Chicken

Chicken

A hatchling that potters round the farm for two days and then becomes a hen.
Biome	Meadows
Alignment	Passive
Faction	Animal
Health	10
Damage	0
Weak To	-
Resistant To	-
Immune To	Spirit
Stagger	50%
Tameable	Yes
Trophy	-
Spawn ID	`spawn Chicken`

The Chicken is the only creature in Valheim you have to make rather than find: an egg, a fire and half an hour of patience. It has ten health and no attack at all, and it spends its short childhood pottering around whatever Meadows farm you built for it before it grows into a Hen. It is no threat at all, but as livestock it starts a permanent supply of feathers and meat.

Behaviour

It peeps, wanders in a small radius, and follows the adult hens and the seeds you scatter, and that is all it does. It is born already tame, so it is never hostile, and because it is tame, ordinary weapons cannot harm it at all: only a butcher knife will touch it. That protection only works one way, though. It has no defence of its own, and anything that gets into the pen, whether a stray Greyling, a boar or a raid that spawns inside your walls, will kill the whole flock in seconds. Chicks will also happily walk off cliffs, into fires and into water, so a fenced and roofed pen matters far more than anything the bird does. Left alone and fed, it grows into a hen after roughly two in-game days. At that point it gains eighty health, a feeble ten blunt peck and the ability to lay eggs of its own.

Where to Find It

It never spawns in the wild, in any biome, at any time. It only appears where you hatch it: set an Egg down next to a fire or another heat source, and after about thirty minutes, hovering over it reads "warm" and it cracks. You get the eggs from Haldor for 1,500 Coins late in a run, from sealed towers out in the Mistlands, or from two well-fed hens of your own once the flock is established. In practice that means it lives wherever your base is, most often the Meadows. It has no star variants, no rarity roll and no event that spawns it.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Raising chickens is husbandry, not combat. Tame animals ignore ordinary weapons entirely, so the only way to kill one deliberately is with a Butcher Knife, and anything else you swing at the pen simply passes through the birds. Killing a chick is poor economics anyway, since a grown hen gives more and keeps laying, so the right play is always to wait the two days out. The real combat problem is defence: wall the pen properly, roof it against Drakes and Deathsquitos, keep it lit so nothing spawns inside, and place it away from open ground that raids can path through. A Workbench, a fence and a Hearth are the gear tier that keeps this creature safe, and no amount of Flametal armour will help if you left the gate open.

It ignores Spirit.

Drops

It drops Feathers and a scrap of meat, but only to a butcher knife, and a grown hen is worth considerably more than a chick.

Item	Image	Base	1 Star	2 Star
Feathers		50%	-	-
Chicken meat		25%	-	-

Notes

Chickens are tameable animals, so players can only damage them directly with a Butcher Knife.
Chickens spawned with Console Commands count as hostile instead: they run away from players, take regular damage from players, and cannot be damaged with a butcher knife.
Other baby animals, such as Boars and Wolves, work the same way.

All Creature Categories

All Tameable Animals

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`

All Categories