Recruit Vikings
Each discovered biome has its own camp and roster of up to 20 Vikings.
NORTHREND IDLE · EARLY ADVENTURE
A new home in the north
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Your Northrend account is ready. Name the main Viking you will control and the settlement they will lead.
NEW PLAYER HELP · FIRST STEPS
Turn gathering into an idle settlement
You begin by gathering manually. Spend those supplies on buildings, and the buildings will keep producing resources while you play—or while you are away.
1GatherPress Gather supplies repeatedly for wood and stone.
2BuyUse the clearly marked Buy buttons in Buildings.
3ProduceWoodcutters and Quarries generate supplies automatically.
4UpgradeReinvest resources to craft, fight, and reach new biomes.
Your starter checklist
Gather your first supplies to begin.
Buildings
BEYOND THE SETTLEMENT
Prepare an expedition
How production works
Gather at least 3 wood and 2 stone every 2.5 seconds. Production is collected automatically every 30 seconds while this page is open. Offline production is capped at eight hours. Woodcutter and Quarry levels have diminishing output after level 5. Great Hall upgrades remain powerful because they improve both resources, so their prices scale more sharply after level 5.
NEW TO VALHEIM?
Your first voyage, one step at a time
Northrend Idle turns Valheim’s survival journey into a persistent settlement adventure. Gather resources, build crafting stations, prepare food and equipment, explore harsher biomes, and defeat each biome’s Forsaken boss to move forward.
The core rulePreparation wins fights. Better food, equipment, skills, and a larger ready warband all improve your odds.
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Choose a home and gather supplies
Claim one permanent site on the shared World map, then open Settlement to gather wood and stone. Build a Woodcutter and Quarry so resources continue accumulating while you are away.
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Build a workbench and cooking spit
These unlock your first recipes. Buildings are your progression gates: new stations reveal stronger equipment, food, and materials.
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Hunt for food and leather
Use Hunting to draw the bow and release when your shot is lined up. Raw meat feeds your settlement; leather scraps become early equipment.
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Send a gathering party
Open Gathering, choose a biome, and assign Vikings from that biome’s camp. Every survivor improves the randomized haul and rare-find odds, but dangerous trips can cost lives.
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Cook, craft, and equip
Visit the Workshop. Food is preparation rather than a starvation meter: packed meals strengthen an expedition. Match weapons and protection to the danger ahead.
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Practice in personal battles
Follow the combat path for permanent Combat XP and supplies. Learn attack warnings, blocking, and dodging without risking one of your Vikings.
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Recruit and equip biome warbands
Each discovered biome has its own camp and room for 20 Vikings. Recruitment becomes more expensive as your total roster grows. Shared weapon and armor upgrades protect every gathering and boss party; equipment matters far more than sending a crowd of unprepared Vikings.
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Defeat the Forsaken
Boss victories unlock the next stage of progression. Eikthyr opens the Black Forest, The Elder leads to the Swamp, Bonemass reveals the Mountains, and Moder opens the road to the Plains.
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Defend prosperous stores
At 20,000 combined wood and stone, raids begin. That first 20,000 is always protected. A raid risks only 4–12% of resources above it, and an unattended loss takes at most half the displayed stake. Fight live to protect everything; gear, Combat training, and the Great Hall improve automatic defense.
Valheim words you’ll see
- Biome
- A region with its own enemies, resources, recipes, and boss.
- Camp
- A biome-specific roster of up to 20 Vikings. Expeditions leave from the target boss’s biome camp.
- Forsaken
- The powerful boss that marks a major progression milestone.
- Station
- A building such as a workbench, forge, or cauldron that unlocks crafting.
- Combat XP
- Permanent settlement training earned from active battles and surviving expeditions.
Safe practice vs. real risk
Hunting and Battles are active minigames. A miss or defeat costs no Viking.
Gathering and boss expeditions can cause casualties. Armor is your strongest protection; weapons and Combat level also help. Send larger parties for more loot rolls, but only risk Vikings you can afford to lose.
Raids begin at 20,000 stored resources. The first 20,000 can never be taken. Higher excess wealth increases the raid stake and frequency, but never exposes your whole settlement.
Your settlement keeps working while you are away, with offline production capped at eight hours. Night reduces passive production to 30%; your Great Hall hearth and worksite lights keep more workers on shift.
How to read the game when you feel stuck
NEXT STEP is clickable and opens the correct tab or resource source. A highlighted control is the action to take next.
Buy and Upgrade buttons display their price. Pressing one spends those resources immediately. If a button is dimmed, read the message beside it to see what is missing or which prerequisite must be completed.
Settlement creates wood and stone, Hunting gives active-play loot, Gathering runs timed material trips, Workshop turns materials into useful items, Inventory shows everything you own, Battles safely trains your main Viking, and Warband prepares dangerous boss expeditions.
RISKY RESOURCE EXPEDITIONS
Gathering trips
Send Vikings from a biome camp to search for crafting materials. Larger parties bring more loot chances—including rare finds—while shared equipment improves their odds of returning alive.
