How to find sturdy wood in Valheim?

the sturdy wood (Core Wood (in English) is a valuable resource for Valheim, which is essential for your first advanced projects. To get some, you'll need a bronze axe and to know where to look.

Where can you find sturdy wood?

This precious wood can only be harvested by cutting down the pines of the Black Forest, the second biome of Valheim. To find this area, leave the starting meadows and look for a darker area filled with fir trees and rocks.

Pine trees are easily recognizable by their cones. Just one felled tree will already yield you several units of sturdy wood. If you want learn how to build To use this resource effectively, everything is explained in the dedicated guide.

What is sturdy wood used for?

This sturdy wood is used to make several essential items in Valheim. Here are the main crafts you can make:

• the deer fence, a powerful melee weapon for the early biomes
• L hardwood bow, a direct improvement on the basic wooden bow
• The portals, to travel quickly between your camps
• Miscellaneous advanced constructions (posts, beams, ship masts)

What tool should I use to harvest sturdy wood?

You need at least one bronze axe to cut down the pine trees in the Black Forest. A flint or stone axe isn't enough: the pine trees are resistant to lower-level axes. Here's how to make your own cutting tools.

How to make a flint axe?

Start by building a workbench with 10 wood : It's essential for crafting your first tools. Stay nearby, and the recipe for the flint axe will unlock immediately.

The flint axe is the second cutting tool in the game, after the stone axe. It weighs 1.5 kg and a lifespan of 100. To make it:

• 4 wood
• 6 flint

How do you make a bronze axe?

The bronze axe is forged at the forge, a station you unlock as soon as you pick up your first piece of copper. You don't need to defeat a boss to get there. Copper and the’tin lead directly into the Black Forest via a pickaxe. Pour these minerals into a foundry powered by coal, then combine a copper ingot and a tin ingot at the forge to create a bronze ingot.

The bronze axe is sturdier than the previous ones: 2 kg and a lifespan of 125. Here is his recipe:

• 4 wood
• 8 bronze
• 2 pieces of leather

With bronze, you can also make a bronze pickaxe, which is really handy for mining even more efficiently in the Black Forest. And if you want to speed up your progress, check out the cheat codes available in the game.