⚔️Valheim

Viking purgatory. Build longhouses, sail longships, die to a greydwarf.

9.4 / 10

1–10 players

🔨Survival + Craft

Players

1–10

Released

Feb 2, 2021

Developer

Iron Gate AB · Coffee Stain Publishing

Price

$29.99

Multi-playerCo-opOnline Co-opFull controller support

Procedural Norse survival for up to ten. Build, sail, fight progressively bigger bosses. The pacing is unusually friendly to group play — a 2-hour session feels like real progress. Mods raise the player cap further.

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Valheim is a brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players set in a procedurally-generated world inspired by Norse mythology. Craft powerful weapons, construct longhouses, and slay mighty foes to prove yourself to Odin! EXPLORE THE TENTH WORLD Explore a world shrouded in mystery. Discover distinct environments with unique enemies to battle, resources to gather and secrets to uncover! Be a viking, sail the open seas in search of lands unknown, and fight bloodthirsty monsters. BUILD MIGHTY HALLS Raise viking longhouses and build bases that offer reprieve from the dangers ahead. Customise buildings, both inside and out, with a detailed building system. Progress through building tiers to upgrade, expand and defend your base. GATHER, CRAFT AND SURVIVE Struggle to survive as you gather materials and craft weapons, armor, tools, ships, and defenses. Decorate your hearths and sharpen your blades, grow crops and vegetables, prepare food, brew meads and potions, and progress as you defeat more difficult bosses and discover new recipes and blueprints. KEY FEATURES: Massive procedurally-generated world where every biome is immersive and distinct, with unique enemies, resources and crafting recipes to discover. Play alone or with up to 10 players on player-hosted dedicated servers and experience unlimited world creation and enemies that scale in difficulty. Staminabased combat that rewards preparation and skill. Utilize weapon types with unique attacks, different blocking styles, ranged combat, dodges and parries to fight your enemies. Rewarding food system where you cannot starve and are not punished for not eating, instead you gain health, stamina and regeneration buffs depending on what foods you consume. Intuitive crafting where recipes are discovered as you explore the world, and pick up new resources and ingredients. Flexible building system that takes structural integrity and ventilation into account. Build a small shelter or an entire village, make outposts or claim abandoned buildings as your own. Then customize to your liking. Sail boats and ships to reach distant lands and explore the sea that offers riches to claim and monsters to fight. Epic boss fights that will test even the best prepared vikings and offer rewards that help you on your journey. Community-translated languages: In addition to the officially supported languages, Valheim has se…

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Quickstart

How to actually play this with friends — written by Claude.

## Set it up - Install via Steam; host from the in-game menu or spin up a dedicated server — vanilla already supports up to 10 players, no mod required - Install BepInExPack Valheim if you want mods, then ValheimPlus (Reforged) on top for QoL tuning and extra server slots — skip both if vanilla's fine - Pick a world seed together and commit to it; regenerating a world after someone's already built a longhouse is a group-chat catastrophe

## Your first session - Punch trees and get a roof over your head before dark — the first night's greydwarves will absolutely find an open camp - Split jobs naturally early on: someone chops wood, someone hunts deer for food, someone scouts the coast for a longship spot - Don't rush Eikthyr. Gear up and farm a few days first — undergeared groups get wiped by the first boss constantly

## Group size advice - Comfortable at 4-6 even in vanilla; the biome pacing gives everyone something to do without stepping on each other - Scales to the full 10-player cap for bigger friend groups, especially with ValheimPlus opening more server slots - Two players works fine too, just expect longer boss grinds