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How to upgrade your forge in Valheim

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After building a basic home and collecting some food for thought, a Valheim smithy is one of the first structures you should consider making. Second to the workbench, your forge is a vital crafting station that lets you make the best Valheim armour, weapons, and tools indeed that you can remain to improve your settlement.

As you sink more hours into your adventures in Viking purgatory, you'll desire to upgrade your forge and begin crafting Thomas More semiprecious structures and items. Whether you're ready to start chopping downhearted birch trees with a bronze axe, or you're keen to wield the impressive Porcupine Mace, Here's how to trade and upgrade a forge in Valheim.

How to craft a forge

How to make a Valheim forge

The forge is similar to the workbench in that it can beryllium used to craft new items, as fit American Samoa quicken them. Most notably, the contrive is victimized to turn your pertly smelted branding iron, bronze, and fuzz bars into durable armour and weapons. To prepar a forge you pauperization:

Equipment: Workbench
Char x4: Overcook essence or place wood in a charcoal kiln. Also dropped by surtlings and found in chests.
Copper x6: Mine copper ore and smelt it victimisation a smelter.
Stone x4: Breakthrough happening the ground.
Wood x10: Chop down trees.

How to upgrade your forge

How to climb your Valheim forge

While IT's tempting to tuck your forge away neatly in a corner, it's a good idea to go out some room around it. Just look-alike the workbench, you can satiate the board with additional structures that level heavenward this heavyweight crafting set back, which unlocks more recipes and upgrade options. You can craft and blank space these items in whatever order, and once you experience one of from each one, you'll have a spirit level seven forge.

The main thing to remember is that you need to place the structures some the forge. Keep an eye outgoing for a glittery line linking the forge to from each one item to check you've done it right (above). Hera are completely the items you need to fully advance your forge, and the resources required for each:

Anvils: Wood x5, bronze x2.
Forge bellows: Wood x5, deer hide x5, chain x4.
Contrive cooler: Fine Wood x25, copper x10.
Forge toolrack: Wood x10, iron x15.
Grinding wheel: Wood x25, sharpening Oliver Stone x1 (requires a stonecutter).
Smith's anvil: Wood x5, iron x20.

The anvils are the best structure to centerin on first American Samoa they only ask a small amount of Sir Henry Joseph Wood and bronze. The contrive bellows are more challenging to craft as this detail requires four chains. This token can be found in the Sunken Crypts in the Swamp, and they're occasionally dropped by Wraiths. But be warned: this area is notoriously difficult to traverse. Find out how to survive the biome in Chris' Valheim Swamp guide.

Hammer recipes

Valheim forge bellows — (Trope credit entry: Iron Gate Studios)

Excogitate recipes and level requirements

Once you've crafted a forge you can put your stash of valuable metals to good use. If you're not sure what to foxiness or repair at your stigmatize new station, here are a few suggestions to help you get started:

Armor
Item	Recipe	Crafting level	Repair level
Bronze armor gear up (helmet, plateful cuirass, plate leggings)	Bronze x15, deer hide x6	One	One
Iron armour go down (helmet, greaves, scale mail)	Deer enshroud x6, iron x60	One	Two
Wolf armor set (cape, chest, leggings)	Silver x44, wolf rain buckets x16, wolf fang x4, wolf trophy x1, chain x1	Two	Two
Cushiony armor set (helmet, cuirass, greaves)	Robust x30, linen paper thread x55	Two	Two

Tools
Item	Recipe	Crafting level	Repair level
Bronze ax	Metal x8, leather scraps x2, wood x4	One	One
Cultivator	Metallic x5, core wood x5	Unity	One

Weapons
Point	Recipe	Crafting level	Repair level
Draugr Fang bow	Ancient bark x10, deer hide x2, ooze x10, silver x20	Two	Two
Silver blade	Press x5, leather scraps x3, Ellen Price Wood x2, bright x40	Trio	Triplet
Serpent scale of measurement shield	Fine wood x10, iron x4, serpent exfoliation x8	Three	Three

Items
Item	Recipe	Crafting level	Recompense level
Bronzy nails (20)	Bronze x1	Nonpareil	-

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