Valheim Deep North survival guide

Valheim checks the weather around you all the time. In freezing weather you are Freezing when you are neither near a fire nor in shelter. Near a fire but outside, or inside but away from a fire, you are only Cold. With a fire and a roof over you, you are warm. Frost resistance from any source cancels both, wherever you are, which is why it is the one thing to sort out before you sail north.

• FreezingNo health regeneration, Stamina regeneration −60%, Eitr regeneration −60%, −1 health every 1 s, Resistant to fire. In the Deep North that is any time you are away from fire and shelter.

• ColdHealth regeneration −50%, Stamina regeneration −25%, Eitr regeneration −25%. You cannot start resting while you are cold or freezing, so you cannot build up Rested out in the open.

• Deep snow slows youOnce the snow is deeper than 0.3 m you slow down, up to 50% slower in snow 2 m deep.

• Snow damages weak buildingsHeavy snow damages pieces whose support is below 60% of the way from red to green; your hammer shows them flashing blue there. See building support.

• Bring a lightAesir Passage, Mörkhalla and Winding tunnels are always dark inside.

What gives frost resistance

Any of these stops both Cold and Freezing while it lasts:

Wear

Fenris Coat · Wolf Fur Cape · Wolf Hide Chestpiece · Lox Cape · Feather Cape · Ashen Cape · Asksvin Cloak · Breastplate of the Protector · Cape of the Caller · Chestpiece of the Vanguard · Moose Hide Cape · Robes of the Caller

Drink

Frost Resistance Mead for 10 minutes

Forsaken power

Moder from the Sacrificial Stones

Inside Winding tunnels it is neither cold nor freezing. The status effects guide has every weather and effect.

Gear and food to arrive with

Weapon

Berserkir Axes the best weapon from an earlier biome in the Deep North’s own ranking

Armor

Flametal Armor the best set you can bring in from earlier biomes

Food

Piquant Pie · Mashed Meat · Roasted Crust Pie 264 health, 219 stamina

The full rankings are on the Deep North page and in weapons, armor and food by biome, and the progression checklist lists what to gather and build here.

Deep North gear is not crafted in one go. You find a mould, pour a cast of it at the forge, then harden the cast with frost. Here is the whole road for one weapon, read from its recipes:

1. Mine Petrified Tissue at a Petrified Gammeltroll Petrified Tissue cannot go through a portal: carry it or sail it home.
2. Smelt it into Bloodgold in a Blast Furnace
3. Find a mould such as Mould: Nord Atgeir Mould: Nord Atgeir turns up in Memorial Site, Mörkhalla and Winding tunnels. The moulds table lists where every mould comes from.
4. Cast Cast: Nord Atgeir at a Black Forge level 4 You learn the cast once you have picked up the mould and every other ingredient and used a level 4 Black Forge.
5. Make Liquid Frost from Ice×5 in a Frigid Kiln
6. Harden the cast into Nord Atgeir in the Frost Foundry A cast takes 50 seconds. The foundry burns 1 Liquid Frost every 10 seconds while it works.
7. Add Frostfire Essence at the Black Forge for Frostfire Atgeir

Every recipe in Valheim appears once you have picked up each of its ingredients and used its station at the level it needs, so carrying a new mould home is what teaches you its cast.

Creature	Health	Hits with	Hardest hit	Weak to	Resists	Where
Barka	2,200	Blunt Pierce Frost	280	Fire	Blunt Slash Pierce Frost Lightning Immune: Poison, Spirit	Roams the biome
Imprisoned Dvergr	1,500	Blunt Pierce	250	None	Immune: Spirit	Mörkhalla
Eyeless One	1,400	Blunt Slash Poison	220	None	Frost Immune: Spirit	Winding tunnels
Krigen	1,300	Blunt Slash	170	None	Frost Pierce Immune: Poison, Spirit	Roams the biome Mörkhalla
Krigen — Dual Wield	1,300	Slash	170	None	Frost Pierce Immune: Poison, Spirit	Mörkhalla
Moose	1,000	Blunt Slash	160	Fire	Blunt Slash Frost Immune: Spirit	Roams the biome
Hexen	800	Blunt Slash Lightning Spirit	150	Fire	Frost Immune: Poison, Spirit	Roams the biome Mörkhalla
Fallen Warrior	750	Blunt Slash Pierce Fire Lightning Poison Spirit	240	Spirit	Blunt Slash Pierce Fire Immune: Poison	Memorial Site
Elaking	350	Blunt Slash	140	Fire	Frost Immune: Spirit	Roams the biome Winding tunnels
Elaking — Lantern	350	Blunt Slash Fire	165	Fire	Frost Immune: Spirit	Roams the biome Winding tunnels
Captive Fuling	250	Blunt Slash Pierce Fire	170	None	Immune: Spirit	Mörkhalla
Shapeless Pulp	150	Blunt Poison	130	Blunt Frost Lightning	Slash Pierce Fire Immune: Poison	Mörkhalla
Greydwarf Shaman (Deep North)	120	Blunt Slash Frost Poison	180	Fire	Poison Immune: Spirit	Roams the biome
Greydwarf (Deep North)	100	Blunt Slash Frost	96	Fire	Poison Immune: Spirit	Roams the biome
Skeleton (Deep North)	100	Blunt Frost	90	Blunt Fire	Pierce Frost Immune: Poison	Roams the biome
Tiny Pulp	50		—	Blunt Frost Lightning	Slash Pierce Fire Immune: Poison

Fire is the most common weakness here: 8 of these 16 take extra fire damage, while 9 resist frost. Each creature’s page ranks every weapon against it; the weakness chart has them all side by side.

