Black Forest

Black Forest

Dark pine forest with copper in the hills and tin along the shore.
Tier	2
Distance	500 to 8,000 m
Boss	The Elder
Metal	Copper and tin
Dungeon	Burial Chamber
Weather	Clear, 87%
Threat	Greydwarf packs after dark
Travel	On foot

The Black Forest is the ring of land just outside the Meadows and the first biome that fights back. Pine and Fir trees grow thick enough to block out the midday sun, and Blueberry bushes and blue-glowing Thistle cover the ground. Copper sits half-buried in the hills and Tin glints along the shore. Greydwarves chatter constantly, and something heavy is usually moving through the trees.

Locations

It stretches from 500 m out to 8,000 m, forming the ring around the Meadows, and it is meant to be your second biome. Two things in it depend on distance: Trolls and Greydwarf Brutes only spawn with stars past 2,000 m, and Haldor only appears from 1,500 m out.

Location	Image	What's Inside
Burial Chamber		The first dungeon: a pitch dark maze of twenty to forty rooms. Surtling cores, skeletons, ghosts and the occasional Elder vegvisir.
Troll Cave		A rock mouth holding one troll. Nothing else can get in, so a cleared cave is the safest room in the game.
Bear Cave		A cave with a sleeping bear and about ten yellow mushrooms.
Smouldering Tomb		One of Hildir's three dungeons, lit by two iron torches. Brenna guards her brass chest.
Abandoned Outpost		Ruined stone towers with crows circling. Greydwarves, skeletons, chests and a 30% chance of an Elder vegvisir.
Greydwarf Nest		A spawner that never stops. Left alive it is a wood, stone, resin and eye farm.
The Elder's Altar		An ancient bowl. Three ancient seeds summon him.
Haldor's Camp		A wagon pulled by a lox, at least 1,500 m from the centre. Haldor trades here.
Big Rock Clearing		One per world. A glowing rock ringed by twenty-two mysterious rocks.

Boss

The Elder is summoned at an ancient bowl with 3 Ancient Seeds, which drop from Greydwarf Brutes and Greydwarf Nests. He has 2,500 health and is very weak to fire. He attacks by throwing vines and filling the ground around you with grasping roots.

He drops the Swamp Key, which opens every Sunken Crypt in the world and with it the whole iron tier. His power gives +30% health regeneration and +60% chop and pickaxe damage.

Creatures

Creature	Health	Drops
Bear	800	bear hide, bear meat, bear paw, bear trophy
Crow	1	feathers
Ghost	60	ectoplasm
Greydwarf	40	greydwarf eye, greydwarf trophy, resin, stone, wood
Greydwarf Brute	150	ancient seed, dandelion, greydwarf brute trophy, greydwarf eye, stone
Greydwarf Shaman	60	greydwarf eye, greydwarf shaman trophy, resin, wood, bukeperries
Rancid remains	100	bone fragments, rancid remains trophy
Skeleton	40	bone fragments, skeleton trophy
The Elder	2500	the elder trophy, swamp key, the elder power
Troll	600	coins, troll hide, troll trophy

Resources

Material	Image	Kind
Amber		Materials
Amber Pearl		Materials
Ancient Seed		Materials
Barrel Hoops		Materials
Bear Hide		Materials
Bear Meat		Food
Bear Paw		Materials
Blueberries		Food
Bone Fragments		Materials
Bronze		Metals & Ores
Bronze Battle Idol		Materials
Bronze Nails		Materials
Carrot		Crops & Farming
Carrot Seeds		Crops & Farming
Copper		Metals & Ores
Copper Ore		Metals & Ores
Corewood		Materials
Ectoplasm		Materials
Feathers		Materials
Fir Cone		Crops & Farming
Fishing Rod		Tools
Greydwarf Eye		Materials
Horn of Celebration		Materials
Love Potion		Meads & Potions
Mead Horn of Odin		Materials
Pine Cone		Crops & Farming
Ruby		Materials
Swamp Key		Materials
Thistle		Food
Thunder Stone		Materials
Tin		Metals & Ores
Tin Ore		Metals & Ores
Troll Hide		Materials
Trollfish		Fish
Yellow Mushroom		Food
Ymir Flesh		Materials

Hazards

At night the spawner runs every minute at full chance, sending up to six Greydwarves in groups of three and four, with Shamans healing them.
A Shaman's poison cone cannot be blocked.
Trolls hit for 60 to 70 damage and smash terrain and buildings as easily as trees.
A Bear ambushes you with 800 health, but it will not come within 3 m of fire.
Ghosts shrug off every physical damage type you have at this tier.
Copper deposits reach down to the dig limit, so mining one out leaves a pit you can fall into.

Lore

The Black Forest runestones are warnings: "Beware the deep trees, beware the true dark." One calls The Elder the Old One, once a shoot of Yggdrasil itself, banished for his pride, whose roots run deep. Another says the Greydwarves are a murderer's rotting soul that draws rock, wood and moss to itself and walks at night, and it advises carrying a Torch.

One stone counts the exiles and says the people brought here are not the first men in this land, pointing to the halls beneath the ground.

Notes

A Troll does enough terrain damage to shatter Copper and Tin deposits and fell Oak and Birch trees, which lets you make Bronze before Eikthyr.
A Greydwarf Nest left alive is an endless farm for Wood, Stone, Resin and Greydwarf Eyes. A roof over a 4 m radius shuts one off.
Enemies killed inside a Burial Chamber or a Troll Cave never respawn, but the Yellow Mushrooms grow back after four hours.
A cleared Troll Cave is the safest storage in the early game, because nothing can get in.
Copper is found inland in the hills and Tin on the coast, so a boat and a route along the shore are the fastest way to farm Tin.
Carrot Seeds are picked here and never regrow in the wild, so plant your first handful straight away.

All Biomes

Biome	Where	Boss	Materials
Meadows	0 to 5,100 m from the centre. Your world starts here.	Eikthyr	Wood Flint Raspberries Leather scraps Deer hide Honey
Black Forest	500 to 8,000 m out, the ring just past the Meadows.	The Elder	Copper Tin Core wood Surtling cores Thistle Carrot seeds
Swamp	2,000 to 6,000 m out, low and flooded.	Bonemass	Iron Ancient bark Guck Roots Turnip seeds Chains
Mountain	Any ground above 50 m, from 600 m out.	Moder	Silver Obsidian Wolf pelt Dragon eggs Crystal Onion seeds
Plains	2,900 to 8,000 m out, open golden grass.	Yagluth	Black metal Barley Flax Tar Lox meat Needles
Mistlands	5,900 to 10,000 m out, the last ring before the edge.	The Queen	Black marble Soft tissue Sap Yggdrasil wood Magecaps Jotun puffs
Ashlands	A crescent island at the far south, past boiling water.	Fader	Flametal Grausten Ashwood Sulfur Asksvin hide Iolite Bloodstone Jade
Deep North	The far north, against the world edge.	Kall Fimbulbringer	Bloodgold Petrified tissue Ice Timberwood Moose hide Seal pelt
Ocean	Anything below 26 m of water, between every landmass.	-	Chitin Serpent scale Serpent meat Tuna Coral cod

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