Creatures

A greyling, an aggressive creature found in the 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.

Image	Name	Primary Spawn	Base HP	Notes
	Crow	Black Forest	1	Flies away when approached
	Deer	Meadows, Black Forests	10	Flees when approached
	Fish	Oceans	n/a	Can be picked up when above water
	Gull	Meadows, Black Forests, Plains	1	Flies away when approached
	Leviathan	Oceans	n/a	40 HP per Abyssal barnacle
	Hare	Mistlands	10	Flees when approached
	Chicken	None	10	Only spawning by hatching Egg
	Hen	None	80	Replaces Chicken when it grows up

Aggressive creatures

Some 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 within 100 meters. E.g. 3 players = +60% effective health.
  • This is updated whenever the creature takes damage.
• Creatures gain +4% more damage per each additional player within 100 meters. E.g. 3 players = +8% damage.
  • This is updated whenever the creature deals damage.

Meadows

Image	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

Black Forest

Picture	Name	Primary Spawn	Base HP	Base Damage	Notes	Weakness	Resistance	Immune
	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
	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
	Ghost	Burial Chambers	60	25 Slash	No drops	Spirit	Blunt, Pierce, Slash	Poison
	Root	The Elder	20	55 Blunt		Fire	Frost	Poison, Stagger

Ocean

Image	Name	Primary Spawn	Base HP	Base Damage	Notes	Weakness	Resistance	Immune
	Serpent	Oceans	400	70 Slash	Swims, only spawns at night or bad weather	Frost	Poison	Fire, Spirit, Stagger

Swamp

Image	Name	Primary Spawn	Base HP	Base Damage	Notes	Weakness	Resistance	Immune
	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	Fire, Pierce, Slash	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	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	Takes 5 damage per tick while in water	Frost		Fire, Spirit
	Wraith	Swamps	100	60 Slash	Flies, only spawns at night or inside abandoned houses	Fire, Spirit	Blunt, Pierce, Slash	Frost, Poison

Mountain

Image	Name	Primary Spawn	Base HP	Base Damage	Notes	Weakness	Resistance	Immune
	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	Frost Caves	10	20 Slash	Flies, moves very fast	Fire, Spirit	Blunt, Slash, Pierce	Frost, Poison
	Ulv	Frost Caves	50	70 Slash	Only spawns inside Frost Caves	Poison	Fire
	Cultist	Frost Caves	200	50 Fire, 75 Slash	Only spawns inside Frost Caves	Poison	Fire

Plains

Image	Name	Primary Spawn	Base HP	Base Damage	Notes	Weakness	Resistance	Immune
	Deathsquito	Plains	10	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/Tar pits	100	45 Blunt + 50 Poison	Slows down player with Tarred.	Blunt, Fire	Frost, Pierce, Slash	Poison, Stagger

Mistlands

Image	Name	Primary Spawn	Base HP	Base Damage	Notes	Weakness	Resistance	Immune
	Seeker	Mistlands	200	90, 120 Pierce / 100 Blunt	Flies to close with player		Blunt, Pierce, Slash	Spirit
	Seeker Soldier	Mistlands	1500	100, 120 Blunt / 100 Slash	Weak point on abdomen		Blunt, Pierce, Slash	Spirit
	Seeker Brood	Mistlands	20	60 Pierce			Blunt, Pierce, Slash	Spirit
	Gjall	Mistlands	1500	50 Blunt + 80 Fire, 20 Blunt	Flies, spawns Ticks, Weak point on underside		Fire	Spirit
	Tick	Mistlands	50	50 Pierce	Attaches to player to attack repeatedly	Pierce		Spirit
	Dvergr rogue	Mistlands	350	110 Pierce / 70 Blunt	Neutral until provoked			Spirit
	Dvergr mage	Mistlands	350	70 Blunt / 100, 130 Fire / 150, 200 Frost	Neutral until provoked, three variants (fire, frost, support) with different attacks, support mages buff their allies		Fire, Frost	Spirit

Minibosses

Minibosses are unique, named, aggressive creatures that you can find in specific dungeons, thanks to Hildir.

Killing any given miniboss will reward with one of Hildir's chests.

Image	Name	Primary Spawn	Base HP	Base Damage	Weakness	Resistance	Immune
	Brenna	Smouldering tombs	1200	15, 50 Fire	Blunt / Frost	Pierce	Fire / Poison
	Geirrhafa	Howling caverns	3700	90 Slash / 43, 45 Frost	Fire		Frost
	Zil & Thungr	Sealed tower	Thungr: 4200 Zil: 2100 (Roughly)	Thungr: 120, 130, 150 Blunt Zil: 100 Blunt 20 Fire

Bosses

Bosses, also known as the Forsaken, 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.

Image	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 in Mountain	3 Dragon eggs	7500	30 Pierce + 200 Frost, 110 Slash, 200 Frost	Always tailwind when sailing.	Fire		Frost, Spirit, Stagger
	Yagluth	4 locations in 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
	The Queen	5 locations in Mistlands	Sealbreaker or 3 Seeker soldier trophies	12500	100, 130 Slash / 140 Pierce + 100 Poison / 150 Pierce / 40 Blunt + 40 Poison	Increase mining speed and Eitr regeneration by 100%.		Pierce	Spirit

NPCs

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

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