Frigid Kiln

A strange and chilling process happens within this kiln, to produce a most potent fuel...

Build with

Stone×20 Frostcore×10 Ice×5 near a Workbench

Makes

Liquid Frost from Ice×5 in 30 seconds

Frost Foundry

This foundry can be used to harden casts into proper items.

Build with

Iron×15 Stone×20 Frostcore×10 near a Workbench

Makes

30 items, each from its cast in 50 seconds. Burns Liquid Frost, 1 every 10 seconds while it works. Every conversion

Deep North upgrades for older stations

Smith's Aprons

Raises the Black Forge one level; costs Bloodgold×5 Timberwood×8 Moose Hide×2

Smoker

Raises the Cauldron one level; costs Bloodgold×5 Timberwood×6

Standing Loom

Raises the Galdr Table one level; costs Timberwood×5 Nornathread×10

A station’s level is 1 plus the number of different upgrades built near it, and many Deep North recipes need a high level: casts need a level 4 station. Each station page lists what every level unlocks.

• Abandoned Village Settlement Wood Finewood Lingonberries
• Aesir Passage Dungeon · freezing inside · always dark
• Deep North Hut Point of interest Ashwood
• Ice Pond Point of interest
• Lumber Camp Point of interest Timberwood Wood Ashwood
• Memorial Site Point of interest · vegvisir to Aesir Passage Bone Fragments Stone
• Mörkhalla Dungeon · cold inside · always dark · locked: needs Intricate Key · vegvisir to Aesir Passage Ancient Coin Grausten Red Jute
• Petrified Gammeltroll Point of interest Petrified Tissue Stone
• Shipwreck (Deep North) Point of interest Finewood
• Viking Graveyard (Deep North) Point of interest Stone Bone Fragments Draumyx
• Winding tunnels Dungeon · not cold inside · always dark Timberwood Luminous Larva Scrap Iron

Mörkhalla is the place to plan for: it is a dungeon you open with Intricate Key, its vegvisir marks Aesir Passage, and its end rooms hold the Malicious Ice that starts the road to Kall Fimbulbringer. The places guide has every creature, chest and find for each place.

Kall Fimbulbringer’s offering is Malicious Blood×3, and it comes from stopping a Jotun Invasion. You start one yourself in the Deep North and it lands in an earlier biome, so the last fight first takes you back to the lands you started in.

1. Read a vegvisir in Memorial Site or Mörkhalla to mark the Aesir Passage Aesir Passage holds Kall Fimbulbringer’s altar.
2. Open Mörkhalla with an Intricate Key How to get the key is below.
3. Break the Malicious Ice in an end room of Mörkhalla “The Jotun Advance”: a Jotun Invasion begins.
4. Find the invasion in the Meadows, Swamp, Mountains, Black Forest or Plains It appears 1–12 km from the centre of the world.
5. Destroy its Malicious Ice while it calls Krigen, Hexen and Krigen — Dual Wield
6. Pick up Malicious Blood×1 Each invasion you stop gives 1. The gate takes 3 and each summon 3.
7. Offer Malicious Blood×3 at the gate altar of the Aesir Passage
8. Offer Malicious Blood×3 at the altar inside to summon Kall Fimbulbringer

The Malicious Ice at the heart of an invasion has 1,000 health and takes extra damage from axes, pickaxes and fire, less from frost and lightning and none from poison. While a player is within 120 m it calls a new creature every 50 seconds, until 6 are close by. Up to 3 invasions can run at once. The spawns guide lists what else appears around one.

Getting the Intricate Key

1. Find Mould: Intricate Key It drops from Elaking and Eyeless One.
2. Cast Cast: Intricate Key at a Black Forge level 4 It takes 5 Bloodgold and 1 Mould: Intricate Key.
3. Harden it into an Intricate Key in the Frost Foundry

Hexen can also drop a finished key.

The fight, phase by phase

1. Kall Fimbulbringer — phase 1 Damage Kall directly · 10,000 health
2. Kall Fimbulbringer — phase 2 Defeat the summoned boss spirits while Kall is sealed in ice · 7,000 health
3. Kall Fimbulbringer — phase 3 Damage Kall directly amid summoned tendrils · 30,000 health

The Kall Fimbulbringer page ranks weapons for each phase, and boss order shows where the fight sits in the game.

What beating Kall Fimbulbringer gives you

1. Defeat Kall Fimbulbringer
2. Take Crown Jewel
3. Craft Crown of Valheim at a Black Forge level 4 Wearing it gives Royalty: “The creatures of Valheim will not harm the one who has mastered them.”

1. Take Sacrificial Blood from Kall Fimbulbringer
2. Carry it back to the Sacrificial Stones
3. Place Sacrificial Blood on the Chiselled Platform

His death also stops the Elaking uprising and Krigen army raids.