Animals

Animals in Valheim are the creatures you farm, hunt or catch for food, crafting materials and mounts. Some are aggressive until tamed, while others are completely passive and flee on sight. Both kinds drop meat, hides, Feathers and other resources for cooking, armour, building and gear.

Tameable Animals

These start hostile or skittish, but once you pen them and feed them the right items they become a permanent supply of food and materials:

• Boars (Meadows) are the easiest first tame. They eat berries, Carrots, Turnips or Mushrooms, and drop Boar Meat and Leather Scraps.
• Wolves (Mountains) become combat companions that follow you and fight. They eat raw meat and drop Wolf Meat, Wolf Pelt and fangs.
• Lox (Plains) become large rideable mounts once saddled. They eat Barley, Flax or Cloudberries, and drop Lox Meat and Lox Pelt.
• Asksvin (Ashlands) make fast mounts and strong defenders. They eat Smoke Puffs, Vineberries or Fiddleheads.
• Moose (Deep North) are a rideable animal that prefers Lingonberries. They drop moose meat, hide and sinew.
• Chickens and Hens hatch from eggs bought from Haldor. Once grown, they give a steady supply of Feathers and eggs.

Tamed animals keep their star level and can pass stars to their offspring. Breeding needs two fed adults nearby, enough space and a player within range. Population limits apply, so you cannot pack a pen endlessly.

Passive Wildlife

These never attack. They run or fly away, but they are still worth hunting for materials:

• Deer are common in the Meadows and Black Forest. They drop Deer Hide, meat and the trophy you use to summon Eikthyr.
• Birds (seagulls and crows) drop feathers when you shoot them with a bow, which is useful early on for arrows.
• Hares (Mistlands) drop Hare Meat and Scale Hide.
• Seals and other Deep North animals give extra meat and hide in the final biome.

Passive animals scare easily, so you usually need ranged weapons and patience.

Fishing

Fish are caught rather than fought. You need a Fishing Rod and the correct bait, both originally bought from Haldor. Basic bait works in the Meadows, while later biomes need specialised bait crafted from trophies and earlier fish.

You clean caught fish into Raw Fish at a Cauldron or Food Preparation Table before you can cook them. Different waters and baits produce different species, so fishing is a reliable way to stock food without farming or combat.

Notes

• Aggressive animals (boars, wolves, lox, asksvin, moose) must be trapped and fed before they turn friendly.
• Passive animals never aggro but flee quickly, so bows are the usual tool.
• You can breed tamed animals for a steady supply of meat, hide, feathers and other crafting materials.
• Starred parents pass their star level to their offspring, which means better drops from the farm.
• Fishing needs the right bait for the biome; the wrong bait catches nothing.
• Most animal materials go straight into food recipes, leather armour, capes, building decorations and early weapons.

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All Animals

Tameable Animals

Name	Image	Biome	Alignment	Health	Very Weak To	Weak To	Resistant To	Very Resistant To	Immune To	Drops	Level Variants	Spawn ID
Asksvin		Ashlands	Aggressive	800	-	-	Fire, Poison	-	Spirit	Asksvin tail, Asksvin hide, Asksvin bladder, Asksvin trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	spawn Asksvin
Boar		Meadows	Aggressive	10	-	-	-	-	Spirit	Boar meat, Leather scraps, Boar trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	spawn Boar
Chicken		Not wild	Passive	10	-	-	-	-	Spirit	Feathers, Chicken meat	-	spawn Chicken
Hen		Not wild	Passive	80	-	-	-	-	Spirit	Feathers, Chicken meat	-	spawn Hen
Lox		Plains	Aggressive	1000	-	Fire	Blunt, Slash, Frost	-	Spirit	Lox meat, Lox pelt, Lox trophy	-	spawn Lox
Wolf		Mountain	Aggressive	80	-	-	-	-	Spirit	Wolf meat, Wolf fang, Wolf pelt, Wolf trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	spawn Wolf
Moose		Deep North	Aggressive	1000	-	Fire	Blunt, Slash, Frost	-	Spirit	Moose Meat, Moose Hide, Moose Sinew, Moose Trophy	-	spawn moose

Passive Animals

Name	Image	Biome	Alignment	Health	Very Weak To	Weak To	Resistant To	Very Resistant To	Immune To	Drops	Level Variants	Spawn ID
Crow		Black Forest	Passive	1	-	-	-	-	-	Feathers	-	spawn Crow
Deer		Meadows	Passive	10	-	-	-	-	Spirit	Deer hide, Deer trophy, Deer meat	⭐ ⭐⭐	spawn Deer
Gull		Meadows	Passive	1	-	-	-	-	-	Feathers	-	spawn Seagal
Hare		Mistlands	Passive	10	-	-	-	-	Spirit	Hare meat, Scale hide, Hare trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	spawn Hare
Seal		Deep North	Passive	400	-	Fire	-	-	Spirit, Stagger	Seal Pelt, Seal Blubber, Seal Trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	spawn Seal
Shadow		Deep North	Passive	-	-	-	-	-	Blunt, Slash, Pierce, Chop, Pickaxe, Fire, Frost, Lightning, Poison, Spirit	-	-	spawn ShadowPerson

Fish

Name	Image	Biome	Drops	Caught With	Weight	Stack	Level Variants	Spawn ID
Anglerfish		Mistlands	3x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Anglerfish
Coral Cod		Ocean	2x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Coral
Giant Herring		Swamp	2x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Giant
Grouper		Plains	2x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Grouper
Magmafish		Ashlands	3x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Magmafish
Northern Salmon		Deep North	3x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Northern
Perch		Meadows	1x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Perch
Pike		Meadows	1x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Pike
Pufferfish		Mistlands	3x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Pufferfish
Tetra		Mountain	1x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Tetra
Trollfish		Black Forest	1x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Trollfish
Tuna		Ocean	2x Raw Fish	Fishing	2.0	10	-	spawn Tuna

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