from physical attacks can be blocked. Fire damage is also reduced by armor. Fire damage that gets reduced to less than 1 won't cause Burning.

	Player	Meadows	Black Forest	Swamp	Plains	Mountains	Bosses	Other
Very Weak	Tarred	Greyling	Greydwarf Greydwarf brute Greydwarf shaman				The Elder
Weak	Root Set	Neck	Skeleton Rancid remains	Abomination Wraith	Fenring Growth Lox	Bat Drake	Root Moder
Resistant	Fenris Set Effect Barley Wine Yagluth Power Freezing & Wet			Blob Blob Draugr elite Oozer
Very Resistant				Surtling		Ulv	Bonemass
Immune				Leech		Cultist Stone Golem		Serpent

Damage Sources

• From Buildings: Bonfire, Campfire, Hearth
• From Player: Fire Arrow, Torch
• From Creatures: Cultist, Fuling (Torch), Fuling shaman, Surtling, Yagluth

Poison ^{(2 Weak 8 Resistant 17 Immune)}

Poison damage applies a Poison debuff instead of causing instant damage. The debuff duration depends on the damage and ticks every second.

Poison damage doesn't stack. The previous debuff is replaced if its remaining damage is less than the new damage.

Poison damage from physical attacks can be blocked. Poison damage is also reduced by armor.

• From player: Draugr Fang, Ooze bomb, Poison arrow
• From enemies: Blob, Bonemass, Greydwarf shaman, Growth, Leech, Oozer
• Weak (1.5x): Cultist, Ulv
• Resistant (0.5x): Fenring, Greydwarf, Greydwarf brute, Greydwarf shaman, Greyling, Leech, Neck, Serpent
• Immune: Abomination, Bat, Blob, Bonemass, Draugr, Draugr elite, Ghost, Growth, Oozer, Rancid remains, Root, Skeleton, Stone Golem, Surtling, The Elder, Yagluth, Wraith
• Player sources of Resistant (0.5x): Root mask
• Player Sources of Very resistant (0.25x): Poison resistance mead

Spirit ^{(3 weak 11 Neutral)}

Spirit damage applies a Spirit debuff instead of causing instant damage. The debuff lasts 3 seconds and ticks every 0.5 seconds.

Spirit damage stacks by adding the new damage to the remaining debuff damage, and then recalculating the tick damage.

Sources

• From player: Frostner, Crystal battleaxe, Silver arrow, Silver knife, Silver sword
• Weak (1.5x): Bat, Ghost, Wraith
• Neutral (1x): Blob, Bonemass, Draugr, Draugr elite, Fenring, Growth, Oozer, Rancid remains, Root, Skeleton, Yagluth
• Immune: Players and all other creatures

Frost ^{(5 Weak 5 Resistant 6 Immune)}

Frost damage causes instant damage which can be blocked and is reduced by armor.

Frost damage also applies the Frost Effect debuff, reducing movement and turn speed.

• From player: Frostner, Frost arrow
• From enemies: Drake, Moder
• Weak (1.5x): creatures with Wet , Blob, Bonemass, Oozer, Serpent, Surtling
• Resistant (0.5x): Growth, Lox, Rancid remains, Root, Skeleton
• Immune: Abomination, Bat, Drake, Moder, Stone Golem, Wraith
• Player sources of Weak(1.5x); Players with Wet
• Player sources of Resistant(0.5x); Fenris coat, Frost resistance mead, Lox cape, Wolf armor chest, Wolf fur cape, Yagluth Power

Lightning ^{(2 Weak)}

Lightning damage causes direct damage which can be blocked and is reduced by armor.

Lightning damage also causes staggering and a lingering visual effect, but it doesn't deal any damage over time.

• Player: Obliterator
• Bosses: Eikthyr, Yagluth

• Weak (1.5x): creatures with Wet, Blob, Oozer
• Player sources of Weak(1.5x);Players with Wet
• Player sources of Resistant(0.5x); Players with Yagluth Power

Terrain Damage

Terrain damage includes Chop and Pickaxe damage. Terrain damage is caused by bosses and bigger enemies. Players and most creatures are immune to terrain damage. Additionally terrain damage ignores armor.

Some trees and ore deposits require a minimum tool tier for them to take damage.

Chop

Chop damage is used effectively against Trees and Wood Structures. Players and all creatures are Immune to this damage type. Listed below are all the sources of Chop Damage, and their Tiers.

Tiers

	Player Sources	Creatures	Bosses
Tier 0	Stone Axe	Draugr (Axe) Lox Stone Golem	Eikthyr The Elder (Root) Bonemass
Tier 1	Flint Axe
Tier 2	Bronze Axe	Abomination Fuling Berserker Troll (Melee)	Yagluth (Nova)
Tier 3	Iron Axe Battleaxe		Moder (Melee)
Tier 4	Blackmetal Axe

Ancient Trees, Birch, and Oak require a tool tier of 2. All other trees don't have a requirement.

