Head into the Black Forest to find Copper and look for big bulging deposits of it. On the other hand, Copper factors heavily into all the metal work you're about to do, so you want to mine a lot of it. Tin will always show up in small silvery nodes, so you'll have to hit several to get what you need-but luckily, you need a smaller amount of Tin to advance. Look for small Tin deposits poking out of the ground near waterways and around the coast you'll find them in both the Meadows and the Black Forest biomes. These two metals are what you need to advance to the next tier of crafting capabilities.įirst, you're going to need to locate the two metals. The pickaxe can break up rocks and cut them into Tin and Copper deposits. With the Hard Antler, you can craft the Antler Pickaxe, an essential item for moving forward with mining. You'll know it from the veins of bronze-colored metal running through it. Look for domes of Copper sticking out of the ground in the Black Forest. You need this to move from making items out of sticks, rocks, and leather to crafting real gear made from metal. When Eikthyr is destroyed, it drops an item called the Hard Antler. Make sure to bring food and eat three different food items ahead of the fight to get your health up to maximum you should also try to sleep before the fight to get the highest Rested bonus you can.
It's possible to block his melee strikes if you stay close to him, allowing you to stab away at him with your spear until he's handled. It does a lot to telegraph those moves, though, so you can generally strafe sideways to avoid them. Note that you're going to need a lot of arrows for that second approach, but if you keep moving, the boss is pretty easy to dodge.Įikthyr has electricity-based attacks, shooting bolts of lightning at you from its antlers. You'll want to craft a Wood Shield to block Eikthyr's attacks and to go at him with either a Flint Spear-which allows you to melee him in between his attacks-or by peppering him at a distance with a bow. You can summon the boss from its altar (the location of which is marked on your map when you interact with a rune at the altar where you first start Valheim) with two Deer Trophies.
The first boss in Valheim is Eikthyr, and if you can, you'll want to attack the giant rampaging stag boss with a team of Vikings. Eikthyr is the major impediment to smithing Bronze-you need its antler to make a pickaxe strong enough to mine Copper and Tin. But to make the weapons needed to succeed in the Black Forest, you must first deal with your toughest early-game challenge so far: Eikthyr, the Meadows biome boss. To handle it, you're going to at least need Leather Armor-but if you can get Troll Hide Armor, you should. You might run into them in the Meadows, but going into the Black Forest is a pretty big risk early on. The forest houses much tougher enemies, including a variety of Greydwarf types, Skeletons, and Trolls. This is a step up in difficulty from the early game location of the Meadows, where you'll mostly deal with boars and Greylings. To start harvesting the things you need to make Bronze, you'll need to venture into the Black Forest biome. Making Bronze isn't easy, though-which is why we've got a complete guide to help you find the materials you need, make the right crafting stations, and start blacksmithing.
Bronze Armor offers a significant upgrade in protection, and you'll need Bronze tools to access a lot of new materials. You'll get by in the early going of Valheim with leather armor made from Deer Hide, but if you want to explore Viking purgatory in a meaningful way, you need to enter the Bronze Age.