Metals & Ores

Metals and ores are the backbone of progression in Valheim, and every weapon and armour tier above leather is made from one of them. They are also the only items in the game that cannot pass through a Portal. Ore, scrap and ingots all have to travel by ship or on foot, which is why smelters usually sit near the water and why the next mine often decides where your next outpost goes.

Progression Order

• Copper and Tin are found in the Black Forest and mined with the Antler Pickaxe. A Forge combines 2 copper and 1 tin into Bronze.
• Iron comes from the Swamp as Scrap Iron, dug out of Muddy Scrap Piles inside Sunken Crypts. You need a Bronze Pickaxe or better, and it smelts in a normal Smelter.
• Silver sits in buried veins in the Mountains, which you find with the Wishbone from Bonemass. It needs an Iron Pickaxe and is also processed in a Smelter.
• Black Metal drops as Black Metal Scrap from Fulings in the Plains, and it needs a Blast Furnace.
• Flametal from the Ashlands is mined as Flametal Ore or found in chests, and it also needs a Blast Furnace.
• Bloodgold from the Deep North is smelted from Petrified Tissue, which you blast out of petrified gammeltrolls with ember charges. It also needs a Blast Furnace.

Later biomes follow the same pattern: a new ore or scrap, a new processing station if one is needed, and a higher-tier pickaxe to mine it.

Smelting and Crafting

Raw ore and scrap are useless until you refine them:

• A Smelter, fuelled by Coal, turns Copper Ore, Tin Ore, Scrap Iron and Silver Ore into their ingots.
• Black Metal Scrap and Flametal Ore need a Blast Furnace.
• Bronze is the only true alloy, and you make it at the Forge, not in a smelter.

Coal comes from wood burned in a Charcoal Kiln, and without a steady coal supply your smelting stops.

Portals and Travel

Every ore, scrap and ingot is flagged no-teleport. That one rule forces real logistics: longship runs, coastal bases and careful planning of how much metal you can carry. The Megingjord exists largely because these stacks are so heavy.

Dropped metal never despawns, so you can move a full load in several trips if you need to.

Notes

• All metals and ores stack to 30.
• You need the mining tool of the previous tier to reach the next one.
• Smelting burns coal, so plan kiln production alongside your mining runs.
• Bronze is crafted at the Forge from 2 Copper and 1 Tin. Everything else is a direct smelt.
• Black Metal and Flametal cannot be processed in a normal Smelter.

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All Metals & Ores

Name	Image	Weight	Stack	Location	Crafting Materials	Spawn ID
Black Metal Scrap		10	30	Creatures (Fuling, Fuling Berserker, Fuling shaman) Found In (Plains)	-	spawn BlackMetalScrap
Black Metal		12	30	Blast furnace	1x Black metal scrap	spawn BlackMetal
Bloodgold		14	30	Blast Furnace	1x Petrified Tissue	spawn Gold
Bronze		12	30	Forge Smelter	2x Copper 1x Tin	spawn Bronze
Copper Ore		10	30	Copper deposit	-	spawn CopperOre
Copper Scrap		10	30	Dropped by breaking some Dvergr structures Ancient swords/armor	-	spawn CopperScrap
Copper		12	30	Smelter Dvergr metal wall	1x Copper ore	spawn Copper
Flametal Ore		10	30	Flametal ore vein in the Ashlands	-	spawn FlametalOreNew
Flametal		12	30	Blast furnace	1x Flametal ore	spawn FlametalNew
Iron Ore		10	30	Fishing (Giant herring bonus drop)	-	spawn IronOre
Iron		12	30	Smelter	1x Scrap iron	spawn Iron
Petrified Tissue		14	30	Gammeltroll	-	spawn GoldOre
Scrap Bronze		10	30	Charred Fortress	-	spawn BronzeScrap
Scrap Iron		10	30	Creatures (Oozers) As Loot (Muddy scrap pile, Sunken Crypts Chests) Found In (Ancient sword, Ancient armor)	-	spawn IronScrap
Silver Ore		14	30	Silver veins in Mountain	-	spawn SilverOre
Silver		14	30	Smelting	1x Silver ore	spawn Silver
Tin Ore		8	30	Tin deposit	-	spawn TinOre
Tin		8	30	Smelter	1x Tin ore	spawn Tin

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