Pickaxe

Pickaxe damage is used effectively against Rocks, Stone Deposits, Ore Deposits, and Stone Structures. Players and all creatures, with the exception of the Stone Golem, are immune to this damage type. Sources and tiers are listed in the table below.

• Very Weak: Stone Golem

Tiers

	Player Tools	Creatures	Bosses
Tier 0	Antler pickaxe	Lox, Stone Golem	Eikthyr The Elder (Root) Bonemass
Tier 1	Bronze pickaxe
Tier 2	Iron pickaxe	Abomination Fuling Berserker Troll (Melee)	Yagluth (Nova)
Tier 3			Moder (Melee)

Obsidian deposits and Silver Deposits require a tool tier of 2. All other deposits don't have a requirement.

Pure

Pure damage ignores all defenses and can't be mitigated in any way.

Tick damage

Caused by Burning, Poison and Spirit effects. The value of the tick damage is calculated when the source is applied.

• Against players, once a DoT effect is received, it is too late to mitigate it by drinking a resistance mead.
• Against enemies, tick damage will always show as white, even if they are weak or resistant to the damage.

Per Second

• Drowning: 5% of max health per second (rounded up).
• Smoke: 2 damage per second.
• Water: Vulnerable creatures (Surtlings) take 10 damage per second while standing in water.

Fall Damage

Falling further than 4 meters, you take 6.25 Pure damage per meter; capped at 100 damage. For example; bearing in mind a wall is 2 meters high:

• Falling from a height on top of 2 walls deals no damage. After that each wall-height causes 12.5 damage.
• With a player's starting health of 25, falling from the top of 4 wall-heights (8 meters) can be fatal.
  • The actual damage taken varies on the exact height fallen, i.e; falling exactly 7.9 meters would deal 24 points of damage, and not be fatal.

Other

• Bonfire, Campfire, Hearth: 10 self-damage when dealing damage.
• Falling out of the map: 99999 damage.

Creature Resistance Matrix

This table shows the damage multiplier for each damage type for each creature. This is from the perspective of the player, i.e. Lightning is not listed because the player cannot attack with it.

The default ordering of creatures is roughly in the intended biome progression and can be resorted back to this using the first column.

	Creature	Blunt	Pierce	Slash	Frost	Fire DoT	Poison DoT	Spirit DoT	Pickaxe
1	Neck	1	1	1	1	1.5	0.5	0
2	Boar	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
3	Deer	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
4	Greyling	1	1	1	1	2	0.5	0
5	Eikthyr	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
6	Greydwarf	1	1	1	1	2	0.5	0
7	Greydwarf brute	1	1	1	1	2	0.5	0
8	Greydwarf shaman	1	1	1	1	2	0.5	0
9	Skeleton	1.5	0.5	1	0.5	1.5	0	1
10	Rancid remains	1.5	0.5	1	0.5	1.5	0	1
11	Ghost	0.5	0.5	0.5	1	1	0	1.5
12	Troll	0.5	1.5	1	1	1	1	0
13	The Elder	1	1	1	1	2	0	0
14	Root	1	1	1	0.5	1.5	0	1
15	Serpent	1	1	1	1.5	0	0.5	0
16	Abomination	0.5	0.25	1	0	1.5	0	0
17	Blob	1.5	0.5	0.5	1.5	0.5	0	1
18	Oozer	1.5	0.5	0.5	1.5	0.5	0	1
19	Draugr	1	1	1	1	0.5	0	1
20	Draugr elite	1	1	1	1	0.5	0	1
21	Leech	1	1	1	1	0	0.5	0
22	Surtling	1	1	1	1.5	0	0	0
23	Wraith	0.5	0.5	0.5	0	1.5	0	1.5
24	Bonemass	1.5	0.25	0.5	1.5	0.25	0	1
25	Wolf	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
26	Fenring	1	1	1	1	1.5	1	1
27	Drake	1	1	1	0	1.5	1	0
28	Stone Golem	1	0.5	0.5	0	0	0	0	2
29	Bat	0.5	0.5	0.5	0	1.5	0	1.5
30	Ulv	1	1	1	1	0.25	1.5	1
31	Cultist	1	1	1	1	0	1.5	1
32	Moder	1	1	1	0	1.5	1	0
33	Deathsquito	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
34	Lox	0.5	1	0.5	0.5	1.5	1	0
35	Fuling	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
36	Fuling Berserker	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
37	Fuling shaman	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
38	Growth	1.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	1.5	0	1
39	Yagluth	1	0.25	1	1	0.5	0	1