Originally posted by lordfadooboo:

i know this has been talked about before

but it seems like the devs wanted more to make a throwing knife?

Its a Javelin, as it was talked about before. A few other things are just misnamed... like coal. there is no coal in valheim, there is charcoal.

Problem with spear is that just like in real life it would be quite an OP weapon. So we get its two cousins.