Boar

Boar

The first thing that ever charges you, and the first thing you ever farm.
Biome	Meadows
Alignment	Aggressive
Faction	Forest
Health	10
Damage	Attack: 10 Blunt
Weak To	-
Resistant To	-
Immune To	Spirit
Stagger	50%
Tameable	yes
Trophy	Boar trophy
Spawn ID	`spawn Boar`

Almost every Valheim save starts with a Boar somewhere in the long grass, snorting and then charging. It is the weakest hostile creature in the game, with ten hit points and a headbutt most players can survive a dozen of. It is also the most useful, because it is the first animal in the Meadows you can pen, feed and breed into an endless supply of meat and leather.

Behaviour

A wild boar spots you, squeals and runs straight in. Its only attack is an upward flick of the head through a narrow arc, dealing blunt damage roughly every five seconds with barely a metre and a half of reach. The rhythm is what makes boars memorable, not the damage: a boar charges, hits, then backs off and circles before coming in again, and three of them taking turns around a half-naked new player can really get you killed. They chase you until they lose sight of you, then forget the whole thing and go back to rooting for food. Open flame scares them outright, so a raised torch scatters a group without a single swing. Approach crouched and they never notice you at all, which is the basis of every taming pen. A tamed boar follows you around, breeds readily and is harmless to everything, you included.

Where to Find It

Boars are common across the Meadows and only the Meadows. They spawn thinly over open grass at any hour, day or night, with up to four wandering an area at once. Two fixed spawns concentrate them: boar runestones, which spawn anywhere from one to nine at a time, and the abandoned farmsteads around the biome, which hold up to two each. Both groups are tied to their spawn point, which makes them awkward to herd home over any distance. Before Eikthyr is defeated, they also make up half of the very first raid, "Eikthyr rallies the creatures of the forest", arriving alongside Necks. One-star boars are uncommon and two-star boars are rare in the wild, but offspring inherit stars, so a single starred capture eventually breeds a whole starred herd.

Where and When	At Once	How Often	Stars
Anywhere in Meadows	4	-	After 800 meters from the world center
1-9 spawn points near Boar runestones	-	One time	Yes
0-2 spawn points near abandoned farms in Meadows	-	One time	Yes
From breeding	5, within 10 meters	-	Inherited from either parent, randomly
During "Eikthyr rallies the creatures of the forest," event before defeating Eikthyr	2	Very common	No

Strengths and Weaknesses

Killing a boar takes no trick, and no damage type matters against it: every element and every weapon lands at full value, and with ten hit points a club, a Flint Spear or a well-thrown rock finishes it in a swing or two. Block and counter instead of dodging, because its stagger threshold is low and the riposte kills outright, and a wooden shield is plenty. The only real danger is being surrounded, so back into a rock face or a doorway and let them come one at a time, or just wave a torch and watch the group break up. With most of them, though, you should not fight at all. Crouch, drop Raspberries, Blueberries, Carrots, Turnips, Onions or Mushrooms within a metre, and leave them undisturbed in a fenced pen for about half an hour of play. Three pieces of food and no interruptions turn the game's first enemy into your first farm.

It ignores Spirit damage.

Drops

Every kill drops Meat and Leather Scraps, enough between them for a first cooked meal and a first set of armour.

Item	Base	1 Star	2 Star
Boar trophy	15%	15%	15%
Leather scraps	1	2	4
Boar meat	1	2	4

Level Variants

A creature can spawn at one of three levels, shown as stars beside its name. Each level is rolled separately at spawn, so a two-star is rarer than a one-star. The difference goes beyond the numbers: a starred boar is recoloured or larger, so you can see it coming.

Level	Stars	Health	Damage	Drops
1	-	10	100%	x1
2	⭐	20	150%	x2
3	⭐⭐	30	200%	x4

Notes

Boars will not eat Yellow Mushrooms.

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Name	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`

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