Plan a gathering party
Every trip has a different controlled haul. More survivors increase material quantities and rare-find odds; especially rare crafting finds such as Surtling Cores are capped at three per trip. Casualties and their loot are lost. These trips do not award boss credit.
MATERIALS INTO PROGRESS
Workshop & kitchen
Review your equipment path, process materials, and craft what your next expedition needs.
YOUR CRAFTING ROUTE
What to make next
Your gear wall
Owned equipment, available upgrades, and locked recipes are shown together. Select a card to open its recipe below.
Craft a recipe
ACTIVE HUNTING · MEADOWS
Bow & wilds
Track a different herd of moving deer and boar on every Meadows outing. Aim with your mouse, hold left click to draw, then release to shoot. Read the wind, lead your prey, and account for arrow drop. A headshot earns bonus meat and leather.
Crude hunting bow · Tier 0/5Shared weapon upgrades steady aim and improve bow handling.
5 arrows · 1–5 deer & boar · Meat + leather
Out of arrows — hunt completeWait for the next hunt to become available.
Hold for power → release
Hold left click in the clearing to start and draw, or use Start hunting. Body hit: 2 meat + 1 leather. Headshot: 3 meat + 2 leather.
Keyboard: focus the clearing, arrow keys aim, hold/release Space to shoot, Escape cancels. Touch: hold and drag to aim, release to shoot. The dotted arc follows the gentle aim sway and previews trajectory; the wind indicator shows horizontal drift. Each outing has 1–5 animals and five arrows, so larger herds reward careful shots. A new outing is available every minute. Your existing shared weapon tier upgrades this bow—there is no separate loadout to manage.
PREPARE FOR THE WILDS
Your warband
CREW & EQUIPMENT
Build a warband that can survive the next boss
Recruit Vikings into the boss’s biome camp and improve the shared weapon and armor used by both your main Viking and the warband.
WAR BAND AT A GLANCE
Vikings, camps, and shared gear
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On expedition
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Camp capacity
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Vikings lost
Main Viking’s weapon
One shared upgrade: stronger attacks in personal fights and better odds for boss expeditions.
Main Viking’s armor
One shared upgrade: less damage in personal fights and fewer warband casualties.
TRAINING & EXPERIENCE
Combat level 0
Vikings learn through expeditions. Each returning Viking earns 5 combat XP for the settlement; Vikings lost in battle earn none. Active encounters provide a safe combat path with 5–32 XP per victory and no warband casualties.
Use Battles for free active training. Boss rematches also teach survivors, but cost supplies and risk lives.
BOSS PROGRESSION
Choose a boss, prepare the party, and accept the risk
A first victory unlocks the next biome and awards its boss relic. Supplies are spent on departure and Viking casualties are permanent.
1 · Choose the huntA boss uses the Vikings stationed in its home-biome camp.
2 · Prepare the partyParty size, shared gear, Combat level, food, weapon matchup, and mead affect the outcome.
3 · Accept the riskSupplies are spent on departure. Survivors earn XP; casualties are permanent.
1. Choose the boss
2. Equip & provision
Choose up to three foods. Every Viking consumes one portion of each selected food when the party leaves.
This chooses a boss matchup style, not another upgrade track. Its quality comes from your main Viking’s shared weapon tier.
Bonemass adds 10 percentage points of poison casualty risk without mead. Bows struggle against Bonemass; iron maces are effective.
The five-minute boss fight continues while you are away. Its result is saved when you read the outcome.
ACTIVE COMBAT
Choose. Fight. Advance.
Personal battles train Combat without risking a Viking. Read the warning, manage stamina, and strike after the enemy commits.
NEXT ENCOUNTER
Meadows · Boar
Free training encounter
How gear and runs work
Your main Viking’s crafted weapon and armor apply here and to boss expeditions.
Victories continue directly into the next creature. A loss or completed sequence returns the path to the Boar and begins a short, difficulty-scaled rest. Defeat costs no Vikings or saved progress.
Select an encounter to preview its challenge and rewards.
Choose an unlocked encounter, then enter the arena. Desktop: WASD or arrows move, left click attacks, right click blocks, and Q dodges. Mobile: use the controls below the arena.
SHARED WORLD · MEADOWS
Choose your place in the world
Every player settles on this same Meadows map. Pick an open area for your first camp and see neighboring settlements take shape around you. This permanent location is the foundation for future travel, alliances, and PvP.
Choose carefullyYour first camp cannot be moved. A claimed plot belongs to one settlement.
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YOUR SETTLEMENT’S STORY
Records & achievements
Skills learned through use
Skills belong to your settlement. Survivors bring experience home; lost Vikings earn no combat XP. Each level takes more practice.
Expedition reports
Boss relics & equipment unlocks
Hall of names
| Rank | Viking | Settlement | Score |
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For the community
Contribute 100 wood to the shared effort.
Settlement settings & save details
Names can change without changing your player identity. Updates carry your progress forward. Administrative resets are recorded and have recovery snapshots.
Start this settlement over
Reset all buildings, resources, equipment, camps, battles, skills, and boss progress. Your account, login, and names remain, but your claimed World-map plot is released.