Thanks guys! Curiosity: thanks for the elaboration but I didn't get that far in the first place :P

i did not read everything above. But notise how large a build area the workbench give you. You can always dissasemble it and rebuild it somewhere you cannot reach. ;-)
Also a tip for the game in general.. Listen to the bird that sometimes visit you.
And everytime you defeat a BOSS you have to return to the place you start the game and mount the head of the boss on the stone to be able to progress to the next boss.
And also pickup and build anything you can this will unlock new "technology" and things you can build or do.
Also the game is played best if you visit the biomes in this patern.
fstarting biome, black orrest, swamp, snow, plains ect.
If you visit the biomes in this patern as you level up and defeat the bosses in each biome then your skill level/dificulty will fit to the enemys you meet.
But if you go example form the start area to the snow biome you dont have a chance.

Originally posted by Delle(DK):

i did not read everything above. But notise how large a build area the workbench give you. You can always dissasemble it and rebuild it somewhere you cannot reach. ;-)
Also a tip for the game in general.. Listen to the bird that sometimes visit you.
And everytime you defeat a BOSS you have to return to the place you start the game and mount the head of the boss on the stone to be able to progress to the next boss.
And also pickup and build anything you can this will unlock new "technology" and things you can build or do.
Also the game is played best if you visit the biomes in this patern.
fstarting biome, black orrest, swamp, snow, plains ect.
If you visit the biomes in this patern as you level up and defeat the bosses in each biome then your skill level/dificulty will fit to the enemys you meet.
But if you go example form the start area to the snow biome you dont have a chance.

You don't actually need to defeat the bosses to move on to the next one, fyi.

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Originally posted by Delle(DK):

i did not read everything above. But notise how large a build area the workbench give you. You can always dissasemble it and rebuild it somewhere you cannot reach. ;-)
Also a tip for the game in general.. Listen to the bird that sometimes visit you.
And everytime you defeat a BOSS you have to return to the place you start the game and mount the head of the boss on the stone to be able to progress to the next boss.
And also pickup and build anything you can this will unlock new "technology" and things you can build or do.
Also the game is played best if you visit the biomes in this patern.
fstarting biome, black orrest, swamp, snow, plains ect.
If you visit the biomes in this patern as you level up and defeat the bosses in each biome then your skill level/dificulty will fit to the enemys you meet.
But if you go example form the start area to the snow biome you dont have a chance.

You don't actually need to defeat the bosses to move on to the next one, fyi.

You will need to kill Yagluth in order to move onto Mistlands... at least that was said in a dev stream about the Celebration horn.

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

You don't actually need to defeat the bosses to move on to the next one, fyi.

You will need to kill Yagluth in order to move onto Mistlands... at least that was said in a dev stream about the Celebration horn.

Great, but that has nothing to do with the current game.

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Great, but that has nothing to do with the current game.

And your posts have nothing to do with the OP, so what? Yay so useful to know you don't have to kill bosses in order, I'm sure new players that just learned about the hammer are super interested in skipping bosses for absolutely no reason.

punch and gather wood, stones and flints. you probably wont see the recipes for the a thing if you never got the ingredients before

also, after crafting the hammer, put down the workbench and it gives you an area where you can build. You will need a roof around it and propably some walls if you want to use the workbench for more crafts

hey bakzie, als je een hamer maakt en vervolgens een workbench plaatst kun je in de witte ring bouwen. equip je hamer en open het bouwmenu (staat in de keybinds) daar krijg je meerdere tabs van alles wat je kan bouwen

Mocht je nog meer vragen hebben laat maar weten, desnoods open je je wereld en kan ik je het e.e.a. laten zien als je dat makkelijker vind.

Veel plezier in Valheim!

Thanks guys! Curiosity: thanks for the elaboration but I didn't get that far in the first place :P

Push the TAB Button on your keyboard to open your inventory. On the right side there are some tools you can build at first. Stoneaxe, hammer,.... build the hammer with some wood and stone. Then use the hammer to build a workbench. If the workbench is save (with roof and maybe some walls) you can repair your tools and your stuff.
The workbench will give you more options.

Hello ;)
There are two different ways to build/craft building pieces/items in Valheim. The first option is to build equipment (like weapons and armor, among other things) at a workbench (which needs to be roofed and protected from the elements before you can do this). This brings us to the second buildng option: In order to build a roofed workbench, you need to equip the hammer itself in your hand and right-click with your mouse - this will open up the build menu where you can select different building pieces (walls, roofs, and floors, WORKBENCHES, for example) from several ledgers. Placing those building pieces requires a left-click with your mouse cursor pointed at the desired location for the building piece (snapping building pieces at one another is easy with some practice). Pressing the middle (third) mouse button allows you to destroy/remove building pieces without any material loss (this is not possible for equipment like weapons - those can only be destroyed by building another item later in the game).

Please note that you can build the hammer without a workbench (press TAB and select the hammer in the right-side Crafting menu - this requires you to have the required materials to do so (a few stones and some pieces of wood). You also need to have the required materials on your character for both building/crafting methods. Also note that you will "discover" more crafting/building items the further you progress into the game (by picking up all items that you discover).

I hope i did not forget anything important ;)

PS: Repairing equipment: At the workbench, you can see a hammer symbol on the right-side Crafting menu - if the hammer blinks (gold colour?) you can repair any damaged items for free (please note that higher-level equipment may require a certain "workbench level" - this level can be increased by building additional items (tanning rack, etc.) within a 2-meter radius around the workbench. These workbench extensions (name?) become available after you have discovered them in the game).
Repairing build pieces: In order to repair build pieces (for free!), you need to have the hammer equipped in your hand and select the "Repair" option in the first ledger of the hammer crafting menu. Then just left-click on the build piece(s) you want to repair.

Thanks guys! Curiosity: thanks for the elaboration but I didn't get that far in the first place :P

Hugin isn't the best at explaining this step. It's obvious if you're used to crafting survival games and already digging through the UI to see what you can make and entirely opaque if you're new to the genre.

Another quite hidden detail, there's an unlabelled icon of a hammer to the right of the workbench UI, this is a button that repairs tools in your inventory.

@boombox: Good to hear! And for the more complicated things: i hope you will get to them soon - this is a very nice game :)