How to cut birch, pine, oak and other trees in Valheim

 

Surviving the wild Valheim , the player must first get a home . Then it would be nice to build a workbench, fence, pens for tamed animals and other important structures. All this requires wood, with many and different qualities. Wood is needed for crafting tools and weapons, and for creating furniture. Nice and sturdy furniture can be made from quality wood that does not lie in the form of branches on the ground or logs in a swamp.

The main resource of wood in the game is living trees - by cutting them down, you can get the largest number of units of wood. This is much faster than picking branches or punching trunks. Wood is divided into regular and good quality, and each of them is obtained in different ways. Common wood can be obtained by cutting down spruce, pine or beech. Sources of quality wood are birch and oak.

How to cut down spruce, pine or beech

To cut down these trees, you will need a stone ax . If you do not have it, then making it will not be a big problem: you will need to collect 5 units of wood and 4 units of stone. These materials are easily found in the grassland biome on the ground in the form of branches and small rocks. An ax can be crafted without a workbench. Now you can cut soft types of trees: spruce, pine and beech.

How to cut down birch and oak

With quality wood, things are not so simple: you need not a simple stone ax, but a bronze one. It can be made by smelting copper and tin bronze in the forge . In addition to the fact that birch and oak cannot be cut down with fists and a stone ax, even a bronze ax will have to work a lot - these trees have very high durability. Oaks and birches grow mainly in the meadow biome.