Mountain

Mountain

Snow and bare rock above the treeline, and freezing at all hours.
Tier	4
Distance	Above 50 m
Boss	Moder
Metal	Silver
Dungeon	Frost Cave
Weather	Snow, 83%
Threat	Freezing
Travel	On foot

The Mountain is every piece of land above 50 m: snow, bare rock, fir trees, and drakes circling the peaks. It is the first biome that makes you pay to get in. Freezing hits the moment you cross the treeline, and without frost resistance your health stops regenerating.

Locations

Mountains form anywhere the ground rises above 50 m, from roughly 600 m out. Height alone decides it, not distance from the centre, which is why mountains push up through forests and meadows everywhere. The world generator flattens peaks near spawn on purpose, so a mountain cannot form within 600 m of the centre.

Location	Image	What's Inside
Frost Cave		Ice, crystal and cultist lairs above 100 m. Fenris hair, red jute, a Moder vegvisir, and shafts that will kill you if you miss the ledge.
Howling Cavern		Hildir's second dungeon. Geirrhafa holds her silver chest.
Mountain Tower		A ruined stone tower above 150 m. Two chests and a 63% chance of a Moder vegvisir.
Abandoned Cabin		A snowed-in log building. The chest is where onion seeds come from.
Drake Nest		Rocks and ice around a glowing dragon egg, watched by up to three drakes. The egg comes back after eight hours.
Mountain Grave		A small stone ring. Dig the middle for bone fragments and a silver necklace.
Forge of Potential		One per world. Each idol spent on an item has a 65% chance to raise it one quality level; otherwise the item is destroyed.
Moder's Altar		High on a peak, between 150 m and 500 m. Three dragon eggs summon her.

Boss

You summon Moder high on a peak with 3 dragon eggs, taken from drake nests in the same mountain. She has 7,500 health, is weak to fire and immune to frost. She alternates between flying overhead dropping icicles and landing to bite.

She drops dragon tears, which build the artisan table. That unlocks the blast furnace, windmill, spinning wheel and stone oven, the entire Plains tier. Her power gives a permanent tailwind while you steer, +300 carry weight and +10% movement speed.

Creatures

Creature	Health	Drops
Bat	10	leather scraps
Cultist	200	red jute, cultist trophy
Drake	100	drake trophy, freeze gland
Fenring	300	wolf fang, fenring trophy
Moder	7500	dragon tear, moder trophy, moder power
Stone Golem	800	crystal, stone, stone golem trophy
Ulv	50	ulv trophy, wolf fang
Wolf	80	wolf meat, wolf fang, wolf pelt, wolf trophy

Resources

Material	Image	Kind
Dragon Egg		Materials
Dragon Tear		Materials
Fenris Claw		Materials
Fenris Hair		Materials
Freeze Gland		Materials
Mountain Peak Pepper Powder		Food
Obsidian		Materials
Onion		Crops & Farming
Onion Seeds		Crops & Farming
Red Jute		Materials
Silver		Metals & Ores
Silver Ore		Metals & Ores
Tetra		Fish
Wolf Fang		Materials
Wolf Meat		Food
Wolf Pelt		Materials

Hazards

Freezing applies everywhere, day and night. Health regeneration stops completely, stamina regeneration drops 60%, and you take a point of damage every second.
Frost resistance stops working while you are wet, so arriving straight from a swamp or a swim is lethal.
Blizzards run 17% of the time and cut visibility to almost nothing.
Frost cave shafts drop a long way, and bats are very good at luring you towards the edge.
Wolves spawn starred and in packs of up to six after dark, and fenrings only come out at night.
Stone golems look exactly like scenery until they stand up.

Lore

A dying party left a stone here: "We were twenty and now we are two." Ulf left one where he first saw the great drake, swearing never to come near the place again. Another says the worst of the beasts is the cold wind itself.

Astrid's stone is the one that matters. She woke to find Odin's words scattered on the ground, frozen into pebbles by the cold, and warmed them in her hands until she could hear them: "Slay the Forsaken. Chain their heads. I will come."

Notes

Altitude decides everything. Drakes, obsidian, drake nests and frost caves appear from 100 m, silver and stone golems from 120 m, and the towers from 150 m up.
If a peak has drakes and obsidian, that is your field test that it is tall enough to hold silver.
Dig out the ground under a silver vein, break one node, and the rest collapses and drops at once.
Obsidian and crystal can go through a portal. Silver ore cannot.
Dragon eggs weigh 200 each and respawn eight hours after you take them, so collect them in the same mountain as the altar.
Moder is immune to frost, so frostner is the wrong weapon for her, even though it is the biome's own.

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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