Learn How to Make the Best Armor and Weapon for Each Biome in Valheim

Armor is sort of like a safety shield for players in Valheim that want to take on the numerous monsters and bosses the game throws at them. While armor is not the most important thing for survival, it can be a crucial item to ensure the players’ safety in dangerous battles. Armor does not only ensure a little protection when fighting monsters, it also adds to Valheim’s true Viking aesthetics.

Each of the biomes in Valheim represents a particular armor the player can wear. While some of the armors are not a necessary crafting item, some biomes do require certain armor if you plan on visiting them.

If you do not know where and how to get these items and even craft the armor, here’s a full armor progression guide to help you out.

1. Rag Armor

Players spawn with a rag tunic on their body at the start of the game. The rag tunic is crafted from 5 leather scraps usually found from hunting boars in Meadows. Although the rag tunic does not offer much protection, it is useful at the start of the game.

Names	Items Needed	Armor Strength (Workbench Level)
Rag Tunic	5x leather scraps	1 (Level 1)
Rag Pants	5x leather scraps	1 (Level 1)

Recommended Weapons

Item	Materials
Shield	10x Wood 4x Resin 2x Leather Scraps
Crude Bow	10x Wood 8x Leather Scraps
Flinthead Arrows	8x Wood 2x Flint 2x Feather

You can also make the rag pants to complete the set before moving on to a more advanced armor.

2. Leather Armor

All these leather armor items can be made from hunting deer and collecting their deer hides. The deer are usually found in the Meadows and Black Forest biome of the game. These armors can be upgraded in a workbench using bone fragments found in burial chambers or by fighting skeletons in the Black Forest.

Names	Items Needed	Armor Strength (Workbench Level)
Leather Helmet	6x deer hide	2 (Level 1)
Leather Tunic	6x deer hide	2 (Level 1)
Leather Pants	6x deer hide	2 (Level 1)
Deer Hide Cape	4x deer hide 5x bone fragments	1 (Level 1)

Recommended Weapons and Items

Item	Materials
Shield	10x Wood 4x Resin 2x Leather Scraps
Wooden Club	5x Wood
Crude Bow	10x Wood 8x Leather Scraps
Flinthead Arrows	8x Wood 2x Flint 2x Feather

The Black Forest is also home to the infamous Troll, who can be hunted down for a good armor.

3. Troll Armor

The troll armor can be made from troll hide by defeating Trolls in the Black Forest. Those big blue Trolls are often found roaming around the Black Forest or inside big Troll caves. Bone fragments required for making Troll Helmet or Cape can be collected after defeating skeletons or from Burial Chambers.

Names	Items Needed	Armor Strength (Workbench Level)
Troll Leather Helmet	5x troll hide 3x bone fragments	6 (Level 1)
Troll Leather Tunic	5x troll hide	6 (Level 1)
Troll Leather Pants	5x troll hide	6 (Level 1)
Troll Hide Cape	10x troll hide 10x bone fragments	1 (Level 1)

Recommended Weapons and Items

Item	Materials
Finewood Bow	10x Fine wood 10x Core wood 2x Deer Hide
Flinthead Arrows	8x Wood 2x Flint 2x Feather

The troll hide cape is crucial if you want to freely roam around the dangerous Black Forest without being detected. The cape has an added stealth feature for players to easily run away from a sticky situation.

The next task in your armor progression is to gather bronze and make a bronze armor for better protection before you take out the overpowered Elder boss.

4. Bronze Armor

To make bronze armors, players first need to mine copper and tin ores from the Black Forest and then use a Smelter and Forge to make Bronze ingots. Then the bronze can be combined with deer hide to make useful armor. (Copper and tin can be mined using an antler pickaxe made from the hard antler gathered from defeating the first boss Eikthyr.)

Names	Items Needed	Armor Strength (Workbench Level)
Bronze Helmet	5x bronze 2x deer hide	8 (Level 1)
Bronze Plate Cuirass	5x bronze 2x deer hide	8 (Level 1)
Bronze Plate Leggings	5x bronze 2x deer hide	8 (Level 1)

Recommended Weapons and Items

Item	Materials
Finewood Bow	10x Fine wood 10x Core wood 2x Deer Hide
Fire Arrows	8x Wood 8x Resin 2x Feather

The bronze armor set is powerful enough to withstand a little amount of the Elder boss’ powerful attacks. Once the Elder boss is down, players can build a boat and sail their way over to the Swamp biome.

