

As for the metal, you’ll need copper and tin ores to create bronze. We switch from wood to core wood, which is found in the Black Forest biome, and that is farmed by axing down a Fir tree. Other than that, making the pickaxe include: With great irony, you must use the pickaxe, to obtain this pickaxe, as the core things needed are metal ingots, rather, two of them to make the core ingot, Bronze. Just know that you should be repairing it whenever a Forge is available to you, as that can seriously mess you up by taking up an inventory slot while being broken. On paper, this is a better Antler Pickaxe, with its stats being better on key areas like durability and a bit more damage. A good main pickaxe for things less than silver and obsidian.Faster to mine materials compared to the Antler Pickaxe.This is still a very good pickaxe and does some decent things for you in the mid-game such as: Moving up to the first metal-based pickaxe, and arguably the one with the shortest-lifespan, the Bronze Pickaxe Not only does this video help with getting the pickaxe, but it also gives you cool weapons and armor to have in your inventory. It’s cut and dry basic, so with that in mind, if you want an inventory of Antler Pickaxes for some reason, it’s time to go big deer hunting.įor a detailed look at the pickaxes’ stats, you may look at the table or use the key points below. By killing the boss, it will drop some hard antlers, depending on how many people attack it. Wood is easy to get as it’s all around you, but the hard antler is a bit harder as the only way to obtain them is by killing the first boss, Eikthyr. With the Antler Pickaxe, you’ll need the following: It’s not intended to be a weapon, so if you happen to get a lucky hit while mining, don’t expect it to bury foes 6 feet under. This is again, a basic pickaxe given its use, such as gathering stone, copper, and tin. Can break most of the materials you initially need.Only pickaxe to be fixed via a crafting table.Easy to make, provided you carry its materials.For now, the key things to know here are as follows. The first pickaxe is by far the easiest to maintain, and surprisingly, with very few drawbacksīy it being your first pickaxe, you’re also committing very little as it’s a byproduct of your quest, which we’ll get to in a bit.

The video may be short, but killing Eikthyr at this part of the game is anything but that. Not much in the way of a scientific explanation of how good they are, but more of a good, better, best type of talk, which is what you’ll probably need anyway.Īs with all Valheim lists, this was written at the time of the games’ latest version (Hearth and Home Update, version 0.203.10). As much as I’d love to talk about mixing and matching these pointy things, the game, in its current state only has 3 (yes, only 3) pickaxes that you’ll be able to get. You need to grab a pickaxe when you plan on going out and about as you may want to haul the metal you’ve taken from a faraway place towards your smelting grounds, creating more ingots for whatever use that may be.

To do that you’ll need to acquire the pickaxe, and like the regular axe, it’s more of a tool than a weapon. As a Valheim player, your main goal is to acquire a lot of metal to create weapons of mass destruction and the armor needed for survivability to kill the toughest bosses the game has to offer.
