This page names everything in the Ashlands. For a spoiler-free version that tracks what you've done, use the planner.
What to do after The Queen: the Ashlands
A burning land across a boiling sea. Everything here fights everything, you included.
What to do in the Ashlands
Build the Artisan Press and a Drakkar
A Majestic Carapace adds the Artisan Press, which makes Ceramic Plates. Only the Drakkar survives the boiling sea.
Protect your camp with a Shield Generator
Falling cinders set wood alight. Build with stone, and put a Shield Generator over your camp; it runs on bones.
Stock up on Fire Resistance Barley Wine
You'll need plenty here. Drink it before fighting anything that burns. It won't save you in lava, so never step in.
Mine flametal around the lava
Use your Black Metal Pickaxe, and smelt the ore in the Blast Furnace. Wooden portals won't take it, but a Stone Portal (Grausten and Molten Cores, at the Stonecutter) will.
Upgrade the Black Forge for flametal gear
Add the Cooler and the Vice to reach level 3. Flametal armour also cuts the damage from lava and boiling water.
Cook Ashlands food
Asksvin tails and Vineberries make Fiery Svinstew and Piquant Pie, the strongest food yet.
What lives in the Ashlands, and how to fight it
Tap one to see how to fight it. Pictures are each creature's trophy.
Charred Warrior
600 health
Feints with the same wind-up as its real swing, so a parry learned on anything else lands in empty air. Hold a good shield and block instead, then answer between swings.
- Best weapon
- blunt, slash — Slayer, Krom
- Weak to
- spirit
- Shrugs off
- pierce, fire
- Ignores
- poison
- Hits with
- slash, pierce
Charred Marksman
200 health
Lobs a volley that arcs straight over the rock you're sheltering behind, from further than you can shoot back. Closing the distance is safer than hiding.
- Best weapon
- blunt, slash — Slayer, Krom
- Weak to
- spirit
- Shrugs off
- pierce, fire
- Ignores
- poison
- Hits with
- pierce
Charred Twitcher
220 health
Small, quick and endless — and they keep coming until you smash the monument they pour out of. Fight with your back to something and swing wide.
- Best weapon
- blunt, slash — Slayer, Krom
- Weak to
- spirit
- Shrugs off
- pierce, fire
- Ignores
- poison
- Hits with
- slash, pierce
Charred Warlock
600 health · in Charred Fortresses
Throws a bolt that leaves fire burning where it lands, and calls up more twitchers while you're busy. Kill it before the melee ones.
- Best weapon
- blunt, slash — Slayer, Krom
- Weak to
- spirit
- Shrugs off
- pierce, fire, frost
- Ignores
- poison
- Hits with
- pierce
Morgen
1600 health
Rises out of the ground and demolishes whatever you built nearby. Ordinary weapons all land at half strength, so roll through its swing and punish the recovery rather than trading behind a shield.
- Best weapon
- nothing beats anything else — bring your strongest
- Weak to
- lightning
- Shrugs off
- blunt, slash, pierce, fire
- Hits with
- blunt, pierce
Fallen Valkyrie
1500 health
Its claw reaches far further than the animation suggests, so block or parry rather than rolling away. Walk out of the fire it spits instead of dodging early.
- Best weapon
- nothing beats anything else — bring your strongest
- Weak to
- spirit
- Shrugs off
- fire
- Ignores
- poison
- Hits with
- blunt, slash, pierce
Asksvin
800 health
Closes the gap faster than you can back away, so parry the pounce rather than trying to dodge it. Tame one later and it will carry you across the lava.
- Best weapon
- nothing beats anything else — bring your strongest
- Shrugs off
- fire, poison
- Ignores
- spirit
- Hits with
- blunt, slash
Volture
200 health
Faster than you in any armour, and it circles to hit you from behind. Put your back to a cliff, or fight under an overhang so it can't climb away.
- Best weapon
- nothing beats anything else — bring your strongest
- Weak to
- frost
- Ignores
- poison
- Hits with
- slash
Lava Blob
300 health
Kills itself in a wide blast that tears up the ground and anything you've built. Finish it at range, or in one hit — never stand next to it.
- Best weapon
- blunt — Demolisher, Flametal Mace
- Weak to
- blunt, frost, lightning
- Shrugs off
- pierce, poison
- Ignores
- fire
Bonemaw
1100 health · in the boiling water
Waits in the water you have to cross and spits from a long way off. Keep moving and shoot from the boat or the shore rather than trading bites.
- Best weapon
- nothing beats anything else — bring your strongest
- Weak to
- frost
- Shrugs off
- poison
- Ignores
- fire, spirit
- Hits with
- blunt, slash, fire, poison
Dvergr Rogue
1000 health · out by day
Leave it alone and it fights the charred for you. Its crossbow kills in two shots, and hitting any of its buildings — even by accident — turns the whole camp on you.
- Best weapon
- nothing beats anything else — bring your strongest
- Ignores
- spirit
- Hits with
- blunt, pierce
Weaknesses and health are read straight out of Valheim 1.0.16, not copied from anywhere.
How to beat Fader
Summoning: A Vegvisir in the central tower of a Charred Fortress marks his arena (not every fortress has one). Break the bell altars in fortresses for Bell Fragments: 3 make a Bell at the Black Forge, and you need 3 Bells.
The fight: He's immune to fire, and arrows and spears do half damage. Drink Fire Resistance Barley Wine, keep moving, stay out of the green fire, and let his flames hit the Charred he summons. He drops Kindled Ribs (some guides call them Fader Relics).
Best food in the Ashlands
- Piquant Pie 105 health · 35 stamina
- Sparkling Shroomshake 30 health · 15 stamina · 90 eitr
- Roasted Crust Pie 34 health · 100 stamina
- Fiery Svinstew 95 health · 32 stamina
Every food, sortable: Valheim food.
New gear to craft
39 recipes unlock in the Ashlands. Some of the gear:
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