Crafting Stations

Crafting stations are the benches, forges, furnaces and tables that unlock every recipe in Valheim. Each one gates a tier of gear and materials. You cannot make Bronze without a Forge or process iron without upgrading that forge, and the later biomes each add their own specialised stations.

Most stations need a roof and at least 70 % cover before they will craft or repair. For building and placing pieces, the station only has to be in range.

Main Stations and What They Unlock

• Workbench: the starting station. It unlocks almost all basic wood building pieces, early tools, arrows and furniture, and it suppresses enemy spawns in its radius (base 20 m, up to 36 m fully upgraded).
• Forge: needed for Bronze, iron and most metal weapons and armour. You need Copper from a Smelter first, and upgrades unlock higher-tier metal recipes.
• Stonecutter: needed for every Stone, Black Marble and Grausten building piece. Its build range is fixed at 20 m.
• Artisan Table: unlocked after Moder. You need it for the Blast Furnace, Windmill, Spinning Wheel and Stone Oven, and it has a 40 m range.
• Black Forge and Galdr Table: the Mistlands stations for Carapace, eitr and magic gear.
• Later stations in the Ashlands and Deep North follow the same pattern, with each new material tier bringing its own bench.

Station Upgrade Parts

Most stations accept upgrade pieces placed within a couple of metres (anvil, bellows, tool rack, cooler and so on). Each upgrade raises the station's level by one. Recipes check that level, so higher gear simply will not appear until you upgrade the station.

Workbench

Name	Image	Crafting Materials
Chopping block		10x Wood 10x Flint
Tanning Rack		10x Wood 15x Flint 20x Leather Scraps 5x Deer Hide
Adze		10x Finewood 3x Bronze
Tool shelf		4x Iron 10x Finewood 4x Obsidian

Forge

Name	Image	Crafting Materials
Forge bellows		5x Wood 5x Deer Hide 4x Chain
Anvils	-	-
Grinding wheel		25x Wood 1x Sharpening Stone
Smith's Anvil		20x Iron 5x Wood
Forge cooler		25x Finewood 10x Copper
Forge Toolrack		15x Iron 10x Wood

Black Forge

Name	Image	Crafting Materials
Black forge cooler		5x Iron 5x Copper 4x Black Marble
Vice		5x Iron 8x Copper 2x Mechanical Spring
Metal cutter		5x Black Marble 5x Flametal 5x Ashwood 4x Charred Bone
Gem cutter		5x Flametal 8x Ashwood 2x Morgen Sinew 1x Bloodstone
Smith's Aprons		-

Galdr Table

Name	Image	Crafting Materials
Rune table		10x Black Marble 5x Yggdrasil Wood 10x Refined Eitr
Unfading Candles		10x Black Marble 3x Skeleton trophy 10x Refined Eitr 15x Resin
Feathery Wreath		8x Celestial Feather 1x Asksvin trophy 10x Refined Eitr 3x Ashwood
Standing Loom		-

Cauldron

Name	Image	Crafting Materials
Spice rack		3x Dandelion 2x Carrot 5x Mushroom 3x Thistle 3x Turnip
Butcher's table		2x Ancient Bark 4x Corewood 4x Finewood 2x Silver
Pots and pans		5x Iron 5x Copper 5x Black Metal 10x Finewood
Mortar and pestle		8x Black Marble 6x Finewood 4x Corewood
Rolling Pins and Cutting Boards		8x Ashwood 6x Finewood 4x Flametal
Smoker		-

Artisan Table

Notes

• A station needs a roof and 70% cover to craft or repair, but placing building pieces only needs the station in range.
• Repairing is free, and any station that could have crafted an item can also repair it.
• Station upgrades only count when they are built close to their station.
• A Workbench stops enemies from spawning around it, which is why bases are usually ringed with them.
• Raids can destroy stations, so keep the important ones inside walls or under solid roofs.
• Smelters, Charcoal Kilns, Blast Furnaces and similar processing stations follow the same roof rules, but they do not take the upgrades of the main crafting stations.

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