5. Iron Armor

Iron armor can be made by mining muddy scrap piles in the Swamp biome. Players can collect the scrap iron and turn it into Iron ingots to make iron armor for better protection against monsters lurking in the swamps.

Names	Items Needed	Armor Strength (Workbench Level)
Iron Helmet	20x iron 2x deer hide	14 (Level 1)
Iron Scale Mail	20x iron 2x deer hide	14 (Level 1)
Iron Greaves	20x iron 2x deer hide	14 (Level 1)

Recommended Weapons and Items

Item	Materials
Iron mace	4x Wood 20x Iron 3x Leather Scraps
Iron Sword	20x Iron 2x Wood 3x Leather Scraps
Poison resistance mead (Crafted from Poison resistance mead base)	10x Honey 5x Thistle 1x Neck tail 10x Coal

If you can’t locate muddy scrap piles, try to look for them inside the Sunken Crypts.

After you’ve completed making the armor and recommended weapons, you can now take on the Bonemass boss and defeat it to move onto the Mountains biome.

6. Wolf Armor

Players wanting to venture further into the frosty mountains biome need to defeat some wolves and collect some wolf pelt to make wolf armor. Wolf armor will provide enough warmth to withstand the cold climate without the player taking damage.

But do remember, equipping wolf armor, players will have -5% decrease in their movement speed.

Names	Items Needed	Armor Strength (Workbench Level)
Drake Helmet	20x silver 2x wolf pelt 2x drake trophy	20 (Level 1)
Wolf Armor Chest	20x silver 2x wolf pelt 1x chain	20 (Level 1)
Wolf Armor Legs	20x silver 2x wolf pelt 4x wolf fang	20 (Level 1)
Wolf Fur Cape	20x silver 2x wolf pelt 1x wolf trophy	1 (Level 1)

Wolf armor also needs Silver ingots which can be obtained by mining silver deposits on the mountains.

Recommended Weapons

Item	Materials
Draugr fang Bow	10x Ancient Bark 20x Silver 2x Deer hide 10x Guck
Fire Arrows	8x Wood 8x Resin 2x Feather
Obsidian Arrows	8x Wood 4x Obsidian 2x Feathers
Poison Arrows	4x Wood 4x Obsidian 2x Feather 2x Ooze
Fang Spear	10x Ancient Bark 4x Wolf Fang 2x Leather Scraps 2x Silver

After wearing the wolf armor and equipping the recommended weapons, players can take on the Moder boss before moving onto the Plains biome and dealing with the last boss in the game as of now.

7. Padded Armor

Padded armor is the strongest armor in the game. Players need flax found in the Plains biome to make linen thread and to ultimately make the padded armors.

Names	Items Needed	Armor Strength (Workbench Level)
Padded Helmet	10x iron 15x linen thread	26 (Level 1)
Padded Cuirass	10x iron 20x linen thread	26 (Level 1)
Padded Greaves	10x iron 20x linen thread	26 (Level 1)
Linen Cape	20x linen thread 1x silver	1 (Level 1)

Recommended Weapons and Items

Item	Materials
Draugr fang Bow	10x Ancient Bark 20x Silver 2x Deer hide 10x Guck
Frost Arrows	8x Wood 4x Obsidian 2x Feather 1x Freeze Gland
Blackmetal Sword	2x Fine wood 20x Black metal 5x Linen Thread
Blackmetal Atgeir	10x Fine wood 30x Black metal 5x Linen Thread

Since the Plains biome is considered the toughest biome in the game, the padded armor helps add that extra protection to the players.

These are all the armors you can equip to progress throughout each biome of Valheim. If you successfully craft each of them, then you’ll be the greatest Viking of Valheim in no time!

Valheim: Defeat and Summon All the Bosses

8. About Valheim

Developed by Iron Gate AB, Valheim is an online open-world Survival craft co-op game. Here, players will control dead Vikings and fight Odin’s ancient enemies and monsters.

In order to enter paradise, players will have to please Odin and prove their worth to the allfather.

The journey will not be easy as at every step, the danger of supernatural entities will loom. Players will have to venture out, explore various landforms, craft, and get stronger.