Serpent Scale Shield
| Serpent Scale Shield | |
|---|---|
 | |
| A sturdy shield of overlapping scales. | |
| Type | Shield |
| Damage |
- |
| Stamina | - |
| Block |
|
| Weight | - |
| Durability | 250 |
| Crafting Station | Forge |
| Station Level | 3 |
| Crafting Materials |
|
| Biome | Swamp |
| Spawn ID | spawn ShieldSerpentscale
|
The Serpent Scale Shield is a shield in Valheim, carrying 60 block armour.
How to Craft
- Crafted at Forge, station level 3.
- Costs 10x Finewood, 4x Iron, 8x Serpent scale at quality 1.
- Materials can be found in the Swamp biome.
When to Use It
Early game. Iron comes out of Sunken Crypts in the Swamp, so this arrives once The Elder is down.
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 | Block armor | Durability | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forge (Level 3) | 60 | 250 |
|
| 2 | Forge (Level 4) | 66 | 300 |
|
| 3 | Forge (Level 5) | 72 | 350 |
|
| 4 | Forge (Level 6) | - | - |
|
Properties
Silver-tier block armour for iron. 60, the same as the Silver shield, with no silver in the recipe: it needs less iron than the Iron tower shield and asks for Serpent scales instead.
And it resists pierce while blocking. No other shield in the game modifies a damage type. Better still, it stacks with pierce resistance from armour such as the Root harnesk, which makes it the Deathsquito and Fuling archer answer.
A tower shield cannot parry. It costs 10% of your movement speed while drawn and raises the cost of a dodge roll by the same 10%, and in exchange it blocks harder than anything else in its tier. What you give up is the parry, which staggers the attacker into taking double damage.
Notes
- A block consumes up to 10 stamina in proportion to the damage that got through, and fails if that leftover damage fills your stagger bar, 40% of maximum health, or if the stamina is not there.
- Block force is the knockback dealt back to a melee attacker, scaling from 50% to 100% with the block armour actually used.
- Parry bonuses are published per weapon type as well: 4x on a knife and 6x on flesh rippers, which beat every shield, though only on the weapon's own small block armour.
All Shields
*stats displayed are item's base values. See upgrades under each item for item stats per level.
| Name | Image | Block | Weight | Durability | Materials | Crafting Station | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wood Shield | 
|
6 | 4 | 200 |
|
Workbench | spawn ShieldWood
|
| Wood Tower Shield | 
|
10 | 4 | 200 |
|
Workbench | spawn ShieldWoodTower
|
| Bronze Buckler | 
|
16 | 3 | 200 |
|
Forge | spawn ShieldBronzeBuckler
|
| Iron Buckler | 
|
28 | 4 | 200 |
|
Forge | spawn ShieldIronBuckler
|
| Bone Tower Shield | 
|
32 | 4 | 200 |
|
Workbench | spawn ShieldBoneTower
|
| Iron shield | 
|
35 | 4 | 200 | Cannot be crafted | - | spawn ShieldIronSquare
|
| Banded Shield | 
|
42 | - | 200 |
|
Forge | spawn ShieldBanded
|
| Iron Tower Shield | 
|
52 | 4 | 200 |
|
Forge | spawn ShieldIronTower
|
| Serpent Scale Shield | 
|
60 | - | 250 |
|
Forge | spawn ShieldSerpentscale
|
| Silver Shield | 
|
60 | - | 200 |
|
Forge | spawn ShieldSilver
|
| Black Metal Shield | 
|
78 | - | 200 |
|
Forge | spawn ShieldBlackmetal
|
| Carapace Buckler | 
|
78 | 5 | 200 |
|
Black forge | spawn ShieldCarapaceBuckler
|
| Carapace Shield | 
|
96 | - | 200 |
|
Black forge | spawn ShieldCarapace
|
| Black Metal Tower Shield | 
|
104 | - | 200 |
|
Forge | spawn ShieldBlackmetalTower
|
| Flametal Shield | 
|
114 | - | 200 |
|
Black forge | spawn ShieldFlametal
|
| Knight shield | 
|
120 | 4 | 100 | Cannot be crafted | Console | spawn ShieldKnight
|
| Flametal Tower Shield | 
|
140 | - | 200 |
|
Black forge | spawn ShieldFlametalTower
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