How To Get Hammer Valheim

How to craft Stagbreaker, the crawly two-handed war hammer in Valheim

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While you're running around in co-op Viking survival game Valheim (opens in new tab), you lot may find yourself mobbed by greylings and skeletons from time to fourth dimension. One at a fourth dimension they're not fearsome enemies, simply when you're in a burial chamber or nigh a greydwarf nest, you may go overwhelmed by their sheer numbers.

That'due south why it'southward adept to accept a weapon that does area of effect damage, like a big honkin' 2-handed state of war hammer covered in spiky deer antlers. One boom volition do damage to every enemy in the radius of the hammer, often knocking them back and staggering them, giving you a few moments to strike once again. Likewise: It's really fun striking things with a giant hammer. I recommend it.

The war hammer'due south proper noun is Stagbreaker, and here's how to craft yourself one. Yous'll never leave domicile without it.

How to craft Stagbreaker in Valheim

First, you lot'll need to visit the Black Forest. Exterior of your starting biome, The Meadows, information technology's probably the start new biome you'll encounter. Look for pine trees and fir trees, and cut them down with your axe.

Gather core woods from fir and pine trees

The fir and pino trees will give you a dissimilar type of forest than you've been collecting in The Meadows. Information technology's called core wood.

Just gathering your first pieces of cadre wood will give y'all the recipe for Stagbreaker:

20 cadre woods
5 deer trophies
2 leather scraps

Once y'all've got enough core wood from the Black Wood, the other ingredients are easy and can be collected in The Meadows. You lot've probably been killing deer and boars for meat and leather, and y'all'll know they sometimes also driblet trophies. Yous'll need 5 deer trophies and 2 leather scraps to complete the recipe.

Y'all'll besides demand an upgraded, level 2 crafting tabular array. As nosotros mention in our Valheim tips guide (opens in new tab), you tin can craft a chopping block using flint (opens in new tab) and identify it near your workbench, which volition raise it to level two.

That's all you lot need to craft Stagbreaker! Savor smashing the hell out of things in Valheim with your spiky new war hammer.

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