Root Fang

Root Fang

Like the twisting branch was made to seek the sun, this bow was made to seek the slaughter.
Type	Bow
Damage	82 Pierce 10 Poison
Stamina	14 primary
Block	3 block armour
Weight	-
Durability	100
Crafting Station	Black forge
Station Level	4
Crafting Materials	1x Ash Fang 5x Flametal 1x Jade
Biome	Ashlands
Spawn ID	`spawn BowAshlandsRoot`

The Root Fang is a bow in Valheim, dealing 82 pierce and 10 poison. It carries the highest total damage of any bow in the game, 92 across all types. In the Ashlands that matters more than it sounds: Morgen shrug off blunt, fire, pierce and slash alike and not poison, so the poison half is the damage that actually lands. Pierce and poison damage hurts Cultist, Tick and Troll more than most things as well.

How to Craft

Crafted at Black forge, station level 4.
Costs 1x Ash Fang, 5x Flametal, 1x Jade at quality 1.
Materials can be found in the Ashlands biome.

When to Use It

Late game. Flametal is in the Ashlands, the furthest south the map goes and, until 1.0, the hardest biome in the game.

Upgrades

Upgraded 3 times after crafting, each level wanting the station built one step further up than the last. Every figure quoted elsewhere on this wiki is quality 1, so this is the ladder your own copy is somewhere on:

Quality	Crafting Station	Pierce	Poison	Spirit	Durability	Resources
1	Black forge (Level 4)	82	10	-	100	1x Ash Fang 5x Flametal 1x Jade
2	Black forge (Level 5)	86	10	5	150	5x Flametal 1x Jade
3	Black forge (Level 6)	90	10	10	200	10x Flametal 2x Jade
4	Black forge (Level 7)	94	10	15	250	15x Flametal 3x Jade

Properties

Pin it where it stands. Jade adds 10 poison and a 20% chance to immobilise for 10 seconds. On a bow that is the most useful version of the effect in the game: an immobilised target cannot close the distance at all, and you are already at the far end of it.

The poison is the smaller half, with 26 creatures immune. Take this to keep things off you; take Storm Fang for damage.

Notes

Holding the primary draws the bow, improving accuracy and damage until release; blocking cancels the draw and keeps the arrow.
Draw time is 2.5 seconds at skill 0 and 0.5 at 100, but a bow can only fire every 0.8 seconds, a cap reached at about skill 85.
Arrow damage is added to the bow's base damage before any other calculation, so the arrow benefits from skill and quality rather than sitting outside them.
Upgrading does not raise poison: it is 10 at quality 1 and 10 at quality 4. The ladder buys pierce 82 to 94 and spirit 0 to 15.

All Bows

*stats displayed are item's base values. See upgrades under each item for item stats per level.

Name	Pierce	Lightning	Poison	Spirit	Stamina	Block	Durability	Materials	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Crude Bow	22	-	-	-	4	3	50	10x Wood 8x Leather scraps	Workbench	`spawn Bow`
Finewood Bow	32	-	-	-	6	-	100	10x Finewood 10x Corewood 2x Deer hide	Workbench	`spawn BowFineWood`
Huntsman Bow	42	-	-	-	8	-	100	10x Finewood 20x Iron 10x Feathers 2x Deer hide	Forge	`spawn BowHuntsman`
Draugr Fang	47	-	5	-	10	3	100	10x Ancient bark 20x Silver 2x Deer hide 10x Guck	Forge	`spawn BowDraugrFang`
Spinesnap	72	-	-	5	14	-	100	10x Finewood 40x Bone fragments 10x Refined eitr	Black forge	`spawn BowSpineSnap`
Ash Fang	82	-	-	-	14	3	100	10x Ashwood 16x Charred Bone 5x Flametal 5x Bonemaw Tooth	Black forge	`spawn BowAshlands`
Blood Fang	82	-	-	-	14	3	100	1x Ash Fang 5x Flametal 1x Bloodstone	Black forge	`spawn BowAshlandsBlood`
Root Fang	82	-	10	-	14	3	100	1x Ash Fang 5x Flametal 1x Jade	Black forge	`spawn BowAshlandsRoot`
Storm Fang	82	10	-	-	14	-	100	1x Ash Fang 5x Flametal 1x Iolite	Black forge	`spawn BowAshlandsStorm`

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