Articles by Rebecca Jones

Valheim may be just in Early Access, but there are already a lot of items to choose from as you fight to survive and thrive in this purgatorial wilderness.Weapons and armour tend to get progressively better as you advance through the game, but even lower-end items have their advantages. With inventory space at a premium, […]

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You can play Valheim solo if you choose, but there’s a lot to be said for the co-op experience. The game supports up to ten people in multiplayer, and travelling to purgatory with a whole Viking clan on your side can certainly be a great help.Whether you’re building a settlement from the ground-up or facing […]

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Valheim is a survival game all about finding resources and crafting your own tools — but nevertheless, sometimes you just have to buy the things you need. Enter Haldor the trader, Valheim’s premier (not to mention only) merchant character.Haldor is the exclusive source of a number of items in Valheim. This includes the ultra-rare crafting […]

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Axes are one of the most versatile types of tool in Valheim. Wood axes chop lumber, while pickaxes help you mine stone and metals. And of course you can always whack a monster in the face with one, whether it’s technically a battleaxe or not.In true Viking fashion, there are a lot of axes to […]

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Your journey through Valheim is nearly at an end and you’re ready to take on the game’s final boss.By this point you’ve fought a giant electric stag, a furiously grieving tree, an animated clump of graveyard goo, and a mother dragon who wasn’t so much angry as disappointed in you. Now meet Yagluth.This absolutely cursed-looking […]

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The penultimate boss fight in Valheim sees you going head-to-head with a fierce mama dragon.Game of Thrones fans in particular might feel themselves to be on familiar ground with Moder, a territorial Wyvern summoned by sacrificing three dragon eggs.While Valheim bosses only seem to get scarier as the game goes on, there’s something undeniably tragic […]

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Valheim bosses seem to get progressively creepier with each encounter. This holds true with Bonemass, the third of the game’s five bosses, who you should encounter somewhere around the game’s midway point.Despite its name, this swamp creature actually bears an unpleasant resemblance to a certain excremental enemy from Conker’s Bad Fur Day. It’s quite gross […]

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Defeating Valheim‘s second boss, The Elder, is an important step in progressing through the Swamp area of the game.Despite its strong resemblance to a Tree Ent, The Elder is far from friendly. Understandably so, in that you do have to go on the aggressive a little bit to summon this particular boss.How to summon and […]

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Eikthyr the Stag is the first boss you’ll encounter on your adventures in Valheim.Loosely modelled on the Norse mythological figure Eikþyrnir, Eikythr is not found standing atop Valhalla nibbling leaves like his namesake. Instead, you’ll need to summon him to his altar in the Meadows in order to fight him.Defeating Eikthyr is an essential step […]

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