Kvastur

Kvastur

A silent wooden guardian that stands watch over the Bog Witch's hut.
Biome	Swamp
Alignment	Neutral
Faction	Dvergr
Health	700
Damage	Attack: 80 Blunt
Weak To	Fire, Chop
Resistant To	-
Immune To	Poison, Spirit, Pickaxe
Stagger	30%
Tameable	No
Trophy	Kvastur trophy
Spawn ID	`spawn BogWitchKvastur`

Kvastur stands outside the Bog Witch's hut in the Swamp, and it is that rare thing in Valheim: something large that is on your side by default. It leaves you alone unless you hit it first, and it spends its time swatting whatever crawls out of the marsh towards the hut. Most players meet it as a surprise, 700 health of guardian that turns out to be a neighbour rather than a fight.

Behaviour

It is neutral and stays rooted to its post. It holds position around the hut and attacks hostile creatures that come near, which makes it a real ally when the marsh sends Draugr or a Blob up the path while you are busy trading. Its one attack is a heavy overhead slam that deals 80 blunt about two metres in front of it, on a two second cycle, with no ranged attack and no way to call for help. Hit it and it defends itself, and with that much health it can keep the fight going a long time. It will not chase you out across the water, and it does not stay dead either: a new one takes up the same post roughly a minute later. Whatever it is made of is closer to timber than to flesh, and it fights like something that has never needed to hurry.

Where to Find It

It spawns in one place only, the Bog Witch's hut, the small camp in the Swamp where the witch keeps her stock, and there is always exactly one there. Find the hut and you have found Kvastur. It spawns nowhere else in the biome, time of day makes no difference, and it has no star variants. Because you have to go looking for the hut, the guardian is as rare as your luck exploring the marshes. Killing it does not clear the spot, since another arrives at the same post about a minute later, so the doorway never stays empty.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The honest advice is to leave it alone, because it guards the only friendly building in the Swamp and gives back very little for the trouble. If you do fight it, it is built like timber and dies like timber. Fire does double damage and chopping tools bite half again as hard, so a torch and the axe you fell trees with beat the sword on your hip. Poison is wasted on it, which rules out the Ooze Bombs and Poison Arrows the biome otherwise invites, and a pickaxe does nothing at all. The slam is slow and easy to read, so a shield block or a simple step backwards beats it every time, and since it never leaves its post you can just as well walk out of range and shoot. Iron tier gear makes this comfortable, but below that, 80 blunt a swing folds you quickly.

It takes far more damage from Fire.
It takes extra damage from Chop.
It ignores Poison, Spirit and Pickaxe damage.

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All Swamp Creatures

Name	Biome	Alignment	Health	Very Weak To	Weak To	Resistant To	Very Resistant To	Immune To	Drops	Level Variants	Spawn ID
Abomination	Swamp	Aggressive	800	-	Fire	Blunt	Pierce	Frost, Poison, Spirit	Abomination Trophy, Guck, Root (item)	-	`spawn Abomination`
Blob	Swamp	Aggressive	50	-	Blunt, Frost, Lightning	Slash, Pierce, Fire	-	Poison	Ooze, Blob trophy	-	`spawn Blob`
Draugr	Swamp	Aggressive	100	-	-	Fire	-	Poison	Draugr trophy, Entrails	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Draugr`
Draugr Elite	Swamp	Aggressive	200	-	-	Fire	-	Poison	Draugr Elite trophy, Entrails	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Draugr_Elite`
Kvastur	Swamp	Neutral	700	Fire	Chop	-	-	Poison, Spirit, Pickaxe	Resin, Wood, Kvastur trophy	-	`spawn BogWitchKvastur`
Leech	Swamp	Aggressive	60	-	-	Poison	-	Fire, Spirit	Bloodbag, Leech trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Leech`
Oozer	Swamp	Aggressive	150	-	Blunt, Frost, Lightning	Slash, Pierce, Fire	-	Poison	Ooze, Scrap iron	-	`spawn BlobElite`
Surtling	Swamp	Aggressive	20	-	Frost	-	-	Fire, Poison, Spirit	Surtling core, Coal, Surtling trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Surtling`
Wraith	Swamp	Aggressive	100	-	Fire, Spirit	Blunt, Slash, Pierce	-	Frost, Poison	Chain, Wraith trophy	-	`spawn Wraith`
Writhan	Swamp	Aggressive	400	-	Slash	Blunt, Fire	-	Poison	Writhan Roots, Writhan Trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Writhan`

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