Meadows

Meadows

The starting biome, and the only one that lets a new Viking settle in.
Tier	1
Distance	0 to 5,100 m
Boss	Eikthyr
Metal	Flint
Dungeon	-
Weather	Clear, 86%
Threat	Cold at night
Travel	On foot

The Meadows are where every world starts: rolling green grass, beech and birch thickets, streams that open into lakes, and Deer and Boar grazing in the open. It is bright, calm and almost entirely harmless. 86% of its weather is clear sky, and until you kill Eikthyr nothing worse than a Greyling comes out at night.

Locations

The Meadows run from the centre of the map out to about 5,100 m. The Sacrificial Stones sit at dead centre, and every world starts you in the Meadows. Past 500 m the Black Forest starts cutting into it, so far-out Meadows are patches rather than one continuous sheet.

Location	Image	What's Inside
Sacrificial Stones		Seven carved stones at the exact centre of the map. Hang a boss trophy on its own stone for that boss's power. Nothing can be built within 26 m.
Eikthyr's Altar		Three per world, all within 1,000 m of the centre. Two deer trophies summon him.
Abandoned House		A ruined wooden building. Half hold a chest, a quarter a bee nest, and two of the thirteen layouts hide an axe head.
Abandoned Farm		Two to five buildings with broken garden plots. Chests, bee nests, raspberry bushes, dandelions and boars.
Draugr Village		A walled settlement past 2,000 m, full of draugr. Chests hide under the great hall floor.
Viking Graveyard		Stones laid out as a longship. Dig the centre line for a buried chest, amber and coins.
Dolmen		A capstone tomb. A skeleton rises from it at night; buried treasure below.
Ancient Stone Circle		Five indestructible pillars. No loot, but they give maximum building support.
Combat Ruin		A small wooden arena with a bone pile and a chest hidden under the platform.
Hildir's Camp		A wagon, tents and a map table under a protective dome. Hildir sells clothes here.

Boss

You summon Eikthyr at a mystical altar with 2 deer trophies. Each world has three of these altars, all within 1,000 m of the centre. He has 500 health and fights with antlers and lightning.

Killing him drops the Hard Antler, which becomes the Antler Pickaxe, and that pickaxe is the only way to mine Copper and Tin. His power cuts the stamina cost of running, jumping and swimming by 60% for five minutes.

Creatures

Creature	Health	Drops
Boar	10	boar meat, leather scraps, boar trophy
Chicken	10	feathers, chicken meat
Deer	10	deer hide, deer trophy, deer meat
Eikthyr	500	eikthyr trophy, hard antler, eikthyr power
Frost Blob	50	crystal
Greyling	20	resin
Gull	1	feathers
Hen	80	feathers, chicken meat
Neck	5	neck tail, neck trophy

Resources

Material	Image	Kind
Acorns		Crops & Farming
Barber Kit		Materials
Basic Fireworks		Materials
Beech Seeds		Crops & Farming
Birch Seeds		Crops & Farming
Boar Meat		Food
Chicken Meat		Food
Crystal		Materials
Dandelion		Food
Deer Hide		Materials
Deer Meat		Food
Egg		Food
Finewood		Materials
Flint		Materials
Hard Antler		Materials
Honey		Food
Iron Pit		Materials
Leather Scraps		Materials
Mushroom		Food
Neck Tail		Food
Perch		Fish
Pike		Fish
Queen Bee		Materials
Raspberries		Food
Raw Fish		Food
Resin		Materials
Silver Necklace		Materials
Tankard		Materials
Wooden Battle Idol	-	Materials
Wooden Protection Idol		Materials

Hazards

Night brings the Cold effect, which cuts stamina regeneration unless you are near a fire.
Rain and thunderstorms make you Wet and weather your buildings by one twentieth of their health a minute, down to half.
Draugr villages past 2,000 m put a mid-tier fight in a starter biome. Draugr hit for 40 to 50 against bare skin.
Bee nests sting back with poison in a 4 m radius.
Trolls wander in from the Black Forest, and a falling tree will kill you as readily as anything living.

Lore

The runestones here are the world's welcome. One explains that Odin threw down the Vanir, the giants and the older things, and that the greatest of them could not be killed, so they were Forsaken and exiled to this world. Another tells you to keep to the grass, build away from the trees and fear the Horned One. Settlers left stones of their own: Ulf explains how to raise a roof, and Astrid the shieldmaiden remembers nothing of her life before.

Eikthyr is Eikþyrnir, the stag that stands over Valhalla. His stone reads "His antlers are branches of iron".

Notes

Boars and Necks only spawn with stars past 800 m from the centre.
Greylings, Deer and the Greydwarf spawner that appears after Eikthyr only fire inside forest patches, which are fixed at world generation. Planting trees does not create one.
It is the best building biome in the game, with flat ground, no ambient status effect, and Stone circle pillars that give maximum support.
You find Flint on Meadows shorelines and nowhere else.
Tame Boars with Raspberries, Blueberries, Carrots, Onions, Turnips or Red Mushrooms.

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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